Abstract: A discrete element method contact model building method includes: selecting a filling body in a disaster-causing structure to obtain a change rule of cumulative loss of the filling body; performing test simulation, and determining a relation function of each group of corresponding mesoscopic mechanical parameters in each time period and mesoscopic parameters of a DEM contact model representing a change rule of macroscopical parameters of the filling body; embedding each mesoscopic parameter relation function into an existing particle contact model, performing test simulation, and updating a fracture failure criterion of the contact model according to a corresponding relation of macro-mesoscopic strength during model failure; and based on a seepage failure indoor test, building a seepage failure discrete element calculation model, and simulating the seepage failure process of a rock and soil mass by using the obtained particle contact model and the fracture criterion of the particle contact model.

Abstract: Disclosed are a power determination method, a power determination apparatus, a terminal and a storage medium. The power determination method includes: acquiring a power ramping amount according to a power ramping count value and a power ramping step, where the power ramping count value includes a power ramping count value of a first transmission mode and a power ramping count value of a second transmission mode; and determining a transmission power according to the power ramping amount.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for a two-step random access procedure in mobile communication technology are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a network node, a random access message that comprises at least one of a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), an identity of the wireless device, an establishment cause, uplink control information (UCI) or beam information, and transmitting, to a wireless device, a contention resolution message, wherein at least a portion of the random access message is modulated using a first modulation scheme selected from a modulation group that comprises binary phase shift keying (BPSK) and ?/2-BPSK.

Abstract: A beverage container includes a container bottle and an elevated container lid. The elevated container lid includes a lid member detachably and coaxially connected to a top end of the container bottle to cover a top opening of the container bottle, and a hollow elevated drinking spout member having a base portion coaxially mounted on the lid member, a mouthpiece portion integrally and coaxially extended from the base portion, and a drinking opening coaxially formed at a top end of the mouthpiece portion, wherein the mouthpiece portion of the elevated drinking spout member has a nipple shape and the drinking opening has a size equal to or slightly larger than a diameter of a straw to be inserted therethrough into the interior cavity until reaching the bottom wall of the container bottle.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for transmitter-side processing of preamble and reference signals are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes transmitting, by a wireless device, a message comprising modified symbols that are generated by performing a modification on baseline symbols. Another exemplary method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a network node, a message comprising modified symbols that are generated by performing a modification on baseline symbols. In an example, the message may be a random access message that is part of a 2-step random access channel (RACH) process or a contention-based physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission.

Abstract: A method for processing a network allocation vector (NAV) includes: terminating the receiving of a first radio frame when it is determined that a target receiving station of the first radio frame being received is not a first station; and updating an NAV of the first station or maintaining the NAV of the first station unchanged according to a remaining duration of the first radio frame and a first transmission opportunity duration carried in the first radio frame, where the remaining duration of the first radio frame is the transmission time used for transmitting the remaining part of the first radio frame after the receiving of the first radio frame is terminated. The technical solution solves the problem in the related art of collisions with hidden stations caused by an inaccurate NAV update in the existing art, thereby ensuring the accuracy of an NAV update and the fairness of transmission and channel contention, and reducing collisions among hidden stations.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information processing method and apparatus, and a device, the method includes: sending an information request to a platform side at a preset time interval if it is determined that a merchant platform application has been logged in; receiving a system message sent by the platform side in response to the information request in real time, where the system message is sent by a service side to the platform side in real time; and displaying the system message and/or prompt information of the system message on the merchant platform application. This embodiment does not require the merchant to obtain a new system message by refreshing a page, avoiding a repeated refresh operation by the merchant and avoiding the merchant missing an important notification due to not being able to obtain the system message in time.

Abstract: A neural network optimization method includes receiving a model file of a to-be-optimized neural network; obtaining a search space of a target neural network architecture based on the model file of the to-be-optimized neural network, where the search space includes a value range of each attribute of each neuron in the target neural network architecture; obtaining the target neural network architecture based on the search space; training the target neural network architecture based on the model file of the to-be-optimized neural network, to obtain a model file of a target neural network; and providing the model file of the target neural network to a user.

Abstract: The invention provides a reaction system for preparing butyraldehyde by propylene carbonylation, comprising: a reactor; a side wall of the reactor is sequentially provided with a catalyst inlet, a propylene inlet and a synthesis gas inlet from top to bottom; the bottom of the reactor is provided with a solvent inlet; two micro-interface generators are arranged inside of the reactor from top to bottom, and the micro-interface generator located at a top end is connected to the propylene inlet to break the propylene gas into micron-scale micro-bubbles; the micro-interface generator located at a bottom is connected to the synthesis gas inlet for breaking the synthesis gas into micron-scale micro-bubbles; the outlets of the two micro-interface generators are opposite, and the outlets are connected with a gas distributor for evenly distributing raw materials.

