This study constructed a moderated mediation model to examine how the social support received by teachers is associated with their work pay fairness perception in relation to their job satisfaction and job performance...This study constructed a moderated mediation model to examine how the social support received by teachers is associated with their work pay fairness perception in relation to their job satisfaction and job performance.Data were collected from 2411 preschool teachers in China(female=98.01%;mean age=29.12 years,SD=6.28 years).These data were analyzed using structural equation modelling,bootstrapping and latent moderate structural equations.The results indicated that teachers’perception of pay fairness is directly associated with self-rated job performance.Additionally,pay fairness perceptions have an indirect effect on higher job performance through job satisfaction.The social support that teachers perceive moderates the relationship between pay fairness perception and job satisfaction:the more social support teachers receive,the weaker the impact of pay fairness perception on job satisfaction.Thesefindings suggest that teachers’perception of pay fairness is related to their sense of quality of work life,as indicated by their job satisfaction and performance.展开更多
Using data from the 2022 China Family Panel Studies(CFPS),this study selects 11,375 dual-spouse households as the research sample and constructs a comprehensive housework division index via the entropy weight method.T...Using data from the 2022 China Family Panel Studies(CFPS),this study selects 11,375 dual-spouse households as the research sample and constructs a comprehensive housework division index via the entropy weight method.The index integrates four dimensions:participation subject,time allocation,content type,and fairness perception,aiming to explore the fairness level of housework division and group differences in Chinese households.The results show that the overall fairness of housework division in Chinese households is relatively low:the mean value of the index(after 10,000-fold linear expansion)is 0.0632,showing a significant right-skewed distribution,with most households concentrated in the"low-fairness"range and only a few achieving relatively balanced division.Significant group differences exist:rural households have a slightly higher housework division index(0.0659)than urban households(0.0608);male respondents have a higher index(0.0660)than female respondents(0.0603);and the high-education group has a significantly lower index(0.0501)than the low-education group(0.0653).The fairness of housework division is jointly influenced by structural factors and perceptual factors,with an obvious"concept-action gap":74.02%of respondents perceive housework division as"fair",but the low index level indicates this perception mostly stems from normative adaptation rather than objective balance.This study provides empirical evidence for optimizing family labor allocation and promoting gender equality.展开更多
Love of peace and fairness has been a focus since ancient times,for domestic development as well as international exchanges.WHAT does fairness mean?In English,the original definition of the word“fair”includes the me...Love of peace and fairness has been a focus since ancient times,for domestic development as well as international exchanges.WHAT does fairness mean?In English,the original definition of the word“fair”includes the meaning of“beauty”and“harmony,”obviously referring to people’s longing for good prospects in life.In Arabic,the word for“fair”includes the meaning of“balance”and“integrity.”展开更多
【目的】围绕AI场景下科学数据的共享与利用问题,针对现有FAIR原则不足以指导科学数据满足AI就绪的现状,构建面向AI就绪的科学数据共享与利用原则框架。【方法】通过系统梳理传统机器学习、大模型预训练、大模型微调、检索增强生成及智...【目的】围绕AI场景下科学数据的共享与利用问题,针对现有FAIR原则不足以指导科学数据满足AI就绪的现状,构建面向AI就绪的科学数据共享与利用原则框架。【方法】通过系统梳理传统机器学习、大模型预训练、大模型微调、检索增强生成及智能体等5类典型AI任务的数据需求,在传统FAIR“四可”维度的基础上,提出面向AI就绪(即For AI Ready)的科学数据共享与利用原则框架FAIR×FAIR,进而提出与框架相适应的层次化技术栈。【结果】FAIR×FAIR框架明确了13项科学数据满足AI就绪的技术要求,为弥合AI任务与科学数据之间的语义鸿沟提供了系统化方案。【局限】本研究提出的原则框架其实施效果仍需通过后续领域应用案例进一步验证。【结论】FAIR×FAIR框架为AI时代的科学数据共享与高效利用提供了理论依据和实践路径,对推动数据驱动型科研范式的演进具有重要意义。展开更多
To satisfy different service requirements of multiple users in the orthogo nal frequency division multiple access wireless local area network OFDMA-WLAN system downlink transmission a resource allocation algorithm bas...To satisfy different service requirements of multiple users in the orthogo nal frequency division multiple access wireless local area network OFDMA-WLAN system downlink transmission a resource allocation algorithm based on fairness and quality of service QoS provisioning is proposed. Different QoS requirements are converted into different rate requirements to calculate the QoSs atisfaction level.The optimization object is revised as a fairness-driven resource optimization function to provide fairness. The complex resource allocation problem is divided into channel allocation and power assignment sub-problems. The sub-problems are solved by the bipartite graph matching and water-filling based method.Compared with other algorithms the proposed algorithm sacrifices less data rate for higher fairnes and QoS satisfaction.The sim ulation results show that the proposed algorithm is capableo fp rovi ding QoS and fairness and performs better in a tradeoff among QoS fairness and data rate.展开更多
