Abstract: A pressing position detection apparatus and a pressing position detection method are provided. The apparatus includes an information storage unit configured to store coordinate data of one or more pressing positions disposed on a panel; a relative position measuring unit configured to measure relative position data of the panel relative to a reference surface when the pressing position on the panel is pressed; a posture change calculating unit configured to calculate, based on the relative position data measured by the relative position measuring unit, a posture change of the panel relative to the reference surface; and a pressing position detecting unit configured to detect, based on the posture change calculated by the posture change calculating unit and the coordinate data stored in the information storage unit, the pressing position.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for differential privacy. One of the methods includes determining a privacy loss distribution for a budget recycling-differential privacy (BR-DP) framework for providing differential privacy to computed results; determining a privacy loss distribution for the BR-DP framework following T-fold composition of computed results on a same dataset; using the privacy loss distribution for the BR-DP framework following T-fold composition to determine a privacy leakage of the BR-DP framework under composition; and adjusting one or more privacy parameters based on the determined privacy leakage.

Abstract: A heater assembly (100) for an aerosol-generating system (200), the heater assembly (100) comprising: a resistive heating element (102) for vaporising a liquid aerosol-generating substrate; and a porous body (104) for conveying the liquid aerosol-generating substrate to the resistive heating element (102), the porous body (104) having a liquid absorption surface (104a) and a heating surface (104b), the resistive heating element (102) being located on the heating surface (104b) of the porous ceramic body (104), wherein the resistive heating element (102) comprises a silver palladium alloy consisting of 53 weight percent to 73 weight percent silver, 7 weight percent to 23 weight percent palladium, 1 weight percent to 7 weight percent carbon, 3 weight percent to 17 weight percent oxygen, and impurities.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating cartridge is provided, including: aerosol outlet and connection ends and a longitudinal direction extending between the ends; a mouthpiece including a mouthpiece housing having a mouthpiece housing length in the direction, and a mouthpiece housing width and thickness, the housing width being greater than the thickness; a heater in the housing and including: a heating element to vaporise a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, and a porous body to convey the substrate to the element and having a heating surface facing the air outlet, the heating element being located on the heating surface; an aerosol outlet at the aerosol outlet end; and an air inlet between the outlet and connection ends, the air inlet being in fluid communication with the aerosol outlet to define an airflow pathway through the housing, the airflow pathway extending from the heating element to the aerosol outlet in the longitudinal direction of the cartridge.

Abstract: A driving method for driving a pixel circuit and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a data writing module, a driving module and a first reset module; the data writing module is connected to the driving module , and the first reset module is connected to a control terminal of the driving module; within one display frame, the driving method for the pixel circuit includes: in a first reset phase, controlling the first reset module to reset the control terminal of the driving module at least once; in a second reset phase, controlling the first reset module to reset the control terminal of the driving module at least once; and in a first data writing phase, controlling the data writing module to write a first data voltage to the control terminal of the driving module at least once.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for hashing data on client devices. One of the methods includes generating, using a hash function, an output value that is in a hashing domain for the hash function; accessing a message size that is a smaller value than a domain size of the hashing domain; generating, using the hash function and the message size, one or more noise values; generating a message that includes the one or more noise values; and providing, to an external system, the message.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) solder ball mounting apparatus comprises a ball storage unit for storing solder balls, a ball buffer unit configured to receive the solder balls from the ball storage unit in response to one or more pressure-actuated actions, and a gate valve configured to allow the solder balls to transfer to a ball mounting brush configured to place the solder balls onto area array contact structures formed on a wafer containing the integrated circuit.

Abstract: The invention uses gel layers to cover and/or separate one or more aqueous reaction mixtures in a reaction vessel. A gel layer can protect reagents or reaction products from contacting the atmosphere. A gel layer can also separate multiple aqueous reaction mixtures so that they do not contact one another until the gel layer is broken. An oil layer can be inserted immediately underneath a gel layer. Gel layers can be penetrated by insertion of a tip from a micropipette to deliver a solution, such as a sample, below a gel layer. Micropipette tips or inert rods can also be used to disrupt gel layers resulting in mixing of aqueous reaction mixtures above and below a layer. Gel layers can also be broken by selective application of heat or movement of magnetic beads. Multiple gel layers separating multiple aqueous reagent mixtures can be broken in a defined sequence for an ordered series of bioprocessing steps.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using a preferred region that is query data dependent. One of the methods includes computing a preferred region for true query answers for a kernel differentially private mechanism using a noise value for a query for the kernel differentially private mechanism, a true query answer for a query for the kernel differentially private mechanism, and a relative error ratio for the preferred region; computing, for a kernel differentially private mechanism, a privacy parameter and a boosting rate that increases variance in outputs for the kernel differentially private mechanism using the preferred region; receiving, from a downstream system, a query for data from a dataset; generating a response to the query that includes noise data using the kernel differentially private mechanism that includes the privacy parameter; and transmitting, to the downstream system, the response to the query.

