Abstract: A pot furnace for calcining petroleum coke at low temperature may include a pot, and a cooling water jacket and a flame path below the pot. The flame path may include eight layers. An inlet of a first flame path layer may be in communication with a volatile channel in the front wall, and is provided with a first flame path layer flashboard An eighth flame path layer may be in communication with a communication flue. Flue gas may be discharged out of the furnace body through a main flue. A furnace bottom cooling channel may be provided below the eighth flame path layer.

Abstract: A network system includes a first network access device having an input/output (IO) module of a firewall to capture a packet of a network session originated from a first node associated with the first network access device, a first security device having a firewall processing module to determine based on the captured packet whether the first node is a destination node that is receiving VM migration from a second node that is associated with a second network access device. The first security device is to update a first flow table within the first network access device. The network system further includes a second security device to receive a message from the first security device concerning the VM migration to update a second flow table of the second network access device, such that further network traffic of the network session is routed to the first node without interrupting the network session.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition containing ginkgolide B and an ADP receptor antagonist, a preparation method thereof and use thereof in preparation of antiplatelet drugs, wherein the ADP receptor antagonist is clopidogrel, prasugrel, ticagrelor and/or ticlopidine.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure provide an augmented reality presentation including a digital model of a product in connection with a camera stream. For example, systems and methods described herein provide a call-to-action associated with a digital model of a corresponding product. In response to detecting a selection of the call-to-action, systems and methods described herein provide the digital model. The system and methods described herein also activate a camera interface of a networking system application and render the digital model of the product within the camera interface. In this way, the systems and methods provide a portable user experience of trying on or otherwise sampling a product via an augmented reality presentation on a client device.

Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for building management system analysis are described herein. One method includes embedding a plurality of statistics associated with a building within a graphical display of the building and displaying a timeline of the plurality of statistics within the graphical display.

Abstract: A front cover assembly includes a frame, a cover glass, and a waterproof glue. The frame has a receiving cavity. The cover glass is partially received in the frame. The cover glass has a lateral face facing the frame. The cover glass has a step portion located at the lateral face. A first gap is defined between a first face of the step portion of the cover glass and a first wall of the frame, and a second gap is defined between a second face of the step portion of the cover glass and a second wall of the frame. A waterproof glue fills the first and second gaps. The first and second faces of the step portion from an obtuse angle therebetween, which faces the first and second walls of the frame. The present disclosure also relates to a terminal.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition containing ginkgolide B and an ADP receptor antagonist, a preparation method thereof and use thereof in preparation of antiplatelet drugs, wherein the ADP receptor antagonist is clopidogrel, prasugrel, ticagrelor and/or ticlopidine.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for face verification. The apparatus may comprise a feature extraction unit and a verification unit. In one embodiment, the feature extraction unit comprises a plurality of convolutional feature extraction systems trained with different face training set, wherein each of systems comprises: a plurality of cascaded convolutional, pooling, locally-connected, and fully-connected feature extraction units configured to extract facial features for face verification from face regions of face images; wherein an output unit of the unit cascade, which could be a fully-connected unit in one embodiment of the present application, is connected to at least one of previous convolutional, pooling, locally-connected, or fully-connected units, and is configured to extract facial features (referred to as deep identification-verification features or DeepID2) for face verification from the facial features in the connected units.

Abstract: A method and program product includes scanning for at least one identification means of an object. An image of the object is captured. An identification associated with the image and the image are communicated to a training system. The training system is configured for at least training a neural network system with identifications and images to produce synaptic weights. Synaptic weights are received from the training system. A predicted identification from a captured image of an object is predicted. The predicting uses at least the synaptic weights.

Abstract: Disclosed are a compound as shown in formula I or formula II or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1 is selected from pyrazinyl or substituted pyrazinyl; and R2 is selected from pyrazinyl or substituted pyrazinyl, phenyl or substituted phenyl, alkyl or substituted alkyl.

Abstract: A step counting apparatus collects wearing limb information, determines, based on the wearing limb information, a type of the target limb on which a user wears the step counting apparatus, collects, in a step counting period, step counting information of the target limb, searches for, in a correspondence between a type of limb and a step counting criterion reference information, target step counting criterion reference information corresponding to the target limb, determines, based on the step counting information and the target step counting criterion reference information, whether the user is in a walking state in the step counting period, and calculates a quantity of steps based on the step counting information when the user is in a walking state in the step counting period.

Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for building management system analysis are described herein. One method includes embedding a plurality of statistics associated with a building within a graphical display of the building and displaying a timeline of the plurality of statistics within the graphical display.

