Abstract: An apparatus, computer program product, and method are provided for the determination of one or more components of an EC number through the application of a level-by-level modeling approach capable of conducting feature reconstruction and classifier training simultaneously, based on encoded aspects of a sequence listing for a protein with an unknown function. The method includes receiving a sequence source data object associated with an enzyme; extracting a sequence data set from the sequence source data object; encoding the sequence data set into a first and second encoded sequence; generating a first predicted characteristic of the enzyme by applying the first and second encoded sequence to a first level of a model comprising a plurality of levels; and generating a second predicted characteristic of the enzyme by applying the first and the second encoded sequences to a second level of the model comprising a plurality of levels.

Abstract: A signal sending method includes generating M signals. The signal sending method also includes sending the M signals on M time-frequency resource elements. The M signals are in a one-to-one correspondence with the M time-frequency resource elements. At least two of the M time-frequency resource elements overlap in a frequency domain. Any two of the M time-frequency resource elements are free from overlapping in a time domain. M is an integer greater than 1.

Abstract: A signal sending method includes generating a first signal based on a reference sequence or an orthogonal cover code (OCC), where the reference sequence is a sequence in a sequence set; and any two sequences in the sequence set are orthogonal to each other; or the OCC is included in an OCC set, and any two OCCs in the OCC set are orthogonal to each other; and sending the first signal on M time-frequency resource elements, where the first signal includes M sub-signals; the M time-frequency resource elements are in a one-to-one correspondence with the M sub-signals; any two of the M time-frequency resource elements do not overlap in frequency domain or in time domain; and M is an integer greater than 1.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) and a second MTJ on a substrate, a passivation layer on the first MTJ and the second MTJ, and an ultra low-k (ULK) dielectric layer on the passivation layer. Preferably, a top surface of the passivation layer between the first MTJ and the second MTJ is lower than a top surface of the passivation layer directly on top of the first MTJ.

Abstract: A method for annotating antibiotic resistance genes includes receiving a raw sequence encoding of a bacterium, determining first, in a level 0 module, whether the raw sequence encoding includes an antibiotic resistance gene (ARG), determining second, in a level 1 module, a resistant drug type, a resistance mechanism, and a gene mobility for the ARG, determining third, in a level 2 module, if the ARG is a beta-lactam, a sub-type of the beta-lactam, and outputting the ARG, the resistant drug type, the resistance mechanism, the gene mobility, and the sub-type of the beta-lactam. The level 0 module, the level 1 module and the level 2 module each includes a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model.

Abstract: A method of recovering enriched iron fines from bauxite waste includes calcining particles of bauxite waste to form oxygen carrier particles, subjecting the oxygen carrier particles to chemical looping combustion at a temperature of about 950° C.-1,050° C. for energy production and to produce the enriched iron fines as a by-product from the oxygen carrier particles via natural attrition and collecting the enriched iron fines.

Abstract: An uplink reference signal association method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: a first network device generates first configuration information, where the first configuration information indicates an association relationship between uplink reference signals simultaneously sent on different carriers, and the uplink reference signals having the association relationship share an antenna port or the uplink reference signals having the association relationship have a phase difference. The first network device sends the first configuration information to a terminal device. Through implementation, configuration of a large-bandwidth uplink reference signal can be implemented.

Abstract: This application provides a positioning reference signal PRS association method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device receives second configuration information sent by a positioning management device, where the second configuration information indicates an association relationship between PRSs on at least two frequencies; and the terminal device measures the PRSs having the association relationship, where the PRSs having the association relationship share a same antenna port or the PRSs having the association relationship have a phase difference. By implementing this application, large-bandwidth PRS configuration can be implemented.

Abstract: A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a first magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on a substrate; forming a first ultra low-k (ULK) dielectric layer on the first MTJ; performing a first etching process to remove part of the first ULK dielectric layer and forming a damaged layer on the first ULK dielectric layer; and forming a second ULK dielectric layer on the damaged layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, compositions, and methods for simultaneously editing both strands of a double-stranded DNA sequence at a target site to be edited. In some aspects, the systems comprise a first and second prime editor complex, wherein each of the first and second prime editor complexes comprises (1) a prime editor comprising (i) a nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp), and (ii) a polypeptide having an RNA-dependent DNA polymerase activity; and (2) a pegRNA comprising a spacer sequence, gRNA core, a DNA synthesis template, and a primer binding site, wherein the DNA synthesis template encodes a desired DNA sequence or a complement thereof, wherein the desired DNA sequence and the complement thereof form a duplex comprising an edited portion which integrates into the target site to be edited. In some aspects, the systems comprise a first, second, third, and fourth prime editor complex, each comprising a prime editor and a PEgRNA.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a burner and a gas-fired clothes dryer, where the burner includes a combustion barrel, a barrel-shaped gas mixing part and a disc-shaped flow guide part, the combustion barrel has a gas inlet, a barrel wall of the combustion barrel is uniformly provided with a plurality of vent holes; the gas mixing part is arranged in the combustion barrel and parallel to an axis of the combustion barrel, a gas inlet end of the gas mixing part is opposite to the gas inlet; the flow guide part is arranged in the combustion barrel and located between a gas outlet end of the gas mixing part and a closed end of the combustion barrel and inclined relative to the axis of the gas mixing part; a diameter of the flow guide part is between a diameter of the combustion

