Introduction: With the arrival of the 21st century, drastic worldwide changes to natural, economic and social events have occurred. These include the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the global financial crisis. Furth...Introduction: With the arrival of the 21st century, drastic worldwide changes to natural, economic and social events have occurred. These include the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the global financial crisis. Furthermore, Japan experienced the introduction of a specific education system. In this study, we traced and compared the psychological characters of university freshmen for 16 years (years 2000-2016) using Big-Five personalities inventory (Japanese version). Methods: A total of 1189 physically and mentally healthy university freshmen participated in this study. They were divided into four groups according to the year they entered university. They completed a self-filled questionnaire, Big-Five personalities inventory, which consists of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness and Openness. Result and Discussion: Compared with the year 2008, Extraversion nominally increased in 2012, however, it statistically significantly decreased in 2016. Agreeableness notably decreased from 2000 to 2008, then showed an increase in 2012. Compared to 2000, Neuroticism was statistically significantly lower in 2008 and 2016. Such statistically significant differences were not observed in the other two personalities. The personalities of university freshmen have changed in the last 16 years, which may be been caused by drastic changes. However, further research (e.g., larger-scale studies or studies including other university students) is required to support the current findings.展开更多
Personality prediction on social network has become a hot topic.At present,most studies are using single-task classification/regression machine learning.However,this method ignores the potential association between mu...Personality prediction on social network has become a hot topic.At present,most studies are using single-task classification/regression machine learning.However,this method ignores the potential association between multiple tasks.Also an ideal prediction result is difficult to achieve based on the small scale training data,since it is not easy to get a lot of social network data with personality label samples.In this paper,a robust multi-task learning method(RMTL)is proposed to predict Big-Five personality on Micro-blog.We aim to learn five tasks simultaneously by extracting and utilizing appropriate shared information among multiple tasks as well as identifying irrelevant tasks.For a set of Sina Micro-blog users’information and personality labeled data retrieved by questionnaire,we validate the RMTL method by comparing it with 4 single-task learning methods and the mere multi-task learning.Our experiment demonstrates that the proposed RMTL can improve the precision rate,recall rate of the prediction and F value.展开更多
Gone with the Wind,the masterpiece of the Margaret,M who has spent about ten years on writing this novel and it takes over half a year of her to verify the specific time and place of the involved historical event.Once...Gone with the Wind,the masterpiece of the Margaret,M who has spent about ten years on writing this novel and it takes over half a year of her to verify the specific time and place of the involved historical event.Once the masterpiece is published on June 30,1936,it soon broke several records in sales of American publishing;later,it won the prize of Pulitzer and Association of American publishers.While the leading lady of this novel,Scarlett,become an object of admiration among thousands of people.What attract the readerséyes deeply is her unique origin,outstanding features and noble actions.In the meantime,the charming personality of Margaret's Scarlett has conquered us.She is strong to the difficulties;she is persistent to her love;and she is witty to her family.She is the strongest among the people who has endured the hardship as her no matter she has suffered from the war,the poor and leaving her family.What makes her be responsible to the Taylor Manor is her braveness.At the end of the story,she still tells us:tomorrow is another day! We admire her positive attitude to life,and this is why the female character can be everlasting.展开更多
In the past decade there has been a profusion of studies highlighting covariation between individual differences in stress physiology and behavioural profiles, here called personalities. Such individual differences in...In the past decade there has been a profusion of studies highlighting covariation between individual differences in stress physiology and behavioural profiles, here called personalities. Such individual differences in ways of coping with stress are relevant both in biomedicine, since different personalities may experience a different stress and disease vulnerability, and in behavioural ecology, since their adaptive value and evolutionary maintenance are the subject of debate. However, the precise way in which individual stress differences and personalities are linked is unclear. Here we provide an updated overview of this covariation across different species and taxa, consider its functional significance and present working hypotheses for how behavioural and physiological responses to stress might be causally linked, affecting life-history traits such as dispersal and life-span [Current Zoology 56 (6): 728-740, 2010].展开更多
