41 research outputs found
Enhancing Phrase Representation by Information Bottleneck Guided Text Diffusion Process for Keyphrase Extraction
Keyphrase extraction (KPE) is an important task in Natural Language
Processing for many scenarios, which aims to extract keyphrases that are
present in a given document. Many existing supervised methods treat KPE as
sequential labeling, span-level classification, or generative tasks. However,
these methods lack the ability to utilize keyphrase information, which may
result in biased results. In this study, we propose Diff-KPE, which leverages
the supervised Variational Information Bottleneck (VIB) to guide the text
diffusion process for generating enhanced keyphrase representations. Diff-KPE
first generates the desired keyphrase embeddings conditioned on the entire
document and then injects the generated keyphrase embeddings into each phrase
representation. A ranking network and VIB are then optimized together with rank
loss and classification loss, respectively. This design of Diff-KPE allows us
to rank each candidate phrase by utilizing both the information of keyphrases
and the document. Experiments show that Diff-KPE outperforms existing KPE
methods on a large open domain keyphrase extraction benchmark, OpenKP, and a
scientific domain dataset, KP20K.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figure
Vitamin C Prevents Hypogonadal Bone Loss
Epidemiologic studies correlate low vitamin C intake with bone loss. The genetic deletion of enzymes involved in de novo vitamin C synthesis in mice, likewise, causes severe osteoporosis. However, very few studies have evaluated a protective role of this dietary supplement on the skeleton. Here, we show that the ingestion of vitamin C prevents the low-turnover bone loss following ovariectomy in mice. We show that this prevention in areal bone mineral density and micro-CT parameters results from the stimulation of bone formation, demonstrable in vivo by histomorphometry, bone marker measurements, and quantitative PCR. Notably, the reductions in the bone formation rate, plasma osteocalcin levels, and ex vivo osteoblast gene expression 8 weeks post-ovariectomy are all returned to levels of sham-operated controls. The study establishes vitamin C as a skeletal anabolic agent. © 2012 Zhu et al
NAVI: Category-Agnostic Image Collections with High-Quality 3D Shape and Pose Annotations
Recent advances in neural reconstruction enable high-quality 3D object
reconstruction from casually captured image collections. Current techniques
mostly analyze their progress on relatively simple image collections where
Structure-from-Motion (SfM) techniques can provide ground-truth (GT) camera
poses. We note that SfM techniques tend to fail on in-the-wild image
collections such as image search results with varying backgrounds and
illuminations. To enable systematic research progress on 3D reconstruction from
casual image captures, we propose NAVI: a new dataset of category-agnostic
image collections of objects with high-quality 3D scans along with per-image
2D-3D alignments providing near-perfect GT camera parameters. These 2D-3D
alignments allow us to extract accurate derivative annotations such as dense
pixel correspondences, depth and segmentation maps. We demonstrate the use of
NAVI image collections on different problem settings and show that NAVI enables
more thorough evaluations that were not possible with existing datasets. We
believe NAVI is beneficial for systematic research progress on 3D
reconstruction and correspondence estimation. Project page:
https://navidataset.github.ioComment: NeurIPS 2023 camera ready. Project page:
https://navidataset.github.i
Vitamin C Prevents Hypogonadal Bone Loss
Abstract Epidemiologic studies correlate low vitamin C intake with bone loss. The genetic deletion of enzymes involved in de novo vitamin C synthesis in mice, likewise, causes severe osteoporosis. However, very few studies have evaluated a protective role of this dietary supplement on the skeleton. Here, we show that the ingestion of vitamin C prevents the low-turnover bone loss following ovariectomy in mice. We show that this prevention in areal bone mineral density and micro-CT parameters results from the stimulation of bone formation, demonstrable in vivo by histomorphometry, bone marker measurements, and quantitative PCR. Notably, the reductions in the bone formation rate, plasma osteocalcin levels, and ex vivo osteoblast gene expression 8 weeks post-ovariectomy are all returned to levels of sham-operated controls. The study establishes vitamin C as a skeletal anabolic agent
Robust estimation of bacterial cell count from optical density
Optical density (OD) is widely used to estimate the density of cells in liquid culture, but cannot be compared between instruments without a standardized calibration protocol and is challenging to relate to actual cell count. We address this with an interlaboratory study comparing three simple, low-cost, and highly accessible OD calibration protocols across 244 laboratories, applied to eight strains of constitutive GFP-expressing E. coli. Based on our results, we recommend calibrating OD to estimated cell count using serial dilution of silica microspheres, which produces highly precise calibration (95.5% of residuals <1.2-fold), is easily assessed for quality control, also assesses instrument effective linear range, and can be combined with fluorescence calibration to obtain units of Molecules of Equivalent Fluorescein (MEFL) per cell, allowing direct comparison and data fusion with flow cytometry measurements: in our study, fluorescence per cell measurements showed only a 1.07-fold mean difference between plate reader and flow cytometry data
In situ formation of a carbon fiber@Ni3S2non-woven electrode with ultrahigh areal and volumetric capacitance
A carbon fiber@Ni3S2 non-woven structured electrode was prepared by electroplating a nickel layer on the surface of carbon paper fibers, and then carbon fiber@Ni3S2 was in situ formed by a vulcanization reaction. The Ni3S2 layer shows ultrahigh volume/area capacitance, 911 F cm−3/15.5 F cm−2, which is 4 times higher than published data, and displays good cycle performance