Abstract: Disclosed is an incomplete extraction method for recycling batteries, which may include: introducing a pretreatment gas into a device loaded with a waste battery powder, and bringing a gas outlet into communication with absorption liquid A and absorption liquid B in order; raising the temperature and introducing the pretreatment gas; reducing the temperature and introducing a reaction gas; raising the temperature, introducing the reaction gas, and then introducing the pretreatment gas; and reducing the temperature, and turning off the pretreatment gas; adding an extractant to absorption liquid A, mixing the mixture, taking organic phase A, adding a stripping agent, and taking aqueous phase A; and adjusting the pH to acidity, then adding an extractant, taking organic phase B, adding a stripping agent to obtain a stock solution enriched in Li, Mn, Ni and Co.

Abstract: Disclosed is a preparation method of porous sodium iron phosphate used as a sodium ion battery cathode material, which includes: mixing ferrous nitrate, silver nitrate and a reducing agent to prepare a mixed solution, adding the mixed solution dropwise to a carbonate solution for reaction to obtain a precipitate, mixing the precipitate with sodium dihydrogen phosphate and sodium iodide and then grinding, sintering the ground material under the condition of air isolation, and soaking the sintered material in an organic solvent to obtain porous sodium iron phosphate used as a sodium ion battery cathode material.

Abstract: A method for steering binauralization of audio is provided. The method comprises steps of: receiving (410) an audio input signal, calculating (430) a confidence value indicating a likelihood that a current audio frame of the audio input signal comprises binauralized audio; determining (450) a state signal based on the confidence value; determining (460) a steering signal, based on the first confidence value, the state signal and an energy value of the audio frame; and generating (470) an audio output signal with steered binauralization by processing the audio input signal according to the steering signal.

Abstract: A method of audio processing includes generating harmonics in a hybrid complex quadrature mirror filter domain. Generating the harmonics may include multiplication, using a feedback delay loop, and dynamic compression. The harmonics may be generated based on one or more hybrid sub-bands of the complex transform domain signal.

Abstract: Novel methods and systems for creating and using user profiles for dialog boost and sound equalizer adjustment to compensate for various ambient sound situations. For creating profiles when not at the ambient sound, a synthesized/pre-recorded ambient noise can be mixed with the media to simulate the noise conditions.

Abstract: This invention provides compounds that modulate glucose uptake activity and cellular transport/uptake of glucose, and particularly GLUTS3, but also including but not limited to GLUT1-14 (SLC2A1-SLC2A14). Compounds of the invention are useful for treating diseases, including cancer, autoimmune diseases and inflammation, infectious diseases, and metabolic diseases.

Abstract: A method for steering binauralization of audio is provided. The method comprises steps of: receiving (410) an audio input signal, calculating (430) a confidence value indicating a likelihood that a current audio frame of the audio input signal comprises binauralized audio; determining (450) a state signal based on the confidence value; determining (460) a steering signal, based on the first confidence value, the state signal and an energy value of the audio frame; and generating (470) an audio output signal with steered binauralization by processing the audio input signal according to the steering signal.

Abstract: A method of enhancing dialog intelligibility in an audio signal, comprising determining a speech confidence score that the audio content includes speech content, determining a music confidence score that the audio content includes music correlated content, in response to the speech confidence score, and applying a user selected gain of selected frequency bands of the audio signal to obtain a dialogue enhanced audio signal. The user selected gain is smoothed by an adaptive smoothing algorithm, an impact of past frames in said smoothing algorithm being determined by a smoothing factor, the smoothing factor being calculated in response to the music confidence score, and having a relatively higher value for content having a relatively higher music confidence score and a relatively lower value for speech content having a relatively lower music confidence score, so as to increase the impact of past frames on the dialogue enhancement of music correlated content.

Abstract: The method and system disclosed herein presents a food preparation system that provides a user-friendly data collection and data annotation process that leverages crowd-sourced data to reduce the prohibitive costs associated with developing an extensive training set using dedicated cooking experiments and specialized manual annotation efforts. The food preparation system and corresponding method collect one or more data types (e.g., structured data such as temperature and weight data, and unstructured data such as images and thermal maps) and allow the collected data to be annotated by human users in order to provide information regarding the process of cooking, as well as food item identity, location, and/or outline information. A combination of image processing and user input is utilized in order to create models with food recognition and determining cooking progress.

Abstract: This invention provides methods of treating inflammatory conditions and autoimmune diseases in a mammal, comprising administering to the mammalian subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound, or pro-drug thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester of said compound or pro-drug, wherein the compound is an inhibitor of glucose uptake. In particular aspects, the present invention provides a method of treating inflammatory conditions and autoimmune diseases in a mammal, and preferably a human, in which the glucose uptake inhibitor modulates the glucose transport of GLUT1 and GLUT3.

Abstract: This invention provides methods of treating inflammatory conditions and autoimmune diseases in a mammal, comprising administering to the mammalian subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound, or pro-drug thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester of said compound or pro-drug, wherein the compound is an inhibitor of glucose uptake. In particular aspects, the present invention provides a method of treating inflammatory conditions and autoimmune diseases in a mammal, and preferably a human, in which the glucose uptake inhibitor modulates the glucose transport of GLUT1 and GLUT3.

Abstract: The present invention features a cell-based assay that recapitulates all aspects of a viral lifecycle for use in identifying antiviral agents. The assay employs synchronized, non-dividing host cells and a fluorescence resonance energy transfer peptide substrate for monitoring endogenous viral protease activity, which is indicative of viral infection kinetics.