Abstract: The present disclosure encompasses compositions and methods for effectively treating at least one symptom or sign of A? plaque or cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) associated symptoms, or for decreasing amyloid plaque load or CAA load. The method comprises administering an effective amount of an anti-ApoE antibody to a mammalian subject, such as to a human.

Abstract: A method (300) for adjusting a detection area of an image to be captured by an image capturing device (402) comprises: detecting person appearances in the detection area from input images previously captured by the image capturing device (402) over a period of time (302); generating a map corresponding to the detection area based on the person appearances, wherein the map comprises a measure of the person appearances detected in each of a plurality of portions of the detection area across the input images (304); determining if a ratio of unutilized portions to the plurality of portions exceeds a threshold ratio (306); and adjusting the detection area such that a focus area within the detection area comprising a part of utilized portions is positioned at a center of the adjusted detection area of the image to be captured in response to the determination (308).

Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-load wireless power transfer system based on high-order Anti-PT symmetry. By introducing a “W-shaped” anti-resonance mode into a basic WPT platform, an effective Anti-PT non-Hermitian system is conveniently constructed. The “level attraction” of the anti-resonance mode is combined with the “level splitting” of the anti-resonance mode and the resonance mode, to study the “level pinning” effect of high-order Anti-PT symmetry. Compared with the traditional resonant WPT, the anti-resonant WPT has higher security, stability, transfer efficiency, and flexibility. Considering the miniaturization and integration of devices, a “meta coil” is designed by using a “synthetic dimension”, and used to construct a high-order Anti-PT symmetric system, thereby achieving multi-load efficient WPT. The new WPT technology based on the “level pinning” effect of high-order Anti-PT symmetry provides a good application research platform for enriching non-Hermitian physics.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optimization method and system for minimizing network energy consumption based on traffic grooming. The method includes: generating a set of service requests in an elastic optical network, and calculating a reachable node set of shortest paths from source to destination nodes for each service request; establishing a virtual reachable path in the reachable node set of shortest paths; and establishing a target function of an integer linear programming model of the minimizing network energy consumption, and sequentially determining whether a bandwidth capacity constraint of a single spectrum slot, a path uniqueness constraint, a spectrum allocation constraint, and an optical regenerator quantity constraint are satisfied, where if all constraints are satisfied, the service request is successfully established, or if any of the constraints is not satisfied, the service request fails to be established. The present invention helps to improve the energy efficiency of service requests.

Abstract: A device structure may include an interconnect-level dielectric material layer located over a substrate, a first metal interconnect structure embedded in the interconnect-level dielectric material layer and including a first metallic barrier liner and a first metallic fill material portion, and an overlying dielectric material layer. An opening in the overlying dielectric material layer may be formed entirely within an area of the first metallic barrier layer and outside the area of the first metallic fill material portion to reduce plasma damage. A second metal interconnect structure contacting a top surface of the first metallic barrier liner may be formed in the opening. An entirety of a top surface the first metallic fill material portion contacts a bottom surface of the overlying dielectric material layer.

Abstract: An application of an OBF1 transcription factor in chromosome doubling of a plant and a transgenic plant cultivation method are provided. The gene sequence of the OBF1 transcription factor is shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; and the plant includes petunias, tomatoes, and tobaccoes. An OBF1 gene is introduced into plant cells or tissues, and under treatment with kanamycin, a chromosome-doubled transgenic cell line or plant is obtained; and the transgenic plant grows vigorously and exhibits resistance to biotic stress. After treatment according to the present invention, plants still easily self-pollinate, thus enabling efficient separation of doubled offspring plants, and the doubling trait can be stably inherited.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display apparatus, and belongs to the field of display technology. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel units each including a plurality of subpixels. At least one subpixel in at least one pixel unit is adjacent to at least two support parts, an angle is formed between connection lines respectively connecting centers of the at least two support parts adjacent to the at least one subpixel and a center of the subpixel, and two angles adjacent in a first direction have different orientations.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for ranging are described. A multi-phase distributed ranging technique includes transmitting and receiving vehicle information messages during a first time interval, where the vehicle information messages include at least a vehicle identifier and resource information. The multi-phase technique further includes transmitting and receiving ranging signals during a second time interval, and determining times of arrival of received ranging signals. A centralized ranging technique includes receiving resource assignments from an access point, transmitting ranging signals according to the resource assignments, and determining times of arrival of received ranging signals.

