Abstract: A biomimetic waterfowl includes a housing, two waterfowl legs, and a driving module. The waterfowl legs are spaced apart from each other in a left-right direction and are mounted to a bottom portion of the housing. Each waterfowl leg includes a first segment mounted to the housing and rotatable about a first axis parallel to the left-right direction, and a second segment rotatable about a second axis parallel to the first axis. The driving module is mounted to the housing and is configured to drive the waterfowl legs. Each of the waterfowl legs is movable between a retracted state, where the first segment extends forwardly from the housing and the second segment extends rearwardly from the first segment, and a propelling state, where the first segment extends rearwardly from the housing and the second segment extends rearwardly from the first segment.

Abstract: An illustrative decoder includes: a syndrome calculator, a location finder, and an error corrector. The syndrome calculator has an array of logic gates to obtain syndrome values as a product of a receive message vector and a parity check matrix, the syndrome values including at least a three ten-bit syndrome values S1, S2, and S3. The location finder derives a number of errors from the syndrome values, and uses a second array of logic gates to obtain two polynomial roots as a product of a syndrome value vector and a quadratic solution matrix when the number of errors is two, the quadratic solution matrix corresponding to a determination of a quadratic equation's trailing coefficient value s, a determination of the quadratic equation's roots, and a reversal of a variable substitution. The location finder further determines a bit index for each of the polynomial roots.

Abstract: A circuit, method, and oximeter for indicating a power supply by applying a double-color light-emitting diode (LED) are provided. The circuit, applied to a finger clip type pulse oximeter, comprises the following components: an MCU module U1, a double-color LED D1 connected to the MCU module U1, a voltage measurement module connected to the MCU module U1, a rechargeable battery module connected to the voltage measurement module, and a power supply input module that is suitable for connection with an external power supply and is connected to the MCU module U1 and the rechargeable battery module, wherein the MCU module U1 is suitable for controlling the double-color LED D1 according to the states of the power supply input module and the rechargeable battery module, so that the finger clip type pulse oximeter presents a visual result directly observable by the human eyes.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a covered stent. The covered stent has a hollow tubular structure provided with openings at two ends, and includes a main body stent, a window being arranged in a surface of the main body stent. The covered stent further includes an internal covering film; an edge of the internal covering film is connected to the main body stent, and a through hole communicating with an inner cavity of the covered stent is also formed in the internal covering film. The covered stent further includes a window supporting member, the window supporting member being arranged outside the internal covering film and protruding outwardly from a surface of the internal covering film.

Abstract: A luminal stent has a tube body and a skirt surrounding the tube body. The skirt has a flexible connecting section and a stent graft connected to a proximal end of the flexible connecting section. A distal end of the flexible connecting section is sealed and connected to the outer surface of the tube body. A proximal end of the stent graft is suspended and provided with a first radial support structure. When the flexible connecting section is radially compressed, at least a part of the first radial support structure is bent towards a direction distant from the tube body. Also provided is a stent system including the luminal stent. The stent system and the luminal stent can prevent type III endoleaks.

Abstract: A method is provided to fabricate a high-power module. A non-touching needle is used to paste a slurry on a heat-dissipation substrate. The slurry comprises nano-silver particles and micron silver particles. The ratio of the two silver particles is 9:1˜1:1. The slurry is pasted on the substrate to be heated up to a temperature kept holding. An integrated chip (IC) is put above the substrate to form a combined piece. A hot presser processes thermocompression to the combined piece to form a thermal-interface-material (TIM) layer with the IC and the substrate. After heat treatment, the TIM contains more than 99 percent of pure silver with only a small amount of organic matter. No volatile organic compounds would be generated after a long term of use. No intermetallic compounds would be generated while the stability under high temperature is obtained. Consequently, embrittlement owing to procedure temperature is dismissed.

