Abstract: A non-woven chopped fiber mat includes a mixture of glass fibers and synthetic fibers. The non-woven mat is formed using a binder composition that includes a binder resin, a coupling agent, and a corrosion inhibitor. The non-woven mat is non-corrosive and resistant to volatile unsaturated monomers such as styrene, but still remains fully compatible with solvent-containing polyester resins, such that it can be used in various pultruded products.

Abstract: A self-reconfigurable returnable mixer includes a self-reconfigurable transconductance stage. The input RF voltage signal is converted into RF current through the self-reconfigurable transconductance stage. The RF current is converted into an IF signal through down-conversion and low-pass filtering. The IF signal is fed back to the reconfigurable transconductance stage; the self-reconfigurable transconductance stage presents an open-loop structure to the input RF voltage signal, and the self-reconfigurable transconductance stage presents the topology structure of the negative feedback amplifier to the fed-back IF signal. The self-reconfigurable transconductance stage circuit achieves a high-linearity IF gain while providing a high bandwidth for the RF signal, effectively alleviating the contradiction between the conversion gain and the IF linearity in the conventional returnable structure.

Abstract: Techniques for extracting unstructured quantitative data may be provided. For example, a process may attempt to extract unstructured quantitative data to form structured data. This quantitative data may be used for searchable ordering of items in an electronic marketplace. For example, a process may attempt to find common attributes amongst several item descriptions. The common attributes may be recognized in the unstructured data, stored as structured data, and incorporated with a network page to allow the user to search for a particular item with a particular attribute. The desired attribute can help narrow a set of results from a search query.

Abstract: A self-reconfigurable returnable mixer includes a self-reconfigurable transconductance stage. The input RF voltage signal is converted into RF current through the self-reconfigurable transconductance stage. The RF current is converted into an IF signal through down-conversion and low-pass filtering. The IF signal is fed back to the reconfigurable transconductance stage; the self-reconfigurable transconductance stage presents an open-loop structure to the input RF voltage signal, and the self-reconfigurable transconductance stage presents the topology structure of the negative feedback amplifier to the fed-back IF signal. The self-reconfigurable transconductance stage circuit achieves a high-linearity IF gain while providing a high bandwidth for the RF signal, effectively alleviating the contradiction between the conversion gain and the IF linearity in the conventional returnable structure.

Abstract: Systems and methods involve filling missing attribute values from unstructured text. A computing device may provide a plurality of items, such as an item catalog for an electronic marketplace. When an item is found to have a missing attribute value, a plurality of existing values for that attribute is compiled by mining other items. Text associated with the item is parsed to determine possible values for the attribute. From those possible values, the most likely value is identified and the missing attribute value is populated with that value.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a low power supply voltage double-conversion radio frequency receiving front end, which can work at a lower power supply voltage in a passive frequency conversion mode; a first frequency conversion unit and a second frequency conversion unit of the front end are directly cascaded, and a second orthogonal passive frequency conversion shifts a low input impedance of a transimpedance amplifier to an intermediate frequency, so as to construct a band-pass filtering function for radio frequency current; and the radio frequency current which has undergone two frequency conversions is converted into an output intermediate frequency voltage via the transimpedance amplifier. Compared with the traditional active+active or active+passive double conversion mode, the present invention omits intermediate-stage active circuits and filtering circuits, thereby saving power consumption and layout area, and realizing sufficient rejection on an image signal while ensuring a high conversion gain.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating recommendation rules based on the attributes of items that are purchased together at a threshold rate. The attributes of the items may be extracted from item-detail content associated with the items. Using a count of the frequency with which pairs of items include pairs of attributes, a recommendation rule can be created that recommends items with particular attributes to users who access other items with particular attributes. Further, using the recommendation rules, items may be selected for recommendation to users who access an item that lacks historical access data from which to generate recommendations solving the “cold-start” problem. Moreover, negative rules may be generated based on historical access data and attributes of items purchased and/or not purchased together at a threshold rate to prevent the recommendation of particular items to users who access items associated with the negative rules.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a low power supply voltage double-conversion radio frequency receiving front end, which can work at a lower power supply voltage in a passive frequency conversion mode; a first frequency conversion unit and a second frequency conversion unit of the front end are directly cascaded, and a second orthogonal passive frequency conversion shifts a low input impedance of a transimpedance amplifier to an intermediate frequency, so as to construct a band-pass filtering function for radio frequency current; and the radio frequency current which has undergone two frequency conversions is converted into an output intermediate frequency voltage via the transimpedance amplifier. Compared with the traditional active+active or active+passive double conversion mode, the present invention omits intermediate-stage active circuits and filtering circuits, thereby saving power consumption and layout area, and realizing sufficient rejection on an image signal while ensuring a high conversion gain.

Abstract: Systems and methods involve filling missing attribute values from unstructured text. A computing device may provide a plurality of items, such as an item catalog for an electronic marketplace. When an item is found to have a missing attribute value, a plurality of existing values for that attribute is compiled by mining other items. Text associated with the item is parsed to determine possible values for the attribute. From those possible values, the most likely value is identified and the missing attribute value is populated with that value.

Abstract: A high-speed fully differential clock duty cycle calibration circuit applied to calibrating the clock duty cycle in a high-speed system. The circuit detects the duty cycle with a continuous time integrator, and directly adjusts the duty cycle on a clock transmission link so as to increase the working speed. Being of a fully differential circuit structure, the circuit can calibrate the duty cycle under a designated process within a higher and wider frequency range, and has relatively good constraining force for process mismatch and common mode noise. The circuit comprises adjustment level ADJ1 and ADJ2, a first buffer level BUF1, a second buffer level BUF2 and a duty cycle detection level DCD.

