Abstract: Provided is a method for forming an ophthalmic lens as well as a lens formed by such method. The method includes the curing of a reactive monomer mixture within a mold assembly under conditions to permit incorporation of functional features into selective portions of the ophthalmic lens.

Abstract: A metal-organic framework material separation membrane and a preparation method for the metal-organic framework material separation membrane are provided. The metal-organic framework material separation membrane has a base membrane and a metal-organic framework material functional layer. The metal-organic framework material functional layer comprises has an inter-embedded polyhedron structure. The preparation metal-organic framework material separation membrane includes the steps of: (1) preparing a solution containing a first organic solvent, an organic ligand, a metal compound, and an auxiliary agent; (2) subjecting a base membrane to a pretreatment, involving introducing, on the surface of the base membrane, metal atoms from the metal compound of step (1); and (3) mixing the pretreated base membrane of step (2) with the solution of step (1) to obtain a first mixture, and then heating the first mixture for reaction, so as to prepare a metal-organic framework material separation membrane.

Abstract: This application discloses prodrug-based thermosensitive gel (“ProGel”) comprised of conjugates of drug molecules with water-soluble polymeric carriers, which are capable of controlled release of the drug molecules into the tissue of a subject. Use of the ProGel-Drug conjugates for treatment of various diseases or disorders and methods of preparing them are also disclosed.

Abstract: An ophthalmic lens includes an optic comprising an anterior surface, a posterior surface, and an optical axis. At least one of the anterior surface and the posterior surface has a surface profile including a base curvature and a plurality of morphed sinusoidal phase shift structures. The base curvature may correspond to a base optical power of the ophthalmic lens, and the morphed sinusoidal phase shift structures may be configured to extend depth of focus of the ophthalmic lens at intermediate or near viewing distances.

Abstract: An image file generation method includes: receiving data of a first image; segmenting the data of the first image to generate a plurality of tiles; and generating a first image file based on the tiles. The first image file includes: a first data structure area configured to store a file header of the image file; a second data structure area configured to store data of a second image, where the data of the second image includes a plurality of tiles; and a third data structure area configured to store offsets of the tiles in the data of the second image.

Abstract: This application discloses prodrug-based thermosensitive gel (“ProGel”) comprised of conjugates of dmg molecules with water-soluble polymeric carriers, which are capable of controlled release of the dmg molecules into the tissue of a subject. Use of the ProGel-Drug conjugates for treatment of various diseases or disorders and methods of preparing them are also disclosed.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes: after completing an initial resource configuration of the host, obtaining host resource update information configured by a user, wherein the host resource update information indicates a network resource that needs to be allocated to the host, and the host is in a composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI)-based computing system that further includes the network resource; and during a running process of the host, adjusting, based on the host resource update information, a network resource allocated to the host, wherein the network resource allocated to the host is configured to be used to perform data transmission with the host or carry a data processing task that needs to be executed by the host

Abstract: An ophthalmic lens includes an optic comprising an anterior surface, a posterior surface, and an optical axis. At least one of the anterior surface and the posterior surface has a surface profile including a base curvature and a plurality of morphed sinusoidal phase shift structures. The base curvature may correspond to a base optical power of the ophthalmic lens, and the morphed sinusoidal phase shift structures may be configured to extend depth of focus of the ophthalmic lens at intermediate or near viewing distances.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ophthalmic lens for preventing progression of myopia and to spectacles with the ophthalmic lens. At least one surface of the ophthalmic lens is defined by a superposition of a base sag profile and a perturbation sag profile, and the perturbation sag profile is defined as a product of a first subfunction for defining a perturbation characteristic sag and a weighting function for weighting the first subfunction. As a result, the visual fatigue caused by ghosting to myopic patients can be avoided or significantly reduced while preventing or controlling the progression of myopia, thereby effectively improving the wearing visual experience of myopic patients.

Abstract: A system and method for conducting a parameter update event including one or more processors for transmitting first parameter settings to a program used by multiple users, such as a mobile device application at a plurality of mobile devices, receiving performance information indicating performance of the program after the first parameter setting, the performance information for each user being separately identifiable, and for each individual user of the plurality of users, determining a parameter setting update based at least in part on the performance information of the individual user and transmitting the parameter setting update to the program.

