Abstract: An ultrasonic method for quantifying the nonlinear shear wave elasticity of a medium, the method comprising the following steps: A1.—collecting a temporal succession of shear wave elasticity data from the medium, A2.—applying, to the medium, a deformation that successively changes according to a predetermined sequence of deformations, during the collection of the shear waves, A3.—observing the actual evolution of deformation, and B.—quantifying the nonlinear elasticity of the medium depending on the temporal succession of data and the evolution of deformation.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hetero-integrated terahertz low-noise miniaturized image frequency rejection transceiver front-end, including an intermediate frequency circuit and a terahertz circuit arranged up and down, where the terahertz circuit includes a local oscillator frequency tripler, a 135° 3 dB filter coupler, a radio frequency waveguide power divider, and two quartz hetero-integrated subharmonic mixers; resonant cavities of an input unit, a first output unit, an isolation unit, and a second output unit of the 135° 3 dB filter coupler are sequentially coupled through resonant grooves to form a ring structure, a cavity length of the resonant cavity of the input unit is twice that of the resonant cavities of the other three units, and an electrical length of a waveguide of the first output unit is 45° different from that of a waveguide of the second output unit.

Abstract: A lateral power semiconductor device layout and a device structure belong to the technical field of power semiconductor devices. A method for designing a lateral power semiconductor device layout with high integrity and high cell density has the following advantages of reducing a specific on-resistance of the device, increasing a width of a channel per unit area, improving the current capability of the device, optimizing the static characteristic of the device, reducing the area of a drain region and the parasitic capacitance of the device, reducing the delay time of a cell switch caused by an excessively long gate electrode of a traditional finger cell, optimizing the dynamic characteristic of the device, optimizing the cell edge of the device and the curvature effect of a terminal, and reducing the pre-breakdown risk of the device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates a water softening devices, and provides a method for adjusting hardness of outflow water from a water softening device, including: determining, in response to a hardness adjustment request for the outflow water, target hardness of outflow water corresponding to the hardness adjustment request for the outflow water; determining a water mixing ratio of soft water to raw water based on the target hardness of outflow water; and adjusting an opening degree of a water mixing unit of the water softening device based on the water mixing ratio, where the water mixing unit is configured to control the mixing of raw water and soft water in the water softening device.

Abstract: Provided is a solar cell including: a silicon substrate, a passivation layer, a first antireflection layer, a second antireflection layer, a third antireflection layer, a tunneling dielectric layer formed over the rear surface, and a doped conductive layer formed over the tunneling dielectric layer. The silicon substrate includes at least one of P, Bi, Sb or As. The passivation layer includes an AlxOy material and is formed over the front surface, where 1/3?x/y?3. The first antireflection layer includes a SiNj material and is formed over the passivation layer, where 0.5?i/j?10. The second antireflection layer includes a SicNdOe material and is formed over the first antireflection layer, where 0.5?c/d?10, and 0.25?d/e?2. The third antireflection layer includes a SiaOb material and is formed over the second antireflection layer, where 0.5?a/b?3.

Abstract: The present application pertains to the field of water softening device, and provides a water leakage control method for a water softening device and an apparatus thereof, and an electronic device and a storage medium. The water leakage control method includes: determining that a target flow line is in a water leakage state based on a water-using parameter of the water softening device; and controlling a water inlet valve of the water softening device to be closed, and prompting that the target flow line is in the water leakage state; where the target flow line is a flow line located at a back end of the water inlet valve of the water softening device.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to graph-based design mapping and function route generation. A computer-implemented method includes analyzing first user interfaces and second user interfaces to identify features of each user interface, where the second user interfaces include at least one change to the first user interfaces. A first graph representing the features of the first user interfaces and a second graph representing the features of the second user interfaces are generated. A function mapping is determined based on a similarity calculation between the first graph and the second graph. A node that satisfies an influence threshold is recommended to do limited manual labeling. The function mapping is updated based on the labeling. A visualization of the function mapping is created between the first user interfaces and the second user interfaces. Function route generation can be performed.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for pollen prediction is provided. The present invention may include identifying, by a classification model, plant species within a plurality of locatable images taken at a plurality of locations; creating growth cycle prediction models for the plant species; modelling pollen count mappings for the plant species; predicting pollen yields at the locations for the plant species based on the growth cycle prediction models and the pollen count mappings; and calculating a pollen distribution at the locations based on the predicted pollen yields and aerodynamic models.

Abstract: The present application provides a displaying base plate and a displaying device, which relate to the technical field of displaying. The displaying base plate can effectively reduce the width of the non-displaying region, so as to realize a narrow border frame, and accordingly increase the screen-to-body ratio. The displaying base plate includes: a displaying region; and a non-displaying region surrounding the displaying region, wherein the non-displaying region includes a first dam region, the first dam region surrounds the displaying region; and the first dam region includes a dam, at least one blocking unit located at one side of the dam away from the displaying region, the dam and the blocking unit are disposed within at least a part of the first dam region, and the blocking unit is patterned.

