Abstract: Novel compounds of the structural formula (I), and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are inhibitors of Nav1.8 channel activity and may be useful in the treatment, prevention, management, amelioration, control and suppression of diseases mediated by Nav1.8 channel activity. The compounds of the present invention may be useful in the treatment, prevention or management of pain disorders, cough disorders, acute itch disorders, and chronic itch disorders.

Abstract: This application provides a positioning method and a related device. The method includes: A positioning device receives a positioning start message, where the positioning start message is used to trigger the positioning device to position a to-be-positioned device; the positioning device records a displacement parameter generated in a movement process of the positioning device, where the displacement parameter includes a displacement direction and a displacement distance; the positioning device receives, in the movement process, a radio signal sent by the to-be-positioned device; and the positioning device obtains a relative position relationship between the positioning device and the to-be-positioned device based on the recorded displacement parameter and the radio signal sent by the to-be-positioned device.

Abstract: The technology generally relates to disaggregating memory from an application specific integrated circuit (“ASIC”) package. For example, a high-bandwidth memory (“HBM”) optics module package may be connected to an ASIC package via one or more optical links. The HBM optics module package may include HBM dies(s), HBM chiplet(s) and an optical chiplet. The optical chiplet may be configured to connect the HBM optics module to one or more optical fibers that form an optical link with one or more other components of the ASIC package. By including an optical chiplet in the HBM optics module package, the HBM optics module package may be disaggregated from an ASIC package.

Abstract: An inhibitor composition contains alkyl thiophosphoric triamide (or a mixture of alkyl thiophosphoric triamide and dicyandiamide), dissolved in a liquid medium comprising at least one organic solvent, at least one amine stabilizer and, optionally, at least one dye and/or at least one odor masking agent, is useful in making fertilizer compositions and in a method of fertilizing target plants.

Abstract: The application provides a dispersed carrier phase-shifting method and system. The method includes connecting at least two power modules to form a modular system; each power module including a control module for sampling at least twice a common state variate, signs of slopes of the common state variate at a first and second sampling time are opposite, and a reference time of the first sampling time for each control module is the same; and regulating a carrier frequency of the power module according to a relative size between a sampled values at the first and second sampling time. According to embodiments herein, carrier phase-shifting of modular system may be implemented without communication between respective modules. Under closed-loop control, optimal carrier phase-shifting can be automatically achieved under various duty ratios, thereby having good stability.

Abstract: Novel compounds of the structural formula (I), and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are inhibitors of Nav1.8 channel activity and may be useful in the treatment, prevention, management, amelioration, control and suppression of diseases mediated by Nav1.8 channel activity. The compounds of the present invention may be useful in the treatment, prevention or management of pain disorders, cough disorders, acute itch disorders, and chronic itch disorders.

Abstract: A waterproof partition adapted to a button includes a waterproof film and a waterproof foam formed on a surface of the waterproof film and covering a periphery of the waterproof film. The waterproof foam is formed with an opening for providing a moving passage for pressing the button. The waterproof film has elasticity, and the waterproof film is annular.

Abstract: A display substrate, a preparation method and driving method therefor, and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a substrate and a switch structure arranged on the substrate, the switch structure being electrically connected to a control signal terminal, a signal input terminal and a signal output terminal. The switch structure comprises a switching unit. The switching unit comprises a first transistor and a second transistor; and the types of the first transistor and the second transistor are opposite. The first transistor comprises: a first active layer, a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode. The second transistor comprises: a second active layer, a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode.

Abstract: A method for ultrasound image processing having steps of receiving sequences of ultrasound images imaging an anatomical feature of interest during two cardiac cycles one in the absence of, and the other in the presence of, an invasive medical device in said ultrasound images, each ultrasound image corresponding to a different phase of said cardiac cycle. The invasive medical device may at least partially obscure the anatomical feature of interest for each ultrasound image of the further sequence. The location of the invasive medical device is tracked and isolated in the ultrasound image, and the isolated invasive medical device is inserted into an ultrasound image of the first sequence of a corresponding phase of the cardiac cycle in the tracked location. The method also controls a display device to display the first sequence of ultrasound images including the inserted invasive medical device.

Abstract: An array substrate includes a base substrate; a common electrode layer including a plurality of common electrodes, arranged in an array, a part of which being also used as first touch electrodes and another part of which being also used as second touch electrodes; a first conductive layer including a plurality of electrode connecting lines, each row of first touch electrodes being coupled serially by at least one electrode connecting line; and a second conductive layer including a plurality of first touch signal lines and a plurality of second touch signal lines, each row of first touch electrodes being coupled to at least one first touch signal line which is configured to transmit a first touch signal; each second touch electrode or each column of second touch electrodes being coupled to at least one second touch signal line which is configured to transmit a second touch signal.

Abstract: A system includes a factory interface, an etching tool, and at least one measuring device. The factory interface is configured to carry a wafer. The etching tool is coupled to the factory interface and configured to process the wafer transferred from the factory interface. The at least one measuring device is equipped in the factory interface, the etching tool, or the combination thereof. The at least one measuring device is configured to perform real-time measurements of reflectance from the wafer that is carried in the factory interface or the etching tool.

