Waste paper as a kind of biomass contains a great quantity of cellulose which is a renewable energy resource. However, complex cellulose supramolecular structure restricts the conversion of waste paper in near-critical water. This study aimed to investigate the change characteristics of...

Bipartite network based recommendations have attracted extensive attentions in recent years. Differing from traditional object-oriented recommendations, the recommendation in a Microblog network has two crucial differences. One is high authority users or one’s special friends usually play a...

A set of thin tantalum films was prepared by direct current (DC) magnetron sputtering using different substrate temperatures and sputtering power. In order to identify the optimal condition for hillock free thin tantalum (Ta) film deposition, AFM was employed to measure surface morphology of the...

Multi-object tracking has significant merit to our society. However, interactions among objects result in complex spatial occlusions, which gives rise to a challenging problem in tracking. We propose an adaptive weighing particle filter (AWPT) for tracking multiple objects and reasoning the...

Head pose estimation has been widely studied in recent decades due to many significant applications. Different from most of the current methods which utilize face models to estimate head position, we develop a relative homography transformation based algorithm which is robust to the large scale...

A decentralized system of competing retailers that order and sell the same product in a sales season is studied. When a customer demand occurs at a stocked-out retailer, that retailer requests a unit to be transshipped from another retailer who charges a transshipment price. If this request is...