Look at Me,’stories of two"Charlotte"s who are searching for their true self.In this fiction,Egan adopts alternative narratives between first-person narrative and third-person narrative to tell the stories ...Look at Me,’stories of two"Charlotte"s who are searching for their true self.In this fiction,Egan adopts alternative narratives between first-person narrative and third-person narrative to tell the stories of characters.In the process of first-person narrative,Egan uses unreliable first-person narrative to tell the story of the main protagonist.This fiction deals with the issues around image culture in depth.It demonstrates eloquently how often fiction,in its visionary form,speaks of truth.展开更多
AIM:To construct an intelligent segmentation scheme for precise localization of central serous chorioretinopathy(CSC)leakage points,thereby enabling ophthalmologists to deliver accurate laser treatment without navigat...AIM:To construct an intelligent segmentation scheme for precise localization of central serous chorioretinopathy(CSC)leakage points,thereby enabling ophthalmologists to deliver accurate laser treatment without navigational laser equipment.METHODS:A dataset with dual labels(point-level and pixel-level)was first established based on fundus fluorescein angiography(FFA)images of CSC and subsequently divided into training(102 images),validation(40 images),and test(40 images)datasets.An intelligent segmentation method was then developed,based on the You Only Look Once version 8 Pose Estimation(YOLOv8-Pose)model and segment anything model(SAM),to segment CSC leakage points.Next,the YOLOv8-Pose model was trained for 200 epochs,and the best-performing model was selected to form the optimal combination with SAM.Additionally,the classic five types of U-Net series models[i.e.,U-Net,recurrent residual U-Net(R2U-Net),attention U-Net(AttU-Net),recurrent residual attention U-Net(R2AttUNet),and nested U-Net(UNet^(++))]were initialized with three random seeds and trained for 200 epochs,resulting in a total of 15 baseline models for comparison.Finally,based on the metrics including Dice similarity coefficient(DICE),intersection over union(IoU),precision,recall,precisionrecall(PR)curve,and receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve,the proposed method was compared with baseline models through quantitative and qualitative experiments for leakage point segmentation,thereby demonstrating its effectiveness.RESULTS:With the increase of training epochs,the mAP50-95,Recall,and precision of the YOLOv8-Pose model showed a significant increase and tended to stabilize,and it achieved a preliminary localization success rate of 90%(i.e.,36 images)for CSC leakage points in 40 test images.Using manually expert-annotated pixel-level labels as the ground truth,the proposed method achieved outcomes with a DICE of 57.13%,an IoU of 45.31%,a precision of 45.91%,a recall of 93.57%,an area under the PR curve(AUC-PR)of 0.78 and an area under the ROC curve(AUC-ROC)of 0.97,which enables more accurate segmentation of CSC leakage points.CONCLUSION:By combining the precise localization capability of the YOLOv8-Pose model with the robust and flexible segmentation ability of SAM,the proposed method not only demonstrates the effectiveness of the YOLOv8-Pose model in detecting keypoint coordinates of CSC leakage points from the perspective of application innovation but also establishes a novel approach for accurate segmentation of CSC leakage points through the“detect-then-segment”strategy,thereby providing a potential auxiliary means for the automatic and precise realtime localization of leakage points during traditional laser photocoagulation for CSC.展开更多
Artificial intelligence(AI)was a hot topic at this year’s annual meetings of the National People’s Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference,also referred to as t...Artificial intelligence(AI)was a hot topic at this year’s annual meetings of the National People’s Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference,also referred to as the Two Sessions.The recently released AI chatbot DeepSeek has quickly gained global attention and users with its rich features.展开更多
At the beginning of 2017,on behalf of the Editorial Board of Green Energy&Environment(GEE),we wish all of our readers,authors and reviewers a very happy and successful2017.Looking back to 2016,GEE has received man...At the beginning of 2017,on behalf of the Editorial Board of Green Energy&Environment(GEE),we wish all of our readers,authors and reviewers a very happy and successful2017.Looking back to 2016,GEE has received many submissions from many countries all over the world since it was launched in April 2016.In the former three issues published,we remain committed to delivering those articles which should be展开更多
