Numerical Geodynamic Modeling of Continental Convergent Margins

Cardiovascular medicin

The Basic Situation of Regional Grain Trade in China

This paper is designed first to evaluate the changes of China's regional grain trade policy and second to examine the changes of the pattern of regional grain trade from the 1950s to the late 1990s

The application of impantable sensors in the musculoskeletal system: a review

As the population ages and the incidence of traumatic events rises, there is a growing trend toward the implantation of devices to replace damaged or degenerated tissues in the body. In orthopedic applications, some implants are equipped with sensors to measure internal data and monitor the status of the implant. In recent years, several multi-functional implants have been developed that the clinician can externally control using a smart device. Experts anticipate that these versatile implants could pave the way for the next-generation of technological advancements. This paper provides an introduction to implantable sensors and is structured into three parts. The first section categorizes existing implantable sensors based on their working principles and provides detailed illustrations with examples. The second section introduces the most common materials used in implantable sensors, divided into rigid and flexible materials according to their properties. The third section is the focal point of this article, with implantable orthopedic sensors being classified as joint, spine, or fracture, based on different practical scenarios. The aim of this review is to introduce various implantable orthopedic sensors, compare their different characteristics, and outline the future direction of their development and application

Seismic structure characteristics of the 18 December 2023 M6.2 Jishishan earthquake, Gansu Province

On 18 December 2023，at Beijing time，a M6.2 earthquake struck Jishishan in Gansu Province. A thorough analysis of the earthquake structure and characteristics was conducted by combining information on regional seismic tectonics, geology, seismic source mechanism, seismic intensity, and aftershock relocation. The earthquake was a reverse fault event trending north-northwest within the Xining-Lanzhou fault block. The earthquake-controlling tectonics of the earthquake is the Lajishan reverse fault zone，which is closest to the epicentre of the earthquake. The fault zone is situated at the intersection of the northwest-trending Riyueshan dextral strike-slip fault and the east-west-trending Western Qinling North Rim left-trending strike-slip fault. It has an overall northwest-to-north-northwest striking angle and comprises two branch fault zones with opposite trends in the southern and northern rims. The earthquake’s epicentre location, aftershock distribution, and intensity distribution data suggest that the specific fault responsible for this earthquake is the east branch fault of the southern section of the reverse fault zone at the northern rim of Lajishan. This is consistent with the characteristics of the upward disc effect of reverse fault-type earthquakes. Further detailed field investigations are required to determine the deformation of the earth’s surface. The Jishishan earthquake is thought to have been caused by reverse fault activity at the intersection of the Riyueshan strike-slip fault and the northern edge of the Western Qinling fault. This was triggered by the eastward lateral slip along the original left-hand strike-slip fault along the Xining-Lanzhou fault block on the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. This occurred under the northeast-directed extrusion tectonic stress field resulting from the ongoing land-land collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates. This earthquake suggests that the extrusion tectonic system at the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau remains the primary structure controlling strong seismic activity in China in recent years. Further attention should be paid to the risk of strong earthquakes within the fault block

TRLS: A Time Series Representation Learning Framework via Spectrogram for Medical Signal Processing

Representation learning frameworks in unlabeled time series have been proposed for medical signal processing. Despite the numerous excellent progresses have been made in previous works, we observe the representation extracted for the time series still does not generalize well. In this paper, we present a Time series (medical signal) Representation Learning framework via Spectrogram (TRLS) to get more informative representations. We transform the input time-domain medical signals into spectrograms and design a time-frequency encoder named Time Frequency RNN (TFRNN) to capture more robust multi-scale representations from the augmented spectrograms. Our TRLS takes spectrogram as input with two types of different data augmentations and maximizes the similarity between positive ones, which effectively circumvents the problem of designing negative samples. Our evaluation of four real-world medical signal datasets focusing on medical signal classification shows that TRLS is superior to the existing frameworks.Comment: This paper is accept by ICASSP 2024. This is a more detailed versio

A Uniform Device Information Access for Context-Aware Middleware

This paper presents a middleware for building context-aware applications. One of the main components, Device Information Access (DIA), is discussed in detail. Since many kinds of devices (e.g., RFID, GPS, Bluetooth, etc.) can be used to collect the context information, the middleware defines the Device Information Access component to communicate with different devices. A set of interfaces are devised in DIA, and the common functions such as getting and setting a data element are defined in the interfaces. For each device, we shall provide an implementation of the interfaces to communicate with the corresponding servers or software agents. DIA can communicate with the software agents or servers using various protocols such as RMI, Web Services, and REST. In this way the access to the hardware are encapsulated by the middleware and virtualized to the end-point App ications. The architecture of the middleware and the functions of DIA are discussed, and an empirical application is also developed to validate our design. ? 2010 IEEE.EI