Abstract: A system includes a hardware processor, and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive, from a user, a request related to a digital asset, obtain, from the user, verification data for use in creating a record of ownership of the digital asset, create, using the verification data, the record of ownership of the digital asset in an ownership database, embed a digital watermark into the digital asset to generate a digitally watermarked digital asset, and provide, to the user, the digitally watermarked digital asset. The digital watermark embedded in the digitally watermarked digital asset and the record of ownership of the digital asset in the ownership database enable ownership verification of the digital asset.

Abstract: A vehicle water-cooling heat sink plate having fin sets with different fin pitch distances is provided. The vehicle water-cooling heat sink plate includes a heat-dissipating plate body and three fin sets. The heat-dissipating plate body has a first heat-dissipating surface and a second heat-dissipating surface that are opposite to each other, the first heat-dissipating surface is used for contacting three traction inverter power component sets, and the second heat-dissipating surface is used for contacting a cooling fluid. The second heat-dissipating surface of the heat-dissipating plate body along a flow direction of the cooling fluid is divided into three heat-dissipating areas which are spaced apart from each other and have the same size, and the three heat-dissipating areas respectively correspond to three projection areas that are respectively generated by the three traction inverter power component sets.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods of determining that a subject has or is at risk of having a disease (e.g., cancer) using analysis of gene expression of loci identified in nucleic acid molecules derived from a cell-free biological sample of the subject.

Abstract: A display apparatus and a display method are provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel, a display film assembly, a privacy film assembly, and a light source. The display film assembly includes a first light guide plate and an optical film. The optical privacy film assembly includes a second light guide plate and a privacy film. The privacy film is configured to adjust divergent lights exiting the second light guide plate into privacy lights at a preset angle. The light source is configured to emit incident lights to be selectively irradiated to the first light guide plate or the second light guide plate, so that the display apparatus is able to switch between a normal display mode and a privacy display mode.

Abstract: A data dictionary generation system automatically populates and updates a data dictionary for listings offering shared data. A data dictionary includes metadata describing the shared data, including the individual objects, such as the individual tables, schemas, views, and functions. The shared data and each individual data object may be described in the data dictionary by a set of data fields that corresponds to the shared dataset or the object type of the individual object. The data dictionary can be presented to data consumers along with the description of the listing to provide data consumers with a comprehensive description of the shared data provided by a listing, including a high-level summary of the shared data and description of each individual object included in the shared data. The data dictionary allows data consumers to understand the contents of the shared data and how to use the shared data.

Abstract: An optical display system and an electronics apparatus are disclosed. The optical display system comprises: an image source, which generates image light; and an optical combiner, which includes two reflection-type polarization volume lenses working in a Bragg regime, wherein a first reflection-type polarization volume lens of the two reflection-type polarization volume lenses diffracts the image light of a first polarization to a first image and transmits the image light of a second polarization, and a second reflection-type polarization volume lens of the two reflection-type polarization volume lenses diffracts the image light of a third polarization to a second image and transmits the image light of a fourth polarization, the optical combiner outputs the first image and/or the second image as an combined image.

Abstract: Data processing is disclosed in various aspects. For instance, an example method includes acquiring a plurality of objects with a sortable schema, the sortable schema specifying at least one field of the plurality of objects; determining metadata, sortable data, and non-sortable data of the plurality of objects on the basis of a value of the at least one field of the plurality of objects; and generating a serialized representation of the plurality of objects on the basis of the metadata, the sortable data, and the non-sortable data. By the method, one group of objects is converted into a serialized representation with sortable information, so that efficient object searching can be achieved without relying on an additional comparator.

Abstract: Data reads and related data reading processes are described. An example data read method includes: receiving a data read request, the data read request being aimed at target node data stored in a target node of a B+ tree; acquiring node location information, the node location information indicating a storage location of node data in a node data set of the B+ tree, and the node data set including the target node data; and determining a target storage location of the target node data. Beneficially, data stored in the B+ tree can be read and updated efficiently while reducing computing overhead.

Abstract: A microfluidic detection unit comprises at least one fluid injection section, a fluid storage section and a detection section. Each fluid injection section defines a fluid outlet; the fluid storage section is in gas communication with the atmosphere and defines a fluid inlet; the detection section defines a first end in communication with the fluid outlet and a second end in communication with the fluid inlet. A height difference is defined between the fluid outlet and the fluid inlet along the direction of gravity. When a first fluid is injected from the at least one fluid injection section, the first fluid is driven by gravity to pass through the detection section and accumulate to form a droplet at the fluid inlet, such that a state of fluid pressure equilibrium of the first fluid is established.

Abstract: Systems and methods directed to returning personalized image-based search results are described. In examples, a query including an image may be received, and a personalized item embedding may be generated based on the image and user profile information associated with a user. Further, a plurality of candidate images may be obtained based on the personalized item embedding. The candidate images may then be ranked according to a predicted level of user engagement for a user, and then diversified to ensure visual diversity among the ranked images. A portion of the diversified images may then be returned in response to an image-based search.

