Abstract: A drying apparatus includes: an oven; a conveyor belt, where the conveyor belt passes through the oven, the component to be dried is placed on a side of the conveyor belt, and the conveyor belt is configured to convey the component to be dried; and a blowing mechanism provided on a side of the component to be dried away from the conveyor belt and configured to blow gas onto the component to be dried to make the component to be dried abut against the conveyor belt.

Abstract: An electronic cigarette and a heating assembly thereof. The heating assembly comprises a porous member for absorbing an e-liquid and at least one heating member for heating and atomizing the e-liquid absorbed by the porous member. The at least one heating member comprises an elongated sheet-shaped heating portion. The sheet-shaped heating portion comprises a heating grid. At least part of the heating grid is partially embedded in the porous member. The porous member comprises an atomization surface corresponding to the at least part of the heating grid.

Abstract: Disclosed are peptides comprising a monomeric Fc fragment of an immunoglobulin recognized by a neonatal receptor (FcRn); a modified pre-fusion respiratory syncytia virus (RSV) F protein; and a trimerization domain. Disclosed are nucleic acid sequences capable of encoding peptides comprising a monomeric Fc fragment of an immunoglobulin recognized by a neonatal receptor (FcRn); a modified pre-fusion respiratory syncytia virus (RSV) F protein; and a trimerization domain. Also disclosed are methods for eliciting a protective immune response against RSV comprising administering to a subject an effective amount of a composition comprising a monomeric Fc fragment of an immunoglobulin recognized by FcRn; a modified pre-fusion RSV F protein; and a trimerization domain, wherein the administering is to a mucosal epithelium.

Abstract: Provided are a connecting assembly, a battery cell, a battery, and a power consumption device. The connecting assembly is used for a battery cell. The connecting assembly includes: a connector, including a first connecting portion for connecting a tab of an electrode assembly, a second connecting portion for connecting an electrode terminal, and a third connecting portion for connecting the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion, where a fusing portion is formed between the first connecting portion and the third connecting portion, and the third connecting portion has a first surface facing the electrode assembly; a first insulator wrapping the fusing portion; and a second insulator covering at least a portion of the first surface, where the second insulator and the first insulator are integrally formed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic cigarette and a heating assembly thereof. The heating assembly comprise: a porous member for absorbing an e-liquid and at least one heating member for heating and atomizing the e-liquid absorbed by the porous member. The at least one heating member comprises an elongated sheet-shaped heating portion. At least part of the sheet-shaped heating portion is partially embedded in the porous member. The porous member comprises an atomization surface corresponding to the at least part of the sheet-shaped heating portion. In the present invention, a heating member of a heating assembly comprises a sheet-shaped heating portion embedded in a porous member, such that a majority of a surface of the sheet-shaped heating portion is in contact with the porous member, thereby improving heat dissipation efficiency, and ensuring secure connection.

Abstract: A method and a system for using machine learning technology to optimize a scheduling strategy for establishing contact with a customer are provided. The method includes: receiving a data set that relates to a customer account; analyzing the data set to determine at least one proposed schedule for an attempt to contact the customer; and generating, based on a result of the analysis, a report that includes the proposed schedule. The analysis may be performed by applying a machine learning model that is trained by using historical data that relates to interactions associated with the customer.

Abstract: According to the embodiments provided herein, a photovoltaic device can include a buffer layer adjacent to an absorber layer doped p-type with a group V dopant. The buffer layer can have a plurality of layers compatible with group V dopants.

Abstract: Structures and methods for manufacturing photovoltaic devices by forming perovskite layers and perovskite precursor layers using vapor transport deposition (VTD) are described.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an AAV capsid having improved liver tissue tropism and stronger exogenous gene expression, and/or improved ability in escaping from neutralizing antibody. The present disclosure further relates to a nucleic acid encoding the AAV capsid, an AAV particle containing the AAV capsid. The present disclosure further relates to a pharmaceutical formulation, which contains (1) the AAV capsid, the nucleic acid, or the AAV particle, and (2) a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The present disclosure further relates to the use of the AAV capsid, the nucleic acid, the AAV particle, or the pharmaceutical formulation in the manufacture of a drug for delivering a target gene to mammalian cells. The present disclosure further relates to a method for treating disease, including administration of the pharmaceutical formulation to a subject in need thereof. The present disclosure further relates to a cell containing the nucleic acid.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for predicting a water invasion frontier for a complex well in a bottom-water gas reservoir. The technical solution is as follows: with consideration of forms of different well types and a gravitational pressure drop in production, a coupled permeability of a corresponding well type acting on a gas-water interface under the action of a baffle plate is expressed by using an equivalent percolation resistance method; a productivity of each infinitesimal section of the corresponding well type is calculated; a position of the gas-water interface is calculated with an equivalent permeability and a pseudo-productivity as characteristic parameters; water breakthrough is determined when there is a point over a water avoidance height, and a change in water invasion frontier form may be expressed with water quality point position data at this time.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a pattern sheet, a semiconductor intermediate product, and a hole etching method. The pattern sheet includes a substrate, a dielectric layer, and a mask structure. The mask structure includes a multi-layer mask layer. An uppermost mask layer is a photoresist layer. A thickness of each layer of the mask layer and etching selectivity ratios between the layers below the mask layer satisfy that in each two neighboring layers of the mask layer, a lower layer of the mask layer is etched to form a through-hole penetrating a thickness of the lower layer of the mask layer, a remaining thickness of the upper layer of the mask layer is greater than or equal to zero.

