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Reconsideration of the QCD corrections to the decays into light hadrons using the principle of maximum conformality
In the paper, we analyze the decays into light hadrons at the
next-to-leading order QCD corrections by applying the principle of maximum
conformality (PMC). The relativistic correction at the -order level has been included in the discussion, which gives about
contribution to the ratio . The PMC, which satisfies the renormalization
group invariance, is designed to obtain a scale-fixed and scheme-independent
prediction at any fixed order. To avoid the confusion of treating -terms,
we transform the usual pQCD series into the one under the
minimal momentum space subtraction scheme. To compare with the prediction under
conventional scale setting, , after applying the PMC, we obtain
, where the
errors are squared averages of the ones caused by and . The PMC prediction agrees with the recent PDG value within errors, i.e.
. Thus we think the mismatching
of the prediction under conventional scale-setting with the data is due to
improper choice of scale, which however can be solved by using the PMC.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
When Prompt-based Incremental Learning Does Not Meet Strong Pretraining
Incremental learning aims to overcome catastrophic forgetting when learning
deep networks from sequential tasks. With impressive learning efficiency and
performance, prompt-based methods adopt a fixed backbone to sequential tasks by
learning task-specific prompts. However, existing prompt-based methods heavily
rely on strong pretraining (typically trained on ImageNet-21k), and we find
that their models could be trapped if the potential gap between the pretraining
task and unknown future tasks is large. In this work, we develop a learnable
Adaptive Prompt Generator (APG). The key is to unify the prompt retrieval and
prompt learning processes into a learnable prompt generator. Hence, the whole
prompting process can be optimized to reduce the negative effects of the gap
between tasks effectively. To make our APG avoid learning ineffective
knowledge, we maintain a knowledge pool to regularize APG with the feature
distribution of each class. Extensive experiments show that our method
significantly outperforms advanced methods in exemplar-free incremental
learning without (strong) pretraining. Besides, under strong retraining, our
method also has comparable performance to existing prompt-based models, showing
that our method can still benefit from pretraining. Codes can be found at
https://github.com/TOM-tym/APGComment: Accepted to ICCV 202
Butane-1,2,3,4-tetracarboxylic acid–4,4′-bipyridine (1/2)
The hydrothermal reaction of butane-1,2,3,4-tetracarboxylic acid (H4butca), 4,4′-bipyridine (bipy) and Mn(SO4)2·H2O afforded a new co-crystal, C8H10O8·2C10H8N2 or H4butca·2(bipy), in which strong O—H⋯N hydrogen-bonding and weak π–π stacking [centroid–centroid distance = 3.8459 (19) Å] interactions assemble the organic molecules into a three-dimensional supramolecular framework. C—H⋯O interactions are also present. The whole molecule has inversion symmetry
Structure-driven intercalated architecture of septuple-atomic-layer family with diverse properties from semiconductor to topological insulator to Ising superconductor
Motivated by the fact that septuple-atomic-layer MnBiTe can be
structurally viewed as the combination of double-atomic-layer MnTe
intercalating into quintuple-atomic-layer BiTe, we present a general
approach of constructing twelve septuple-atomic-layer - and
- monolayer family (\emph{i} = 1 to 6) by intercalating
MoS-type monolayer into InSe-type AZ monolayer. Besides
reproducing the experimentally synthesized -MoSiN,
-WSiN and -MnBiTe monolayer materials,
another 66 thermodynamically and dynamically stable were predicted,
which span a wide range of properties upon the number of valence electrons
(VEC). with the rules of 32 or 34 VEC are mostly semiconductors with
direct or indirect band gap and, however, with 33 VEC are generally metal,
half-metal ferromagnetism, or spin-gapless semiconductor upon whether or not an
unpaired electron is spin polarized. Moreover, we propose
-WSiP for the spin-valley polarization,
-TaSiN for Ising superconductor and -SrGaSe
for topological insulator.Comment: Maintext 9 pages; 5 figures; Supplementary Materials 8 figures and 4
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Identifying risk factors for cesarean scar pregnancy: a retrospective study of 79 cases
Objectives: To explore the possible risk factors for cesarean scar pregnancy (CSP), the incidence of which is increasing rapidly in China. Material and methods: 79 patients with CSP and 69 non-CSP expectant mothers with at least 1 previous cesarean section were employed in the study. The obstetric histories of the participants were collected and analyzed using Chi square test. Results: We found that 77.2% CSP patients had ≥ 3 pregnancies and only 36.2% women had ≥ 3 pregnacies in non-CSP group. During the previous cesarean delivery, 21.5% of CSP patients had entered the first stage of labor, which was 43.5% in non-CSP group (P < 0.05). Cephalopelvic disproportion occurred in 51.9% of CSP patients, which was significantly higher than that (23.2%) in non-CSP group (P < 0.01). 11.4% of CSP patients had undergone cesarean section due to breech and shoulder presentation in the past, which was only 1.4% in non-CSP group. However, no significance was noted (P > 0.05). We did not find significant differences between the CSP and non-CSP patients in maternal age, multiple cesarean sections, gestational age, emergency or elective caesarean section. Conclusions: Multiple pregnancies, absence of the first stage of labor, and cephalopelvic disproportion might be the risk factors for the occurrence of CSP.
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