329 research outputs found
Special communication for deaf patients during topical anesthesia cataract surgery
Purpose: To report a new method for communication with deaf patients during topical anesthetic cataract surgery. Observation: Due to communication difficulty, topical anesthesia was traditionally considered by many cataract surgeons as a contraindication for deaf patients. Retrobulbar/peribulbar-block anesthesia or general anesthesia were recommended. This paper reports a new way of communication using face-tapping and hand-pressing. It worked well with three deaf patients under conventional topical anesthetic cataract surgery. Conclusion and Importance: The face-tapping and hand-pressing communication technique with deaf patients under conventional topical anesthetic cataract surgery seemed to work well. Topical anesthesia combined with this “touching language” could be an alternative to traditional local block and general anesthesia for deaf patients undergoing cataract surgery. Large studies are recommended to confirm its safety and validation
Re: Modi et al.: Visual and patient-reported outcomes of a diffractive trifocal intraocular lens compared with those of a monofocal intraocular lens (Ophthalmology. 2021;128:197-207)
Probability Weighted Compact Feature for Domain Adaptive Retrieval
Domain adaptive image retrieval includes single-domain retrieval and
cross-domain retrieval. Most of the existing image retrieval methods only focus
on single-domain retrieval, which assumes that the distributions of retrieval
databases and queries are similar. However, in practical application, the
discrepancies between retrieval databases often taken in ideal
illumination/pose/background/camera conditions and queries usually obtained in
uncontrolled conditions are very large. In this paper, considering the
practical application, we focus on challenging cross-domain retrieval. To
address the problem, we propose an effective method named Probability Weighted
Compact Feature Learning (PWCF), which provides inter-domain correlation
guidance to promote cross-domain retrieval accuracy and learns a series of
compact binary codes to improve the retrieval speed. First, we derive our loss
function through the Maximum A Posteriori Estimation (MAP): Bayesian
Perspective (BP) induced focal-triplet loss, BP induced quantization loss and
BP induced classification loss. Second, we propose a common manifold structure
between domains to explore the potential correlation across domains.
Considering the original feature representation is biased due to the
inter-domain discrepancy, the manifold structure is difficult to be
constructed. Therefore, we propose a new feature named Histogram Feature of
Neighbors (HFON) from the sample statistics perspective. Extensive experiments
on various benchmark databases validate that our method outperforms many
state-of-the-art image retrieval methods for domain adaptive image retrieval.
The source code is available at https://github.com/fuxianghuang1/PWCFComment: Accepted by CVPR 2020; The source code is available at
https://github.com/fuxianghuang1/PWC
Policy Regularization with Dataset Constraint for Offline Reinforcement Learning
We consider the problem of learning the best possible policy from a fixed
dataset, known as offline Reinforcement Learning (RL). A common taxonomy of
existing offline RL works is policy regularization, which typically constrains
the learned policy by distribution or support of the behavior policy. However,
distribution and support constraints are overly conservative since they both
force the policy to choose similar actions as the behavior policy when
considering particular states. It will limit the learned policy's performance,
especially when the behavior policy is sub-optimal. In this paper, we find that
regularizing the policy towards the nearest state-action pair can be more
effective and thus propose Policy Regularization with Dataset Constraint
(PRDC). When updating the policy in a given state, PRDC searches the entire
dataset for the nearest state-action sample and then restricts the policy with
the action of this sample. Unlike previous works, PRDC can guide the policy
with proper behaviors from the dataset, allowing it to choose actions that do
not appear in the dataset along with the given state. It is a softer constraint
but still keeps enough conservatism from out-of-distribution actions. Empirical
evidence and theoretical analysis show that PRDC can alleviate offline RL's
fundamentally challenging value overestimation issue with a bounded performance
gap. Moreover, on a set of locomotion and navigation tasks, PRDC achieves
state-of-the-art performance compared with existing methods. Code is available
at https://github.com/LAMDA-RL/PRDCComment: Accepted to ICML 202
Modeling and Analysis of Bifurcation in a Delayed Worm Propagation Model
A delayed worm propagation model with birth and death rates is formulated. The stability of the positive equilibrium is studied. Through theoretical analysis, a critical value Ď„0 of Hopf bifurcation is derived. The worm propagation system is locally asymptotically stable when time delay is less than Ď„0. However, Hopf bifurcation appears when time delay Ď„ passes the threshold Ď„0, which means that the worm propagation system is unstable and out of control. Consequently, time delay should be adjusted to be less than Ď„0 to ensure the stability of the system stable and better prediction of the scale and speed of Internet worm spreading. Finally, numerical and simulation experiments are presented to simulate the system, which fully support our analysis
Electronic structure and energetics of tetragonal SrCuO 2 and its high-pressure superstructure phase
First-principles calculations have been used to investigate the electronic structure and energetics of the simple tetragonal SrCuO 2 ( P 4/ m m m ) and its high-pressure tetragonal superstructure ( P 4/ m m m ). Based on the calculations, the high-pressure phase is metastable as compared with the low pressure tetragonal phase, with an energy difference of 0.13 eV per SrCuO 2 formula unit. The energy barrier to the transition from the superstructure to the simple tetragonal structure is 0.24 eV at 7 GPa; thus, high temperatures are required to synthesize the latter. Among the possible structural configurations resulting from the partially occupied oxygen site in the superstructure phase, the most stable structure has a space group ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/0953-8984/23/46/465503/cm401032ieqn3.gif] {} , reduced from that of the simple tetragonal structure P 4/ m m m . The detailed analysis of the electronic band structures of the simple tetragonal and superstructure phases suggests that the out-of-plane buckling of the O atoms in the superstructure leads to significant decrease in the O p–Cu d orbital overlap, allowing the energy of the system to be lowered, which is necessary for the structural stability. An understanding of the electronic structure and energetics of the high-pressure superstructure phase and its relation to the simple tetragonal phase provides a basis for exploring the physical properties of the infinite layer, high- T C superconductor.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90783/1/0953-8984_23_46_465503.pd
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