Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction: Short-Term Results from a Single Center in Bangladesh

Background: Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) is considered a safer alternative to on-pump surgery, especially in patients with left ventricular dysfunction (LVD). Objectives: This study assessed short-term outcomes and functional improvements in LVD patients post-OPCAB. Methods: The study included 200 coronary artery disease patients who underwent isolated off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) at the National Heart Foundation Hospital and Research Institute between January 2019 and June 2020. Patients were categorized into Group 1, with a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 30% - 39%, and Group 2, with an LVEF of 40% or higher. Echocardiographic assessments of left ventricular dimensions and ejection fraction were performed preoperatively, at discharge, and one month postoperatively. Results: In Group 1, preoperative left ventricular internal dimensions during diastole (LVIDd) and systole (LVIDs) were 53.48 ± 4.40 mm and 44.23 ± 3.93 mm, respectively, with a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 35.28% ± 2.26%. At discharge, these values improved to 51.58 ± 4.04 mm (LVIDd), 41.23 ± 5.30 mm (LVIDs), and 39.25% ± 3.75% (LVEF). One month postoperatively, further improvements were observed: 46.29 ± 3.76 mm (LVIDd), 37.45 ± 3.68 mm (LVIDs), and 43.22% ± 4.67% (LVEF). Group 2 showed similar positive outcomes, with preoperative values of 47.09 ± 5.06 mm (LVIDd), 35.11 ± 5.25 mm (LVIDs), and 50.13% ± 7.25% (LVEF), improving to 42.37 ± 4.18 mm (LVIDd), 31.05 ± 4.19 mm (LVIDs), and 55.33% ± 7.05% (LVEF) at one month postoperatively. Both groups demonstrated significant improvements in left ventricular function and NYHA class, with most patients moving from class III/IV to I/II. Complications were minimal, and no mortality was observed. Conclusion: OPCAB is safe and effective for patients with LVEF 30% - 39% and LVEF ≥ 40%, providing significant short-term functional improvements without increased risk.

Comparative study on the performance of ConvLSTM and ConvGRU in classification problems-taking early warning of short-duration heavy rainfall as an example

卷积长短期记忆单元ConvLSTM和卷积门控循环单元ConvGRU是两种广泛应用的深度学习单元,通过将循环机制与卷积运算相结合,常常用于时空序列的预测.为了明确上述两种模型的收敛速度和分类能力,需要使用相同的模型架构对相同的分类问题进行预测.本研究将北京短时强降水区级预警问题看作深度学习中的二分类问题,使用京津冀雷达网的组合反射率数据和北京区域内的自动气象站降雨数据进行深度学习模型的训练和评估.结果表明,ConvGRU的收敛速度比ConvLSTM快约25%.ConvLSTM和ConvGRU的预警性能随地区,时间,降雨强度的变化趋势相似,但大部分ConvLSTM的得分较高,少数情况下ConvGRU的得分较高.

The Effects of Accumulated Short Bouts of Mobile-Based Physical Activity Programs on Depression,Perceived Stress,and Negative Affectivity among College Students in South Korea:Quasi-Experimental Study

Regular physical activity(PA)is known to enhance multifaceted health benefits,including both physical and mental health.However,traditional in-person physical activity programs have drawbacks,including time constraints for busy people.Although evidence suggests positive impacts on mental health through mobile-based physical activity,effects of accumulated short bouts of physical activity using mobile devices are unexplored.Thus,this study aims to investigate these effects,focusing on depression,perceived stress,and negative affectivity among South Korean college students.Forty-six healthy college students were divided into the accumulated group(n=23,female=47.8%)and control group(n=23,female=47.6%).The accumulated group engaged in mobile-based physical activity,following guidelines to accumulate a minimum of two times per day and three times a week.Sessions were divided into short bouts,ensuing each bout lasted at least 10 min.The control group did not engage in any specific physical activity.The data analysis involved comparing the scores of the intervention and control groups using several statistical techniques,such as independent sample t-test,paired sample t-tests,and 2(time)×2(group)repeated measures analysis of variance.The demographic characteristics at the pre-test showed no statistically significant differences between the groups.The accumulated group had significant decreases in depression(t_(40)=2.59,p=0.013,Cohen’s D=0.84)and perceived stress(t_(40)=2.06,p=0.046,Cohen’s D=0.56)from the pre-to post-test.The control group exhibited no statistically significant differences in any variables.Furthermore,there were significant effects of time on depression scores(F1,36=4.77,p=0.036,η_(p)^(2)=0.12)while significant interaction effects were also observed for depression(F_(1,36)=6.59,p=0.015,η_(p)^(2)=0.16).This study offers informative insights into the potential advantages of mobile-based physical activity programs with accumulated periods for enhancing mental health,specifically in relation to depression.This study illuminates the current ongoing discussions on efficient approaches to encourage mobile-based physical activity and improve mental well-being,addressing various lifestyles and busy schedules.

