Abstract: Among other things, the present invention is related to devices and methods for improving optical analysis of a thin layer of a sample sandwiched between containing between two plates.

Abstract: Aspects are provided for preserving the edge sharpness and enhancing details while upscaling a rendered image. Some aspects specifically relate to upscaling images using a spatial difference between a pixel to be interpolated and respective neighboring pixels, and an intensity difference between respective neighboring pixels and a mean intensity of a subset of the neighboring pixels. Considering both the spatial and intensity difference during upscaling prevents small details of the input image from being smoothed, since a larger weight may be assigned to pixels with a closer intensity value and that are closer in distance to the pixel to be interpolated than in techniques such as bilinear interpolation where only spatial difference may be considered. The result is an upscaled image that preserves sharp edges and small detail for a more accurate upscaled image in a higher resolution than compared to related upscaling methods that only consider using spatial difference.

Abstract: An example method of diagnosing remote sites of a distributed container orchestration system includes: receiving, at a management cluster, definition of a test suite custom resource; detecting, by a test controller agent in a cluster of the remote sites, a diagnosis object in the management cluster created in response to the test suite custom resource; deploying, by the test controller agent in response to the diagnosis object, a first pod in the cluster; deploying, by the first pod, a second pod in a server of a first remote site of the remote sites; checking, by the second pod, configuration of the server that includes an additional pod executing alongside the second pod, at least one virtual machine (VM) in which the second pod and the additional pod execute, a hypervisor configured to support the at least one VM, and a hardware platform on which the hypervisor executes; and returning test data from the second pod to the first pod, the test data including results of the step of checking the configuration o

Abstract: The present invention discloses a use of a polypeptide compound in the preparation of drugs for preventing or treating inflammatory bowel diseases and related intestinal fibrosis, wherein the polypeptide compound comprises a parent peptide represented by the following amino acid sequence: His-Xaa2-Gln-Gly-Thr5-Phe-Thr-Ser-Asp-Lys10-Ser-Lys-Tyr-Leu-Xaa1515-Xaa16-Xaa17-Ala-Ala-Gln20-Xaa21-Phe-Xaa23-Xaa24-Trp25-Leu-Xaa27-Xaa28-Gly-Gly30-Pro-Ser-Ser-Gly-Xaa3535-Pro-Pro-Pro-Ser. The polypeptide compound can not only reduce serum inflammatory factors, inhibit neutrophil infiltration and alleviate inflammation levels; and the polypeptide compound can also reduce pro-fibrotic factors and downregulate protein expressions of ?-SMA and Fibronectin and have significant therapeutic effect on inflammatory bowel disease and related intestinal fibrosis.

Abstract: This disclosure describes an extended closure sensor design for an electronic device. An electronic device (300) senses, with a magnetic sensor (306), an open or a closed position of the electronic device (300). A lid magnetic field is propagated through a ferromagnetic material (304) by a lid magnet (302) when a lid (310) or similar component of the electronic device (300) is in the closed position, thereby placing the lid magnetic field incident upon the magnetic sensor (306). In the open position, the lid magnetic field is materially absent and a bias magnet (308) causes a bias magnetic field to be incident upon the magnetic sensor (306).

Abstract: A system for MRI is provided. The system may obtain a plurality of sets of under-sampled k-space data corresponding to a plurality of frames. Each set of under-sampled k-space data may be acquired simultaneously from a plurality of slice locations of a subject in one of the frames using an MRI scanner. The system may reconstruct a plurality of reference slice images based on the sets of under-sampled k-space data of the plurality of frames. Each of the reference slice images may be representative of one of the slice locations in more than one frame of the frames. The system may further reconstruct a plurality of image series based on the sets of under-sampled k-space data and the reference slice images. Each image series may correspond to one of the slice locations and include a plurality of slice images of the corresponding slice location in the plurality of frames.

Abstract: A server includes at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory includes computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the server to at least obtain task description information of a target task and status information of one or more dock apparatuses communicatively connected to the server, determine a target dock apparatus from the one or more dock apparatuses according to the task description information and the status information, and send a dispatching instruction to the target dock apparatus to instruct the target dock apparatus to select, according to the dispatching instruction, a target UAV from one or more UAVs to perform the target task. The one or more UAVs are carried by and communicatively connected to the target dock apparatus.

Abstract: A method of forming an antimicrobial film, including providing a substrate with a polymer coating disposed thereon, the polymer coating including: an antimicrobial material, an inner surface contacting the substrate, and an outer surface opposite the inner surface; and extracting ions from the antimicrobial material toward the outer surface, such that the outer surface interacts with surface microorganisms. A composition, including a polymer; an antimicrobial material; and at least one of an organic solvent and an additive. The antimicrobial material comprises at least one of copper-containing glass particles, copper oxide particles, copper metal particles, copper salts, copper coordination complexes, cuprite crystals, and a combination thereof. Further, the additive can be selected to increase the oxidation resistance of the antimicrobial material.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an expectorant compound, and specifically discloses compounds represented by formula I and formula II, pharmaceutically acceptable salts or tautomers thereof.

