Improved empirical mode decomposition method based on amplitude-frequency characteristic of vortex signals.

The vortex flowmeter occupies a vital position in flow measurement with its unique advantages. It is essentially a fluid vibration instrument, and its measurement process is susceptible to interference, which seriously affects measurement accuracy. In particular, at low flow rates, it is an urgent problem to extract vortex signals from the complex noise.

Clinical characterization of epilepsy in children with chromosomal aberration 47, XXY.

Objective: The phenotype of the chromosomal aberration 47, XXY exhibits considerable heterogenicity. In addition, epilepsy is extremely uncommon in individuals with this chromosomal disorder. As a result, the clinical characteristics of epilepsy in these patients remain poorly understood.

Defocus Blur Detection via Boosting Diversity of Deep Ensemble Networks.

Existing defocus blur detection (DBD) methods usually explore multi-scale and multi-level features to improve performance. However, defocus blur regions normally have incomplete semantic information, which will reduce DBD's performance if it can't be used properly. In this paper, we address the above problem by exploring deep ensemble networks, where we boost diversity of defocus blur detectors to force the network to generate diverse results that some rely more on high-level semantic information while some ones rely more on low-level information.

Towards weakly-supervised focus region detection via recurrent constraint network.

Recent state-of-the-art methods on focus region detection (FRD) rely on deep convolutional networks trained with costly pixel-level annotations. In this study, we propose a FRD method that achieves competitive accuracies but only uses easily obtained bounding box annotations. Box-level tags provide important cues of focus regions but lose the boundary delineation of the transition area.

Opening two benzene rings on trichalcogenasumanenes toward high performance organic optical-limiting materials.

Two flanking benzene rings on trichalcogenasumanenes (1a/1b) were opened upon oxidation, and the successive ring reconstruction afforded donor-acceptor type polycycles containing diimide units (3a/3b). 3a and 3b show excellent optical-limiting properties superior to C60.

A bowl-shaped sumanene derivative with dense convex-concave columnar packing for high-performance organic field-effect transistors.

The charge transport properties of a bowl-shaped sumanene derivative with dense convex-concave columnar packing were studied. Single-crystal microribbons were grown by solution casting. Organic field-effect transistors based on individual single-crystal ribbons displayed a high hole mobility up to 0.

Trichalcogenasumanene ortho-Quinones: Synthesis, Properties, and Transformation into Various Heteropolycycles.

The regioselective transformation of heterobuckybowl trichalcogenasumanenes 1 a,b at peripheral butoxy groups afforded trichalcogenasumanene ortho-quinones 2 a,b. Compounds 2 a,b are distinct from 1 a,b in terms of their molecular geometry and electronic state; that is, they have a shallower bowl depth and show absorbance in the NIR region. The reaction of 2 a,b with diamines resulted in a variety of heteropolycycles, including molecular spoon 3 a-6 a, planar π-systems 3 b-6 b, and highly twisted [7-6-6]-fused systems 7 a,b.

Dissecting Trichalcogenasumanenes: π-Bowl to Planar, Invertible Curvature, and Chiral Polycycles.

The buckybowl trichalcogenasumanenes show cleavage of flanking benzene ring upon oxidation, which leads their dissection by fusing various amidine moieties onto peripheral region. By gradually increasing the ring size of amidine from five- to six- and seven-membered, the molecule engineering results in the [7-5-6]-, [7-6-6]-, and [7-7-6]-fused polycycles. Three systems are distinct in the molecular geometries, packing motifs, and optoelectronic properties.

Tris(S,S-dioxide)-trithiasumanene: strong fluorescence and cocrystal with 1,2,6,7,10,11-hexabutoxytriphenylene.

Thiophene rings in trithiasumanene (1) are oxidized regioselectively to form tris(S,S-dioxide)-trithiasumanene (3). Compound 3 displays strong indigo fluorescence in both solution and the solid state, and forms a 1 : 1 cocrystal with HBT to give a yellow emission in crystalline form.

Tritellurasumanene: ultrasound assisted one-pot synthesis and extended valence adducts with bromine.

Tritellurasumanene is synthesized from a triphenylene skeleton via ultrasound assisted one-pot reaction. This compound adopts a flat conjugated system and displays TeTe (3.83 Å) interactions in the solid state.