大型群体决策问题中的简单多数规则（3个评选对象场合）

一个群体决策问题取决于两个因素,一个是群体决策的规则,另一个是投票。当选定群体决策规则时,一个群体决策问题由投票完全决定,此时,群体决策问题与投票之间一一对应。简单多数规则是个简单且被广泛采用的群体决策规则,但它有缺陷,我们可举出些群体决策问题使用简单多数规则没法从投票得到最后群体决策的结果。这里我们将给出一个简单多数规则的有趣性质,即在3个评选对象场合,使用简单多数规则没法从投票得到最后群体决策结果的n个评选人的群体决策问题的个数与所有n个评选人的群体决策问题的个数之比当评选人个数n趋向无穷时趋于零,这说明3个评选对象的大型群体决策场合,简单多数规则的缺陷不严重。     

变系数的一般型发展方程的色散估计

本文研究的是带变系数的一般型线性发展方程.首先建立了其基本解的一系列色散估计:Kato光滑型估计,极大函数估计及Strichartz估计.最后应用这些估计研究了一些非自治非线性色散方程的初值问题在H~s(R)空间中的局部可解性.     

Likelihood Inference for Large Scale Stochastic Blockmodels With Covariates Based on a Divide-and-Conquer Parallelizable Algorithm With Communication

We consider a stochastic blockmodel equipped with node covariate information, that is, helpful in analyzing social network data. The key objective is to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of the model parameters. For this task, we devise a fast, scalable Monte Carlo EM type algorithm based on case-control approximation of the log-likelihood coupled with a subsampling approach. A key feature of the proposed algorithm is its parallelizability, by processing portions of the data on several cores, while leveraging communication of key statistics across the cores during each iteration of the algorithm. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated on synthetic datasets and compared with competing methods for blockmodel parameter estimation. We also illustrate the model on data from a Facebook derived social network enhanced with node covariate information. Supplemental materials for this article are available online.     

考虑大变形的刚-柔耦合旋转智能结构动力学分析

基于Hamilton原理对带端部质量的刚柔耦合旋转智能结构建立了耦合的非线性动力学模型．根据一阶近似耦合（FOAC）模型理论,通过有限元方法,得到了系统的有限维模型．模型中考虑了轴向、横向位移和转动角度的非线性几何效应,以及压电材料和结构的大变形及离心刚化效应．在有限元模型的基础上,建立了3种实际系统模型方程,分别是无压电层的结构,有压电层开环状态和闭环状态．最后基于简化模型的仿真结果显示出有端部质量和没有端部质量的差异,智能结构梁在闭环和开环的差异,高速旋转梁的离心作用及结构外加电载荷的动力响应．     

大位移Timoshenko转轴三维耦合动力学分析

对于高速柔性转轴,综合考虑滑移、弯曲、剪切变形、旋转惯性、陀螺效应和动不平衡等因素,运用Timoshenko旋转梁理论,给出弹性体空间运动的一般性描述,通过Hamilton原理建立弯曲-扭转-轴向三维耦合非线性动力学方程,应用参数摄动方法和假设振型方法进行化简,并用数值模拟分析了轴向刚性滑移、剪切变形、截面尺寸和转速等因素对转轴动力学响应的影响。     

含周期脉动的大密度比气液同轴射流的Floquet稳定性分析

基于周期脉动速度激励下气液同轴射流的数学模型,运用线性稳定性理论,采用Chebyshev配点法和Floquet理论,将含周期脉动分层流的Floquet稳定性分析扩展到大密度比的情况.研究了液铝-氮气射流的参数共振特性,分析了不同的物理参数对系统稳定性的影响,计算了实验工况并和实验结果进行了比较.     

