Unified Plan Research Articles

Capacity Planning of Micro Energy Grid Using Double-Level Game Model of Environment-Economic Considering Dynamic Energy Pricing Strategy

Multi-energy unified planning is difficult because of the complex conflicting relationship between the coupling and complementary interaction of multiple forms of energy in micro energy grids (MEGs). Conflicting relationships between the economy and the environment as well as the impact of uncertain energy prices must be considered during MEG planning. To address these problems, this paper proposes a two-level game with an environment-economic planning model that considers dynamic energy pricing strategies. This model consists of an upper environment-economic planning level based on a multi-strategy evolution game considering players' bounded rationality and a lower dynamic energy pricing level, including the MEG operator-user leader-follower Stackelberg game. Simultaneously, based on the energy hub theory, a multi energy coupling matrix is established for a MEG and includes electricity, gas, heat, and cooling. The evolutionary stability strategy (ESS) of the planning results is analyzed using the replicator dynamic equation of the evolutionary game, and the existence of the Nash equilibrium is proven for the dynamic energy pricing of Stackelberg games. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed environment-economic planning two-level game model considering dynamic energy pricing strategies is verified using simulations. Because dynamic energy pricing and the environment-economic planning are considered, the number of energy equipment required during peak hours is reasonably reduced, thereby reducing the total planning cost and improving the energy utilization efficiency. Simultaneously, greenhouse gas (CO2) and air pollutant (NOx) emissions are reduced to decrease environmental impact.

Planning as the basis of strategic development of the construction organization

A unified planning system for construction production is considered, including interconnected planning levels - general, strategic, current, operational. A planning period, a list of tasks to be solved and features of their solution are presented for each level. The statement of the problem of determining capital investments for the development of means of production is disclosed and the relationship between the indicators of finished construction products and means of production is described. The procedure for transforming the model for determining capital investments and reducing its solution to a homogeneous linear equation in finite differences is described.

Current Situation and Prospects of International Regulations on the Cross-border Flow of Personal Data

Current Situation and Prospects of International Regulations on the Cross-border Flow of Personal Data

خارطة طریق تکنولوجیة مقترحة لتفعیل دور القیادات التعلیمیة فی التحول الرقمی للتعلیم الثانوی العام فی بعض الدول العربیة

