Novice facilitators’ changes in practices: From launching to managing discussions about mathematics teaching

Novice facilitators of professional development (PD) programs for mathematics teachers often face challenges in leading productive discussions and achieving the goals of these programs. Although research in this area is gradually accumulating, not much is known about how novice facilitators address these challenges and change their practices accordingly. This paper presents case studies of two novice facilitators of PD programs in two different countries. The analyses look at their work over one year, to illustrate the changes in their practices while managing discussions. The results show that although the facilitators operated in different contexts, their practices and their processes of change resembled, suggesting that these processes are not idiosyncratic. We argue that novice facilitators’ changes in practices correspond to changes in their resources, orientations, goals, and identities and that PD program teams can support these changes.     

Micro-economic analysis of the physical constrained markets: game theory application to competitive electricity markets

Competition has been introduced in the electricity markets with the goal of reducing prices and improving efficiency. The basic idea which stays behind this choice is that, in competitive markets, a greater quantity of the good is exchanged at a lower price, leading to higher market efficiency. Electricity markets are pretty different from other commodities mainly due to the physical constraints related to the network structure that may impact the market performance. The network structure of the system on which the economic transactions need to be undertaken poses strict physical and operational constraints. Strategic interactions among producers that game the market with the objective of maximizing their producer surplus must be taken into account when modeling competitive electricity markets. The physical constraints, specific of the electricity markets, provide additional opportunity of gaming to the market players. Game theory provides a tool to model such a context. This paper discussed the application of game theory to physical constrained electricity markets with the goal of providing tools for assessing the market performance and pinpointing the critical network constraints that may impact the market efficiency. The basic models of game theory specifically designed to represent the electricity markets will be presented. IEEE30 bus test system of the constrained electricity market will be discussed to show the network impacts on the market performances in presence of strategic bidding behavior of the producers.     

京杭运河(杭州段)旅游资源及其旅游功能开发研究

从分析运河杭州段旅游资源的空间分布特征入手，对其旅游开发条件进行了评价，揭示了杭州城市旅游业发展与运河间的相互关系，提出运河杭州段旅游开发的功能定位与形象策划，并对运河各区段的旅游开发方向提出了建设的性的总体构想。     

寡头竞争模型在旅游联盟协议中的应用

博弈论中的寡头竞争模型在经济、政治、军事等社会科学中得到了广泛的应用.针对旅游联盟的机会主义行为,以库诺特(Cournot)寡头竞争模型为基础建立了旅游联盟博弈模型,来分析旅游联盟建立正式协议的必要性,并探讨了联盟协议的主要内容,包括:联盟的战略目标和合作范围;投入资源评价与利益分配;交流渠道;联盟解散条款.最后指出了建立协议的协商原则和灵活性原则.     

Biodegradable polymers based on renewable resources. VII. Novel random and alternating copolycarbonates from 1,4:3,6‐dianhydrohexitols and aliphatic diols

Novel copolycarbonates containing 1,4:3,6‐dianhydro‐D ‐glucitol or 1,4:3,6‐dianhydro‐D ‐mannitol units, with various methylene chain lengths, were synthesized by bulk and solution polycondensations, of several combinations of carbonate‐modified sugar derivatives and aliphatic diols. Bulk polycondensations of 1,4:3,6‐dianhydro‐2,5‐bis‐O‐(phenoxycarbonyl)‐D ‐glucitol or 1,4:3,6‐dianhydro‐2,5‐bis‐O‐(phenoxycarbonyl)‐D ‐mannitol with four α,ω‐alkanediols having methylene chain lengths of 4, 6, 8, and 10, respectively, at 180 °C afforded the corresponding copolycarbonates with number‐average molecular weight (M_n) values up to 19.₂ × 10³. ¹³C NMR analysis disclosed that these polymers had scrambled structures in which the sugar carbonate and aliphatic carbonate moieties were nearly randomly distributed along a polymer chain. However, solution polycondensations between 1,4:3,6‐dianhydro‐2,5‐bis‐O‐(p‐nitrophenoxycarbonyl)‐D ‐glucitol or 1,4:3,6‐dianhydro‐2,5‐bis‐O‐(p‐nitrophenoxycarbonyl)‐D ‐mannitol, and the α,ω‐alkanediols in sulfolane or dimethyl sulfoxide at 60 °C gave well‐defined copolycarbonates having regular structures consisting of alternating sugar carbonate and aliphatic carbonate moieties with M_n values up to 33.₈ × 10³. Differential scanning calorimetry demonstrated that all the copolycarbonates were amorphous with glass‐transition temperatures ranging from 1 to 65 °C, which decreased with increasing lengths of the methylene chain of the aliphatic diols. Additionally, all the copolycarbonates were stable up to 310–330 °C as estimated by thermogravimetric analysis. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 41: 2312–2321, 2003     

