Abstract: In an embodiment, a method of reducing resistance-capacitance delay along photodiode transfer lines of an image sensor includes forking a plurality of photodiode transfer lines each into a plurality of sublines coupled together and to a first decoder-driver at a first end of each subline; and distributing selection transistors of a plurality of multiple-photodiode cells among the plurality of sublines. In embodiments, the sublines may be recombined at a second end of the sublines and driven by a second decoder-driver at the second end.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of flow batteries, and in particular relates to a neutral zinc iron flow battery and the use thereof. The neutral zinc iron flow battery comprises a negative electrode electrolyte solution and a positive electrode electrolyte solution, wherein a negative electrode electrolyte in the negative electrode electrolyte solution comprises a first ferrous salt and a zinc salt, the molar ratio of the first ferrous salt to the zinc salt is 0.01 to 0.25:1, wherein the first ferrous salt is based on Fe2?, and the zinc salt is based on Zn2+.

Abstract: An imaging device includes groupings of photodiodes having four photodiodes. A transfer transistor is between each photodiode and a floating diffusion. Each floating diffusion is coupled to up to two photodiodes per grouping at a time through transfer transistors. A buffer transistor is coupled to each floating diffusion. The buffer transistors may be in a first or second grouping of buffer transistors. A first bit line is coupled to up to two buffer transistors of the first grouping and a second bit line is coupled to up to two buffer transistors of the second grouping of buffer transistors at a time. A color filter array including a plurality of groupings of color filters is disposed over respective photodiodes of the photodiode array, wherein each grouping of color filters includes four color filters having a same color, wherein each grouping of color filters overlaps two groupings of photodiodes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tea-based beverage comprising probiotics, wherein the probiotics has a live probiotic cell count of ?6.0 log CFU/ml. The invention further relates to a method of preparing the tea-based beverage having a live probiotic cell count of ?6.0 log CFU/ml comprising the steps of: mixing tea infusion with sugar to form a mixture, inoculating probiotics to the mixture to form an inoculated mixture, fermenting the inoculated mixture for a pre-determined period of time to form the beverage. In one embodiment, the probiotics comprises Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus gasseri, Lactobacillus ermentum, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Lactobacillus paracasei, Saccharomyces boulardii, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: This application discloses a cell camping method and an apparatus. The method includes: After a terminal device camps on a first cell, a network device may send a first message to the terminal device, where the first message includes information about a second cell, the first cell corresponds to a first CC, and the second cell corresponds to a second CC; after receiving the first message, the terminal device sends a second message to the network device, where the second message may indicate the first cell and/or the second cell, or the second message may include measurement information of the first cell and/or the second cell; and the network device may determine, based on the second message, that the terminal device camps on the first cell or the second cell. This ensures network load balancing between different cells.

Abstract: A data transmission method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: determining, by a source base station of a terminal in a handover process, first data and a radio air interface protocol sequence number of a data unit used to carry the first data, where the first data includes data that is not acknowledged by a terminal for correct reception during data transmission between the source base station and the terminal. The method further includes sending, by the source base station, the first data and the radio air interface protocol sequence number to a target base station; where the core network connected to the target base station is different from the core network connected to the source base station.

Abstract: A controller initiates discharging of at least some cells of a traction battery based on data indicative of cell state of charge and cell capacity such that, upon completion of the discharging, states of charge of at least some of the cells are different, and after charging the cells with a same current for a same period of time, the states of charge fall with a predefined range of values.

Abstract: A reference-order AL-FEC system for recovering network video data packet loss during real-time video communication includes a packetizer, a reference-order AL-FEC encoder, a reference-order AL-FEC decoder and a depacketizer. The packetizer constructs source symbols from source packets of a current frame. The encoder generates a repair symbol from the source symbols of the current frame and other reference frames based on the reference-order, not time-order, between the frames within an encoding window. The encoder also generates a repair packet based on the repair symbol. The decoder recovers a lost source symbol based on the source symbols of the frames of the encoding window and the repair symbol by decoding the repair packet. The decoding is achieved by solving a linear system of the repair symbol.

Abstract: A multi-fuel switching device, including a gas part, is provided. The gas part includes a switching valve. The switching valve includes a housing having an air inlet and an air outlet. An internal rotation of the housing is provided with a valve core located between the air inlet and the air outlet. The valve core is provided with a first airway and a second airway. Cross-sectional sizes of the first airway and the second airway are different. The first airway or the second airway is selected through rotating the valve core to connect the air inlet and the air outlet. The solution solves the issue that a fuel switching device in the prior art cannot adapt to three or more fuels, which causes an internal combustion engine to be unable to maintain the optimal working state.

Abstract: An image sensing device includes an image sensing circuit, a voltage supply grid, bitlines, and a control circuit. The image sensing circuit includes pixels arranged in rows and columns. Each one of the bitlines is coupled to a corresponding one of the columns. The voltage supply grid is coupled to the pixels. The control circuit is coupled to output at least a row select signal and a transfer signal to the rows. Each one of the rows is selectively coupled to the bitlines to selectively output image data signals in response to the row select signal and the transfer signal. Each one of the rows is further selectively coupled to the bitlines to selectively clamp the bitlines in response to the row select signal and the transfer signal. Each one of the rows is selectively decoupled from the bitlines in response to the row select signal.

