This paper presents and discusses the use of a software simulation tool for testing and validating a production decision support system. The developed simulator is specially designed for simulation of the entire newspaper production process. We propose methods for testing and validating a global production management system (GPMS), before implementing it in the production environment. Newspaper...

A gradient permittivity meta-structure (GPMS) model and its application in super-resolution imaging were proposed and discussed in this work. The proposed GPMS consists of alternate metallic and dielectric films with a gradient permittivity which can support surface plasmons (SPs) standing wave interference patterns with a super resolution. By employing the rigorous numerical FDTD simulation me...

Robustness and evolvability are fundamental characteristics of life whose relationship has intrigued generations of biologists. Studies of several genotype-phenotype maps (GPMs) such as the map between short DNA sequences and their bindings to transcription factors showed that phenotype robustness (PR) promotes phenotype evolvability (PE), but the underlying reason is unclear. Here, we show mat...

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have generated interest as both imaging and therapeutic agents. AuNPs are attractive for imaging applications since they are nontoxic and provide nearly three times greater X-ray attenuation per unit weight than iodine. As therapeutic agents, AuNPs can sensitize tumor cells to ionizing radiation. To create a nanoplatform that could simultaneously exhibit long circulat...

GWAC will have been built an integrated FOV of 5,000 degree2 and already 1,800 square degree2. The limit magnitude a 10-second exposure image in the moonless night is 16R. In each observation night, produces about 0.7TB raw data, data processing pipeline generates millions single frame alerts. We describe Data Processing Management System (GPMS), including hardware architecture, database, detec...

This study examines the gain and phase margins (GPMs) based robust stability in parameter space of fractional order proportional-integral (FOPI) controller for a micro-grid (MG) system with communication time delays. Fluctuations renewable energy sources (RESs), uncertainties parameters components delays could adversely affect dynamical analysis frequency MG system. Such has an interval charact...

Understanding the potential groundwater resource distribution is critical for sustainable development, conservation, and management strategies. This study analyzes maps in Busan Metropolitan City, South Korea, using random forest (RF), gradient boosting machine (GBM), extreme (XGB) methods. Fourteen conditioning factors were evaluated their contribution to assessment an elastic net. Curvature, ...

This study mapped and analyzed groundwater potential using two different models, logistic regression (LR) and multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS), and compared the results. A spatial database was constructed for groundwater well data and groundwater influence factors. Groundwater well data with a high potential yield of ≥70 m3/d were extracted, and 859 locations (70%) were used for ...

Based on silsesquioxanes (SSO) derived from the hydrolytic condensation of (γ-glycidyloxypropyl)trimethoxysilane (GPMS) and titanium tetrabutoxide (TTB), hybrid films on aluminum alloy (AA), film-GPMS-SSO (f-GS) and f-GS-TTBi% (f-GSTT5%–25%, i = 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 wt%), were prepared and tested by electrochemical measurements with typical potentiodynamic polarization curves. The Icorr values ...