In machine-vision-based systems for detecting foreign fibers, due to the background of the cotton layer has the absolute advantage in the whole image, while the foreign fiber only account for a very small part, and w...In machine-vision-based systems for detecting foreign fibers, due to the background of the cotton layer has the absolute advantage in the whole image, while the foreign fiber only account for a very small part, and what’s more, the brightness and contrast of the image are all poor. Using the traditional image segmentation method, the segmentation results are very poor. By adopting the maximum entropy and genetic algorithm, the maximum entropy function was used as the fitness function of genetic algorithm. Through continuous optimization, the optimal segmentation threshold is determined. Experimental results prove that the image segmentation of this paper not only fast and accurate, but also has strong adaptability.展开更多
In order to remove the stripe noises in cotton foreign fiber images by line scanning camera collected, in multi threshold segmentation of rough set, every region’s color is instead of the statistics color of the regi...In order to remove the stripe noises in cotton foreign fiber images by line scanning camera collected, in multi threshold segmentation of rough set, every region’s color is instead of the statistics color of the region. This method can retain the detail information of original image as far as possible, and do well in the stripe noise removal. The roughness of rough set was calculated respectively using directional diagram, Canny operator and Sobel operator. Comparing the three methods, the results indicate that the Canny operator keeps the more details of image, and directional diagram and Sobel operator have the better effects on denoising.展开更多
Adaptive mate choice has been accepted as the leading theory to explain the colorful plumage of birds.This theory hypothesizes that conspicuous colors act as signals to advertise the qualities of the owners.However,a ...Adaptive mate choice has been accepted as the leading theory to explain the colorful plumage of birds.This theory hypothesizes that conspicuous colors act as signals to advertise the qualities of the owners.However,a dilemma arises in that conspicuous colors may not only attract mates,but also alert predators.The"private channels of communication"hypothesis proposes that some intraspecific signals may not be visible to heterospecific animals because of different visual systems.To better understand the evolution of plumage colors and sexual selection in birds,here we studied the chromatic difference and achromatic differences of melanin-and carotenoid-based plumage coloration in five minivet species(Pericrocotus spp.)under conspecific and predator visual systems.We found that either the chromatic or achromatic difference among male or female minivets’plumage was consistently higher under conspecific vision than under predator vision for all five studied species of minivets.This result indicated that individual differences in plumage colors of minivets were visible to the conspecific receivers and hidden from potential predators as a result of evolution under predation risk and conspecific communication.However,males were under a higher risk of predation because they were more conspicuous than females to the vision of a nocturnal predator.展开更多
Living and/or non-living animal models are often used as stimuli to observe the behavioral responses of the target animals.In the past,parasites,predators,and harmless controls have been used to test host anti-parasit...Living and/or non-living animal models are often used as stimuli to observe the behavioral responses of the target animals.In the past,parasites,predators,and harmless controls have been used to test host anti-parasitism defense behavior,and their taxidermy specimens have been widely used as a set of standard methods for the study of avian brood parasitism.In recent years,with the rapid development of 3D-printing technology,3D-printed bird models are expected to be applied as a standard method in the study of avian brood parasitism.To evaluate the use of 3D-printed models,this study tests the reaction of Oriental Reed Warbler(Acrocephalus orientalis)towards predators,parasites,or controls,and compares the reaction among different nest intruders and between taxidermy specimens and 3D-printed animal models.It was found that the Oriental Reed Warbler responded most aggressively to the parasite,followed by predator,and finally the control;the results were consistent between the reaction to taxidermy specimens and 3D-printed animal models,indicating that 3D-printed models could serve as a substitute for taxidermy specimens.We propose a series of advantages of using 3D-printed models and suggest them to be a standard method for widespread use in future studies of avian brood parasitism.展开更多
