Abstract: A thio-selective radioactive labeling agent has the following general formula: *R-L-VS, wherein said *R is a radioisotope, L is a linking group, and VS is a vinylsulfone functional group.

Abstract: A system is for determining fat and lean body tissue components of body tissue. A propagating wave is provided into the body tissue. A first set of normally directed reflections of the propagating wave is received at a first measurement site and a second set of angled reflections of the propagating wave is received from the body tissue at a second measurement site. A fat body tissue depth and optionally also a lean body tissue depth are obtained based on the times at which reflections of the first and second sets are received. This arrangement requires only two receivers in order to resolve the depth of the fat and lean body tissue constituents. The propagation paths are simplified by arranging the transceiver to direct a wave normally into the tissue.

Abstract: Provided is a renewable wet desulfurization process using a suspension bed, comprising mixing the desulfurization slurry with a hydrogen sulfide containing gas to obtain a first mixture, and passing the first mixture into a suspension bed reactor from bottom to top, with controlling the first mixture to have a dwell time of 5-60 minutes in the suspension bed reactor to allow they contact and react sufficiently with each other; and subjecting a second mixture obtained from the reaction to gas liquid separation to produce a rich solution and a purified gas, subjecting the resulting rich solution to flash evaporation and then reacting with an oxygen-containing gas for carrying out regeneration. The process of the present invention may reduce the hydrogen sulfide content in the hydrogen sulfide containing gas from 2.4-140 g/Nm3 to 50 ppm or less, so that the desulfurization efficiency is 98% or more.

Abstract: A CO2-sensitive fracturing and displacement fluid contains a surfactant, an auxiliary agent, water, and CO2, wherein CO2 is liquid and/or supercritical CO2. The CO2-sensitive fracturing and displacement fluid provided by the invention does not flow back after completion of fracturing construction, and the gel breaking fluid displacement is carried out after soak for a period of time to improve the tight oil recovery ratio. The CO2-sensitive fracturing and displacement fluid exerts the “one-agent multi-purpose” function of sand carrying, CO2 energization and oil displacement, surfactant imbibition and oil discharge of a fracturing-displacement system in different development and production stages, and achieves the dual goals of expanding the utilization degree of tight oil and improving the displacement efficiency of the tight oil, which can effectively reduce costs and achieve the goal of unified, highly efficient and green development of oil and gas fields.

Abstract: A wireless device includes a radio-frequency module, a modem module, and a control unit. The radio-frequency module and the modem module operate either in a first operation mode or in a second operation mode. The control unit, coupled to the RF and the modem module, generates a control signal to indicate to the RF and the modem module to operate in the first operation mode or to operate in the second operation mode. A first set of signal formats corresponding to the first operation mode is a superset of a second set of signal formats corresponding to the second operation mode, and a first power consumption corresponding to the first operation mode is higher than a second power consumption corresponding to the second operation mode.

Abstract: A high efficient desulfurization-regeneration system using a suspension bed, including a suspension bed reactor, a gas liquid separation tank, a flash evaporation tank and an oxidation regeneration tank that are connected in sequence, and a fixed bed reactor connected to the exhaust port of the gas liquid separation tank. The system reduces the sulfur content in a hydrogen sulfide containing gas from 2.4-140 g/Nm3 to 50 ppm or less, and further reduces the sulfur content to less than 10 ppm in conjunction with a fixed bed. High efficient desulfurization is achieved by combining the crude desulfurization of the suspension bed with fine desulfurization of the fixed bed connected in series. The spent desulfurizer can be regenerated by reacting an oxygen-containing gas with the rich solution, and the barren solution obtained by the regeneration may be recycled for use as desulfurization slurry, without generating secondary pollution.

Abstract: Provided is an integrated system for wet desulfurization using a suspension bed and regeneration, comprising a suspension bed reactor, a gas liquid separation tank, a flash evaporation tank and an oxidation regeneration tank that are connected in sequence. The integrated system is adapted to reduce the sulfur content in the hydrogen sulfide containing gas from 2.4-140 g/Nm3 to 50 ppm or less by using a suspension bed, so that the desulfurization efficiency is 98% or more. The present invention is adapted to realize regeneration of a spent desulfurizer by reacting an oxygen-containing gas with the rich solution, and the barren solution may be recycled for being used as the desulfurization slurry, without generating secondary pollution. Therefore, a process using the integrated system is simple and reasonable, with high desulfurization and regeneration efficiency, simple equipment, little occupation of land and low investment, which is very suitable for industrial promotion.

Abstract: A deep learning accelerator (DLA) includes processing elements (PEs) grouped into PE groups to perform convolutional neural network (CNN) computations, by applying multi-dimensional weights on an input activation to produce an output activation. The DLA also includes a dispatcher which dispatches input data in the input activation and non-zero weights in the multi-dimensional weights to the processing elements according to a control mask. The DLA also includes a buffer memory which stores the control mask which specifies positions of zero weights in the multi-dimensional weights. The PE groups generate output data of respective output channels in the output activation, and share a same control mask specifying same positions of the zero weights.

