Abstract: A root cause failure determining method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes a first network element determines alarm information of N objects, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and the first network element determines a root cause failure of the alarm information of the N objects based on an object association relationship, where the root cause failure is alarm information of M objects in the N objects, where M is a positive integer less than or equal to N. A root cause failure of a plurality of pieces of alarm information can be determined, and a service ticket can be dispatched for the root cause failure to reduce operation and maintenance costs.

Abstract: A control valve structure, a using method thereof, a microfluidic chip, and a nucleic acid extraction device. The control valve structure includes: a cover plate layer, a first channel layer, a first adhesive layer, a second channel layer, at least one valve core, and at least one elastic film. When the valve core is embedded in the first limiting hole, the elastic film seals the first limiting hole, and the second limiting hole, the first through hole and the liquid outlet channel form a sample liquid flow channel; and when the valve core is embedded in the second limiting hole, the elastic film seals the second limiting hole so as to block the sample liquid flow channel.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing artifacts in a compressed image using a neural-network based deblocking filter. The method may include receiving at least one reconstructed image, wherein each reconstructed image comprises one or more reconstructed blocks and extracting boundary areas associated with boundaries of the one or more reconstructed blocks in the at least one reconstructed image. The extracted boundary areas may be input in a trained deblocking model to generate boundary areas having reduced artifacts and the trained deblocking mode is trained on training data based on estimated compression by a neural image compression (NIC) network. The edge areas associated with the generated boundary areas may be removed; and at least one reconstructed image with reduced artifacts may be generated based on the generated boundary areas.

Abstract: A preservation solution of magnetic beads includes a surfactant, a water-soluble salt and a bacteriostatic agent.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a microfluidic substrate and a microfluidic chip including the microfluidic substrate. The microfluidic substrate includes a plurality of microcavities arranged in an array, at least some of the plurality of microcavities are through holes, and a tangent plane at each of at least some points on a sidewall of each microcavity forms a non-perpendicular angle with a reference plane where the microfluidic substrate is located.

Abstract: A gene detection substrate is provided, including: a substrate; a gene detection channel in the substrate, an opening of the gene detection channel is on one side of the substrate; the gene detection channel includes a sample injection groove, a sample outgoing groove and a flow channel groove sequentially connected and communicated with each other; the flow channel groove includes reaction holes and flow channel structures; the reaction holes are distributed at intervals, and any two adjacent reaction holes are communicated with each other through the flow channel structure; the flow channel structure includes a first, second, and third sub-grooves sequentially connected and communicated with each other; a width of each of the first and third sub-grooves in a first direction is smaller than that of the second sub-groove in the first direction; and the first direction is perpendicular to an arrangement direction of two adjacent reaction holes.

Abstract: A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of functional unit groups arranged in a display area. Each functional unit group includes at least one functional unit. Each functional unit is electrically connected to a first signal transmission line. A signal shielding line is disposed between the first signal transmission lines of a same functional unit group and a functional units of an adjacent functional unit group to solve a problem of poor touch performance caused by signal interference in existing touch solutions.

Abstract: A culture structure, a culture method and a culture chip are provided. The culture structure includes a culture plate and a vibration structure provided on the culture plate; the culture plate includes a plurality of accommodating structures configured to accommodate culture solution; the vibration structure includes a vibration signal generating structure and a plurality of vibration members; the vibration signal generating structure is configured to generate a vibration signal; the plurality of vibration members are connected to the vibration signal generating structure and configured to drive the culture solution in the plurality of accommodating structures to move according to the vibration signal.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to image coding and particularly to methods and systems for neural image compression (NIC). The disclosed NIC decoder/encoder may include various neural network components that are configured to achieve a balance between network complexity and coding efficiency. Such a NIC decoder/encoder implementation particularly include a core decoder and a hyper decoder each including a neural network architecture adapted for achieving a lightweight decoder/encoder.

Abstract: A chip packaging structure and a chip packaging method, the structure including: a sample substrate with through holes; first and second cover plates on opposite sides of the sample substrate; and at least one pair of a sample inlet and a sample outlet, each pair of the sample inlet and the sample outlet is in one or both of the first cover plate and the second cover plate, a flow path is between each pair of the sample inlet and the sample outlet, a first flow channel structure is on a surface of the first cover plate opposite to the sample substrate, a second flow channel structure is on a surface of the second cover plate opposite to the sample substrate, and the first flow channel structure and the second flow channel structure are connected with the through holes, to form a continuous channel corresponding to the flow path.