Comparisons of Success and Retention in a General Chemistry Course Before and After the Adoption of a Mathematics Prerequisite

This study of the relationships between mathematical ability and success and retention in a general chemistry course was conducted at an open‐enrollment university whose mission is to provide a quality education to a culturally and economically diverse student body. We studied the correlation between the demonstrated level of mathematical ability and success in chemistry and the correlation between the demonstrated level of mathematical ability and retention in chemistry. After the chemistry department implemented a mathematics prerequisite for the chemistry course, data were examined to compare success and retention prior to and after the adoption of the prerequisite. Analysis showed that success and retention in chemistry increased after the adoption of the mathematics prerequisite.     

System dynamics at Bradford University: a silver jubilee review

The first academic system dynamics group in the UK was established at Bradford University in 1970. Some of the main themes in its work are described to indicate the range of topics which have been analysed. Some technical developments in the methodology are discussed.     

Large deviation and the tangent cone at infinity of a crystal lattice

We discuss a large deviation property of a periodic random walk on a crystal lattice in view of geometry, and relate it to a rational convex polyhedron in the first homology group of a finite graph, which, as we shall observe, has remarkable combinatorial features, and shows up also in the Gromov-Hausdorff limit of a crystal lattice.To the memory of our late friend Robert Brooks     

General decay for a differential inclusion of Kirchhoff type with a memory condition at the boundary

In this article, we consider a differential inclusion of Kirchhoff type with a memory condition at the boundary. We prove the asymptotic behavior of the corresponding solutions. For a wider class of relaxation functions, we establish a more general decay result, from which the usual exponential and polynomial decay rates are only special cases.     

The Politics of Information Building a Relational Database to Support Decision-Making at a Public University

Abstract

The Writing on the Wall: Inside Higher Education in America by Gail Thain Parker. New York: Simon and Schuster, 208 pages, $9.95.     

具有微极弹性构架的流体-饱和多孔固体中波在边界面处的传播

通过研究匀质非黏性液体半空间和微极流体饱和多孔固体半空间交界面处平面波的反射与透射,得到不同角度入射波的反射和透射系数.计算出反射波与透射波的振幅比数值,并用图表示出微极性和多孔性对反射和透射的影响.最后根据公式对一些特例进行了推导.     

Global Conic Shock Wave for the Steady Supersonic Flow Past a Large Curved Cone at Infinity

In this paper, we establish the global existence and stability of a steady symmetric shock wave for the constant supersonic flow past an infinitely long and large curved conic body. The flow is assumed to be polytropic, isentropic and described by a steady potential equation. Through looking for the suitable “dissipative” boundary conditions on the shock and the conic surface together with the special form of shock equation, we show that the conic shock attached at the vertex of the cone exists globally in the whole space when the speed of the supersonic incoming flow is appropriately large.     

弹性固体和充满两种互不相溶粘性流体的多孔固体之间界面的反射和折射及其衰减波

在充满两种互不相溶粘性流体的多孔固体中,研究弹性波的传播.用3个数性的势函数描述3个纵波的传播,用1个矢性的势函数单独描述横波的传播.根据这些势函数,在不同的组合相中,定义出质点的位移.可以看出,可能存在3个纵波和1个横波.在一个弹性固体半空间与一个充满两种互不相溶粘性流体的多孔固体半空间之间,研究其界面上入射纵波和横波所引起的反射和折射现象.由于孔隙流体中有粘性,折射到多孔介质中的波,朝垂直界面方向偏离.将入射波引起的反射波和折射波的波幅比,作为非奇异的线性代数方程组计算.进一步通过这些波幅比,计算出各个被离散波在入射波能量中所占的份额.通过一个特殊的数值模型,计算出波幅比和能量比系数随入射角的变化.超过SV波的临界入射角,反射波P将不再出现.越过界面的能量守恒原理得到了验证.绘出了图形并对不同孔隙饱和度以及频率的变化,讨论它们对能量分配的影响.     

Method for Calculating the Near-Surface Effect in Piecewise Homogeneous Bodies at Large Deformations Based on a Two-Level Approach

Mechanics of Composite Materials - A method is proposed for calculating the near-surface effect in piecewise homogeneous bodies under large deformations based on a combined use of one-level applied...