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Local well-posedness and low Mach number limit of the compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations in critical spaces
The local well-posedness and low Mach number limit are considered for the
multi-dimensional isentropic compressible viscous magnetohydrodynamic equations
in critical spaces. First the local well-posedness of solution to the viscous
magnetohydrodynamic equations with large initial data is established. Then the
low Mach number limit is studied for general large data and it is proved that
the solution of the compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations converges to
that of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations as the Mach number
tends to zero. Moreover, the convergence rates are obtained.Comment: 37page
CoLight: Learning Network-level Cooperation for Traffic Signal Control
Cooperation among the traffic signals enables vehicles to move through
intersections more quickly. Conventional transportation approaches implement
cooperation by pre-calculating the offsets between two intersections. Such
pre-calculated offsets are not suitable for dynamic traffic environments. To
enable cooperation of traffic signals, in this paper, we propose a model,
CoLight, which uses graph attentional networks to facilitate communication.
Specifically, for a target intersection in a network, CoLight can not only
incorporate the temporal and spatial influences of neighboring intersections to
the target intersection, but also build up index-free modeling of neighboring
intersections. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to use graph
attentional networks in the setting of reinforcement learning for traffic
signal control and to conduct experiments on the large-scale road network with
hundreds of traffic signals. In experiments, we demonstrate that by learning
the communication, the proposed model can achieve superior performance against
the state-of-the-art methods.Comment: 10 pages. Proceedings of the 28th ACM International on Conference on
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Adrenomedullin delivery in microsphere-scaffold composite for remodeling of the alveolar bone following tooth extraction: an experimental study in the rat
BACKGROUND: Alveolar ridge resorption, as a significant problem in implant and restorative dentistry, has long been considered as an inevitable outcome following tooth extraction. Recently, adrenomedullin (ADM) is reported to be able to stimulate the proliferation and migration of various cells including osteoblasts. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of local ADM application in the tooth extraction socket in vivo. METHODS: Chitosan micropheres were developed by an emulsion-ionic cross-linking method for ADM delivery. Poly (L -lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA) and nano-hydroxyapatite (nHA) were used to prepare scaffolds to contain the micrspheres with ADM. In vivo experiment was evaluated by transplanting the composite into the rat socket right after the incisor extraction. After 4, 8, 12 weeks implantation, radiographic and histological tests were carried out to evaluate the effect of released ADM on the alveolar bone. RESULTS: The microspheres had a spherical structure and a relative rough and uniform surface, and the particle size was under a normal distribution, with the average diameter of 38.59 μm. The scaffolds had open and interconnected pores. In addition, the high porosity of the composite was 88.93%. Radiographic and histological examination revealed that the PLGA/nHA/CMs/ADM composite could accelerate the alveolar bone remodeling and reduce the residual ridge resorption compared with the PLGA/nHA/CMs scaffold. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study suggest that local application of ADM has the potential to preserve the residual alveolar ridge and accelerate the alveolar bone remodeling
Mucosal immunity in HIV-1 exposed seronegative individuals and expression of HIV-1 gp160 protein in transgenic plants
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