Abstract: An arrayed waveguide grating based hybrid integrated laser has an adjustable external cavity. The waveguide includes a semiconductor gain die and an optical waveguide chip. The optical waveguide chip includes an arrayed waveguide grating and an arrayed waveguide reflection-controllable component. A resonant cavity is formed by the output end reflection-controllable arrayed waveguide grating chip and the semiconductor gain die. An output wavelength of the laser can be adjusted by changing a driving condition of the reflection-controllable component. The output wavelength is determined by a center wavelength of each channel of the arrayed waveguide grating.

Abstract: The disclosure provides methods and devices for object allocation. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving, at a server, an object allocation message submitted by an allocation source via a communications application, the object allocation message including an identification of the allocation source, a number of to-be-allocated objects, and an object allocation time; extracting, by the server from an object set corresponding to the allocation source, objects corresponding to the number of to-be-allocated objects; controlling, by the server, acquisition times when the allocation destination will acquire the objects, so that the acquisition times do not happen before the object allocation time.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for monitoring the wavelength of a tunable laser device of user by local OLT. The method is applied to a wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network framework. The framework comprises an ONU, a first athermal array waveguide grating, a transmission optical fiber, a second athermal array waveguide grating and the OLT, which are sequentially connected. ONU comprises tunable wavelength optical transmitters. The method comprises: starting handshaking is carried out between the OLT and the ONU; and the OLT carries out wavelength drifting monitoring during operation of the ONU. Wavelength adjustment can be carried out on the multi-channel tunable laser device in an external auxiliary monitoring environment, thus channel wavelengths of the multi-channel tunable laser device can be accurately controlled, and the requirement for calibration accuracy of channels of the tunable laser device at the ONU is greatly reduced.

Abstract: A modular power conversion device includes at least one first-type energy storage device (ESD) configured to induce a first direct current (DC) voltage, and at least one active power link module (APLM) string coupled to the at least one first-type ESD. The at least one APLM string includes a plurality of APLMs coupled to each other. Each APLM of the plurality of APLMs has a plurality of switching devices including a first switching device and a second switching device coupled to each other in electrical series. Each APLM of the plurality of APLMs also has at least one second-type ESD coupled in electrical parallel with both of the first switching device and the second switching device. The at least one second-type ESD is configured to induce a second DC voltage.

Abstract: A foldable display apparatus is provided. The foldable display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a flexible display panel having a first display area, a pliable display area and a second display area, which are sequentially connected, a first hinge base, a second hinge base, and a rotary connecting rod. An end of the rotary connecting rod is connected to the first hinge base, and the other end is connected to the second hinge base. When the rotary connecting rod rotates to the folded state, the first substrate and the second substrate are paralleled to and opposite each other.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for modulating a voltage output of a hybrid converter system having first and second set of Si-based power electronic devices coupled to first and second voltage source, respectively, and a first set of SiC-based power electronic devices coupled to the first and second sets of Si-based power electronic devices. The method includes switching between operational states of the hybrid converter system based on a desired voltage output, wherein each operational state includes one of the Si-based power electronic devices from the first and second sets of Si-based power electronic devices and one of the SiC-based devices from the first set of SiC-based power electronic devices being switched on and the remaining power electronic devices being switched off.

Abstract: A two-degree-of-freedom rotation control device includes a rotary body having a friction spherical surface, wherein a load mounting platform is provided on a top of the rotating body or inside the rotating body; a fixing and supporting structure configured to hold the rotating body, to allow the rotating body to have only a rotational degree of freedom; and a driving motor, wherein, a driving end of the driving motor is in direct contact with the friction spherical surface of the rotating body, to form a friction transmission pair tangent to the friction spherical surface. An application system has the two-degree-of-freedom rotation control device and a working unit on the two-degree-of-freedom rotation control device.

Abstract: A motor controller, including: a microprocessor including a signal identification unit; an inverter circuit; a rotation speed detection circuit; a power module; and an isolation circuit. The power module supplies power for the microprocessor, the inverter circuit, the rotation speed detection circuit, and the isolation circuit. The isolation circuit is connected to the microprocessor via a pulse width modulation (PWM) input line, and a PWM signal is transmitted to the isolation circuit and the microprocessor successively via the PWM input line. One rotation speed input signal of a motor is transmitted to the signal identification unit of the microprocessor via the isolation circuit and the PWM input line. The signal identification unit determines whether an input signal of the PWM input line is the PWM signal or the one rotation speed input signal of the motor.

