Nowadays, monitoring animals manually on a large scale is challenging, while external devices can provide more prosperous and accurate information. Therefore, there are already applications incorporating wearable sens...
Nowadays, monitoring animals manually on a large scale is challenging, while external devices can provide more prosperous and accurate information. Therefore, there are already applications incorporating wearable sensors to monitor individual pigs. With continued breakthroughs in computer vision, low-cost visible light cameras can help monitor pigs. CNN-based object detection methods have been applied to individual pig detection, but most rely on hand-designed components and require prior knowledge. Based on previous researchers' progress, we propose using DETR, an end-to-end object detection method, to detect individual pigs. Also, to adapt to our natural pig farm environment, we trained the model with transfer learning to achieve an AP of 0.995 on our collected dataset.
Many cities with metro systems are experiencing overcapacity problems on some or many lines. Beijing is one such city whose metro also services a high proportion of short-distance trips. The proportion of short-distan...
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Many cities with metro systems are experiencing overcapacity problems on some or many lines. Beijing is one such city whose metro also services a high proportion of short-distance trips. The proportion of short-distance travel-less than 5 km (3.1 mi)-carried out on foot or on bicycle varies greatly across cities, depending on alternative travel modes and local environmental conditions. In this study, users of a multimodal transportation corridor that included metro (n = 400) were interviewed about their travel mode preferences depending on distance within the short-distance travel category. Users were also asked to state their preferences for mode, depending on distance and a progressive rise in metro ticket fare. Finally, users were asked to state their mode preferences for trips that extended to five metro stations if a public bicycle system with a separate lane were made available. Modal choice was highly sensitive to variable short-distance trips. A progressive shift to bus use occurred as the metro fare price increased, with little change in the walking rate or in the use of motorized modes. When the original low metro fare price was maintained, the availability of a public bicycle system led to a sevenfold increase in bicycle use, with significant drops in bus share, and to a lesser extent, metro share. Responses to the stated preference survey indicated that fares and a public bicycle program might be effective to manage the use of metro for short-distance trips.
Background: Malnutrition is one of the most critical factors affecting patients' risk of infection and length of stay, and it may affect the prognosis of patients with sepsis. There have been no studies that have ...
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Background: Malnutrition is one of the most critical factors affecting patients' risk of infection and length of stay, and it may affect the prognosis of patients with sepsis. There have been no studies that have applied nutritional risk screening tools to stratify patients with sepsis according to prognosis. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 425 adult sepsis inpatients who were grouped based on nutritional risk screening (NRS) score, including a nutrition score, disease severity score, and age score. Prognostic factors were analyzed using univariate and multivariate regression analyses. Results: Of the enrolled patients, 174 had an NRS score of >3;these patients were older and had a longer hospitalization time but lower body mass index (BMI), albumin (ALB) than others. Univariate Cox regression analysis showed that age, ALB, C-reactive protein (CRP), and NRS score were significantly (P<0.05) associated with in-hospital mortality. Multivariate analysis showed that age (hazard ratio [HR]=1.020, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.005- 1.036;P=0.008) and ALB (HR=0.924, 95% CI: 0.885-0.966;P<0.001) were independent risk factors for sepsis-related mortality. The Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed that the cumu-lative in-hospital mortality of sepsis patients with an NRS score of >3 was significantly higher than that of patients with an NRS score of <3 (P=0.022). Conclusion: NRS scores can effectively risk stratify sepsis patients. Patients with high NRS scores should be monitored more closely to halt further disease progression.
The development of hard X-ray (HXR) spectrometers with full digital data acquisition for runaway electron studies on the HL-2M tokamak is presented. Consisting of large-sized NaI:Tl detectors and high-performance mult...
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The development of hard X-ray (HXR) spectrometers with full digital data acquisition for runaway electron studies on the HL-2M tokamak is presented. Consisting of large-sized NaI:Tl detectors and high-performance multichannel analyzers, this system can realize the measurement of HXR with energies ranging from 0.5 to 10 MeV, and spectrum temporal resolution of 1 ms. An average energy resolution of 56 keV at 662 keV has been achieved at counts rates of about 100 kcps. The spectra data is acquired by a digital-based data acquisition system with fast digitization and software signal processing technology. The energy calibrations are performed by using several radioisotope gamma-ray sources, and the detection efficiencies are simulated by MCNP code. First experimental results from HL-2M Ohmic discharges are presented in this paper.
Tunable morphology and radiative charge transfer of perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) were achieved by heterovalently doping CsPbBr3 PNCs with Ce(IV) cation in a hot-injection and doping-in-growth combined way. Ce(IV)-do...
