Abstract: A container for containing food or liquid is provided. The container includes a body portion, a lid and an attachment. The lid is detachably disposed on the body portion. The attachment includes a magnetic attraction member and a connecting structure. The magnetic attraction member is independent from the lid and adapted to be magnetically connected to a mobile electronic device. The connecting structure is disposed between the magnetic attraction member and the container for selectively fixing the magnetic attraction member at a first position or a second position. At least a portion of the connecting structure is fixed to the container.

Abstract: A method of full-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances, includes establishing a dynamic data model of a controlled plant subject to unmeasurable disturbances, wherein the dynamic data model is described by a pseudo Jacobian input matrix and a pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; constructing cost functions and solving their optimization problems to find optimal values of the pseudo Jacobian input matrix and the pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; designing a full-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control law in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances; constructing an energy function and solving it by using a momentum gradient descent method to find optimal values of the full-form adaptive input matrix and the full-form adaptive disturbance matrix; controlling the controlled plant by using the control law.

Abstract: A method of compact-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances, includes establishing a dynamic data model of a controlled plant subject to unmeasurable disturbances, wherein the dynamic data model is described by a pseudo Jacobian input matrix and a pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; constructing cost functions and solving their optimization problems to find optimal values of the pseudo Jacobian input matrix and the pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; designing a compact-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control law in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances; constructing an energy function and solving it by using a momentum gradient descent method to find optimal values of the compact-form adaptive input matrix and the compact-form adaptive disturbance matrix; controlling the controlled plant by using the control law.

Abstract: An electroporation system including one or more of a pipette, a pipette tip, a pipette docking assembly, and a pulse generator. The pipette docking assembly includes a pipette station, a pipette station guard, and a reservoir (e.g., a buffer tube). A method for transfecting a cell with a payload including providing an electroporation system, providing the cell, providing the payload, introducing the cell and the payload into a pipette tip, and electroporating the cell within the pipette tip by operating the electroporation system.

Abstract: A method of full-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control in the presence of measurable disturbances, includes establishing a dynamic data model of a controlled plant subject to measurable disturbances, wherein the dynamic data model is described by a pseudo Jacobian input matrix and a pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; constructing cost functions and solving their optimization problems to find optimal values of the pseudo Jacobian input matrix and the pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; designing a full-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control law in the presence of measurable disturbances; constructing an energy function and solving it by using a momentum gradient descent method to find optimal values of the full-form adaptive input matrix and the full-form adaptive disturbance matrix; controlling the controlled plant by using the control law.

Abstract: A method of partial-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances includes establishing a dynamic data model of a controlled plant subject to unmeasurable disturbances, wherein the dynamic data model is described by a pseudo Jacobian input matrix and a pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; constructing cost functions and solving their optimization problems to find optimal values of the pseudo Jacobian input matrix and the pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; designing a partial-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control law in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances; constructing an energy function and solving it by using a momentum gradient descent method to find optimal values of the partial-form adaptive input matrix and the partial-form adaptive disturbance matrix; controlling the controlled plant by using the control law.

Abstract: A container for containing food or liquid is provided. The container includes a body portion, a lid and an attachment. The lid is detachably disposed on the body portion. The attachment is configured to be disposed on the lid or the body portion and includes a magnetic attraction member and a connecting structure. The magnetic attraction member is adapted to be magnetically connected to a mobile electronic device. The connecting structure is disposed between the magnetic attraction member and the container for selectively fixing the magnetic attraction member at a first position or a second position. The connecting structure includes a fastening member, and the fastening member is adapted to be detachably fastened to the body portion or the lid.

Abstract: A mobile device attachment adapted for a mobile device and a container for food or liquid is provided. The mobile device attachment includes a magnetic connecting member and a connecting member. The magnetic connecting member is selectively magnetically connected to the mobile device and adapted to extend in an escaping direction. The connecting member is disposed between the container and the magnetic connecting member. The mobile device has an image capturing range. When the magnetic connecting member extends in the escaping direction, the container, the magnetic connecting member and the connecting member are located outside the image capturing range. Besides, a container including the mobile device attachment is also provided.

Abstract: A method of compact-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control in the presence of measurable disturbances includes establishing a dynamic data model of a controlled plant subject to measurable disturbances, wherein the dynamic data model is described by a pseudo Jacobian input matrix and a pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; constructing cost functions and solving their optimization problems to find optimal values of the pseudo Jacobian input matrix and the pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; designing a compact-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control law in the presence of measurable disturbances; constructing an energy function and solving it by using a momentum gradient descent method to find optimal values of the compact-form adaptive input matrix and the compact-form adaptive disturbance matrix; controlling the controlled plant by using the control law.

Abstract: A media marker mechanism may be used to send, to a cloud service, up-to-date context regarding playback of a media content stream on a user device. The cloud service may insert a media content item into a media content stream and/or combine media content items into a media content stream. The cloud service may implement the media marker mechanism to tag a content item with metadata that can be read by the user device. The user device can play the streaming media content and, when the tagged content item plays, read the metadata and send it to the cloud service. The cloud service can use the metadata to enrich the media content delivery by, for example, providing a companion image that the user device can display while paying the tagged content item, providing a link to make the companion image clickable, handling requests referring to the media content, etc.