To achieve the higher resource efficiency, Coverage and Capacity Optimization(CCO) as an important role of the network self-healing and self-optimization, has become a focus topic in wireless Self-Organized Network(SO...To achieve the higher resource efficiency, Coverage and Capacity Optimization(CCO) as an important role of the network self-healing and self-optimization, has become a focus topic in wireless Self-Organized Network(SON). In this paper, a novel CCO scheme is proposed to maximize utility function of the integrated coverage and capacity. It starts with the analysis on the throughput proportional fairness(PF) algorithm and then proposes the novel Coverage and Capacity Proportional Fairness(CCPF) allocation algorithm along with a proof of the algorithms convergence. This proposed algorithm is applied in a coverage capacity optimization scheme which can guarantee the reasonable network capacity by the coverage range accommodation. Next, we simulate the proposed CCO scheme based on telecom operators' real network data and compare with three typical resource allocation algorithms: round robin(RR), proportional fairness(PF) and max C/I. In comparison of the PF algorithm, the numerical results show that our algorithm increases the average throughput by 1.54 and 1.96 times with constructed theoretical data and derived real network data respectively.展开更多
With great increase of mobile service in recent years,high quality of experience(QoE) is becoming a comprehensive and major goal for service provider.To unify evaluations of different services,mean opinion score(MOS) ...With great increase of mobile service in recent years,high quality of experience(QoE) is becoming a comprehensive and major goal for service provider.To unify evaluations of different services,mean opinion score(MOS) as a subjective assessment is usually adopted for accurate and convincing reflection of user perceived quality.In this paper,we consider the effect of the burst transmission of best effort(BE) traffic on the uses with real time video traffic in the same cell.We extend the rate scaling process which was initially used to shape burstiness of BE users as interference to handle the scenario that BE users act as resource competitors with video users.A power reallocation strategy between the two types of users is presented and an algorithm further improving the fairness of BE users is proposed.The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can not only promote the QoE of both types of users,but also guarantee the fairness among users.展开更多
Globally,diabetes and glaucoma account for a high number of people suffering from severe vision loss and blindness.To treat these vision disorders effectively,proper diagnosis must occur in a timely manner,and with co...Globally,diabetes and glaucoma account for a high number of people suffering from severe vision loss and blindness.To treat these vision disorders effectively,proper diagnosis must occur in a timely manner,and with conventional methods such as fundus photography,optical coherence tomography(OCT),and slit-lamp imaging,much depends on an expert’s interpretation of the images,making the systems very labor-intensive to operate.Moreover,clinical settings face difficulties with inter-observer variability and limited scalability with these diagnostic devices.To solve these problems,we have developed the Efficient Channel-Spatial Attention Network(ECSA-Net),a new deep learning-based methodology that integrates lightweight channel-and spatial-attention modules into a convolutional neural network.Ultimately,ECSA-Net improves the efficiency of computational resource use while enhancing discriminative feature extraction from retinal images.The ECSA-Net methodology was validated by conducting a series of classification accuracy tests using two publicly available eye disease datasets and was benchmark against a number of different pretrained convolutional neural network(CNN)architectures.The results showed that the ECSA-Net achieved classification accuracies of 60.00%and 69.92%,respectively,while using only a compact architecture with 0.56 million parameters.This represents a reduction in parameter size by a factor of 14×to 247×compared to other pretrained models.Additionally,the attention modules added to the architecture significantly increased sensitivity to disease-relevant regions of the retina while maintaining low computational cost,making ECSA-Net a viable option for real-time clinical use.ECSA-Net is both efficient and accurate in automating the classification of eye diseases,combining high performance with the ethical considerations of medical artificial intelligence(AI)deployment.The ECSA-Net frameworkmitigates algorithmic bias in training datasets and protects individuals’privacy and transparency in decision-making,thereby facilitating human-AI collaboration.The two areas of technical performance and ethical integration are needed for the responsible and scalable use of ECSA-Net in a variety of ophthalmic care settings.展开更多
