Abstract: A use of an intervertebral disc fibrosis-inducing substance in preparation of medication, where the medication is used for the treatment of degenerative spinal diseases. The inventors of the present disclosure make use of the pro-fibrotic effect of the intervertebral disc fibrosis-inducing substance and the auxiliary effect of the fibroblast to achieve further treatment of intervertebral disc degeneration. The simultaneous administration of the above two drugs can reasonably control the degeneration and achieve the purpose of stepped treatment, thereby having clinical transformation value. In addition, the therapy combining the intervertebral disc fibrosis-inducing substance with the cell in the present disclosure allows the treatment regimen more personalized.

Abstract: The present application provides an audio and video playing system, a playing method and a playing device. The system comprises: a display device; a directional sound output module configured to output a directional sound signal; a tracking element configured to monitor a target visual area and to monitor the target display area on the display screen; and a processor, connected with the directional sound output module and the tracking element respectively, and configured to acquire a first audio and video data to be output in the target display area, display image information of the first audio and video data in the target display area, and output sound information of the first audio and video data to the directional sound output module such that the directional sound output module output a directional sound signal towards the target visual area.

Abstract: A separator for an electrochemical cell that cycles lithium ions includes a microporous layer and one or more fire suppression layers disposed on at least one of a first side or an opposite second side of the microporous layer. The one or more fire suppression layers include crosslinked cyclopolyphosphazene particles.

Abstract: Provided is a method for compensating a displayed picture in a display screen. The display screen includes a plurality of regions, each of the plurality of regions including a plurality of pixels; the method includes: determining transformation matrices corresponding to pixels in the plurality of regions based on texture complexities of pictures to be displayed in the plurality of regions; acquiring compensated grayscales by compensating grayscales of pixel points in the pictures to be displayed in the plurality of regions based on the transformation matrices corresponding to the pixels in the plurality of regions.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for consumer communication can include obtaining actual product traffic data concerning consumer products, applying a mixed model to determine an incremental product traffic value, and predicting as an output of a machine learning model, impending incremental product traffic based on the incremental product traffic values, and determining a ranking of each consumer product based on the impending incremental product traffic.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image compression method, including steps of: acquiring a human-eye fixation point on an original image, and determining a fixation region and a non-fixation region of the original image according to the human-eye fixation point; and compressing the non-fixation region, and generating a compressed image according to the fixation region and the compressed non-fixation region. The present disclosure also provides an image display method, an image compression apparatus, an image display apparatus, and a computer readable medium.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrochemical cell that cycles lithium ions. The electrochemical cell includes a first electrode including a first electroactive material, a second electrode including a second electroactive material, and a separating layer disposed therebetween. The second electroactive material include a plurality of electroactive material particles, where at least a portion of the electroactive material particles have a surface coating that includes a nitrate salt. The first electroactive material can include a lithium metal, and the electrochemical cell can further include a carbonate-based solvent.

Abstract: A separator for an electrochemical cell that cycles lithium ions includes a microporous layer and one or more fire suppression layers disposed on at least one of a first side or an opposite second side of the microporous layer. The one or more fire suppression layers include a ceramic material having interconnected open pores and a cyclophosphazene disposed within the interconnected open pores of the ceramic material.

Abstract: A hybrid functional particle for use in an electrochemical cell that cycle lithium ions is provided. The hybrid functional particle includes a lithiated zeolite having a plurality of pores and a plurality of lithium-containing particles disposed within one or more pores of the plurality of pores of the lithiated zeolite. For example, the lithiated zeolite has a porosity ranging from about 10 vol. % to about 90 vol. %, and the lithium-containing particles can fill an amount ranging from about 1% to about 100% of a total porosity of the lithiated zeolite. The electrochemical cell includes first and second electrodes separated by a separating layer, and the hybrid functional particle may be disposed within one or both of the electrodes, coated on one or more sides of one or both of the electrodes, disposed within the separating layer, and/or coated on one or more surfaces of the separating layer.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a signal processing method and apparatus, a first device determines a target insertion position of a pilot sequence in a first frequency-domain signal based on the data bits in a first sub-data signal obtained by dividing data bits in a data signal, combines the pilot sequences with a second sub-data signal obtained by dividing the data signal according to the determined target insertion positions, to obtain the first frequency-domain signal; sends the pulse signal corresponding to the first frequency-domain signal to the second device.