Abstract: An abrasive tool including a CMP pad conditioner having a substrate including a first major surface, a second major surface opposite the first major surface, and a side surface extending between the first major surface and the second major, wherein a first layer of abrasive grains is attached to the first major surface and a second layer of abrasive grains is attached to the second major surface. The conditioner further includes a first sealing member extending in a peripheral direction along a portion of the side surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) conditioner includes a ceramic substrate having a major surface, and an abrasive coating overlying the major surface. The major surface can include micro-protrusions arranged in a curved pattern. Alternatively, the micro-protrusions can be arranged in an irregular pattern.

Abstract: A transconductance-enhancing passive frequency mixer comprises a transconductance amplification stage, a frequency mixing stage, and an output transresistance amplifier. The transconductance amplification stage has a pre-amplification transconductance-enhancing structure, so that the transconductance is greatly enhanced, thereby obtaining the same transconductance value at a lower bias current. A radio-frequency current is modulated by the frequency mixing stage to generate an output mid-frequency current signal. The mid-frequency current signal passes through the transresistance amplifier, to form voltage output, and finally obtain a mid-frequency voltage signal. The transresistance amplifier has a transconductance-enhancing structure, thereby further reducing input impedance, and improving current utilization efficiency and port isolation. The frequency mixer has the characteristics of low power consumption, high conversion gain, good port isolation, and the like.

Abstract: An abrasive tool for conditioning CMP pads includes abrasive grains coupled to a substrate through a metal bond and a coating, e.g., a fluorine-doped nanocomposite coating. The abrasive grains can be arranged in a self-avoiding random distribution. In one implementation, an abrasive tool includes a coated plate and a coated abrasive article that has two abrading surfaces. Other implementations related to a process for producing an abrasive tool that includes a coating at one or more of its surfaces. Also described are methods for dressing a CMP pad.

Abstract: Embodiments may include, for each item in a subset of items from a larger group of items, evaluating item description information about that item to identify a respective set of candidate phrases to be evaluated. Embodiments may also include, for each phrase in the sets of candidate phrases, generating multiple component scores based on one or more of the frequency with which that phrase occurs in the item description information for the subset of items and/or the frequency with which that phrase occurs in a corpus of item description information for the overall group of items. Embodiments may also include, for each phrase in the sets of candidate phrases, generating a respective phrase score based on the component scores generated for that phrase. Embodiments may include, based on phrase scores, selecting a subset of phrases from the sets of candidate phrases as being feature phrases for the subset of items.

Abstract: A stochastic time-digital converter (STDC) including an input switching circuit, an STDC array, and an encoder. A clock circuit inputs two clock signals into two input terminals of the input switching circuit; the input switching circuit transmits the two clock signals in a cyclic cross-transposition form to two input terminals of the STDC array, and simultaneously outputs a trigger control signal to the encoder; each comparator in the STDC array independently judges the speeds of the two clock signals and sends the judgement results to the encoder for collection and processing; and the encoder outputs the size and positivity or negativity of the phase difference of the two clock signals. The technical solution utilizes the stochastic characteristic of the STDC to double the number of the equivalent comparators in the STDC array, eliminating the effects on the circuitry of device mismatching and processes, power supply voltage, and temperature.

Abstract: A CMP pad conditioner including a substrate having a transparency window represented by an average internal transmittance of not less than about 90% over a wavelength range extending from about 400 nm to about 500 nm along a path length extending through the substrate of not less than about 10 mm a bonding layer overlying a surface of the substrate, and abrasive grains contained within the bonding layer.

Abstract: An abrasive tool with flat and consistent surface topography for conditioning a CMP pad and method for making are disclosed. The abrasive tool includes abrasive grains coupled to a low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) substrate through a metal bond. There is an overall CTE mismatch that ranges from about 0.1 ?m/m-° C. to about 5.0 ?m/m-° C. The overall CTE mismatch is the difference between the CTE mismatch of the abrasive grains and the metal bond and the CTE mismatch of the low CTE substrate and the metal bond.

Abstract: A return-type current-reuse mixer having a transconductance/amplification stage, a mixing stage, and a high-pass and a low-pass filter network. The transconductance/amplification stage has a current-reuse CMOS topology wherein an input frequency signal is converted into a frequency current, low-frequency components are removed from the frequency current by the high-pass filter network, the frequency current is fed into the mixing stage, modulation occurs in the mixing stage, and then an intermediate-frequency signal is generated and output. Once high-frequency components are removed from the intermediate-frequency signal by the low-pass filter network, the intermediate-frequency signal is sent again for input into the transconductance/amplification stage, then amplified in the transconductance/amplification stage and output. The mixer transconductance/amplification stage employs a current-reuse technique.

Abstract: An abrasive tool with flat and consistent surface topography for conditioning a CMP pad and method for making are disclosed. The abrasive tool includes abrasive grains coupled to a low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) substrate through a metal bond. There is an overall CTE mismatch that ranges from about 0.1 ?m/m-° C. to about 5.0 ?m/m-° C. The overall CTE mismatch is the difference between the CTE mismatch of the abrasive grains and the metal bond and the CTE mismatch of the low CTE substrate and the metal bond.