Evaluating a color-based active basis model for object recognition

Wu and coworkers introduced an active basis model (ABM) for object recognition in 2010, in which the learning algorithm tends to sketch edges in textures. A grey-value local power spectrum was used to find a common template and deformable templates from a set of training images and to detect an object in new images by template matching. In this paper, we propose a color-based active basis model (color-based ABM for short), which incorporates color information. We adopt the framework of Wu et al. in the learning, detection, and classification of the color-based ABM. However, in order to improve the performance in object recognition, we modify the framework of Wu et al. by using different color-based features in both the learning and template matching algorithms. In this color-based ABM approach, two types of learning (i.e., supervised learning and unsupervised learning) are also explored. Moreover, the usefulness of the color-based ABM for practical object recognition in computer vision applications is demonstrated and its significant improvement in recognizing objects is reported.     

A power-free deposited microbead plug-based microfluidic chip for whole-blood immunoassay

We present a deposited microbead plug (DMBP)-based microfluidic chip capable of performing plasma extraction and on-chip immunoassay. The DMBP used as a porous blood filter provides pure blood plasma without the contamination of blood cells or beads. Capillary-driven flow eliminates the requirement of external pumps. The human IgG and goat anti-human IgG sample-to-answer assay was performed in this chip within 600 s using only a 10 μl whole-blood sample. This easy-to-use, rapid, inexpensive, and disposable DMBP-based chip holds a great promise for point-of-care application.     

The α- to β-Si3N4 transformation in the presence of liquid silicon

The compacts consisted of , -Si₃N₄ and free silicon are heat treated in the range 1650° C to 1750° C in an argon atmosphere in order to observe the following behaviours; the to phase transformation and variations of the microstructure during heat treatment in silicon nitride. For the microstructural observation of the heat treated specimens, the same grains in the polished surface were investigated before and after eliminating the retained silicon by etching. The to phase transformation, in this case, occurs via silicon melts irrespective of added -Si₃N₄. Both and phases are soluted and precipitated into molten silicon and their morphology are changed from an equiaxed shape to prismatic one. Although elongated grains are precipitated at low temperature or in the early stage of heat treatment, fine precipitated grains are mainly observed with increasing heat treating temperature.     

SERT结晶器液位控制系统

介绍一种梅山冶金公司板坯连同上应用的新型的结晶器液位控制系统，它由浮式式液位检测装置，ＲＳＥ１０００控制器和电动塞棒执行机构所组成，由法国ＳＥＲＴ公司成套制造。     

硝基联苯、氨基联苯及啶酰菌胺的高效液相色谱分析方法

建立了一种高效液相色谱定量方法,测定以4-氯-2'-硝基联苯制备4-氯-2'-氨基联苯合成啶酰菌胺路线各步反应中的有效成分含量.采用InertSustain ODS-C18不锈钢柱(250 mm×4.6 mm i.d.×5μm)和二极管阵列检测器,以乙腈和0.02％磷酸水为流动相,流速为1.0 mL/min,在220 nm波长下对中间体4-氯-2'-硝基联苯进行分离和定量分析;在254 nm波长下对中间体4-氯-2'-氨基联苯进行分离和定量分析;在254 nm波长下对啶酰菌胺进行分离和定量.分析结果表明,4-氯-2'-硝基联苯保留时间约24.3 min,线性相关系数为1.0000,标准偏差为0.04,变异系数为0.34％,平均回收率为100.04％;4-氯-2'-氨基联苯保留时间约18.0 min,线性相关系数为1.0000,标准偏差为0.05,变异系数为0.33％,平均回收率为99.94％;啶酰菌胺保留时间约11.9 min,线性相关系数为1.0000,标准偏差为0.21,变异系数为0.32％,平均回收率为100.09％.方法 操作简便,精密度与准确度较高,满足定量分析要求.     

预测帧编码中基于场景信息的宏块模式跳过算法*

在对场景信息进行分析的基础上,提出了H.264/AVC中预测帧的一种快速算法.对于未发生场景切换的预测帧,采用INTRA模式跳过算法(IMSA),跳过该帧中所有的INTRA模式的决策过程.对于发生场景切换的预测帧,跳过INTER模式的决策过程(PMSA).仿真结果显示,与采用完整的率失真优化(RDO)决策过程相比,未发生场景切换时,所提方法能减少30%～60%的编码时间;发生场景切换时,能减少60%～70%的编码时间,并且未导致明显的图像质量下降和码率的增加.     

