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Yunnan plays a pivotal role in transmitting electricity from west to east within China's Southern Power Grid. During 7–13 January 2021, a large-scale continuous ice-covering event of ultra-high voltage (UHV) transmission lines occurred in the Qujing area of eastern Yunnan Province. Based on ERA5 reanalysis data and meteorological observation data of UHV transmission line icing in China's Southern Power Grid, the synoptic causes of the icing are comprehensively analyzed from various perspectives, including weather situations, vertical stratification of temperature and humidity, local meteorological elements, and atmospheric circulation indices. The results indicate a strong East Asian trough and a blocking high directing northern airflow southward ahead of the ridge. Cold air enters the Qujing area and combines with warm and moist air from the subtropical high pressure of 50–110° E. As warm and cold air masses form a quasi-stationary front over the northern mountainous area of Qujing due to topographic uplift, the mechanism of "supercooling and warm rain" caused by the "warm–cold" temperature profile structure leads to freezing rain events. Large-scale circulation indices in the Siberian High, East Asian Trough, and 50–110° E Subtropical High regions provided clear precursor signals within 0–2 days before the icing events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bones play an important role in maintaining exercise and protecting organs. Bone defect, as a common orthopedic disease in clinics, can cause tremendous damage with long treatment cycles. Therefore, the treatment of bone defect remains as one of the main challenges in clinical practice. Today, with increased incidence of bone disease in the aging population, demand for bone repair material is high. At present, the method of clinical treatment for bone defects including non-invasive therapy and invasive therapy. Surgical treatment is the most effective way to treat bone defects, such as using bone grafts, Masquelet technique, Ilizarov technique etc. In recent years, the rapid development of tissue engineering technology provides a new treatment strategy for bone repair. This review paper introduces the current situation and challenges of clinical treatment of bone defect repair in detail. The advantages and disadvantages of bone tissue engineering scaffolds are comprehensively discussed from the aspect of material, preparation technology, and function of bone tissue engineering scaffolds. This paper also summarizes the 3D printing technology based on computer technology, aiming at designing personalized artificial scaffolds that can accurately fit bone defects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Theinference stage can be accelerated significantly using a Non-Autoregressive Transformer (NAT). However, the training objective used in the NAT model also aims to minimize the loss between the generated words and the golden words in the reference. Since the dependencies between the target words are lacking, this training objective computed at word level can easily cause semantic inconsistency between the generated and source sentences. To alleviate this issue, we propose a new method, Sentence-Level Semantic Agreement (SLSA), to obtain consistency between the source and generated sentences. Specifically, we utilize contrastive learning to pull the sentence representations of the source and generated sentences closer together. In addition, to strengthen the capability of the encoder, we also integrate an agreement module into the encoder to obtain a better representation of the source sentence. The experiments are conducted on three translation datasets: the WMT 2014 EN → DE task, the WMT 2016 EN → RO task, and the IWSLT 2014 DE → DE task, and the improvement in the NAT model's performance shows the effect of our proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]