Abstract: A process provides an unlimited source of ethanol, for primary use as a liquid disinfectant for application directly to human hands or to hand wipes, by combining a carbon nanospike catalyst with a copper catalyst, carbon dioxide, water and water vapor, and injection of photons and electromagnetic waves, in an electrochemical process initiated by a power source. The process also provides an unlimited source for hydrogen peroxide and ammonia. Further, the application provides an improved process for making the carbon nanospike, through injection with photons and electromagnetic waves.

Abstract: A process provides an unlimited source of ammonia, for primary use as a liquid disinfectant for application directly to human hands or to hand wipes, by combining a carbon nanospike catalyst with a copper catalyst, carbon dioxide, water and water vapor in an electrochemical process initiated by a power source. And a process for making urea by addition of carbon dioxide. Further, an improved process provides for making the carbon nanospike, through injection with photons and electromagnetic waves.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for electrochemical and/or chemical pretreatment of bipolar plates, for example, for plating electrodes in redox flow batteries. In one example, a method may include pretreating a bipolar plate for the redox flow battery by disrupting a surface of the bipolar plate. In some examples, pretreating the bipolar plate may include positioning the bipolar plate within the redox flow battery, and thereafter charging the redox flow battery at multiple discrete plating current densities for each of one or more initial charging cycles to electrochemically etch the surface. In additional or alternative examples, pretreating the bipolar plate may include soaking the bipolar plate in solution to chemically treat the surface. In this way, the bipolar plate may be pretreated via electrochemical etching and/or chemical treatment so as to reduce electrochemical performance losses and dendrite formation in the redox flow battery.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to antigen detection reagents and related methods, systems, and kits. The reagents comprise an antigen-binding molecule conjugated to an inorganic component. In some embodiments, the inorganic component possesses catalytic functionality to provide a detectable signal. In some embodiments, the catalytic inorganic component is or comprises a bimetallic nanoparticle. In other embodiments, the inorganic component is a nanoflowers that provides a physical scaffold onto which the antigen-binding component and a reporter component can be loaded, resulting in augmented antigen-binding and reporting capabilities.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a beam indication processing method, a user equipment and a network device. The beam indication processing method includes: determining beam indication information to be used currently; determining a beam for reception according to the determined beam indication information; and performing receiving according to the determined beam.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a redox flow battery system. In one example, the redox flow battery is adapted with an additive included in a battery electrolyte and an anion exchange membrane separator dividing positive electrolyte from negative electrolyte. An overall system cost of the battery system may be reduced while a storage capacity, energy density and performance may be increased.

Abstract: A method for acquiring system information, a method for transmitting system information, a terminal, a network reception and transmission node and a storage medium are provided. The method for acquiring the system information includes: receiving a synchronization signal transmitted from a network reception and transmission node, and acquiring feature information of the synchronization signal, node information of the network reception and transmission node and a correspondence between the feature information and a transmitting position of the system information; acquiring the transmitting position of the system information corresponding to the node information based on the feature information and the correspondence; and receiving, at the transmitting position of the system information, the system information transmitted from the network reception and transmission node.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback position determining method and a communications device. The HARQ-ACK feedback position determining method includes: when a repetition scheme of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in one slot is configured or indicated, determining at least one candidate PDSCH reception occasion based on a start and length indicator (SLIV) of a time domain resource allocation (TDRA); and determining, based on the first PDSCH scheduled by using downlink control information (DCI) and the at least one candidate PDSCH reception occasion, a feedback position of an HARQ-ACK corresponding to a first PDSCH in a preset HARQ-ACK codebook, where the first PDSCH is transmitted for one or more times.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reducing carbon dioxide and air pollutants, and more particularly to a method of simultaneously reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and air pollutants, in which an off-gas containing carbon dioxide, SOx, and NOx is passed through a sulfur-oxidizing microorganism reactor, thereby converting carbon dioxide present in the off-gas into biomass, SOx into sulfate ions, and NOx into amino-N.

Abstract: A slot offset determination method includes: receiving CSI report request information from a network device; determining a reference slot offset T in accordance with the CSI report request information; and determine a slot offset for a CSI reference resource in accordance with the reference slot offset T.