Prediction of Attention and Short-Term Memory Loss by EEG Workload Estimation

Mental workload plays a vital role in cognitive impairment. The impairment refers to a person’s difficulty in remembering, receiving new information, learning new things, concentrating, or making decisions that seriously affect everyday life. In this paper, the simultaneous capacity (SIMKAP) experiment-based EEG workload analysis was presented using 45 subjects for multitasking mental workload estimation with subject wise attention loss calculation as well as short term memory loss measurement. Using an open access preprocessed EEG dataset, Discrete wavelet transforms (DWT) was utilized for feature extraction and Minimum redundancy and maximum relevancy (MRMR) technique was used to select most relevance features. Wavelet decomposition technique was also used for decomposing EEG signals into five sub bands. Fourteen statistical features were calculated from each sub band signal to form a 5 × 14 window size. The Neural Network (Narrow) classification algorithm was used to classify dataset for low and high workload conditions and comparison was made using some other machine learning models. The results show the classifier’s accuracy of 86.7%, precision of 84.4%, F1 score of 86.33%, and recall of 88.37% that crosses the state-of-the art methodologies in the literature. This prediction is expected to greatly facilitate the improved way in memory and attention loss impairments assessment.

Snowmelt Flood Mapping and Land Surface Short-Term Dynamics Assessment in a “Before-During-After” Scenario Based on Radar and Optical Satellite Imagery: Case Study Around the Lewisville Lake (Dallas/Fort Worth Metropolitan, Texas, USA)

The main goal of this study has been to map flood and assess land surface short-term dynamics in relation with snowy weather. The two recent snowfall events, which happened in, February 14th and 15th, of year 2021, and February 3rd and 4th, of year 2022, were chosen. A pre-analysis correlation was assumed between, the snow events, recurrency of floods, and changes in the land surface characteristics (i.e., wetness, energy, temperature), in a “Before-During-After” scenario. Active and passive microwave satellites data such as, Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR), Sentinel-2 multispectral instrument (MSI) and Landsat-9 Operation Land Imager-2/Thermal Infrared Sensors-2 (OLI-2/TIRS-2), as well as cloud databased global models for water and urban layers were used. The first step of processing was thresholding of SAR image, at 0.25 cutoff, based on bimodal histogram distribution, followed by the change analysis. The following processing consisted in the images transformation, by computing the tasseled cap transformation wetness (TCTw) and the surface albedo on MSI image. In addition, the land surface temperature (LST) was modeled from OLI-2/TIRS-2 image. Then, a 5th order polynomial regression was computed, between TCTw as dependent variable and, albedo and LST as independent variables. As a first result, an area of 5.6 km2 has been mapped as recurrently flooded from the two years assessment. The other output highlighted a constant increase of wetness (TCTw), considered most influential on land surface dynamics, comparatively to energy exchange (albedo) and temperature (LST). The “After” event dependency between the three indicators was highest, with a correlation coefficient, R2 = 0.682, confirming the persistence of wetness after-snowmelt. Validation over topographic layers confirmed that, recurrently flooded areas are mostly distributed on, lowest valley depth points, farthest distances from channel network (i.e., from perennial waters), and lowest relative slope position areas. Whereas, 88.9% of the validation sampling were confirmed in the laboratory, and 86.7% of urban validation points were assessed as recurrently flooded when combining pre-/post-field-work campaign.

