With the clinical development and application of intracytoplasmic sperm injection(ICSI)technology in human assisted reproduction,the influence of oocyte quality on embryo development has been paid more and more attent...With the clinical development and application of intracytoplasmic sperm injection(ICSI)technology in human assisted reproduction,the influence of oocyte quality on embryo development has been paid more and more attention.So far,there have been many reports on oocyte morphology affecting embryo development.It has been found in some works that the appearance of smooth endoplasmic reticulum clusters(SERC)in oocytes may affect the fertilization and embryo development of oocytes.However,with the increasing reports of SERC-containing oocytes obtained by in vitro fertilization and healthy offspring in recent years,there is still some controversy on whether to continue to use SERC-containing oocytes for the following assisted reproductive therapy in clinical practice.Based on this,this review aims to review the research progress of SERC in oocytes in recent years.展开更多
由于跟踪过程目标不规则形变的影响,采用固定纵横比的尺度模型无法精确地估计目标的尺度.为解决该问题,本文提出基于纵横比自适应的相关滤波跟踪算法.基于fDSST(fast Discriminative Scale Space Tracking)算法,训练学习纵横比模型,更...由于跟踪过程目标不规则形变的影响,采用固定纵横比的尺度模型无法精确地估计目标的尺度.为解决该问题,本文提出基于纵横比自适应的相关滤波跟踪算法.基于fDSST(fast Discriminative Scale Space Tracking)算法,训练学习纵横比模型,更新目标的纵横比,获取更精确的目标尺度.在此基础上,本文设计了平滑修正方案以及学习率自适应机制,可以有效地缓解因目标出现遮挡导致的模型漂移问题.在OTB100、VOT2016和VOT2018数据集上与其他跟踪算法进行对比实验,结果表明本文算法改善了基准算法的性能,特别是在OTB100上的总体准确率和成功率比fDSST提高了9.6%和6.2%.展开更多
Surface defects introduced by conventional mechanical processing methods can induce irreversible damage and reduce the service life of optics applied in high-power lasers.Compared to mechanical processing,laser polish...Surface defects introduced by conventional mechanical processing methods can induce irreversible damage and reduce the service life of optics applied in high-power lasers.Compared to mechanical processing,laser polishing with moving beam spot is a noncontact processing method,which is able to form a defect-free surface.This work aims to explore the mechanism of forming a smooth,defect-free fused silica surface by high-power density laser polishing with coupled multiple beams.The underlying mechanisms of laser polishing was revealed by numerical simulations and the theoretical results were verified by experiments.The simulated polishing depth and machined surface morphology were in close agreement with the experimental results.To obtain the optimized polishing quality,the effects of laser polishing parameters(e.g.overlap rate,pulse width and polishing times)on the polishing quality were experimentally investigated.It was found that the processing efficiency of fused silica materials by carbon dioxide(CO2)laser polishing could reach 8.68 mm2 s−1,and the surface roughness(Ra)was better than 25 nm.Besides,the cracks on pristine fused silica surfaces introduced by initial grinding process were completely removed by laser polishing to achieve a defect-free surface.The maximum laser polishing rate can reach 3.88μm s−1,much higher than that of the traditional mechanical polishing methods.The rapid CO2 laser polishing can effectively achieve smooth,defect-free surface,which is of great significance to improve the surface quality of fused silica optics applied in high-power laser facilities.展开更多
This paper concerns the A smooth regularization method for linear ill posed equations in the presence of perturbed operators and noisy data. The semi and full a posteriori Morozov discrepancy principles for...This paper concerns the A smooth regularization method for linear ill posed equations in the presence of perturbed operators and noisy data. The semi and full a posteriori Morozov discrepancy principles for choosing the regularization parameter are proposed, which lead to satisfactory results.展开更多
In this paper,we introduce the Bézier variant of two new families of generalized Bernstein type operators.We establish a direct approximation by means of the Ditzian-Totik modulus of smoothness and a global appro...In this paper,we introduce the Bézier variant of two new families of generalized Bernstein type operators.We establish a direct approximation by means of the Ditzian-Totik modulus of smoothness and a global approximation theorem in terms of second order modulus of continuity.By means of construction of suitable functions and the method of Bojanic and Cheng,we give the rate of convergence for absolutely continuous functions having a derivative equivalent to a bounded variation function.展开更多
Transmission of variable bit rate (VBR) video, because of the burstiness of VBR video traffic, has high fluctuation in bandwidth requirement. Traffic smoothing algorithm is very efficient in reducing burstiness of the...Transmission of variable bit rate (VBR) video, because of the burstiness of VBR video traffic, has high fluctuation in bandwidth requirement. Traffic smoothing algorithm is very efficient in reducing burstiness of the VBR video stream by trans- mitting data in a series of fixed rates. We propose in this paper a novel segment-based bandwidth allocation algorithm which dynamically adjusts the segmentation boundary and changes the transmission rate at the latest possible point so that the video segment will be extended as long as possible and the number of rate changes can be as small as possible while keeping the peak rate low. Simulation results showed that our approach has small bandwidth requirement, high bandwidth utilization and low computation cost.展开更多
