Abstract: A distributed storage system includes multiple partitions. A block received for storage is striped across the partitions if it meets predetermined criteria. Multiple tables are maintained for indexing the blocks and the subblocks of blocks that are partitioned. The tables for the subblocks and the tables for the corresponding blocks of the subblocks are updated to include metadata for the subblocks for retrieving the subblocks in response to a request for a corresponding stored block.

Abstract: An automatic fiber stripping system comprises a first stripping module, a second stripping module, and a heating device. The first stripping module and the second stripping module each have a stripping belt, a driven belt wheel, a driving belt wheel, and a stripping tool including a pressing portion. The stripping belts are tightened on the pressing portions and the stripping tools press the stripping belts on each of two opposite sides of an optical cable. A blade portion of one of the stripping tools cuts a notch in at least one of two side edges of an outer coating layer of the optical cable. The heating device heats and softens the outer coating layer of the optical cable. The stripping belts are driven to move relative to the optical cable by the driving belt wheels so as to strip off a segment of the outer coating layer from the notch.

Abstract: A spectrometer including an optomechanical module and a control module is provided. The optomechanical module includes an optomechanical engine and a sampling device. The optomechanical engine and the sampling device are disposed in the optomechanical module. The sampling device is coupled to the optomechanical engine. The sampling device is configured to transfer a sampling light to the optomechanical engine. The sampling device includes a memory device. The memory device is disposed in the sampling device. The memory device is configured to pre-store an optomechanical parameter corresponding to the optomechanical engine. The control module is coupled to the optomechanical module. The control module is configured to read the memory device to obtain the optomechanical parameter. The control module calibrates the optomechanical engine according to the optomechanical parameter.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A core network may organize a set of base stations into a set of cell groups, each cell group including one or more base stations, the cell groups being organized based on potential of each base station to cause interference, by downlink transmission, to reception of uplink transmissions at remote base stations. The core network may identify cell group identifications for each cell group and configure the set of base stations with respective cell group identifications so that signals transmitted from individual base stations of each cell group include the respective cell group identification, and so that remote base stations whose uplink transmissions are interfered with can identify the cell group of base stations causing the interference. The number of base stations in a cell group may be iteratively reduced based on identifying the interference.

Abstract: A device for enabling autonomous powering of a monitoring node of a scraper conveyor chain includes a bottom baffle, a friction wheel drive device, a limiting device, a generator, an energy storage battery, a cable entry device, and dampers. The bottom baffle is connected to a bottom portion of a scraper of a scraper conveyor. The friction wheel drive device comprises a ball, a friction wheel, a drive shaft connected to the generator, and a shaft coupler. The friction wheel is disposed on the drive shaft, and an outer edge of the friction wheel is in contact with a surface of the ball. The limiting device is a ball housing that is connected to the bottom baffle, and is used for limiting the ball within the ball housing. The energy storage battery is connected to the generator, and is used to store electrical energy generated from the generator. The dampers are disposed on the drive shaft.

Abstract: In an example, a method of forming a stacked memory array includes, forming a termination structure passing through a stack of alternating first and second dielectrics in a first region of the stack; forming first and second sets of contacts through the stack of alternating first and second dielectrics in a second region of the stack concurrently with forming the termination structure; forming an opening through the stack of alternating first and second dielectrics between the first and second sets of contacts so that the opening terminates at the termination structure; and removing the first dielectrics from the second region by accessing the first dielectrics through the opening so that the first and second sets of contacts pass through the second dielectrics alternating with spaces corresponding to the removed first dielectrics.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method includes generating ions with an ion source of an ion implantation apparatus based on an ion implantation recipe. The method includes accelerating the generated ions based on an ion energy setting in the ion implantation recipe and determining an energy spectrum of the accelerated ions. The method also includes analyzing a relationship between the determined energy spectrum and the ion energy setting. The method further includes adjusting at least one parameter of a final energy magnet (FEM) of the ion implantation apparatus based on the analyzed relationship.

Abstract: The present invention provides antibodies or the antigen-binding portion thereof, that bind to one or more carbohydrate antigens. Also disclosed herein are pharmaceutical pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the inhibition of cancer cells in a subject in need thereof. The pharmaceutical compositions comprise an antibody or an antigen-binding portion thereof and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

Abstract: An image display device includes a flat panel display, a lens array layer, and a microstructure dynamic optical layer. The lens array layer is located at a side of a display surface of the flat panel display, and can adjust light field. The microstructure dynamic optical layer is located at the side of the display surface of the flat panel display, and can be switched to have a microstructure function or not to have the microstructure function. When being switched to have the microstructure function, the microstructure dynamic optical layer can modulate a direction of light emitted from the flat panel display. Accordingly, the image display device can display a 3D dimensional image floating in mid-air, and enables a user to see the 3D dimensional image at an oblique viewing angle. The image display device can be used in different ways according to practical applications.

