Abstract: This application provides a controller software architecture, a controller software upgrade method, a controller, and an apparatus. The controller software architecture includes: a driver layer, an interface layer, an application layer, and a global buffer. The interface layer is configured to exchange data with the application layer through the global buffer, and the interface layer is further configured to exchange data with the driver layer through the global buffer. In this way, data exchange between the interface layer and the application layer and data exchange between the interface layer and the driver layer can be implemented through the global buffer, thereby developing a controller.

Abstract: A method, device, system, and storage medium for tracking a moving target are provided. The method uses three-dimensional radar observation data to construct a state vector and a motion model of the moving target, thereby to construct a state equation and an observation equation for achieving filtering and tracking within a linear Gaussian framework. The disclosure is also suitable for a moving target in a two-dimensional scene with a distance and an azimuth, and the disclosure use a two-dimensional observation vector to construct a dynamic system to achieving tracking of the moving target. The disclosure can be used in radar systems containing Doppler measurements, and tracking of moving targets can be implemented by performing dimension-expansion processing on observation equations.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for the separation and removal of methane from an agricultural methane digestate, for example, agricultural waste. The systems and methods include an extraction system that exposes the methane digestate to agricultural commodities and a microbial additives resulting in products that can be recycled.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an Internet of Things system for managing a gas pressure based on smart gas. The method includes: determining a gas in-home pressure regulation scheme, and the gas in-home pressure regulation scheme including a pressure regulation parameter of a gas device; generating, based on the gas in-home pressure regulation scheme, a pressure regulation instruction; regulating, based on the pressure regulation instruction, a gas in-home pressure of at least one floor; and transmitting the gas in-home pressure regulation scheme to a smart gas user terminal.

Abstract: A method for generating a mask pattern to be employed in a patterning process. The method including obtaining (i) a first feature patch including a first polygon portion of an initial mask pattern, and (ii) a second feature patch including a second polygon portion of the initial mask pattern; adjusting the second polygon portion at a patch boundary between the first feature patch and the second feature patch such that a difference between the first polygon portion and the second polygon portion at the patch boundary is reduced; and combining the first polygon portion and the adjusted second polygon portion at the patch boundary to form the mask pattern.

Abstract: Provided herein are bifunctional compounds that bind tau protein and/or promote targeted ubiquitination for the degradation of tau protein. In particular, provided are compounds that can bind tau protein, a protein whose aggregation is implicated in a variety of neurodegenerative disease (e.g., tauopathies), and can promote its degradation by recruiting an E3 ubiquitin ligase (e.g., Cereblon), which can ubiquitinate tau protein, marking it for proteasomal degradation. Also provided are radiolabeled forms of the bifunctional compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the bifunctional compounds, methods of detecting and/or diagnosing neurological disorders, methods of detecting and/or diagnosing pathological aggregation of tau protein (e.g., in the central nervous system), methods of treating and/or preventing neurological disorders, and methods of promoting the degradation of tau protein by E3 ubiquitin ligase activity in a subject by administering a compound or composition described herein.

Abstract: A preparation method for a circuit board connection structure includes: providing a circuit board module that including a first outer wiring layer, and the first outer wiring layer including solder pads; forming a first pyrolytic adhesive layer and an inner wiring layer on the first outer wiring layer; forming a second pyrolytic adhesive layer and a second copper foil layer on the inner wiring layer; defining a plurality of through holes each configured to expose one of the solder pads; forming a copper plating layer on the second copper foil layer; etching the copper plating layer and the second copper foil layer to form a second outer wiring layer, thereby obtaining an intermediate body; heating and washing the intermediate body to remove the first pyrolytic adhesive layer and the second pyrolytic adhesive layer. The present application also provides a circuit board connection structure.

Abstract: In certain examples, methods and apparatuses, such as circuits, are directed to scanning in a field of view (FoV) by using a pattern that improves sensing in a region of interest (RoI) within the FoV. In one example, a signal having multiple frequency components and a scan-pattern design are used, with a balanced or optimized set of attributes including a sampling density attribute, to scan a RoI in a FoV by sampling or traversing the RoI more times than other regions in the FoV. In more specific examples, circuitry finds the scan-pattern design based on an algorithm that processes different parameters involving at least one of amplitude and phase and processes a. number of different frequency components related to or including the multiple frequency components, wherein the number of different frequency components is from three to a threshold limit whereat processing different frequency components provides negligible improvement.

Abstract: This provides pharmaceutical compositions that comprise a combination of an anti-cancer agent which is an first antibody and a second antibody. In some embodiments, the first antibody is an anti-Programmed Death-1 (PD-1) antibody. In certain embodiments, the composition is a fixed dose formulation. In certain embodiments, the composition is administered as a flat-dose. The disclosure also provides a kit for treating a subject afflicted with a disease, the kit comprising a dosage of any composition disclosed herein and instructions for using the composition in any of the disclosed methods for treating a disease.

Abstract: A user device may receive (e.g., when proximate to the first access device), from an intervening device, device identification data for a first access device. A message may be received from a second access device via the intervening device. The message may include a digital signature generated based at least in part on second access device identification data. The user device may validate the message utilizing the digital signature and a public key. If the message is invalid, the user device may discard the message. If the message is valid, (e.g., unaltered), the user device may determine that the user has not confirmed an intent to interact with the second access device and may terminate a[n] further interaction with the second access device accordingly.

