The present research reports a comparative study on the use of "really" by Chinese EFL learners. Taking the perspectives colligation and collocation, the study mainly yields the following findings: (1) Compared w...The present research reports a comparative study on the use of "really" by Chinese EFL learners. Taking the perspectives colligation and collocation, the study mainly yields the following findings: (1) Compared with American native speakers, Chinese EFL learners have different preferences for colligations and collocations of "really"; (2) High achievers and low achievers demonstrate a similar pattern of the ranking order of the colligations, but high achievers are closer to the native speakers in the use of "really" in terms of collocation; low achievers rely more heavily on "very" to collocate with adjectives than high achievers.展开更多
Lie group method provides an efficient tool to solve nonlinear partial differential equations. This paper suggests Lie group method for fractional partial differential equations. A time-fractional Burgers equation is ...Lie group method provides an efficient tool to solve nonlinear partial differential equations. This paper suggests Lie group method for fractional partial differential equations. A time-fractional Burgers equation is used as an example to illustrate the effectiveness of the Lie group method and some classes of exact solutions are obtained.展开更多
OBJECTIVE To analyze the therapeutic effects and side effects of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) with different fractionated doses in treating astrocytoma.METHODS During a period from October 2001 to Decemb...OBJECTIVE To analyze the therapeutic effects and side effects of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) with different fractionated doses in treating astrocytoma.METHODS During a period from October 2001 to December 2006, 58 patients with astrocytoma were treated using IMRT. Based on the World Health Organization (WHO) classification, 32 of the 58 cases were grade-Ⅱ, 20 grade-Ⅲ and 6 grade-IV (glioblastoma multiforme, GBM). Thirty-two of the 58 patients (3 with grade IV, 11 with grade Ⅲ, and the other 18 with grade II who were over 40 years) were treated with hyperfractionated IMRT (Hyper Fr IMRT), and the other 26 patients were treated with standard fractionated IMRT (St Fr IMRT).RESULTS The 1-, 3- and 5-year overall survival (OS) rates were respectively 86%, 52%, and 45%, and the 1-, 3- and 5-year progression-free survival (PFS) rates were respectively 77%, 38%, and 25%. Using an analytical hierarchy process it was shown that concerning the patients with grade II astrocytoma classified based on WHO grading, the therapeutic effect was much better in the group of Hyper Fr IMRT than in the St Fr IMRT group. There was no statistical significance of the differences in the OS and PFS rates between the 2 groups (P = 0.049 and P = 0.006). The OS and PFS rates of the patients with grade-III astrocytoma were both higher in the group with Hyper Fr IMRT than in the St Fr IMRT group. However, there was no statistical significance of the differences between the 2 groups. Advanced RTOG grade-Ⅲ(radiation therapy oncology group, RTOG) neurotoxicity occurred only in 1 of the cases.CONCLUSION Compared with the St Fr IMRT, the Hyper Fr IMRT may help to prolong the survival of patients with astrocytoma.展开更多
Traditional packet classification for IPv4 involves examining standard 5-tuple of a packet header, source address, destination address, source port, destination port and protocol. With introduction of IPv6 flow label ...Traditional packet classification for IPv4 involves examining standard 5-tuple of a packet header, source address, destination address, source port, destination port and protocol. With introduction of IPv6 flow label field which entails labeling the packets belonging to the same flow, packet classification can be resolved based on 3 dimensions: flow label, source address and desti- nation address. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for the 3-tuple packet classification based on flow label. Besides, by introducing a conversion engine to covert the source-destination pairs to the compound address prefixes, we put forward an algorithm called Reducing Dimension (RD) with dimension reduction capability, which combines heuristic tree search with usage of buck- ets. And we also provide an improved version of RD, called Improved RD (IRD), which uses two mechanisms: path compression and priority tag, to optimize the perforrmnce. To evaluate our algo- rithm, extensive experiraents have been conducted using a number of synthetically generated databas- es. For the memory consumption, the two pro- posed new algorithms only consumes around 3% of the existing algorithms when the number of ill- ters increases to 10 k. And for the average search time, the search time of the two proposed algo- rithms is more than four times faster than others when the number of filters is 10 k. The results show that the proposed algorithm works well and outperforms rmny typical existing algorithms with the dimension reduction capability.展开更多
