A Study on Operational Efficiency Analysis on the Value of Chinese Shipping Companies

Lin-Lin Cui,Jung-Suk Choi 해양환경안전학회 2022 해양환경안전학회지 Vol.28 No.3

Shipping companies are key components of the logistics industry, which is extremely significant in enhancing the country's comprehensive national power and promoting global trade development. In the context of the implementation of the new development pattern strategy in China and the impact of the global novel coronavirus (COVID-19), this paper takes 22 Chinese shipping listed companies as the research object and analyses the operational efficiency of them from 2011 to 2020 based on the Super-SBM DEA Model and Window DEA Model. Factors affecting the efficiency are further analyzed with the Tobit model. The research conclude that the operational efficiency of Chinese shipping companies as a whole shows a steady increase from 2011 to 2020. Although most of them are in a relatively effective operation state, fewer are absolutely effective companies. Besides efficiency among companies differs obviously, which indicates the potential of further improvement and promotion. What’s more, factors such as current economic development level, enterprise size, human resources quality and enterprise turnover speed have significant positive correlation to the operation efficiency of Chinese shipping listed companies, which is significant to improve the operation efficiency of Chinese shipping companies.

A Technique to Enable the Corruption-aware Transport Protocols in Realistic Networks

Lin Cui,Xin Cui,고석주 에스케이텔레콤 (주) 2009 Telecommunications Review Vol.19 No.1

The traditional reliable transport protocols are originally designed for the wired networks, which regard any packet losses as the indication of network congestion and halve their congestion windows to alleviate the traffic overload of network. However, unlike in wired networks, non-congestion losses will severely degrade the performance of traditional transport protocols in wireless networks. Thus some corruption-aware transport protocols have been proposed to overcome the performance degradation caused by corruption. Unfortunately, the corruption-aware transport protocols cannot work in realistic networks up to now since the corrupted packets have been discarded by the link layer checksum mechanisms before they are delivered to transport layer. This paper proposes a technique to overcome this problem without disabling the link layer checksum mechanisms. Simulation results show that the performance of corruption-aware transport protocols are still far better than that of traditional ones while the proposed scheme is applied.

A Solution for Further Improving Performance of TCP SACK under Error Bursts’ Environment

( Cui Lin ),( Choong Seon Hong ) 한국정보처리학회 2004 한국정보처리학회 학술대회논문집 Vol.11 No.2

By definition of RFC 2018, each contiguous block of data queued at the data receiver is defined in the SACK option by two 32-bit unsigned integers in network byte order. Since TCP Options field has a 40-byte maximum length, when error bursts incur, we note that the limitation of maximum available option space may not be sufficient to report all blocks present in the receiver's queue and lead to unnecessarily force the TCP sender to retransmit packets that have actually been received but not carried related information in SACK option field. For overcoming this restriction, in this paper, a new solution is designed to further improve the performance of TCP SACK and prevent those unwanted retransmissions. Moreover, we compared our solution with other proposals under error bursts’ scenarios, the result shows that the implementation of our proposal can behave far better than others.

Corruption-aware adaptive increase and adaptive decrease algorithm for TCP error and congestion controls in wireless networks

Cui, Lin,Koh, Seok J. John Wiley Sons, Ltd. 2009 International journal of communication systems Vol.22 No.5

<P>The conventional TCP tends to suffer from performance degradation due to packet corruptions in the wireless lossy channels, since any corruption event is regarded as an indication of network congestion. This paper proposes a TCP error and congestion control scheme using corruption-aware adaptive increase and adaptive decrease algorithm to improve TCP performance over wireless networks. In the proposed scheme, the available network bandwidth is estimated based on the amount of the received integral data as well as the received corrupted data. The slow start threshold is updated only when a lost but not corrupted segment is detected by sender, since the corrupted packets still arrive at the TCP receiver. In the proposed scheme, the duplicated ACKs are processed differently by sender depending on whether there are any lost but not corrupted segments at present. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme could significantly improve TCP throughput over the heterogeneous wired and wireless networks with a high bit error rate, compared with the existing TCP and its variants. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.</P>