This opinion focuses on the management of low-and intermediate-risk prostate cancer(PCa)groups,emphasizing the need for additional prognostic factors beyond existing risk categories.Molecular biology and multiparametr...This opinion focuses on the management of low-and intermediate-risk prostate cancer(PCa)groups,emphasizing the need for additional prognostic factors beyond existing risk categories.Molecular biology and multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging(mpMRI)applications are still facing challenges or limitations,whereas nomograms,particularly those predicting pelvic lymph node invasion and therefore associating with aggressive biology,could potentially have a prognostic impact on disease progression.We also discuss the impact of the prostate microenvironment,endocrine dependency,and variations in testosterone levels on cancer biology,introducing new concepts such as endogenous testosterone density.展开更多
The "Biofilms, Microbiomes and Oral Diseases: Challenges and Future Perspectives" symposium jointly organized by Penn Dental Medicine and West China School of Stomatology was held on 30 September 2017 at Pen...The "Biofilms, Microbiomes and Oral Diseases: Challenges and Future Perspectives" symposium jointly organized by Penn Dental Medicine and West China School of Stomatology was held on 30 September 2017 at Penn Wharton China Center(PWCC) in Beijing,China. The topics included the pathogenicity of oral biofilms, novel strategies for the control of biofilm-related diseases, oral microbiome and single-cell approaches, and the link between oral diseases and overall health. Researchers from a number of disciplines, representing institutions from China and Penn Dental Medicine, gathered to discuss advances in our understanding of biofilms, as well as future directions for the control of biofilm-related oral and systemic diseases.展开更多
1.Through the construction during the last fourty years andespecially under the guidance of the“Reform and opening”policy,the power generation equipment manufacturing industry of Chinahas achieved tremendous develop...1.Through the construction during the last fourty years andespecially under the guidance of the“Reform and opening”policy,the power generation equipment manufacturing industry of Chinahas achieved tremendous development in the 1980’s.Whatever展开更多
Objective:The importance of a“second look”laparoscopy for adhesion formation after myomectomy by laparotomy in improving fertility is not clearly defined in our context.The aim of this study was to compare spontaneo...Objective:The importance of a“second look”laparoscopy for adhesion formation after myomectomy by laparotomy in improving fertility is not clearly defined in our context.The aim of this study was to compare spontaneous fertility after myomectomy by laparotomy between women who underwent a“second look”laparoscopy and those who did not.Methods:We conducted an analytical cross-sectional study with retrospective data collection from January 1,2008 to December 31,2015,comparing spontaneous fertility between patients who underwent“second-look”laparoscopy after myomectomy by laparotomy to those who did not.Firstly,data was collected from the records of patients included in the study.Secondly,through phone calls,informed consent for each participant was obtained after which inquiries were made regarding their fertility status.Results:After a period of 24 months,23 patients(47.9%)with“second look”laparoscopy conceived,compared to 37 patients(35.2%)without“second look”laparoscopy(p=0.136);and 24 patients(50.0%)with“second look”had term pregnancies compared to 39 patients(37.1%)without“second look”laparoscopy(p=0.134).Conclusion:Spontaneous fertility rates seemed to be improved after a“second look”laparoscopy,however,there was no statistically significant difference between spontaneous fertility rates obtained after myomectomy by laparotomy,irrespective of the fact that the patient had undergone a“second look”laparoscopy or not at Yaounde Gyneco-Obstetric and Pediatric Hospital.展开更多
This issue of Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine has published a case report[1].This report detailed an atypical fatal case of fox-mediated human rabies.It once again reemphasized the importance of zoonotic di...This issue of Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine has published a case report[1].This report detailed an atypical fatal case of fox-mediated human rabies.It once again reemphasized the importance of zoonotic disease transmission by animals(including wildlife),and a need to look introspectively in order to consider innovative solutions aimed at reducing the burden of zoonoses.Rabies continues to significantly impact human lives.展开更多
1 Introduction The Great Salt Lake(GSL)is the defining hydrological feature of the Great Basin,North America’s largest desert--and it is the largest waterbody in the western USA.Despite the early(Eardley,1938)recogni...1 Introduction The Great Salt Lake(GSL)is the defining hydrological feature of the Great Basin,North America’s largest desert--and it is the largest waterbody in the western USA.Despite the early(Eardley,1938)recognition of"bioherms,"algal layers,and mats covering hundreds of square km of lake area,these features have not been the展开更多
