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Objective To construct a mouse model of psoriasis with spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction pattern and evaluate the model from multiple dimensions and directions, expects to provide research support for the study of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment of psoriasis with spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction pattern. Methods A mouse model of spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction pattern was established by feeding a high-fat diet, a mouse model of psoriasis vulgaris was established by externally applying imiquimod ointment, and a mouse model of psoriasis with spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction pattern was constructed by combining the above two models. Indications of spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction pattern were evaluated by comparing the body mass, food intake and water intake of mice in each group. The severity of psoriasis in mice was evaluated by comparing the area of skin lesions, PASI score, the value of transdermal water loss (TEWL), and histopathological morphological changes of skin under HE staining in each group. Flow cytometry was used to detect the expression in various cell types to evaluate the degree of inflammatory response of psoriasis in mice. Observation of adiposity index, changes in the histopathological morphology of liver tissue under HE staining, changes in the mRNA expression levels of related factors in liver tissue and adipose tissue of epididymis of mice detected by RT-qPCR, and changes of ABCA1 protein expression level of skin detected by Western Blot were used to evaluate the lipid metabolism disorders in mice. Results Compared with the mice in the psoriasis vulgaris model group, the mice in the model of psoriasis with pattern of spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction had significantly higher body mass (P＜0.001), significantly lower food intake (P＜0.005), and the symptoms of pattern of spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction such as greasy fur, mental fatigue, etc. appeared. The TWEL were significantly increased (P＜0.001), and the PASI scores also significantly increased (P＜0.001). HE results were found psoriasis-like manifestations including hypertrophy of the spinous layer and clubbed hyperplasia. The expression of CD11bhighLy6G+ neutrophil subpopulation, CD11binLy6Chigh monocyte subpopulation, CD11binCD11chigh classical dendritic cell subpopulation, F4/80-CD11c+ dendritic cell subpopulation was significantly increased (P＜ 0.001). HE staining suggested that the cellular morphology of liver showed obvious vacuolated degeneration, and the index of subcutaneous white adiposity and epididymal adiposity index were both significantly increased (P＜ 0.005). The mRNA levels of FABP4 and CD36 in liver tissue were significantly elevated (P＜0.005, P＜0.001), while the mRNA expression levels of ABCA1 and PPARγ in epididymal fat tissue were decreased (P＜0.05, P＜ 0.01). ABCA1 protein level in skin increased (P＞0.05). Conclusion The mouse model of psoriasis with spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction pattern can be used as a reliable animal model for combining disease and pattern, which can provide a reference for further exploration of TCM in the treatment of psoriasis with spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction pattern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To meet the requirements of fixed-point monitoring and reconnaissance tasks within forest areas by rotary-wing drones, a bionic perching robotic arm is designed through the study of birds' perching processes and the bionic research of legs and feet. The modular design and kinematics snalysis of the whole machine are carried out. The leg module employs Automatic Dynamic Analysis of Mechanical Systems (ADAMS） for kinematic trajectory simulation, while the claw module uses the D-H（Denavit-Hartenberg) parameter method to obtain the kinematic equation of the toetip. The workspace point cloud distribution of the claw module's toetip is derived through MATLAB simulation. A prototype is fabricated to establish an experimental system, which is then used to verify the activity range of the toe part and the overall perching capability of the machine. This design is simple and easy to control, capable of completing perching behavior in the laboratory stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In recent years, the intrinsic relationship between music and motions have been widely studied. However,very few efforts have been made to develop music-driven conducting motion generation models, which takes music as input signal to generate conducting motion in harmony with music rhythm and semantics. In this paper, a music-driven conducting motion generation approach based on dynamic frequency-domain motion decomposition (DFMD) was proposed. Specifically, a filter is first constructed using the beat information to decompose the command action into high and low frequency components. Then, a deep convolutional neural network dynamically learns these components,and it synthesizes the final command action. Experimental results on the large-scale ConductorMotion100 dataset show that the standard deviation of the generated low-frequency and high-frequency motion components is 4.4579 and 9.6466,which are very close to the real motions. The proposed method breaks through the limitations of coherence and coordination in time-domain or spatial-domain motion decomposition, and effectively avoids the influence of large-value low-frequency motion on small-value high-frequency motion. The visualized results show that the generated movements are natural, beautiful, diverse, and closely synchronized with the music signal. It provides a new understanding of the connection between music and movement, and brings innovative application prospects to the field of musical performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We conduct a line-by-line differential analysis of a sample of 125 co-moving pairs of stars (dwarfs and subgiants near solar metallicity). We obtain high-precision stellar parameters with average uncertainties in effective temperature, surface gravity, and metallicity of 16.5 K, 0.033 and 0.014 dex, respectively. We classify the co-moving pairs of stars into two groups, chemically homogeneous (conatal; |Δ[Fe/H]| ≤ 0.04 dex) and inhomogeneous (non-conatal), and examine the fraction of chemically homogeneous pairs as a function of separation and effective temperature. The