Abstract: The disclosure discloses an electric-pneumatic hybrid-driving flexible manipulator with spring framework from plates of special-shaped thickness, including a screw shaft motor, an upper seat plate, guide coupling rods, linear bearings, a driving plate, a push plate, short push rods, connecting rods, a bottom seat plate, flexible fingers, a rotating finger holder, a long push rod, a small support, tension springs, single-head bellows muscles and a ridged push plate. The framework of the flexible fingers is a thickness special-shaped plate spring designed according to the principle of equal strength. In the disclosure, through the control of a motor, an angle between a finger knuckle and a grasped object can be adjusted to realize the adjustment of the position of a contact point.

Abstract: An assembly for adjusting an electrically regulated antenna includes a control device, a motor and a cable. The control device is connected with the motor via the cable, and a shielding material in the assembly for adjusting the electrically regulated antenna comprises alum-glass cloth tape. The shielding material composed of the alum-glass cloth tape is used for improving the electromagnetic shielding effect, particularly the passive intermodulation effect, of an electrically regulated antenna system. The invention further relates to a method for manufacturing the assembly for adjusting the electrically regulated antenna.

Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a memory and a processor operatively coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to be operatively coupled to a first optical transponder and a second optical transponder. The processor is configured to receive, from the second optical transponder, a signal representing a skew value of an optical signal and a signal representing a bit-error-rate (BER) value of the optical signal. The skew value is associated with a skew between an in-phase component of the optical signal and a quadrature component of the optical signal. The processor is configured to determine, based on at least one of the skew value or the BER value, if a performance degradation of the first optical transponder satisfies a threshold. The processor is configured to send a control signal to the first optical transponder to adjust a pulse shaping or a data baud rate of the first optical transponder.

Abstract: The method obtains, through use of secure delegated access, data representing a financial transaction by a user of a financial service. The data is obtained in at least near real time following occurrence of the financial transaction. The method makes a determination that the user is proximate to a merchant identified in the data and that the financial transaction is a business expense. In response to making the determination, the method causes auto-detection functionality to detect that the user is in possession of a receipt and causes auto-focus functionality to focus on the receipt. The auto-detection functionality and the auto-focus functionality use a camera on a mobile device of the user. The method then causes the camera to capture an image of the receipt.

Abstract: The invention relates to a transformer and a method for manufacturing the same. The transformer includes a magnetic core having a body part and a hollow part passing through the body part; a first winding wound around the body part of the magnetic core through the hollow part and including two first leads; a first infiltration material member enclosing the body part and the first winding through the hollow part, with the two first leads being exposed; a second winding wound around the first infiltration material member through the hollow part, isolated from the first winding, and including two second leads; a shell including an accommodating space, in which the magnetic core, the first winding, the first infiltration material, and the second winding are accommodated; and a pouring sealant poured into the accommodating space and maintaining the first leads and the second leads to be exposed outside the shell.

Abstract: A method includes modulating a digital signal via pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) and applying Nyquist shaping to the digital signal to generate a filtered digital signal. The method also includes converting the filtered digital signal into an analog signal and transmitting the analog signal in an optical communication channel via a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) scheme.

Abstract: A dielectric resonator, a dielectric filter, a base station and a method for fabricating the dielectric resonator or the dielectric filter are provided. The dielectric resonator includes: a solid dielectric resonator body, a blind hole located on one side of the solid dielectric resonator body, a metalized layer covering both a surface of the solid dielectric resonator body and a surface of the blind hole, and a demetallized notch located at the metalized layer on the surface of the blind hole. The dielectric resonator provided in the present application can implement tuning of the dielectric resonator, and reduce impact on the resonance frequency of the dielectric resonator after the dielectric resonator is tuned, where the impact caused by that the demetallized notch is covered by a metal material in an assembly process of the dielectric resonator, and signal energy that is leaked from the notch is reduced.

Abstract: Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 receptor. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists.

Abstract: A unified Internet integration system for a positioning-oriented architecture (POA) comprises a controllable icon positioning information management service (CIPIMS) server; an icon positioning object information bus; at least one icon positioning resource object; at least one network application; at least one network; wherein the POA further comprises at least one unique icon positioning identification number, at least one icon positioning resource, at least one icon positioning resource space management, at least one icon positioning resource management, at least one icon positioning external resource links with Internet protocol address, and at least one icon positioning resource status management; and the method thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed is an object pose estimating method and apparatus. The pose estimating method includes acquiring a two-dimensional (2D) image corresponding to an object, extracting a global visual feature and a local geometric feature of the object in the 2D image, and estimating a three-dimensional (3D) pose of the object based on the global visual feature and the local geometric feature.

