Human-object interaction(HOIs)detection is a new branch of visual relationship detection,which plays an important role in the field of image understanding.Because of the complexity and diversity of image content,the d...Human-object interaction(HOIs)detection is a new branch of visual relationship detection,which plays an important role in the field of image understanding.Because of the complexity and diversity of image content,the detection of HOIs is still an onerous challenge.Unlike most of the current works for HOIs detection which only rely on the pairwise information of a human and an object,we propose a graph-based HOIs detection method that models context and global structure information.Firstly,to better utilize the relations between humans and objects,the detected humans and objects are regarded as nodes to construct a fully connected undirected graph,and the graph is pruned to obtain an HOI graph that only preserving the edges connecting human and object nodes.Then,in order to obtain more robust features of human and object nodes,two different attention-based feature extraction networks are proposed,which model global and local contexts respectively.Finally,the graph attention network is introduced to pass messages between different nodes in the HOI graph iteratively,and detect the potential HOIs.Experiments on V-COCO and HICO-DET datasets verify the effectiveness of the proposed method,and show that it is superior to many existing methods.展开更多
Bent Flyvbjerg＇s research reveals a context dependent asymmetrical relationship between rationality and power, causing the so-called illegitimate rationalization to affect the decision-making process. This paper expl...Bent Flyvbjerg＇s research reveals a context dependent asymmetrical relationship between rationality and power, causing the so-called illegitimate rationalization to affect the decision-making process. This paper explores the nature of relationship between rationality and power by following Russell＇s philosophy and logic. The paper demonstrates how a symmetrical relationship may be transformed into an asymmetrical relation. Any study suggesting asymmetrical relationship between rationality and power may not be able to explain the relational dynamics of the two terms, By questioning the rationality-power asymmetrical relationship, the paper stresses the need to define the degree of asymmetry between rationality and power. The paper suggests a need for better interpretation and relational understanding of rationality-power relations for effective decision-making.展开更多
For lack of effective resource adjustment method, the supply-demand relationship of each resource in P2P content delivery system are often unbalanced. Especially after a popular content releasing, a burst of downloade...For lack of effective resource adjustment method, the supply-demand relationship of each resource in P2P content delivery system are often unbalanced. Especially after a popular content releasing, a burst of downloaders often can＇t find sufficient uploaders and their request may starve the upload capacity of server. Therefore the overall system QoS may be degraded. To tackle such issue, this paper proposes a download rate accelerate mechanism, called motivate mechanism. With it, the system can quickly find out the files becoming insufficient by monitoring the operating status of the files hourly, Then it promptly increase the number of copies of those files by using free rider nodes so that the whole system QoS is maintained and the system performance is improved. The experiment results on the practical operating system of Tencent demonstrated that the proposed mechanism increases the download rate, saves the traffic on the server and optimizes the system performance.展开更多
Objective： The aim of this study is to establish the methods of four facio-cervical fields＇ conformal radiotherapy （4F-CRT） for nasopharyngeal carcinoma （NPC）, and to optimize the methods for clinical practice. ...Objective： The aim of this study is to establish the methods of four facio-cervical fields＇ conformal radiotherapy （4F-CRT） for nasopharyngeal carcinoma （NPC）, and to optimize the methods for clinical practice. Methods and Materials： 40 patients with untreated NPC of T1-T4 （1997AJCC Staging System） were rolled into this study. Conventional and four ratio-cervical fields conform plans were designed for each patient using Pinnacle 8.0 three-dimension treatment planning system （3D-TPS）： 1） Improved plan, four ratio-cervical fields＇conform plans, anterior, posterior ratio-cervical and 2 lateral opposing facio-eervical fields; 2） Conventional plan, two lateral opposing facio-cervical fields only with the same dose delivered to the target in each plan, close volume histograms （DVHs） of the targets and normal organs, brain stem, spinal cord, parotid glands, and temporal mandibular joints （TMJs） were compared and the dose distribution were evaluated. Results： 1） The dose distribution of the improved plan could meet the requirements for the target volume. 2） There was not any significant difference in the dose of spinal cord between the two plans. The mean doses of Dmax for brain stem in conventional plan were much lower than those in the improved plan, though both were within safety limits. 3） Compared with the conventional plans, the improved plan significantly decreased the hotspot areas in the target volume and had better parotid glands and temporal mandibular joints sparing effect. Conclusion： Compared with the conventional plan, the improved plan provides satisfactory dose coverage to the tumor volume and better sparing of the parotid gland, TMJs and other normal tissues in external beam radiotherapy of NPC.展开更多
In this paper, a numerical modeling tool is described which can be used to explore various aspects of four dimensional variational data assimilation and parameter estimation arising in geophysical, environmental, biol...In this paper, a numerical modeling tool is described which can be used to explore various aspects of four dimensional variational data assimilation and parameter estimation arising in geophysical, environmental, biological and engineering sciences. A major component of this tool is a coupled chaotic dynamical system obtained by coupling two versions of the well-known Lorenz （1963） model with different time scales which differ by a certain time-scale factor. A tangent linear model and its adjoint are considered that correspond to a coupled chaotic system. The general idea of applying sensitivity measures （sensitivity functions） to coupled systems, emphasizing the data assimilation aspects, is explored as well by the forward sensitivity approach. For this purpose the set of sensitivity equations is derived from the nonlinear equations of the coupled dynamical system. To estimate the influence of model parameter uncertainties on the simulated state variables the relative error in the energy norm is used.展开更多
A mistake in Proposition I-1.21.1 of 'A Compendium of Continuous Lattices'by G.Giers et al. is pointed out and a revised proposition with a proof is given.
