272 research outputs found
USING SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AS A STRATEGY FOR E-COMMERCE RECOMMENDATION
Recommender agents are being widely used by E-commerce business to help customers make decisions from a large amount of choices. To improve the performance of recommendation agents, three main approaches (content-based approaches, collaborative approaches and hybrid approaches) have been proposed to address recommendation problem whose basic idea is to discover similarity of items and users and predicate users’ preference toward a set of items. This provides potential for using social network analysis to make recommendations since social network analysis can be used to investigate the relationships of customers. In this research, we illustrate the concepts of social network analysis and how it can be employed to make better recommendations in E-commerce context. Application and research opportunities are presented
Nanoscale Bandgap Tuning across an Inhomogeneous Ferroelectric Interface
We report nanoscale bandgap engineering via a local strain across the
inhomogeneous ferroelectric interface, which is controlled by the
visible-light-excited probe voltage. Switchable photovolatic effects and the
spectral response of the photocurrent were explore to illustrate the reversible
bandgap variation (~0.3eV). This local-strain-engineered bandgap has been
further revealed by in situ probe-voltage-assisted valence electron energy-loss
spectroscopy (EELS). Phase-field simulations and first-principle calculations
were also employed for illustration of the large local strain and the bandgap
variation in ferroelectric perovskite oxides. This reversible bandgap tuning in
complex oxides demonstrates a framework for the understanding of the
opticallyrelated behaviors (photovoltaic, photoemission, and photocatalyst
effects) affected by order parameters such as charge, orbital, and lattice
parameters
Learning Modal-Invariant and Temporal-Memory for Video-based Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
Thanks for the cross-modal retrieval techniques, visible-infrared (RGB-IR)
person re-identification (Re-ID) is achieved by projecting them into a common
space, allowing person Re-ID in 24-hour surveillance systems. However, with
respect to the probe-to-gallery, almost all existing RGB-IR based cross-modal
person Re-ID methods focus on image-to-image matching, while the video-to-video
matching which contains much richer spatial- and temporal-information remains
under-explored. In this paper, we primarily study the video-based cross-modal
person Re-ID method. To achieve this task, a video-based RGB-IR dataset is
constructed, in which 927 valid identities with 463,259 frames and 21,863
tracklets captured by 12 RGB/IR cameras are collected. Based on our constructed
dataset, we prove that with the increase of frames in a tracklet, the
performance does meet more enhancement, demonstrating the significance of
video-to-video matching in RGB-IR person Re-ID. Additionally, a novel method is
further proposed, which not only projects two modalities to a modal-invariant
subspace, but also extracts the temporal-memory for motion-invariant. Thanks to
these two strategies, much better results are achieved on our video-based
cross-modal person Re-ID. The code and dataset are released at:
https://github.com/VCMproject233/MITML
Coal chemical industry membrane concentrates: characterisation and treatment by ozonation and catalytic ozonation processes
Rationale. The enactment of increasingly stringent regulations has prompted the implementation
of membrane technologies such as reverse osmosis (RO) in the management of coal chemical
industry (CCI) wastewaters with the goal of achieving zero liquid discharge (ZLD). However, this
practice inevitably results in the production of high salinity concentrates containing refractory
organic matter. Methodology. In this study, we characterised the organic composition of RO
concentrates obtained from the CCI using a variety of methods including liquid chromatography–
organic carbon/nitrogen detection (LC-OCND) and investigated the degradability of organic
compounds present in these concentrates by ozonation and catalytic ozonation processes.
Results and discussion. Organic analysis using LC-OCND revealed that humic-like substances
and low molecular weight neutral compounds were the dominant constituents in the CCI
concentrates examined. Measurement of degradability of the CCI concentrate by a pure ozona-
tion process showed low treatment efficiency (~20% dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal)
as a result of the refractory nature of the organic compounds present in the wastewater. The
degradation of these organics by a catalytic ozonation process employing a commercially available
Fe-oxide based catalyst was higher than that observed by pure ozonation although the extent of
organics removal (DOC removal ~47%) is still low due to the refractory nature of the organics as
well as the influence of salts on the catalyst performance. Techno-economic analysis of the pure
ozonation and catalytic ozonation processes indicated that the total cost of implementation of
the ozonation processes (homogeneous or heterogeneous) for CCI concentrate treatment is
negligible compared with the overall cost of the complete ZLD process
Characterization of Sucrose transporter alleles and their association with seed yield-related traits in Brassica napus L