Short-TermWind Power Prediction Based on Combinatorial Neural Networks

Wind power volatility not only limits the large-scale grid connection but also poses many challenges to safe grid operation.Accurate wind power prediction can mitigate the adverse effects of wind power volatility on wind power grid connections.For the characteristics of wind power antecedent data and precedent data jointly to determine the prediction accuracy of the prediction model,the short-term prediction of wind power based on a combined neural network is proposed.First,the Bi-directional Long Short Term Memory(BiLSTM)network prediction model is constructed,and the bi-directional nature of the BiLSTM network is used to deeply mine the wind power data information and find the correlation information within the data.Secondly,to avoid the limitation of a single prediction model when the wind power changes abruptly,the Wavelet Transform-Improved Adaptive Genetic Algorithm-Back Propagation(WT-IAGA-BP)neural network based on the combination of the WT-IAGA-BP neural network and BiLSTM network is constructed for the short-term prediction of wind power.Finally,comparing with LSTM,BiLSTM,WT-LSTM,WT-BiLSTM,WT-IAGA-BP,and WT-IAGA-BP&LSTM prediction models,it is verified that the wind power short-term prediction model based on the combination of WT-IAGA-BP neural network and BiLSTM network has higher prediction accuracy.

Short-Term Prediction of Photovoltaic Power Generation Based on LMD Permutation Entropy and Singular Spectrum Analysis

The power output state of photovoltaic power generation is affected by the earth’s rotation and solar radiation intensity.On the one hand,its output sequence has daily periodicity;on the other hand,it has discrete randomness.With the development of new energy economy,the proportion of photovoltaic energy increased accordingly.In order to solve the problem of improving the energy conversion efficiency in the grid-connected optical network and ensure the stability of photovoltaic power generation,this paper proposes the short-termprediction of photovoltaic power generation based on the improvedmulti-scale permutation entropy,localmean decomposition and singular spectrum analysis algorithm.Firstly,taking the power output per unit day as the research object,the multi-scale permutation entropy is used to calculate the eigenvectors under different weather conditions,and the cluster analysis is used to reconstruct the historical power generation under typical weather rainy and snowy,sunny,abrupt,cloudy.Then,local mean decomposition(LMD)is used to decompose the output sequence,so as to extract more detail components of the reconstructed output sequence.Finally,combined with the weather forecast of the Meteorological Bureau for the next day,the singular spectrumanalysis algorithm is used to predict the photovoltaic classification of the recombination decomposition sequence under typical weather.Through the verification and analysis of examples,the hierarchical prediction experiments of reconstructed and non-reconstructed output sequences are compared.The results show that the algorithm proposed in this paper is effective in realizing the short-term prediction of photovoltaic generator,and has the advantages of simple structure and high prediction accuracy.

Identification of the Breach of Short-Term Rental Regulations in Irish Rent Pressure Zones

The housing crisis in Ireland has rapidly grown in recent years. To make a more significant profit, many landlords are no longer renting out their houses under long-term tenancies but under short-term tenancies. Regulating rentals in Rent Pressure Zones with the highest and rising rents is becoming a tricky issue. In this paper, we develop a breach identifier to check short-term rentals located in Rent Pressure Zones with potential breaches only using publicly available data from Airbnb (an online marketplace focused on short-term home-stays) and Irish government websites. First, we use a Residual Neural Network to filter out outdoor landscape photos that negatively impact identifying whether an owner has multiple rentals in a Rent Pressure Zone. Second, a Siamese Neural Network is used to compare the similarity of indoor photos to determine if multiple rental posts correspond to the same residence. Next, we use the Haversine algorithm to locate short-term rentals within a circle centered on the coordinate of a permit. Short-term rentals with a permit will not be restricted. Finally, we improve the occupancy estimation model combined with sentiment analysis, which may provide higher accuracy.

