Sensors play an important role in shaping and monitoring human health.Exploration of methods to use Fiber Bragg Grating(FBG)with enhanced sensitivity has attracted great interest in the field of medical research.In th...Sensors play an important role in shaping and monitoring human health.Exploration of methods to use Fiber Bragg Grating(FBG)with enhanced sensitivity has attracted great interest in the field of medical research.In this paper,a novel apodization function is proposed and performance evaluation and optimization of the same have been made.A comparison was conducted between various existing apodization functions and the proposed one based on optical characteristics and sensor parameters.The results evince the implementation of the proposed apodization function for vital sign measurement.The optical characteristics considered for evaluation are Peak Resonance Reflectivity level,Side Lobes Reflectivity level and FullWidth HalfMaximum(FWHM).The proposed novel apodization novel function has better FWHM,which is narrower than the FWHM of uniform FBG.Sensor characteristics like a quality parameter,detection accuracy and sensitivity also show improvement.The proposed novel apodization function is demonstrated to have a better shift in wavelength in terms of temperature and pulse measurement than the existing functions.The sensitivity of the proposed apodized function is enhanced with a Poly-dimethylsiloxane coating of varying thickness,which is 6 times and 5.14 times greater than uniform Fiber Bragg grating and FBG with the proposed novel apodization function,respectively,enhancing its utilization in the field of medicine.展开更多
Workflow management is concerned with automated support for business processes.Workflow management systems are driven by process models specifying the tasks that need to be executed,the order in which they can be exec...Workflow management is concerned with automated support for business processes.Workflow management systems are driven by process models specifying the tasks that need to be executed,the order in which they can be executed,which resources are authorised to perform which tasks,and data that is required for,and produced by,these tasks.As workflow instances may run over a sustained period of time,it is important that workflow specifications be checked before they are deployed.Workflow verification is usually concerned with control-flow dependencies only;however,transition conditions based on data may further restrict possible choices between tasks.In this paper we extend workflow nets where transitions have concrete conditions associated with them,called WTC-nets.We then demonstrate that we can determine which execution paths of a WTC-net that are possible according to the control-flow dependencies,are actually possible when considering the conditions based on data.Thus,we are able to more accurately determine at design time whether a workflow net with transition conditions is sound.展开更多
For the course of“Data Structures”,this paper introduces the importance and existing problems of the data structure course.Through the literature and the current teaching in major universities,the existing teaching ...For the course of“Data Structures”,this paper introduces the importance and existing problems of the data structure course.Through the literature and the current teaching in major universities,the existing teaching methods and their disadvantages are analyzed.The authors put forward teaching reform suggestions and designed an online course platform.展开更多
基金supported in part by Universiti Malaya,and ACU UK under Project No.IF063-2021.
文摘Sensors play an important role in shaping and monitoring human health.Exploration of methods to use Fiber Bragg Grating(FBG)with enhanced sensitivity has attracted great interest in the field of medical research.In this paper,a novel apodization function is proposed and performance evaluation and optimization of the same have been made.A comparison was conducted between various existing apodization functions and the proposed one based on optical characteristics and sensor parameters.The results evince the implementation of the proposed apodization function for vital sign measurement.The optical characteristics considered for evaluation are Peak Resonance Reflectivity level,Side Lobes Reflectivity level and FullWidth HalfMaximum(FWHM).The proposed novel apodization novel function has better FWHM,which is narrower than the FWHM of uniform FBG.Sensor characteristics like a quality parameter,detection accuracy and sensitivity also show improvement.The proposed novel apodization function is demonstrated to have a better shift in wavelength in terms of temperature and pulse measurement than the existing functions.The sensitivity of the proposed apodized function is enhanced with a Poly-dimethylsiloxane coating of varying thickness,which is 6 times and 5.14 times greater than uniform Fiber Bragg grating and FBG with the proposed novel apodization function,respectively,enhancing its utilization in the field of medicine.
基金Project supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project of China (No.2010ZX01042-002-002-01)the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (No.2009CB320700)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.61073005 and 61003099)
文摘Workflow management is concerned with automated support for business processes.Workflow management systems are driven by process models specifying the tasks that need to be executed,the order in which they can be executed,which resources are authorised to perform which tasks,and data that is required for,and produced by,these tasks.As workflow instances may run over a sustained period of time,it is important that workflow specifications be checked before they are deployed.Workflow verification is usually concerned with control-flow dependencies only;however,transition conditions based on data may further restrict possible choices between tasks.In this paper we extend workflow nets where transitions have concrete conditions associated with them,called WTC-nets.We then demonstrate that we can determine which execution paths of a WTC-net that are possible according to the control-flow dependencies,are actually possible when considering the conditions based on data.Thus,we are able to more accurately determine at design time whether a workflow net with transition conditions is sound.
基金supported in part by grants from Qinglan Project of Jiangsu Province(2020)High-level demonstration construction project of Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools in Jiangsu Province,Jiangsu Higher Educational Technology Research Association-2019 Higher Education Informatization Research Project(2019JSETKT035)Ideological and Political Special Project of Philosophy and Social Science Research Projects in Colleges and Universities in 2019(2019SJB422).
文摘For the course of“Data Structures”,this paper introduces the importance and existing problems of the data structure course.Through the literature and the current teaching in major universities,the existing teaching methods and their disadvantages are analyzed.The authors put forward teaching reform suggestions and designed an online course platform.
