Abstract: A method suitable for a touch-control device having a touch-control surface for determining keys of a virtual keyboard is provided and includes: sensing positions of multiple control points on the touch-control surface to determine positions of multiple basic keys of a virtual keyboard; determining the input behavior of a user according to at least one touch behavior of at least one control point on the touch-control surface; and determining which key on the virtual keyboard is input by the user.

Abstract: This disclosure provides an emergency handling method, comprising: receiving, by an emergency support function (ESF) entity, an emergency indicator indicating an emergency event from a network application server; handling the emergency indictor to derive related parameters including impacted network elements in a network; and triggering the impacted network elements to switch into a network emergency mode by sending an emergency command based on the related parameters. An emergency handling apparatus in a network is also provided. This improves efficiency of emergency handling in a network.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a grid data record processing method and apparatus. The method comprising: acquiring influence parameters of lag time of an insulator on which flashover is occurred, the lag time being a time interval from the insulator flashover to tripping of a corresponding breaker in a substation is caused; determining the lag time according to the acquired influence parameters of the lag time and a lag time evaluation model; and determining trip-up records caused by the insulator flashover from grid data records according to the lag time. With the method and apparatus according to embodiments of the present invention, trip-up records caused by insulator flashover can be efficiently determined from grid data records.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining similarity among gene sequences, for compressing a gene sequence, and for decompressing a gene sequence. The method for determining similarity between a first gene sequence and a second gene sequence includes: moving a sliding window of a predefined length on the first gene sequence and the second gene sequence respectively; extracting a first part String1i of the first gene sequence within the sliding window, and a second part String2i of the second gene sequence within the sliding window during the ith movement of the sliding window; and determining similarity between the first gene sequence and the second gene sequence based on the first part String1i and the second part String2i. Also provided is an apparatus for the above method.

Abstract: Biased users detection. The present invention includes a computer implemented method for detecting biased users and a corresponding apparatus, the computer implemented method including: obtaining comments on a given topic by standard users and users to be detected; calculating respectively scores in attribute dimensions for the given topic by the standard users and the users to be detected according to the comments on the given topic by the standard users and the users to be detected, so as to map respectively the standard users and the users to be detected into a multi-dimensional space formed by a plurality of attribute dimensions, wherein the attribute dimensions reflect aspects of the given topic; and determining whether the users to be detected are biased users according to the similarity of distribution of the users to be detected and that of the standard users in the multi-dimensional space.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter with electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection incorporating inductor-capacitor (LC) resonance tanks is disclosed. The filter comprises at least one circuit composed of a diode and an inductor connected in series, wherein the diode induces a parasitic capacitance and the circuit is grounded. When a number of the circuit is two, a passive element is coupled between the two inductors and cooperates with them to induce two parasitic capacitances connected with the circuits. When a number of the circuit is one, two diodes respectively connect with the inductor through two passive elements. Each diode can induce a parasitic capacitance. The two passive elements and the inductor can induce a parasitic capacitance connected with the circuit.

Abstract: An Input/Output (I/O) plug connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1) having a base portion (11) and a mating portion (12) extending forwardly from the base portion, the mating portion having a top wall (121), a bottom wall (122), a pair of sidewalls (123) cooperatively and peripherally defining a receiving space (125), a number of first contacts (21) retained in the top wall and a number of second contacts (22) retained in the bottom wall, the first contacts and the second contacts facing toward each other across the receiving space along a vertical direction; a circuit plate (4) assembled to the base portion of the insulative housing and sandwiched between the first contacts and the second contacts for electrical connection; and a metal shield (5) covering the insulative housing.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes: a filter configured to monitor a behavior of a channel-quality indicator response; and a base station behavior matrix, coupled to the filter, configured to select an ACK channel-quality indicator to be transmitted.

Abstract: A just-in-time sampling-based system can, after consuming a small number of disk accesses or queries, produce extremely accurate answers for a broad class of aggregate and top-k queries over a file system or database without the requirement of prior knowledge. The system is efficient, accurate, and scalable. The system performs aggregate estimations of a hidden database through its web interface by employing techniques that use a small number of queries to produce unbiased estimates with small variance. It conducts domain discovery over a hidden database through its web interface by employing techniques which provide effective guarantees on the effectiveness of domain discovery. Systems and methods enhance forms used by mobile devices to access hidden databases. It employs data analytics to improve the usage of form fields, including providing context-sensitive auto-completion suggestions, highlighting selections in drop-down boxes and eliminating suggestions in drop-down boxes.

Abstract: An integrated electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter circuit with electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and incorporating capacitors is provided. At least one passive element, i.e. resistor or inductor is connected between an input terminal and an output terminal. A first capacitor is connected between ground and the input terminal, and a second capacitor is connected between ground and the output terminal. A first diode and a second diode are connected in parallel to the first capacitor and the second capacitor. One or multiple parallel capacitors are connected in parallel to the passive element and between the input terminal and the output terminal for frequency compensation by employing the novel EMI LPF circuit, it is extraordinarily advantageous of enhancing its rejection band attenuation and meanwhile maintaining high cut-off frequency while implementation.