Short-Term Memory Capacity across Time and Language Estimated from Ancient and Modern Literary Texts. Study-Case: New Testament Translations

We study the short-term memory capacity of ancient readers of the original New Testament written in Greek, of its translations to Latin and to modern languages. To model it, we consider the number of words between any two contiguous interpunctions Ip, because this parameter can model how the human mind memorizes “chunks” of information. Since IP can be calculated for any alphabetical text, we can perform experiments—otherwise impossible— with ancient readers by studying the literary works they used to read. The “experiments” compare the IP of texts of a language/translation to those of another language/translation by measuring the minimum average probability of finding joint readers (those who can read both texts because of similar short-term memory capacity) and by defining an “overlap index”. We also define the population of universal readers, people who can read any New Testament text in any language. Future work is vast, with many research tracks, because alphabetical literatures are very large and allow many experiments, such as comparing authors, translations or even texts written by artificial intelligence tools.

基于CNN-SAEDN-Res的短期电力负荷预测方法

基于深度学习的序列模型难以处理混有非时序因素的负荷数据,这导致预测精度不足。提出一种基于卷积神经网络(CNN)、自注意力编码解码网络(SAEDN)和残差优化(Res)的短期电力负荷预测方法。特征提取模块由二维卷积神经网络组成,用于挖掘数据间的局部相关性,获取高维特征。初始负荷预测模块由自注意力编码解码网络和前馈神经网络构成,利用自注意力机制对高维特征进行自注意力编码,获取数据间的全局相关性,从而模型能根据数据间的耦合关系保留混有非时序因素数据中的重要信息,通过解码模块进行自注意力解码,并利用前馈神经网络回归初始负荷。引入残差机制构建负荷优化模块,生成负荷残差,优化初始负荷。算例结果表明,所提方法在预测精度和预测稳定性方面具有优势。

基于多维气象信息时空融合和MPA-VMD的短期电力负荷组合预测模型

为提高电力负荷预测精度,需考虑区域内不同地区多维气象信息对电力负荷影响的差异性。在空间维度上,提出多维气象信息时空融合的方法,利用Copula理论将多座气象站的风速、降雨量、温度、日照强度等气象信息与电力负荷进行非线性耦合分析并实现时空融合。在时间维度上,采用海洋捕食者算法(MPA)实现变分模态分解(VMD)核心参数的自动寻优,并采用加权排列熵构造MPA-VMD适应度函数,实现负荷序列的自适应分解。通过将时间维度各分量与空间维度各气象信息进行融合构造长短期记忆(LSTM)网络模型与海洋捕食者算法-最小二乘支持向量机(MPA-LSSVM)模型的输入集,得到各分量预测结果,根据评价指标选择各分量对应的预测模型,重构得到整体预测结果。算例分析结果表明,所提预测模型优于传统预测模型,有效提高了电力负荷预测精度。

基于BERT-BiLSTM-CRF模型的畜禽疫病文本分词研究

针对畜禽疫病文本语料匮乏、文本内包含大量疫病名称及短语等未登录词问题,提出了一种结合词典匹配的BERT-BiLSTM-CRF畜禽疫病文本分词模型。以羊疫病为研究对象,构建了常见疫病文本数据集,将其与通用语料PKU结合,利用BERT(Bidirectional encoder representation from transformers)预训练语言模型进行文本向量化表示;通过双向长短时记忆网络(Bidirectional long short-term memory network,BiLSTM)获取上下文语义特征;由条件随机场(Conditional random field,CRF)输出全局最优标签序列。基于此,在CRF层后加入畜禽疫病领域词典进行分词匹配修正,减少在分词过程中出现的疫病名称及短语等造成的歧义切分,进一步提高了分词准确率。实验结果表明,结合词典匹配的BERT-BiLSTM-CRF模型在羊常见疫病文本数据集上的F1值为96.38%,与jieba分词器、BiLSTM-Softmax模型、BiLSTM-CRF模型、未结合词典匹配的本文模型相比,分别提升11.01、10.62、8.3、0.72个百分点,验证了方法的有效性。与单一语料相比,通用语料PKU和羊常见疫病文本数据集结合的混合语料,能够同时对畜禽疫病专业术语及疫病文本中常用词进行准确切分,在通用语料及疫病文本数据集上F1值都达到95%以上,具有较好的模型泛化能力。该方法可用于畜禽疫病文本分词。