Abstract: Disclosed are a drug-coated balloon and a method for preparing the same. The drug-coated balloon comprises a surface liquefied drug coating and a balloon, wherein the drug coating comprises a lipophilic excipient and a drug. The balloon can reduce the loss of the drug during delivery and increase efficiency in transferring the drug to a lesion site.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display panel including: first spacer on the array substrate, an orthographic projection of the first spacer on the array substrate being a first pattern extending along a first direction; a second spacer on the counter substrate, an orthographic projection of the second spacer on the array substrate being a second pattern extending along a second direction; at least two third spacers, orthographic projections of which on the array substrate being respectively on two sides of the first pattern along the first direction; at least two fourth spacers, orthographic projections of which on the array substrate being respectively on two sides of the second pattern along the second direction; one of the third spacer and the fourth spacer is on the array substrate, and the other is on the counter substrate.

Abstract: An accessory interface for an electronic host device includes a digital communication bus including a plurality of communication lines configured to pass data between the electronic host device and an electronic accessory device. The accessory interface further includes detection circuitry selectively coupled to the plurality of communication lines via a multiplexer and configured to detect analog voltage levels across the plurality of communication lines, determine a device type of the electronic accessory device based on the detected analog voltage levels, and control the multiplexer to couple the plurality of communication lines to a host processor of the electronic host device upon determining the device type of the electronic accessory device. The host processor is configured to receive the device type of the electronic accessory device and transmit data via the plurality of communication lines to the electronic accessory device in accordance with the device type of the electronic accessory device.

Abstract: A system and method for measuring and monitoring blood pressure is provided. The system includes a wearable device and a tonometry device coupled to the wearable device. The Tonometry device is configured to compress a superficial temporal artery (STA) of a user. A sensor pad is attached to the wearable device adjacent the tonometry device. A blood pressure sensor is integrated within the sensor pad for continuous, unobtrusive blood pressure monitoring.

Abstract: A method involves determining a threshold error rate that will result on data stored on a magnetic disk surface of a disk drive being unrecoverable. The method also involves determining a seek velocity that will overwrite sufficient portions of the data such the data will exhibit at least the threshold error rate. The disk drive performs at least one traversal of the magnetic disk surface with a head of the disk drive that emits an erase field during the at least one traversal at the seek velocity. The at least one traversal sanitizes the data.

Abstract: A tool assembly and an attachment apparatus are provided, including a drive shaft extending along a longitudinal direction and forming a groove. A latch includes a notch configured to extend into the groove at the drive shaft. A coupler extends along the longitudinal direction and forms a cavity extending along the longitudinal direction. A tool end opening is formed at the first end of the coupler through which the drive shaft extends into the cavity along the longitudinal direction. The coupler forms a latch opening extending along the longitudinal direction and into the cavity. The latch is positioned in the cavity through the latch opening. A collar extends at least partially around the coupler. The collar is articulatable along the longitudinal direction around the latch opening.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system of an industrial Internet of Things (IoT) for operation management of an automated guided vehicle (AGV), a method, and a medium. The method includes: obtaining an AGV circuit layout, and adding pre-planned paths of all AGVs to form an AGV operation model; obtaining a feeding time of each material end point within a preset period; assigning an operation speed to each AGV of the all AGVs, calculating an operation track of the each AGV; determining that a current operation process is unqualified when any two of operation tracks reach a same node at a same time; determining a target operation speed combination; recalculating the operation tracks based on the target operating speed combination until the operation process is qualified; and controlling an operation of the each AGV and sending the operation track of the each AGV of the qualified operation process to a user.

Abstract: Methods, systems, compositions and strategies for the delivery of RNA into cells in vivo, ex vivo, or in vitro via ARMMs are provided. In some aspects, ARMMs containing fusion proteins of ARRDC1 fused to an RNA binding protein or an RNA binding protein fused to a WW domain are provided. In some aspects, ARMMs containing binding RNAs associated with cargo RNAs are provided. In other aspects, cargo RNAs associated with a binding RNA, such as a TAR element, are loaded into ARMMs via ARRDC1 fusion proteins containing an RNA binding protein, such as trans-activator of transcription (Tat) protein.

Abstract: A method and system of determining a pressure regulation scheme at an intelligent gas gate station based on an Internet of Things are provided. The method is performed by at least one processor of an intelligent gas management platform, and the intelligent gas management platform includes an intelligent customer service management sub-platform, an intelligent operation management sub-platform, and an intelligent gas data center.

Abstract: Disclosed are the optimal composition and size of DNA/polycation particles for efficient transfection of viral production cells in both adherent and suspension cultures. The size-dependent feature of DNA/polycation particle-mediated transfection for particles between 50 nm and 1000 nm also is disclosed. A new scalable method based on kinetic control of DNA/polycation nanoparticle assembly to prepare shelf-stable particles with defined sizes between 50 nm and 1000 nm also is disclosed. The presently disclosed DNA/polycation particles yield superior and reproducible transfection activity and shelf stability and can be used as an off-the-shelf product.