Abstract: In an approach for eliciting user demands for item recommendation, one or more computer processors retrieve one or more items based on a user demand. The one or more computer processors update the one or more items based on the user demand. The one or more computer processors extract the one or more representative words corresponding to the one or more items. The one or more computer processors build a candidate item list based on the one or more representative words. The one or more computer processors generate one or more eliciting questions to help a user select an item based on the candidate item list.

Abstract: A technique for preventing malicious observance of private information includes presenting, via a graphical user interface, a visible input cue for user input. The visible input cues is associated with an expected input value that differs from the visible input cue. The technique further includes determining a correspondence between the visible input cue and the expected input value before the visible input cue is selected. The correspondence indicates how the visible input cues differs from the expected input value. The technique further includes generating an invisible output that indicates the correspondence between the visible input cue and the expected input value and detecting a selection of the visible input cue via the graphical user interface. The technique further includes using, as the user input, the expected input value instead of the visible input cue in response to the selection of the visible input cue.

Abstract: An alkali-metal vapor cell atomic clock system, including a first atomic vapor cell and a second atomic vapor cell. A digital signal processor outputs a first time sequence to control a first laser signal, and the digital signal processor outputs a second time sequence to control a second laser signal. Thereby, the first atomic vapor cell and the second atomic vapor cell can alternately lock a crystal oscillator. A Dick effect is reduced by alternately locking the crystal oscillator, which enables the alkali-metal vapor cell atomic clock system to have more stable frequency output. Because the crystal oscillator has low costs, the alkali-metal vapor cell atomic clock system has advantages of low costs and high stability.

Abstract: Described herein is a fluid dispensing system, a system for processing waste material and a fluid monitoring system and a method of monitoring the quality of a fluid. One embodiment provides a fluid dispensing system (1) including a fluid dispenser (3) in fluid communication with at least one source of a first fluid. An identification device identifies a user of the system and generates a user identifier. A processor (19) is responsive to the user identifier to access a database (27) to retrieve user data indicative of one or more user preferences and, in response, generate a control signal. One or more electrical sensors (25) are configured to sense a gesture motion from the user and, in response, generate a local input signal. An actuator system (29) is responsive to the control signal and the local input signal to dispense the first fluid from the fluid dispenser with predefined characteristics.

Abstract: A technique for preventing malicious observance of private information includes presenting, via a graphical user interface, a visible input cue for user input. The visible input cues is associated with an expected input value that differs from the visible input cue. The technique further includes determining a correspondence between the visible input cue and the expected input value before the visible input cue is selected. The correspondence indicates how the visible input cues differs from the expected input value. The technique further includes generating an invisible output that indicates the correspondence between the visible input cue and the expected input value and detecting a selection of the visible input cue via the graphical user interface. The technique further includes using, as the user input, the expected input value instead of the visible input cue in response to the selection of the visible input cue.

Abstract: Disclosed is the glove worn by a user for incapacitating an individual. The glove includes a housing configured to cover palm and fingers of the user, the housing having a palm side layer for covering the front part of the hand and a backside layer for covering the back part of the hand; a circuit control unit configured on the backside layer having an anesthesia electrical wave generator for generating anesthesia electrical wave for incapacitating the individual; a power source configured on the palm side layer to power the circuit control unit; wherein the palm side layer having a first cutting resistance layer to protect the user's hand from foreign particles. Further, the palm side layer includes a flexible electrode layer, a pressure sensor, a water proof insulation layer, a first knitting cloth layer. Further, the backside layer includes a backside leather layer and a second knitting cloth layer.

Abstract: Method and systems for tagging code include organizing code units in a hierarchical structure that associates the code units with respective description units. The hierarchical structure is filtered to remove un-meaningful description units from the hierarchical structure. Feature tags are generated based on a weighted sum of term frequencies in the description units of the hierarchical structure to associate features with respective code units.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a new approach for sensor-based authentication to enhance mobile security. In the computer-implemented method, motion related sensor data is obtained. A label of a behavior is determined wherein the behavior has a time information of the behavior. The label is associated with at least part of the motion related sensor data based on the time information of the behavior and the time information of the motion. At least one comparable motion is determined from the associated part of motion related sensor data. At least one motion passcode based on the determined comparable motion is identified.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for generating hydroxyl radicals and removing organic pollutants in water by utilizing an organic membrane. The inventive method generates hydroxyl radicals by adopting a nitrocellulose membrane as a photocatalytic material, placing the nitrocellulose membrane in water, illuminating with the sun or a sunlamp having a wavelength above 280 nm as a light source, and causing the nitrocellulose membrane to undergo a photochemical reaction at the membrane surface, and the generation rate of hydroxyl radicals can be achieved by adjusting the surface area of the membrane and a light intensity. The generated hydroxyl radicals can remove phenol, bisphenol A, thiamphenicol and other typical organic pollutants in water very well.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a scanning protocol creation unit, an image acquisition unit, a post-processing unit, and a storage unit. The scanning protocol creation unit creates a scanning protocol for a particular part of body of an object. The image acquisition unit acquires source image data by scanning the particular part using an imaging device according to scanning parameters in the scanning protocol. The post-processing unit performs post-processing on the source image data according to post-processing parameters in the scanning protocol to obtain processed image data. The storage unit stores the scanning protocol, or store the source image data and the processed image data or index identifiers thereof in association with parameters related to the scanning protocol as single job data of the object. The scanning protocol includes the scanning and the post-processing parameters, and information related to the imaging device and the post-processing unit.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a DDR4 memory I/O driver including a pre-driver, a pull-up circuit and a pull-down circuit. The pre-driver is coupled between a first high voltage terminal and a low voltage terminal to provide a first and a second pre-driving signals. The pull-up circuit includes: a driving PMOS transistor coupled between a second high voltage terminal and a pull-up resistor, that is coupled to an output pad, to operate according to the first pre-driving signal, in which the second high voltage terminal's voltage is not higher than the first high voltage terminal's voltage. The pull-down circuit includes: a driving NMOS transistor coupled between the low voltage terminal and a cascode NMOS transistor to operate according to the second pre-driving signal; and the cascode NMOS transistor coupled between the driving NMOS transistor and a pull-down resistor, that is coupled to the output pad, to operate according to a bias.

Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating an automatic adjustment of a braking system is provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise generating, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a braking curve model based on braking usage pattern data corresponding to one or more vehicles. The computer-implemented method can also comprise adjusting, by the system, a supplemental braking component of the first vehicle based on a simulation of one or more braking components corresponding to the one or more vehicles, wherein the one or more braking components is represented by the braking curve model.

Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating an automatic adjustment of a braking system is provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise generating, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a braking curve model based on braking usage pattern data corresponding to one or more vehicles. The computer-implemented method can also comprise adjusting, by the system, a supplemental braking component of the first vehicle based on a simulation of one or more braking components corresponding to the one or more vehicles, wherein the one or more braking components is represented by the braking curve model.

Abstract: A cognitive conversation system that generates effective diagnostic questions is provided. The cognitive conversation system receives a set of currently known symptoms (or currently available answers to diagnostic questions) of a reported problem or fault. The system identifies (i) a set of possible root causes of the reported problem based on the currently known symptoms and (ii) probabilities for the set of possible root causes by using a bipartite graph data structure that links possible symptoms with possible root causes. Upon determining that at least one possible root cause has a probability that is higher than a threshold, the system presents an explanation or solution associated with the at least one possible root cause. Upon determining that none of the possible root causes in the set of possible root causes has a probability higher than the threshold, the system presents a question based on information entropy that is computed based on probabilities of the identified possible root causes.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for road condition prediction. The method comprises receiving, for at least one source vehicle, sensor data collected by a sensor associated with the source vehicle. The method further comprises identifying, based on the sensor data, at least a location with an abnormal road condition and a responsive action taken by the source vehicle. The method further comprises notifying, the location with the abnormal road condition and the responsive action to at least one target vehicle that is expected to pass the location. This disclosure also provides a computer system and a computer software product for road condition prediction.

Abstract: A method, a computer program product, and a computer system for managing a device in a vehicle. The computer system obtains a first configuration of a first device of a first vehicle, wherein the first configuration is set by a user of the first vehicle and the first configuration meets a driving habit of the user. The computer system generates an ergonomic model for the user based on the first configuration. The computer system determines a second configuration of a second device of a second vehicle based on the ergonomic model.

Abstract: In an approach for improving the identification of textual resources that contain unrelated and imprecise contents to improve a user's understanding of a conversational system, one or more computer processors extracts a domain keyword from a domain model and retrieves a distributed representation associated with the domain keyword. The one or more computer processors generates a cluster resource based on the distributed representation and creates a resource vector associated with the cluster resource by calculating the resource vector. The one or more computer processors applies the resource vector to a conversational system and simulates a runtime user interaction based on reinforcement learning of the resource vector to further label and refine resource vector. The one or more computer processors outputs a labeled and refined resource vector to aid in understanding of the conversational system.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for searching for a ticket relevant to a current ticket describing an incident, a system and a computer program product for the same. The method includes extracting a topology of a first application of a server system, the first application being indicated by the current ticket; selecting a second application relevant to the first application from a plurality of candidate applications of the server system, according to the topology; and searching tickets associated with the second application for the ticket relevant to the current ticket.

Abstract: A double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory includes a control circuit and an output driving circuit. The control circuit provides a first voltage, a second voltage, a third voltage and a fourth voltage. The output driving circuit couples to the control circuit and includes a pull-up circuit, a pad and a pull-down circuit. When a voltage of the pad rises from the fourth voltage to the first voltage, a voltage between a drain and a source of a second driving transistor in the pull-down circuit is between the third voltage and the fourth voltage. When a voltage of the pad falls from the first voltage to the fourth voltage, a voltage between a drain and a source of a first driving transistor in the pull-up circuit is between the first voltage and the second voltage.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for human-machine communication. The method, computer program product and computer system may include a computing device that maps linguistic data of source content to a vector. The computing device may cluster the linguistic data of source content. The computing device may determine a plurality of segments based on the mapped linguistic data and the clustered linguistic data. The computing device may transform a segment of the plurality of segments into representative data, the representative data is a function of the remaining plurality of segments.