Abstract: A substrate processing system includes a first chamber including a substrate support. A showerhead is arranged above the first chamber and is configured to filter ions and deliver radicals from a plasma source to the first chamber. The showerhead includes a heat transfer fluid plenum, a secondary gas plenum including an inlet to receive secondary gas and a plurality of secondary gas injectors to inject the secondary gas into the first chamber, and a plurality of through holes passing through the showerhead. The through holes are not in fluid communication with the heat transfer fluid plenum or the secondary gas plenum.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems that enable speedy and accurate scheduling of data transmission for various services types, such as deterministic networking services. In one example aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transmitting or receiving, by a base station, data packets with Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session information frames. The data packets are associated with one or more service types and each of the PDU session information frames includes a time stamp field. The method also includes scheduling, by the base station, subsequent data packets based on the time stamp field in at least one of the PDU session information frames.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed herein to center a steering wheel. An example vehicle includes a steering assistance system, an axle including a wheel, memory, and a processor to execute instructions to identify a first position of the wheel, detect a request to move the wheel to a second position, adjust the wheel from the first position to the second position via the steering assistance system, disengage the steering assistance system, the disengagement of the steering assistance system to cause the wheel to move to a third position, the third position offset from the second position by an angular offset in a first direction, adjust the wheel to a fourth position, the fourth position offset from the second position by the angular offset in a second direction different than the first direction, and disengage the steering assistance system, the disengagement of the steering assistance system to cause the wheel to move to the second position.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a direct-drive sand mill. In various embodiments, the direct-drive sand mill includes: a motor assembly operable to be electrically powered to generate a rotation around a motor rotor rotation axis, a sand mill main body configured to perform a sanding operation, a main shaft configured to extend from the motor assembly to the sand mill main body and to include a shaft section inside the sand mill main body, the main shaft being coaxially aligned with the motor rotor, main shaft support devices positioned at different locations along the main shaft to support the main shaft to coaxially align the motor rotor rotation axis of the motor assembly to the sand mill main body, and multiple flatness detection assemblies positioned at different locations along the main shaft to detect whether the main shaft shifts with respect to the axis of the main shaft.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an automated neural architecture search approach for designing new neural network architectures such as, for example, resource-constrained mobile CNN models. In particular, the present disclosure provides systems and methods to perform neural architecture search using a novel factorized hierarchical search space that permits layer diversity throughout the network, thereby striking the right balance between flexibility and search space size. The resulting neural architectures are able to be run relatively faster and using relatively fewer computing resources (e.g., less processing power, less memory usage, less power consumption, etc.), all while remaining competitive with or even exceeding the performance (e.g., accuracy) of current state-of-the-art mobile-optimized models.

Abstract: A method of wireless communication is described. The method includes transmitting, by a first network node, a configuration message to a first communication device in communication with a second communication device to perform an aggregation operation, the configuration message including at least one of: first configuration information about a first radio link between the first network node and the first communication device, second configuration information about a second radio link between the first communication device and the second communication device; receiving, from the first communication device, a measurement report that includes at least one of first measurement information of the first radio link, or second measurement information of the second radio link; and determining, based on the measurement report, whether to perform a handover operation from the first network node to a second network node.

Abstract: An information configuration method, an electronic device and a storage medium are disclosed. The method may include transmitting a data packet to a base station; and performing a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) duplication transmission according to a reception of feedback information for the data packet.

Abstract: A display panel includes a light-transmitting area and a display area including a first and a second display area, the first display area and the light-transmitting area constitute a transparent display area; the display area includes: a display substrate including a light-emitting area and a non-light-emitting area; a low refraction layer; a high refraction layer, the high refraction layer covering at least the light-emitting area and a side surface of the low refraction layer facing the light-emitting area; the refractive index of the high refraction layer is greater than that of the low refraction layer, the side surface of the low refraction layer facing the light-emitting area is in contact with the high refraction layer to form a total reflection interface, the total reflection interface is configured to allow the display light emitted from the light-emitting area and incident through the high refraction layer to perform total reflection.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a stress gradient high-efficiency non-destructive detection system based on frequency domain calculation of broadband swept frequency signals, and a detection method thereof. The detection method includes: step 1: calibrating an LCR wave velocity of an object to be measured; step 2: calculating a starting frequency and a cut-off frequency of broadband swept frequency signals based on the LCR wave velocity of the object to be measured in the step 1 and a stress gradient measuring range in a depth direction of the object to be measured; step 3: converting phase delay to time delay information based on the phase delay of the starting frequency and the cut-off frequency in the step 2; and step 4: determining stresses of depths corresponding to different frequency components based on the time delay information in the step 3 to finally realize layer-by-layer scanning of stresses at different depths of the measured object.

Abstract: Embodiments of a computing device and methods of providing a cancer assessment for a patient are described. The method involves isolating a volume of a fluid from a fluid sample of the patient, the volume of fluid including at least one biomarker; adding at least a portion of the volume of fluid to a nanosensor comprising nanoparticles configured to capture the at least one biomarker and amplify signals emitted by the at least one biomarker during Raman spectroscopy; performing Raman spectroscopy on the volume of fluid on the nanosensor to produce a sample Raman spectrum having amplified signals indicating the presence of the at least one biomarker on the nanosensor; processing the sample Raman spectrum using data from template Raman spectra from known cancer samples; and based on the detected one or more cancer characteristics, providing the cancer assessment of the patient.