Optimal clustering for the web documents is known to complicated cornbinatorial Optimization problem and it is hard to develop a generally applicable oplimal algorithm. An accelerated simuIated arlneaIing aIgorithm is...Optimal clustering for the web documents is known to complicated cornbinatorial Optimization problem and it is hard to develop a generally applicable oplimal algorithm. An accelerated simuIated arlneaIing aIgorithm is developed for automatic web document classification. The web document classification problem is addressed as the problem of best describing a match between a web query and a hypothesized web object. The normalized term frequency and inverse document frequency coefficient is used as a measure of the match. Test beds are generated on - line during the search by transforming model web sites. As a result, web sites can be clustered optimally in terms of keyword vectofs of corresponding web documents.展开更多
Accounting concepts dictate that separately disclosed components should contain separate useful information. This paper examines the relations between income statement components and analysts' earnings forecasts and ...Accounting concepts dictate that separately disclosed components should contain separate useful information. This paper examines the relations between income statement components and analysts' earnings forecasts and forecast errors. Regressions explaining earnings forecasts using earnings components provide a better fit than regression using just aggregate income to explain forecasts. We interpret this as consistent with the hypothesis that analysts use incremental information in components not available in aggregate income. However, additional tests based on predictability of forecast errors indicate that analysts do not incorporate all information available in components into earnings forecasts. In addition, this inefficiency appears to increase at longer forecast horizons.展开更多
The authors investigate the comparative classification performance of the two groups linear classification techniques. They compared the Fisher linear classification analysis, its robust version based on the minimum c...The authors investigate the comparative classification performance of the two groups linear classification techniques. They compared the Fisher linear classification analysis, its robust version based on the minimum covariance determinant with the Filter linear classification rule and the linear combination linear classification technique. These procedures are investigated using laboratory reared aedes albopictus mosquito data set and simulated data set generated based on heteroscedastic covariance matrices with various proportion of contamination. The evaluation procedure is based on the effect of contamination on the mean probabilities of correct classification obtain for each technique. The comparative analysis revealed that the robust Fisher linear classification rule and the linear combination linear classification rule are robust and comparable than the other procedures.展开更多
This paper briefly summarizes the history of wetland research, the evolvement of wetland science, and their impacts on the understanding of wetland biodiversity in China. A marsh is the key type and basic component of...This paper briefly summarizes the history of wetland research, the evolvement of wetland science, and their impacts on the understanding of wetland biodiversity in China. A marsh is the key type and basic component of a wetland. Defining the marsh and wetland plants is the basis for understanding the wetland and its biodiversity. The comprehensive multiple factorial classification principles and the multiple developmental models of the wetland are two innovative feats achieved by Chinese scientists, and their application has further promoted ecological research. The CAS Wetland Research Center has made historic contributions to the study of the wetland and its biodiversity in China. Also, the paper discusses several important tasks of wetland and biodiversity research.展开更多
In this paper, groups of order p^n in which the number of subgroups of possible order is less than or equal to p3 ale classified. It turns out that if p 〉 2, n≥ 5, then the classification of groups of order p^n in w...In this paper, groups of order p^n in which the number of subgroups of possible order is less than or equal to p3 ale classified. It turns out that if p 〉 2, n≥ 5, then the classification of groups of order p^n in which the number of subgroups of possible order is less than or equal to p3 and the classification of groups of order p^n with a cyclic subgroup of index p2 are the same.展开更多
