Abstract: A vapor chamber architecture for multiple cavity/heat source system designs. The vapor chamber architecture can be customized in dimensions to cool two or more spatially separated, and potentially heterogeneous, heat sources in a system floor plan. The vapor chamber architecture can additionally be customized to concurrently manage the cooling requirements for the two or more heat sources that have different power consumptions and sizes. The provided vapor chamber architecture can be manufactured using etching processes, additive manufacturing processes, or the like.

Abstract: A 4D-perfused tumoroid-on-a-chip platform used in personalized cancer treatment. The platform includes a plate with a plurality of bottomless wells that resides atop a microfluidic channel layer, which in turn resides atop a surface acoustic wave (SAW) based sensor layer that is capable of measuring potential pH values of fluids disposed within the platform. The microfluidic channel layer includes a plurality of bioreactors, with each bioreactor including an inlet well, a culture well, and an outlet well. The inlet well, culture well, and outlet well form a closed system via fluid conduits spanning from the inlet well to the culture well, as well as from the culture well to the outlet well. Due to the fluid flow from the plate to the chip, and from the inlet well to the outlet well on the chip through the culture well, target cell (tumoroid) growth is promoted within the culture well.

Abstract: A biodegradable composite comprising a polymeric matrix including but not limited to poly lactide (PLA), poly (butylene succinate) 20 (PBS), poly(butylene succinate adipate) (PBSA), including bio-based PBSA (BioPBSA), poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) (PBAT), polycaprolactone (PCL), polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA(s)), poly(3-hydroxy)butyrate (PHB), poly(3-hydroxy-butyrate-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV), copolyester of the monomers 1.4-butanediol, adipic acid and terephthalic acid (Ecoflex™) and polypropylene carbonate (PPC), and biocarbon, a.k.a. biochar or pyrolyzed biomass as a sustainable filler. The biodegradable composite achieves high oxygen barrier with balanced water barrier. Also, a method of manufacturing the biodegradable composite and articles of manufacturing comprising the biodegradable composite. The articles of manufacturing have application in limiting gas permeation into a package and extending shelf life of a material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a table (100). The table (100) comprises a table top (102), a plurality of legs (104) connectable to the table top (102), and an air purifier (106) adapted to be placed below the table top (102). A bottom side of the table top (102) is provided with at least one groove (112) extending in a circumferential direction for preventing liquid from traveling from an outer edge of the table top (102) along the bottom side of the table top (102) and reaching an inner section of the air purifier (106). The invention also relates to a method for purifying air using a table (100).

Abstract: A waterproof button structure includes a housing, a cover plate, and a waterproof partition. The housing includes a button switch. The cover plate covers the button switch. The cover plate includes a pressable button. The button switch is in one-to-one correspondence with the button. The waterproof partition is located between the housing and the cover plate. A waterproof film of the waterproof partition is adjacent to the cover plate. A waterproof foam of the waterproof partition is adjacent to the housing. When the button is pressed, the button is abutted by the waterproof film, and the button switch is activated.

Abstract: In accordance with the present disclosure, compounds have been discovered that bind to PD-L1 and are capable of inhibiting the interaction of PD-L1 with PD-1 and CD80. These macrocyclic compounds exhibit in vitro immunomodulatory efficacy thus making them therapeutic candidates for the treatment of various diseases including cancer and infectious diseases.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a display device and a method for manufacturing a display panel. The display panel includes: a base, wherein the base includes a plurality of island regions and at least one perforated region, and the perforated region has an opening that penetrate through the base; and pixel units disposed in the island regions and an elastic filling layer disposed in each of the at least one perforated region.

Abstract: A two-stage electrodialysis system and a method for recovering waste CO2-lean amine solvent are provided. The system includes an amine solution pretreatment filtering system, a C-A homogeneous membrane electrodialysis device, a BP-A bipolar membrane electrodialysis system, and a CO2 recovery and capture system. The C-A homogeneous membrane electrodialysis system includes a material chamber, a C-A homogeneous membrane electrodialysis device, a concentrated HSSs waste solution chamber, an electrode solution chamber, and corresponding pipelines and peristaltic pumps. The BP-A bipolar membrane electrodialysis system includes a secondary feed chamber, a BP-A bipolar membrane electrodialysis device, an acid liquor chamber, an electrode solution chamber, and corresponding pipelines and peristaltic pumps. The waste CO2-lean amine solvent enters the material chamber after passing through the amine solution pretreatment filtering system.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a shimming device. The shimming device may include at least one supporting component each of which is configured with a plurality of wire groove groups. Each of the plurality of wire groove groups may include a plurality of wire grooves. Each of the plurality of wire grooves may be in a closed shape. The closed shapes formed by the plurality of wire grooves may be nested. The shimming device may further include wires arranged in the wire grooves of the plurality of wire groove groups of the at least one supporting component.

Abstract: A halogen-free modified high-filling recyclable plastic board is provided in this disclosure, which includes a substrate layer and a printed layer and a protective layer disposed sequentially on the substrate layer from bottom to top. Raw materials of the substrate layer include, by weight in percent, 20 to 25% of PEAT resin, 70 to 75% of stone powder, 0.5 to 0.8% of chain extender, 1 to 2% of white mineral oil, 3 to 6% PE, and 0.4 to 0.8% stearic acid. The plastic board according to the present disclosure is formed using a hot press process, without glue bonding and with good integrity; and the manufactured board is large in surface tension, its surface is easy to be processed and a substrate layer thereof has good compatibility with a printed layer and a protective layer, which can be recycled as a whole.

