Abstract: A portable motorized centrifugal system is optimized for low cost manufacture and operation. Separation of inhomogeneous fluid biological samples, such as liquid plasma from whole blood, is a common step in medical diagnostic tests. This system may enable remote separation where access to plug-in power sources are limited. The system may facilitate at-home testing. Due to biohazard concerns, the entire centrifugal apparatus portable and disposable, or the system includes one or more disposable elements within the interior of the centrifuge. Alternatively, the system may contain a module of higher value components that are re-usable after disinfection. Devices and methods for implementing centrifugal separation may include disk-shaped fluidic cartridges and tubes with reduced drag cross-section.

Abstract: A sputtering system includes a vacuum chamber, a power source having a pole coupled to a backing plate for holding a sputtering target within the vacuum chamber, a pedestal for holding a substrate within the vacuum chamber, and a time of flight camera positioned to scan a surface of a target held to the backing plate. The time of flight camera may be used to obtain information relating to the topography of the target while the target is at sub-atmospheric pressure. The target information may be used to manage operation of the sputtering system. Managing operation of the sputtering system may include setting an adjustable parameter of a deposition process or deciding when to replace a sputtering target. Machine learning may be used to apply the time of flight camera data in managing the sputtering system operation.

Abstract: A camera based on network communication is provided, including a camera body. A viewfinder module of the camera body is configured for receiving a light signal of a front lens. A sensing component converts the light signal received by the viewfinder module into an image electric signal, and simultaneously transmits the image electric signal to a control chip of the interface conversion circuit. The control chip of the interface circuit performs signal conversion on the received image electrical signal and then transmits the signal to the main control module. The signal after signal processing and image processing by the control circuit of the main control module is transmitted and displayed on a display module of the camera body, while transmitted to an external communication device through a communication module. This device can meet use requirements for wireless networks and the intelligent operating system in multiple environments of the camera.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for temperature independent resistive-capacitive delay circuits of a semiconductor device. For example, delays associated with ZQ calibration or timing of the RAS chain may be implemented that to include circuitry that exhibits both proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) characteristics and complementary to absolute temperature (CTAT) characteristics in order to control delay times across a range of operating temperatures. The RC delay circuits may include a first type of circuitry having impedance with PTAT characteristics that is coupled to an output node in parallel with a second type of circuitry having impedance with CTAT characteristics. The first type of circuitry may include a resistor and the second type of circuitry may include a transistor, in some embodiments.

Abstract: A whole-process automatic soil tabletting machine is provided, which relates to the technical field of soil tabletting. The machine includes a device body. A tabletting platform is arranged at a bottom of the device body, a first station on which a heating device is arranged, second and third stations are arranged on the tabletting platform. A top plate is arranged at a top of the device body. A soil crushing cutter and a punch head are installed on the top plate. The soil crushing cutter and the punch head are arranged above the first and second stations respectively. The tabletting platform is installed with a groove disc where sample preparation grooves and a cleaning groove are formed. The sample preparation grooves and the cleaning groove correspond to the first station, the second station or the third station. The cleaning groove and each sample preparation groove are for placing a cleaning container and a soil sample container, respectively.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fifth generation (5G) or sixth generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a first node in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a first message to a second node, the first message indicating a migration request to migrate a third node, which is connected to the first node, to the second node, receiving a second message in response to the first message from the second node, the second message indicating a response to the migration request, and determining whether the third node can migrate to the second node based on the received second message.

Abstract: A method for image display and related products are provided in implementations of the disclosure. The method is applied to an electronic device including an eye tracking module. The method includes the following. A fixation duration of a user with respect to each of the multiple images displayed on a display of the electronic device is determined via the eye tracking module. A target image in the multiple images is determined according to the fixation duration. A reference image corresponding to the target image in a preset gallery is displayed.

Abstract: A simulation object identity recognition method includes displaying, by an electronic device, a simulation object, determining, by the electronic device, whether the simulation object is valid, and notifying by the electronic device, a user of a determining result to improve a user alertness and to avoid disclosing personal information by the user under inducement of an invalid simulation object.

Abstract: A dual-mode combined control method for a multi-inverter system based on a double split transformer is provided. For an extremely-weak grid, the method provides the dual-mode combined control method for a multi-inverter system based on a double split transformer. According to the method, the equivalent grid impedance at a point of common coupling (PCC) of one grid-connected inverter (GCI) in the multi-inverter system based on the double split transformer is obtained with a grid impedance identification algorithm, and the system sequentially operates in a full current source mode, a hybrid mode, and a full voltage source mode according to a gradually increasing equivalent grid impedance, thereby effectively improving the stability of the multi-inverter system based on the double split transformer during variation of the strength of the grid. The method ensures that the system can still operate stably in the extremely-weak grid.

Abstract: An energy conversion device is provided. The device includes: a reversible pulse width modulation (PWM) rectifier (11) and a motor coil (12), where the motor coil (12) includes at least a first winding unit and a second winding unit, and the first winding unit and the second winding unit are both connected with the reversible PWM rectifier (11). The first winding unit is connected with at least one of neutral lines in the second winding unit, where at least one neutral line of at least one of the winding units is connected with a first end of a first direct current (DC) charging and discharging port (3), the reversible PWM rectifier (11) is connected with a first end of a external battery (2) and a second end of the external battery (2) respectively, and a second end of the first DC charging and discharging port (3) is connected with the second end of the external battery (2).

