Abstract: Provided are applications of a thiazole derivative in treating virus infection and in the preparation of drugs for treating virus infection.

Abstract: A rectification module includes a transformer, a connecting unit and a rectification unit. The transformer includes a first lateral region, a second lateral region and at least one secondary winding assembly. The second lateral region is located beside the first lateral region. The secondary winding assembly includes plural outlet ends. The plural outlet ends are arranged near the first lateral region. The connecting unit is located at the first lateral region, and includes plural conducting parts. Each of the conducting parts includes at least one opening and at least one connecting structure. The conducting parts are partially or completely stacked on each other. The outlet ends are accommodated within the corresponding openings. The conducting parts are fixed on the first lateral region. The connecting structures face the second lateral region. The rectification unit includes a circuit board and plural rectifier components.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a diffractive structure with varying diffractive element depth includes providing a shadow mask having a first region with a first aperture dimension to aperture periodicity ratio and a second region with a second aperture dimension to aperture periodicity ratio less than the first aperture dimension to aperture periodicity ratio. The method also includes positioning the shadow mask adjacent a substrate. The substrate comprises an etch mask corresponding to the diffractive structure. The method further includes exposing the substrate to an etchant, etching the substrate to form diffractive elements adjacent the first region having a first depth, and etching the substrate to form diffractive elements adjacent the second region having a second depth less than the first depth.

Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for 3D reconstruction from videos using an unsupervised learning framework for depth and normal estimation via edge-aware depth-normal consistency. In embodiments, this is accomplished by using a surface normal representation. Depths may be reconstructed in a single image by watching unlabeled videos. Depth-normal regularization constrains estimated depths to be compatible with predicted normals, thereby, yielding geometry-consistency and improving evaluation performance and training speed. In embodiments, a consistency term is solved by constructing depth-to-normal layer and normal-to-depth layers within a deep convolutional network (DCN). In embodiments, the depth-to-normal layer uses estimated depths to compute normal directions based on neighboring pixels. Given the estimated normals, the normal-to-depth layer may then output a regularized depth map. Both layers may be computed with awareness of edges within the image.

Abstract: Provided is a single-channel chemiluminescent micro-fluidic chip, including a chip body with a quantification-reaction cavity and a waste liquid cavity. The quantification-reaction cavity is composed of a quantification-reaction pool on a lower portion and a reaction pool cover plate, the quantification-reaction pool is equally divided into three cavities by two partition plates, a labeled antibody is placed in the middle cavity, coated antibodies are placed in the others, a surface, facing the quantification-reaction pool, of the reaction pool cover plate is equally divided into two parts. In result, the coated antibodies and the labeled antibodies are physically separated to effectively avoid nonspecific binding. Due to a special structure of the reaction tank, wavy fluid flow is generated to fully mix the coated antibodies and the labeled antibodies, which improves testing efficiency and sensitivity.

Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide a flexible display device. The flexible display device comprises a flexible display panel and a folding mechanism. The folding mechanism comprises a first cabinet and a second cabinet overlapping each other, and a guiding mechanism. The second cabinet can move straight relative to the first cabinet through the guiding mechanism. The flexible display device further comprises a guiding portion and an adjusting lever in the second cabinet. The guiding portion is at a push-pull end of the second cabinet. The adjusting lever can move between the push-pull end and an end opposite to the push-pull end. One end of the flexible display panel is fixed to the push-pull end of the first cabinet, and the other end is fixed to the adjusting lever in an opposite direction. A locking mechanism fixes relative positions of the first cabinet, the second cabinet and the adjusting lever.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for transmitting channel state information. The method includes: receiving, by a first terminal device, downlink control information DCI transmitted by a network device; determining, by the first terminal device, according to the DCI, whether it is necessary to report CSI; and when the first terminal device determines that it is necessary to report the CSI, transmitting, by the first terminal device, the CSI of the first terminal device to the network device. The first terminal device may be triggered to report the CSI according to the DCI transmitted by the network device, and thus the terminal device may report its own CSI.

Abstract: Approaches presented herein enable providing online method handle deduplication by determining whether a method handle to be created is equivalent to an existing method handle in an equivalence pool. Specifically, in response to a request to create a method handle, a set of parameters including a method handle map, a class, and one or more arguments of the method handle to be created are accepted. A method handle of the class is obtained. One or more existing unique method handles found in an equivalence pool are compared to the method handle to be created to determine whether an equivalence exists. When an equivalence is found between an existing unique method handle and the method handle to be created, the existing unique method handle is returned.

Abstract: A thigh support, a seat and a vehicle are provided. The thigh support includes a thigh-support fixing portion, a thigh-support moving portion, a thigh-support driving portion, and a thigh-support bracing portion disposed to the thigh-support fixing portion and located at a rear side of the thigh-support moving portion, in which the rear edge of the thigh-support moving portion is provided with a rear edge recessed portion recessed forwards, a front edge of the thigh-support bracing portion is formed with a front edge protruding portion protruding forwards, and the front edge protruding portion matches the rear edge recessed portion in shape. The seat and the vehicle have the above thigh support.

