Abstract: The present disclosure provides an integrated infrared circular polarization detector with a high extinction ratio and a design method thereof. The detector structurally includes a metal reflective layer, a bottom electrode layer, a quantum well layer, a top electrode layer, and a two-dimensional chiral metamaterial layer. Under circularly polarized light with the selected handedness, surface plasmon polariton waves are generated at the interface between the two-dimensional chiral metamaterial layer and the semiconductor, and has a main electric field component aligned with the absorption direction of the quantum wells, thereby enhancing the absorption of the quantum wells. Under circularly polarized light with the opposite handedness, since most of the optical power is reflected, surface plasmon polariton waves cannot be effectively excited, and the absorption of the quantum wells is extremely low, thus realizing the capability of infrared circular polarization detection with a high extinction ratio.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods of identifying pathogens and determining their antimicrobial susceptibility. The methods comprise detecting biomarkers in a test sample, locating the sample in a phylogenetic tree based on biomarker information, obtaining drug susceptibility prediction rules based on the phylogenetic tree positioning of the sample, and determining the drug susceptibility of a pathogen according to the prediction rules. Further disclosed are an application of the phylogenetic tree in the preparation of pathogen identification and/or drug susceptibility diagnostic product, and a pathogen identification and drug susceptibility diagnostic kit.

Abstract: Disclosed herein include methods, systems, compositions and kits for determining cell-cell interaction, for example, using nucleic acid sequencing. The method can match a cell barcode sequence associated with a cell of a plurality of cells with a cell barcode sequence associated with a partition of a plurality of partitions to identify the partition the cell has originated from in the plurality of partitions. In some embodiments, a pair of interacting cells within a partition are attached with a common cell barcode. The nucleic acid sequences of the pair of interacting cells having the common cell barcode can be tracked to the partition the pair of interacting cells has originated from, where phenotypic observables of the interacting cells can be obtained, for example, using optical imaging, thereby linking cell nucleic acid sequences such as expression profiles to cell functionality and the nature of the cell-cell interaction.

Abstract: A supercritical CO2 boiler capable of realizing uniform combustion, corrosion resistance and coking resistance, and a boiler system are provided. The supercritical CO2 boiler includes a main combustion chamber, an upper furnace, a furnace arch and a flue, wherein a cross section of the main combustion chamber is circular or oval, or is of an N-sided shape, where N>4; at least four burner groups are disposed on the main combustion chamber, each group of burner nozzles corresponding to each burner group includes a recirculating air nozzle, a primary air nozzle and a secondary air nozzle; lateral recirculating air nozzles symmetrically distributed are respectively disposed at two sides of the primary air nozzle, the recirculating air nozzle and the lateral recirculating air nozzle are configured to feed recirculating flue gas or a mixed gas of the recirculating flue gas and secondary air into the main combustion chamber.

Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical fields of civil engineering, smart material and health monitoring, and provides a viscous damper fluid viscosity monitoring device and method based on piezoceramic transducers, comprising piezoceramic transducers, wires, corks, a baffle and a viscous damper. When the fluid viscosity of the viscous damper changes, the energy dissipation of pressure waves during propagation in a fluid will change, and signals received by the piezoceramic transducers will change, so that the viscosity of the fluid in the viscous damper can be calculated by the amplitude change of the signals received. The device of the present invention has a simple structure and accurate monitoring results, and provides a simple and feasible method for real-time monitoring of fluid viscosity of viscous dampers in engineering.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for assessing a lifecycle of a component. In an embodiment, the method includes: obtaining, using a simulation device, model description information that corresponds to component models of some or all components in the production line; obtaining at least one piece of data information that is needed by at least one component model that corresponds to the model description information; performing event marking based on the event information on the obtained data information; obtaining component status information of a corresponding component of each model based on the marked data information; and generating a corresponding analysis report based on the component status information from. An advantage of an embodiment is that, a failure mode, a key module, and a measurement rule no longer rely on manual operations and experience of an expert. Instead corresponding information may be precisely provided by using a PLM system.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for generating a virtual Internet-of-things device on the basis of an Internet-of-things model. The method may include: obtaining a first number of Internet-of-things models for an Internet-of-things solution; subjecting a variable in the first number of Internet-of-things models to variable attribute expansion to add an extended variable attribute to the variable, wherein the variable subjected to variable attribute expansion is capable of data simulation; configuring variable link relations and variable link processing rules for the extended Internet-of-things models to obtain an Internet-of-things model configuration file; and obtaining a second number of virtual Internet-of-things devices on the basis of a virtual physical network device architecture by using the Internet-of-things model configuration file.

Abstract: Method and device for executing time critical processing in a non-real-time operating system. The method includes capturing a message by a packet capturing tool; analyzing whether the message is a sample value message associated with the time critical processing, and when the message is a sample value message associated with the time critical processing, writing a data unit included in the sample value message into a first buffer; preprocessing the data unit, the preprocessing includes arranging and combining bytes of the data unit so that the bytes indicate sample value is located at specific position; writing the preprocessed data unit from the first buffer into a second buffer and triggering a real-time dedicated thread at the same time, in response to the preprocessed data unit in the first buffer reaching the predetermined number; and executing the time critical processing by reading the preprocessed data unit from the second buffer.

Abstract: Provided herein are catalyst materials and processes for processing hydrocarbons. For example, doped ceria-supported metal catalysts are provided exhibiting good activity and stability for commercially relevant dry reforming of methane as well as mixed hydrocarbon feedstocks under process conditions including low temperature and long term operation. Useful doped ceria-supported metal catalysts include nickel dispersed over Ti-doped ceria.

Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide an image encoding method and apparatus and image decoding method and apparatus. The image encoding includes performing convolutional neural network (CNN) encoding on image data to generate feature vectors or feature maps; quantizing the feature vectors or feature maps to generate discrete symbols to be encoded; and estimating probabilities of the symbols to be encoded by using a multi-scale context model including multiple mask convolution layers of different scales. An entropy encoding of the image data is performed according to the probabilities of the symbols to be encoded.

Abstract: Various embodiments described herein include an application program development and deployment method comprising: acquiring, from a code template library, a first code template matching a code structure of an application program to be developed; creating a template instance based on the first code template; filling a custom code input by a developer into the template instance to obtain a source program code matching said application program; compiling the source program code to obtain a target program code; acquiring a target operating environment mirror matching the target program code from an environment mirror library, wherein at least one operating environment mirror is stored in the environment mirror library, and different operating environment mirrors correspond to different operating environments; and deploying the target program code and the target operating environment mirror onto a target cloud platform.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for configuring a priority level, a cloud platform, a system, a computing device, and a medium. The method for configuring a priority level for data on a cloud platform comprises determining the data type of received data; determining, according to the data type, a priority level specification used for describing a priority level of the received data; and calculating the priority level of the received data on the basis of the priority level specification of the received data.

Abstract: The present invention relates methods of treatment using BMP6 antagonists.

Abstract: Provided are a set of primer pair and probe, having the oligonucleotide sequences as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2 and SEQ ID NO: 3, and a set of primer pair and probe of reference sequence, having the oligonucleotide sequences as shown in SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 5 and SEQ ID NO: 6. Further provided is the use of the set of primer pair and probe for detecting the common deleted region “chr9:21970277-21985225,hg19”, of CDKN2A in the preparation of a kit for quantitatively detecting the deletion of a human CDKN2A gene copy in a DNA sample to be tested. The new method and the specific primer pair and probe can simply, conveniently and specifically detect the deletion of the CDKN2A gene copy in the sample, and have higher sensitivity than conventional detection methods for copy deletion.

Abstract: A method of live monitoring of long-term and/or multi-channel reactions may include: controlling a chemical reaction apparatus via a modular control system, collecting reaction data via the digital and analog input ports, logging the reaction data via a data logging module configured to transmit the reaction data to a remote data server for data storage, periodically querying a remote interlock server for an emergency stop instruction via an emergency stop controller, inputting the emergency stop instruction into the remote interlock server via a remote user interface, executing, in response to receiving the emergency stop instruction, one or more emergency stop actions. The modular control system may include: a digital control module in electrical communication with digital input and output ports; an analog control module in electrical communication with analog input and output ports; and a pneumatic control module in pneumatic communication with pneumatic output ports.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a concrete-filled steel tubular column-steel plate concrete ring beam joint, comprising: a concrete-filled steel tubular column, a steel plate concrete ring beam and reinforced concrete frame beams. The steel plate concrete ring beam comprises: a steel plate and a reinforcing cage, wherein concrete grouting holes are arranged in the middle of the steel plate; both the steel plate and the reinforcing cage are of a ring shape, and the ring-shaped steel plate and the reinforcing cage are coaxially arranged; the steel plate concrete ring beam is sheathed and fixed on the outer side wall of the concrete-filled steel tubular column; and an end of the reinforced concrete frame beam extends into the steel plate concrete ring beam, and stressed reinforcements of the reinforced concrete frame beam are connected to the steel plates. The steel plate concrete ring beam is of a centrosymmetric ring-shaped or eccentric ring-shaped construction.

Abstract: A field data transmission method comprises: a cloud platform determining at least one first device operation index be obtained via data analysis. For each first device operation index, the cloud platform generates control information for the first device operation index. The control information is used to determine a primary edge controller from among at least one edge controller, wherein the primary edge controller is used to send first field data to the cloud platform, the first field data is used for data analysis by the cloud platform to obtain the first device operation index, and the first field data is obtained by the primary edge controller preprocessing second field data. The cloud platform sends each piece of control information to each edge controller, respectively. The cloud platform receives first field data from each primary edge controller, respectively.

Abstract: Disclosed are combination therapies comprising administration of a CD73 inhibitor, an adenosine A2A or A2B receptor inhibitor, and a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor. The disclosed combination therapies are useful in the treatment of diseases related to the activity of adenosine receptors and/or CD73 and/or PD-1/PD-L1 including, for example, cancer, inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases. Anti-CD73 antibodies, PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors, and A2A/A2B inhibitors are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a docetaxel albumin nanoparticle pharmaceutical composition, a preparation method therefor, and a use thereof for manufacturing drugs for treating cancer. The pharmaceutical composition comprises docetaxel, albumin and amino acid(s), wherein the weight ratio between albumin and docetaxel is no more than 50, preferably is 20:1 to 1:1, and the weight ratio between amino acid(s) and docetaxel is not less than 0.5, preferably is 1:1 to 20:1.

Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide an image coding apparatus, a probability model generating apparatus and an image decoding apparatus. A processor is to perform feature extraction on an input image to obtain first feature maps of N channels; to perform feature extraction on the input image with a size of the input image being adjusted K times, to respectively obtain second feature maps of N channels; and to concatenate the first feature maps of the K×N channels with the second feature maps of K×N channels to output a concatenated feature maps of channels. Hence, features of images may be accurately extracted and more competitive latent representations may be obtained.