基于电网电力设备“两态”管理体制的安全生产责任体系建设的研究与应用

介绍了安全生产责任体系建设的基本内容,分析了电网电力设备安全生产现状及存在问题,并结合相关实践经验,分别从强化电网电力设备状态检修等多个角度与方面,探讨了电网电力设备安全生产责任体系建设策略。     

Soluble Prokaryotic Overexpression and Purification of Human GM-CSF Using the Protein Disulfide Isomerase b′a′ Domain

Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a member of the colony-stimulating factor (CSF) family, which functions to enhance the proliferation and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells and other hematopoietic lineages such as neutrophils, dendritic cells, or macrophages. These proteins have thus generated considerable interest in clinical therapy research. A current obstacle to the prokaryotic production of human GM-CSF (hGM-CSF) is its low solubility when overexpressed and subsequent complex refolding processes. In our present study, the solubility of hGM-CSF was examined when combined with three N-terminal fusion tags in five E. coli strains at three different expression temperatures. In the five E. coli strains BL21 (DE3), ClearColi BL21 (DE3), LOBSTR, SHuffle T7 and Origami2 (DE3), the hexahistidine-tagged hGM-CSF showed the best expression but was insoluble in all cases at each examined temperature. Tagging with the maltose-binding protein (MBP) and the b′a′ domain of protein disulfide isomerase (PDIb′a′) greatly improved the soluble overexpression of hGM-CSF at 30 °C and 18 °C. The solubility was not improved using the Origami2 (DE3) and SHuffle T7 strains that have been engineered for disulfide bond formation. Two conventional chromatographic steps were used to purify hGM-CSF from the overexpressed PDIb′a′-hGM-CSF produced in ClearColi BL21 (DE3). In the experiment, 0.65 mg of hGM-CSF was isolated from a 0.5 L flask culture of these E. coli and showed a 98% purity by SDS-PAGE analysis and silver staining. The bioactivity of this purified hGM-CSF was measured at an EC₅₀ of 16.4 ± 2 pM by a CCK8 assay in TF-1 human erythroleukemia cells.     

An Engineered Biliverdin-Compatible Cyanobacteriochrome Enables a Unique Ultrafast Reversible Photoswitching Pathway

Cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs) are promising optogenetic tools for their diverse absorption properties with a single compact cofactor-binding domain. We previously uncovered the ultrafast reversible photoswitching dynamics of a red/green photoreceptor AnPixJg2, which binds phycocyanobilin (PCB) that is unavailable in mammalian cells. Biliverdin (BV) is a mammalian cofactor with a similar structure to PCB but exhibits redder absorption. To improve the AnPixJg2 feasibility in mammalian applications, AnPixJg2_BV4 with only four mutations has been engineered to incorporate BV. Herein, we implemented femtosecond transient absorption (fs-TA) and ground state femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (GS-FSRS) to uncover transient electronic dynamics on molecular time scales and key structural motions responsible for the photoconversion of AnPixJg2_BV4 with PCB (Bpcb) and BV (Bbv) cofactors in comparison with the parent AnPixJg2 (Apcb). Bpcb adopts the same photoconversion scheme as Apcb, while BV4 mutations create a less bulky environment around the cofactor D ring that promotes a faster twist. The engineered Bbv employs a reversible clockwise/counterclockwise photoswitching that requires a two-step twist on ~5 and 35 picosecond (ps) time scales. The primary forward P_fr → P_o transition displays equal amplitude weights between the two processes before reaching a conical intersection. In contrast, the primary reverse P_o → P_fr transition shows a 2:1 weight ratio of the ~35 ps over 5 ps component, implying notable changes to the D-ring-twisting pathway. Moreover, we performed pre-resonance GS-FSRS and quantum calculations to identify the Bbv vibrational marker bands at ~659,797, and 1225 cm⁻¹. These modes reveal a stronger H-bonding network around the BV cofactor A ring with BV4 mutations, corroborating the D-ring-dominant reversible photoswitching pathway in the excited state. Implementation of BV4 mutations in other PCB-binding GAF domains like AnPixJg4, AM1_1870g3, and NpF2164g5 could promote similar efficient reversible photoswitching for more directional bioimaging and optogenetic applications, and inspire other bioengineering advances.