Abstract: An electrode assembly that includes an electroactive material layer and a protective layer disposed on or adjacent to the electroactive material layer is provided. The protective layer includes a carbonaceous matrix formed from a fluoropolymer, where lithium fluoride and a nitrate salt are distributed within the carbonaceous matrix. The protective layer further includes residual fluoropolymer and has a first surface adjacent to the electroactive material layer and a second surface opposite to the first surface. A first compositional gradient in the protective layer is defined from the first surface having a first amount of lithium fluoride that is greater than a second amount of lithium fluoride at the second surface, and a second compositional gradient in the protective layer is defined from the first surface having a first amount of residual fluoropolymer that is less than a second amount of residual fluoropolymer at the second surface.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for allocating consumer communications can include obtaining consumer activity data, designating a number of consumer communication campaigns concerning consumer features based on the consumer activity data, entering consumer activity data as inputs to one machine learning model for each determined consumer communication campaign, each machine learning model configured determine a campaign consumer activation profile based on the entered consumer activity data, and assigning the consumer communication campaigns to consumers based on the determined campaign consumer activation profiles.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a coated separator including a porous separator and a ceramic coating disposed on one or more surfaces thereof. The ceramic coating includes a ceramic material and an additive selected from the group consisting of: lithium nitrate (LiNO3), lithium phosphate (LiPO3), lithium orthophosphate (Li3PO4), lithium difluoro (oxalate) borate (LiDBoB), cyclic sulfone, polysulfide, lithium halide salts, and combinations thereof. In certain variations, the coated separator is prepared by contacting the porous separator with a slurry including the ceramic material and the additive. In other variations, the coated separator is prepared by forming a ceramic coating on one or more surfaces of a porous separator and contacting the porous separator with the additive, for example by immersing, or alternatively, a spraying process.

Abstract: An electrode includes an electroactive material layer and a protective layer disposed on or adjacent to a surface of the electroactive material layer. The protective layer includes a polymerized cyclic ether and a salt dispersed therewithin. The salt includes a nitrate salt and a phosphate salt. The salt may also include a Lewis acid salt. The protective layer is formed by disposing a solution, including the salt and solvent, on or adjacent to the surface of the electroactive material layer, and polymerizing the solvent. The solvent includes the cyclic ether, and also, one or more organic phosphates.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a fine-grained image recognition method and apparatus using graph structure represented high-order relation discovery, wherein the method includes: inputting an image to be classified into a convolutional neural network feature extractor with multiple stages, extracting two layers of network feature graphs in the last stage, constructing a hybrid high-order attention module according to the network feature graphs, and forming a high-order feature vector pool according to the hybrid high-order attention module, using each vector in the vector pool as a node, and utilizing semantic similarity among high-order features to form representative vector nodes in groups, and performing global pooling on the representative vector nodes to obtain classification vectors, and obtaining a fine-grained classification result through a fully connected layer and a classifier based on the classification vectors.

Abstract: A mobile phone may include a housing, a battery at least partially within the housing, and a circuit board assembly at least partially within the housing and positioned along a side of the battery. The circuit board assembly may include a first circuit board defining a first hole, a second circuit board defining a second hole, a wall structure between the first circuit board and the second circuit board and attached to an inner surface of the first circuit board and an inner surface of the second circuit board, and a fastener assembly configured to retain the first circuit board to the second circuit board.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a control system, a system, a method, a vehicle and a non-transitory computer readable medium for receiving user movement data indicative of movement of a user's head; receiving object movement data indicative of movement of an object, the object being associated with a non-driving task; determining one or more relative movement parameters indicative of the relative movement of the user's head with respect to the object based at least in part on the received user movement data and the object movement data; and determining an attention level of the user to the non-driving task in based at least in part on the determined relative movement parameter.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for three-dimensional feature-embedded image object component-level semantic segmentation, the method includes: acquiring three-dimensional feature information of a target two-dimensional image; performing a component-level semantic segmentation on the target two-dimensional image according to the three-dimensional feature information of the target two-dimensional image and two-dimensional feature information of the target two-dimensional image. In the technical solution of the present application, not only the two-dimensional feature information of the image but also the three-dimensional feature information of the image are taken into consideration when performing the component-level semantic segmentation on the image, thereby improving the accuracy of the image component-level semantic segmentation.

Abstract: A method, a system, and an article are provided for determining a lifetime value of a user of a client application. An example method includes: obtaining data including a history of interactions between a plurality of users and a client application on a plurality of respective client devices; developing, using the data, a first model to predict a likelihood that a new user of the client application will be a payer; developing, using the data, a second model to predict an amount of revenue generated by the new user of the client application; providing the client application to a plurality of new users; using the first model and the second model to predict the likelihood and the revenue for each new user in the plurality of new users; and adjusting, based on the predicted likelihood and the predicted revenue, a method of acquiring additional users of the client application.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for three-dimensional feature-embedded image object component-level semantic segmentation, the method includes: acquiring three-dimensional feature information of a target two-dimensional image; performing a component-level semantic segmentation on the target two-dimensional image according to the three-dimensional feature information of the target two-dimensional image and two-dimensional feature information of the target two-dimensional image. In the technical solution of the present application, not only the two-dimensional feature information of the image but also the three-dimensional feature information of the image are taken into consideration when performing the component-level semantic segmentation on the image, thereby improving the accuracy of the image component-level semantic segmentation.