Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a first wireless terminal is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting, to a second wireless terminal, a message associated with a discovery of a relay terminal, wherein the message comprises information associated with at least one network slice supported by the relay terminal.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a pharmaceutical composition for treating or preventing a disease. The pharmaceutical composition can comprise a polymer-drug nanoaggregate having a polymer and at least one bioactive agent that can comprise STING polypeptide, a nucleic acid encoding said STING polypeptide, a STING inhibitor, a STING activator, a STING agonist, a STING antagonist, a STING modulating molecule, or a combination thereof. The pharmaceutical composition can be a vaccine or an adjuvant for a vaccine. This disclosure is also directed to a method for treating or preventing a disease using the pharmaceutical composition. The disease can include infectious diseases caused by viruses or other pathogens, for example, influenza, rabies, or respiratory illnesses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused by coronaviruses, such as MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.

Abstract: Methods and systems for techniques for enabling wireless devices to receive multicast services in a radio resource control inactive (RRC_INCTIVE) state are disclosed. In an implementation, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, by a first network node, from a second network node, a session management signaling that include an alternative quality of service profile, and transmitting, by the first network node, to a wireless device, multicast session data based on the alternative quality of service profile during a radio resource control inactive period.

Abstract: Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for configuring mobile relay nodes. A first network node may send, to a second network node, configuration information. The configuration information may be associated with a node capable of providing at least one user plane (UP) function.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method for detecting cigarette appearance defects based on variational Bayesian inference. In a cigarette appearance defect detection scenario, in order to solve the problem that a current point estimation-based machine learning algorithm leads to an overconfidence decision in a data scarcity area, the present application proposes a variational inference-based Bayesian method to improve a SSD backbone network, preferably including calculating a real posterior probability by the variational inference method, replacing a point estimation mechanism of a convolution layer weight in the original backbone network by using a form of probability distribution, then detecting the improved extracted features by an SSD target detection algorithm, and furthermore, accurately determining whether the appearance of the cigarette is defective and the type and location of the defect.

Abstract: Methods for resource allocation and provisioning in a wireless user equipment for sidelink communication with another wireless user equipment are disclosed. For example, a preemption procedure is implemented for allocating active Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) processes in a MAC layer of the wireless user equipment to efficient transmit or receive transport blocks. The preemption procedure may be based on preemption status parameters and preemption priority parameters associated with various transport blocks competing for the HARQ process resources.

Abstract: Various arrangements disclosed herein relate to managing Multicast and Broadcast Services (MBSs) in various Radio Resource Control (RRC) states, including a wireless communication device receives from a network using signaling specific to the wireless communication device, Point-to-Multipoint (PTM) configuration for each of a plurality of MBSs when the wireless communication device is in a RRC-connected state. The wireless communication device transitions from the RRC-connected state to the RRC-inactive state. In response to transitioning to the RRC-inactive state, the wireless communication device receives from the network data for at least one MBS of the plurality of MBSs using the PTM configuration received in the RRC-connected state when the wireless communication device is in an RRC-inactive state.

Abstract: An integrated plugging and perforating operation system is provided, including an operation truck, a wellhead equipment pry, and a centralized control room. A mechanical mechanism and a power mechanism are arranged on a chassis of the operation truck. The mechanical mechanism includes a turntable assembly, where a telescopic arm assembly is installed on the turntable assembly, a mechanical arm assembly for logging operation is installed at an operating end of the telescopic arm assembly, and a logging winch assembly and a follow-up winch assembly are arranged at a counterweight end of the telescopic arm assembly to form a counter weight of the telescopic arm assembly. The power mechanism is configured for providing power output to the mechanical mechanism.

Abstract: Various arrangements disclosed herein relate to managing Multicast and Broadcast Services (MBSs) in various Radio Resource Control (RRC) states, including a wireless communication device receiving from a network using first signaling specific to the wireless communication device, PTM configuration used for receiving at least one MBS when the wireless communication device is in an RRC-connected state. The wireless communication device receives from the network using second signaling specific to the wireless communication device when the wireless communication device is in the RRC-connected state, indication information indicating that the PTM configuration used for receiving the at least one MBS is obtained from broadcast signaling when the wireless communication device is in an RRC-inactive state.

Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a first wireless terminal is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a first wireless network node, a sidelink (SL) measurement configuration associated with a user-to-user relay for the first wireless terminal and a second wireless terminal, and transmitting, to the first wireless network node, a measurement report based on the measurement configuration.