Phase II Study on Dose Escalating Schedule of Paclitaxel Concurrent with Radiotherapy in Treating Patients with Locally Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Cui, Lin,Liu, Xing-Xiang,Jiang, Yong,Liu, Jian-Jun,Zhou, Xiang-Rong,He, Xue-Jun,Chen, Jue,Huang, Xin-En Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2014 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.15 No.4

Objective: To evaluate clinical efficacy of a dose escalating schedule of paclitaxel concurrent with radiotherapy in treating patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung (NSCLC). Methods: Patients with locally advanced NSCLC were treated with conventional fractionated radiotherapy or three dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3 DCRT), concurrently with a dose escalating schedule of paclitaxel. All patients were divided into three groups, A with paclitaxel $30mg/m^2$, B with paclitaxel $60mg/m^2$ and C with paclitaxel $90mg/m^2$. Paclitaxel was repeated every week for a total of 4 or 6 weeks. Results: Among 109 patients, response rates were 68.8%, 71.1% and 71.8% (p>0.05) for group A (n=32), B (n=38), and C (n=39) respectively. Accordingly, disease control rates were 81.3%, 81.6% and 82.1% (p>0.05). Progression-free survival time was $8.0{\pm}5.0$ months, $11.6{\pm}6.1$ months, and $14.8{\pm}7.9$ months (p<0.05), respectively. Overall survival time was $15.4{\pm}7.6$ months, $18.2{\pm}8.0$ months, and $22.0{\pm}7.6$ months (p<0.05), one-year survival rates were 62.5%, 73.1% and 90.0% (p>0.05) and two-year survival rates were 31.3%, 38.5% and 50.0% (p<0.05). Main side-effects were bone marrow suppression, radiation related esophagitis and gastrointestinal reaction. Conclusion: In treating patients with NSCLC, concurrent chemoradiotherapy with paclitaxel improves early response compared with conventional fractionated radiotherapy or 3 DCRT. The survival rate was improved with the addition of paclitaxel, but there was an increase in adverse reactions when the dose of paclitaxel was increased.

Enhancement of SCTP Throughput using Chunk Checksum

( Cui Lin ),( Seok J. Koh ),( Yong-geun Hong ) 한국정보처리학회 2006 한국정보처리학회 학술대회논문집 Vol.13 No.1

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) uses the 32-bit checksum in the common header, by which a corrupted SCTP packet will be regarded as a lost packet and then discarded. This may result in degradation of SCTP’s throughput performance over wireless networks. This paper proposes a new chunk checksum scheme for SCTP, in which each data chunk contains its own checksum field and SACK chunk carry corresponding Transmission Sequence Number (TSN) with timestamp for every corruption event. The proposed chunk checksum scheme is introduced with the following three purposes: 1) to distinguish the chunk corruptions from the chunk losses; 2) to avoid the unnecessary halving of the congestion window (cwnd) in the case of chunk corruption; 3) to avoid the unwanted timeouts which can be induced in conventional SCTP in the case that the retransmitted data chunks are corrupted again in wireless networks. Simulation results show that the proposed chunk checksum scheme could improve the SCTP throughput in the wireless environments with a high bit error rate.

Analysis of Prethrombotic States in Patients with Malignant Tumors

Cui, Lin,Sun, You-Hong,Chen, Jue,Wang, Lu,Liu, Jian-Jun,Zhou, Xiang-Rong,Ding, Jie,Liu, Xing-Xiang,Huang, Xin-En Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2015 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.16 No.13