Abstract: This application relates to a phase shifter and a remote electrical tilt antenna including the foregoing phase shifter. The metal strip includes a cavity, a metal strip, a sliding dielectric, and a fastener, where the fastener fastens the metal strip in the cavity, so that a transmission portion of the metal strip is suspended in the cavity, requiring no metal strip to be disposed on a substrate, thereby reducing the signal energy loss of the substrate, decreasing the heat generated due to the signal energy loss, and lowering the requirements of the phase shifter on heat dissipation and temperature resistance of an internal mechanical part.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods for treating head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients based on use of blood-based tumor mutation burden, PD-L1 expression, expression levels of immunomodulators, pro-angiogenesis markers and pro-inflammatory markers and/or identification of mutations in circulating tumor DNA.

Abstract: This application provides an electronic component, capable of simplifying a structure of an electronic component. The electronic component includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and a cavity. An inner wall of the cavity is provided with at least one groove for fixing the PCB. A first groove in the at least one groove includes a first side wall and a second side wall. The first side wall and the second side wall form an opening of the first groove. A length of the first side wall in a first direction is greater than that of the second side wall. The first direction is parallel to a direction of the opening. The first side wall is provided with at least one first raised part. The first raised part protrudes from the first side wall to the second side wall along a second direction. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a juvenile fish limb identification method based on a multi-scale cascaded perceptual convolutional neural network. The method includes the following steps: acquiring a video sequence of a juvenile fish, dividing a fish body into five non-overlapping parts, performing semantic annotation on the five non-overlapping parts, and taking the five non-overlapping parts as an input of the multi-scale cascaded perceptual convolutional neural network; and using a convolutional layer as a feature extractor, performing feature extraction on an input image containing the annotation of each limb, inputting extracted features into an Attention-region proposal network (RPN) structure, determining a category of each pixel, and generating a limb mask of each limb category using a multi-scale cascade method. According to the method, the limbs of the juvenile fish can be efficiently and accurately identified, and technical support is provided for posture quantification of the juvenile fish.

Abstract: Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks and methods for their manufacture, and production systems therefor are disclosed. The method for forming an EUV mask blank comprises smoothing out surface defects on a surface of a substrate.

Abstract: Provided are a data transmission method and apparatus, a transmission device, and a storage medium. The method includes the following: determining a first reference signal and a second reference signal associated with the first reference signal, where the second reference signal is used for assisting a receiving end in detecting an active sequence in the first reference signal; and sending a transmission packet, where the transmission packet includes the first reference signal, the second reference signal and transmitted data.

Abstract: A multilayer stack in the form of a Bragg reflector comprising a graded interfacial layer and a method of manufacturing are disclosed. The graded interfacial layer eliminates the formation of low-reflectivity interfaces in a multilayer stack and reduces roughness of interfaces in a multilayer stack.

Abstract: A beverage container includes a container bottle and an elevated container lid. The elevated container lid includes a lid member detachably and coaxially connected to a top end of the container bottle to cover a top opening of the container bottle, and a hollow elevated drinking spout member having a base portion coaxially mounted on the lid member, a mouthpiece portion integrally and coaxially extended from the base portion, and a drinking opening coaxially formed at a top end of the mouthpiece portion, wherein the mouthpiece portion of the elevated drinking spout member has a nipple shape and the drinking opening has a size equal to or slightly larger than a diameter of a straw to be inserted therethrough into the interior cavity until reaching the bottom wall of the container bottle.

Abstract: Provided are a data transmission method and apparatus, a transmitter, a receiver and a storage medium. The method includes determining the number N of resource units and corresponding N resource units, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; acquiring M data blocks to be transmitted, M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, where each data block of the M data blocks includes information for indicating the number N of resource units and a position of at least one of the N resource units; and transmitting the M data blocks on the N resource units.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to wireless communications and, more particularly, to systems and methods for uplink signaling using blind channel estimation at a base station. In one embodiment, a method performed by a communication device, includes: associating a time slot with a data packet comprising a head portion and a tail portion, wherein the head portion comprises a communication device identifier and the tail portion comprises user data associated with the head portion; spreading the head portion into a first predetermined transmission format; spreading the tail portion into a second predetermined transmission format; and transmitting the spreaded head portion with the spreaded tail portion to a communication node, wherein the spreaded head portion comprises information to be used by the communication node for channel estimation and for decoding the tail portion to retrieve the user data.

Abstract: An adapter device, a feeder device, and an antenna are provided. The adapter device includes a coaxial cable, an air dielectric microstrip, a ground plane, and a non-flat metal part. An outer conductor of the coaxial cable is electrically connected to the non-flat metal part, the non-flat metal part and the ground plane form non-flat capacitive coupling, and an inner conductor of the coaxial cable is electrically connected to the air dielectric microstrip. The outer conductor of the coaxial cable is grounded.