Abstract: A manufacturing method for an electron source according to the present disclosure includes steps of: (A) cutting out a chip from a block of an electron emission material, (B) fixing a first end portion of the chip to a distal end of a support needle, and (C) sharpening a second end portion of the chip. The step (A) includes forming first and second grooves which constitute first and second surfaces of the chip in the block by irradiating a surface of the block with an ion beam. The first end portion of the chip includes the first surface and the second surface with the surfaces forming an angle ? of 10 to 90°. The step (B) includes forming a joint between the distal end of the support needle and the first end portion of the chip.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for correcting a thermal imaging image are provided, the method includes: determining a motion state of a thermal imaging device corresponding to a thermal image to be corrected; determining a noise interference pixel from the thermal image to be corrected by using a target screening condition corresponding to the motion state; performing correction on the thermal image to be corrected based on the noise interference pixel. Target screening conditions corresponding to different motion states are different. That is, the noise interference pixels corresponding to different motion states can be determined for different motion states of the thermal imaging device, and then the thermal image to be corrected can be corrected by using the noise interference pixels corresponding to the motion state, thereby achieving an effect of accurately correcting the thermal image to be corrected in different motion states, and improving the accuracy of image correction.

Abstract: Performance is improved. There is provided a negative electrode material for a battery, in which the negative electrode material includes carbon, sodium tungstate, and silicon particles 33 including silicon, and in the silicon particle 33, a ratio of the amount of Si in Si2p derived from elemental silicon to the amount of Si in Si2p derived from SiO2 in a surface layer when measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is 3 or more on an atomic concentration basis.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to the field of intelligent home, and particularly to an indoor monitoring method, device and system, a storage medium and a camera device. The method includes: controlling a camera device to acquire monitoring images at consecutive times in a room; identifying a first monitoring image at a previous time and a second monitoring image at a current time, and identifying items corresponding to the first monitoring image and the second monitoring image and positions of the items, respectively; determining whether a position of an item changes according to the position of the item in the first monitoring image and the position of the item in the second monitoring image; and generating item record information of the item when it is determined that the position of the item changes, wherein the item record information represents movement of the item in the room.

Abstract: Diamond particles are generated in a solution by carrying out a step S1 of mixing an inorganic salt such as a metal halide, a metal oxyhalide, a metal nitrate, a metal phosphate and a metal sulfate into a solvent containing 10% by volume or more of an organic solvent such as an alcohol solvent, a ketone solvent, an ester solvent, an amide solvent, a hydrocarbon solvent, an aromatic solvent, a cellosolve solvent and a halogen solvent containing carbon atoms, to prepare a mixed solution, and then carrying out an aging step S2 of holding the mixed solution under an arbitrary temperature condition for a certain period of time.

Abstract: A tissue suturing device includes a body and a plurality of suture needles. The body includes a guide segment and a tube segment. The guide segment contains a suture needle channel. The tube segment has an accommodating cavity communicated with the suture needle channel. Each of the suture needles includes a main needle segment and a puncture needle segment connected with and spaced apart from the main needle segment. Two of the suture needles, together, connect a suture thread releasably between the puncture needle segments of the two suture needles. The main needle segments are arranged in the suture needle channel. The puncture needle segments carry the suture thread and are located in the accommodating cavity. Each of the suture needles moves along the suture needle channel such that the puncture needle segment returns to the accommodating cavity alone after passing with the suture thread through a tissue wall.

Abstract: This application provides a motor controller for an electric vehicle. The motor controller includes a control circuit and an inverter circuit. The control circuit is configured to: in response to that the drive motor rotates with a pair of wheels of the electric vehicle, control a switch module to connect a center tap of the multiphase winding to the other end of the power battery, and control the inverter circuit to adjust a voltage at both ends of the bus capacitor. The bridge arms of the inverter circuit of the motor controller provided in this application and the winding of the drive motor form a voltage conversion circuit to adjust the voltage at both ends of the bus capacitor, to improve power performance and vehicle endurance of the electric vehicle.

Abstract: A tungsten compound is appropriately disposed on a surface of carbon. The negative electrode material is a negative electrode material for a battery that includes amorphous carbon and sodium tungstate is attached on a surface on the amorphous carbon and provided on the surface of the amorphous carbon. The sodium tungstate may have at least one of a cubic crystal and a tetragonal crystal.

