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Being an essential component of organic chemistry, named reactions are indispensable in organic synthesis. More and more named reactions have been devised to create unique polymer backbones, which has significantly accelerated the creation of new polymer materials. Yet, the university chemical knowledge system is deficient in relevant introductions. The purpose of this study is to incorporate the specified reactions within the teaching of polymer chemistry. These reactions are divided into six categories: transition metal-catalyzed coupling reactions, condensation reactions, pericyclic reactions, multi-component reactions, free radical reactions, and other reactions. This work methodically covers these six types of reactions, which are critical for polymer backbone synthesis, and presents the practice in teaching. It can assist students to learn polymer chemistry in conjunction with organic chemistry and provide some reference for students and teachers.

With the application of lithium batteries more and more widely, in order to accurately estimate the state of charge (SoC) of the battery, this paper uses the iterated extended Kalman filter (IEKF) algorithm to estimate the SoC. The Levenberg–Marquardt (LM) method is used to optimize the error covariance matrix of IKEF. Based on the hybrid pulse power characteristics experiment, a second-order Thevenin model with variable parameters is established on the MATLAB platform. The experimental results show that the proposed model is effective under the constant current discharge condition, the Federal Urban Driving Schedule (FUDS) condition, and the Beijing dynamic stress test (BJDST) condition. The results show that the simulation error of the improved LM-IEKF algorithm is less than 2% under different working conditions, which is lower than that of the IKEF algorithm. The improved algorithm has a fast convergence speed to the true value, and it has a good estimation accuracy in the case of large changes in external input current. Additionally, the fluctuation of error is relatively stable, which proves the reliability of the algorithm.

Lung nodule classification is crucial for the diagnosis and treatment of lung diseases. However, selecting appropriate metrics to evaluate classifier performance is challenging, due to the prevalence of negative samples over positive ones, resulting in imbalanced datasets. This imbalance often necessitates the augmentation of positive samples to train powerful models effectively. Furthermore, specific medical tasks require tailored augmentation methods, the effectiveness of which merits further exploration based on task objectives. This study conducted a detailed analysis of commonly used metrics in lung nodule detection, examining their characteristics and selecting suitable metrics based on this analysis and our experimental findings. The selected metrics were then applied to assessing different combinations of image augmentation techniques for nodule classification. Ultimately, the most effective metric was identified, leading to the determination of the most advantageous augmentation method combinations.

Reliability and robustness are fundamental requisites for the successful integration of deep-learning models into real-world applications. Deployed models must exhibit an awareness of their limitations, necessitating the ability to discern out-of-distribution (OOD) data and prompt human intervention, a critical competency. While several frameworks for OOD detection have been introduced and achieved remarkable results, most state-of-the-art (SOTA) models rely on supervised learning with annotated data for their training. However, acquiring labeled data can be a demanding, time-consuming or, in some cases, an infeasible task. Consequently, unsupervised learning has gained substantial traction and has made noteworthy advancements. It empowers models to undergo training solely on unlabeled data while still achieving comparable or even superior performance compared to supervised alternatives. Among the array of unsupervised methods, contrastive learning has asserted its effectiveness in feature extraction for a variety of downstream tasks. Conversely, auto-encoders are extensively employed to acquire indispensable representations that faithfully reconstruct input data. In this study, we introduce a novel approach that amalgamates contrastive learning with auto-encoders for OOD detection using unlabeled data. Contrastive learning diligently tightens the grouping of in-distribution data while meticulously segregating OOD data, and the auto-encoder augments the feature space with increased refinement. Within this framework, data undergo implicit classification into in-distribution and OOD categories with a notable degree of precision. Our experimental findings manifest that this method surpasses most of the existing detectors reliant on unlabeled data or even labeled data. By incorporating an auto-encoder into an unsupervised learning framework and training it on the CIFAR-100 dataset, our model enhances the detection rate of unsupervised learning methods by an average of 5.8%. Moreover, it outperforms the supervised-based OOD detector by an average margin of 11%.