Abstract: A heat-collecting and energy-efficient pot for gas stove is formed of a main body, an outer casing outside said main body, a top edge made integrally with said main body, a base of said main body smaller than said top edge, a loop molded inwards at the bottom of said outer casing, said loop being in contact with said base, a plurality of through-holes evenly provided on said loop for the flame to pass through, two symmetrical handles on said outer casing, a plurality of smoke exhaust holes on the wall between said two handles at the upper end of said outer casing, and a heat-collecting chamber between said outer casing and said main body; when the heat-collecting and energy-efficient pot for gas stove is used, the extended flame enters the heat-collecting chamber via the through-holes and exchanges heat with the side wall of the main body to facilitate energy collection and the smoke is discharged from the smoke exhaust holes.

Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery, including: an electrode assembly, a packing bag, an electrode lead and an insulation part; the electrode assembly is housed in the packing bag having a sealing part on edge, and the electrode lead is connected to the electrode assembly and passes through the sealing part. The sealing part includes a main body area, a first step area and a first transition area which are located on same side of the electrode lead along width direction, and the main body area, first transition area and first step area are successively arranged along direction approaching the electrode lead; the insulation part is wrapped around the electrode lead, and has a first portion which is located on a side of the electrode lead close to the main body area along width direction and covered by the first step area on both sides in thickness direction.

Abstract: An electrochemical device including a housing, an electrode assembly, and a first bonding piece. The electrode assembly is located in the housing. The first bonding piece bonds the housing and the electrode assembly together. A bonding strength between the first bonding piece and the housing is F1, and a bonding strength between the first bonding piece and the electrode assembly is F2, 5%?F1/F2?70%, and 15 N/m?F1?500 N/m.

Abstract: This application provides a positive electrode plate for lithium-ion battery and a lithium-ion battery containing the same. The positive electrode plate may include a current collector, and a capacity layer and a power layer that are specially designed, able to effectively eliminate, in an economical and simple manner, the adverse impact on the battery performance caused by a product resulting from a pre-lithiation material releasing lithium during charge-discharge cycles, thereby significantly improving the first-cycle coulombic efficiency, cycling performance, and service life of batteries.

Abstract: Disclosed are an ultrasonic imaging system and an ultrasonic imaging method, in which echo signals of ultrasonic waves of a region of interest are received, shear waves are propagated within the region of interest, the ultrasonic waves are used for detecting the shear waves; an elasticity result of the region of interest is calculated based on the echo signals of ultrasonic waves; a viscosity parameter of the region of interest is calculated based on the echo signals of ultrasonic waves; and the elasticity result is performed with quality control at least based on the viscosity parameter. The present disclosure provides a scheme of quality control prompt for the reliability of the elasticity result by means of tissue viscosity characteristics.

Abstract: Disclosed herein include systems, devices, and methods for calling overlapping copy number variants (CNVs) of a gene. The gene can comprise a plurality of regions. The gene can have a plurality of CNVs. Two alleles of the gene of a subject can be determined based on a number of copies of each region of the plurality of regions and all CNVs of the plurality of CNVs of the gene comprising the region.

Abstract: Disclosed are an ultrasonic imaging system and a viscosity quality control method, in which ultrasonic waves for detecting shear waves propagated in a region of interest are transmitted to the region of interest to obtain ultrasonic echo signals, a frequency dispersion distribution diagram is calculated based on the ultrasonic echo signals, a viscosity parameter is calculated based on the frequency dispersion distribution diagram, and the viscosity parameter is performed with quality control based on the frequency dispersion distribution diagram. The present disclosure provides a scheme of quality control on the viscosity parameter.

Abstract: A quasi-real-time data collection system for a competitive power market includes a distributed data collection unit, a centralized data collection unit, and a main collection station, where the distributed data collection unit is connected to an intelligent watt-hour meter by using an internal downlink communication module of the distributed data collection unit, and configures data item collection parameters and task execution parameters by using an internal collection task and scheme configuration module of the distributed data collection unit; the centralized data collection unit is connected to the main collection station by using an internal file conversion and uplink communication module of the centralized data collection unit; and the centralized data collection unit is connected to multiple distributed data collection units by using a local high speed power line carrier communication (HPLC) network.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a calendar consultation with a user. The disclosed technology uses at least a personal profile or a personal scheduling model and identifies issues in scheduled calendar events associated with the user. Based on a number of the identified issues, a calendar consultant informs the user about the identified issues and prompts the user whether to interactively resolve the issues through a calendar consultation session. During the calendar consultation session, the calendar consultant interactively informs about issues, suggests options for resolving the issues, confirms an option to perform, and updates the calendar schedule. The calendar consultant proactively suggests the user to participate in interactive calendar consultation sessions and improves productivity of the user performing tasks.