The clutter direction-Doppler curves are not aligned on the near range bins for forward looking airborne radar. As a result, the performance of clutter suppression by Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) degrades gre...The clutter direction-Doppler curves are not aligned on the near range bins for forward looking airborne radar. As a result, the performance of clutter suppression by Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) degrades greatly because of the clutter range dependence. To deal with this problem, a new compensated method is proposed in this paper. The method rebuilds the clutter covariance matrix based on spatial high resolution Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) spectrum, and then finds a matrix to transform the covariance matrix of short-range gate to the referred far-range gate. The method can compensate the clutter range dependence well. The simulation results show validity of the method.展开更多
Both populous and fast-growing, China and India share important similarities. Over the years, comparative studies on both countries, especially in terms of economic development, have become a hot topic around the worl...Both populous and fast-growing, China and India share important similarities. Over the years, comparative studies on both countries, especially in terms of economic development, have become a hot topic around the world. China and India issues have aroused intense attention and interest in international academia. Three articles in this issue examine the race between the dragon and the elephant in the arena of economic development, information industry and software. In his article "A closer look at Chinese and Indian economic development," Prof. Huang Qunhui compares China and India’s economic development from national strategic perspectives based on his first-hand research; in "What China and India can learn from each other in the information industry?" Prof. Shen Kaiyan undertakes a comparative analysis of the development of information industries in China and India; lastly, Prof.Fang Hong’s empirical study looks at competition and cooperation in the Chinese and Indian software industries. This selection of essays begins with overall economic development, moves to a closer examination of the information industry, and then concludes with a look at the software industry, giving us an extremely broad yet also detailed comparison of the economies of these two emerging giants.展开更多
On behalf of all the editors and editorial board members, I would like to announce that the inaugural issue of the Journal of Geriatric Cardiology ( JGC ) was published after over two years of preparation, and the JGC...On behalf of all the editors and editorial board members, I would like to announce that the inaugural issue of the Journal of Geriatric Cardiology ( JGC ) was published after over two years of preparation, and the JGC will be continuously published. The JGC was born in accordance with the tough challenge of higher prevalence of cardiac diseases and/or complicated with other organ diseases in the elderly accompanied by the rapid growing number of the aged.展开更多
What is structruralism?Is it a school or a movement?Many critics agreethat structruralism is,in a broad sense,a revolution in the human thinkingprocess.Structuralism is,as Barthe,properly defined in,the activity of re...What is structruralism?Is it a school or a movement?Many critics agreethat structruralism is,in a broad sense,a revolution in the human thinkingprocess.Structuralism is,as Barthe,properly defined in,the activity of re-defining all the cultural phenomena,an activity grounded in the belief th-at like language,a myth,wrestling match,system of tribal kinship orrestaurant menu is a system of signs,In this connection,structuralism ismuch concerned with and influenced by the modern schools of linguisticsespecially by the structural linguistics originated by Sausure.展开更多
■The world’s most prestigious art shows teamed up in Europe this spring to create a European art tour that offered an unparalleled opportunity to examine contemporary art from around the world.It was an endless expe...■The world’s most prestigious art shows teamed up in Europe this spring to create a European art tour that offered an unparalleled opportunity to examine contemporary art from around the world.It was an endless experience of展开更多
The prompt export leap following the phase out of quotas has past, while the quota restriction came back again, so that the exportation of home textiles began to slow down in the first half of 2006.
1. The Role of Human Rights Education in Promoting Human Rights Development 1. Human rights education shapes the soft environment for human rights development
文摘Look at Me,’stories of two"Charlotte"s who are searching for their true self.In this fiction,Egan adopts alternative narratives between first-person narrative and third-person narrative to tell the stories of characters.In the process of first-person narrative,Egan uses unreliable first-person narrative to tell the story of the main protagonist.This fiction deals with the issues around image culture in depth.It demonstrates eloquently how often fiction,in its visionary form,speaks of truth.