Abstract: Disclosed are a backlight module and a curved display device. The backlight module includes a backplane and a backlight. The backplane includes a backplane body and two arc fixing components. The backplane body is provided with two opposite arc sides and each arc fixing component is correspondingly detachably installed at each arc side to restrict a curvature of the backplane body. A mounting groove is formed by the cooperative enclosure of two arc fixing components and an inner surface of the backplane body. The backlight is provided into the mounting groove.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for improving user authentication and access control by a network file system service in a multi-tenant public cloud environment by receiving a request for a connection to a file system from a file system client (client), sending an identification request for identification authentication of the client to a control system, receiving a response from the control system, establishing the connection to the file system upon determining that the connection to the file system is allowed based on cloud tenant information associated with the client, receiving an attempt to access the file system from the client by a sub-user, authenticating the sub-user based on the cloud tenant information, issuing a security token including a globally unique sub-user identifier of the sub-user, and using the security token to determine access rights of the sub-user to the file system for a subsequent request.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a high-temperature fast-curing starch-based adhesive for particleboards and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the technical field of adhesive preparation. The low viscosity of the starch-based adhesive is ensured by selecting a crosslinking monomer which does not self-crosslink in a reaction process in the present disclosure, and a binary crosslinking agent matched with the crosslinking monomer is added before use to be quickly crosslinked with the crosslinking monomer at high temperature so as to ensure better thermosetting property and water resistance as well as faster curing speed of the starch-based adhesive at the same time, which meets the requirements of the particleboards for the adhesive, solves the problem of long curing time of the existing starch-based adhesives at high temperatures, further shortens the curing time of the starch-based adhesives to about 60 s, and improves the production efficiency of the particleboards.

Abstract: A pixel circuit, a driving method therefor and a display apparatus are provided. The pixel circuit includes a driving sub-circuit, a write sub-circuit, a compensation sub-circuit, a reset sub-circuit, a first light-emitting control sub-circuit, a second light-emitting control sub-circuit, a leak-proof sub-circuit, a storage sub-circuit and a light-emitting element. The reset sub-circuit is configured to reset a fourth node under control of a signal of a light-emitting control signal terminal and reset a fifth node under control of a signal of a reset control signal terminal. The compensation sub-circuit is configured to compensate a threshold voltage of the driving sub-circuit to the fifth node under the control of a signal of a first scanning signal terminal. The leak-proof sub-circuit is configured to write a signal of the fifth node into a first node under control of a signal of a second scanning signal terminal.

Abstract: Described herein is a weft-knitted spacer fabric and a preparation method thereof, a polyurethane foam composite material including the fabric, a preparation method of the composite material and its use in shoe materials. The weft-knitted spacer fabric consists of an upper surface layer, intermediate spacer yarns, and a lower surface layer, and the upper surface and the lower surface layer are connected by the tuck of the spacer yarns in the upper surface and the lower surface layer to form a three-dimensional structure in an integrated manner. The different selected tuck needle changes the connecting distance and the number of connections of the tuck, and the thickness of the spacer fabric and the arrangement density of the spacer yarns are changed by the action of the upper and lower surface layers of elastic yarns.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a limit device and a robot using the same. The limit device comprises a first connecting member, a transmission rod and a second connecting member. The first connecting member comprising a first main body portion and two first connecting elements. The two first connecting elements are arranged at intervals. The two first connecting elements are respectively connected to the first main body. The transmission rod comprising a first end and a second end. The first end and the second end are arranged at intervals. The first end penetrates through one of the two first connecting elements. The second end penetrates through the other one of the two first connecting element. The second connecting member provided with two indexing buckles. The two indexing buckles are arranged at intervals, each of the indexing buckles comprises a first limiting groove and a second limiting groove.

Abstract: The image sensing structure includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device includes at least one first unit. The at least one first unit includes a plurality of first interconnects adjacent to the top side of the first semiconductor device, a row selector, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) connected to the row selectors. The second semiconductor device includes at least one second unit. The at least one second unit includes a photodiode facing the top side of the second semiconductor device. The photodiode is configured to receive the light incident on the top side of the second semiconductor device. The top side of the first semiconductor device is bonded to the bottom side of the second semiconductor device.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for synthesizing quinolones intermediates by a continuous flow reaction. Specifically, according to the method, a microchannel reactor is used, which improves the selectivity and conversion rate of the reaction, and the conversion rate of compound ii is increased to more than 95% and the yield is increased to more than 85%; avoids the use of a solvent such as methanol, and methyl tert-butyl ether, etc., in the intermittent reaction process, which simplifies the post-processing method, shortens the overall operation time from about 24 hours to a few minutes, greatly improving the production efficiency, and realizing the continuity and automation of the whole process; and thus makes the product have high purity and high yield, which is suitable for industrial production.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to an X-ray reflectometry apparatus and a method for measuring a three-dimensional nanostructure on a flat substrate. The X-ray reflectometry apparatus comprises an X-ray source, an X-ray reflector, a 2-dimensional X-ray detector, and a two-axis moving device. The X-ray source is for emitting X-ray. The X-ray reflector is configured for reflecting the X-ray onto a sample surface. The 2-dimensional X-ray detector is configured to collect a reflecting X-ray signal from the sample surface. The two-axis moving device is configured to control two-axis directions of the 2-dimensional X-ray detector to move on at least one of x-axis and z-axis with a formula concerning an incident angle of the X-ray with respect to the sample surface for collecting the reflecting X-ray signal.

Abstract: A dynamic loose vehicle formation method based on real-time online navigation map, which belongs to the field of vehicle formation technologies. The method includes a driver inputs travel information of a destination and waypoints in a GIS app; the GIS app uploads the travel information to a GIS server; the driver chooses to join a recommended formation or create a formation in the GIS app; when the driver chooses the formation and joins the formation, the formation information is displayed on the GIS app interface and sent to other vehicles within the formation for information interaction; when the driver chooses to leave the formation and leaves the formation, the formation is adjusted and the GIS server updates the formation information.