Self-organizing Structured RDF in MonetDB

The semantic web uses RDF as its data model, providing ultimate flexibility for users to represent and evolve data without need of a schema. Yet, this flexibility poses challenges in implementing efficient RDF stores, leading from plans with very many self-joins to a triple table, difficulties to optimize these, and a lack of data locality since without a notion of multi-attribute data structure, clustered indexing opportunities are lost. Apart from performance issues, users of huge RDF graphs often have problems formulating queries as they lack any system-supported notion of the structure in the data. In this research, we exploit the observation that real RDF data, while not as regularly structured as relational data, still has the great majority of triples conforming to regular patterns. We conjecture that a system that would recognize this structure automatically would both allow RDF stores to become more efficient and also easier to use. Concretely, we propose to derive self-organizing RDF that stores data in PSO format in such a way that the regular parts of the data physically correspond to relational columnar storage; and propose RDFscan/RDFjoin algorithms that compute star-patterns over these without wasting effort in self-joins. These regular parts, i.e. tables, are identified on ingestion by a schema discovery algorithm -- as such users will gain an SQL view of the regular part of the RDF data. This research aims to produce a state-of-the-art SPARQL frontend for MonetDB as a by-product, and we already present some preliminary results on this platform

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Influence of heterostructure on structure, electric and magnetic properties of Bi_0.5(Na_0.80,K_0.20)_0.5TiO₃/BaZrO₃ films prepared by the sol-gel method

This study reports on the structure, electric, and magnetic properties of Bi0.5(Na0.80,K0.20)0.5TiO3/BaZrO3 (BNKT/BZO) heterolayered films synthesized via chemical solution deposition on Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrates. The influence of different heterolayered configurations on the microstructure, electric and magnetic properties of the films was investigated thoroughly. The heterostructures are expected to generate strongly correlated electron systems in the BNKT and BZO layers that cause a magnetic interface effect in the BNKT/BZO conjunction layer. The BZO layer also prevents metal ion evaporation, resulting in a decline in oxygen vacancies and an enhancement in the electric and magnetic properties. The obtained results show that magnetic properties and leakage current density (J) of BNKT/BZO heterolayered films were greatly improved thanks to the heterolayered structure. Heterolayered 4BNKT/2BZO films (M42) yield the highest M s and M r values of 14.4 emu cm−3 and 1.7 emu cm−3, respectively, about three times higher than multilayered BNKT. Thanks to heterolayered structure, J decreases strongly from 16.0 × 10−4 A cm−2 for BNKT films to 1.4 × 10−4 A cm−2 for heterolayered M42 films. It has been verified that the leakage current in BNKT/BZO heterolayered films follows the Schottky barrier mechanism, with the barrier height fluctuating between 0.80 eV and 0.92 eV. The results of the study show that BNKT/BZO heterolayered films may be suitable for use in environmentally friendly multifunction devices.</p

Exploiting emergent schemas to make RDF systems more efficient

We build on our earlier finding that more than 95 % of the triples in actual RDF triple graphs have a remarkably tabular structure, whose schema does not necessarily follow from explicit metadata such as ontologies, but for which an RDF store can automatically derive by looking at the data using so-called “emergent schema” detection techniques. In this paper we investigate how computers and in particular RDF stores can take advantage from this emergent schema to more compactly store RDF data and more efficiently optimize and execute SPARQL queries. To this end, we contribute techniques for efficient emergent schema aware RDF storage and new query operator algorithms for emergent schema aware scans and joins. In all, these techniques allow RDF schema processors fully catch up with relational database techniques in terms of rich physical database design options and efficiency, without requiring a rigid upfront schema structure definition

A Regularization of the Backward Problem for Nonlinear Parabolic Equation with Time-Dependent Coefficient

We study the backward problem with time-dependent coefficient which is a severely ill-posed problem. We regularize this problem by combining quasi-boundary value method and quasi-reversibility method and then obtain sharp error estimate between the exact solution and the regularized solution. A numerical experiment is given in order to illustrate our results

Organic Fertilizer Production and Application in Vietnam

Crop production is an important subsector of Vietnam’s agriculture, has an impressive achievement in last 30 years and based on the intensive production with increasing use of chemical fertilizer and pesticide. Consequences are the negative effects on environment and human health and food safety. Organic agriculture has become a trend worldwide and is developing rapidly in the world. In Vietnam the certified organic farming area has expanded since 2012. Organic market revenue in Vietnam is estimated to be at $132.15 million a year. Most Vietnamese certified organic products are exported to international markets. Organic agriculture using organic fertilizer is one of Vietnam government’s priorities. Vietnam already produced organic fertilizer from different materials by using different production technologies, but the production capacity is small and does not meet the demand for organic agriculture. Vietnam government encourages, promotes the organic fertilizer production, application and has the policy to develop the organic fertilizer in Vietnam