Self Meta Pseudo Labels: Meta Pseudo Labels Without The Teacher

We present Self Meta Pseudo Labels, a novel semi-supervised learning method similar to Meta Pseudo Labels but without the teacher model. We introduce a novel way to use a single model for both generating pseudo labels and classification, allowing us to store only one model in memory instead of two. Our method attains similar performance to the Meta Pseudo Labels method while drastically reducing memory usage.Comment: Accepted by IEEE ICMLA 202

Tectonic implications of new Late Cretaceous paleomagnetic constraints from Eastern Liaoning Peninsula, NE China.

International audienceA paleomagnetic study has been carried out in the east of the Tan-Lu fault, in Liaoning Province, NE China, to understand the timing of Tan-Lu fault activity. Samples aging from Early Paleozoic to Late Mesozoic from 51 sites have been analyzed. Paleozoic and Late Permian-Early Triassic rocks are remagnetized by the recent geomagnetic field; however, Late Cretaceous (between 118 and 83 Ma) red tuffaceous sandstone passes a positive fold test, shows no Present Earth Field characteristic remanent magnetization carried by both magnetite and hematite, presents a solo normal polarity, and thus provides the only reliable paleomagnetic data in this study. The paleomagnetic pole calculated from these rocks (λp = 59.4°N, φp = 205.5°E, and A95 = 7.3°) is statistically undistinguishable from all available Cretaceous paleomagnetic data from Eastern Liaoning-Korean Peninsula, indicating that these areas may belong to a single tectonic unit, here named the East Liaoning-Korea (ELK) Block, at least since the Late Cretaceous. Conversely, a significant discrepancy between the ELK Block and Chinese Block (i.e., North and South China Blocks) characterized by a differential rotation (22.5° ± 10.2°) with a negligible latitudinal displacement (0.8° ± 6.1°) is demonstrated. This result indicates, first, that the left-lateral displacement along the Tan-Lu fault, if any, must have occurred before the Late Cretaceous and, second, that the Korean Block can not be considered as a rigid part of North China Block. Sedimentological and structural evidence show that the Meso-Cenozoic triangle shaped plain, consisting of Songliao, Xialiaohe, Sanjiang, Zeya, and other smaller basins developing in northeast China and southeast Russia, south of the Mongol-Okhotsk Belt, experienced a heterogeneous rifting from the Late Jurassic to Tertiary. The variable amount of extension, larger in the northeast (∼300 km) than in the southwest (∼80 km), is probably related to the clockwise rotation of the ELK Block centered at the south of the Bohai Bay Basin. This result shows that a significant segment of the East Eurasian margin (more than 1000 km long) experienced differential rotation in Cenozoic times

Application of C-SVM Classification Algorithm to the Lighting Visual Comfort of University Classrooms

Considering the quality of the classroom light-environment will directly affect students\u27 eye health and learning efficiency, it is a problem to be solved that how to evaluate the visual comfort levels of the classroom light-environment and save lighting energy on the premise of necessary visual comfort. Aiming at these problems above, this study restored the classroom scene through adjustable full-size light-environment simulation laboratory, in which 135 subjects participated in the visual comfort evaluation experiment of the indoor light-environment. After features (illuminance and correlated color temperature) and labels (comfort levels) preprocessed ,we trained and visualized the visual comfort classification models of desktop reading and blackboard reading using the algorithms of C-Support Vector Machine (C-SVM). Through the contour map and the scatter diagram, we get the classification boundary of different comfort levels and the relationship between visual comfort and lighting parameters, which has guiding significance to classroom lighting design and evaluation

Lighting Quality Study of Shopping Malls in China Based on the Evaluation Experiment

The lighting environment of the shopping malls will greatly influence the customer\u27s visual comfort and product sales. This experiment studied the lighting environment of jewelry stores with the highest lighting energy consumption in shopping malls. The jewelry store scene which was built in the Key Laboratory of Building Environment Simulation had a total of 150 lighting conditions. Then, we measured lighting parameters, and subjective evaluation of lighting quality (including lighting comfort and commodities display effect) with 30 participants were carried out. We analyzed the experimental data to get the influence law of lighting parameters on lighting quality. Finally, this paper introduces an emerging ensemble learning algorithm XGBoost (extreme gradient boosting) to construct evaluation models of multiple lighting parameters for lighting quality in jewelry stores, which were verified to have good accuracy. It is of great significance to save energy on the basis of ensuring the lighting quality of the shopping malls

Triassic polyphase deformation in the Feidong-Zhangbaling Massif (eastern China) and its place in the collision between the North China and South China blocks