Background: Breast cancer is the most common female cancer in Pakistan. The incidence of breast cancer in Pakistan is about 2.5 times higher than that in the neighboring countries India and Iran. In Karachi, the most...Background: Breast cancer is the most common female cancer in Pakistan. The incidence of breast cancer in Pakistan is about 2.5 times higher than that in the neighboring countries India and Iran. In Karachi, the most populated city of Pakistan, the age-standardized rate of breast cancer was 69.1 per 100,000 women during 1998-2002, which is the highest recorded rate in Asia. The carcinoma of breast in Pakistan is an enormous public health concern. In this study, we examined the recent trends of breast cancer incidence rates among the women in Karachi. Methods: We obtained the secondary data of breast cancer incidence from various hospitals. They included Jinnah Hospital, KIRAN (Karachi Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine), and Civil hospital, where the data were available for the years 2004-2011. A total of 5331 new cases of female breast cancer were registered during this period. We analyzed the data in 5-year age groups 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75+. Nonparametric smoothing were used to obtained age-specific incidence curves, and then the curves are decomposed using principal components analysis to fit FTS (functional time series) model. We then used exponential smoothing statspace models to estimate the forecasts of incidence curve and construct prediction intervals. Results: The breast cancer incidence rates in Karachi increased with age for all available years. The rates increased monotonically and are relatively sharp with the age from 15 years to 50 years and then they show variability after the age of 50 years. 10-year forecasts for the female breast cancer incidence rates in Karachi show that the future rates are expected to remain stable for the age-groups 15-50 years, but they will increase for the females of 50-years and over. Hence in future, the newly diagnosed breast cancer cases in the older women in Karachi are expected to increase. Conclusion: Prediction of age related changes in breast cancer incidence rates will provide useful information for controlling the overall burden of cancer in Pakistan and also serve as a resource for health planning in future research. Moreover, these models will be the most useful for modeling and projecting future trends of other cancers and chronic diseases.展开更多
A new rate allocation method for fine-granular scalability (FGS) coded bitstreams is presented in order to achieve smooth quality reconstruction of frames under channel conditions with a wide range of bandwidth variat...A new rate allocation method for fine-granular scalability (FGS) coded bitstreams is presented in order to achieve smooth quality reconstruction of frames under channel conditions with a wide range of bandwidth variation and improve the average PSNR of the whole sequence. Based on a quality weighted bit allocation method, a sliding window rate allocation method is proposed for the first time so that the window can slide along the video sequence with a certain sliding step. Experimental results show that, under dynamic bandwidth conditions, the proposed method can simultaneously satisfy the requirements for improving average PSNR of the whole video sequence greatly and reducing the fluctuations between adjacent frames greatly.展开更多
We develop higher order accurate estimators of integrated volatility in a stochastic volatility models by using kernel smoothing method and using different weights to kernels. The weights have some relationship to mom...We develop higher order accurate estimators of integrated volatility in a stochastic volatility models by using kernel smoothing method and using different weights to kernels. The weights have some relationship to moment problem. As the bandwidth of the kernel vanishes, an estimator of the instantaneous stochastic volatility is obtained. We also develop some new estimators based on smoothing splines.展开更多
Two kinds of methods for determining seismic parameters are presented, that is, the potential seismic source zoning method and grid-spatially smoothing method. The Gaussian smoothing method and the modified Gaussian s...Two kinds of methods for determining seismic parameters are presented, that is, the potential seismic source zoning method and grid-spatially smoothing method. The Gaussian smoothing method and the modified Gaussian smoothing method are described in detail, and a comprehensive analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of these methods is made. Then, we take centrai China as the study region, and use the Gaussian smoothing method and potential seismic source zoning method to build seismic models to calculate the mean annual seismic rate. Seismic hazard is calculated using the probabilistic seismic hazard analysis method to construct the ground motion acceleration zoning maps. The differences between the maps and these models are discussed and the causes are investigated. The results show that the spatial smoothing method is suitable for estimating the seismic hazard over the moderate and low seismicity regions or the hazard caused by background seismicity; while the potential seismic source zoning method is suitable for estimating the seismic hazard in well-defined seismotectonics. Combining the spatial smoothing method and the potential seismic source zoning method with an integrated account of the seismicity and known seismotectonics is a feasible approach to estimate the seismic hazard in moderate and low seismicity regions.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.82072880,81960283)Science and Technology Project of Hainan Province (No.LCYX202102)Key Science and Technology Project of Hainan Province (No.ZDKJ2017007)。
文摘With the clinical development and application of intracytoplasmic sperm injection(ICSI)technology in human assisted reproduction,the influence of oocyte quality on embryo development has been paid more and more attention.So far,there have been many reports on oocyte morphology affecting embryo development.It has been found in some works that the appearance of smooth endoplasmic reticulum clusters(SERC)in oocytes may affect the fertilization and embryo development of oocytes.However,with the increasing reports of SERC-containing oocytes obtained by in vitro fertilization and healthy offspring in recent years,there is still some controversy on whether to continue to use SERC-containing oocytes for the following assisted reproductive therapy in clinical practice.Based on this,this review aims to review the research progress of SERC in oocytes in recent years.
