Abstract: A liquid crystal writing screen, including: first substrate and second substrates, and a bistable liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, where the first substrate includes: a first base substrate; a plurality of pixel units on a side of the first base substrate proximate to the second substrate, each pixel unit including a thin film transistor, and a pixel electrode electrically connected to a first electrode of the thin film transistor; a passivation layer on a side of the thin film transistor distal from the first base substrate and in contact with the thin film transistor; where the pixel electrode is between the first base substrate and the passivation layer; and a spacer on a side of the passivation layer distal from the first base substrate and in contact with the passivation layer. A method for preparing the liquid crystal writing screen is further provided.

Abstract: A method for synthesizing a talking head video includes: obtaining speech data to be synthesized and observation data, wherein the observation data is data obtained through observation other than the speech data; performing feature extraction on the speech data to obtain speech features corresponding to the speech data, and performing feature extraction on the observation data to obtain non-speech features corresponding to the observation data; performing temporal modeling on the speech features and first non-speech features to obtain low-dimensional representations, wherein the first non-speech features are non-speech features that are sensitive to temporal changes; and performing video synthesis based on the low-dimensional representations and second non-speech features, wherein the second non-speech features are non-speech features insensitive to temporal changes.

Abstract: The present application relates conjugate compounds of Formula (I): wherein: A is a moiety that increases fungal cell uptake and/or fungal cell permeability; B is a HSP90 inhibiting moiety; and L1 is a linker; or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates and/or prodrugs thereof, to compositions comprising these compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates and/or prodrugs thereof, and various uses in the treatment or prevention of fungal-related diseases, disorders or conditions.

Abstract: A method includes of fabricating a heterostructure includes growing epitaxially, in a growth chamber, a first semiconductor layer of the heterostructure, the first semiconductor layer comprising a III-nitride semiconductor material, the first semiconductor layer being supported by a substrate, and, after growing the first semiconductor layer, growing epitaxially, in the growth chamber, a second semiconductor layer of the heterostructure such that the second semiconductor layer is supported by the first semiconductor layer, the second semiconductor layer comprising a quaternary or higher order III-nitride alloy.

Abstract: A method performed by a processor of a computing system is described herein, where the method includes obtaining an image that includes an object having a shape, where a boundary of the shape of the object in the digital image is labeled in the digital image. The method also includes computing an encoding for the shape, where computing the encoding for the shape includes partitioning the shape into multiple partitions. Computing the encoding for the shape further includes, for the multiple partitions, computing angle-based contour descriptors that represent boundaries of the partitions, where the encoding for the shape of the object is based upon the angle-based contour descriptors.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a development method, a control method and a computing device. A node of a message queue system reserves an interface before and/or after a processing component that performs any processing operation is called, determines a plug-in file obtained from development of a plug-in based on a reserved interface, and deploys the plug-in file to a designated storage location in the node. The node detects a trigger event for any processing component. If an interface is reserved before the processing component is called, a first plug-in corresponding to the interface is called; the processing component is called according to an execution result of the first plug-in, to process the trigger event; and after an execution of the processing component is completed, if an interface is reserved after the processing component is called, a second plug-in corresponding to the interface is called.

Abstract: This application discloses an access control method and an apparatus, which may be used in a secondary authentication process. The method includes: An SMF receives a session establishment request sent by a terminal. The SMF determines, based on the request, to send an authentication request to a campus server. The SMF receives an authentication failure response message sent by the campus server. When the SMF determines to accept the session establishment request, the SMF sends a policy association establishment request to a PCF and receives a policy association establishment response sent by the PCF. The SMF enforces a policy for a session of the terminal according to a policy rule in the policy association establishment response. The SMF sends a session establishment response message to the terminal.

Abstract: Graphenic carbon nanoparticles that are dispersed in solvents through the use of dispersant resins are disclosed. The graphenic carbon nanoparticles may be milled prior to dispersion. The dispersant resins may comprise a polymeric dispersant resin comprising an addition polymer comprising the residue of a vinyl heterocyclic amide, an addition polymer comprising a homopolymer, a block (co)polymer, a random (co)polymer, an alternating (co)polymer, a graft (co)polymer, a brush (co)polymer, a star (co)polymer, a telechelic (co)polymer, or a combination thereof. The solvents may be aqueous, non-aqueous, inorganic and/or organic solvents. The dispersions are highly stable and may contain relatively high loadings of the graphenic carbon nanoparticles.

Abstract: The present invention discloses multistage membrane apparatus and a method for separating gases from a crude gas stream a gas to be separated, a main remaining gas and optionally one or more further gas components, wherein in the apparatus comprises a feed stream separation stage, a first permeate separation stage and a second permeate separation stage, each stage being a membrane separation stage with gas separation membranes.

Abstract: A method comprises storing a plurality of accounts and generating a hierarchical data structure from the plurality of accounts by: identifying a first set of accounts and a second set of accounts responsive to the first set of accounts and the second set of accounts satisfying a first set of rules; linking the first set of accounts to a first entity profile and the second set of accounts to a second entity profile; and responsive to the first plurality of profile values and the second plurality of profile values of the second entity profile satisfying a second set of rules, linking the first entity profile and the second entity profile to a group entity profile.

Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus includes a transistor, a semiconductor device, a clamp circuit, and a charge circuit. The transistor has a control terminal, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The second terminal is coupled to a first input voltage terminal. The semiconductor device is coupled between the first terminal and an output terminal. The clamp circuit is coupled between the control terminal and a switch terminal. The charge circuit is coupled between a second input voltage terminal and the control terminal.

Abstract: An ultrasonic treatment device includes an ultrasonic treatment tip and a cooling mechanism. The ultrasonic treatment tip includes a sealed cavity, a sound-transferring medium disposed inside the sealed cavity, a treatment window and a heat-transferring surface. The ultrasonic treatment tip is configured for outputting ultrasonic waves to a treatment area through the treatment window. The heat-transferring surface is intimately surrounding the treatment window and thermally contacted with the treatment area. The cooling mechanism is configured to discharge heat generated at the treatment area outside of the ultrasonic device by thermally contacting the heat-transferring surface.

Abstract: A hinge mechanism includes a main shaft, a synchronization assembly, and two swing arms, where the two swing arms are respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the main shaft, and the two swing arms are rotatably connected to the main shaft. In addition, along an axial direction of the hinge mechanism, the synchronization assembly is located between the two swing arms. The synchronization assembly includes two gear assemblies. Each gear assembly includes a gear member and a connecting rod. The gear member includes a gear and a connection part. Gear surfaces of the gears of the two gear assemblies are engaged with each other, and the two gears are located between two connection parts. Each connecting rod is located between one connection part and one swing arm, and each connecting rod is slidably connected to the connection part and is rotatably connected to the swing arm.

Abstract: The present application provides a method and apparatus for controlling a device based on tapping and a storage medium. The method includes: in response to a tapping action from a user, acquiring sound information triggered by the tapping action; performing recognition processing on the sound information according to a preset recognition model set to determine a recognition result of the sound information, where the recognition model set includes at least one recognition model; and controlling the device according to the recognition result.

Abstract: This application provides a target sensing method. One example method includes: receiving an echo signal from a first moment to a second moment; calculating, based on the received echo signal, a feature value corresponding to each target moment, to obtain a feature value sequence, wherein the feature value sequence comprises feature values corresponding to a plurality of target moments sorted in a time order, and the target moment is a moment ranging from the first moment to the second moment; and sensing a target based on the feature value sequence.

Abstract: Provided are a sound gathering device for voiceprint monitoring and a preparation method. The sound gathering device is a cone structure and includes a front end portion (1) and a rear end portion (2), the front end portion (1) is trumpet-shaped, an inner wall surface of the front end portion (1) is present a pattern array of a microstructure (3), and the microstructure (3) presenting the pattern array is formed through laser etching. A sound wave frequency monitored by the sound gathering device is 50 Hz˜10 kHz, and a sound wave enters the sound gathering device from an entrance of the front end portion (1), is reflected through the pattern array of the microstructure (3) on the inner wall surface of the front end portion (1), and is transmitted from an exit of the rear end portion (2), and a sound pressure of the exit of the rear end portion (2) is 4 times˜8 times a sound pressure of the entrance of the front end portion (1).

Abstract: Described are systems and methods to determine hair patterns presented in content items. The determined hair patterns may be associated with the content items to facilitate indexing, filtering, etc. of the content items based on the determined hair patterns. In exemplary implementations, a corpus of content items may be associated with an embedding vector that includes a binary representation of the content item. The embedding vectors associated with each content item can be provided as inputs to a trained machine learning model, which can process the embedding vectors to determine one or more hair patterns presented in each content item while eliminating the need for performing image pre-processing prior to determination of the hair pattern(s) presented in the content item.

Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a storage medium for detecting vulnerabilities in software to protect a computer system from security and compliance breaches are provided. The method includes providing a ruleset code declaring programming interfaces of a target framework and including rules that define an admissible execution context when invoking the programming interfaces, providing a source code to be scanned for vulnerabilities; compiling the source code into a first execution code having additional instructions inserted to facilitate tracking of an actual execution context of the source code, compiling the ruleset code into a second execution code that can be executed together with the first execution code, executing the first execution code within an virtual machine and passing calls of the programming interfaces to the second execution code, and detecting a software vulnerability when the actual execution context disagrees with the admissible execution context.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method and a circuit for dynamic range control based on peak level and RMS level double-level detection. The method includes: processing an input signal by an equalizer, to obtain an equalized signal; detecting a signal peak level and a signal RMS level of the equalized signal, to obtain the signal peak level and the signal RMS level; adjusting a parameter configuration of a dynamic range controller according to the signal peak level and the signal RMS level; adjusting a dynamic gain of the dynamic range controller according to the parameter configuration, and adjusting the equalized signal by using the adjusted gain, and then outputting the adjusted equalized signal. The method can not only control the dynamic range of the signal but also improve the clipping distortion of the signal.

Abstract: The present application discloses a self-capacitance touch panel and a touch display panel. One or more of redundant electrodes are connected in parallel with each of signal transmission lines of the self-capacitance touch panel to reduce trace impedance of the signal transmission lines (especially for the signal transmission lines connected to self-capacitance touch electrodes at a far end). Problems of inability to drive touches, large touch power consumption, and marked incongruities in touch performance of different regions caused by excessive trace impedance are relieved.