Abstract: A method for extracting germanium based on acid decomposition is provided, including acid decomposition and post-treatment steps, and specifically including: adding an acid to a coal ash for conditioning to obtain a material a; heating the material a to 350° C. to 800° C., and keeping the material a at this temperature for 10 min to 10 h to obtain an acid-decomposed material b; milling the acid-decomposed material b until more than 60% of a milled material has a particle size of less than 200 mesh to obtain a material c; subjecting the material c to distillation to obtain a residual slurry d and a distillation fraction e; and hydrolyzing the distillation fraction e with a dilute hydrochloric acid solution, and then oven-drying to obtain GeO2.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a central network entity may configure, for a network node, a first configuration indicating one or more transmission windows for inter-network node cross-link interference (CLI) measurement reference signaling. The central network entity may configure, for the network node, a second configuration indicating a plurality of reception windows for inter-network node CLI measurement reference signaling, wherein the one or more transmission windows are configured to be non-overlapped with each reception window of the plurality of reception windows. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate including a base and a fin structure over the base. The fin structure includes a nanostructure. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate stack over the base and wrapped around the nanostructure. The gate stack has an upper portion and a sidewall portion, the upper portion is over the nanostructure, and the sidewall portion is over a first sidewall of the nanostructure. The semiconductor device structure includes a first inner spacer and a second inner spacer over opposite sides of the sidewall portion. A sum of a first width of the first inner spacer and a second width of the second inner spacer is greater than a third width of the sidewall portion as measured along a longitudinal axis of the fin structure.

Abstract: Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes determining, by a terminal device, that a connection failure occurs between the terminal device and a first cell, where the first cell is a cell of a first network device. The terminal device determines signal quality of a second cell of a second network device, where both the first network device and the second network device provide communication services for the terminal device. If the signal quality of the second cell is greater than or equal to a first preset threshold, the terminal device performs a connection recovery process between the terminal device and the first cell by using the second cell.

Abstract: Provided are a video processing method and apparatus, and a device and a storage medium. The method comprises: when it is detected that an editing reference track of a video to be processed moves out of a video editing window, displaying a mask in the video editing window, wherein the editing reference track comprises a video editing track and/or an audio editing track; and then displaying, on the mask, the editing reference track of said video, wherein the editing reference track displayed on the mask is used for assisting a user with editing said video in the video editing window.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a method and apparatus for training an image region segmentation model, and an image region segmentation method and apparatus. The method includes acquiring a sample image set, and each image of the sample image set having first annotation information; generating graph structure data corresponding to a sample image in the sample image set, the graph structure data comprising multiple nodes, and each node comprising at least one pixel in the sample image; determining second annotation information of each node according to the graph structure data and the first annotation information corresponding to the sample image by using a graph convolutional network model, a granularity of the second annotation information being smaller than a granularity of the first annotation information, the graph convolutional network model being a part of an image segmentation model; and training the image segmentation model according to the second annotation information.

Abstract: An integrated testing device and fluid module are disclosed, as well as a method of manufacture. Fluid module contains a reservoir containing a test fluid, and a control vessel. The reservoir discharges test fluid into the control vessel, which discharges the test fluid in a controlled way to a test component.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for enriching and screening a target object such as a cell, bacteria or biomolecule from a sample. The apparatus includes a plurality of multi-channel mesh bodies arranged in parallel, and each multi-channel mesh body includes a mesh body formed by intersecting a plurality of threads, a plurality of screen pores formed by intersecting the plurality of threads, and a capturing layer formed on the mesh body. The capturing layer includes a capturing material specifically binding with the target object.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for machine learning model operation can include, by one or more processors executing program instructions: providing a first training dataset comprising a plurality of images and associated object detection labels, providing a second training dataset comprising a plurality of images and associated classification labels, and providing a machine learning model comprising a model backbone, an object detection task head, and a classification task head. The method can further include training the machine learning model by training the object detection task head using the first training dataset and training the classification task head using the second training dataset. The method can further include deploying the trained machine learning model that includes the trained model backbone and the trained object detection task head but does not include the trained classification task head.

Abstract: A link identifier indication method includes: A multi-link device working on a plurality of links sends a radio frame, where the radio frame includes link information of at least one link in the plurality of links, and link information of one link is used to indicate the link and corresponds to a link identifier of the link; a receiving device that receives the radio frame may determine the link identifier of the link corresponding to the link information, so that in communication of the multi-link device, a link can be identified by using the link identifier.