水资源可再生能力综合评价的遗传加权物元模型

为了科学地计算水资源可再生能力评价指标的权重 ,使评价方法具有可操作性 ,采用主、客观相结合的赋权基点法 ,以全局收敛的格雷码加速遗传算法为工具来确定权重 ,并结合物元分析理论 ,建立了一种新的评价模型——遗传加权物元模型 .文中给出了该模型实施的详细步骤 ,对黄河流域 9个行政分区的水资源可再生能力进行了综合评价 ,取得了较好的效果 .     

工业企业余热资源量计算的计算机辅助系统

现代流行的能源管理方面的软件多是利用字符型数据库系统进行对能源数据的统计分析并生成电子报表山。余热资源量的计算涉及不多。这项工作恰恰是能源管理系统中难度较大问题之一。其主要原因是能源转换和耗能设备种类繁多、运行工况复杂多变、现场能源监测数据不全、计算工作量大的缘故。对余热资源量的计算和分析要投入大量的精力和财力。因此，开发余热资源量的计算和统计分析的应用软件是非常必要的。11业余热载体的种类及其余热资源量的计算方法1．1工业余热资源分类工业余热资源按载热体形态可分为三大类：固态载体余热资源、液态载体…     

Development of novel phosphorus‐containing epoxy resins from renewable resources

Novel biobased epoxy resins were prepared from two fatty acid derivatives; epoxidized 10‐undecenoyl triglyceride and epoxidized methyl 3,4,5‐tris(10‐undecenoyloxy)benzoate, with 4,4′‐diaminodiphenylmethane as a crosslinking agent. The flame retardancy of these epoxy resins was improved by the addition of 10‐[2′, 5′‐bis(9‐oxiranyl‐nonayloxy)phenyl]‐9,10‐dihydro‐9‐oxa‐10‐phosphaphenanthrene‐10‐oxide and by crosslinking with a phosphorus‐containing curing agent, bis(m‐aminophenyl)methylphosphine oxide. The thermal, thermomechanical, and flame‐retardant properties of the cured materials were measured with differential scanning calorimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, dynamic mechanical analysis, and the limiting oxygen index. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 6717–6727, 2006     

运筹学中若干离散规划问题的相对差分搜索解法

运筹学中有很多离散规划问题。其中的线性规划通常用分枝定界法或割平面法，还有图上作业法求解。不论哪种方法工作量都不小，而且效率低；至于非线性规划大都是用动态规划法求解，也很麻烦、耗时。对于大规模问题，不论线性或非线性离散规划，现有解法都受到问题规模的限制；还有资源分配和背包问题至今没有见到解决方法。本文就是为了解决这些问题，提出了相对差分搜索算法。通过5个算例和其它文献中的一些算例计算验证了本法简单、快速、有效和精确，尤其不受问题规模的限制是其最大的优点。     

GRASP and path relinking for project scheduling under partially renewable resources

Recently, in the field of project scheduling problems the concept of partially renewable resources has been introduced. Theoretically, it is a generalization of both renewable and non-renewable resources. From an applied point of view, partially renewable resources allow us to model a large variety of situations that do not fit into classical models, but can be found in real problems in timetabling and labor scheduling. In this paper, we develop some preprocessing techniques and several heuristic algorithms for the problem. Preprocessing significantly reduces the dimension of the problems, therefore improving the efficiency of solution procedures. Heuristic algorithms based on GRASP and Path relinking are then developed and tested on existing test instances, obtaining excellent results.