Abstract: A tapping apparatus adapted for tapping a workpiece includes a lower die unit to drive the workpiece to move along a conveying direction, and an upper die unit disposed above and movable upwardly and downwardly relative to the lower die unit. A tapping mechanism is disposed between the lower and upper die units to be driven by the upper die unit for tapping the workpiece so that the workpiece is formed with a tapped hole. A thread checking mechanism is disposed between the lower and upper die units and is spaced apart from the tapping mechanism along the conveying direction. The thread checking mechanism is driven by the upper die unit for checking the tapped hole of the workpiece.

Abstract: Provided herein are compositions, systems, and methods for minimally-invasive assessment of toxicity-induced tissue injury. In particular, external (e.g., whole-body) scanning is employed to detect toxicity-induced injuries, such as those caused by chemotherapeutics.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for executing a software application in a virtual machine executing on a data processing device includes receiving software code for a software application, determining application programming interfaces referenced by the software code, determining portions of an operating system accessed by the software code and creating an application container in the virtual machine. The method also includes application programming interfaces referenced by the software code inside the application container, portions of the operating system accessed by the software code inside the application container and executing the software application inside the application container on the virtual machine.

Abstract: In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a vehicle is provided that includes a body, a drive system, and a control system for controlling the adaptive cruise control functionality for the vehicle. The drive system is disposed within the body, and has adaptive cruise control functionality. The control system includes: one or more sensors disposed onboard the vehicle and configured to obtain sensor data for monitoring a driver of the vehicle while the vehicle is stopped during adaptive cruise control operation while a target vehicle in front of the vehicle has stopped; and a processor coupled to the one or more sensors and configured to provide instructions for automatically resuming movement of the vehicle, when the target vehicle resumes movement, based on the monitoring of the driver of the vehicle.

Abstract: A variety of polyhedral nanocages are provided having a hollow interior, ultrathin walls, and well-defined facets of metal atoms. The nanocages can include a variety of precious metals such as Pt, Au, Ru, Rh, or Ir. The metal atoms can take a face-centered cubic structure with {111} facets on the surface. The walls can be thin, sometimes less than 1 nm in thickness or only a few atomic layers in thickness. The nanocages can provide for efficient uses of valuable precious metals, among other things, in catalysis. For example, catalysts are provided exhibiting high mass activities in oxygen reduction reactions. Methods of making and methods of using the nanocages and catalysts are also provided.

Abstract: The present application provides display panels, transparent display panels and manufacturing methods therefor. A transparent display panel includes a light transmitting substrate, pixel structures, second electrode connecting portions, and a nano-material layer. A display region of the light transmitting substrate includes alternately distributed pixel regions and non-pixel regions. The pixel structures are located in the pixel regions, each including: a first electrode close to the light transmitting substrate, a second electrode away from the light transmitting substrate, and a light emitting block between the first electrode and the second electrode. The second electrode connecting portions are located in the non-pixel regions, and connect adjacent second electrodes, and one or more materials for the second electrode connecting portions are the same as the one or more materials for the second electrodes, both including transflective materials.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system for cross-chain data access of blockchain. According to the technical solution, an adapter is added between a service blockchain and a witness blockchain, a cross-chain initiation event and a cross-chain response event on a local service blockchain are registered to the witness blockchain by using the adapter, so as to provide query and push services of cross-chain events to other nodes on the local service blockchain, and trigger related operations on the local service blockchain according to the cross-chain events of the witness blockchain.

Abstract: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method, a system, and a computer program product for path planning According to the computer-implemented method, a target discriminator is selected from a set of discriminators with different kernel sizes based on a target image obtained from an image capturing device. In this case, a confidence of the target image is determined using the target discriminator. The confidence indicates whether the target image contains a target object to be captured. Thereby, a movement indication for moving the image capturing device to capture the target object is determined based on the confidence of the target image.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a photography-based 3D modeling system and method, and an automatic 3D modeling apparatus and method, including: (S1) attaching a mobile device and a camera to the same camera stand; (S2) obtaining multiple images used for positioning from the camera or the mobile device during movement of the stand, and obtaining a position and a direction of each photo capture point, to build a tracking map that uses a global coordinate system; (S3) generating 3D models on the mobile device or a remote server based on an image used for 3D modeling at each photo capture point; and (S4) placing the individual 3D models of all photo capture points in the global three-dimensional coordinate system based on the position and the direction obtained in S2, and connecting the individual 3D models of multiple photo capture points to generate an overall 3D model that includes multiple photo capture points.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure is provided. The method includes a III-V semiconductor device in a first region of a base substrate and a further device in a second region of the base substrate. The method includes: (a) obtaining a base substrate comprising the first region and the second region, different from the first region; (b) providing a buffer layer over a surface of the base substrate at least in the first region, wherein the buffer layer comprises at least one monolayer of a first two-dimensional layered crystal material; (c) forming, over the buffer layer in the first region, and not in the second region, a III-V semiconductor material; and (d) forming, in the second region, at least part of the further device. A semiconductor structure is also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods of using a microRNA-210 inhibitor in preparation of drugs for treating inflammatory skin diseases. The present inventor has demonstrated through a large number of experiments that in vitro inhibition of microRNA-210 expression can significantly enhance the expression of its target gene STAT6, thereby inhibiting proliferation and chemokine CCL20 secretion of keratinocytes, further inhibiting chemotactic T cell migration towards skin lesion, and also inhibiting differentiation of TH1 and TH17. MicroRNA-210 knockout and intradermal injection of a microRNA-210 inhibitor (cholesterol-modified antagomiR-210) on a skin lesion specifically inhibit the expression of microRNA-210, so that skin inflammation in mice can be significantly inhibited, and T cell immune imbalance is mitigated. The present invention provides a new pathophysiological mechanism for inflammatory skin diseases and provides a new strategy for preparing drugs for treating inflammatory skin diseases.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating video representations utilizing a hierarchical video encoder includes obtaining a video, wherein the video includes a plurality of frames, processing each of the plurality of frames with a machine-learned frame-level encoder model to respectively generate a plurality of frame representations for the plurality of frames, the plurality of frame representations respective to the plurality of frames determining a plurality of segment representations representative of a plurality of video segments including one or more of the plurality of frames, the plurality of segment representations based at least in part on the plurality of frame representations, processing the plurality of segment representations with a machine-learned segment-level encoder model to generate a plurality of contextualized segment representations, determining a video representation based at least in part on the plurality of contextualized segment representations, and providing the video representati

Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can be configured to provide machine learning data to an edge computing device based on information associated with the edge computing device. A change to the information associated with the edge computing device is determined. One or more machine learning operations can be managed on the edge computing device based at least in part on the change to the information associated with the edge computing device.

Abstract: Provided is a culture medium containing amphiregulin for culturing primary breast epithelial cells and a culture method involving using the medium. In the culturing method, primary cells are cultured on a culture vessel coated with an extracellular matrix gel by using the culture medium, and the primary cells grow on the culture vessel, which has been coated with the extracellular matrix gel, and proliferate rapidly under the combined action of nutrient factors and an extracellular matrix contained in the primary cell culture medium. The cell model obtained by the primary cell culture medium and the primary cell culture method can be used for the evaluating the efficacy of and screening drugs.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes determining, by a master node, model update information at least based on a workload related to a task and a resource capacity of a computing environment. The model update information indicates respective model update suggestions for a plurality of inference models configured to perform the task. The method further includes distributing, by the master node, the model update information to a plurality of inference agents in the computing environment. The plurality of inference agents has a plurality of instances of the plurality of inference models executed thereon.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of predicting customer satisfaction scores for a call center is disclosed, along with the use of the predicted customer satisfaction scores to perform various analytical functions, such as identifying changes to the predicted customer satisfaction score and identifying root causes of the predicted customer satisfaction scores. In some implementations, a pipeline includes an inference engine that includes an AI model trained on call transcripts and call attribute data to predict a customer satisfaction score.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a modified hydroxyethyl methyl cellulose for an enhanced ceramic tile adhesive, which is prepared from the following raw materials by mass percent: 54%-94% of hydroxyethyl methyl cellulose, 5%-40% of starch ether, 0.5%-3% of dispersing agent and 0.5%-3% of rheological agent, wherein the hydroxyethyl methyl cellulose is prepared from cellulose powder, granular caustic soda, liquid caustic soda, chloromethane and ethylene oxide. A preparation method includes: (1) weighing the raw materials; (2) mixing the cellulose powder, the granular caustic soda, the liquid caustic soda, the chloromethane and the ethylene oxide, carrying out etherification reaction, and then sequentially carrying out neutralization, washing, centrifugation, drying and crushing to obtain the hydroxyethyl methyl cellulose; and (3) mixing and stirring the hydroxyethyl methyl cellulose, the starch ether, the dispersing agent and the rheological agent to obtain the modified hydroxyethyl methyl cellulose.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a modified hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose for an enhanced ceramic tile adhesive, which is prepared from the following raw materials by mass percent: 54%-94% of hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, 5%-40% of starch ether, 0.5%-3% of dispersing agent and 0.5%-3% of rheological agent, wherein the hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose is prepared from cellulose powder, granular caustic soda, liquid caustic soda, chloromethane and propylene oxide. A preparation method includes: (1) weighing the raw materials; (2) mixing the cellulose powder, the granular caustic soda, the liquid caustic soda, the chloromethane and the propylene oxide, carrying out etherification reaction, and then sequentially carrying out neutralization, washing, centrifugation, drying and crushing to obtain the hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose; and (3) mixing and stirring the hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, the starch ether, the dispersing agent and the rheological agent to obtain the modified hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose.

Abstract: A system for hanging tubing in a wellbore includes a tubular body, a plurality of lower slips mounted along the tubular body, a spring cone disposed around the tubular body and fixed to the plurality of lower slips, the spring cone comprising a lock ring having a ratchet profile, and a packer element disposed around the tubular body, below and adjacent the spring cone.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure that comprises providing a monocrystalline silicon base layer comprising a first region for manufacturing the III-N semiconductor device and a second region for manufacturing the silicon semiconductor device; providing on the monocrystalline silicon base layer a mask layer, the mask layer being interrupted, in the first region, by a recess in the monocrystalline silicon base layer, wherein the mask layer comprises a 2D material; forming, selectively, a layer of gamma-Al2O3 at the bottom of the recess by a first growth process; forming, selectively on the layer of gamma-Al2O3, a III-N semiconductor device stack by a second growth process, and thereafter; manufacturing, in the second region, at least partially a silicon semiconductor device.