Abstract: Controlling data locality in a Kubernetes computing environment by establishing a Kubernetes computing environment including a controller and at least one executor pod for running an application, and receiving a request for a task to be run in the Kubernetes computing environment. The controller dispatches a sidecar to collect resource data from the at least one executor pod for an input to a directed acyclic graph (DAG) feature analyzer. The directed acyclic graph (DAG) feature analyzer identifies from the at least one executor pod a best dynamic resource that are available to execute. The at least one executor pod meeting the best dynamic resource that is available executes the task to be run in the Kubernetes computing.

Abstract: A carrier configuration method. The method includes: a network device sends measurement configuration information to a terminal device, where the measurement configuration information includes configuration information of an event A1, and the measurement configuration information indicates the terminal device to perform measurement for the event A1 in a radio resource control (RRC) non-connected state.

Abstract: The present application relates to a benzo five-membered nitrogen heterocyclic compound and an application thereof. The benzo five-membered nitrogen heterocyclic compound has the structure represented by formula I. The compound can be used as a compound of ROR? receptor inhibitor. The compound can effectively inhibit ROR? proteins and have good selectivity to other nuclear receptor family proteins. The benzo five-membered nitrogen heterocyclic compound or a pharmaceutical composition thereof provided by the present application can be used for preparing a drug for treating, preventing or ameliorating diseases such as inflammations, autoimmune diseases, cell proliferative disorder diseases, sepsis, cancer, neurodegeneration diseases or viral infections, has a good inhibitory effect on the treatment of tumors, especially the treatment of prostate cancer, and also has an amelioration effect on the treatment of other diseases.

Abstract: The invention relates to a preparation method of (4-isopropoxy-2-methyl)phenyl isopropyl ketone, particularly the preparation method includes: reacting m-cresol with thiocyanate in the presence of a catalyst to obtain a product A; reacting the product A with haloisopropane in the presence of a base and a catalyst to obtain a product B; reacting the product B with isopropyl magnesium halide and treating to obtain (4-isopropoxy-2-methyl)phenyl isopropyl ketone. The purity of (4-isopropoxy-2-methyl)phenyl isopropyl ketone prepared is more than 99%, and the total yield is more than 79%. The method according to the present invention avoids the use of toxic reagents and the generation of a large amount of acidic wastewater, reduces the reaction temperature, and improves the reaction yield. The process route is simple and efficient, and the cost is reduced. The purity of the resulting product is high, the production security is greatly improved, and the method is easy to industrialize.

Abstract: This application discloses a clock synchronization method and a related apparatus in a distributed system. The distributed system includes a plurality of nodes, and the plurality of nodes include a master node and a plurality of slave nodes. The master node obtains a plurality of local clock offsets, where each of the plurality of local clock offsets indicates a clock offset between two nodes in the distributed system. The master node determines a global clock offset of a target slave node relative to the master node based on the plurality of local clock offsets, and sends the global clock offset to the target slave node. The target slave node obtains a clock reference value of a local clock, and then performs clock synchronization based on the clock reference value and the global clock offset.

Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for creating and using a neural network model to estimate a cardiac parameter of a patient, and using the estimated parameter in providing blood pump support to improve patient cardiac performance and heart health. Particular adaptations include adjusting blood pump parameters and determining whether and how to increase or decrease support, or wean the patient from the blood pump altogether. The model is created based on neural network processing of data from a first patient set and includes measured hemodynamic and pump parameters compared to a cardiac parameter measured in situ, for example the left ventricular volume measured by millar (in animals) or inca (in human) catheter. After development of a model based on the first set of patients, the model is applied to a patient in a second set to estimate the cardiac parameter without use of an additional catheter or direct measurement.

Abstract: A chimeric antigen receptor, comprising an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO. 1. A nucleic acid encoding the chimeric antigen receptor, a vector comprising the nucleic acid, an immune effector cell comprising the chimeric antigen receptor, the nucleic acid molecule and/or the vector, a method for preparing the immune effector cell, a composition comprising the immune effector cell, and use of the chimeric antigen receptor.

Abstract: A bi-directional voltage converter having a first switch, a second switch, an inductor, a third switch, a fourth switch and a fifth switch connected in parallel with the third switch. The first switch is connected between an input terminal and a first switching terminal, the second switch is connected between the first switching terminal and a reference ground, the inductor is connected between the first switching terminal and an output switching terminal, the third switch is connected between the output switching terminal and a system terminal, the fourth switch is connected between the output switching terminal and the reference ground. When the bi-directional voltage converter is regulated to work in a buck charging mode or a boost discharging mode, the first and second switches are controlled to conduct on and off complementarily, the third and fifth switches are maintained at on state, the fourth switch is maintained at off state.

Abstract: A pixel circuit includes: a driving sub-circuit including a driving transistor and a storage capacitor; a first reset sub-circuit configured to transmit an initialization signal to a third node under control of at least a first reset signal; a writing sub-circuit configured to transmit the initialization signal to a first node under control of a first scanning signal, and write a data signal received at a data terminal to the first node and perform threshold voltage compensation on the driving transistor under control of the first scanning signal and a second scanning signal; a light-emitting device; and a light-emitting control sub-circuit configured to, under control of a first enable signal and a second enable signal, transmit a voltage signal of a first voltage terminal to a second node, and transmit a current output by the driving transistor to the light-emitting device.