Abstract: A spherical joint includes a body portion and a blocking portion. The body portion includes a ball portion and a joint portion. The ball portion and the joint portion have an inner surface that links the two portions together in an axial direction and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface. The outer surface of the ball portion includes a spherical surface. The body portion further includes a first section and a second section. Each of the first section and the second section intersects with the inner surface and the outer surface such that the two sections together define a gap. The blocking portion is detachably connected to the body portion and shaped to match the gap, so that the blocking portion blocks the gap to form a hollow spherical joint structure. Further disclosed in the present application are a spherical joint assembly and an ultrasonic imaging device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sputtering reaction chamber and a process assembly of the sputtering reaction chamber. The process assembly includes a shield, and the shield includes an integrally formed body member and a cover ring member, wherein the body member may be in a ring shape. The cover ring member may extend from a bottom of the body member to an inner side of the body member and may be configured to press an edge of a to-be-processed workpiece when a process is performed. A cooling channel may be arranged in the cover ring member and the body member and may be configured to cool the cover ring member and the body member by transferring coolant. The process assembly of the sputtering reaction chamber and the sputtering reaction chamber provided by the present disclosure can reduce heat radiation of the process assembly to the to-be-processed workpiece and released gases and impurities to effectively reduce a whisker defect and improve a product yield.

Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured: to generate a projection image by implementing an intensity projection on a plurality of two-dimensional images structuring three-dimensional volume data rendering a tubular organ; to obtain a mapping matrix of the intensity projection; to annotate the tubular organ in the projection image; and to identify the tubular organ in the three-dimensional volume data, by inversely mapping the tubular organ annotated in the projection image onto the three-dimensional volume data while using the mapping matrix.

Abstract: A shooting control method includes displaying, by a terminal, a first screen that is not a video recording viewfinder screen, receiving, by the terminal, a first operation of a user on the first screen, displaying, in response to the first operation, a second screen, starting, in response to the first operation, to record a first video, and buffering, in response to the first operation, the first video, when the terminal detects a second operation, in response to the detected second operation, stopping, by the terminal, a video recording, and displaying, in response to the detected second operation, a third screen prompting the user to determine whether to save the first video, and saving or deleting the first video according to a selection operation of the user on the third screen.

Abstract: An intelligent identification and warning method for an uncertain object of a production line in a digital twin environment, includes: establishing a model library for uncertain physical objects from a non-production line system; adding attribute data to the uncertain physical objects from the non-production line system; importing an established model library and added attribute data for the uncertain physical objects from the non-production line system into a model library of an existing DT production line system; performing auto-detection on an uncertain physical object entering a production line system; performing auto-detection on an actual size of the uncertain physical object entering the production line system; warning a danger for an unsafe object by means of voice prompting, system alarming and information pushing; matching a corresponding three-dimensional (3D) model in the established model library for a safe object; and loading a matched 3D model to the DT production line system.

Abstract: This application relates to a communication method based on a virtual role interaction interface, including: displaying a virtual role interaction interface of a virtual role interaction application, the virtual role interaction interface including a target virtual role identifier; displaying an instant session message triggering control on the virtual role interaction interface in response to a trigger operation on the target virtual role identifier; displaying a message input interface in response to a trigger operation on the instant session message triggering control; and transmitting, to an instant messaging user account corresponding to the target virtual role identifier after a session message is inputted in the message input interface, the session message used for displaying on an instant messaging application.

Abstract: An electrospinning approach is disclosed for generating a dissolvable formulation of a reagent of interest in a nanoscale fiber medium. In one embodiment, the nanoscale fibers can incorporate and stabilize biological agents of interest, such as for storage at room temperature for extended periods. In one implementation, the fibers can be produced in a continuous manner and dissolve rapidly.

Abstract: A method including obtaining resource overheads according to feature information of a received query request; according to the resource overheads and a compute node resource, dynamically adjusting a compute node in a resource pool; and querying, by using the compute node, data corresponding to the query request. A compute node in a resource pool may be dynamically adjusted, so that the compute node in the resource pool may process all the received query requests, and therefore, the processing efficiency and a resource utilization rate of the compute node are more effectively improved, such that the compute node may more efficiently perform parallel processing on the multiple query requests, and the utilization rates of a CPU resource, a memory resource and a network bandwidth resource are increased, thus achieving better effect from the perspectives of overall computing resource and user query load and improving the usage experience of a user.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment executes a first imaging prior to a second imaging and includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives, on a first image obtained from the first imaging, a setting of a region in which an RF (Radio Frequency) pulse is to be applied to a subject, generates a three-dimensional image based on the first image, determines, based on an imaging purpose of the second imaging, a translucent region to which translucent processing is to be performed in the three-dimensional image, and displays the translucent region, making the translucent region translucent in the three-dimensional image.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a first graphics processing subsystem, a second graphics processing subsystem, and a screen. The first graphics processing subsystem includes a first application processor, a first graphics processing unit, and a first memory. The second graphics processing subsystem includes a second application processor, a second graphics processing unit, and a second memory. The first graphics processing unit renders a first GUI. The screen displays the first GUI. The second graphics processing unit renders a second GUI, and the second GUI and the first GUI belong to different interface types. The screen displays the second GUI. A display processing method applied to the electronic device is also provided, wherein the first graphics processing subsystem can be switched to the second graphics processing subsystem based on complexity of a to-be-displayed GUI.

