Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing of solid particulate olefin polymerisation catalyst or catalyst carrier comprising forming a solution of the catalyst or a catalyst carrier in a solvent, subjecting the solution into an atomization by spraying the solution via a capillary vibrating spray nozzle with a capillary orifice having a diameter of 5 to 100 ?m generating a laminar jet of liquid, which disintegrates into liquid droplets entering into the spray-dryer, transforming the droplets with aid of a gas to solid particulate catalyst or carrier in the spray-dryer and recovering the solid particulate olefin polymerisation catalyst or carrier having particle size distribution defined by a volumetric SPAN of 0.7 or less. The invention further relates to the catalyst produced by the methods, and use thereof in olefin polymerisation process.

Abstract: Described is a method of setting up a direct connection between edge sites on a 5G communications network. The method comprises: configuring 5G network functions (NFs) in the 5G communications network; configuring 5G NFs at the edge sites, if not already configured; and based on said configured NFs, setting up a direct tunnel between the edge sites according to a pre-defined tunnel policy.

Abstract: An in-situ evaluation method and system for loess collapsibility based on non-destructive time-domain reflection technology, includes: calculating loess dry density and mass water content; considering loess dry density, mass water content and basic physical property indicators, and evaluating loess collapsibility in situ through mathematical models. The loess collapsibility in-situ evaluation method based on the non-destructive time domain reflectometry technology of the present invention can not only realize whether the loess has collapsibility, but also has the potential to distinguish strong, medium and slight collapsibility.

Abstract: A receiver device and an eye pattern-based control parameter adjustment method are provided. The receiver device includes a receiving circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit performs an iterative operation to determine an optimized control parameter, and updates current control parameters of the receiving circuit to the optimized control parameter after completing the iterative operation. The receiving circuit processes an input signal according to the current control parameters to generate recovered data. The iterative operation includes: updating the current control parameters of the receiving circuit to candidate control parameters; checking a size relationship between an optimized eye mask and a current eye pattern; and increasing the optimized eye mask according to the current eye pattern when the optimized eye mask does not conflict with the current eye pattern, and updating the optimized control parameters to the candidate control parameters corresponding to the new eye mask.

Abstract: A method for determining an intracranial hemodynamic parameter according to embodiments of the present disclosure is provided, which includes determining a three-dimensional a model of a blood vessel based on CT angiographic data, and determining at least one of a boundary condition of each inlet or a boundary condition of each outlet in the three-dimensional vessel model based on CT perfusion imaging data and CT angiographic data.

Abstract: Topology discovery between compute nodes and interconnect switches including creating, on an interconnect switch, a virtual topology discovery device for a first port, wherein the interconnect switch is coupled to a compute node via the first port, and wherein the virtual topology discovery device comprises a port identifier for the first port; mapping the virtual topology discovery device to the first port; receiving an inventory request from the compute node via the first port; routing the inventory request to the virtual topology discovery device for the first port; and sending, from the virtual topology discovery device for the first port, the port identifier to the compute node.

Abstract: A rubber compound for heavy-duty truck or bus tire treads may comprise: 5 to 100 parts by weight per hundred parts by weight rubber (phr) of a long chain branched cyclopentene ring opening rubber (LCB-CPR) having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of ?120° C. to ?80° C., a g?vis of 0.50 to 0.91, and a ratio of cis-to-trans of 40:60 to 5:95; 0 phr to 95 phr of a rubber selected from a group consisting of a natural rubber (NR), a polybutadiene rubber (BR), and a combination thereof; 30 phr to 90 phr of a reinforcing filler; and 0.5 phr to 20 phr of a process oil.

