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Fatigue in patients with Sjögren’s syndrome and intervention of traditional herbal medicine
Background: Fatigue is the main complaint exiting in patients with primary Sjögren’s Syndrome (pSS) but rarely addressed. Patients described it as an uncontrollable symptom of lack of energy, which has negative impacts on health related quality of life. Todate, many studies have demonstrated that cytokines, depression, sleep and endocrine disturbance interrelated with pSS-related fatigue. However, the pathogenesis remains unclear. With a long history, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as alternative therapy has become increasingly popular among patients with various kinds of disease, especially in pSS. Based on the unique principle of therapy, practitioners have achieved a satisfactory effect on relieving disease related symptoms with Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM).Materials and Methods: In this article, we succinctly reviewed the highly correlated factors to pSS-related fatigue from the standpoint of western medicine. Then, from TCM perspective, we illustrated that theoretic mechanisms lead to fatigue in patients with pSS.Results: According to the theory of TCM, we concluded that CHM as complementary and alternative medicines are attractive options to alleviate pSS-related fatigue.Conclusion: In clinic, physicians should remember to inquire whether their patients are worn out easily. Combination of Yin-tonifying and Qi-tonifying CHM may be the optimal options to pSS-related fatigue.Keywords:Sjögren’s Syndrome, fatigue, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Herbal Medicine, rheumatic disease
Learning a Hybrid Architecture for Sequence Regression and Annotation
When learning a hidden Markov model (HMM), sequen- tial observations can
often be complemented by real-valued summary response variables generated from
the path of hid- den states. Such settings arise in numerous domains, includ-
ing many applications in biology, like motif discovery and genome annotation.
In this paper, we present a flexible frame- work for jointly modeling both
latent sequence features and the functional mapping that relates the summary
response variables to the hidden state sequence. The algorithm is com- patible
with a rich set of mapping functions. Results show that the availability of
additional continuous response vari- ables can simultaneously improve the
annotation of the se- quential observations and yield good prediction
performance in both synthetic data and real-world datasets.Comment: AAAI 201
Towards More Efficient Insertion Transformer with Fractional Positional Encoding
Auto-regressive neural sequence models have been shown to be effective across
text generation tasks. However, their left-to-right decoding order prevents
generation from being parallelized. Insertion Transformer (Stern et al., 2019)
is an attractive alternative that allows outputting multiple tokens in a single
generation step. Nevertheless, due to the incompatibility between absolute
positional encoding and insertion-based generation schemes, it needs to refresh
the encoding of every token in the generated partial hypothesis at each step,
which could be costly. We design a novel reusable positional encoding scheme
for insertion transformers called Fractional Positional Encoding (FPE), which
allows reusing representations calculated in previous steps. Empirical studies
on various text generation tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of FPE, which
leads to floating-point operation reduction and latency improvements on batched
decoding
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