Hippocampus is crucial for the formation of emotional memory. We found the relationship between hippocampal responses to emotional stimuli and the mental stabilities of people in our preliminary study. In this study, ...Hippocampus is crucial for the formation of emotional memory. We found the relationship between hippocampal responses to emotional stimuli and the mental stabilities of people in our preliminary study. In this study, we have also evaluated how the emotional stimuli would affect amygdala and thalamus in the brain, and how the personality stabilities could relate to the responses in the brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We evaluated the subjects’ personality features with the Yatabe-Guilford Personality Test (Y-G test) and psychosomatic symptoms with the Cornell Medical Index (CMI). The subjects were categorized into the mentally stable group and the mentally unstable group according to the total scores of the Y-G test and the CMI. The brain functional responses under emotional stimuli were measured using fMRI. The region of interest (ROI) analysis was performed to abstract significant changes in order to compare responses among the different emotional stimuli. We conducted the regression analysis to abstract the relationship between the mean % signal change from fMRI and the personality stability. The fMRI results showed that the hippocampus, thalamus, and right amygdala activities under the human relationship stimuli increased with ascending value of mental instability. Our findings suggest that the memory process in the hippocampus and the threat alarm system in the thalamus under the human-related stimuli crucially influence the emotional reaction of mentally unstable people. These processes in the brain would affect the event that stresses on human relationships that often cause people to suffer from mental disorders.展开更多
Maintaining thermal comfort within the human body is crucial for optimal health and overall well-being.By merely broadening the setpoint of indoor temperatures,we could significantly slash energy usage in building hea...Maintaining thermal comfort within the human body is crucial for optimal health and overall well-being.By merely broadening the setpoint of indoor temperatures,we could significantly slash energy usage in building heating,ventilation,and air-conditioning systems.In recent years,there has been a surge in advancements in personal thermal management(PTM),aiming to regulate heat and moisture transfer within our immediate surroundings,clothing,and skin.The advent of PTM is driven by the rapid development in nano/micro-materials and energy science and engineering.An emerging research area in PTM is personal radiative thermal management(PRTM),which demonstrates immense potential with its high radiative heat transfer efficiency and ease of regulation.However,it is less taken into account in traditional textiles,and there currently lies a gap in our knowledge and understanding of PRTM.In this review,we aim to present a thorough analysis of advanced textile materials and technologies for PRTM.Specifically,we will introduce and discuss the underlying radiation heat transfer mechanisms,fabrication methods of textiles,and various indoor/outdoor applications in light of their different regulation functionalities,including radiative cooling,radiative heating,and dual-mode thermoregulation.Furthermore,we will shine a light on the current hurdles,propose potential strategies,and delve into future technology trends for PRTM with an emphasis on functionalities and applications.展开更多
Given the abundant solar light available on our planet,it is promising to develop an advanced fabric capable of simultaneously providing personal thermal management and facilitating clean water production in an energy...Given the abundant solar light available on our planet,it is promising to develop an advanced fabric capable of simultaneously providing personal thermal management and facilitating clean water production in an energy-efficient manner.In this study,we present the fabrication of a photothermally active,biodegradable composite cloth composed of titanium carbide MXene and cellulose,achieved through an electrospinning method.This composite cloth exhibits favorable attributes,including chemical stability,mechanical performance,structural flexibility,and wettability.Notably,our 0.1-mm-thick composite cloth(RC/MXene IV)raises the temperature of simulated skin by 5.6℃when compared to a commercially available cotton cloth,which is five times thicker under identical ambient conditions.Remarkably,the composite cloth(RC/MXene V)demonstrates heightened solar light capture efficiency(87.7%)when in a wet state instead of a dry state.Consequently,this cloth functions exceptionally well as a high-performance steam generator,boasting a superior water evaporation rate of 1.34 kg m^(-2)h^(-1)under one-sun irradiation(equivalent to 1000 W m^(-2)).Moreover,it maintains its performance excellence in solar desali-nation processes.The multifunctionality of these cloths opens doors to a diverse array of outdoor applications,including solar-driven water evaporation and personal heating,thereby enriching the scope of integrated functionalities for textiles.展开更多