Abstract: A detection chip and a manufacturing method thereof, and a detection method are provided. The detection chip includes: a base substrate, and a detection layer, provided on the base substrate and including a plurality of detection holes. An inner wall of each of at least part of detection holes among the plurality of detection holes is hydrophilic, and a contact angle of the inner wall is within 30 degrees.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a microfluidic chip, a method of controlling the flow velocity of a fluid in the microfluidic chip, and a method of using the microfluidic chip. The microfluidic chip includes at least one shunt structure, each shunt structure includes at least two channels each including a first channel and a second channel, the first channel is configured to allow the first fluid to flow therein, the second channel is configured to allow the second fluid to flow therein, and the first fluid and the second fluid merge at the first confluence of the microfluidic chip. The first channel has a first cross-section and a first length, the second channel has a second cross-section and a second length, the area of the first cross-section is greater than or equal to the area of the second cross-section, and the first length is less than or equal to second length.

Abstract: Example base station determining methods and example servers are disclosed, where the solution is used to determine an out-of-synchronization base station in a network. In one example, at least one synchronization domain is determined, where any two neighboring base stations in the synchronization domain are in a relative clock synchronization relationship. Then, a first synchronization domain is determined based on the at least one synchronization domain, where each base station in the first synchronization domain is a synchronization base station. A second synchronization domain that is in the at least one synchronization domain and that has a relative clock out-of-synchronization relationship with the first synchronization domain is then determined, to determine that each base station in the second synchronization domain is an out-of-synchronization base station.

Abstract: A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to receive a video bitstream comprising a current block in a current picture and reconstruct the current block by transforming the current block by a neural network comprising a plurality of upsample modules and activation modules, and at least one of the activation modules includes a LeakyReLu function and a convolution function.

Abstract: A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to receive a video bitstream comprising a current block in a current picture and reconstruct the current block by transforming the current block by a neural network comprising a plurality of upsample modules and activation modules, and at least one of the upsample modules includes a convolution layer and a pixel shuffle layer, and at least one of the activation modules includes a LeakyReLu function and a convolution function.

Abstract: The present application provides a polymer microsphere and a preparing method thereof. The polymer microsphere includes a core and a shell coating the core; the core includes at least two magnetic particles and a dispersion located between two neighboring magnetic particles; the shell includes a main shell body and a modifying layer, and the modifying layer is located on one side of the main shell body that is away from the magnetic particles; and a material of the dispersion, a material of the main shell body and a material of the modifying layer are the same. The magnetic particles in the polymer microsphere have a good dispersibility, and, when heated, the magnetic attraction force and the magnetic responsiveness of the polymer microsphere can nearly maintain unchanged.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a micro-fluidic chip and a reaction system. The micro-fluidic chip includes: a base substrate; a micro-cavity defining layer on the base substrate and defining a plurality of micro-reaction chambers; a cover plate on a side of the micro-cavity defining layer away from the base substrate; a heating layer disposed between the micro-cavity defining layer and one of the base substrate and the cover plate, and configured to heat the plurality of micro-reaction chambers. One of the base substrate and the cover plate, which is away from the heating layer, has a first surface and a second surface, the first surface faces the heating layer, the second surface faces away from the heating layer, and a area of the second surface is larger than that of the first surface.

Abstract: Provided are a microfluidic chip and a usage method thereof, and a microfluidic system. The microfluidic chip includes a substrate layer, the substrate layer includes a substrate and a drive electrode layer; and a cover plate layer arranged opposite the substrate layer, a space between the cover plate layer and the substrate layer form a solution accommodating space; the cover plate layer includes a solution inlet hole, a solution outlet hole, and limiting recesses arranged on a side of the cover plate layer facing the substrate layer, the solution inlet hole, the solution outlet hole and each limiting recess are in communication with the solution accommodating space, and an end surface of the solution inlet hole adjacent to the substrate layer, an end surface of the solution outlet hole adjacent to the substrate layer, and opening surfaces of the plurality of limiting recesses are arranged substantially flush with one another.

Abstract: A centrifugal structure member of a microfluidic chip and a centrifuge are provided. The centrifugal structure member of a microfluidic chip includes: a connecting portion (10) configured to connect to a rotor of a centrifuge; a support portion (20) fixedly connected or integrally formed with the connecting portion (10), and having an inclined outer surface forming an included angle with the rotation axis (50) of the rotor of the centrifuge; and a mounting portion (30) connected with or formed on the inclined outer surface, and configured to detachably mount the microfluidic chip (40) on the support portion (20).

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses, for video decoding and encoding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to receive an image/video comprising one or more blocks and metadata for a machine task associated with the image/video. The metadata specifies neural network post-filtering characteristics for machine consumption. The processing circuitry decodes a first post-filtering parameter in the image/video corresponding to the one or more blocks to be reconstructed. The first post-filtering parameter applies to a block in the one or more blocks and has been updated by a post-filtering module in a post-filtering neural network (NN) that is trained based on a training dataset and the metadata. The processing circuitry determines the post-filtering NN in a video decoder corresponding to the one or more blocks based on the first post-filtering parameter, and decodes the block based on the determined post-filtering NN corresponding to the block and the metadata.