Abstract: A method includes requesting, by a first wireless intelligent content acceleration (WICA) unit, content from a provider and receiving, by the first WICA unit, a first transmission over a backhaul link, the first transmission being based on the request. The method also includes determining whether the first transmission includes a signature without a first block of data or the signature and the first block of data. Additionally, the method includes, upon determining that the first transmission includes the signature without the first block of data, retrieving the first block of data from a content cache in accordance with the signature, and, upon determining that the first transmission includes the signature and the first block of data, saving the signature and the first block of data in the content cache. Also, the method includes processing the first block of data.

Abstract: A non-replicating recombinant adeno-associated associated virus (rAAV) having an AAV capsid having packaged therein a vector genome which comprises AAV inverted terminal repeat sequences and at least one nucleic acid sequence encoding four different immunoglobulin regions (a), (b), (c) and (d) is provided. The rAAV-expressed immunoglobulins are useful for providing passive immunization against influenza A and influenza B. Also described herein are compositions containing the rAAV. Methods of vaccinating patients against influenza are provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mobile terminal, including: one or more camera components located inside the mobile terminal, wherein each of the camera components comprises a lens having a circular viewing angle, the camera component has a field of view, and the field of view is within the circular viewing angle; and a sheet that covers the camera component, wherein the sheet comprises a light-transmitting region and a light-shielding region, the light-shielding region surrounds the light-transmitting region, and the field of view intersects with the sheet to form intersections located in the light-transmitting region; the light-transmitting region comprises edge contour lines comprising first straight line segments and first arc line segments connected to each other, the first straight line segments are located in a circle in which the first arc line segments are located, and first straight line segments are partially or entirely located in the circular viewing angle.

Abstract: An image processing method including: capturing changes in a monitored scene; and performing a sparse feature calculation on the changes in the monitored scene to obtain a sparse feature map.

Abstract: Systems and methods for scanning signatures in a string field. In one implementation, the invention provides a method for signature scanning. The method includes receiving a particular string field, scanning the particular string field for a plurality of signatures using a larger scan step size, scanning the particular string field for the remaining signatures that are shorter than what can be scanned by the larger scan step size separately either using the same scanning method but a smaller scan step size or using a different scan method and the same or a smaller scan step size, and outputting any identified signatures in the particular string field.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for non-access stratum (NAS) message processing during handover are provided. The method includes the steps of sending a first message to a radio access network node, wherein the first message including a non-access stratum (NAS) message, and receiving a second message from the radio access network node, wherein the second message comprising the NAS message and cause information indicating a handover is triggered.

Abstract: A pure peanut butter is prepared by compounded peanut varieties. The raw material of the pure peanut butter includes: 50 to 90 parts of high oleic peanuts and 10 to 50 parts of high sugar peanuts. The preparation method is as follows: high oleic peanuts and high sugar peanuts are respectively baked, the baking conditions for the high oleic peanuts are as follows: a baking temperature of 140 to 180° C., and a baking time of 15 to 35 minutes; the baking conditions for the high sugar peanuts are as follows: a baking temperature of 130 to 160° C., and a baking time of 10 to 30 minutes; and the baked high oleic peanuts and high sugar peanuts are subjected to ventilation and cooling, and after removal of peanut skin, mixed and then subjected to coarse grinding and fine grinding.

Abstract: This invention provides, for the first time, a method for producing microcystin by nonmicrocystin-producing microalgae and a microcystin-producing strain obtained thereby. This is the first report in the art to engineer nonmicrocystin-producing microalgae into microcystin-producing microalgae. We have realized synthesizing microcystin from inorganic substances by biosynthesis. Although the microcystin content produced by the obtained strain is low, it is still a great advance, and we will carry out subsequent research to increase the production of microcystin.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an eye image generation method and apparatus. The method includes obtaining an eye model used for generating an eye image. The eye includes an eyeball part for generating an eyeball image and expressing the eyeball of an eye. The method also includes providing a map on an eyeball surface of the eyeball part in the eye model, the map covering the eyeball part in the eye model, and the map being used for simulating a bumpy texture of a surface of a cornea of the eye. The method further includes rendering the eye model on which the map is provided, to obtain the eye image. The present disclosure resolves a technical problem that eyes of a character are not vivid and realistic in an online game.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a flexible display panel, a method for packaging the same, and a display device. The flexible display panel includes: a flexible substrate; a display element arranged on the flexible substrate; and a packaging layer covering the display element, the packaging layer including an inorganic thin film and an organic thin film that are stacked alternately, in which two protrusion structures that are engaged with each other are arranged between at least two adjacent thin films of the packaging layer.