Abstract: Embodiments of a computing device and methods of providing a cancer assessment for a patient are described. The method involves isolating a volume of a fluid from a fluid sample of the patient, the volume of fluid including at least one biomarker; adding at least a portion of the volume of fluid to a nanosensor comprising nanoparticles configured to capture the at least one biomarker and amplify signals emitted by the at least one biomarker during Raman spectroscopy; performing Raman spectroscopy on the volume of fluid on the nanosensor to produce a sample Raman spectrum having amplified signals indicating the presence of the at least one biomarker on the nanosensor; processing the sample Raman spectrum using data from template Raman spectra from known cancer samples; and based on the detected one or more cancer characteristics, providing the cancer assessment of the patient.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for detecting impurities of harvested plants in a receptacle of a harvester. In an embodiment, a harvester controller receives, from a camera facing the contents of the receptacle, an image of the contents. The harvester controller applies the image as input to a machine learning model. The harvester controller receives, as output from the machine learning model, an identification of an impurity of the harvested plants. The harvester controller transmits a control signal based on the impurity.

Abstract: Methods of synthesizing nanoparticles of an isotope using a laser beam are described herein. The methods include generating the laser beam, directing the laser beam to the target to convert the target into a plasma state, and bombarding the target in the plasma state with the laser beam to maintain the target in the plasma state and synthesize the nanoparticles of the isotope. During bombarding the target in the plasma state with the laser beam, the laser beam is configured to have a pulse frequency and peak laser intensity that accelerates electrons in the plasma state and maintains the plasma state at a temperature high enough to provide for the synthesis of the nanoparticles of the isotope. Apparatuses for synthesizing nanoparticles of an isotope using a laser beam are also described herein.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for recommending alternative destinations in ride-sharing services are provided. A computing device implementing the method may start with receiving a trip request from a user device. The trip request may include an origin and a destination. Then the computing device classifies the trip request into one of a plurality of trip purpose categories based at least on the origin and the destination of the trip request, the rider's information, and a machine-learning classifier trained to predict the one trip purpose category of the trip request. In response to the one trip purpose category belonging to a preset group of trip purpose categories, the computing device determines one or more alternative destinations for the trip request, and sends to the user device, the one or more alternative destinations.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for testing a plurality of variants among a plurality of users. One of the methods includes: determining a spatial granularity to divide an area into a plurality of grid cells; randomly splitting the plurality of grid cells into a plurality of testing groups, wherein a quantity of the plurality of testing groups is determined based on a quantity of the multiple versions of the feature to be tested; determining a temporal granularity to divide a testing period into a plurality of testing intervals; during each of the plurality of testing intervals, respectively assigning the multiple versions of the feature to the plurality of testing groups; and obtaining a treatment effect for each of the multiple versions of the feature and determining an optimal version of the feature.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for carpool dual-pricing in ridesharing are provided. An exemplary method comprises: determining an expected trip count based on a plurality of carpool requests in a pricing unit and a pair of price adjustment multipliers applied to the pricing unit; for each of the plurality of carpool requests, generating a carpool matching probability of the carpool request by a second machine learning model based on the first expected trip count; constructing one or more Key Performance Indicator (KPI) models based on the plurality of carpool matching probabilities and the pair of price adjustment multipliers; and determining optimal values of the pair of price adjustment multipliers based on an optimization model maximizing an aggregated value of the one or more KPI models.

Abstract: The present invention provides an impulsive noise suppression method based on dual-microphone architecture, applied to a hearing aid comprising a first feedforward microphone, a second feedforward microphone, and a speaker, and a sensitivity level of the first feedforward microphone is less than a sensitivity level of the second feedforward microphone, wherein the method comprising: obtaining an input signal comprising a first signal provided through the first microphone and a second signal provided through the second feedforward microphone; determining whether the input signal comprises an impulsive signal according to a first time-domain signal energy value of the first signal and a second time-domain signal energy value of the second signal; and performing an impulsive signal suppression operation on the input signal if the input signal comprises the impulsive signal.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a chain type stepless transmission, including: a box, a pair of active cone discs including a fixed cone disc and a moving cone disc, a pair of passive cone discs including a fixed cone disc and a moving cone disc, an input shaft, an output shaft and a chain, there are a group of pulleys in the middle of each pair of passive cone discs and in the middle of each pair of active cone discs respectively, and the number of the group of pulleys may be an arbitrary value, such as 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, etc. In the stepless transmission, the fixed cone disc and the moving cone disc then transmit power from the input shaft to the output shaft through the chain, thereby realizing a high power of power transmission and a high torque.

Abstract: Itineraries may be recommended using rider context information relating to a rider. The rider context information may be obtained from various sources. Location information including an origin and a destination may obtained. A set of itineraries may be generated based on the rider context information. Each itinerary may include at least one mode of transportation to allow the rider to travel from the origin to the destination. Each itinerary in the set of itineraries may be ranked based on the rider context information.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining a plurality of context-based subscription products in a ride-hailing platform are described. An exemplary method may include: determining a plurality of transportation contexts to which a plurality of context-based subscription products are applicable; obtaining a plurality of historical trip-requesting sessions between a plurality of riders and the ride-hailing platform, and a plurality of historical subscription products offered to the plurality of riders; constructing at least one key performance indicator (KPI) model that predicts a reward for the ride-hailing platform offering the plurality of context-based subscription products to the plurality of riders; constructing an optimization model to maximize a weighted sum of the at least one KPI model; and determining optimal values of the plurality of parameter vectors corresponding to the plurality of context-based subscription products.