Abstract: The present disclosure provides a loading apparatus and a physical vapor deposition (PVD) apparatus. The loading apparatus includes a pedestal configured to support a workpiece; and a first support member placed on the pedestal and configured to push up a cover ring when the pedestal is at an operation position to prevent an overlapping portion of a cover ring and the workpiece from contacting each other. In the loading apparatus and the PVD apparatus, the first support member supports the cover ring, such that the cover ring does not contact the workpiece, thereby reducing stress forces on the workpiece by external components.

Abstract: Embodiment techniques map parity bits to sub-channels based on their row weights. The row weight for a sub-channel may be viewed as the number of “ones” in the corresponding row of the Kronecker matrix or as a power of 2 with the exponent (i.e. the hamming weight) being the number of “ones” in the binary representation of the sub-channel index (further described below). In one embodiment, candidate sub-channels that have certain row weight values are reserved for parity bit(s). Thereafter, K information bits may be mapped to the K most reliable remaining sub-channels, and a number of frozen bits (e.g. N?K) may be mapped to the least reliable remaining sub-channels. Parity bits may then mapped to the candidate sub-channels, and parity bit values are determined based on a function of the information bits.

Abstract: Method and server system for location sharing are disclosed. The server system receives information items related to a current location of the first mobile device associated with a first user of the social networking platform. After comparing the current location of the first mobile device with a previous location of the first mobile device and determining an orientation and/or velocity of the first mobile device at the current location, the server system sends the determined orientation and/or velocity of the first mobile device to the second mobile device associated with a second user of the social networking platform, wherein the second mobile device displays distinct visual indicators corresponding to the current location, orientation and velocity of the first mobile device, respectively, on an interactive map interface.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for forming a film and a method for forming an aluminum nitride film, in which two steps of pre-sputtering having different process parameters are respectively performed before performing a main sputtering, so as to achieve the effect of stabilizing target condition. The method for forming a film of the present disclosure may also form an aluminum nitride film on a substrate, and the aluminum nitride film may serve as a buffer layer between a substrate and a gallium nitride layer in an electronic device, so as to improve film qualities of the aluminum nitride film and the gallium nitride layer and achieve the purpose of improving performance of the electronic device.

Abstract: A device for rapidly loading and releasing a syringe. A limiting flange and clamping flange are on an outer side wall of an end, connected to the device, of the syringe. The clamping flange is close to a rear end of the syringe. The device includes an injection head. An outer collar, middle plate, and inner collar are sequentially inside the injection head. The outer collar includes an upper and lower part that are disposed up and down. The inner collar includes an upper part of the inner collar and a lower part of the inner collar that are disposed up and down. Elastic structures are between the upper part of the inner collar and injection head and between the lower part of the inner collar and injection head. The injector syringe can be loaded onto the device and taken out rapidly if the syringe is rotated.

Abstract: A method includes performing contextual association of entities using multi-source data. For each context the method performs co-clustering to identify distinct expert-skill associations; constructing single-entity unipartite graph representations and performing a random walk within each single-entity unipartite graph; for each single-entity unipartite graph, obtaining steady state distributions using the random walks to obtain clusters of experts and skills; performing a weighted two-way random walk across entity graphs (graph edges), giving preference to traversal within members of the same co-cluster; and performing link prediction for each context by dynamically adding edges, and obtaining overall skills predictions, analyses and inferences by merging the contexts and weighting the links of each context.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a film forming method and an aluminum nitride film forming method for a semiconductor device. The film forming method for a semiconductor device includes performing multiple sputtering routes sequentially. Each sputtering routes includes: loading a substrate into a chamber; moving a shielding plate between a target and the substrate; introducing an inert gas into the chamber to perform a surface modification process on the target; performing a pre-sputtering to pre-treat a surface of the target; moving the shielding plate away from the substrate, and performing a main sputtering on the substrate to form a film on the substrate; and moving the substrate out of the chamber.

Abstract: A driver circuit for use in a controller includes a signal generator coupled to generate a first control signal and a second control signal in response to a drive signal that is coupled to control switching of a secondary switch that is to be coupled to the driver circuit and referenced to a reference voltage that is greater than a ground reference voltage. A second switch is coupled to be controlled by the second control signal such that the reference voltage is substantially applied to a control of the secondary switch when the drive signal controls the secondary switch to be off. A first switch is coupled to be controlled by the first control signal such that the sum of the reference voltage and a first voltage is substantially applied to the control of the secondary switch when the drive signal controls the secondary switch on.

Abstract: A smart gear apparatus is provided. The smart gear apparatus includes wearable material, a smart material pad and a control element. The smart material pad is integrated with or at least partially encased in the wearable material and includes smart material having a variable hardness and a control element. The control element is operably coupled to the smart material pad and is configured to adjust the variable hardness of the smart material thereof.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for providing a user friendly plot summary of a video for a particular user. According to the method, a plot category of a video can be determined. The method can determine a type of a plot summary of the video for a user based on preferences of the user and the determined plot category of the video. The method can generate a plot summary of the video with the determined type. The method can provide the generated plot summary to the user.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for performing sequence to sequence (Seq2Seq) speech recognition training performed by at least one processor. The method includes acquiring a training set comprising a plurality of pairs of input data and target data corresponding to the input data, encoding the input data into a sequence of hidden states, performing a connectionist temporal classification (CTC) model training based on the sequence of hidden states, performing an attention model training based on the sequence of hidden states, and decoding the sequence of hidden states to generate target labels by independently performing the CTC model training and the attention model training.

