Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for manufacturing a resistive switching element, including: performing an etching process, a deposition process and a polishing process alternately to prepare the bottom electrode, the resistive switching layer and the top electrode; and optimizing at least one of the bottom electrode, the resistive switching materials and the oxygen storage layer by using the sidewall process when preparing the bottom electrode and the resistive switching materials, so as to reduce a contact area between the bottom electrode and the resistive switching materials, and/or reduce a contact area between the resistive switching materials and the oxygen storage layer. The method could form conductive filaments in the resistive switching layer, and a low resistive state and high resistive state are realized by forming and breaking conductive filaments.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for determining the origin location of a subterranean rock sample. Compositions include a nanoparticle tag with a fluorescent core and a polymer shell. The fluorescent core can include up-converting nanoparticles, rare earth element doped oxide, long persistent fluorescent materials, or encapsulated lanthanide complexes. Methods include mixing a nanoparticle tag into a fluid, flowing the fluid through a work string into a subterranean formation, recovering subterranean rock samples from the subterranean formation, and determining an origin location of the subterranean rock sample by detecting the presence of the nanoparticle tag on the sample.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product provide for solving merge candidate list mismatches. In the context of a method, the method accesses a current coding unit of a picture. The method can also generate a merge candidate list comprising a plurality of coding unit representations in a predefined order. The method also determines whether a particular coding unit representation within the merge candidate list is representative of a coding unit within a dirty area of the picture and prevents the particular coding unit representation and one or more coding unit representations following the particular coding unit in the predefined order from being selected as a merge candidate for the current coding unit.

Abstract: A battery system for a vehicle includes a plurality of battery modules, each of the plurality of battery modules including a respective management module, and a master management module configured to communicate with the management modules and with a battery control module. Each of the management modules includes a communication interface configured to transmit data to the master management module and receive data from the master management module and a diagnostic module configured to monitor operating parameters of a respective one of the plurality of battery modules, detect a fault associated with the respective one of the plurality of battery modules based on the operating parameters, and selectively output a signal indicative of the detected fault.

Abstract: Disclosed are a battery pack and a manufacturing method therefor. The battery pack comprises: a battery module, comprising several cells, wherein the cells are electrically connected to each other, and each cell comprises an outer side face in the direction of longitudinal extension thereof; an adapter portion, for establishing mechanical and electrical connection between an electric tool and the battery pack; a holder, wherein an accommodating cavity is internally formed in the holder, and the cells are at least partially received in the accommodating cavity; and a filler, which wraps the outer side faces of the cells, is located at an inner side of the accommodating cavity and is used for transferring heat generated by the cells out of the accommodating cavity. The outer side faces of the cells are completely accommodated in the accommodating cavity, and the ratio of the length along which the filler is set in the lengthwise direction of the cells to the length of the cells is not less than 30%.

Abstract: Embodiments of the technology described herein describe a machine classifier capable of continually learning new classes through a continual few-shot learning approach. A natural language processing (NLP) machine classifier may initially be trained to identify a plurality of other classes through a conventional training process. In order to learn a new class, natural-language training data for a new class is generated. The training data for the new class may be few-shot training data. The training also uses synthetic training data that represents each of the plurality of other classes. The synthetic training data may be generated through a model inversion of the original classifier. The synthetic training data and the natural-language training data are used to retrain the NLP classifier to identify text in the plurality of other classes and the new class using.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds, compositions and methods for treating of diseases, syndromes, or disorders that are affected by the modulation of STING. Such compounds are represented by Formula (I) as follows: wherein R, R1B, R1C, R2B, R2C, B1, W, X, Y, Z are defined herein.

Abstract: Systems, techniques, and user interfaces are disclosed for an object-centric builder software that can utilize an ontology to design, configure, and build a workflow application that also references the ontology to perform a workflow. The ontology may serve as a data model for stored data associated with the particular workflow. The builder software may leverage the ontology to obtain advance knowledge of the availability and structure of the stored data that will be accessible to the workflow application at run-time, in order to build a workflow application that is well-tailored for that particular workflow. This approach may also result in flexible workflow applications that are easily built and maintained.

Abstract: An intelligent integrated anti-collision system and method for a pier, including: a radar sensing device disposed at the joint between the pier and a girder, image collection devices disposed around the pier, control system, hydraulic system and execution device, where the radar sensing and image collection devices transmit collected signals to the control system, which uses the hydraulic system to control the action of the execution device; the execution device is disposed at a middle part of the pier and includes a plurality of sections of steel-reinforced rubber concrete girder connected end to end through pulleys, the hydraulic system can drive the pulleys to rotate to enable the sections to be located on the same horizontal line, and an energy dissipation apparatus is disposed at the tail end of the last section to realize energy dissipation of the energy generated by impact when an object impacts the energy dissipation apparatus.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for burst-based sidelink transmission. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for wireless communication includes: performing a first Type-1 channel access procedure for sidelink transmission on a carrier starting from a first candidate starting symbol within a first slot, wherein the first candidate starting symbol is in a set of candidate starting symbols for the sidelink transmission; determining a channel occupancy time (COT) in response to the first Type-1 channel access procedure being successful; and performing, within the COT, the sidelink transmission on the carrier from the first candidate starting symbol within the first slot, wherein the sidelink transmission is contiguous in time domain without any gap.