Understanding the interactions(synergies and trade-offs)among the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs)is crucial for enhancing policy coherence between different sectors.However,spatial differences in the SDG interacti...Understanding the interactions(synergies and trade-offs)among the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs)is crucial for enhancing policy coherence between different sectors.However,spatial differences in the SDG interactions and their temporal variations at the sub-national scale are still critical gaps that need to be urgently filled.Here,we assess the spatial and temporal variation of the SDG interactions in China based on the systematic classification framework of SDGs.The framework groups the seventeen SDGs into three categories,namely“Essential Needs”“Objectives”,and“Governance”.Spatially,we found that the SDGs in“Essential Needs”&“Objectives”and“Essential Needs”&“Governance”generally show trade-offs in the eastern provinces of China.Synergies among all three SDG categories are observed in some central and western China provinces,which implies that these regions conform to sustainable development patterns.In addition,temporally,the synergies of the three SDG categories have shown a weakening trend in the last decade,mainly due to the regional differences in the progress of SDG7(Affordable and Clean Energy).Overall,our results identify the necessity for provinces to enhance the synergies between SDG12(Responsible Production and Consumption)and other SDGs to tackle the trade-offs between the“Essential Needs”and“Objectives”.Meanwhile,promoting the progress of SDG7 will also contribute to balanced development across provinces.展开更多
A new uncertainty relation(UR) is obtained for a system of N identical pure entangled particles if we use symmetrized observables when deriving the inequality. This new expression can be written in a form where we ide...A new uncertainty relation(UR) is obtained for a system of N identical pure entangled particles if we use symmetrized observables when deriving the inequality. This new expression can be written in a form where we identify a term which explicitly shows the quantum correlations among the particles that constitute the system. For the particular cases of two and three particles, making use of the Schwarz inequality, we obtain new lower bounds for the UR that are different from the standard one.展开更多
基金Project(51678075)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(2017GK2271)supported by the Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Department,China。
文摘Human-object interaction(HOIs)detection is a new branch of visual relationship detection,which plays an important role in the field of image understanding.Because of the complexity and diversity of image content,the detection of HOIs is still an onerous challenge.Unlike most of the current works for HOIs detection which only rely on the pairwise information of a human and an object,we propose a graph-based HOIs detection method that models context and global structure information.Firstly,to better utilize the relations between humans and objects,the detected humans and objects are regarded as nodes to construct a fully connected undirected graph,and the graph is pruned to obtain an HOI graph that only preserving the edges connecting human and object nodes.Then,in order to obtain more robust features of human and object nodes,two different attention-based feature extraction networks are proposed,which model global and local contexts respectively.Finally,the graph attention network is introduced to pass messages between different nodes in the HOI graph iteratively,and detect the potential HOIs.Experiments on V-COCO and HICO-DET datasets verify the effectiveness of the proposed method,and show that it is superior to many existing methods.
文摘Bent Flyvbjerg＇s research reveals a context dependent asymmetrical relationship between rationality and power, causing the so-called illegitimate rationalization to affect the decision-making process. This paper explores the nature of relationship between rationality and power by following Russell＇s philosophy and logic. The paper demonstrates how a symmetrical relationship may be transformed into an asymmetrical relation. Any study suggesting asymmetrical relationship between rationality and power may not be able to explain the relational dynamics of the two terms, By questioning the rationality-power asymmetrical relationship, the paper stresses the need to define the degree of asymmetry between rationality and power. The paper suggests a need for better interpretation and relational understanding of rationality-power relations for effective decision-making.
