Abstract: A conductivity meter includes a measurement unit including an electrode arranged as being in contact with sample water and a substrate on which a circuit that processes information outputted from the measurement unit is mounted. The measurement unit and the substrate are connected to each other, with a wall portion being interposed, the wall portion partitioning a space in a housing into a water section and an electric section. The measurement unit is arranged on a first surface of the wall portion on a side of the water section such that the electrode is located in an opening provided in the wall portion. The substrate is arranged on a second surface of the wall portion on a side of the electric section such that an electrode contact that electrically connects a power supply and a circuit to each other is located in the opening.

Abstract: Systems and methods for selectable lateral spinal cord stimulation are discussed. An exemplary neuromodulation system includes a programming device and an electrostimulator. The programming device can receive information about placement of at least one lead in a vicinity of a lateral portion of a spinal cord, identify one or more lateral spinal neural targets based on the information about placement of the at least one lead, and receive a user selection from selectable stimulation modes for stimulating the identified one or more lateral spinal neural targets. The electrostimulator can apply electrostimulation energy to the identified one or more lateral spinal neural targets via the at least one lead in accordance with the user selection from the selectable stimulation modes.

Abstract: A test structure for use in a dynamic random access memory is provided. A first gate structure is disposed in a semiconductor substrate. First and second source/drain regions are disposed in the semiconductor substrate and at two sides of the first gate structure. A bit line structure is disposed on the first source/drain region. A dielectric layer is disposed on the semiconductor substrate and the bit line structure. A first landing pad is disposed on the dielectric layer. A first contact plug is disposed in the dielectric layer and electrically connects the second source/drain region and the first landing pad. A conductive layer is disposed on and electrically connected to the first landing pad, in which a first upper surface of the first landing pad is entirely covered by the conductive layer, and the conductive layer has a substantially planar upper surface.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pressed component including forming a metal sheet into a pressed component shape having: a cross section having a top sheet portion and a side wall portion continuous to at least one side in the width direction of the top sheet portion via a first bent portion; and having one or two or more curved portions in which the top sheet portion is curved to project or to be recessed in a side view along the longitudinal direction in the direction intersecting the cross section, the method which includes: a first preliminary forming step having a step of forming, to the metal sheet, first beads extending along the longitudinal direction at a position where the first bent portion is formed; and a first component forming step of forming the metal sheet after the first preliminary forming step into the pressed component shape.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to trusted local memory management in a virtualized GPU. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors including a trusted execution environment (TEE); a GPU including a trusted agent; and a memory, the memory including GPU local memory, the trusted agent to ensure proper allocation/deallocation of the local memory and verify translations between graphics physical addresses (PAs) and PAs for the apparatus, wherein the local memory is partitioned into protection regions including a protected region and an unprotected region, and wherein the protected region to store a memory permission table maintained by the trusted agent, the memory permission table to include any virtual function assigned to a trusted domain, a per process graphics translation table to translate between graphics virtual address (VA) to graphics guest PA (GPA), and a local memory translation table to translate between graphics GPAs and PAs for the local memory.

Abstract: An autonomous driving control apparatus may include a sensor device, a memory, and a control device. For example, the autonomous driving control apparatus identifies information related to at least one of a driving state of a host vehicle, a driving mode of the host vehicle, a driving road of the host vehicle, a behavior state of at least one other vehicle adjacent to the host vehicle, or a combination of the driving state, the driving mode, the driving road, and the behavior state by use of the sensor device, activates at least one parameter-variable control for deceleration control of the host vehicle by use of the information, and is configured to control a deceleration of the host vehicle by use of a minimum value among at least one parameter identified based on the at least one parameter-variable control thus activated.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus (100) including a skeleton structure detection unit (101) that executes processing of detecting a plurality of key points associated with each of a plurality of parts of a human body included in an image, a feature value computation unit (102) that computes a feature value of each of the key points being detected, an input unit (106) that receives a user input for specifying a method of integrating the feature values of the key points detected from each of a plurality of human bodies for each of the parts, and a processing unit (103) that computes an integrated feature value of each of the parts by performing integration for each of the parts by the method specified by the user input, and performs an image search or image classification, based on the integrated feature value.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene capable of producing hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene at a high yield. The method for producing hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene includes a reaction step of performing dechlorination in which chlorine atoms are eliminated from 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorohexafluorobutane in a reaction solution containing the 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorohexafluorobutane, zinc, at least one of an antioxidant and a polymerization inhibitor, and an organic solvent to yield hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene.

Abstract: A detection circuit includes: a differential; a plus-side detection wire connected between a plus input terminal of the differential amplifier and a detector; a minus-side detection wire connected between a minus input terminal of the differential amplifier and the detector; a first detection wire connected in parallel to the plus-side detection wire between the detector and the plus input terminal of the differential amplifier; and a second detection wire connected in parallel to the minus-side detection wire between the detector and the minus input terminal of the differential amplifier. The first detection wire and the second detection wire are arranged in the electric circuit so as to, by induced voltages generated due to electromagnetic noise, cancel out induced voltages generated on the plus-side detection wire and the minus-side detection wire due to the electromagnetic noise.

