Abstract: Described is a process to clean up junction interfaces for fabricating semiconductor devices involving forming low-resistance electrical connections between vertically separated regions. An etch can be performed to remove silicon oxide on silicon surface at the bottom of a recessed feature. Described are methods and apparatus for etching up the bottom oxide of a hole or trench while minimizing the effects to the underlying epitaxial layer and to the dielectric layers on the field and the corners of metal gate structures. The method for etching features involves a reaction chamber equipped with a combination of capacitively coupled plasma and inductive coupled plasma. CHxFy gases and plasma are used to form protection layer, which enables the selectively etching of bottom silicon dioxide by NH3—NF3 plasma. Ideally, silicon oxide on EPI is removed to ensure low-resistance electric contact while the epitaxial layer and field/corner dielectric layers are—etched only minimally or not at all.

Abstract: This application provides a method and a device for cost early warning of a prefabricated building. The method includes: acquiring price information of materials of components in different purchase periods, and performing statistics on the price information to acquire a price change trend corresponding to the material of each component; acquiring a current price, a bid price, a cost profit and loss of the material purchased for a construction project, a quantity of the material remained and a pre-made component production plan, and generating a procurement plan according to the price change trend, the current price, and the bid price, the cost profit and loss of the material purchased, the quantity of the material remained and the pre-made component production plan; calculating a real-time cost profit and loss of the construction project according to the procurement plan, the bid price, and the cost profit and loss of the material purchased.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a two-component polyurethane adhesive composition and a bonding method thereof. The two-component polyurethane adhesive composition includes A) a polyol component, and B) an isocyanate component. The polyol component includes A1) one or more polyether polyols, and the isocyanate component includes B1) a first isocyanate prepolymer, wherein the first isocyanate prepolymer is polymerized from isocyanate and a non-linear chain extender. The two-component polyurethane adhesive composition of the present disclosure has good mechanical properties, in particular, high G modulus and high elongation. The polyol component in the two-component polyurethane adhesive composition has good phase stability, and good miscibility with the isocyanate component. The two-component polyurethane adhesive composition of the present disclosure can be used for the production and manufacture of mechanical parts such as automobile components.

Abstract: A control system of a self-driving tractor can access sensor data to determine a set of trailer configuration parameters of a cargo trailer coupled to the self-driving tractor. Based on the set of trailer configuration parameters, the control system can configure a motion planning model for autonomously controlling the acceleration, braking, and steering systems of the tractor.

Abstract: A sensor assembly can include a housing that includes a view pane and a mounting feature configured to replace a trailer light of a cargo trailer of a semi-trailer truck. The sensor assembly can also include a lighting element mounted within the housing to selectively generate light, and a sensor mounted within the housing and having a field of view through the view pane. The sensor assembly can also include a communication interface configured to transmit sensor data from the sensor to a control system of the self-driving tractor.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a colored glass and a preparation method thereof. The colored glass comprises a glass substrate, layer Aed structure and a Ti alloy layer, wherein the layered structure and the Ti alloy layer are laminated on the surface of the glass substrate; the layered structure comprises alternately stacked layer A and layer B; the layer A is a SiC or NiO layer; the layer B is an MN layer, a GaN layer, a ZrO2 layer or an Nb2O5 layer; the layer A is in contact with the glass substrate, the layer B is in contact with the Ti alloy layer. The color of the glass is controlled by adjusting the thickness of the layer A and the layer B in the layered structure. The Ti alloy layer has high reflectivity, which can make the colored glass bright in color, and has a certain protective and corrosion-resistant effect.

Abstract: A method for handling image data of an electronic device includes an imaging device of the electronic device acquiring a plurality of images and continuing to acquire additional images after acquiring the plurality of images, and, while the additional images are continuously acquired by the imaging device, one or more processors of the electronic device storing first image data that correspond to the acquired plurality of images to a storage device of the electronic device, processing the plurality of images to generate second image data, and transmitting the second image data to a remote device. The second image data has a smaller data size than the first image data.

Abstract: An encoding method includes obtaining an image frame to be encoded. The image frame includes one or more image blocks. The method further includes determining one or more complexities of the one or more image blocks. Each of the one or more complexities corresponds to one of the one or more image blocks. The method also includes encoding the one or more image blocks based on the one or more complexities.

