Abstract: A method of a buffer memory device, a storage system, and a buffer memory device are provided. The method of the buffer memory device, the buffer memory device having a lower tier memory and a higher tier memory, may include receiving a new entry request, determining that the new entry request includes an HOL entry, selecting an entry on the higher tier memory to be tiered down to the lower tier memory in response to determining that the new entry request includes an HOL entry, removing the selected entry from the higher tier memory, storing the HOL entry in the higher tier memory of the buffer memory device, and outputting the HOL entry to an arbiter.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides binding agents, such as antibodies, that specifically bind Angiopoietin-like protein 8 (ANGPTL8), including human ANGPTL8, and methods of their use.

Abstract: A method for tracking a progress of data copying for a live migration includes transferring, by a storage controller, a first data structure to a live migration server, the first data structure including a first status identifier indicating a location of a source data to be copied from a source storage to a target storage, and selectively generating or selectively clearing, by the storage controller, a second status identifier in or from a second data structure, based on a first current copying location of the live migration server, the second status identifier indicating a location of a first user data write to the source storage.

Abstract: A method for managing a live migration operation includes partitioning a first data structure into N sections of the first data structure, the first data structure indicating a location, associated with a source storage, having data to be copied to a target storage, and transferring less than all of the N sections of the first data structure to a migration server.

Abstract: Described is a method for work assignment queue elimination. The method includes maintaining at least one data structure including an ordered list of ticket assignment rules and assignment result metrics, receiving a ticket indicating a system problem, assigning the ticket based on the ordered list of ticket assignment rules, the system problem and the assignment result metrics, collecting metrics based on the ticket assignment, and revising the assignment result metrics based on the collected metrics.

Abstract: A power pack for use with a medicament delivery device is presented having a plunger rod movable along a longitudinal axis; a drive spring operably connected to said plunger rod; a plunger rod sleeve arranged with holding elements for releasably holding said plunger rod with said drive spring in a tensioned state. Signal initiating elements are arranged to said plunger rod; and signal generating elements arranged to cooperate with said signal initiating elements for providing information to a user of a medicament delivery device about the movement of said plunger rod when said plunger rod sleeve has been activated to release said holding elements.

Abstract: A method and a memory device are provided. A controller of the memory device retrieves a first command burst from a host memory. The first command burst includes a sequence of one or more commands from a first submission queue. The controller identifies that at least one command in the first command burst is at least one first fused command of a first set of fused commands. The first set of fused commands is to be processed atomically in the memory device, and a remainder of the first set of fused commands is on the first submission queue. The controller stores at least an identifier of the at least one first fused command in a set-aside buffer of the memory device.

Abstract: A serial transmission system includes a first storage circuit, a second storage circuit, a control circuit, and a serial processing circuit. The first storage circuit is configured to store data-to-be-transmitted of a plurality of users. The second storage circuit is coupled to the first storage circuit. The control circuit is configured to control the second storage circuit to receive the data-to-be-transmitted from the first storage circuit. The serial processing circuit is configured to receive the data-to-be-transmitted from the second storage circuit in series, and output a plurality of multi-user packets.

Abstract: A method for drying a wafer at room temperature includes a cleaning step, a reacting step and a pressure releasing step. The cleaning step includes putting a processing workpiece into a cleaning solvent. The reacting step includes putting the processing workpiece along with the cleaning solvent into a reaction chamber, implanting a supercritical fluid into the reaction chamber, and increasing a pressure of the reaction chamber to dissolve the cleaning solvent in the supercritical fluid. A critical temperature of the supercritical fluid is below room temperature. The pressure releasing step includes releasing the pressure of the reaction chamber and discharging the supercritical fluid together with the cleaning solvent out of the reaction chamber, after completely dissolving the cleaning solvent in the supercritical fluid.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides binding agents, such as antibodies, that specifically bind HTRA1, including human HTRA1, as well as compositions comprising the binding agents, and methods of their use. The disclosure also provides related polynucleotides and vectors encoding the binding agents and cells comprising and expressing the binding agents.

Abstract: A power pack for use with a medicament delivery device is presented having a plunger rod movable along a longitudinal axis; a drive spring operably connected to said plunger rod; a plunger rod sleeve arranged with holding elements for releasably holding said plunger rod with said drive spring in a tensioned state. Signal initiating elements are arranged to said plunger rod; and signal generating elements arranged to cooperate with said signal initiating elements for providing information to a user of a medicament delivery device about the movement of said plunger rod when said plunger rod sleeve has been activated to release said holding elements.

