Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a medical material and a product and preparation method thereof. The medical material comprises a ferroelectric polymer, and optionally further comprises an inorganic ferroelectric particle. The composite membrane is prepared by experiencing at least one of annealing treatment, corona poling treatment, acid treatment, and ultrasonic treatment, and the acid treatment is conducted after the annealing treatment. The present disclosure further relates to a method for treating a composite membrane to regulate an antibacterial activity.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for improving user authentication and access control by a network file system service in a multi-tenant public cloud environment by receiving a request for a connection to a file system from a file system client (client), sending an identification request for identification authentication of the client to a control system, receiving a response from the control system, establishing the connection to the file system upon determining that the connection to the file system is allowed based on cloud tenant information associated with the client, receiving an attempt to access the file system from the client by a sub-user, authenticating the sub-user based on the cloud tenant information, issuing a security token including a globally unique sub-user identifier of the sub-user, and using the security token to determine access rights of the sub-user to the file system for a subsequent request.

Abstract: An information-seeking dialogue system can be trained using a pipeline process having stages, or components, of passage retrieval (selecting passages relevant to a query from a corpus or knowledge base), re-ranking, and generating a response to the query based on one or more of the re-ranked passages. Each stage, or component, of the pipeline can be individually optimized based on ground truth data.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an electrostatic image developing toner comprising: agglutinating wax and resin particles in aqueous medium; manufacturing a toner composed of wax and resin for developing an electrostatic image, wherein the wax is inside colorants. The method solves the problems of existing toner for developing an electrostatic image, such as low dispersion and easy detachment of colorants, low image density, the contamination of carriers and developing sleeves and low durability. The toner of the invention has high roll viscosity resistance and durability, and the colorants will not detach.

Abstract: In an electronic keyboard instrument (1) being an example of a musical performance apparatus having a musical operation unit, a unique musical performance apparatus is formed by an outer face of its exterior (2), and part or a whole of the outer face of the exterior (2) is formed as a temperature sensitive discolorable layer, for example, as shown by the hatched outer faces of upper side panels (22), lower side panels (23), and a back panel (25), so that at least part of the exterior (2) changes in color according to a change in environmental temperature or a temperature change caused by radiant heat by illumination of lights (34). In order to forcibly discolor the temperature sensitive discolorable layer of the exterior (2), it is preferable that heaters or Peltier modules are incorporated in the exterior (2) and electricity is supplied thereto for enabling heating, or heating and cooling.

Abstract: In an electronic keyboard instrument (1) being an example of a musical performance apparatus having a musical operation unit, a unique musical performance apparatus is formed by an outer face of its exterior (2), and part or a whole of the outer face of the exterior (2) is formed as a temperature sensitive discolorable layer, for example, as shown by the hatched outer faces of upper side panels (22), lower side panels (23), and a back panel (25), so that at least part of the exterior (2) changes in color according to a change in environmental temperature or a temperature change caused by radiant heat by illumination of lights (34). In order to forcibly discolor the temperature sensitive discolorable layer of the exterior (2), it is preferable that heaters or Peltier modules are incorporated in the exterior (2) and electricity is supplied thereto for enabling heating, or heating and cooling.