Abstract: A method addresses low cost, low resistance metal interconnects and mechanical stability in a high aspect ratio structure. According to the various implementations disclosed herein, a replacement metal process, which defers the need for a metal etching step in the fabrication process until after all patterned photoresist is no longer present. Under this process, the conductive sublayers may be both thick and numerous. The present invention also provides for a strut structure which facilitates etching steps on high aspect ratio structures, which enhances mechanical stability in a high aspect ratio memory stack.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an acid resistant capsule shell composition including pectin with a degree of esterification (DE) of about 15% to about 40%, and a degree of amidation (DA) of greater than 0% to about 25%; and a divalent cation. An acid resistant capsule shell and a method for manufacturing the acid resistant capsule shell are also provided in the present disclosure.

Abstract: Capacitor arrays and methods of operating a digital to analog converter are described. In an embodiment, a capacitor array includes a unit capacitor (Cu) structure characterized by a unit capacitance value, a plurality of different super-unit capacitor structures, and a plurality of different sub-unit capacitor structures, each different sub-unit capacitor structure having a different capacitance defined by a division of the unit capacitance value.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose a sounding reference signal configuration method and an apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a base station, a movement speed of user equipment UE; determining, by the base station based on the movement speed of the UE, a UE-specific subframe configuration set in a plurality of UE-specific SRS subframe configuration sets corresponding to a used cell-specific SRS subframe configuration set, and determining a UE-specific SRS subframe configuration parameter in the determined UE-specific subframe configuration set, where the UE-specific SRS subframe configuration parameter is used to indicate a subframe used to send an SRS; and sending, by the base station, the UE-specific SRS subframe configuration parameter and identification information of the UE-specific subframe configuration set to the UE.

Abstract: A system for network device measurements may use a white box to perform measurements that may help determine the likelihood of network anomalies, such as microbursts.

Abstract: A micro light emitting device including a component layer, a first electrode and a second electrode is provided. The component layer includes a main body and a protruding structure disposed on the main body. The first electrode is electrically connected to the component layer. The second electrode is electrically connected to the component layer. The first electrode, the second electrode and the protruding structure are disposed on the same side of the main body. The protruding structure is located between the first electrode and the second electrode. A connection between the first electrode and the second electrode traverses the protruding structure. The main body has a surface. The protruding structure has a first height with respect to the surface. Any one of the first electrode and the second electrode has a second height with respect to the surface. The relation 0.8?H1/H2?1.2 is satisfied, wherein H1 is the first height and H2 is the second height.

Abstract: An apparatus for interactive image processing including a first camera, a second camera, an image processing circuit, a vision processing unit, an image signal processor, a central processing unit, and a memory device is disclosed. The present disclosure utilizes the image processing circuit to calculate depth data according to raw images generated by the first and second cameras at the front-end of the interactive image processing system, so as to ease the burden of depth calculation by the digital signal processor in the prior art.

Abstract: Provided is a washing machine including a main body having a first inlet, a drum arranged inside the main body to accommodate laundry, and a door configured to open and close the first inlet, wherein the door includes a second inlet to allow laundry to be introduced into the drum while the first inlet closed, an auxiliary door configured to open and close the second inlet, and a restraining device configured to restrain the auxiliary door such that the auxiliary door remains locked onto the door, and the main body includes a pressing device arranged inside the main body and configured to press the restraining device such that the restraining device locks the auxiliary door and to release from the retraining device such that the restraining device unlocks the auxiliary door.

Abstract: Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The method includes forming a first metal gate structure in a first dielectric layer. The method includes forming a second metal gate structure in the first dielectric layer, and the second metal gate structure includes a second metal electrode over a second gate dielectric layer. The method also includes forming a mask structure covering the first metal gate structure. The method includes etching a portion of the second gate dielectric layer and a portion of the second metal electrode of the second metal gate structure to form a first conductive portion extending above a top surface of the second gate dielectric layer. The method includes forming a metal layer over the first conductive portion, and the metal layer has a recess, and a top portion of the first conductive portion extends into the recess.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus may be used for positioning a terminal device. Positioning measurement information for a terminal device is obtained by using a measurement apparatus on the terminal device side and/or an access node side, where the positioning measurement information is multipath positioning measurement information that is based on a single access node, and includes positioning measurement information of a main path and at least one reflection path that are based on the single access node, or positioning measurement information for at least two reflection paths. The measurement apparatus on the terminal device side and/or the access node side reports the positioning measurement information to a positioning function entity in a network, so that the positioning function entity can perform location estimation on the terminal device based on the positioning measurement information, to position the terminal device.