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: providing a wafer-bonding stack structure having a sidewall layer and an exposed first component layer; forming a photoresist layer on the first component layer; performing an edge trimming process to at least remove the sidewall layer; and removing the photoresist layer. In this way, contaminant particles generated from the blade during the edge trimming process may fall on the photoresist layer but not fall on the first component layer, so as to protect the first component layer from being contaminated.

Abstract: The use of a C10~C34 fatty acids compound in the preparation of a the electrode materials for lithium-ion battery improves the coating uniformity of electrode materials prepared with solid-state method. The fatty acid provided by the invention is a dispersant, which achieves the uniformly dispersion of the coating material on the surface of battery material, and significantly increases the coating uniformity of the electrode material coated with solid-state method, it greatly improves the feasibility of manufacturing the electrode material of lithium-ion battery with solid-state method, and is conducive to the more economical and simpler manufacture of electrode material.

Abstract: An accelerated life test method for a speed reducer of an industrial robot is provided. The accelerated life test method includes: setting first load stress higher than rated load stress and second load stress lower than the rated load stress; performing an accelerated life test by loading the first load stress to first speed reducer samples; calculating a service life of each of the first speed samples in the accelerated life test; performing a contrast test by loading the second load stress to second speed reducer samples; calculating a service life of each of the second speed samples in the contrast test; and calculating an acceleration coefficient, and the acceleration coefficient is equal to a ratio of the service life in the accelerated life test to the service life in the contrast test.

Abstract: A machine-agnostic segmentation and quantification method for coronavirus diagnostic includes receiving computer tomograph, CT, raw scans; normalizing the CT raw scans to obtain normalized data, wherein the normalized data is normalized in terms of dimension, resolution, and signal intensity; generating augmented data based on (1) the CT raw scans and (2) a simulation model; segmenting three different 2-dimensional, 2D, images from the normalized data, which correspond to a same voxel, , using three functions , and , respectively; and quantizing (508) each voxel to have a value of 0 or 1, based on the three functions , and and an aggregation function g. The value 0 indicates that the voxel is not infected with the coronavirus, and the value 1 indicates that the voxel is infected with the coronavirus, and the three functions , and are trained based on the augmented data.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on a substrate, forming a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer on the MTJ, removing part of the first IMD layer to form a damaged layer on the MTJ and a trench exposing the damaged layer, performing a ultraviolet (UV) curing process on the damaged layer, and then conducting a planarizing process to remove the damaged layer and part of the first IMD layer.

Abstract: A method for global mapping between a first sequence Xp and a second sequence Xg.

Abstract: A method for in situ measurement of temperature at microwave-induced microscopic hot spots, temperature measuring particles and the device used are provided. For the temperature measurement demand of the microscopic hot spot of microwave field, loading fluorescent temperature measuring particles on the surface of solid particles, and the actual temperature of particles in micro scale can be measured by using its temperature sensitive fluorescence characteristics. The present disclosure builds a microwave field in-situ fluorescence test device to disperse the test particles loaded with fluorescent temperature measuring materials in the liquid solvent and place in the quartz sample tank in the microwave cavity, which can measure the actual temperature of the particles to be measured under microwave radiation.

Abstract: A system and method for calibration of a fluorometer using a calibration cell comprising a sealed container housing one or more calibration solutions of known fluorescence. The inventive calibration device includes a sealed calibration cell housed in a storage chamber that may be permanently or temporarily affixed to the top of a fluorometer such that the calibration solution can be moved by manual or automated means directly from the storage chamber to the fluorometer cell for a calibration operation. All of the solution needed for any given calibration can be contained exclusively, in small quantity, inside the calibration cell.

Abstract: A clamping device and a machining method. The clamping device comprises: a base; a clamping head comprising a blind rivet and a locking member, the blind rivet comprising a middle column segment and enlarged portions at two ends, and the locking member being connected to an upper end of the blind rivet and defining a clamping opening; a lower cavity connected to the base; an upper cavity comprising an annular peripheral wall and a top wall having a central hole, the top wall being clamped between the two enlarged portions, the middle column segment of the blind rivet movably passing through the central hole, and the upper cavity being connected to the lower cavity in a fit manner; an elastic member located in the peripheral wall and supported between the enlarged portion at a lower portion of the blind rivet and the top wall; and a support cylinder movably fitted in the lower cavity, the support cylinder being supported below the elastic member.