يهدف البحث إلى اقتراح عدد من خرائط الطريق التکنولوجية لدور القيادات التعليمية في التحول الرقمي بمرحلة الثانوي العام ببعض الدول العربية. ففي ضوء الرؤى المستقبلية الطموحة لعدد من الدول العربية (2030)، قد تم تحديد مشکلة البحث في السؤال الرئيس التالي: کيف تستطيع القيادات التعليمية تطبيق التحول الرقمي بالمدارس الثانوية العامة في عدد من الدول العربية في ضوء تحديات ضعف المقومات المادية والبشرية اللازمة؟ وفي ضوء طبيعة مشکلة البحث وأهدافه، اتبع البحث المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، وإلى جانب ذلک تم إعداد استبانة لاستطلاع آراء القيادات التعليمي بالمدارس الثانوية العامة بأربع دول عربية وهي: جمهورية مصر العربية، والمملکة العربية السعودية وسلطنة عمان والمملکة الأردنية الهاشمية للتعرف على دور القيادات التعليمية في التحول الرقمي. وفي ضوء نتائج البحث، تم اقتراح بدائل لخارطة طريق تکنولوجية تساعد نظم التعليم بالدول محل الدراسة في إنجاز التحول الرقمي بالمرحلة الثانوية، ويمکن استعراض نبذة عن النماذج المقترحة لخارطة الطريق التکنولوجية فيما يلي: 1-النموذج الاستطلاعي التدريجي لخارطة الطريق التکنولوجية Incremental Piloting Technology Roadmap (TRM)، والذي يعتمد فيه النموذج على الاستطلاع والتجريب على عدد من القطاعات أو المناطق الجغرافية والتي يتم زيادة رقعة تنفيذه بعد تجريبه على نطاق ضيق، ثم يتسع التطبيق وفق شکل انتشار أثر الحجر في الماء Ripple Effect. 2-النموذج البنائي Constructive TRM، والذي يعتمد على المدرسة کوحدة بنائية من خلال نموذج التنفيذ من القاعدة للأعلى Bottom-up approach، والتي تتولى فيه المدرسة قيادة التحول الرقمي في ضوء خطة قومية موحدة، بحيث تتجمع المعلومات والبيانات رقميا من مستوى المدرسة إلى مستويات أعلى على مستوى الإدارة والمديرية ثم على المستوى القومي. 3-النموذج اللامرکزي Decentralized TRM، والذي يعتمد على أن ميزانية التعليم مخصصة للمحافظات أو المناطق التعليمية، فتستطيع کل منطقة تعليمية وضع الخطط الخاصة بها وفق طبيعتها وخصوصيتها والموارد المتاحة لديها وأولويات تطوير التعليم بها. The research aims at proposing several Technology Roadmaps for the educational leaderships’ role in digital transformation at a few selected Arab countries in the light of their ambitious visions (2030). Research problem could be identified in the research main question: how educational leaderships can implement digital transformation at general secondary schools in a few Arab countries given the challenges of inadequate physical and human resources? In the light of the unique nature of research problem and objectives, the research has followed the technology road mapping (TRM) futurist methodology that relied on the outcomes of the descriptive analytical methodology that required formulating a questionnaire directed to secondary school leaderships in four countries: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Jordan to identify the roles of educational leaderships in digital transformation. Guided by the research results, a few technology roadmaps were proposed to help education systems of the countries dealt with in the research implement digital transformation in the optimum form at secondary schools. The proposed technology roadmaps could be summed up in the following: 1-Incremental piloting TRM which relies in its design on experimenting and piloting digital transformation on several narrow-selected sectors and/or geographic locations, and that could be expanded on other sectors and/or geographic locations incrementally in a way that resembles ripple effect. 2-Constructive TRM which depends on school as a construction unit through a bottom-up approach that school leads digital transformation in the light of a unified national plan. All data, learning resources and information are collected from schools’ level to higher administrative levels to local areas and governorates then to the national level. 3-Decentralised TRM which is based on the allocated budget per geographic location where each geographic location can develop its own plan that suits their local resources, needs, priorities and nature of education problems they deal with.

Research and design of education and teaching resource management system based on ASP.NET Technology

The informatization of career education is an important foundation and part of the reform of career education. The construction of professional education resource library is one of the important contents of professional education informatization construction. There is a lack of unified planning for the construction of teaching resource pool in higher vocational colleges in China. The system software construction investment is less, the content is not system; Teacher education information technology and teaching strategy application level is not high, slow development and other problems. This topic elaborates how to use the base. NET architecture, and SQL Server as the background database system, the development of teaching resource library platform design and implementation process. Based on the actual situation of zaozhuang vocational college of science and technology, this paper makes a comprehensive analysis of the demand of teaching resource management system. Establish a set of teaching resource management system for education teaching in our college, and the informatization level of education teaching. The research content of this paper is as follows: analyze the situation and existing problems of the construction of education teaching resource library in China. Research related technologies required for system development, including Ajax technologies. NET technology, ADO. NET technology. The demand analysis of the system, the realization of the structural model and functional module are described in detail. The system is used for testing in the department of information engineering of the college. Its functions are normal, and it basically meets the needs of normal teaching and course construction.

Research progress in surgical procedures for osteochondral lesions of talus

To summarize the research progress of surgical procedures in osteochondral lesions of the talus (OLT). By consulting the related literature of OLT in recent years, the advantages and disadvantages of various surgical treatment schemes were analyzed and summarized. There are many surgical treatments for OLT, including bone marrow stimulation, osteochondral transplantation, autologous chondrocyte transplantation, and biologically assisted therapy. Various schemes have different indications and limitations. With the continuous development of various technologies, the effectiveness of OLT treatment will gradually improve. There are still many difficulties and controversies in the treatment of OLT, and there is no unified treatment plan. It is suggested that individualized operation plan should be formulated according to the specific conditions of patients.

