84 research outputs found
Well-posedness and exponential stability of the inhomogeneous anisotropic incompressible Navier-Stokes equation with far-field vacuum in two-dimensional whole space
In this paper, we investigate the well-posedness theory and exponential
stability for the inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equation with only
horizontal dissipative structure. Due to the lack of the vertical dissipative
term and appearance of vacuum, it is a highly challenging tricky problem for us
to study the well-posedness, stability and large-time behavior problems in
two-dimensional whole space. The local-in-time well-posedness theory is
successfully established at first because we develop some good estimates for
the density and vorticity to control the nonlinear term. Finally, these good
estimates of density and vorticity help us to establish the global-in-time
well-posedness and exponential stability if the initial velocity is suitable
small
Wireless Deep Speech Semantic Transmission
In this paper, we propose a new class of high-efficiency semantic coded
transmission methods for end-to-end speech transmission over wireless channels.
We name the whole system as deep speech semantic transmission (DSST).
Specifically, we introduce a nonlinear transform to map the speech source to
semantic latent space and feed semantic features into source-channel encoder to
generate the channel-input sequence. Guided by the variational modeling idea,
we build an entropy model on the latent space to estimate the importance
diversity among semantic feature embeddings. Accordingly, these semantic
features of different importance can be allocated with different coding rates
reasonably, which maximizes the system coding gain. Furthermore, we introduce a
channel signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) adaptation mechanism such that a single
model can be applied over various channel states. The end-to-end optimization
of our model leads to a flexible rate-distortion (RD) trade-off, supporting
versatile wireless speech semantic transmission. Experimental results verify
that our DSST system clearly outperforms current engineered speech transmission
systems on both objective and subjective metrics. Compared with existing neural
speech semantic transmission methods, our model saves up to 75% of channel
bandwidth costs when achieving the same quality. An intuitive comparison of
audio demos can be found at https://ximoo123.github.io/DSST
Can environmental supervision improve air quality? Quasi-experimental evidence from China
Environmental supervision is significantly disrupted by local economic development and typically characterized by a lack of independence in China. This paper investigates the impacts and mechanisms of the vertical management reform of environmental protection department in China on urban air quality. We construct a principal–agent model suitable for explaining the interactions between the central and local governments and elaborate the intrinsic mechanism of EVM on strengthening environmental supervision. Using manually collected data, we conduct EVM as a quasi-experiment and construct a time-varying difference-in-difference (DID) model. Our empirical results show that the EVM significantly strengthens regional environmental supervision and reduces urban air pollution, bringing abatement in the PM2.5 concentration. The mechanism shows that EVM increases enterprises’ green innovation and attracts new entrants, further promoting industrial upgrading. Our study provides a new perspective on environmental governance and urban air quality in emerging countries such as China
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