Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of producing photocatalysts for degrading NOx. According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the method comprises mixing a transitional metal or its oxide with a bone powder or a shell powder, followed by heating the mixture for at least 12 hours to dehydrate the mixture, and calcinating the dehydrated product for 1-5 hours. In certain embodiments, the bone powder is mixed with titanium dioxide at the weight ratio of 1:1. In certain embodiments, the shell powder is mixed with titanium dioxide at the weight ratio of 0.5:1 to 2:1 (w/w).

Abstract: A terminal structure includes a terminal body, a locking means formed on at least one face of the terminal body, an insertion unit extending from a first end of the terminal body, and a holding mechanism extending from a second end of the terminal body. The insertion unit is mounted on a circuit board. The circuit board defines multiple conducting holes. The insertion unit is inserted into and locked in one of the conducting holes of the circuit board. The holding mechanism includes two opposite clamping arms and a clamping space defined between the two clamping arms. An electronic element is held by the holding mechanism. The electronic element has multiple lead legs. One of the lead legs of the electronic element is clamped between the two clamping arms and held in the clamping space.

Abstract: Techniques for detecting a digital pseudo-random sequence (PRS) using fast locking, including repeatedly computing a first PRS seed based on an ADC output, generating a PRS sequence based on the first seed, computing a second PRS seed based on the sequence, and comparing the sequence to the ADC output (comparison results may be provided as a bool signal), until the sequence matches the ADC output. Thereafter, the technique may include re-computing the sequence based on the second seed, re-computing the second seed based on the re-computed sequence and comparing the re-computed sequence to the ADC output. The technique may further include setting a lock when a threshold number of sequences computed from the second seed match the ADC output, and reverting to computing the sequence based on the first seed if a sequence computed from the second seed does not match the ADC output and the lock is not set.

Abstract: An electrical connector is provided, including an insulating body, multiple terminals, and a metallic plate. The insulating body has a base portion and a tongue portion. The terminals are disposed at the insulating body and extending from the base portion to the tongue portion, respectively. Portions of the terminals exposed from the tongue portion are configured to be mated with terminals of another electrical connector. The metallic plate is disposed in the insulating body. The terminals are divided into two groups by the metallic plate. The metallic plate has at least one strip connecting portion, and the strip connecting portion exposes at the base portion of the insulating body.

Abstract: A metastable, translucent flavor nanoemulsion is provided. The nanoemulsion contains a flavor oil phase, an aqueous phase, and a surfactant system containing a first lecithin and a second lecithin. The nanoemulsion is free of any non-natural surfactant. The surfactant system contains free fatty acid 15% or less. The first lecithin has an HLB of 1 to 8, and the second lecithin has an HLB of 8 to 16 and contains phosphatidylcholine and lysophosphatidylcholine 20% or greater. Also disclosed are a method for preparing the nanoemulsion and use of the nanoemulsion in liquid beverages and liquid beverage concentrates.

Abstract: Techniques are described for invoking and switching between chatbots of a chatbot system. In some embodiments, the chatbot system is capable of routing an utterance received while a user is already interacting with a first chatbot in the chatbot system. For instance, the chatbot system may identify a second chatbot based on determining that (i) such an utterance is an invalid input to the first chatbot or (ii) that the first chatbot is attempting to route the utterance to a destination associated with the first chatbot. Identifying the second chatbot can involve computing, using a predictive model, separate confidence scores for the first chatbot and the second chatbot, and then determining that a confidence score for the second chatbot satisfies one or more confidence score thresholds. The utterance is then routed to the second chatbot based on the identifying of the second chatbot.

Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing in the metallic shell, a plurality of terminals at the insulated housing, and a metallic plate. The terminals are arranged in two rows, and the metallic plate is at the insulated housing and between the terminals in the two rows. The metallic plate includes a through hole at a front portion of the tongue portion. The through hole has several through portions and a communication portion between the through portions. By allowing that the communication portion to be in communication with the through portions to form a through hole in an elongated shape, the molding efficiency for forming the tongue portion with the filling of the plastic materials can be increased.

Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, a plurality of terminals, and a metallic plate. The terminals and the metallic plate are at the insulated housing. The terminals are held at the insulated housing and arranged into two rows. The metallic plate is at a tongue portion of the insulated housing and between the terminals which are arranged into two rows. The metallic plate has a main body and a plurality of extension portions. Each of the extension portions extends outwardly from the main body and corresponds to a protrusion of a corresponding one of the terminals. A distance between each of the protrusions and a corresponding one of the extension portions is less than a distance between each of the contact portions and the corresponding one of the extension portions. A retaining spacing is between the protrusions of the terminals and the extension portions of the metallic plate.

Abstract: An electronic device and a control method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes: a screen (100), where the screen (100) includes a bendable flexible screen portion (110); and a cam (200), where the cam (200) is provided on a back side of the flexible screen portion (110) and is configured to support the flexible screen portion (110), and the cam (200) is able to rotate between a first state and a second state; in a case that the cam (200) is in the first state, the flexible screen portion (110) is curved; and in a case that the cam (200) is in the second state, the flexible screen portion (110) is flat.

Abstract: A molding method of a support rod that first passing a plurality of long fibers through a resin bath for impregnating with resin, then passing the plurality of long fibers impregnated with resin through a bundling hole of a position-constrained vertical plate on a machine to preliminarily form a bundle end; providing a coating layer on the machine, one end of the coating layer obliquely passes through a guiding portion on the position-constrained vertical plate to downwardly contact the bundle end; then placing the one end of the coating layer and the bundle end into a mold cavity of a mold at the same time to form a long rod body; and then cutting the long rod body into multi-segment support rods through a cutting process.

Abstract: An electrical connector configured to be assembled to a circuit board is provided. The electrical connector includes an insulating body having a base and a tongue, a plurality of terminals disposed in the insulating body, a first metal shell covering the insulating body, and a second metal shell covering the insulating body and the first metal shell. The first metal shell has a plurality of soldering feet soldered to the circuit board, and the second metal shell has a plurality of second metal pin soldered to the circuit board. The first and the second metal pin are beside the base and away from the tongue. At least one of the first metal shell and the insulating body has a supporting portion abutting against a non-conducting portion of the circuit board. The supporting portion is close to the tongue and away from the base.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of producing photocatalysts for degrading NOx. According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the method comprises mixing a transitional metal or its oxide with a bone powder or a shell powder, followed by heating the mixture for at least 12 hours to dehydrate the mixture, and calcinating the dehydrated product for 1-5 hours. In certain embodiments, the bone powder is mixed with titanium dioxide at the weight ratio of 1:1. In certain embodiments, the shell powder is mixed with titanium dioxide at the weight ratio of 0.5:1 to 2:1 (w/w).

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of producing photocatalysts for degrading NOx. According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the method comprises mixing a transitional metal or its oxide with a bone powder or a shell powder, followed by heating the mixture for a least 12 hours to dehydrate the mixture, and calcinating the dehydrated product for 1-5 hours. Also disclosed herein are methods of degrading NOx by using the thus-produced photocatalysts. Materials used doped with the transitional metal or its oxide are bone powder and shell powder, which is derived from animals (a chicken, a cow, a pig, a duck, a sheep, a donkey, or a horse) and shells from different species of sea water (a shrimp, a crab, a clam, a barnacle, a snail, an abalone, or an oyster), respectively.

