Abstract: A flat hash table includes a plurality of entries, and each entry includes a hash function index and a usage bitmap. A method for block device level compression mapping using the flat hash table includes compressing uncompressed data to compressed data, retrieving an entry of the flat hash table using an uncompressed block address of the uncompressed data, determining a compressed block address of the compressed data by executing at least one hash function and by determining a hash function in the at least one hash function for mapping the uncompressed block address to the compressed block address that corresponds to a space in a block storage device, storing the compressed data to the space that corresponds to the compressed block address, and updating the hash function index of the entry of the flat hash table with an index indicative of the hash function.

Abstract: A high-formability hot galvanized aluminum-zinc or hot galvanized aluminum-magnesium dual-phase steel having a tensile strength of ?590 MPa and a rapid heat treatment hot dipping fabrication method, the steel comprising the following components in mass percentage: C: 0.045-0.12%; Si: 0.1-0.5%; Mn: 1.0-2.0%; P: ?0.02%; S: ?0.006%; and Al: 0.02-0.055%. The steel may also contain one or two among Cr, Mo, Ti, Nb, and V, wherein the Cr+Mo+Ti+Nb+V?0.5%, and the remainder is Fe and other inevitable impurities. The present invention changes the recovery of a deformed structure, ferrite recrystallization and austenite transformation processes during annealing by means of rapid heat treatment, and the nucleation point of a crystal is increased, grain growth time is shortened, the strength and formability (n90 value) of the material is improved while heat treatment efficiency is improved, which thus extends the performance range of the material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for reducing localized fat deposits in a subject in need thereof in need thereof by topically treating the subject with rare-earth element doped calcium carbonate particles in combination with low-intensity ultrasound. The rare-earth element doped calcium carbonate particles have good biocompatibility and can increase reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and produce carbon dioxide (CO2) and calcium ions (Ca2+) in the region of administration under the ultrasonic irradiation. The method of the present invention is effective in inducing adipocyte necrosis, inhibiting adipogenesis, and decreasing body weight and useful for body sculpture.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for in-situ etching of a wafer prior to sputter deposition, the method comprising the following steps. A sputtering chamber having a sputtering target is provided. The wafer is placed into the sputtering chamber. A gas is introduced into the sputtering chamber such that the gas at least partially ionized as a plasma, wherein the plasma includes positively charged gas ions. A first negative potential is applied to the wafer while a second negative potential is simultaneously applied to the sputtering target and while no shutter is positioned between the wafer and the sputtering target.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to store memory transaction information. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to cause information received by the API about one or more memory transactions to be stored.

Abstract: A composite metal foil and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The composite metal foil includes at least a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The first metal layer is copper foil, nickel foil, stainless steel foil, or a combination thereof. The second metal layer is disposed on a surface of the first metal layer. A contact angle of a surface of the second metal layer to liquid lithium metal is lower than 90 degrees.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present inventive concept there is provided a photonic integrated circuit, PIC, comprising a waveguide array. Each waveguide is configured to guide a light signal. All guided light signals originate from a common light beam or multiple mutually coherent light beams. Each waveguide is associated with a mutually unique modulator, providing modulation, by a modulation signal, of phase and/or amplitude of the light signal, forming a modulated light signal. The modulation signals of all modulators have a common modulation period, such that the modulated light signal comprises a plurality of sideband frequencies representing different orders of frequency shifts based on harmonics of the modulation period. A free propagation unit comprising inputs associated with the waveguides receives the modulated light signals. The modulated light signals propagate freely in two spatial dimensions through the free propagation unit and interfere to form output signals.

Abstract: A breathable and waterproof non-woven fabric is manufactured by a manufacturing method including the following steps. Performing a kneading process on 87 to 91 parts by weight of a polyester, 5 to 7 parts by weight of a water repellent, and 3 to 6 parts by weight of a flow promoter to form a mixture, in which the polyester has a melt index between 350 g/10 min and 1310 g/10 min at a temperature of 270° C., and the mixture has a melt index between 530 g/10 min and 1540 g/10 min at a temperature of 270° C. Performing a melt-blowing process on the mixture, such that the flow promoter is volatilized and a melt-blown fiber is formed, in which the melt-blown fiber has a fiber body and the water repellent disposed on the fiber body with a particle size (D90) between 350 nm and 450 nm.