four main conclusions from this study are (1) A spatial separation of Δ s  = 106 au is an approximate boundary between homogeneous and inhomogeneous pairs of stars, and we restrict our conclusions to only consider the 91 pairs with Δ s  ≤ 106 au; (2) There is no trend between velocity separation and the fraction of chemically homogeneous pairs in the range Δ v  ≤ 4 km s−1; (3) We confirm that the fraction of chemically inhomogeneous pairs increases with increasing T eff and the trend matches a toy model of that expected from planet ingestion; (4) Atomic diffusion is not the main cause of the chemical inhomogeneity. A major outcome from this study is a sample of 56 bright co-moving pairs of stars with chemical abundance differences ≤ 0.02 dex (5 per cent) which is a level of chemical homogeneity comparable to that of the Hyades open cluster. These important objects can be used, in conjunction with star clusters and the Gaia 'benchmark' stars, to calibrate stellar abundances from large-scale spectroscopic surveys. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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To address the problem of difficulty in distinguishing subtle differences between images in single-modal fine-grained classification methods, this paper introduced a multimodal fusion approach into the task of fine-grained classification. By fully utilizing the correlations and complementarity of multimodal data, this paper proposed a modality correlation learning-based fine-grained classification method. The method consisted of two stages. Firstly, considering the correspondence between image and text data, it used their matching degree as a constraint for model pretraining. Subsequently, with the loaded network parameters from the previous step, it firstly extracted multimodal features, and followed by utilizing text features to guide the generation of image features. Finally, it performed fine-grained classification based on the fused features. The method was trained and tested on the UPMC-Food101, MEP-3M-MEATS, and MEP-3M-OUTDOORS datasets, achieving accuracies of 91. 13%,82.39%, and 93. 17%, respectively. Experimental results demonstrate that this method outperforms traditional multimodal fusion methods, making it an effective fine-grained classification approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The dynamic responses of bridges with uncertain parameters under moving loads were analyzed, and a polynomial dimensional decomposition method for the analysis of structural responses induced by moving loads was proposed for the first time. The uncertain parameters were regarded as independent random variables, and the random response function about these uncertain parameters was constructed. The dimensional decomposition of the function was further performed with a group of component functions with a gradually increasing number of variables, and the approximate expressions of the component functions were derived through the Fourier polynomial expansion. Then, the expansion coefficients were efficiently calculated through the introduction of the dimension-reduction integration method. The numerical examples give response estimation of bridges with uncertain parameters under moving loads, which in comparison with those from the Monte-Carlo simulation, verify the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The rich absorption spectra of Sun-like stars are enticing probes for variations in the fine-structure constant, α, which gauges the strength of electromagnetism. While individual line wavelengths are sensitive to α, they are also sensitive to physical processes in the stellar atmospheres, which has precluded their use so far. Here we demonstrate a new differential approach using solar twins: velocity separations between close pairs of transitions are compared across stars with very similar physical properties, strongly suppressing astrophysical and instrumental systematic errors. We utilize 423 archival exposures of 18 solar twins from the High-Accuracy Radial velocity Planetary Searcher (HARPS), in which calibration errors can be reduced to ≲3 m s−1. For stars with ≈10 high-signal-to-noise ratio spectra (≥200 per pixel), velocity separations between pairs are measured with ≈10 m s−1 statistical precision. A companion paper assesses a range of systematic error sources using 130 stars, with a greater range of stellar parameters, providing accurate corrections for astrophysical effects and a residual, intrinsic star-to-star scatter of 0–13 m s−1. Within these uncertainties, we find no evidence for velocity separation differences in 17 transition pairs between solar twins. In a second companion paper, this is found to limit local (≲50 pc) variations in α to ≈50 parts per billion, ∼2 orders of magnitude less than other Galactic constraints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Solar twins are stars of key importance to the field of astronomy and offer a multitude of science applications. Only a small number (≲200) of solar twins are known today, all of which are relatively close to our Sun (⁠|${\lesssim}{800}\, {\rm pc}$|⁠). The goal of our Survey for Distant Solar Twins (SDST) is to identify many more solar twin and solar analogue stars out to much larger distances (⁠|${\sim}{4}\, {\rm kpc}$|⁠). In this paper, we present a new method to identify solar twins using relatively low S/N, medium resolving power (⁠|$R\sim 28\, 000$|⁠) spectra that will be typical of such distant targets observed with HERMES on the |${3.9}\, {\rm m}$| Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). We developed a novel approach, namely epic , to measure stellar parameters (SPs) which we use to identify stars similar to our Sun. epic determines the stellar atmospheric parameters (effective temperature T eff, surface gravity log  g , and metallicity [Fe/H]) using differential equivalent width (EW) measurements of selected spectroscopic absorption features and a simple model, trained on previously analysed spectra, that connects these EWs to the SPs. The reference for the EW measurements is a high S/N solar spectrum which is used to minimize several systematic effects. epic is fast, optimized for Sun-like stars and yields SP measurements with small enough uncertainties to enable spectroscopic identification of solar twin and analogue stars up to |${\sim}{4}\, {\rm kpc}$| away using AAT/HERMES, i.e. |$\sigma \left(T_{\mathrm{eff}}, \log g, \textrm {[Fe/H]}\right) = \left({50}\, {\rm K}, {0.08}\, {\rm dex}, {0.03}\, {\rm dex}\right)$| on average at S/N = 25. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]