Abstract: A preparation method for high-strength and low-modulus ?-type Si-containing titanium alloy involves: preparing an alloy component with, in atomic percentage, 60-70% of Ti, 10-20% of Nb, 5-15% of Zr, 1-10% of Ta and 1-5% of Si and using sponge titanium, sponge zirconium, a tantalum-niobium intermediate alloy and silicon as raw materials, and then uniformly smelting the alloy components to obtain a solidified ingot; then, subjecting the resulting ingot to plastic deformation with a deformation temperature of 800-900° C. and a deformation rate of 60-80%, and water-quenching same to room temperature; and finally, heating the resulting test sample to a recrystallization temperature, maintaining the temperature for 1-4 h, and carrying out an annealing treatment and air-cooling same to room temperature to obtain the high-strength and low-modulus ?-type Si-containing titanium alloy. The resulting titanium alloy is more suitable for use as a medical implant material.

Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, a plurality of receptacle terminals, and a metallic shell. A hollow portion is between a base portion and a tongue portion of the insulated housing, and body portions of the receptacle terminals penetrate through the base portion and the tongue portion and are partially exposed from the hollow portion. The metallic shell covers the insulated housing and covers the hollow portion to form a potting space at the hollow portion. The metallic shell has a potting opening corresponding to the potting space. When a sealing body is poured into the potting opening, the sealing body is provided between the insulated housing and the receptacle terminals. Hence, the waterproof function of the electrical receptacle connector can be achieved.

Abstract: A processing system includes a controller of a transmitting module for transmitting data to a receiving module across an interconnect compliant with a processor interconnect protocol. The controller indicates the beginning and end of a variable-length data burst using data primitives that are N symbols (bytes) in length, rather than using data primitives that are M symbols in length, as specified by the processor interconnect protocol, where N<M. The controller of the transmitting module signals the beginning of a data burst by sending a short primitive indicating either the beginning of a data burst or signaling the receiving module to reset error detection logic so that error detection information based on the data burst can be calculated. The controller automatically inserts another short primitive indicating the end of a data burst when there is no data to transmit, thus accommodating data bursts of variable lengths.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a display screen, a deformation driving part and a camera module. The display screen includes a first region and a second region which are connected, a display surface of the first region is a first plane, a portion of the second region is a deformable region, the deformation driving part drives the deformable region to be switched between a flattening state and a bending state. When the deformable region is in the flattening state, a display surface of the deformable region is a second plane located within the same plane with the first plane. When the deformable region is in the bending state, the deformable region is a curved surface, a light transmitting region is arranged in the deformable region. When the deformable region is in the flattening state, ambient light passing through the light transmitting region is projected to the camera module.

Abstract: This application relates generally to automated systems and associated methods for identifying hematological abnormalities. An automated system can include at least one processor that, in operation, is configured to: receive, from a flow cytometer, a flow cytometry data matrix characterizing a tube that is associated with a sample; convert the flow cytometry data matrix into a high dimensional vector; produce a single sample high dimensional vector including a concatenation of multiple high dimensional vectors associated with the sample, wherein the multiple high dimensional vectors comprise the tube high dimensional vector; assemble a training data set including multiple sample high dimensional vectors; receive, from a datastore, outcome information including respective labels associated with each of the multiple sample high dimensional vectors; and train a classifier based on the training data set and the outcome information.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical connector configured to be mated with another electrical connector along a mating axis. The electrical connector includes an insulating body, a plurality of terminals, a first shell, and a water-proof member. The insulating body includes a first part and a second part separated from each other along the mating axis to form a gap between the first part and the second part along the mating axis. The plurality of terminals are disposed through the insulating body. The first shell is sleeved on the insulating body. The first shell, the first part, and the second part form a closed space at the gap. The water-proof member is disposed at the insulating body and located in the closed space.

Abstract: Provided is an electrical connector including an insulator, a plurality of terminals disposed in the insulator, a first housing surrounding the insulator and the terminals, a waterproof sealant, and a second housing disposed on the first housing. The first housing has a connecting port and a flange. The connecting port is configured to connect to another electrical connector, and the flange is disposed along the connecting port. The waterproof sealant is disposed onto the first housing along the connecting port and abutting the flange. The waterproof sealant is kept at a distance from the second housing.