Abstract: The present invention provides cystobactamides of formula (I): R1—Ar1-L1-Ar2-L2-Ar3-L3-Ar4-L4-Ar5—R2 and the use thereof for the treatment or prophylaxis of bacterial infections.

Abstract: The invention discloses a base station and a modulation method supporting lattice-partition-based downlink non-orthogonal multiple access. The modulation method includes: modulating at least one most significant bit (MSB) of weak user equipment (UE) into a first signal with first transmission power; modulating at least one least significant bit (LSB) of the weak UE into a second signal with second transmission power, where the second transmission power is less than the first transmission power; and modulating at least one second MSB of strong UE into a third signal with third transmission power, where the third transmission power is between the first transmission power and the second transmission power.

Abstract: Disclosed is a data processing method, comprising: receiving M channels of encoded audio data; decoding the M channels of encoded audio data, to acquire space information of an audio corresponding to the M channels of audio data, wherein M is a positive integer; determining Q speaker devices corresponding to the M channels of audio data according to the acquired space information of the audio and position information of the speaker devices, wherein Q is a positive integer; and rendering the M channels of audio data with the determined Q speaker devices. Embodiments of the present invention further provide an acquisition device, a data processing device, and a storage medium.

Abstract: A drive device for an electric curtain is provided which comprises an integrally-formed plastic housing and a drawer frame which is disposed in the plastic housing; a drive motor and a control board are mounted on the drawer frame; in the drive device of the present invention, the integrally-formed plastic housing replaces the existing aluminum profile to solve the safety problems of short circuiting, electric conduction and firing due to aluminum scraps left in the housing; such that the entire external structure of the drive device has no section difference and color difference, and there is no broken joint formed at the connection with the plastic end cover, satisfying the market requirements. Furthermore, in the drive device, the drawer frame is slidably disposed in the plastic housing and the drive motor and the control board are supported on the drawer frame, facilitating device assembly and production efficiency.

Abstract: A method of joining first and second parts formed of dissimilar materials is provided. The first part defines a first part contacting surface having a frustoconical shape. The first and second parts are brought into contact with one another, with one of the first and second parts being rotated while the other remains stationary, so as to generate frictional heat between the contacting surfaces of the parts, the generated frictional heat producing softened adjacent regions in the first and second parts. A force is applied to the first and second parts to plastically deform the softened adjacent regions and to forge together the first and second parts to form a solid-state joint. A composite torsional damper hub assembly includes a steel stem and a damper hub welded to the stem at an interface. The damper hub is formed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and the interface is generally frustoconical.

Abstract: A microfluidic apparatus (100) can include a PCB (110), a biological chip (120) overlying the PCB (110), and a microfluidic housing (130) overlying the biological chip (120) and the PCB (110). The microfluidic apparatus (100) also has a first adhesive layer (141) attaching the microfluidic housing (130) to the biological chip (120) and a second adhesive layer (142) attaching the microfluidic housing (130) to the PCB (110). The second adhesive layer (142) is thicker than the first adhesive layer (141). The first adhesive layer (141) comprises a first adhesive material, and the second adhesive layer (142) comprises a second adhesive material.

Abstract: A point-to-multipoint data transmission method and device, the method including a left earbud and a right earbud of a true wireless stereo (TWS) headset separately performing pairing and service content negotiation with an electronic device. The left earbud receives left configuration information sent by the electronic device, to configure a left ISO channel, and the right earbud receives right configuration information sent by the electronic device, to configure a right ISO channel. The left earbud receives, based on the BLE-based audio profile, audio data that is sent by the electronic device through the left ISO channel, and the right earbud receives, based on the BLE-based audio profile, the audio data that is sent by the electronic device through the right ISO channel. The left earbud and the right earbud play the respectively received audio data based on a first timestamp.

Abstract: An approach for distributed tracing is provided. The approach for distributed tracing comprises receiving a user request for a transaction by one or more processing units, and extracting feature data from the received user request by one or more processing units. Further, if the extracted feature data matches at least one policy generated based on at least one error response received from at least one service is determined by one or more processing units and the at least one service is instructed to collect tracing data for the transaction in a head-based fashion responsive to the extracted feature data matching at least one policy by one or more processing units.

Abstract: The present teaching generally relates to detecting abnormal user activity associated with an entity. In a non-limiting embodiment, baseline distribution data representing a baseline distribution characterizing normal user activities for an entity may be obtained. Information related to online user activities with respect to the entity may be received, distribution data representation a dynamic distribution may be determined based, at least in part, on the information. One or more measures characterizing a difference between the baseline distribution and the dynamic distribution may be computed, and in real-time it may be assessed whether the information indicates abnormal user activity. If the first information indicates abnormal user activity, then output data including the distribution data and the one or more measures may be generated.

Abstract: A data augmentation method, device are provided according to embodiments of the present application. The method includes: acquiring a point cloud of a frame, the point cloud comprising a plurality of original obstacles; obtaining a plurality of position voids by removing the original obstacles from the point cloud, and filling the position voids to obtain a real background of the point cloud; arranging a plurality of new obstacles labeled by labeling data, in the real background of the point cloud; and adjusting the new obstacles based on the labeling data of the new obstacles to obtain layout data of the new obstacles. The amount of real data is increased, and a diversity of the real data is improved.

