Abstract: The present disclosure provides binder compositions formed with a plurality of binder materials having differing mean particles, the binder compositions being useful to improve washcoat adhesion on a substrate. Adhesion can be improved related to an increase in the binder concentration without a significant or substantial increase in associated viscosity. Such binder compositions can comprise a first binder material formed of a plurality of particles having a first mean particle size and a second binder material formed of a plurality of particles having a second mean particle size, wherein a ratio of the first mean particle size to the second mean particle size about 2 or greater. The present disclosure further provides catalyst compositions, catalyst articles, and emission systems incorporating the binder compositions.

Abstract: A mold for high stretching of an in-mold decorative film, comprising an upper base, a stationary mold, a film pressing frame, a movable mold and a lower base sequentially arranged from top to bottom. The film pressing frame can move up and down; a film to be stretched is placed between the film pressing frame and the stationary mold; a cavity block is fixed in the stationary mold, the lower surface of the cavity block is provided with air holes, and the upper surface is provided with a vacuum air pumping cavity communicated with the air holes; a core block is fixed in the movable mold, and a core ejection movable block is arranged in the core block; the core ejection movable block and the movable mold are provided with a heated air inlet channel and an air outlet channel which are communicated with the outside.

Abstract: A method for improving uniformity of an electromagnetic field inside a static microwave resonant cavity is provided. The overlap between a nodal point in one mode and an antinodal point in another node inside a microwave resonant cavity is realized by using two different types of anisotropic media, thereby improving distribution uniformity of an electromagnetic field inside a static resonant cavity. The method can reduce the complexity of cavity mechanisms of a microwave oven having a turntable and a flat panel microwave having an electromagnetic stirrer and improve static microwave treatment uniformity, thereby promoting the application of high-temperature and high-power microwave treatment in the fields such as microwave sintering, microwave smelting, and microwave chemical industry.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate; fin active regions protruded above the semiconductor substrate; and a gate stack disposed on the fin active regions; wherein the gate stack includes a high-k dielectric material layer, and various metal layers disposed on the high-k dielectric material layer. The gate stack has an uneven profile in a sectional view with a first dimension D1 at a top surface, a second dimension D2 at a bottom surface, and a third dimension D3 at a location between the top surface and the bottom surface, and wherein each of D1 and D2 is greater than D3.

Abstract: Provided are a coding method, a decoding method, a communication node, and a storage medium. The method includes determining to-be-coded attribute data of attribute information of a point cloud; determining a coding order of a current point in the point cloud; coding to-be-coded attribute data of the current point according to the coding order; and continuing to determine a coding order of a next current point in the point cloud, and coding to-be-coded attribute data of the next current point until all points in the point cloud are coded to obtain coded attribute data.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyethylene composition comprising a base resin having a density of from 952.0 kg/m3 to 960.0 kg/m3, determined according to ISO 1183, wherein the polyethylene composition has a melt flow rate MFR21 (190° C., 21.16 kg), of from 1.0 to 7.5 g/10 min, determined according to ISO 1133, a complex viscosity at a frequency of 0.05 rad/s eta0.05 of from 750 kPa #s to 1900 kPa #s, determined according to ISO 6721-1 and ISO 6721-10, and a white spot rating of not more than 12.0, determined according to ISO 18553, a polyethylene composition obtainable by a multi-stage process, a process for producing said polyethylene composition, an article, such as a pipe or pipe fitting, comprising said polyethylene composition and the use of said polyethylene composition for the production of an article.

Abstract: A packaged semiconductor module comprises a substrate having a ground plane, an electronic device mounted on a surface of the substrate, a bond pad disposed on the surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the ground plane, a mold compound covering the electronic device, a conductive post disposed on a side of the electronic device, the conductive post extending from the bond pad and at least partially through the mold compound, and a conductive layer disposed on the mold compound and electrically coupled to the conductive post and to the ground plane, the conductive post, the conductive layer, and the ground plane together forming the integrated electromagnetic interference shield, the conductive post extending from the bond pad to the conductive layer in a direction perpendicular to a plane defined by the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A method for identifying transformation products of antibiotics from known and potential unknown transformation pathways includes: step 1: collecting samples, extracting antibiotics and transformation products thereof, and obtaining non-target data by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry; step 2: identifying transformation products of antibiotics from known and unknown transformation pathways; step 3: generating a list of candidate transformation products and annotating their structures; step 4: extracting feature fragments based on structure annotations of the transformation products obtained in step 3, and searching for spectra with the feature fragment, and supplementing the transformation products from unknown transformation pathway; and step 5: obtaining a final list of identified products based on annotated structures.

Abstract: Provided is a recombinant yeast expressing germacrene A synthetase or a fusion protein thereof, wherein the fusion protein is germacrene A synthetase and farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase. The recombinant yeast improves the yield of germacrene A, and is suitable for the industrialized production of ?-elemene and/or germacrene A.

