Abstract: Fibrous structures containing solid additives, and more particularly, fibrous structures containing two or more regions that comprise different average weight % levels of solid additives and methods for making same are provided.

Abstract: A dialysis system, comprising: a dialysis machine; a voice recognition component configured to identify a voice command in audio information received by a microphone of the dialysis system; an authentication component configured to determine a source of the voice command; and a processor configured to perform a function determined based on the voice command.

Abstract: Porous conductive resin is produced by: mixing a hydrogen bond donor compound and a hydrogen bond acceptor compound to produce deep eutectic liquid (DEL); adding conductive materials to the DEL to produce gel; adding resin that is insoluble in the DEL to the gel to produce ink made of the gel dispersed in the resin; forming the produced ink into a formed object having a desired shape; curing the resin in the formed object; and evaporating the DEL in the formed object including the cured resin.

Abstract: A method includes extracting, by an analysis computer, a dataset including initial vector representations for each of a plurality of user nodes and for each of a plurality of resource provider nodes. The analysis computer can then generate updated vector representations as new interaction data arrives over time, and use them to perform predictions of future interactions.

Abstract: A method comprises a compiler analyzing a graph to determine a pipeline of operators based on a shared dimension of input and output tensors among the operators. The operators are included in the graph and the graph corresponds to a dataflow application. The compiler determines a tiling decision associated with the pipeline and a tiling cost associated with the tiling decision. The tiling decision can comprise a tile shape to slice tensors of operators of the pipeline. Based on the tiling cost, the compiler determines that the tiling decision improves an optimization objective and includes the pipeline and tiling decision in mapping decisions associated with executing the application on a computing system. The compiler can apply a tiling cost model to determine the tiling costs. A computer program product and a computing system can implement the method.

Abstract: The invention provides a method and a system for generating a polarized propagation-invariant light field. The system includes a laser source, a spatial light modulator, a computer, a first lens, a shading element, a first quarter-wave plate, a second quarter-wave plate, a second lens, and a beam combining element. In the present invention, two Laguerre-Gaussian mode beams that satisfy a particular Gouy order relationship are generated, and orthogonal even polarization is applied to the two Laguerre-Gaussian mode beams. The two Laguerre-Gaussian mode beams are then focused onto a Ronchi grating to be stably combined into polarized propagation-invariant light field. The light field generated in the present invention simultaneously has linear polarization, elliptical polarization, and circular polarization in a cross section of the light field, and in a propagation process of the light field in free space, apart from normal spot size scaling, polarization distribution remains unchanged.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical imaging system and method based on spatial structure engineering of random light. The method includes performing scattering processing on transmitted light to obtain a to-be-measured light; splitting polarization of the to-be-measured light, wherein one light is split into x-polarized and y-polarized beams, and the other one is firstly combined with a reference beam and then split into x-polarized and y-polarized beams; measuring the intensity distributions of x-polarized and y-polarized parts of the to-be-measured light, the combined light, and the reference light; obtaining a real part and an imaginary part of the cross spectral density of the to-be-measured light, retrieving the intensity distribution of the light on the scattering medium and calculating the intensity to obtain the shape and location of the object to be measured.

Abstract: According to a computing method a compiler determines a recompute node included in a dataflow application and a checkpoint tensor produced by the recompute node. The compiler determines a recompute cost to recompute the checkpoint tensor, and a memory cost to checkpoint the checkpoint tensor in a memory. Based on the recompute cost and/or the memory cost, the compiler determines a solution cost and compares the solution cost to a solution threshold. Based on comparing the solution cost to the solution threshold, the compiler determines a checkpoint solution to execute the dataflow application. The checkpoint solution can comprise recomputing or checkpointing the checkpoint tensor. In some implementations, the compiler can determine a recompute ratio of the recompute cost to the memory cost and can compare the recompute ratio to the solution threshold. A computer program product and a computing system can implement aspects of the method.

Abstract: A method for improving throughput in a reconfigurable computing system includes detecting, in an algebraic representation of a computing task for a reconfigurable dataflow processor, an outer meta-pipeline loop, detecting an inner meta-pipeline loop nested within the outer meta-pipeline loop, and determining that the inner meta-pipeline loop and the outer meta-pipeline loop each conduct a common operation. The method also includes fusing the common operation for the inner meta-pipeline loop and the outer meta-pipeline loop into a single operation within the inner meta-pipeline loop. The instances of the common operation may be fused if the output of a first instance of the common operation is the source for a second instance of the common operation. Examples of the common operation include an accumulator operation, a re-read operation, and a temporal (chip buffer synchronized) operation such as a temporal concatenation operation and a temporal slicing operation.

Abstract: The invention discloses a spray cooling fan control system and method based on computer vision technology. The data acquisition system monitors person thermal comfort through various non-contact measurement methods, which improves the accuracy and instantaneity and achieves human thermal comfort and energy saving. The information processing system adjusts the air and spray volume based on human skin temperature and thermal sensation and plans the mobile path. The mobile control system moves the spray cooling fan to the optimal location so that the mobility and flexibility are enhanced. The intelligent voice interaction system and the end control system control the opening of the fan intelligently and humanely so that people become the main subject which controls the environmental temperature optimization equipment. Consequently, the invention cools person precisely and meets the thermal environment control and personnel thermal needs quickly.

