Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining candidate synchronization signal block transmission resources. One method (800) includes receiving (802) first information indicating at least one candidate synchronization signal block transmission resource. The at least one candidate synchronization signal block transmission resource is useable for transmitting a synchronization signal block for inter-node discovery, measurement, or a combination thereof. The method (800) includes receiving (804) second information and downlink data corresponding to the second information. The method (800) includes decoding (806) the downlink data. Decoding the downlink data includes rate-matching around the at least one candidate synchronization signal block transmission resource.

Abstract: The present application relates to method and apparatus for subband based channel access on unlicensed spectrum. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method comprising: receiving a downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling transmission of data on a set of bandwidth portions of a carrier, wherein the carrier comprises a plurality of bandwidth portions; performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) test on the set of bandwidth portions; and transmitting the data on one or more bandwidth portions of the set of bandwidth portions based on a result of the LBT test.

Abstract: An offshore rocket transport and launch method includes S1: assembling a rocket horizontally; S2: loading the assembled rocket as a whole into a transport cage; S3: transporting, by a transport vehicle, the transport cage loaded with the rocket to a wharf by land horizontal transport; S4: transferring the transport cage loaded with the rocket to a transport ship, and transporting the transport cage loaded with the rocket to an offshore rocket launch pad by sea transport; S5: hoisting, by a hoisting device, the transport cage loaded with the rocket to the rocket launch pad; S6: opening the transport cage, transferring the rocket to a launching position, and hoisting the transport cage away from the rocket launch pad; and S7: launching the rocket. The method effectively facilitates the offshore rocket transport and launch process, and prevents the rocket from being affected by the external environment during the launch process.

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of assigning different criteria to a plurality of nodes of a decision tree model, respectively, iteratively executing the decision tree model on a plurality of training data which causes the plurality of training data to be assigned to the plurality of nodes of the decision tree model based on the different criteria assigned to the plurality of nodes, identifying nodes among the plurality of nodes within the decision tree model which have a purity above a predetermined purity threshold, generating a set of rules based on the identified nodes which have the purity above the predetermined purity threshold, and embedding the set of rules within the decision tree model and storing the decision tree model within a storage device.

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a loan application of a user, extracting a plurality of personal attributes about the user from the loan application, querying a machine learning model via an application programming interface (API) based on the plurality of attributes about the user to identify one or more rules for auto-adjudicating the loan application, determining whether or not to approve the loan application based on the one or more rules identified via the machine learning model, and transmitting notice of the determination to a device associated with the user.

Abstract: A display substrate, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device are provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a phenyl-modified polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) separation membrane, a fabrication method thereof, and a use thereof in the separation of an aromatic compound, and belongs to the technical field of separation membrane materials. A phenyl-modified PDMS separation membrane comprising a substrate layer and a selective layer is provided.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for data transmission are disclosed. One method of a network equipment includes scrambling and modulating coded bits to generate data; mapping the data into a first resource block and a second resource block, both of which forms a resource block, wherein the first resource block is from a symbol with an indicated index to a symbol with an end index of the resource block, the second resource block is from a symbol with a start index to a symbol with the indicated index minus one of the resource block; and transmitting the data in the resource blocks.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for a sidelink positioning mechanism in 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) 5G and/or new radio (NR) networks. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes: receiving at least one of positioning reference signal (PRS) configuration information and downlink control information (DCI); generating sidelink control information (SCI) based on the at least one of the PRS configuration information and the DCI, wherein the SCI indicates a resource in time and frequency domains for a sidelink-positioning reference signal (SL-PRS); and transmitting the SCI.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a video processing method and device, a computer-readable storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program, where the method includes: acquiring a to-be-processed video frame and corresponding special effect setup information; sending the to-be-processed video frame and the corresponding special effect setup information to a server, so that the server adds a target special effect on the to-be-processed video frame according to the special effect setup information to obtain a target video frame corresponding to the to-be-processed video frame, and splices all obtained target video frames to generate a target video, after the first device finishes shooting; and receiving the target video sent by the server, and displaying the target video, which improves efficiency of adding special effects, thereby improving user experience.

Abstract: A binary neural network model training method and system includes constructing an online distillation-enhanced binary neural network training framework, wherein a teacher network in the online distillation-enhanced binary neural network training framework is an initial real-valued neural network model and an initial assistant neural network model, and a student network is an initial binary neural network model; and training the three network models using an online distillation method to improve the performance of a binary neural network. In addition, the binary neural network model is used for performing image classification on an image to be processed to improve the accuracy of the image classification.

Abstract: Amphiphilic oligonucleotide conjugates that enhance adjuvant function are disclosed. The conjugates typically include: a lipophilic component, and conjugated thereto (directly or indirectly) an immunomodulating oligonucleotide that, if it were not conjugated to the lipophilic component, would suppress TLR7 and/or TLR8 stimulation. In the presence of albumin, these conjugates significantly enhance adjuvant function, in particular the function of TLR7/8-mediated adjuvants such as an imidazoquinolinamine. The conjugates can be administered, along with an adjuvant compound, to a subject in order to cause and/or enhance an immune response (for instance, to an infectious agent or a cancer antigen) in the subject.