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Tunable morphology and radiative charge transfer of perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) were achieved by heterovalently doping CsPbBr3 PNCs with Ce(IV) cation in a hot-injection and doping-in-growth combined way. Ce(IV)-doping could bring out a new tetragonal CsPb2Br5 phase within the parent PNCs, and transformcubic CsPbBr3 PNCs to Ce4+-doped CsPbBr3 PNCs with a dot-shaped morphology of smaller size. Ce4+-doped CsPbBr3 PNCs exhibited enhanced absorption and electrochemical oxidative response as well as decreased photoluminescence and electrochemiluminescence than the parent CsPbBr3 PNCs. Processing Ce4+-doped CsPbBr3 PNCs with NH3 center dot H2O could eliminate the effects of ionic Ce(IV) dopants via forming CeO2, and enable CsPbBr3-CeO2 hybrids to directionally grow to columnar-morphology with partially restored photoluminescence and electrochemiluminescence.
A novel storage and extraction method was developed for biofluids. Plasma spiked with four types of minor ginsenosides (Rg(2), Rg(3), Rh-1 and Rh-2) was used as a model biofluid to evaluate this method. The method was...
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A novel storage and extraction method was developed for biofluids. Plasma spiked with four types of minor ginsenosides (Rg(2), Rg(3), Rh-1 and Rh-2) was used as a model biofluid to evaluate this method. The method was based on solid-phase adsorption and ultrasonic-assisted nebulization coupled with solid phase extraction (SPA-UANE-SPE). Diatomaceous earth was used as an adsorbent to store the plasma for long periods of time at room temperature. Ultrasonic-assisted nebulization system-solid phase extraction was used to extract the four minor ginsenosides from the plasma. Some experimental parameters, such as the type and amount of the adsorbent, the ultrasonic-assisted nebulization extraction time, the pH of the extraction solution, the concentration of ZnSO4, the amount of C-18, and the type and volume of the eluent were investigated and optimized. Under the optimized conditions, the recoveries of four minor ginsenosides were in the range of 78.5-91.4%, and the RSDs are in the range of 3.5-4.4%. For the storage stability test, the stability of the method was better than that of 4 degrees C storage and was similar to that of -20 degrees C storage. Compared with other methods, the proposed method had a better extraction performance and was advantageous in terms of ease of operation, stable long term storage, and minimal requirements for storage conditions. Thus, this method may be effective for sample preparation in biofluid analysis.
Interface modification of aluminum particles plays a crucial part in reducing the agglomeration during the combustion of solid propellants. In this study, the aluminum (Al) particles are pretreated with gallic acid (G...
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Interface modification of aluminum particles plays a crucial part in reducing the agglomeration during the combustion of solid propellants. In this study, the aluminum (Al) particles are pretreated with gallic acid (GA) to get Al@GA with an adhesion-favorable surface, which facilitates the further coating procedure. One new fluorine-containing organic substance is prepared, namely p-HFBA. The p-HFBA further coats the Al@GA to produce Al@GA/p-HFBA. The interface between Al@GA and the coating layer p-HFBA forms Al-F bonds and induces a pre-ignition reaction with an aluminum oxide shell. Hence, the agglomerate size of propellants containing Al@GA/p-HFBA significantly decreases from 176.30 mu m to 84.72 mu m. The agglomerates volume is reduced by approximately 97 %. Additionally, more gaseous products investigated by TG-MS provide the Al particles with greater impetus (aerodynamic forces, Fae), enabling them to leave the burning surface and reduce the residence time. The rise in Fae and drop in adhesion force (Fad) effectively reduce the agglomeration intensity according to the skeleton layer model. This work proves that interface modification can effectively enhance the combustion performance of aluminized solid propellants.
Platelets are critical regulators of liver regeneration, but the mechanisms are still not fully understood. Platelets have been shown to contain a wide variety of microRNAs (miRNAs) and play an important role in many ...
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Platelets are critical regulators of liver regeneration, but the mechanisms are still not fully understood. Platelets have been shown to contain a wide variety of microRNAs (miRNAs) and play an important role in many diseases. However, the mechanism that how the platelet microparticles (PMPs)-derived miRNA regulate the hepatocyte proliferation is not very clear. In this study, we have successfully isolated and identified PMPs. We also found that PMPs, which could be well integrated into the HHL-5 cells, could upregulate the level of miR-25-3p in HHL-5 cells. Meanwhile, we found that PMPs-derived miR-25-3p promoted HHL-5 cells proliferation by accelerating cells into the S phase, and enhanced the autophagy by increasing the LC3II expression and reducing the P62 expression. Then, we proved that the miR-25-3p could target the B-cell translocation gene 2 (BTG2) and downregulate the expression levels of the BTG2 gene in HHL-5 cells. In addition, the overexpression of BTG2 significantly inhibited the proliferation and autophagy abilities of HHL-5 cells, while cotransfected miR-25-3p mimics or PMPs could partially rescue HHL-5 cells proliferation and autophagy. Furthermore, we proved that PMPs accelerated hepatocyte proliferation by regulating autophagy pathways. Therefore, PMPs-derived miR-25-3p promoted HHL-5 cell proliferation and autophagy by targeting BTG2, which may be a new therapeutic method for liver regeneration.
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