The Antarctic ice sheet is an important target of Antarctic research.Thickness and structure,including intraice and subice,are closely related to the mass balance of the ice sheet,and play an important role in the stu...The Antarctic ice sheet is an important target of Antarctic research.Thickness and structure,including intraice and subice,are closely related to the mass balance of the ice sheet,and play an important role in the study of global sea level and climate change.Subglacial topography is an important basis for studying ice sheet dynamics and ice sheet evolution.This paper briefly reviews the geophysical detection methods and research status of the Antarctic ice sheet:(1)Conventional methods such as ice radar are the main methods for studying the ice sheet today,and passive source seismic methods such as the receiver function method,H/V method and P-wave coda autocorrelation method have good development prospects;(2)the high-resolution(1 km)ice thickness and subglacial topographic database BEDMAP2 established based on various data has greatly improved the ability to detect internal isochronous layers,anisotropic layers,and temperature changes within ice and has advanced research on ice sheet evolution;and(3)ice radar,numerical simulation and core drilling are the main methods to study subglacial lakes and sediments.More than 400 subglacial lakes have been confirmed,and more than 12000 simulation results have been obtained.Research on the Antarctic ice sheet faces enormous challenges and is of great urgency.Aiming at hot issues,such as Antarctic geological evolution,glacial retreat,ice sheet melting and their relationships with global climate change,it is the frontier and trend of future Antarctic ice sheet research to carry out multidisciplinary and multicountry comprehensive geophysical exploration based on the traditional ice radar method combined with passive seismic methods,especially new technologies such as short-period dense array technology,unmanned aerial vehicles and artificial intelligence.This is expected to further promote Antarctic research.展开更多
Objective:It has been documented that ezrin/radixin/moesin(ERM)phosphorylation by the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase(MAPK),Rho/ROCK,and protein kinase C(PKC)pathways leads to filamentous actin(F-actin)reorganiza...Objective:It has been documented that ezrin/radixin/moesin(ERM)phosphorylation by the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase(MAPK),Rho/ROCK,and protein kinase C(PKC)pathways leads to filamentous actin(F-actin)reorganization and microvascular endothelial cell hyperpermeability.In this study,we investigated the effects of Xijiao Dihuang Decoction combined with Yinqiao Powder(XDY)on influenza virus(IV)-induced F-actin restructuring and ERM phosphorylation regulated by the Rho/Rho kinase 1(ROCK),p38 MAPK,and PKC signaling pathways in pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells(PMVECs).Methods:Serum containing XDY(XDY-CS;13.8 g/kg)was acquired using standard protocols for serum pharmacology.Primary PMVECs were obtained from male Wistar rats and cultured.After adsorption of IV A(multiplicity of infection,0.01)for 1 h,medium with 20%XDY-CS was added to the PMVECs.The distributions of F-actin and phosphorylated ERM were determined by confocal microscopy,and F-actin expression was measured by flow cytometry.The expression levels of ROCK1,phosphorylated myosin phosphatase target-subunit(p-MYPT),phosphorylated MAPK kinase,phosphorylated p38(p-p38),phosphorylated PKC(p-PKC),and phosphorylated ERM(p-ERM)were determined by western blotting.Results:F-actin reorganization in IV-infected PMVECs was reversed by XDY-CS treatment,which was accompanied by reduced p-ERM production.The p-ERM protein accumulated at plasma membrane of PMVECs infected with IV,which was also inhibited by XDY-CS treatment.展开更多
Dietary restriction usually suppresses biosynthesis but activates catabolic pathways in animals.However,the short-term starvation enhances biosynthetic activities and promotes ribosomal biogenesis in adult Caenorhabdi...Dietary restriction usually suppresses biosynthesis but activates catabolic pathways in animals.However,the short-term starvation enhances biosynthetic activities and promotes ribosomal biogenesis in adult Caenorhabditis elegans.The mechanism underlying the processes remains largely unknown.Here,we find that the short-term starvation enhances the SL1 trans-splicing of translation-related genes in adult C.elegans by transcriptome analysis.The small nuclear RNA-activating protein complex(SNAPc)promotes SL RNA production and mediates starvation-induced trans-splicing.TOFU-5,a core factor in the upstream sequence transcription complex(USTC)essential for piRNA production,is also involved in the starvationinduced trans-splicing processes.Knocking down components of the SNAPc complex and tofu-5 extends worm survival under starvation conditions.Taken together,our study highlights the importance of SL transsplicing in the nutrition response and reveals a mechanism of the survival regulation by food deprivation via SNAPc and TOFU-5.展开更多
Distress calls,as a type of alarm call,play important roles in expressing bodily condition and conveying information concerning predation threats.In this study,we examined the communication via distress calls in paren...Distress calls,as a type of alarm call,play important roles in expressing bodily condition and conveying information concerning predation threats.In this study,we examined the communication via distress calls in parent–offspring and inter-offspring interactions.First,we used playback of chick distress calls of 2 sympatric breeders,the vinous-throated parrotbill Sinosuthora webbiana and the oriental reed warbler Acrocephalus orientalis,to the adults/chicks of these 2 species,respectively,and measured the responses of conspecifics or heterospecifics.The playback-to-chicks experiment showed that both species of chicks reduced the number of begging calls and begging duration time as a response to conspecific/heterospecific distress calls compared with natural begging and background noise controls.However,reed warbler chicks also reduced beak opening frequency in the response to conspecific distress calls compared with other playback stimuli.Second,the results of the playback-to-adults experiment showed that reed warbler adults could eavesdrop on distress calls of conspecific neighbors and sympatric heterospecifics.Furthermore,the nest-leaving behavior of reed warblers did not differ significantly when they heard the distress calls of conspecifics or parrotbills.Finally,reed warbler adults responded to heterospecific distress calls more quickly than to conspecific distress calls,and parrotbill adults presented the same response.Our results supported the warnkin hypothesis and show that chick distress calls play an important role in conveying risk and the condition of chicks to enhance individual fitness.In addition,we also found that eavesdropping on distress calls is a congenital behavior that begins in the chick stage.展开更多