Abstract: The present disclosure is applicable to the technical field of communications, and provides a method of determining a shared service index based on a shared service of communication credential, including: obtaining operating parameters of communication credentials for providing shared communication services in a shared service period; determining shared service indexes for the communication credentials according to the operating parameters; and generating recommendation information of the communication credentials according to the shared service indexes of all communication credentials. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the shared service indexes are used to quantify qualities of the shared services of the communication credentials, and the recommendation information is generated according to the shared service indexes, in this way, the recommendation information may intuitively show a difference among the qualities of shared services provided by the communication credentials.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a plurality of microdroplets from a droplet includes a substrate, a dielectric layer on the substrate and having a plurality of hydrophilic surface regions spaced apart from each other by a hydrophobic surface, and a plurality of electrodes covered by the dielectric layer. The electrodes are configured to form an electric field across the droplet in response to voltages provided by a control circuit to move the droplet across the dielectric layer in a lateral direction while leaving portions of the droplet on the hydrophilic surface regions to form the plurality of microdroplets on the hydrophilic surface regions.

Abstract: A server, system, and client are provided. The server receives audio data from one or more clients; receives an audio data request from a requesting client, and obtains, from the audio data request, a mixing manner of audio data requested by the requesting client; preprocesses audio data of a client of the one or more clients that corresponds to the audio data request using the obtained mixing manner; and sends the preprocessed audio data to the requesting client.

Abstract: A semi-continuous casting equipment for thin-walled alloy castings with equal outer diameter, optimized by synergistic action of traveling magnetic fields and ultrasonic wave, includes: a melting and insulation device, a heat insulation panel, a traveling magnetic field generator and a water-cooled crystallizer sequentially positioned on a working platform; an outer mold positioned on the water-cooled crystallizer and sleeved the traveling magnetic field generator; a mold core inside the outer mold defining a casting cavity; a bottom plate below the mold core capable of sliding against and along an inner side of the outer mold; two position control units supported by the working platform; an ultrasonic limit baffle moveably engaged with the position control units; an ultrasonic wave generator affixed on the ultrasonic limit baffle and extended to the casting cavity; a motion system controlling up and down movement of the bottom plate and the position control units through a gear transmission mechanism.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for calibration between a laser radar and a camera, a device and a storage medium, wherein the method comprises: respectively obtaining N stations of calibration data at N locations, each station of calibration data respectively comprising: image data collected by a camera and point cloud data collected by a laser radar, N being a positive integer; building an image pyramid for each station of image; performing a search for each layer of pyramid in a top-to-bottom order according to a preset initial calibration parameter and point cloud data, and determining an optimal calibration parameter according to search results. The solution of the present disclosure may be applied to achieve real-time online calibration.

Abstract: A method for transmitting a video stream is provided. In the method, video data of a video to be transmitted in the video stream is obtained. Target video scenes of the video are detected. Further, target transmission parameters are determined for the video data corresponding to the respective target video scenes of the video. The video data corresponding to the respective target video scenes is encoded for transmission based on the target transmission parameters.

Abstract: A method for generating simulated point cloud data, a device, and a storage medium includes: acquiring at least one frame of point cloud data collected by a road collecting device in an actual environment without a dynamic obstacle as static scene point cloud data; setting, least one dynamic obstacle in a coordinate system matching the static scene point cloud data; simulating in the coordinate system, a plurality of simulated scanning lights emitted by a virtual scanner located at an origin of the coordinate system; updating the static scene point cloud data according to intersections of the plurality of simulated scanning lights and the at least one dynamic obstacle to obtain the simulated point cloud data comprising point cloud data of the dynamic obstacle; and at least one of adding a set noise to the simulated point cloud data, and, deleting point cloud data corresponding to the dynamic obstacle according to a set ratio.

Abstract: An image splicing method includes obtaining a first overlapping image and a second overlapping image from a first image and a second image to-be-spliced. The method also includes determining a motion vector from each pixel in the first overlapping image to a corresponding pixel in the second overlapping image, to obtain an optical flow vector matrix; according to the optical flow vector matrix, remapping the first overlapping image to obtain a first remapping image, and remapping the second overlapping image to obtain a second remapping image; and merging the first remapping image and the second remapping image, to obtain a merged image of the first overlapping image and the second overlapping image, and determining a spliced image of the first image and the second image according to the merged image.

Abstract: An image processing method includes: obtaining DCE magnetic resonance images corresponding to a plurality of time points for a same detection target; determining average pixel grayscale values of images of a same lesion region in the DCE magnetic resonance images of the plurality of time points respectively; determining a time to peak according to the average pixel grayscale values corresponding to the plurality of time points; and generating a first-stage time-intensity image before the time to peak and a second-stage time-intensity image after the time to peak respectively according to the DCE magnetic resonance images and the time to peak. The first-stage time-intensity image and the second-stage time-intensity image are 3D images. A pixel grayscale value of each pixel in the first-stage time-intensity image and the second-stage time-intensity image represents a change rate of blood supply intensity and reflects a severity level of a lesion corresponding to the lesion region.

Abstract: Integrated optical waveguides, direct-bonded waveguide interface joints, optical routing and interconnects are provided. An example optical interconnect joins first and second optical conduits. A first direct oxide bond at room temperature joins outer claddings of the two optical conduits and a second direct bond joins the inner light-transmitting cores of the two conduits at an annealing temperature. The two low-temperature bonds allow photonics to coexist in an integrated circuit or microelectronics package without conventional high-temperatures detrimental to microelectronics. Direct-bonded square, rectangular, polygonal, and noncircular optical interfaces provide better matching with rectangular waveguides and better performance. Direct oxide-bonding processes can be applied to create running waveguides, photonic wires, and optical routing in an integrated circuit package or in chip-to-chip optical communications without need for conventional optical couplers.