Abstract: A transistor includes a gate structure that has a first gate dielectric layer and a second gate dielectric layer. The first gate dielectric layer is disposed over the substrate. The first gate dielectric layer contains a first type of dielectric material that has a first dielectric constant. The second gate dielectric layer is disposed over the first gate dielectric layer. The second gate dielectric layer contains a second type of dielectric material that has a second dielectric constant. The second dielectric constant is greater than the first dielectric constant. The first dielectric constant and the second dielectric constant are each greater than a dielectric constant of silicon oxide.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing such multilayer printed circuit board includes providing a metal laminated structure including a first type metal layer and a second type metal layer, pressing a patterned dry film layer and a protective film layer on two surfaces of the metal laminated structure, the dry film layer exposing the second type metal layer; etching the second type metal layer to form a first conductive circuit layer; etching a first type metal layer to form a second conductive circuit layer, the first conductive circuit layer and the second conductive circuit layer defining an inner circuit laminated structure; removing the dry film layer; and forming a first adding-layer circuit base board and a second adding-layer circuit base board on two surfaces of the inner laminated structure.

Abstract: A transparent circuit board includes a conductive wiring, a transparent insulating layer, and a cover film stacked on the transparent insulating layer. The conductive wiring penetrates the transparent insulating layer along the stacking direction, and is at least partially embedded in the conductive wiring. A blackened layer is formed on a surface of the conductive wiring combined with the cover film, a carbon black layer is formed on a surface of the conductive wiring without the blackened layer, thereby improving a light transmittance of the transparent circuit board.

Abstract: In various embodiments, a metal alloy resistant to aqueous corrosion consists essentially of or consists of niobium with additions of tungsten, molybdenum, and one or both of ruthenium and palladium.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a tobacco leaf foliar spraying substance for reducing harmful ingredients in cheroot, a method for reducing carcinogenic components in flue-cured tobacco leaves and flue-cured tobacco shreds. The tobacco leaf foliar spraying substance contains a lotus leaf extract, the harmful chemical ingredients comprise N-nitrosonornicotine, 4-(N-methyl-nitrosamine)-1-(3-pyridinyl)-1-butanone, N-nitrosoanabasine and N-nitrosoanatabine. Foliar spraying is performed on a fertile field by using the lotus leaf extract before tobacco leaves are harvested and modulated, which not only significantly promotesagronomic characters and economic traits of tobacco and alleviates tobacco leaf browning but also effectively reduces harmful chemical ingredients unique to tobacco leaves, such as nitrosamine and nicotine.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image processing method and an image processing apparatus. The image processing method including replacing an object in a scene image with a preset template image to generate a virtual image; dividing the scene image into a plurality of image blocks with a preset size; determining pixel residuals of the scene image according to an average pixel value of pixel points in an area where the object is located in the scene image and an average pixel value of pixel points falling into the area where the object is located in each of the plurality of image blocks; determining illumination offsets according to the pixel residuals; and updating pixel values of pixel points in the virtual image according to the illumination offsets to implement illumination transfer.

Abstract: Presented are oleophilic surface treatments for electric machines, methods for making/using such electric machines, and vehicles employing traction motors having stator windings with oleophilic treatments on select surfaces. An electric machine includes an outer housing with a direct-cooling thermal management system fluidly connected to the housing to circulate thereto a coolant fluid. A stator assembly, which is attached to the housing, includes a stator core with one or more electromagnetic windings mounted to the stator core. A rotor assembly is movably mounted to the hosing adjacent the stator assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor core with one or more magnets mounted to the rotor core spaced, e.g., across an air gap, from the winding(s). Select components of the stator assembly have a target surface with an oleophilic surface treatment that enlarges the target surface's wetted area and increases a coolant mass of the coolant fluid contacting the target surface.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a transparent circuit board includes the following steps. A composite substrate including a conductive layer and a transparent insulating layer on the conductive layer is provided. A wiring groove is formed on the transparent insulating layer by laser ablation and a carbon black layer is formed on an inner wall of the wiring groove. The wiring groove penetrates the transparent insulating layer, the wiring groove extends toward the conductive layer to pass through a part of the conductive layer. A conductive wiring corresponding to the wiring groove is formed and fully fills the wiring groove. A black oxide treatment is performed on a surface of the conductive wiring facing away from the conductive layer to form a blackened layer. A transparent cover film is pressed on a side of the transparent insulating layer facing away from the conductive layer. The conductive layer is removed.