Abstract: An image processing system includes an image sensor including an image output interface, an interface extension device including an extension input interface electrically coupled to the image output interface and at least two extension output interfaces, and at least two image processors coupled to the at least two extension output interfaces respectively. The image sensor is configured to detect an optical signal and convert the optical signal to a raw image signal, and output the raw image signal via the image output interface. The interface extension device is configured to receive the raw image signal from the image output interface via the extension input interface, and output target image signals to be processed corresponding to the raw image signal via the at least two extension output interfaces. The at least two image processors are configured to receive and process the target image signals.

Abstract: A sensor assembly can include a housing that includes a view pane and a mounting feature configured to replace a trailer light of a cargo trailer of a semi-trailer truck. The sensor assembly can also include a lighting element mounted within the housing to selectively generate light, and a sensor mounted within the housing and having a field of view through the view pane. The sensor assembly can also include a communication interface configured to transmit sensor data from the sensor to a control system of the self-driving tractor.

Abstract: A control system of a self-driving tractor can access sensor data to determine a set of trailer configuration parameters of a cargo trailer coupled to the self-driving tractor. Based on the set of trailer configuration parameters, the control system can configure a motion planning model for autonomously controlling the acceleration, braking, and steering systems of the tractor.

Abstract: The disclosure provides compounds, and compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, kits that include the compounds, and methods of using (or administering) and making the compounds. The disclosure further provides compounds or compositions thereof for use in a method of modulating PLXDC1 (TEM7) and/or PLXDC2 or killing pathogenic blood vessles. The disclosure further provides compounds or compositions thereof for use in a method of treating a disease, disorder, or condition that is mediated, at least in part, by PEDF receptors or by angiogenesis.

Abstract: Pathogenic blood vessels are blood vessels that are not involved in the vascularization of normal organs but are in the pathogenic tissues such as the new blood vessels that drive vision diseases or the blood vessels in tumors that tumors depend on to survive. The current disclosure provides an advancement over typical anti-angiogenic strategies that target the generation of new blood vessels by providing compositions and methods that can selectively target and kill existing pathogenic blood vessels. The conventional antiangiogenic drugs or factors inhibit angiogenesis (the growth of new blood vessels), but cannot effectively kill existing pathogenic blood vessels. Agents, including small molecule compounds and antibodies, have been identified that bind to and activate PLXDC1 and PLXDC2 proteins, leading to effective killing of the endothelial cells in pathogenic blood vessels in vision diseases and in tumors that express these proteins.

Abstract: Disclosed are a walkie-talkie and a walkie-talkie information transmission method.

Abstract: Different fraud risk models can be developed and applied for a consortium of e-commerce merchants. With this multi-phase modeling strategy, a consortium member can get its optimal model performance at different data phases from an early phase where the consortium member does not have any historical data, to a more mature phase where the consortium member has a short time period of matured data, to a fully mature phase where the consortium member has a long-time period of matured data. On the other hand, the matured consortium data is not affected by the immature data from new members. Thus, the model performance for long-time existing members is not affected by new members at immature phases.

Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for designing one or more folded structural proteins from at least one raw amino acid sequence is provided. The present invention may include computing one or more character embeddings based on the at least one raw amino acid sequence by utilizing a multi-scale neighborhood-based neural network (MNNN) model. The present invention may then include refining the computed one or more character embeddings with at least one set of sequence neighborhood information. The present invention may further include predicting one or more dihedral angles based on the refined one or more character embeddings.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for a monitoring device being executed by a processor of the monitoring device comprises acquiring at least two kinds of physiological signals via a sensor of the monitoring device, obtaining a signal quality index of each of the at least two kinds of physiological signals by the processor of the monitoring device, providing a homologous physiological parameter value corresponding to each of the at least two kinds of physiological signals by the processor of the monitoring device, and fusing the homologous physiological parameter values based on the signal quality index of each of the at least two kinds of physiological signals and providing a fused value of the homologous physiological parameter values by the processor of the monitoring device. The disclosed physiological parameter processing method avoids disadvantages caused by relying on a single physiological signal.