Abstract: The disclosure discloses microbial conductive ceramics and a preparation method and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of microorganisms and the technical field of semiconductor materials. The disclosure is based on ordinary insulating macroporous ceramics, using the means of cell immobilization and the principle of microbial adsorption, to prepare the microbial conductive ceramics including macroporous ceramics, microbes immobilized on the macroporous ceramics and metal ions adsorbed to the microbes. The microbial conductive ceramics have excellent performance, and the conductivity of the microbial conductive ceramics can reach 2.91×106 S/m. At the same time, the cost of the microbial conductive ceramics is low, only 10% of the cost of conductive ceramics with the same conductivity.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of vehicle diagnosis technologies, and specifically disclose a data transmission method in a vehicle communication interface apparatus and a vehicle communication interface apparatus. The vehicle communication interface apparatus includes a first controller and a second controller. The data transmission method includes: receiving, by the first controller, a diagnostic command sent by an upper computer, and storing the diagnostic command into a first queue; obtaining, by the second controller, the diagnostic command from the first queue, and sending the diagnostic command to an electronic control unit (ECU) in a vehicle connected to the vehicle communication interface apparatus; and receiving, by the second controller, diagnostic data from the ECU, and storing the diagnostic data into a second queue, to make the first controller obtain the diagnostic data from the second queue and send the diagnostic data to the upper computer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a swing bearing and a wearable device. The swing bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, and a plurality of rolling elements, a plurality of first grooves arranged at intervals along a circumferential direction being formed on an outer circumferential surface of the inner ring, a plurality of second grooves arranged at intervals along a circumferential direction being formed on an inner circumferential surface of the outer ring, each rolling element being disposed between the corresponding first groove and the second groove, and the rolling element, the first groove, and the second groove being configured to restrict relative rotational movement between the inner ring and the outer ring and allow the inner ring and the outer ring to produce shaft axis deflection movement.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a rechargeable tin-iodate battery, including static battery and redox flow battery, in which anodic tin will be dissolved as Sn2+ and Sn4+ ions while iodate will be reduced to iodine and iodide at carbon cathode during discharging. The process will be reversed in charging. The tin-iodate battery comprises a tin anode (1), a carbon cathode (2), a selective permeable separator (3), and aqueous acidic electrolytes, whereby electricity energy can stored with high energy density and high power density, and large-scale energy storage and electrified vehicle can be achieved.

Abstract: A conductor connection, a connection piece and a method for fabricating a conductor connection are disclosed. In an embodiment a conductor connection includes a connection piece including one or more openings and a wall whose distance from a longitudinal axis of the connection piece increases toward at least one of the openings, and several electric conductors, wherein each of the electric conductors extends through one of the openings into the connection piece.

Abstract: A system and method for performing magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is provided that includes performing a pulse sequence that is sensitive to field inhomogeneities to acquire a series of signal evolutions form a region of interest (ROI) of the subject to form MRF data. The method also includes varying field inhomogeneities across the ROI to acquire the series of signal evolutions, comparing the MRF data with an MRF dictionary to determine at least one tissue property of the subject in the ROI, and producing at least one map of the at least one tissue property.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of data decryption technologies, and in particular, to a data decryption method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining, by a control module, a file of an encrypted application and encrypted control data; sending the obtained file of the encrypted application to an encryption module; and decrypting, by the encryption module, the encrypted control data to obtain decrypted control data. This implementation improves the difficulty and costs for decrypting data, and there will be no delay in the response and processing of other functions with high real-time requirements, thus ensuring smooth running of all functions.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for acquisition of magnetic resonance fingerprinting (“MRF”) data that includes determining a non-locally sequential sampling pattern for a Cartesian grid of k-space, performing a series of sequence blocks using acquisition parameters that vary between sequence blocks to acquire MRF data from a subject using the Cartesian grid of k-space and the determined non-locally sequential sampling pattern, assembling the MRF data into a series of signal evolutions, comparing the series of signal evolutions to a dictionary of known signal evolutions to determine tissue properties of the subject, and generating a report indicating the tissue properties of the subject.

Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle bus-based communication method and apparatus, a computer device and a storage medium. The vehicle bus-based communication method includes: monitoring data flows transmitted through a vehicle bus by vehicle electronic control units; determining undetected data flows in to-be-obtained data flows when the monitoring reaches a first time length; broadcasting data flow obtaining requests through the vehicle bus, the data flow obtaining requests specifying queries for the undetected data flows; and obtaining data flows that are fed back through the vehicle bus in response to the data flow obtaining requests. When data flows of a vehicle are obtained through a vehicle bus, data flows on the vehicle bus are first obtained in a monitoring manner, thereby ensuring data flow obtaining efficiency.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a bionic digestive tract as well as a preparation method and application thereof, belonging to the field of bionic technologies and the field of biological technologies. The bionic digestive tract of the disclosure is prepared by mixing a base material (one or more of silica gel, latex and hydrogel) and auxiliary materials (silicone oil and a curing agent) in a certain mass ratio (the mass ratio of the base material to the silicone oil to the curing agent is 100:(0.5 to 10):(0.5 to 3.5)). The simulation performance of the bionic digestive tract is excellent, has strong consistency with a true human digestive tract in terms of performance, structure and function, can simulate the true states of food, drugs and microorganisms in a digestive system, and has great application prospects in the research process of food and drugs.