Gastric cancer imposes a considerable health burden worldwide, and its mortality ranks as the second highest for all types of cancers. The limited knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying gastric cancer tumori...Gastric cancer imposes a considerable health burden worldwide, and its mortality ranks as the second highest for all types of cancers. The limited knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying gastric cancer tumorigenesis hinders the development of therapeutic strategies. However, ongoing collaborative sequencing efforts facilitate molecular classification and unveil the genomic landscape of gastric cancer. Several new drivers and tumorigenic pathways in gastric cancer, including chromatin remodeling genes, Rho A-related pathways, TP53 dysregulation, activation of receptor tyrosine kinases, stem cell pathways and abnormal DNA methylation, have been revealed. These newly identified genomic alterations await translation into clinical diagnosis and targeted therapies. Considering that loss-of-function mutations are intractable, synthetic lethality could be employed when discussing feasible therapeutic strategies. Although many challenges remain to be tackled, we are optimistic regarding improvements in the prognosis and treatment of gastric cancer in the near future.展开更多
Nanopores have been studied as a unique DNA sequencing technology that can quickly read long stretched DNA sequences. A DNA molecule could pass through a nanopore in a speed of microsecond per base and even faster. Wi...Nanopores have been studied as a unique DNA sequencing technology that can quickly read long stretched DNA sequences. A DNA molecule could pass through a nanopore in a speed of microsecond per base and even faster. With this speed, a human genome can potentially be sequenced by one nanopore in 〈1 h. In contrast to next- generation DNA sequencing (NGS), the nanopore sequencing is enzyme free without need of sample amplification due to its single-molecule nature. The nanopore sequencing has been envisioned as a new generation of DNA sequencing technology in the post-NGS era. This progress focuses on status quo of the nanopore DNA sequencing and discusses the opportunities and challenges in this rapidly growing field.展开更多
This paper uses an extensive network approach to "East Turkistan" activities by building both the one-mode and the bipartite networks for these activities.In the one-mode network,centrality analysis and spec...This paper uses an extensive network approach to "East Turkistan" activities by building both the one-mode and the bipartite networks for these activities.In the one-mode network,centrality analysis and spectrum analysis are used to describe the importance of each vertex.On this basis,two types of core vertices——The center of communities and the intermediary vertices among communities— are distinguished.The weighted extreme optimization(WEO) algorithm is also applied to detect communities in the one-mode network.In the "terrorist-terrorist organization" bipartite network,the authors adopt centrality analysis as well as clustering analysis based on the original bipartite network in order to calculate the importance of each vertex,and apply the edge clustering coefficient algorithm to detect the communities.The comparative and empirical analysis indicates that this research has been proved to be an effective way to identify the core members,key organizations,and communities in the network of "East Turkistan" terrorist activity.The results can provide a scientific basis for the analysis of "East Turkistan" terrorist activity,and thus provide decision support for the real work of "anti-terrorism".展开更多
文摘The present research reports a comparative study on the use of "really" by Chinese EFL learners. Taking the perspectives colligation and collocation, the study mainly yields the following findings: (1) Compared with American native speakers, Chinese EFL learners have different preferences for colligations and collocations of "really"; (2) High achievers and low achievers demonstrate a similar pattern of the ranking order of the colligations, but high achievers are closer to the native speakers in the use of "really" in terms of collocation; low achievers rely more heavily on "very" to collocate with adjectives than high achievers.
文摘Lie group method provides an efficient tool to solve nonlinear partial differential equations. This paper suggests Lie group method for fractional partial differential equations. A time-fractional Burgers equation is used as an example to illustrate the effectiveness of the Lie group method and some classes of exact solutions are obtained.
