Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for coordination between multiple access points (APs) for communications within a transmission opportunity (TxOP). A first AP may gain channel access for a TxOP, and may coordinate with at least a second AP to allow both the first AP and the second AP to transmit and receive wireless communications during the TxOP. The first AP, upon gaining channel access following a successful contention-based channel access procedure, may initiate a scheduling phase with the second AP to schedule of resources within the TxOP for the first and second APs. The first AP may initiate a multi-AP coordinated transmission phase following the scheduling phase, during which both the first AP and second AP may communicate with one or more associated STAs.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present application discloses a method for generating a random access preamble, comprising the following steps of: receiving random access configuration information, the random access configuration information comprising preamble resource pool information, the preamble resource pool information comprising available base sequences; generating M sequences according to a base sequence, the M being greater than 1; and, generating a random access preamble according to the M sequences. The present application further discloses a device for generating a random access preamble, and a method and device for indicating random access configuration information.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device that includes a spinel layer, a piezoelectric layer, a temperature compensating layer between the spinel layer and the piezoelectric layer and an interdigital transducer electrode on the piezoelectric layer is disclosed. The piezoelectric layer is disposed between the interdigital transducer electrode and the spinel layer. The acoustic wave device is configured to generate an acoustic wave having a wavelength of ?. The piezoelectric layer can have a thickness that is less than ?. In some embodiments, the spinel layer can be a polycrystalline spinel layer.

Abstract: A payment system, comprising: a receipt apparatus; a payment apparatus, the payment apparatus being connected to the receipt apparatus by means of electromagnetic induction, such that the receipt apparatus can receive information about the payment apparatus; and an identity recognition apparatus, the identity recognition apparatus being disposed in a payment environment and separated from the payment apparatus spatially, and the identity recognition apparatus being in signal connection with the receipt apparatus, wherein when a payer pays money, the identity recognition apparatus is used for recognising identity information about the payer, wherein the payment environment is a place where the receipt apparatus and the payment apparatus are located simultaneously. The payment system ensures the safety, convenience and efficiency of payment. Also provided are a payment device and a payment method.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology for identifying a user equipment beam index in a base station. The base station indicates one or more resources assigned to the user equipment within a beam failure random access channel (BRACH) resource, and transmits one or more synchronization signal block resources and one or more new beam identification reference signal resources to the user equipment. The base station then receives one of the resources from a group of the one or more resources within the BRACH resource assigned to the user equipment corresponding to the BRACH resource, and identifies a preferred beam index of the user equipment based on information in the BRACH resource and the received one of the resources.

Abstract: A continuous nitriding treatment furnace includes a nitriding chamber, a heater, a first nitriding zone, and a second nitriding zone lower in atmosphere gas temperature than the first nitriding zone by 25° C. to 150° C., the continuous nitriding treatment furnace being configured such that an atmosphere gas in the first nitriding zone flows into the second nitriding zone and being configured to execute a nitriding treatment that forms an iron nitride compound layer composed of an ? phase or of the ? phase and a ?? phase on a surface of the steel member in the first nitriding zone and precipitates the ?? phase in the iron nitride compound layer in the second nitriding zone.

Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel are provided. The TFT array substrate includes a display area and a non-display area. The non-display area is provided with a plurality of gate traces connected to a control chip, the TFT array substrate includes: a flexible substrate includes a metal jumper-joint sublayer disposed in the non-display area, wherein the metal jumper-joint sublayer is adjacent to the display area; and a thin film transistor is disposed on the flexible substrate, wherein the thin film transistor layer includes a plurality of thin film transistors correspondingly disposed in the display area, and a gate trace of each of the thin film transistors and the gate trace of the non-display area are connected by a jumper joint arrangement through the metal jumper-joint sublayer.

Abstract: Exemplary implementations include dynamically compensating a system voltage by determining an actual load current based on a sense voltage across a sense resistor and a resistance of the sense resistor, the sense resistor being operatively coupled to a system node, generating a gain current based on the actual load current and a predetermined load current, determining a gain voltage based on a system gain and the gain current, and generating a compensation voltage based on a predetermined system voltage at a system node, an actual system voltage at the system node, and the gain voltage.

Abstract: Techniques are described herein for using artificial intelligence to “learn,” statistically, a target programming style that is imposed in and/or evidenced by a code base. Once the target programming style is learned, it can be used for various purposes. In various implementations, one or more generative adversarial networks (“GANs”), each including a generator machine learning model and a discriminator machine learning model, may be trained to facilitate learning and application of target programming style(s). In some implementations, the discriminator(s) and/or generator(s) may operate on graphical input, and may take the form of graph neural networks (“GNNs”), graph attention neural networks (“GANNs”), graph convolutional networks (“GCNs”), etc., although this is not required.

Abstract: An array substrate, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device are provided. The method includes: providing a base substrate; forming a conductive material thin film on the base substrate; forming a first photoresist layer on a side of the conductive material thin film distal to the base substrate; etching the conductive material thin film by using the first photoresist layer as a mask to obtain a first etched pattern; removing third covering portions of the first photoresist layer to obtain a second photoresist layer; and etching the first etched pattern by using the second photoresist layer as a mask to obtain a gate electrode and a signal line.