Abstract: A method and a system for determining a supporting structure by combining a stress environment and an underground surrounding rock structure are provided in the disclosure, which relates to the technical field of stability analysis of coal-mine rock mass. The method includes: defining a stress peak position and an in-situ stress position by determining the stress environment; identifying the underground surrounding rock structure, identifying lithology and constructing a three-dimensional model of a rock stratum to analyze damage degree of the rock stratum; pretreating, namely normalizing, the damage degree of the rock stratum at two sides and comparing the damage degree of the rock stratum at a roof and the floor; and identifying the supporting structure and determining supporting effectiveness and a supporting length. The method of the disclosure is different from related art, and ensures that the supporting structure meets mechanical foundation and practical engineering requirements as a whole.

Abstract: A condenser for a drying device, and a drying device. A water stop structure is provided on a side wall of a hollow chamber of the condenser to break up a cooling water flow into spray; a first arc-shaped structure, a second arc-shaped structure, and a flow distribution structure are provided on a front side wall; a left side wall and a right side wall of the hollow chamber are arc-shaped; air entering from an air inlet is divided into a first and second airflow, which then rotationally rise. The travel paths of the first and second airflow in the body of the condenser become longer, improving the cooling effect; the two airflows carry the cooling spray formed by breakup to form spray in the condenser having a certain liquid level, and when the airflows pass here, lint is trapped in the spray.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a CEEMDAN-based method for screening and monitoring soil moisture stress in farmland, characterised by the steps: preprocessing of remote sensing images, construction of NDVI long time series, CEEMDAN decomposition, calculation of statistical descriptors, screening of soil moisture stress sequences, ground data measurement, construction of soil moisture stress characteristic curves, fitting of soil moisture stress response characteristic curves and predicting the content of soil moisture stress. The invention adopts CEEMDAN decomposition, which solves the problems of noise residue and low reconstruction accuracy in the previous methods, and the high reconstruction accuracy of decomposed component data is more conducive to capturing the transient effects of soil moisture stress, and realizes the screening and extraction of soil moisture stress by combining with the ground measured data.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for motion data calibration, which can convert motion data during a movement of a user from three-dimensional posture data of a coordinate system whose three axes are mutually perpendicular to each other, to two-dimensional data under a target coordinate system, such that the movement of the user may be divided to a movement in a horizontal direction and a movement in a vertical direction. The method and system are capable of calibrating motion data without requiring the user to perform a calibration action.

Abstract: A method and a system for detecting pesticide residues in tea based on a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensor are provided. An octahedral gold-silver hollow cage-based sensor is prepared, mixed with a pesticide standard solution and analyzed to obtain SERS spectral data. The SERS spectral data is processed, and a quantitative model is established based on the processed SERS spectral data. Based on the quantitative model, the detection of thiram and pymetrozine in tea samples can be completed. By means of an octahedral cuprous oxide template, gold-silver octahedral hollow cage (Au—AgOHCs) nanomaterials are prepared by reduction of gold and silver ions and removal of the template by acid dissolution, so as to prepare the SERS sensor, which can be applied to the rapid and quantitative detection of thiram and pymetrozine in tea samples.