文摘由于跟踪过程目标不规则形变的影响,采用固定纵横比的尺度模型无法精确地估计目标的尺度.为解决该问题,本文提出基于纵横比自适应的相关滤波跟踪算法.基于fDSST(fast Discriminative Scale Space Tracking)算法,训练学习纵横比模型,更新目标的纵横比,获取更精确的目标尺度.在此基础上,本文设计了平滑修正方案以及学习率自适应机制,可以有效地缓解因目标出现遮挡导致的模型漂移问题.在OTB100、VOT2016和VOT2018数据集上与其他跟踪算法进行对比实验,结果表明本文算法改善了基准算法的性能,特别是在OTB100上的总体准确率和成功率比fDSST提高了9.6%和6.2%.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51775147,51705105)Science Challenge Project(Grant No.TZ2016006-0503-01)+3 种基金Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST(Grant No.2018QNRC001)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project(Grant Nos.2018T110288,2017M621260)Self-Planned Task(Grant Nos.SKLRS201718A,SKLRS201803B)of State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System(HIT)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.HIT.NSRIF.2019053).
文摘Surface defects introduced by conventional mechanical processing methods can induce irreversible damage and reduce the service life of optics applied in high-power lasers.Compared to mechanical processing,laser polishing with moving beam spot is a noncontact processing method,which is able to form a defect-free surface.This work aims to explore the mechanism of forming a smooth,defect-free fused silica surface by high-power density laser polishing with coupled multiple beams.The underlying mechanisms of laser polishing was revealed by numerical simulations and the theoretical results were verified by experiments.The simulated polishing depth and machined surface morphology were in close agreement with the experimental results.To obtain the optimized polishing quality,the effects of laser polishing parameters(e.g.overlap rate,pulse width and polishing times)on the polishing quality were experimentally investigated.It was found that the processing efficiency of fused silica materials by carbon dioxide(CO2)laser polishing could reach 8.68 mm2 s−1,and the surface roughness(Ra)was better than 25 nm.Besides,the cracks on pristine fused silica surfaces introduced by initial grinding process were completely removed by laser polishing to achieve a defect-free surface.The maximum laser polishing rate can reach 3.88μm s−1,much higher than that of the traditional mechanical polishing methods.The rapid CO2 laser polishing can effectively achieve smooth,defect-free surface,which is of great significance to improve the surface quality of fused silica optics applied in high-power laser facilities.
文摘This paper concerns the A smooth regularization method for linear ill posed equations in the presence of perturbed operators and noisy data. The semi and full a posteriori Morozov discrepancy principles for choosing the regularization parameter are proposed, which lead to satisfactory results.
基金This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11601266)the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China(2016J05017)the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Fujian Province University and the Program for Outstanding Youth Scientific Research Talents in Fujian Province University.
文摘In this paper,we introduce the Bézier variant of two new families of generalized Bernstein type operators.We establish a direct approximation by means of the Ditzian-Totik modulus of smoothness and a global approximation theorem in terms of second order modulus of continuity.By means of construction of suitable functions and the method of Bojanic and Cheng,we give the rate of convergence for absolutely continuous functions having a derivative equivalent to a bounded variation function.
