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A note on the growth factor in Gaussian elimination for generalized Higham matrices
The Higham matrix is a complex symmetric matrix A=B+iC, where both B and C
are real, symmetric and positive definite and is the
imaginary unit. For any Higham matrix A, Ikramov et al. showed that the growth
factor in Gaussian elimination is less than 3. In this paper, based on the
previous results, a new bound of the growth factor is obtained by using the
maximum of the condition numbers of matrixes B and C for the generalized Higham
matrix A, which strengthens this bound to 2 and proves the Higham's conjecture.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures; Submitted to MOC on Dec. 22 201
Establishment of a male Wistar rat model of nanobacteriainduced kidney stones
Purpose: To establish a male Wistar rat model of nanobacteria (NB)-induced kidney stones.
Methods: Sixty male Wistar rats were randomly divided into control group (NC group) given caudal vein injection of saline + saline gavage, and NB-induced stone group (NBS group) given caudal vein injection of NB + saline gavage.
Results: Compared with NC, serum creatinine, blood uric acid, urea nitrogen and urinary calcium levels in NBS group increased between weeks 3 and 8 (p < 0.05). Kidney index (kidney weight/body weight ratio) in the NBS group was higher than that in NC group from weeks 8-10. At week 8, urine pH and serum phosphorus in NBS group were higher than those in NC group (p < 0.05). Between weeks 6 and 7, serum calcium in NBS group was higher than that in NC group (p < 0.05). Calcium crystals in NBS rats were distributed mostly in the distal and proximal convoluted tubules. However, no such crystals were observed in NC rats. Similarly, no such pathological changes were seen in the renal tissue of NC group. Calculus analysis showed that stone formation was higher in NBS group than in NC group (p < 0.05). There was no significant difference in micro-CT between the two groups (p Λ 0.05).
Conclusion: The successful establishment of the Wistar rat kidney stone model using NB cultured from urine of upper urinary tract stone patient is potentially useful for further etiological studies on kidney stone formation
InstructEdit: Improving Automatic Masks for Diffusion-based Image Editing With User Instructions
Recent works have explored text-guided image editing using diffusion models
and generated edited images based on text prompts. However, the models struggle
to accurately locate the regions to be edited and faithfully perform precise
edits. In this work, we propose a framework termed InstructEdit that can do
fine-grained editing based on user instructions. Our proposed framework has
three components: language processor, segmenter, and image editor. The first
component, the language processor, processes the user instruction using a large
language model. The goal of this processing is to parse the user instruction
and output prompts for the segmenter and captions for the image editor. We
adopt ChatGPT and optionally BLIP2 for this step. The second component, the
segmenter, uses the segmentation prompt provided by the language processor. We
employ a state-of-the-art segmentation framework Grounded Segment Anything to
automatically generate a high-quality mask based on the segmentation prompt.
The third component, the image editor, uses the captions from the language
processor and the masks from the segmenter to compute the edited image. We
adopt Stable Diffusion and the mask-guided generation from DiffEdit for this
purpose. Experiments show that our method outperforms previous editing methods
in fine-grained editing applications where the input image contains a complex
object or multiple objects. We improve the mask quality over DiffEdit and thus
improve the quality of edited images. We also show that our framework can
accept multiple forms of user instructions as input. We provide the code at
https://github.com/QianWangX/InstructEdit.Comment: Project page: https://qianwangx.github.io/InstructEdit
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