Abstract: A multi-nozzle concurrent printing system includes a plurality of extrusion type nozzle assemblies, a three-axial translation mechanism and an objective table. Each nozzle assembly is provided with a nozzle, a storage barrel and a temperature control module; the three-axial translation mechanism includes an X-axial translation unit, a Y-axial translation unit and a Z-axial translation unit, and the nozzle assemblies are mounted on the Z-axial translation unit; and there are a plurality of nozzle assemblies, the printing system is provided with a concurrent calibration sensor, and the concurrent calibration sensor is taken as an original point of a coordinate system of the printing system. The printing system is provided with the plurality of nozzle assemblies which can work cooperatively or sequentially, the printing mode is flexible and changeable, and non-uniform mixing system forming of materials can be realized; and stable output of the materials in a formal printing task is guaranteed.

Abstract: A traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating hand-foot syndrome after targeted drug treatment is mainly prepared from the following components by weight: 20-50 parts of Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, 20-50 parts of Herba Taraxaci, 20-50 parts of Flos Chrysanthemi Indici, and 20-50 parts of Herba Cum Radice Violae Yedoensitis, 20-50 parts of Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae, 30-60 parts of Radix Astragali Seu Hedysari, 10-35 parts of Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad, 10-45 parts of Carthamus tinctorius L., 15-45 parts of Cortex Radicis Dictamni Dasycarpi, 5-15 parts of Herba Ephedrae, 5-25 parts of Angelica sinensis, 5-25 parts of Rhizoma Ligustici Chuangxiong, 10-30 parts of Radix Rehmanniae, 5-15 parts of Ramulus cinnamomi, 10-30 parts of Cynanchum otophyllum Schneid, 5-15 parts of Semen Sinapis Albae, 5-20 parts of Arisaema heterophyllum Blume, 5-20 parts of Typhonium blumei Nicolson & Sivadasan, and 10-40 parts of Radix Glycyrrhizae.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer system, and a computer program product for trajectory similarity search is provided. The present invention may include, in response to receiving, by one or more processors, a search request for at least one trajectory similar to a query trajectory, determining, by one or more processors, a respective similarity between a query trajectory and a plurality of trajectories by calculating, in a synchronized way, a spatial distance measure and a time difference measure between the query trajectory and the plurality of trajectories. The present invention may further include, identifying, by one or more processors, the at least one trajectory from the plurality of trajectories based on the respective similarity between the query trajectory and the plurality of trajectories.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose a method for manufacturing a naked-eye 3D device and a naked-eye 3D device. The method includes: forming a display module including a plurality of pixel islands; forming a spacer layer on the display module; and forming a micro-lens array on the spacer layer, wherein the spacer layer is formed to have a thickness such that the plurality of pixel islands are located at a focal plane of the micro-lens array. The method further includes: forming an alignment mark between the spacer layer and the display module, wherein the alignment mark is used for, when forming the micro-lens array, aligning each micro-lens in the micro-lens array with one of the plurality of pixel islands.

Abstract: Disclosed are a graphene oxide cochlear implant electrode and a manufacturing method thereof. The graphene oxide cochlear implant electrode includes an electrode tip, an electrode carrier, electrode contacts, a first positioning ring, a second positioning ring, a boosting portion, an electrode wire, a loop electrode, a loop electrode wire and a wire array, herein the electrode tip is arranged at a foremost portion of the cochlear implant electrode, the electrode carrier is silica gel grafted with a graphene oxide, the electrode carrier wraps the electrode wire and semi-wraps the electrode contacts connected to the electrode wire one by one, and the electrode carrier is slightly curved as a whole; and the electrode wire is connected to the electrode contacts one by one and forms a spiral shape through the first positioning ring, the second positioning ring and the boosting portion.

Abstract: Aspects for backpropagation of a multilayer neural network (MNN) in a neural network processor are described herein. The aspects may include a computation module configured to receive one or more groups of MNN data. The computation module may further include a master computation module configured to calculate an input gradient vector based on a first output gradient vector from an adjacent layer and based on a data type of each of the one or more groups of MNN data. Further still, the computation module may include one or more slave computation modules configured to parallelly calculate portions of a second output vector based on the input gradient vector calculated by the master computation module and based on the data type of each of the one or more groups of MNN data.

Abstract: Converting data formats in a storage system: converting first data in a first format to second data in a second format, wherein second data in the second format includes a reference to the first data, wherein the first data and the second data are associated with a dataset, including updating the second data to include: a reference to first data associated with a portion of the dataset that precedes a data-converted portion of the dataset; second data associated with the data-converted portion of the dataset, wherein the second data associated with the data-converted portion of the dataset is in the second data format; and a reference to first data associated with a portion of the dataset that follows the data-converted portion of the dataset; and replacing first data associated with the data-converted portion of the dataset with a reference to the second data associated with the data-converted portion of the dataset.

Abstract: Systems and methods to are disclosed to determine a sleep disordered breathing parameter of a patient, including receiving respiration information of the patient and temperature information of the patient and to determine the sleep disordered breathing parameter of the patient using the received respiration information and temperature information of the patient.