Formation and Evolution of Innovation Chain in Marine Petrochemical Industry Based on Multidimensional Bayesian Algorithms

Zhang, F.-Y., and He, Q., 2019.Formation and evolution of innovation chain in marine petrochemical industry based on multidimensional bayesian algorithms. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R.(eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 601–604. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.Due to the lack of unified planning for Offshore Petrochemical Industry, the space layout is not reasonable.Based on single Offshore Petrochemical Industrial zone, this paper studies several industrial zones.In this paper, intelligent offshore industrial cluster is used to update the innovation chain of petrochemical industry in real time. At the same time, this paper reasonably restricts the formation and evolution of innovation chain that actually participates in planning, and determines the planning plan through real-time statistics.

A novel feature transform framework using deep neural network for multimodal floor plan retrieval

In recent past, there has been a steep increase in the use of online platforms for the search of desired products. Real estate industry is no exception and has started initiating rent/sale of houses through online platforms. In this paper, we propose a deep neural network framework to facilitate automatic search of homes based on their floor plans. The salient features of this framework are that the query can be either an image (existing floor plan) or a sketch through a sketch pad interface. Our proposed framework automatically determines the type of query (image or sketch) and retrieves similar floor plan images from the database. The critical contributions of our proposed approach are: (1) a novel unified floor plan retrieval framework using multimodal query, i.e., an intuitive and convenient sketch query mode as well as a query by example mode ; (2) a conjunction of autoencoder, Cyclic GAN and CNN for the task of domain mapping and floor plan image retrieval. We have reported results of extensive experimentation and comparison with baseline results to establish the effectiveness of our approach.

Factors Associated with Multidisciplinary Consultations in Patients with Early Stage Breast Cancer

Purpose: Multidisciplinary care (MDC) encourages multiple specialists to formulate a unified treatment plan. We sought to determine the frequency and predictors of MDC and assess the association between MDC and nationally-recognized quality metrics in patients with breast cancer.Methods: We used the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results-medicare dataset to evaluate patients diagnosed with stages I–III breast cancer who underwent breast-conserving surgery between 2002 and 2011 with follow-up to 2012. We defined MDC as a visit claim from a surgeon, radiation oncologist and medical oncologist within 12 months of diagnosis. We used multivariable regression analysis to determine the association between demographic and clinical variables and MDC, and to assess the association between MDC and three nationally-recognized quality indicators (adjuvant hormone therapy for hormone receptor-positive tumors, chemotherapy for hormone receptor-negative cancer, and radiation after lumpectomy).Results: Of the 61,039 patients in our initial cohort, 53,849 (88.2%) saw a medical oncologist, 46,521 (76.2%) saw a radiation oncologist, and 43,280 (70.9%) were evaluated by all three providers the first year after diagnosis. MDC use was higher in patients with the highest socioeconomic status compared with the lowest [odds ratio (OR) 1.74, 95% CI 1.63–1.86], in patients diagnosed in later years, and those with stage III disease compared to stage I [OR 1.29, 95% CI 1.19–1.41]. Patients older in age (≥80 vs. 65–69 years, OR 0.33, 95% CI 0.31–0.34), patients with more comorbidities, those who lived in a rural setting compared to urban (OR 0.61, 95% CI 0.57–0.64), and unmarried patients (OR 0.79, 95% CI 0.76–0.82) were less likely to see all three providers. In a multivariable analysis, MDC use was associated with increased likelihood of meeting each quality metric.Conclusion: Early stage breast cancer patients were evaluated by a surgeon, radiation oncologist and medical oncologist less than 75% of the time. Enhanced coordination of care and navigation programs may improve the quality of care delivered.

Construction of data resource sharing center of the Puguang Intelligent Gas Field

During the initial construction of the Puguang Gas Field, information infrastructure was built. Due to the absence of unified planning and deployment, however, many “isolated information islands” were formed in data systems, and the data resources cannot meet the construction requirements of intelligent gas field. In this paper, the status quo and problems of data resources in the Puguang Gas Field were analyzed, and a data resource sharing center was constructed according to the overall architecture design of the Puguang Intelligent Gas Field. Based on the architecture design of data resource sharing center, the overall construction conception of data resource sharing center was put forward and the business data model was designed. Finally, the integrated data collection, storage, calculation and utilization was realized by establishing data standard, combing data sources and designing data services, and then it was applied on site. The following research results were obtained. First, the data resource sharing center is an important foundation for the construction of this project, and its overall architecture is divided into three layers from bottom to top, i.e., data specification and standard, data collection, storage, calculation and utilization, and data control. Second, the data resource sharing center achieves the one-time collection, centralized storage, shared use and unified management of exploration & development, gathering & purification, production & operation and safety & environmental protection data, and provides an important data base for the construction of business system of the intelligent gas field and a comprehensive, reliable and effective data support for the intelligent and mobile application in the Puguang Gas Field.