Abstract: Luminescent microspheres and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. The preparation method includes: 1) preparing cadmium oxide-doped silica microspheres; 2) adding the silica microspheres to a mixed solution of octadecene/oleic acid or trioctylamine (TOA)/oleic acid, and heating a resulting mixture to a boiling point so that the microspheres swell at high temperature and the oleic acid penetrates into the microspheres to react with CdO to obtain an organic cadmium-adsorbed silica suspension; and 3) adding a selenium precursor to the obtained organic cadmium-adsorbed silica suspension to obtain the luminescent microspheres, where, the selenium precursor reacts with the adsorbed organic cadmium to form CdSe.

Abstract: Amphiphilic oligonucleotide conjugates that enhance adjuvant function are disclosed. The conjugates typically include: a lipophilic component, and conjugated thereto (directly or indirectly) an immunomodulating oligonucleotide that, if it were not conjugated to the lipophilic component, would suppress TLR7 and/or TLR8 stimulation. In the presence of albumin, these conjugates significantly enhance adjuvant function, in particular the function of TLR7/8-mediated adjuvants such as an imidazoquinolinamine. The conjugates can be administered, along with an adjuvant compound, to a subject in order to cause and/or enhance an immune response (for instance, to an infectious agent or a cancer antigen) in the subject.

Abstract: An apparatus includes processor(s) to: generate a set of candidate n-grams based on probability distributions from an acoustic model for candidate graphemes of a next word most likely spoken following at least one preceding word spoken within speech audio; provide the set of candidate n-grams to multiple devices; provide, to each node device, an indication of which candidate n-grams are to be searched for within the n-gram corpus by each node device to enable searches for multiple candidate n-grams to be performed, independently and at least partially in parallel, across the node devices; receive, from each node device, an indication of a probability of occurrence of at least one candidate n-gram within the speech audio; based on the received probabilities of occurrence, identify the next word most likely spoken within the speech audio; and add the next word most likely spoken to a transcript of the speech audio.

Abstract: An identical steer control mechanism of a radial bar-link trapezoidal swing arm, a method and a multi-wheel vehicle thereof are disclosed. The radial bar-link trapezoidal swing arm is in a right triangle shape, and in combination with a two-dimensional composite control transmission arm of a cross-shaped groove formed by a transverse groove and a vertical groove, an elliptical gauge is shaped; the longitudinal cosine displacement is controlled by the sliders in the transverse groove, and the transverse sine displacement can be controlled by connecting the sliders in the vertical groove after the right-angle end bearing is hinged to connecting rods, the end bearing on the two-dimensional composite control transmission arm, namely the key control point bearing, draws a deflection elliptical trajectory, and the hinged slider to the key control point bearing is connected with a vector control swing arm sliding slot to generate a steering angle ?i.

Abstract: Luminescent microspheres and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. The preparation method includes: 1) preparing cadmium oxide-doped silica microspheres; 2) adding the silica microspheres to a mixed solution of octadecene/oleic acid or trioctylamine (TOA)/oleic acid, and heating a resulting mixture to a boiling point so that the microspheres swell at high temperature and the oleic acid penetrates into the microspheres to react with CdO to obtain an organic cadmium-adsorbed silica suspension; and 3) adding a selenium precursor to the obtained organic cadmium-adsorbed silica suspension to obtain the luminescent microspheres, where, the selenium precursor reacts with the adsorbed organic cadmium to form CdSe.

Abstract: An apparatus includes processor(s) to: generate a set of candidate n-grams based on probability distributions from an acoustic model for candidate graphemes of a next word most likely spoken following at least one preceding word spoken within speech audio; provide the set of candidate n-grams to multiple devices; provide, to each node device, an indication of which candidate n-grams are to be searched for within the n-gram corpus by each node device to enable searches for multiple candidate n-grams to be performed, independently and at least partially in parallel, across the node devices; receive, from each node device, an indication of a probability of occurrence of at least one candidate n-gram within the speech audio; based on the received probabilities of occurrence, identify the next word most likely spoken within the speech audio; and add the next word most likely spoken to a transcript of the speech audio.

Abstract: An identical steer control mechanism of a radial bar-link trapezoidal swing arm, a method and a multi-wheel vehicle thereof are disclosed. The radial bar-link trapezoidal swing arm is in a right triangle shape, and in combination with a two-dimensional composite control transmission arm of a cross-shaped groove formed by a transverse groove and a vertical groove, an elliptical gauge is shaped; the longitudinal cosine displacement is controlled by the sliders in the transverse groove, and the transverse sine displacement can be controlled by connecting the sliders in the vertical groove after the right-angle end bearing is hinged to connecting rods, the end bearing on the two-dimensional composite control transmission arm, namely the key control point bearing, draws a deflection elliptical trajectory, and the hinged slider to the key control point bearing is connected with a vector control swing arm sliding slot to generate a steering angle ?i.

Abstract: Lipid conjugates for enhanced delivery of cargo to the lymph nodes are disclosed. The lipid conjugates typically include three domains: a lipophilic domain that binds to albumin, a polar block domain, and a cargo such as a molecular adjuvant or immunostimulatory compound (such as an oligonucleotide) or antigenic peptide. Depending on the cargo, the length and compositions of the polar block can be tailored to push the equilibrium toward albumin binding, stable micelle formation, or cell insertion. The conjugates can be administered to a subject, for example, a subject with cancer or an infection, to induce or enhance a robust immune response in the subject.