Abstract: A battery module and an electric vehicle are provided by the present application. The battery module includes a case body and at least one tray; at least one exhaust port is defined in the case body, at least one tray mounting cavity is defined in the case body, and the case body includes a first mounting surface surrounding a periphery of the tray; the tray is disposed in the tray mounting cavity to divide the tray mounting cavity into a cell accommodating cavity located above the tray and a pressure relief cavity located below the tray, the tray is provided with through holes facing battery cells, the pressure relief cavity is communicated with the through holes and the exhaust port, respectively, and the cell accommodating cavity is configured to accommodate the battery cells; the tray includes a second mounting surface, and the second mounting surface abuts against the first mounting surface.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are disclosed by the present application. A request to establish a call using a first connection may be received, the first connection using a first radio access technology to communicate with a radio access network. During execution of a procedure to establish the call, a command to handover communications from the first connection to a second connection that uses a second radio access technology to communicate with the radio access network may be received. The second connection may be established in response to the command, and a message indicating that the request to establish the call was successfully received may be transmitted over the second connection. Also, a message indicating that an alert of the call is being issued may be transmitted over the second connection.

Abstract: A method performed by at least one processing device in an illustrative embodiment comprises applying a first image and a message to an encoder of a steganographic encoder-decoder neural network, generating in the encoder, based at least in part on the first image and the message, a perturbed image containing the message, decoding the perturbed image in a decoder of the steganographic encoder-decoder neural network, and providing information characterizing the decoded perturbed image to the encoder. The generating, decoding and providing are iteratively repeated, with different perturbations being determined in the encoder as a function of respective different instances of the provided information, until the decoded perturbed image meets one or more specified criteria relative to the message. The perturbed image corresponding to the decoded perturbed image that meets the one or more specified criteria relative to the message is output as a steganographic image containing the message.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for video decoding. In one method, a decoder receives a Sequence Parameter Set (SPS) rice extension flag that indicates whether an extension of rice parameter derivation for binarization of abs_remainder and dec_abs_level is enabled. In a second method, the decoder may receive a Sequence Parameter Set (SPS) rice adaption enabled flag that indicates whether rice parameter derivation for binarization of abs_remainder and dec_abs_level is used.

Abstract: An improved reforming process for producing aromatic hydrocarbons is disclosed. The process includes two reformers arranged in parallel flow configuration, with the first reformer being a conventional reformer comprising a catalyst selective for reforming C8+ hydrocarbons to a reformate and the second reformer comprising a catalyst selective for reforming C7? hydrocarbons to a reformate. In certain embodiments, the first reformer catalyst comprises a conventional alumina catalyst and the second reformer catalyst comprises a ZSM-5 catalyst.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments concern novel interleukin receptor associated kinases (IRAK) inhibitors and compositions comprising such inhibitors. Also disclosed are methods of making and using the compounds and compositions. The disclosed compounds and/or compositions may be used to treat or prevent an IRAK-associated disease or condition.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion of polymeric particles comprising an emulsion polymer and a polyalkylene oxide with a weight average molecular weight in the range of 450 to 1,500 g/mole, and an aqueous coating composition with low VOCs comprising the aqueous dispersion and providing coatings made therefrom with improved water whitening resistance and hardness.

Abstract: A communication method and apparatus, the method including sending, by a terminal device, a random access request to a network device, where the random access request includes a random access preamble, control information, and user data, the terminal device is in an inactive state, and the control information includes at least a connection identifier and an authentication identifier, receiving, by the terminal device, a random access response sent by the network device, and performing, by the terminal device, a state transition AND/OR operation corresponding to a message format of the random access response.

Abstract: The described aspects and implementations enable efficient detection and classification of objects with machine learning models that deploy a bird's-eye view representation and are trained using depth ground truth data. In one implementation, disclosed are system and techniques that include obtaining images, generating, using a first neural network (NN), feature vectors (FVs) and depth distributions pixels of images, wherein the first NN is trained using training images and a depth ground truth data for the training images. The techniques further include obtaining a feature tensor (FT) in view of the FVs and the depth distributions, and processing the obtained FTs, using a second NN, to identify one or more objects depicted in the images.

Abstract: An electrolytic eluent generator includes an electrolyte reservoir, an eluent generation chamber, and an ion exchange membrane stack. The electrolyte reservoir includes a chamber containing an aqueous electrolyte solution including an electrolyte; and a first electrode. The eluent generation chamber including a second electrode. The ion exchange connector includes an ion exchange membrane stack, and a compression block.

