143 research outputs found
Effects of Study-Abroad Experiences on the Second Language and Cultural Awareness of Chinese EFL Learners
 This article explores how social interactions and culture affect Chinese EFL learners during study abroad (SA).The participants, native Chinese speakers learning English as a foreign language spent varying durations in English-speaking countries. A comparative analysis was conducted, differentiating between participants engaged in a two-semester SA and those in a two-academic-year SA, revealing nuanced variations in the findings. Surprisingly, these variations were more strongly associated with Willingness to Communicate (WTC) than the duration of the SA. Furthermore, examining the duration since participants’ return to China hinted individual differences in the perceived effects of their SA and subsequent acculturation. Notably, individuals who spent more time back in their home country after SA tended to develop a stronger sense of identification with their native culture. Intriguingly, these individuals also exhibited a heightened sensitivity to cultural shocks during their SA. The study also explored the correlation between cultural adaptability, strength of ethnic consciousness, and learners’ English proficiency, positing that this dynamic is unstable. The cultural and linguistic effects revealed by these findings provide valuable insights for learners contemplating studying abroad. Additionally, they bear significant pedagogical implications for EFL classroom teaching, both domestically and internationally.
WRHT: Efficient All-reduce for Distributed DNN Training in Optical Interconnect System
Communication efficiency plays an important role in accelerating the
distributed training of Deep Neural Networks (DNN). All-reduce is the key
communication primitive to reduce model parameters in distributed DNN training.
Most existing all-reduce algorithms are designed for traditional electrical
interconnect systems, which cannot meet the communication requirements for
distributed training of large DNNs. One of the promising alternatives for
electrical interconnect is optical interconnect, which can provide high
bandwidth, low transmission delay, and low power cost. We propose an efficient
scheme called WRHT (Wavelength Reused Hierarchical Tree) for implementing
all-reduce operation in optical interconnect system, which can take advantage
of WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) to reduce the communication time of
distributed data-parallel DNN training. We further derive the minimum number of
communication steps and communication time to realize the all-reduce using
WRHT. Simulation results show that the communication time of WRHT is reduced by
75.59%, 49.25%, and 70.1% respectively compared with three traditional
all-reduce algorithms simulated in optical interconnect system. Simulation
results also show that WRHT can reduce the communication time for all-reduce
operation by 86.69% and 84.71% in comparison with two existing all-reduce
algorithms in electrical interconnect system.Comment: This paper is under the submission of GLOBECOM 202
Separate DOD and DOA Estimation for Bistatic MIMO Radar
A novel MUSIC-type algorithm is derived in this paper for the direction of departure (DOD) and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in a bistatic MIMO radar. Through rearranging the received signal matrix, we illustrate that the DOD and the DOA can be separately estimated. Compared with conventional MUSIC-type algorithms, the proposed separate MUSIC algorithm can avoid the interference between DOD and DOA estimations effectively. Therefore, it is expected to give a better angle estimation performance and have a much lower computational complexity. Meanwhile, we demonstrate that our method is also effective for coherent targets in MIMO radar. Simulation results verify the efficiency of the proposed method, particularly when the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is low and/or the number of snapshots is small
Self-organized Voids Revisited: Experimental Verification of the Formation Mechanism*
In this paper, several experiments were conducted to further clarify the
formation mechanism of self organized void array induced by a single laser
beam, including energy-related experiments, refractive-index-contrast-related
experiments, depth-related experiments and effective-numerical-aperture
experiment. These experiments indicate that the interface spherical aberration
is indeed responsible for the formation of void arrays
Transient overexpression of TGFBR3 induces apoptosis in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma CNE-2Z cells
Wnt signaling in age-related macular degeneration: human macular tissue and mouse model
Microarray-based analysis and clinical validation identify ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2E1 (UBE2E1) as a prognostic factor in acute myeloid leukemia
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