Abstract: A system for the separation of rare earth elements, the system including a separation vessel, the separation vessel including an inlet configured to receive the aqueous solution, an interior configured to house the aqueous solution, where the interior is configured to receive a supply of air; the aqueous solution including one or more rare earth elements, a surfactant, and a complexing agent; a compressed air source, where the compressed air source is operatively coupled to the separation vessel, and configured to propel the supply of air through the aqueous solution; and the supply of air, where the supply of air is operable to induce a plurality of bubbles to form in the aqueous solution, and create a foam layer to form at and above the interface of the aqueous solution, wherein the foam layer comprises the one or more rare earth elements from the aqueous solution.

Abstract: Environmental test equipment for the cooperative control of salt spray concentration and relative humidity, comprising: a dry salt spray generation system, an air conditioning system, a mixing chamber, a test chamber and an electric control cabinet; in accordance with the principle of conserving salt content and moisture content before and after mixing, the environmental test equipment obtains a salt spray concentration relationship formula and a relative humidity relationship formula between: environmental parameters in the test chamber, dry salt spray environmental parameters in the dry salt spray generation system, and air conditioning environmental parameters in the air conditioning system; after determining environmental test parameters required in the test chamber, the salt spray concentration relationship formula and the relative humidity relationship formula are used to obtain: temperature parameters and relative humidity parameters required to be set in the dry salt spray generation system, and tempe

Abstract: A method of metal gapfill including depositing a metal layer on a dielectric layer present on a field and/or in an opening of a feature via plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition utilizing a metal halide precursor and a plasma comprising hydrogen and a noble gas; and depositing a metal gapfill material on the field and in the opening directly over the metal layer, wherein the metal gapfill material completely fills the opening.

Abstract: A method for estimating depth of a scene includes capturing a first image of the scene via one or more sensors associated with a first agent. The method also includes selecting one or more second images from a group of previously captured images of the scene, each second image of the one or more second images satisfying a depth criteria, each image of the group of previously captured images being captured prior to the first image. The method further includes estimating the depth of the scene based on the first image and the one or more second images.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dynamic regulation method for a lane changing decision point of a CAV dedicated lane in a diverging area of an expressway, applied to the diverging area of the expressway in which the CAV dedicated lane is provided at an inner side of a road. Vehicles traveling in the CAV dedicated lane are all CAVs. Both the CAVs and human-driven vehicles can travel in ordinary lanes. The method calculates the lane changing decision points of diversion vehicles in the CAV dedicated lane at current time using corresponding algorithms based on a relationship between the lane changing decision points of the CAV dedicated lane and traffic efficiency and a traffic safety.

Abstract: A method for preparing a modified molecular sieve catalyst and a method for producing benzene, toluene and p-xylene by coupling conversion of naphtha and CO2 are provided. Preparing a modified molecular sieve catalyst includes subjecting a molecular sieve to metal modification by using a high temperature hydrothermal method, which includes: (1) preparing a soluble metal salt aqueous solution; (2) placing a zeolite molecular sieve to be metal-modified in the soluble metal salt aqueous solution, and impregnating the same at a temperature of 60-100° C.; and (3) draining the molecular sieve, followed by drying and calcination. Producing benzene, toluene and p-xylene by coupling conversion of naphtha and CO2 includes: (a) preparing a modified molecular sieve catalyst; and (b) enabling a raw material containing naphtha and CO2 to contact with the modified molecular sieve catalyst in a reactor for a reaction to produce benzene, toluene and p-xylene.

Abstract: A method for triggering capture of diverse driving data from captions is described. The method includes training a discriminator network to identify similarities between a received text description and a received scene description. The method also includes feeding a trained discriminator network with real scene information along with text/sentence descriptions to verify whether the real scene information matches the text/sentence description. The method further includes generating a dataset of diverse driving scenarios retrieved from a dataset of vehicle driving log data in response to a text/sentence query.

Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a channel transmission method, an apparatus, a network-side device and a terminal, the method comprising: sending PDCCH to a first terminal, a CRC of DCI of the PDCCH being scrambled by a first RNTI of the first terminal, and a scrambling sequence generator of PDSCH scheduled by the PDCCH being initialized with a second RNTI or a third parameter; the second RNTI or the third parameter being different from the first RNTI, and the second RNTI or the third parameter being a common parameter between the first terminal and at least one other terminal.

Abstract: An object control method and an object control device are disclosed. The disclosed object control method: detects a control activation/deactivation command generated by a user; detects, in a state in which the control activation/deactivation command is detected, a user command including a movement variation command and a rotation variation command; determines a user input by the movement variation command and the rotation variation command; and controls an object according to the user input.

Abstract: An androgen receptor (AR) binding molecule has the structure of Formula (I) shown in the following: wherein E is CH2, G is CH, is OH, NH2, OTf or C?C, X is CF3 or trifluoromethylphenyl, is a single bond, and Y and Z are CH2; or is absent, X is CF3, is a double bond, and Y and Z are CH.

