Nanoengineering of amino - functionalized mesoporous silica nanospheres as nanoreactors

Selective functionalization of mesoporous silica nanospheres (MSNs) is crucial for nanoengineering of MSNs. Herein, we have combined “surface-protected etching strategy” and “cationic surfactant assisted etching strategy” to prepare functionalized MSNs with externally attached amino groups. The externally attached NH2 groups endow the catalysts with excellent catalytic performance for nitroaldol reaction between nitromethane and benzaldehyde. In addition, those NH2-MSNs can also be used to support gold nanoparticles, which display very good catalytic performance for reduction of 4-nitrophenol. It can be envisioned that the synthesis protocol developed in this work could also be extended to nanoengineered MSNs, which provides opportunities for nanoreactors design.     

Inconsistent idealizations and inferentialism about scientific representation

Inferentialists about scientific representation hold that an apparatus's representing a target system consists in the apparatus allowing “surrogative inferences” about the target. I argue that a serious problem for inferentialism arises from the fact that many scientific theories and models contain internal inconsistencies. Inferentialism, left unamended, implies that inconsistent scientific models have unlimited representational power, since an inconsistency permits any conclusion to be inferred. I consider a number of ways that inferentialists can respond to this challenge before suggesting my own solution. I develop an analogy to exploitable glitches in a game. Even though inconsistent representational apparatuses may in some sense allow for contradictions to be generated within them, doing so violates the intended function of the apparatus's parts and hence violates representational “gameplay”.     

汉语拼音方案的改进探讨

依据汉语拼音方案的特点、规则和范例，提出拼音拼式缩短的原则和方法。为便于音节识别，提出保持拼音声母以及韵母首字母不变原则，简称拼音首部不动、尾部变动原则；通过用g、m、y、q分别替代拼音尾部ng、an、ai和ang的方法，将汉字的拼音长度缩短为最长4字母。另外，首次提出拼写吕和女等字时用iw或者iv替代韵母＆#252;更为合理的新观点，以及用字母x作虚声母分隔音节的建议。改进的方案可以看作是对原方案的扩充和发展，也可以作为一种汉字输入法方案。     

Comparison of Travel Mode Choice Between Taxi and Subway Regarding Traveling Convenience

In this study, we investigate travel mode choice behavior between taxi and subway with an emphasis on the influence of traveling convenience. In the first stage, we examine the Origin-Destination(OD) points of Beijing taxi trips and compare these locations with the respective nearest subway station. Statistics reveal several interesting conclusions. First, for approximately 24.89% of all trips, no convenient subway connections exist between the OD pairs. As such, a taxi becomes the only viable choice. Second, for 80.23% of the remaining 75.11%of trips(equivalent to 60.26% of all trips), access distance from either the origin or the destination to the nearest subway station is greater than 500 meters. This phenomenon indicates that walking distance plays an important role in travel mode choice. In the second stage, we examine groups of taxi trips with similar travel distances and travel times to reveal common features. We establish a preference rule in terms of travel distance and travel time.This determines whether an individual driver will take a taxi or the subway, using a pairwise comparison-based preference regression model. Tests indicate that more than 95% of taxi trips can be correctly predicted by this preference rule. This conclusion reveals that traveling convenience dominates the travel model choice between taxi and subway. All these findings shed light on the factors that influence travel mode choice behavior.     

Incorporating textual and management factors into financial distress prediction: A comparative study of machine learning methods

Financial distress prediction (FDP) has been widely considered as a promising approach to reducing financial losses. While financial information comprises the traditional factors involved in FDP, nonfinancial factors have also been examined in recent studies. In light of this, the purpose of this study is to explore the integrated factors and multiple models that can improve the predictive performance of FDP models. This study proposes an FDP framework to reveal the financial distress features of listed Chinese companies, incorporating financial, management, and textual factors, and evaluating the prediction performance of multiple models in different time spans. To develop this framework, this study employs the wrapper-based feature selection method to extract valuable features, and then constructs multiple single classifiers, ensemble classifiers, and deep learning models in order to predict financial distress. The experiment results indicate that management and textual factors can supplement traditional financial factors in FDP, especially textual ones. This study also discovers that integrated factors collected 4 years prior to the predicted benchmark year enable a more accurate prediction, and the ensemble classifiers and deep learning models developed can achieve satisfactory FDP performance. This study makes a novel contribution as it expands the predictive factors of financial distress and provides new findings that can have important implications for providing early warning signals of financial risk.     

Nest structure and all stages of the long-cheeked yellow jacket Dolichovespula intermedia Birula (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Nest structure, morphology of all stages and behaviour have contributed to the phylogenetic and taxonomic studies of social vespids. Two aerial nests of Dolichovespula intermedia were discovered in China. The morphology of the three castes, the five larval instars, and the nest structure of D. intermedia Birula, are described in detail and illustrated. The presence of only one campaniform sensillum above each labial palp and the dense minute spicules on the posterior gena found in D. intermedia larvae are mentioned here for the first time for Dolichovespula. The identification characters between D. intermedia and Dolichovespula sylvestris are briefly discussed.     

关于Green定理的向量形式

通过引入梯度、旋度和散度,得到Green定理的向量形式.     

Latent Co-interests' Relationship Prediction

With the development of the social media and Internet, discovering latent information from massive information is becoming particularly relevant to improving user experience. Research efforts based on preferences and relationships between users have attracted more and more attention. Predictive problems, such as inferring friend relationship and co-author relationship between users have been explored. However, many such methods are based on analyzing either node features or the network structures separately, few have tried to tackle both of them at the same time. In this paper, in order to discover latent co-interests’ relationship, we not only consider users’ attributes but network information as well. In addition, we propose an Interest-based Factor Graph Model (I-FGM) to incorporate these factors. Experiments on two data sets (bookmarking and music network) demonstrate that this predictive method can achieve better results than the other three methods (ANN, NB, and SVM).     

基于回归分析视频中太阳影子时空定位的研究

针对阳光下物体影子变化的过程,分析时序数据确立特定物体所在地。运用三角函数关系与太阳高度角决定公式确立影长决定公式,最小二乘法确立影长变化函数,日期时间已知时使用正午太阳高度角与逆推影长决定公式得特定物体所在地的经度和纬度,仅时间已知使引入半昼长计算公式与简便正午太阳高度角计算公式联立,得到经纬度推算出日期,最后处理视频得到影长变化数据再计算如前,通过视频中特定物体影长的变化确立视频拍摄日期与地点。     

腹腔镜胃癌根治术与传统胃癌根治术的临床效果比较

目的:比较腹腔镜胃癌根治术与传统胃癌根治术的临床效果。方法:回顾分析2010年10月至2013年10月大理大学附属医院行腹腔镜胃癌根治术及胃癌根治术共103例胃癌患者的临床资料,分析比较两组患者的临床效果。结果:应用腹腔镜组平均出血量为(153.05±11.71)m L,明显少于开腹手术的(278.45±12.65)m L(P<0.05)。腹腔镜组的平均术后恢复肛门排气时间(3.10±0.62)d,低于开腹手术组的(5.58±1.12)d(P<0.05)。腹腔镜组平均术后住院时间为(14.25±2.78)d,明显低于开腹手术的(22.07±3.59)d(P<0.05)。生存率:行腹腔镜手术者1年总生存率94.1%,开腹手术总生存率92.1%(P>0.05)。结论:腹腔镜胃癌根治术具有术中出血少、术后住院天数少、并发症少等优点,治疗效果与开腹手术相当。