Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a distributed transaction system including a group of validator nodes that are known to each other in a network but are indistinguishable to other network nodes. The validator nodes form a Committee including a Leader node and one or more Associate nodes configured to receive and process transaction requests and candidate requests, for example, to add new blocks to one or more blockchains. The Committee may be dynamically changed, such that new network nodes may be added to the Committee or may replace existing validator nodes. The Associate nodes also may coordinate with each other to select a new Leader node. The system may allow multiple request-fulfillment process to run simultaneously, thereby enhance the efficiency of the system.

Abstract: A method for creating a field development plan, comprising initializing, by a specially programmed computing system, a connectivity model, calibrating, by a specially programmed computing system, the connectivity model based on a plurality of reservoir simulation results, determining, by a specially programmed computing system, a travel time between wells and reservoir cells using a fast marching method, determining, by the specially programmed computing system, a hydrocarbon saturation based on the travel time to construct a model prediction, optimizing, by the specially programmed computing system, the connectivity model using a global optimization and a local optimization, and constructing, by the specially programmed computing system, at least one well file using the optimized connectivity model.

Abstract: A meat preservation apparatus and method allowed to broaden the ice temperature are provided. The second conveyor mesh belt is equipped with an ice temperature device, the right end of the second conveyor mesh belt is equipped with an ice temperature device, the ice temperature device comprises a base, a spinning disk is arranged above the base, and four moving plates that can move inside and outside are evenly arranged above the spinning disk, two first linear actuators are vertically arranged above each moving plate, an ice temperature box can move up and down between the two first linear actuators, conveyor belts are arranged in the ice temperature box, and the conveyor belts are driven by the first motor, a box door is set on an outside of the ice temperature box, and the box door is driven by a second motor.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided in the present disclosure. The display apparatus includes: a screen, including a display area and a non-display area; a backplane, in connection with the screen; and an exciter, in connection with the backplane and is configured to drive the screen to vibrate and output sound via the backplane.

Abstract: A system for knowledge graph construction. The system includes a computing device. The computing device has a processor and a storage device storing computer executable code. The computer executable code, when executed at the processor, is configured to: define entities and relations of the knowledge graph; provide documents having sentences; convert the sentences into fix length sentence embeddings and regard the sentence embeddings as primary capsule layers; use a set transformer to learn entity capsules and relation capsules from the primary capsule layers; for each triple, project head and tail entities from entity space to the specific relation space, and determine the relation exists when the sum of the projected head entity vector and the relation vector substantially equals to the projected tail entity vector; and construct the knowledge graph using the head entity, the tail entity, and the determined relation.

Abstract: A bonding method of a touch-control display panel, a touch-control display panel and an electronic device are provided. The bonding method includes: fixing a glass cover plate, and adhering a first adhesive on the glass cover plate in a circumferential direction of a non-display area of the glass cover plate; stretching a capacitive film to make it flat, aligning and bonding the capacitive film with the glass cover plate to adhesive the capacitive film and the glass cover plate by the first adhesive; at a side of the capacitive film facing away from the glass cover plate, adhering a second adhesive on the capacitive film in the circumferential direction corresponding to the non-display area; and aligning and bonding a display screen with the capacitive film to adhesive the display screen and the capacitive film by the second adhesive. At least the first adhesive is a double-sided adhesive.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for detecting methylation in cell-free polynucleotides and methods for detecting the presence of cancer in a subject.

Abstract: A wellbore cleaning composition comprising (i) a surfactant consisting essentially of a sorbitan ester or a derivative thereof and, (ii) a base fluid. A wellbore treatment fluid comprising (1) (i) a surfactant consisting essentially of a sorbitan ester or a derivative thereof and, (ii) a base fluid and (2) an additional bulk fluid. A method of serving a wellbore disposed within a subterranean formation comprising circulating an oil-based drilling mud through an interior of a drill string and an annulus; and placing within the wellbore a wash pill comprising (1) a wellbore cleaning composition comprising (i) a surfactant consisting essentially of a polyethoxylated sorbitan ester or a derivative thereof and (ii) a base fluid and (2) a brine under conditions suitable for the conversion of one or more surfaces of the wellbore from oil-wet to water-wet.

Abstract: Within a particular Top Level Domain (TLD), domain name allocation and domain name ownership may be subject to certain restrictions requiring verification. A processing platform and method is disclosed to process verification of a domain name and/or a domain name entity such as a registrant for domain name transactions with a domain name registry. The processing platform and domain name registry may be remotely located relative to one another.

Abstract: A device for continuously producing hydrogen from polyester plastics by photocatalytic degradation is provided, including: a machine housing; a feeding mechanism provided at one side of the machine housing, a bottom of the feeding mechanism is in communication with a dissolving mechanism for transporting waste plastics to the dissolving mechanism; a dissolving mechanism provided inside the machine housing and configured for hydrolyzing the waste plastics into a solution containing small molecule monomers by means of a dissolving solution, the dissolving mechanism transports the solution to a photocatalytic reactor through a solution circulation pipeline; the solution circulation pipeline provided at the other side of the machine housing, two ends of the solution circulation pipeline are respectively connected to the dissolving mechanism and the photocatalytic reactor; the photocatalytic reactor provided above the dissolving mechanism and configured for degrading plastics in the solution to collect a reaction

Abstract: A salty taste enhancing peptide derived from dry-cured ham is provided, and the amino acid sequences thereof are Asp-Leu; Phe-Met-Ser-Ala-Leu-Phe, as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; and His-Val-Arg-Arg-Lys, as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2. The salty taste enhancing peptide in the present disclosure is of small molecular weight, features easy separation and purification, has strong salty taste enhancing effect and simple sequences, and is easy to synthesize, therefore, the salty taste enhancing peptide can be applied to the fields of food, health products, medicine and biology, and is expected to replace salt substitute products currently available on the market.