Fibre Extrusion Technology Ltd(FET)of Leeds,UK reported another successful exhibition at COMPAMED 2025 in Dusseldorf,following closely on the heels of ITMA ASIA in Singapore.This was the second time that FET had exhib...Fibre Extrusion Technology Ltd(FET)of Leeds,UK reported another successful exhibition at COMPAMED 2025 in Dusseldorf,following closely on the heels of ITMA ASIA in Singapore.This was the second time that FET had exhibited at this leading international trade fair for the medical technology supplier sector,a reflection of the company’s growing role in this sector.More than half of FET’s turnover is currently derived from the burgeoning medical market.COMPAMED is aimed at suppliers of a wide range of high-quality medical technology components,services and production equipment for the medical industry.FET’s expanding role in the medical sector is therefore an ideal fit for this trade show.展开更多
引言深圳,这座以创新为基因、以制造为根基的城市,聚集了超4000家机器人核心企业,形成了覆盖核心零部件、系统集成、场景应用的完整产业链条,成为我国机器人产业的创新高地与出海枢纽。机器人全产业链接会FAIR plus 2026开幕前夕,中国...引言深圳,这座以创新为基因、以制造为根基的城市,聚集了超4000家机器人核心企业,形成了覆盖核心零部件、系统集成、场景应用的完整产业链条,成为我国机器人产业的创新高地与出海枢纽。机器人全产业链接会FAIR plus 2026开幕前夕,中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院产业发展中心主任、深圳市机器人协会常务副理事长兼秘书长毕亚雷接受《机器人产业》杂志专访,分享产业最新洞察与前沿思考,为推动产业发展提供路径参考。展开更多
Ningbo,a port city located on the coast of the East China Sea,has taken the lead in holding the Central and Eastern European Countries'Products Fair since 2014 by virtue of its long tradition of the Maritime Silk ...Ningbo,a port city located on the coast of the East China Sea,has taken the lead in holding the Central and Eastern European Countries'Products Fair since 2014 by virtue of its long tradition of the Maritime Silk Road and its position as a modern logistics hub.展开更多
Different from conventional cellular networks, a maritime communication base station(BS) has to cover a much wider area due to the limitation of available BS sites. Accordingly the performance of users far away from t...Different from conventional cellular networks, a maritime communication base station(BS) has to cover a much wider area due to the limitation of available BS sites. Accordingly the performance of users far away from the BS is poor in general. This renders the fairness among users a challenging issue for maritime communications. In this paper, we consider a practical massive MIMO maritime BS with hybrid digital and analog precoding. Only the large-scale channel state information at the transmitter(CSIT) is considered so as to reduce the implementation complexity and overhead of the system. On this basis, we address the problem of fairness-oriented precoding design. A max-min optimization problem is formulated and solved in an iterative way. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme performs much better than conventional hybrid precoding algorithms in terms of minimum achievable rate of all the users, for the typical three-ray maritime channel model.展开更多
In this paper, proportional fairness(PF)-based energy-efficient power allocation is studied for multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA) systems. In our schemes, statistical channel st...In this paper, proportional fairness(PF)-based energy-efficient power allocation is studied for multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA) systems. In our schemes, statistical channel state information(CSI) is utilized for perfect CSI is impossible to achieve in practice. PF is used to balance the transmission efficiency and user fairness. Energy efficiency(EE) is formulated under basic data rate requirements and maximum transmitting power constraints. Due to the non-convex nature of EE, a two-step algorithm is proposed to obtain sub-optimal solution with a low complexity. Firstly, power allocation is determined by golden section search for fixed power. Secondly total transmitting power is determined by fractional programming method in the feasible regions. Compared to the performance of MIMO-NOMA without PF constraint, fairness is obtained at expense of decreasing of EE.展开更多
Non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)is one of the key 5G technology which can improve spectrum efficiency and increase the number of user connections by utilizing the resources in a non-orthogonal manner.NOMA allows m...Non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)is one of the key 5G technology which can improve spectrum efficiency and increase the number of user connections by utilizing the resources in a non-orthogonal manner.NOMA allows multiple terminals to share the same resource unit at the same time.The receiver usually needs to configure successive interference cancellation(SIC).The receiver eliminates co-channel interference(CCI)between users and it can significantly improve the system throughput.In order to meet the demands of users and improve fairness among them,this paper proposes a new power allocation scheme.The objective is to maximize user fairness by deploying the least fairness in multiplexed users.However,the objective function obtained is non-convex which is converted into convex form by utilizing the optimal Karush-Kuhn-Tucker(KKT)constraints.Simulation results show that the proposed power allocation scheme gives better performance than the existing schemes which indicates the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.展开更多