Pepper Place Farmers’ Market and the Need for Research and Strategy

Pepper Place Market, a farmers’ market created in 1999 in Birmingham, Alabama, was designed as the centerpiece and foundation to support the long-term urban revitalization plan in Birmingham’s historic Lakeview District. Cathy Jones, the founder and inspiration behind the market, began the market on land owned by her family’s real estate company, Sloss Real Estate. The Pepper Place Market initially operated solely on cash flow received from farmers and artisans. In 2011, the market began soliciting sponsorships. The market’s leadership wanted to expand the market but struggled with negative net income. The organization had no unified marketing strategy or marketing plan. The limited promotion in which Pepper Place Market engaged was inconsistent and lacked a clear, strong messaging. Realizing the market needed to do more, Jones believed conducting marketing research and creating a strategic marketing plan should be their next steps.

Multilevel Governments’ Decision-Making Process and Its Influencing Factors in Watershed Ecological Compensation

Transboundary water pollution is a long-standing problem in China, although the Chinese government has been committed to the protection of water resources. Due to the different interests of multilevel governments and the regionalization of management, there is still no unified plan to solve the transboundary water pollution in China. Watershed ecological compensation as a holistic plan to deal with transboundary water pollution is being promoted currently. Taking the South-to-North Water Transfer Project’ eastern route as an example, this paper firstly analyses stakeholders’ strategies and establishes a tripartite game model based on evolutionary game theory. Secondly, by introducing Cobb Douglas production function creatively, the supervision level of the central government is refined into supervisory attitude and supervisory skills. Thirdly, the numerical simulation is used to analyze the sensitivity of influencing factors. The results show that: (1) whether the central government supervises the local governments mainly depends on the benefits of water environment improvement and supervision costs; (2) the initial negotiation plan of the stakeholders has a significant impact on their optimum strategies; (3) the fines imposed by the central government on the local governments have a small impact on the stable state of the system; (4) the higher the eco-compensation fee, the lower their likelihood of cooperation; (5) the central government’s supervisory attitude and supervisory skills have significant effect on the sustainability of the optimum arrangement, even when willingness of upstream and downstream governments to cooperate is low; (6) the initial ecological benefits of downstream governments have no effect on the optimum strategy. Therefore, considering these insights is helpful to improve the watershed ecological compensation mechanism in order to solve transboundary water pollution and achieve the sustainability of water resources.

Pastoralists’ perception of and adaptation strategies for climate change: associations with observed climate variability

Although climate change is a universal phenomenon, its indicators and manifestations are entirely local, as are adaptation choices, strategies, and practices. Based on face-to-face interview data from 427 randomly selected pastoral households of the Hulun Buir grassland in northern China, this study investigated perceptions and impacts of historical climate change and the associations of these perceptions with observed climate change. Meanwhile, we identified pastoralists’ responses to climate change, as well as barriers to the adaptation process. We used binary logistic regression models to determine the factors that influence climate change adaptation strategies. The results show that pastoralists’ perception of the inter-annual variability in climate variables is relatively consistent with the observed meteorological data. Pastoralists’ adaptive strategies for climate variability comprise primarily livestock and pasture management interventions, such as “purchasing fodder”, “reducing livestock”, “part-time grazing”, and “renting pasture”. In addition, pastoralists identified several barriers that are allied with adaptation practices, such as limited grassland tenure, an absence of credit, and limited access to agricultural markets. Furthermore, the sex, age, and education level of the head of household and the household livelihood capital and location were found to be the key factors determining the choice of adaptation strategies. This knowledge helps to assess the needs for action and information and to improve the credibility of policies that shape collective actions based on a unified plan or goal. Combined, these efforts aid in adaptation to reduce the vulnerability of the livestock sector, especially the livelihood security of smallholder pastoralists in grassland ecosystems.

