Abstract: An intelligent cat litter box includes a filter screen assembly and a connector. The filter screen assembly is disposed at a respective opening position of a litter collecting bin, and an edge of one side away from the litter collecting bin can fit with an inner wall of a ball bin; and the connector is disposed in the ball bin, and can not only fit with the filter screen assembly rotationally in clockwise and counterclockwise directions, but also be in clamping fit with the filter screen assembly in itself circumferential direction. According to the intelligent cat litter box, the filter screen assembly is mounted at the opening position of the litter collecting bin through the connector to achieve the separation of a cat litter ball from the cat litter, and the cat litter enter the litter collecting bin.

Abstract: A process to manage congestion in a network involves converting traffic received from the local endpoints to a bandwidth demand for one or more destination endpoint in a remote group, and determining a sum over the destination endpoints of a minimum of a maximum bandwidth of a link and a bandwidth demand to one or more of the remote endpoints.

Abstract: A negative electrode plate, a secondary battery, and an electronic apparatus are provided. The negative electrode plate includes a metal foil, a first conductive coating, and a first active material layer. The metal foil includes a first surface. The first conductive coating is applied on the first surface. The first active material layer is disposed on a surface of the first conductive coating facing away from the first surface. A thickness of the first conductive coating is h, and ten-point average roughness of the first surface is Rz1, satisfying 0.5?Rz1/h?0.8.

Abstract: The present invention provides Paraburkholderia sp. LSOJM18 and use thereof as well as a microbial inoculum, belonging to the technical field of microorganisms. The Paraburkholderia sp. LSOJM18 was deposited to the China Center for Type Culture Collection on Dec. 29, 2022, with the depository number CCTCCNO: M20222102. With a strong phosphate solubilization capacity, the strain provided by the present invention is suitable for activating phosphorus in farmland soil. Using the phosphate-solubilizing bacteria can significantly increase the available phosphorus content of soil and reduce the application of chemical phosphate fertilizers. Acting on a wide range of substrates, the phosphate-solubilizing bacteria strain provided by the present invention can not only secrete phosphatase to hydrolyze organic phosphorus, but also release small molecules such as organic acids, etc.

Abstract: A turbine blade includes a blade platform, a blade airfoil that extends from the blade platform toward a blade tip, the blade airfoil having a pressure side wall and a suction side wall joined at a blade leading edge and a blade trailing edge, a tip cap surface defined at an end of the blade airfoil facing the blade tip, a squealer tip wall that extends along a portion of the pressure side wall and a portion of the suction side wall from the tip cap surface to the blade tip and from the blade leading edge toward the blade trailing edge, and a chamfered surface formed as a part of the squealer tip wall at a region that is adjacent to the blade trailing edge.

Abstract: A method for authentication of charging a vehicle includes: transmitting a vehicle identification number and at least one vehicle state information from the vehicle to a charging pile after plugging a charging gun of the charging pile into the vehicle; sending, by the vehicle, its vehicle state information to a remote server; sending, by the charging pile, the vehicle identification number and the vehicle state information derived from the vehicle to the remote server; comparing the vehicle state information sent by the vehicle with the vehicle state information sent by the charging pile for the vehicle identification number in the remote server; and passing the authentication if at least one item in the vehicle state information matches. An additional safety mechanism is realized based on the existing communication standards, and ensures safety in a simple and reliable manner without modifying the charging connection assembly.

Abstract: An electrode assembly is formed by winding a stacked body. The stacked body includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a first layer configured between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The first layer includes an insulating material. The first conductive layer includes a first surface, a first end portion, and a second end portion opposite to the first end portion. The first surface is covered with the wound stacked body. The electrode assembly includes a first conductive plate, a second layer and a third layer. The first conductive plate is connected to the first surface. A direction perpendicular to one surface of the first conductive plate is a first direction, when viewed in the first direction, the first conductive plate partially overlaps the first surface, the second layer covers a region, overlapping the first surface, of the first conductive plate.