基金Supported by the Shenzhen Science and Technology Program(No.JCYJ20240813152704006)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62401259)+2 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.NZ2024036)the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF(No.GZC20242228)High Performance Computing Platform of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics。
文摘AIM:To construct an intelligent segmentation scheme for precise localization of central serous chorioretinopathy(CSC)leakage points,thereby enabling ophthalmologists to deliver accurate laser treatment without navigational laser equipment.METHODS:A dataset with dual labels(point-level and pixel-level)was first established based on fundus fluorescein angiography(FFA)images of CSC and subsequently divided into training(102 images),validation(40 images),and test(40 images)datasets.An intelligent segmentation method was then developed,based on the You Only Look Once version 8 Pose Estimation(YOLOv8-Pose)model and segment anything model(SAM),to segment CSC leakage points.Next,the YOLOv8-Pose model was trained for 200 epochs,and the best-performing model was selected to form the optimal combination with SAM.Additionally,the classic five types of U-Net series models[i.e.,U-Net,recurrent residual U-Net(R2U-Net),attention U-Net(AttU-Net),recurrent residual attention U-Net(R2AttUNet),and nested U-Net(UNet^(++))]were initialized with three random seeds and trained for 200 epochs,resulting in a total of 15 baseline models for comparison.Finally,based on the metrics including Dice similarity coefficient(DICE),intersection over union(IoU),precision,recall,precisionrecall(PR)curve,and receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve,the proposed method was compared with baseline models through quantitative and qualitative experiments for leakage point segmentation,thereby demonstrating its effectiveness.RESULTS:With the increase of training epochs,the mAP50-95,Recall,and precision of the YOLOv8-Pose model showed a significant increase and tended to stabilize,and it achieved a preliminary localization success rate of 90%(i.e.,36 images)for CSC leakage points in 40 test images.Using manually expert-annotated pixel-level labels as the ground truth,the proposed method achieved outcomes with a DICE of 57.13%,an IoU of 45.31%,a precision of 45.91%,a recall of 93.57%,an area under the PR curve(AUC-PR)of 0.78 and an area under the ROC curve(AUC-ROC)of 0.97,which enables more accurate segmentation of CSC leakage points.CONCLUSION:By combining the precise localization capability of the YOLOv8-Pose model with the robust and flexible segmentation ability of SAM,the proposed method not only demonstrates the effectiveness of the YOLOv8-Pose model in detecting keypoint coordinates of CSC leakage points from the perspective of application innovation but also establishes a novel approach for accurate segmentation of CSC leakage points through the“detect-then-segment”strategy,thereby providing a potential auxiliary means for the automatic and precise realtime localization of leakage points during traditional laser photocoagulation for CSC.
文摘Artificial intelligence(AI)was a hot topic at this year’s annual meetings of the National People’s Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference,also referred to as the Two Sessions.The recently released AI chatbot DeepSeek has quickly gained global attention and users with its rich features.
文摘At the beginning of 2017,on behalf of the Editorial Board of Green Energy&Environment(GEE),we wish all of our readers,authors and reviewers a very happy and successful2017.Looking back to 2016,GEE has received many submissions from many countries all over the world since it was launched in April 2016.In the former three issues published,we remain committed to delivering those articles which should be
文摘This opinion focuses on the management of low-and intermediate-risk prostate cancer(PCa)groups,emphasizing the need for additional prognostic factors beyond existing risk categories.Molecular biology and multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging(mpMRI)applications are still facing challenges or limitations,whereas nomograms,particularly those predicting pelvic lymph node invasion and therefore associating with aggressive biology,could potentially have a prognostic impact on disease progression.We also discuss the impact of the prostate microenvironment,endocrine dependency,and variations in testosterone levels on cancer biology,introducing new concepts such as endogenous testosterone density.
基金in part made possible through Penn Global Education Fund
文摘The "Biofilms, Microbiomes and Oral Diseases: Challenges and Future Perspectives" symposium jointly organized by Penn Dental Medicine and West China School of Stomatology was held on 30 September 2017 at Penn Wharton China Center(PWCC) in Beijing,China. The topics included the pathogenicity of oral biofilms, novel strategies for the control of biofilm-related diseases, oral microbiome and single-cell approaches, and the link between oral diseases and overall health. Researchers from a number of disciplines, representing institutions from China and Penn Dental Medicine, gathered to discuss advances in our understanding of biofilms, as well as future directions for the control of biofilm-related oral and systemic diseases.