Rural vitalization in China: A perspective of land consolidation

The core objective of rural vitalization is to systemically establish a coupling pattern of various rural development elements including population, land and industry. As one of the prerequisites, land resources is required to be optimally allocated via land consolidation. Consequently, land consolidation contributes greatly to population agglomeration, industrial development and resources support under the context of combating rural decline. Based on the key elements affecting rural development, this paper elaborates the connotation of rural vitalization and land consolidation in the new era as well as their relationships. Furthermore, the paper analyzes the alternative paths for achieving rural vitalization via land consolidation, and discusses the future directions of land consolidation and rural vitalization. The conclusions are drawn as follows: (1) To cope with the loss and decline of the intrinsic elements in rural areas, rural vitalization is a development strategy aimed at realizing economic, political, cultural and ecological rejuvenation in rural area by reshaping socio-economic morphology and spatial pattern in rural territory. (2) From the perspective of rural vitalization, land consolidation is endowed with new connotation, which should not only target at activating the key elements of rural development, but also place emphasis on coordinating material space and spirit core as well as integrating the restructuring of the physical space and the rural governance system. (3) Land consolidation should be compatible with regional natural conditions and the current stage of socio-economic development. According to the principle of regional planning and classification strategy, the appropriate models and paths should be adopted to promote the benign interactions of population, land and industry based on engineering techniques and ecological means. (4) Under the background of national strategy of rural vitalization, it is necessary to reshape the value orientation of land consolidation based on a scientific understanding of urban-rural relations and rural territorial functions, coordinate land consolidation planning and rural vitalization planning under the unified spatial planning system, and explore the new model combining land consolidation and multifunctional agriculture.

Budgets and Strategy: The Enduring Legacy of the Revolt of the Admirals

THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II posed new challenges for the United States. Since resources would be scarce relative to requirements, officials hoped to extract efficiencies through reforms, including the “unification” of the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy. The result turned out to be a poisonous interservice rivalry that hamstrung the military in developing unified strategic plans and budgets consistent with national policy. Civilian attempts to break the impasse by mandating specific cuts only exacerbated the situation by provoking the navy into open defiance. The Korean War and the opening of the fiscal spigot under National Security Council Paper 68 (NSC-68) resolved the crisis but bequeathed a troubling legacy. Henceforth, managing interservice rivalry was possible only by loosening the government’s purse strings and delegating responsibility for allocating funds to the services. The correlation between aggressive civilian reform and military setbacks at the start of the Korean War also discredited the notion that civilian leaders should play a significant role in determining how the services spend their money. The services have, in turn, used their power to divide budgets equally, thereby minimizing interservice friction over money but undermining the intention of the National Security Act to promote greater efficiency.1

Стан і перспективи розвитку системи оборонного планування в Збройних Силах України

The authors of the article on the basis of analysis of the current state of the defence planning system in Ukraine and experience gained suggest their views on development prospects of the unified planning system in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Study on Tourism Situation in Shannxi Province and Its Countermeasures

Tourism industry is a traditional pillar industry in Shaanxi province. In recent years, the tourism industry in Shaanxi Province has developed rapidly. The number of tourist attractions has increased to 418, meanwhile, the number of scenic spots which have reached the 3A and 4A grades has accelerated, but there are still some problems such as the lack of unified planning in tourism service level and derivative souvenir development, negative external effects on tourism and information asymmetry in tourism Market. To promote the development of tourism industry, we must create a good social atmosphere and shape a clear tourism image. We also need to establish a professional and standardized model, do a good job in marketing and publicity for tourism, develop the tourism industry intelligently, set up a reasonable rewarding and punishment system, guide both sides of the tourism industry, strive for transparency in tourism information, and propel the tourism industry to have a sustainable development with innovation-driven ways.

