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    Risk Identification And Analysis Of Precast Concrete Structure Based On Work Breakdown Structure-Risk Breakdown Structure

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    Because the prefabricated building started late in China, and subject to management and technical restrictions, the safety problems during the construction of the prefabricated building have not been solved effectively. In view of the problems of complex environments in precast concrete structure and many influencing factors which makes the construction risks are difficult to identify. The work breakdown structure (WBS) - risk breakdown structure (RBS) method is introduced to solve the problem. By means of analyzing the investigation data of the prefabricated building accidents, its risks during construction are identified and coupled. Then the judgment matrix is obtained and the corresponding risk factors can be established. In the meanwhile, the fault tree analysis method has been being used to analyze the sensitivity of three kinds of accidents, such as falling, striking by object and electrocution. The sensitive coefficients of risk factors are calculated and sorted. The result shows that the main risk factors of falling accident are verticality deviation of component installation, deviation of component position and unsecured mechanics. The main risk factors of striking by object/equipment are insufficient strength of components supporting, overturning components and unreasonable of suspension point. The main risk factors of electrocution are improper welding operation and short circuit. Finally, corresponding control measures are put forward according to the risk accidents. The research results provided a good theoretical basis for the risk identification of prefabricated building construction

    Influence of slope aspect on the microbial properties of rhizospheric and non-rhizospheric soils on the Loess Plateau, China

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    Slope aspect is an important topographic factor in the micro-ecosystem environment, but its effect on the microbial properties of grassland rhizospheric soil (RS) and non-rhizospheric soil (NRS) remain unclear. A field experiment was conducted at the Ansai Research Station on the Loess Plateau in China to test the influence of slope aspects (south-facing, north-facing, and northwest-facing slopes, all with Artemisia sacrorum as the dominant species) on RS and NRS microbial biomass carbon (MBC) contents, phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) contents, and the rhizospheric effect (RE) of various microbial indices. Soil samples were collected from the three slope aspects, including rhizospheric and non-rhizospheric region, and analyzed to determine the various related microbial indices. The results showed that MBC content differed significantly among the slope aspects in RS but not in NRS, and the RE for MBC content in the south-facing slope was larger than that in the north-facing slope. RS total, bacterial, and Gram-positive bacterial PLFA contents in the south-facing slope were significantly lower than those in the north- and northwest-facing slopes, and RS Gram-negative bacterial (G−) and actinomycete PLFA contents in the south-facing slope were significantly lower than those in the north-facing slope. In contrast, NRS total, bacterial, and G− PLFA contents in the north-facing slope were significantly higher than those in the south- and northwest-facing slopes, and NRS fungal and actinomycete PLFA contents in the north- and south-facing slopes were significantly higher than those in the northwest-facing slope. RE for all PLFA contents except fungal in the northwest-facing slope were higher than those in the south-facing slope. Slope aspect significantly but differentially affected the microbial properties in RS and NRS, and the variable influence was due to an evident RE for most microbial properties.</p

    Cooperative Control for Target Tracking with Onboard Sensing

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    Abstract We consider the cooperative control of a team of robots to estimate the position of a moving target using onboard sensing. In particular, we do not as-sume that the robot positions are known, but estimate their positions using relative onboard sensing. Our probabilistic localization and control method takes into ac-count the motion and sensing capabilities of the individual robots to minimize the expected future uncertainty of the target position. It reasons about multiple possi-ble sensing topologies and incorporates an efficient topology switching technique to generate locally optimal controls in polynomial time complexity. Simulations show the performance of our approach and prove its flexibility to find suitable sensing topologies depending on the limited sensing capabilities of the robots and the movements of the target. Furthermore, we demonstrate the applicability of our method in various experiments with single and multiple quadrotor robots tracking a ground vehicle in an indoor environment

    Exact ground states for the four-electron problem in a Hubbard ladder

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    The exact ground state of four electrons in an arbitrary large two leg Hubbard ladder is deduced from nine analytic and explicit linear equations. The used procedure is described, and the properties of the ground state are analyzed. The method is based on the construction in r-space of the different type of orthogonal basis wave vectors which span the subspace of the Hilbert space containing the ground state. In order to do this, we start from the possible microconfigurations of the four particles within the system. These microconfigurations are then rotated, translated and spin-reversed in order to build up the basis vectors of the problem. A closed system of nine analytic linear equations is obtained whose secular equation, by its minimum energy solution, provides the ground state energy and the ground state wave function of the model.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure

    Approximations from Anywhere and General Rough Sets

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    Not all approximations arise from information systems. The problem of fitting approximations, subjected to some rules (and related data), to information systems in a rough scheme of things is known as the \emph{inverse problem}. The inverse problem is more general than the duality (or abstract representation) problems and was introduced by the present author in her earlier papers. From the practical perspective, a few (as opposed to one) theoretical frameworks may be suitable for formulating the problem itself. \emph{Granular operator spaces} have been recently introduced and investigated by the present author in her recent work in the context of antichain based and dialectical semantics for general rough sets. The nature of the inverse problem is examined from number-theoretic and combinatorial perspectives in a higher order variant of granular operator spaces and some necessary conditions are proved. The results and the novel approach would be useful in a number of unsupervised and semi supervised learning contexts and algorithms.Comment: 20 Pages. Scheduled to appear in IJCRS'2017 LNCS Proceedings, Springe

    VANISHING POINT AIDED LANE DETECTION USING A MULTI-SENSOR SYSTEM

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    Lane Detection is a critical component of an autonomous driving system that can be integrated alongside with High-definition (HD) map to improve accuracy and reliability of the system. Typically, lane detection is achieved using computer vision algorithms such as edge detection and Hough transform, deep learning-based algorithms, or motion-based algorithms to detect and track the lanes on the road. However, these approaches can contain incorrectly detected line segments with outliers. To address these issues, we proposed a vanishing point aided lane detection method that utilizes both camera and LiDAR sensors, and then employs a RANSAC-based post-processing method to remove potential outliers to improve the accuracy of the detected lanes. We evaluated this method on four datasets provided from the KITTI Benchmark Suite and achieved a total precision of 87%

    Factorization Properties of Soft Graviton Amplitudes

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    We apply recently developed path integral resummation methods to perturbative quantum gravity. In particular, we provide supporting evidence that eikonal graviton amplitudes factorize into hard and soft parts, and confirm a recent hypothesis that soft gravitons are modelled by vacuum expectation values of products of certain Wilson line operators, which differ for massless and massive particles. We also investigate terms which break this factorization, and find that they are subleading with respect to the eikonal amplitude. The results may help in understanding the connections between gravity and gauge theories in more detail, as well as in studying gravitational radiation beyond the eikonal approximation.Comment: 35 pages, 5 figure
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