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The distinctions between CDM and gravity according Noether symmetry
Noether's theory offers us a useful tool to research the conserved quantities
and symmetries of the modified gravity theories, among which the theory,
a generally modified teleparallel gravity, has been proposed to account for the
dark energy phenomena. By the Noether symmetry approach, we investigate the
power-law, exponential and polynomial forms of theories. All forms of
concerned in this work possess the time translational symmetry, which is
related with energy condition or Hamilton constraint. In addition, we find out
that the performances of the power-law and exponential forms are not pleasing.
It is rational adding a linear term to as the most efficient
amendment to resemble the teleparallel gravity or General Relativity on small
scales, ie., the scale of the solar system. The corresponding Noether symmetry
indicates that only time translational symmetry remains. Through numerically
calculations and observational data-sets constraining, the optimal form is obtained, whose cosmological solution resembles the
standard CDM best with lightly reduced cosmic age which can be
alleviated by introducing another term. More important is that we find
the significant differences between CDM and gravity. The
CDM model has also two additional symmetries and corresponding
positive conserved quantities, except the two negative conserved quantities.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, typos corrected, Refs. added, accepted
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Digital twins-enabled probabilistic deterioration assessment of floating offshore wind turbine towers under uncertainties
Five-Tiered Route Planner for Multi-AUV Accessing Fixed Nodes in Uncertain Ocean Environments
This article introduces a five-tiered route planner for accessing multiple
nodes with multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that enables
efficient task completion in stochastic ocean environments. First, the
pre-planning tier solves the single-AUV routing problem to find the optimal
giant route (GR), estimates the number of required AUVs based on GR
segmentation, and allocates nodes for each AUV to access. Second, the route
planning tier plans individual routes for each AUV. During navigation, the path
planning tier provides each AUV with physical paths between any two points,
while the actuation tier is responsible for path tracking and obstacle
avoidance. Finally, in the stochastic ocean environment, deviations from the
initial plan may occur, thus, an auction-based coordination tier drives online
task coordination among AUVs in a distributed manner. Simulation experiments
are conducted in multiple different scenarios to test the performance of the
proposed planner, and the promising results show that the proposed method
reduces AUV usage by 7.5% compared with the existing methods. When using the
same number of AUVs, the fleet equipped with the proposed planner achieves a
6.2% improvement in average task completion rate
What do we know about multidimensional poverty in China: its dynamics, causes, and implications for sustainability
Poverty is a primary obstacle to achieving sustainable development. Therefore, exploring the spatiotemporal dynamics and causes of poverty is of great significance to the sustainable poverty reduction of the “post poverty alleviation era” in China. This paper used the multisource big data of 2022 counties in China from 2000 to 2015 to establish a comprehensive evaluation framework to explore the multidimensional poverty situation in China. The results showed the following findings: There is an obvious spatiotemporal heterogeneity of multidimensional poverty, showing a typical stair-like gradient from high in the west to low in the east, with the poverty level in state-designated poverty counties higher and intensifying over time. The spatial differentiation of multidimensional poverty is contributed to by multiple factors, in which the geographical condition has a stronger impact on state-designated poverty counties, while natural endowment and human resources have a stronger effect on non-state-designated poverty counties. These things considered, the regional poverty causes were relatively stable before 2015, but the poverty spatial agglomeration of some regions in the Northwest, Northeast, and Yangtze River Economic Belt has undergone significant changes after 2015. These findings can help policymakers better target plans to eliminate various types of poverty in different regions
Digital twins-enabled probabilistic deterioration assessment of floating offshore wind turbine towers under uncertainties
SEER-MCache: A Prefetchable Memory Object Caching System for IoT Real-Time Data Processing
Memory object caching systems, such as Memcached and Redis, have been proved to be a simple and high-efficient middleware for improving the performance of Internet of Things (IoT) devices querying the database in cloud. However, its performance guarantee is built on the fact that the target data, queried by the IoT device, will be accessed many times and hit in the caching system. Therefore, when database system is handling the unrepeated IoT queries, it usually presents the suboptimal performance, which greatly impairs the efficiency of real-time data processing on IoT devices. To improve this issue, we propose Seer-MCache, the memory object caching system with a smart prefetching (read-ahead) function, to fill up the caching system with the desired data before the intensive IoT queries arriving. Seer-MCache includes a set of rules to launch the specific behaviors of read-head. These rules are able to be customized according to the workload characteristics and system load. We implement a prototype system in Redis (caching layer) and MySQL server (database system). Extensive experiments are conducted to verify the effectiveness of Seer-MCache, the results show that Seer-MCache can improve the performance of read-intensive workload up to 61% (39.5% in average). Meanwhile, the cost of the read-ahead behavior is moderate and controllable
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