基金Project supported by the Hi-Tech Research and Development Pro-gram (863) of China (No. 2003AA103810) and the National NaturalScience Foundation of China (No. 60332030)
文摘Transmission of variable bit rate (VBR) video, because of the burstiness of VBR video traffic, has high fluctuation in bandwidth requirement. Traffic smoothing algorithm is very efficient in reducing burstiness of the VBR video stream by trans- mitting data in a series of fixed rates. We propose in this paper a novel segment-based bandwidth allocation algorithm which dynamically adjusts the segmentation boundary and changes the transmission rate at the latest possible point so that the video segment will be extended as long as possible and the number of rate changes can be as small as possible while keeping the peak rate low. Simulation results showed that our approach has small bandwidth requirement, high bandwidth utilization and low computation cost.
文摘Background: Breast cancer is the most common female cancer in Pakistan. The incidence of breast cancer in Pakistan is about 2.5 times higher than that in the neighboring countries India and Iran. In Karachi, the most populated city of Pakistan, the age-standardized rate of breast cancer was 69.1 per 100,000 women during 1998-2002, which is the highest recorded rate in Asia. The carcinoma of breast in Pakistan is an enormous public health concern. In this study, we examined the recent trends of breast cancer incidence rates among the women in Karachi. Methods: We obtained the secondary data of breast cancer incidence from various hospitals. They included Jinnah Hospital, KIRAN (Karachi Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine), and Civil hospital, where the data were available for the years 2004-2011. A total of 5331 new cases of female breast cancer were registered during this period. We analyzed the data in 5-year age groups 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75+. Nonparametric smoothing were used to obtained age-specific incidence curves, and then the curves are decomposed using principal components analysis to fit FTS (functional time series) model. We then used exponential smoothing statspace models to estimate the forecasts of incidence curve and construct prediction intervals. Results: The breast cancer incidence rates in Karachi increased with age for all available years. The rates increased monotonically and are relatively sharp with the age from 15 years to 50 years and then they show variability after the age of 50 years. 10-year forecasts for the female breast cancer incidence rates in Karachi show that the future rates are expected to remain stable for the age-groups 15-50 years, but they will increase for the females of 50-years and over. Hence in future, the newly diagnosed breast cancer cases in the older women in Karachi are expected to increase. Conclusion: Prediction of age related changes in breast cancer incidence rates will provide useful information for controlling the overall burden of cancer in Pakistan and also serve as a resource for health planning in future research. Moreover, these models will be the most useful for modeling and projecting future trends of other cancers and chronic diseases.
文摘A new rate allocation method for fine-granular scalability (FGS) coded bitstreams is presented in order to achieve smooth quality reconstruction of frames under channel conditions with a wide range of bandwidth variation and improve the average PSNR of the whole sequence. Based on a quality weighted bit allocation method, a sliding window rate allocation method is proposed for the first time so that the window can slide along the video sequence with a certain sliding step. Experimental results show that, under dynamic bandwidth conditions, the proposed method can simultaneously satisfy the requirements for improving average PSNR of the whole video sequence greatly and reducing the fluctuations between adjacent frames greatly.
文摘We develop higher order accurate estimators of integrated volatility in a stochastic volatility models by using kernel smoothing method and using different weights to kernels. The weights have some relationship to moment problem. As the bandwidth of the kernel vanishes, an estimator of the instantaneous stochastic volatility is obtained. We also develop some new estimators based on smoothing splines.
基金sponsored by the National Key Technology R&D Program,China (2006BAC13B01)
文摘Two kinds of methods for determining seismic parameters are presented, that is, the potential seismic source zoning method and grid-spatially smoothing method. The Gaussian smoothing method and the modified Gaussian smoothing method are described in detail, and a comprehensive analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of these methods is made. Then, we take centrai China as the study region, and use the Gaussian smoothing method and potential seismic source zoning method to build seismic models to calculate the mean annual seismic rate. Seismic hazard is calculated using the probabilistic seismic hazard analysis method to construct the ground motion acceleration zoning maps. The differences between the maps and these models are discussed and the causes are investigated. The results show that the spatial smoothing method is suitable for estimating the seismic hazard over the moderate and low seismicity regions or the hazard caused by background seismicity; while the potential seismic source zoning method is suitable for estimating the seismic hazard in well-defined seismotectonics. Combining the spatial smoothing method and the potential seismic source zoning method with an integrated account of the seismicity and known seismotectonics is a feasible approach to estimate the seismic hazard in moderate and low seismicity regions.