Abstract: A solid-state reference electrode for use in whole blood, serum, plasma, and/or other biological fluids that includes an insulating support substrate, an electrically-conductive material disposed on the insulating support substrate where a first portion of the electrically-conductive material is an electrode portion and a second portion of the electrically-conductive material is an electrical contact portion, an electrode-forming insulating layer having an opening forming a well, a metal-metal salt layer disposed in the well over the electrode portion when the electrically-conductive material is not a metal-metal salt, the metal-metal salt layer selected from silver-silver chloride or mercury-mercurous chloride, and a hydrogel polymeric membrane disposed on the metal-metal salt layer forming the solid-state reference electrode, the hydrogel polymeric membrane being a polymeric hydrogel network containing a chloride salt from (i) inorganic salts of chlorides or organic salts of chlorides and (ii) a supporting

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for continuously producing an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene by the ethylene slurry polymerization, wherein raw materials containing ethylene and optionally at least one comonomer are subjected to a continuous slurry polymerization in a hydrogen free atmosphere in the ethylene slurry polymerization condition by using 2-6 ethylene slurry polymerization reaction tanks connected in series, and the deviations of the polymerization temperatures, the polymerization pressures, and the gas phase compositions between the tanks each other are controlled to certain ranges. The ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene having the viscosity-average molecular weight of 150-800×104 g/mol can be continuously produced. This process has flexible polymerization manner, large room for adjusting and controlling, and stable polymer performance.

Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide for a data compression method and a related data compression apparatus. In the method, to-be-compressed data and a length limit value for data compression are obtained. When the length of the data obtained by compressing the to-be-compressed data is greater than the length limit value, the to-be-compressed data is segmented based on the length limit value during compression. After the to-be-compressed data is segmented, the to-be-compressed data includes at least two compressed files after compression and a length of each compressed file is less than the length limit value.

Abstract: A data prefetch method is disclosed. Before data is prefetched, a first data access request is first obtained, and a data prefetch policy is determined based on the first data access request and a data lifecycle, so that a first data set stored in a second storage medium is stored into a first storage medium according to the data prefetch policy. The first data set includes at least one piece of data, the data prefetch policy includes at least a prefetch length, the data lifecycle indicates duration for storing data in the first storage medium, and a read/write access rate of the second storage medium is less than that of the first storage medium.