In cloud computing,fairness is one of the most significant indicators to evaluate resource allocation algorithms,which reveals whether each user is allocated as much as that of all other users having the same bottlene...In cloud computing,fairness is one of the most significant indicators to evaluate resource allocation algorithms,which reveals whether each user is allocated as much as that of all other users having the same bottleneck.However,how fair an allocation algorithm is remains an urgent issue.In this paper,we propose Dynamic Evaluation Framework for Fairness(DEFF),a framework to evaluate the fairness of an resource allocation algorithm.In our framework,two sub-models,Dynamic Demand Model(DDM) and Dynamic Node Model(DNM),are proposed to describe the dynamic characteristics of resource demand and the computing node number under cloud computing environment.Combining Fairness on Dominant Shares and the two sub-models above,we finally obtain DEFF.In our experiment,we adopt several typical resource allocation algorithms to prove the effectiveness on fairness evaluation by using the DEFF framework.展开更多
How to allocate a resource efficiently and fairly attracts the attention of both researchers and practitioners. Data envelopment analysis（DEA） has been brought to bear on its solution. The existing literature applie...How to allocate a resource efficiently and fairly attracts the attention of both researchers and practitioners. Data envelopment analysis（DEA） has been brought to bear on its solution. The existing literature applies Gini coefficient to measure the fairness in the resource allocation process. However, the Gini coefficient is inapplicable in many applications. This paper proposes a novel centralized resource allocation model based on DEA that considers both the efficiency and the fairness. This paper adopts a notion of fairness, namely α-fairness that is well studied in welfare economics and is of practical significance. The new model integratesα-fairness with DEA to support resource allocation decisions. It aids decision makers in making a trade-off between the efficiency and the fairness. An illustrative application is used to validate the proposed approach.展开更多
This paper investigates the simultaneous wireless information and powertransfer(SWIPT) for network-coded two-way relay network from an information-theoretic perspective, where two sources exchange information via an S...This paper investigates the simultaneous wireless information and powertransfer(SWIPT) for network-coded two-way relay network from an information-theoretic perspective, where two sources exchange information via an SWIPT-aware energy harvesting(EH) relay. We present a power splitting(PS)-based two-way relaying(PS-TWR) protocol by employing the PS receiver architecture. To explore the system sum rate limit with data rate fairness, an optimization problem under total power constraint is formulated. Then, some explicit solutions are derived for the problem. Numerical results show that due to the path loss effect on energy transfer, with the same total available power, PS-TWR losses some system performance compared with traditional non-EH two-way relaying, where at relatively low and relatively high signalto-noise ratio(SNR), the performance loss is relatively small. Another observation is that, in relatively high SNR regime, PS-TWR outperforms time switching-based two-way relaying(TS-TWR) while in relatively low SNR regime TS-TWR outperforms PS-TWR. It is also shown that with individual available power at the two sources, PS-TWR outperforms TS-TWR in both relatively low and high SNR regimes.展开更多
Non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)is one of the leading technologies for 5G communication.User pairing(UP)and power allocation(PA)are the key controlling mechanisms for the optimization of the performance of NOMA sy...Non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)is one of the leading technologies for 5G communication.User pairing(UP)and power allocation(PA)are the key controlling mechanisms for the optimization of the performance of NOMA systems.This paper presents a novel UP and PA(UPPA)technique for capacity and fairness maximization in NOMA called(CFM-UPPA).The impact of the power allocation coefficient and the ratio between the channel gains of the paired users on the sum-rate capacity and the fairness in NOMA is firstly investigated.Then,based on this investigation,the PA and UP algorithms of the CFM-UPPA technique are proposed.The power allocation coefficient of the proposed PA is formulated as an exponentially decaying function of the ratio between the channel gains of the paired users to maximize the capacity and the fairness,and its maximum value is adjusted to guarantee the successive interference cancellation(SIC)constraints.The proposed UP is based on selecting the user that has the highest channel gain per subcarrier as the strong user to maximize the capacity and selecting the user that has the closest lower channel gain to the strong user’s channel gain as the weak user to improve the fairness and capacity.The performance evaluation of the proposed CFM-UPPA technique in terms of capacity,fairness,and outage probability demonstrates that its performance significantly outperforms that of the orthogonal multiple access(OMA)system and that of the NOMA system with random UP.Also,the simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed PA in improving the performance of other UP algorithms,such as the random UP algorithm.展开更多
基金funded by the National Social Science Fund of China,grant number CHA200267.