Abstract: Provided are bispecific antibodies comprising first and second VHH binding domains that specifically bind to the extracellular domains of interleukin-10 receptor (IL-10R) alpha subunit (IL-10R?) and beta subunit (IL-10R?), and that selectively suppress activation of myeloid cells and induce minimal or no direct activation of T cells or B cells.

Abstract: Provided are improved IRES variants for improved expression of a protein of interest in a mammalian host cell.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for encoding data on client devices. One of the methods includes obtaining dataset for transmission; dividing the dataset into two subsets according to one or more selection criteria, wherein data items that satisfy the one or more criteria are added to a first subset and the data items that do not satisfy the one or more criteria are added to a second subset, wherein the first subset is smaller than the second subset; encoding the data items of the first subset according to a first encoding technique and encoding the data items of the second subset according to a second encoding technique; applying a local differential privacy (LDP) mechanism to data elements of the first subset and the second subset to generate an LDP message; and transmitting the LDP message to an external recipient.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing encrypted and hashed versions of raw data. One of the methods includes receiving, by a system, a message that comprises an encrypted version of raw data and a hash of the raw data; determining, using the hash of the raw data, a first location in a hash map; inserting the encrypted version of the raw data to the first location in the hash map; determining to transmit, to another system, data for a second location in the hash map; selecting, using the second location, at least a subset of the data for the second location in the hash map; and transmitting, to the other system, the subset of the data for the second location in the hash map.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using a preferred region that is query data dependent. One of the methods includes computing a preferred region for true query answers for a kernel differentially private mechanism using a noise value for a query for the kernel differentially private mechanism, a true query answer for a query for the kernel differentially private mechanism, and a relative error ratio for the preferred region; computing, for a kernel differentially private mechanism, a privacy parameter and a boosting rate that increases variance in outputs for the kernel differentially private mechanism using the preferred region; receiving, from a downstream system, a query for data from a dataset; generating a response to the query that includes noise data using the kernel differentially private mechanism that includes the privacy parameter; and transmitting, to the downstream system, the response to the query.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining whether to generate sub-domain noise. One of the methods includes, for a message for a downstream system, determining whether to generate noise data that has the same sub-domain as a true value, the true value from a domain that has a plurality of different sub-domains including the sub-domain; using a result of the determination whether to generate noise data that has the same sub-domain as the true value, generating the message for the downstream system; and transmitting, to the downstream system, the message.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining parameters using a preferred region. One of the methods includes computing, for a kernel differentially private mechanism, a privacy parameter and a boosting rate that increases variance in outputs for the kernel differentially private mechanism using a preferred region for true query answers for the kernel differentially private mechanism; maintaining a plurality of output data received from one or more client devices; receiving, from a downstream system, a query for data from a dataset; generating a response to the query that includes noise data using the kernel differentially private mechanism that includes the privacy parameter; and transmitting, to the downstream system, the response to the query.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating noise data using preferred region data. One of the methods includes computing a probability density function using a combination of a kernel differentially private mechanism, a probability function that an output from the kernel differentially private mechanism does not fall in a preferred region for true query answers for the kernel differentially private mechanism, and a boosting rate that increases variance in outputs for the kernel differentially private mechanism; computing, using the probability density function, a privacy parameter for generating noise data; receiving, from a downstream system, a query for data from a dataset; generating a response to the query that includes the noise data using the privacy parameter that was computed using the probability density function; and transmitting, to the downstream system, the response to the query.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using a fixed preferred region. One of the methods includes maintaining an upper bound and a lower bound both for a preferred region for true query answers and noise data for a kernel differentially private mechanism; computing, for a kernel differentially private mechanism, a privacy parameter and a boosting rate that increases variance in outputs for the kernel differentially private mechanism using the upper bound and the lower bound; receiving, from a downstream system, a query for data from a dataset; generating a response to the query that includes noise data that is bounded by the upper bound and the lower bound for the preferred region using the kernel differentially private mechanism that includes privacy parameter that was computed using the boosting rate; and transmitting, to the downstream system, the response to the query.

Abstract: An electronic expansion valve and a refrigeration device are provided. The electronic expansion valve has a valve seat, a nut and a connection piece. The valve seat is provided with a valve cavity. One end of the nut is installed in the valve cavity. An outer wall of the nut is provided with an annular position part that extends from the outer wall. The position part is positioned to be in contact with a wall of the valve cavity. One end of the connection piece is fixedly connected to the nut. Another end of the connection piece is extended away from the nut and fixedly connected to an axial end surface of the valve seat.

Abstract: Provided are CD4-targeted IL-15 variant molecules and methods for use.