Abstract: A Dynamic Destination Selection (DDS) crossbar, system for routing a packet, and a switch are provided. An illustrative DDS crossbar includes one or more adaptive routing circuits to track destination credit and port availability at a time of dispatching a packet, group multiple destinations into super destination groups, perform dynamic destination routing within a super destination group, and use the destination credit and port availability for the super destination group at the time of receiving the packet to select an output destination for the packet.

Abstract: This application relates to a bifunctional and flexible hydrogel optical fiber, a preparation method and an application thereof. Raw materials of a fiber core include polyethylene glycol diacrylate (PEGDA), methacrylamide, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) and 2,2-diethoxy-phenylacetophenone (DMPA); raw materials of an intermediate fiber layer include Synechococcus cells, PEGDA, gelatin methacrylate (GelMA), anhydrous strontium chloride and DMPA; and raw materials of a cladding include PEGDA, methacrylamide, sodium alginate and DMPA. A continuous and controllable direct oxygen supply function is provided through an optical fiber structure.

Abstract: One embodiment of a method for reducing network congestion cause by multicast communications includes receiving, via a network, first data associated with one or more multicast operations, determining a congestion state of the network based on the first data, and performing one or more operations to reduce an amount of second data that is transmitted via the network based on the congestion state of the network.

Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil section, wherein at least one cooling hole is formed a tip floor of the airfoil section, which is fluidically connected to an internal coolant cavity of the airfoil section. The turbine blade further includes an additively manufactured tip cap formed via layer-by-layer deposition of material directly over the tip floor of the airfoil section. The tip cap includes at least one squealer tip rail extending outward from the tip floor. The at least one squealer tip rail comprises an embedded cooling channel formed therein. The embedded cooling channel is aligned with and fluidically connected to the at least one cooling hole formed through the tip floor of the airfoil section. The embedded cooling channel comprises one or more outlets located on at least one of a side face and a top face of the at least one squealer tip rail.

Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil section, wherein at least one cooling hole is formed a tip floor of the airfoil section, which is fluidically connected to an internal coolant cavity of the airfoil section. The turbine blade further includes an additively manufactured tip cap formed via layer-by-layer deposition of material directly over the tip floor of the airfoil section. The tip cap includes at least one squealer tip rail extending outward from the tip floor. The at least one squealer tip rail comprises an embedded cooling channel formed therein. The embedded cooling channel is aligned with and fluidically connected to the at least one cooling hole formed through the tip floor of the airfoil section. The embedded cooling channel comprises one or more outlets located on at least one of a side face and a top face of the at least one squealer tip rail.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for performing multicast-reduction operations. In at least one embodiment, a network device receives first network data associated with a multicast operation to be collectively performed by at least a plurality of endpoints. The network device reserves resources to process second network data to be received from the endpoints, and sends the first network data to a plurality of additional network devices. The network device receives the second network data, and processes the second network data using the reserved resources.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for performing multicast-reduction operations. In at least one embodiment, a network device receives first network data associated with a multicast operation to be collectively performed by at least a plurality of endpoints. The network device reserves resources to process second network data to be received from the endpoints, and sends the first network data to a plurality of additional network devices. The network device receives the second network data, and processes the second network data using the reserved resources.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for performing multicast-reduction operations. In at least one embodiment, a network device receives first network data associated with a multicast operation to be collectively performed by at least a plurality of endpoints. The network device reserves resources to process second network data to be received from the endpoints, and sends the first network data to a plurality of additional network devices. The network device receives the second network data, and processes the second network data using the reserved resources.

Abstract: An in-game aiming control method and apparatus, and an electronic terminal are provided. The method includes: in response to an adjustment operation for a reticle, controlling adjustment of an aiming direction of a virtual weapon in a game scene; and in response to an angle between the aiming direction and a direction in which a target virtual object is located being less than or equal to a preset angle, controlling a scope of the virtual weapon to be turned on, and amplifying and displaying game content determined by the scope.