Abstract: An ultrasound imaging method includes steps of transmitting a plurality of ultrasound signals by a pulse repetition interval; receiving a plurality of reflected signals of the ultrasound signals; separating a blood flow signal and a clutter signal from the reflected signals by a neural network; calculating a blood flow parameter according to the blood flow signal; determining a blood vessel position according to the blood flow parameter; and adjusting an image signal corresponding to the reflected signals according to the blood flow parameter and the blood vessel position to generate an ultrasound image.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for recommending a sticker set. An apparatus for recommending a sticker set includes interface circuitry and processing circuitry. When the interface circuitry receives a sticker recommendation request from a terminal, the processing circuitry determines a historical sticker set that includes a sticker previously sent by a user of the terminal device, and at least one recommendable sticker set not including the historical sticker set. Then the processing circuitry determines a recommendation index for each of the at least one recommendable sticker set according to an emotion feature of the historical sticker set and an emotion feature of the respective recommendable sticker set. According to the recommendation index for each of the at least one recommendable sticker set, the interface circuitry sends a sticker set recommendation for one or more of the at least one recommendable sticker set to the terminal device.

Abstract: An objective lens attachment (10) positions a microsphere lens (13) between the objective lens (2) and a sample. The attachment (10) is adapted to position the microsphere lens at a desired separation from the objective lens (2) to provide optimal super resolution imaging performance. The objective lens attachment (10) comprises a cap (14) having a substantially tubular body (15) and a top (16). The top (16) is provided with a contact surface (17) surrounding an aperture (18). The aperture (18) is aligned with the objective lens when the cap (14) is fitted to the objective lens housing (3). A support sheet (11) formed from optically clear material is affixed to the cap (14). Upon the support sheet (11) is provided an adhesive layer (12). Affixed to the adhesive layer (12) is a microsphere lens (13), the microsphere lens being aligned with the centre of the objective lens (2).

Abstract: Disclosed herein are thin film solar cells comprising antimony chalcogenide layers deposited via close spaced sublimation, and methods of making thereof.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including first circuitry, second circuitry, third circuitry, and fourth circuitry is provided. The first circuitry determines a frame miss rate according to a current frame rate and a target frame rate of an image signal. The second circuitry decreases the target frame rate to the current frame rate when the frame miss rate is greater than a first threshold. The third circuitry increases the target frame rate to an upper-limit frame rate which is determined according to the frame rendering time or memory bandwidth capability, when the frame miss rate is less than a second threshold which is smaller than the first threshold. The fourth circuitry applies the decreased or increased target frame rate for an image to be displayed.

Abstract: A low-illumination image processing method and device address the problem of noise amplification in existing contrast enhancement techniques when applied to original low-illumination image. A noise suppression filter is additionally arranged before an operation of contrast enhancement, and smoothing processing is performed on an inverse color image of a low-illumination image by adopting a first filtering coefficient and a second filtering coefficient, so that image contrast is enhanced while random noise is suppressed. Texture and noise level parameter of an image are calculated according to a local characteristic inside block of the image. Weighted averaging is performed on a first smoothing image and a second smoothing image after smoothing processing according to the texture and noise level parameters.

Abstract: A sticker recommendation method and apparatus, a server cluster, and a storage medium are disclosed. The sticker recommendation method includes obtaining a use record of each group of stickers used by a user, each group of stickers corresponding to at least one image style obtaining an uncorrected recommendation index of a specified sticker, and obtaining an image style of the specified sticker, correcting the uncorrected recommendation index according to the use record, the image style of each group of stickers, and the image style of the specified sticker, and recommending the specified sticker to the user when the corrected recommendation index satisfies a recommendation condition. Accordingly, the sticker recommended to the user is a sticker obtained by comprehensively considering a preference of the user for the image style of the sticker, thereby improving a sticker recommendation effect.

Abstract: System and methods for object clustering are provided. The system may determine a weight of a directed edge between nodes of a directed network graph. The weight may represent a similarity degree of target objects associated with the target nodes. The similarity degree may reflect strength of an association between the two target objects, and further reflect a possibility that the two target objects belong to the same clustering category. After the directed network graph is constructed, nodes in the directed network graph may be clustered based on weights of directed edges between the nodes in the directed network graph.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of profile control and flooding in oil fields, particularly to a colloidal nano-graphite-strengthened bulk gel system for dispersed particle gel, and composition thereof. The composition for bulk gel system, containing a polymeric matrix, a resin cross-linking agent, a coagulant, and colloidal nano-graphite, wherein, with respect to 100 parts by weight of the polymeric matrix, a content of the resin cross-linking agent is 30-150 parts by weight, a content of the coagulant is 5-100 parts by weight, and a content of the colloidal nano-graphite is 3-30 parts by weight; wherein, the polymeric matrix is partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide with weight-average molecular weight within a range of 5,000,000-8,000,000 g/mol; the coagulant is one or more of chloride salt coagulant and alcohol amine coagulant.

Abstract: A charging system includes: an input voltage supply circuit; a control circuit coupled to the input voltage supply circuit, configured to control the input voltage supply circuit to generate an input voltage according to a battery voltage of a target battery; and a charging circuit, coupled to the control circuit, configured to receive the input voltage and to provide a charging current to charge the target battery. The input voltage is generated according to a function that takes the battery voltage as a parameter. The input voltage is positively correlated with the battery voltage, and is greater than the battery voltage.

Abstract: A method for tracking a lost battery is to be implemented by an electric carrier system, and includes the following steps: recording a loss report that includes a concerned battery identifier which corresponds to a concerned battery; detecting a detected battery identifier of a detected battery, and obtaining location information that relates to where the detected battery is located; determining whether the detected battery identifier matches the concerned battery identifier; and recording the location information when it is determined that the detected battery identifier matches the concerned battery identifier.