Abstract: communication authentication method and a related device, the method including sending, by a user terminal, a generic bootstrapping architecture (GBA) authentication request carrying a user terminal identifier, receiving, by the user terminal, an authentication request carrying an authentication token (AUTN) and a random number (RAND), and deriving, by the user terminal, a first authentication vector based on the AUTN and the RAND, where the first authentication vector is different from a second authentication vector of the user terminal, the first authentication vector is a 5th generation (5G) GBA authentication vector, and the second authentication vector includes at least one of a 3rd generation/4th generation (3G/4G) GBA authentication vector or a 5G authentication vector.

Abstract: A communication method and apparatus are disclosed. According to the communication method, a first terminal determines a logical channel identifier (LCID) meeting a preset condition, where a first packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity of the first terminal is associated with two or more logical channels (LCHs); the first terminal receives a first data packet from a second terminal; and the first PDCP entity of the first terminal parses the first data packet based on the LCID. In this way, corresponding PDCP entities of the first terminal and the second terminal use consistent input parameters when executing security algorithms, thereby ensuring normal communication on a sidelink and improving communication reliability.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and method for using a cellular communication chain integrated with RFID wireless communication to communicate with an external RFID tag and a cellular wireless base station. A front end circuit can receive a first RF signal as input and can provide, as output, a processed first RF signal for wireless communication via a cellular network and be a low-band signal. An RFID circuit can generate a second RF signal for wireless communication with an RF identifier tag. A switch circuit or one or more toggle switches can be configured to route the processed first RF signal for transmission via an antenna for the wireless communication via the cellular network and route the second RF signal for transmission via the antenna for the wireless communication with the RF identifier tag.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for video processing. A plurality of videos are accessed. An index is generated based on one or more key frames and one or more video features extracted from the plurality of video. A user input is processed to identify user intentions. The index is filtered to identify a plurality of candidate key frames based on the user intentions. A recommended video is generated based on the plurality of candidate key frames, further comprising selecting one or more additional frames based on processing the plurality of candidate key frames using one or more clustering operations, and aggregating the plurality of candidate key frames and the one or more additional frames.

Abstract: Electromagnetic shields, vehicles, wireless charging systems, and related methods are disclosed. An electromagnetic shield includes a shield member including a coil side to face one or more inductive coils. The electromagnetic shield also includes one or more perimeter shield members configured in a loop proximate to a perimeter of the coil side of the shield member. The shield member and the one or more perimeter shield members are configured to shield electromagnetic radiation emitted by the one or more inductive coils.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining hardness of raw water of a water softening device. The method includes: obtaining a correspondence between a geographical area and the hardness of raw water; and determining target hardness of raw water of the water softening device based on a target geographical area where the water softening device is located and the correspondence; the correspondence is obtained by detecting hardness of raw water of respective geographical areas and associating each of the respective geographical areas with a detection result of the hardness of raw water corresponding to each of the respective geographical areas.

Abstract: Examples of the disclosure relate to a computer-implemented method, the method including quantifying a posterior confidence of an output of a layer of an artificial intelligence (AI) model for a set of input data samples using a mixture model, the AI model being a classifier model, providing an assumed prevalence prior on a class distribution, and calibrating the quantified posterior confidence based on the prevalence prior.

Abstract: A top cover component and a water softening device. The top cover assembly includes: a first frame body (110), a first top cover component (120) and a second top cover component (130). The first frame body (110) is formed with a first opening (52); the first top cover component (120) is connected to the first frame body (110) through a flexible member (112), and is switchable between an open state and a closed state; and the second top cover component (130) is connected to the first frame body (110) and located on a side of the first opening (52).

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a water softening device. The water softening device includes a box body, an inner frame assembly, a top cover assembly, a regeneration assembly and a water softening assembly. A first accommodating chamber is formed inside the box body, a box opening communicating with the first accommodating chamber is formed at a top of the box body, the inner frame assembly is provided at the box opening of the box body; the top cover assembly is provided on an upper part of the inner frame assembly and connected to the inner frame assembly; the regeneration assembly is provided inside the first accommodating chamber and is detachably connected to the top cover assembly; and the water softening assembly is provided inside the first accommodating chamber and detachably connected to the inner frame assembly.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method for making recommendations to a user and an apparatus, a computing device, and a storage medium. The method includes obtaining user attribute information, reading attribute information, reading history information, and candidate items; performing intra-group information fusion on the reading attribute information according to preset groupings to obtain reading feature information; obtaining a reading history weight according to the reading history information; obtaining history feature information according to the reading history weight and the reading history information; obtaining user feature information according to the user attribute information, the reading feature information, and the history feature information; and selecting a recommendation item from the candidate items according to the user feature information.

Abstract: An embodiment for detecting anomalous data using dependency modeling. The embodiment may, within a target data environment, identify references between data contained in one or more data files. The embodiment may determine dependency relationships between data fields in the data contained in the one or more data files. The embodiment may construct computational graphs depicting the determined dependency relationships as series of related data fields. The embodiment may identify a series of associated computational graphs within the constructed computational graphs. The embodiment may calculate abnormality degree values for each of the data fields within the constructed computation graphs. The embodiment may, in response to detecting an anomalous data field having a calculated abnormality degree value above a threshold value, calculating contribution values for a series of associated component data fields to identify a root cause for the detected anomalous data field.