基于特征选择及ISSA-CNN-BiGRU的短期风功率预测

针对风电功率随机性大、平稳性低,以及直接输入预测模型往往难以取得较高精度等问题,提出了一种基于特征选择及改进麻雀搜索算法(ISSA)优化卷积神经网络-双向门控循环单元(CNN-BiGRU)的短期风电功率预测方法。首先,利用变分模态分解(VMD)将原始功率分解为一组包含不同信息的子分量,以降低原始功率序列的非平稳性,提升可预测性,同时通过观察中心频率方式确定模态分解数。其次,对每一分量采用随机森林(RF)特征重要度的方法进行特征选择,从风速、风向、温度、空气密度等气象特征因素中,选取对各个分量预测贡献度较高的影响因素组成输入特征向量。然后,建立各分量的CNN-BiGRU预测模型,针对神经网络算法参数难调、手动配置参数随机性大的问题,利用ISSA对模型超参数寻优,自适应搜寻最优参数组合。最后,叠加各分量的预测值,得到最终的预测结果。以中国内蒙古某风电场实际数据进行仿真实验,与多种单一及组合预测方法进行对比,结果表明,本文所提方法相比于其他方法具有更高的预测精度,其平均绝对百分比误差值达到2.644 0%;在其他4个数据集上进行的模型准确性及泛化性验证结果显示,模型平均绝对百分比误差值分别为4.385 3%、3.174 9%、1.576 1%和1.358 8%,均保持在5.000 0%以内,证明本文所提方法具有较好的预测精度及泛化能力。

基于CEEMD-SE的CNN&LSTM-GRU短期风电功率预测

为进一步提升短期风电功率的预测精度,提出了一种基于互补集合经验模态分解-样本熵(complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition-sample entropy,CEEMD-SE)的卷积神经网络(convolutional neural network,CNN)和长短期记忆-门控循环单元(longshorttermmemory-gatedrecurrentunit,LSTM-GRU)的短期风电功率预测模型。首先,利用互补集合经验模态分解将原始风电功率序列分解为若干本征模态函数(intrinsic mode function,IMF)分量和一个残差(residual,RES)分量,利用样本熵算法将相近的分量进行重构;其次,搭建卷积神经网络和长短期记忆网络的并行网络结构,提取数据的局部特征和时序特征,并将特征融合后输入门控循环单元网络中进行学习预测;最后,通过算例进行验证,结果表明采用该模型后预测精度得到了有效提升,其均方根误差降低了15.06%、平均绝对误差降低了15.22%、决定系数提高了1.91%。

基于残差修正CNN-BiLSTM的空中目标航迹短期预测算法

针对因深度学习自身局限性和递归预测策略产生的累积误差,导致航迹预测精度不高的问题,提出了一种基于残差修正CNN-BiLSTM的空中目标航迹短期预测算法。首先,引入卷积模块用于提取航迹数据之中具有潜在关联的空间位置特征,利用双向长短时记忆网络提取航迹数据中的时序特征,并实现对空中目标的实时单步预测和多步超前预测;其次,引入整合移动平均自回归为残差修正模型,对实时单步预测产生的残差建模,计算混合神经网络模型多步超前预测时的残差值;最后,将混合神经网络模型和残差修正模型的输出结果进行融合,得到最终的航迹预测值。实验结果表明,该算法大大降低了神经网络因自身局限性产生的误差和因递归策略预测产生的累积误差,能够显著提高空中目标航迹短期预测的精度。

