Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of biomedicine, in particular to the use of MCM8-cGAS-STING-IFN-I signal pathway as a disease target, including the use in the preparation of an animal model of a disease or the preparation of a product for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of a disease. In particular, the present disclosure comprises the use of a reagent for quantitatively detecting the gene expression or protein expression or protein activity of MCM8 in the preparation of a product for the diagnosis of a disease caused by dysfunctional mitophagy or caused by abnormal activation of cGAS-STING-IFN-I signaling pathway.

Abstract: The present invention relates to adenovirus E4ORF1 gene and to endothelial cells engineered to express the E4ORF1 gene. The present invention also relates to uses of the E4ORF1 gene, and cells expressing the E4ORF1 gene, and to compositions comprising the E4ORF1 gene, or comprising cells expressing the E4ORF1 gene.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses a water-lubricated high-pressure pump using rolling support, including a driving mechanism, a shell, a rolling bearing, an isolation structure, at least one plunger and a plunger chamber. The driving mechanism includes a main shaft and at least one eccentric structure, and the main shaft is rotationally connected to the shell through the rolling bearing. The eccentric structure is located in a first inner chamber of the shell, which is configured for filling water or aqueous solution. The rolling bearing is located in a second inner chamber of the shell, and the isolation structure is configured to seal the water or aqueous solution inside the shell to prevent the water or aqueous solution from entering into the second inner chamber. When the eccentric structure is rotated, the eccentric structure can push the plunger to move in the plunger chamber to realize pressurization of the water or aqueous solution.

Abstract: A method and device for power indication information transmission are provided. The method includes receiving data subjected to inverse fast fourier transform (IFFT); buffering the received data within the time slot; determining power of the received data within the time slot; sending power indication information and the received data respectively, wherein the power indication information includes information of the power of the received data within the time slot. Therefore, power saving is improved significantly, and DPD also can get benefit from power indication information for pre-distortion processing.

Abstract: An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a processing platform having at least one processing device. The processing platform implements a trusted bridge configured for at least temporary coupling between one or more data sources and a smart contract program of a blockchain. The trusted bridge comprises a secure enclave component and a relay component. Data obtained from a given one of the data sources via the relay component of the trusted bridge is authenticated in the secure enclave component of the trusted bridge. Information based at least in part on the data authenticated in the secure enclave component of the trusted bridge is provided to the smart contract program of the blockchain via the relay component of the trusted bridge. The secure enclave component illustratively receives a request for authenticated data from the blockchain smart contract program via the relay component, and responds to the request via the relay component.

Abstract: A graphics rendering method includes obtaining, by a central processing unit (CPU), to-be-processed vertex data. The to-be-processed vertex data is vertex data used by a graphics processing unit (GPU) for graphics rendering processing. The method also includes processing, by the CPU, the to-be-processed vertex data to obtain vertex data within a field of view of a user. The method additionally includes sending, by the CPU, the vertex data within the field of view of the user to the GPU for the graphics rendering processing.

Abstract: A controller optimizes read threshold values for a memory device using domain transformation. The controller determines, for decoded data of each read operation, an asymmetric ratio (AR) and a number of unsatisfied checks (USCs), the AR indicating a ratio of a number of a first binary value to a number of a second binary value in the decoded data. The controller determines a Z-axis such that AR values of threshold sets are arranged in a set order along the Z-axis. The controller determines an optimum read threshold set using coordinate values on the Z-axis, which correspond to a set AR value and a set USC value.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method of managing a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is provided. A fleet management computing system receives telemetry information from a plurality of UAVs. The fleet management computing system generates a map interface having a plurality of UAV icons based on the telemetry information. The fleet management computing system receives a selection of an initial group of UAV icons via the map interface, wherein the initial group of UAV icons includes two or more UAV icons. The fleet management computing system receives a de-selection of one or more UAV icons from the initial group of UAV icons to create a final selected group of UAV icons. The fleet management computing system transmits a command to UAVs associated with the UAV icons of the final selected group of UAV icons.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automated recording of an ultrasound clip are based on quality scores of ultrasound images in a sequence of ultrasound image frames. An ultrasound imaging system includes a probe for capturing ultrasound images, an image buffer to store a sequence of image frames, a quality buffer to store a sequence of quality scores, and a computing subsystem that automatically records an ultrasound clip when the quality scores in the quality buffer corresponding to a set of contiguous image frames in the image buffer equal or exceed a first quality threshold and the set of contiguous image frames is at least a first predetermined size. Additionally, a smart capture feature automatically records an ultrasound clip including an alternate set of contiguous image frames having quality scores equaling or exceeding a second quality threshold that is less than the first quality threshold and meets a second predetermined size.