Abstract: System and techniques to fire a first source array at a first time of a first shot timing distribution comprising first time values according to a firing schedule and fire a second source array at a second time of a second shot timing distribution comprising second time values subsequent to firing the first source array and prior to another firing of the first source array according to the firing schedule. Additionally, at least a portion of the second shot timing distribution overlaps with the first shot timing distribution or the at least a portion of the second shot timing distribution is separated from the first shot timing distribution by less than a predetermined period of time and the first time and the second time of the firing schedule are separated by at least the predetermined period of time.

Abstract: BLE broadcast communication methods, systems, and devices are described. A BLE broadcast communication method is applied to a master device. The master device configures a reverse communication enable instruction in the BIS packet to indicate whether a reverse communication is permitted in a current isochronous interval while the master device performs a broadcast communication with one or more slave devices. Moreover, a shared reverse control time slot is provided in the isochronous interval.

Abstract: An MPI device generates projection data of a magnetization change based on a position of an FFL region in a scanning direction and an angle of the FFL region in a rotation direction, generates corrected projection data by performing sensitivity correction on the projection data by using a system function previously acquired for each piece of projection data, and generates a magnetic nanoparticle image by performing image reconstruction on the corrected projection data. When generating the system function, processing circuitry makes a linear zero magnetic field generation coil form the FFL region in a structure as a subject and scan, rotate, or scan and rotate the FFL region, makes an excitation magnetic field application coil apply an excitation magnetic field to a magnetic field region, makes a detector detect the magnetization change in the structure, and generates the system function in regard to each piece of projection data.

Abstract: As described above, three-dimensional printer 10 includes inkjet head 200 configured to eject ink, head tank 210 configured to store the ink to be supplied to inkjet head 200, ink tank 220 configured to store the ink to be supplied into head tank 210, pipe 230 that connects head tank 210 and ink tank 220, vacuum pump 242 configured to generate a high negative pressure, first pressure line 271 that connects head tank 210 and vacuum pump 242, and controller 110 configured to, when supplying the ink from ink tank 220 into head tank 210 via pipe 230, cause the high negative pressure generated by vacuum pump 242 to be applied to head tank 210 via first pressure line 271.

Abstract: A projection system includes a display system, a first medium and a second medium. The display system is configured to emit a light to plan to display an image at a predetermined image forming position. The display system is disposed in the first medium having a first refractive index Ni. The predetermined image forming position is located in the second medium having a second refractive index N2. The second medium has a first side and a second side, a distance FR is included between the first side and the second side, a first distance Li is included between the predetermined image forming position and the display system, a second distance L2 is included between the display system and the second medium, the light has a brightness BS before the light entering the second medium, the light has an attenuation ? in the second medium, and the distance FR satisfies: ( L ? 1 - L ? 2 ) ? cot [ sin - 1 ( N ? 1 N ? 2 × 1 2 ) ] ? FR ? 100 × log ? ? 3 ? 0 ? 0 B ? S .

Abstract: An identity service in a cloud environment is communicatively coupled to a proxy key vault in the cloud environment and to an external key manager (EKM) located outside of the cloud environment. The identity service receives a token request for a communication credential from the proxy key vault and verifies the request based on a client credential associated with the proxy key vault. The identity service generates the client credential and signs the communication credential with a private key associated with the EKM. The identify service transmits the signed communication credential to the proxy key vault. The communication credential can be used to substantiate cryptographic operation requests to the EKM.

Abstract: A processor is provided, in which the processor is configured to generate a first distribution based on an age and an evaluation value related to health data, set a plurality of regions and a sentence T corresponding to each of the regions in the first distribution, acquire a measurement result including the age and the evaluation value of a user, extract a second distribution including a specific region, which is the region corresponding to the measurement result, from the first distribution, and display the second distribution, the sentence corresponding to the specific region, and the measurement result in the same display region.

Abstract: An adapter is provided that includes a first interface to couple to a particular device, where link layer data is to be communicated over the first interface, and a second interface to couple to a physical layer (PHY) device. The PHY device includes wires to implement a physical layer of a link, and the link couples the adapter to another adapter via the PHY device. The second interface includes a data channel to communicate the link layer data over the physical layer, and a sideband channel to communicate sideband messages between the adapter and the other adapter over the physical layer. The adapter is to implement a logical PHY for the link.

Abstract: An electrode catalyst is configured such that non-noble metal particles, noble metal particles or nitride-doped noble metal particles are supported on a carbon support, wherein the carbon support has a 2D planar crystal structure or a 3D polyhedral crystal structure and is doped with nitrogen, thereby exhibiting increased catalytic activity.

Abstract: An air vent device for a vehicle includes an air guide configured to protrude towards a passage through which air flows, wherein a length of the air guide protruding into the passage is adjustable by rotation with respect to the passage.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system receives from a host a first write request including a first block identifier designating a first write destination block to which first write data is to be written. The memory system acquires the first write data from a write buffer temporarily holding write data corresponding to each of the write requests, and writes the first write data to a write destination page in the first write destination block. The memory system releases a region in the write buffer, storing data which is made readable from the first write destination block by writing the first write data to the write destination page. The data made readable is a data of a page in the first write destination block preceding the write destination page.