Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds that are cGAS antagonists, methods of preparation of the compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and their use in medical therapy.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an emergency vehicle detection system can be provided in the ADV travelling on a road to detect the presence of an emergency vehicle in a surrounding environment of the ADV using both audio data and visual data. The emergency vehicle detection system can use a trained neutral network to independently generate a detection result from the audio data, and use another trained network to independently generate another detection result from the visual data. The emergency vehicle detection system can fuse the two detection results to determine the position and moving direction of the emergency vehicle. The ADV can take appropriate actions in response to the position and moving direction of the emergency vehicle.

Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication includes obtaining resource configuration information of an uplink signal; obtaining resource configuration information for two-step random access based on the resource configuration information of the uplink signal; determining resources for transmission for the two-step random access based on the resource configuration information for the two-step random access; and performing the transmission for the two-step random access, wherein the transmission for the two-step random access comprises transmitting a preamble on a random access occasion (RO) and transmitting data for the two-step random access on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

Abstract: The present invention discloses a soft soil foundation porous-depth air compression drainage device and working method thereof, comprising an air compression pipe and a water drainage pipe. A water drainage cavity body and an air diffusion cavity body are buried respectively in a soft soil foundation; the drainage cavity bodies are disposed around the air diffusion cavity body. Connecting to the air diffusion cavity body, the air compression pipe protrudes out of ground surface along a vertical direction of the soft soil foundation and communicates with an inflation pump; connecting to the water drainage cavity body, one end of the water drainage pipe protrudes to the bottom of the water drainage cavity body, and the other end protrudes out of the ground surface along the vertical direction of the soft soil foundation, thus achieving deep drainage and a drainage consolidation time of the deep soft soil foundation is shortened.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The method for operating a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, configuration information of an initial active uplink bandwidth part (UL BWP) and corresponding random access resource; based on the configuration information of the initial active UL BWP and the corresponding random access resource, determining corresponding physical random access channel (PRACH) occasions; and performing random access procedure based on the determined PRACH occasion.

Abstract: Compositions are disclosed herein that comprise a mixture of at least one Albizia extract and a Magnolia extract. In some embodiments, the composition comprises a mixture of at least one Albizia extract enriched for one or more macrocyclic alkaloids and at least one Magnolia extract enrich for one or more lignans.

Abstract: An electric appliance includes a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to call and execute the instructions to control a first device to acquire a user instruction for a second device, generate an operation instruction for the second device based on the user instruction, and send the operation instruction to the second device to control the second device to perform a corresponding target operation. The first device is one of a clothes treatment device and a floor cleaning device, and the second device is another one of the clothes treatment device and the floor cleaning device.

Abstract: Provided are a polypeptide antigen derived from the S protein of SARS-CoV-2, a polypeptide vaccine containing the same, and applications thereof. The amino acid sequence of the polypeptide antigen provided by the present disclosure is as shown in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1-116.

Abstract: A machine tool rapid compensation system includes: a trigger acquisition module, a laser interferometry measurement module, a data analysis and compensation module, and a communication module. The trigger acquisition module receives a trigger acquisition instruction, converts an encoder position value into a pulse value, transmits the pulse value to the laser interferometry measurement module, retrieves parameter information and compensation point information of a machine tool from a numerical control system, and generates a machine tool operation code and a measurement preparation signal. The laser interferometry measurement module receives the measurement preparation signal and the pulse value to obtain error data, environmental data, and expansion compensation values.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fifth generation (5G) or sixth generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. The application provides a method performed by a user equipment (UE) for positioning reference signal (PRS) measurement in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: identifying a first resource for the PRS measurement in a PRS processing window (PPW) without measurement gaps, and performing the PRS measurement for the first resource, wherein the first resource is unmuted and at least partially overlapped with the PPW.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a first screen and a second screen. A high-power sensor of the electronic device is in a disabled state, and a low-power sensor of the electronic device is in an enabled state. The electronic device includes a foldable device. Based on this, after the electronic device receives a screen-on trigger signal from the low-power sensor or a processor of the electronic device, the electronic device determines a to-be-lit-up first target screen based on the screen-on trigger signal, and then controls the first target screen to be lit up.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides a random access method, a network node and a user equipment. With the solution of the above embodiment of the present disclosure, the performance of the UE randomly accessing the target cell can be improved.

