USA nuclear waste management program has stalled due to its continued insistence upon using Yucca Mountain for its disposal of DOE （Department of Energy） and commercial power plants NSF （nuclear spent fuel）. Incre...USA nuclear waste management program has stalled due to its continued insistence upon using Yucca Mountain for its disposal of DOE （Department of Energy） and commercial power plants NSF （nuclear spent fuel）. Increased flexibility and significant changes in DOE program are proposed. They include a private waste company to manage it; the construction and operation of ICS （interim centralized storage） facilities for NSF; the search for an AGR （alternate geological repository）; the use of a different methodology involving key local and state participants; a new ＂as safe as practical＂ strategy with defined benefits to the involved locations and states. Assured removal of NSF from ICS and providing limited Price Anderson indemnity for the program will enhance its acceptance. Minimum politics, regular information meetings, compromises, good cost projections and meeting schedules will be necessary to increase the chances of the proposed nuclear waste management program.展开更多
This paper, from the educational and psychological point of view, explores EFL college students＇ language learning strategies in the Chinese context. The subjects under study involve 106 non-English majors from Hohai...This paper, from the educational and psychological point of view, explores EFL college students＇ language learning strategies in the Chinese context. The subjects under study involve 106 non-English majors from Hohai University at its Changzhou Campus. The approach is used for the research through two questionnaires to investigate the learners＇ language learning strategies. In the study, it is found that students use compensation strategies most frequently, while metacognitive strategies less and social strategies the least. Findings of the present study also indicate that the different strategies are respectively emphasized for the male and female students, students of arts and science and engineering.展开更多
The past two years have witnessed great fluctuations ininternational oil prices,and diplomatic efforts,both above andunder the table,by major powers around this issue.The currenttension in the war-threatened Iraq has ...The past two years have witnessed great fluctuations ininternational oil prices,and diplomatic efforts,both above andunder the table,by major powers around this issue.The currenttension in the war-threatened Iraq has added more uncertainties to thefuture world oil situation.Will the world oil supply and demand change?What impact would this exert on big powers’ oil strategy choices,geopolitics as well as world economy?What should China do in such asituation?To find the answers to these questions,at the invitation of theeditor of the Contemporary International Relations,seven experts fromChina Institute of Contemporary International Relations gathered to have adiscussion in early February this year.Naturally,they have differentviews over many issues.Still,we hope our readers would find theirdiscussion interesting.Following is the list of participants.展开更多
In this paper, the author demonstrates that among a host of methods and approaches, Communicative Language Teaching （CLT） is most effective in teaching lexical part of the language system. And how to teach vocabular...In this paper, the author demonstrates that among a host of methods and approaches, Communicative Language Teaching （CLT） is most effective in teaching lexical part of the language system. And how to teach vocabulary in a communicative classroom effectively is well illustrated.展开更多
The dung beetle optimizer(DBO)is a metaheuristic algorithm with fast convergence and powerful search capabilities,which has shown excellent performance in solving various optimization problems.However,it suffers from ...The dung beetle optimizer(DBO)is a metaheuristic algorithm with fast convergence and powerful search capabilities,which has shown excellent performance in solving various optimization problems.However,it suffers from the problems of easily falling into local optimal solutions and poor convergence accuracy when dealing with large-scale complex optimization problems.Therefore,we propose an adaptive DBO(ADBO)based on an elastic annealing mechanism to address these issues.First,the convergence factor is adjusted in a nonlinear decreasing manner to balance the requirements of global exploration and local exploitation,thus improving the convergence speed and search quality.Second,a greedy difference optimization strategy is introduced to increase population diversity,improve the global search capability,and avoid premature convergence.Finally,the elastic annealing mechanism is used to perturb the randomly selected individuals,helping the algorithm escape local optima and thereby improve solution quality and algorithm stability.The experimental results on the CEC 2017 and CEC 2022 benchmark function sets and MCNC benchmark circuits verify the effectiveness,superiority,and universality of ADBO.展开更多
文摘USA nuclear waste management program has stalled due to its continued insistence upon using Yucca Mountain for its disposal of DOE （Department of Energy） and commercial power plants NSF （nuclear spent fuel）. Increased flexibility and significant changes in DOE program are proposed. They include a private waste company to manage it; the construction and operation of ICS （interim centralized storage） facilities for NSF; the search for an AGR （alternate geological repository）; the use of a different methodology involving key local and state participants; a new ＂as safe as practical＂ strategy with defined benefits to the involved locations and states. Assured removal of NSF from ICS and providing limited Price Anderson indemnity for the program will enhance its acceptance. Minimum politics, regular information meetings, compromises, good cost projections and meeting schedules will be necessary to increase the chances of the proposed nuclear waste management program.
基金This paper is funded by the Humanity and Social Science Foundation of Hohai University Changzhou Campus.
文摘This paper, from the educational and psychological point of view, explores EFL college students＇ language learning strategies in the Chinese context. The subjects under study involve 106 non-English majors from Hohai University at its Changzhou Campus. The approach is used for the research through two questionnaires to investigate the learners＇ language learning strategies. In the study, it is found that students use compensation strategies most frequently, while metacognitive strategies less and social strategies the least. Findings of the present study also indicate that the different strategies are respectively emphasized for the male and female students, students of arts and science and engineering.
文摘The past two years have witnessed great fluctuations ininternational oil prices,and diplomatic efforts,both above andunder the table,by major powers around this issue.The currenttension in the war-threatened Iraq has added more uncertainties to thefuture world oil situation.Will the world oil supply and demand change?What impact would this exert on big powers’ oil strategy choices,geopolitics as well as world economy?What should China do in such asituation?To find the answers to these questions,at the invitation of theeditor of the Contemporary International Relations,seven experts fromChina Institute of Contemporary International Relations gathered to have adiscussion in early February this year.Naturally,they have differentviews over many issues.Still,we hope our readers would find theirdiscussion interesting.Following is the list of participants.
文摘In this paper, the author demonstrates that among a host of methods and approaches, Communicative Language Teaching （CLT） is most effective in teaching lexical part of the language system. And how to teach vocabulary in a communicative classroom effectively is well illustrated.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62102130)the Central Government Guides Local Science and Technology Development Fund Project of China(No.226Z0201G)+4 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province of China(Nos.F2020204003 and F2024204001)the Hebei Youth Talents Support Project of China(No.BJ2019008)the Science and Technology Research Projects of Higher Education Institutions in Hebei Province of China(No.QN2024138)the Basic Scientific Research Funds Research Project of Hebei Provincial Colleges and Universities of China(No.KY2022073)the Hebei Province Higher Education Institution Scientific Research Project of China(No.QN2025192)。
文摘The dung beetle optimizer(DBO)is a metaheuristic algorithm with fast convergence and powerful search capabilities,which has shown excellent performance in solving various optimization problems.However,it suffers from the problems of easily falling into local optimal solutions and poor convergence accuracy when dealing with large-scale complex optimization problems.Therefore,we propose an adaptive DBO(ADBO)based on an elastic annealing mechanism to address these issues.First,the convergence factor is adjusted in a nonlinear decreasing manner to balance the requirements of global exploration and local exploitation,thus improving the convergence speed and search quality.Second,a greedy difference optimization strategy is introduced to increase population diversity,improve the global search capability,and avoid premature convergence.Finally,the elastic annealing mechanism is used to perturb the randomly selected individuals,helping the algorithm escape local optima and thereby improve solution quality and algorithm stability.The experimental results on the CEC 2017 and CEC 2022 benchmark function sets and MCNC benchmark circuits verify the effectiveness,superiority,and universality of ADBO.
