Enhanced wide-activated residual network for efficient and accurate image deblocking

To save bandwidth and storage space as well as speed up data transmission, people usually perform lossy compression on images. Although the JPEG standard is a simple and effective compression method, it usually introduces various visually unpleasing artifacts, especially the notorious blocking artifacts. In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have seen remarkable development in compression artifacts reduction. Despite the excellent performance, most deep CNNs suffer from heavy computation due to very deep and wide architectures. In this paper, we propose an enhanced wide-activated residual network (EWARN) for efficient and accurate image deblocking. Specifically, we propose an enhanced wide-activated residual block (EWARB) as basic construction module. Our EWARB gives rise to larger activation width, better use of interdependencies among channels, and more informative and discriminative non-linearity activation features without more parameters than residual block (RB) and wide-activated residual block (WARB). Furthermore, we introduce an overlapping patches extraction and combination (OPEC) strategy into our network in a full convolution way, leading to large receptive field, enforced compatibility among adjacent blocks, and efficient deblocking. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our EWARN outperforms several state-of-the-art methods quantitatively and qualitatively with relatively small model size and less running time, achieving a good trade-off between performance and complexity.     

观赏南瓜色素的提取及性质研究

对观赏南瓜色素的提取及性质进行了初步的探索,研究了光、温度、pH、氧化剂、还原剂、常用的食品添加剂对色素的影响.结果表明:观赏南瓜色素对光和热都比较稳定;适宜在pH值4-12之间使用;耐氧化性和耐还原性均较好;Vc对色素有一定的消色作用;柠檬酸三钠对色素有增色作用;色素对常用的食品添加剂有较强稳定性.     

The effect of voice lessons on the clinical and perceptual skills of graduate students in speech-language pathology

Two groups of 10 speech-language pathology graduate students were each given 7 weeks of singing lessons to determine whether voice lessons could have an effect on their clinical and perceptual skills. Pre-, mid-, and posttests to measure various skills were designed and implemented. With use of paired sample statistical testing, statistically significant results were obtained. In addition, the subjective responses of the students show that the lessons were effective in improving pitch perception, breath control, and legato production or easy onset. This study supports efforts to integrate curricula in vocal performance and speech-language pathology.     

红外光谱法分析淀粉接枝聚丙烯酸酯共聚物的各级结构

研究玉米淀粉接枝聚丙烯酸酯共聚物的各级结构，主要探讨去除均聚物和玉米淀粉侧链的方法。发现以环己烷为溶剂，用索氏萃取法除去均聚物比用苯萃取法时间短、效果好；用HCl酸解法除去淀粉侧链比用HClO4氧化法简单实用。用红外光谱进一步验证了各级结构的官能团，证实了所合成的共聚物是玉米淀粉接枝聚丙烯酸酯共聚物。     

萃取色谱法富集原子吸收法测定环境水中超痕量金属元素──两种萃取剂的比较

本文研究并比较了分别以８－羟基喹啉和巯基苯骈噻唑为萃取剂，以活性硅胶为载体的柱式萃取色谱法对环境水中Ｚｎ、Ｃｕ、Ｐｂ、Ｃｄ、Ｆｅ、Ｃｏ、Ｎｉ和Ｍｎ的最佳富集和洗脱条件。实验证明，后者明显优于前者。以巯基苯骈噻唑为萃取剂的色谱柱对金属元素的吸附具有快速、完全、寿命长和重现性好等特点。在ｐＨ＝７～８之间回收率可达９８％以上，富集倍数为２００倍。     

怎样写论文摘要

除论文标题之外 ,读者是通过摘要来决定是否继续阅读整篇论文 .因而摘要是一篇论文的窗口 .要在最小的空间内阐述问题、描述方法、总结贡献 ,是需要运用技巧与经验的 .一、摘要的内容摘要 (包括中、英文摘要 )的内容应包括目的、方法、结果、结论四个部分。重点应突出文章在结果和结论方面的创新之处 .二、摘要长度中文摘要长度一般不超过 30 0字 ,不少于 2 0 0字 ;英文摘要应比中文摘要有所扩展 ,以便使非汉语读者更多地了解文章的内容 .长度一般不超过 15 0 words,不少于 10 0 words。少数情况允许例外 ,但主题概念不得遗漏 .为了使在较短…     

Vowel Intelligibility in Classical Singing

Vowel intelligibility during singing is an important aspect of communication during performance. The intelligibility of isolated vowels sung by Western classically trained singers has been found to be relatively low, in fact, decreasing as pitch rises, and it is lower for women than for men. The lack of contextual cues significantly deteriorates vowel intelligibility. It was postulated in this study that the reduced intelligibility of isolated sung vowels may be partly from the vowels used by the singers in their daily vocalises. More specifically, if classically trained singers sang only a few American English vowels during their vocalises, their intelligibility for American English vowels would be less than for those classically trained singers who usually vocalize on most American English vowels. In this study, there were 21 subjects (15 women, 6 men), all Western classically trained performers as well as teachers of classical singing. They sang 11 words containing 11 different American English vowels, singing on two pitches a musical fifth apart. Subjects were divided into two groups, those who normally vocalize on 4, 5, or 6 vowels, and those who sing all 11 vowels during their daily vocalises. The sung words were cropped to isolate the vowels, and listening tapes were created. Two listening groups, four singing teachers and five speech-language pathologists, were asked to identify the vowels intended by the singers. Results suggest that singing fewer vowels during daily vocalises does not decrease intelligibility compared with singing the 11 American English vowels. Also, in general, vowel intelligibility was lower with the higher pitch, and vowels sung by the women were less intelligible than those sung by the men. Identification accuracy was about the same for the singing teacher listeners and the speech-language pathologist listeners except for the lower pitch, where the singing teachers were more accurate.     

Preparation and characterization of activated carbons from impregnation pitch by ZnCl2

Using an impregnation pitch from bituminous coal tar (OP) supplied by Industrias Químicas del Nalon Company as raw material, two phases (isotropic and anisotropic) have been obtained. The latter was used as precursor for the preparation of activated carbons. First, a chemical activation process was carried out with ZnCl₂ as activating agent. The process was conducted at different concentrations and temperatures and by means of impregnation with solid zinc chloride. Optimal values were obtained for samples prepared by using a ZnCl₂:pitch ratio equal to 3:1 (sample AZn3). Next, this sample was thermally treated at two different temperatures, i.e., 700 and 800 °C. A lose of specific surface area, microporosity and mesoporosity was observed with respect to sample AZn3, such a lose being more remarkable as temperature increased. Moreover, impregnation of the anisotropic phase of the original pitch with an aqueous solution of ZnCl₂ followed by thermal treatment resulted in a poorly developed surface area and porous texture, probably due to the presence of Zn complexes, which interfere with the activation process.     

高纯氧化钆中14种稀土杂质元素的柱色谱分离ICP-AES法测定

用Ｐ５０７萃淋树脂柱色谱法分离高纯氧化钆基体与稀土杂质。用ＩＣＰ－ＡＥＳ法测定高纯氧化钆中微量稀土杂质。选择了柱色谱分离的合适条件。优化了仪器测定参数。使本方法测定稀土总量下限小于１×１０－５％。可以满足９９．９９９９％高纯氧化钆的测定。此方法回收率在８５％－１１０％之间。相对标准偏差小于１８％。