Abstract: The present invention is directed to synergic or additive therapies comprising the administration of a VISTA antagonist and a PD-1, PD-L1 or POD-L3 antagonist; or the combination of a VISTA agonist and a -1, PD-L1 or POD-L3 agonist which combinations respectively elicit an additive or synergistic effect at promoting T cell immunity or inhibiting T cell immunity, i.e., CD4, CD8 or Th1 immunity. The agonists and antagonists may be in the same or separate compositions and may be administered together or separately administered in either order.

Abstract: A method for use in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The method comprises: receiving LRRE information from an AP; determining whether a first condition is satisfied by the WTRU, wherein the first condition is satisfied by the WTRU, on a condition that the first condition is satisfied, sending a mode change request to the AP to change an operation mode to a LRRE HARQ mode; receiving a response regarding the mode change request from the AP; and communicating with the AP using a plurality of PPDUs, each of the PPDUs comprising at least one field enabling transmissions between the WTRU and the AP under the first condition and a LRRE HARQ mode indication.

Abstract: A display substrate, a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, sub-pixels and an isolation portion, and each sub-pixel includes a light-emitting function layer. The isolation portion includes a first sub-isolation portion and a second sub-isolation portion. The first sub-isolation portion is between the second sub-isolation portion and the base substrate. The second sub-isolation portion includes a protrusion protruding relative to an edge of the first sub-isolation portion, the second sub-isolation portion facing one of adjacent sub-pixels is different in shape from the second sub-isolation portion facing the other one; or, a slope angle between a side surface of the first sub-isolation portion or the second sub-isolation portion facing one sub-pixel and a plane parallel to the base substrate is 60° to 120°. At least one film of the light-emitting function layer is disconnected at the isolation portion.

Abstract: A power switch device with cascode structure provides better performance with simple design. It has a normally-on device and a normally-off device coupled in series. A resistor is coupled to a control terminal of the normally-on device; and a capacitor is coupled between a control terminal of the normally-off device and the control terminal of the normally-on device.

Abstract: A connector terminal includes a clamping part and a contacting part. A side of a first end of the clamping part has a first barb structure and a pair of sides of a second end of the clamping part each have a second barb structure. The first end is opposite to the second end. The contacting part extends along a first direction from the second end of the clamping part and electrically contacts a terminal paired with the connector terminal.

Abstract: A light-emitting package includes a light-transmitting carrier and a light-emitting element. The light-transmitting carrier has a carrying surface, and the light-transmitting carrier contains a base resin and a first phosphorescent powder. The light-emitting element is disposed on the carrying surface. A light-emitting module that contains a phosphorescent powder is also provided.

Abstract: A method produces tantalum powder. The method includes: (1) uniformly mixing a tantalum powder raw material, metal magnesium and at least one alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal halide, loading the mixture into a container, and putting the container in a furnace; (2) raising the temperature of the furnace to 600-1200° C. in the presence of inert gas, and soaking; (3) at the end of soaking, lowering the temperature of the furnace to 600-800° C., vacuumizing the interior of the furnace to 10 Pa or less, soaking under the negative pressure so that the excessive metal is separated; (4) thereafter, raising the temperature of the furnace to 750-1200° C. in the presence of inert gas, and soaking so that the tantalum powder is sintered in the molten salt after oxygen reduction; (5) then cooling to room temperature and passivating to obtain a mixed material containing halide and tantalum powder; and (6) separating the tantalum powder from the resulting mixture.

Abstract: This disclosure provides for methods and system for meta few-shot class incremental learning. According to an aspect a method is provided. The method includes obtaining at least one weight attention map of a first network and updating weights of a second network using the at least one weight attention map, where the second network is a modulatory network. The method further includes generating at least one feature attention map of the second network based on the at least one weight attention map of the first network and a set of input images of at least one class. The method further includes generating at least one feature map of the first network based on the set of input images of the at least one class, and updating the at least one feature map of the first network based on the feature attention map of the second network.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses stabilized rice aleurone and a preparation method, using the technology of classifying a rice aleurone layer by a tangential injection airflow impeller classifier combined with an ultrasonic vibrating screen for the first time, and simultaneously uses steam treatment coupled with thermal enzyme inactivation by drum drying as a stabilization method to prepare the stabilized rice aleurone for the first time. The drum drying equipment realizes the two purposes of enzyme inactivation and drying, and the method has the advantages of short process flow, simple equipment, high utilization rate, small floor space, low investment, low energy consumption and no pollution, and is suitable for industrial promotion. The stabilized rice aleurone has high nutritional value, is rich in functional ingredients, and can be used as a raw material for functional food development in industrial production and food applications.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems for calibrating gas detectors are disclosed. An example calibration apparatus may have a gas supply element configured to provide a background gaseous substance within at least a portion of the calibration apparatus, a nebulizing element configured to generate the testing gaseous substance by transforming a testing solution in conjunction with the background gaseous substance, a pressure control element configured to regulate airflow in order to maintain a constant air pressure within the at least a portion of the calibration apparatus, and a controller component in electronic communication with the gas supply element, the nebulizing element and the pressure control element.