Abstract: The present disclosure sucks air in hospital room using a compressor to maintain an inner portion of the hospital room in a negative pressure state, and creates a high-temperature and humid environment by a water spray, the compressor, and a sterilization chamber to kill bacteria or viruses. In addition, the compressor uses power generated by a turbine, and is configured so that heat of air coming out of the compressor is recovered to a suction side of the compressor, such that efficiency of a system may be secured. Further, some of clean air generated while passing through the sterilization chamber may be directly supplied again to the hospital room through a bypass means.

Abstract: A magnetoresistive memory cell includes a first magnetic tunnel junction, a second magnetic tunnel junction and a metal layer. The first magnetic tunnel junction and the second magnetic tunnel junction each are disposed on the metal layer; the metal layer is configured to pass write current, a projection line of an easy axis of the first magnetic tunnel junction on a plane where the metal layer is located forms a first angle against a direction of the write current, and a projection line of an easy axis of the second magnetic tunnel junction on the plane where the metal layer is located forms a second angle against a direction opposite to the direction of the write current; the first angle and the second angle are all less than 90°; the first magnetic tunnel junction and the second magnetic tunnel junction are configured to pass read current.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for processing fast persistent writing to nonvolatile memory. A method for processing fast persistent writing to a nonvolatile memory includes writing log data from a last storage position in a data block created in a certain size, reflecting the entire data block in a storage medium, increasing the last storage position by a size of the written log data, and reflecting the entire data block in a storage medium, wherein the data block is linearly linked to an additional data block in a creation order, and wherein the data block includes a log data storage region, information about a last storage position where the log data is stored in the log data storage region, and information about a linked next data block.

Abstract: A smart sensing architecture (100) includes smart meters (102) and processing units (104). The smart meters (102) generate and transmit multidimensional data streams to the processing units (104). A processing unit (104) determines an optimum batch size for a multidimensional data stream and generates a multidimensional batch of data. The processing unit (104) reduces dimensionality of the multidimensional batch of data using principal component analysis to generate a low-dimensional batch of data and performs compressive sampling on the low-dimensional batch of data to generate a compressed batch of data, thereby saving bandwidth of transmission.

Abstract: A non-invasive control system for neuromuscular stimulation includes an eye-tracking device, an electrical stimulation device, and software that interprets the eye movements of the user to determine an intended movement and sends electrical signal(s) to the stimulation device to achieve the intended movement. For example, the stimulation device may be a sleeve with electrodes worn on a paralyzed limb, with the intended movement being the movement of the limb.

Abstract: A wireless power transmission device can include a plurality of transmission coil units, in which each of the plurality of transmission coil units includes a plurality of antenna coils arranged on different three-dimensional planes, and the plurality of antenna coils are configured to generate a magnetic field passing through at least one or more of the different three-dimensional planes to transfer transmission power to a wireless power reception device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a reporting method and a configuration method for minimization of drive tests information, a terminal and a network device. The reporting method applied to a terminal side comprises: receiving configuration information sent by a network device for a minimization of drive tests information report; creating, according to the configuration information, a measurement log regarding minimization of drive tests information; and reporting to the network device, the measurement log regarding the minimization of drive tests information.

Abstract: An intelligent separation device has gas explosion, stirring, drying and negative pressure adsorption devices. The gas explosion device receives conveyed peanut materials with red coats to be removed, and the materials are subjected to gas explosion, so that the peanut kernels and the peanut red coats are preliminarily separated. The stirring device shifts the preliminarily separated peanut kernels and peanut red coats into the drying device. The drying device compresses and heating external air, transfers heat through hot air, and heats and dries the preliminarily separated peanut kernels and peanut red coats, so that the peanut red coats and the peanut kernels are fully separated. The negative pressure adsorption device collects the fully separated peanut kernels and red coats with different densities and masses in a negative pressure adsorption mode.

Abstract: An operation method of a server for identifying disaster affected areas. The operation method of the server may include acquiring at least one first disaster image; deriving an affected area from each of the at least one first disaster image and acquiring affected area related information through labeling based on the derived affected area; and training a first learning model using the at least one first disaster image and the affected area related information.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multifunctional therapeutic biological material and preparation method thereof. The process steps of the preparation method are as follows: (1) preparing various three-dimensional micro/nano composite structure on the surface of a biomedical material by using femtosecond laser double pulses; (2) further preparing a nano-flower structure on the three-dimensional micro/nano composite structure by using hydrothermal synthesis method to construct a heterogeneous structure consisting of the three-dimensional micro/nano composite structure and the nano-flower structure; (3) putting the prepared heterogeneous structure into a mixed solution containing gold ions and platinum ions, and by using ultraviolet light reduction method, reducing in situ into gold-platinum bimetallic nanoparticles on the heterogeneous structure to obtain the multifunctional therapeutic biological material.