Person identification is one of the most vital tasks for network security. People are more concerned about theirsecurity due to traditional passwords becoming weaker or leaking in various attacks. In recent decades, f...Person identification is one of the most vital tasks for network security. People are more concerned about theirsecurity due to traditional passwords becoming weaker or leaking in various attacks. In recent decades, fingerprintsand faces have been widely used for person identification, which has the risk of information leakage as a resultof reproducing fingers or faces by taking a snapshot. Recently, people have focused on creating an identifiablepattern, which will not be reproducible falsely by capturing psychological and behavioral information of a personusing vision and sensor-based techniques. In existing studies, most of the researchers used very complex patternsin this direction, which need special training and attention to remember the patterns and failed to capturethe psychological and behavioral information of a person properly. To overcome these problems, this researchdevised a novel dynamic hand gesture-based person identification system using a Leap Motion sensor. Thisstudy developed two hand gesture-based pattern datasets for performing the experiments, which contained morethan 500 samples, collected from 25 subjects. Various static and dynamic features were extracted from the handgeometry. Randomforest was used to measure feature importance using the Gini Index. Finally, the support vectormachinewas implemented for person identification and evaluate its performance using identification accuracy. Theexperimental results showed that the proposed system produced an identification accuracy of 99.8% for arbitraryhand gesture-based patterns and 99.6% for the same dynamic hand gesture-based patterns. This result indicatedthat the proposed system can be used for person identification in the field of security.展开更多
Different personalities are shaped by different cultures.Chinese Confucianism and American Individualism took totally different developing routes.Understanding and contemplating their differences in personality can gr...Different personalities are shaped by different cultures.Chinese Confucianism and American Individualism took totally different developing routes.Understanding and contemplating their differences in personality can greatly enhance inter-cultural communication between these two countries.Based on the present researches and studies,this paper discusses the differences and current situation of Chinese and American personalities.Relevant suggestions are initiated aiming at learning from each other’s strong points and bridging the gap as to enhance the development of healthy personality and harmonious world.展开更多
Lucie was full of love in that period in which The French Revolution was happening. In that cold-blooded era which was lack of positive energy, Lucie used her own warm heart to influence others, to let other people st...Lucie was full of love in that period in which The French Revolution was happening. In that cold-blooded era which was lack of positive energy, Lucie used her own warm heart to influence others, to let other people strongly feel that there were love, kindness and humanity still existing in their society. Lucie was such a kind and loving person. Her relationship with three important characters and many things happening among them were vividly presented in A Tale of Two Cities. To a large extent, as the main female character, Lucie was different from Madame Defarge. Madame Defarge was full of hatred and revenge. She was just aware of the harm that others had had taken to her relatives and kept it in mind firmly, rather than melt it into haze. By contrast, Lucie would transform her hatred into love.展开更多
For centuries, various miserly figures have been portrayed both in Chinese and alien literature. Shylock and Jia Ren are such characters in two famous plays. This thesis explores and analyses the differences in their ...For centuries, various miserly figures have been portrayed both in Chinese and alien literature. Shylock and Jia Ren are such characters in two famous plays. This thesis explores and analyses the differences in their personalities in order to bring a deepened understanding of miser-type characters as the outcome of their societies.展开更多
Language serves for the expression of mind.By analyzing the conversations in the short story The Rocking-Horse Winner from the perspective of Grice’s cooperative principle,the paper draws a conclusion about the disti...Language serves for the expression of mind.By analyzing the conversations in the short story The Rocking-Horse Winner from the perspective of Grice’s cooperative principle,the paper draws a conclusion about the distinct personalities of the protago nists in the novel.According to the findings,the conversational implicature of the protagonists actually reflects their different char acters which are or aren’t the results of the industrial background,hypocritical or pure,greedy or diligent.In this way,the study hopes to provide readers an access to a deep understanding of the story and drive them to care more about the ever important yet complex parents-child,especially mother-child relation.展开更多
iPhone owners are vainer(虚荣)and spend more on clothes and grooming(仪容)than those who have BlackBerrys and Android phones,new research claims.BlackBerry owners earn the most and are more likely to have long-term re...iPhone owners are vainer(虚荣)and spend more on clothes and grooming(仪容)than those who have BlackBerrys and Android phones,new research claims.BlackBerry owners earn the most and are more likely to have long-term relationships,while people with Android handsets are most creative and the best cooks.The study,carried out by TalkTalk Mobile,surveyed2,000 owners of the three major smartphone brands to determine whether the choice of handset was an展开更多