Abstract: A light metal joint filler is provided. The light metal joint filler is formed by uniformly mixing a solvent with a light metal powder and a silver powder, where a powder particle size of the light metal powder is on a micron scale, and a powder particle size of the silver powder is on a nanometer scale or a submicron scale. A metal joining method of the present disclosure includes: coating a joint of two to-be-joined light metal pieces with the light metal joint filler; and hot pressing the two to-be-joined light metal pieces, so that the silver powder is sintered and bonded with the light metal powder and surfaces of the two to-be-joined light metal pieces, and completing joining of the two to-be-joined light metal pieces after the silver powder is condensed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a motor, comprising: a housing; a motor stator located in the housing; a motor output shaft located in the housing; and an exhaust device connected to the housing and configured to exhaust air from the interior of the housing. According to an implementation mode of the present invention, a turbine device is mounted on the motor output shaft; when the motor rotates, an inner cavity of the motor is evacuated to be in a negative pressure state; the higher the motor speed, the lower the air pressure inside the motor, the higher the vacuum degree, and the smaller the frictional resistance between a rotor and the air, so that the motor speed can be effectively increased and a rotor having a relatively large diameter can be used, thereby enhancing the low speed torque while increasing the power density of the motor and facilitating the design of a high power motor.

Abstract: Systems and methods to improve the performance of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system using a confusion index indicative of the amount of confusion between words are described, where a confusion index (CI) or score is calculated by receiving a first word (Word1) and a second word (Word2), calculating an acoustic score (A12) indicative of the phonetic difference between Word1 and Word2, calculating a weighted language score (W(U1+U2), indicative of a weighted likelihood (or word frequency) of Word1 and Word2 occurring in the corpus, the confusion index CI incorporating both the acoustic score and the weighted language score, such that the CI for words that sound alike and have a high likelihood of occurring in the corpus will be higher than the CI for words that sound alike and do not have a high likelihood of occurring in the corpus.

Abstract: A sensor unit includes a sensor interface, host interface, and pre-processing hardware. The sensor interface is coupled to a plurality of cameras configured to capture images around an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV). The host interface is coupled to a perception and planning system. The pre-processing hardware is coupled to the sensor interface to receive images from the plurality of cameras and to perform one or more pre-processing functions on the images and to transmit pre-processed images to the perception and planning system via the host interface. The perception and planning system is configured to perceive a driving environment surrounding the ADV based on the pre-processed images and to plan a path to control the ADV to navigate through the driving environment. The pre-processing functions can adjust for different calibrations and formats across the plurality of cameras.

Abstract: A tube stent includes a first tube body. The first tube body includes a first section, a second section, and a transition section located between the first section and the second section. One end of the transition section is connected to the first section, and the other end is connected to the second section. The shortening rate of the first section and the shortening rate of the second section are smaller than the shortening rate of the transition section. By using the tube stent, the pulsations of aortas are buffered by the transition section, so that vibration deformations of the tube stent are confined to the first section and the transition section, and accordingly the relative stability of the second section and branch blood vessels can be ensured, and the stimulations to walls of the branch blood vessels can be reduced.

Abstract: Systems and methods to improve the performance of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system using a confusion index indicative of the amount of confusion between words are described, where a confusion index (CI) or score is calculated by receiving a first word (Word1) and a second word (Word2), calculating an acoustic score (A12) indicative of the phonetic difference between Word1 and Word2, calculating a weighted language score (W (U1+U2)) indicative of a weighted likelihood (or word frequency) of Word1 and Word2 occurring in the corpus, the confusion index CI incorporating both the acoustic score and the weighted language score, such that the CI for words that sound alike and have a high likelihood of occurring in the corpus will be higher than the CI for words that sound alike and do not have a high likelihood of occurring in the corpus.

Abstract: A tube stent includes a first tube body. The first tube body includes a first section, a second section, and a transition section located between the first section and the second section. One end of the transition section is connected to the first section, and the other end is connected to the second section. The shortening rate of the first section and the shortening rate of the second section are smaller than the shortening rate of the transition section. By using the tube stent, the pulsations of aortas are buffered by the transition section, so that vibration deformations of the tube stent are confined to the first section and the transition section, and accordingly the relative stability of the second section and branch blood vessels can be ensured, and the stimulations to walls of the branch blood vessels can be reduced.

