Abstract: The present invention relates to a rare earth halide scintillating material. The material has a general chemical formula La1-xCexBr3+y, wherein 0.001x1, and 0.0001y0.1. The rare earth halide scintillating material involved in the present invention has excellent scintillation properties of high light output, high energy resolution, and fast decay.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for selling a commodity, a vending machine and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring an image of eyes of a user, determining based on the image of eyes a gaze point of the user within a commodity displaying plane matching a vending machine; determining, based on position coordinates of at least two commodities in the commodity displaying plane and the gaze point, an expected commodity corresponding to the user; providing commodity indication information of the expected commodity to the user; and in response to detecting purchase confirmation information fed back by the user for the commodity indication information, guiding the user to use at least one biological characteristic to finish payment for the expected commodity.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a laser projection apparatus. The laser projection apparatus includes a laser source system, an optical engine, a lens system that are sequentially connected in a laser beam propagation direction, a plurality of circuit boards, a first heat dissipation system, and a second heat dissipation system. The first heat dissipation system is configured to dissipate heat of a first laser assembly in the laser source system, the optical engine, and the plurality of circuit boards, and to make airflow sequentially flow through the above components to form a first heat dissipation path. The second heat dissipation system is configured to dissipate heat of a second laser assembly in the laser source system, the lens system, and the plurality of circuit boards, and to make airflow sequentially flow through the above components to form a second heat dissipation path.

Abstract: Techniques are described with respect to processing a federated query. An associated computer-implemented method includes compiling a query received from a client computing system to generate a query statement and a query access plan. The query access plan incorporates a modified database access application programming interface (API) that supports data serialization. The method further includes executing the query access plan to transmit the query statement to a remote database system. The method further includes fetching a query result set from the remote database system including serialized binary large object (BLOB) data. The method further includes deserializing the serialized BLOB data of the query result set and populating an in-memory data structure with deserialized query results. In an embodiment, the method further includes transmitting the deserialized query results to the client computing system.

Abstract: A rare earth halide scintillation material the chemical formula of the material being CeBr3+x, wherein 0.0001x0.1. The rare earth halide scintillation material has excellent scintillation properties including high light output, high energy resolution, and fast decay.

Abstract: A system and method of joining remote tables by a federated server is provided. A method includes receiving a data join request from a client device; sending a first block fetch request to a first data source based on the data join request; receiving a first set of block data from the first data source; sending a second block fetch request to a second data source based on the data join request and a bind array containing the data of join column in the first data source; receiving a second set of block data from the second data source; and sending an output to the client device in response to the data join request in the form of rows from an outer table and an inner table.

Abstract: A data transmission method includes encapsulating, by a first device, first target data into N remote direct memory access (RDMA) packets according to an RDMA protocol, sequentially sending, by the first device, the N RDMA packets to the second device according to a packet sequence number (PSN) sequence of the N RDMA packets, where each of the N RDMA packets carries a first data write address, and the first data write address is an address for writing data in each of the N RDMA packets into the second device such that the second device directly obtains the first data write address in each RDMA packet from the RDMA packet, and writes the target data into storage space corresponding to the first data write address.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technical solution of live comments generating, which may acquire candidate texts highly similar with segments of video as live comments of corresponding segments by matching the candidate texts with the segments, and further generate new live comments based on video segments and existed live comments to enrich the live comments information of related video.

Abstract: The present application provides a system for treating malodorous gas from sludge, which includes an air compressor, a first pressure swing adsorption tower, a second pressure swing adsorption tower, a buffer tank, a decomposition tank, an exhaust gas scrubber and a vacuum device. The present invention relates to a process for treating malodorous gas from sludge treatment, which includes: compressing the malodorous gas by using an air compressor, and adsorbing by using a pressure swing adsorbent. The air for removing the malodorous component is configured for sludge separation and aerobic aeration in the treatment tank. When the pressure swing adsorbent reaches the design upper limit value, the intake air is stopped, decompression and desorption start, and the enriched malodorous component is sent to catalytic combustion or photocatalytic decomposition, and then the acid gas in the tail gas is neutralized with an alkaline absorbent, and finally discharged to the standard.

Abstract: Disclosed is a computer implemented method and related system to improve the efficiency of querying remote databases. The method includes receiving, from a host, a query, wherein the query is configured to retrieve a set of data from a remote database. The method also includes, generating an access plan, the access plan comprising a plurality of nodes wherein each node of the plurality of nodes includes a command. The method further includes determining capabilities of the remote database. The method includes executing the query and returning the set of data to the host.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for remote query optimization in multi data sources. The method includes receiving a database query from a remote source requesting data-points from multiple data sources. The method further includes receiving and analyzing the data-points, creating a data set based on the analysis, and transmitting the data set to the remote source.

