Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber ribbon in which the optical fibers of the optical fiber ribbon are intermittently bonded together at bonding regions along the length of the optical fiber ribbon. The bonding regions of the optical fiber ribbon each include a joining ribbon matrix that have different colors along the length of the optical fiber ribbon.

Abstract: A steel ladle drainage method, is achieved by using a steel ladle structure. Vacuum interlayers are provided within an upper nozzle, an upper fixed plate, alower fixed plate and a sliding plate of the steel ladle structure respectively. In the steel ladle drainage method provided by the present invention, a metal drainage agent is used to replace the drainage sand in the prior art, the metal drainage agent is melted by the liquid steel and deposited in the upper nozzle, the sliding plate with the vacuum interlayer and the upper nozzle with the vacuum interlayer have the insulation effect on the melted metal drainage agent, agent falling. Moreover, through moving the sliding plate, the two pouring holes of the upper and lower fixed plates are connectedwith each other, the metal drainage agent enters the tundish through the pouring holes and the lower nozzle under the action of gravity.

Abstract: A surgical tool for piercing tissue of a body comprises a hollow external component (1) having a peripheral wall (11), an internal component (2) movable disposed inside the external component (1) and having a piercing head (21); when the piercing head (21) and the internal component (2) retract relative to the external component (1), the movable component (3) deforms partially, expands outwardly in a radial direction, and fills the bladder (6). The movable component can be deformed to expand outward in the radial direction, so as to make the bladder to expand, so that the surgical tool can be positioned on the body of the patient.

Abstract: A control system for a cooling system configured to selectively operate one or both of a condenser fan an evaporator fan in a reverse direction RD, measure power draw at the motor against configuration data and fan motor profiles, and determine if a blockage has occurred before the static pressure has reached a critical point static pressure where the efficiency, performance, and cooling capability of the cooling system is hindered and maintenance is required to clear the blockage. By determining if blockage has occurred before the static pressure has reached the critical point static pressure, an alert or corrective action can be taken.

Abstract: A glass ceramic article including a lithium disilicate crystalline phase, a petalite crystalline phased, and a residual glass phase. The glass ceramic article has a warp (?m)<(3.65×10?9/?m×diagonal2) where diagonal is a diagonal measurement of the glass ceramic article in ?m, a stress of less than 30 nm of retardation per mm of glass ceramic article thickness, a haze (%)<0.0994t+0.12 where t is the thickness of the glass ceramic article in mm, and an optical transmission (%)>0.91×10(2-0.03t) of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths from 450 nm to 800 nm, where t is the thickness of the glass ceramic article in mm.

Abstract: Sunshading louver control system and method based on gesture recognition are provided. Indoor images are collected in real time. Based on the indoor images, an action region of gesture motion is positioned and feature extraction is performed thereon to obtain hand motion parameters. The hand motion parameters are analyzed to obtain gesture information. The gesture information is compared with preset gesture information. When the preset gesture information contains the gesture information, corresponding adjustment is performed on a sunshading louver according to a preset operation logic corresponding to the gesture information. When the preset gesture information does not contain the gesture information, the gesture information is determined to be invalid.

Abstract: Disclosed are semiconductor devices including a double gate metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor and methods for fabricating the same. The double gate MOS transistor includes a first back gate, a second back gate, and a first dielectric layer disposed on the first back gate and on the second back gate. An MX2 material layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer disposed on the MX2 material layer, and a work function metal (WFM) is disposed on the second dielectric layer. A front gate is disposed on the WFM, which fills a space between the first back gate and the second back.

Abstract: A system and a method are provided to create an indoor thermal environment based on impinging jet ventilation (IJV) and ductless personalized ventilation (DPV), the system includes an IJV duct installed on a wall of a room and a DPV device installed on a table. An air inlet of the IJV duct is connected to an air conditioning system and an air outlet of the IJV duct is close to ground. An upper duct and a lower duct of the DPV device are disposed on two opposite sides of a tabletop, the upper duct is provided with an air supply panel, the lower duct is provided with a duct fan with an air supply volume being adjustable, and the duct fan is configured to send air absorbed from a ground air lake to a user’s face area through the air supply panel of the upper duct.

Abstract: A stabilizing fixture to hold and stabilize a server contained within different sizes of server cabinets includes a base, a pressing component and an adjusting component. The pressing component is slidably coupled with the base in a first direction. A first pressing surface is defined on the pressing component for pressing a server. The adjusting component includes a screw and a nut. When the screw is rotated relative to the nut, the nut is driven to move in a second direction, and the nut acts on the pressing component to drive the pressing component in the first direction to press the server. As the pressing component moves along the first direction, the distance between the two pressing component changes to accommodate servers of different sizes.

