Recurrent neural network (RNN) and convolutional neural network (CNN) are two prevailing architectures used in text classification. Traditional approaches combine the strengths of these two networks by straightly streamlining them or linking features extracted from them. In this article, a novel approach is proposed to maintain the strengths of RNN and CNN to a great extent. In the proposed approach, a bi-directional RNN encodes each word into forward and backward hidden states. Then, a neural tensor layer is used to fuse bi-directional hidden states to get word representations. Meanwhile, a convolutional neural network is utilized to learn the importance of each word for text classification. Empirical experiments are conducted on several datasets for text classification. The superior performance of the proposed approach confirms its effectiveness.

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Abstract. Chronic cutaneous wounds are one of the most unfavorable pathophysiological processes in routine practice. However, developments in hair follicle unit therapy may aid the treatment of these wounds. The aim of the present study was to investigate the function of hair follicle units in chronic cutaneous wound re-epithelialization and to develop an effective protocol for wound treatment. A total of 14 patients, of which nine were male and five were female, with a mean age of 60.71 years (range, 19-76 years) and a mean wound area of 74.14 cm 2 , were treated in the study. The hair follicle units were dissected from a scalp graft and transplanted into the chronic cutaneous wound bed, after which clinical evaluation was performed. Images of the recipient site were captured at 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 14 weeks following transplantation. In addition, histological examinations were conducted postoperatively at week 16. Total wound re-epithelialization was observed in all the patients. Histological analysis revealed that the epidermis and papillary dermis were present in the wound area. Adnexal structures and the reticular dermis were also observed. Therefore, the present study demonstrated the ability of hair follicle units to promote chronic cutaneous wound healing.

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