Abstract: A device includes a substrate and at least one electrically conducting portion supported by the substrate, the at least one electrically conducting portion including a signal line and a ground plane electrically isolated from the signal line. The electrically conducting portion includes a layer of a first electrically conducting material and a layer of a metal oxide material including anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) and one or more nanowires (NW) of a second electrically conducting material each formed within a corresponding pore extending through the AAO from a first side of the layer to a second side of the layer of the metal oxide material opposite the first side.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided that includes a memory die having a first memory cell, and a controller connected to the memory die. The controller is configured to apply a plurality of programming pulses to the first memory cell, apply a plurality of first verify pulses to the first memory cell, determine from the first verify pulses that the first memory cell has been programmed to a first programmed memory state, apply a single second verify pulse to the first memory cell after determining that the first memory cell has been programmed to the first programmed memory state, determine from the single second verify pulse that the first memory cell is no longer programmed to the first programmed memory state, and apply an additional programming pulse to the first memory cell.

Abstract: An apparatus for reproducing sound is provided. The apparatus includes an isolation switch to receive a first audio signal with reference to a first reference level and \output or isolate the first audio signal; a wireless communication component configured to receive a wireless input signal and to generate a second audio signal with reference to a second reference level based on the wireless input signal, and an audible component connected to the isolation switch and the wireless communication component, respectively, and being configured to receive, one of the first audio signal from the isolation switch or the second audio signal from the wireless communication component and to emit a sound signal based on the received audio signal so that the second audio signal and the first audio signal do not interfere with each other.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for placing cells in an integrated circuit are described. In various embodiments, an integrated circuit is divided into many partitions. In a first set of partitions susceptible to transistor latch-up, the many transistor gate stripes are connected to one of the power rails rather than left floating. The lengths of the transistor gate stripes are shortened for well tap cells in the first partition, but increased in a second partition susceptible for poor signal integrity. One or more implant layers are formed underneath the transistor gate stripes in each of the first and second partitions to adjust an amount of protection against transistor latch-up and poor signal integrity. An electrostatic discharge transistor is included with at least one source region of multiple source regions formed in a well with a same doping polarity as the at least one source region.

Abstract: (5R,7R,10R)-12,15-dioxo-?-selinene (PFC-37) is used in the preparation of a drug for preventing and treating a neurodegenerative disease and Parkinson's disease.

Abstract: A method and device for data storage are provided. The method includes determining, based on a write message corresponding to a first file, an application corresponding to the first file, a file type of the first file, and first attribute information corresponding to the file type, the first attribute information corresponding to the file type obtained based on second attribute information corresponding to all files of the file type on which the write operation processing have been performed in response to the respective write messages of the application, predicting a stream identification information corresponding to the first file by using a file classifier based on the application corresponding to the first file, the file type of the first file and the first attribute information corresponding to the file type, and sending a writing command carrying the stream identification information to a storage device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to obtain an input mesh corresponding to volumetric data of at least one three-dimensional (3D) visual content, derive a curve of a mesh sequence from the input mesh corresponding to volumetric data, the curve including a plurality of vertices of the input mesh of the mesh sequence, subdivide the derived curve of the mesh sequence by adding subdivided vertices, computing a displacement vector for each of the plurality of subdivided vertices; and entropy code the volumetric data based on the displacement vector from at least one of the subdivided vertices.

Abstract: A system, device and method for reporting frequency offset is disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a wireless communication device from a wireless communication node, at least a first resource configuration to configure a pair of reference signals (RSs) to the wireless communication device for reporting of frequency offsets of the pair of RSs; performing, by the wireless communication device, measurement of the frequency offsets of the pair of RSs, the pair of RSs including a first reference signal (RS) and a second RS; and sending, by the wireless communication device to the wireless communication node according to the at least a first resource configuration, at least one report of the frequency offsets.

Abstract: Deep neural network (DNN) models have been widely used for user-relevance content prediction. Presented herein is a new user-relevance framework, embodiments of which may be referred as Gating-Enhanced Multi-task Neural Networks (GemNN). In one or more, neural network-based multi-task learning model embodiments herein predict user engagement with content in a coarse-to-fine manner, which gradually reduces content candidates and allows parameter sharing from upstream tasks to downstream tasks to improve the training efficiency. Also, in one or more embodiments, a gating mechanism was introduced between embedding layers and multi-layer perceptions to learn feature interactions and control the information flow fed to MLP layers. Tested embodiments demonstrated considerable improvements over prior approaches.

Abstract: This application discloses an electrode plate rolling apparatus and an electrode plate rolling method that are configured to roll an electrode plate. The electrode plate includes a coated region and an uncoated region. The electrode plate rolling apparatus includes a roller group, a heating part, and a cooling part. The heating part is configured to heat the electrode plate, and the cooling part is configured to cool the electrode plate. The heating part further includes an extension assembly, and the extension assembly can extend the uncoated region when the heating part heats the electrode plate. The electrode plate passes through the cooling part after passing through the heating part. The heating part and the cooling part are configured to reduce a difference between an extensibility parameter of the uncoated region and an extensibility parameter of the coated region.

