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Treatment of juxtafoveal central serous chorioretinopathy by compound anisodine injection
AIM: To investigate the efficiency and security of compound anisodine injection in the treatment of juxtafoveal central serous chorioretinopathy(CSC). <p>METHODS: Sixty patients(60 eyes)who were diagnosed of juxtafoveal CSC were assigned randomly into 2 groups: 32 cases(32 eyes, therapeutic group)were injected subcutaneously compound anisodine injection for 2mL q.d around superficial temporal arteries in the affected eyes; 28 cases(28 eyes, control group)received only traditional oral medication. Both groups received therapy for 2 to 4 courses of treatment. The main observations were the best corrected visual acuity(BCVA), subjective symptom, visual field, average light sensitivity and optical coherent topography(OCT).<p>RESULTS: There was no significant difference between the therapeutic group and the control group before treatment(<i>P</i>>0.05), but all the outcome measures at 1, 3mo in the treatment group were significantly improved as compared with control group(<i>P</i><0.05). After 6mo, there were no significant difference between the two groups in all measures(<i>P</i>>0.05). No severe adverse reaction was noted except mild ones such as temporary dry mouth, dizziness and palpitation in a few cases.<p>CONCLUSION: Compound anisodine injection has remarkable effects in the treatment of juxtafoveal CSC. It can shorten the course, improved the visual function and decreased the recurrence rate of CSC
Vehicular Fog Computing Enabled Real-time Collision Warning via Trajectory Calibration
Vehicular fog computing (VFC) has been envisioned as a promising paradigm for
enabling a variety of emerging intelligent transportation systems (ITS).
However, due to inevitable as well as non-negligible issues in wireless
communication, including transmission latency and packet loss, it is still
challenging in implementing safety-critical applications, such as real-time
collision warning in vehicular networks. In this paper, we present a vehicular
fog computing architecture, aiming at supporting effective and real-time
collision warning by offloading computation and communication overheads to
distributed fog nodes. With the system architecture, we further propose a
trajectory calibration based collision warning (TCCW) algorithm along with
tailored communication protocols. Specifically, an application-layer
vehicular-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication delay is fitted by the Stable
distribution with real-world field testing data. Then, a packet loss detection
mechanism is designed. Finally, TCCW calibrates real-time vehicle trajectories
based on received vehicle status including GPS coordinates, velocity,
acceleration, heading direction, as well as the estimation of communication
delay and the detection of packet loss. For performance evaluation, we build
the simulation model and implement conventional solutions including cloud-based
warning and fog-based warning without calibration for comparison. Real-vehicle
trajectories are extracted as the input, and the simulation results demonstrate
that the effectiveness of TCCW in terms of the highest precision and recall in
a wide range of scenarios
Deep Item-based Collaborative Filtering for Top-N Recommendation
Item-based Collaborative Filtering(short for ICF) has been widely adopted in
recommender systems in industry, owing to its strength in user interest
modeling and ease in online personalization. By constructing a user's profile
with the items that the user has consumed, ICF recommends items that are
similar to the user's profile. With the prevalence of machine learning in
recent years, significant processes have been made for ICF by learning item
similarity (or representation) from data. Nevertheless, we argue that most
existing works have only considered linear and shallow relationship between
items, which are insufficient to capture the complicated decision-making
process of users.
In this work, we propose a more expressive ICF solution by accounting for the
nonlinear and higher-order relationship among items. Going beyond modeling only
the second-order interaction (e.g. similarity) between two items, we
additionally consider the interaction among all interacted item pairs by using
nonlinear neural networks. Through this way, we can effectively model the
higher-order relationship among items, capturing more complicated effects in
user decision-making. For example, it can differentiate which historical
itemsets in a user's profile are more important in affecting the user to make a
purchase decision on an item. We treat this solution as a deep variant of ICF,
thus term it as DeepICF. To justify our proposal, we perform empirical studies
on two public datasets from MovieLens and Pinterest. Extensive experiments
verify the highly positive effect of higher-order item interaction modeling
with nonlinear neural networks. Moreover, we demonstrate that by more
fine-grained second-order interaction modeling with attention network, the
performance of our DeepICF method can be further improved.Comment: 25 pages, submitted to TOI
Simulation of Transients in Natural Gas Networks via A Semi-analytical Solution Approach
Simulation and control of the transient flow in natural gas networks involve
solving partial differential equations (PDEs). This paper proposes a
semi-analytical solutions (SAS) approach for fast and accurate simulation of
the natural gas transients. The region of interest is divided into a grid, and
an SAS is derived for each grid cell in the form of the multivariate
polynomials, of which the coefficients are identified according to the initial
value and boundary value conditions. The solutions are solved in a
``time-stepping'' manner; that is, within one time step, the coefficients of
the SAS are identified and the initial value of the next time step is
evaluated. This approach achieves a much larger grid cell than the widely used
finite difference method, and thus enhances the computational efficiency
significantly. To further reduce the computation burden, the nonlinear terms in
the model are simplified, which induces another SAS scheme that can greatly
reduce the time consumption and have minor impact on accuracy. The simulation
results on a single pipeline case and a 6-node network case validate the
advantages of the proposed SAS approach in accuracy and computational
efficiency
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