Abstract: A faucet mounting assembly for a faucet includes a conical nut and a receiving clip. The conical nut is coupled to a nozzle. The receiving clip is coupled to an inner surface of the faucet and is configured to receive the conical nut within. The receiving clip includes a substantially annular base, one or more tabs and a slot. The one or more tabs including fixed ends fixed to the substantially annular base and free ends opposite the fixed ends and bounded by the slot. The one or more tabs are configured to flex radially between a non-flexed position and a flexed position. The one or more tabs flex into the flexed position when the conical nut is repositioned in and out of engagement with the receiving clip and return to the non-flexed position when the conical nut is seated within the receiving clip.

Abstract: A device comprises, a first power source providing a first voltage, a second power source providing a second voltage less than the first voltage, a first bias voltage source providing a first bias voltage between the first voltage and the second voltage, a second bias voltage source providing a second bias voltage between the first voltage and the second voltage, the second bias voltage greater than or equal to the first bias voltage. The device also includes an output, a pull up network coupled in series between the first power source and the output pad including: a first gate coupled to the bias voltage source; and a second gate coupled to a signal that varies between first bias voltage and first power source. The device includes and a pull down network coupled between the output pad and second power source and including: a third gate coupled to the second bias voltage source; and a fourth gate coupled to a signal that varies between the second power source and the second bias voltage source.

Abstract: Portable real-time airborne fungi acquiring and detecting equipment and method are provided, the equipment includes a light source device, a manual constant-flow air pump, an impactor, an airborne fungi enrichment and dyeing device, and a fluorescence data collecting and processing device sequentially connected. The fluorescence detection technology is combined with the microparticle separation technology to develop the portable airborne fungi real-time acquiring and detecting equipment. This equipment improves the complex and extensive collection methods in conventional airborne fungi detection and the demand limitation of independent detection equipment, and realizes the real-time collection and quantification of airborne fungi concentration. Moreover, the equipment has the advantages of small volume, low costs, easy operation and is easy to be prompted.

Abstract: Methods and systems for enabling an autonomous vehicle (AV) to determine a path to a stopping location are disclosed. Upon receipt of a service request, the AV will determine a desired stop location (DSL) and state information for the service request. The AV using the DSL and the state information to define a pickup/drop-off interval that comprises an area of a road that includes the DSL. When approaching the pickup/drop-off interval, the AV will uses its perception system to determine whether an object is occluding the DSL. If no object is occluding the DSL, the AV will continue along the path toward the DSL. However, if an object is occluding the DSL, the AV will identify and move to a non-occluded alternate stop location (ASL) within the pickup/drop-off interval. The ASL must satisfy one or more permissible stopping location criteria.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel having a display portion, a connecting portion, and a bending portion; a main support layer; and an auxiliary support layer including a main portion and a folded-back portion connected to the main portion as a unitary structure. An edge portion of the display apparatus includes a stacked structure. The stacked structure includes the connecting portion; the folded-back portion on the connecting portion; at least a part of the main portion on a side of the folded-back portion away from the connecting portion; a part of the main support layer; and a part of the display portion on a side of the part of the main support layer away from the main portion. Layers of the stacked structure is curved toward a back side of the display apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid composition comprising an antibody of human interleukin-4 receptor alpha. The liquid composition comprises the antibody at a concentration of 50-200 mg/ml ; and a buffer, a protective agent, and a surfactant as adjuvants. The liquid composition has a pH of 5.4-6.4.

Abstract: An arithmetic logic unit comprises multiple (N) adjustment circuits and a multiplier-accumulator. Each of the N adjustment circuits obtains an input floating-point number of a pre-selected input type, and converts the input number to one or more output floating-point numbers of an operation type and precision. The multiplier-accumulator is connected to the N adjustment circuits, and is configured to perform operations on input floating-point numbers of the operation type. The multiplier-accumulator receives a group of floating-point numbers of the operation type from the N adjustment circuits as inputs, performs an operation on the group of floating-point numbers, and generates an operation result floating-point number of the operation type. The multiplier-accumulator then converts the operation result floating-point number to an output floating-point number of a desired type different from the operation type.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an adaptive high-precision compression method and system based on a convolutional neural network model, and belongs to the fields of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and image processing. According to the method of the present disclosure, coarse-grained pruning is performed on a neural network model by using a differential evolution algorithm first, and the coarse-grained space is quickly searched through an entropy importance criterion and an objective function with good guidance to obtain a near-optimal neural network structure. Then fine-grained search space is built on the basis of an optimal individual obtained from the coarse-grained search, and fine-grained pruning is performed on the neural network model by a differential evolution algorithm to obtain a network model with an optimal structure. Finally, the performance of the optimal model is restored by using a multi-teacher multi-step knowledge distillation network to reach the precision of an original model.

Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that perform the following operations: obtaining pre-check data associated with specified data nodes; calculating outliers for each specified data node, wherein the outliers are calculated based on a unit of the pre-check data associated with each specified data node; backtracking the calculated outliers for each specified data node through an associated generating data link; selecting one or more data nodes associated with a set of largest outliers; selecting one or more data links associated with the set of largest outliers; and generating potential anomaly indications based on the one or more data nodes selected and the one or more data links selected.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide cloud-based video encoding that generates encoded video data by one or more encoders in a cloud platform for a plurality of cloud encoding sessions. The methods and apparatus generate operational improvement tradeoff data in response to operational encoding metrics associated with the one or more encoders and change operational characteristics of the one or more encoders for at least one of the cloud encoding sessions based on the operational improvement tradeoff data.