Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of virology, and specifically discloses a short peptide having a dengue virus replication inhibition function and an application thereof. The amino acid sequence of the short peptide provided in the present invention is KHGHHRH, i.e. Lys-His-Gly-His-His-Arg-His (SEQ ID NO. 1). The short peptide has a high specificity affinity with NS5 and has the function of efficiently inhibiting dengue virus replication, the anti-viral effect thereof not been limited to DENV-2, but also having a significant inhibitory effect on the replication of type 1, type 3, and type 4 dengue virus. One cysteine is added to the two ends of the short peptide sequence, the short peptide being cyclised by means of the cysteines at the two ends to form a cyclic peptide. The obtained cyclic peptide strengthens the dengue virus replication inhibition function, and can be used for specific treatment of dengue virus infection.

Abstract: A method of determining opal-C and cristobalite contents of a product that comprises diatomite is disclosed. The method may comprise performing thermal processing to determine a loss on ignition for a representative first portion of a sample of the product; identifying and quantifying primary and secondary peaks present in a first diffraction pattern that results from bulk powder X-ray Diffraction on a representative second portion of the sample; and using a known standard sample of cristobalite to determine whether the primary and secondary peaks present in the first diffraction pattern indicate the presence of opal-C or cristobalite in the product.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing organometallic composite material, comprising: providing PVC resin, activated calcium carbonate, plant fiber, calcium stearate, barium sulfate, paraffin, sodium bicarbonate, zinc laurate, nanometre titanium dioxide, organometallic salt, shell powder, carbon nanotube, talcum powder and stabilizer; mixing and heating; subject to first cooling after extrusion and second cooling under vacuum; towing to obtain the organometallic composite material, wherein the organometallic salt is a benzoic acid metal salt mixture. The present method can significantly reduce the processing temperature of PVC composite by 20 to 50° C., and also increase the toughness and strength of the material so as to alleviate the exudation of the composite material as in the conventional technologies and extend the lifespan of the composite material.

Abstract: The application provides a video-based information acquisition method and device. The method includes: detecting, by a terminal apparatus, a main body in a currently played video picture; intercepting an image of the main body from the video picture; acquiring relevant information of the main body according to the image of the main body; displaying the video picture and the relevant information of the main body on a same screen. The terminal apparatus can actively recommend relevant content of a main body in a video for a user, by actively detecting the main body in a video picture, triggering an acquisition of the relevant information of the main body and displaying the relevant information to the user, which does not require any operations by the user, thereby improving the user experience.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to synthetic oligosaccharide subunits of the Pseudomonas exosaccharide Psi and uses thereof, e.g., for epitope mapping of anti-Psl antibodies, for identification of anti-Psl antibodies, and for use as vaccines. In one aspect a synthetic oligosaccharide subunit of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Psl oligosaccharide is provided, comprising the trisaccharide of formula I.

Abstract: A method of parking lot tracking including receiving a plurality of camera images from a plurality of cameras attached to a vehicle in motion, stitching the plurality of camera images to simulate a surround view of the vehicle, recognizing at least one potential parking space within the surround view of the vehicle, estimating a motion parameter by camera motion estimation of the plurality of cameras and tracking the at least one potential parking space based on the motion parameter.

Abstract: A lighting system has a set of linear lighting elements and a set of suspension elements. Each suspension element comprises an upper fixing part and a lower connection part facing downwardly for making electrical and mechanical connection to an upward facing connector on a top face of an end of a linear lighting element. This enables a simple a push fit connection of the lighting elements to the suspension elements, after they have been suspended from a support structure above them.

Abstract: Described are compositions and methods relating to the over-expression of sugar transporter-like polypeptides to reduce the amount of glycerol and acetate produced by modified yeast having an exogenous pathway that cause it to produce more ethanol and acetate than its parental yeast.

Abstract: A storage system includes a management node and a plurality of storage nodes forming a redundant array of independent disks (RAID). When the management node determines that not all data in an entire stripe is updated based on a received write request, the management node sends update data chunk obtained from to-be-written data to corresponding storage node. The storage node do not directly update, based on the received update data chunks, data block stored in storage device of the storage node, but store the update data chunk into non-volatile memories (NVM) cache of the storage node and send the update data chunk to another storage node to backup. According to the data updating method, write amplification problems caused in a stripe update process can be reduced, thereby improving update performance of the storage system.

Abstract: Integrated circuit devices include trenches in a material layer that divide the material layer into fins. With such devices, an insulator partially fills the trenches and contacts the material layer. The top surface of the insulator (e.g., the surface opposite where the insulator contacts the material layer) has a convex dome shape between at least two of the fins. The dome shape has a first thickness from (from the bottom of the trench) where the insulator contacts the fins, and a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness where the insulator is between the fins. Further, there is a maximum thickness difference between the first and second thicknesses at the midpoint between the fins (e.g., the highest point of the dome shape is at the midpoint between the fins). Also, the top surface of the first insulator has concave divots where the first insulator contacts the fins.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for controlling a layout of a page element for a video and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium. The method includes: configuring a layout of a page element for a preset time period of the video, the layout of the page element being adaptive to a video content played during the preset time period; and acquiring a current playing time of the video, and displaying the layout of the page element corresponding to the preset time period that matches the current playing time.