Background: This study aimed to investigate the incidence and risk factors for a prethrombotic state in patients with malignant tumors. Materials and Methods: Plasma d-dimer (D-D) in patients with malignant tumors was measured. Abnormal rates of D-D and possible risk factors like gender, age, type of tumor, and staging of tumor were analyzed. Results: Of 1,453 patients, 629 demonstrated plasma D-D abnormality (43.3%). The D-D abnormal rate of male patients (n=851, 43.5%) was not statistically significantly different from that for female patients (n=602, 43.0%) (p>0.05). D-D abnormal rate increased with age and was statistically significant among different age groups (p<0.05). Regarding staging of tumor, D-D abnormal rate in patients with phase I was 2.0%, 6.2% in phase II, 47.6% in phase III and 83.1% in phase IV, with statistically significant differences between phase III and II, as well as phase III and IV (p<0.01). Conclusions: A prethrombotic state was closely related to malignancy of tumors. The risk factors for a prethrombotic state include age and tumor stage.

Evaluation and Application of Fengyun‑4A/LMI Data in Tropical Cyclone Monitoring Over the Southeast Coast of China

Linli Cui,Jun Shi,Wei Guo,Yinglong Xu 한국기상학회 2022 Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences Vol.58 No.5

Taking 8 tropical cyclones (TCs) in 2018 as examples, the data quality and the application potential of Fengyun-4 A (FY-4 A)Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) in monitoring lightning activity and analyzing the relationship between lightning activityand TC intensity are investigated and evaluated over the southeast coast of China. A comparison shows that the diurnal variationand the radial spatial distribution of lightning activity from FY-4 A/LMI data, and the relationship between FY-4 A/LMI lightning activity and tropical cyclone (TC) intensity are mainly consistent with the existing ground-based observations. FY-4 A/LMI data are further utilized to analyze some issues that are controversial or contradictory in the existing studies,and results show that there are obvious differences in the spatial distribution of TC lightning between land and sea. When TCis located on the sea and the land, lightning activity presents a radial spatial distribution of high-low-high and low-mediumhigh,respectively. Higher lightning density is mainly concentrated in the west and south side of TC track. During the changeof TC intensity, the lightning activity in the outer rainband continues to be active, but the lightning activity in the eyewallregion may be a better indicator for the early warning of TC intensity. We conclude that FY-4 A/LMI has good performanceand practical potential in TC lightning monitoring and early warning.

Topic Discovery Algorithm Based on Mutual Information and Label Clustering under Dynamic Social Networks

Lin Cui,Dechang Pi,Caiyin Wang 보안공학연구지원센터 2016 International Journal of Database Theory and Appli Vol.9 No.5

In recent years, topic detection has become a hot research point of the social network, which can be very good to find the key factors from the massive information and thus discover the topics. The traditional label propagation-based topic discovery algorithm (LPA) is widely concerned because of its approximate linear time complexity and there is no need to define the target function. However, LPA algorithm has the uncertainty and the randomness, which affects the accuracy and the stability of the topic discovery. In this paper, a method for clustering label words based on mutual information analysis is presented to find the current topic. Firstly, through filtering the stop words and extracting keywords with TF-IDF, topic words are been extracted out, and then a common word matrix is built, a topic discovery algorithm based on mutual information and label clustering is put forward. Finally, extensive experiments on two real datasets validate the effectiveness of the proposed MI-LC (Mutual information-Label clustering) algorithm against other well-established methods LPA and LDA in terms of running time, NMI value and perplexity value.

An Improved PSO Algorithm Based CommunityTopic Refinement Strategy for Social Network

Lin Cui,Caiyin Wang,Xiaoyin Wu 보안공학연구지원센터 2016 International Journal of Future Generation Communi Vol.9 No.1

Aiming at the division roughness of topic classification existing in the most online social networks community, the improved particle swarm optimization algorithm is applied to refine community topics and concepts of community seeds and community topic are also introduced. In this paper, first of all, the explicit links existing in the community are mined, and the basic community structure is constructed, then the community content is deeply analyzed, according to implicit feature between nodes under online community, community topic categories are elaborately refined until structure is stable. Experiments show that this proposed algorithm can accelerate the convergence of the node and greatly improves the topic mining accuracy of online social network compared with the state-of-art CR2NDAS model and PLSA model.