Abstract: A computer-implemented method for selecting one or more providers having one or more specialties for a network available to members while satisfying one or more constraints, the method comprising: at a first computing device: receiving, from a second computing device separate and distinct from the first computer, a network provider request to select an optimized network of providers, the request including: a desired objective including at least one of provider cost minimization, provider average quality maximization and provider total volume maximization, one or more geographical designations, computing an optimized provider network of one or more selected providers including: applying a model that produces a non-optimized provider network of one or more providers having one or more specialties that satisfies the desired objective for the one or more geographical designations of the members without consideration of the availability in the geographical designation of one or more providers having one or more sp

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a mask, which includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The mask further includes a polarity particle positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate. The polarity particle has a light absorption or light transmission effect. The first substrate includes a plurality of driving electrodes disposed toward the second substrate and arranged in an array. Each of the driving electrodes is configured to receive an electric signal and control the polarity particle to move to a designated driving electrode to form a pattern.

Abstract: A microfluidic device, a microfluidic detection assembly and a detection method for the microfluidic device. The microfluidic device includes a first substrate and a second substrate; the first substrate and the second substrate are oppositely arranged to define a channel between the first substrate and the second substrate, the channel is configured for liquid to flow, the first substrate includes a base substrate and a plurality of control assemblies which are arranged on the base substrate along an extending direction of the channel, each of the plurality of control assemblies includes: a first electrode, a second electrode and a plurality of coils, and the first electrode is configured to input currents into the plurality of coils, and the plurality of coils are connected in parallel to the second electrode.

Abstract: A chip for polymerase chain reaction, a method of operating a chip for polymerase chain reaction, and a reaction device are provided. The chip includes: a sample adding region, a mixing region, a temperature cycling region in a sequential arrangement, and at least one driving unit group. The at least one driving unit group includes a plurality of driving units and is configured to drive a liquid drop to move and sequentially pass through the sample adding region, the mixing region, and the temperature cycling region.

Abstract: A chip, a method of operating a chip, and a detection device are provided. The chip includes a detection cavity and a working electrode, the detection cavity is configured to be capable of containing a plurality of droplets, and the working electrode is arranged in the detection cavity and is configured to regularly arrange the plurality of droplets in the detection cavity along an extending direction of the working electrode.

Abstract: A biosensor, and a preparation and biosensing method therefor. The biosensor includes: a sensing substrate, wherein a plurality of sensing suspending arms arranged in an array are arranged on the sensing substrate, and the sensing suspending arms have identification markers; and a detection substrate, the detection substrate including a plurality of light detection assemblies arranged in an array, wherein the light detection assemblies and the sensing suspending arms are arranged in one-to-one correspondence, each of the light detection assemblies includes a photodiode and a thin film transistor, and the photodiode is connected to the thin film transistor.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus and a texture recognition device, and relates to the field of image recognition technologies. The texture recognition device includes a sensing layer, a transparent contact layer, a light shielding layer, and a plurality of light sources. The sensing layer includes a plurality of photosensitive units distributed in an array; the transparent contact layer is disposed on a side of the sensing layer; the light shielding layer is disposed between the sensing layer and the transparent contact layer, and including a plurality of light transmission portions arranged in an array; and the light sources are distributed in an array on a side of the light shielding layer close to the transparent contact layer, and light emitted by the light sources is reflected by the transparent contact layer and transmitted to the photosensitive units by passing through the light transmission portions.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a microfluidic chip, a biological detection device and a method. The microfluidic chip includes: a first substrate and a second substrate that are oppositely disposed; a first electrode and a second electrode that are oppositely disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first electrode including a plurality of spaced first electrode units, and the second electrode including a plurality of spaced second electrode units, wherein the first electrode units are disposed oppositely to the second electrode units in one-to-one correspondence; a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first hydrophobic layer and a second hydrophobic layer between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer, wherein a gap is between the first hydrophobic layer and the second hydrophobic layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a bio-detection chip and a detection method associated therewith. The bio-detection chip includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a reference electrode, a driving electrode, and a first dielectric layer, a first hydrophobic layer, a second hydrophobic layer and a second dielectric layer disposed successively between the reference electrode and the driving electrode. The bio-detection chip further includes a plurality of micro-capsules arranged between the first hydrophobic layer and the second hydrophobic layer. Each micro-capsule encapsulates a plurality of charged microspheres, and surfaces of the charged microspheres have a first biomolecule for specifically binding with a second biomolecule that enters the bio-detection chip so as to give rise to a color change. The charged microspheres move close to the upper substrate when a voltage is applied between the reference electrode and the driving electrode.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a microfluidic chip, including: first base substrate and a second base substrate opposite to each other; first electrode and second electrode between the first base substrate and the second base substrate and configured to control droplet to move between the first base substrate and the second base substrate according to voltages applied on the first electrode and the second electrode; light guide component configured to guide light propagating in the first base substrate to the droplet; shading component and detection component, shading component having light transmission regions spaced from each other, light transmission regions being configured to transmit light passing through the droplet to the detection component, wherein detection component is on second base substrate and is configured to obtain property of the droplet according to an intensity of the light passing through droplet and received from the light transmission regions.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for selecting one or more providers having one or more specialties for a network available to members while satisfying one or more constraints, the method comprising: at a first computing device: receiving, from a second computing device separate and distinct from the first computer, a network provider request to select an optimized network of providers, the request including: a desired objective including at least one of provider cost minimization, provider average quality maximization and provider total volume maximization, one or more geographical designations, computing an optimized provider network of one or more selected providers including: applying a model that produces a non-optimized provider network of one or more providers having one or more specialties that satisfies the desired objective for the one or more geographical designations of the members without consideration of the availability in the geographical designation of one or more providers having one or more sp

Abstract: The present application provides a digital microfluidic device. The digital microfluidic device includes a base substrate; and an electrode array including a plurality of discrete electrodes continuously arranged on the base substrate. The plurality of discrete electrodes can be grouped into a plurality of first electrode groups, each of which including a plurality of directly adjacent discrete electrodes. The plurality of discrete electrodes can be alternatively grouped into a plurality of second electrode groups, each of which including a plurality of directly adjacent discrete electrodes.