文摘This study constructed a moderated mediation model to examine how the social support received by teachers is associated with their work pay fairness perception in relation to their job satisfaction and job performance.Data were collected from 2411 preschool teachers in China(female=98.01%;mean age=29.12 years,SD=6.28 years).These data were analyzed using structural equation modelling,bootstrapping and latent moderate structural equations.The results indicated that teachers’perception of pay fairness is directly associated with self-rated job performance.Additionally,pay fairness perceptions have an indirect effect on higher job performance through job satisfaction.The social support that teachers perceive moderates the relationship between pay fairness perception and job satisfaction:the more social support teachers receive,the weaker the impact of pay fairness perception on job satisfaction.Thesefindings suggest that teachers’perception of pay fairness is related to their sense of quality of work life,as indicated by their job satisfaction and performance.
文摘Using data from the 2022 China Family Panel Studies(CFPS),this study selects 11,375 dual-spouse households as the research sample and constructs a comprehensive housework division index via the entropy weight method.The index integrates four dimensions:participation subject,time allocation,content type,and fairness perception,aiming to explore the fairness level of housework division and group differences in Chinese households.The results show that the overall fairness of housework division in Chinese households is relatively low:the mean value of the index(after 10,000-fold linear expansion)is 0.0632,showing a significant right-skewed distribution,with most households concentrated in the"low-fairness"range and only a few achieving relatively balanced division.Significant group differences exist:rural households have a slightly higher housework division index(0.0659)than urban households(0.0608);male respondents have a higher index(0.0660)than female respondents(0.0603);and the high-education group has a significantly lower index(0.0501)than the low-education group(0.0653).The fairness of housework division is jointly influenced by structural factors and perceptual factors,with an obvious"concept-action gap":74.02%of respondents perceive housework division as"fair",but the low index level indicates this perception mostly stems from normative adaptation rather than objective balance.This study provides empirical evidence for optimizing family labor allocation and promoting gender equality.
文摘Love of peace and fairness has been a focus since ancient times,for domestic development as well as international exchanges.WHAT does fairness mean?In English,the original definition of the word“fair”includes the meaning of“beauty”and“harmony,”obviously referring to people’s longing for good prospects in life.In Arabic,the word for“fair”includes the meaning of“balance”and“integrity.”
文摘【目的】围绕AI场景下科学数据的共享与利用问题,针对现有FAIR原则不足以指导科学数据满足AI就绪的现状,构建面向AI就绪的科学数据共享与利用原则框架。【方法】通过系统梳理传统机器学习、大模型预训练、大模型微调、检索增强生成及智能体等5类典型AI任务的数据需求,在传统FAIR“四可”维度的基础上,提出面向AI就绪(即For AI Ready)的科学数据共享与利用原则框架FAIR×FAIR,进而提出与框架相适应的层次化技术栈。【结果】FAIR×FAIR框架明确了13项科学数据满足AI就绪的技术要求,为弥合AI任务与科学数据之间的语义鸿沟提供了系统化方案。【局限】本研究提出的原则框架其实施效果仍需通过后续领域应用案例进一步验证。【结论】FAIR×FAIR框架为AI时代的科学数据共享与高效利用提供了理论依据和实践路径,对推动数据驱动型科研范式的演进具有重要意义。
基金The National Science and Technology Major Project(No.2012ZX03004005-003)the National Natural Science Foundationof China(No.61171081,61201175)the Science and Technology Support Program of Jiangsu Province(No.BE2011187)
文摘To satisfy different service requirements of multiple users in the orthogo nal frequency division multiple access wireless local area network OFDMA-WLAN system downlink transmission a resource allocation algorithm based on fairness and quality of service QoS provisioning is proposed. Different QoS requirements are converted into different rate requirements to calculate the QoSs atisfaction level.The optimization object is revised as a fairness-driven resource optimization function to provide fairness. The complex resource allocation problem is divided into channel allocation and power assignment sub-problems. The sub-problems are solved by the bipartite graph matching and water-filling based method.Compared with other algorithms the proposed algorithm sacrifices less data rate for higher fairnes and QoS satisfaction.The sim ulation results show that the proposed algorithm is capableo fp rovi ding QoS and fairness and performs better in a tradeoff among QoS fairness and data rate.