文摘OBJECTIVE To analyze the therapeutic effects and side effects of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) with different fractionated doses in treating astrocytoma.METHODS During a period from October 2001 to December 2006, 58 patients with astrocytoma were treated using IMRT. Based on the World Health Organization (WHO) classification, 32 of the 58 cases were grade-Ⅱ, 20 grade-Ⅲ and 6 grade-IV (glioblastoma multiforme, GBM). Thirty-two of the 58 patients (3 with grade IV, 11 with grade Ⅲ, and the other 18 with grade II who were over 40 years) were treated with hyperfractionated IMRT (Hyper Fr IMRT), and the other 26 patients were treated with standard fractionated IMRT (St Fr IMRT).RESULTS The 1-, 3- and 5-year overall survival (OS) rates were respectively 86%, 52%, and 45%, and the 1-, 3- and 5-year progression-free survival (PFS) rates were respectively 77%, 38%, and 25%. Using an analytical hierarchy process it was shown that concerning the patients with grade II astrocytoma classified based on WHO grading, the therapeutic effect was much better in the group of Hyper Fr IMRT than in the St Fr IMRT group. There was no statistical significance of the differences in the OS and PFS rates between the 2 groups (P = 0.049 and P = 0.006). The OS and PFS rates of the patients with grade-III astrocytoma were both higher in the group with Hyper Fr IMRT than in the St Fr IMRT group. However, there was no statistical significance of the differences between the 2 groups. Advanced RTOG grade-Ⅲ(radiation therapy oncology group, RTOG) neurotoxicity occurred only in 1 of the cases.CONCLUSION Compared with the St Fr IMRT, the Hyper Fr IMRT may help to prolong the survival of patients with astrocytoma.
基金This paper was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Crant No. 61003282 the Funda- mental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Crant No. 2011RCI)508+1 种基金 National Basic Research Program of China under Crant No. 2009CB320505 National High Technol-ogy Research and Development Program of China under Oant No. 2011AA010704.
文摘Traditional packet classification for IPv4 involves examining standard 5-tuple of a packet header, source address, destination address, source port, destination port and protocol. With introduction of IPv6 flow label field which entails labeling the packets belonging to the same flow, packet classification can be resolved based on 3 dimensions: flow label, source address and desti- nation address. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for the 3-tuple packet classification based on flow label. Besides, by introducing a conversion engine to covert the source-destination pairs to the compound address prefixes, we put forward an algorithm called Reducing Dimension (RD) with dimension reduction capability, which combines heuristic tree search with usage of buck- ets. And we also provide an improved version of RD, called Improved RD (IRD), which uses two mechanisms: path compression and priority tag, to optimize the perforrmnce. To evaluate our algo- rithm, extensive experiraents have been conducted using a number of synthetically generated databas- es. For the memory consumption, the two pro- posed new algorithms only consumes around 3% of the existing algorithms when the number of ill- ters increases to 10 k. And for the average search time, the search time of the two proposed algo- rithms is more than four times faster than others when the number of filters is 10 k. The results show that the proposed algorithm works well and outperforms rmny typical existing algorithms with the dimension reduction capability.
文摘Optimal clustering for the web documents is known to complicated cornbinatorial Optimization problem and it is hard to develop a generally applicable oplimal algorithm. An accelerated simuIated arlneaIing aIgorithm is developed for automatic web document classification. The web document classification problem is addressed as the problem of best describing a match between a web query and a hypothesized web object. The normalized term frequency and inverse document frequency coefficient is used as a measure of the match. Test beds are generated on - line during the search by transforming model web sites. As a result, web sites can be clustered optimally in terms of keyword vectofs of corresponding web documents.
文摘Accounting concepts dictate that separately disclosed components should contain separate useful information. This paper examines the relations between income statement components and analysts' earnings forecasts and forecast errors. Regressions explaining earnings forecasts using earnings components provide a better fit than regression using just aggregate income to explain forecasts. We interpret this as consistent with the hypothesis that analysts use incremental information in components not available in aggregate income. However, additional tests based on predictability of forecast errors indicate that analysts do not incorporate all information available in components into earnings forecasts. In addition, this inefficiency appears to increase at longer forecast horizons.
文摘The authors investigate the comparative classification performance of the two groups linear classification techniques. They compared the Fisher linear classification analysis, its robust version based on the minimum covariance determinant with the Filter linear classification rule and the linear combination linear classification technique. These procedures are investigated using laboratory reared aedes albopictus mosquito data set and simulated data set generated based on heteroscedastic covariance matrices with various proportion of contamination. The evaluation procedure is based on the effect of contamination on the mean probabilities of correct classification obtain for each technique. The comparative analysis revealed that the robust Fisher linear classification rule and the linear combination linear classification rule are robust and comparable than the other procedures.