Abstract: A system and method for nighttime lighting control and danger monitoring and alarming are provided. The system includes a data acquisition system, an information processing system, and a terminal control system. The data acquisition system is configured to acquire video information in a room and a voice content of a person in the room, and transmit the video information and the voice content to the information processing system; the information processing system is configured to obtain voice command information based on the voice content and age information and safety state information of the person based on the video information, and transmit the voice command information, the age information and the safety state information to the terminal control system; and the terminal control system is configured to control a terminal lighting fixture, and perform capturing of an image of the person and perform voice alarming according to the safety state information.

Abstract: A computing system can be configured to input data that describes sensor data into an object detection model and receive, as an output of the object detection model, object detection data describing features of the plurality of the actors relative to the autonomous vehicle. The computing system can generate an input sequence that describes the object detection data. The computing system can analyze the input sequence using an interaction model to produce, as an output of the interaction model, an attention embedding with respect to the plurality of actors. The computing system can be configured to input the attention embedding into a recurrent model and determine respective trajectories for the plurality of actors based on motion forecast data received as an output of the recurrent model.

Abstract: Systems and methods for training object detection models using adversarial examples are provided. A method includes obtaining a training scene and identifying a target object within the training scene. The method includes obtaining an adversarial object and generating a modified training scene based on the adversarial object, the target object, and the training scene. The modified training scene includes the training scene modified to include the adversarial object placed on the target object. The modified training scene is input to a machine-learned model configured to detect the training object. A detection score is determined based on whether the training object is detected, and the machine-learned model and the parameters of the adversarial object are trained based on the detection output. The machine-learned model is trained to maximize the detection output. The parameters of the adversarial object are trained to minimize the detection output.

Abstract: Systems and methods for vehicle-to-vehicle communications are provided. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining from a first autonomous vehicle, by a second autonomous vehicle, a first compressed intermediate environmental representation. The first compressed intermediate environmental representation is indicative of at least a portion of an environment of the second autonomous vehicle. The method includes generating a first decompressed intermediate environmental representation by decompressing the first compressed intermediate environmental representation. The method includes determining, using one or more machine-learned models, an updated intermediate environmental representation based at least in part on the first decompressed intermediate environmental representation and a second intermediate environmental representation generated by the second autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for continuous treatment of materials containing volatile components, which belongs to the field of pyrometallurgical equipment. The device includes a feeding unit, a heating unit, a slag raking unit and a slag collecting unit. The feeding unit is configured to feed the materials with a push rod or in a spiral mode. The heating unit is provided with a square furnace body, and a first slag raking port is provided in the lower part of the furnace body. The slag collecting unit is provided with a slag discharging port at the lower portion thereof, is provided with a slag smashing port at the sidewall thereof, and is provided with a viewing port at the top thereof. The slag collecting unit and the heating unit are connected through a pipeline, thus achieving the pressure balance of the whole device during operation.

Abstract: A generic inert bio-vector Salmonella sp. S9H and potential uses thereof are provided. The generic inert bio-vector Salmonella sp. S9H is derived from a continuous in-vitro culture of an inert bio-vector bacterium Salmonella sp. S9 by using LB solid and liquid culture media for passage to the fortieth generation. With a quantity of bacteria at a working concentration, the S9H does not cause non-specific agglutination reactions in sera or whole blood derived from humans, mice, cattle, pigs and poultry (including chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, pigeons and quails); moreover, S9H has a property of carrying, and expressing and displaying different antigen factors derived from humans, mice, cattle, pigs and poultry (including chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, pigeons and quails) on the surface thereof .

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for carbohydrate analysis in a flow chemistry manner. The present invention at least features continuous reactions of glycan hydrolysis in combination with saccharide labeling which is helpful to improve the existing approaches in glycan structural analysis.

Abstract: A node synchronization method, includes: receiving a synchronization message by a first synchronization node in a network; determining whether to update a first local time of the first synchronization node according to the synchronization message by the first synchronization node; updating the first local time according to a synchronization time of the synchronization message by the first synchronization node when determining to update the first local time; and updating the synchronization time of the received synchronization message with the current first local time and forwarding the updated synchronization message by the first synchronization node.

Abstract: A method of performing imaging includes operating a light sheet projection module in a first state during a first measurement process and using a first primary objective for illumination of a specimen using a light sheet and detection of a first fluorescent emission. The method also includes operating the light sheet projection module in a second state during a second measurement process and using a second primary objective for illumination of the specimen using the light sheet and detection of a second fluorescent emission.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for source device technology that identifies a plurality of object regions in a video frame, automatically generates context information for the video frame on a per-object region basis and embeds the context information in a signal containing the video frame. Additionally, playback device technology may decode a signal containing a video frame and embedded context information, identifies a plurality of object regions in the video frame based on the embedded context information, and automatically selects one or more post-processing configurations for the video frame on a per-object region basis.