基金supported by the 863 Program (2015AA01A705)NSFC (61271187)
文摘To achieve the higher resource efficiency, Coverage and Capacity Optimization(CCO) as an important role of the network self-healing and self-optimization, has become a focus topic in wireless Self-Organized Network(SON). In this paper, a novel CCO scheme is proposed to maximize utility function of the integrated coverage and capacity. It starts with the analysis on the throughput proportional fairness(PF) algorithm and then proposes the novel Coverage and Capacity Proportional Fairness(CCPF) allocation algorithm along with a proof of the algorithms convergence. This proposed algorithm is applied in a coverage capacity optimization scheme which can guarantee the reasonable network capacity by the coverage range accommodation. Next, we simulate the proposed CCO scheme based on telecom operators' real network data and compare with three typical resource allocation algorithms: round robin(RR), proportional fairness(PF) and max C/I. In comparison of the PF algorithm, the numerical results show that our algorithm increases the average throughput by 1.54 and 1.96 times with constructed theoretical data and derived real network data respectively.
基金supported by China National S&T Major Project 2013ZX03003002003Beijing Natural Science Foundation No.4152047+1 种基金the 863 project No.2014AA01A701111 Project of China under Grant B14010
文摘With great increase of mobile service in recent years,high quality of experience(QoE) is becoming a comprehensive and major goal for service provider.To unify evaluations of different services,mean opinion score(MOS) as a subjective assessment is usually adopted for accurate and convincing reflection of user perceived quality.In this paper,we consider the effect of the burst transmission of best effort(BE) traffic on the uses with real time video traffic in the same cell.We extend the rate scaling process which was initially used to shape burstiness of BE users as interference to handle the scenario that BE users act as resource competitors with video users.A power reallocation strategy between the two types of users is presented and an algorithm further improving the fairness of BE users is proposed.The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can not only promote the QoE of both types of users,but also guarantee the fairness among users.
基金Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number(PNURSP2026R77)Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia,the Deanship of Scientific Research at Northern Border University,Arar,Saudi Arabia,through the project number NBU-FFR-2026-2248-01.
文摘Globally,diabetes and glaucoma account for a high number of people suffering from severe vision loss and blindness.To treat these vision disorders effectively,proper diagnosis must occur in a timely manner,and with conventional methods such as fundus photography,optical coherence tomography(OCT),and slit-lamp imaging,much depends on an expert’s interpretation of the images,making the systems very labor-intensive to operate.Moreover,clinical settings face difficulties with inter-observer variability and limited scalability with these diagnostic devices.To solve these problems,we have developed the Efficient Channel-Spatial Attention Network(ECSA-Net),a new deep learning-based methodology that integrates lightweight channel-and spatial-attention modules into a convolutional neural network.Ultimately,ECSA-Net improves the efficiency of computational resource use while enhancing discriminative feature extraction from retinal images.The ECSA-Net methodology was validated by conducting a series of classification accuracy tests using two publicly available eye disease datasets and was benchmark against a number of different pretrained convolutional neural network(CNN)architectures.The results showed that the ECSA-Net achieved classification accuracies of 60.00%and 69.92%,respectively,while using only a compact architecture with 0.56 million parameters.This represents a reduction in parameter size by a factor of 14×to 247×compared to other pretrained models.Additionally,the attention modules added to the architecture significantly increased sensitivity to disease-relevant regions of the retina while maintaining low computational cost,making ECSA-Net a viable option for real-time clinical use.ECSA-Net is both efficient and accurate in automating the classification of eye diseases,combining high performance with the ethical considerations of medical artificial intelligence(AI)deployment.The ECSA-Net frameworkmitigates algorithmic bias in training datasets and protects individuals’privacy and transparency in decision-making,thereby facilitating human-AI collaboration.The two areas of technical performance and ethical integration are needed for the responsible and scalable use of ECSA-Net in a variety of ophthalmic care settings.
