A Royal Jelly Mixture with Berberine for Dressing Change on a Refractory Skin Ulcer: A Case Report

It has been reported that a 92-year-old female had got a bruise superficialwound on her right leg one and a half years ago, developing into refractoryskin ulcer due to improper management before. A prepared cream, mixedroyal jelly with berberine for dressing change, was made on the scenethrough the crush of berberine tablets, working with fresh royal jelly.Topical dressing change with the cream was done every 3 days, and twomonths later, such the ulcer became clean and was covered fully with freshgranulation tissue. This kind of cream consists of the ingredients of TCMpurely, free of antibiotic, and being quite effective clinically, also helpfulfor proper use of antibiotic

An Introduction of the Vaporized Therapy with Tea Herb Drink for Relieving Agitation due to Pulmonary Encephalopathy

What methods would you choose apart from increasing sedatives foragitation in an advanced patient with hypercapnic encephalopathy dueto AECOPD? This is a 94-year-old female who suffered from COPD forover 30 years, occurred with an accelerated episode of cough, productivesputum and a dropping down to 86% in SatO₂ due to a cold weather. Adiagnosis of pulmonary encephalopathy (PE) was made on the basis of thesubsequent agitation and delirium, and the sedatives, such as quatiepineand haloperidol, had to be given for her mental excitation respectively, butshe still pulled out indwelling needle herself and refused to any infusiontherapy. As an alternative, a vaporized therapy integrated with tea herbdrinking had to be applied to relieving her agitation, being designedas the vaporization of the inhaled oxygenation by means of high-flowoxygenation device (HFOD), with an ampoule of ambroxol mixed into theinhaler and simultaneous drinking of TCM tea herb for reducing sputum,helping dissolve the mucoid bolts inside her terminal bronchioles whenbeing infected. We thought that a better efficacy would be achieved forhypercapnic encephalopathy due to AECOPD if we concentrate on a goodventilation of small airway through the vaporized therapy

On-line Partial Discharge Localization of 10-kV Covered Conductor Lines

This paper proposes an innovative partial discharge (PD) location technique for overhead electrical power distribution networks. It is aimed at improving the condition-based maintenance of the network. PD localization is carried out via an improved double-sided traveling-wave method. The method is driven by a hybrid detection technique, which integrates a pulse-based synchronization mechanism and a global positioning system (GPS). The proposed solution offers a number of benefits. It has the nice inherent feature of being immune to varying physical parameters of the transmission line, and it has been proven be offer improved accuracy with respect of the conventional GPS-based location methods. Also, an in-house designed portable and non-invasive test setup is presented and thoroughly discussed, thus demonstrating the feasibility of the proposed method. Moreover, an enhanced algorithm is embedded into the PD location system to improve robustness to high-level noise. Finally, the proposed tool relies on a well-established automatic procedure which requires neither parameter tuning nor any expert intervention. The features and strengths of the method are validated on a real case consisting of a 2125-m long 10-kV overhead covered conductor line

DDC-PIM: Efficient Algorithm/Architecture Co-design for Doubling Data Capacity of SRAM-based Processing-In-Memory

Processing-in-memory (PIM), as a novel computing paradigm, provides significant performance benefits from the aspect of effective data movement reduction. SRAM-based PIM has been demonstrated as one of the most promising candidates due to its endurance and compatibility. However, the integration density of SRAM-based PIM is much lower than other non-volatile memory-based ones, due to its inherent 6T structure for storing a single bit. Within comparable area constraints, SRAM-based PIM exhibits notably lower capacity. Thus, aiming to unleash its capacity potential, we propose DDC-PIM, an efficient algorithm/architecture co-design methodology that effectively doubles the equivalent data capacity. At the algorithmic level, we propose a filter-wise complementary correlation (FCC) algorithm to obtain a bitwise complementary pair. At the architecture level, we exploit the intrinsic cross-coupled structure of 6T SRAM to store the bitwise complementary pair in their complementary states ($Q/\overline{Q}$), thereby maximizing the data capacity of each SRAM cell. The dual-broadcast input structure and reconfigurable unit support both depthwise and pointwise convolution, adhering to the requirements of various neural networks. Evaluation results show that DDC-PIM yields about $2.84\times$ speedup on MobileNetV2 and $2.69\times$ on EfficientNet-B0 with negligible accuracy loss compared with PIM baseline implementation. Compared with state-of-the-art SRAM-based PIM macros, DDC-PIM achieves up to $8.41\times$ and $2.75\times$ improvement in weight density and area efficiency, respectively.Comment: 14 pages, to be published in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD

Multi-dimensional vibration sensing and simultaneous self-homodyne optical transmission of single wavelength net 5.36 Tb/s signal using telecom 7-core fiber

We present a high-capacity self-homodyne optical transmission system that enables simultaneously multidimensional vibration sensing based on a weakly-coupled 7-core fiber. To our knowledge, we demonstrate for the first-time detection of fiber vibration direction along with strength, frequency, and location of the vibration source, while transmitting in the meantime single-carrier 16 QAM signal reaching a net date rate of 5.36 Tb/s over 41.4 km of telecom 7-core fiber.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure

Variation detection based on next-generation sequencing of type Chinese 1 strains of Toxoplasma gondii with different virulence from China

A: Summary of annotation for SNPs; B: Summary of annotation for indels; C: Summary of annotation for SVs; D: Summary of annotation for CNVs. (DOCX 18 kb

Clomazone impact on fungal network complexity and stability

IntroductionSoil fungal network composition and stability are important for soil functions, but there is less understanding of the impact of clomazone on network complexity and stability.MethodsIn this work, two agricultural soils were used to investigate the impact of clomazone on fungal network complexity, composition, and stability. The two soils were treated with clomazone solution (0, 0.8, 8, and 80  mg kg−1) and kept in an incubator.Results and DiscussionUnder the influence of clomazone, the fungal network nodes were decreased by 12–42; however, the average degree was increased by 0.169–1.468 and fungal network density was increased by 0.003–0.054. The keystone nodes were significantly changed after clomazone treatment. Network composition was also impacted. Specifically, compared with control and clomazone treatments in both soils, the shared edges were fewer than 54 in all comparisons, and network dissimilarity was 0.97–0.98. These results suggested that fungal network composition was significantly impacted. The network robustness was increased by 0.0018–0.0209, and vulnerability was decreased by 0.00018–0.00059 in both soils, which indicated that fungal network stability was increased by clomazone. In addition, the functions of network communities were also changed in both soils. These results indicated that clomazone could significantly impact soil fungal networks

Ultrasonic and CT scanning analysis of coal-rock mass under the primary bedding structure

In order to study the influence of the primary bedding structure on wave velocity and mechanical properties of coal-rock mass, multilayer and multi-directional ultrasonic and CT scanning tests were carried out in laboratory. It also aims to improve the accuracy, rapidity and convenience of obtaining the wave velocity and mechanical parameters of coal-rock mass in laboratory. Based on the ultrasonic test, the characteristics of wave velocity and wave velocity ratio at different layers of coal-rock mass under the primary bedding dip angle were obtained. Combined with CT scanning and 3D reconstruction technology, the calculation method of CT gray mean value in different layers was proposed by using the data of the gray frequency of coal and rock. And the variation law of gray value and coal and rock content of coal-rock mass in different layers under different primary bedding dip angle was obtained. Meanwhile, the relationships between CT gray mean value and wave velocity, mechanical parameters of coal-rock mass were established. Considering the effect of bedding dip angle and the content of coal and rock, the calculation model of longitudinal wave velocity of coal-rock mass was constructed. Then the correctness of the model is verified by comparing the test data. The results show that: ① the wave velocity and wave velocity ratio of coal-rock mass with primary bedding are linearly related to bedding dip angle; with the increase of bedding dip angle, the longitudinal wave velocity of coal-rock mass decreases linearly, while the distribution range of wave velocity ratio expands; ② the mean wave velocity of CT is linearly correlated under different bedding dip angles, and the wave velocity of coal-rock mass increases linearly with the increases of CT gray mean value; ③ the density of coal-rock mass increases linearly with the increase of CT gray mean value, the dynamic elastic modulus and shear modulus of coal-rock mass have third order polynomial relationships with the mean value of CT gray level, and they tend to increase with the increase of the mean value of CT gray level; ④ compared with the bedding dip angle, the wave velocity of coal-rock mass is more sensitive to the coal and rock content, and the wave velocity changes largest during the content of coal and rock similar