文摘This paper briefly summarizes the history of wetland research, the evolvement of wetland science, and their impacts on the understanding of wetland biodiversity in China. A marsh is the key type and basic component of a wetland. Defining the marsh and wetland plants is the basis for understanding the wetland and its biodiversity. The comprehensive multiple factorial classification principles and the multiple developmental models of the wetland are two innovative feats achieved by Chinese scientists, and their application has further promoted ecological research. The CAS Wetland Research Center has made historic contributions to the study of the wetland and its biodiversity in China. Also, the paper discusses several important tasks of wetland and biodiversity research.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.10671114)the ShanxiProvincial Natural Science Foundation of China(No.2008012001)the Returned Abroad-StudentFund of Shanxi Province(No.[2007]13-56)
文摘In this paper, groups of order p^n in which the number of subgroups of possible order is less than or equal to p3 ale classified. It turns out that if p 〉 2, n≥ 5, then the classification of groups of order p^n in which the number of subgroups of possible order is less than or equal to p3 and the classification of groups of order p^n with a cyclic subgroup of index p2 are the same.
基金supported by the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (16ZR1410400, 14DZ2270100)the State Scholarship Council (201506145040)
文摘Gastric cancer imposes a considerable health burden worldwide, and its mortality ranks as the second highest for all types of cancers. The limited knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying gastric cancer tumorigenesis hinders the development of therapeutic strategies. However, ongoing collaborative sequencing efforts facilitate molecular classification and unveil the genomic landscape of gastric cancer. Several new drivers and tumorigenic pathways in gastric cancer, including chromatin remodeling genes, Rho A-related pathways, TP53 dysregulation, activation of receptor tyrosine kinases, stem cell pathways and abnormal DNA methylation, have been revealed. These newly identified genomic alterations await translation into clinical diagnosis and targeted therapies. Considering that loss-of-function mutations are intractable, synthetic lethality could be employed when discussing feasible therapeutic strategies. Although many challenges remain to be tackled, we are optimistic regarding improvements in the prognosis and treatment of gastric cancer in the near future.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21372183)the Hubei Province Natural Science Foundation (2013CFB328)+1 种基金the Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Wuhan University), Ministry of Education (ACBM2014001)the Start-Up-Fund grant provided by Wuhan University of Science and Technology
文摘Nanopores have been studied as a unique DNA sequencing technology that can quickly read long stretched DNA sequences. A DNA molecule could pass through a nanopore in a speed of microsecond per base and even faster. With this speed, a human genome can potentially be sequenced by one nanopore in 〈1 h. In contrast to next- generation DNA sequencing (NGS), the nanopore sequencing is enzyme free without need of sample amplification due to its single-molecule nature. The nanopore sequencing has been envisioned as a new generation of DNA sequencing technology in the post-NGS era. This progress focuses on status quo of the nanopore DNA sequencing and discusses the opportunities and challenges in this rapidly growing field.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants Nos.70771011 and 61174150the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of Ministry of Education of China under Grant No.NCET-09-0228+1 种基金Ph.D.Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China under Grant No.20110003110027the China Scholarship Council(CSC)
文摘This paper uses an extensive network approach to "East Turkistan" activities by building both the one-mode and the bipartite networks for these activities.In the one-mode network,centrality analysis and spectrum analysis are used to describe the importance of each vertex.On this basis,two types of core vertices——The center of communities and the intermediary vertices among communities— are distinguished.The weighted extreme optimization(WEO) algorithm is also applied to detect communities in the one-mode network.In the "terrorist-terrorist organization" bipartite network,the authors adopt centrality analysis as well as clustering analysis based on the original bipartite network in order to calculate the importance of each vertex,and apply the edge clustering coefficient algorithm to detect the communities.The comparative and empirical analysis indicates that this research has been proved to be an effective way to identify the core members,key organizations,and communities in the network of "East Turkistan" terrorist activity.The results can provide a scientific basis for the analysis of "East Turkistan" terrorist activity,and thus provide decision support for the real work of "anti-terrorism".