348 research outputs found
Experimental study of prefabricated RC column-foundation assemblies with two different connection methods and using large-diameter reinforcing bars
Dark matter haloes in interacting dark energy models : formation history, density profile, spin, and shape
The interacting dark energy (IDE) model, which considers the interaction between dark energy and dark matter, provides a natural mechanism to alleviate the coincidence problem and can also relieve the observational tensions under the ?CDM model. Previous studies have put constraints on IDE models by observations of cosmic expansion history, cosmic microwave background, and large-scale structures. However, these data are not yet enough to distinguish IDE models from ?CDM effectively. Because the non-linear structure formation contains rich cosmological information, it can provide additional means to differentiate alternative models. In this paper, based on a set of N-body simulations for IDE models, we investigate the formation histories and properties of dark matter haloes and compare with their ?CDM counterparts. For the model with dark matter decaying into dark energy and the parameters being the best-fitting values from previous constraints, the structure formation is markedly slowed down, and the haloes have systematically lower mass, looser internal structure, higher spin, and anisotropy. This is inconsistent with the observed structure formation, and thus this model can be safely ruled out from the perspective of non-linear structure formation. Moreover, we find that the ratio of halo concentrations between IDE and ?CDM counterparts depends sensitively on the interaction parameter and is independent of halo mass. This can act as a powerful probe to constrain IDE models. Our results concretely demonstrate that the interaction of the two dark components can affect the halo formation considerably, and therefore the constraints from non-linear structures are indispensable.Peer reviewe
Biomass derived oligosaccharides for potential leather tanning
The global demand for renewable and affordable feedstocks, combined with the worldwide targets for reducing carbon emissions, is the driving force behind a breakthrough in resource revolution and GreenTech innovations..
A novel dissolved oxygen prediction model based on enhanced semi-naive Bayes for ocean ranches in northeast China
A challenge of achieving intelligent marine ranching is the prediction of dissolved oxygen (DO). DO directly reflects marine ranching environmental conditions. Through accurate DO predictions, timely human intervention can be made in marine pasture water environments to avoid problems such as reduced yields or marine crop death due to low oxygen concentrations in the water. We use an enhanced semi-naive Bayes model for prediction based on an analysis of DO data from marine pastures in northeastern China from the past three years. Based on the semi-naive Bayes model, this paper takes the possible values of a DO difference series as categories, counts the possible values of the first-order difference series and the difference series of the interval before each possible value, and selects the most probable difference series value at the next moment. The prediction accuracy is optimized by adjusting the attribute length and frequency threshold of the difference sequence. The enhanced semi-naive Bayes model is compared with LSTM, RBF, SVR and other models, and the error function and Willmott’s index of agreement are used to evaluate the prediction accuracy. The experimental results show that the proposed model has high prediction accuracy for DO attributes in marine pastures
Conventional and microwave assisted hydrolysis of urban biowastes to added value lignin-like products
Translate the Beauty in Songs: Jointly Learning to Align Melody and Translate Lyrics
Song translation requires both translation of lyrics and alignment of music
notes so that the resulting verse can be sung to the accompanying melody, which
is a challenging problem that has attracted some interests in different aspects
of the translation process. In this paper, we propose Lyrics-Melody Translation
with Adaptive Grouping (LTAG), a holistic solution to automatic song
translation by jointly modeling lyrics translation and lyrics-melody alignment.
It is a novel encoder-decoder framework that can simultaneously translate the
source lyrics and determine the number of aligned notes at each decoding step
through an adaptive note grouping module. To address data scarcity, we
commissioned a small amount of training data annotated specifically for this
task and used large amounts of augmented data through back-translation.
Experiments conducted on an English-Chinese song translation data set show the
effectiveness of our model in both automatic and human evaluation.Comment: 13 page
Implicit Identity Leakage: The Stumbling Block to Improving Deepfake Detection Generalization
In this paper, we analyse the generalization ability of binary classifiers
for the task of deepfake detection. We find that the stumbling block to their
generalization is caused by the unexpected learned identity representation on
images. Termed as the Implicit Identity Leakage, this phenomenon has been
qualitatively and quantitatively verified among various DNNs. Furthermore,
based on such understanding, we propose a simple yet effective method named the
ID-unaware Deepfake Detection Model to reduce the influence of this phenomenon.
Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our method outperforms the
state-of-the-art in both in-dataset and cross-dataset evaluation. The code is
available at https://github.com/megvii-research/CADDM.Comment: Accepted by CVPR 202
Real-time visualization of clustering and intracellular transport of gold nanoparticles by correlative imaging.
Mechanistic understanding of the endocytosis and intracellular trafficking of nanoparticles is essential for designing smart theranostic carriers. Physico-chemical properties, including size, clustering and surface chemistry of nanoparticles regulate their cellular uptake and transport. Significantly, even single nanoparticles could cluster intracellularly, yet their clustering state and subsequent trafficking are not well understood. Here, we used DNA-decorated gold (fPlas-gold) nanoparticles as a dually emissive fluorescent and plasmonic probe to examine their clustering states and intracellular transport. Evidence from correlative fluorescence and plasmonic imaging shows that endocytosis of fPlas-gold follows multiple pathways. In the early stages of endocytosis, fPlas-gold nanoparticles appear mostly as single particles and they cluster during the vesicular transport and maturation. The speed of encapsulated fPlas-gold transport was critically dependent on the size of clusters but not on the types of organelle such as endosomes and lysosomes. Our results provide key strategies for engineering theranostic nanocarriers for efficient health management
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