Abstract: An external grid-controlled hot cathode array electron gun, including an insulated cathode base, a filament, a plurality of hot cathode emission elements, and a grid-controlled structure is disclosed. In one aspect, the grid-controlled structure includes an insulated grid-controlled structure body and a plurality of through holes. One side of the grid-controlled structure body abuts against the cathode base to clamp the filament between the grid-controlled structure body and the cathode base and the plurality of hot cathode emission elements are inserted into the plurality of through holes respectively.

Abstract: A method of distant on-road object detection, comprising, capturing an initial frame of a roadway lane in a direction of travel, detecting lane edges in the initial frame, capturing a subsequent frame of the roadway lane, cropping the subsequent frame based on the detected lane edges of the initial frame resulting in an image patch, detecting an image patch object within the image patch, down-sampling the subsequent frame, detecting a down-sampled object within the down-sampled subsequent frame and merging the detections within the image patch and the detections within the down-sampled subsequent frame.

Abstract: A thermal interface material includes, in one exemplary embodiment, at least one polymer, at least one phase change material, at least one crosslinker, and at least one thermally conductive filler. The at least one thermally conductive includes a first plurality of particles having a particle diameter of about 1 micron or less. The at least one thermally conductive filler comprises at least 80 wt. % of the total weight of the thermal interface material. A formulation for forming a thermal interface material and an electronic component including a thermal interface material are also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to solid forms of N-{[2?-(2,6-difluoro-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-3?-oxo-2?,3?-dihydro-1?H-spiro[cyclopropane-1,4?-[2,7]naphthyridin]-6?-yl]methyl}acrylamide, methods of preparation thereof, and intermediates in the preparation thereof, which are useful in the treatment of the FGFR-associated or mediated diseases such as cancer.

Abstract: A keyword extraction method includes: extracting candidate words from an original document to form a first word set; acquiring the first correlation degree between each candidate word in the first word set and the original document, and based on which determining a second word set; generating predicted words forming a third word set through a prediction model; determining a union set of the second and third word sets, acquiring the second correlation degree between each of the candidate keywords in the union set and the original document, acquiring a divergence of each candidate keyword in the union set; and selecting candidate keywords from the union set as keywords based on the second correlation degree and the divergence. Keyword redundancy can be avoided through the divergence of keywords. The final keywords are not affected by the frequency of candidate words, and the expression mode of keywords can be enriched.

Abstract: An access request processing method is performed by a computer device that includes a processor, a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), and a non-volatile memory (NVM). When receiving a write request, the processor may identify an object cache page according to the write request. The processor obtains the to-be-written data from a buffer according to a buffer pointer in the write request, the to-be-written data including a new data chunk to be written into the object cache page. The processor then inserts a new data node into a log chain of the object cache page, where the NVM stores data representing the log chain of the object cache page. The new data node includes information regarding the new data chunk of the object cache page. The computer device provided in this application can reduce system overheads while protecting data consistency.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process of synthesizing 1-(((Z)-(1-(2-aminothiazol-4-yl)-2-oxo-2-(((3S,4R)-2-oxo-4-((2-oxooxazolidin-3-yl)methyl)-1-sulfoazetidin-3 yl)amino)ethylidene)amino)oxy)cyclopropanecarboxylic acid (referred to herein as Compound X), or a salt thereof, or a solvate including hydrate thereof, and/or intermediates thereof, and the use of intermediates for preparing Compound X. In particular, the process relates to the preparation of Compound X using dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR) and asymmetric catalytic reduction, thereby providing an improved route to 1-(((Z)-(1-(2-aminothiazol-4-yl)-2-oxo-2-(((3S,4R)-2-oxo-4-((2-oxooxazolidin-3-yl)methyl)-1-sulfoazetidin-3 yl)amino)ethylidene)amino)oxy)cyclopropanecarboxylic acid (Compound X) and compositions containing said compound, including the arginine salt, sodium salt and hydrated solid forms of Compound X.

Abstract: A method of forming a gate structure with an undercut region includes, among other things, forming a plurality of fins above a substrate and an isolation structure above the substrate and between the plurality of fins, forming a placeholder gate structure above the plurality of fins in a first region and above the isolation structure in a second region, selectively removing a portion of the placeholder structure in the second region to define an undercut recess, forming a spacer structure adjacent the sacrificial gate structure, forming a dielectric layer adjacent the spacer structure and in the undercut recess, removing remaining portions of the placeholder gate structure to define a gate cavity, and forming a replacement gate structure in the gate cavity.

Abstract: A storage system includes a management node and a plurality of storage nodes forming a redundant array of independent disks (RAID). When the management node determines that not all data in an entire stripe is updated based on a received write request, the management node sends update data chunk obtained from to-be-written data to corresponding storage node. The storage node do not directly update, based on the received update data chunks, data block stored in storage device of the storage node, but store the update data chunk into non-volatile memories (NVM) cache of the storage node and send the update data chunk to another storage node to backup. According to the data updating method, write amplification problems caused in a stripe update process can be reduced, thereby improving update performance of the storage system.