Abstract: A method including pre-screening second images from a database for a search result based on a first image and also based on respective substring distances between first binary substrings for the first image and respective second binary substrings for each of the second images. The method further can include after the pre-screening, determining a respective image distance for each third image of third images of the search result, wherein the respective image distance is between the first image and the each third image of the third images of the search result, and after determining the respective image distance for each third image of the third images of the search result, when the respective image distance for a particular one of the third images is greater than a predetermined image distance threshold, removing the particular one of the third images from the search result before the search result is displayed on a user device requesting the search result. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: An electronic circuit breaker is configured to provide a fail-safe mode. It comprises at least one overvoltage component, a temperature sensor attached to the at least one overvoltage component and a sensing and control circuit configured to monitor temperatures of the at least one overvoltage component. There are two criteria to decide if the electronic circuit breaker should open, when either criterion is met. The first criteria is if monitored temperatures exceed max safe temperature at any time and the second criteria is if the monitored temperatures increase at two different time moments during start up.

Abstract: An image sensor array and circuit design and method employing a voltage and current detection circuit capable of quantifying a power signal, grounding signal, internal reference voltage and internal reference current. An image sensor comprising the invented circuit design may be incorporated within a digital camera.

Abstract: An ultrasonic surgical instrument has an easily assembled cannula assembly. The instrument includes an ultrasonic cutter bar for transmitting ultrasonic mechanical energy, wherein the cannula assembly is coaxially mounted around the ultrasonic cutter bar, and the cannula assembly is provided with the jaw at a distal end thereof and a handle assembly at a proximal end thereof. The cannula assembly has an integral structure and is connected to the handle assembly by means of a connecting mechanism. The integral cannula assembly can reduce assembly procedures, simplify a mounting structure, reduce complex structures, generally reduce the cost of manufacturing instruments, and reduce the wound on patients.

Abstract: Online ride-hailing and invoice issuing methods, systems and apparatuses are provided. An example method comprises: receiving a first ride-hailing request from a user terminal, wherein the first ride-hailing request includes one or more transport capacity types, one or more online ride-hailing service providers providing the corresponding one or more transport capacity types, a start location and a destination location; sending one or more second ride-hailing requests to one or more online ride-hailing service platforms corresponding to the one or more online ride-hailing service providers according to the one or more transport capacity types and the one or more online ride-hailing service providers; receiving one or more second ride-hailing response messages returned by one or more of the one or more online ride-hailing service platforms; and returning a first ride-hailing message to the user terminal based on the second one or more ride-hailing response messages.

Abstract: The present invention relates to recombinant cyanobacterial cells for the production of a chemical compound of interest. In particular, the present invention relates to genetic modifications that introduce one or more heterologous phosphopantetheinyl transferases (PPTases) into a cyanobacterial cell. These cells can, optionally, further comprise heterologous carrier protein and nucleic acid constructs that provide the cyanobacterial cells with the capability of producing chemicals of interest or compounds of interest, such secondary metabolites polyketides, nonribosomal peptides and their hybrids, the three major families of bioactive natural products, of cyanobacteria and other bacterial phyla, secondary metabolites analogs, and unnatural compounds.

Abstract: An ultrasound image tracking completeness system includes an ultrasound imaging probe that acquires images during an examination, an imaging probe sensor coupled to the ultrasound imaging probe and that tracks a position and an orientation of the ultrasound imaging probe, and a display to display images acquired by the ultrasound imaging probe. The system also includes a processor programmed to calculate a probe speed threshold at which the ultrasound imaging probe may be moved while acquiring images during the examination, track the position and orientation of the ultrasound imaging probe during the examination by monitoring the imaging probe sensor, determine a movement speed of the ultrasound imaging probe during the examination, and if the movement speed of the ultrasound imaging probe exceeds the probe speed threshold, issue a warning to an operator.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a control module of a wafer transport system, an indication of wafer transporting; calculating, by the control module, a route for transporting a first wafer carrier according to the indication; moving, by a control unit of a wafer transport device of the wafer transport system, the wafer transport device to a first stocker storing the first wafer carrier along the route; performing, by the control unit, a safety monitoring process during a movement of the wafer transport device; stopping, by the control unit, the wafer transport device in front of the first stocker; and identifying, by an identification device of the wafer transport device, the first wafer carrier loaded on a rack of the wafer transport device.

Abstract: Online ride-hailing and invoice issuing methods, systems and apparatuses are provided. An example method comprises: receiving a first ride-hailing request from a user terminal, wherein the first ride-hailing request includes one or more transport capacity types, one or more online ride-hailing service providers providing the corresponding one or more transport capacity types, a start location and a destination location; sending one or more second ride-hailing requests to one or more online ride-hailing service platforms corresponding to the one or more online ride-hailing service providers according to the one or more transport capacity types and the one or more online ride-hailing service providers; receiving one or more second ride-hailing response messages returned by one or more of the one or more online ride-hailing service platforms; and returning a first ride-hailing message to the user terminal based on the second one or more ride-hailing response messages.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of any one of Formulae (A), (I-11), (II), and (V) (e.g., compounds of Formula (A-1)-(A-18)), and methods for treating Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM) and other B cell neoplasm in a subject using the compounds. The methods comprise administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of the compounds. Also provided are methods to treat B cell neoplasms using the compounds in combination with inhibitors of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK), interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 1 (IRAK1), interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 4 (IRAK4), bone marrow on X chromosome kinase (BMX), phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), transforming growth factor b-activated kinase-1 (TAK1), and/or a Src family kinase.