Abstract: Training query intents are allocated for multiple training entities into training time intervals in a time series based on a corresponding query intent time for each training query intent. Training performance results for the multiple training entities are allocated into the training time intervals in the time series based on a corresponding performance time of each training performance result. A machine learning model for a training milestone of the time series is trained based on the training query intents allocated to a training time interval prior to the training milestone and the training performance results allocated to a training time interval after the training milestone. Target performance for the target entity for an interval after a target milestone in the time series is predicted by inputting to the trained machine learning model target query intents allocated to the target entity in a target time interval before the target milestone.

Abstract: A server for distributing a domain name to one of a plurality of registrars using a drop zone session implemented via a communications network, by establishing a set of drop zone windows having a first window and a second window, a defined start time of the second window being subsequent to a defined end time of the first window, the first window having a first set of acquisition parameters and the second window having a second set of acquisition parameters, such that the first set of acquisition parameters are different from the second set of acquisition parameters.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing konjac glucomannan gum. The method includes steps as follows: (1) preparing konjac sol; (2) preparing an amino acid solution by means of L-lysine and L-arginine; and (3) adding the amino acid solution into the konjac sol, and carrying out stirring, standing, and water-bath heating to obtain the konjac gum. According to the method for preparing konjac glucomannan gum in the present invention, the konjac glucomannan is modified by means of the L-lysine and the L-arginine according to a certain ratio, and hydroxyl ions in L-lysine and L-arginine solutions can remove acetyl groups in konjac glucomannan molecules under a heating condition such that thermostable gum can be formed, and properties of the konjac glucomannan gum are improved. According to the present invention, production processes for a konjac gum product are changed, and nutritional functions of the konjac product are added.

Abstract: A method may include providing a single-phase cleanout fluid comprising a first nonionic surfactant with a hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (HLB) greater than 10, a second nonionic surfactant with an HLB greater than 10, a third nonionic surfactant with an HLB of less than 10, and a solvent; preparing a cleanout pill by mixing the single-phase cleanout fluid with a brine; and displacing a fluid in a wellbore using the cleanout pill.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a conductive film, an organic electroluminescence device, a display device and a method. The conductive film includes a matrix and conductive metal nano-ions distributed in the matrix the matrix is selected from at least one of an organic network polymer, an organic porous polymer, and an inorganic porous material.

Abstract: A method of drilling a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation, the method includes: during drilling operations, circulating in the wellbore a first aqueous drilling fluid composition including a modified starch and a calcium carbonate wherein the calcium carbonate has a first predetermined particle size; during the circulating, measuring one or more parameters to create a set of measured parameters; and during the circulating, responsive to one or more parameters of the set of measured parameters, changing the calcium carbonate with another calcium carbonate of a different particle size to obtain a second aqueous drilling fluid composition, wherein the first and second predetermined particle sizes are, independently, a d50 particle size of about 1.0 ?m to about 150 ?m.

Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for developing resources from an unconventional reservoir. In one implementation, raw reservoir data for the unconventional reservoir is obtained. The raw reservoir data includes geology data, completion data, development data, and production data. The raw reservoir data is transformed to transformed data. The raw reservoir data is transformed to the transformed data based on a transformation from a set of one or more raw variable to a set of one or more transformed variables. The set of one or more transformed variables is statistically uncorrelated. Resource development data is extracted from the transformed data. Performance analytics are generated for the unconventional reservoir using the resource development data. The performance analytics are generated through ensemble machine learning. The unconventional reservoir is developed based on the performance analytics.

Abstract: An equipment body of an ultrasonic rapid freezing equipment is provided with a placement cavity, and the placement cavity is provided with a first electric telescopic rod. The bottom end of the first electric telescopic rod is provided with a receiving plate connected to a movable plate, and the movable plate is driven by a motor to rotate. The equipment body is provided with a first conveyor belt, and the inner end of the first conveyor belt is equipped with a second conveyor belt. The second conveyor belt is located on a mounting frame, and the bottom of the mounting frame is connected to a second electric telescopic rod. The bottom end of the second electric telescopic rod is connected to a moving block, the roller at the bottom of the moving block is located in the track on the top surface of the supporting block.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of cleaning a microelectronic substrate, such as a semiconductor device, by contacting the microelectronic substrate with an amine oxide selected from the group consisting of N,N-dimethylethanolamine N-oxide, triethanolamine N-oxide, ethanamine, 2,2?-oxybis[N,N-dimethyl-,N,N?-dioxide], 1-methylpyrrolidine N-oxide, N,N-dimethylcyclohexylamine N-oxide, and a mixture thereof for a time and at a temperature sufficient to clean the substrate.