Abstract: Provided are a secondary battery which includes a positive electrode sheet, a negative electrode sheet, and a separator placed between the positive electrode sheet and the negative electrode sheet. In some embodiments, the positive electrode sheet includes a positive electrode current collector and positive film layers A1 and B1 respectively provided on two surfaces of the positive electrode current collector, and the negative electrode sheet includes a negative electrode current collector and negative film layers respectively provided on two surfaces of the negative electrode current collector, where capacities per unit area Cap A1 and Cap B1 of the positive film layers A1 and B1 satisfy Cap A1<Cap B1, and the negative electrode current collector of the negative electrode sheet is provided with at least one through hole.

Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with reconstruction of multi-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. The reconstruction may be performed based on under-sampled MRI data collected for the multiple contrasts using corresponding sampling patterns. The sampling patterns and the reconstruction operations for the multiple contrasts may be jointly optimized using deep learning techniques implemented through one or more neural networks. An end-to-end reconstruction optimizing framework is provided with which information collected while processing one contrast may be stored and used for another contrast. A differentiable sampler is described for obtaining the under-sampled MRI data from a k-space and a novel holistic recurrent neural network is used to reconstruct MRI images based on the under-sampled MRI data.

Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with processing complex-valued MRI data using a machine learning (ML) model. The ML model may be learned based on synthetically generated MRI training data and by applying one or more meta-learning techniques. The MRI training data may be generated by adding phase information to real-valued MRI data and/or by converting single-coil MRI data into multi-coil MRI data based on coil sensitivity maps. The meta-learning process may include using portions of the training data to conduct a first round of learning to determine updated model parameters and using remaining portions of the training data to test the updated model parameters. Losses associated with the testing may then be determined and used to refine the model parameters. The ML model learned using these techniques may be adopted for a variety of tasks including, for example, MRI image reconstruction and/or de-noising.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical module, comprising: a light emitting component for generating and outputting signal light, including a laser; the laser includes: a laser chip for generating signal light; a substrate which is provided with a chip mounting groove in its top side, a circuit is laid on a top surface of the substrate, the laser chip is arranged in the chip mounting groove, with the laser chip being connected to the circuit via bonding wires.

Abstract: An unsupervised machine learning method with self-supervision losses improves a slice-wise spatial resolution of 3D medical images with thick slices, and does not require high resolution images as the ground truth for training. The method utilizes information from high-resolution dimensions to increase a resolution of another desired dimension.

Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of biosensors and particularly provides a construction method for a photocathode indirect competition sensor and an evaluation method. The construction method includes: using Z-type Bi2O3/CuBi2O4 as a sensing platform; calculating a photoinduced electron Z-type transfer path and an energy band structure of Bi2O3 and CuBi2O4 using a density functional theory (DFT); and constructing a Bi2O3/CuBi2O4-based biosensor. A photoelectrochemical (PEC) photocathode biosensor based on a Bi2O3/CuBi2O4 heterojunction prepared through the solution has good repeatability, reproducibility, stability, and specificity for detecting a target. The PEC biosensor constructed in the solution of the present disclosure has a broad application prospect in the fields of healthcare, environment, and food.

Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with medical image enhancement. The medical image may include an object of interest and the techniques disclosed herein may be used to identify the object and enhance a contrast between the object and its surrounding area by adjusting at least the pixels associated with the object. The object identification may be performed using an image filter, a segmentation mask, and/or a deep neural network trained to separate the medical image into multiple layers that respectively include the object of interest and the surrounding area. Once identified, the pixels of the object may be manipulated in various ways to increase the visibility of the object. These may include, for example, adding a constant value to the pixels of the object, applying a sharpening filter to those pixels, increasing the weight of those pixels, and/or smoothing the edge areas surrounding the object of interest.

Abstract: A comprehensive and integrated solution, including a dedicated system structure and grounding mechanism, a main radio frequency (RF) coil to transmit and receive signal, secondary RF coils to saturate unwanted signals from non-region-of-interest (ROI) in the excited region, an RF shielding structure configured to shield the main RF coil from generating signals on the non-ROI, and an environmental noise active cancellation mechanism is proposed to construct an NMR system for non-invasive quantitative detection of organs, and further improves the target region selectivity and detection accuracy.

Abstract: Disclosed herein include systems, devices, and methods for determining the total copy number of kringle IV type 2 (KIV-2) domain of LPA gene, and/or the copy number of KIV-2 domain of each allele of LPA gene, a subject from sequence reads (e.g., short reads) generated from a sample obtained from the subject.

Abstract: A memory is provided that includes bitcell VDD boosting to increase a read margin. In some implementations, the positive boost for the bitcell VDD may be provided by a capacitor that is also used for negative boosting of a write driver.

Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) system-based substance measurement method, including: acquiring several echo signals of an NMR pulse sequence varying in echo spacing from a substance to be measured followed by processing to obtain several signals varying in transverse relaxation and diffusion attenuation; and fitting, in combination with the prior knowledge, the signals to obtain the diffusion coefficient, transverse relaxation time or/and content weight of individual components of the substance to be measured. This application further provides a substance measurement system including a console, a magnet module, and an NMR system.