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Symmetry Reduction and Boundary Modes for Fe-Chains on an s-wave Superconductor
We investigate the superconducting phase diagram and boundary modes for a
quasi-1D system formed by three Fe-Chains on an s-wave superconductor,
motivated by the recent Princeton experiment. The onsite
spin-orbit term, inter-chain diagonal hopping couplings, and magnetic disorders
in the Fe-chains are shown to be crucial for the superconducting phases, which
can be topologically trivial or nontrivial in different parameter regimes. For
the topological regime a single Majorana and multiple Andreew bound modes are
obtained in the ends of the chain, while for the trivial phase only low-energy
Andreev bound states survive. Nontrivial symmetry reduction mechanism induced
by the term, diagonal hopping couplings, and magnetic
disorder is uncovered to interpret the present results. Our study also implies
that the zero-bias peak observed in the recent experiment may or may not
reflect the Majorana zero modes in the end of the Fe-chains.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures; some minor errors are correcte
Tunable stacking fault energies by tailoring local chemical order in CrCoNi medium-entropy alloys
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are an intriguing new class of metallic materials
due to their unique mechanical behavior. Achieving a detailed understanding of
structure-property relationships in these materials has been challenged by the
compositional disorder that underlies their unique mechanical behavior.
Accordingly, in this work, we employ first-principles calculations to
investigate the nature of local chemical order and establish its relationship
to the intrinsic and extrinsic stacking fault energy (SFE) in CrCoNi
medium-entropy solid-solution alloys, whose combination of strength, ductility
and toughness properties approach the best on record. We find that the average
intrinsic and extrinsic SFE are both highly tunable, with values ranging from
-43 mJ.m-2 to 30 mJ.m-2 and from -28 mJ.m-2 to 66 mJ.m-2, respectively, as the
degree of local chemical order increases. The state of local ordering also
strongly correlates with the energy difference between the face-centered cubic
(fcc) and hexagonal-close packed (hcp) phases, which affects the occurrence of
transformation-induced plasticity. This theoretical study demonstrates that
chemical short-range order is thermodynamically favored in HEAs and can be
tuned to affect the mechanical behavior of these alloys. It thus addresses the
pressing need to establish robust processing-structure-property relationships
to guide the science-based design of new HEAs with targeted mechanical
behavior.Comment: 23 pages, 5 figure
Loss Rank Mining: A General Hard Example Mining Method for Real-time Detectors
Modern object detectors usually suffer from low accuracy issues, as
foregrounds always drown in tons of backgrounds and become hard examples during
training. Compared with those proposal-based ones, real-time detectors are in
far more serious trouble since they renounce the use of region-proposing stage
which is used to filter a majority of backgrounds for achieving real-time
rates. Though foregrounds as hard examples are in urgent need of being mined
from tons of backgrounds, a considerable number of state-of-the-art real-time
detectors, like YOLO series, have yet to profit from existing hard example
mining methods, as using these methods need detectors fit series of
prerequisites. In this paper, we propose a general hard example mining method
named Loss Rank Mining (LRM) to fill the gap. LRM is a general method for
real-time detectors, as it utilizes the final feature map which exists in all
real-time detectors to mine hard examples. By using LRM, some elements
representing easy examples in final feature map are filtered and detectors are
forced to concentrate on hard examples during training. Extensive experiments
validate the effectiveness of our method. With our method, the improvements of
YOLOv2 detector on auto-driving related dataset KITTI and more general dataset
PASCAL VOC are over 5% and 2% mAP, respectively. In addition, LRM is the first
hard example mining strategy which could fit YOLOv2 perfectly and make it
better applied in series of real scenarios where both real-time rates and
accurate detection are strongly demanded.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
Multilevel Saliency-Guided Self-Supervised Learning for Image Anomaly Detection
Anomaly detection (AD) is a fundamental task in computer vision. It aims to
identify incorrect image data patterns which deviate from the normal ones.
Conventional methods generally address AD by preparing augmented negative
samples to enforce self-supervised learning. However, these techniques
typically do not consider semantics during augmentation, leading to the
generation of unrealistic or invalid negative samples. Consequently, the
feature extraction network can be hindered from embedding critical features. In
this study, inspired by visual attention learning approaches, we propose
CutSwap, which leverages saliency guidance to incorporate semantic cues for
augmentation. Specifically, we first employ LayerCAM to extract multilevel
image features as saliency maps and then perform clustering to obtain multiple
centroids. To fully exploit saliency guidance, on each map, we select a pixel
pair from the cluster with the highest centroid saliency to form a patch pair.
