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Three Courses of Tianjiu Therapy in Sanfu Days for Chronic Asthma: A Clinic Efficacy Observation Trail
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Biased Self-supervised learning for ASR
Self-supervised learning via masked prediction pre-training (MPPT) has shown
impressive performance on a range of speech-processing tasks. This paper
proposes a method to bias self-supervised learning towards a specific task. The
core idea is to slightly finetune the model that is used to obtain the target
sequence. This leads to better performance and a substantial increase in
training speed. Furthermore, this paper proposes a variant of MPPT that allows
low-footprint streaming models to be trained effectively by computing the MPPT
loss on masked and unmasked frames. These approaches are evaluated for
automatic speech recognition on the Librispeech corpus, where 100 hours of data
served as the labelled data and 860 hours as the unlabelled data. The biased
training outperforms the unbiased training by 15.5% after 250k updates and
23.8% after 100k updates on test-other. For the streaming models, the
pre-training approach yields a reduction in word error rate of 44.1%.Comment: Submitted to ICASSP 202
Factors Predictive of Being Bullies or Victims of Bullies in US Elementary Schools.
We analyzed a population-representative cohort (N=13,611; Mage at kindergarten, first, and second grade = 67.5, 79.5, and 91.5 months, respectively) to identify kindergarten to second grade factors predictive of being bullies or victims during third to fifth grade. We did so by estimating a block recursive structural equation model (SEM) with three sets of predictors. These were: (a) individual and school socio-demographics; (b) family distress and harsh parenting; and (c) individual behavior and achievement. Relations between each of the included variables and the bullying outcomes were simultaneously estimated within the SEM. Thus, each variable served as a control for estimating the effects of the other variables. We used robust standard errors to account for student clustering within schools. Results indicated that externalizing problem behavior strongly predicted being a bully ([ES] = .56, p\u3c.001) and a victim (ES=.29, p\u3c.001). We observed a negative relation between being Hispanic and being a victim (ES = −.10, p\u3c.001) and a positive relation between being Black and being a bully (ES = .11, p\u3c.001). We also observed statistically significant relations between a family’s socioeconomic status and being a bully (ES = −.08, p\u3c.001) as well as school poverty and being a victim (ES = .07, p\u3c.001). The results advance the field’s limited understanding of risk and protective factors for bullying perpetration or victimization during elementary school and provide additional empirical support for assisting young children already exhibiting externalizing problem behaviors
Optical Photon Simulation with Mitsuba3
Optical photon propagation is an embarrassingly parallel operation, well
suited to acceleration on GPU devices. Rendering of images employs similar
techniques -- for this reason, a pipeline to offload optical photon propagation
from Geant4 to the industry-standard open-source renderer Mitsuba3 has been
devised. With the creation of a dedicated plugin for single point multi-source
emission, we find a photon propagation rate of photons per
second per CPU thread using LLVM and photons per second per
GPU using CUDA. This represents a speed-up of 70 on CPU and 400 on GPU over
Geant4 and is competitive with other similar applications. The potential for
further applications is discussed.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figure
Which Children are Frequently Victimized in U.S. Elementary Schools? Population-based Estimates
We analyzed a population-based cohort of 11,780 U.S. kindergarten children to identify risk and protective factors predictive of frequent verbal, social, reputational, and/or physical bullying victimization during the upper elementary grades. We also stratified the analyses by biological sex. Both girls and boys displaying kindergarten externalizing problem behaviors were at consistently higher risk of frequent victimization during 3rd-5th grade (for the combined sample of boys and girls, verbal odds ratio [OR] = 1.82, social OR = 1.60, reputational OR = 1.85, physical OR = 1.67, total OR = 1.93). Hispanic children relative to non-Hispanic White children and those from higher income families were the most strongly and consistently protected from victimization. Boys were more likely to be physically bullied but less likely to be verbally, socially or reputationally bullied than girls. Other variables including disability, cognitively stimulating parenting, academic achievement, and internalizing behavior problems had statistically significant but less consistent and generally weaker relations with frequent victimization
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