Abstract: An electronic device housing includes a plastic substrate. The plastic substrate includes a first surface. The electronic device housing further includes an activating layer formed on the first surface. The activating layer contains metal powder. The activating layer defines a recessed portion. Some of the metal powder is partially exposed on the surface of the recessed portion. Some of metal powder is partially inserted into the plastic substrate corresponding to the recessed portion. The electronic device housing further includes an antenna layer formed on the recessed portion. The antenna layer is a metal layer. A method for manufacturing the electronic device housing is also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods useful for preparing compounds of formula I: and salts thereof are disclosed. Also disclosed are intermediates useful in the preparation of such compounds.

Abstract: An energy-saving and heat preservation device is mainly a heat preservation device for heating device and receptacle. Upper and lower receiving slots opened to outside and opposite to upper and lower ends of a receptacle respectively are provided in the heating device, while a first and a second chambers opposite to each other are provided in the heat preservation device. Energy storage material, which is a reversible phase-change material, is received within the first chamber. A conduit is connected between the first and the second chambers to form an integral connection arrangement. Hence, waste heat generated in the heating process is collected and stored, and is used for heat preservation. Not only the exhausted waste heat, which later becomes heat load of air conditioning apparatus, can be reduced but also power consumption for heat preservation can be lowered.

Abstract: A speech recognition system trains a plurality of feature transforms and a plurality of acoustic models using an irrelevant variability normalization based discriminative training. The speech recognition system employs the trained feature transforms to absorb or ignore variability within an unknown speech that is irrelevant to phonetic classification. The speech recognition system may then recognize the unknown speech using the trained recognition models. The speech recognition system may further perform an unsupervised adaptation to adapt the feature transforms for the unknown speech and thus increase the accuracy of recognizing the unknown speech.

Abstract: An electroplating method includes at least the following steps: providing a plastic substrate; forming a preliminary layer containing metal powder and paint on the plastic substrate; laser irradiating the preliminary layer to form an intermediate layer having the metal powder exposed thereon; and electroplating an electroplated layer on the intermediate layer. This electroplating method is simple and can be applied to all kinds of plastic substrate.

Abstract: A coated article includes a substrate, a Ni layer formed on the substrate, and a vacuum coated layer formed on the Ni layer. The vacuum coated layer is made of material selected from a group consisting of Al, Ti, Cr and Zn. A method for manufacturing an article is also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for preparation of an ultra high molecular weight polyethylene catalyst, comprising: (1) under inert atmosphere, dispersing a magnesium halide in an inert solvent; (2) adding an alcohol to react with the magnesium halide, to form a solution or dispersion of a magnesium halide-alcohol adduct; (3) adding an alkyl aluminum halide to react with the magnesium halide-alcohol adduct, to form an intermediate product; (4) optionally, subjecting the intermediate product to an ultrasonic wave treatment; (5) adding a titanium compound to perform Ti-supporting reaction; (6) optionally, subjecting the reaction mixture from step (5) to an ultrasonic wave treatment; and (7) recovering solid particles, to obtain the ultra high molecular weight polyethylene catalyst, wherein at least one of steps (4) and (6) is present.

Abstract: Embodiments of rich context modeling for speech synthesis are disclosed. In operation, a text-to-speech engine refines a plurality of rich context models based on decision tree-tied Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) to produce a plurality of refined rich context models. The text-to-speech engine then generates synthesized speech for an input text based at least on some of the plurality of refined rich context models.

Abstract: Methods of synthesizing sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors, as well as compounds useful therein, are disclosed. Particular inhibitors are compounds of formula I.

Abstract: An energy-saving and heat preservation device is mainly a heat preservation device for heating device and receptacle. Upper and lower receiving tanks opened to outside and opposite to upper and lower ends of a receptacle respectively are provided in the heating device, while a first and a second chambers opposite to each other are provided in the heat preservation device. Energy storage material, which is a coagulation type phase-change material, is received within the first chamber. A conduit is connected between the first and the second chambers to form an integral connection arrangement. Hence, waste heat generated in the heating process is collected and stored, and is used for heat preservation. Not only the exhausted waste heat, which later becomes heat load of air conditioning apparatus, can be reduced but also power consumption for heat preservation can be lowered.

Abstract: A welding wire is provided with a hollow section for accommodating flux. The flux has a composition including: Mn:5-20%, Si:1-5%, TiO2:5-25%, SiO2:0.1-10%, Mo:0.1-5% by weight, the balance being iron. When welding low alloy high strength steel by using the welding wire, the slag on the welding bead can be easily cleaned and a smooth surface can be formed on the welding bead which makes it easier to galvanize a zinc layer over the surface of the welding bead. The welding wire provides better welding operation performance and generates less welding spatters.

Abstract: Hidden Markov Models HMM trajectory tiling (HTT)-based approaches may be used to synthesize speech from text. In operation, a set of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and a set of waveform units may be obtained from a speech corpus. The set of HMMs are further refined via minimum generation error (MGE) training to generate a refined set of HMMs. Subsequently, a speech parameter trajectory may be generated by applying the refined set of HMMs to an input text. A unit lattice of candidate waveform units may be selected from the set of waveform units based at least on the speech parameter trajectory. A normalized cross-correlation (NCC)-based search on the unit lattice may be performed to obtain a minimal concatenation cost sequence of candidate waveform units, which are concatenated into a concatenated waveform sequence that is synthesized into speech.

Abstract: Methods of synthesizing sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors, as well as compounds useful therein, are disclosed.

Abstract: A data management method for network storage system that said network storage system includes a storage network, a cluster of storage servers that provide data storage services for application servers connecting to the storage network and storage space corresponding to each storage server, setting a core manager in storage server, said core manager centralizing the metadata of all storage servers in a common storage space; separating the metadata from said storage servers to make a storage server become a storage manager and the storage spaces corresponding to each storage server form the common storage space, allocating the storage space of metadata in said common storage space, and managing the corresponding relationship between metadata and said storage manager.

Abstract: Methods of preparing imidazole-based compounds are disclosed. Particular compounds are of formula I.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems methods and devices related to region detection of an image. Detected regions include pixels of a particular one or more colors without requiring faces within the image to be previously detected. Region detection may include receiving information that a flash was used to capture the image or that return light was detected in the image.

Abstract: Methods useful for preparing compounds of formula I: and salts thereof are disclosed. Also disclosed are intermediates useful in the preparation of such compounds.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a scalable high-speed cache system in a storage network. It gives a solution to the bottleneck problem that the speed of seeking on the hard disk is slow, and realizes the high speed respondence to the input/output of the server. The present invention includes a high-speed cache system in a storage network which is constituted with at least one high-speed cache module which is connected to the network, a storage network manager constitutes with at least one storage network management module. The said storage network management module is constituted with hardware platform unit and software platform unit. The said hardware platform unit uses an embedded system platform or a server platform. The said high-speed cache system in a storage network is managed by the storage network manager, and it can be shared by the server and the disk storage system which is connected to the storage network.

Abstract: Methods of synthesizing sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors, as well as compounds useful therein, are disclosed.

Abstract: A camera module capable of allowing personalization of an On-Screen Display (OSD) interface is provided. The camera module includes: a transmitting unit configured for transmitting icons to be used in an OSD interface to the camera module wirelessly or over wire, and saving the icons in a storage of the camera module; a mode selecting unit configured for selecting an OSD personalization mode; a reading unit configured for reading the transmitted icons from the storage of the camera module; a setting unit configured for setting the display size of the OSD interface and coordinates of each icon on a screen of an electronic device installed with the camera module to generate a personalized OSD interface. A related method for personalizing an OSD is also provided.