Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a new beam ready time that indicates a time at which a beam is to be ready for use in communicating with a base station. The beam may be activated by a downlink control information based beam activation command received by the UE. The UE may communicate with the base station using the beam after the new beam ready time. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for NBIoT frequency hopping are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a signal on a first number of frequency carriers, the signal switches among the first number of frequency carriers every a second number of time unit, wherein, the second number is configured by higher layer signaling, and the second number is determined by at least one of a subcarrier spacing of the signal, a scaling factor, a resource unit size of the signal, a subcarrier allocation.

Abstract: A touch control structure is provided. The touch control structure includes a plurality of first mesh electrodes respectively in a plurality of rows and a plurality of second mesh electrodes respectively in a plurality of columns. A respective one of the plurality of second mesh electrodes includes a plurality of second mesh blocks consecutively connected in a respective column. A respective one of the plurality of first mesh electrodes comprises a plurality of first mesh blocks and a plurality of third mesh blocks alternately arranged in a respective row. The respective second mesh block is in a space between a first adjacent third mesh block, a second adjacent third mesh block, a first adjacent first mesh block, a second adjacent first mesh block, a third adjacent first mesh block, and a fourth adjacent first mesh block.

Abstract: An example of a light fixture is configured to receive, manually or wirelessly from and external device, an instruction to update a setting of the light fixture to a selected intensity or a selected color temperature. An instruction received from the external device may override an instruction provided via manual control. The light fixture may include a set of cool light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and a set of warm LEDs. A processing unit of the light fixture may utilize pulse-width modulation to cause the light fixture to emit light having the selected intensity or selected color temperature by implementing a particular duty cycle of a control signal for the cool LEDs and a particular duty cycle of a control signal for the warm LEDs corresponding to the selected intensity or selected color temperature.

Abstract: A method for measuring pipeline corrosion includes: obtaining a material property of a to-be-detected pipeline, and calculating a theoretical dispersion curve of the to-be-detected pipeline based on the material property; determining a theoretical frequency-thickness product and a theoretical frequency of a zero-group-velocity (ZGV) Lamb wave mode from the theoretical dispersion curve; obtaining a target excitation signal corresponding to the theoretical frequency; sending the target excitation signal to the to-be-detected pipeline and receiving a target waveform, where the target waveform is obtained by reflecting the target excitation signal through the to-be-detected pipeline; determining an actual frequency of the ZGV Lamb wave mode from the target waveform; and calculating corrosion of the to-be-detected pipeline based on the theoretical frequency-thickness product and the actual frequency of the ZGV Lamb wave mode.

Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of computers. Disclosed are a starting method and apparatus for an Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) server, an ARM server, and a non-volatile computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: after a Basic Input Output System (BIOS) is started, setting a clock frequency of an Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) bus to a preset clock frequency by using the BIOS, where the preset clock frequency is a clock frequency at which a baseboard management controller (BMC) reads real-time clock (RTC) time through the I2C bus; initializing the I2C bus by using the BIOS, and starting and entering an operating system; reading the RTC time through the I2C bus by using the BIOS, and determining whether the BIOS successfully reads the RTC time; and if the BIOS successfully reads the RTC time, displaying, under the operating system, system time corresponding to the RTC time.

Abstract: A process for producing a stable silica/hydrocarbon solution includes ultrasonically mixing silica and a silane in a hydrocarbon solvent. The solution may be dried to obtain a surface-modified silica. The solution may be mixed with a polymer cement to produce silica-rubber (e.g., silica-SSBR) masterbatch products.

Abstract: A coolant containment system for a battery pack includes a coolant retention container defining a containment space, an inlet connected to the coolant retention container, the inlet connected to an inlet line configured to receive a coolant, an outlet connected to the coolant retention container, the outlet connected to an outlet line, the outlet line configured return a coolant, a drain plug connected to the coolant retention container and in communication with the containment space. The inlet line and the outlet line are disposed entirely within the containment space and any coolant from a leak is retained within the containment space and exits the containment space to an environment outside the battery tray via the drain plug.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide, for a RAN (radio access network), a method of rapidly upgrading multiple machines distributed across multiple cell sites, each particular machine of the multiple machines executing one or more base station applications. The method downloads a second boot disk for each of the multiple machines at each of the multiple cell sites, the second boot disk including an upgraded version of a first boot disk currently used by each of the multiple machines. For each particular machine, the method (1) powers off the particular machine, (2) creates a copy of data stored by a data disk of the particular machine to preserve data stored currently on the data disk, (3) replaces the first boot disk of the particular machine with the second boot disk that is the upgraded version of the first boot disk, and (4) powers on the particular machine.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for subblock-based temporal motion vector prediction (SbTMVP). An exemplary decoding method includes: decoding a target coding unit (CU) based on a SbTMVP mode, wherein the target CU is divided into a plurality of subblocks; determining a same reference picture index for the plurality of subblocks; selecting, based on the determined reference picture index, a reference picture from a list of reference pictures; generating a plurality of predicted subblocks based on the selected reference picture; and reconstructing the target CU based on the plurality of predicted subblocks.

