Abstract: This application discloses an encoding and decoding method and apparatus, and a computer device, and is applied to the field of image processing technologies. In the method, a feature map of an image is obtained through an encoding network. A boundary value of a first element in the feature map is determined, and a target range corresponding to the first element is determined based on the boundary value. If the first element is in the target range, entropy encoding is performed on the first element. If the first element is outside the target range, the first element is modified to the boundary value corresponding to the first element, and entropy encoding is performed on the modified first element, or the first element is marked as an out-of-bounds element, and variable-length code encoding is performed on the first element.

Abstract: This document generally relates to wireless communication that includes a user device that determines that it satisfies a condition, and in response to satisfying the condition, performs at least one of: a relaxed positioning reference signal (PRS) measurement according to a relaxed PRS measurement rule that corresponds to the condition; or a relaxed sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission according to a relaxed SRS transmission rule that corresponds to the condition. Additionally, at least one network device determines a relaxed PRS measurement rule corresponding to a first condition or a relaxed SRS transmission rule corresponding to a second condition. The at least one network device transmits the relaxed PRS measurement rule corresponding to the first condition or the relaxed SRS transmission rule corresponding to the second condition.

Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that, when a first reference signal set for beam failure detection and a second reference signal set for a candidate beam, or a third reference signal set for the beam failure detection and a fourth reference signal set for the candidate beam instead of the first reference signal set and the second reference signal set are supported, receives one of information related to the second reference signal set and information related to the fourth reference signal set; and a control section that, when information related to the first reference signal set and information related to the third reference signal set are not provided, determines a reference signal set to be used for the beam failure detection, based on one of the information related to the second reference signal set and the information related to the fourth reference signal set.

Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives first downlink control information for scheduling a first UL channel and second downlink control information for scheduling a second UL channel; and a control section that controls at least one of application of first UE operation related to transmission of the first channel and transmission of the second channel in a time domain and application of second UE operation related to order of transmission of each of the downlink control information and each of the UL channels, based on whether or not respective panels or transmission/reception points (TRPs) corresponding to the first downlink control information and the second downlink control information are same.

Abstract: A durable solid and liquid repellant material is provided having an elastomeric matrix with a plurality of lubricating domains distributed therein formed by a partial crosslinking reaction between an elastomeric precursor having a first reactive functional group and a polyol having a second reactive functional group. The polyol has a limited solubility circle. The first reactive functional group is selected from the group consisting of: alkene, amine, carboxylic acid, hydroxyl, isocyanate, and combinations thereof and the second reactive group is selected from the group consisting of: amine, carboxylic acid, hydroxyl group, and combinations thereof. The partially crosslinked elastomeric matrix has a crosslink density of greater than or equal to about 200 mol/m3 and less than or equal to about 2,000 mol/m3. Methods for forming the durable solid and liquid repellant material are also provided.

Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that determines a plurality of groups including a plurality of resources for a physical random access channel, determines one or more pathloss reference signals for the plurality of groups, and determines a plurality of pieces of transmission power corresponding to the plurality of respective resources, based on the one or more pathloss reference signals; and a transmitting section that transmits a plurality of repetitions of the physical random access channel in the plurality of resources. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a coverage of a random access procedure can be improved.

Abstract: Provided are a D-amino acid oxidase and use thereof in the preparation of L-phosphinothricin or an intermediate thereof. Provided is a D-amino acid oxidase having an amino acid sequence comprising an amino acid residue difference as compared to SEQ ID NO: 1, the amino acid residue difference being selected from one or a plurality of: K29G/H/I/N/Q/W/Y/C/L; V42C/D/E/H/Y; E195N/Y/Q; C234L; and V326W. The activity and/or thermal stability of the D-amino acid oxidase is not lower than that of a D-amino acid oxidase having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1. Provided is a D-amino acid oxidase with higher thermal stability. The operating temperature range of the enzyme is expanded while the activity of the enzyme is improved. The enzyme can have a prolonged service life when used at a relatively low temperature, and can have an improved catalytic efficiency when used at a relatively high temperature.

Abstract: A server device is provided for authenticating client devices on a communication network. The server device includes a transceiver configured for operable communication with at least one client of the communication network, and a processor including a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the server device to receive an authentication request from a client device, generate a seed for a first key for the client device if the client device authenticates, transmit the seed for the first key to the client device, receive a hash of the first key from the client device, and validate the first key based on the hash of the first key.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for gene therapy. Further, the present disclosure provides compositions and methods for treatment of Wilson's Disease through novel gene therapy mechanisms. Wherein a composition of a closed circular cDNA integrating gene therapy construct, the gene therapy construct comprising, from 5? to 3?, a polynucleotide sequence is disclosed.

Abstract: A compound containing a bis(azanylylidene) sulfonyl structure of formula (I) as a PKR agonist and/or USP9X inhibitor, which can be used for treating related diseases mediated and regulated by PKR and USP9X, wherein the related diseases comprise, but are not limited to: sickle-cell anemia, ?-thalassemia, hereditary non-spherocytic hemolytic anemia, hemolytic anemia, hereditary spherocytosis, hereditary elliptocytosis, abetalipoproteinemia, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, acquired hemolytic anemia, congenital anemia, anemia of chronic diseases, colorectal cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, esophageal cancer, melanoma, lymphoma, glioblastoma, or multiple myeloma.

