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Ryerson University
Education•Toronto, Ontario, Canada•
About: Ryerson University is a education organization based out in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 7671 authors who have published 20164 publications receiving 394976 citations. The organization is also known as: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute & Ryerson Institute of Technology.
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01 Jun 2016TL;DR: It is shown that, though it is widely adopted for ease of modeling, the log-transformed image for this task is not ideal and the proposed weighted variational model can suppress noise to some extent.
Abstract: We propose a weighted variational model to estimate both the reflectance and the illumination from an observed image. We show that, though it is widely adopted for ease of modeling, the log-transformed image for this task is not ideal. Based on the previous investigation of the logarithmic transformation, a new weighted variational model is proposed for better prior representation, which is imposed in the regularization terms. Different from conventional variational models, the proposed model can preserve the estimated reflectance with more details. Moreover, the proposed model can suppress noise to some extent. An alternating minimization scheme is adopted to solve the proposed model. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model with its algorithm. Compared with other variational methods, the proposed method yields comparable or better results on both subjective and objective assessments.
676 citations
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TL;DR: A systematic procedure for PLS-SEM results evaluation is presented and applied to an annotated example, and the analysis of mediating effects, which researchers are increasingly testing in their models.
Abstract: Structural equation modeling (SEM) has become a mainstream method in many fields of business research, but its use in family business research remains in its infancy. This lag in SEM’s application holds especially true for partial least squares SEM (PLS-SEM), an alternative to covariance-based SEM, which provides researchers with more flexibility in terms of data requirements, model complexity and relationship specification. This article draws attention to PLS-SEM as an opportunity to advance the development and testing of theory in family business research by providing a non-technical introduction into the basic concepts and issues of PLS-SEM, bearing the needs of potential users in mind. To this end, a systematic procedure for PLS-SEM results evaluation is presented and applied to an annotated example. The article also illustrates the analysis of mediating effects, which researchers are increasingly testing in their models.
658 citations
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TL;DR: For outcomes associated with HIV infection, disparities were greatest for US black MSM versus other MSM for structural barriers, sex partner demographics, and HIV care outcomes, whereas disparities were least for sexual risk outcomes.
656 citations
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TL;DR: A globally optimal scheduling Scheme and a locally optimal scheduling scheme for EV charging and discharging which is not only scalable to a large EV population but also resilient to the dynamic EV arrivals are proposed.
Abstract: The vehicle electrification will have a significant impact on the power grid due to the increase in electricity consumption. It is important to perform intelligent scheduling for charging and discharging of electric vehicles (EVs). However, there are two major challenges in the scheduling problem. First, it is challenging to find the globally optimal scheduling solution which can minimize the total cost. Second, it is difficult to find a distributed scheduling scheme which can handle a large population and the random arrivals of the EVs. In this paper, we propose a globally optimal scheduling scheme and a locally optimal scheduling scheme for EV charging and discharging. We first formulate a global scheduling optimization problem, in which the charging powers are optimized to minimize the total cost of all EVs which perform charging and discharging during the day. The globally optimal solution provides the globally minimal total cost. However, the globally optimal scheduling scheme is impractical since it requires the information on the future base loads and the arrival times and the charging periods of the EVs that will arrive in the future time of the day. To develop a practical scheduling scheme, we then formulate a local scheduling optimization problem, which aims to minimize the total cost of the EVs in the current ongoing EV set in the local group. The locally optimal scheduling scheme is not only scalable to a large EV population but also resilient to the dynamic EV arrivals. Through simulations, we demonstrate that the locally optimal scheduling scheme can achieve a close performance compared to the globally optimal scheduling scheme.
651 citations
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TL;DR: Improvements, effect of the different setting parameters, and functionality of the algorithm are shown in the scope of classical structural optimization problems, and results show the ability of the proposed methodology to find better optimal solutions for structural optimization tasks than other optimization algorithms.
646 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Eleftherios P. Diamandis | 110 | 1064 | 52654 |
Michael D. Taylor | 97 | 505 | 42789 |
Peter Nijkamp | 97 | 2407 | 50826 |
Anthony B. Miller | 93 | 416 | 36777 |
Muhammad Shahbaz | 92 | 1001 | 34170 |
Rakesh Kumar | 91 | 1959 | 39017 |
Marc A. Rosen | 85 | 770 | 30666 |
Bjorn Ottersten | 81 | 1058 | 28359 |
Barry Wellman | 77 | 219 | 34234 |
Bin Wu | 73 | 464 | 24877 |
Xinbin Feng | 72 | 413 | 19193 |
Roy Freeman | 69 | 254 | 22707 |
Xiaokang Yang | 68 | 518 | 17663 |
Amir H. Gandomi | 67 | 375 | 22192 |
Konstantinos N. Plataniotis | 63 | 595 | 16695 |