Abstract: A device includes a semiconductive fin, an isolation structure, a gate structure, dielectric spacers, and source/drain epitaxial structures. The isolation structure surrounds a bottom portion of the semiconductive fin. The gate structure is over the semiconductive fin. The dielectric spacers are on opposite sides of the semiconductive fin and over the isolation structure. The dielectric spacers include nitride. The source/drain epitaxial structures are on opposite sides of the gate structure and over the dielectric spacers. The source/drain epitaxial structures have hexagon shapes.

Abstract: A method for preparing quartz glass with low content of hydroxyl and high purity, includes providing silica powders including hydroxyl groups. The silica powders are dehydroxylated, which includes drying the silica powders at a first temperature, heating the silica powders up to a second temperature and introducing a first oxidizing gas including halogen gas, thereby obtaining first dehydroxylated powders, and heating the first dehydroxylated powders up to a third temperature and introducing a second oxidizing gas including oxygen or ozone, thereby obtaining second dehydroxylated powders. The second dehydroxylated powders are heated up to a fourth temperature to obtain a vitrified body. The vitrified body is cooled to obtain the quartz glass with low content of hydroxyl and high purity. The quartz glass prepared by the above method has low content of hydroxyl and high purity. A quartz glass with low content of hydroxyl and high purity is also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed is a software PUF based on an RISC-V processor for IoT security. A 32-bit RISC-V processor is used to generate abnormal information results in an abnormal operating state under a low voltage, and the abnormal information results are used to represent the features of the 32-bit RISC-V processor; 5-bit binary data obtained by comparing the abnormal information results with normal information results has high randomness and uniqueness and it is extremely difficult to directly extract internal abnormal information result from a hardware circuit of the 32-bit RISC-V processor, so modeling attacks based on the 5-bit binary data calculated according to the abnormal information results of the 32-bit RISC-V processor are almost impossible; in addition, when the 32-bit RISC-V processor is in an abnormal operating state, the operating frequency of the 32-bit RISC-V processor is dynamically adjusted through a frequency compensation method.

Abstract: A method of visual media processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current video block, a buffer that stores reference samples for prediction in an intra block copy mode; for a sample spatially located at location of the current video block relative to an upper-left position of a coding tree unit including the current video block and having a block vector, computing a corresponding reference in the buffer at a reference location, wherein the reference location is determined using the block vector and the location; and upon determining that the reference location lies outside the buffer, re-computing the reference location based at least in part on a location of the current video block relative to the coding tree unit including the current video block.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for coefficient scaling for high-precision image and video coding are described. An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that the conversion includes during encoding, skipping applying a forward transform to residual coefficients of the current block prior to including in the bitstream representation, or during decoding, reconstructing residual coefficients of the current block from the bitstream representation without applying an inverse transform. The rule further specifies that a scale factor is applied to the residual coefficients independent of a size of the current block.

Abstract: History-based affine parameters inheritance is described. In an exemplary aspect, a method for video processing includes deriving, for a conversion between a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the current block, affine related information associated with an affine model to be used by the current block based on affine related information associated with an affine model used by a first block stored in a buffer, wherein the first block is affine coded prior to the current block; and performing the conversion by using the derived affine related information.

Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a microwave source. The microwave source may include a cathode heater and a thermionic emitter. The cathode heater may include a first component, and a second component enclosing at least a portion of the first component. The thermionic emitter may be configured to release electrons when the thermionic emitter is heated by the cathode heater. At least a portion of the second component of the cathode heater may be in contact with the thermionic emitter.

Abstract: A method including: storing results of a task in a pipeline executed in a container running in a computing environment; generating a check point for the task; and re-executing the pipeline from the check point for the task reusing the results.

Abstract: A low-carbon, high-purity tantalum pentoxide powder has a carbon content of no greater than 15 ppm. A preparation method for the powder includes: (1) adding a fluotantalic acid (H2TaF7) solution into a reaction kettle, controlling the temperature of the reaction kettle at 30-60° C., adding a precipitator until the pH of the reaction solution is 8-10, then stopping introducing ammonia, and aging to obtain a tantalum hydroxide slurry; (2) filtering and washing the slurry obtained in step (1), and then carrying out solid-liquid separation to obtain a tantalum hydroxide filter cake; (3) drying the filter cake obtained in step (2) to obtain white tantalum hydroxide powder; (4) calcining the tantalum hydroxide powder obtained in step (3), crushing and screening the calcined sample to obtain tantalum pentoxide powder; and (5) subjecting the tantalum pentoxide powder obtained in step (4) to heat treatment at a temperature of 1000-1500° C. to obtain the powder.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, electronic devices for MRI scanning are provided, in which in each scanning plane segment, original k-space data of a current scanning plane is obtained, and a first plane image of the current scanning plane is generated based on the original k-space data, the type of the current scanning plane is determined, and the second plane image of the current scanning plane is generated based on the first plane image of the current scanning plane with a prediction mode corresponding to the type of the current scanning plane.