The microstructure, mechanical, and tribological properties of the carbon nitride （CNx） thin films with different nitrogen contents deposited on high-speed steel substrates by reactive magnetron sputtering were stud...The microstructure, mechanical, and tribological properties of the carbon nitride （CNx） thin films with different nitrogen contents deposited on high-speed steel substrates by reactive magnetron sputtering were studied. CNx films with nitrogen contents from 10.7 to 28.2 at.% had an amorphous structure composing of the carbon bonds of sp2C-C, sp2C-N, and sp3C-N. The TiN inter-layer cause the adhesion of CNx films enhancement. The more nitrogen concentration led to larger film hardness and friction coefficient against GCrl5 steel balls, but the wear rates decreased.展开更多
Since of the scale and the various shapes of down in the image,it is difficult for traditional image recognition method to correctly recognize the type of down image and get the required recognition accuracy,even for ...Since of the scale and the various shapes of down in the image,it is difficult for traditional image recognition method to correctly recognize the type of down image and get the required recognition accuracy,even for the Traditional Convolutional Neural Network(TCNN).To deal with the above problems,a Deep Convolutional Neural Network(DCNN)for down image classification is constructed,and a new weight initialization method is proposed.Firstly,the salient regions of a down image were cut from the image using the visual saliency model.Then,these salient regions of the image were used to train a sparse autoencoder and get a collection of convolutional filters,which accord with the statistical characteristics of dataset.At last,a DCNN with Inception module and its variants was constructed.To improve the recognition accuracy,the depth of the network is deepened.The experiment results indicate that the constructed DCNN increases the recognition accuracy by 2.7% compared to TCNN,when recognizing the down in the images.The convergence rate of the proposed DCNN with the new weight initialization method is improved by 25.5% compared to TCNN.展开更多
文摘In machine-vision-based systems for detecting foreign fibers, due to the background of the cotton layer has the absolute advantage in the whole image, while the foreign fiber only account for a very small part, and what’s more, the brightness and contrast of the image are all poor. Using the traditional image segmentation method, the segmentation results are very poor. By adopting the maximum entropy and genetic algorithm, the maximum entropy function was used as the fitness function of genetic algorithm. Through continuous optimization, the optimal segmentation threshold is determined. Experimental results prove that the image segmentation of this paper not only fast and accurate, but also has strong adaptability.
文摘In order to remove the stripe noises in cotton foreign fiber images by line scanning camera collected, in multi threshold segmentation of rough set, every region’s color is instead of the statistics color of the region. This method can retain the detail information of original image as far as possible, and do well in the stripe noise removal. The roughness of rough set was calculated respectively using directional diagram, Canny operator and Sobel operator. Comparing the three methods, the results indicate that the Canny operator keeps the more details of image, and directional diagram and Sobel operator have the better effects on denoising.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32260127)the Education Department of Hainan Province(HnjgY2022-12)+1 种基金the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(320CXTD437)the Hainan Provincial Innovative Research Program for Graduates(Qhys2022-241)。
文摘Adaptive mate choice has been accepted as the leading theory to explain the colorful plumage of birds.This theory hypothesizes that conspicuous colors act as signals to advertise the qualities of the owners.However,a dilemma arises in that conspicuous colors may not only attract mates,but also alert predators.The"private channels of communication"hypothesis proposes that some intraspecific signals may not be visible to heterospecific animals because of different visual systems.To better understand the evolution of plumage colors and sexual selection in birds,here we studied the chromatic difference and achromatic differences of melanin-and carotenoid-based plumage coloration in five minivet species(Pericrocotus spp.)under conspecific and predator visual systems.We found that either the chromatic or achromatic difference among male or female minivets’plumage was consistently higher under conspecific vision than under predator vision for all five studied species of minivets.This result indicated that individual differences in plumage colors of minivets were visible to the conspecific receivers and hidden from potential predators as a result of evolution under predation risk and conspecific communication.However,males were under a higher risk of predation because they were more conspicuous than females to the vision of a nocturnal predator.