Abstract: A power control method, a network device, and a terminal are provided. The power control method includes configuring a power control parameter for a resource in an uplink beam management resource set used for an uplink beam management procedure; and sending the power control parameter to a terminal, so that the terminal sends the resource in the uplink beam management resource set according to the power control parameter.

Abstract: A redox flow battery may include: a membrane interposed between a first electrode positioned at a first side of the membrane and a second electrode positioned at a second side of the membrane opposite to the first side; a first flow field plate comprising a plurality of positive flow field ribs, each of the plurality of positive flow field ribs contacting the first electrode at first supporting regions on the first side; and the second electrode, including an electrode spacer positioned between the membrane and a second flow field plate, the electrode spacer comprising a plurality of main ribs, each of the plurality of main ribs contacting the second flow field plate at second supporting regions on the second side, each of the second supporting regions aligned opposite to one of the plurality of first supporting regions. As such, a current density distribution at a plating surface may be reduced.

Abstract: A redox flow battery may include: a membrane interposed between a first electrode positioned at a first side of the membrane and a second electrode positioned at a second side of the membrane opposite to the first side; a first flow field plate comprising a plurality of positive flow field ribs, each of the plurality of positive flow field ribs contacting the first electrode at first supporting regions on the first side; and the second electrode, including an electrode spacer positioned between the membrane and a second flow field plate, the electrode spacer comprising a plurality of main ribs, each of the plurality of main ribs contacting the second flow field plate at second supporting regions on the second side, each of the second supporting regions aligned opposite to one of the plurality of first supporting regions. As such, a current density distribution at a plating surface may be reduced.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a beam indication processing method, a user equipment and a network device. The beam indication processing method includes: determining beam indication information to be used currently; determining a beam for reception according to the determined beam indication information; and performing receiving according to the determined beam.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject matter disclosed herein include methods, systems, and other techniques for training, in a first phase, an object classifier neural network with a first set of training data, the first set of training data including a first plurality of training examples, each training example in the first set of training data being labeled with a coarse-object classification; and training, in a second phase after completion of the first phase, the object classifier neural network with a second set of training data, the second set of training data including a second plurality of training examples, each training example in the second set of training data being labeled with a fine-object classification.

Abstract: Presented here is a system and method for creating easy-to-understand notifications of the vehicle state. The notification can be visual or can be auditory and can indicate to the user the vehicle state even when the user's attention is directed elsewhere. The indication can serve to attract the user's attention before more involved information is presented to the user, such as text, or the indication can serve to communicate to the user the vehicle state in an easy-to-understand way such as using color-coded displays or audio indications. The intensity of the indication can be adjusted based on the likelihood that indication will be perceived by the user by, for example, measuring ambient light and/or ambient noise. Reducing the intensity of the indication conserves energy of an energy source associated with the vehicle.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for estimating a 3-D pose of an object of interest from image and point cloud data. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining an image of an environment; obtaining a point cloud of a three-dimensional region of the environment; generating a fused representation of the image and the point cloud; and processing the fused representation using a pose estimation neural network and in accordance with current values of a plurality of pose estimation network parameters to generate a pose estimation network output that specifies, for each of multiple keypoints, a respective estimated position in the three-dimensional region of the environment.

Abstract: A method of cleansing a redox flow battery system may include operating the redox flow battery system in a charge, discharge, or idle mode, and responsive to a redox flow battery capacity being less than a threshold battery capacity, mixing the positive electrolyte with the negative electrolyte. In this way, battery capacity degradation following cyclic charging and discharging of the redox flow battery system can be substantially reduced.

Abstract: A DCI transmission method and a communication device are provided. The method includes: performing a transmission of DCI, wherein the DCI includes FDRA information, the FDRA information is used to determine N frequency domain resource groups, the N frequency domain resource groups are N groups of frequency domain resources used by the communication device for a PDSCH transmission, the N frequency domain resource groups respectively correspond to N spatial information indications, and N is an integer which is greater than or equal to 2.

Abstract: A transmission mode determining method, an information configuration method, and a device are provided. The transmission mode determining method includes: determining, based on first preset information, a transmission mode of a physical downlink shared channel PSDCH scheduled by one downlink control information DCI; where the first preset information is carried in at least one of radio resource control RRC, a media access control control element MAC CE, and the DCI.