Abstract: A rubber compound suitable for passenger tires may comprise: 40 to 70 parts by weight per hundred parts by weight rubber (phr) of a long chain branched cyclopentene ring-opening rubber (LCB-CPR) having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of ?120° C. to ?80° C., a g?vis of 0.50 to 0.91, and a ratio of cis to trans of 40:60 to 5:95, 30 phr to 60 phr of a styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR), wherein the SBR has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of ?60° C. to ?5° C., 50 phr to 110 phr of a reinforcing filler, and 20 phr to 50 phr of a process oil.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide technology for optimizing an inference neural network model that performs asymmetric quantization by generating a quantized neural network, wherein model weights of the neural network are quantized as signed integer values, and wherein an input layer of the neural network is configured to quantize input values as unsigned integer values, generating a weights accumulation table based on the quantized model weights and a kernel size for the neural network, and generating an output restoration function for an output layer of the neural network based on the weights accumulation table and the kernel size. The technology may also perform per-input channel quantization. The technology may also perform mixed-precision auto-tuning.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a tag identification method. Some embodiments comprise: receiving a tag signal in a time slot; and determining whether a tag collision occurs in the time slot. If a tag collision occurs, the method includes selecting one tag signal from a plurality of received tag signals to identify a corresponding tag and recording a quantity of unidentified tags in the time slot.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining influence of applications on system performance includes collecting, by a processor, for several applications that are executing on a computing system, respective instrumentation data during multiple time-segments. The method further includes determining, for each of the applications, a performance value and a robustness value for each of the time-segments based on the respective instrumentation data. Further, using the performance value and robustness value for each time-segment, multiple health-waveforms are generated, where a health-waveform is generated for each respective application. The method further includes determining, by the processor, an influence-factor of a first application on a second application, the first application and the second application are executing on the computing system.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a switching circuit, a resonant circuit coupled to an output of the switching circuit, a rectification circuit coupled between the resonant circuit and an output of the apparatus, and a controller coupled to the switching circuit. The controller, during a soft start-up operation of the power supply, is configured to switch a plurality of switches with a variable limited maximum duty cycle at a minimum frequency and after the variable limited maximum duty cycle reaches the limited maximum duty cycle at the minimum frequency, simultaneously switch the frequency to a maximum frequency and switch the duty cycle to a minimum duty cycle at the maximum frequency for a same on-time as the limited maximum duty cycle at the minimum frequency.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a gas cooling-scrubbing apparatus and an associated method. There is provided a gas cooling-scrubbing apparatus, comprising: a cyclone jet scrubbing unit, a spray scrubbing unit, a filtering spray unit, and a coalescing dehydration unit, wherein the cyclone jet scrubbing unit comprises a cyclone jet scrubbing monopipe (2), a cyclone jet cooling water pipe (15), a cyclone jet pipe plate (14) and a cyclone jet overflow pipe (13); wherein the spray scrubbing unit comprises a spray filtering pipe (3), a spray pipe plate (11), a spray overflow pipe (12), a scrubbing nozzle (9) and a scrubbing nozzle water pipe (10); wherein the filtering spray unit comprises a filtering bed (4), a spray head (7) and a spray water pipe (8); and wherein the coalescing dehydration unit comprises a coalescing bed (5). There is also provided a gas cooling-scrubbing method.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention include determining an event associated with a computing system, the event occurring at a first time, obtaining system data associated with the computing system, determining a system state of the computing system at the first time based on the system data, determining, based on the system state, two or more system data clusters comprising clustered system data associated with the system state of the computing system, determining, via an interpolation algorithm, an interpolated data value for the first time based on the system data, and adjusting the interpolated data value based on a determination that the interpolate data value is outside the two or more system data clusters.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a switching circuit, a resonant circuit coupled to an output of the switching circuit, a rectification circuit coupled between the resonant circuit and an output of the apparatus, and a controller coupled to the switching circuit. The controller, during a soft start-up operation of the power supply, is configured to switch a plurality of switches with a variable limited maximum duty cycle at a minimum frequency and after the variable limited maximum duty cycle reaches the limited maximum duty cycle at the minimum frequency, simultaneously switch the frequency to a maximum frequency and switch the duty cycle to a minimum duty cycle at the maximum frequency for a same on-time as the limited maximum duty cycle at the minimum frequency.

Abstract: Provided are methods, systems, computer program products for scheduling jobs. The method may include receiving a request for allocating resources for a first job, a job comprising information regarding maximum amount of resources required by the job; determining a type of the first job; obtaining at least one backfill of the first job based on the determined type; allocating the maximum amount of resources from system resources to the first job; searching a second job in waiting jobs to be allocated resources, the second job being suitable to be allocated used resources by the first job from the maximum amount of resources allocated to the first job during the at least one backfill; allocating the resources unused by the first job from the maximum amount of resources allocated to the first job to the second job in response to the first job running to the at least one backfill.

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to an apparatus and method of forming thin film layers on a substrate. A first piezoelectric material layer is deposited on the substrate in a first chamber. The first piezoelectric material layer is formed on the substrate while the substrate is at a first temperature. A second piezoelectric material layer is deposited on the first piezoelectric material layer after cooling the substrate to a second temperature. The second temperature is lower than the first temperature. The first piezoelectric material layer and the second piezoelectric material layer both comprise a first piezoelectric material.

Abstract: Rubber compounds may comprise: an epoxidized polypentenamer rubber (CPR) and/or a hydrolyzed epoxidized CPR; and a filler comprising silica particles. One nonlimiting example is rubber compound comprising: phr to 90 phr of a styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR), a natural rubber (NR), and/or a butadiene rubber (BR); 10 phr to 50 phr of a epoxidized CPR and/or a hydrolyzed epoxidized CPR; and 10 phr to 200 phr of a filler comprising silica particles, wherein the SBR, the NR, the BR, the epoxidized CPR, and the hydrolyzed epoxidized CPR combined equal 100 parts. Rubber compounds comprising epoxidized CPR and/or a hydrolyzed epoxidized CPR; and a filler comprising silica particles may be useful in tire compositions.

Abstract: There is provided a gearbox apparatus in which the number of gears selectable by a user to drive a drive shaft is greater than the number of gears physically connected to the drive shaft of the gearbox.

Abstract: The present invention provides scanning mechanisms for imaging probes using for imaging mammalian tissues and structures using high resolution imaging, including high frequency ultrasound and/or optical coherence tomography. The imaging probes include adjustable rotational drive mechanism for imparting rotational motion to an imaging assembly containing either optical or ultrasound transducers which emit energy into the surrounding area. The imaging assembly includes a scanning mechanism having including a movable member configured to deliver the energy beam along a path out of said elongate hollow shaft at a variable angle with respect to said longitudinal axis to give forward and side viewing capability of the imaging assembly. The movable member is mounted in such a way that the variable angle is a function of the angular velocity of the imaging assembly.