In this study, we provide an overview of recent advances in multisensor multitarget tracking based on the random finite set (RFS) approach. The fusion that plays a fundamental role in multisensor filtering is classified into data-level multitarget measurement fusion and estimate-level multitarget density fusion, which share and fuse local measurements and posterior densities between sensors, respectively. Important properties of each fusion rule including the optimality and sub-optimality are presented. In particular, two robust multitarget density-averaging approaches, arithmetic-and geometric-average fusion, are addressed in detail for various RFSs. Relevant research topics and remaining challenges are highlighted.

Neuropathic pain is caused by dysfunction or primary injury of the somatosensory nervous system. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in the development of neuropathic pain. However, the effects of lncRNA colon cancer associated transcript-1 (CCAT1) in neuropathic pain have not been reported. The model of bilateral sciatic nerve chronic constriction injuries (bCCI) is regarded as long-lasting mechanical hypersensitivity and cold allodynia, which is the representative symptom in the human subjects suffering from the neuropathic pain. In this study, we found that CCAT1 expression was decreased in the spinal dorsal horn, dorsal root ganglion (DRG), hippocampus, and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) of rats with bCCI. The rats of bCCI presented the cold allodynia after the 14th day of postoperation. We furtherly showed that lncRNA CCAT1 decreased miR-155 expression and enhanced Serum and glucocorticoid regulated protein kinase 3 (SGK3) expression in the NGF-differentiated PC12 cell. We found that miR-155 expression was increased in the spinal dorsal horn, DRG, hippocampus, and ACC of rats with bCCI injuries. However, SGK3 expression was downregulated in the spinal dorsal horn, DRG, hippocampus, and ACC of rats with bCCI injuries. Moreover, lncRNA CCAT1 overexpression could alleviate the pain thresholds and inhibited expression of SGK3 could rescue this effect. In conclusion, these results suggested the crucial roles of CCAT1 and SGK3 in the neuropathic pain.

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Periodic/aperiodic sequences with low autocorrelation sidelobes are widely used in many fields, such as communication and radar systems. Besides the correlation property, the frequency stopband property is often considered in the sequence design when the systems work in a crowded electromagnetic environment. In this paper, we aim at designing periodic/aperiodic sequences with low autocorrelation sidelobes and arbitrary frequency stopbands, and propose an efficient algorithm named FFT (fast Fourier transform)-based conjugate gradient algorithm. To calculate the step size efficiently, a method based on Taylor series expansion is developed. By changing the number of FFT points, the proposed algorithm can be easily used to generate periodic/aperiodic sequences. Since the gradient and step size can be implemented by FFT operations and Hadamard product, the whole algorithm is computationally efficient and can be used to design very long sequences. Numerical experiments show that the proposed algorithm has better performance than the state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of the running time.

Compound of BMSC, muscle-like cells, and calcium alginate composite gel has the potential to differentiate into muscle cells in the microenvironment of SUI rat model. It is found by LPP measurement that the correlation between the increase in urethral resistance and the volume effect of calcium alginate gel is high.