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Sucrose is the primary photosynthesis product and the principal translocating form within higher plants. <it>Sucrose transporters </it>(<it>SUC/SUT</it>) play a critical role in phloem loading and unloading. Photoassimilate transport is a major limiting factor for seed yield. Our previous research demonstrated that <it>SUT </it>co-localizes with yield-related quantitative trait loci. This paper reports the isolation of <it>BnA7.SUT1 </it>alleles and their promoters and their association with yield-related traits.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Two novel <it>BnA7.SUT1 </it>genes were isolated from <it>B. napus </it>lines 'Eagle' and 'S-1300' and designated as <it>BnA7.SUT1.a </it>and <it>BnA7.SUT1.b</it>, respectively. The BnA7.SUT1 protein exhibited typical SUT features and showed high amino acid homology with related species. Promoters of <it>BnA7.SUT1.a </it>and <it>BnA7.SUT1.b </it>were also isolated and classified as <it>pBnA7.SUT1.a </it>and <it>pBnA7.SUT1.b</it>, respectively. Four dominant sequence-characterized amplified region markers were developed to distinguish <it>BnA7.SUT1.a </it>and <it>BnA7.SUT1.b</it>. The two genes were estimated as alleles with two segregating populations (F<sub>2 </sub>and BC<sub>1</sub>) obtained by crossing '3715'×'3769'. <it>BnA7.SUT1 </it>was mapped to the A7 linkage group of the TN doubled haploid population. <it>In silico </it>analysis of 55 segmental <it>BnA7.SUT1 </it>alleles resulted three <it>BnA7.SUT1 </it>clusters: <it>pBnA7.SUT1.a- BnA7.SUT1.a </it>(type I), <it>pBnA7.SUT1.b- BnA7.SUT1.a </it>(type II), and <it>pBnA7.SUT1.b- BnA7.SUT1.b </it>(type III). Association analysis with a diverse panel of 55 rapeseed lines identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in promoter and coding domain sequences of <it>BnA7.SUT1 </it>that were significantly associated with one of three yield-related traits: number of effective first branches (EFB), siliques per plant (SP), and seed weight (n = 1000) (TSW) across all four environments examined. SNPs at other <it>BnA7.SUT1 </it>sites were also significantly associated with at least one of six yield-related traits: EFB, SP, number of seeds per silique, seed yield per plant, block yield, and TSW. Expression levels varied over various tissue/organs at the seed-filling stage, and <it>BnA7.SUT1 </it>expression positively correlated with EFB and TSW.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Sequence, mapping, association, and expression analyses collectively showed significant diversity between the two <it>BnA7.SUT1 </it>alleles, which control some of the phenotypic variation for branch number and seed weight in <it>B. napus </it>consistent with expression levels. The associations between allelic variation and yield-related traits may facilitate selection of better genotypes in breeding.</p
Implication of Non-electrostatic Contribution to Deionization in Flow-Electrode CDI: Case Study of Nitrate Removal From Contaminated Source Waters
While flow-electrode capacitive deionization (FCDI) operated in short-circuited closed cycle (SCC) mode appears to hold promise for removal of salt from brackish source waters, there has been limited investigation on the removal of other water constituents such as nitrate, fluoride or bromide in combination with salt removal. Of particular concern is the effectiveness of FCDI when ions, such as nitrate, are recognized to non-electrostatically adsorb strongly to activated carbon particles thereby potentially rendering it difficult to regenerate these particles. In this study, SCC FCDI was used to desalt source waters containing nitrate at different concentrations. Results indicate that nitrate can be removed from source waters using FCDI to concentrations <1 mg NO3-N L−1 though a lower quality target such as 10 mg L−1 would be more cost-effective, particularly where the influent nitrate concentration is high (50 mg NO3-N L−1). Although studies of the fate of nitrate in the FCDI system show that physico-chemical adsorption of nitrate to the carbon initially plays a vital role in nitrate removal, the ongoing process of nitrate removal is not significantly affected by this phenomenon with this lack of effect most likely due to the continued formation of electrical double layers enabling capacitive nitrate removal. In contrast to conventional CDI systems, constant voltage mode is shown to be more favorable in maintaining stable effluent quality in SCC FCDI because the decrease in electrical potential that occurs in constant current operation leads to a reduction in the extent of salt removal from the brackish source waters. Through periodic replacement of the electrolyte at a water recovery of 91.4%, we show that the FCDI system can achieve a continuous desalting performance with the effluent NO3-N concentration below 1 mg NO3-N L−1 at low energy consumption (~0.5 kWh m−3) but high productivity
Corrigendum: Genome-wide analysis of transcriptome and histone modifications in Brassica napus hybrid
Genome-wide analysis of transcriptome and histone modifications in Brassica napus hybrid
Although utilization of heterosis has largely improved the yield of many crops worldwide, the underlying molecular mechanism of heterosis, particularly for allopolyploids, remains unclear. Here, we compared epigenome and transcriptome data of an elite hybrid and its parental lines in three assessed tissues (seedling, flower bud, and silique) to explore their contribution to heterosis in allopolyploid B. napus. Transcriptome analysis illustrated that a small proportion of non-additive genes in the hybrid compared with its parents, as well as parental expression level dominance, might have a significant effect on heterosis. We identified histone modification (H3K4me3 and H3K27me3) variation between the parents and hybrid, most of which resulted from the differences between parents. H3K4me3 variations were positively correlated with gene expression differences among the hybrid and its parents. Furthermore, H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 were rather stable in hybridization and were mainly inherited additively in the B. napus hybrid. Together, our data revealed that transcriptome reprogramming and histone modification remodeling in the hybrid could serve as valuable resources for better understanding heterosis in allopolyploid crops
Оценка помехоустойчивости метода диагностики роторных узлов машин в зависимости от условий предварительной фильтрации вибрационного сигнала
Произведено сравнение двух способов предварительной фильтрации при оценке технического состояния роторных узлов машин по методу анализа спектра огибающей вибрационного сигнала. Определена помехоустойчивость метода при воздействии широкополосных шумов.ditions of Prefiltration of the Vibration Signal
The comparison of the two methods of prefiltration during evaluation of technical condition of the machine rotor units is performed in the paper using the method of the analysis of the spectrum of the vibration waveform envelope. Noise stability of the method under the action of broadband noise is determined
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