This paper introduces a cutting-edge framework for personalized chronic pain management,leveraging the power of artificial intelligence(AI)and personality insights.It explores the intricate relationship between person...This paper introduces a cutting-edge framework for personalized chronic pain management,leveraging the power of artificial intelligence(AI)and personality insights.It explores the intricate relationship between personality traits and pain perception,expression,and management,identifying key correlations that influence an individual’s experience of pain.By integrating personality psychology with AI-driven personality assessment,this framework offers a novel approach to tailoring chronic pain management strategies for each patient’s unique personality profile.It highlights the relevance of well-established personality theories such as the Big Five and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(MBTI)in shaping personalized pain management plans.Additionally,the paper introduces multimodal AI-driven personality assessment,emphasizing the ethical considerations and data collection processes necessary for its implementation.Through illustrative case studies,the paper exemplifies how this framework can lead to more effective and patient-centered pain relief,ultimately enhancing overall well-being.In conclusion,the paper positions the need of an“AI-Powered Holistic Pain Management Initiative”which has the potential to transform chronic pain management by providing personalized,data-driven solutions and create a multifaceted research impact influencing clinical practice,patient outcomes,healthcare policy,and the broader scientific community’s understanding of personalized medicine and AI-driven interventions.展开更多
Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women, and has become the main cause threatening women’s health. A case of breast cancer with neoadjuvant chemotherapy was discharged after active treatment...Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women, and has become the main cause threatening women’s health. A case of breast cancer with neoadjuvant chemotherapy was discharged after active treatment and nursing.展开更多
Two questions in the research of animal personality—whether there is a correlation between a personality trait and individual reproductive success,and what is the genetic basis underlying a personality trait—remain ...Two questions in the research of animal personality—whether there is a correlation between a personality trait and individual reproductive success,and what is the genetic basis underlying a personality trait—remain unresolved.We addressed these two questions in three shrub-nesting birds,the Azure-winged Magpie(Cyanopica cyanus,AM),White-collared Blackbird(Turdus albocinctus,WB),and Brown-cheeked Laughingthrush(Trochalopteron henrici,BL).The personality type of an individual was first identified according to its response to a territorial intruder.Then,we compared the fleeing distance,breeding parameters,and differential expressed genes(DEGs) in the brain transcriptome between bold and shy breeders.In the three species,bold breeders exhibited more aggressiveness towards an intruder of their territory than did shy breeders.The reproductive success of bold breeders was significantly higher than that of shy breeders in AM but not in WB and BL.The three species shared one DEG,crabp1,which was up-regulated in bold relative to in shy individuals.By regulating the expression of corticotropin-releasing hormone,higher crabp1 gene expression can decrease cellular response to retinoic acid.Therefore,bold individuals are insensitive to external stresses and able to exhibit more aggressiveness to intruders than their shier counterparts.Aggressiveness is beneficial to bold individuals in AM but not in WB and BL because the former could evoke neighbors to make the same response of defending against intruders but the latter could not.Although a personality trait may have the same genetic basis across species,its correlation with reproductive success depends largely on the life history style of a species.展开更多
The attention mechanism can extract salient features in images,which has been proved to be effective in improving the performance of person re-identification(Re-ID).However,most of the existing attention modules have ...The attention mechanism can extract salient features in images,which has been proved to be effective in improving the performance of person re-identification(Re-ID).However,most of the existing attention modules have the following two shortcomings:On the one hand,they mostly use global average pooling to generate context descriptors,without highlighting the guiding role of salient information on descriptor generation,resulting in insufficient ability of the final generated attention mask representation;On the other hand,the design of most attention modules is complicated,which greatly increases the computational cost of the model.To solve these problems,this paper proposes an attention module called self-supervised recalibration(SR)block,which introduces both global and local information through adaptive weighted fusion to generate a more refined attention mask.In particular,a special"Squeeze-Excitation"(SE)unit is designed in the SR block to further process the generated intermediate masks,both for nonlinearizations of the features and for constraint of the resulting computation by controlling the number of channels.Furthermore,we combine the most commonly used Res Net-50 to construct the instantiation model of the SR block,and verify its effectiveness on multiple Re-ID datasets,especially the mean Average Precision(m AP)on the Occluded-Duke dataset exceeds the state-of-the-art(SOTA)algorithm by 4.49%.展开更多
