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Small and Medium-Sized City: The Main Battle Field of the New Urbanization Construction
Small and medium-sized cities have played important roles in China’s new urbanization strategies. Small and medium-sized cities can not only help large cities avert over-concentration of population, but also avoid excessively decentralizing rural industrialization in small towns. To develop small and medium-sized cities, characteristic industries and vocational education are required so that people can get employed in the cities and become residents easily. City infrastructure and public services are necessary for urban residents. Public-Private Partnership may solve the problems of fund shortage that the local government is facing during the construction
StereoVoxelNet: Real-Time Obstacle Detection Based on Occupancy Voxels from a Stereo Camera Using Deep Neural Networks
Obstacle detection is a safety-critical problem in robot navigation, where
stereo matching is a popular vision-based approach. While deep neural networks
have shown impressive results in computer vision, most of the previous obstacle
detection works only leverage traditional stereo matching techniques to meet
the computational constraints for real-time feedback. This paper proposes a
computationally efficient method that leverages a deep neural network to detect
occupancy from stereo images directly. Instead of learning the point cloud
correspondence from the stereo data, our approach extracts the compact obstacle
distribution based on volumetric representations. In addition, we prune the
computation of safety irrelevant spaces in a coarse-to-fine manner based on
octrees generated by the decoder. As a result, we achieve real-time performance
on the onboard computer (NVIDIA Jetson TX2). Our approach detects obstacles
accurately in the range of 32 meters and achieves better IoU (Intersection over
Union) and CD (Chamfer Distance) scores with only 2% of the computation cost of
the state-of-the-art stereo model. Furthermore, we validate our method's
robustness and real-world feasibility through autonomous navigation experiments
with a real robot. Hence, our work contributes toward closing the gap between
the stereo-based system in robot perception and state-of-the-art stereo models
in computer vision. To counter the scarcity of high-quality real-world indoor
stereo datasets, we collect a 1.36 hours stereo dataset with a Jackal robot
which is used to fine-tune our model. The dataset, the code, and more
visualizations are available at https://lhy.xyz/stereovoxelnet
The operation modal analysis of the structure crack fault diagnosis based on pseudo-successive data
In order to monitor the crack propagation of the structure in the working state for a long time, an operation modal analysis method based on pseudo-successive data is proposed. The vibration response signals of the cantilever beam under white noise excitation are collected and the modal parameters are extracted by the time-frequency operation modal analysis method based on the complex Morlet wavelet. In comparison with the experimental modal analysis results of hammering method, it is revealed that the error of the time-frequency operation modal analysis method is less than 10 %. By setting cracks of different lengths on the cantilever beam, the vibration response signals are extracted, and the modal parameters are extracted by the operation modal analysis method separately. By comparing those modal parameters above, it is found that the natural frequencies of the second, the fourth and the sixth orders decrease with the increase of the crack depth, and the changes of natural frequencies show the monotonicity. So, it can be used as an index for quantitative identification of crack damage. The pseudo continuous data monitoring signals of crack propagation can be constructed by means of “first discrete, then continuous”. The modal parameters changes of the whole crack propagation can be observed in one time plane by means of the operation modal analysis method. Therefore, the effective monitoring and diagnosis of the structure can be completed in case of excessive data of long-time vibration monitoring signals
A Fully Discrete Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Nonlinear Fractional Fokker-Planck Equation
The fractional Fokker-Planck equation is often used to characterize anomalous diffusion. In this paper, a fully discrete approximation
for the nonlinear spatial fractional Fokker-Planck equation is given, where the discontinuous Galerkin finite element approach is utilized in time domain and the Galerkin finite element approach is utilized in spatial domain. The priori error estimate is derived in detail. Numerical examples are presented which are inline with the theoretical convergence rate
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Cortical Neural Stem Cell Lineage Progression Is Regulated by Extrinsic Signaling Molecule Sonic Hedgehog.
Neural stem cells (NSCs) in the prenatal neocortex progressively generate different subtypes of glutamatergic projection neurons. Following that, NSCs have a major switch in their progenitor properties and produce Îł-aminobutyric acid (GABAergic) interneurons for the olfactory bulb (OB), cortical oligodendrocytes, and astrocytes. Herein, we provide evidence for the molecular mechanism that underlies this switch in the state of neocortical NSCs. We show that, at around E16.5, mouse neocortical NSCs start to generate GSX2-expressing (GSX2+) intermediate progenitor cells (IPCs). In vivo lineage-tracing study revealed that GSX2+ IPC population gives rise not only to OB interneurons but also to cortical oligodendrocytes and astrocytes, suggesting that they are a tri-potential population. We demonstrated that Sonic hedgehog signaling is both necessary and sufficient for the generation of GSX2+ IPCs by reducing GLI3R protein levels. Using single-cell RNA sequencing, we identify the transcriptional profile of GSX2+ IPCs and the process of the lineage switch of cortical NSCs
A Life-Cycle Energy and Inventory Analysis of Adiabatic Quantum-Flux-Parametron Circuits
The production process of superconductive integrated circuits is complex and
consumes significant amounts of resources and energy. Therefore, it is crucial
to evaluate the environmental impact of this emerging technology. An attractive
option for the next generation of superconductive technology is Adiabatic
Quantum-Flux-Parametron (AQFP) devices. This study is the first to present a
comprehensive process-based life-cycle assessment (LCA) and inventory analysis
of AQFP integrated circuits. To generate relevant outcomes, we conduct a
comparative LCA that included the bulk CMOS technology. The inventory analysis
considered the manufacturing, assembly, and use phases of the circuits. To
ensure a fair assessment, we choose the 32-bit AQFP RISC-V single-core
processor as the reference functional unit and compare its performance with
that of a CMOS counterpart. Our findings reveal that the AQFP processor
consumes several orders of magnitude less energy during the use phase than its
CMOS counterpart. Consequently, the total life cycle energy (which encompasses
manufacturing and assembly energies) of AQFP integrated circuits improves at
least by two orders of magnitude
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