293 research outputs found
A Model of Economic Growth in China
We present a model of Chinese growth in a two-country economy with the manufacturing and natural resource sectors to analyze the impacts of the reform and opening-up policy, which promotes free trade and technological progress, on the net capital flows, net export, and social welfare. We show that manufacturing capital in China initially decreased before increasing. This corresponds with the fact that China was a net importer of manufactured goods initially and became a net exporter recently. These results are consistent with the data obtained after the reform and opening-up policy in 1978
Confidence Ranking for CTR Prediction
Model evolution and constant availability of data are two common phenomena in
large-scale real-world machine learning applications, e.g. ads and
recommendation systems. To adapt, the real-world system typically retrain with
all available data and online learn with recently available data to update the
models periodically with the goal of better serving performance. In this paper,
we propose a novel framework, named Confidence Ranking, which designs the
optimization objective as a ranking function with two different models. Our
confidence ranking loss allows direct optimization of the logits output for
different convex surrogate functions of metrics, e.g. AUC and Accuracy
depending on the target task and dataset. Armed with our proposed methods, our
experiments show that the introduction of confidence ranking loss can
outperform all baselines on the CTR prediction tasks of public and industrial
datasets. This framework has been deployed in the advertisement system of
JD.com to serve the main traffic in the fine-rank stage.Comment: Accepted by WWW202
The level effect and volatility effect of uncertainty shocks in China
Previous studies have assumed that the volatility of exogenous
shocks is constant, which can only measure the level effects of
uncertain shocks. This article introduces the time-varying volatility
model into a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (D.S.G.E.)
model and uses the third-order perturbation method to identify
and decompose the level and volatility effects of uncertainty
shocks. Based on the results of empirical research in China, the
effect of volatility shocks is different from that of level shocks: the
effect of level shocks is direct and positive, and its impact is
larger, while the effect of volatility shocks is indirect and negative,
and its impact is smaller. This article also finds that the impact of
uncertainty shocks will lead to economic stagnation, inflation, and
the stagflation effect
Fate of the distal aorta following root replacement in Marfan syndrome: a propensity score matched study
ObjectiveThe aortic root is the most frequent segment involved in Marfan syndrome. However, Marfan syndrome is a systemic hereditary connective tissue disorder, and knowledge regarding the outcomes of the native distal aorta after prophylactic aortic root surgery is limited.MethodsFrom April 2010 to December 2020, 226 patients with Marfan syndrome and 1,200 patients without Marfan syndrome who underwent Bentall procedures were included in this study. By propensity score matching, 134 patients were assigned to each group. Clinical manifestations and follow-up data were acquired from hospital records and telephone contact. The cumulative incidence of aortic events was estimated in Marfan and non-Marfan patients with death as a competing risk.ResultsPatients with and without Marfan syndrome had similar baseline characteristics after propensity score matching. Differences in the aortic root (62.25 ± 11.96 vs. 54.03 ± 13.76, P < .001) and ascending aorta (37.71 ± 9.86 vs. 48.16 ± 16.01, P < .001) remained after matching. No difference was observed in the frequency of aortic adverse events between the two groups (10.5% vs. 4.6%, P = 0.106). The cumulative incidence of aortic events was not different between Marfan and non-Marfan patients (15.03% ± 4.72% vs. 4.18% ± 2.06%, P = 0.147). Multivariate Cox regression indicated no significant impact of Marfan syndrome on distal aortic events (HR: 1.172, 95% CI: 0.263–5.230, P = 0.835). Descending and abdominal aortic diameter above normal at the initial procedure were associated with the risk of distal aortic events (HR: 20.735, P = .003, HR: 22.981, P = .002, respectively).ConclusionsNew-onset events of the residual aorta in patients undergoing Bentall procedures between the Marfan and non-Marfan groups were not significantly different. Distal aortic diameter above normal at initial surgery was associated with a higher risk of adverse aortic events
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