Progressive Feature Learning for Facade Parsing With Occlusions.

Existing deep models for facade parsing often fail in classifying pixels in heavily occluded regions of facade images due to the difficulty in feature representation of these pixels. In this paper, we solve facade parsing with occlusions by progressive feature learning. To this end, we locate the regions contaminated by occlusions via Bayesian uncertainty evaluation on categorizing each pixel in these regions.

SP1-induced lncRNA FOXD3-AS1 contributes to tumorigenesis of cervical cancer by modulating the miR-296-5p/HMGA1 pathway.

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have drawn growing attention due to their regulatory roles in various diseases, including tumors. Recently, lncRNA FOXD3 antisense RNA 1 (FOXD3-AS1) was shown to be overexpressed in colon adenocarcinoma and glioma, exerting oncogenic functions. However, its expression and effects in cervical cancer (CC) remained unknown.

Identification of pollen and pistil polygalacturonases in Nicotiana tabacum and their function in interspecific stigma compatibility.

The pollen and pistil polygalacturonases in Nicotiana tabacum were identified and found to regulate pollen tube growth and interspecific compatibility. Polygalacturonase (PG) is one of the enzymes catalyzing the hydrolysis of pectin. This process plays important roles in the pollen and pistil.

The New Role of Sirtuin1 in Human Osteoarthritis Chondrocytes by Regulating Autophagy.

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the role of Sirtuin1 (Sirt1) in the regulation of autophagy for human osteoarthritis (OA) chondrocytes.

Design: All cartilage samples were collected from human donors, including young group, aged group, and OA group. Primary chondrocytes were isolated and cultured with Sirt1 activator or inhibitor.

Suppression of LOX activity enhanced seed vigour and longevity of tobacco ( L.) seeds during storage.

The preservation of seed viability and quality in storage is an important trait both for commercial and germplasm usage. To better explore potential mechanisms of tobacco seed deterioration, seed packed in cloth bag (C) and vacuum bag (V) were stored under room temperature (RT) and low temperature (LT, 18°C), and sampled periodically for laboratory testing. Seed stored in low temperature with vacuum bag (LT/V) owned the highest seed vigour after 25 months of storage and in room temperature with cloth bag (RT/C) lost seed vigour and germination ability after 20-month storage.

Multiple-Layer Visibility Propagation-Based Synthetic Aperture Imaging through Occlusion.

Heavy occlusions in cluttered scenes impose significant challenges to many computer vision applications. Recent light field imaging systems provide new see-through capabilities through synthetic aperture imaging (SAI) to overcome the occlusion problem. Existing synthetic aperture imaging methods, however, emulate focusing at a specific depth layer, but are incapable of producing an all-in-focus see-through image.

[Advances of NIR spectroscopy technology applied in seed quality detection].

Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) technology developed fast in recent years, due to its rapid speed, less pollution, high-efficiency and other advantages. It has been widely used in many fields such as food, chemical industry, pharmacy, agriculture and so on. The seed is the most basic and important agricultural capital goods, and seed quality is important for agricultural production.

Multi-model estimation based moving object detection for aerial video.

With the wide development of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) technology, moving target detection for aerial video has become a popular research topic in the computer field. Most of the existing methods are under the registration-detection framework and can only deal with simple background scenes. They tend to go wrong in the complex multi background scenarios, such as viaducts, buildings and trees.

Multi-dose parecoxib provides an immunoprotective effect by balancing T helper 1 (Th1), Th2, Th17 and regulatory T cytokines following laparoscopy in patients with cervical cancer.

Analgesic treatment with anti‑inflammatory drugs may aid the prevention of postoperative pain and the attenuation of the postoperative immune inflammatory response. The current study presents a randomized, double‑blind controlled study, which was performed to investigate the levels of Th1, Th2, Th17 and Treg cytokines, including interleukin (IL)‑2, interferon (IFN)‑γ, IL‑4, IL‑10, IL‑17, IL‑23 and transforming growth factor (TGF)‑β in the peripheral blood of patients with cervical cancer following laparoscopy. The effects of perioperative multi‑dose parecoxib on postoperative immune function was evaluated.

An enhanced drought-tolerant method using SA-loaded PAMPS polymer materials applied on tobacco pelleted seeds.

Drought is one of the most important stress factors limiting the seed industry and crop production. Present study was undertaken to create novel drought-resistant pelleted seeds using the combined materials with superabsorbent polymer, poly(2-acrylamide-2-methyl propane sulfonic acid) (PAMPS) hydrogel, and drought resistance agent, salicylic acid (SA). The optimized PAMPS hydrogel was obtained as the molar ratio of 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-propanesulfonic acid (AMPS) to potassium peroxydisulfate (KPS) and N, N'-methylene-bis-acrylamide (MBA) was 1 : 0.

Effects of Yiweining Recipe on expressions of metalloproteinase-2 and cyclooxygenase-2 mRNAs in ectopic endometrium of rats with endometriosis.

Objective: To explore the effects of Yiweining Recipe (YWNR), a compound Chinese herbal medicine, on expressions of metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) mRNAs in rats with endometriosis (EM).

Methods: Operational self-transplantation was applied in establishing the rat models. Detection of MMP-2 and COX-2 mRNAs was conducted with hybridization in situ.

Comparative study on the efficacy of Yiweining and Gestrinone for post-operational treatment of stage III endometriosis.

Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy and safety of Yiweining (YWN) and gestrinone (GT) in treating post-operational patients of stage III endometriosis (EM-III).

Methods: Fifty-two patients of EM-III after operation were randomly assigned into three groups, the YWN group (20 patients) was treated through oral intake of YWN 200 ml, twice a day; the GT group (19 patients) treated with gestrinone 2.5 mg, twice every week, with the medication starting from the 7th post-operational day and lasting for 6 months.