Abstract: A switching element includes a lower barrier electrode on a substrate, a switching pattern on the lower barrier electrode, and an upper barrier electrode on the switching pattern. The lower barrier electrode includes a first lower barrier electrode layer, and a second lower barrier electrode layer interposed between the first lower barrier electrode layer and the switching pattern and whose density is different from the density of the first lower barrier electrode.

Abstract: Structures for a Hall sensor and methods of forming a structure for a Hall sensor. The structure includes a semiconductor body having a top surface and a sloped sidewall defining a Hall surface that intersects the top surface. The structure further includes a well in the semiconductor body and multiple contacts in the semiconductor body. The well has a section positioned in part beneath the top surface and in part beneath the Hall surface. Each contact is coupled to the section of the well beneath the top surface of the semiconductor body.

Abstract: A multi-modal lie detection method and apparatus, and a device to improve an accuracy of an automatic lie detection are provided. The multi-modal lie detection method includes inputting original data of three modalities, namely a to-be-detected audio, a to-be-detected video and a to-be-detected text; performing a feature extraction on input contents to obtain deep features of the three modalities; explicitly depicting first-order, second-order and third-order interactive relationships of the deep features of the three modalities to obtain an integrated multi-modal feature of each word; performing a context modeling on the integrated multi-modal feature of the each word to obtain a final feature of the each word; and pooling the final feature of the each word to obtain global features, and then obtaining a lie classification result by a fully-connected layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a chamber having a treatment space in the interior thereof, a support unit configured to support a substrate in the treatment space, a gas supply unit configured to supply a gas into the treatment space, and a plasma generating unit configured to generate plasma from the gas, wherein the support unit includes an electrostatic chuck including an upper body having a support surface that suctions the substrate and a lower body extending from the upper body to a lower side, wherein the lower body has an extension part extending laterally from the upper body, a focus ring disposed on the extension part of the electrostatic chuck, and a metallic ring provided between the upper body of the electrostatic chuck and the focus ring and configured to control plasma in an extreme edge of the substrate.

Abstract: A service category congestion control method and device are provided. The method includes that: service request information is acquired, the service request information including information corresponding to a request for establishing a bearer of a target service initiated by a terminal in a connected mode and the service request information including a service category of the target service; service category barring information is acquired, the service category barring information including a barring parameter corresponding to the service category of the target service in the connected mode; and whether the terminal is barred from establishing the bearer of the target service belonging to the service category is judged according to the barring parameter.

Abstract: A compound comprising a heteroleptic iridium complex having a structure of Formula II, is provided. In Formula II, each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6, is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, deuterium, cycloalkyl, deuterated cycloalkyl, alkyl, and deuterated alkyl; at least one of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 is not hydrogen or deuterium; and each R and R? is independently selected from a variety of substitutions. OLEDs and formulations containing the compound of Formula II are also provided.

Abstract: A method for operating an access node includes receiving motion information from a user equipment (UE) in accordance with a communications beam, determining a predicted area of the UE in accordance with the motion information, configuring multiple tracking beams in accordance with the predicted area of the UE, and sending the multiple tracking beams.

Abstract: A regulation method for preparing ?-polyglutamic acid by sludge substrate fermentation includes: 1) extraction of glutamic acid from sludge protein (high pressure hydrothermal treatment, gravity pressure filtration treatment), 2) secondary metabolic synthesis of ?-polyglutamic acid (activation of domesticated strains and secondary metabolic fermentation strains); and 3) preparation of pure ?-polyglutamic acid (acidification, centrifugation, filtration, precipitation based on polar repulsion, purification, impurity removal and drying). The present invention realizes a recycling of high-value carbon and nitrogen sources of sludge without secondary pollution, and has advantages of simplified operation, good feasibility, and low preparation cost. The synthesized ?-polyglutamic acid has high economic value and broad application prospect.

Abstract: An image reconstruction method, device and apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: determining norms of convolution kernels of each convolutional layer of a deep neural network model; determining the convolution kernels with norms greater than or equal to a preset threshold in each convolutional layer to obtain a target convolution kernel set of each convolutional layer; processing an input image of each convolutional layer by using the convolution kernels in the target convolution kernel set of each convolutional layer respectively, to obtain a first image processing result; obtaining a second image processing result by performing interpolation on an initial image; and determining a fusion result according to the first image processing result and the second image processing result and reconstructing the initial image according to the fusion result.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrical connecting assembly, comprising an electrical connector and a circuit board. The electrical connector comprises a plurality pairs of signal terminals and a plurality of ground terminals. One ground terminal is disposed between two pairs of adjacent signal terminals. Each of the signal terminals comprises a bent part and a signal terminal plugging part. Each of the ground terminals comprises a shielding part and a ground terminal plugging part. The circuit board comprises a plurality pairs of signal terminal plugging holes and a plurality of signal ground terminal plugging holes. The plurality of ground terminal plugging holes are arranged along a baseline. Each pair of the signal terminal plugging holes are respectively disposed on two sides of the baseline. The bent parts of the plurality of the signal terminals alternately extend toward two sides of the baseline.