Abstract: Provided is speaker, including magnetic circuit unit, frame fixed to the magnetic circuit unit, and first and second sound-producing unit both fixed to the frame. The magnetic circuit unit includes magnetically conductive assembly with lower clamping plate and magnet component located on lower clamping plate. A third magnetic conductor is arranged around the magnet component, first magnetic conductor, and second magnetic conductor. A first and a second voice coil are respectively located in magnetic gaps between third magnetic conductor and second magnetic conductor and between third magnetic conductor and first magnetic conductor. The two sound-producing units share the magnetic circuit unit.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a multiband resonance frequency tracking circuit applied to ultrasonic machining, including an output current-voltage phase difference direction detection circuit and a multiband resonance frequency tracking circuit, where a detection signal output end of the output current-voltage phase difference direction detection circuit is connected to a signal input end of the multiband resonance frequency tracking circuit. Through the foregoing technical solutions, in the present invention, a system detuning state is quickly determined by using a current-voltage phase difference direction detection signal outputted by a D flip-flop in a chip SN74HC74D, and a dead-time resistor between a 5th pin and a 7th pin in a chip EG3525 can be changed in a timely manner based on a detuning degree of a piezoelectric transducer, so as to change a system driving frequency to track a resonance frequency of the piezoelectric transducer and implement fast and accurate tracking.

Abstract: A data processing method, a device wake-up method, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. In the data processing method, speech to be processed is converted into a keyword phone sequence, and a similar pronunciation sequence generator acquires a similar phone sequence corresponding to the keyword phone sequence in a sequence generation manner, thereby acquiring a first data processed result corresponding to the speech to be processed. By replacing the search method of large-scale speech databases with this generation manner, effective coverage of possible real-life sounds can be achieved with a smaller model, thus improving the ability to distinguish confusing pronunciations. The above data processing method performed by the electronic device can be performed by an artificial intelligence (AI) model.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus of frequency regulation of a power system involving renewable energy power generation, a computer device, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: constructing a system frequency dynamic model according to parameters associated with power generator sets in the power system, where the power generator sets comprise a renewable energy power generator set and a conventional energy power generator set; calculating secure operation indexes of the power system according to the system frequency dynamic model of the power system; and obtaining system comprehensive cost indexes of the power system, constructing a reserve allocation model of the power generator sets according to the system comprehensive cost indexes and the secure operation indexes of the power system, and regulating a system frequency of the power system according to the reserve allocation model.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing VOC in polypropylene by steaming process includes: a cyclone separator, used for separating polypropylene particles and entraining gas from an upstream pneumatic system; a preheating tower, communicating with a discharge hole of the cyclone separator, a first steam inlet being provided on a tower body of the preheating tower, and a tail gas outlet being provided on top of the preheating tower; and a devolatilization tower, communicating with a discharge hole of the preheating tower, a second steam inlet being provided on a tower body of the devolatilization tower, a steam outlet being provided on top of the tower, and the steam outlet being communicating with the first steam inlet.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a permanent magnet comprising: a plurality of aligned iron nitride nanoparticles wherein the iron nitride nanoparticles include ??-Fe16N2 phase domains; wherein a ratio of integrated intensities of an ??-Fe16N2 (004) x-ray diffraction peak to an ??-??-Fe16N2 (202) x-ray diffraction peak for the aligned iron nitride nanoparticles is greater than at least 7%, wherein the diffraction vector is parallel to alignment direction, and wherein the iron nitride nanoparticles exhibit a squareness measured parallel to the alignment direction that is greater than a squareness measured perpendicular to the alignment direction.

Abstract: An emotion estimation apparatus includes preparation biological information acquisition circuitry acquires, separately from subjects who are in a preparation space, first biological information indicating a physical state of each subject and analyzes the first biological information, preparation emotion information acquisition circuitry acquires emotion information indicating an emotion of each of the subjects, association construction circuitry constructs association information in which the first biological information and the emotion information corresponding to the first biological information are associated with each other, estimation biological information acquisition circuitry acquires second biological information indicating a physical state of any one subject of the subjects who is present in an estimation space, estimation circuitry extracts the emotion information associated in the association information with the first biological information that is equal to the second biological information, and

Abstract: A neural network accelerator architecture for multiple task adaptation comprises a volatile memory comprising a plurality of subarrays, each subarray comprising M rows and N columns of volatile memory cells; a source line driver connected to a plurality of N source lines, each source line corresponding to a column in the subarray; a binary mask buffer memory having size at least N bits, each bit corresponding to a column in the subarray, where a 0 corresponds to turning off the column for a convolution operation and a 1 corresponds to turning on the column for the convolution operation; and a controller configured to selectively drive each of the N source lines with a corresponding value from the mask buffer; wherein each column in the subarray is configured to store a convolution kernel.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to image rendering methods apparatuses, and electronic devices. One example method includes obtaining, by a central processing unit (CPU), an image command stream used to render an image frame, comparing the image command stream with a previous image command stream, and, when a same drawing command exists in the two image command streams, instructing a graphics processing unit (GPU) to render the image frame based on a previously generated drawing target.

Abstract: Various systems and methods for implementing protocol state aware power management are described herein. A network interface device for implementing protocol state aware power management includes circuitry to provide a direct memory access interface; medium access control (MAC) circuitry to interface with a network; and control circuitry to: classify packets received at the MAC circuitry as packets used to open network connections or packets used to close network connections; maintain statistics of packets used to open network connections and packets used to close network connections; calculate a power hint based on the statistics of packets used to open connections and packets used to close network connections; and write a receive descriptor to a host memory using the direct memory access interface, the receive descriptor including a power hint field with the power hint, the power hint used by a host processor to scale processor power based on the power hint.