Abstract: Offshore systems and methods may be configured for offshore power generation and carbon dioxide injection for enhanced gas recovery for gas reservoirs. For example, a method may include: providing an offshore facility including a gas turbine, and a gas separator; producing a produced gas from a gas reservoir to the offshore facility; combusting the produced gas in a gas turbine to produce power and a flue gas; at least partially removing nitrogen from the flue gas in a gas separator to produce a carbon dioxide-enriched flue gas and a nitrogen-enriched flue gas; compressing the carbon dioxide-enriched flue gas in a gas compressor to produce a compressed gas; and injecting the compressed gas from the gas compressor into the gas reservoir, wherein 80 mol % or more of hydrocarbon in the produced gas is combusted and/or injected into the gas reservoir.

Abstract: A computer implemented method for managing buffer pool usage includes identifying a database comprising one or more buffer pools and a set of database objects, adding a virtual layer between the set of database objects and the one or more buffer pools, wherein the virtual layer is configured to manage buffer pool resource utilization, managing, using the added virtual layer, buffer pool resource utilization with respect to the set of database objects, wherein the managing comprises defining buffer pool usage corresponding to the set of database objects, dynamically mapping database objects to the buffer pools based, at least in part, on the defined buffer pool usage, analyzing, by one or more processors, queues to identify updated buffer pool usage, and adjusting database object allocation according to the identified updated resource usage. A computer program product and computer system corresponding to the method are also disclosed.

Abstract: A pixel array includes pixel cells, each including photodiodes. A source follower is coupled to generate an image signal in response image charge generated by the photodiodes. A first row select transistor is coupled to the source follower to output the image signal of the pixel cell. Pixel cells are organized into columns including a first column and a second column. The first row select transistors of the pixel cells of the first and second columns of pixel cells are coupled to first and second column bitlines, respectively. The pixel cells of the second column of pixel cells further include a second row select transistor coupled to the source follower to output the respective image signal to the first column bitline.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor super-junction device. The method includes: a gate is firstly formed in a gate region of a first trench, then an n-type epitaxial layer is etched with a hard mask layer and an insulating side wall covering a side wall of the gate as masks, and a second trench is formed in the n-type epitaxial layer, and then a p-type column is formed in the first trench and the second trench.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a traction battery and a controller. The controller, responsive to some cells of the traction battery achieving a first state of charge threshold, discharge other cells of the traction battery, each having a capacity greater than each of the some of the cells, to a second state of charge threshold that is greater than the first state of charge threshold without discharging the some of the cells. The controller then charges all of the cells at the same time such that the some of the cells and the other of the cells achieve a same predetermined target state of charge at a same time.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a display substrate and an AMOLED display device. The display substrate includes a display area including multiple pixel units in an array, each row is correspondingly provided with a first power line, and each column is correspondingly provided with a second power line; the multiple pixel units are divided into first pixel units and second pixel units; each row includes at least one first pixel unit, in which the driving transistor is electrically coupled to the second power line corresponding to the column of the first pixel unit; for at least one column of pixel units, each column includes at least one second pixel unit; in which the driving transistor is electrically coupled, through the first power line corresponding to the row of the second pixel unit, to the second power line corresponding to the column of one first pixel unit in the row.

Abstract: A pixel array includes pixel cells disposed in semiconductor material. Each of the pixel cells includes photodiodes, and a floating diffusion to receive image charge from the photodiodes. A source follower is coupled to the floating diffusion to generate an image signal in response image charge from the photodiodes. Drain regions of first and second row select transistors are coupled to a source of the source follower. A common junction is disposed in the semiconductor material between gates of the first and second row select transistors such that the drains of the first and second row select transistors are shared and coupled together through the semiconductor material of the common junction. The pixel cells are organized into a rows and columns with bitlines.

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: Embodiments of the technology described herein describe a machine classifier capable of continually learning new classes through a continual few-shot learning approach. A natural language processing (NLP) machine classifier may initially be trained to identify a plurality of other classes through a conventional training process. In order to learn a new class, natural-language training data for a new class is generated. The training data for the new class may be few-shot training data. The training also uses synthetic training data that represents each of the plurality of other classes. The synthetic training data may be generated through a model inversion of the original classifier. The synthetic training data and the natural-language training data are used to retrain the NLP classifier to identify text in the plurality of other classes and the new class using.

Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure is a method for using a four-plasmid system to prepare modified immune effector cells. The method comprises: forming a lentivirus by using four plasmids within 293T cells, extracting and obtaining the lentivirus, then transfecting immune effector cells by using the lentivirus, and expressing a chimeric antigen receptor. Also provided in the present disclosure is a use of the immune effector cell obtained by using the described method and of a composition containing the immune effector cell.