Abstract: A supplementary device configured to be mounted externally to a medicament delivery device provided with a dose setting knob, wherein the supplementary device has a sleeve configured to be arranged around a portion of the medicament delivery device, wherein the sleeve has a main body having a proximal sleeve end and a distal sleeve end, wherein the main body is provided with a flexible dose setting knob positioning structure which extend distally from the distal sleeve end.

Abstract: A user equipment terminal (UE) performs cell search in a wireless network. The UE determines a search pattern based on statistics of search trials performed at one or both of a location and time in a recurrent time cycle. The search pattern includes a sequence of alternating search durations and non-search durations for a configurable number of searches. Furthermore, the search pattern includes the search durations or the non-search durations that increase, decrease, or no-change according to probability derived from the statistics. The UE performs the cell search according to the search pattern.

Abstract: A method of a buffer memory device, a storage system, and a buffer memory device are provided. The method of the buffer memory device, the buffer memory device having a lower tier memory and a higher tier memory, may include receiving a new entry request, determining that the new entry request includes an HOL entry, selecting an entry on the higher tier memory to be tiered down to the lower tier memory in response to determining that the new entry request includes an HOL entry, removing the selected entry from the higher tier memory, storing the HOL entry in the higher tier memory of the buffer memory device, and outputting the HOL entry to an arbiter.

Abstract: A method of a memory device, a storage system, and a memory device are provided. The method includes receiving a set of entries, where the set of entries includes a first entry from a source queue and addressed to a first destination and a second entry addressed to a second destination, determining to add a third entry associated with the first entry and addressed to the first destination to the set of entries, selecting one of the first entry and the third entry as a restock entry and the other of the first entry and the third entry as a pass-through entry, sending the restock entry to the source queue, and sending the second entry and the pass-through entry to a serial link connected to the first destination and the second destination.

Abstract: A controlling method of an encoder includes: detecting a rotation angle of a rotor of a motor coupled to the encoder to generate a first counting trigger signal and a second counting trigger signal so as to perform a turn number counting procedure; determining whether a period that an operating voltage of a driving circuit of the motor is smaller than a threshold voltage exceeds a preset time; and when the period exceeds the preset time, controlling a switching unit of the encoder to allow a battery of the encoder to provide a backup voltage to the encoder such that the encoder enters a low power processing procedure.

Abstract: A serial transmission system includes a first storage circuit, a second storage circuit, a control circuit, and a serial processing circuit. The first storage circuit is configured to store data-to-be-transmitted of a plurality of users. The second storage circuit is coupled to the first storage circuit. The control circuit is configured to control the second storage circuit to receive the data-to-be-transmitted from the first storage circuit. The serial processing circuit is configured to receive the data-to-be-transmitted from the second storage circuit in series, and output a plurality of multi-user packets.

Abstract: A bridge chip with a function of expanding external devices and an associated expansion method are provided, wherein the bridge chip may include at least one transmission interface, a bridge control unit and a connecting port. The transmission interface may be configured to make at least one external device outside the bridge chip couple to the bridge chip; the bridge control unit is coupled to the transmission interface, and may be configured to control priority of the external device for performing data transmission; and the connecting port is coupled to the bridge control unit, and may be configured to make the bridge chip couple to a host device, to allow the host device to perform data transmission with the external device. More particularly, a number of the external device is expandable.

Abstract: A gas sensor and a method for manufacturing the gas sensor are disclosed. The gas sensor includes a substrate, a heating member disposed on the substrate, a sensing layer covering the heating member, and two electrodes respectively electrically connected to the sensing layer. The sensing layer includes a doping element with an electronegativity greater than 2. The method for manufacturing the gas sensor includes a deposition process stacking a heating member, a sensing layer, and two electrodes on a substrate by deposition, and a doping process introducing a doping gas when depositing the sensing layer.

Abstract: A resistive random access memory and an initialization method thereof are disclosed. The initialization method includes irradiating a memory device with an electromagnetic wave and manipulating a switching voltage to switch the memory device between a high resistance state and a low resistance state. The electromagnetic wave has a frequency of above 1016 Hertz. The resistive random access memory includes a plurality of memory devices and a switching circuit respectively electrically connected to the plurality of memory devices. Each of the plurality of memory devices has a resistance-changing layer and two electrode layers respectively located on an upper surface and a lower surface of the resistance-changing layer.