Abstract: The present application provides an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel and an OLED device. The OLED display panel includes dummy traces disposed on a side of the anode adjacent to the signal traces. At least one of the fanout traces and at least one of the dummy traces are disposed corresponding to a position where the anode is disposed. Each of the fanout traces passing through each of the subpixels and each of the dummy traces passing through each of the subpixels are both symmetrical about a center of the anode of each of the subpixels, so as to improve uniformity of traces in the display area and improve flatness and symmetry of the anode, thereby improving display defect of the display panel.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a separate interest rate for an individual transaction are disclosed. A system may provide a service associated with a account having an account balance and an associated first interest rate. The system may include a service device having one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform a separate interest rate service process. The process may include providing a separate interest rate service offer to a client device and receiving a separate interest rate selection from the client device. The process may also include determining a selected portion of the account balance corresponding to an amount to which a second interest rate, different from the first interest rate, is to be applied based on the separate interest rate selection.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method for making recommendations to a user and an apparatus, a computing device, and a storage medium. The method includes obtaining user attribute information, reading attribute information, reading history information, and candidate items; performing intra-group information fusion on the reading attribute information according to preset groupings to obtain reading feature information; obtaining a reading history weight according to the reading history information; obtaining history feature information according to the reading history weight and the reading history information; obtaining user feature information according to the user attribute information, the reading feature information, and the history feature information; and selecting a recommendation item from the candidate items according to the user feature information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pedicle screw including a nail body, a positioning part and a holding part, wherein the positioning part has a first side and a second side facing the first side, in which the nail body has an end disposed on the first side and the holding part is disposed on the second side. The holding part has left and right ends exhibiting a symmetrical arc shape. Thus, when the spinal fixation surgery is conducted, the holding parts of the two adjacent pedicle screws are stacked on each other, and the cross sectional area occupied by the holding parts on the skin surface is reduced, thereby significantly reducing the corresponding opening width, so that the requirement on minimizing the extent of the wound and minimizing the damage of the soft tissue at the surgical site is satisfied.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a terminal based on photo plethysmo graph PPG. The terminal includes an LED, an AFE chip, a processor, a delay circuit, and a plurality of PDs, the first PD is configured to receive a second optical signal reflected by the skin of the user, and convert the second optical signal into a first electrical signal; the second PD is configured to receive the second optical signal reflected by the skin of the user, and convert the second optical signal into a second electrical signal; the delay circuit is configured to perform delay processing on the first electrical signal; the AFE chip is configured to determine a target signal based on the second electrical signal and the first electrical signal subjected to the delay processing; and the processor is configured to process the target signal to obtain a health status of the user.

Abstract: The present application discloses a low-light image enhancement method based on wavelet transform and Retinex-Net, and belongs to the field of image enhancement technology. In order to solve the problems of colour distortion and lack of details such as edges and textures when Retinex-Net processes some images, the present application adds the wavelet transform, fuses the high-frequency components with regional characteristics, and processes only the low-frequency component with Retinex-Net, to retain more details of edges and textures in the image, and transfers the low-frequency and high-frequency components from the HSV space to the value space for value fusion and stretching, to effectively improve the colour distortion of the image, and also improve the expression of details of the image. The present application retains more detail information while avoiding colour distortion, and the enhancement effect is satisfactory.

Abstract: An engine block for a vehicle includes a bore surface defining a cylinder bore. The bore surface exhibits a first microstructure and includes a pattern of a plurality of cycloidal features formed in the bore surface. The plurality of cycloidal features each exhibit a first length in a first axis and a second length in a second axis arranged 90 degrees from the first axis. The plurality of cycloidal features also exhibit a ratio of the first length to the second length in a range of 1:1.5 to 1.5:1. The plurality of cycloidal features further exhibit a second microstructure including tempered martensite, wherein the second microstructure is different from the first microstructure. The engine block is included in a vehicle. The cycloidal features are formed with a laser.

Abstract: This application provides a battery cell, a battery, an electric device, and a method and a device for preparing a battery cell, and pertains to the field of battery technologies. The battery cell includes at least one electrode assembly; a housing, where the housing is configured to accommodate the at least one electrode assembly; and an insulating film configured to wrap the at least one electrode assembly, so as to isolate the at least one electrode assembly from the housing, where the insulating film is sleeve-shaped and a material of the insulating film is a hot shrinkable material.

Abstract: An image processing method, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes acquiring a first image; performing down-sampling processing on the first image to obtain a first down-sampled image; performing average pooling processing on pixels in the first down-sampled image to obtain a first pooled image; determining a plurality of pixel merging weights corresponding to pixels in the first down-sampled image; and performing pixel merging processing on the first down-sampled image and the first pooled image based on the plurality of pixel merging weights to obtain a second image.

Abstract: An apparatus includes one or more processors and logic encoded in one or more non-transitory media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to receive sensor data from a drone that travels around a target object. The logic is further operable to generate, based on the sensor data, a first three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of the target object. The logic is further operable to estimate a direction of sunlight and a direction of spectral reflection. The logic is further operable to plan a trajectory of sensor capturing positions for the drone to capture images of the target object that reduce an amount of sunlight and an amount of specular reflection.

Abstract: Compounds having activity as inhibitors of G12C mutant KRAS protein are provided. The compounds, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, stereoisomer, or tautomer thereof, have the following structure: wherein A, L1, L2, Q, R1, R2a, R3a, R3b, R4a, R4b, R9, R10, Y, and Z are as exemplified herein. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, methods to modulate the activity of G12C mutant KRAS protein for treatment of disorders, such as cancer, and methods associated with preparation of such compounds are also provided.