文摘1.Through the construction during the last fourty years andespecially under the guidance of the“Reform and opening”policy,the power generation equipment manufacturing industry of Chinahas achieved tremendous development in the 1980’s.Whatever
文摘Objective:The importance of a“second look”laparoscopy for adhesion formation after myomectomy by laparotomy in improving fertility is not clearly defined in our context.The aim of this study was to compare spontaneous fertility after myomectomy by laparotomy between women who underwent a“second look”laparoscopy and those who did not.Methods:We conducted an analytical cross-sectional study with retrospective data collection from January 1,2008 to December 31,2015,comparing spontaneous fertility between patients who underwent“second-look”laparoscopy after myomectomy by laparotomy to those who did not.Firstly,data was collected from the records of patients included in the study.Secondly,through phone calls,informed consent for each participant was obtained after which inquiries were made regarding their fertility status.Results:After a period of 24 months,23 patients(47.9%)with“second look”laparoscopy conceived,compared to 37 patients(35.2%)without“second look”laparoscopy(p=0.136);and 24 patients(50.0%)with“second look”had term pregnancies compared to 39 patients(37.1%)without“second look”laparoscopy(p=0.134).Conclusion:Spontaneous fertility rates seemed to be improved after a“second look”laparoscopy,however,there was no statistically significant difference between spontaneous fertility rates obtained after myomectomy by laparotomy,irrespective of the fact that the patient had undergone a“second look”laparoscopy or not at Yaounde Gyneco-Obstetric and Pediatric Hospital.
文摘This issue of Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine has published a case report[1].This report detailed an atypical fatal case of fox-mediated human rabies.It once again reemphasized the importance of zoonotic disease transmission by animals(including wildlife),and a need to look introspectively in order to consider innovative solutions aimed at reducing the burden of zoonoses.Rabies continues to significantly impact human lives.
文摘1 Introduction The Great Salt Lake(GSL)is the defining hydrological feature of the Great Basin,North America’s largest desert--and it is the largest waterbody in the western USA.Despite the early(Eardley,1938)recognition of"bioherms,"algal layers,and mats covering hundreds of square km of lake area,these features have not been the
基金Supported by Education Department of Hunan Province Project (09C201)Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (10jj6091) Planned Science and Technology Project of Hunan Province (2010FJ6015)
文摘The clutter direction-Doppler curves are not aligned on the near range bins for forward looking airborne radar. As a result, the performance of clutter suppression by Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) degrades greatly because of the clutter range dependence. To deal with this problem, a new compensated method is proposed in this paper. The method rebuilds the clutter covariance matrix based on spatial high resolution Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) spectrum, and then finds a matrix to transform the covariance matrix of short-range gate to the referred far-range gate. The method can compensate the clutter range dependence well. The simulation results show validity of the method.
文摘Both populous and fast-growing, China and India share important similarities. Over the years, comparative studies on both countries, especially in terms of economic development, have become a hot topic around the world. China and India issues have aroused intense attention and interest in international academia. Three articles in this issue examine the race between the dragon and the elephant in the arena of economic development, information industry and software. In his article "A closer look at Chinese and Indian economic development," Prof. Huang Qunhui compares China and India’s economic development from national strategic perspectives based on his first-hand research; in "What China and India can learn from each other in the information industry?" Prof. Shen Kaiyan undertakes a comparative analysis of the development of information industries in China and India; lastly, Prof.Fang Hong’s empirical study looks at competition and cooperation in the Chinese and Indian software industries. This selection of essays begins with overall economic development, moves to a closer examination of the information industry, and then concludes with a look at the software industry, giving us an extremely broad yet also detailed comparison of the economies of these two emerging giants.
文摘On behalf of all the editors and editorial board members, I would like to announce that the inaugural issue of the Journal of Geriatric Cardiology ( JGC ) was published after over two years of preparation, and the JGC will be continuously published. The JGC was born in accordance with the tough challenge of higher prevalence of cardiac diseases and/or complicated with other organ diseases in the elderly accompanied by the rapid growing number of the aged.
文摘What is structruralism?Is it a school or a movement?Many critics agreethat structruralism is,in a broad sense,a revolution in the human thinkingprocess.Structuralism is,as Barthe,properly defined in,the activity of re-defining all the cultural phenomena,an activity grounded in the belief th-at like language,a myth,wrestling match,system of tribal kinship orrestaurant menu is a system of signs,In this connection,structuralism ismuch concerned with and influenced by the modern schools of linguisticsespecially by the structural linguistics originated by Sausure.
文摘■The world’s most prestigious art shows teamed up in Europe this spring to create a European art tour that offered an unparalleled opportunity to examine contemporary art from around the world.It was an endless experience of
文摘The prompt export leap following the phase out of quotas has past, while the quota restriction came back again, so that the exportation of home textiles began to slow down in the first half of 2006.
文摘1. The Role of Human Rights Education in Promoting Human Rights Development 1. Human rights education shapes the soft environment for human rights development
