Abstract: A first communication apparatus obtains first configuration information, and performs carrier aggregation communication on at least two receive carriers based on the first configuration information. The first configuration information may indicate the first communication apparatus to perform carrier aggregation communication on the at least two receive carriers, the at least two receive carriers include a first receive carrier and a second receive carrier, the first receive carrier corresponds to a first communication standard, the second receive carrier corresponds to a second communication standard, and the first communication standard is different from the second communication standard.

Abstract: Example quasi co-location information determining methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes determining a quantity X of pieces of quasi co-location QCL information, where X is a positive integer. When it is determined that the quantity X of pieces of QCL information is two, and that DCI corresponding to a current data channel does not indicate QCL information of an antenna port of the data channel, or that an interval between the current data channel and the DCI corresponding to the data channel is less than a threshold, two pieces of default QCL information of the antenna port of the data channel are determined.

Abstract: A power control method includes determining priorities of uplink transmission and sidelink transmission, where the uplink transmission is used to transmit uplink information by a first terminal device to a network device, and the sidelink transmission is used to transmit sidelink information by the first terminal device to a second terminal device; determining target information that is in the sidelink information and that overlaps with the uplink information in time domain in a scheduling time unit; determining transmit powers of the uplink information and the target information based on the target information and the priorities of the uplink transmission and the sidelink transmission; and sending the uplink information based on the transmit power of the uplink information, or sending the target information based on the transmit power of the target information.

Abstract: A sea surface oil recovery device is provided, which comprises a storage cabin, an oil-water separation system and an oil-water collection system arranged on the storage cabin. The storage cabin is provided with an oil storage cabin, a water storage cabin, a separation cabin and a gas storage cabin which are separated from each other, and the storage cabin is provided with a water pipe for connecting the water storage cabin with the outside of the storage cabin. The oil-water separation system comprises a molecular semipermeable membrane for separating oil and water and a water suction pipe, wherein the molecular semipermeable membrane is arranged between the separation cabin and the water storage tank and connects the separation cabin with the water storage tank; the water suction pipe is arranged between the oil storage cabin and the separation cabin and connects the oil storage tank with each other.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure is provided. The method includes forming a fin structure protruding from a substrate, wherein the fin structure includes first semiconductor material layers and second semiconductor material layers alternately stacked. The method includes forming a dummy gate structure across the fin structure. The method includes forming a gate spacer on the sidewall of the dummy gate structure. The method includes removing the dummy gate structure to expose the fin structure. The method includes partially removing the second semiconductor material layers to form concave portions on sidewalls of the second semiconductor material layers. The method includes forming dielectric spacers in the concave portions. The method includes removing the first semiconductor material layers to form gaps. The method includes forming a gate structure in the gaps to wrap around the second semiconductor material layers and the dielectric spacers.

Abstract: A frequency locked loop circuit, comprising an operational circuit, a first impedance circuit, a second impedance circuit, a switching circuit and a frequency generation circuit. The operational circuit is configured to output an operational signal according to a voltage difference between a positive terminal and a negative terminal. The switching circuit is configured to periodically conduct the negative terminal to one of the first impedance node and the second impedance node, and periodically conduct the positive terminal to the other one of the first impedance node and the second impedance node. The frequency generation circuit is configured to periodically sample the operational signal to generate a sample signal to generate a clock signal. An operational frequency of the operational signal is an integer multiple of a sampling frequency of the frequency generation circuit.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method. The method includes: A first communication apparatus obtains first configuration information, and performs carrier aggregation communication on at least two transmit carriers based on the first configuration information. The first configuration information indicates the first communication apparatus to perform carrier aggregation communication on the at least two transmit carriers, the at least two transmit carriers include a first transmit carrier and a second transmit carrier, the first transmit carrier corresponds to a first communication standard, the second transmit carrier corresponds to a second communication standard, and the first communication standard is different from the second communication standard.

Abstract: Systems and methods for performing the dynamic anomaly localization of utility pole aerial/suspended/supported wires/cables by distributed fiber optic sensing. In sharp contrast to the prior art, our inventive systems and methods according to aspects of the present disclosure advantageously identify a “location region” on a utility pole supporting an affected wire/cable, thereby permitting the identification and reporting of service personnel that are uniquely responsible for responding to such anomalous condition(s).

Abstract: An electrode for electrochemical applications is coated with a layer of a-C, wherein the layer of a-C comprises at least 10 each of first and second sub-layers, being—(i) first sub-layers having high conductivity with a sp2 content of 60-95%, alternating with—(ii) second sub-layers having high corrosion resistance with a sp2 content of 50-90%, wherein the sp2 content of the first sub-layers is at least 3% greater than the sp2 content of the second sub-layers. A method of making such electrodes comprises: —a) depositing a first sub-layer comprising a-C, —b) depositing a second sub-layer comprising a-C wherein the sp2 content of the first sub-layer is at least 3% greater than the sp2 content of the second sub-layer, and—c) repeating the steps above to deposit at least 10 first sub-layers alternating with 10 second sub-layers, so as to produce the electrodes.