The compelling combination of thermochromism and multifunctional wearable heaters in smart textiles has received increas-ing attention given the significant synergistic effect of green solar heat supply and energy sto...The compelling combination of thermochromism and multifunctional wearable heaters in smart textiles has received increas-ing attention given the significant synergistic effect of green solar heat supply and energy storage.However,due to color incompatibility and poor knittability,developing fabrics with bistable thermochromic properties to achieve efficient solar-thermal management remains a challenging endeavor.Here,by combining bistable thermochromic,photochromic,and efficient solar-thermal properties,we constructed an asymmetric Janus(Janus A/B)fiber(BTCSJF)that can simultaneously display two colors and help with energy reserve while harvesting solar power.Benefiting greatly from donor-acceptor elec-tron transfer,dynamic hydrogen bonding,and supercooling properties,BTCSJF displays a quick switch in color,excellent bistability,and enhanced performance in storing phase-change energy.In addition,BTCSJF can be self-heated by 35.6℃higher than conventional fibers because it can capture and store solar energy.This research outlines a method to fabricate braided fibers with two theoretically incompatible properties that have promising implications for self-powered integrated bistable color-changing and personal thermal management applications.展开更多
文摘Introduction: With the arrival of the 21st century, drastic worldwide changes to natural, economic and social events have occurred. These include the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the global financial crisis. Furthermore, Japan experienced the introduction of a specific education system. In this study, we traced and compared the psychological characters of university freshmen for 16 years (years 2000-2016) using Big-Five personalities inventory (Japanese version). Methods: A total of 1189 physically and mentally healthy university freshmen participated in this study. They were divided into four groups according to the year they entered university. They completed a self-filled questionnaire, Big-Five personalities inventory, which consists of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness and Openness. Result and Discussion: Compared with the year 2008, Extraversion nominally increased in 2012, however, it statistically significantly decreased in 2016. Agreeableness notably decreased from 2000 to 2008, then showed an increase in 2012. Compared to 2000, Neuroticism was statistically significantly lower in 2008 and 2016. Such statistically significant differences were not observed in the other two personalities. The personalities of university freshmen have changed in the last 16 years, which may be been caused by drastic changes. However, further research (e.g., larger-scale studies or studies including other university students) is required to support the current findings.
文摘Personality prediction on social network has become a hot topic.At present,most studies are using single-task classification/regression machine learning.However,this method ignores the potential association between multiple tasks.Also an ideal prediction result is difficult to achieve based on the small scale training data,since it is not easy to get a lot of social network data with personality label samples.In this paper,a robust multi-task learning method(RMTL)is proposed to predict Big-Five personality on Micro-blog.We aim to learn five tasks simultaneously by extracting and utilizing appropriate shared information among multiple tasks as well as identifying irrelevant tasks.For a set of Sina Micro-blog users’information and personality labeled data retrieved by questionnaire,we validate the RMTL method by comparing it with 4 single-task learning methods and the mere multi-task learning.Our experiment demonstrates that the proposed RMTL can improve the precision rate,recall rate of the prediction and F value.
文摘Gone with the Wind,the masterpiece of the Margaret,M who has spent about ten years on writing this novel and it takes over half a year of her to verify the specific time and place of the involved historical event.Once the masterpiece is published on June 30,1936,it soon broke several records in sales of American publishing;later,it won the prize of Pulitzer and Association of American publishers.While the leading lady of this novel,Scarlett,become an object of admiration among thousands of people.What attract the readerséyes deeply is her unique origin,outstanding features and noble actions.In the meantime,the charming personality of Margaret's Scarlett has conquered us.She is strong to the difficulties;she is persistent to her love;and she is witty to her family.She is the strongest among the people who has endured the hardship as her no matter she has suffered from the war,the poor and leaving her family.What makes her be responsible to the Taylor Manor is her braveness.At the end of the story,she still tells us:tomorrow is another day! We admire her positive attitude to life,and this is why the female character can be everlasting.
文摘In the past decade there has been a profusion of studies highlighting covariation between individual differences in stress physiology and behavioural profiles, here called personalities. Such individual differences in ways of coping with stress are relevant both in biomedicine, since different personalities may experience a different stress and disease vulnerability, and in behavioural ecology, since their adaptive value and evolutionary maintenance are the subject of debate. However, the precise way in which individual stress differences and personalities are linked is unclear. Here we provide an updated overview of this covariation across different species and taxa, consider its functional significance and present working hypotheses for how behavioural and physiological responses to stress might be causally linked, affecting life-history traits such as dispersal and life-span [Current Zoology 56 (6): 728-740, 2010].