Abstract: A straight-tube UV light includes a light body, end covers and functional subassemblies, where the light body is a hollow, straight tubular structure; the end cover includes the first end cover and the second end cover provided on the left and the right of the light body, the first end cover, the second end cover and the light body enclose to form a mounting cavity; the functional subassemblies include at least the first light source subassembly and the control power supply, provided inside the mounting cavity, the control power supply used for controlling the first light source subassembly to emit UV rays for sterilization and disinfection. This can simplify the protective structure of the light, reduce the volume of the light and improve the sealing property of the light, and derive other types of UV lights to realize standardization and unification of components of different types of UV lights.

Abstract: Provided are a hotspot list display method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes playing a target video in a first video play page; receiving a first slide operation on the first video play page, where the first slide operation is used for switching current display content of the first video play page; and in response to the first slide operation satisfying a trigger condition for displaying a hotspot list, playing a preset video of the hotspot list on the first video play page, displaying the hotspot list in a layer on the preset video, and displaying video items of multiple hotspot videos in the hotspot list.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device that includes a semiconductor fin disposed over a substrate, an isolation structure at least partially surrounding the fin, an epitaxial source/drain (S/D) feature disposed over the semiconductor fin, where an extended portion of the epitaxial S/D feature extends over the isolation structure, and a silicide layer disposed on the epitaxial S/D feature, where the silicide layer covers top, bottom, sidewall, front, and back surfaces of the extended portion of the S/D feature.

Abstract: Provided are a drive compensation method and system of a display panel and a display device. The drive compensation method includes: determining at least one of the impedance and capacitive reactance variation curve of a first signal line in a column direction and determining the charge rate variation curve of first pixel units in a row direction; determining the compensation coefficients for a respective pixel unit in the column direction and/or the row direction according to the impedance and capacitive reactance variation curve of the first signal line in the column direction and/or the charge rate variation curve of first pixel units in the row direction; and compensating the compensation coefficients for the respective pixel unit in the column direction and/or the row direction to the drive signal of the respective pixel unit to drive the respective pixel unit.

Abstract: The utility model relates to an illumination device (100) for tear film lipid layer on ocular surface attached to an Ophthalmic Slit lamp Microscope, which comprises a ophthalmic slit lamp microscope. An illumination device (100) for tear film lipid layer is installed on the slit lamp microscope. The illumination device (100) is located at the lower part of the observer’s eye to illuminate the surface of the lower half of the eye surface angular membrane of the observer’s eye for observing the tear film lipid layer. The light emitted by the light source of the eye surface tear film lipid layer illumination device is inclined relative to the eye axis direction (10), and its inclination angle is ? 20°, which reduces the noise interference of transparent parts such as iris behind the cornea, reduces the noise, and improves the observation and imaging clarity of the eye surface lipid layer.

Abstract: Provided are a color generation system, method and apparatus of a to-be-displayed object, a display device and a medium. The color generation system of a to-be-displayed object includes a to-be-displayed object processing module, a color setting module and a color generation module. The to-be-displayed object processing module is configured to preprocess a sampled to-be-displayed object, and determine to-be-displayed object information of the sampled to-be-displayed object according to the preprocessed sampled to-be-displayed object. The color setting module is configured to generate a to-be-displayed object color mapping table based on the to-be-displayed object information, and parse the to-be-displayed object information and color information in the to-be-displayed object color mapping table to obtain a subpixel information component of a display interface.

Abstract: Methods and systems for cleaning process sequence management are provided. An indication is received from a client device of a sequence of cleaning operations associated with a substrate process at a manufacturing system. An indication of one or more cleaning criteria that trigger initiation of the sequence of cleaning operations during a cleaning process at a process chamber of the manufacturing system is also received. A set of instructions corresponding to the sequence of cleaning operations is generated. In response to a detection that at least one of the one or more cleaning criteria is satisfied, the generated set of instructions are executed to initiate the sequence of cleaning operations at the process chamber.

Abstract: A monitoring system for a battery system includes a battery system including a battery pack. The battery pack includes M battery modules, where M is an integer greater than zero. Each of the M battery modules includes C battery cells, where C is an integer greater than one. T temperature sensors configured to generate sensed temperatures of the M battery modules, where T is greater than or equal to M and less than M times C. A battery management module configured to perform battery impedance measurements on the C battery cells of the M battery modules; generate estimated temperatures for each of the C battery cells of the M battery modules based on the battery impedance measurements; and selectively detect at least one of the C battery cells having a cell outlier temperature based on the estimated temperatures of the C battery cells.

Abstract: A method for authenticating a user using biometrics and digitized handwritten signature is provided. A biometric stylus performs fingerprint recognition on the user who uses the biometric stylus to create a handwriting pattern on a handwriting input device, and transmits encrypted identification data to the handwriting input device when the fingerprint recognition is successful. The handwriting input device transmits the encrypted identification data and the handwriting pattern to a verification server. The verification server verifies the handwriting pattern, and decrypts the encrypted identification data for verifying an identity of the user when the handwriting pattern is successfully verified.

Abstract: A water-based protective film which is largely immune to static electricity includes 60 to 70 parts of a water-based polyurethane by weight, 12 to 17 parts of an emulsion dispersant by weight, 3 to 8 parts of an antistatic agent by weight, and 10 to 20 parts of water by weight. A preparation method of the water-based protective film is also disclosed, the water-based protective film, which is in a form of slurry before drying, can be applied to an object surface by spraying, by immersion, or by brushing.