结合太阳辐射量计算与CNN-LSTM组合的光伏功率预测方法研究

为了提高模型预测性能,提出一种综合太阳辐射模型及深度学习的光伏功率预测模型。首先,利用太阳辐射机理建立太阳辐射模型(SRM),估算出水平面上总辐射值,再由斜面辐照度转换方法计算出光伏组件所接收的斜面辐射值。其次,通过皮尔逊相关分析法筛选出对光伏功率影响较大的主要因素,将斜面辐射计算值及主要影响因素作为输入,采用卷积神经网络(CNN)和长短期记忆网络(LSTM)建立光伏功率SRM-CNN-LSTM预测模型。分别利用春夏秋冬四季典型日的数据开展对比实验,结果表明:与几种其他方法相比,该文方法具有更好的预测效果。

基于聚类的HPO-BILSTM光伏功率短期预测

考虑到光伏发电功率在不同天气类型下的波动性和不确定性,对此提出一种基于模糊C均值聚类算法(FCM)和猎食者优化算法(HPO)优化双向长短期记忆网络(BILSTM)的光伏发电短期功率预测模型。首先对光伏发电数据进行处理和分析,再进行主成分分析(PCA)降维和FCM聚类算法将数据按天气类型分为阴、晴、雨;最后通过HPO筛选得出BILSTM神经网络的最佳超参数,避免因超参数设置不佳对实验带来的影响,进一步提高实验的准确性和模型的泛化能力。最后通过预测和对比实验进行分析,验证所提方法的优越性。

基于注意力机制与LSTM-CCN的月降水量预测

针对现有月降水量预测方法预测准确性不高的问题,提出一种基于注意力机制与LSTM-CCN的月降水量预测方法。首先,利用长短时记忆神经网络(long short-term memory neural network,LSTM)提取气象数据在时间维度的特征分布,从时间相关性方面捕获相邻时间段或长距离气象数据段中的统计分布;其次,利用因果卷积神经网络(causal convolutional network,CCN)将气象数据映射到空间维度,深层次地从空间维度捕获气象数据在空间中的特征统计分布;再次,以并联的方式将时间和空间特征作为交叉注意力网络的输入,构造融合的时空特征;最后,以长短时记忆神经网络构造解码器,并将融合的时空特征作为解码器的输入,预测的月降水量作为输出。选取河南省新乡市2001~2017年数据集进行测试,结果表明:所提出方法的均方根误差仅为13.08 mm,相比主流方法具有更低的预测误差。研究成果可为提高气象预测的准确性和实用性提供参考。

基于注意力机制的CNN-BiLSTM的IGBT剩余使用寿命预测

针对绝缘栅双极型晶体管(IGBT)可靠性问题,提出了一种融合卷积神经网络(CNN)、双向长短期记忆(BiLSTM)网络和注意力机制的剩余使用寿命(RUL)预测模型,可用于IGBT的寿命预测。模型中使用CNN提取特征参数,BiLSTM提取时序信息,注意力机制加权处理特征参数。使用IGBT加速老化数据集对提出的模型进行验证。结果表明,对比自回归差分移动平均(ARIMA)、长短期记忆(LSTM)、多层LSTM(Multi-LSTM)、 BiLSTM预测模型,在均方根误差和决定系数等评价指标方面该模型的性能最优。验证了提出的寿命预测模型对IGBT失效预测是有效的。

基于CNN-BiGRU-Attention的短期电力负荷预测

针对目前电力负荷数据随机性强,影响因素复杂,传统单一预测模型精度低的问题,结合卷积神经网络(Convolutional neural network,CNN)、双向门控循环单元(Bi-directional gated recurrent unit,BiGRU)以及注意力机制(Attention)在短期电力负荷预测上的不同优点,提出一种基于CNN-BiGRU-Attention的混合预测模型。该方法首先通过CNN对历史负荷和气象数据进行初步特征提取,然后利用BiGRU进一步挖掘特征数据间时序关联,再引入注意力机制,对BiGRU输出状态给与不同权重,强化关键特征,最后完成负荷预测。试验结果表明,该模型的平均绝对百分比误差(Mean absolute percentage error,MAPE)、均方根误差(Root mean square error,RMSE)、判定系数(R-square,R~2)分别为0.167%、0.057%、0.993,三项指标明显优于其他模型,具有更高的预测精度和稳定性,验证了模型在短期负荷预测中的优势。