图是λ3-最优和超级-λ3的范型条件

设G是有限简单无向图,使G-S的每个分支都包含至少k个点的边割S称为G的k-限制边割。G的k-限制边连通度λk(G)是G的k-限制边割之中最少的边数。定义ξk(G)=min{[U,U-]:U V(G),|U|=k,G[U]是连通的},若λk(G)=ξk(G),则称G是λk-最优的。若任意最小k-限制边割都孤立一个k阶分支,则称图G是超级-λk的。应用范型条件给出了图是λ3-最优和超级-λ3的充分条件。     

考虑解答者公平关切的众包竞赛知识共享激励

研究了解答者之间的横向公平关切特征对众包竞赛发包方知识共享激励的影响。在构建公平关切下解答者效用函数的基础上,建立并求解了无知识共享激励模型(NKS)和知识共享激励模型(KS),用理论分析和数值仿真方法研究了公平关切敏感度对发包方最优知识共享激励程度、解答者最优私有解答努力程度及知识共享努力程度、众包项目绩效以及双方期望经济收益的影响,并与无知识共享激励进行了对比。研究表明：解答者公平关切心理能降低实施共享知识激励机制的门槛,并提升发包方最优知识共享激励程度;解答方知识共享努力与公平关切正相关,但私有解答努力与之负相关;众包项目绩效、发包方绝对经济收益与公平关切的关系取决于解答努力绩效转化率和知识共享努力绩效转化率之间的比值;知识共享激励机制能实现发包方和解答者双方经济利益的共赢,且其经济价值随公平关切敏感度增大而提高,并受到参赛人数的调节作用。     

Extinction risk from climate change

Climate change over the past approximately 30 years has produced numerous shifts in the distributions and abundances of species and has been implicated in one species-level extinction. Using projections of species' distributions for future climate scenarios, we assess extinction risks for sample regions that cover some 20% of the Earth's terrestrial surface. Exploring three approaches in which the estimated probability of extinction shows a power-law relationship with geographical range size, we predict, on the basis of mid-range climate-warming scenarios for 2050, that 15-37% of species in our sample of regions and taxa will be 'committed to extinction'. When the average of the three methods and two dispersal scenarios is taken, minimal climate-warming scenarios produce lower projections of species committed to extinction ( approximately 18%) than mid-range ( approximately 24%) and maximum-change ( approximately 35%) scenarios. These estimates show the importance of rapid implementation of technologies to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and strategies for carbon sequestration.     

Atmospheric oxidation capacity sustained by a tropical forest

Terrestrial vegetation, especially tropical rain forest, releases vast quantities of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to the atmosphere, which are removed by oxidation reactions and deposition of reaction products. The oxidation is mainly initiated by hydroxyl radicals (OH), primarily formed through the photodissociation of ozone. Previously it was thought that, in unpolluted air, biogenic VOCs deplete OH and reduce the atmospheric oxidation capacity. Conversely, in polluted air VOC oxidation leads to noxious oxidant build-up by the catalytic action of nitrogen oxides (NO(x) = NO + NO2). Here we report aircraft measurements of atmospheric trace gases performed over the pristine Amazon forest. Our data reveal unexpectedly high OH concentrations. We propose that natural VOC oxidation, notably of isoprene, recycles OH efficiently in low-NO(x) air through reactions of organic peroxy radicals. Computations with an atmospheric chemistry model and the results of laboratory experiments suggest that an OH recycling efficiency of 40-80 per cent in isoprene oxidation may be able to explain the high OH levels we observed in the field. Although further laboratory studies are necessary to explore the chemical mechanism responsible for OH recycling in more detail, our results demonstrate that the biosphere maintains a remarkable balance with the atmospheric environment.     

Impact of Crowdsourcee’s Vertical Fairness Concern on the Crowdsourcing Knowledge Sharing Behavior and Its Incentive Mechanism

This paper examines in detail the impact of the crowdsourcee's vertical fairness concern on the knowledge sharing incentive mechanism in crowdsourcing communities. The conditions for the establishment of the incentive mechanism are analyzed and the impact of fairness concern sensitivity on expected economic revenues of both sides as well as the crowdsourcing project performance is studied by game theory and computer simulation. The results show that the knowledge sharing incentive mechanism can only be established if the ratio between the performance improvement rate and the private cost reduction rate caused by shared knowledge is within a certain range. The degree of the optimal linear incentives, the private solution efforts, and the improvement of knowledge sharing level are positively correlated with the sensitivity of vertical fairness concern. In the non-incentive mode, the ratio between the performance conversion rate of private solution effort and the performance conversion rate of knowledge sharing effort plays an important role in moderating a crowdsourcing project's performance. The authors find that the number of participants is either conducive or nonconducive to the improvement of performance. The implementation of knowledge sharing incentive can achieve a win-win situation for both the crowdsourcer and the crowdsourcee.