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Integration of ecological innovation, institutional governance, and human capital development for a sustainable environment in Asian Countries
The study evaluates the dynamic influence of institutional quality,
green innovation, and human capital on the ecological footprint in
South Asian countries from 1990 to 2018. For empirical estimation
of panel data, the study applied the cross-section autoregressive
distributed lag (CS-ARDL) estimator to address the issues of crosssection
dependency and slope heterogeneity. The long-run findings
reveal that institutional governance and ecological innovation
reduce the ecological footprint. Likewise, human development
decreases the ecological footprint. The short-run outcomes are
identical to the long-run; however, the short-run estimates’ magnitude
is smaller than the long-run. The results also support the
Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis in the long run. The error
correction term (ECT) with a significant negative value endorsed the
conversion towards the long-run equilibrium position with a 26.5%
annual adjustment rate in case of short-run deviation. The augmented
mean group estimator ensures the robustness of estimates.
The findings recommend that South Asian economies should promote
green technology and human capital through R&D allocations
in industrial and academic sectors
Reduced expression of cardiac ryanodine receptor protects against stress-induced ventricular tachyarrhythmia, but increases the susceptibility to cardiac alternans
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1st Place Solution of The Robust Vision Challenge 2022 Semantic Segmentation Track
This report describes the winning solution to the Robust Vision Challenge
(RVC) semantic segmentation track at ECCV 2022. Our method adopts the
FAN-B-Hybrid model as the encoder and uses SegFormer as the segmentation
framework. The model is trained on a composite dataset consisting of images
from 9 datasets (ADE20K, Cityscapes, Mapillary Vistas, ScanNet, VIPER, WildDash
2, IDD, BDD, and COCO) with a simple dataset balancing strategy. All the
original labels are projected to a 256-class unified label space, and the model
is trained using a cross-entropy loss. Without significant hyperparameter
tuning or any specific loss weighting, our solution ranks the first place on
all the testing semantic segmentation benchmarks from multiple domains (ADE20K,
Cityscapes, Mapillary Vistas, ScanNet, VIPER, and WildDash 2). The proposed
method can serve as a strong baseline for the multi-domain segmentation task
and benefit future works. Code will be available at
https://github.com/lambert-x/RVC_Segmentation.Comment: The Winning Solution to The Robust Vision Challenge 2022 Semantic
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