Abstract: A front cover assembly includes a frame, a cover glass, and a waterproof glue. The frame has a receiving cavity. The cover glass is partially received in the frame. The cover glass has a light exiting face and a lateral face extending from the light exiting face. The cover glass has a step portion located at the lateral face and extending toward the frame. A gap is defined between the step portion of the cover glass and the frame. A waterproof glue fills the gap and directly contacts the step portion and the frame. This assembly can prevent water or dust from entering a terminal device.

Abstract: A system of mapping a cardiac image of single heart chamber and a method thereof are disclosed. In the system and method thereof, one heart chamber (such as a left atrium, a left ventricular, a right atrium, right ventricular or aortic structure) can be selected in a 3D-based cardiac image (such as a CT or MRI image), and slices of the selected heart chamber are reconstructed and unwrapped by a 2D mapping visual display manner. The visual display and required angle alignment planes for subsequent analysis will be adjusted and achieved by operator manually, with specific global and regional architectural analysis performed by automatic algorithm.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a ?-aminobutyric acid hemihydrate crystal, its molecular formula is C4H9NO2.0.5H2O. It also discloses a method of preparing a ?-aminobutyric acid hemihydrate crystal, including first adding crude ?-aminobutyric acid to water to prepare a ?-aminobutyric acid suspension at an initial concentration of 1.2-2.0 g/mL; then stirring the suspension at a constant temperature of 5-10° C. for 6-12 hours, followed by filtering and drying to obtain the ?-aminobutyric acid hemihydrate crystal. The ?-aminobutyric acid hemihydrate crystal is stable, does not easily absorb moisture and agglomerate, and is convenient for further processing and use. The crystal has a large main particle size, uniform particle size distribution, high bulk density, good flowability, and a purity of ?99%. The preparation method of the crystal according to the present invention is simple, easy to operate, highly efficient and low in energy consumption, and is suitable for large-scale industrial production.

Abstract: A device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) device, and a second MOS device of a same conductivity as the first MOS device. The first MOS device includes a first gate stack over the semiconductor substrate, and a first stressor adjacent to the first gate stack and extending into the semiconductor substrate. The first stressor and the first gate stack have a first distance. The second MOS device includes a second gate stack over the semiconductor substrate, and a second stressor adjacent to the second gate stack and extending into the semiconductor substrate. The second stressor and the second gate stack have a second distance greater than the first distance.

Abstract: Context aware microservice networks and contextual security policies for microservice networks are provided herein. In some embodiments, a system includes a plurality of microservices, each of the plurality of microservices having a plurality of distributed microservice components. At least a portion of the distributed microservice components execute on different physical or virtual servers in a data center or a cloud. The system also includes a plurality of logical security boundaries, with each of the plurality of logical security boundaries being created by a plurality of enforcement points positioned in association with the plurality of distributed microservice components. Each of plurality of microservices is bounded by one of the plurality of logical security boundaries.

Abstract: A method and a system stream robot tool center point position to external processors at high frequency. The method includes the steps of: reading robot joint encoder data using an Interrupt Service Routine in the robot controller; calculating tool center point position based on the encoder data; and sending the calculated position data to a network socket in a high priority task. The method achieves tool center point and/or joint position communication at fast and consistent time intervals, as compared to much longer times for prior art methods. A downstream device, such as a processor or controller for another machine, reads the communicated tool center point and/or joint position data and uses it to control the operations of its own device. High speed motion command streaming from outside processors can be used in a similar way to control the robot.

Abstract: Systems for providing scanning within distributed services are provided herein. In some embodiments, a system includes a plurality of segmented environments that each includes an enforcement point that has an active probe device, and a plurality of workloads that each implements at least one service. The system also has a data center server coupled with the plurality of segmented environments over a network. The data center server has a security controller configured to provide a security policy to each of the plurality of segmented environments and an active probe controller configured to cause the active probe device of the plurality of segmented environments to execute a scan.

Abstract: A pixel structure of an image sensor and fabrication methods thereof are provided. The pixel structure includes a semiconductor substrate and plural pixel units disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The pixel units are electrically connected to each other, and each of the pixel units includes a light-sensitive region, a transfer gate and a protection layer. A terminal portion of the protection layer is covered by the transfer gate, and a width of the terminal portion of the protection layer is progressively decreased along a depthwise direction of the terminal portion of the protection layer. In the fabrication methods of the pixel structure, the protection layers of the pixel units are formed by doping with a tilt angle, so as to form the terminal portion of the protection layer.