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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the literature on the treatment of primary pupils and inspecting the role of environmental psychology, e-learning, learning style and…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the literature on the treatment of primary pupils and inspecting the role of environmental psychology, e-learning, learning style and school design on the behavior of students in elementary schools.
Design/methodology/approach
A questionnaire was designed to evaluate the components of the model. Experts with significant experiences in the field of students’ behavior revised the surveys. Data were collected from 400 teachers of the elementary schools in Iran. The SMART-PLS 3.2 and SPSS 22 software package were used in the field of questionnaires’ statistical analysis.
Findings
Findings confirmed the suggested model’s validity for elementary students’ behavior assessment. The consequences of this research illustrated the effect of environmental psychology on the behavior of elementary students. In addition, the authors were concluded that intention to e-learning has a significant role in developing the action and behavior of the elementary students. Moreover, the learning style has an affirmative and considerable impact on the behavior of elementary students. Finally, school design has an affirmative and significant effect on the manner of the elementary students.
Practical implications
The consequences of this research have provided some traces about the basic perspectives, which have to be in the center of attention of administrators. For instance, school design and learning style sound to be a decisive mechanism for improving action and learning behavior. In addition, educational leaders may use the findings to evaluate their school facilities and define where developments will have the most significant impact or planners may use the results to assist architects in the design and construction of new educational services.
Originality/value
This study builds a valuable contribution by focusing on pupil environmental psychology, e-learning, learning style and school design in elementary schools by enlightening the connection between them and students’ manner.
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Chunlei Li, Chaodie Liu, Zhoufeng Liu, Ruimin Yang and Yun Huang
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the design of automated fabric defect detection based on cascaded low-rank decomposition and to maintain high quality control in textile…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the design of automated fabric defect detection based on cascaded low-rank decomposition and to maintain high quality control in textile manufacturing.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper proposed a fabric defect detection algorithm based on cascaded low-rank decomposition. First, the constructed Gabor feature matrix is divided into a low-rank matrix and sparse matrix using low-rank decomposition technique, and the sparse matrix is used as priori matrix where higher values indicate a higher probability of abnormality. Second, we conducted the second low-rank decomposition for the constructed texton feature matrix under the guidance of the priori matrix. Finally, an improved adaptive threshold segmentation algorithm was adopted to segment the saliency map generated by the final sparse matrix to locate the defect regions.
Findings
The proposed method was evaluated on the public fabric image databases. By comparing with the ground-truth, the average detection rate of 98.26% was obtained and is superior to the state-of-the-art.
Originality/value
The cascaded low-rank decomposition was first proposed and applied into the fabric defect detection. The quantitative value shows the effectiveness of the detection method. Hence, the proposed method can be used for accurate defect detection and automated analysis system.
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Zhimin Cao, Wenjun Zong, Junjie Zhang, Chunlei He, Jiaohu Huang, Wei Liu and Zhiyong Wei
This paper aims to reveal the tribochemical reaction mechanism on the nano-cutting interface between HMX crystal and diamond tool.
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Purpose
This paper aims to reveal the tribochemical reaction mechanism on the nano-cutting interface between HMX crystal and diamond tool.
Design/methodology/approach
Molecular dynamics simulation of HMX crystal nano-cutting by the reactive force field is carried out in this paper. The affinity of activated atoms and friction damage at the different interface have been well identified by comparing two cutting systems with diamond tool or indenter. The analyses of reaction kinetics, decomposition products and reaction pathways are performed to reveal the underlying atomistic origins of tribocatalytic reaction on the nano-cutting interface.
Findings
The HMX crystals only undergo damage and removal in the indenter cutting, while they appear to accelerate thermal decomposition in the diamond cutting. the C-O affinity is proved to be the intrinsic reason of the tribocatalytic reaction of the HMX-diamond cutting system. The reaction activation energy of the HMX crystals in the diamond cutting system is lower, resulting in a rapid increase in the decomposition degree. The free O atoms can induce the asymmetric ring-opening mode and change the decomposition pathways, which is the underlying atomistic origins of the thermal stability of the HMX-diamond cutting system.
Originality/value
This paper describes a method for analyzing the tribochemical behavior of HMX and diamond, which is beneficial to study the thermal stability in the nano-cutting of HMX.
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Chunlei Shao, Aixia He, Zhongyuan Zhang and Jianfeng Zhou
The purpose of this paper is to study the transition process from the crystalline particles appearing before the pump inlet to the stable operation of the pump.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study the transition process from the crystalline particles appearing before the pump inlet to the stable operation of the pump.
