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Taurine Content in Chinese Food and Daily Taurine Intake of Chinese Men
The taurine content in Chinese food, including seafood, fresh water fish, meats and some plants, was examined in this study. Seafood was freshly collected from 4 coastal areas in China. Meat and plant food sam...
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Evaluation of Alternatives for the Disposition of Surplus Weapons-usable Plutonium
Multiattribute utility (MAU) theory provides a formal methodology which is used to evaluate alternatives for disposition of surplus plutonium to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Other concerns tha...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Falling-Drop Interface for Continuous Sample Introduction in Microfluidic Chips
A continuous sample introduction system for chip-based capillary electrophoresis (CE) systems was developed using a falling-drop interface in order to achieve electrical isolation of the CE chip from the sampl...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Crowd Avoidance Strategy in Particle Swarm Algorithm
To improve the linearly varying inertia weigh particle swarm optimization method (LPSO), a new concept of Crowd Avoidance is introduced in this paper. In this newly developed LPSO (CA-LPSO), particles can avoi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Geometrical Profile Optimization of Elliptical Flexure Hinge Using a Modified Particle Swarm Algorithm
Elliptical flexure hinges are one of the most widely used flexure hinges for its high flexibility. To design elliptical flexure hinges of best performance, the author proposed a modified particle swarm optimiz...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Power-Saving Scheduling for Weakly Dynamic Voltage Scaling Devices
We study the problem of non-preemptive scheduling to minimize energy consumption for devices that allow dynamic voltage scaling. Specifically, consider a device that can process jobs in a non-preemptive manner...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using Shear Invariant for Image Denoising in the Contourlet Domain
A new contourlet transform based on shear invariant is proposed for image denoising. Image denoising by means of the contourlet transform(CT) introduces many visual artifacts due to the Gibbs-like phenomena. D...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Simulation-Based Optimization Research on Outsourcing Procurement Cost
To solve the cost control problem of outsourcing procurement inherent in the complexness and difficulty for mathematical analysis, this paper established a simulation-based cost Optimization framework. Firstly...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dependency-Based Chinese-English Statistical Machine Translation
We present a Chinese-English Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) system based on dependency tree map**s. We use a state-of-the-art dependency parser to parse the English translation of the Penn Chinese Tre...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Energy-Efficiency on a Variable-Bitrate Device
Dynamic power management has been adopted in many systems to reduce the power consumption by changing the system state dynamically. This paper explores energy efficiency for systems equipped with PCI Express d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Joint Optimization of System Lifetime and Network Performance for Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks
Maximizing the aggregate network utility and minimizing the network energy consumption are important but conflict goals in wireless sensor networks. Challenges arise due to the application-specific computing a...
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Decision Making Based on Risk-Value Tradeoffs
This essay provides a review for measures of risk and risk-value models that we have developed for the past ten years. Risk-value models are a new class of decision making models based on the idea of risk-valu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Structure Design and Kinematics Simulation for Rotating Arc Sensor of TIG Welding Based on Pro/E 3D Design
Considering the features and requirements of rotating arc seam tracking, a new type of sensor is presented in this paper. Through the application of Pro/E 3D modeling and mechanism kinematics simulation module...
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Kinases and Phosphatases in Hedgehog Signaling
The study of posttranslational regulation of proteins has occupied biochemists for well over a half century. Understanding balanced phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of the proteins may be the key to meeti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Plant Leaf Water Detection Instrument Based on Near Infrared Spectroscopy
In the near infrared spectral region, a reflection plant water detection instrument was designed by using microcontroller STC12C5A60S2. The instrument consisted of signal acquisition system, microcontroller sy...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Competitive Design and Analysis for Machine-Minimizing Job Scheduling Problem
We explore the machine-minimizing job scheduling problem, which has a rich history in the line of research, under an online setting. We consider systems with arbitrary job arrival times, arbitrary job deadline...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using Anisotropic Bivariate Threshold Function for Image Denoising in NSCT Domain
In this paper, a more stable solving method of anisotropic bivariate Laplacian distribution function and corresponding threshold function is derived from the model using Bayesian estimation theory and extended...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ContactSim: An Efficient Realistic Trace Driven Contact Simulator for Vehicular Opportunistic Networks
Opportunistic networking is an innovative data delivery solution, which leverages the contact opportunities between mobile terminals to exchange messages. The contact events are highly relevant to human behavi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Simulation of Space Quantum Communication Tracking System with Matlab/Simulink
This paper proposed a model of the tracking system for space quantum communication. The entire model includes a coarse tracking system and a fine tracking system. In matlab/simulink environment, simulation is ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Semantic Word Similarity Learned from Heterogenous Knowledge Bases
Recognition of semantic similarity between words plays an important role in text information management, information retrieval, and natural language processing. There are two major approaches to recognizing th...