文摘Hippocampus is crucial for the formation of emotional memory. We found the relationship between hippocampal responses to emotional stimuli and the mental stabilities of people in our preliminary study. In this study, we have also evaluated how the emotional stimuli would affect amygdala and thalamus in the brain, and how the personality stabilities could relate to the responses in the brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We evaluated the subjects’ personality features with the Yatabe-Guilford Personality Test (Y-G test) and psychosomatic symptoms with the Cornell Medical Index (CMI). The subjects were categorized into the mentally stable group and the mentally unstable group according to the total scores of the Y-G test and the CMI. The brain functional responses under emotional stimuli were measured using fMRI. The region of interest (ROI) analysis was performed to abstract significant changes in order to compare responses among the different emotional stimuli. We conducted the regression analysis to abstract the relationship between the mean % signal change from fMRI and the personality stability. The fMRI results showed that the hippocampus, thalamus, and right amygdala activities under the human relationship stimuli increased with ascending value of mental instability. Our findings suggest that the memory process in the hippocampus and the threat alarm system in the thalamus under the human-related stimuli crucially influence the emotional reaction of mentally unstable people. These processes in the brain would affect the event that stresses on human relationships that often cause people to suffer from mental disorders.
基金support from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,China(PolyU152052/21E)Green Tech Fund of Hong Kong(Project No.:GTF202220106)+1 种基金Innovation and Technology Fund of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,China(ITP/018/21TP)PolyU Endowed Young Scholars Scheme(Project No.:84CC).
文摘Maintaining thermal comfort within the human body is crucial for optimal health and overall well-being.By merely broadening the setpoint of indoor temperatures,we could significantly slash energy usage in building heating,ventilation,and air-conditioning systems.In recent years,there has been a surge in advancements in personal thermal management(PTM),aiming to regulate heat and moisture transfer within our immediate surroundings,clothing,and skin.The advent of PTM is driven by the rapid development in nano/micro-materials and energy science and engineering.An emerging research area in PTM is personal radiative thermal management(PRTM),which demonstrates immense potential with its high radiative heat transfer efficiency and ease of regulation.However,it is less taken into account in traditional textiles,and there currently lies a gap in our knowledge and understanding of PRTM.In this review,we aim to present a thorough analysis of advanced textile materials and technologies for PRTM.Specifically,we will introduce and discuss the underlying radiation heat transfer mechanisms,fabrication methods of textiles,and various indoor/outdoor applications in light of their different regulation functionalities,including radiative cooling,radiative heating,and dual-mode thermoregulation.Furthermore,we will shine a light on the current hurdles,propose potential strategies,and delve into future technology trends for PRTM with an emphasis on functionalities and applications.
基金support from ERC Consolidator Grant PARIS-101043485 from the European Research Council,Swedish Research Council Grant 2018-05351the Wallenberg Academy Fellow program(Grant KAW 2017.0166)in Sweden and the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability(WISE)funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation(project number:WISE-AP01-D197)support from the Swedish Research Council(2021-05839)and Aforsk Foundation(22-274).
文摘Given the abundant solar light available on our planet,it is promising to develop an advanced fabric capable of simultaneously providing personal thermal management and facilitating clean water production in an energy-efficient manner.In this study,we present the fabrication of a photothermally active,biodegradable composite cloth composed of titanium carbide MXene and cellulose,achieved through an electrospinning method.This composite cloth exhibits favorable attributes,including chemical stability,mechanical performance,structural flexibility,and wettability.Notably,our 0.1-mm-thick composite cloth(RC/MXene IV)raises the temperature of simulated skin by 5.6℃when compared to a commercially available cotton cloth,which is five times thicker under identical ambient conditions.Remarkably,the composite cloth(RC/MXene V)demonstrates heightened solar light capture efficiency(87.7%)when in a wet state instead of a dry state.Consequently,this cloth functions exceptionally well as a high-performance steam generator,boasting a superior water evaporation rate of 1.34 kg m^(-2)h^(-1)under one-sun irradiation(equivalent to 1000 W m^(-2)).Moreover,it maintains its performance excellence in solar desali-nation processes.The multifunctionality of these cloths opens doors to a diverse array of outdoor applications,including solar-driven water evaporation and personal heating,thereby enriching the scope of integrated functionalities for textiles.
