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All roads lead to the places of your interest: An on-demand, ride-sharing visitor transport service
Successful visitor transport within large tourist sites should balance visitor experience and operating costs. Inspired by the model of sharing economy, we design a “user-centered” intelligent visitor transport system to improve the efficiency and quality of experience of transport service in large tourist sites. The system’s core approach is a three-stage heuristic model based on Pareto optimality. Results of the proposed service indicate a drastic reduction of visitor delay time and an improvement in energy efficiency. The proposed scheduling schemes for organizers are more diversified and adaptable than the existing service
Using Stacked Sparse Auto-Encoder and Superpixel CRF for Long-Term Visual Scene Understanding of UGVs
Multiple images have been widely used for scene understanding and navigation of unmanned ground vehicles in long term operations. However, as the amount of visual data in multiple images is huge, the cumulative error in many cases becomes untenable. This paper proposes a novel method that can extract features from a large dataset of multiple images efficiently. Then the membership K-means clustering is used for high dimensional features, and the large dataset is divided into N subdatasets to train N conditional random field (CRF) models based on superpixel. A Softmax subdataset selector is used to decide which one of the N CRF models is chosen as the prediction model for labeling images. Furthermore, some experiments are conducted to evaluate the feasibility and performance of the proposed approach
O075: Successful implementation of the World Health Organization hand hygiene improvement strategy in a teaching hospital, China
The 7-channel FIR HCN Interferometer on J-TEXT Tokamak
A seven-channel far-infrared hydrogen cyanide (HCN) laser interferometer has
been established aiming to provide the line integrated plasma density for the
J-TEXT experimental scenarios. A continuous wave glow discharge HCN laser
designed with a cavity length 3.4 m is used as the laser source with a
wavelength of 337 {\mu}m and an output power up to 100 mW. The system is
configured as a Mach-Zehnder type interferometer. Phase modulation is achieved
by a rotating grating, with a modulation frequency of 10 kHz which corresponds
to the temporal resolution of 0.1 ms. The beat signal is detected by TGS
detector. The phase shift induced by the plasma is derived by the comparator
with a phase sensitivity of 0.06 fringe. The experimental results measured by
the J-TEXT interferometer are presented in details. In addition, the inversed
electron density profile done by a conventional approach is also given. The
kinematic viscosity of dimethyl silicone and vibration control is key issues
for the system performance. The laser power stability under different kinematic
viscosity of silicone oil is presented. A visible improvement of measured
result on vibration reduction is shown in the paper.Comment: conference (15th-International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma
Diagnostics
Entanglement-Assisted Communication Surpassing the Ultimate Classical Capacity
Entanglement underpins a variety of quantum-enhanced communication, sensing,
and computing capabilities. Entanglement-assisted communication (EACOMM)
leverages entanglement pre-shared by communication parties to boost the rate of
classical information transmission. Pioneering theory works showed that EACOMM
can enable a communication rate well beyond the ultimate classical capacity of
optical communications, but an experimental demonstration of any EACOMM
advantage remains elusive. Here, we report the implementation of EACOMM
surpassing the classical capacity over lossy and noisy bosonic channels. We
construct a high-efficiency entanglement source and a phase-conjugate quantum
receiver to reap the benefit of pre-shared entanglement, despite entanglement
being broken by channel loss and noise. We show that EACOMM beats the
Holevo-Schumacher-Westmoreland capacity of classical communication by up to
14.6%, when both protocols are subject to the same power constraint at the
transmitter. As a practical performance benchmark, a classical communication
protocol without entanglement assistance is implemented, showing that EACOMM
can reduce the bit-error rate by up to 69% over the same bosonic channel. Our
work opens a route to provable quantum advantages in a wide range of quantum
information processing tasks.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures. Comments are welcom
Glass transition, crystallization kinetics and pressure effect on crystallization of ZrNbCuNiBe bulk metallic glass
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