Abstract: This application discloses communications methods, apparatuses, and systems. In one implementation, a method includes: performing a function of a control-plane protocol layer, wherein the control-plane protocol layer comprises a first protocol layer of the network node corresponding to a first protocol layer of a relay node, the first protocol layer is on an interface between the network node and the relay node, and the network node is a donor base station or a centralized unit of a donor base station; and sending, from the first protocol layer of the network node, a first message to the first protocol layer of the relay node, wherein the first protocol layer of the network node and the first protocol layer of the relay node are F1 application protocol layers, and the first message is a F1AP message that comprises one or more of context management information of a terminal device served by the relay node or a radio resource control message of the terminal device.

Abstract: A vehicle battery system includes a battery, storage, and one or more controllers. The storage maintains data defining power outputs for the battery at a plurality of predefined combinations of temperature and state of charge. The one or more controllers repeatedly update the data for some of the plurality based on temperatures and states of charge repeatedly encountered by the vehicle, update the data for other of the plurality based on data from a remote server, and discharge the battery according to the data for the some and other of the plurality.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to the technical field of vehicle accessories, and in particular to a brake for a vehicle and a vehicle. The disclosure aims at solving the problems present in existing brakes for a vehicle that oil passages are relatively long, an angle at which each oil passage is arranged is relatively large, debris generated in a machining process remains in the oil passages and then causes blockage of the oil passages, and drilling holes in an inner caliper body and an outer caliper body to form the oil passages further reduces mechanical strength of the inner caliper body and the outer caliper body.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a power supply apparatus having power limiting mechanism. A switch transistor is controlled by a control voltage such that a power supply unit supplies a power to a powered device when the switch transistor is controlled to be conducted, wherein the switch transistor has an operation current, an operation voltage and an operation power under conduction. A voltage detection circuit detects the operation voltage. A power-limiting circuit performs analog-to-digital conversion on the operation voltage, generates a current-limiting signal related to a current-limiting value according to the operation voltage based on a predetermined voltage-current curve and performs digital-to-analog conversion on the current-limiting signal to generate a reference voltage.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose an access control method, a communications device, and a base station, so that a UE determines, based on a UAC parameter determined based on a CE-level, whether access of the UE is barred, so that a probability that a UE with a large resource consumption amount accesses a communications network system can be controlled. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: determining, by user equipment UE based on a first coverage enhancement level CE-level, a first unified access control UAC parameter corresponding to the first CE-level; and determining, by the UE based on the first UAC parameter, whether access of the UE is barred.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for generating visualizations for semi-structured data. Visualization data is extracted from infographics depicting semi-structured data. The visualization data that is extracted includes the traits or characteristics of the semi-structured data depicted in the infographics (e.g., dimension), the characteristics of the infographics (e.g., location of the depicted data), and the constraints or display requirements (e.g., display target value in a particular axis). A trait and constraint rule set is then generated based on the extracted visualization data. The trait and constraint rule set includes a set of rules that maps the display requirements to the particular set of traits or characteristics exhibited by the semi-structured data displayed in the infographics.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to the technical field of vehicle accessories, and particularly provides a brake for a vehicle and a vehicle. The disclosure aims at solving the problem that existing brakes for a vehicle usually cannot overcome low-frequency stubborn noise generated by a caliper structure in the brake in a braking process.

Abstract: The present invention provides an interval error observer-based aircraft engine active fault tolerant control method, and belongs to the technical field of aircraft control. The method comprises: tracking the state and the output of a reference model of an aircraft engine through an error feedback controller; compensating a control system of the aircraft engine having a disturbance signal and actuator and sensor faults through a virtual sensor and a virtual actuator; observing an error between a system with fault of the aircraft engine and the reference model through an interval error observer, and feeding back the error to the error feedback controller; and finally, using a difference between the output of the reference model of the system with fault and the output of the virtual actuator as a control signal to realize active fault tolerant control of the aircraft engine.

Abstract: An article adapted to receive multiple battery cells, such as a battery module, which provides thermal insulation between adjacent battery cells using thermally insulating layers comprising a ceramifiable elastomeric silicone material, using fumed silica (amorphous SiO2) or fumed silica (amorphous SiO2)+quartz (crystalline SiO2). There is also provided, the use of said ceramifiable elastomeric silicone material as a means of delaying and/or preventing thermal runaway in such an article. Typically, the battery cells for which this article is designed are lithium-ion battery cells.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing duplicated registers for access by initiators across multiple semiconductor dies are disclosed. A system includes multiple initiators on multiple semiconductor dies of a chiplet processor. One of the semiconductor dies is the master die, and this master die has copies of registers which can be accessed by the multiple initiators on the multiple semiconductor dies. When a given initiator on a given secondary die generates a register access, the register access is routed to the master die and a particular duplicate copy of the register maintained for the given secondary die. From the point of view of software, the multiple semiconductor dies appear as a single die, and the multiple initiators appear as a single initiator. Multiple types of registers can be maintained by the master die, with a flush register being one of the register types.