Abstract: Current signaling structures in Long-Term Evolution and New Radio are not designed to accommodate flexible allocation of RF chains and/or antennas among radio access technologies (RATs) and/or between different transmission modes that support multiple transmissions/receptions/component carriers such as carrier aggregation, multiple-input multiple-output and/or multiple-transmit-receive point transmission/reception. Embodiments are disclosed in which an apparatus reports radio frequency (RF) capability information that supports such a flexible allocation of RF chains and/or antennas. In some embodiments, the RF capability information includes RF chain information indicating a number of RF chains operable in a first frequency range, and antenna information indicating, for each of a plurality of second frequency ranges within the first frequency range, a number of physical antennas operable within the corresponding second frequency range.

Abstract: A first access node determines scheduling information, where the scheduling information indicates resource information to be used by a second access node to receive data or send data; and the first access node sends the scheduling information to the second access node.

Abstract: A live streaming interaction method and apparatus, and a readable medium and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: in response to a selection operation of a user regarding target virtual objects in a live streaming viewing interface, displaying an object trigger operation control, the object trigger operation control being used for the user to perform a target operation to continuously trigger target virtual objects; and during the process of the user performing the target operation on the object trigger operation control, controlling a first display control to move along a first pre-set path, wherein the first display control is used for displaying, in real time, the number of target virtual objects currently triggered by the user.

Abstract: An electrode for electrochemical applications is coated with a layer of a-C, wherein the layer of a-C comprises at least 10 each of first and second sub-layers, being (i) first sub-layers having high conductivity with a sp2 content of 60-95%, alternating with (ii) second sub-layers having high corrosion resistance with a sp2 content of 50-90%, wherein the sp2 content of the first sub-layers is at least 3% greater than the sp2 content of the second sub-layers. A method of making such electrodes comprises:?a) depositing a first sub-layer comprising a-C, ?b) depositing a second sub-layer comprising a-C wherein the sp2 content of the first sub-layer is at least 3% greater than the sp2 content of the second sub-layer, and ?c) repeating the steps above to deposit at least 10 first sub-layers alternating with 10 second sub-layers, so as to produce the electrodes.

Abstract: An external dermal composition and a method for beautifying skin are provided. The external dermal composition mainly includes a double nitrosyl-iron complex and a pharmaceutically acceptable additive. The external dermal composition delivers nitric oxide to a user's skin to beautify the skin when applied to the user's skin.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) systems, methods, and structures that advantageously are employed in smart stadium or other venue applications, such applications including: parking lot security and management; intrusion detection; social sensing; air quality monitoring and early fire detection—among others.

Abstract: This application provides a physical layer control information transmission method and apparatus. In the method, a first communication apparatus may obtain first physical layer control information. The first physical layer control information may include N pieces of first information, where N is greater than or equal to 2. The first communication apparatus may obtain target first information from the N pieces of first information. The target first information may indicate a frequency domain resource of a first channel. The first communication apparatus may estimate the first channel based on the target first information. The first communication apparatus may obtain second physical layer control information. The second physical layer control information includes signaling information that may be used by the first communication apparatus to send feedback information corresponding to the first channel.

Abstract: The present application discloses a cloud-network integration (CNI) oriented multi-access edge computing (MEC) architecture. An access network (AN) side of the architecture is provided with a plurality of edge computing nodes, a physical channel of the AN side is split into a plurality of subchannels with each of the subchannels supporting a media access control (MAC) access mode, and a software defined network (SDN) controller is arranged in the architecture and is configured to allocate resources of the subchannels at a physical layer and protocols at an MAC layer and control offloading at the edge computing nodes or a cloud center by a terminal user. The present application can carry out fine-grained control and cooperative management on network resources and computing resources, and achieve more effective computation offloading and service enhancement.

Abstract: Systems and methods for performing the dynamic anomaly localization of utility pole aerial/suspended/supported wires/cables by distributed fiber optic sensing. In sharp contrast to the prior art, our inventive systems and methods according to aspects of the present disclosure advantageously identify a “location region” on a utility pole supporting an affected wire/cable, thereby permitting the identification and reporting of service personnel that are uniquely responsible for responding to such anomalous condition(s).

Abstract: A device may receive, from a fiber sensor device, sensing data associated with a fiber optic cable, the sensing data being produced by an activity that poses a threat of damage to the fiber optic cable, and the sensing data identifying: amplitudes of vibration signals, frequencies of the vibration signals, patterns of the vibration signals, times associated with the vibration signals, and locations along the fiber optic cable associated with the vibration signals. The device may process, with a machine learning model, the sensing data to determine a threat level of the activity to the fiber optic cable, the machine learning model having been trained based on historical information regarding detected vibrations, historical information regarding sources of the detected vibrations, and historical information regarding threat levels to the fiber optic cable. The device may perform one or more actions based on the threat level to the fiber optic cable.

Abstract: An object detection assistant system includes a memory and a processor. The processor is coupled to the memory. The memory stores one or more commands. The processor accesses and executes one or more commands of the memory. One or more commands include inputting a detection result parameter output by an object detection neural network for object detection of an image to an assistant neural network to output a first correction coefficient after processing by the assistant neural network, where the detection result parameter includes object information and a first confidence; inputting the first correction coefficient and detection result parameters to a Bayesian classifier to output a second correction coefficient; and adjusting the first confidence according to the second correction coefficient to obtain second confidence, and the second confidence being taken as the first confidence of the adjusted detection result parameter.