Abstract: Saving power in an extended-reality device can include rendering a video stream on a display, tracking an eye of a user observing the display, ascertaining a gaze direction of the eye based on tracking the eye, calculating a foveal region of the display based on ascertaining the gaze direction in relation to the display, and modulating color hues of the video stream for pixels of the display outside the foveal region, to reduce a power consumption of the display. Modulating color hues is based on human color discrimination and display power consumption correlated to pixel color.

Abstract: An electric brush module according to an embodiment is used in an X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) apparatus including a slip ring and a gantry fixed part and includes an electric brush holder, an electric brush, and a wear debris collecting mechanism. The electric brush holder is provided in the gantry fixed part, has an arc shape with an opening part formed therein, and has a plate-like shape. The electric brush is attached to the electric brush holder and is configured to transmit either electric power or a signal, by being in contact with the slip ring. The wear debris collecting mechanism is attached to the electric brush holder, so as to form a substantially hermetically-closed space, together with the electric brush and the electric brush holder.

Abstract: Memory-efficient encoding based on human-color perception can include calculating a plurality of two-dimensional boundaries in a color space, ascertaining extrema points for two or more two-dimensional boundaries of the plurality of two-dimensional boundaries, adjusting a color value within at least one of the two-dimensional boundaries to generate an adjusted color that reduces variances of color values for a color channel, and presenting the adjusted color on the display. By adjusting color values within human-perception limits, the number of bits used for color encoding can be reduced.

Abstract: A discover method includes a collection phase and a subsequent discovery phase. The collection phase includes receiving an NBIRTH message for each node and receiving a DBIRTH message for each device. A group ID and a corresponding node ID are extracted and cached from each NBIRTH message and a group ID, a node ID and a device ID are extracted from each DBIRTH message. The discovery phase includes publishing a REBIRTH message for each node having a cached group ID and node ID. The REBIRTH message causes the corresponding node to publish an NBIRTH message for the corresponding node, as well as a DBIRTH message for each associated device. Nodes may be discovered based on the NBIRTH messages published during the discovery phase and devices may be discovered based on the DBIRTH messages published during the discovery phase.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5G communication system or a 6G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The application provides a method performed by a user equipment UE, comprising: identifying a first time interval between a first transmission of an SRS for positioning outside an initial uplink BWP and a second transmission of an uplink signal; and in case that the first time interval between the first transmission and the second transmission is less than a first threshold, dropping the first transmission. The application also provides a UE performing the method.

Abstract: A substation oil sampling robot comprises a smart mobile component, a robot arm grasping member, auxiliary sampling components, and auxiliary sampling platform components. The robot arm grasping member comprises a robot arm body fixedly mounted on the smart mobile component and a robot gripper unit. The auxiliary sampling components comprise sample bottles and a valve opening and closing tool, and the robot gripper unit is arranged with a first gripping portion matched with the sample bottles and a second gripping portion matched with the valve opening and closing tool. The sampling platform components comprise an auxiliary sampling tool connected with the pipeline. The pipeline is arranged with a pipeline valve. The auxiliary sampling tool comprises an auxiliary valve, an auxiliary sampling piping component, and an auxiliary sampling piping component support, and the outlet of the pipeline valve is in communication with the inlet of the auxiliary sampling piping component.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method for making recommendations to a user and an apparatus, a computing device, and a storage medium. The method includes obtaining user attribute information, reading attribute information, reading history information, and candidate items; performing intra-group information fusion on the reading attribute information according to preset groupings to obtain reading feature information; obtaining a reading history weight according to the reading history information; obtaining history feature information according to the reading history weight and the reading history information; obtaining user feature information according to the user attribute information, the reading feature information, and the history feature information; and selecting a recommendation item from the candidate items according to the user feature information.

Abstract: A piezocatalyst containing a nitrogen doped carbon skeleton derived from a zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF), and a single-atom alkaline earth metal anchored on the nitrogen doped carbon skeleton, where the alkaline earth metal is selected from the group of beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), Strontium (Sr), and barium (Ba); the piezocatalyst includes an active cite formed with the single-atom alkaline earth metal and nitrogen atoms from the ZIF. A piezocatalytic material includes the piezocatalyst. Also provided herein is a method of manufacturing such a piezocatalyst/piezocatalytic material and an environmental remediation method employing such a piezocatalyst/piezocatalytic material.