Рекомендації щодо інтеграції зусиль військових і невійськових суб’єктів сектору безпеки і оборони для нейтралізації загроз воєнного характеру

The Concept for the Development of the Security and Defense Sector of Ukraine (SDSU), approved by the Decree of the President of Ukraine, determines the need for joint use of military and non-military forces and means of the Security and Defense Sector. This provision determines the need to develop recommendations regarding the goals, principles, conditions and possible forms and methods (variants) of integrating the efforts of the forces and means available in the state in the interests of neutralizing threats of a military nature (TMN), which determines the relevance of the publication.The purpose of the article is to develop practical recommendations for integrating the efforts of military and non-military entities of the security and defense sector ofUkraineto neutralize threats of a military nature.Carrying out a set of measures to adequately counteract TMN, which have already become real, requires the creation of an appropriate integrated potential, which is the most appropriate composition of the forces and means of the SDSU subjects capable of performing certain tasks. It is proposed to implement the planned activities according to a unified plan, as a rule, in the form of a special operation (campaign) to neutralize the identified (predicted) water resources management within the resources allocated by the state and non-governmental organizations.Given the nature of the threat, in relation to which the overall goal of integrating the efforts of the subjects of the SDSU is defined, it is proposed to build a system of goals. Such a set of goals will allow to link together long-term and short-term goals and to build a common strategy of counteraction.An important recommendation for integrating the efforts of military and non-military subjects of the SDSU system is to consider the sequence of making a management decision on the use of individual subjects of the Council in order to neutralize the TMN.The sequence of making management decisions to integrate the efforts of military and non-military subjects of the security system to neutralize threats of a military nature, developed using the method of adaptive management of the integrated potential to counter the detected (predicted) threat, essentially determines the method of distribution of tasks (activities) between military and non-military facilities and responsibility for their implementation without detailing at the level of individual subjects of the SDSU.The given recommendations on the formulation of the goal, principles, procedure for making managerial decisions on integration, as well as methods and forms of integrating the efforts of military and non-military subjects of the SDSU system to neutralize TMN, can be considered a further development of the methodology for ensuring the state’s military security.

The 18th And 19th Century Industrialization Process as The Main Aspect of City Creation and Its Impact On Contemporary City Structures: The Case of Lodz

The article analyses the 18th and 19th century industrial towns transformation and the development in their structures. Due to science and technological advancement occurring in the industrial era, medieval and renaissance methods of city planning became inefficient. Industrialization forced great changes in urban planning and usage of natural resources in the most of the European towns. The case of Lodz – little agricultural town which changed into one of the biggest textile production centers in continental Europe over less than a century – indicates the importance of industry-related developments on its unique appearance and local identity at present. Lodz was transforming from craftsman town into the metropolitan area with the use of semi-rural layout from the early stage of industrialization. As a result, the city developed into a mixture of public spaces with strict planning law of iron-grid pattern surrounded with independent production centers as well as suburban residential structures without unified urban plan. As a result, a large European city emerged. It urban structure was subject of further extensions and transformations, especially in the second half of the 20th century. The most important were the changes in usage of public spaces and the emergence of new means of transport. Due to these transformations streets had to be widened, causing demolition of buildings, which resulted in destroying the compact urban structure. Another reason of the city deterioration was economic problems connected with political issues. In 1962 Lodz was one of the biggest manufacturing center where 58,8% of employment was recorded in the textile industry which show how that part of economy was connected with city. Some thirty years later at the early stage of post-communist transformation the textile production decline and a lack of new investments led to regression. The city created by industry underwent a metamorphosis. The factory closures badly affected not only the local economy but also traditional urban structure, and as a result caused the loss of identity and destroyed emotional links of local society with the city. The main aspect of article is to discuss how spatial organization of the industrial city, its urban structure and its way of functioning affected urban planning after the deindustrialization process, and how these factors shape the existing as well future city structures.

Study on the Coordinated Development of Rural Revitalization and New Urbanization in Dazhou City

Rural revitalization and new urbanization are inevitable to build socialist modernization and realize regional coordinated development. Both of them are indispensable and cannot be neglected. Therefore, in order to promote the coordinated development of rural revitalization and new urbanization, these four aspects are needed. First, unified planning should be taken to promote the rational flow of urban and rural factors. Second, deepen the reform of rural land system to lay the foundation for the coordinated development of rural renewal and new urbanization. Third, raise funds through multiple channels to provide guarantee for it. Fourthly, we should train and introduce talents in various ways to provide support.