442 research outputs found
Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Predicting Abrasion Resistance of Solution Polymerized Styrene-Butadiene Rubber Based Composites
Abrasion resistance of solution polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR)
based composites is a typical and crucial property in practical applications.
Previous studies show that the abrasion resistance can be calculated by the
multiple linear regression model. In our study, considering this relationship
can also be described into the non-linear conditions, a Multilayer Feed-forward
Neural Networks model with 3 nodes (MLFN-3) was successfully established to
describe the relationship between the abrasion resistance and other properties,
using 23 groups of data, with the RMS error 0.07. Our studies have proved that
Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) model can be used to predict the SSBR-based
composites, which is an accurate and robust process
Effects Comparison of Different Resilience Enhancing Strategies for Municipal Water Distribution Network: A Multidimensional Approach
Water distribution network (WDN) is critical to the city service, economic rehabilitation, public health, and safety. Reconstructing the WDN to improve its resilience in seismic disaster is an important and ongoing issue. Although a considerable body of research has examined the effects of different reconstruction strategies on seismic resistance, it is still hard for decision-makers to choose optimal resilience enhancing strategy. Taking the pipeline ductile retrofitting and network meshed expansion as demonstration, we proposed a feasible framework to contrast the resilience enhancing effects of two reconstruction strategies—units retrofitting strategy and network optimization strategy—in technical and organizational dimension. We also developed a new performance response function (PRF) which is based on network equilibrium theory to conduct the effects comparison in integrated technical and organizational dimension. Through the case study of municipal WDN in Lianyungang, China, the comparison results were thoroughly shown and the holistic decision-making support was provided
Leaving bads provides better outcome than approaching goods in a social dilemma
Individual migration has been regarded as an important factor for the
evolution of cooperation in mobile populations. Motivations of migration,
however, can be largely divergent: one is highly frustrated by the vicinity of
an exploiter or defector, while other enthusiastically searches cooperator
mates. Albeit both extreme attitudes are observed in human behavior, but their
specific impacts on wellbeing remained unexplored. In this work, we propose an
orientation-driven migration approach for mobile individuals in combination
with the mentioned migration preferences and study their roles in the
cooperation level in a two-dimensional public goods game. We find that
cooperation can be greatly promoted when individuals are more inclined to
escape away from their defective neighbors. On the contrary, cooperation cannot
be effectively maintained when individuals are more motivated to approach their
cooperative neighbors. In addition, compared with random migration, movement by
leaving defectors can promote cooperation more effectively. By means of
theoretical analysis and numerical calculations, we further find that when
individuals only choose to escape away from their defective neighbors, the
average distance between cooperators and defectors can be enlarged, hence the
natural invasion of defection can be efficiently blocked. Our work, thus,
provides further insight on how different migration preferences influence the
evolution of cooperation in the unified framework of spatially social games
Peeling behavior of a viscoelastic thin-film on a rigid substrate
AbstractIn order to study the adhesion mechanism of a viscoelastic thin-film on a substrate, peeling experiment of a viscoelastic polyvinylchloride (PVC) thin-film on a rigid substrate (glass) is carried out. The effects of peeling rate, peeling angle, film thickness, surface roughness and the interfacial adhesive on the peel-off force are considered. It is found that both the viscoelastic properties of the film and the interfacial adhesive contribute to the rate-dependent peel-off force. For a fixed peeling rate, the peel-off force decreases with the increasing peeling angle. Increasing film thickness or substrate roughness leads to an increase of the peel-off force. Viscoelastic energy release rate in the present experiment can be further predicted by adopting a recently published theoretical model. It is shown that the energy release rate increases with the increase of peeling rates or peeling angles. The results in the present paper should be helpful for understanding the adhesion mechanism of a viscoelastic thin-film
Which Features are Learned by CodeBert: An Empirical Study of the BERT-based Source Code Representation Learning
The Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) were
proposed in the natural language process (NLP) and shows promising results.
