Abstract: A communication method includes determining a reserved carrier in a bandwidth part (BWP) based on a tone reservation (TR) pattern and a first correspondence. The TR pattern includes a set of subcarriers used as reserved carriers. The first correspondence is a correspondence between an index that is of a subcarrier in the TR pattern and that is in the TR pattern and an index that is of the subcarrier in the TR pattern and that is based on a first common resource block (CRB). The communication method further includes outputting a time domain signal based on the reserved carrier in the BWP.

Abstract: A system and a method for assessing the ovarian reserve function of a subject. The system for assessing a subject's ovarian reserve function comprises: a data acquisition module configured to acquire data of the subject's age, anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) level, follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) level, and antral follicle count (AFC); and an ovarian reserve function calculation module configured to calculate the above-mentioned information acquired in the data acquisition module, so as to work out the subject's probability of poor ovarian response (p). Further, the population is divided into four groups according to the interaction relationship between the predicted probability of poor ovarian response and the dose of ovulation stimulants, so as to divide the population with similar ovarian responses into one group.

Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure pertains to a method of forming a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a high-k gate dielectric layer over a channel region of a substrate; depositing a work function metal layer over the high-k gate dielectric layer; forming a titanium nitride (TiN) cap over the work function metal layer, wherein the TiN cap includes one or more oxygenated regions; depositing a silicon cap layer over the TiN cap; depositing a conductive glue layer over the silicon cap layer; and depositing a gate fill metal layer over the conductive glue layer to form a gate structure.

Abstract: A communication method and a communication apparatus. In the method, a transmit end obtains to-be-encoded information, where the to-be-encoded information includes k bits, and k is a positive integer; the transmit end determines that a quantity of code blocks is C, and C is a positive integer; the transmit end performs polar encoding on the to-be-encoded information based on C, to obtain C encoded code blocks; and the transmit end sends the C encoded code blocks. In some implementations, the transmit end determines, based on k and a target bit rate, that the quantity of code blocks is C. In some implementations, the transmit end obtains the C encoded code blocks in a code block coupling manner.

Abstract: The disclosure includes a communication method and a communication apparatus. The communication method includes the communication apparatus determining to use a reserved tone, determining a reference signal pattern and a tone reservation (TR) pattern, and performing data transmission based on the reference signal pattern and the TR pattern. The reference signal pattern includes a first reference signal sub-pattern and a second reference signal sub-pattern, and the second reference signal sub-pattern is an offset of the first reference signal sub-pattern in time domain and/or frequency domain. According to the method, a reference signal pattern having a plurality of different sub-patterns may be provided, so that reference signals are unevenly distributed on a bandwidth.

Abstract: A first node obtains first power control information (PCI) based on an information security protection requirement, a maximum transmit power of a second node, and channel information between the first and second nodes. The first PCI is a piece of PCI that is obtained through prediction and that maximizes a signal-to-noise ratio of a received signal of the first node when the information security protection requirement is met. The received signal includes a signal from the second node. In addition, the first node sends the first PCI to the second node, where the first PCI is used by the second node to generate a first signal. The first node then receives the first signal from the second node, where the first signal includes data information and security protection information, and the security protection information is used to protect information security of the data information.

Abstract: A method includes: A communication apparatus receives information about an artificial intelligence (AI) connection, where the information about the AI connection includes at least one of the following configured for the AI connection: a model, a dataset, and a computing resource; and the communication apparatus sets up the AI connection to an AI node based on the information about the AI connection. The communication apparatus sets up the AI connection to the AI node based on the information about the AI connection including at least one of the model, the dataset, and the computing resource, so that AI-related signaling can be transmitted between the communication apparatus and the AI node based on the AI connection, and an AI-related operation is performed, to implement integration of AI and a wireless network.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to random access preamble transmission methods, apparatuses, and storage mediums. In one example method, a terminal device determines, based on a target sub-coverage area to which the terminal device belongs in a preset coverage area of a network device, target random access preamble format information corresponding to the target sub-coverage area. Then, the terminal device sends, to the network device on a target time-frequency resource indicated by target random access preamble time-frequency resource information corresponding to the target random access preamble format information, a random access preamble corresponding to the target random access preamble format information.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to power control methods and apparatuses. In one example method, a first uplink transmit power for a terminal device communicating with a source network device is adjusted, based on a first parameter, to obtain a second uplink transmit power, where the second uplink transmit power is used to communicate with a target network device in a handover process.

Abstract: This application relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and discloses an encoding method and apparatus, to improve accuracy of reliability calculation and ordering for polarized channels. The method includes: obtaining a first sequence used to encode K to-be-encoded bits, where the first sequence includes sequence numbers of N polarized channels, the first sequence is same as a second sequence or a subset of the second sequence, the second sequence comprises sequence numbers of Nmax polarized channels, and the second sequence is the sequence shown in Sequence Q11 or Table Q11, K is a positive integer, N is a positive integer power of 2, n is equal to or greater than 5, K?N, Nmax=1024; selecting sequence numbers of K polarized channels from the first sequence; and performing polar code encoding on K the to-be-encoded bits based on the selected sequence numbers of the K polarized channels.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a cleaning composition for cleaning a hard surface, comprising: a) an oil and/or fat, wherein the oil and/or fat is from 1% to 20% by weight based on a total weight of the composition; b) a polyol; c) a surfactant, wherein a weight ratio of the surfactant to the oil and/or fat is equal to or greater than 1:5. The disclosure further relates to a method of preparing the cleaning composition and uses thereof.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and apparatus, to reduce complexity of a polar code construction process. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-encoded bit sequence, where the to-be-encoded bit sequence includes K information bits, and K is an integer greater than 0; determining a first sequence, where positions of the K information bits in the first sequence are determined based on a second sequence corresponding to a target code rate and a value of K, the second sequence is used to represent selection priorities of N0 bit positions, and N0 is an integer greater than K; performing polar code encoding on the first sequence to obtain a third sequence; and sending the third sequence. The second sequence is designed for a constant code rate, and a same sequence may be used to construct a series of polar codes having a same code rate and different lengths.