Abstract: Provided are an additive masterbatch and use thereof. Raw materials of the additive masterbatch include a resin substrate, a high-melting-point additive, and a low-melting-point additive, wherein a melting point of the high-melting-point additive is greater than 40° C., and a melting point of the low-melting-point additive is equal to or less than 40° C. The additive masterbatch effectively solves the problems of a low-melting-point additive masterbatch being prone to adhesion and clumping, being complex in preparation process, being difficult to mold, etc. The provided additive masterbatch is not prone to clumping, can be prepared simply by utilizing a common process for masterbatch preparation, is simple to mold, and can be prepared into masterbatches with different particle sizes.

Abstract: The invention relates to the technical field of membrane separation, and discloses a hollow fiber membrane and preparation method and use thereof. The hollow fiber membrane includes a support, a selective layer, and a transition layer between the support and the selective layer, wherein at least a portion of the transition layer is embedded in the support. The hollow fiber membrane has a high selectivity and good mechanical properties.

Abstract: Described herein are systems and/or methods for forming an ophthalmic lens. An example method may comprise a step of determining a power profile based on a power profile function defined by a base optical power, an amount of spherical aberration at a radial distance from a geometric center of the lens, and a bump function. The example method may comprise a step of adjusting the power profile based at least on minimizing a shape metric of a through-focus curve.

Abstract: Computer-implemented systems and methods for automatic generation of highlight videos are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to: retrieve user action data for a plurality of source videos from a predetermined time period; select, based on the retrieved user action data, a predetermined number of source videos of the plurality of source videos; retrieve the selected source videos; for each of the selected source videos: analyze the source video to identify clip points; split the analyzed source video into a plurality of segments; for each segment of the plurality of segments: determine segment data; and calculate a segment highlight score based on the determined segment data; select a number of segments from the plurality of segments based on the calculated segment highlight score of each segment; generate a new video based on the selected segments; and store the new video.

Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the field of exosome lyophilization protection technology and discloses a freeze-drying protective agent for mesenchymal stem cell-exosomes and application thereof, which is composed of 0.1-0.2 v/v % ceramide, lysine, and 0.8-1.5 v/v % glycerol. After mixing the freeze-drying protective agent with the exosomes, a final concentration of the lysine is 50-80 mM. The freeze-drying protective agent can maintain the physical integrity of exosome, avoid exosome aggregation, and maintain the biological function of exosome, which can be used in exosome freeze-drying technology with wide application value.

Abstract: The present application provides a key circuit, wherein the circuit includes: a plurality of keys, a plurality of driving lines, a plurality of induction lines and a control module, wherein the plurality of keys are divided into a plurality of regions according to parameters affecting force and resistance response, and resistance of the keys in each region changes with pressure within the same range; each key is connected to one driving line and one induction line, and keys in the same region are connected to the same induction line; and the plurality of driving lines and the plurality of induction lines are all connected to I/O interfaces of the control module, and are configured to transmit acquired resistance information of corresponding keys to the control module, so as to output control information corresponding to the keys via the control module.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to a convolutional neural network computing method and system based on weight kneading, comprising: arranging original weights in a computation sequence and aligning by bit to obtain a weight matrix, removing slack bits in the weight matrix, allowing essential bits in each column of the weight matrix to fill the vacancies according to the computation sequence to obtain an intermediate matrix, removing null rows in the intermediate matrix, obtain a kneading matrix, wherein each row of the kneading matrix serves as a kneading weight; obtaining positional information of the activation corresponding to each bit of the kneading weight; divides the kneading weight by bit into multiple weight segments, processing summation of the weight segments and the corresponding activations according to the positional information, and sending a processing result to an adder tree to obtain an output feature map by means of executing shift-and-add on the processing result.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ophthalmic lens with an extended depth of field including an optical unit that includes a first surface and a second surface both centered by an optical axis and opposite to each other. At least one of the first and second surfaces is defined by a superposition of a base sag profile and a feature sag profile and includes in sequence a first zone, a second zone, and a third zone along a radial direction away from the optical axis. The first zone is designed as a freeform surface zone, and the second zone is designed as a phase transition zone. The ophthalmic lens enables patients to acquire a continuous range of vision from intermediate to far distances and also optimizes their far vision without visual interference, such that the resulting far vision correction is equivalent to that of existing monofocal ophthalmic lenses.