Abstract: A system and method for CT image reconstruction are provided. The method may include: obtaining raw data set related to an object; generating a first image set based on the raw data set, wherein the first image set includes a first full quality image and a first max field of view image; generating one or more reference images based on the first max field of view image; generating a first bone information image based on the one or more reference images; generating a second image set based on the raw data set, wherein the second image set includes a second full quality image; generating a second bone information image based on the one or more reference images; correcting hardening beam artifact of the second full quality image based on the second bone information image to generate a hardening beam artifact corrected image.

Abstract: An electrophoretic medium may be incorporated into an electrophoretic display that includes a dispersion containing a non-polar fluid, a plurality of first charged colored particles, polyisobutylene, and an additive selected from co-polymers of vinyl aromatics and at least one hydrocarbon having 2 to 5 carbons and at least one double bond. The co-polymer and the ratio of the co-polymer to polyisobutylene is selected, such that bistability performance is maintained while improving the color state performance of the display.

Abstract: Methods and systems for joining a wireless connection advertisement include connecting to a commissioning device via a wireless point-to-point communication in response to receiving an advertisement broadcast to establish an advertisement-based connection. The commissioning device is configured to manage access to a fabric. The methods and systems also include receiving network credentials from the commissioning device via the wireless point-to-point communication, the network credentials being configured to facilitate connection to a wireless network. Furthermore, the method and systems include connecting to the wireless network using the received network credentials.

Abstract: A method and system acquiring, processing and displaying breast ultrasound images in a way that makes breast ultrasound screening more practical and thus more widely used, and reduces the occurrence of missing cancers in screening and diagnosis, using automated scanning of chestwardly compressed breasts with ultrasound. Enhanced, whole-breast navigator overview images are produced from scanning breasts with ultrasound that emphasize abnormalities in the breast while excluding obscuring influences of non-breast structures, particularly those external to the breast such as ribs and chest wall, and differentiating between likely malignant and likely benign abnormalities and otherwise enhancing the navigator overview image and other images, thereby reducing the time to read, screen, and/or diagnose to practical time limits and also reduce screening or diagnostic errors.

Abstract: Provided herein is a method of drying an electrode assembly of lithium-ion battery, comprising drying the electrode assembly in two successive stages under vacuum at elevated temperature; filling the oven with hot, dry air or inert gas; repeating the steps of vacuum drying and gas filling several times. The method disclosed herein is particularly suitable for drying electrode assemblies using aqueous binders.

Abstract: Described herein are methods of filling features with tungsten, and related systems and apparatus, involving inhibition of tungsten nucleation. In some embodiments, the methods involve selective inhibition along a feature profile. Methods of selectively inhibiting tungsten nucleation can include exposing the feature to a direct or remote plasma. In certain embodiments, the substrate can be biased during selective inhibition. Process parameters including bias power, exposure time, plasma power, process pressure and plasma chemistry can be used to tune the inhibition profile. The methods described herein can be used to fill vertical features, such as in tungsten vias, and horizontal features, such as vertical NAND (VNAND) wordlines. The methods may be used for both conformal fill and bottom-up/inside-out fill. Examples of applications include logic and memory contact fill, DRAM buried wordline fill, vertically integrated memory gate/wordline fill, and 3-D integration using through-silicon vias.

Abstract: The invention relates to inhibitors of mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase (mt-IDH) proteins with neomorphic activity useful in the treatment of cell-proliferation disorders and cancers, having the Formula: where A, B, U, V, Z, W1, W2, W3, and R1-R6 are described herein.

Abstract: A pixel compensating circuit and a driving method thereof, an array substrate and a display device. The pixel compensating circuit includes: a reset circuit, connected with a reset signal line, and configured to reset a driving circuit according to a reset signal from the reset signal line; the driving circuit, configured to output a driving current to drive a display apparatus to emit light and display; a compensating circuit, connected with a signal control line, and a data line, and configured to compensate a threshold voltage for the driving circuit and write data into the driving circuit under control of a signal control signal from the signal control line; and a luminance control circuit, connected with a luminance control line, and configured to control the driving circuit to drive the display apparatus to emit light and display according to a luminance control signal from the luminance control line.

Abstract: A method for forming a field-effect transistor (FET) including forming a plurality of individual fins on a substrate. The method continues with forming a dummy anchor structure, with the dummy anchor located outside the outermost fin. The fins and dummy anchor define a trench, where the trench has a width dimension. The method continues with depositing a shallow trench isolation (STI) material into the trench and between the fins, where the STI material places uniform tension stresses on both sides of the individual fins.

Abstract: The present flow rate safety valve comprises a valve body, a valve seat, a valve core and a spring. The valve core is an open cylinder. A sealing washer is set up on the front end of the valve core. Part of the rim of the sealing washer contacts the inner wall of the valve body, forming a seal and guiding the valve core in the axial direction of the valve body. A projecting sealing part is arranged on the valve seat, and the inner wall at the rear end of the valve core is a conical surface which extends from the rear end face to the middle part of the valve core and forms a guide for the conical sealing part. Inside an outflow pipe of the valve body, a backflow preventer is arranged in order to prevent the medium backflow.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of a compound of the formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof, which is useful for prophylaxis and treatment of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in mammal or human being.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the well drilling field in the petroleum industry, particularly to film former used for coal-bed gas well drilling and preparation method thereof, drilling fluid and usage thereof. The preparation method of the film former includes: (1) controlling polycaprolactone diol and diisocyanate to have a first polymerization reaction in the presence of a polyurethane catalyst, to obtain a polyurethane prepolymer with two ends blocked by diisocyanate; (2) controlling the product of the first polymerization reaction to have a chain extension reaction with a polyalcohol; (3) controlling the product of the chain extension reaction and one part of hydroxyalkyl acrylate monomer to have an additive reaction, and then introducing the other part of hydroxyalkyl acrylate monomer and a styrene monomer, and emulsifying in water to obtain an emulsion; (4) mixing a radical initiator with the emulsion to have a second polymerization reaction.