Abstract: Methods and systems for phenotyping based on a neural network model are provided. Training the model includes generating a dataset of individual-specific variant graphs associated representing dependencies among variants in individuals' genomes based on biomedical domain knowledge labelled according to target phenotype values to be predicted, and training the model using the training dataset to generate a phenotype prediction from an input individual-specific variant graph. Measure the contribution of a genetic variant to a phenotype of a target individual includes generating an individual-specific variant graph for the individual, modifying the individual-specific variant graph to remove a genetic variant, providing the initial and the modified individual-specific variant graphs as input to the phenotyping neural network model to generate two phenotype predictions, and calculating a difference between the two predictions, providing a measure of the contribution of the genetic variant to the phenotype.

Abstract: Methods and systems for treatment prioritization using a neural network model are provided. Training the model includes generating an enriched genetic knowledge graph with edges characterizing relationships between genetic variants, genes, diseases, treatments and symptoms, embedding the graph vertices in genetic knowledge vectors, receiving training patient feature value sets, generating a training dataset of training patient vectors labelled with target values comprising treatment efficacity by scaling the genetic knowledge vectors by the patient feature value sets, and training the model to process an input patient vector and generate a predicted efficacity of the at least one treatment option.

Abstract: An authentication method and apparatus are provided. In an embodiment, the authentication method includes: receiving, by a first network node, an enrollment request from a second network node; obtaining, by the first network node, position information of the second network node; and authenticating, by the first network node, the second network node according to the obtained position information of the second network node. A flexible simple authentication solution is provided, having low deployment costs.

Abstract: An autonomous driving control method for a vehicle may include: obtaining a road surface image from a sensor of the vehicle; detecting road surface damage from the road surface image using an image detection algorithm; determining a damage degree of the detected road surface damage and a damage distance of the road surface damage from the vehicle; and adjusting an autonomous driving strategy for the vehicle based on the damage degree and the damage distance. The autonomous driving control method for the vehicle can detect potholes or cracks in front of road accurately in real time and adjust the autonomous driving strategy based on a detection result, ensuring safety of passenger in the vehicle and improving passenger experience during the autonomous driving process.

Abstract: A structure for performing analysis includes a first opening formed on a back side of a substrate and passing through the substrate, a second opening connected with a bottom of the first opening and penetrating into a first dielectric layer formed on a front side of the substrate, a first conductive layer formed on a sidewall of the second opening and a contact element in the first dielectric layer, and a second conductive layer formed on a second dielectric layer. The first conductive layer contacts the second conductive layer electrically.

Abstract: A catalyst system for olefin polymerization contains a main catalyst and a cocatalyst. The cocatalyst contains a twelve-membered ring compound represented by formula (M). The catalyst system is suitable for preparing polypropylene products having high stereoregularity and low ash, and can regulate the melt index of the products within a wide range by adjusting the amount of hydrogenation. It is also suitable for copolymerization systems to improve the copolymerization yield.

Abstract: A magnesium-based solid, by means of determination based on a nitrogen adsorption method, has a multimodal pore distribution and a specific surface area of not less than 50 m2/g, and the pore size distribution of the solid is in a range of 1 nm to 300 nm. There is at least one peak within a pore size range of less than 10 nm, and there is at least another peak within a pore size range of not less than 10 nm. A catalyst is formed using the solid catalyst component is used for propylene polymerization.

Abstract: A structure for performing analysis includes a first opening formed on a back side of a substrate and passing through the substrate, a second opening connected with a bottom of the first opening and penetrating into a first dielectric layer formed on a front side of the substrate, a first conductive layer formed on a sidewall of the second opening and a contact element in the first dielectric layer, and a second conductive layer formed on a second dielectric layer. The first conductive layer contacts the second conductive layer electrically.

Abstract: A network traffic sending method and apparatus, and a hybrid honeypot system are provided. The method includes receiving a first attack traffic flow; determining that a request type of the first attack traffic flow is a first request type and determining maturity of a virtual honeypot model for the first request type. Upon the maturity of the virtual honeypot model for the first request type being higher than a threshold set for the first request type, the method includes forwarding the first attack traffic flow to a virtual honeypot using the model, or forwarding the first attack traffic flow to a virtual honeypot using the model and a physical honeypot. Otherwise, it includes forwarding the first attack traffic flow to a physical honeypot. Therefore, a virtual honeypot using a virtual honeypot model of relatively high maturity is used to respond to an attack traffic flow.

Abstract: A device for separating light flaky cut rolled stems (CRSs) by a throwing roller is provided. The device includes a vertically provided separation bin, and a CRS guide device and a CRS distribution plate which are arranged in the separation bin. The present disclosure further provides a method for separating light flaky CRSs by using the device. The present disclosure achieves full separation of finished CRSs from light flaky CRSs. The device of the present disclosure is designed for the first time, and can be directly connected to a pneumatic CRS feeding and discharging section of a production line. The device of the present disclosure is compact and suitable for industrial production.