A conventional optical superlens for imaging beyond the diffraction limit produces images only in the near-field zone of the superlens. In contrast, an optical far-field superlens (FSL) device has a remarkable transmission property that leads to a one-to-one relationship between the far-field and the near-field angular spectra. This property makes the device suitable for imaging beyond the diff...

Self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques have recently been integrated into the few-shot (FSL) framework and shown promising results in improving image classification performance. However, existing SSL approaches used FSL typically seek supervision signals from global embedding of every single image. Therefore, during episodic training FSL, these methods cannot capture fully utilize local visu...

Traditional fine-grained image classification generally requires abundant labeled samples to deal with the low inter-class variance but high intra-class problem. However, in many scenarios we may have limited for some novel sub-categories, leading few shot learning (FG-FSL) setting. To address this challenging task, propose a method named foreground object transformation (FOT), which is compose...

Acetylcholine receptors (AChR) are important in premotor and efferent control of autonomic function; however, the extent to which cardiovascular function is affected by genetic variations in AChR sensitivity is unknown. We assessed heart rate variability (HRV) and baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) in rats bred for resistance (FRL) or sensitivity (FSL) to cholinergic agents compared with Sprague-Dawl...

This brief review discusses the behavioral consequences of two pharmacologically selected lines of rats. Flinders Sensitive (FSL) and Flinders Resistant (FRL) Lines of rats were selected on the basis of differential hypothermic and behavioral responses to the anticholinesterase, diisopropylfluorophosphate (DFP). FSL rats are more sensitive to the hypothermic effects of cholinergic, serotonergic...

Hübschle, Thomas, Jörg Mütze, Peter F. Mühlradt, Stefan Korte, Rüdiger Gerstberger, and Joachim Roth. Pyrexia, anorexia, adipsia, and depressed motor activity in rats during systemic inflammation induced by the Toll-like receptors-2 and -6 agonists MALP-2 and FSL-1. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 290: R180–R187, 2006. First published September 8, 2005; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00579.2005.—Ma...

OBJECTIVES To investigate differences in associations between sick leave and aspects of health, psychosocial workload, family life and work-family interference between four age groups (<36, 36-45, 46-55 and 55+ years). DESIGN A cross-sectional study; a questionnaire was sent to the home addresses of all employees of a university. SETTING A Dutch university. PARTICIPANTS 1843 employees ret...

This paper offers a fuzzy balance management scheme between exploration and exploitation, which can be implemented in any critic-only fuzzy reinforcement learning method. The paper, however, focuses on a newly developed continuous reinforcement learning method, called fuzzy Sarsa learning (FSL) due to its advantages. Establishing balance greatly depends on the accuracy of action value function ...

Depression is a debilitating heterogeneous disorder and the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Alterations in monoaminergic neurotransmission, including noradrenergic, have been implicated in the etiology of depression. Although depression is difficult to model in animals, the availability of animal models with face, predictive and construct validity permits more in-depth investigations resu...

Stress, such as social isolation, is a well-known risk factor for depression, most probably in combination with predisposing genetic factors. Physical exercise on the other hand, is depicted as a wonder-treatment that makes you healthier, happier and live longer. However, the published results on the effects of exercise are ambiguous, especially when it comes to neuropsychiatric disorders. Here...