Abstract: A method comprises a compiler determining operators and matrices of an application model. The compiler generates a dimension-based search space (DBSS) comprising Named Nodes corresponding to the operators. The Named Nodes comprise a Named DIM corresponding to a matrix associated with an operator. The Named DIM comprises a DIM Name corresponding to a dimension of a row or column of the matrix. The DBSS comprises an application programming interface (API) to determine operators, matrices, and/or attributes of operators/matrices of the application model using the DIM Names. The method includes the compiler determining the operator, the matrix, and the Named DIM and generating an entry in the DBSS that includes a Named Node corresponding to the operator, a Named DIM corresponding to the matrix and including the DIM Name. A computing system and/or a computer program product can implement the method.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for treating, sorting and recycling an oil-containing discharged catalyst. There is provided a method for treating, sorting and recycling an oil-containing discharged catalyst, wherein the method comprises the following steps: (A) cyclonic washing and on-line activation of a discharged catalyst; (B) cyclonic spinning solvent stripping of the catalyst; (C) gas stream acceleration sorting of a high activity catalyst; (D) cyclonic restriping and particle capture of the high activity catalyst; and (E) cooling of the gas and condensation removal of the solvent. There is further provided an apparatus for treating, sorting and recycling an oil-containing discharged catalyst.

Abstract: Described are a system, method, and computer program product for efficiently joining time-series data tables. The method includes loading a first table and a second table into a memory and generating a set of first key-value pairs based on a set of first time-series records and a set of second key-value pairs based on a set of second time-series records. The method also includes sorting the set of first key-value pairs and the set of second key-value pairs. The method further includes interleaving the set of first key-value pairs with the set of second key-value pairs and sequentially matching the sets of time-series records to form a joined table. The method further includes, in response to matching each respective second time-series record with the respective first time-series record, removing the respective second time-series record from the at least one memory.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a preparation method of nano-aluminum oxide (nano-Al2O3) with a controllable hydroxyl content, belonging to the technical field of nano-alumina. H2O2 dissolved in water dissociates a large number of hydroxyl radicals. In the present disclosure, a resulting H2O2 solution is used as a solvent for precipitation; during the precipitation, a soluble aluminum salt and a pore-enlarging agent are reacted to generate a precipitate under alkaline conditions, and the hydroxyl radicals are distributed on a surface of the precipitate. During drying, the hydroxyl radicals are converted into bound water and distributed on a surface and in pores of an aluminum hydroxide precursor; during roasting, the bound water is destroyed to form hydroxyl. The hydroxyl content of the nano-Al2O3 can be regulated by controlling a concentration of the H2O2 solution, and the nano-Al2O3 has the hydroxyl content positively correlated with the concentration of the H2O2 solution.

Abstract: A method in a reconfigurable computing system includes connecting a plurality of tensor consumers to their corresponding tensor producers via skip-buffers, which generates a plurality of skip-buffers. The method includes determining that at least one skip-buffer of the plurality of skip-buffers corresponding to a first set of tensor consumers and at least one skip-buffer of the plurality of skip-buffers corresponding to a second set of tensor consumers, are compatible to wholly or partially merge. The method also includes merging, wholly or partially, the compatible skip-buffers to produce a merged skip-buffer having a minimal buffer depth. The described method may reduce memory unit consumption and latency.

Abstract: A backlight control method for a surface light-emitting device is provided. The backlight control method includes generating a plurality of driving currents to drive the surface light-emitting device such that a plurality of backlight zones generate a plurality of brightness values, measuring the plurality of brightness values of the plurality of backlight zones, calculating a plurality of uniformities of the plurality of backlight zones according to the plurality of brightness values and setting a plurality of target uniformities, generating a plurality of adjustment values according to the plurality of uniformities, the plurality of target uniformities and a plurality of adjustment coefficients corresponding to the plurality of backlight zones, and generating a plurality of adjusted driving currents to drive the plurality of backlight zones according to the plurality of adjustment values and the plurality of driving currents.

Abstract: An article of manufacture making system for making an article of manufacture containing a plurality of dry solid additives, such as fibers, that utilizes a dry solid additive delivery system with a relatively low Stokes Number for the dry solid additives.

Abstract: Methods for selective silicon film deposition on a substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface are described. More specifically, the process of depositing a film, treating the film to change some film property and selectively etching the film from various surfaces of the substrate are described. The deposition, treatment and etching can be repeated to selectively deposit a film on one of the two substrate surfaces.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of transforming a high-level program for mapping onto a coarse-grained reconfigurable (CGR) processor with an array of CGR units, including sectioning a dataflow graph into a plurality of sections; extracting performance information for each of the plurality of sections; on a CGR unit: assigning to a section at least two computations dependent on a first data element; scheduling an additional load of the first data element in response to available memory bandwidth for that section; eliminating a buffer between the additional load of the first data element and one of the two computations, for that section; generating configuration data for the and communication channels, wherein the configuration data, when loaded onto an instance of the array of CGR units, causes the array of CGR units to implement the dataflow graph; and storing the configuration data in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a communication method and apparatus. In the method, the first network device receives a first position from a second network device, where the first position is a position of one or more subframes occupied by first information; determines a first offset and configures a multicast-broadcast single-frequency network (MBSFN) subframe, where the first offset is for determining a second position, the second position is a position obtained by offsetting the first position by the first offset, the first range is a position that supports configuration of the MBSFN subframe, and a position of the MBSFN subframe includes the second position; and sends the first offset and first MBSFN configuration information to the second network device. According to the method, the second network device may send the first information on the MBSFN subframe, to avoid time-frequency resource conflicts between the first information and a cell reference signal (CRS).