Cloud detection is an essential preprocessing step for retrieving carbon dioxide from satellite observations of reflected sunlight. During the pre-launch study of the Chinese Carbon Dioxide Observation Satellite （TAN...Cloud detection is an essential preprocessing step for retrieving carbon dioxide from satellite observations of reflected sunlight. During the pre-launch study of the Chinese Carbon Dioxide Observation Satellite （TANSAT）, a cloud-screening scheme was presented for the Cloud and Aerosol Polarization Imager （CAPI）, which only performs measurements in five channels located in the visible to near-infrared regions of the spectrum. The scheme for CAPI, based on previous cloud- screening algorithms, defines a method to regroup individual threshold tests for each pixel in a scene according to the derived clear confidence level. This scheme is proven to be more effective for sensors with few channels. The work relies upon the radiance data from the Visible and Infrared Radiometer （VIRR） onboard the Chinese FengYun-3A Polar-orbiting Meteoro- logical Satellite （FY-3A）, which uses four wavebands similar to that of CAPI and can serve as a proxy for its measurements. The scheme has been applied to a number of the VIRR scenes over four target areas （desert, snow, ocean, forest） for all seasons. To assess the screening results, comparisons against the cloud-screening product from MODIS are made. The evaluation suggests that the proposed scheme inherits the advantages of schemes described in previous publications and shows improved cloud-screening results. A seasonal analysis reveals that this scheme provides better performance during warmer seasons, except for observations over oceans, where results are much better in colder seasons.展开更多
The time point at which bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells（BMSCs）can be used in transplantation for the treatment of ischemic brain injury remains unclear.In the present study,BMSCs were transplanted to the ...The time point at which bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells（BMSCs）can be used in transplantation for the treatment of ischemic brain injury remains unclear.In the present study,BMSCs were transplanted to the ischemic site 90 minutes post-ischemia.The results demonstrated that the transplanted BMSCs improved neurological function,reduced infarct volume,increased survivin expression,decreased caspase-3 expression and reduced apoptosis.This suggests that BMSCs transplanted at an ultra-early stage ameliorated brain ischemia by increasing survivin expression,decreasing caspase-3 expression and reducing apoptosis at the ischemia/reperfusion injury site.展开更多
Community Question Answering(CQA) in web forums, as a classic forum for user communication,provides a large number of high-quality useful answers in comparison with traditional question answering.Development of method...Community Question Answering(CQA) in web forums, as a classic forum for user communication,provides a large number of high-quality useful answers in comparison with traditional question answering.Development of methods to get good, honest answers according to user questions is a challenging task in natural language processing. Many answers are not associated with the actual problem or shift the subjects,and this usually occurs in relatively long answers. In this paper, we enhance answer selection in CQA using multidimensional feature combination and similarity order. We make full use of the information in answers to questions to determine the similarity between questions and answers, and use the text-based description of the answer to determine whether it is a reasonable one. Our work includes two subtasks:(a) classifying answers as good, bad, or potentially associated with a question, and(b) answering YES/NO based on a list of all answers to a question. The experimental results show that our approach is significantly more efficient than the baseline model, and its overall ranking is relatively high in comparison with that of other models.展开更多
基金sponsored by the National Basic Research(973)Program of China from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Grant No.2013CB430104)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDA05040201)
文摘Cloud detection is an essential preprocessing step for retrieving carbon dioxide from satellite observations of reflected sunlight. During the pre-launch study of the Chinese Carbon Dioxide Observation Satellite （TANSAT）, a cloud-screening scheme was presented for the Cloud and Aerosol Polarization Imager （CAPI）, which only performs measurements in five channels located in the visible to near-infrared regions of the spectrum. The scheme for CAPI, based on previous cloud- screening algorithms, defines a method to regroup individual threshold tests for each pixel in a scene according to the derived clear confidence level. This scheme is proven to be more effective for sensors with few channels. The work relies upon the radiance data from the Visible and Infrared Radiometer （VIRR） onboard the Chinese FengYun-3A Polar-orbiting Meteoro- logical Satellite （FY-3A）, which uses four wavebands similar to that of CAPI and can serve as a proxy for its measurements. The scheme has been applied to a number of the VIRR scenes over four target areas （desert, snow, ocean, forest） for all seasons. To assess the screening results, comparisons against the cloud-screening product from MODIS are made. The evaluation suggests that the proposed scheme inherits the advantages of schemes described in previous publications and shows improved cloud-screening results. A seasonal analysis reveals that this scheme provides better performance during warmer seasons, except for observations over oceans, where results are much better in colder seasons.
基金a Grant from the Liaoning Provincial Education Department, No. 05L485
文摘The time point at which bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells（BMSCs）can be used in transplantation for the treatment of ischemic brain injury remains unclear.In the present study,BMSCs were transplanted to the ischemic site 90 minutes post-ischemia.The results demonstrated that the transplanted BMSCs improved neurological function,reduced infarct volume,increased survivin expression,decreased caspase-3 expression and reduced apoptosis.This suggests that BMSCs transplanted at an ultra-early stage ameliorated brain ischemia by increasing survivin expression,decreasing caspase-3 expression and reducing apoptosis at the ischemia/reperfusion injury site.
基金developed by the NLP601 group at School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, within the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61672046)
文摘Community Question Answering(CQA) in web forums, as a classic forum for user communication,provides a large number of high-quality useful answers in comparison with traditional question answering.Development of methods to get good, honest answers according to user questions is a challenging task in natural language processing. Many answers are not associated with the actual problem or shift the subjects,and this usually occurs in relatively long answers. In this paper, we enhance answer selection in CQA using multidimensional feature combination and similarity order. We make full use of the information in answers to questions to determine the similarity between questions and answers, and use the text-based description of the answer to determine whether it is a reasonable one. Our work includes two subtasks:(a) classifying answers as good, bad, or potentially associated with a question, and(b) answering YES/NO based on a list of all answers to a question. The experimental results show that our approach is significantly more efficient than the baseline model, and its overall ranking is relatively high in comparison with that of other models.