基金the Competitive Research Fund of the University of Aizu,Japan.
文摘Person identification is one of the most vital tasks for network security. People are more concerned about theirsecurity due to traditional passwords becoming weaker or leaking in various attacks. In recent decades, fingerprintsand faces have been widely used for person identification, which has the risk of information leakage as a resultof reproducing fingers or faces by taking a snapshot. Recently, people have focused on creating an identifiablepattern, which will not be reproducible falsely by capturing psychological and behavioral information of a personusing vision and sensor-based techniques. In existing studies, most of the researchers used very complex patternsin this direction, which need special training and attention to remember the patterns and failed to capturethe psychological and behavioral information of a person properly. To overcome these problems, this researchdevised a novel dynamic hand gesture-based person identification system using a Leap Motion sensor. Thisstudy developed two hand gesture-based pattern datasets for performing the experiments, which contained morethan 500 samples, collected from 25 subjects. Various static and dynamic features were extracted from the handgeometry. Randomforest was used to measure feature importance using the Gini Index. Finally, the support vectormachinewas implemented for person identification and evaluate its performance using identification accuracy. Theexperimental results showed that the proposed system produced an identification accuracy of 99.8% for arbitraryhand gesture-based patterns and 99.6% for the same dynamic hand gesture-based patterns. This result indicatedthat the proposed system can be used for person identification in the field of security.
文摘Different personalities are shaped by different cultures.Chinese Confucianism and American Individualism took totally different developing routes.Understanding and contemplating their differences in personality can greatly enhance inter-cultural communication between these two countries.Based on the present researches and studies,this paper discusses the differences and current situation of Chinese and American personalities.Relevant suggestions are initiated aiming at learning from each other’s strong points and bridging the gap as to enhance the development of healthy personality and harmonious world.
文摘Lucie was full of love in that period in which The French Revolution was happening. In that cold-blooded era which was lack of positive energy, Lucie used her own warm heart to influence others, to let other people strongly feel that there were love, kindness and humanity still existing in their society. Lucie was such a kind and loving person. Her relationship with three important characters and many things happening among them were vividly presented in A Tale of Two Cities. To a large extent, as the main female character, Lucie was different from Madame Defarge. Madame Defarge was full of hatred and revenge. She was just aware of the harm that others had had taken to her relatives and kept it in mind firmly, rather than melt it into haze. By contrast, Lucie would transform her hatred into love.
文摘For centuries, various miserly figures have been portrayed both in Chinese and alien literature. Shylock and Jia Ren are such characters in two famous plays. This thesis explores and analyses the differences in their personalities in order to bring a deepened understanding of miser-type characters as the outcome of their societies.
文摘Language serves for the expression of mind.By analyzing the conversations in the short story The Rocking-Horse Winner from the perspective of Grice’s cooperative principle,the paper draws a conclusion about the distinct personalities of the protago nists in the novel.According to the findings,the conversational implicature of the protagonists actually reflects their different char acters which are or aren’t the results of the industrial background,hypocritical or pure,greedy or diligent.In this way,the study hopes to provide readers an access to a deep understanding of the story and drive them to care more about the ever important yet complex parents-child,especially mother-child relation.
文摘iPhone owners are vainer(虚荣)and spend more on clothes and grooming(仪容)than those who have BlackBerrys and Android phones,new research claims.BlackBerry owners earn the most and are more likely to have long-term relationships,while people with Android handsets are most creative and the best cooks.The study,carried out by TalkTalk Mobile,surveyed2,000 owners of the three major smartphone brands to determine whether the choice of handset was an
文摘This paper introduces a cutting-edge framework for personalized chronic pain management,leveraging the power of artificial intelligence(AI)and personality insights.It explores the intricate relationship between personality traits and pain perception,expression,and management,identifying key correlations that influence an individual’s experience of pain.By integrating personality psychology with AI-driven personality assessment,this framework offers a novel approach to tailoring chronic pain management strategies for each patient’s unique personality profile.It highlights the relevance of well-established personality theories such as the Big Five and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(MBTI)in shaping personalized pain management plans.Additionally,the paper introduces multimodal AI-driven personality assessment,emphasizing the ethical considerations and data collection processes necessary for its implementation.Through illustrative case studies,the paper exemplifies how this framework can lead to more effective and patient-centered pain relief,ultimately enhancing overall well-being.In conclusion,the paper positions the need of an“AI-Powered Holistic Pain Management Initiative”which has the potential to transform chronic pain management by providing personalized,data-driven solutions and create a multifaceted research impact influencing clinical practice,patient outcomes,healthcare policy,and the broader scientific community’s understanding of personalized medicine and AI-driven interventions.