Abstract: Stray and air scattered light can be reduced by configuring a size of the collection area of a sensor, which reduces a source of sensitivity-limiting noise in the system. By adjusting a size of the collection area, stray deep ultraviolet light and air-scattered deep ultraviolet light can be reduced. A servo can control a position of an illumination spot that is collected by the time delay and integration sensor.

Abstract: In a computer-implemented method for generating a selectable response to an electronic message, a selection of a media file from a plurality of media files to transmit to a recipient is received at an electronic device. At least one responsive media file to transmit to the recipient is determined, wherein the at least one responsive media file is based at least in part on the selected media file. An electronic message is transmitted to the recipient, the electronic message comprising the selected media file and the at least one responsive media file, wherein the at least one responsive media file is selectable within the electronic message by the recipient for transmission to a sender of the electronic message.

Abstract: Techniques for setting a boost target for a turbocharged engine comprise (i) operating the engine in a scavenging mode such that opening of intake and exhaust valves of cylinders of the engine overlap and (ii) while transitioning the engine in/out of the scavenging mode: determining an engine torque request, creating a torque reserve by setting independent targets for throttle inlet pressure (TIP) and intake manifold absolute pressure (MAP), determining a target TIP based on a target total air charge, engine speed, and a previously-determined target engine volumetric efficiency (VE), controlling a wastegate valve based on the target TIP, determining a target MAP based on the engine torque request, and controlling a throttle valve based on the target MAP. During steady-state scavenging operation, the controller calculates a conventional target TIP based on the engine torque request and controls the wastegate valve based on the conventionally calculated target TIP.

Abstract: This invention provides compounds of Formula (I) pharmaceutically acceptable salts, pro-drugs, biologically active metabolites, stereoisomers, and isomers thereof wherein the variable are defined herein. The compounds of the invention are useful for treating immunological and oncological conditions.

Abstract: A modular and distributed architecture for data stream processing and analysis is described to incorporate data stream analytics capabilities, called Data Stream Analytics Service (DSAS) in the IoT/M2M service layer. Each service layer node hosting DSAS can be split into two independent modules, Stream Forwarder and Stream Analytics Engine. Stream Forwarder is a light weight processing modules that can be responsible for data preprocessing and routing. Stream Analytics Engine is responsible for performing actual analytics on the data stream. Separating the two functionalities enables the service layer nodes to efficiently distribute stream analytics tasks across multiple nodes.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for generating a high dynamic range (HDR) image from a plurality of frames simultaneously captured by cameras of a portable device. The method includes detecting, by a main camera of the portable device, a current dynamic range level of a current scene. In response to detecting the current dynamic range level, a main camera exposure compensation value is applied to the main camera and an auxiliary camera exposure compensation value, which is different from the main camera exposure compensation value, is applied to at least one auxiliary camera. The method further includes simultaneously capturing a first frame by the main camera and at least one second frame by at least one auxiliary camera. The method further includes combining the first frame and the at least one second frame to create the HDR image.

Abstract: A guanidinate silane compound of any of formulae (I)-(IV) is described, having utility as a precursor in vapor deposition processes for forming a silicon-containing film on a substrate. The guanidinate silane compound can be used in vapor deposition processes such as chemical vapor deposition and atomic layer deposition, at temperatures below 400° C., to form silicon-containing films, e.g., silicon nitride films, useful as diffusion barrier layers, etch stop layers, and sidewall coating films, in integrated circuitry, flat-panel displays, solar panels, and other microelectronic and optoelectronic applications.

Abstract: An aperture plate is manufactured by plating metal around a mask of resist columns having a desired size, pitch, and profile, which yields a wafer about 60 ?m thickness. This is approximately the full desired target aperture plate thickness. The plating is continued so that the metal overlies the top surfaces of the columns until the desired apertures are achieved. This needs only one masking/plating cycle to achieve the desired plate thickness. Also, the plate has passageways formed beneath the apertures, formed as an integral part of the method, by mask material removal. These are suitable for entrainment of aerosolized droplets exiting the apertures.

Abstract: A method of constructing a data architecture for use in identifying connections between perturbagens and genes associated with skin tone. The method includes providing a gene expression profile for a control cell, generating a gene expression profile for a cell exposed to a perturbagen, identifying genes differentially expressed in response to the perturbagen, creating an ordered list of identifiers, storing the ordered list as an instance on a computer readable medium, and constructing a data architecture of stored instances.

Abstract: In some embodiments of the invention, OFDM symbols are transmitted as a plurality of clusters. A cluster includes a plurality of OFDM sub-carriers in frequency, over a plurality of OFDM symbol durations in time. Each cluster includes data as well as pilot information as a reference signal for channel estimation. In some embodiments, a plurality of clusters collectively occupy the available sub-carrier set in the frequency domain that is used for transmission. In some embodiments of the invention data and/or pilots are spread within each cluster using code division multiplexing (CDM). In some embodiments pilots and data are separated by distributing data on a particular number of the plurality of OFDM symbol durations and pilots on a remainder of the OFDM symbol durations. CDM spreading can be performed in time and/or frequency directions.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting an indication of cell coverage in a wireless communication system is provided. A first eNodeB (eNB) transmits an indication which indicates cell coverage of an active antenna system (AAS) to a second eNB. The indication may be one of a cell split/merge/remove indication.