Abstract: This application provides a hybrid powertrain. The hybrid powertrain includes a generator, a motor, a dual-motor controller, and a switch module. The dual-motor controller includes a generator power circuit and a motor power circuit. A running status of the switch module includes a first state and a second state. If the switch module is in the first state, the switch module is configured to connect to an end of a power battery and a center tap of a multiphase winding of the motor. If the switch module is in the second state, the switch module is configured to connect to an end of a power battery and an end of a plurality of switching transistor bridge arms of the motor power circuit. According to the hybrid powertrain and the control apparatus provided in this application entire vehicle endurance and power performance of the electric vehicle can be improved.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for entity alignment. The computer-implemented method includes: obtaining a first plurality of initial embeddings of entities of a first graph and a second plurality of initial embeddings of entities of a second graph based on a pre-trained model, wherein the first plurality of initial embeddings and the second plurality of initial embeddings are in a unified space; and learning entity alignment between the first graph and the second graph over the first plurality of initial embeddings and the second plurality of initial embeddings by at least one encoder to push non-aligned entities far away using a relative similarity metric, wherein negative sampling for non-aligned entities of an entity of one of the first graph or the second graph is performed on the one of the first graph or the second graph during the learning.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for computed tomography (CT) imaging. In one embodiment, a method comprises adaptively blending at least two input image volumes with different spatially-variant noise characteristics to generate an output image volume with uniform noise throughout the output image volume. In this way, images may be reconstructed from projection data with data redundancy without introducing image artifacts from stitching images or variance in image noise due to the data redundancy.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides binding proteins, such as antibodies, that bind to a GDNF Family Receptor Alpha Like (GFRAL) protein, including human GFRAL protein, and methods of their use.

Abstract: Real-time augmentation of a plurality of target faces is disclosed, including: detecting a first input user face and a second input user face in a recorded video frame; associating a first face identifier (ID) with the first input user face; storing a first mapping between the first face ID and a first target face; and overlaying, using the first mapping, a first representation of the first target face generated based at least in part on a portion of the recorded video frame that includes the first input user face, on the recorded video frame.

Abstract: Real-time augmentation of a target face is disclosed, including: obtaining a set of user facial features corresponding to an input user face in a recorded video frame; using at least the recorded video frame and the set of user facial features to generate a cropped image comprising the input user face; using a target face swap model to encode at least a portion of the cropped image into a plurality of user extrinsic features; using the target face swap model and the plurality of user extrinsic features to generate a representation of a target face; and overlaying the representation of the target face over the recorded video frame.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pool cleaning robot with a roller brush cleaning structure, including a cleaning body, a roller brush and a roller brush cleaning structure. The cleaning body is configured to clean contaminants in a pool; the roller brush is rotatably arranged on the cleaning body and is configured to clean contaminants on a surface of the pool; and the roller brush cleaning structure is arranged on the cleaning body, and is in contact with at least part of the roller brush, to remove contaminants adhering to the roller brush. During rolling of the roller brush, the residual contaminants on the roller brush are cleaned by the roller brush cleaning structure, so as to clean the roller brush, thereby avoiding adverse effects on a cleaning effect of the roller brush, and also avoiding the accumulation of contaminants on the roller brush over time, to have an adverse effect on the service life of the roller brush.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pool cleaning robot with a track lap structure, including a cleaning body and a drive mechanism. The drive mechanism includes: a wheel, the wheel is rotatably arranged on the cleaning body, the wheel includes a track lap structure and a first engaging structure, the track lap structure and the first engaging structure are sequentially arranged in an axial direction of the wheel, so as to form a limiting structure on the wheel or between the wheel and the cleaning body; and a track, the track is sleeved outside the wheel, and at least part of the track is engaged with the first engaging structure, so that the track is driven by the wheel to move, where an inner surface of the track is provided with an anti-detachment structure, and the anti-detachment structure is lapped on the track lap structure.

Abstract: Provided is a pool cleaning robot with a display device. The pool cleaning robot with a display device includes a cleaning member for cleaning a pool, a detecting device and a display device. The detecting device is arranged in the cleaning member and configured to detect a state of the cleaning member. The display device is electrically connected to the detecting device and configured to display at least one state information of the cleaning member. The state information includes self-running state information of the cleaning member and/or human-machine interaction state information of the cleaning member.

Abstract: Performance of a negative electrode material is improved. The negative electrode material is a negative electrode material for a battery that includes carbon, sodium tungstate provided on a surface of the carbon, and silicon provided on the surface of the carbon.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a network configuration method and a network configuration apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes: sending a network configuration request; acquiring a response signal; acquiring a preset network configuration level of a current intelligent device, if a signal intensity corresponding to the response signal is greater than or equal to a preset signal intensity; and acquiring network configuration information according to the preset network configuration level. The network configuration information is used for configuring a network with a router. When the network configuration is performed for various intelligent devices based on the method, the network configuration can be performed according to the preset network configuration level set by a user, thereby meeting personalized network configuration requirements of the user.

Abstract: Constructs comprising GDF15, and mutants thereof are provided. In various embodiments the constructs comprising GDF15, and mutants thereof, can be of use in the treatment or ameliorating a metabolic disorder. In various embodiments the metabolic disease or disorder is type 2 diabetes, obesity, dyslipidemia, elevated glucose levels, elevated insulin levels and diabetic nephropathy.