Abstract: A chip substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a gene sequencing chip, and a gene sequencing method. The chip substrate includes a base substrate; first electrode, located on the base substrate in an array; an insulating layer, located at gaps between two adjacent ones of the first electrodes, and partially covering the two adjacent ones of the first electrodes to form containing spaces being in one-to-one correspondence with the first electrodes; a capacitive dielectric layer, located on a side of the first electrodes away from the base substrate, and located in the containing spaces; and second electrodes, located on a side of the capacitive dielectric layer away from the base substrate, the capacitive dielectric layer includes a first region and a second region, an orthographic projection of the second electrodes on the base substrate is overlapped with an orthographic projection of the first region on the base substrate.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display panel, a non-volatile memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to adjust first gain values of the display panel, and obtain two-dimensional color coordinates in a first predetermined color space of the white screen displayed by the display apparatus as white-color coordinates. The controller further adjusts colors displayed by the display apparatus to fit a second predetermined color space, calculates second gain values in the second predetermined color space according to the white-color coordinates, and stores the second gain values in a color-calibration setting in a non-volatile memory of the display apparatus. In response to a selection signal from the display apparatus, the controller reads the color-calibration setting corresponding to the selection signal from the non-volatile memory for execution to perform color calibration on the display apparatus.

Abstract: A digital microfluidic chip and a digital microfluidic system. The digital microfluidic chip comprises: an upper substrate and a lower substrate arranged opposite to each other; multiple driving circuits and multiple addressing circuits disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate; and a control circuit, electrically connected to the driving circuits and the addressing circuits. The control circuit is configured to apply, in a driving stage, a driving voltage to each driving circuit, such that a droplet is controlled to move inside a droplet accommodation space according to a set path, measure, in a detection stage, after a bias voltage is applied to each addressing circuit, a charge loss amount of each addressing circuit, and to determine the position of the droplet according to the charge loss amount. The charge loss amount of each addressing circuit is related to the intensity of received external light.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display panel, a non-volatile memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to adjust first gain values of the display panel, and obtain two-dimensional color coordinates in a first predetermined color space of the white screen displayed by the display apparatus as white-color coordinates. The controller further adjusts colors displayed by the display apparatus to fit a second predetermined color space, calculates second gain values in the second predetermined color space according to the white-color coordinates, and stores the second gain values in a color-calibration setting in a non-volatile memory of the display apparatus. In response to a selection signal from the display apparatus, the controller reads the color-calibration setting corresponding to the selection signal from the non-volatile memory for execution to perform color calibration on the display apparatus.

Abstract: A detection substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a nucleic acid detecting method are provided. The detection substrate includes at least one detection unit disposed on a base substrate, the detection unit including a first electrode, a second electrode and a colloid layer, the second electrode disposed on a side of the first electrode away from the base substrate, the second electrode including at least one hollowed structure, the second electrode and the first electrode being insulated from each other, and the first electrode and the second electrode being configured to be applied with voltages respectively; the colloid layer at least disposed on the at least one hollowed structure of the second electrode, the colloid layer including a linker configured to be paired with a target nucleic acid.

Abstract: Micro-fluidic chip comprises substrate and plurality of driving circuits on substrate, each of plurality of driving circuits comprising: driving electrode comprising first electrode plate and second electrode plate made of different materials on substrate, first electrode plate being electrically coupled to second electrode plate; and detecting sub-circuit comprising first signal terminal electrically coupled to first electrode plate and second signal terminal electrically coupled to second electrode plate, wherein micro-fluidic chip further comprises: voltage supply sub-circuit configured to supply driving voltage to first signal terminal to control droplet to move toward driving circuit during droplet driving stage, and configured to supply constant voltage to first signal terminal, during temperature detecting stage, and wherein detecting sub-circuit is configured to measure voltage difference between first signal terminal and second signal terminal, and obtain temperature of droplet on second electrode pl

Abstract: The disclosure provides a chip substrate and a digital micro-fluidic chip and belongs to the field of digital micro-fluidic technology. The chip substrate provided by the disclosure has a plurality of control regions spaced apart from each other, the chip substrate including: a first base substrate; a driving electrode disposed in each control region over the first base substrate, the driving electrode being configured to drive a droplet to move, wherein the chip substrate further comprises a pressure detecting element provided in each control region over the first base substrate, and configured to detect a pressure from the droplet, so that the chip substrate determines a position of the droplet according to the pressure.

Abstract: A gene sequencing substrate and a method for manufacturing the same, and a gene sequencing device are provided. It belongs to the technical field of gene sequencing, and can solve the problem of high cost of the high-throughput sequencing chip in the prior art. The gene sequencing substrate of the present disclosure comprises a plastic material with concave structures as base substrate, and the concave structures serve as reaction cells. Since the base substrate has plasticity, the concave structures can be formed by a simple process to reduce the cost of the gene sequencing substrate. Meanwhile, a first protective layer may be provided on the inner wall of the concave structures for preventing the inner wall of the concave structures from being corroded by the reaction liquid.