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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: A point cloud encoding method, decoding method, encoding device, and decoding device are disclosed. The point cloud encoding method includes calculating a distance from a first point to a parent point of the first point as a first distance; determining a point in un-encoded points closest to the first point as a second point, and calculating residual values on N coordinate components from the second point to the first point; encoding absolute values of the residual values on the N coordinate components from the second point to the first point; encoding signs of the residual values of the second point based on the residual values of the second point and the first distance. The present disclosure utilizes the geometry position relationship between points in a point cloud to encode the absolute values of residual values and the feasible signs of residual values, thereby improving the encoding efficiency of residual values.

Abstract: A micro light-emitting device includes a semiconductor epitaxial structure, a convex lens structure, and a light-reflecting structure. The semiconductor epitaxial structure includes a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer that are sequentially stacked in such order. The convex lens structure is disposed on a light-exiting side of the semiconductor epitaxial structure and has a lens bottom connected thereof. The convex lens structure protrudes outward in a direction corresponding to a direction along which light exits. The light-reflecting structure is disposed at an outer surface of the convex lens structure proximate to the lens bottom. The light-reflecting structure having a light-reflecting surface that faces the outer surface of the convex lens structure. A display device includes a driver substrate and a pixel unit including a plurality of the micro light-emitting devices above. The micro light-emitting devices are arranged in an array on the driver substrate.

Abstract: A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive downlink data to which semi-persistent scheduling is applied in a communication with a base station via a satellite or a flying object; and a control unit configured to determine a timing of reception of the downlink data to which the semi-persistent scheduling is applied, based on a timing of feedback transmission corresponding to an indication of a start of the semi-persistent scheduling.

Abstract: A base station in a network system includes: a transmission unit configured to transmit a first reference signal to a terminal via a first non-terrestrial communication device; and a reception unit configured to receive information related to a reception timing at the terminal from the terminal. The transmission unit transmits information related to a propagation delay of the first reference signal and information related to the reception timing to LMF (Location Management Function), and the information related to the reception timing is a time difference between a reception timing of the first reference signal and a reception timing of a second reference signal that is transmitted from the base station or from a second base station that is different from the base station via a second non-terrestrial communication device.

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.

Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives configuration information for enabling two default beam pathlosses for uplink (UL) transmission and information for indicating the UL transmission, and a control section that determines, based on whether the UL transmission is transmission over a plurality of slots, at least one of a default spatial relation and a default pathloss reference signal (PL-RS) to be applied to the UL transmission. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately control operation related to a default TCI state/spatial relation/pathloss reference signal.

Abstract: A server includes at least one first processor core, at least one second processor core, and a storage. The at least one first processor core is configured to execute code of an operating system configured to communicate with a cloud management platform, to start and run a first operating system, where a cloud management platform client runs in the first operating system, and the cloud management platform client is configured to obtain, from the cloud management platform, first configuration information of a first virtual machine to be created. The at least one second processor core is configured to execute code of an operating system configured to manage a virtual machine, to start and run a second operating system.

Abstract: Liquid-crystalline (LC) media or LC materials and energy saving liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) containing these media, especially gaming displays and AR/VR headsets addressed by an active matrix and in particular to LC displays of the TN, PS-TN, STN, TN-TFT, OCB, IPS, PS-IPS, FFS, HB-FFS, XB-FFS, PS-FFS, SA-HB-FFS, SA-XB-FFS, polymer stabilised SA-HB-FFS, polymer stabilised SA-XB-FFS, positive VA or positive PS-VA type.

Abstract: There is provided a phase shifter having a phase shift region and a peripheral region, and including a first substrate, a second substrate and a dielectric layer between such two substrates; the first substrate includes a first dielectric substrate, a first electrode and a first auxiliary structure; the second substrate includes a second dielectric substrate, a second electrode and a second auxiliary structure; the phase shift region includes overlapping regions; the first electrode and the second electrode are located in the phase shift region, and have orthographic projections, on the first dielectric substrate, overlapped at least partially in the overlapping regions; the first auxiliary structure is in the peripheral region and on a side, close to the dielectric layer, of the first dielectric substrate; the second auxiliary structure is in the peripheral region and on a side, close to the dielectric layer, of the second dielectric substrate.

Abstract: A fluidized bed reactor, a device, and a method for producing low-carbon olefins from oxygen-containing compound are provided. The fluidized bed reactor includes a reactor shell, a reaction zone, a coke control zone and a delivery pipe, where there are n baffles arranged in the coke control zone, and the n baffles divide the coke control zone into n sub-coke control zones which include a first sub-coke control zone, a second sub-coke control zone, and an nth sub-coke control zone; at least one catalyst circulation hole is provided on each of the n-1 baffles, so that the catalyst flows in an annular shape in the coke control zone, where n is an integer. The device and method can be adapted to a new generation of DMTO catalyst, and the unit consumption of production ranges from 2.50 to 2.58 tons of methanol/ton of low-carbon olefins.

Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that determines spatial relation information for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for a plurality of transmission/reception points by using at least one of radio resource control (RRC) signaling, medium access control (MAC) signaling, and downlink control information (DCI), and a transmitting section that repeatedly transmits the PUSCH by using a spatial domain transmission filter based on the spatial relation information. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, PUSCH repetition transmission can be appropriately controlled.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of processing an image, an electronic device, and a storage medium, which may be used in a field of artificial intelligence, especially in a field of image processing, etc. The method includes: acquiring an input image containing a plurality of rows of pixels; performing, by using a plurality of dedicated processing units, a pixel extraction in parallel on each row of pixels of the plurality of rows of pixels in the input image, so as to obtain row data for each row of pixels; and stitching the row data for each row of pixels, so as to obtain an output image.

Abstract: To properly perform communication even in a case where communication is performed using a plurality of transmission points. A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives a downlink control channel indicating transmission of a random access channel to at least one of a serving cell and a non-serving cell; and a control section that controls transmission of the random access channel on the basis of at least one of a random access channel configuration corresponding to a given cell and power information regarding a synchronization signal block corresponding to the given cell when the random access channel is transmitted on the basis of the downlink control channel.

Abstract: A method for improving DAS signal-to-noise ratio by means of local FK transform. The method includes: acquiring seismic wavefield data; segmenting the seismic wavefield data into a plurality of pieces of local data, wherein each piece of local data has the same dimension as the seismic wavefield data; processing each piece of local data by means of the following steps: performing FK transform to obtain an intermediate signal, removing some FK spectrum components from the intermediate signal according to scanning energy which corresponds to the intermediate signal under different apparent slowness, and performing two-dimensional inverse FFT on the intermediate signal, from which some FK spectrum components are removed; and combining all the processed local data, so as to obtain new seismic wavefield data.