Abstract: A transformer bushing partial discharge monitoring chip device and method are provided. An acquisition unit comprises three sensor modules installed at end screens of three-phase bushings of a transformer respectively for acquiring partial discharge signals and power frequency current signals from the transformer bushing end screens; each of the sensor modules is connected to an SIP digitization unit through a wire; the SIP digitization unit is fixedly installed beneath a base of the acquisition unit for digitizing the partial discharge signals and the power frequency current signals; an output end of the SIP digitization unit is connected to an input end of a background processing terminal.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for hierarchically pruning data in a blockchain transaction, which comprises: acquiring a transaction data set; performing N rounds of pruning on the transaction data set based on a data pruning model to obtain a target data set; and performing processing on the target data set to obtain a target value, wherein the target value is configured as the transaction identification number used when the target data set is on-chain. Based on the customized data pruning model, part of the data in the transaction (e.g., Unlocking-Scripts and Locking-Scripts) can be easily pruned in the process of network transmission, internal storage, or construction of a new transaction (especially the Unlocking-Scripts therein) without affecting the process of verifying the data of other parts of the transaction data, which significantly improves the efficiency of UTXO-based blockchains.

Abstract: A substrate with a crack detection function, comprising an installation area for installing hardware, a wiring area, and a detection assembly. The wiring area is set around the installation area. The detection assembly is in the wiring area. The detection assembly includes a plurality of detecting units and a plurality of connecting units. The plurality of detecting units is set around the wiring area. Two ends of each connecting unit are respectively connected to two detecting units, forming a circuit for detecting whether cracks exist in the substrate. Each detecting unit includes at least two detecting endpoints. Each connecting unit includes at least two detecting wires, with each end of one detecting wire connected to one detecting endpoint of two detecting units. The at least two detecting wires between two non-adjacent detecting units are set around outside of the installation area to form a closed loop area.

Abstract: A wind field interpolation simulation method based on isogeometric sampling, the main steps of generating a wind speed time series in the present invention are as follows: first, inputting basic parameters of wind field simulation and the number of initial sampling points, and selecting the sampling points by an isogeometric sampling method. Then calculating the maximum relative error of all frequency bands by a relative error defined, and judging a fitting error and an allowable error given. If the fitting error is greater than the allowable error, increasing the number of sampling points and reselecting the sampling points; if the fitting error is less than or equal to the allowable error, finishing point selection, and using an interpolation function to calculate a lower triangular matrix required by the simulation. Thus a fluctuating wind field can be generated by a harmonic superposition method.

Abstract: In an indoor environment on fire, automatic deployment of sensors disposed on, beneath or over the floor to look upward the ceiling to observe a body of smoke and flame risen near the ceiling allows important information regarding states and dynamics of the body of smoke and flame to be gathered at an early stage of fire (e.g. before arrival of firefighters). By distributing the sensors over the indoor environment, the states and dynamics of the body of smoke and flame are monitored holistically (i.e. as a whole) even at the early stage of fire. Such information is useful to predict development of the fire. In one implementation, a sensor is held in an infrastructure sensor holder mounted on the ceiling during normal time. Upon detecting occurrence of fire, the sensor drops from the holder to land on the floor and orients a sensing direction vertically upward to perform monitoring.

Abstract: Systems and methods for synthesizing images with increased high-frequency detail are described. Embodiments are configured to identify an input image including a noise level and encode the input image to obtain image features. A diffusion model reduces a resolution of the image features at an intermediate stage of the model using a wavelet transform to obtain reduced image features at a reduced resolution, and generates an output image based on the reduced image features using the diffusion model. In some cases, the output image comprises a version of the input image that has a reduced noise level compared to the noise level of the input image.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a high-resolution graphene heterojunction based pressure sensor. The present disclosure relates to the technical field of pressure sensor design. The present disclosure uses a graphene/hexagonal boron nitride/graphene (G/h-BN/G) vertical heterojunction thin film as a pressure-sensitive diaphragm. A sensor substrate has a micro-nano arrayed concave cavity structure. Under the action of atmospheric pressure, the G/h-BN/G vertical heterojunction thin film generates localized internal stress, which changes an energy band structure of the vertical heterojunction thin film, and thus changes a tunneling current between the two upper and lower graphene layers, thereby reflecting the external atmospheric pressure changes. The principle of the graphene heterojunction based pressure sensor is based on tunneling effect.