Abstract: Lease transfer between master and slave replicas is described. A master replicator determines that an initial master replica lease takes effect. On determining that a master replica transfer needs to be performed, sending a transfer preparation message to a target replicator prior to expiration of a current master replica lease. The target replicator locally starts and calculates a new master replica lease and returns a readiness response to the master replicator. The master replicator sends a lease extension message to remaining slave replicators to extend local corresponding leases. After receiving lease extension success responses of a majority of the slave replicators, the master replicator terminates the local master replica lease of the master replicator in advance, and sends a transfer confirmation message to the target replicator. The target replicator validates the new master replica lease to make the target replicator a new master replicator.

Abstract: Articles and devices comprising fluorinated polymers, as well as methods of preparing fluorinated polymers, are generally described. In some cases, such fluorinated elastomers can be used for sensing neural activity, e.g., by encapsulating electronic circuits, or other applications. Furthermore, according to certain embodiments, polymers can, surprisingly, be directly deposited onto layers comprising low molecular weight fluorinated polymers, e.g., without swelling in the presence of certain solvents. Some embodiments are generally directed to devices and methods for treating fluorinated polymers and subsequently depositing material onto the treated fluorinated polymers. This may allow the fabrication and patterning of multilayered articles comprising fluorinated elastomers.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to an efficient arithmetic coding based multiple composition distribution matcher (MCDM) are provided. A wireless communication device selects, based on a first value representing a sequence of bits, a first composition from a plurality of compositions. Each composition of the plurality of compositions includes a different modulation symbol distribution associated with a modulation scheme. The wireless communication device encodes, based on the first composition, the sequence of bits into a sequence of symbols using arithmetic coding. The wireless communication device transmits a communication signal including the sequence of symbols.

Abstract: A method for a transmission parameter of an uplink channel, a terminal, and a network side device, and pertains to the field of wireless communication technologies. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, configuration information; and determining, according to the configuration information and detected first target DCI, a transmission parameter of a target uplink channel scheduled by the first target DCI, where the configuration information is used to indicate any one of the following: SRS resource sets configured for different DCI formats, where the SRS resource set is used for codebook-based transmission or non-codebook-based transmission; a first instruction associated with a first resource; parameter information of the different DCI formats, where the parameter information includes at least one of the following: whether a target field exists, whether a second one field of the target field exists, and a size of the target field; and a configured grant.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides use of sweetpotato IbSAP15 gene in regulating leaf shape and flower shape of sweetpotato. Compared with the control, Ipomoea batatas cv. Xuzishu 8, IbSAP15-overexpressing lines have more deeply incised blades, dehiscent corollas, and higher ornamental value. In the present disclosure, overexpression of the sweetpotato IbSAP15 gene in sweetpotato can deepen leaf incisions, make trumpet-shaped corollas dehiscent, and change leaf shape and flower shape of sweetpotato. The present disclosure is suitable for developing sweetpotato germplasms with different leaf shape and flower shape and promotes ornamental flowering/foliage sweetpotato breeding.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for power backoff techniques for modulation schemes are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a constellation distribution parameter and a modulation scheme to be used by the UE for an uplink message on an uplink channel. The UE may determine an uplink transmission power based at least in part on the indicated constellation distribution parameter and the indicated modulation scheme. The UE may transmit the uplink message using the indicated modulation scheme according to the determined uplink transmission power. In some examples, the UE may transmit a report indicating a power headroom parameter and an output power parameter based at least in part on the constellation distribution parameter.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for Uplink Control Information (UCI) design. The method comprises determining, at a terminal device, a matrix comprising a set of non-zero linear combination coefficients for quantizing a channel between the terminal device and a network device, the matrix having spatial components and frequency components; shifting the frequency components of the matrix circularly, such that a target coefficient of the set of non-zero linear combination coefficients is located in a frequency component with a predetermined index of the frequency components in a shifted matrix; generating a first indication indicating the spatial component associated with the target coefficient in the matrix; and transmitting, to the network device, uplink control information comprising the first indication. In this way, a new solution for designing the UCI may reduce the overhead for reporting the parameters in the UCI.

Abstract: A depth estimation from focus method and system includes receiving input image data containing focus information, generating an intermediate attention map by an AI model, normalizing the intermediate attention map into a depth attention map via a normalization function, and deriving expected depth values for the input image data containing focus information from the depth attention map. The AI model for depth estimation can be trained unsupervisedly without ground truth depth maps. The AI model of some embodiments is a shared network estimating a depth map and reconstructing an AiF image from a set of images with different focus positions.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating control information are provided. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) may include sensing an interference level of at least one frequency, selecting, based on the interference level, a frequency, and communicating sidelink control information (SCI) in the selected frequency.

