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The Mediating Variable of Self Efficacy in the Participation of Individual Factors in Community Music Activities of Chinese Community Residents
With the rapid development of China's economy, the process of urbanization is obviously accelerated, and the people's growing living standards are gradually improved. At present, building a harmonious society has become an inevitable requirement of building a well-off society in an all-round way in China, and the premise of building a harmonious society is to vigorously develop social activities and promote harmonious coexistence among people. Music is the most representative of all art and culture. Nowadays, the participation of music related activities is decreasing, and gradually aging. Square dance and opera can be seen everywhere in the community square, without a trace of youthful vigor. Based on 400 questionnaires of urban residents' participation in community music activities, this study uses structural equation model to explore the influence path and mechanism of external factors and self-efficacy on participation in community music activities. The results show that the external factors and self-efficacy of community music activities have a positive impact on the participation of community music activities; Self efficacy plays a mediating rolet
Determining the physical conditions of extremely young Class 0 circumbinary disk around VLA1623A
We present detailed analysis of high-resolution C18O (2-1), SO (88-77), CO
(3-2) and DCO+ (3-2) data obtained by the Atacama Large
Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) towards a Class 0 Keplerian circumbinary
disk around VLA1623A, which represents one of the most complete analysis
towards a Class 0 source. From the dendrogram analysis, we identified several
accretion flows feeding the circumbinary disk in a highly anisotropic manner.
Stream-like SO emission around the circumbinary disk reveals the complicated
shocks caused by the interactions between the disk, accretion flows and
outflows. A wall-like structure is discovered south of VLA1623B. The discovery
of two outflow cavity walls at the same position traveling at different
velocities suggests the two outflows from both VLA1623A and VLA1623B overlays
on top of each other in the plane of sky. Our detailed flat and flared disk
modeling shows that Cycle 2 C18O J = 2-1 data is inconsistent with the combined
binary mass of 0.2 Msun as suggested by early Cycle 0 studies. The combined
binary mass for VLA1623A should be modified to 0.3 ~ 0.5 Msun.Comment: 26 pages, 20 figures, accepted by ApJ 2020.2.2
Ventricular divergence correlates with epicardial wavebreaks and predicts ventricular arrhythmia in isolated rabbit hearts during therapeutic hypothermia
INTRODUCTION:
High beat-to-beat morphological variation (divergence) on the ventricular electrogram during programmed ventricular stimulation (PVS) is associated with increased risk of ventricular fibrillation (VF), with unclear mechanisms. We hypothesized that ventricular divergence is associated with epicardial wavebreaks during PVS, and that it predicts VF occurrence.
METHOD AND RESULTS:
Langendorff-perfused rabbit hearts (n = 10) underwent 30-min therapeutic hypothermia (TH, 30°C), followed by a 20-min treatment with rotigaptide (300 nM), a gap junction modifier. VF inducibility was tested using burst ventricular pacing at the shortest pacing cycle length achieving 1:1 ventricular capture. Pseudo-ECG (p-ECG) and epicardial activation maps were simultaneously recorded for divergence and wavebreaks analysis, respectively. A total of 112 optical and p-ECG recordings (62 at TH, 50 at TH treated with rotigaptide) were analyzed. Adding rotigaptide reduced ventricular divergence, from 0.13±0.10 at TH to 0.09±0.07 (p = 0.018). Similarly, rotigaptide reduced the number of epicardial wavebreaks, from 0.59±0.73 at TH to 0.30±0.49 (p = 0.036). VF inducibility decreased, from 48±31% at TH to 22±32% after rotigaptide infusion (p = 0.032). Linear regression models showed that ventricular divergence correlated with epicardial wavebreaks during TH (p<0.001).
CONCLUSION:
Ventricular divergence correlated with, and might be predictive of epicardial wavebreaks during PVS at TH. Rotigaptide decreased both the ventricular divergence and epicardial wavebreaks, and reduced the probability of pacing-induced VF during TH
AutoDiff: combining Auto-encoder and Diffusion model for tabular data synthesizing
Diffusion model has become a main paradigm for synthetic data generation in
many subfields of modern machine learning, including computer vision, language
model, or speech synthesis. In this paper, we leverage the power of diffusion
model for generating synthetic tabular data. The heterogeneous features in
tabular data have been main obstacles in tabular data synthesis, and we tackle
this problem by employing the auto-encoder architecture. When compared with the
state-of-the-art tabular synthesizers, the resulting synthetic tables from our
model show nice statistical fidelities to the real data, and perform well in
downstream tasks for machine learning utilities. We conducted the experiments
over publicly available datasets. Notably, our model adeptly captures the
correlations among features, which has been a long-standing challenge in
tabular data synthesis. Our code is available at
https://github.com/UCLA-Trustworthy-AI-Lab/AutoDiffusion
Safety-based Injection Strategy for Carbon Dioxide Geological Sequestration in a Deep Saline Aquifer with Complex Sandstone-shale Sequences: A Case Study from Taiwan
AbstractThe purpose of this study was to decide the best injection strategy for CO2 geo-sequestration in a deep saline aquifer with complex bedded sandstone-shale sequences. The best injection strategy is decided based on the estimates of the safety index (SFI). Numerical simulation method was used in this study. The major conclusions from this study are: (1) Safe trapping mechanisms contribute to a lower risk of CO2 leakage by trapping CO2 as immobile blobs or changing the phase of CO2 from supercritical phase to aqueous, ionic, and mineral phases in the post-injection period. (2) For an aquifer with complex sandstone-shale sequences, the best injection strategy should be decided by the results of risk evaluation and the SFI estimation. (3) The well location affected the injection strategy. The risk of CO2 leakage was lower using a down-dip injection well than an up-dip well. (4) The best strategy for this case study was to use the down-dip well to inject CO2 into the bottom sandstone layer. The SFI for this scenario reached 0.99 at the storage time of 1000 years, which meant that the probability of CO2 leakage occurring was nearly zero
A Radial Basis Function Neural Network with Adaptive Structure via Particle Swarm Optimization
Seismic analysis of the condensate storage tank in a nuclear power plant
Following the nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima Japan, seismic capacity evaluation has become a crucial issue in combination building safety. Condensate storage tanks are designed to supplies water to the condensate transfer pumps, the control rod drive hydraulic system pumps, and the condenser makeup. A separate connection to the condensate storage tank is used to supply water for the high pressure coolant injection system, reactor core isolation cooling system, and core spray system pumps. A condensate storage tank is defined as a seismic class I structure, playing the important role of providing flow to the operational system and the required static head for the suction of the condensate transfer pumps and the normal supply pump. According to the latest nuclear safety requirements, soil structure interaction must be considered in all seismic analyses. This study aims to rebuild the computer model of condensate storage tanks in Taiwan using the SAP 2000 program in conjunction with the lumped mass stick model and to evaluate the soil structure interaction by employing the SASSI 2000 program. The differences between the results with the soil structure interaction and spring model are compared via natural frequency and response spectrum curves. This computer model enables engineers to rapidly evaluate the safety margin of condensate storage tank following the occurrence of earthquakes or tsunamis
KINETIC ANALYSIS OF THE UPPER EXTREMITY BETWEEN DIFFERENT STANCES IN TENNIS TWO-HANDED BACKHAND
INTRODUCTION: Now the tennis players could explore more racket capabilities through the change of racket materials and design. The open stance comes out in modern tennis relative to the traditional square stance. This study was conducted to analyze the upper extremity joint forces and moments between the different stances in advanced and intermediate athletes, who separated from ITN rating system, during two-handed stroke
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