文摘Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women, and has become the main cause threatening women’s health. A case of breast cancer with neoadjuvant chemotherapy was discharged after active treatment and nursing.
基金provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 32071491, 31772465, 31672299, 31572271, and 32260128)the Natural Sciences Foundation of the Tibetan (XZ202101ZR0051G)。
文摘Two questions in the research of animal personality—whether there is a correlation between a personality trait and individual reproductive success,and what is the genetic basis underlying a personality trait—remain unresolved.We addressed these two questions in three shrub-nesting birds,the Azure-winged Magpie(Cyanopica cyanus,AM),White-collared Blackbird(Turdus albocinctus,WB),and Brown-cheeked Laughingthrush(Trochalopteron henrici,BL).The personality type of an individual was first identified according to its response to a territorial intruder.Then,we compared the fleeing distance,breeding parameters,and differential expressed genes(DEGs) in the brain transcriptome between bold and shy breeders.In the three species,bold breeders exhibited more aggressiveness towards an intruder of their territory than did shy breeders.The reproductive success of bold breeders was significantly higher than that of shy breeders in AM but not in WB and BL.The three species shared one DEG,crabp1,which was up-regulated in bold relative to in shy individuals.By regulating the expression of corticotropin-releasing hormone,higher crabp1 gene expression can decrease cellular response to retinoic acid.Therefore,bold individuals are insensitive to external stresses and able to exhibit more aggressiveness to intruders than their shier counterparts.Aggressiveness is beneficial to bold individuals in AM but not in WB and BL because the former could evoke neighbors to make the same response of defending against intruders but the latter could not.Although a personality trait may have the same genetic basis across species,its correlation with reproductive success depends largely on the life history style of a species.
基金supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region(Grant No.2022D01B186 and No.2022D01B05)。
文摘The attention mechanism can extract salient features in images,which has been proved to be effective in improving the performance of person re-identification(Re-ID).However,most of the existing attention modules have the following two shortcomings:On the one hand,they mostly use global average pooling to generate context descriptors,without highlighting the guiding role of salient information on descriptor generation,resulting in insufficient ability of the final generated attention mask representation;On the other hand,the design of most attention modules is complicated,which greatly increases the computational cost of the model.To solve these problems,this paper proposes an attention module called self-supervised recalibration(SR)block,which introduces both global and local information through adaptive weighted fusion to generate a more refined attention mask.In particular,a special"Squeeze-Excitation"(SE)unit is designed in the SR block to further process the generated intermediate masks,both for nonlinearizations of the features and for constraint of the resulting computation by controlling the number of channels.Furthermore,we combine the most commonly used Res Net-50 to construct the instantiation model of the SR block,and verify its effectiveness on multiple Re-ID datasets,especially the mean Average Precision(m AP)on the Occluded-Duke dataset exceeds the state-of-the-art(SOTA)algorithm by 4.49%.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20211240)the International Joint Research Laboratory for Eco-Textile Technology(IJRLETT)at Jiangnan University.
文摘The compelling combination of thermochromism and multifunctional wearable heaters in smart textiles has received increas-ing attention given the significant synergistic effect of green solar heat supply and energy storage.However,due to color incompatibility and poor knittability,developing fabrics with bistable thermochromic properties to achieve efficient solar-thermal management remains a challenging endeavor.Here,by combining bistable thermochromic,photochromic,and efficient solar-thermal properties,we constructed an asymmetric Janus(Janus A/B)fiber(BTCSJF)that can simultaneously display two colors and help with energy reserve while harvesting solar power.Benefiting greatly from donor-acceptor elec-tron transfer,dynamic hydrogen bonding,and supercooling properties,BTCSJF displays a quick switch in color,excellent bistability,and enhanced performance in storing phase-change energy.In addition,BTCSJF can be self-heated by 35.6℃higher than conventional fibers because it can capture and store solar energy.This research outlines a method to fabricate braided fibers with two theoretically incompatible properties that have promising implications for self-powered integrated bistable color-changing and personal thermal management applications.