Why indexing works

We develop a simple stock selection model to explain why active equity managers tend to underperform a benchmark index. We motivate our model with the empirical observation that the best performing stocks in a broad market index often perform much better than the other stocks in the index. Randomly selecting a subset of securities from the index may dramatically increase the chance of underperforming the index. The relative likelihood of underperformance by investors choosing active management likely is much more important than the loss those same investors take due to the higher fees of active management relative to passive index investing. Thus, active management may be even more challenging than previously believed, and the stakes for finding the best active managers may be larger than previously assumed.     

激光陀螺单轴旋转式惯导系统的转动方案分析

目前国际上的激光陀螺单轴旋转式惯导系统中,普遍采用一种四位置转停的惯性测量组合转动方案.通过对这种四位置转停方案的误差分析,指出它并不能够完全抵消掉转轴垂直平面内的所有陀螺常值漂移误差,并且载体航向变化会降低误差抵消的程度,基于此,在这种四位置转停方案基础上,首先提出了一种改进的四位置转停方案,可以抵消掉转轴垂直平面内的所有陀螺常值漂移误差,然后进一步提出了一种动态调整停止时间的四位置转停方案,使转轴垂直平面内的常值漂移误差的抵消程度不受载体航向变化的影响.分析表明,文中提出的这些改进措施和方法能够提高系统精度,而不会降低系统的可靠性,并且使用简单易行,可以应用于实际的单轴旋转式惯导系统中.     

Reverse engineering of compact suffix trees and links: A novel algorithm

Invented in the 1970s, the Suffix Tree (ST) is a data structure that indexes all substrings of a text in linear space. Although more space demanding than other indexes, the ST remains likely an inspiring index because it represents substrings in a hierarchical tree structure. Along time, STs have acquired a central position in text algorithmics with myriad of algorithms and applications to for instance motif discovery, biological sequence comparison, or text compression. It is well known that different words can lead to the same suffix tree structure with different labels. Moreover, the properties of STs prevent all tree structures from being STs. Even the suffix links, which play a key role in efficient construction algorithms and many applications, are not sufficient to discriminate the suffix trees of distinct words. The question of recognising which trees can be STs has been raised and termed Reverse Engineering on STs. For the case where a tree is given with potential suffix links, a seminal work provides a linear time solution only for binary alphabets. Here, we also investigate the Reverse Engineering problem on ST with links and exhibit a novel approach and algorithm. Hopefully, this new suffix tree characterisation makes up a valuable step towards a better understanding of suffix tree combinatorics.     

Speech-Music-Noise Discrimination in Sound Indexing of Multimedia Documents

Sound indexing and segmentation of digital documents especially in the internet and digital libraries are very useful to simplify and to accelerate the multimedia document retrieval. We can imagine that we can extract multimedia files not only by keywords but also by speech semantic contents. The main difficulty of this operation is the parameterization and modelling of the sound track and the discrimination of the speech, music and noise segments. In this paper, we will present a Speech/Music/Noise indexing interface designed for audio discrimination in multimedia documents. The program uses a statistical method based on ANN and HMM classifiers. After pre-emphasis and segmentation, the audio segments are analysed by the cepstral acoustic analysis method. The developed system was evaluated on a database constituted of music songs with Arabic speech segments under several noisy environments.     

正交双加速度计两种安装位置在重力场中的标定方法

为了提高加速度计在1g重力场中的标定精度,分度头的角位置误差应非常小或将它有效地分离。提出了一种将正交双加速度计在分度头上,进行两种安装位置组合测试的方法。推导了加速度计误差模型系数的标定误差与分度头角位置误差成分的关系,设计了两种安装位置组合测试方法,从加速度计的输出中可分离分度头的角位置误差,提高加速度计误差模型系数的辨识精度,对试验数据进行误差分析后验证了该方法的正确性。     

图C4n＋2×P4k＋3的优美性

It is shown that the product graph C_4n＋2×P_4k＋3 is graceful.     

Atomic sublattices: Problems of indexing powder patterns, structural model determination

The second basic theorem of lattice crystallography (by N. V. Belov) underlies the theory of atomic sublattices characteristic of the overwhelming majority of crystal structures we have studied. By the example of structures of particular inorganic compounds (involving mercury chalcohalides) it is illustrated that a priory knowledge of cationic and anionic sublattices typical of a given class of compounds may provide useful information for analyzing powder diffraction patterns of substances with unknown crystal structures. It has been shown that complicated structures can be analyzed “in parts” by identifying their individual components discernable in powder diffraction patterns.     

Zn(p-DMABA)~2Cl~2的低热固相合成及其X射线粉末衍射数据

报道了固配化合物Zn(p-DMABA)~2Cl~2(p-DMABA=N,N'-对二甲胺基苯甲醛)的低热固相合成，并用红外光谱、拉曼光谱、荧光光谱、差热热失重分析对产物进行了表征。结果表明p-DMABA是通过羰基氧原子与金属锌离子配位的。用粉末X射线衍射仪惧了衍射数据，并对衍射数据进行了指标化，指标化结果如下：Zn(p-DMABA)~2Cl~2为单斜晶系，空间群为P2~111(4)，晶胞参数：a=1.5897(2)nm,b=0.7560(4)nm,c=1.0373(1)nm,β=95.23(3)°,V=1.241(2)nm^3。