Drivers’ Diversion from Expressway under Real Traffic Condition Information Shown on Variable Message Signs

Xingang Li,Yakang Cao,Xiaomei Zhao,Dongfan Xie 대한토목학회 2015 KSCE JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Vol.19 No.7

To alleviate the traffic congestion on urban expressway, Variable Message Signs (VMS) have been widely employed for diverting some traffic to arterial streets in large cities. The diversion rate is a key parameter to design, operation and evaluation of the VMS. Many works have been done to study the diversion rate by stated preference survey. However, no consistent conclusion has been obtained on the key factors influencing diversion behavior. Therefore, this paper pays attention to analyzing the drivers’ diversion from expressway behavior under different network and traffic conditions, and finding the key factors influencing diversion behavior by using stated preference survey. In the survey, graphical traffic information is provided as scenario simulation. Ordinal regression method is adopted to explore the key factors influencing diversion willingness. Binary logit model is used to explore the divert decision with given traffic information. It is shown that driving years, income, driving style, average trip length, and degree of trust in VMS are the significant factors to diversion willingness. Furthermore, the same VMS displaying state results in different diversion flow at different sites. Those findings are the foundation to optimize traffic information releasing strategy and improve the road network efficiency.

Dynamic QTL Analysis of Rice Protein Content and Protein Index Using Recombinant Inbred Lines

Leina Zheng,Wenwei Zhang,Xingang Chen,Jing Ma,Weiwei Chen,Zhigang Zhao,Huqu Zhai,Jianmin Wan 한국식물학회 2011 Journal of Plant Biology Vol.54 No.5

Protein content (PC) and protein index (PI) play important roles in determining nutritional quality in rice (Oryza sativa L.). We used 71 lines derived from “Asominori/IR24” to analyze the developmental behavior of PC and PI through unconditional and conditional QTL mapping methods. In all, 10 unconditional QTLs and 6conditional QTLs for PC, and 11 unconditional QTLs and 9conditional QTLs for PI, were identified at four stages of grain filling. More were identified in the first three stages than at the final stage. Temporal patterns of gene expression for PC and PI differed over time, with several QTLs being expressed across two or three stages but many being expressed at only one stage. Some of these QTLs were closely linked with maturity QTLs reported previously. Many QTLs for PC and PI were co-localized, supporting the significant correlation found between PC and PI. Our results suggest that dynamic QTL mapping might be a valid means for revealing more genetic information about protein accumulations during seed development.

Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Outcomes of Long-Level Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors: A Consecutive Series of 43 Cases

Dongao Zhang,Tao Fan,Wayne Fan,Xingang Zhao,Cong Liang,Yinqian Wang,Kun Wu 대한척추신경외과학회 2023 Neurospine Vol.20 No.1

Objective: Long-level intramedullary spinal cord tumors (LIMSCTs) cause complex treatment issues. However, LIMSCTs have rarely been analyzed separately. The authors reported a large case series of LIMSCTs and analyzed the clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes. Methods: The medical data of patients with LIMSCTs at our institution between January 2015 and December 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. Demographics, tumor size and location, pathology, extent of resection, and neurological functional status were collected. Results: A total of 43 consecutive cases were included. Twenty-three cases (53.5%) of LIMSCTs were ependymal tumors. All patients with ependymal tumors achieved gross total resection (GTR). In ependymal tumor cases, 3 cases (13%) of ependymal tumors experienced postoperative neurological deterioration, and 66% of them showed an improvement at follow-up; 25.6% were low-grade astrocytic tumors. The rates of GTR, subtotal resection (STR) and partial resection (PR) were 63.6%, 27.3%, and 9.1%, respectively. Twenty-seven percent cases showed postoperative neurological worsening, and 33% of them had an improvement at follow-up; 20.9% were high-grade astrocytic tumors. The excision rates were 44.4% for GTR, 44.4% for STR, and 11% for PR, respectively. Fifty-five percent cases showed postoperative neurological worsening, and none of them had an improvement at follow-up. Conclusion: In this series, all LIMSCTs were gliomas. Aggressive tumor resection did not increase the risk of long-term functional deterioration in ependymal tumors and low-grade astrocytic tumors, but in high-grade astrocytic tumors, patients had a higher risk of neurological deterioration and difficulty in recovery. In ependymal tumors and low-grade astrocytic tumors, patients can achieve long-time survival after performing aggressive tumor resection.

Anomaly Detection with GRU Based Bi-autoencoder for Industrial Multimode Process

Xinyao Xu,Fangbo Qin,De Xu,Xingang Wang,Wenjun Zhao,Xihao Yang 제어·로봇·시스템학회 2022 International Journal of Control, Automation, and Vol.20 No.6

The anomaly detection for multimode industrial process is a challenging problem, because the multiple operation modes present various main distributions of monitored variables, and the dynamic sequential characteristics exist within each operation mode. This paper proposes an anomaly detection method based on sequenceto-sequence gated recurrent units (SGRU). First, to better model both the cross-mode trends and mode-specific sequential characteristics, a main reconstruction module and residual reconstruction module are integrated to improve the ability to represent complex process. Both modules are implemented by SGRUs. Second, a reconstruction error prediction module is designed to estimate the mean values of mode-specific reconstruction errors, which helps to determine the more reliable alarm thresholds. Third, the two anomaly indicators are utilized to represent the deviation degree of monitored variables against the normal conditions, according to the statistical errors and biases of reconstructions, respectively. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated on simulations with multimode process, and on the practical data set collected from the Cleaning-in-Place multimode process of an aseptic beverage filling line in a real factory.

Does H3K27M Mutation Impact Survival Outcome of High-Grade Spinal Cord Astrocytoma?

Fan Zhang,Lei Cheng,Ze Ding,Shengxi Wang,Xingang Zhao,Zijun Zhao,Cong Liang,Kun Wu,Dongao Zhang,Yinqian Wang,Tao Fan 대한척추신경외과학회 2023 Neurospine Vol.20 No.4

Objective: To evaluate the impact of H3K27M mutation in the prognosis of histological high-grade intramedullary astrocytoma. Methods: A total of 78 patients who were diagnosed with high-grade spinal cord astrocytoma were included. Clinical data consisting demographic, radiological, molecular features and treatment data were recorded. Univariate and multivariate Cox analysis were performed to investigate variables associated with survival outcome of histological high-grade spinal cord astrocytoma. Results: Median survival time was 21 months. Overall survival (OS) at 1 and 3 years was 65.7% and 40.7%, respectively. Sex, location, and tumor span did not present significant association with OS. Patients with H3K27M mutation showed significant shorter duration of symptom than patients with H3K27 wild-type. As respect to adjuvant treatment, adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy were associated with favorable OS (both p = 0.01). Younger patients (age ≤ 18 years) had shorter OS (p = 0.008) than adult patients (age > 18 years). Of note, H3K27M mutation did not show significant impact on the survival outcome, regardless of histology grade 3 or grade 4 (p = 0.3). Conclusion: Histological high-grade spinal cord astrocytoma has dismal prognosis. Our study demonstrated that H3K27M mutation did not show significant impact on survival outcome of histological high-grade spinal cord astrocytoma.