Abstract: A communication server and accompanying communication devices allow near instantaneous communication between users of the communication devices. A communication device may be configured with multiple channels, where each channel is assigned a corresponding communication device. As the communication devices are registered with the communication server, each communication device has knowledge of other registered communication devices. Thus, communication devices may communicate nearly instantaneously with each other. Furthermore, as the communication device is equipped with multiple channels, a single communication device may host a conference call with other communication devices. In addition, communication device may include multiple buttons to control the communication device, and indicator lights to indicate the status of calls with other communication devices.

Abstract: A SNP molecular marker combination for identifying an AA broiler includes 25 SNP molecular markers, SNP sites of the SNP molecular markers 1 to 25 are located at a 51st position of each of nucleotide sequences shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 to 25. The SNP molecular marker combination for identifying the AA broiler in the disclosure has apparent species specificity of the AA broiler, is a unique mutation and importance determining site for the AA broiler, and can quickly identify authenticity of the AA broiler with less genotype information, providing new technical references for the identification, conservation, and genetic breeding of chicken breeds in the future.

Abstract: Compounds for use in treating or preventing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are disclosed. The compounds have the following formula (I) including stereoisomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, L, W1, W2, X, Y, and Z are as defined herein. Methods associated with the preparation and use of such compounds, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to compounds, of Formula I. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds and methods of making said compounds. The compounds of the disclosure are useful in treating or preventing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate supporting 8-bit floating point format for parallel computing and stochastic rounding operations in a graphics architecture is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor comprising: a decoder to decode an instruction fetched for execution into a decoded instruction, wherein the decoded instruction is a matrix instruction that is to operate on 8-bit floating point operands to perform a parallel dot product operation; a scheduler to schedule the decoded instruction and provide input data for the 8-bit floating point operands in accordance with an 8-bit floating data format indicated by the decoded instruction; and circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to perform 32-way dot-product using 8-bit wide dot-product layers, each 8-bit wide dot-product layer comprises one or more sets of interconnected multipliers, shifters, and adders, wherein each set of multipliers, shifters, and adders is to generate a dot product of the 8-bit floating point operands.

Abstract: A display panel, having a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area, includes: a driving backplane, comprising a substrate and a transistor layer, a first conductive layer, a first planarization layer and a second conductive layer sequentially provided in a direction away from the substrate; and a light-emitting device, provided on a side of the second conductive layer away from the substrate and located in the display area; wherein the light-emitting device comprises a first electrode, a light-emitting layer and a second electrode stacked in sequence in the direction away from the substrate; the first electrode is connected to at least one of the transistors through the second conductive layer, and the second electrode is connected to the second conductive line.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a flow control method for a high-accuracy and high-stiffness hydrostatic device, comprising: a main body and an auxiliary body; the upper surface of the main body forms a first flow channel, and a lug boss is formed on the first flow channel; the upper surface of the main body forms a second flow channel; the middle of the main body is concave down to form a pressure stabilizing cavity; the end of the first flow channel is provided with first throttling holes; the second flow channel is provided with a main oil hole; the first flow channel is provided with an oil distribution channel; the lug boss is provided with a second throttling hole; a bump matched with a bearing platform is formed on the bottom of the auxiliary body; a film sheet is arranged between the bump and the bearing platform; and the surface of the bump is provided with a groove.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a chip having a semiconductor substrate and a thermoelectric module embedded in the semiconductor substrate, where the thermoelectric module includes a first semiconductor structure electrically connected to a second semiconductor structure, where a bottom portion of thermoelectric module extends through a thickness of the semiconductor substrate, and where the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure include dopants of different conductivity types.

Abstract: A damping device is provided. The damping device includes a damper including a mechanical deflector. The damping device includes a post coupled to the mechanical deflector. The damping device includes a case in which the damper is disposed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to vaccines and related polynucleotides useful in eliciting an immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and related methods of use. The vaccine formulations further comprise DNA vectors encoding SARS-Cov-2 spike protein variants comprising single amino acid substitutions and polynucleotides which encode an adjuvant, further wherein the vaccine is formulated with a proteolipid vesicle or fusogenic membrane protein.

Abstract: A processor-implemented method for image or text processing includes receiving, by an artificial neural network (ANN) model, a set of tokens corresponding to an input. A token interaction block of the ANN model processes the set of tokens according to each channel of the input to generate a spatial mixture of a set of features for each channel of the input. A feed forward network block of the ANN model generates a mixture of channel features based on the spatial mixture of the set of features for each channel of the input. An attention block of the ANN model determines a set of attended features of the mixture of channel features according to a set of attention weights. In turn, the ANN model generates an inference based on the set of attend features of the mixture of channel features.