基金This study was supported by the Education Department of Hainan Province(HnjgY2022-12)Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(320CXTD437 and 2019RC189)+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32260127 and 31672303)to CYthe Hainan Provincial Innovative Research Program for Graduates(Qhyb2021-55)to XC.
文摘Living and/or non-living animal models are often used as stimuli to observe the behavioral responses of the target animals.In the past,parasites,predators,and harmless controls have been used to test host anti-parasitism defense behavior,and their taxidermy specimens have been widely used as a set of standard methods for the study of avian brood parasitism.In recent years,with the rapid development of 3D-printing technology,3D-printed bird models are expected to be applied as a standard method in the study of avian brood parasitism.To evaluate the use of 3D-printed models,this study tests the reaction of Oriental Reed Warbler(Acrocephalus orientalis)towards predators,parasites,or controls,and compares the reaction among different nest intruders and between taxidermy specimens and 3D-printed animal models.It was found that the Oriental Reed Warbler responded most aggressively to the parasite,followed by predator,and finally the control;the results were consistent between the reaction to taxidermy specimens and 3D-printed animal models,indicating that 3D-printed models could serve as a substitute for taxidermy specimens.We propose a series of advantages of using 3D-printed models and suggest them to be a standard method for widespread use in future studies of avian brood parasitism.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(91858214,42130807)funded this study.
文摘The Antarctic ice sheet is an important target of Antarctic research.Thickness and structure,including intraice and subice,are closely related to the mass balance of the ice sheet,and play an important role in the study of global sea level and climate change.Subglacial topography is an important basis for studying ice sheet dynamics and ice sheet evolution.This paper briefly reviews the geophysical detection methods and research status of the Antarctic ice sheet:(1)Conventional methods such as ice radar are the main methods for studying the ice sheet today,and passive source seismic methods such as the receiver function method,H/V method and P-wave coda autocorrelation method have good development prospects;(2)the high-resolution(1 km)ice thickness and subglacial topographic database BEDMAP2 established based on various data has greatly improved the ability to detect internal isochronous layers,anisotropic layers,and temperature changes within ice and has advanced research on ice sheet evolution;and(3)ice radar,numerical simulation and core drilling are the main methods to study subglacial lakes and sediments.More than 400 subglacial lakes have been confirmed,and more than 12000 simulation results have been obtained.Research on the Antarctic ice sheet faces enormous challenges and is of great urgency.Aiming at hot issues,such as Antarctic geological evolution,glacial retreat,ice sheet melting and their relationships with global climate change,it is the frontier and trend of future Antarctic ice sheet research to carry out multidisciplinary and multicountry comprehensive geophysical exploration based on the traditional ice radar method combined with passive seismic methods,especially new technologies such as short-period dense array technology,unmanned aerial vehicles and artificial intelligence.This is expected to further promote Antarctic research.
基金This work was supported by funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.81473520 and 81102697).
文摘Objective:It has been documented that ezrin/radixin/moesin(ERM)phosphorylation by the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase(MAPK),Rho/ROCK,and protein kinase C(PKC)pathways leads to filamentous actin(F-actin)reorganization and microvascular endothelial cell hyperpermeability.In this study,we investigated the effects of Xijiao Dihuang Decoction combined with Yinqiao Powder(XDY)on influenza virus(IV)-induced F-actin restructuring and ERM phosphorylation regulated by the Rho/Rho kinase 1(ROCK),p38 MAPK,and PKC signaling pathways in pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells(PMVECs).Methods:Serum containing XDY(XDY-CS;13.8 g/kg)was acquired using standard protocols for serum pharmacology.Primary PMVECs were obtained from male Wistar rats and cultured.After adsorption of IV A(multiplicity of infection,0.01)for 1 h,medium with 20%XDY-CS was added to the PMVECs.The distributions of F-actin and phosphorylated ERM were determined by confocal microscopy,and F-actin expression was measured by flow cytometry.The expression levels of ROCK1,phosphorylated myosin phosphatase target-subunit(p-MYPT),phosphorylated MAPK kinase,phosphorylated p38(p-p38),phosphorylated PKC(p-PKC),and phosphorylated ERM(p-ERM)were determined by western blotting.Results:F-actin reorganization in IV-infected PMVECs was reversed by XDY-CS treatment,which was accompanied by reduced p-ERM production.The p-ERM protein accumulated at plasma membrane of PMVECs infected with IV,which was also inhibited by XDY-CS treatment.