Abstract: This application provides a measurement method and apparatus. The method includes: A first device obtains a kth first sensing result output by a first sensing neural network usable for a first sensing task, the kth first sensing result is determined based on measurement results of N measurement devices that are obtained through selection from M measurement devices for k times based on a selection neural network, 1?k?N<M, and k, M, and N are positive integers. When a selection termination condition is not met, the first device selects L measurement devices based on the selection neural network and the kth first sensing result, where 1?L<M, and Lis a positive integer. The first device obtains a (k+1)th first sensing result output by the first sensing neural network, where the (k+1)th first sensing result is determined based on measurement results of the N measurement devices and the L measurement devices.

Abstract: An encoding method and apparatus, a decoding method and apparatus, and a device are provided. The encoding method includes: obtaining K to-be-encoded bits (S301), where K is a positive integer; determining a first generator matrix, where the first generator matrix includes at least two sub-blocks distributed based on a preset position relationship, and the sub-block includes a plurality of first generator matrix cores (S302); generating a second generator matrix based on the first generator matrix, where the second generator matrix includes T sub-blocks, and a position relationship between two adjacent sub-blocks of the T sub-blocks is determined based on the preset position relationship (S303), where T is a positive integer; and polar encoding the K to-be-encoded bits based on the second generator matrix (S304), to obtain encoded bits. This can reduce encoding/decoding complexity.

Abstract: A method for determining an auxiliary bit of a polar code and an apparatus. At least K sub-channels are determined based on reliability of a first sub-channel set, where the K sub-channels carry information bits. S sub-channel subsets are determined based on the first sub-channel set, an ith sub-channel subset in the S sub-channel subsets includes Ji sub-channels carrying auxiliary bits and Ki sub-channels in the K sub-channels. Sequence numbers of the Ji sub-channels carrying the auxiliary bits are after sequence numbers of the Ki sub-channels. The auxiliary bits are known redundancy check RC bits. Polar encoding is performed on the information bits and the auxiliary bits, to output polar-encoded data.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method for coding in a wireless communication network. A communication device interleave a first bit sequence to obtain a first interleaved sequence having sequence number starting with a sequence number of 0, wherein the first bit sequence comprises bits for indicating timing, wherein the bits for indicating timing comprises a set of bits for indicating synchronization signal block index (SSBI); wherein the set of bits for indicating SSBI are placed in positions indicated by sequence numbers of 2, 3 and 5 in the first interleaved sequence. The devices add d first CRC bits on the first interleaved sequence to obtain a second bit sequence, interleave on the second bit sequence according to an interleave pattern to obtain a second interleaved sequence, and polar encode the second interleaved sequence to obtain the encoded sequence.

Abstract: Described herein are methods, compositions and kits directed to amplification of nucleic acids suitable for both next generation sequencing (NGS) and a second round of sequencing as validation, such as Sanger sequencing.

Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer-readable storage media are disclosed. In an example method, segmentation of to-be-encoded information bits of a length N into respective quantities of different types of segments is performed. The different types of segments are among (b?a+1) types of segments that correspond to (b?a+1) different segment code lengths. The (b?a+1) types of segments comprise a minimum-length segment that has the minimum segment code length of 2{circumflex over (?)}a and a maximum-length segment that has the maximum segment code length of 2{circumflex over (?)}b. The respective quantities of the different types of segments are determined based on the length N and a code rate in an orderly manner, wherein the orderly manner comprises firstly determining a quantity of the maximum-length segments and lastly determining a quantity of the minimum-length segments. Polar code encoding is performed on the respective quantities of the different types of segments of the to-be-encoded information bits.

Abstract: A method includes: obtaining first semantic information corresponding to data; converting the first semantic information into second semantic information, where the second semantic information belongs to common semantic information, and the common semantic information is a unified description of same semantics that is provided by different devices; and sending the second semantic information. Based on the method provided in this application, when a semantic extraction model of a transmit device and a semantic understanding model of a receive device are not jointly trained, accuracy of semantic communication between the transmit device and the receive device may be ensured by converting local semantic information into common semantic information.

Abstract: A scheduling method, scheduling algorithm training method, related system, and storage medium are provided including the scheduling method being applied to a scheduling control system, which includes K network devices, and K is an integer greater than 1. The method further includes a first network device that obtains target state information of a first area, where the target state information includes network state information and user data packet cache information. The first network device generates first scheduling information based on the target state information of the first area and a first target sub-policy network, where the first target sub-policy network is a target sub-policy network that is in K target sub-policy networks and that corresponds to the first network device. The first network device delivers the first scheduling information to a terminal in the first area.