Abstract: A method for controlling a device for automatically adjusting an airway opening body position is provided. The device includes a horizontal base plate, a head support block, a back support plate, a neck support apparatus, a head cover assembly, and a programmable logic controller (PLC). The neck support apparatus is positioned between the head support block and the back support plate. The PLC is configured to controls a stroke of an electric cylinder according to the following equations: ?=1.235?+?, and ?=KX+B+C, where ? is a body position angle, the body position angle is an angle between a positive projection line of a connecting line from a mandibular angle to an external acoustic meatus on a symmetrical surface of a human body and the back support plate, and ? is a preset value ranging from 90° to 100°.

Abstract: Disclosed is a recycled polystyrene (PS) plastic film prepared from 100% of a waste PS plastic or prepared from a waste PS plastic and a modification material, where a content of the waste PS plastic is greater than or equal to 1% and less than 100% and a content of the modification material is greater than 0% and less than or equal to 99%. The preparation of the recycled PS plastic film with the waste PS plastic can save resources. In addition, the waste PS plastic is modified by the modification material to improve the performance of the plastic, which is conducive to preparation of an acousto-magnetic (AM) anti-theft label housing with excellent performance. Also disclosed are a preparation method of the recycled PS plastic film, an AM anti-theft label housing made of the recycled PS plastic film and a preparation method thereof, and a corresponding AM anti-theft label.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image processing method and an image processing apparatus. The image processing method including: performing line detection on a boundary of an object in a scene image to obtain a plurality of candidate lines; taking one of the plurality of the candidate lines, which has the largest number of pixels overlapping with the boundary, as a first reference line; generating a minimum bounding rectangle of the object in the scene image; generating a transformed area, wherein each of four vertexes of the minimum bounding rectangle is on one of four sidelines of the transformed area; transforming a preset image into the transformed area to generate a transformed image; and overlaying the object with the transformed image to update the scene image.

Abstract: A camera module includes a holder, a lens in the holder, magnets disposed on an outer wall of the holder, and a circuit board assembly. The circuit board assembly includes an outer wiring substrate, and first and second inner wiring substrates spaced out on a surface of the outer wiring substrate. The first inner wiring substrate surrounds the holder and includes a first dielectric layer and a first inner wiring layer thereon. The first inner wiring layer includes coils of wound wire in the first inner wiring layer, and each of the coils corresponds to one of the magnets. The second inner wiring substrate includes a second inner wiring layer, a thickness of each of the coils is greater than a thickness of the second inner wiring layer. A method for manufacturing the camera module is also disclosed.

Abstract: Presented herein are methods and compositions for the detection of specific beta-lactamases, including class A serine carbapenemases, metallo-beta-lactamases, AmpC beta-lactamases, and extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs). The methods presented herein include methods that permit the detection of the presence of specific beta-lactamases in bacterial samples within as few as 2 to 10 minutes.

Abstract: A container for culturing a blood sample. The container has a reservoir that is no larger than about 40 ml in volume with culture media therein varying in amount by volume 0.5 ml to about 20 ml. The container is adapted to receive a blood sample drawn from a patient, wherein the blood volume is about 1 ml to about 20 ml. In some embodiments the ratio of blood volume to culture media volume is about 2:1 to about 1:2 and the volume of blood does not exceed about 10 ml. In some embodiments, the media is lytic media. A method for using the container to culture a blood sample is also contemplated. In such method, the container is inoculated with the blood sample. In certain embodiments, the volume of the blood sample does not exceed 10 mls.