Abstract: Coherent optical communications technology for recovery of 1D and 2D formatted optical signals. For example, 1D or 2D formatted signals that travel through fiber optic media may be recovered by separating the light into X- and Y-polarization components, rotating one polarization component (e.g., Y-component) into the polarization space of the other component (e.g., Y-component into the X-polarization space), delaying the rotated component enough to avoid destructive interference and combining the delayed component with the undelayed component to form a folded optical signal, which may then be processed as a X-polarized signal.

Abstract: The technology generally relates to determining a status of an optical channel between two components. For example, the components may be connected via an optical link including a plurality of optical channels. A first portion of the optical channels may be in use such that a second portion of the optical channels may be redundant channels. The component may include a test generator that transmits and receives a data pattern over each channel. The test generator may determine, based on the received data pattern, a status of each of the channels. If the status of a given channel is a failure status, the component may divert data for the given channel to a redundant channel.

Abstract: A method of generating an impulse for impulse radio transmission signals and an impulse-radio ultra-wideband transmitter are provided. In one aspect, the method includes distributing input digital data according to time information data and amplitude information data along a first modulation path and a second modulation path, respectively. Pulse position modulation is performed based on the time information data along the first modulation path to define a timing position of the impulse. Pulse amplitude modulation is performed based on the amplitude information data along the second modulation path to define an envelope of the impulse. The input digital data can be distributed according to phase information data along a third modulation path, and phase shift keying modulation can be performed based on the phase information data along the third modulation path to define a phase of a carrier signal of the impulse.

Abstract: Disclosed is use of a thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidin-4-one compound represented by general formula (I). Definition of each substituent is as stated in the description and claims, and the compound is used for preparing medicines for treating and/or preventing liver fibrosis and related diseases or preparing a DPP-4 inhibitor, or is used as a DPP-4 inhibitor.

Abstract: A micro-power wireless access method and apparatus for the Internet of things for power transmission and transformation equipment involves a time synchronization process, a traffic channel access process, a control channel configuration information access process, and a control channel burst information access process. In the time synchronization process, an aggregation node determines a delay parameter and other parameters based on a timeslot in which traffic information randomly transmitted by a sensing terminal is located, and the sensing terminal adjusts transmission time of a corresponding frame based on the parameters. The traffic channel access process adopts a mode in which one-way reporting is mainly used, to minimize working time of a sensor. The present disclosure realizes limited two-way communication on a control channel, supports configuration of a sensor cycle, a threshold, and other parameters, and supports a retransmission mechanism on the control channel for important alarm information.

Abstract: An ultrasound image processing apparatus includes an image processor arrangement that receives a plurality of ultrasound images. Each ultrasound image shows an invasive medical device relative to an anatomical feature during a cardiac cycle. At different phases of the cardiac cycle, the anatomical feature has a different shape. The ultrasound processing apparatus compiles groups of the ultrasound images with ultrasound images in each group belonging to the same phase of the cardiac cycle. The ultrasound image processing apparatus generates an augmented ultrasound image from one of the ultrasound images by removing a shadow region on the anatomical feature of interest caused by the invasive medical device based on a displacement of the invasive medical device.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for estimating parameters of a resonant converter. The resonant converter has first, second port, and a resonant tank that includes an equivalent resonant capacitor and an equivalent resonant inductor, the method including: estimating a second voltage estimation value of the second port, an equivalent resonant capacitor estimation value, and/or an equivalent resonant inductor estimation value of the resonant converter according to a first voltage of the first port, an equivalent resonant capacitor voltage and an equivalent resonant inductor current of at least three effective points, wherein the points have different coordinates on a state plane of the equivalent resonant capacitor voltage and the equivalent resonant inductor current, and are on a state trajectory formed by the equivalent resonant capacitor voltage and the equivalent resonant inductor current, and the points are not central symmetric about a center of the state trajectory.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology for determining stress on integrated circuits. These include using ring oscillators formed on the integrated circuit, where one ring oscillator has its frequency dependent on the current flowing through its stages being limited by its NMOS devices and another ring oscillator has its frequency dependent on the current flowing through its stages being limited by its PMOS devices. This allows the stress on the integrated circuit to be determined in different directions along the integrated circuit. A temperature sensor can be used to compensate for temperature dependence on the frequencies of the ring oscillators.

Abstract: Methods for forming conformal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) receive coil devices having at least one receive coil with at least one capacitor are provided and include providing a 3-dimensional (3D) mold structure matching a curvilinear shape of interest, and forming a receive coil pattern on an outer surface of the 3D mold structure. The forming of the receive coil pattern may include spraying and/or depositing a conductive material and a dielectric material on the outer surface of the mold structure to form the receive coil pattern. The forming a receive coil pattern may include forming the receive coil pattern on an outer surface of a flat substrate sheet, and vacuum forming an inner surface of the flat substrate sheet to the outer surface of the mold structure to form a shape-conforming substrate sheet. The shape-conforming substrate sheet may be removed from the mold and used in MRI studies.