Design/methodology/approach
Firstly, a modeling test method was put forward for the high-temperature molten salt pump. Then, according to a modeling test scheme, the experiment of the solid–liquid two-phase flow was carried out by using a model pump similar to the prototype pump. Meanwhile, the numerical method to simulate the transition process of a molten salt pump was studied, and the correctness of the numerical model was verified by the experimental results. Finally, the transition process of the molten salt pump was studied by the verified numerical model in detail.
Findings
In the simulation of the transition process, it is more accurate to judge the end of the transition process based on the unchanged particle volume fraction (PVF) at the pump outlet than on the periodic fluctuation of the outlet pressure. The outlet pressure is closely related to the PVF in the pump. The variation of the outlet pressure is slightly prior to that of the PVF at the pump outlet and mainly affected by the PVF in the impeller and volute. After 0.63 s, the PVF at each monitoring point changes periodically, and the time-averaged value does not change with time.
Practical implications
This study is of great significance to further improve the design method of molten salt pump and predict the abrasion characteristic of the pump due to interactions with solid particles.
Originality/value
A numerical method is established to simulate the transition process of a molten salt pump, and a method is proposed to verify the numerical model of two-phase flow by modeling test.
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Zhoufeng Liu, Lei Yan, Chunlei Li, Yan Dong and Guangshuai Gao
The purpose of this paper is to find an efficient fabric defect detection algorithm by means of exploring the sparsity characteristics of main local binary pattern (MLBP…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to find an efficient fabric defect detection algorithm by means of exploring the sparsity characteristics of main local binary pattern (MLBP) extracted from the original fabric texture.
Design/methodology/approach
In the proposed algorithm, original LBP features are extracted from the fabric texture to be detected, and MLBP are selected by occurrence probability. Second, a dictionary is established with MLBP atoms which can sparsely represent all the LBP. Then, the value of the gray-scale difference between gray level of neighborhood pixels and the central pixel, and the mean of the difference which has the same MLBP feature are calculated. And then, the defect-contained image is reconstructed as normal texture image. Finally, the residual is calculated between reconstructed and original images, and a simple threshold segmentation method can divide the residual image, and the defective region is detected.
Findings
The experiment result shows that the fabric texture can be more efficiently reconstructed, and the proposed method achieves better defect detection performance. Moreover, it offers empirical insights about how to exploit the sparsity of one certain feature, e.g. LBP.
Research limitations/implications
Because of the selected research approach, the results may lack generalizability in chambray. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to test the proposed propositions further.
Originality/value
In this paper, a novel fabric defect detection method which extracts the sparsity of MLBP features is proposed.
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Chunlei Shao, Zhongyuan Zhang and Jianfeng Zhou
The purpose of this paper is to accurately predict the cavitation performance of a cryogenic pump and reveal the influence of the inlet pressure, the surface roughness and the…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to accurately predict the cavitation performance of a cryogenic pump and reveal the influence of the inlet pressure, the surface roughness and the flow rate on the cavitation performance.
Design/methodology/approach
Firstly, the Zwart cavitation model was modified by considering the thermodynamic effect. Secondly, the feasibility of the modified model was validated by the cavitation test of a hydrofoil. Thirdly, the effects of the inlet pressure, the surface roughness and the flow rate on cavitation flow in the cryogenic pump were studied by using the modified cavitation model.
Findings
The modified cavitation model can predict the cavitation performance of the cryogenic pump more accurately than the Zwart cavitation model. The thermodynamic effect inhibits cavitation development to a certain extent. The higher the vapor volume fraction, the lower the pressure and the lower the temperature. At the initial stage of the cavitation, the head increases first and then decreases with the increase of the roughness. When the cavitation develops to a certain degree, the head decreases with the increase of the roughness. With the decrease of the flow rate, the hydraulic loss increases and the cavitation at the impeller intensifies.
Originality/value
A cavitation model considering the thermodynamic effect is proposed. The mechanism of the influence of the roughness on the performance of the cryogenic pump is revealed from two aspects. Taking the hydraulic loss as a bridge, the relationships among flow rates, vapor volume fractions, streamlines, temperatures and pressures are established.
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Zhoufeng Liu, Shanliang Liu, Chunlei Li and Bicao Li
This paper aims to propose a new method to solve the two problems in fabric defect detection. Current state-of-the-art industrial products defect detectors are deep…
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Purpose
This paper aims to propose a new method to solve the two problems in fabric defect detection. Current state-of-the-art industrial products defect detectors are deep learning-based, which incurs some additional problems: (1) The model is difficult to train due to too few fabric datasets for the difficulty of collecting pictures; (2) The detection accuracy of existing methods is insufficient to implement in the industrial field. This study intends to propose a new method which can be applied to fabric defect detection in the industrial field.