Abstract: A novel nucleoside phosphoramidate compound of the formula below, or a stereoisomer, salt, hydrate, solvate or crystal thereof for the treatment of Flaviviridae family viral infection, especially hepatitis C viral infection, and having a good anti-HCV effect; a pharmaceutical composition having the compound, or a stereoisomer, salt, hydrate, solvate or crystal thereof:

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, computer program product, and system for debugging optimized code. The system includes a FAT binary, wherein the FAT binary comprises a non-optimized native code and an internal representation of a program's source code. An optimus program is configured to transform the internal representation of the program's source code into a fully optimized native code. The system also includes an enhanced loader, wherein the enhanced loader is configured to communicate with a debugger to determine a type of code to load.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and system for private communication. During operation, the system may determine a privacy level from a plurality of privacy levels associated with a private chat function of a communication application. The private chat function may be configured to transmit and receive private chat messages, and each privacy level is associated with visual effects which are different from the visual effects of other privacy levels. The system may obtain mode configuration information corresponding to the selected privacy level. The system may then configure the private chat function for the communication application based on the obtained mode configuration information, and display the visual effects for the communication application according to the selected privacy level.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a system for generating context-appropriate user prompts from an application. The system improves significantly over previous systems by providing expedient, context-appropriate, and relevant user prompts corresponding to enterprise-related user functions. During operation, a computing device receives a user input in an application window. The device then analyzes the received user input to determine an enterprise objective of a user and an enterprise function associated with the user objective. The device then generates a user prompt corresponding to the enterprise function, and displays the user prompt in the same application window.

Abstract: A Raman pump laser control apparatus comprises a wavelength division multiplexer, a tap coupler, a photoelectric detector, an analog amplification processing circuit, an analog-to-digital converter, a fast Raman pump control unit, an digital-analog converter, and a Raman pump laser. The fast Raman pump control unit, after having known anticipated output light power of the Raman pump laser, based on a direct relationship between a current anticipated output light power of the Raman pump laser and input digital quantity that is needed by the digital-analog converter, uses a feedforward control mechanism so that actual output light power of the Raman pump laser fastly approximates the anticipated output light power thereof, and then synchronously combines with a feedback control mechanism so that the actual output light power of the Raman pump laser is precisely locked on the anticipated output light power, thereby achieving fast and precise control of the Raman pump laser.

Abstract: A filtering unit is presented. The filtering unit includes at least two operational amplifiers, where each of the at least two operational amplifiers includes an input end and an output end, where the input end of one operational amplifier is coupled across the corresponding input end of another operational amplifier of the at least two operational amplifiers. The filtering unit also includes a direct current link operatively coupled to the at least two operational amplifiers and at least one thermoelectric module, where each thermoelectric module includes a conducting layer, where the direct current link and at least one of the at least two operational amplifiers are operatively coupled to the at least one thermoelectric module. A filtering system is also presented.

Abstract: The present invention relates to engineered antibodies and other Fc-domain containing molecules with enhanced agonism and effector functions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to engineered anti-TNFR superfamily member antibodies having enhanced agonistic activity and methods of using them.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for detecting an abnormal load. The method includes: collecting data of each load item in all hosts; pre-processing to obtain a second sequence corresponding to each load item; obtaining a coefficient matrix and a detail vector; computing a weighted mean of abnormal load probabilities of all the coefficient vectors, to obtain an abnormal load probability of each second sequence; comparing the abnormal load probability with a confidence interval, and judging whether there is an abnormal load, and judging that there is no abnormity in the corresponding second sequence if the abnormal load probability of each second sequence is in the confidence interval; judging whether there is an abnormal load according to data of all load items and the abnormal load probability of each second sequence; and finding a bearing host that has the abnormal load from the current online service.

Abstract: Account information, input by a user for data transfer, is received. Identity information associated with the received account information is determined. One or more pieces of account information associated with the determined identity information are determined. The one or more pieces of account information are determined based on a predetermined condition. The one or more pieces of account information include the received account information. The one or more pieces of account information are provided to the user. In response to receiving a user confirmation of the one or more pieces of account information, the data transfer is performed based on the user confirmation.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for modulating a voltage output of a hybrid converter system having first and second set of Si-based power electronic devices coupled to first and second voltage source, respectively, and a first set of SiC-based power electronic devices coupled to the first and second sets of Si-based power electronic devices. The method includes switching between operational states of the hybrid converter system based on a desired voltage output, wherein each operational state includes one of the Si-based power electronic devices from the first and second sets of Si-based power electronic devices and one of the SiC-based devices from the first set of SiC-based power electronic devices being switched on and the remaining power electronic devices being switched off.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, computer program product, and system for debugging optimized code. The system includes a FAT binary, wherein the FAT binary comprises a non-optimized native code and an internal representation of a program's source code. An optimus program is configured to transform the internal representation of the program's source code into a fully optimized native code. The system also includes an enhanced loader, wherein the enhanced loader is configured to communicate with a debugger to determine a type of code to load.