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Climate policy modeling: An online SCI-E and SSCI based literature review
This study utilizes the bibliometric method on climate policy modeling based on the online version of SCI-E from 1981 to 2013 and SSCI from 2002 to 2013, and summarizes several important research topics and methodologies in the field. Publications referring to climate policy modeling are assessed with respect to quantities, disciplines, most productive authors and institutes, and citations. Synthetic analysis of keyword frequency reveals six important research topics in climate policy modeling which are summarized and analyzed. The six topics include integrated assessment of climate policies, uncertainty in climate change, equity across time and space, endogeneity of technological change, greenhouse gases abatement mechanism, and enterprise risk in climate policy models. Additionally, twelve types of models employed in climate policy modeling are discussed. The most widely utilized climate policy models are optimization models, computable general equilibrium (CGE) models, and simulation models
Quantum Critical Spin-2 Chain with Emergent SU(3) Symmetry
We study the quantum critical phase of a SU(2) symmetric spin-2 chain
obtained from spin-2 bosons in a one-dimensional lattice. We obtain the scaling
of the entanglement entropy and finite-size energies by exact diagonalization
and density-matrix renormalization group methods. From the numerical results of
the energy spectrum, central charge, and scaling dimension we identify the
conformal field theory describing the whole critical phase to be the SU(3)
Wess-Zumino-Witten model. We find that while in the whole critical phase the
Hamiltonian is only SU(2) invariant, there is an emergent SU(3) symmetry in the
thermodynamic limit
Realization of Zero-Refractive-Index Lens with Ultralow Spherical Aberration
Optical complex materials offer unprecedented opportunity to engineer
fundamental band dispersion which enables novel optoelectronic functionality
and devices. Exploration of photonic Dirac cone at the center of momentum space
has inspired an exceptional characteristic of zero-index, which is similar to
zero effective mass in fermionic Dirac systems. Such all-dielectric zero-index
photonic crystals provide an in-plane mechanism such that the energy of the
propagating waves can be well confined along the chip direction. A
straightforward example is to achieve the anomalous focusing effect without
longitudinal spherical aberration, when the size of zero-index lens is large
enough. Here, we designed and fabricated a prototype of zero-refractive-index
lens by comprising large-area silicon nanopillar array with plane-concave
profile. Near-zero refractive index was quantitatively measured near 1.55 um
through anomalous focusing effect, predictable by effective medium theory. The
zero-index lens was also demonstrated to perform ultralow longitudinal
spherical aberration. Such IC compatible device provides a new route to
integrate all-silicon zero-index materials into optical communication, sensing,
and modulation, and to study fundamental physics on the emergent fields of
topological photonics and valley photonics.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figure
Self-training with dual uncertainty for semi-supervised medical image segmentation
In the field of semi-supervised medical image segmentation, the shortage of
labeled data is the fundamental problem. How to effectively learn image
features from unlabeled images to improve segmentation accuracy is the main
research direction in this field. Traditional self-training methods can
partially solve the problem of insufficient labeled data by generating pseudo
labels for iterative training. However, noise generated due to the model's
uncertainty during training directly affects the segmentation results.
Therefore, we added sample-level and pixel-level uncertainty to stabilize the
training process based on the self-training framework. Specifically, we saved
several moments of the model during pre-training, and used the difference
between their predictions on unlabeled samples as the sample-level uncertainty
estimate for that sample. Then, we gradually add unlabeled samples from easy to
hard during training. At the same time, we added a decoder with different
upsampling methods to the segmentation network and used the difference between
the outputs of the two decoders as pixel-level uncertainty. In short, we
selectively retrained unlabeled samples and assigned pixel-level uncertainty to
pseudo labels to optimize the self-training process. We compared the
segmentation results of our model with five semi-supervised approaches on the
public 2017 ACDC dataset and 2018 Prostate dataset. Our proposed method
achieves better segmentation performance on both datasets under the same
settings, demonstrating its effectiveness, robustness, and potential
transferability to other medical image segmentation tasks. Keywords: Medical
image segmentation, semi-supervised learning, self-training, uncertainty
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