Abstract: An anti-peep display device includes a display module and an anti-peep module disposed on the display module. The anti-peep module includes the following features. The first light incident surface faces the display surface, the second and third light incident surfaces are located on opposite sides of the first light incident surface, the first condensing portion is disposed corresponding to the second light incident surface and the first light source, the second condensing portion is disposed corresponding to the third light incident surface and the second light source, the first and second condensing portions convert beams of the first and second light sources into anti-peep beams with a beam angle less than 10 degrees, and the optical microstructures reflect the anti-peep beams and exit the anti-peep beams from the light guide plate. The present invention also provides an anti-peep method applicable to the anti-peep display device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a leveling control method, device and system, a motor grader. The leveling control method includes: acquiring elevations of a current position of a blade of a motor grader and a target position, and a movement speed of the motor grader, wherein the target position is on the ground with a certain horizontal distance from the current position along a movement direction of the motor grader; determining a movement time of the blade from the current position to the target position from the horizontal distance and the movement speed; determining a lifting speed of a lifting cylinder from an elevation difference between the elevation of the target position and the elevation of the current position and the movement time; and controlling the lifting cylinder to adjust the blade to move from the current position to the target position according to the lifting speed.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a base comprising a top surface and a bottom surface that is opposite to the top surface; a first semiconductor chip mounted on the top surface of the base in a flip-chip manner; a second semiconductor chip stacked on the first semiconductor chip and electrically coupled to the base by wire bonding; an in-package heat dissipating element comprising a dummy silicon die adhered onto the second semiconductor chip by using a high-thermal conductive die attach film; and a molding compound encapsulating the first semiconductor die, the second semiconductor die, and the in-package heat dissipating element.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof. In order to provide a power semiconductor device with improved latch-up immunity but without increasing device power loss and costs, a hole current path in a fourth semiconductor region of a first conductivity type between a gate trench and a dummy gate trench is shortened by providing a first contact trench between two adjacent gate trenches, and providing a second contact trench between the gate trench and a dummy gate trench such that the width and depth of the second contact trench are respectively greater than those of the first contact trench. The effect of the hole current on the potential rise of the fourth semiconductor region of the first conductivity type is suppressed, thereby suppressing the latch-up effect, and enhancing the switching reliability.

Abstract: A microspheric ionomer having a cross-linked structure, a preparation method therefor, applications thereof, and a preparation system thereof. The ionomer comprises structure units A represented by formula (1), structure units B represented by formula (2), and a cross-linking structure provided by a cross-linking agent, M being separately selected from H, a metal cation, and a straight chain, a saturated alkyl of branched or ring-shaped C1-C20, R being H or a methyl; and metal cations are introduced to part of structure units A in the ionomer. The ionomer shows an outstanding effect on nucleation of PET, serves as a nucleating agent for PET modification, so as to obtain a corresponding PET composition.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for deploying power quality monitoring (PQM) devices. The method may include: determining a maximum number of PQM devices and historical power data of candidate deployment points, wherein the number of the candidate deployment points is greater than the maximum number of the PQM devices; clustering the historical power data of the candidate deployment points, wherein a target number of categories is determined on the basis of a silhouette coefficient of each candidate number of categories and the maximum number of the PQM devices; and determining PQM device deployment points based on the center of each category in the target number of categories.

Abstract: A method for responding to a command is adapted for a storage device. The method for responding to a command includes following steps of: sequentially receiving a first command and a second command by a bridge of the storage device from a host; executing the first command and the second command to generate a status completion signal or a status error signal by the bridge; and detecting an error state of at least one of the first command and the second command to execute a response mode or an idle mode by the bridge according to the error state so as to respond to the host.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic wearable device. The electronic wearable device includes a first module having a first contact and a second module having a second contact. The first contact is configured to keep electrical connection with the second contact in moving with respect to each other during a wearing period.

Abstract: The first UE may transmit to the second UE, via an SCI-2 message in a PSSCH, an indication of at least one of a 3D zone ID associated with the first UE or a 3D communication range associated with the first UE. The second UE may determine whether the second UE is in a communication range based on the received indication of the at least one of the 3D zone ID associated with the at least one first UE or the 3D communication range associated with the at least one first UE. The second UE may determine whether to transmit an ACK or a NACK based on whether the second UE is in the communication range. The second UE may transmit to the first UE an ACK or a NACK based on whether the at least one second UE is in a communication range.

Abstract: A method includes providing a substrate, forming a patterned hard mask layer over the substrate, etching the patterned hard mask layer to form a hole that penetrates the patterned hard mask layer, forming a barrier portion in the hole, removing the patterned hard mask layer, and forming a gate structure over the substrate. Formation of the gate structure includes forming a dielectric body portion on the substrate. The barrier portion that is thicker than the dielectric body portion adjoins one end of the dielectric body portion. The dielectric body portion and the barrier portion are collectively referred to as a gate dielectric layer. Formation of the gate structure further includes forming a gate electrode on the gate dielectric layer and forming gate spacers on opposite sidewalls of the gate electrode. During formation of the gate spacers, a portion of the barrier portion is removed to form a recessed corner.

Abstract: A computing system includes a logic subsystem and a storage subsystem holding instructions executable by the logic subsystem to implement a transformer-based text encoder. The transformer-based text encoder includes a plurality of transformer blocks previously-trained to apply encoding operations to computer-readable text representations of input text strings, the computer-readable text representations including computer-readable question representations of input text questions, and computer-readable passage representations of input text passages. The plurality of transformer blocks include a shared transformer block trained for both the computer-readable question representations and the computer-readable passage representations and a specialized transformer block including two or more input-specific subnetworks, and a routing function to select an input-specific subnetwork of the two or more input-specific subnetworks for each of the computer-readable text representations.