Recently researchers applied the BERT to source-code representation learning
and reported some good news on several downstream tasks. However, in this
paper, we illustrated that current methods cannot effectively understand the
logic of source codes. The representation of source code heavily relies on the
programmer-defined variable and function names. We design and implement a set
of experiments to demonstrate our conjecture and provide some insights for
future works.Comment: 1 table, 2 figure
Varying Levels of the Dian Lakes and the Dian Lakes Culture
Historical records state that the Dian kingdom was based on thousands of square li of rich flat land around Dianchi Lake. However, through use of a digital elevation model of the area, it is found that this area was about 800 li2—substantially less. Even if the other major Dian Lakes—Fuxian, Xinyung and Qi Lu—are included, the area increases to only about 1,000 li2. In the process of checking the area stated in the historical records, some issues warranting further exploration have been brought to light: the possibility of a human role in the recurring floods of Dianchi Lake from the 13th c CE; the idea that the settlement site found near Wangjiadun village and tentatively assigned to the early Bronze Age, could be dated to at least 4,500 BP, well before; and that the Shizhaishan and Lijiashan elite cemeteries may have looked out over water to their east. The seemingly limited area of fertile land also suggests that other sources of wealth such as trade and minerals played a greater role, and that the population was relatively small. This calls into question the nature of the socio-political structure within the Dian lakes culture
Position-Aware Contrastive Alignment for Referring Image Segmentation
Referring image segmentation aims to segment the target object described by a
given natural language expression. Typically, referring expressions contain
complex relationships between the target and its surrounding objects. The main
challenge of this task is to understand the visual and linguistic content
simultaneously and to find the referred object accurately among all instances
in the image. Currently, the most effective way to solve the above problem is
to obtain aligned multi-modal features by computing the correlation between
visual and linguistic feature modalities under the supervision of the
ground-truth mask. However, existing paradigms have difficulty in thoroughly
understanding visual and linguistic content due to the inability to perceive
information directly about surrounding objects that refer to the target. This
prevents them from learning aligned multi-modal features, which leads to
inaccurate segmentation. To address this issue, we present a position-aware
contrastive alignment network (PCAN) to enhance the alignment of multi-modal
features by guiding the interaction between vision and language through prior
position information. Our PCAN consists of two modules: 1) Position Aware
Module (PAM), which provides position information of all objects related to
natural language descriptions, and 2) Contrastive Language Understanding Module
(CLUM), which enhances multi-modal alignment by comparing the features of the
referred object with those of related objects. Extensive experiments on three
benchmarks demonstrate our PCAN performs favorably against the state-of-the-art
methods. Our code will be made publicly available.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
Characterizing Urban Household Waste Generation and Metabolism Considering Community Stratification in a Rapid Urbanizing Area of China
The relationship between social stratification and municipal solid waste generation remains uncertain under current rapid urbanization. Based on a multi-object spatial sampling technique, we selected 191 households in a rapidly urbanizing area of Xiamen, China. The selected communities were classified into three types: work-unit, transitional, and commercial communities in the context of housing policy reform in China. Field survey data were used to characterize household waste generation patterns considering community stratification. Our results revealed a disparity in waste generation profiles among different households. The three community types differed with respect to family income, living area, religious affiliation, and homeowner occupation. Income, family structure, and lifestyle caused significant differences in waste generation among work-unit, transitional, and commercial communities, respectively. Urban waste generation patterns are expected to evolve due to accelerating urbanization and associated community transition. A multi-scale integrated analysis of societal and ecosystem metabolism approach was applied to waste metabolism linking it to particular socioeconomic conditions that influence material flows and their evolution. Waste metabolism, both pace and density, was highest for family structure driven patterns, followed by lifestyle and income driven. The results will guide community-specific management policies in rapidly urbanizing areas
AWTE-BERT:Attending to Wordpiece Tokenization Explicitly on BERT for Joint Intent Classification and SlotFilling
Intent classification and slot filling are two core tasks in natural language
understanding (NLU). The interaction nature of the two tasks makes the joint
models often outperform the single designs. One of the promising solutions,
called BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), achieves
the joint optimization of the two tasks. BERT adopts the wordpiece to tokenize
each input token into multiple sub-tokens, which causes a mismatch between the
tokens and the labels lengths. Previous methods utilize the hidden states
corresponding to the first sub-token as input to the classifier, which limits
performance improvement since some hidden semantic informations is discarded in
the fine-tune process. To address this issue, we propose a novel joint model
based on BERT, which explicitly models the multiple sub-tokens features after
wordpiece tokenization, thereby generating the context features that contribute
to slot filling. Specifically, we encode the hidden states corresponding to
multiple sub-tokens into a context vector via the attention mechanism. Then, we
feed each context vector into the slot filling encoder, which preserves the
integrity of the sentence. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed
model achieves significant improvement on intent classification accuracy, slot
filling F1, and sentence-level semantic frame accuracy on two public benchmark
datasets. The F1 score of the slot filling in particular has been improved from
96.1 to 98.2 (2.1% absolute) on the ATIS dataset
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