Abstract: A two-way wobble plate compressor, comprising: a cylinder block (100); a two-way piston (200) capable of reciprocating within a cylinder bore (110) of the cylinder block (100); a drive shaft (310) driving the two-way piston (200); a bearing unit, including a plurality of contact balls and an inner ring and an outer ring fitting with the plurality of contact balls, and having a central plane (P-P) angled to a perpendicular plane (I-I) of the drive shaft; wherein said drive shaft (310) is sleeved in the inner ring of the bearing unit, and is fixed to the inner ring; the outer ring of said bearing unit is coupled to the two-way piston, and when the drive shaft rotates, the two-way piston is driven via the bearing unit to perform reciprocating motion. The two-way wobble plate compressor of the present invention has a compact design, and may significantly reduce friction loss.

Abstract: A system and method for aircraft docking guidance and aircraft type identification. The method is executed in the system for aircraft docking guidance and aircraft type identification comprising a machine vision sub-system, a laser scanning sub-system and a fusion module. The method includes: in step 1000, obtaining, by the machine vision sub-system, an image via image capturing means, and calculating a first aircraft front wheel position therefrom; in step 2000, obtaining, by the laser scanning sub-system, the position of the nose of an aircraft via laser scanning means, and calculating a second aircraft front wheel position; in step 3000, fusing the first aircraft front wheel position and the second aircraft front wheel position according to a fusion rule, to obtain deviation of an aircraft front wheel.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method for fabricating a thin film transistor including the steps of: sequentially forming an active layer, a gate insulating layer, a gate, and a capacitive insulating layer on a substrate, the gate insulating layer isolating the active layer from the gate; a hydrogen-blocking layer is formed on the side of the capacitive insulating layer facing away from the substrate, and the hydrogen-blocking layer covering the capacitive insulating layer; and performing hydrogenation treatment to the gate insulating layer and the active layer. The present application also discloses a thin film transistor and a display apparatus. In improving the flexibility of the AMOLED display apparatus while ensuring the hydrogenation effect of the polysilicon thin film transistor, the fabricated thin film transistor has high electron mobility, and the display apparatus has a good display performance.

Abstract: Systems and methods for integrating ultra-fast programmable networks in microgrid are disclosed to provide flexible and easy-to-manage communication solutions, thus enabling resilient microgrid operations in face of various cyber and physical disturbances. The system is configured to establish a novel software-defined networking (SDN) based communication architecture which abstracts the network infrastructure from the upper-level applications to significantly expedite the development of microgrid applications, develop three functions of the SDN controller for microgrid emergency operations, including time delay guarantee, failover reconfiguration and rate limit and create a hardware-in-the-loop cyber-physical platform for evaluating and validating the performance of the presented architecture and control techniques.

Abstract: An optical sensor system may include an interrogation system coupled to one or more fiber-optic cables positioned in a wellbore. The interrogation system may interrogate a fiber Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor and one or more fiber Bragg sensors multiplexed in the fiber-optic cables. The optical sensor system may include a processing device to determine whether there is condition that may cause an error in the calculation of the cavity length of the fiber Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor in real-time based on a reference distance between peaks or valleys in the reflected light signal generated by the fiber Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor. The processing device may compare the reference distance to a distance between peaks or valleys detected in the spectrum to identify that an error condition exists and may correct the error prior to calculating the cavity length.

Abstract: An electric power tool and a method for driving a brushless motor in the electric power tool. The electric power tool includes a driving circuit for driving the brushless motor and position sensors (D1, D2, D3) for detecting positions of the rotor. The rotor of the brushless motor, when rotating in a normal direction, sequentially passes by a commutation position, where a signal of at least one of the position sensors (D1, D2, D3) in the brushless motor changes, and a reference position, where a back electromotive force of the stator winding of at least one phase in the brushless motor is at a midpoint position of the waveform of the back electromotive force. An electrical angle between the commutation position and the reference position ranges from 20° to 40°. The position sensors (D1, D2, D3) are configured such that performance of the brushless motor is improved.

Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method are provided for predicting user trustworthiness through location-based verification with social networking, and for providing an on-line platform for communicating trustworthiness information between different users. The system collects user time and location data to verify the trustworthiness of user transactions. Trustworthiness ratings are established in part by tracking, for particular transactions, time-varying geographic locations of one or more remote computing devices of one or more users associated with the particular transactions, and comparing the time-location data for the particular transactions with one or more time-based attributes or location-based attributes of the transactions.

Abstract: A package box includes a substrate board and a plurality of projections. The projections are formed on the substrate board. The substrate board includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is opposite to the second surface. Each of the projections is formed when the first surface of the substrate board protrudes toward the second surface of the substrate board.