Abstract: The subject matter described herein provides systems and techniques to automatically configure a proximal device, such as a smart watch, a tablet, or any other smart device, based on configuration information sent from the user equipment (UE) to the proximal device when the local communications connection, such as a wireless connection, between the devices is weak. If it is determined that there is a weak local communications connection between the UE and the proximal device the UE may automatically send network configuration information to the proximal device. If it is determined that there is a weak local communications connection between the UE and the proximal device the UE may automatically turn on its mobile hotspot, and automatically send the mobile hotspot configuration information to the proximal device.

Abstract: A component of a cellular user equipment (UE) device is configured to detect adverse radio link conditions. The component monitors a plurality of layers of a communication stack of the UE device during an active voice call. Responsive to monitoring the plurality of layers, the component detects at least one adverse radio link condition associated with the active voice call. The component provides a radio link degradation indication to a second component of the UE device in response to detecting the at least one adverse radio link condition.

Abstract: A novel detection scheme and all fiber optic temperature sensor is disclosed. The apparatus comprising a sensing loop; a laser diode driver; a coupler; a first photodetector coupled to the coupler output to produce a current; an amplifier to convert and amplify the current to voltage; an A/D converter to convert the voltage to digital signal; an AOEO regenerator to convert coupler optical output to electronic signal while preserving timing information and electronic signal to regenerated optical signal; a timer to control AOEO delay time; optical fiber probe; and microcontroller coupled to laser diode driver, A/D converter, and timer; and configured to control first optical signal timing and AOEO delay time; and configured to process digital signal based on its time of flight variation to determine a temperature change, and wherein sensitivity increases with increasing optical fiber length and/or number of regenerated optical signals. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Methods and systems for rotating elements displayed by computing devices are described herein. At least one image of a user of a computing device may be captured by a camera of the computing device. An angle of the eyes of the user with respect to the computing device may be determined. Based on that determined angle, at least one element of content displayed by the computing device may be rotated so as to allow for display of that element in an orientation consumable by the user. For example, the element might be rotated at an angle corresponding to the angle of the eyes of the user with respect to the orientation of the computing device.

Abstract: Systems and methods to confirm safe delivery of treatment energy to a patient by identifying a presence of a fault in an energy delivery pathway and identifying a location of the fault within the device. The system includes a processing unit configured to calculate blood impedances external to the device based on known impedance characteristics of the device, and then to calculate impedances within the device during energy delivery based on the calculated blood impedances. The processing unit prevents the delivery of energy in an energy delivery pathway that is determined to be compromised. The processing unit is also configured to compare times for two different frequencies to travel a predetermined distance, the difference in the times corresponding to a location of a fault within the energy delivery pathway.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods related to acquiring service on mobile computing devices (MCDs) are provided. A method includes determining a decreasing sequence of scan ratios, each scan ratio indicating a proportion of time over which a MCD scans one or more frequencies to attempt connection with a wireless network during a disconnected time window. The method further includes determining a connected time window? when the MCD is connected to the wireless network. The method additionally includes determining a ping-pong rate for the MCD based at least on a duration of the connected time window. The method also includes selecting a scan ratio from the decreasing sequence of scan ratios based on the ping-pong rate. The method further includes scanning the one or more frequencies in accordance with the decreasing sequence of scan ratios and starting from the selected scan ratio to cause the MCD to attempt connection with the wireless network.

Abstract: A method and a system for ship stability prediction by weighted fusion of RBFNN and random forest based on GD are provided. Firstly, input characteristics when predicting failure probabilities under different failure modes are determined through prior knowledge. Secondly, a mean square error of k-fold cross-validation is used as performance evaluation criterion of the RBFNN and the RF to search for model capacities of the RBFNN and the RF. Then, network parameters of the RBFNN are updated. Multiple random sample sets are generated using a bootstrap sampling method and are parallelly trained to generate multiple regression trees. A Gini index is used as an attribute division index, and a prediction result of the random forest is obtained. Finally, weight coefficients are introduced for weighted fusion of prediction results of the RBFNN and the RF. The weight coefficient is obtained by solving through iterative optimization of the gradient descent.

Abstract: A system may be configured to detect custom acoustic events, where the system generates an acoustic event profile for the custom acoustic event based on a natural language description provided by a user and using an audio sample of the described acoustic event. For example, the user may describe the custom acoustic event as “dog bark.” The system may ask the user questions to refine the description (e.g., dog breed, dog gender, age, etc.). Using an audio sample of the refined description, the system may then determine that audio captured in the user's environment is a potential sample of the custom acoustic event. Such captured audio may be presented to the user for confirmation, and then may be used to detect future occurrences of the custom acoustic event in the user's environment.

Abstract: Systems and methods to confirm safe delivery of treatment energy to a patient by identifying a presence of a fault in an energy delivery pathway and identifying a location of the fault within the device. The system includes a processing unit configured to calculate blood impedances external to the device based on known impedance characteristics of the device, and then to calculate impedances within the device during energy delivery based on the calculated blood impedances. The processing unit prevents the delivery of energy in an energy delivery pathway that is determined to be compromised. The processing unit is also configured to compare times for two different frequencies to travel a predetermined distance, the difference in the times corresponding to a location of a fault within the energy delivery pathway.

Abstract: A fault information processing method implemented by a first interface with a physical layer (PHY) chip and a media access control layer (MAC) chip, includes, after receiving first fault information sent by a second interface communicating with the first interface, sending by the PHY chip second fault information to the MAC chip, where the first fault information indicates that the second interface detects a fault, and the second fault information indicates that the fault is from the second interface. Because the PHY chip has received the first fault information, a link between the PHY chip and the second interface is normal. Because the MAC chip can normally receive the second fault information, it indicates that communication between the PHY chip and the MAC chip is normal. The fault information processing method is used to determine the fault from the second interface.

Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor structure in provided. The method includes providing a substrate, forming a gate electrode layer on the substrate, and performing a defluorination treatment on the gate electrode layer. The method also includes, after performing the defluorination treatment, forming a barrier layer on a portion of a surface of the gate electrode layer. The barrier layer is made of a material including titanium element.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a motor, a water divider, and a dishwasher with the water divider. The motor includes: a housing, accommodating a coil assembly; a lead portion, electrically connected to the coil assembly and configured to be electrically connected to an external connector; a terminal connecting device, connected to the housing and configured to receive the lead portion and the external connector and electrically connect the lead portion to the external connector; and an isolation component, fixed to the terminal connecting device and enclosing a live part of the lead portion together with the terminal connecting device, and the terminal connecting device and the isolation component are both made from a flame-retardant material.

Abstract: A system and method for the safe delivery of treatment energy to a patient, which includes verification of system integrity before, during, or after the delivery of treatment energy and provides several mechanisms for rapid termination of the delivery of potentially harmful energy to the patient when a fault condition in the device and/or system is identified. The system may include an energy generator having processing circuitry to determine if there is a fault condition in the system and to automatically terminate a delivery of treatment energy when the processing circuitry determines there is a fault condition. The method may generally include performing a series of pre-checks, synchronizing a treatment energy delivery to the proper segment of the heart's depolarization pattern, configuring the system for treatment energy delivery, delivering the treatment energy, and performing post-treatment evaluation.

Abstract: Disclosed methods for selecting test cases determine differences between first and second versions of firmware. The first version may correspond to a version currently in use while the second version represent an update to the first version, including one or more bug fixes and/or additional features. Based at least in part on the differences between the two versions, one or more functions most likely to be impacted by the update are identified. Disclosed methods and system may then modify binary code for the second firmware version to cause the one or more impacted functions, when called, to return unconditionally a predetermined error value. With the firmware thus modified, a plurality of test cases are executed one time. Any test cases failing with the appropriate error value are identified as selected test cases and included within a group of target test cases for performing regression testing of the second version.

Abstract: An uplink transmission method operated by a station (STA) for transmitting data to an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network (WLAN), and a station device executing the method. The method includes: the station receiving a trigger frame from the access point, selecting one or more data packets from a plurality of transmit queues at the station and aggregating them into the A-MPDU to proceed with transmission to the access point based on the trigger frame. The selecting one or more data packets from the plurality of transmit queues includes: determining a priority value for each of the transmit queues; grouping the transmit queues at the station according to an access category of each transmit queue; and selecting the transmit queues and the data packets in the transmit queues according to a selection policy with respect to the transmit queues that are sorted according to the priority value.

Abstract: Ganoderma lucidum spore oil and use thereof in the preparation of anti-cancer-related fatigue medicaments are provided. The content of triglycerides in the Ganoderma lucidum spore oil is greater than 90%. Ganoderma lucidum triterpenoids are not detected. The Ganoderma lucidum spore oil is extracted by means of supercritical CO2, eluted with a silica gel column and a mixed solution of petroleum ether-ethyl acetate, concentrated under reduced pressure and vacuum-dried. The Ganoderma lucidum spore oil is highly effective in mitigating cancer-related fatigue, has good safety, and can be used in the preparation of medicaments for treating cancer-related fatigue.

Abstract: Compositions and methods of protecting plants from cold damage are provided. In particular, the invention provides compositions comprising plant-based nano- and/or micron-sized particles which, when applied to plants or plant parts such as buds, form a non-hydrophilic deposit or film with low thermal conductivity, thereby conferring protection against damage from ice nucleation and cold stress.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of medical equipment, and discloses an articulating endoscopic cutter stapler and universal assembly for stapling, comprising a proper, wherein the surface of the proper is slidably connected with a reset ring and formed with a slot, the surface of the reset ring is provided with a sliding pin which is placed into the slot, and a safety pin is arranged at one end of the surface of the proper. The present disclosure can better control the anvil assembly to improve the stability of stapler during suturing of wound and to improve the quality of surgical suturing. The angle of suturing assembly of stapler can also be adjusted to the specific position of the wound, so that the range of application of stapler can be extended.

Abstract: The invention discloses an integrated detection method of electromagnetic searching, locating and tracking for subsea cables. After being launched into water, the cable-tracking AUV carries out primary Z-shaped reciprocating sailing to search the electromagnetic signal of the target subsea cable, when the electromagnetic signal reaches a preset threshold value, the AUV executes the cable-tracking detection. In the tracking process, if the target electromagnetic signal intensity is lower than the preset threshold, it is determined that subsea cable tracking is lost. At this time, the secondary Z-shaped cable-researching route planning and tracking are performed based on the lost point. In the process that the AUV autonomously tracks and detects the subsea cable, relative locating between AUV and subsea cable is performed based on the electromagnetic signal radiated by the subsea cable, and autonomous tracking control under the guidance of the electromagnetic locating signal is performed.

Abstract: An uplink transmission method operated by a station (STA) for transmitting data to an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network (WLAN), and a station device executing the method. The method includes: the station receiving a trigger frame from the access point, selecting one or more data packets from a plurality of transmit queues at the station and aggregating them into the A-MPDU to proceed with transmission to the access point based on the trigger frame. The selecting one or more data packets from the plurality of transmit queues includes: determining a priority value for each of the transmit queues; grouping the transmit queues at the station according to an access category of each transmit queue; and selecting the transmit queues and the data packets in the transmit queues according to a selection policy with respect to the transmit queues that are sorted according to the priority value.