Abstract: A method for preparing tantalum-tungsten alloy powder includes the following steps: providing a tantalum-tungsten alloy ingot; repeatedly smelting the tantalum-tungsten alloy ingot; forging a product of the previous step; placing the product of the previous step in a hydrogen atmosphere to perform a hydrogenation heat treatment; mechanically crushing the product of the previous step to obtain a coarse powder; sieving, from the coarse powder, a powder having a particle size ranging from a ?m to b ?m, wherein a=10-20 and b=50-60; performing dehydrogenation heat treatment on the product of the previous step under vacuum; adding a magnesium powder to the product of the previous step to perform a deoxygenation heat treatment; and performing plasma spheroidization treatment on the product of the previous step such that the sphericity of the powder reaches more than 99%.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a recombinant adeno-associated vector comprising a codon-optimized sequence encoding CYP4V2 linked to selected gene expression regulatory sequences and its use in treating Bietti Crystalline Dystrophy (BCD).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a photo-induced cationic polymerized pure vegetable oil-based polymer and a preparation method and use thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: mixing a dry oil, an epoxy vegetable oil and an initiator uniformly, irradiating to initiate a photo-curing reaction, and then placing at ambient temperature, and continuing to a heat-curing reaction so as to obtain a photo-induced cationic polymerized pure vegetable oil-based polymer. In the present invention, vegetable oil resources which are low in price, widespread, and easy to regenerate are used to prepare the pure vegetable oil-based polymers instead of the fossil-derived monomers completely, thereby achieving the efficient use of vegetable oils. In the present invention, an unconventional photo-induced heat frontal polymerization technology is used to prepare the pure vegetable oil-based polymer, thereby achieving a photo-thermal dual curing reaction of a vegetable oil system without heating.

Abstract: The present application provides a method and device for merging a vehicle from a branch road into a main road, an electronic device, and a storage medium, which relates to a technical field of unmanned driving. The method for merging the vehicle from the branch road into the main road includes: acquiring vehicle information of the vehicle to be merged from the branch road into the main road; acquiring traffic flow information of an outer lane of the main road within a preset range of a junction; controlling the vehicle to be merged into the main road to merge into the main road according to the preset rules based on the traffic flow information of the outer lane of the main road and the vehicle information of the vehicle to be merged into the main road.

Abstract: A heating body includes: a first heat-conducting substrate, a second heat-conducting substrate, and a heating element. A side of the first heat-conducting substrate defines a recess. The second heat-conducting substrate and the first heat-conducting substrate cooperatively forms a substrate having a receiving space. The heating element is received in the receiving space and comprising an electrically conductive body and an insulating layer wrapping an outer surface of the electrically conductive body, such that the heating element is insulated from the substrate. The heating body has a simple structure and can be easily assembled. Heat generated by the heating body may be distributed more uniformly.

Abstract: A coating die configured to apply a slurry onto a base material. The coating die includes a feed inlet, a distributary channel, a first confluence chamber and a discharge outlet. The feed inlet is configured to inject the slurry. The distributary channel is provided inside the coating die. The distributary channel includes a first flow channel and a plurality of second flow channels. The first flow channel communicates the feed inlet with the plurality of second flow channels, and the plurality of second flow channels is provided to be spaced from one another in a first direction. The first confluence chamber is provided inside the coating die and communicated with the plurality of second flow channels to collect the slurry from the plurality of second flow channels.

Abstract: The present application discloses an edge cloud system, a server, and a cloud control platform. The edge cloud system includes: an edge cloud access gateway module configured to access data of the road side terminal, the vehicle terminal, the third party platform and the regional cloud; a standardized hierarchical sharing interface module connected to the edge cloud access gateway module, wherein the standardized hierarchical sharing interface module is configured to standardize and classify the data of the road side terminal, the vehicle terminal, the third party platform and the regional cloud accessed by the edge cloud access gateway module to form multiple levels of standardized data; wherein standardized data at each level of the multiple levels of standardized data is available to be called only by a module with corresponding level of that of the standardized data.

Abstract: Compounds, particles, and cathode active materials that include lithium, cobalt, manganese, nickel, aluminum, and other elements can be used in lithium ion batteries. The cathode active materials include compounds having the general Formula (I): compound represented by Formula (I): Li?CO1-x-y-zMewMnxNiyAlzO?, as well as Formula (II): Li?CO1-s-u-vMesMntNiuAlyO?.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a pattern sheet, a semiconductor intermediate product, and a hole etching method. The pattern sheet includes a substrate, a dielectric layer, and a mask structure. The mask structure includes a multi-layer mask layer. An uppermost mask layer is a photoresist layer. A thickness of each layer of the mask layer and etching selectivity ratios between the layers below the mask layer satisfy that in each two neighboring layers of the mask layer, a lower layer of the mask layer is etched to form a through-hole penetrating a thickness of the lower layer of the mask layer, a remaining thickness of the upper layer of the mask layer is greater than or equal to zero.