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Study on the Strategy of Social Policy Integration in the Construction of the Yangtze River Delta City Group
"The development plan of Yangtze River Delta city group" puts forward to promote the construction of the Yangtze River Delta city group and speed up the optimization and upgrading of the Yangtze River Delta city group. How to achieve social policy integration is the key to the construction of the Yangtze River Delta city group. This paper analyzes the factors that hinder the social policy integration of the Yangtze River Delta city group from employment, social security, health care, education and housing security and other aspects. Then we use the welfare pluralism theory to analyze the obstacles from the government, the society and the family of three subjects, and put forward the corresponding measures to solve the problems
Design earthquake ground motion prediction for Perth metropolitan area with microtremor measurements for site characterization
Perth is the largest city in Western Australia and home to three-quarters of the state\u27s residents. In recent decades, there have been a lot of earthquake activities just east of Perth in an area known as the South-West Seismic Zone. Previous numerical results of site response analyses based on limited available geology information for PMA indicated that Perth Basin might amplify the bedrock motion by more than 10 times at some frequencies and at some sites. Hence, more detailed studies on site characterization and amplification are necessary. The microtremor method using spatial autocorrelation (SPAC) processing is a useful tool for gaining thickness and shear wave velocity (SWV) of sediments and has been adopted in many previous studies. In this study, the response spectrum of rock site corresponding to the 475-year return period for PMA is defined according to the probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) based on the latest ground motion attenuation model of Southwest Western Australia. Site characterization in PMA is performed using two microtremor measurements, namely SPAC technique and H/V method. The clonal selection algorithm (CSA) is introduced to perform direct inversion of SPAC curves to determine the soil profiles of representative PMA sites investigated in this study. Using the simulated bedrock motion as input, the responses of the soil sites are estimated using numerical method based on the shear-wave velocity vs. depth profiles determined from the SPAC technique. The response spectrum of the earthquake ground motion on surface of each site is derived from the numerical results of the site response analysis, and compared with the respective design spectrum defined in the Australian Earthquake Loading Code. The comparison shows that the code spectra are conservative in the short period range, but may slightly underestimate the response spectrum at some long period range. <br /
Coded Computing for Half-Duplex Wireless Distributed Computing Systems via Interference Alignment
Distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce and Spark are often used
to process large-scale data computing jobs. In wireless scenarios, exchanging
data among distributed nodes would seriously suffer from the communication
bottleneck due to limited communication resources such as bandwidth and power.
To address this problem, we propose a coded parallel computing (CPC) scheme for
distributed computing systems where distributed nodes exchange information over
a half-duplex wireless interference network. The CPC scheme achieves the
multicast gain by utilizing coded computing to multicast coded symbols
{intended to} multiple receiver nodes and the cooperative transmission gain by
allowing multiple {transmitter} nodes to jointly deliver messages via
interference alignment. To measure communication performance, we apply the
widely used latency-oriented metric: \emph{normalized delivery time (NDT)}. It
is shown that CPC can significantly reduce the NDT by jointly exploiting the
parallel transmission and coded multicasting opportunities. Surprisingly, when
tends to infinity and the computation load is fixed, CPC approaches zero
NDT while all state-of-the-art schemes achieve positive values of NDT. Finally,
we establish an information-theoretic lower bound for the NDT-computation load
trade-off over \emph{half-duplex} network, and prove our scheme achieves the
minimum NDT within a multiplicative gap of , i.e., our scheme is order
optimal.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figure
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