Abstract: The subject technology generates, by executing first code in a first programming language, a resilient distributed dataset (RDD). The subject technology generates, by executing the first code in the first programming language, a second RDD based on the generated RDD. The subject technology generates, by executing the first code in the first programming language, a directed acyclic graph (DAG) including the generated RDD and the generated second RDD. The subject technology serializes the DAG. The subject technology generates a database table based on the serialized DAG. The subject technology converts the first code to second code in a second programming language different than the first programming language, and at least one database query in a second format different than the first programming language. The subject technology sends the converted first code and the at least one database query to a database system for execution.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a system and method for tracking and correcting X-ray focus positions in a computed tomography (CT) device. The device may include an X-ray tube, a collimator, and a detector. The collimator may include an opening, wherein the collimator has a width in a first direction and a length in a second direction. The opening may have an opening width in the width direction of the collimator, and an opening at at least one end of the collimator in the second direction may have an opening width smaller than that of an opening within the middle section of the collimator.

Abstract: The present invention relates to tyrosine-specific functionalized insulin analogs and processes of making such tyrosine-specific functionalized insulin analogs using R-3H-1,2,4-triazoline-3,5-(4H)diones (PTAD).

Abstract: The present application discloses a method for detecting an abnormity in a ray source in a CT system, comprising obtaining scanning data obtained from at least two scans that are performed by a medical device, the medical device including a ray source configured to generate a plurality of rays and a detector configured to detect the plurality of rays; determining, based on a difference of the scanning data, a status characteristic index of the ray source; and determining whether abnormity exists in the ray source based on the status characteristic index.

Abstract: Supplemental lithium can be used to stabilize lithium ion batteries with lithium rich metal oxides as the positive electrode active material. Dramatic improvements in the specific capacity at long cycling have been obtained. The supplemental lithium can be provided with the negative electrode, or alternatively as a sacrificial material that is subsequently driven into the negative electrode active material. The supplemental lithium can be provided to the negative electrode active material prior to assembly of the battery using electrochemical deposition. The positive electrode active materials can comprise a layered-layered structure comprising manganese as well as nickel and/or cobalt.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a physical vapor deposition (PVD) chamber and a PVD apparatus. The PVD chamber includes a chamber body. An upper electrode assembly is arranged in the chamber body. The upper electrode assembly includes a base plate assembly for carrying a magnetron, a backplate arranged at an interval with the base plate assembly, and a connection assembly that connects the base plate assembly to the backplate. The connection assembly is connected to the base plate assembly. The connection assembly is threadedly connected to the backplate, so that the interval between the base plate assembly and the backplate can be adjusted by moving the connection assembly relative to the backplate. The PVD chamber and the PVD apparatus of embodiments of the present disclosure can conveniently adjust a size of a target magnetic gap between the base plate assembly and the target according to requirements or actual conditions.

Abstract: A LED ultraviolet germicidal lamp includes a bracket, a power box, a driving light source, a heat sink, an ultraviolet light source, a lampshade, a quartz glass, a catalyst gauze, and a lamp frame. The bracket is connected to the heat sink, and the power box and the driving light source are provided in the bracket in sequence from outside to inside. The driving light source is provided in the power box and is connected to the power box by bolts. The heat sink is connected to the power box and is provided at a lower end of the power box. Titanium dioxide is used as the catalyst and is catalyzed by the UVC light source. Hydroxyl radicals produced when nanoscale titanium dioxide catalyst gauze is exposed to the UVC light source destroy bacteria and viruses.

Abstract: A battery module includes a plurality of battery units and at least one bus bar, where each of the battery units includes a first frame and a battery cell, the first frame is provided with an accommodating space for accommodating the battery cell, the battery cell includes an encapsulating case and an electrode terminal extending out of the encapsulating case. Each battery unit further includes at least one conductive sheet, the conductive sheet is disposed on the first frame, the electrode terminal of the battery cell is connected to the conductive sheet, and the bus bar is connected to conductive sheets of two adjacent battery units. With the conductive sheet provided on the first frame, the bus bar is connected to conductive sheets of two adjacent battery units to implement series-parallel connection and assembly between battery cells on different first frames, so that the entire battery module can be connected.

Abstract: A power conversion system includes an inverter and a controller configured to: responsive to startup of the system, measure a motor speed of the IPM motor; responsive to the motor speed being less than a threshold, generate the inverter switching control signals to perform high frequency injection (HFI); during the HFI, determine a measured angle of the IPM motor; during the HFI, generate the inverter switching control signals to provide an injected current to the IPM motor; detect acceleration or deceleration of the IPM motor responsive to the injected current; selectively determine an electrical angle as half the measured angle or as 180 degrees plus half the measured angle based on the detected acceleration or deceleration of the IPM motor; and responsive to determining the electrical angle, generate the inverter switching control signals to drive the IPM motor to a reference frequency in a normal operating mode of the inverter.