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This paper investigates the effects of Chongqing’s rural and urban residents and total resident population on economic development based on the residents’ consumption structure and analyses of economic development theories concerned by using the input-output table of Chongqing during 2002–2017 and SDA (Structure Decomposition Analysis) model. The study found that, compared with the previous years, the direct consumption of the primary industry’s unit output to the industrial products has decreased significantly in 2017, while the direct consumption to the tertiary industry has increased significantly; The direct consumption per unit output of the second industry is basically equal to that of the products of the industry, while the direct consumption of the products of the third industry has increased; The direct consumption per unit output value of the tertiary industry is basically equal to that of the primary industry. In the long run, the changes in consumption structure of rural and urban residents and total resident population and the increase in proportion of tertiary industry accelerate the transformation and upgrading of industrial structure. However, the effect of consumption structure on GDP (Gross Domestic Product) varies from year to year. On the whole, the changes of residents’ consumption have a positive effect on GDP (Gross Domestic Product).

Based on the capital input/output theory, this paper establishes the input and output value model of Sharing bicycles. In the big data era, it analyzes the acquired data using mathematical statistics, as well as using the Logit model to analyze the current Sharing bicycles model to evaluate profit conditions. The research results have shown that the Sharing bicycle has greatly enhanced people’s green travel style since its launch, and it has great development potentials as well. The investors can clearly define different profit models based on the growing, developing, and stabilizing periods of the Sharing bikes business. The survey data shows that the Sharing bicycle adapts to the concept of green travel, low carbon, and environmental protection concept, which also has met the urgent demand for short-distance riding. This research provides effective ways and references for the future value-adding in the Sharing travel field.

Financial flows are one of the three majors in a Supply Chain (SC). Ignoring financial flows, regardless of the quality of freight transport and information, could lead the organization to a state of bankruptcy, which is a situation directly resulting from a lack of control over financial inputs/outputs. This study proposes a multi-product mathematical model, which makes it possible to choose among suppliers, manufacturing sites, distribution centres, retailers, and transportation vehicles. The purpose of the model is to integrate physical and material dimensions to maximize net corporate profits through inbound and outbound financial flows; it involves payment mechanisms between the financial and physical flows through maximizing the cash flows of manufacturing sites and suppliers, as two conflicting objectives that must consider the reciprocal effects of their decisions. These objectives are calculated by subtracting costs from the revenue; this process, of course, will ultimately result in an optimization of the organization’s financial flow. To solve the proposed mathematical model, the study relies on two algorithms, namely Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Imperialist Competition Algorithm (ICA). The sample under investigation is solved separately using the three algorithms, and results are then compared. The observations of the study reveal the better performance of PSO.

Fault tolerance is actually an essential issue in cloud computing to face failures and minimize their damages. The checkpointing is a powerful fault tolerance technique that consists of saving the transient state of a computation system on a persistent storage from which the execution state can be restarted in case of failure. The coordinated checkpointing is an efficient checkpointing strategy because it is domino effect-free and it needs only the last stored checkpoint to ensure a consistent state. In this paper we propose a lightweight coordinated checkpointing for cloud computing that minimizes the overload of classical coordinated checkpointing by minimizing the number of the participating virtual machines (VMs) in each checkpointing interval. The experimental results prove that our proposal reduces the overload and improves the system performances.

The paper studies an actuator based on magnetofluidic forces acting on a non-magnetic disc plunged into a ferrofluid that is exposed to a non-uniform magnetic field generated by magnetic inductor(s). The input output equations (force - current and displacement - current) that describe the behaviour of two types of actuators are established. The expression of the force generated on the nonmagnetic disc is determined analytically for the particular conditions imposed by the two actuator configurations: a) simple, with one magnetic inductor; b) differential, with two inductors. The derived relations enable a comparative study of the two types of actuators. The results show the superior performance of the differential actuator. The latter was tested as a current to displacement transducer in an electropneumatic converter.

Systems of national accounts and balances contain various subsystems, which include in particular the input-output subsystem. Integration of systems of national accounts and balances implies a process whereby the separate subsystems are arranged into a coherent whole. During development, consistency of the system as a whole is normally increases as the ties between the subsystems grow stronger. It can be hoped that the ongoing revision of systems of national accounts and balances should enhance integration of input-output statistics with consolidated national accounts. The corresponding solutions should make increased use of existing country practices and provide for a flexible approach, which is fully in line with the duel character of the consolidated national accounts. They should also distinguish the needs of annual small-size input-output tables and those of large-size tables which are compiled over longer time periods.