Abstract: A multi-coordinate system calibration and equipment alignment method includes: determining a first mapping relationship between a first image pixel coordinate system of an intermediate carrier substrate carrying stage and a world coordinate system; determining a second mapping relationship between a second image pixel coordinate system of a backplane carrying stage and the world coordinate system; determining galvanometer start point coordinates in the world coordinate system; obtaining first template calibration coordinates in the world coordinate system by using the first mapping relationship and the galvanometer start point coordinates; obtaining second template calibration coordinates in the world coordinate system by using the second mapping relationship and the galvanometer start point coordinates; aligning the intermediate carrier substrate based on actual coordinates of the intermediate carrier substrate carrying stage and the first template calibration coordinates; and aligning the backplane based on

Abstract: This application discloses an Ethernet coding method and apparatus, to adapt to a scenario in which a higher transmission bit error rate is caused by a high bandwidth. The method includes: a transmit end encodes first to-be-encoded information by using a first forward error correction (FEC) codeword, to obtain first encoded data, where the first forward error correction FEC codeword is a Reed-Solomon forward error correction (RS-FEC) codeword; and the transmit end encodes the first encoded data by using a second FEC codeword, to obtain second encoded data, where a code length N and an information bit length K of the second FEC codeword satisfy the following formula: M ? 1 * N K ? M ? 2 , where M1 is a throughput of the first encoded data, and M2 is a throughput of the second encoded data.

Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining workload characterizing data, wherein the workload characterizing data characterizes a plurality of workloads of a cluster; assessing workloads of the plurality of workloads with use of characterizing data of the workload characterizing data; generating prompting data in dependence on the assessing of the workloads of the plurality of workloads, wherein the prompting data prompts for merging of identified workloads of the plurality of workloads; and presenting the prompting data to a user.

Abstract: This application relates to a sodium-ion battery and an electric apparatus containing the same. The sodium-ion battery includes a positive electrode plate, a separator, and a negative electrode current collector. The separator is disposed between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode current collector. A coating is provided on a surface of the negative electrode current collector, the coating includes a carbon material, and the carbon material includes carbon nanotubes. The sodium-ion battery can effectively enhance the suppression of sodium dendrites and improve the cycling performance. In addition, it is unnecessary to additionally provide a negative electrode active material layer, reducing the costs of the sodium-ion battery and improving the energy density of the sodium-ion battery.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for generating and using a layering resource representation of a resource in a container orchestration platform. An owner controller creates a base layer of the layering resource representation. The base layer is a resource field tree of the entire resource. After the base layer is created, one or more collaborator controllers create respective one or more overlay layers of the layering resource representation. Each overlay layer is a sub-tree of the resource field tree. Each collaborator controller is authorized to update each field of the sub-tree created by each collaborator controller and is not authorized to update any other field of the resource field tree. Any field of the sub-tree that is updated by the collaborator controller that created the sub-tree replaces any previous updating of any field by the owner controller.

Abstract: A patterned glass and a vehicle are provided. The patterned glass includes a display region having a first edge and a second edge opposite the first edge. A direction from the first edge towards the second edge serves as a first direction. The patterned glass further includes an outer glass, an inner glass, and a light control functional layer disposed between the outer glass and the inner glass. The light control functional layer has multiple partitions distributed in the first direction at intervals, where each of the multiple partitions has a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the first side and the second side are sequentially distributed in the first direction, and a distance between the first side and the second side is greater than or equal to 20 mm.

Abstract: Disclosed are a doped colloidal metal oxide quantum wire and a preparation method thereof, a gas sensor, a gas sensor array, and use thereof, which relate to the technical field of gas sensors. In the preparation method, a main metal precursor, a doped metal precursor, an alcohol solvent, and a fatty acid surfactant are mixed, and a resulting mixture is subjected to a solvothermal reaction, to obtain the doped colloidal metal oxide quantum wire, wherein a main metal element in the main metal precursor is selected from Sn, Zn, W, In, Mo, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu; a doped metal element in the doped metal precursor is selected from V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni and Cu; the doped metal element is different from the main metal element; and the solvothermal reaction is performed at a temperature of 150-300° C.

Abstract: An impact modifier composition (IMC) is disclosed containing a polyolefin plastomer (POP) and a hydrogenated styrenic block copolymer (HSBC) represented by a general configuration selected from: S-S/EB, S-S/EB?, S-S/EB-EB?, S-S/EB?-EB, S-S/EB-S, S-S/EB?-S, S-EP-EB, S-EP-EB?, S-EB-EB?, S-EB?-EB, EB-S/EB-EB, EB?-S/EB-EB?, EB-S/EB?-EB, and mixtures thereof. Prior to hydrogenation, each block S is a polymer block of a vinyl aromatic monomer, each block EB is a polybutadiene block of 1,3-butadiene monomer having a vinyl content of <35 wt. %, each block EB? is a polybutadiene block of 1,3-butadiene monomer having a vinyl content of >35 wt. %, each block EP is a polyisoprene block of isoprene monomer, and each block S/EB and S/EB?, independently, is a copolymer block of a vinyl aromatic monomer and 1,3-butadiene monomer. The IMC can be used in thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO) compositions to improve impact resistance for various applications, including automobile parts.

Abstract: During an initial bootup in a bootloader of an SOC, a random number that is unique to the device is stored in secured storage. During a first bootup, a two-dimensional random key is stored in secure storage for encoding the ENV parameters. During a second (subsequent) bootup, the ENV parameters that are current in unsecured storage are compared against the ENV parameters that previously existed in order to identify a mismatch. A remediation security action can be taken responsive to a mismatch between the baseline digest and a dynamic digest.

Abstract: Provided herein are compound-linker constructs and antibody-drug-conjugates of compounds of formula (Y-1), (Y-2), (Y-3), (A), (B), (C), I, II, III, IV or V that are useful as modulators of STING (Stimulator of Interferon Genes). Also provided are synthesis, compositions and uses of such compound-linker constructs and antibody-drug-conjugates.