Leveraging Label Information for Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to detect the emotional status of a given expression by combining the speech and text information. Intuitively, label information should be capable of helping the model locate the salient tokens/frames relevant to the specific emotion, which finally facilitates the MER task. Inspired by this, we propose a novel approach for MER by leveraging label information. Specifically, we first obtain the representative label embeddings for both text and speech modalities, then learn the label-enhanced text/speech representations for each utterance via label-token and label-frame interactions. Finally, we devise a novel label-guided attentive fusion module to fuse the label-aware text and speech representations for emotion classification. Extensive experiments were conducted on the public IEMOCAP dataset, and experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approach outperforms existing baselines and achieves new state-of-the-art performance.Comment: Accepted by Interspeech 202

Damage Signaling by Extracellular Nucleotides: A Role for Cyclic Nucleotides in Elevating Cytosolic Free Calcium?

Extracellular ATP (eATP) is now held to be a constitutive damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) that is released by wounding, herbivory or pathogen attack. The concentration of eATP must be tightly regulated as either depletion or overload leads to cell death. In Arabidopsis thaliana, sensing of eATP is by two plasma membrane legume-like lectin serine-threonine receptor kinases (P2K1 and P2K2), although other receptors are postulated. The transcriptional response to eATP is dominated by wound- and defense-response genes. Wounding and pathogen attack can involve the cyclic nucleotides cyclic AMP (cAMP) and cyclic GMP (cGMP) which, in common with eATP, can increase cytosolic-free Ca2+ as a second messenger. This perspective on DAMP signaling by eATP considers the possibility that the eATP pathway involves production of cyclic nucleotides to promote opening of cyclic nucleotide-gated channels and so elevates cytosolic-free Ca2+. In silico analysis of P2K1 and P2K2 reveals putative adenylyl and guanylyl kinase sequences that are the hallmarks of "moonlighting" receptors capable of cAMP and cGMP production. Further, an Arabidopsis loss of function cngc mutant was found to have an impaired increase in cytosolic-free Ca2+ in response to eATP. A link between eATP, cyclic nucleotides, and Ca2+ signaling therefore appears credible

Arabidopsis thaliana CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CHANNEL2 mediates extracellular ATP signal transduction in root epidermis.

Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001665Funder: Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002790Damage can be signalled by extracellular ATP (eATP) using plasma membrane (PM) receptors to effect cytosolic free calcium ion ([Ca2+ ]cyt ) increase as a second messenger. The downstream PM Ca2+ channels remain enigmatic. Here, the Arabidopsis thaliana Ca2+ channel subunit CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CHANNEL2 (CNGC2) was identified as a critical component linking eATP receptors to downstream [Ca2+ ]cyt signalling in roots. Extracellular ATP-induced changes in single epidermal cell PM voltage and conductance were measured electrophysiologically, changes in root [Ca2+ ]cyt were measured with aequorin, and root transcriptional changes were determined by quantitative real-time PCR. Two cngc2 loss-of-function mutants were used: cngc2-3 and defence not death1 (which expresses cytosolic aequorin). Extracellular ATP-induced transient depolarization of Arabidopsis root elongation zone epidermal PM voltage was Ca2+ dependent, requiring CNGC2 but not CNGC4 (its channel co-subunit in immunity signalling). Activation of PM Ca2+ influx currents also required CNGC2. The eATP-induced [Ca2+ ]cyt increase and transcriptional response in cngc2 roots were significantly impaired. CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CHANNEL2 is required for eATP-induced epidermal Ca2+ influx, causing depolarization leading to [Ca2+ ]cyt increase and damage-related transcriptional response

Implementation and Analysis of An Efficient Soft-Switching Battery Wireless Charger with Re-Configurable Rectifier

To significantly reduce switching loss of the high frequency inverter in battery wireless charger (BWC), improve the soft-switching stability and system reliability, a novel soft-switching BWC with low loss auxiliary network and reconfigurable rectifier is presented. The presented soft-switching BWC can implement the smooth switching between constant current mode and constant voltage mode without frequency switching and relays, which is beneficial to enhancing the system stability. With the help of a novel low energy consumption auxiliary circuit, the power switch tubes in the H-bridge inverter can implement zero-voltage soft switch- on and zero-current soft switch- off in the full range, completely eliminating switching loss of the inverter. The proposed scheme can enhance the system efficiency while refraining from the soft-switching range limitation and soft-switching failure caused by the system parameter perturbation. Finally, a 1-kW soft-switching BWC principle prototype is developed to validate the effectiveness and correctness of the proposed scheme

A Battery Wireless Charger With Full Load Range Soft-Switching Operation and Zero-Switching-Loss Inverter

To enhance the efficiency and soft-switching stability of the battery wireless charger within the full load range, a soft-switching battery wireless charger (SS-BWC) is presented. The presented SS-BWC can achieve smooth switching from constant current mode to constant voltage mode under the condition of uncomplicated control. The high-frequency inverter (HFI) can operate with zero switching loss in the whole charging process by adopting a novel auxiliary resonant network, which can effectively reduce the switching loss in the HFI and refrain from soft-switching loss due to the compensation element parameter perturbation. Besides, the HFI adopts a new modulation method, and only one power switch tube is in the high-frequency switching state in a switching cycle, which is also conducive to enhancing efficiency. The operating principle of the presented SS-BWC is elaborated in detail, and the realization conditions for soft-switching are also designed. Finally, an experimental device is built to verify the feasibility and superiority of the proposal

Study on Antifatigue Crack Growth Characteristics of Ball-End Milling Bionic Surface

The surface morphology of parts has an important influence on service performance, such as wear resistance, fatigue resistance, and corrosion resistance. For example, the fatigue fracture resistance of the surface of the automobile cover mold directly determines the quality of the workpiece and the service life of the mold. In nature, the pit-shaped non-smooth form of the surface of certain organisms has good fatigue resistance. Using laser processing and other methods to prepare a pit-shaped bionic non-smooth surface on the surface of the part is an effective method to improve the fatigue resistance of the mold surface. Ball-end milling can form a regularly distributed pit-like surface morphology, and has the advantages of high processing efficiency, wide operating range, and low production cost compared with those of laser processing and preparation technology. It provides a new processing method for efficient milling preparation of bionic surfaces. In this paper, the morphology of the quadrilateral pits on the surface of the dung beetle is used as the prototype of the bionic design, and the mechanism of the antifatigue crack propagation characteristics of the quadrilateral pits of the bionic dung beetle is revealed and analyzed. The fatigue crack growth has a good retarding effect. At the same time, through numerical simulation and experimental research on the fatigue crack growth characteristics of the surface of the bionic pit, the results show that the source of fatigue cracks often starts inside the surface of the processed bionic pit, and the surface of the quadrilateral pit on the surface of the bionic dung beetle has good antifatigue crack growth characteristics