Such a patch pair includes highly similar context information with dense
semantic correlations. The resulting negative sample is created by swapping the
locations of the patch pair. Compared to prior augmentation methods, CutSwap
generates more subtle yet realistic negative samples to facilitate quality
feature learning. Extensive experimental and ablative evaluations demonstrate
that our method achieves state-of-the-art AD performance on two mainstream AD
benchmark datasets
Identification of a Potentially Functional microRNA-mRNA Regulatory Network in Lung Adenocarcinoma Using a Bioinformatics Analysis
Background Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is a common lung cancer with a high mortality, for which microRNAs (miRNAs) play a vital role in its regulation. Multiple messenger RNAs (mRNAs) may be regulated by miRNAs, involved in LUAD tumorigenesis and progression. However, the miRNA-mRNA regulatory network involved in LUAD has not been fully elucidated. Methods Differentially expressed miRNAs and mRNA were derived from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset in tissue samples and from our microarray data in plasma (GSE151963). Then, common differentially expressed (Co-DE) miRNAs were obtained through intersected analyses between the above two datasets. An overlap was applied to confirm the Co-DEmRNAs identified both in targeted mRNAs and DEmRNAs in TCGA. A miRNA-mRNA regulatory network was constructed using Cytoscape. The top five miRNA were identified as hub miRNA by degrees in the network. The functions and signaling pathways associated with the hub miRNA-targeted genes were revealed through Gene Ontology (GO) analysis and the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway. The key mRNAs in the protein-protein interaction (PPI) network were identified using the STRING database and CytoHubba. Survival analyses were performed using Gene Expression Profiling Interactive Analysis (GEPIA). Results The miRNA-mRNA regulatory network consists of 19 Co-DEmiRNAs and 760 Co-DEmRNAs. The five miRNAs (miR-539-5p, miR-656-3p, miR-2110, let-7b-5p, and miR-92b-3p) in the network were identified as hub miRNAs by degrees (>100). The 677 Co-DEmRNAs were targeted mRNAs from the five hub miRNAs, showing the roles in the functional analyses of the GO analysis and KEGG pathways (inclusion criteria: 836 and 48, respectively). The PPI network and Cytoscape analyses revealed that the top ten key mRNAs were NOTCH1, MMP2, IGF1, KDR, SPP1, FLT1, HGF, TEK, ANGPT1, and PDGFB. SPP1 and HGF emerged as hub genes through survival analysis. A high SPP1 expression indicated a poor survival, whereas HGF positively associated with survival outcomes in LUAD. Conclusion This study investigated a miRNA-mRNA regulatory network associated with LUAD, exploring the hub miRNAs and potential functions of mRNA in the network. These findings contribute to identify new prognostic markers and therapeutic targets for LUAD patients in clinical settings.Peer reviewe
Cerebral hemodynamic characteristics of acute mountain sickness upon acute high-altitude exposure at 3,700 m in young Chinese men.
PURPOSE: We aimed at identifying the cerebral hemodynamic characteristics of acute mountain sickness (AMS). METHODS: Transcranial Doppler (TCD) sonography examinations were performed between 18 and 24 h after arrival at 3,700 m via plane from 500 m (n = 454). A subgroup of 151 subjects received TCD examinations at both altitudes. RESULTS: The velocities of the middle cerebral artery, vertebral artery (VA) and basilar artery (BA) increased while the pulsatility indexes (PIs) and resistance indexes (RIs) decreased significantly (all p < 0.05). Velocities of BA were higher in AMS (AMS+) individuals when compared with non-AMS (AMS-) subjects (systolic velocity: 66 ± 12 vs. 69 ± 15 cm/s, diastolic velocity: 29 ± 7 vs. 31 ± 8 cm/s and mean velocity, 42 ± 9 vs. 44 ± 10 cm/s). AMS was characterized by higher diastolic velocity [V d_VA (26 ± 4 vs. 25 ± 4, p = 0.013)] with lower PI and RI (both p = 0.004) in VA. Furthermore, the asymmetry index (AI) of VAs was significantly lower in the AMS + group [-5.7 % (21.0 %) vs. -2.5 % (17.8 %), p = 0.016]. The AMS score was closely correlated with the hemodynamic parameters of BA and the V d_VA, PI, RI and AI of VA. CONCLUSION: AMS is associated with alterations in cerebral hemodynamics in the posterior circulation rather than the anterior one, and is characterized by higher blood velocity with lower resistance. In addition, the asymmetry of VAs may be involved in AMS
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