Low-Shot Unsupervised Visual Anomaly Detection via Sparse Feature Representation.

Visual anomaly detection is an essential component in modern industrial manufacturing. Existing studies using notions of pairwise similarity distance between a test feature and nominal features have achieved great breakthroughs. However, the absolute similarity distance lacks certain generalizations, making it challenging to extend the comparison beyond the available samples.

KIF2C is a critical regulator for malignant progression of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a significant cause of mortality, while the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Our studies have revealed that KIF2C plays a crucial role in tumor proliferation and metastasis in HNSCC. The results demonstrate that KIF2C is highly expressed at both the mRNA and protein levels and is closely associated with lymph node metastasis.

Expandable-RCNN: toward high-efficiency incremental few-shot object detection.

This study aims at addressing the challenging incremental few-shot object detection (iFSOD) problem toward online adaptive detection. iFSOD targets to learn novel categories in a sequential manner, and eventually, the detection is performed on all learned categories. Moreover, only a few training samples are available for all sequential novel classes in these situations.

Systemic inflammation markers and the prevalence of hypertension: A NHANES cross-sectional study.

Systemic inflammation markers have been highlighted recently as related to cardiac and non-cardiac disorders. However, few studies have estimated pre-diagnostic associations between these markers and hypertension. In the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey from 1999 to 2010, 22,290 adult participants were included for analysis.

[Correlation between Mandarin acceptable noise level and cortical auditory evoked potential in young normal-hearing listeners].

To investigate the correlation between Mandarin acceptable noise level （M-ANL） and cortical auditory evoked potential （CAEP）, and to explore the possible mechanism leading to individual differences in M-ANL values. Thirty listeners aged 22-33 years with normal hearing were selected as the study subjects, and the M-ANL test and CAEP test were performed respectively. The most comfortable level （MCL）, maximum background noise level （BNL）, M-ANL and CAEP values of each subject were recorded.

Passivity-based coupling control for underactuated three-dimensional overhead cranes.

This paper develops a novel Lyapunov function candidate for control of the three-dimensional (3-D) overhead crane, which yields a nonlinear controller to inject active damping. Different from the existing passivity-based controls that employ either the angular displacement or its integral as passive elements, the proposed controller incorporates both of them in a new coupled-dissipation signal, thus significantly enhancing the closed-loop passivity. Owing to the improved passivity, the proposed controller ensures the effective suppression of payload oscillations and robustness.

Dual-axis control of flexure-based motion system for optical fibre transceiver assembly using fixed-order controller.

High-frequency resonant modes appearing in the flexure-based motion systems are the key factors that limit the motion/positioning performance. This paper presents an approach to design the fixed-order (low-order) controller for the flexure-based motion system, which is used for industrial optical fibre transceiver alignment and assembly. The uniqueness of the proposed algorithm is that one single controller can simultaneously stabilize the uncertain high-frequency resonant modes for both x and y-axis motion.