Abstract: A flexible display apparatus which includes a flexible display panel, a glass panel, a lateral side outer shell, characterized in that two ends of the lateral side outer shell are detachably connected to the end faces of the two edges of the glass panel, the lateral side outer shell having an outer surface that extends from one of the two ends of the lateral side outer shell to another one of the two ends of the lateral side outer shell, the outer surface of the lateral side outer shell being in alignment with the outer surface of the glass panel at each of the two connections, such that the outer surface of the lateral side outer shell and the outer surface of the glass panel jointly form a continuous smooth outer surface of the tubular structure.

Abstract: CD47+ disease cells such as cancer cells are treated using a combination of CD47 blocking agent and poly-(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor. The CD47 blocking agent can be SIRP?Fc and the PARP inhibitor niraparib. The anti-cancer effect of niraparib is enhanced in the presence of SIRP?Fc. Specific combinations include SIRP?Fc forms that comprise an Fc that is either IgG1 or preferably IgG4 isotype. These combinations are useful particularly to treat solid tumours and blood cancers including lymphomas, leukemias and myelomas.

Abstract: This patent application relates to the treatment of cancer and other diseases that have a CD47+ phenotype. Treatment involves the use of radiation and a CD47-binding agent, preferably a CD47-binding form of human signal regulatory protein alpha (SIRPa) that inhibits activation of the CD47/SIRPa axis and mediates phagocytosis of CD47+ disease cells. An anti-cancer effect of a CD47 blocking agent is enhanced when combined with radiation therapy. The anti-cancer effect of a CD47 blocking agent such as SIRPaFc is enhanced when combined with radiation therapy.

Abstract: The present application provides a system for treating malodorous gas from sludge, which includes an air compressor, a first pressure swing adsorption tower, a second pressure swing adsorption tower, a buffer tank, a decomposition tank, an exhaust gas scrubber and a vacuum device. The present invention relates to a process for treating malodorous gas from sludge treatment, which includes several steps as follow: compressing the malodorous gas by using an air compressor, and adsorbing by using a pressure swing adsorbent. The air for removing the malodorous component is configured for sludge separation and aerobic aeration in the treatment tank. When the pressure swing adsorbent reaches the design upper limit value, the intake air is stopped, decompression and desorption start, and the enriched malodorous component is sent to catalytic combustion or photocatalytic decomposition, and then the acid gas in the tail gas is neutralized with an alkaline absorbent, and finally discharged to the standard.

Abstract: According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, there is provided a solution for generating a summary of a document. In this solution, feature information of pages comprised in a document is extracted, which characterizes at least one type of content contained in each page. Respective importance of the pages is determined at least based on the extracted feature information. A summary of the document is generated for the document by selecting a predetermined number of pages less than the number of the pages based on the respective importance. Through the solution, instead of providing all the pages, pages containing important content may be determined automatically to serve as the summary of the document. This summary allows the user to learn quickly main content of the document, shorten the time consumed in browsing all documents and/or facilitate location of a document of interest as soon as possible.

Abstract: Disclosed is a computer implemented method and related system to improve the efficiency of querying remote databases. The method includes receiving, from a host, a query, wherein the query is configured to retrieve a set of data from a remote database. The method also includes, generating an access plan, the access plan comprising a plurality of nodes wherein each node of the plurality of nodes includes a command. The method further includes determining capabilities of the remote database. The method includes executing the query and returning the set of data to the host.

Abstract: Implementations of the subject matter described herein provide a solution that enables a machine to automatically generate a melody. In this solution, user emotion and/or environment information is used to select a first melody feature parameter from a plurality of melody feature parameters, wherein each of the plurality of melody feature parameters corresponds to a music style of one of a plurality of reference melodies. The first melody feature parameter is further used to generate a first melody that conforms to the music style and is different from the reference melody. Thus, a melody that matches user emotions and/or environmental information may be automatically created.

Abstract: In embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method of generating a slide for presentation. Upon a target passage for presentation is obtained, a plurality of sentences are generated based on the target passage, and a label associated with each sentence and an icon corresponding to each label are determined. Then, the sentences, labels and icons are displayed in association in a user interface of an application for presentation. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the illustrated slides can be automatically generated for a passage to be presented, which can improve efficiency of slide making and improve user experience for slide presentation.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display panel, including: an array substrate, a light-emitting layer, a touch panel, a first flexible circuit board, and a second flexible circuit board. The array substrate includes a display region and an edge-bonding region configured on an edge of the display region. The light-emitting layer is stacked on the display region. The first flexible circuit board joins to the edge-bonding region. The touch panel is stacked on one side of the light-emitting layer facing away the array substrate. The second flexible circuit board is flexibly connected between the touch panel and the edge-bonding region. The edge-bonding region includes a first conductive lead. The second flexible circuit board connects to the first flexible circuit board via the first conductive lead. As such, the internal configuration and the small-sized design of the display device may be facilitated, and may improve user experience.