Design/methodology/approach
To cope with exist fabric defect detection problems, the article proposes a novel fabric defect detection method based on multi-source feature fusion. In the training process, both layer features and source model information are fused to enhance robustness and accuracy. Additionally, a novel training model called multi-source feature fusion (MSFF) is proposed to tackle the limited samples and demand to obtain fleet and precise quantification automatically.
Findings
The paper provides a novel fabric defect detection method, experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves an AP of 93.9 and 98.8% when applied to the TILDA(a public dataset) and ZYFD datasets (a real-shot dataset), respectively, and outperforms 5.9% than fine-tuned SSD (single shot multi-box detector).
Research limitations/implications
Our proposed algorithm can provide a promising tool for fabric defect detection.
Practical implications
The paper includes implications for the development of a powerful brand image, the development of “brand ambassadors” and for managing the balance between stability and change.
Social implications
This work provides technical support for real-time detection on industrial sites, advances the process of intelligent manual detection of fabric defects and provides a technical reference for object detection on other industrial
Originality/value
Therefore, our proposed algorithm can provide a promising tool for fabric defect detection.
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Jie Li, Jiyuan Wu, Chunlei Tu and Xingsong Wang
Automatic robots can improve the efficiency of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank inspection and maintenance, but it is difficult to achieve high-precision spatial positioning and…
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Automatic robots can improve the efficiency of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank inspection and maintenance, but it is difficult to achieve high-precision spatial positioning and navigation on tank surfaces. The purpose of this paper is to develop a spatial positioning robotic system for tank inspection. The robot can accurately identify and track weld paths. The positioning system can complete robot’s spatial positioning on tank surfaces.
Design/methodology/approach
A tank inspection robot with curvature-adaptive transmission mechanisms is designed in this study. A weld path recognition method based on deep learning is proposed to accurately identify and extract weld paths. Integrated multiple sensors, the positioning system is developed to improve the robot’s spatial positioning accuracy. Experiments are conducted on a cylindrical tank to test weld seam tracking accuracy and spatial positioning performance of the robotic system. The practicality of the robotic system is then verified in field tests.
Findings
The robot can accurately identify and track weld seams with a maximum drift angle of 4° and a maximum offset distance of ±30 mm. The positioning system has excellent positioning accuracy and stability. The maximum angle and height errors are 3° and 0.08 m, respectively.
Originality/value
The positioning system can improve the autonomous performance of inspection robots and solve the problems of weld path recognition and spatial positioning. Application of the robotic system can promote the automatic inspection and maintenance of LPG tanks.
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Zhoufeng Liu, Chunlei Li, Quanjun Zhao, Liang Liao and Yan Dong
Fabric defect detection plays an important role in textile quality control. The purpose of this paper is to propose a fabric defect detection algorithm via context-based local…
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Purpose
Fabric defect detection plays an important role in textile quality control. The purpose of this paper is to propose a fabric defect detection algorithm via context-based local texture saliency analysis.
Design/methodology/approach
In the proposed algorithm, a target image is first divided into blocks, then the Local Binary Pattern (LBP) technique is used to extract the texture features of blocks. Second, for a given image block, several other blocks are randomly chosen for calculating the LBP contrast between a given block and the randomly chosen blocks. Based on the obtained contrast information, a saliency map is produced. Finally, saliency map is segmented by using an optimal threshold, which is obtained by an iterative approach.
Findings
The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm, integrating local texture features and global image texture information, can detect texture defects effectively.
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In this paper, a novel fabric defect detection algorithm via context-based local texture saliency analysis is proposed.
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Zhoufeng Liu, Menghan Wang, Chunlei Li, Shumin Ding and Bicao Li
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the design of a dual-branch balance saliency model based on fully convolutional network (FCN) for automatic fabric defect detection, and…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the design of a dual-branch balance saliency model based on fully convolutional network (FCN) for automatic fabric defect detection, and improve quality control in textile manufacturing.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper proposed a dual-branch balance saliency model based on discriminative feature for fabric defect detection. A saliency branch is firstly designed to address the problems of scale variation and contextual information integration, which is realized through the cooperation of a multi-scale discriminative feature extraction module (MDFEM) and a bidirectional stage-wise integration module (BSIM). These modules are respectively adopted to extract multi-scale discriminative context information and enrich the contextual information of features at each stage. In addition, another branch is proposed to balance the network, in which a bootstrap refinement module (BRM) is trained to guide the restoration of feature details.
Findings
To evaluate the performance of the proposed network, we conduct extensive experiments, and the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches on seven evaluation metrics. We also conduct adequate ablation analyses that provide a full understanding of the design principles of the proposed method.
Originality/value
The dual-branch balance saliency model was proposed and applied into the fabric defect detection. The qualitative and quantitative experimental results show the effectiveness of the detection method. Therefore, the proposed method can be used for accurate fabric defect detection and even surface defect detection of other industrial products.
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