文摘Fibre Extrusion Technology Ltd(FET)of Leeds,UK reported another successful exhibition at COMPAMED 2025 in Dusseldorf,following closely on the heels of ITMA ASIA in Singapore.This was the second time that FET had exhibited at this leading international trade fair for the medical technology supplier sector,a reflection of the company’s growing role in this sector.More than half of FET’s turnover is currently derived from the burgeoning medical market.COMPAMED is aimed at suppliers of a wide range of high-quality medical technology components,services and production equipment for the medical industry.FET’s expanding role in the medical sector is therefore an ideal fit for this trade show.
文摘引言深圳,这座以创新为基因、以制造为根基的城市,聚集了超4000家机器人核心企业,形成了覆盖核心零部件、系统集成、场景应用的完整产业链条,成为我国机器人产业的创新高地与出海枢纽。机器人全产业链接会FAIR plus 2026开幕前夕,中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院产业发展中心主任、深圳市机器人协会常务副理事长兼秘书长毕亚雷接受《机器人产业》杂志专访,分享产业最新洞察与前沿思考,为推动产业发展提供路径参考。
文摘Ningbo,a port city located on the coast of the East China Sea,has taken the lead in holding the Central and Eastern European Countries'Products Fair since 2014 by virtue of its long tradition of the Maritime Silk Road and its position as a modern logistics hub.
基金supported in part by the National Science Foundation of China under grant No. 91638205,grant No. 61771286, and grant No. 61701457, and grant No. 61621091
文摘Different from conventional cellular networks, a maritime communication base station(BS) has to cover a much wider area due to the limitation of available BS sites. Accordingly the performance of users far away from the BS is poor in general. This renders the fairness among users a challenging issue for maritime communications. In this paper, we consider a practical massive MIMO maritime BS with hybrid digital and analog precoding. Only the large-scale channel state information at the transmitter(CSIT) is considered so as to reduce the implementation complexity and overhead of the system. On this basis, we address the problem of fairness-oriented precoding design. A max-min optimization problem is formulated and solved in an iterative way. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme performs much better than conventional hybrid precoding algorithms in terms of minimum achievable rate of all the users, for the typical three-ray maritime channel model.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61671252)
文摘In this paper, proportional fairness(PF)-based energy-efficient power allocation is studied for multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA) systems. In our schemes, statistical channel state information(CSI) is utilized for perfect CSI is impossible to achieve in practice. PF is used to balance the transmission efficiency and user fairness. Energy efficiency(EE) is formulated under basic data rate requirements and maximum transmitting power constraints. Due to the non-convex nature of EE, a two-step algorithm is proposed to obtain sub-optimal solution with a low complexity. Firstly, power allocation is determined by golden section search for fixed power. Secondly total transmitting power is determined by fractional programming method in the feasible regions. Compared to the performance of MIMO-NOMA without PF constraint, fairness is obtained at expense of decreasing of EE.