Abstract: An electrical device having a stranded wire contact. The device includes a stranded wire with individual wires and a contact piece for electrical contacting of the stranded wire. The stranded wire contact is produced by thermal diffusion bonding.

Abstract: An electrical device (1) has a terminal region (2) for connection with a printed circuit board. The terminal region (2) has a stranded wire (3) and an enclosure piece (4) surrounding the stranded wire (3). The enclosure piece (4) is connected with the stranded wire (3) for example by thermal diffusion bonding.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for determining depth information in a two-dimensional (2D) image. An exemplary system may include a processor and a non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to perform the various operations. The operations may include receiving a first feature map based on the 2D image and applying an extraction network having a convolution operation and a pooling operation to the first feature map to obtain a second feature map. The operations may also include applying a reconstruction network having a deconvolution operation to the second feature map to obtain a depth map.

Abstract: A circuit includes: a power generation module a low-frequency motion energy harvesting module, configured to harvest a direct current output by the power generation module when the human body is in a low-frequency motion state; a high-frequency motion energy harvesting module, configured to harvest a direct current output by the power generation module when the human body is in a high-frequency motion state; an energyrespectively connected to the low frequency motion cncrgy harvesting modulo configured to store electrical energy; and a motion switching module, respectively connected to the power generation module, the low-frequency motion energy harvesting module and the high-frequency motion energy harvesting module, and configured to monitor a human body motion state, and control, according to the human body motion state, switching between operation of the low-frequency motion energy harvesting module and operation of the high-frequency motion energy harvesting module, to respectively charge the energy stor

Abstract: Example embodiments associated with characterizing a sample using NMR fingerprinting are described. One example NMR apparatus includes an NMR logic that repetitively and variably samples a (k, t, E) space associated with an object to acquire a set of NMR signals that are associated with different points in the (k, t, E) space. Sampling is performed with t and/or E varying in a non-constant way. The NMR apparatus may also include a signal logic that produces an NMR signal evolution from the NMR signals and a characterization logic that characterizes a tissue in the object as a result of comparing acquired signals to reference signals. Example embodiments facilitate distinguishing prostate cancer tissue from normal peripheral zone tissue based on quantitative data acquired using NMR fingerprinting in combination with apparent diffusion co-efficient (ADC) values or perfusion values acquired using DWI-MRI or DCE-MRI.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance fingerprinting (“MRF”) framework that implements simultaneous multislice acquisition techniques with a Hadamard RF-encoding to simultaneously acquire magnetic resonance data from multiple slices simultaneously is described. As one non-limiting example, magnetic resonance data can be simultaneously acquired from four different slices. In other embodiments, however, the Hadamard encoding can be condensed into one or two acquisitions, rather than four.

Abstract: We hereby disclose and claim a mathematically based system for design and implementation synthetic biology genetic circuitry architecture which uses genetic expression circuits which are linked together to achieve a therapeutic or diagnostic effect. The genetic architecture that enables the reversible and tunable desired gene product output is achieved by genetic control elements upstream and downstream of a promoter region. Reversible and tunable control is achieved through the computational design and pairing of transcriptional repression elements with their cognate transcriptional promoters to enable a broad range of therapeutic and diagnostic applications.

Abstract: Provided is a modular construction of synthetic gene circuits in mammalian cells using TALE transcriptional repressors.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and other embodiments associated with NMR fingerprinting are described. One example NMR apparatus includes an NMR logic that repetitively and variably samples a (k, t, E) space associated with an object to acquire a set of NMR signals that are associated with different points in the (k, t, E) space. Sampling is performed with t and/or E varying in a non-constant way. The NMR apparatus may also include a signal logic that produces an NMR signal evolution from the NMR signals, and a characterization logic that characterizes a resonant species in the object as a result of comparing acquired signals to reference signals. The NMR signal evolution may be assigned to a cluster based on the characterization of the resonant species. Cluster overlay maps may be produced simultaneously based, at least in part, on the clustering. The clusters may be associated with different tissue types.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF). The method including steps comprising acquiring a plurality of MRF signals from a plurality of excitation volumes within a subject, wherein at least two of the plurality of excitation volumes differ in location within the subject, and wherein each of the excitation volumes partially overlap to form an overlap volume. The method also includes comparing the plurality of MRF signals acquired from the overlap volume with a dictionary of signal evolutions, determining one or more physical parameters of the overlap volume within the subject, and generating a report at least indicating the one or more physical parameters of the overlap volume within the subject.