Abstract: A control circuit for an isolated power converter includes a first sensing circuit that senses a secondary side output voltage and produces a pulse wave modulation (PWM) signal having a duty cycle that is proportional to a value of the secondary side output voltage. The PWM is transferred across the converter isolation barrier to the primary side, and a primary side circuit receives the PWM signal and outputs a control signal. A controller determines the value of the secondary side output voltage from the control signal and uses the value to control primary side power switching devices of the isolated power converter to regulate the secondary side output voltage at a selected value.

Abstract: A novel synthetic crystalline molecular sieve material, designated boron SSZ-41 is provided. The boron SSZ-41 is a boronzincosilicate molecular sieve having the framework structure of SSZ-41. It can be synthesized using 1,1?-(1,4-butanediyl)bis[4-aza-1-azoniabicyclo[2.2.2]octane] dications as a structure directing agent. The boronzincosilicate SSZ-41 may be used in organic compound conversion reactions and/or sorptive processes.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a lead frame, a low side field-effect transistor (FET), a high side FET, a metal clip, and a molding encapsulation. The low side FET is flipped and is attached to a first die paddle of the lead frame. The lead frame comprises one or more voltage input (Vin) leads; a gate lead; one or more switching node (Lx) leads; a first die paddle; a second die paddle; and an end paddle. Each of an exposed bottom surface of the one or more Lx leads is directly connected to an exposed bottom surface of the end paddle. A longitudinal direction of an exposed bottom surface of the gate lead is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of each of the exposed bottom surface of the one or more Lx leads. An entirely of each of the one or more Vin leads is of the full thickness.

Abstract: A method of characterizing a plasma in a plasma processing system that includes: generating a pulsed plasma in a plasma processing chamber of the plasma processing system, the pulsed plasma being powered with a pulsed power signal, each pulse of the pulsed plasma including three periods: a overshoot period, a stable-ON period, and a decay period; performing cyclic optical emission spectroscopy (OES) measurements for the pulsed plasma, the cyclic OES measurements including: obtaining first OES data during one of the three periods from more than one pulses of the pulsed plasma; and obtaining a characteristic of the pulsed plasma for the one of the three periods based only on the first OES data.

Abstract: A method for preparing antibacterial stainless steel by surface alloying includes the steps of coating an infiltration promoter layer on a stainless steel surface, coating an antibacterial metal layer on a surface of the infiltration promoter layer, and performing heat treatment of the stainless steel to diffuse an antibacterial metal into the stainless steel. This method can be applied to various types of stainless steel, and the antibacterial metal can be diffused and quenched into the stainless steel, such that the finally formed surface of the stainless steel has an antibacterial alloy layer with a specific thickness to provide better corrosion resistance and antibacterial ability without changing the advantages and properties of the antibacterial metal or stainless steel substrate, and the thickness and concentration of the antibacterial metal layer, and the parameters for heat treatment can be adjusted to control the chemical composition and thickness of the antibacterial alloy layer.

Abstract: Aspects are provided for dynamic resource sharing between V2V and I2V communications. A wireless device selects resources from a shared resource pool in frequency and time. The shared resource pool is shared for I2V communication and communication over a PC5 interface originating from a User Equipment (UE). The wireless device identifies a first priority level for communication from a set of priority levels for I2V communication and UE originated communication. The set of priority levels may comprise at least one priority level unique to the I2V communication.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides buffer circuits of 3D NAND memory device. In some embodiments, the buffer circuit comprises a first bit line segment sensing branch connected to a first bit line segment and including a low-voltage latch, and a second bit line segment sensing branch connected to a second bit line segment and including a sensing latch. The first bit line segment sensing branch and the second bit line segment sensing branch are parallel connected to a sensing node of the page buffer circuit.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, computing device readable medium, devices, and systems having a dental attachment formation structures. One dental appliance includes a body having a first surface shaped to abut an exterior surface of a tooth and a well portion of the first surface shaped to form an attachment that is to be attached to the exterior surface of the tooth, a release layer formed over a surface of the well to allow the attachment to be removed from the well, and an attachment material that is used to form the attachment positioned within the well.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a video data processing method. The method includes: receiving a bitstream; decoding a first index from the bitstream; determining a maximum number of an adaptive loop filter (ALF) for a component of a picture based on the first index; and processing pixels in the picture with the ALF.