The impact of animal welfare regulations on firms' product offerings: Humane or organic product?

Increased public concerns about animal welfare have spurred new regulations to improve animals' treatment and living conditions. We study how these regulations affect firms' product offerings, prices, and profits. We consider two competing animal agriculture supply chains, each consisting of a supplier and a buyer. New regulations require firms to choose between offering humane or organic products, which are differentiated by animals' living conditions. We find that consumers' growing awareness of animal welfare encourages firms to offer organic products, which require the highest standards for animals' living conditions. We also show that tightening humane product standards and loosening organic product standards encourage firms to offer organic products—but with distinct pricing implications. The former leads to higher retail prices whereas the latter may lower retail prices. Depending on costs and consumers' awareness of animal welfare, a humane product may be priced higher or lower than an organic product. Furthermore, we provide conditions under which a regulator should offer a unit-cost or an investment cost subsidy to improve social welfare. We show that subsidies can encourage firms to change from offering humane to organic products, or vice versa, to enhance total social welfare.     

海量公交数据的人群画像算法

面向海量公交数据的人群画像对分析城市群体出行特点、交通态势等极具价值,但对数据的处理存在耗时高、质量低、解释难等问题。提出一种海量公交数据人群画像的系统化解决策略,基于PageRank算法筛选出经过重要站点的人群轨迹,极大减少目标人群的轨迹数据;提出轨迹文本化分析方法来提高人群画像的可解释性;分析确定基于余弦距离的K-means算法作为人群画像分类的聚类算法。该算法在3 000万乘客公交出行数据上的实验表明:提出的解决策略能够较为系统性地解决海量公交数据的人群画像问题,同时基于余弦距离的K-means算法的聚类效果最好且准确率约达80%。将人群画像及其轨迹使用Flow Map进行可视化展示,结果符合真实世界的人群行为特征。     

结合振动特征优选和GWOA-XGBoost的电机轴承故障诊断

为解决电机轴承故障状态难以识别,从而造成诊断精度不高的情况,提出了一种基于信号特征提取与极限梯度提升算法(extreme gradient boosting, XGBoost)结合的电机轴承故障诊断模型。使用优化的变分模态分解获得振动信号的固有模态函数(intrinsic mode function, IMF)分量,再基于多尺度熵理论计算各IMF分量的多尺度熵值进行特征重构。在鲸鱼优化算法(whale optimization algorithm, WOA)中引入遗传算法的选择、交叉、变异操作对WOA进行改进。用改进的WOA算法对XGBoost的超参数进行寻优,获得了帮助XGBoost取得最优分类效果的超参数组合,将7种不同故障类型的振动信号进行重构后输入优化的XGBoost模型进行故障诊断。实验结果表明,所提GWOA-XGBoost模型的电机轴承故障诊断精度能够达到97.14%,相较于传统诊断方法,性能提升效果显著。     

定向天线自动控制系统的研究

在图像信号传输或无线通信中,为了保证通信质量,大多采用定向天线.当将定向发射天线和接收天线对准时,才能接收到高质量的信号,但是定向天线对准是一项很困难的工作.针对定向天线对准困难的问题,根据GPS和数字罗盘技术,提出了定向天线自动控制系统的设计方案,进行了精度分析和试验.该系统结构简单,价格便宜,满足高机动武器装备信息传输要求.     

捷联式惯导系统动态误差特性研究

根据载体运动状态下捷联惯性导航系统 (SINS)的误差方程时变的特点 ,推导出捷联惯性导航系统动态误差模型 ,并对其在几种动态环境下的误差特性进行了仿真研究 ,结果表明 :与静态误差特性相比 ,捷联式惯导系统的动态误差特性发生了较大的变化。     

一种新的低阻弹弹道坐标数据的异常值判别方法

分析了弹道测试中误差产生的原因和类型,以及各种传统数据处理方法的不足之处,针对数据处理中的主要问题和难点,提出了一种新的判别异常值方法。     

《线性代数》教学与观念更新

《线性代数》是理、工、农、经类各专业的一门重要的基础课,对后续课程起到工具性、奠基性的作用。《线性代数》中许多概念抽象、层次甚高,学生普遍感到难学,教师在教学中要注意指导和帮助学生更新观念,使其加深对抽象概念的理解,以便较好地掌握基础的代数思想和代数方法。     

水库区的风景开发建设与生态环境保护研究

随着社会经济的发展,水库这一人工湖泊不仅只发挥传统的灌溉、供水、防洪、发电和养殖等作用,作为风景旅游和度假地开发建设越来越受到重视,文章从对库区风景开发建设必要性、条件和原则进行分析,提出库区开发建设必须兼顾生态环境,确保水库的可持续发展。     

月球轨道超长波天文观测微卫星在轨数据预处理方法

围绕“嫦娥4号”月球轨道超长波天文观测微卫星展开研究,针对微纳卫星对地数传资源的限制,提出一种在轨信号预处理方法：通过10通道数字下变频链路实现原始数据的变频接收,再利用多级滤波器抽取获得低采样率基带数据,下变频本振频率可调,在对地数传资源约束下保证了不同频带数据的灵活选取。以上方法实现了一种10频点超窄带梳状滤波,仿真验证表明,采样率80 MSPS基带带宽为1 kHz的情况下,此方法可在现场可编程门阵列平台上稳定运行,能保证带内平坦度和线性相位等关键技术指标, 数据量与直接下传原始数据相比,降低了3个数量级以上。     

Value management of diagnostic equipment with cancelation,no‐show,and emergency patients

Magnetic resonance imaging and other multifunctional diagnostic facilities, which are considered as scarce resources of hospitals, typically provide services to patients with different medical needs. This article examines the admission policies during the appointment management of such facilities. We consider two categories of patients: regular patients who are scheduled in advance through an appointment system and emergency patients with randomly generated demands during the workday that must be served as soon as possible. According to the actual medical needs of patients, regular patients are segmented into multiple classes with different cancelation rates, no‐show probabilities, unit value contributions, and average service times. Management makes admission decisions on whether or not to accept a service request from a regular patient during the booking horizon to improve the overall value that could be generated during the workday. The decisions should be made by considering the cancelation and no‐show behavior of booked patients as well as the emergency patients that would have to be served because any overtime service would lead to higher costs. We studied the optimal admission decision using a continuous‐time discrete‐state dynamic programming model. Identifying an optimal policy for this discrete model is analytically intractable and numerically inefficient because the state is multidimensional and infinite. We propose to study a deterministic counterpart of the problem (i.e., the fluid control problem) and to develop a time‐based fluid policy that is shown to be asymptotically optimal for large‐scale problems. Furthermore, we propose to adopt a mixed fluid policy that is developed based on the information obtained from the fluid control problem. Numerical experiments demonstrate that this improved policy works effectively for small‐scale problems. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 287–304, 2016