Abstract: A system can include one or more processors; memory; a data interface that receives data; a control interface that transmits control signals for control of pumps of a hydraulic fracturing operation; and one or more components that can include one or more of a modeling component that predicts pressure in a well fluidly coupled to at least one of the pumps, a pumping rate adjustment component that generates a pumping rate control signal for transmission via the control interface, a capacity component that estimates a real-time pumping capacity for each individual pump, and a control component that, for a target pumping rate for the pumps during the hydraulic fracturing operation, generates at least one of engine throttle and transmission gear settings for each of the individual pumps using an estimated real-time pumping capacity for each individual pump where the settings are transmissible via the control interface.

Abstract: A method of automatically tuning a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller (102) controlling a DC-DC converter (100) includes substituting the PID controller (102) with a modified relay feedback test (MRFT) (104) controller having a threshold parameter (?) and a magnitude parameter (h), iteratively determining a current error signal (e[k]) by measuring an output voltage (Vo[k]) of the DC-DC converter (100) and comparing it to a desired reference output voltage (Vo-ref), input the error signal (e[k]) to the MRFT (104), determining an output value (u[k]) of the MRFT, update the duty cycle (D) based on the output value (u[k]), operating the DC-DC converter (100) using the updated duty cycle (D), exciting oscillations in the loop containing the MRFT (104) and the DC-DC converter (100), measuring a frequency (?0) and amplitude (?0) of the output voltage (Vo[k]), updating PID controller parameters based on the frequency (?0) and amplitude (?0), and substituting the MRFT (104) with the PID controller (102)

Abstract: One or more computer processors generate a debug chain from one or more similar resource bound breakpoints, wherein the debug chain provides dynamic code flow. The one or more computer processors distribute the generated debug chain to one or more tenants.

Abstract: This application provides a method for controlling disorder of downlink data and an apparatus thereof. The method includes: A control plane network element determines to switch from a first user plane device to a second user plane device, and sends indication information to the second user plane device. The second user plane device buffers, according to the received indication information, downlink data received from a session anchor, and sends the buffered downlink data after reception of an end marker from the first user plane device.

Abstract: Provided are a transition type determination method, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a picture matching degree between a candidate transition type and a transition position of two adjacent video clips, and acquiring a music matching degree of the candidate transition type and background music of a video to which the two adjacent video clips belong; and determining a target transition type for the transition position according to the picture matching degree and the music matching degree, where the target transition type is used for a transition effect between the two adjacent video clips.

Abstract: Cross-plane filtering may be used to restore blurred edges and/or textures in one or both chroma planes using information from a corresponding luma plane. Adaptive cross-plane filters may be implemented. Cross-plane filter coefficients may be quantized and/or signaled such that overhead in a bitstream minimizes performance degradation. Cross-plane filtering may be applied to select regions of a video image (e.g., to edge areas). Cross-plane filters may be implemented in single-layer video coding systems and/or multi-layer video coding systems.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to graph-based design mapping and function route generation. A computer-implemented method includes analyzing first user interfaces and second user interfaces to identify features of each user interface, where the second user interfaces include at least one change to the first user interfaces. A first graph representing the features of the first user interfaces and a second graph representing the features of the second user interfaces are generated. A function mapping is determined based on a similarity calculation between the first graph and the second graph. A node that satisfies an influence threshold is recommended to do limited manual labeling. The function mapping is updated based on the labeling. A visualization of the function mapping is created between the first user interfaces and the second user interfaces. Function route generation can be performed.

Abstract: A composite material comprising a substrate body having a mesoporous structure defined by a network of interconnected fibers; and a thermochromic material including a hydrogel complex filling the mesoporous network, the hydrogel complex including a first polymer being a thermoresponsive hydrogel; wherein the thermochromic material undergoes an increase or a decrease of transparency in response to an external temperature exceeding or falling below a critical transition temperature of the thermochromic material, thereby changing an overall transparency of the composite material. A method of preparing the composite material of some embodiments of the present invention. Use of the composite material of some of the embodiments of the present invention for forming an article. Also a window unit including the composite material of some of the embodiments of the present invention.

Abstract: Implementations of the subject matter described herein provide a solution for rate control based on reinforcement learning. In this solution, an encoding state of a video encoder is determined, the encoding state being associated with encoding of a first video unit by the video encoder. An encoding parameter associated with rate control in the video encoder is determined by a reinforcement learning model and based on the encoding state of the video encoder. A second video unit different from the first video unit is encoded based on the encoding parameter. In this way, it is possible to achieve a better quality of experience (QOE) for real time communication with computation overhead being reduced.

Abstract: A conformal graphene-encapsulated battery electrode material is formed by: (1) coating a battery electrode material with a metal catalyst to form a metal catalyst-coated battery electrode material; (2) growing graphene on the metal catalyst-coated battery electrode material to form a graphene cage encapsulating the metal catalyst-coated battery electrode material; and (3) at least partially removing the metal catalyst to form a void inside the graphene cage.