Abstract: An apparatus and associated methods of use for a controlled combination of reagents is disclosed. The apparatus includes a vessel 400, a vessel insert 220, and a cap element 200. The vessel 400 has a body portion 410 for receiving a biological sample. The vessel insert 220 receives at least one reagent therein. Preferably, the vessel insert 220 is received in a portion 420 of the vessel 400. The cap element 200 is attached to the vessel 400 to secure the vessel insert 220 in the vessel 400. During use, the vessel insert 220 is adapted to release its contents when the biological sample is introduced into the body portion 410 of the vessel 400 upon application of an intermixing force to the vessel insert 220. A variety of intermixing forces may be applied, depending upon the embodiment of the present invention and its associated methods of use.

Abstract: The invention discloses an atomic fluorescence analysis method and device using water as a carrier fluid, belonging to the atomic fluorescence analysis in the field of analytical chemistry; the method is to replace hydrochloric acid and a reducing agent with water as the carrier fluid in the conventional sampling and fluid delivery process to carry the test liquid and reagent into the reactor to complete a reaction. The invention effectively overcomes the memory effect by using water as the carrier fluid and improves the determination sensitivity and accuracy, which saves a large amount of high-purity hydrochloric acid and reducing agent at the same time, greatly reducing the analysis cost, and significantly improving the operating environment, which is the innovation of atomic fluorescence analysis technology.

Abstract: Embodiments may include systems, techniques, methods, apparatus and/or device to receive an input selecting one or more areas of a display of the computing device, leaving one or more other areas of the display unselected, and to apply a masking layer to mask either pixels of the one or more selected areas or pixels of the one or more unselected areas to cause the masked pixels to be dimmed, to reduce power consumption by the display. Embodiments may further include where the one or more of the selected areas include a focus area of interest, and to apply the masking layer to mask pixels of the one or more unselected areas to cause the masked pixels to be dimmed. Embodiments may be implemented via software without directly interacting with hardware. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.

Abstract: In an embodiment, an amplifier circuit includes a second stage that includes a first switch circuit including first and second terminals, a plurality of resistive elements coupled between the first and second terminals of the first switch circuit, and a plurality of switches configured to control an equivalent resistance between the first and second terminals of the first switch circuit. During play mode, the second stage has a gain between the input of the second stage and the output of the second stage of a first value. During a transition from mute mode to play mode, the amplifier circuit is configured to progressively increase the gain of the second stage from a second value to the first value. During a transition from play mode to mute mode, the amplifier circuit is configured to progressively decrease the gain of the second stage from the first value to the second value.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus of embedding an image in video, and a method and apparatus of acquiring a plane prediction model, relating to the field of image processing. The method includes inputting a video frame image of a video into a plane prediction model to obtain a predicted plane mask of the video frame image, the plane prediction model being obtained by training a deep learning model using training images with labels having plane detection frames and plane masks; embedding the image to be embedded into the predicted plane mask of the video frame image.

Abstract: Presented are oleophobic surface treatments for electric machines, methods for making/using such electric machines, and vehicles employing traction motors having oleophobic treatments on select “non-target” surfaces. An electric machine includes a direct-cooling thermal management system that circulates a coolant fluid to the electric machine's outer housing. A stator assembly, which is attached to the housing, includes a stator core with one or more electromagnetic windings mounted to the stator core. A rotor assembly is rotatably mounted to the hosing adjacent the stator assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor core with one or more magnets mounted to the rotor core and spaced across an air gap from the winding(s). Select components of the outer housing, rotor assembly, and/or stator assembly have a target surface with an oleophobic surface treatment that reduces the non-target surface's wetted area and decreases the mass of coolant fluid contacting the non-target surface.