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A Literature Review of Uncertainties in Studies of Critical Loads for Acidic Deposition
Uncertainties in the assessment of critical loads for acidic deposition are caused by the choice of biological indicators (BI), critical chemical values (CCV), the current methods used to determine critical lo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dynamic Agent Ordering in Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems
The distributed constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a general formalisation used to represent problems in distributed multi-agent systems. To deal with realistic problems, multiple local variables may be ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Handling Over-Constrained Problems in Distributed Multi-agent Systems
The distributed constraint satisfaction problem is a general framework used to represent problems in distributed multi-agent systems. In this paper, we describe a detailed investigation of handling over-constr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Topological Design of Service Overlay Networks
The notion of service overlay network (SON) was proposed recently to alleviate difficulties encountered in providing end-to-end quality of service (QoS) guarantees in the current Internet architecture. The SONs a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Research on the Costing and Data Mining Based on ABC in Logistics Firms
The costing and data mining of logistics costs will become increasingly important to all firms seeking competitive advantages. Activity Based Costing (ABC) is considered as the optimized and most promising met...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Application of Activity-Based Cost Restore in the Refinery Industry
With the development of more detailed cost management in the refinery industry, managers pay more attention to cost controlling. The combination of activity-based costing and the cost restore will play a very ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Study on the Application of ABC System in the Refinery Industry
Since the present costing methods used in the refinery industry have major deficiency in costing products accurately and they cannot produce correct cost information for semi-finished products, an Activity-Bas...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Numerical Simulation of Traveling Bubble Cavitating Flow in a Francis Turbine
The 3-D unsteady Reynolds averaged Navier-tokes equations based on the pseudo-homogeneous flow theory and a vapor fraction transport-equation that accounts for non-condensable gas are solved to simulate cavita...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Soil Microbial Biomass and pH as Affected by the Addition of Plant Residues
The soil microbial biomass is involved in the decomposition of organic materials and thus, the cycling of nutrients in soils. Reductions in the size and activity of the microbial biomass are frequently used as...
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The Incorporation of Added Metal Atoms into Structures of Reaction Intermediates on Catalytic Metal Surfaces
In this chapter, we review the dynamic nature of catalytic metal surfaces and the effects of metal incorporation into surface reaction intermediates on their reactivity. Scanning tunneling microscopy allows th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Autocontinuity from below of Set Functions and Convergence in Measure
In this note, the concepts of strong autocontinuity from below and strong converse autocontinuity from below of set function are introduced. By using four types of autocontinuity from below of monotone measure...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Business Strategies Selection of Aviation Passenger Transportation Enterprises Based on High Speed Railway Competition
By analyzing competition as well as market occupation between aviation passenger and railway multiple units, a SWOT matrix is set up to present the aviation passenger market internal advantages and external en...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Discussion on the Routing Layout of Regional Comprehensive Transportation Corridors
To plan the routing layout of regional CTC (comprehensive transportation corridors) reasonably, firstly, transport nodes selection, calculation of nodes’ importance and the hierarchical policy are taken as the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Morlet-RBF SVM Model for Medical Images Classification
Map** way plays a significant role in Support Vector Machine (SVM). An appropriate map** can make data distribution in higher dimensional space easily separable. In this paper Morlet-RBF kernel model is pr...
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Chapter
Long-Range Chromatin Interactions in Cells
Interactions between long-range genetic elements play key roles in regulating gene expression in a spatially and temporally restricted manner during differentiation and development in higher eukaryotic cells. ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Privacy Preserving Reverse Nearest-Neighbor Queries Processing on Road Network
In recent years, with the popularity of Location Based Service (LBS) and recommendation system, spatial data query has become a hot study area. Reverse nearest neighbor (RNN) query is one of the most important...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Bayesian-MAP Method Based on TV for CT Image Reconstruction from Sparse and Limited Data
Computed tomography (CT) plays an important role in the field of modern medical imaging. Reducing radiation exposure dose without significantly decreasing image’s quality is always a crucial issue. Inspired by...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reconstructing Ancestral Genomic Orders Using Binary Encoding and Probabilistic Models
Changes of gene ordering under rearrangements have been extensively used as a signal to reconstruct phylogenies and ancestral genomes. Inferring the gene order of an extinct species has the potential in reveal...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Understanding Iterative Redundancy for Vulnerability-Driven Fault Tolerance Strategy
In the application of component-based distributed computing systems, many software systems allow the existence of large numbers of potentially faulty components. Faults are inevitable in this large-scale, comp...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Make Imbalance Useful
Energy problem is a long-lasting and fundamental problem faced by many applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, a mobile charger is employed in a WSN to recharge the sensor nodes, such t...