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How network topologies impact project alliance performance: evidence from the movie industry

Zhang, Xin-Jie ; Tang, Yong ; Xiong, Jason ; Wang, Wei-Jia ; Zhang, Yi-Cheng

In: Entropy, 2019, vol. 21, no. 9, p. 859

In many industries, partners are interconnected in project alliances that have limited lifespans and clearly-defined boundaries. The transparency of the movie industry provides a unique opportunity to study how alliance network topologies impact the performance of project alliances from the perspectives of social networks and organization theories. In this work, we compiled a massive movie...

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Quantitative learning strategies based on word networks

Zhao, Yue-Tian-Yi ; Jia, Zi-Yang ; Tang, Yong ; Xiong, Jason Jie ; Zhang, Yi-Cheng

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2018, vol. 491, p. 898–911

Learning English requires a considerable effort, but the way that vocabulary is introduced in textbooks is not optimized for learning efficiency. With the increasing population of English learners, learning process optimization will have significant impact and improvement towards English learning and teaching. The recent developments of big data analysis and complex network science provide...

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Separate density and viscosity measurements of unknown liquid using quartz crystal microbalance

Tan, Feng ; Qiu, Du-Yu ; Guo, Lian-Ping ; Ye, Peng ; Zeng, Hao ; Jiang, Jun ; Tang, Yong ; Zhang, Yi-Cheng

In: AIP Advances, 2016, vol. 6, no. 9, p. 095313

Aqueous liquids have a wide range of applications in many fields. Basic physical properties like the density and the viscosity have great impacts on the functionalities of a given ionic liquid. For the millions kinds of existing liquids, only a few have been systematically measured with the density and the viscosity using traditional methods. However, these methods are limited to measure the...

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Simulated annealing algorithm for optimal capital growth

Luo, Yong ; Zhu, Bo ; Tang, Yong

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 408, p. 10–18

We investigate the problem of dynamic optimal capital growth of a portfolio. A general framework that one strives to maximize the expected logarithm utility of long term growth rate was developed. Exact optimization algorithms run into difficulties in this framework and this motivates the investigation of applying simulated annealing optimized algorithm to optimize the capital growth of a given...