671 research outputs found
A Study of the Static Bicycle Reposition Problem with a Single Vehicle
The Bicycle Sharing System (BSS), a public service system operated by the government or a private company, provides the convenient use of a bicycle as a temporary method of transportation. More specifically, this system allows people to rent a bike from one location, use it for a short time period and then return it to either to the same or a different location for an inexpensive fee. With the development of IT technology in the 1990s, it became possible to balance the bicycle inventory among the various destinations. In fact, a critical aspect to maintaining a satisfactory BSS is effectively rebalancing bicycle inventory across the various stations. In this research, we focus on the static bicycle repositioning problem with a single vehicle which is abstracted from the operation issue in the bicycle sharing system. The mathematical model for the static bicycle reposition problem had been created and several variations had been analyzed. This research starts to solve the problem from a very restrictive and constrained model and relaxes the constraints step by step to approach the real world case scenario. Several realistic assumptions have been considered in our research, such as a limited working time horizon, multiple visit limitation for the same station, multiple trips used for the vehicle, etc. In this research, we use the variable neighborhood search heuristic algorithm as the basic structure to find the solution for the static bicycle reposition problem. The numeric results indicate that our algorithms can provide good quality result within short solving time. By solving such a problem well, in comparison to benchmark algorithms, this research provides a starting place for dynamic bicycle repositioning and multiple vehicle repositioning
Statistical Inference of a Case Study in China: Active Phosphate Removal from Eutrophic Water
2010 South Carolina Water Resource Conference. Informing strategic water planning to address natural resource, community and economic challenges
The Effects of Minimal Length, Maximal Momentum and Minimal Momentum in Entropic Force
In this paper, the modified entropic force law is studied by using a new kind
of generalized uncertainty principle which contains a minimal length, a minimal
momentum and a maximal momentum. Firstly, the quantum corrections to the
thermodynamics of a black hole is investigated. Then, according to Verlinde's
theory, the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) corrected entropic force is
obtained. The result shows that the GUP corrected entropic force is related not
only to the properties of the black holes, but also to the Planck length and
the dimensionless constants and . Moreover,
based on the GUP corrected entropic force, we also derive the modified
Einstein's field equation (EFE) and the modified Friedmann equation.Comment: 16 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:1604.0470
Angular Reconstruction of a Lead Scintillating-Fiber Sandwiched Electromagnetic Calorimeter
A new method called Neighbor Cell Deposited Energy Ratio (NCDER) is proposed
to reconstruct incidence position in a single layer for a 3-dimensional imaging
electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL).This method was applied to reconstruct the
ECAL test beam data for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 (AMS-02). The
results show that this method can achieve an angular resolution of 7.36\pm 0.08
/ \sqrt(E) \oplus 0.28 \pm 0.02 degree in the determination of the photons
direction, which is much more precise than that obtained with the
commonly-adopted Center of Gravity(COG) method (8.4 \pm 0.1 /sqrt(E) \oplus
0.8\pm0.3 degree). Furthermore, since it uses only the properties of
electromagnetic showers, this new method could also be used for other type of
fine grain sampling calorimeters.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figure
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