Abstract: Flexible hardware designs for camera calibration and image pre-processing are disclosed for vehicles including autonomous driving (AD) vehicles. For one example, a sensor unit includes a sensor interface, host interface, and pre-processing hardware. The sensor interface is coupled to a plurality of cameras configured to capture images around an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV). The host interface is coupled to a perception and planning system. The pre-processing hardware is coupled to the sensor interface to receive images from the plurality of cameras and to perform one or more pre-processing functions on the images and to transmit pre-processed images to the perception and planning system via the host interface. The perception and planning system is configured to perceive a driving environment surrounding the ADV based on the pre-processed images and to plan a path to control the ADV to navigate through the driving environment.

Abstract: A lumen stent includes a first tube body and a second tube body. The second body is sleeved outside the first body and has at least one end in hermetic connection with the outer surface of the first body. The second body includes a thin film body that covers at least part of the first body and a second radial supporting structure that is disposed in a maximum radius-length region of the thin film body and surrounds the maximum radius-length region. The second radial supporting structure has radius supporting property. After the implantation of the lumen stent, a semi-enclosed gap can be formed between the first body and the second body, or a semi-enclosed gap can be formed between the second body and a tube wall, so that blood flowing into the gap can serve as a filling material and prevent blood from flowing into a tumor body.

Abstract: A method is provided to fabricate a high-power module. A non-touching needle is used to paste a slurry on a heat-dissipation substrate. The slurry comprises nano-silver particles and micron silver particles. The ratio of the two silver particles is 9:1˜1:1. The slurry is pasted on the substrate to be heated up to a temperature kept holding. An integrated chip (IC) is put above the substrate to form a combined piece. A hot presser processes thermocompression to the combined piece to form a thermal-interface-material (TIM) layer with the IC and the substrate. After heat treatment, the TIM contains more than 99 percent of pure silver with only a small amount of organic matter. No volatile organic compounds would be generated after a long term of use. No intermetallic compounds would be generated while the stability under high temperature is obtained. Consequently, embrittlement owing to procedure temperature is dismissed.

Abstract: A luminal stent includes a first tubular body and a second tubular body sleeved on the first tubular body, and at least one end of the second tubular body is sealingly connected to an outer surface of the first tubular body. In a radial support section of the luminal stent, the first tubular body includes at least one first radial support structure arranged in a circumferential direction thereof, and the second tubular body includes at least one second radial support structure arranged in a circumferential direction thereof and a coating film covering the second radial support structure. The second radial support structure has greater radial deformability than the first radial support structure. After implantation, the luminal stent can form a semi-closed gap between the first tubular body and the second tubular body or between the second tubular body and a lumen wall.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for a simulated moving bed to adsorb and separate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Zeolite, metal oxide and metal-modified materials are employed as adsorbent. Firstly, diesel oil flows through pre-treatment adsorbent to remove the trace amount of impurities. Secondly, the purified diesel oil flows through the simulated moving bed so that the PAHs can be separated from diesel oil. In this process, the valves are switched periodically, leading to the relative movement of adsorption beds. At the same time, desorbent is pumped into the equipment to wash out PAHs, achieving the continuous adsorption-regeneration operation. Thirdly, simple distillation is employed to separate desorbent from clean diesel oil and PAHs, respectively. Finally, the fractions of clean diesel oil and PAHs can be obtained, respectively. The separated desorbent can be recycled. The PAHs removal rate can reach to 90%.

Abstract: A user device comprising: i) a memory configured to store a browser application; and ii) a processor configured to execute the browser application, identify browser state information, and transfer the browser state information to a second user device. The browser state information comprises: a) a URL of a current webpage; and b) scroll position information associated with a current viewing rectangle in the current webpage, wherein the scroll position information comprises a scroll position of context text closest to a top-left corner of the current viewing rectangle. The scroll position information further comprises a scroll position of an image element closest to a top-left corner of the current viewing rectangle.