Abstract: As file systems reach the petabytes scale, users and administrators are increasingly interested in acquiring high-level analytical information for file management and analysis. Two particularly important tasks are the processing of aggregate and top-k queries which, unfortunately, cannot be quickly answered by hierarchical file systems such as ext3 and NTFS. Existing pre-processing based solutions, e.g., file system crawling and index building, consume a significant amount of time and space (for generating and maintaining the indexes) which in many cases cannot be justified by the infrequent usage of such solutions. User interests can often be sufficiently satisfied by approximate (i.e., statistically accurate) answers. A just-in-time sampling-based system can, after consuming a small number of disk accesses, produce extremely accurate answers for a broad class of aggregate and top-k queries over a file system without the requirement of any prior knowledge. The system is efficient, accurate and scalable.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a grid data record processing method. The method comprising: acquiring influence parameters of lag time of an insulator on which flashover is occurred, the lag time being a time interval from the insulator flashover to tripping of a corresponding breaker in a substation is caused; determining the lag time according to the acquired influence parameters of the lag time and a lag time evaluation model; and determining trip-up records caused by the insulator flashover from grid data records according to the lag time. With the method and apparatus according to embodiments of the present invention, trip-up records caused by insulator flashover can be efficiently determined from grid data records.

Abstract: APD-based PET modules are provided for use in combined PET/MR imaging. Each module includes a number of independent, optically isolated detectors. Each detector includes an array of scintillator (e.g. LSO) crystals read out by an array of APDs. The modules are positioned in the tunnel of a MR scanner. Simultaneous, artifact-free images can be acquired with the APD-based PET and MR system resulting in a high-resolution and cost-effective integrated PET/MR system.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a first network node and a method in the first network node and a charging node and a method in the charging node for handling dropped data packets in a communications network, comprising: obtaining information indicating dropped data packets for a wireless device served by the first network node; detecting based on the obtained information that an amount associated with the dropped data packets reaches a first threshold or that a timer associated with the dropped data packets reaches a second threshold; and transmitting a message to a policy node, which message comprises at least one of information indicating the amount associated with the dropped data packets or information indicating that the amount has reached the first threshold or indicating that the timer has reached the second threshold.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for building a missing part of a movement path of an object. One or more frequent points is determined, wherein each of the one or more frequent points is a point on a historical movement path having a number of occurrences greater than a first threshold. A credibility of one or more path segments in determined. A first path segment of the one or more path segments is selected, wherein the credibility of the first path segment is greater than a second threshold. A missing part of a movement path of an object is built using the first path segment.

Abstract: A scintillation block detector employs an array of optically air coupled scintillation pixels, the array being wrapped in reflector material and optically coupled to an array of silicon photomultiplier light sensors with common-cathode signal timing pickoff and individual anode signal position and energy determination. The design features afford an optimized combination of photopeak energy event sensitivity and timing, while reducing electronic circuit complexity and power requirements, and easing necessary fabrication methods. Four of these small blocks, or “miniblocks,” can be combined as optically and electrically separated quadrants of a larger single detector in order to recover detection efficiency that would otherwise be lost due to scattering between them.

Abstract: A method for generating electric substation load transfer control parameters includes adjusting elements in a fundamental scale matrix according to a condition change of a power grid, wherein the fundamental scale matrix is constructed based on the topology structure of the power grid, and the elements in the fundamental scale matrix represent switch information and risk values of paths between nodes of the power grid, wherein the switch information represents number of switching times required for connecting two nodes of the power grid; and performing operations on the adjusted fundamental scale matrix to generate switch information and risk values of paths for electric substation load transfer control, as electric substation load transfer control parameters.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a grid data record processing method and apparatus. The method comprising: acquiring influence parameters of lag time of an insulator on which flashover is occurred, the lag time being a time interval from the insulator flashover to tripping of a corresponding breaker in a substation is caused; determining the lag time according to the acquired influence parameters of the lag time and a lag time evaluation model; and determining trip-up records caused by the insulator flashover from grid data records according to the lag time. With the method and apparatus according to embodiments of the present invention, trip-up records caused by insulator flashover can be efficiently determined from grid data records.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for analyzing a property of a protein sequence comprising: looking up in a reference database at least one reference protein sequence that matches the protein sequence in response to having received the protein sequence; mapping the protein sequence and the at least one reference protein sequence to an eigenvector and at least one reference vector respectively by comparing any two sequences in a set comprising the protein sequence and the at least one reference protein sequence; training a classifier by using the at least one reference vector and property of the at least one reference protein sequence; and analyzing property of the protein sequence by the classifier based on the eigenvector. Further an apparatus is provided for analyzing property of a protein sequence. Thus, a property in various respects of the protein sequence can be obtained without manual experiment.

Abstract: Some aspects are directed at methods and systems that directly specifies or uses standardized power data in standardized format(s) in various design tasks for implementing mixed-signal electronic designs by using native process(es) or module(s) of standardized power format framework(s) to evaluate legal signals or expressions to generate the first output and evaluation process(es) or module(s) to evaluate illegal signals or expressions to generate the second output for the design tasks, without using wrappers to encapsulate circuit blocks generating illegal signals and hence disrupt the original design hierarchical structures or using translators to translate illegal signals or expressions into corresponding legal signals or expressions for the standardized power format frameworks.