基金National Science Foundation Project of P.R.China，China Postdoctoral Science Foundation，the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
文摘For lack of effective resource adjustment method, the supply-demand relationship of each resource in P2P content delivery system are often unbalanced. Especially after a popular content releasing, a burst of downloaders often can＇t find sufficient uploaders and their request may starve the upload capacity of server. Therefore the overall system QoS may be degraded. To tackle such issue, this paper proposes a download rate accelerate mechanism, called motivate mechanism. With it, the system can quickly find out the files becoming insufficient by monitoring the operating status of the files hourly, Then it promptly increase the number of copies of those files by using free rider nodes so that the whole system QoS is maintained and the system performance is improved. The experiment results on the practical operating system of Tencent demonstrated that the proposed mechanism increases the download rate, saves the traffic on the server and optimizes the system performance.
文摘Objective： The aim of this study is to establish the methods of four facio-cervical fields＇ conformal radiotherapy （4F-CRT） for nasopharyngeal carcinoma （NPC）, and to optimize the methods for clinical practice. Methods and Materials： 40 patients with untreated NPC of T1-T4 （1997AJCC Staging System） were rolled into this study. Conventional and four ratio-cervical fields conform plans were designed for each patient using Pinnacle 8.0 three-dimension treatment planning system （3D-TPS）： 1） Improved plan, four ratio-cervical fields＇conform plans, anterior, posterior ratio-cervical and 2 lateral opposing facio-eervical fields; 2） Conventional plan, two lateral opposing facio-cervical fields only with the same dose delivered to the target in each plan, close volume histograms （DVHs） of the targets and normal organs, brain stem, spinal cord, parotid glands, and temporal mandibular joints （TMJs） were compared and the dose distribution were evaluated. Results： 1） The dose distribution of the improved plan could meet the requirements for the target volume. 2） There was not any significant difference in the dose of spinal cord between the two plans. The mean doses of Dmax for brain stem in conventional plan were much lower than those in the improved plan, though both were within safety limits. 3） Compared with the conventional plans, the improved plan significantly decreased the hotspot areas in the target volume and had better parotid glands and temporal mandibular joints sparing effect. Conclusion： Compared with the conventional plan, the improved plan provides satisfactory dose coverage to the tumor volume and better sparing of the parotid gland, TMJs and other normal tissues in external beam radiotherapy of NPC.
文摘In this paper, a numerical modeling tool is described which can be used to explore various aspects of four dimensional variational data assimilation and parameter estimation arising in geophysical, environmental, biological and engineering sciences. A major component of this tool is a coupled chaotic dynamical system obtained by coupling two versions of the well-known Lorenz （1963） model with different time scales which differ by a certain time-scale factor. A tangent linear model and its adjoint are considered that correspond to a coupled chaotic system. The general idea of applying sensitivity measures （sensitivity functions） to coupled systems, emphasizing the data assimilation aspects, is explored as well by the forward sensitivity approach. For this purpose the set of sensitivity equations is derived from the nonlinear equations of the coupled dynamical system. To estimate the influence of model parameter uncertainties on the simulated state variables the relative error in the energy norm is used.
基金Supported by National Natlural Science Foundation of China
文摘A mistake in Proposition I-1.21.1 of 'A Compendium of Continuous Lattices'by G.Giers et al. is pointed out and a revised proposition with a proof is given.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41991230)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFA0604701)+1 种基金Prajal Pradhan acknowledges funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for the BIOCLIMAPATHS project(01LS1906A)under the Axis-ERANET callreviewed by Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China(GS(2021)8701)。
文摘Understanding the interactions(synergies and trade-offs)among the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs)is crucial for enhancing policy coherence between different sectors.However,spatial differences in the SDG interactions and their temporal variations at the sub-national scale are still critical gaps that need to be urgently filled.Here,we assess the spatial and temporal variation of the SDG interactions in China based on the systematic classification framework of SDGs.The framework groups the seventeen SDGs into three categories,namely“Essential Needs”“Objectives”,and“Governance”.Spatially,we found that the SDGs in“Essential Needs”&“Objectives”and“Essential Needs”&“Governance”generally show trade-offs in the eastern provinces of China.Synergies among all three SDG categories are observed in some central and western China provinces,which implies that these regions conform to sustainable development patterns.In addition,temporally,the synergies of the three SDG categories have shown a weakening trend in the last decade,mainly due to the regional differences in the progress of SDG7(Affordable and Clean Energy).Overall,our results identify the necessity for provinces to enhance the synergies between SDG12(Responsible Production and Consumption)and other SDGs to tackle the trade-offs between the“Essential Needs”and“Objectives”.Meanwhile,promoting the progress of SDG7 will also contribute to balanced development across provinces.
基金supported by Fundacao de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo(FAPESP)
文摘A new uncertainty relation(UR) is obtained for a system of N identical pure entangled particles if we use symmetrized observables when deriving the inequality. This new expression can be written in a form where we identify a term which explicitly shows the quantum correlations among the particles that constitute the system. For the particular cases of two and three particles, making use of the Schwarz inequality, we obtain new lower bounds for the UR that are different from the standard one.