Abstract: This application provides a data encoding and decoding method and a related device. In the encoding method, side information feature extraction is performed on a first feature map of current data, and quantization processing is performed, to obtain a first quantized feature map. Entropy encoding is performed based on the first quantized feature map, to obtain a first bitstream of the current data. A scaling coefficient is obtained based on the first quantized feature map, scaling processing is performed on a second feature map based on the scaling coefficient, and quantization processing is performed, to obtain a second quantized feature map. Scaling processing is performed on a first probability distribution parameter based on the scaling coefficient, to obtain a second probability distribution parameter, and entropy encoding is performed on the second quantized feature map based on the second probability distribution parameter, to obtain a second bitstream of the current data.

Abstract: This disclosure describes a system, method, and computer storage medium for joint asset and defect detection. The approach includes receiving input data including an input image of a utility asset, the input image including one or more objects. Deep neural networks are configured to generate embeddings for classification labels of the one or more objects, each embedding corresponding to a classification label and including a mapping between the classification label and a subset of feature vectors. Defect classifiers are configured to determine a likelihood of an object from the one or more objects in the input image containing a type of defect. Each defect classifier is trained to determine a type of defect based on the embeddings for the one or more classification labels. The approach includes generating an output image that includes bounding boxes for the objects and an annotation corresponding a respective object from the objects.

Abstract: The present application provides a composition of oral soluble film and application thereof. The composition includes a film-forming agent, a plasticizing agent, and a target releasing substance. The film-forming agent includes pectin and polysaccharide backbones. The flexibility and mechanical strength of the oral soluble film may meet the production requirements during cutting and packaging processes, the adhesion force, the dissolving time limit, and the dissolving rate of the active components may also meet usage needs.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices related to related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to improving mobility performance. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving a transmission that includes conditional information for a handover of the terminal. The method also includes determining whether a candidate cell fulfills a condition for handover based on the conditional information. In another exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes determining that there is no reference signal with a configured uplink grant with a measurement value that exceeds a threshold value. The method also includes initiating a random-access procedure. In another exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes generating conditional information for a handover of a terminal. The method also includes transmitting a transmission that includes the conditional information to the terminal.

Abstract: The multi-turn dialogue system based on retrieval includes the following modules: a representation module, a matching module, an aggregation module and a prediction module; the multi-turn dialogue method based on retrieval includes the following steps: (1) by a representation module, converting each turn of dialogue into a cascade vector of the dialogue, and converting a candidate answer into a cascade vector of the candidate answer; (2) by a matching module, dynamically absorbing context information based on a global attention mechanism, and calculating a matching vector; (3) by aggregation module, obtaining a short-term dependence information sequence and a long-term dependence information sequence; (4) by a prediction module, calculating the matching score of the context and candidate answer involved in the matching; (5) selecting a candidate answer with the highest matching score as a correct answer.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for training a semantic retrieval network, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a training sample including a search term and n candidate files corresponding to the search term, where n is an integer greater than 1; inputting the training sample into the ranking model, to obtain n first correlation degrees output by the ranking model, in which each first correlation degree represents a correlation between a candidate document and the search term; inputting the training sample into the semantic retrieval model, to obtain n second correlation degrees output by the semantic retrieval model, wherein each second correlation degree represents a correlation between a candidate document and the search term; and training the semantic retrieval model and the ranking model jointly based on the n first correlation degrees and the n second correlation degrees.

Abstract: In an approach for post-modeling data visualization and analysis, a processor presents a first visualization of a training dataset in a first plot. Responsive to receiving a selection of a data group of the training dataset to analyze, a processor identifies three or fewer key model features of the data group of the training dataset. A processor ascertains a representative record of each key model feature of the three or fewer key model features using a Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanation technique. A processor presents a second visualization of the three or fewer key model features and the representative record of each key model feature in a second plot.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine a transmission power for an uplink shared channel communication based at least in part on at least one of a code rate parameter, a block length parameter, or a target block error rate parameter associated with the uplink shared channel communication. In some aspects, the user equipment may transmit the uplink shared channel communication using the transmission power based at least in part on determining the transmission power. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may transmit feedback signaling for received sidelink messages to both the base station and the transmitting UE. The receiving UE may multicast a feedback message to both the base station and the transmitting UE on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or on a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH). The base station may configure the receiving UE with resources, the transmitting UE may allocate resources to the receiving UE, or the base station may actively monitor for the feedback message. In some examples, the receiving UE may operate in a dual connectivity mode, and may transmit the feedback message to both the base station and the transmitting UE on both the PUCCH and the PSFCH.

Abstract: This terminal includes: a transmission unit that transmits an uplink control signal including a first confirmation response to a first downlink signal; a reception unit that receives a downlink control signal which triggers retransmission of the first confirmation response; a control unit that controls retransmission of the first confirmation response, with respect to the relationship of a second confirmation response to a second downlink signal.