International audienceThe Feidong-Zhangbaling Massif is located between the Dabieshan and Sulu areas along the Tan-Lu fault in eastern China. Five tectonic-metamorphic events are distinguished there. The earliest deformation (D1) corresponds to a southward compression that occurred during subduction of the South China Block below the North China Block. Top-to-the-south shearing is coeval with Late Permian-Early Triassic blueschist facies metamorphism, and possibly with the development of south-verging recumbent folds in the Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic sedimentary cover of the South China foreland. The main ductile deformation (D2) is an extensional one, characterized by top-to-the-north shearing, coeval with the early stage of exhumation of the high-pressure rocks. A top-to-the-NW ductile shearing, and microfolds overturned to the northwest, belong to a second deformational phase of exhumation (D3) which is distinct from the main event (D2). Previous 40Ar–39Ar mica dates ranging between 245 and 212 Ma suggest Late Permian-Early Triassic ages for the D1 to D3 events. The D4 event produced NE–SW trending folds in the sedimentary cover interpreted as gravity collapse structures. A Late Cretaceous brittle extensional event (D5) controls the opening and infill of continental half-grabens. In the study area, the Tan-Lu fault is a Cretaceous brittle normal fault. The lack of ductile deformation presented along the Tan-Lu fault suggests that it did not play a significant role in the exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks

Compression to extension switch during the Middle Triassic orogeny of Eastern China: the case study of the Jiulingshan massif in the southern foreland of the Dabieshan

The Jiulingshan massif is an E–W trending anticlinorium in the South China Block (SCB) that forms the southern foreland of the Qinling–Dabie orogen. The Jiulingshan consists of Middle Proterozoic (ca. 1 Ga–800 Ma) metamorphic and plutonic rocks unconformably overlain by Sinian to Triassic rocks. In these cover rocks, two episodes of deformation of pre-Late Triassic age are recognized. Namely, a N–S compressional phase characterized by south verging thrusts, upright folds and vertical cleavage followed by an extensional phase characterized by layer parallel slip, collapse folds and extensional allochthons of Proterozoic slate on top of Carboniferous to Middle Triassic carbonates. The extensional tectonics appears to be a mechanical consequence of the compressional tectonics. On a regional scale, the Jiulingshan massif forms one of the domed crustal scale shear zones of the SCB that accommodated the continuing convergence that immediately followed the Qinling–Dabie collision

The Mesozoic palaeorelief of the northern Tian Shan (China)

International audienceThe Tian Shan range offers a natural laboratory to study orogenic processes. Most of the previous studies focused on either the Palaeozoic evolution of the range or its Cenozoic intracontinental evolution linked with the India-Asia collision. In this study, it is shown that detailed field investigations on the relationship between sedimentary cover and basement constrain the Mesozoic evolution of the northern Tian Shan. Sedimentological observations argue for a limited transport distance for Lower and Uppermost Jurassic deposits. Geological sections presented in this paper show that, in preserved locations, Triassic to Jurassic sedimentary series present a continuous onlap type sedimentary unconformity on the top of the basement. At different scales, observations clearly evidence the existence of major palaeorelief during the Mesozoic. According to the present study, the topography of the current Tian Shan range and the associated movements along its northern front structures cannot be considered as the consequence of Cenozoic reactivation alone

Addendum to “Late Cenozoic magnetochronology and paleoenvironmental changes in the northern foreland basin of the Tian Shan Mountains” by Jimin Sun, Qinghai Xu, and Baochun Huang

International audienceSun et al. (2007) constructed a magnetostratigraphic record of the Kuitun River section (Xinjiang Province, China) and reinterpreted a magnetostratigraphic record from the same section previously published by Charreau et al. (2005). In this paper, we show that Sun et al. miscorrelated their column with respect to that of Charreau et al. A compatible correlation, recognized by both sides, is presented

Genetic Fingerprint Concerned with Lymphatic Metastasis of Human Lung Squamous Cancer

Background and objective With the most recent introduction of microarray technology to biology, it becomes possible to perform comprehensive analysis of gene expression in cancer cell. In this study the laser microdissection technique and cDNA microarray analysis were combined to obtain accurate molecular profiles of lymphatic metastasis in patients with lung squamous cell carcinoma. Methods Primary lung squamous cancer tissues and regional lymph nodes were obtained from 10 patients who underwent complete resection of lung cancer. According to the source of lung cancer cells, the samples were classified into three groups: the primary tumor with lymphatic metastasis (TxN+, n=5), the primary tumor without lymphatic metastasis (TxN-, n=5) and matched tumor cells from metastatic lymph nodes (N+, n=5). Total RNA was extracted from laser microdissected tumor samples. Adequate RNA starting material of mRNA from primary tumor or metastatic nodes were labeled and then hybridized into the same microarray containing 6 000 known, named human genes/ESTs. After scanning, data analysis was performed using GeneSpringTM6.2. Results A total of 37 genes were found to be able to separate TxN+ from TxN-. TxN+ have higher levels of genes concerned with structural protein, signal transducer, chaperone and enzyme. TxN- have higher levels of genes coding for cell cycle regulator, transporter, signal transducer and apoptosis regulator. Interestingly, there were no differentially expressed genes between N+ and TxN+. Conclusion The acquisition of the metastatic phenotype might occur early in the development of lung squamous cancer. We raise the hypothesis that the gene-expression signature described herein is valuable to elucidate the molecular mechanisms regarding lymphatic metastasis and to look for novel therapeutic targets