Abstract: The invention discloses an embedded system for dexterous hand, comprising: a central communication unit, several fingers, a palm; wherein the central communication unit communicates with the fingers, the palm and a host computer, and is configured to receive an operation instruction from the host computer, and convert the operation instruction into a control instruction and send it to the fingers and the palm; the fingers and the palm are designed to be compatible in hardware structure, and are connected by serial communication; the fingers and the palm move according to the control instructions. The fingers and palm are designed as embedded compatibility standards, which makes the dexterous hand more flexible and easy to maintain and use with lower cost. Thus, the dexterous hand has the advantages of high flexibility, high reliability, strong anti-interference, low cost, high transmission speed, convenient maintenance, and good user experience.

Abstract: A method, computer system and computer program product for model compression service. The method comprises determining an initial deep neural network (DNN) and an associated compression algorithm available in a compression engine, a type of target hardware and a performance requirement of target hardware. The method also comprises emulating a plurality of different compressed models of the initial DNN on target hardware of the type to obtain corresponding runtime performance data, wherein the different compressed models are defined with different configuration data. The method further comprises obtaining a runtime performance estimator of the target hardware by regression with the different configuration data and the corresponding runtime performance data. Lastly, the method comprises applying the runtime performance estimator to the compression algorithm by the compression engine to generate a compressed DNN of the initial DNN complying with the performance requirement of the type of target hardware.

Abstract: A fast and flexible holomorphic embedding-based method for assessing power system load margins includes the following steps: S1, acquiring required decrypted power system data from a partner indirectly; S2, establishing a system of continuation power flow equations; S3, solving the continuation power flow equation by FFHE; and S4, designing and planning a scheduling policy for the power system based on the solved load margin. Compared with prediction through a linear function, the present method is considerably precise and efficient by utilizing rational approximants obtained by expanding arc-length series without repeatedly applying a local solver inefficiently and multifariously for correction. An efficient solution is developed to solve this type of nonlinear equations efficiently. Compared with existing methods, the present method is significantly improved in computational efficiency, computational accuracy, solvable system scale and the like.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer-implemented method that includes using a reinforcement learning (RL) system to generate a first set of displayed region candidates based on inputs received from online users while watching video. A recommendation system is used to rank the first set of displayed region candidates based on inputs received from a local user watching video. The recommendation system is further used to select a first highest ranked one of the first set of displayed region candidates. Based on the first highest ranked one of the first set of displayed region candidates, a first section of a first raw video frame is fetched that matches the first highest ranked one of the first set of displayed candidate regions, wherein the first section of the first raw video frame includes a first predicted display region of the video frame.

Abstract: A device and a method for detecting cigarette fly ash by a gray-scale difference based on machine vision (MV) are provided. A manipulator holds a cigarette as a detection sample to simulate a human smoking action, and multiple groups of cameras track a simulated smoking process of the detection sample synchronously in real time. It is determined whether fly ash appears based on a gray-scale difference of burning ash columns, produced without being subjected to flicking, in acquired images. A fly ash area of the burning ash columns of the cigarette is calculated by an area with the gray-scale difference of the burning ash columns of the cigarette in two sequential images of the burning ash columns of the cigarette, and a fly ash amount is further determined. The detection of the amount of fine fly ash is converted into the detection of the gray-scale difference.

Abstract: A finger-detachable dexterous hand includes a palm (10) and a plurality of fingers (20), wherein the palm (10) is provided with a plurality of finger mounting slots (101) for the fingers (20) to be inserted and mounted therein; and the dexterous hand further includes: locking assemblies (102) mounted in each of the finger mounting slots (101), and locking blocks (201) arranged at an inserting end of each of the fingers (20), wherein the locking assemblies (102) and the locking blocks (201) are connectible and lockable to each other for attaching and detaching the finger (20) to and from the finger mounting slot (101).

Abstract: A novel polyol compound represented by Formula (I) is provided. A polyurethane-based adhesive composition comprising the polyol compound can produce an adhesive layer exhibiting superior bond strength and heat seal strength which will not be substantially deteriorated by the change in the weight ratio between isocyanate component and polyol component. Methods for preparing the polyol compound and for preparing the adhesive composition, as well as a laminate article prepared with said adhesive composition are also provided.

Abstract: Provided in the present invention is a method for constructing a multispecific antibody. The method comprises the steps of: (i) constructing a first polynucleotide and a second polynucleotide, respectively, wherein the first polynucleotide and the second polynucleotide respectively encode a first polypeptide containing a CL region and a second polypeptide containing a CH1 region, and a disulfide bond may be formed between the CL region of the first polypeptide and the CH1 region of the second polypeptide, such that the antibody has a heterodimeric form; and (ii) expressing the first polynucleotide and the second polynucleotide to obtain the first polypeptide and the second polypeptide, and dimerize the first polypeptide and the second polypeptide to form a multispecific antibody with a heterodimeric form.