Abstract: A pixel circuit, a driving method and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting unit; a drive transistor configured to drive the light emitting unit to emit light to display an image frame; and a control circuit configured to control the drive transistor according to signals on control lines. The method of controlling includes: resetting, in a reset stage of an image frame, a voltage of the first electrode of the drive transistor by applying a reset voltage, and sensing, in a sense stage, a threshold voltage of the drive transistor by applying a reference voltage. The control circuit is further configured to control, in an offset elimination stage at the beginning of the image frame and prior to the reset stage, the drive transistor to be switched off, which was in an ON state at the end of a previous image frame.

Abstract: Provided are a recombinant group 2 allergen protein from Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, and an encoding gene and preparation method thereof. The encoding gene is obtained by preforming codon optimization on a wild-type encoding gene of a group 2 allergen protein from Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and is beneficial to expression in Pichia pastoris. Further, an acting element increasing target protein expression is added to the expression system.

Abstract: A memory device includes an insulation layer, an interconnection structure disposed in the insulation layer, a dielectric layer disposed on the insulation layer and the interconnection structure, a connection hole disposed on the interconnection structure and penetrates the dielectric layer, an alignment mark trench penetrating the dielectric layer on a peripheral region, a first patterned conductive layer, and a patterned memory material layer. The first patterned conductive layer includes a connection structure at least partly disposed in the connection hole and a first pattern disposed in the alignment mark trench. The patterned memory material layer includes a first memory material pattern disposed on the connection structure and a second memory material pattern disposed in the alignment mark trench. Manufacturing yield and alignment condition of forming the memory device may be improved by disposing a part of the first patterned conductive layer in the alignment mark trench.

Abstract: Embodiment techniques map parity bits to sub-channels based on their row weights. The row weight for a sub-channel may be viewed as the number of “ones” in the corresponding row of the Kronecker matrix or as a power of 2 with the exponent (i.e. the hamming weight) being the number of “ones” in the binary representation of the sub-channel index (further described below). In one embodiment, candidate sub-channels that have certain row weight values are reserved for parity bit(s). Thereafter, K information bits may be mapped to the K most reliable remaining sub-channels, and a number of frozen bits (e.g. N?K) may be mapped to the least reliable remaining sub-channels. Parity bits may then mapped to the candidate sub-channels, and parity bit values are determined based on a function of the information bits.

Abstract: Methods and systems for sharing real-time location information are disclosed herein. A computing device with processor(s) and memory displays a chat interface of a social networking platform for a conversation between a first user and a second user associated with the computing device. The computing device receives a location-sharing request from the first user to join a real-time location sharing group and, in response, displays a location-sharing message. After detecting a first user input on the location-sharing message from the second user of the computing device, the computing device replaces the chat interface with a location interface of the social networking platform, the location interface including a map overlaid with a first indicator corresponding to a respective real-time location of the first user and a second indicator corresponding to a respective real-time location of the second user.

Abstract: A wine bottle positioning device includes a sleeving component and a door cover. The sleeving component includes a positioning base and a positioning sleeve connected to the positioning base. The door cover is movably disposed at the positioning base. Another wine bottle positioning device is also provided. A wine storage apparatus is also provided.

Abstract: This application discloses a polar polar code interleaving processing method and apparatus. The method includes: determining N to-be-encoded bits, where N is a positive integer (S210); obtaining a first sequence that includes sequence numbers of N polarized channels, where the first sequence is used to indicate a reliability order of the N polarized channels (S220); performing polar encoding on the N to-be-encoded bits to obtain encoded bits (S230); and performing interleaving processing on the encoded bits based on the first sequence (S240). Because the first sequence used to indicate the reliability of the polarized channels is a sequence already existing in a polar code encoding process, no additional storage resource needs to be used to store the first sequence in the interleaving processing process, thereby reducing use of storage resources.

Abstract: A variable frame rate encoding method applied to a video encoder, and the method, by obtaining a current coded macro block: determining whether the current coded macro block is located in a still area and if the current coded macro block is located in the still area, encoding the current coded macro block by using a first preset coding mode, and if the current coded macro block is located in a motion area, then encoding the current coded macro block by using a second preset coding mode.

Abstract: A DNA sequence encoding Der p1 protein having a particular base sequence is codon-optimized for the Pichia pastoris expression system, which is conducive to expressing Der p1 in Pichia pastoris. After gene optimization and adding an activating element to increase the expression of Der p1 in molecular level, it was found that Der p1 is expressed at a higher level as compared with the prior art and has biological activity similar to the natural protein.