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Long March of Dream Pursuers
With the receiving area of approximately 30 soccer fields, the 500-m aperture FAST will maintain its status as the world-class equipment in the next 10–20 years. As it has been completed and put into operation...
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Towards the Sea of Stars
While looking up to the sky, humans always wondering who we are, where we come from and whether we are alone. In the vast universe, are there other civilizations? For thousands of years, man has merely observe...
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Pillars of a Great Power—Intelligent Manufacturing in China
FAST is designed, developed, manufactured and constructed by Chinese scientists. It took 22 years from the pilot study in 1994 to its completion in 2016. Its design and construction witnessed three major indep...
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The “China Sky Eye” Explores the Universe
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or the FAST for short, known as the “China Sky Eye”, is the world’s largest and most sensitive single aperture radio telescope. It is located in a karst dep...
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Metro Tunnel, Aging with Us
As a common commuter transportation vehicle, metro tunnel is also aging old with us like a human being.
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Better Metro, Better City
The underground part of urban rail transit is called underground rail, or metro for short. As a common commuting transportation vehicle, metro runs tirelessly under the ground, conveying the urban passengers e...
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Metro Tunnel Can Get Sick
Metro tunnel serves in the complex and diverse underground environment, bearing the strata pressure, dynamic traffic loading, the disturbance caused by the projects in the neighborhood, etc. and interacting wi...
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What Does a Metro Tunnel Look like?
A metro tunnel is the section tunnel between two adjacent stations. It is a super long and linear structure connected by the lining ring extending in the longitudinal direction. The lining ring is assembled wi...
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Metro Tunnel Consultation
After the inspection report of the major distress in tunnel is done, the consultation will be held among the experts to determine the current service condition and what’s wrong with the tunnel through comparin...
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Experts’ Diagnoses for Metro Tunnel
In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the doctor can tell the diagnosis after using the four diagnostic methods including observing, listening, asking, and feeling the pulse of the patient. Now the question i...
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Metro Tunnel Therapy
The effective way to remedy the disease is to apply the medicine according to the diagnosis. For the metro tunnel, there is a smart self-healing method to treat the tunnel structure damages and an adaptive rei...
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Digital Information Archive of Metro Tunnel
Is the metro tunnel safe? Each metro tunnel has a digital archive, recording the data related to the life-cycle service of metro tunnel and the digital models under different loading conditions and service con...
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Masculinity’s New Battle Arena in International e-Sports: The Games Begin
While e-sports fans and participants claim that digital play can subvert traditional conceptions of masculinity, offering alternative narratives of worth not as reliant on the physical body, it is becoming cle...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Promotional Ranking of Search Engine Results: Giving New Web Pages a Chance to Prove Their Values
Recent studies show that the link-structure-based measures of Web page popularity prolong the procedure of new pages reaching their deserved ranking. In this paper we propose a promotional ranking scheme that ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Continuous k-Nearest Neighbor Search Under Mobile Environment
Continuous K nearest neighbor (CkNN) queries under mobile environment are defined as the k nearest neighbors search for a query object at a serial query time, and all the query object and the target objects ar...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Unifying Denotational Semantics with Operational Semantics for Web Services
Web Services have become more and more important in these years, and BPEL4WS (BPEL) is a de facto standard for the web service composition and orchestration. It contains several distinct features, including th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
SCTP Performance Issue on Path Delay Differential
This paper studies the effect of path delay on SCTP performance. It focuses on the SCTP fast retransmit algorithm and demonstrates that the performance in the current retransmission strategy will degrade acute...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Achieving k-Anonymity Via a Density-Based Clustering Method
The key idea of our k-anonymity is to cluster the personal data based on the density which is measured by the k-Nearest-Neighbor (KNN) distance. We add a constraint that each cluster contains at least k records w...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dynamic Configuring Service on Semantic Grid
Dynamic configuring service composition can automatically leverage distributed service components and resources to compose an optimal configuration according to the requirements on Semantic Grid. One major cha...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mining h-Dimensional Enhanced Semantic Association Rule Based on Immune-Based Gene Expression Programming
Rule mining is very important for data mining. However, traditional association rule is relatively weak in semantic representation. To address it, the main contributions of this paper included: (1) proposing f...