Abstract: A network device may receive, from an origination device associated with a first VxLAN, traffic destined for a destination device associated with a second VxLAN, wherein the network device is a VTEP of the first VxLAN. The network device may identify an address of the destination device included in the traffic and may thereby determine an anycast address associated with an EVPN DCI that is associated with the first VxLAN and the second VxLAN. The network device may determine, based on the anycast address, respective unicast addresses of a plurality of gateway network devices associated with the EVPN DCI, and may thereby identify a particular gateway network device, of the plurality of gateway network devices, to which the traffic is to be forwarded. The network device may forward the traffic to a unicast address of the particular gateway network device.

Abstract: A welding foot portion of an conductor structure is welded with a circuit board; a back bending structure and a bending structure which are connected to each other are formed at a middle bending portion of the conductor structure; a first interference area and a second interference area are provided; a sliding insertion portion of the conductor structure is configured to be connected to a plug conductor of a plug connector; the back bending structure and the bending structure of the conductor structure are configured to be exposed between a socket lower shell and a socket upper shell in a floating mode when the first interference area is in close contact with the socket lower shell and the second interference area is in close contract with the socket upper shell.

Abstract: An adjustable stator blade position maintaining structure for an aero-engine compressor, which keeps an adjustable stator blade at a preset position when a compressor works.

Abstract: A battery includes a battery casing and an explosion-proof valve. The battery casing includes a first casing member and a second casing member, and the first casing member and the second casing member are welded to form a welded connection region between the first casing member and the second casing member. The welded connection region includes a first region, a second region, and a corner region, and two ends of the corner region are respectively connected to the first region and the second region. The explosion-proof valve is disposed at a corner position of a surface of the first casing member and adjacent to the welded connection region.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system, and computer program product for data management. According to the method, one or more processors divide data into a plurality of partitions. The one or more processors store the plurality of partitions in a plurality of nodes of a mixed distributed database system, wherein a first node of the mixed distributed database system comprises a plurality of databases, and wherein at least a part of the plurality of partitions are shared by the plurality of databases of the first node and being not shared by other of the plurality of nodes.

Abstract: An implementation method of an intelligent question-answering system for prostate cancer includes: acquiring lifestyle data for prostate cancer based on a preset first data source; using the lifestyle data for prostate cancer as metadata to construct a lifestyle knowledge base; constructing a lifestyle knowledge graph based on a preset second data source and the lifestyle knowledge base; and fusing the lifestyle knowledge base and the lifestyle knowledge graph to obtain the intelligent question-answering system for prostate cancer. The intelligent question-answering system for prostate cancer can help clinicians, medical staff, scientific researchers, and patients, as well as the general public, to acquire objective lifestyle data conveniently and efficiently, and accurately assess the impact on prostate cancer.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for universal naming convention (UNC) path redirection between a local desktop and a remote desktop. The method generally includes selecting, by a client device in an internal network, via an application running on a remote desktop in an external network, to open a UNC path for a resource located in the internal network. A firewall restricts the external network to access the resource located in the internal network. The method generally includes receiving, at the client device, from the remote desktop, via a virtual channel between the external network and the client device in the internal network, a message indicating to open the UNC path. The method generally includes opening, by the client device, via a local application of the client device, the UNC path to access the resource located in the internal network.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) downlink transmission. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method may include: receiving a set of first downlink control information (DCI) on at least one control resource set (CORESET) for activating a set of SPS configurations, wherein each CORESET is configured with a CORESETPoolIndex, and each of the set of first DCI activates a corresponding one of the set of SPS configurations; and receiving a set of second DCI on at least one first CORESET configured with a first CORESETPoolIndex, wherein each second DCI only deactivates first one or more SPS configurations of the set of SPS configurations activated by first one or more first DCI received on one or more CORESETs configured with the first CORESETPoolIndex.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method and a device in a node for wireless communications. A first receiver receives a second signal; a first transmitter transmits a first signal in a target radio resource pool, the first signal carries a third bit block and a fourth bit block; wherein a first bit block is associated with the second signal; a second bit block corresponds to a target index, the target index is a first index or a second index, and the first index is different from the second index; the third bit block is related to the first bit block, and the fourth bit block is related to the second bit block; a determination method of the target radio resource pool is related to the target index.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a process for evaluating a corrosion inhibitor based on a high-throughput corrosion chip. In the present disclosure, a high-throughput corrosion chip is first prepared by using a chip spotter, and only a corrosion inhibitor and a corrosive substance need to be spotted on a metal sample to quickly, efficiently, and accurately evaluate performance of a corrosion inhibitor formulation, to meet corrosion test conditions such as different substances, different concentrations, and different corrosion duration; and then a corrosion degree of each measurement point in the high-throughput corrosion chip is identified and quantified by using a laser scanning confocal microscope. The high-throughput corrosion chip prepared by using the foregoing method can bear 10-1000 measurement points, and these measurement points can reflect corrosion effects of different inhibitor formulations in different corrosion duration.