Understanding Of Correspondence Research Articles

Robust Self-Supervised LiDAR Odometry Via Representative Structure Discovery and 3D Inherent Error Modeling

The correct ego-motion estimation basically relies on the understanding of correspondences between adjacent LiDAR scans. However, given the complex scenarios and the low-resolution LiDAR, finding reliable structures for identifying correspondences can be challenging. In this letter, we delve into structure reliability for accurate self-supervised ego-motion estimation and aim to alleviate the influence of unreliable structures in training, inference and mapping phases. We improve the self-supervised LiDAR odometry substantially from three aspects: 1) A two-stage odometry estimation network is developed, where we obtain the ego-motion by estimating a set of sub-region transformations and averaging them with a motion voting mechanism, to encourage the network focusing on representative structures. 2) The inherent alignment errors, which cannot be eliminated via ego-motion optimization, are down-weighted in losses based on the 3D point covariance estimations. 3) The discovered representative structures and learned point covariances are incorporated in the mapping module to improve the robustness of map construction. Our two-frame odometry outperforms the previous state of the arts by 16%/12% in terms of translational/rotational errors on the KITTI dataset and performs consistently well on the Apollo-Southbay datasets. We can even rival the fully supervised counterparts with our mapping module and more unlabeled training data.

Efficacy and safety of adding ipragliflozin to insulin in Japanese patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus: a retrospective study.

Advances in insulin preparations and administration methods have produced a gradual improvement in glycemic control in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM). Nevertheless, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels in patients with type 1 DM are still poor compared to those in patients with type 2 DM. Here, we sought to assess the efficacy and safety of the sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor ipragliflozin (IPRA) in patients with type 1 DM. This study was retrospectively conducted with data from type 1 DM patients who had a history of IPRA therapy. The primary endpoint was HbA1c level at 24 weeks. The baseline characteristics of a total of 12 subjects were as follows: age, 50.1 ± 13.2 years; diabetes duration, 17.3 ± 10.5 years; body mass index (BMI), 22.9 ± 2.1 kg/m2; HbA1c, 8.8 ± 1.3%; and daily insulin dose, 0.60 ± 0.21 units/kg. IPRA decreased HbA1c levels to 8.2 ± 1.2% (p < 0.05) and reduced insulin dose to 0.52 ± 0.17 units/kg (p < 0.01) after 24 weeks. HbA1c value was particularly reduced in subjects with preserved C-peptide index. IPRA significantly reduced body weight by -1.4 ± 1.4 kg (p < 0.01) 16 weeks after starting treatment, with no further weight loss after 24 weeks. There were no instances of diabetic ketoacidosis or severe hypoglycemia. IPRA exerted beneficial effects on glycemic control without any severe adverse effects, and should be safe and effective when used in patients with type 1 DM with understanding of correspondence in sick day.

Idea prawdy jako korespondencji w filozofii późnego Wittgensteina

This article is a reconstruction of late Wittgenstein’s views on the notion of truth, found in the Philosophical Investigations and On certainty . I attempt to classify Wittgenstein’s theory of truth. I reject interpretations of Wittgenstein as an advocate of either the coherence or the deflationary theory of truth. My main thesis is that Wittgenstein’s thought can be understood as a form of the correspondence theory of truth, but his understanding of correspondence and reality is very distinct from that of the traditional realist interpretation.

Cross-Informant Ratings of the Emotional and Behavioral Functioning of College Students

One hundred seventy-four college students and a subset of their mothers and fathers provided ratings of college students’ emotional and behavioral functioning. College students and their mothers and fathers demonstrated variable levels of correspondence in their ratings of college students’ internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. Similar findings were noted with t-test comparisons, with college students rating themselves as experiencing significantly higher levels of behavior problems than did their mothers and fathers. Further, college students’ ratings of their mothers’ and fathers’ parenting and their perceptions of their parents predicted significantly their ratings of their own behavior problems. Although mothers’ communication reciprocity and perceptions of their college students served as significant predictors of mothers’ ratings, a different pattern of results occurred with paternal variables. Overall, these findings further the understanding of correspondence and predictors of cross-informant ratings of college students’ emotional and behavioral functioning.

Materiality and Mystification in "A Passage to India"

Discussion on imperial project in British literary consciousness has customarily been confined to colonial novel, a category of convenience covering a range of genres and qualities. More recently work disclosing material and psychic dissemination of empire in metropolis has included detecting its symbolic, reconfigured or displaced presence in canonical and popular writing.1 The preferred procedure of critics is to trace how colonial tropes and rhetorics were brought by nineteenthand early twentieth-century writers to their dramatizations of dominant gender and class conditions within imperial homeland. Such work which draws attention to larger if blurred horizons of English novel has also introduced into discussion problems associated with use of analogical strategies in criticism: by reiterating fiction's unsecured metaphoric linkages as constituting social knowledge about ideological coalescence of gender, race and class, these critics conflate sites and temporalities of different oppressions.2 In this way, such criticism collapses distinctiveness of discourses and topoi that represent those oppressions.3 Theorists of novel, however, who address transcoding between historical processes and textual practices, and perceive effects of empire in literature as mutable, locate these signs in form rather than figurative recastings. Edward Said, who discerns assertion of narrative authority as characterizing British novel during age of imperial consolidation connects emergence of literary modernism with changes in metropolitan apprehensions of empire. For Said turn from the triumphalist experience of imperialism ... into extremes of self-consciousness, discontinuity, self-referentiality and corrosive irony ... which we have tended to derive from purely internal dynamics in Western society and culture, includes a response to external pressures on culture from imperium (Culture 227). In a different argument which all same intersects with Said's understanding of correspondence, Fredric Jameson maintains that modernist crisis in novel was intensified by imperialism, stylistic ingenuity of Conrad's novels providing key articulations of increased fragmentation of individual consciousness in an age of growing commodification and brutal colonization (Political 17).4

Correspondences and Numerical Differences between Disjoint Sets

HUDSON, TOM. Correspondences and Numerical Differences between Disjoint Sets. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1983, 54, 84-90. Young children's understanding of correspondences and numerical differences between disjoint sets was studied in a series of 3 experiments. In the first 2 experiments, 64 children between 4 and 8 years of age were shown pairs of sets and were asked both standard (How many more birds than worms are there?) and nonstandard (How many birds won't get a worm?) numerical difference questions. The children's observed success in answering the Won't Get questions indicates that many young children are skillful at establishing correspondences and determining exact numerical differences between disjoint sets; their poor performance on the standard questions apparently reflects a misinterpretation or inadequate comprehension of comparative constructions of the general form How many . . . [comparative term] . . than . .. ? The final experiment, involving 30 additional kindergarten children, dealt with children's solution strategies in answering Won't Get questions. The most frequently observed solution strategy was a sophisticated indirect counting strategy rather than a perceptually guided pairing strategy. Taken together, the present findings restrict the domain of applicability of the theory that young children are limited to perceptually based forms of mathematical reasoning.