基金supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China (2019YFA0802600)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB39010600)+3 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91940303, 31870812, 32070619, 31871300 and 31900434)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2018M632542)the Anhui Natural Science Foundation (1808085QC82 and 1908085QC96)supported in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
文摘Dietary restriction usually suppresses biosynthesis but activates catabolic pathways in animals.However,the short-term starvation enhances biosynthetic activities and promotes ribosomal biogenesis in adult Caenorhabditis elegans.The mechanism underlying the processes remains largely unknown.Here,we find that the short-term starvation enhances the SL1 trans-splicing of translation-related genes in adult C.elegans by transcriptome analysis.The small nuclear RNA-activating protein complex(SNAPc)promotes SL RNA production and mediates starvation-induced trans-splicing.TOFU-5,a core factor in the upstream sequence transcription complex(USTC)essential for piRNA production,is also involved in the starvationinduced trans-splicing processes.Knocking down components of the SNAPc complex and tofu-5 extends worm survival under starvation conditions.Taken together,our study highlights the importance of SL transsplicing in the nutrition response and reveals a mechanism of the survival regulation by food deprivation via SNAPc and TOFU-5.
基金Financial support was provided by the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(320CXTD437 and 2019RC189 to C.Y.)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31672303 to C.Y.).
文摘Distress calls,as a type of alarm call,play important roles in expressing bodily condition and conveying information concerning predation threats.In this study,we examined the communication via distress calls in parent–offspring and inter-offspring interactions.First,we used playback of chick distress calls of 2 sympatric breeders,the vinous-throated parrotbill Sinosuthora webbiana and the oriental reed warbler Acrocephalus orientalis,to the adults/chicks of these 2 species,respectively,and measured the responses of conspecifics or heterospecifics.The playback-to-chicks experiment showed that both species of chicks reduced the number of begging calls and begging duration time as a response to conspecific/heterospecific distress calls compared with natural begging and background noise controls.However,reed warbler chicks also reduced beak opening frequency in the response to conspecific distress calls compared with other playback stimuli.Second,the results of the playback-to-adults experiment showed that reed warbler adults could eavesdrop on distress calls of conspecific neighbors and sympatric heterospecifics.Furthermore,the nest-leaving behavior of reed warblers did not differ significantly when they heard the distress calls of conspecifics or parrotbills.Finally,reed warbler adults responded to heterospecific distress calls more quickly than to conspecific distress calls,and parrotbill adults presented the same response.Our results supported the warnkin hypothesis and show that chick distress calls play an important role in conveying risk and the condition of chicks to enhance individual fitness.In addition,we also found that eavesdropping on distress calls is a congenital behavior that begins in the chick stage.
基金supported by the International Science and Technology Cooperation Program of China(No. 2008DFA51470)
文摘The microstructure, mechanical, and tribological properties of the carbon nitride （CNx） thin films with different nitrogen contents deposited on high-speed steel substrates by reactive magnetron sputtering were studied. CNx films with nitrogen contents from 10.7 to 28.2 at.% had an amorphous structure composing of the carbon bonds of sp2C-C, sp2C-N, and sp3C-N. The TiN inter-layer cause the adhesion of CNx films enhancement. The more nitrogen concentration led to larger film hardness and friction coefficient against GCrl5 steel balls, but the wear rates decreased.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Provence[grant numbers:F2015201033,F2017201069]the foundation of H3C[grant number:2017A20004]。
文摘Since of the scale and the various shapes of down in the image,it is difficult for traditional image recognition method to correctly recognize the type of down image and get the required recognition accuracy,even for the Traditional Convolutional Neural Network(TCNN).To deal with the above problems,a Deep Convolutional Neural Network(DCNN)for down image classification is constructed,and a new weight initialization method is proposed.Firstly,the salient regions of a down image were cut from the image using the visual saliency model.Then,these salient regions of the image were used to train a sparse autoencoder and get a collection of convolutional filters,which accord with the statistical characteristics of dataset.At last,a DCNN with Inception module and its variants was constructed.To improve the recognition accuracy,the depth of the network is deepened.The experiment results indicate that the constructed DCNN increases the recognition accuracy by 2.7% compared to TCNN,when recognizing the down in the images.The convergence rate of the proposed DCNN with the new weight initialization method is improved by 25.5% compared to TCNN.