文摘Non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)is one of the key 5G technology which can improve spectrum efficiency and increase the number of user connections by utilizing the resources in a non-orthogonal manner.NOMA allows multiple terminals to share the same resource unit at the same time.The receiver usually needs to configure successive interference cancellation(SIC).The receiver eliminates co-channel interference(CCI)between users and it can significantly improve the system throughput.In order to meet the demands of users and improve fairness among them,this paper proposes a new power allocation scheme.The objective is to maximize user fairness by deploying the least fairness in multiplexed users.However,the objective function obtained is non-convex which is converted into convex form by utilizing the optimal Karush-Kuhn-Tucker(KKT)constraints.Simulation results show that the proposed power allocation scheme gives better performance than the existing schemes which indicates the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
基金supported in part by Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University No.IRT1078The Key Program of NSFC-Guangdong Union Foundation No.U1135002The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities No.JY0900120301
文摘In cloud computing,fairness is one of the most significant indicators to evaluate resource allocation algorithms,which reveals whether each user is allocated as much as that of all other users having the same bottleneck.However,how fair an allocation algorithm is remains an urgent issue.In this paper,we propose Dynamic Evaluation Framework for Fairness(DEFF),a framework to evaluate the fairness of an resource allocation algorithm.In our framework,two sub-models,Dynamic Demand Model(DDM) and Dynamic Node Model(DNM),are proposed to describe the dynamic characteristics of resource demand and the computing node number under cloud computing environment.Combining Fairness on Dominant Shares and the two sub-models above,we finally obtain DEFF.In our experiment,we adopt several typical resource allocation algorithms to prove the effectiveness on fairness evaluation by using the DEFF framework.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(7117118171301155)+1 种基金the Fundamental Research Fundsfor the Central Universities(WK2040160008J2014HGBZ0172)
文摘How to allocate a resource efficiently and fairly attracts the attention of both researchers and practitioners. Data envelopment analysis（DEA） has been brought to bear on its solution. The existing literature applies Gini coefficient to measure the fairness in the resource allocation process. However, the Gini coefficient is inapplicable in many applications. This paper proposes a novel centralized resource allocation model based on DEA that considers both the efficiency and the fairness. This paper adopts a notion of fairness, namely α-fairness that is well studied in welfare economics and is of practical significance. The new model integratesα-fairness with DEA to support resource allocation decisions. It aids decision makers in making a trade-off between the efficiency and the fairness. An illustrative application is used to validate the proposed approach.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( No . 61602034 )the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 4162049)+2 种基金the Open Research Fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory,Southeast University (No. 2014D03)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities Beijing Jiaotong University (No. 2016JBM015)the NationalHigh Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (No. 2015AA015702)
文摘This paper investigates the simultaneous wireless information and powertransfer(SWIPT) for network-coded two-way relay network from an information-theoretic perspective, where two sources exchange information via an SWIPT-aware energy harvesting(EH) relay. We present a power splitting(PS)-based two-way relaying(PS-TWR) protocol by employing the PS receiver architecture. To explore the system sum rate limit with data rate fairness, an optimization problem under total power constraint is formulated. Then, some explicit solutions are derived for the problem. Numerical results show that due to the path loss effect on energy transfer, with the same total available power, PS-TWR losses some system performance compared with traditional non-EH two-way relaying, where at relatively low and relatively high signalto-noise ratio(SNR), the performance loss is relatively small. Another observation is that, in relatively high SNR regime, PS-TWR outperforms time switching-based two-way relaying(TS-TWR) while in relatively low SNR regime TS-TWR outperforms PS-TWR. It is also shown that with individual available power at the two sources, PS-TWR outperforms TS-TWR in both relatively low and high SNR regimes.
基金This research was supported by Taif University Researchers Supporting Project Number(TURSP-2020/147),Taif University,Taif,Saudi Arabia.
文摘Non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)is one of the leading technologies for 5G communication.User pairing(UP)and power allocation(PA)are the key controlling mechanisms for the optimization of the performance of NOMA systems.This paper presents a novel UP and PA(UPPA)technique for capacity and fairness maximization in NOMA called(CFM-UPPA).The impact of the power allocation coefficient and the ratio between the channel gains of the paired users on the sum-rate capacity and the fairness in NOMA is firstly investigated.Then,based on this investigation,the PA and UP algorithms of the CFM-UPPA technique are proposed.The power allocation coefficient of the proposed PA is formulated as an exponentially decaying function of the ratio between the channel gains of the paired users to maximize the capacity and the fairness,and its maximum value is adjusted to guarantee the successive interference cancellation(SIC)constraints.The proposed UP is based on selecting the user that has the highest channel gain per subcarrier as the strong user to maximize the capacity and selecting the user that has the closest lower channel gain to the strong user’s channel gain as the weak user to improve the fairness and capacity.The performance evaluation of the proposed CFM-UPPA technique in terms of capacity,fairness,and outage probability demonstrates that its performance significantly outperforms that of the orthogonal multiple access(OMA)system and that of the NOMA system with random UP.Also,the simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed PA in improving the performance of other UP algorithms,such as the random UP algorithm.