Abstract: A level shifter includes a buffer circuit, a first shift circuit, and a second shift circuit. The buffer circuit provides a first signal and a first inverted signal to the first shift circuit, such that the first shift circuit provides a second signal and a second inverted signal to the second shift circuit. The second shift circuit generates a plurality of output signals according to the second signal and the second inverted signal. The first shift circuit includes a plurality of first stacking transistors and a first voltage divider circuit. The first voltage divider circuit is electrically coupled between a first system high voltage terminal and a system low voltage terminal. The first voltage divider circuit is configured to provide a first inner bias to gate terminals of the first stacking transistors.

Abstract: Provided is a method for regulating a thermal boundary conductance between a metal and an insulator, including: arranging a metal on a surface of an insulator, a contact surface between the metal and the insulator being a boundary between the metal and the insulator; and the insulator including a ferroelectric, a piezoelectric, or a pyroelectric; applying an external electric field or stress to the ferroelectric, and adjusting a magnitude of the external electric field or stress, or an included angle between a direction of the external electric field or stress with the boundary to regulate the thermal boundary conductance; or applying a stress to the piezoelectric, and adjusting a magnitude of the stress, or an included angle between a direction of the stress with the boundary to regulate the thermal boundary conductancer; or adjusting a temperature of the pyroelectric to regulate the thermal boundary conductance.

Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates an integrated chip including a substrate. A conductive interconnect feature is arranged over the substrate. The conductive interconnect feature has a base feature portion with a base feature width and an upper feature portion with an upper feature width. The upper feature width is narrower than the base feature width such that the conductive interconnect feature has tapered outer feature sidewalls. An interconnect via is arranged over the conductive interconnect feature. The interconnect via has a base via portion with a base via width and an upper via portion with an upper via width. The upper via width is wider than the base via width such that the interconnect via has tapered outer via sidewalls.

Abstract: A system and a method for performing unified human motion prediction (HMP) are provided. In operation, the system provides a unified HMP module, which includes an encoder configured to encode a plurality of existing two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) pose sequences into a shared latent space V and a decoder configured to predict a plurality of predicted future 2D and 3D pose sequences based on the encoded shared latent space V, thus forming four pathways of knowledge flow. The system then trains the unified HMP module and the shared latent space V in a weakly supervised manner with input features Xwith actual future 2D and 3D pose sequences by 10 minimizing a loss between the predicted future 2D and 3D pose sequences and the actual future 3 D and 3D pose sequences. Once the training is complete, the unified HMP may be performed using the trained encoded shared latent space V.

Abstract: Disclosed is a network access method, including that a station receives a first radio frame from a first access point, where the first radio frame indicates a resource unit for a random-access operation; and when the sending address of the first radio frame is a public identity or a private identity, the station performs the random-access operation. Also disclosed are a network access apparatus and a storage medium.

Abstract: A method for determining a plant growth curve includes obtaining color images and depth images of a plant to be detected at different time points, performing alignment processing on each color image and each depth image to obtain an alignment image, detecting the color image through a pre-trained target detection model to obtain a target bounding box, calculating an area ratio of the target bounding box in the color image, determining a depth value of all pixel points in the target boundary frame according to the aligned image, performing denoising processing on each depth value to obtain a target depth value, generating a first growth curve of the plant to be detected according to the target depth values and corresponding time points, and generating a second growth curve of the plant to be detected according to the area ratios and the corresponding time points.

Abstract: An inspection system includes a ground penetrating radar (GPR) sensor configured to provide at least one probe signal to a portion of a structure and to receive at least one return signal resulting from the corresponding at least one probe signal. A processor is programmed to: receive the at least one return signal as scan data from the GPR sensor; generate maximum amplitude trace normalized data based on the scan data; generate temporal signal gain data based on the scan data; generate a power spectral density image for each of the scan data, the maximum amplitude trace normalized data, and the temporal signal gain data; and analyze, using a machine learning processor, the power spectral density images to identify an anomaly of interest, wherein the machine learning processor is trained to detect an anomaly of interest based on a training set of power spectral density images.

Abstract: There is provided a computer-implemented method for updating a search distribution of an evolutionary strategies optimizer using an optimizer neural network comprising one or more attention blocks. The method comprises receiving a plurality of candidate solutions, one or more parameters defining the search distribution that the plurality of candidate solutions are sampled from, and fitness score data indicating a fitness of each respective candidate solution of the plurality of candidate solutions. The method further comprises processing, by the one or more attention neural network blocks, the fitness score data using an attention mechanism to generate respective recombination weights corresponding to each respective candidate solution. The method further comprises updating the one or more parameters defining the search distribution based upon the recombination weights applied to the plurality of candidate solutions.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods of isolating paired T cell receptor (TCR) alpha and beta chain sequences, or an antigen-binding portion thereof. Also disclosed are methods of automatically identifying the TCR alpha and beta chain V segment sequences and CDR3 sequences of a TCR having antigenic specificity for a mutated amino acid sequence encoded by a cancer-specific mutation. Methods of preparing a population of cells that express paired TCR alpha and beta chain sequences, or an antigen-binding portion thereof, are also disclosed. Isolated pairs of TCR alpha and beta chain sequences and isolated populations of cells prepared by the methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A circuit includes a control circuit having a first control circuit input, a second control circuit input, a first control circuit output, and a second control circuit output, and a first transistor having a first current terminal, a second current terminal, and a control terminal, the control terminal coupled to the first control circuit output, the first current terminal coupled to the first control circuit input and to a second transistor, and the second current terminal adapted to be coupled to the second transistor, a logic circuit having a first logic input, a second logic input, and a logic output, the first logic input coupled to the second control circuit output and a switch having a first switch terminal, a second switch terminal, and a switch control terminal, the switch control terminal coupled to the logic output and the first switch terminal coupled to the second current terminal.