Abstract: Composite materials with good electrical conductivity at low metal loadings are prepared using flowable, curable ink compositions that include polymer matrix precursor, silver nanowires, and reducible metal ions such as silver ions. The composite materials as electrically conductive structures can include up to about 20 wt % total metal and exhibit resistivity of no more than about 500 Ohm-cm. The electrically conductive structures can be designed to exhibit a variety of performance features, for example, the structures can be opaque or translucent, or they can have a total transmittance of visible light of at least about 80%.

Abstract: An embodiment of this disclosure discloses a positioning method. The method includes: A satellite sends a first reference signal and a second reference signal to a terminal device, and a network device obtains a receiving time difference between the terminal device receiving the first reference signal and the second reference signal. The network device determines location information of the terminal device based on location information of the satellite when the satellite sends the first reference signal, location information of the satellite when the satellite sends the second reference signal, a sending time interval between the satellite sending the first reference signal and the second reference signal, and the receiving time difference between the first reference signal and the second reference signal.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a holder base having an accommodating chamber, two slideways, two side guide plates, a buckle groove and a blocking wall respectively formed on front and rear sides of the accommodating chamber, a positioning block formed above the buckle groove and a fixing unit provided at the bottom side, and a clasp having a pushing portion, an operating portion, a horizontal portion, a vertical portion and a connecting plate provided at the bottom side of the pushing portion, an elastic member set in the accommodating chamber and abutted against the vertical portion and the blocking wall, a pivot inserted through the connecting plate and the elastic member with two ends thereof positioned in the slideways and a buckle portion located at the front side of vertical portion and forced by the elastic member to engage with the buckle groove of the holder base.

Abstract: A medical device includes a shaft, an end cap, and an electrode. The shaft includes a conductive element. The end cap is coupled to a distal end of the shaft. The electrode is coupled to the distal end of the shaft and passes through the end cap. The electrode includes an electrode shaft and a distal tip, and the electrode is electrically connected to the conductive element. The end cap includes a visualization feature.

Abstract: An approach to time-series data point anomaly detection is presented. Data point anomalies in time-series data can cause a cascade of incorrect predictions in a time-series data prediction model. Presented herein is an approach to decompose a time-series training data set into elementary components, such as seasonal, trend and residual. The approach determines one or more confidence intervals for elementary components of data points including level shift, variance, and outlier. From these confidence intervals, new data points are analyzed and identified as anomaly data points. The approach also prevents anomaly data points from being incorporated into a time series data prediction model, reducing prediction error in the prediction model.

Abstract: Methods and servers for executing Vertical Federating Learning (VFL) over a communication network are disclosed. Some methods include encoder and data selection, encoder customization, and VFL configuration. Encoder and data selection includes receiving a VFL request and analyzing it to determine data requirements and encoder requirements, selecting, based on the encoder requirements, a first encoder and a second encoder, and selecting, based on the data requirements, data sources for the first encoder and for the second encoder. Encoder customization includes selecting a first encoder and a second encoder, and customizing the first encoder by muting a portion of the first encoder. The VFL configuration includes receiving labelled data information and an indication of a loss function, configuring an evaluator using the labelled data information and the indication of the loss function, configuring encoder outputs to the joint classifier, and configuring a privacy router.

Abstract: Dipole engineering techniques are disclosed herein that may be implemented when fabricating gate stacks, such as a gate stack of a transistor. An exemplary method for forming a gate stack of a transistor includes forming a high-k dielectric layer, forming a p-dipole dopant source layer over the high-k dielectric layer, performing a thermal drive-in process that drives aluminum from the p-dipole dopant source layer into the high-k dielectric layer, and after removing the p-dipole dopant source layer, forming at least one electrically conductive gate layer over the high-k dielectric layer. The p-dipole dopant source layer includes an aluminum layer. The p-dipole dopant source layer may further include an aluminum oxide layer and/or an aluminum nitride layer.

Abstract: In an embodiment, the present disclosure provides a backside illumination (BSI) photodiode device comprising a backside with a plurality of microlenses coupled to it, including a first microlens and a second microlens. The device includes a first doped region of p-type material within a first thickness of the backside, and a first sidewall with a first deep trench isolation (DTI) region. A frontside comprises a first sub-pixel region aligned against the first microlens and a second sub-pixel region aligned against the second microlens, each containing shaped p-type and n-type layers. An interconnect layer includes electrodes coupled to the shaped layers. The device may further include an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) coupled to the electrodes, and can function as an avalanche photodiode or single photon avalanche diode with a thickness less than 3 um between the frontside and backside. There are other embodiments as well.

Abstract: A dynamic-balance test method for a rigid rotor includes: acquiring a counterweight influence coefficient library, initial vibration swing data and an initial vibration vector; determining an initial test weight mass and an initial test weight phase according to the initial vibration swing data and the counterweight influence coefficient library, and triggering a speed increase test according to the initial test weight mass and the initial test weight phase to obtain a target vibration vector; determining a target configuration influence coefficient according to the initial vibration vector, the target vibration vector and the initial test weight mass; calculating a residual vibration swing value; and determining a target test weight adjustment scheme according to the residual vibration swing value, a rotor operation vibration standard, a target test weight mass and a target test weight phase.

Abstract: A portable heater including an intake module configured to draw air into the heater; a heating module coupled to the intake module and configured to heat the air drawn into the heater; and an exhaust module coupled to the heating module and configured to exhaust the heated air. The intake module is further configured to draw air into the heater from locations other than a first region where the heater is located.

Abstract: Provided is a dynamic time warping (DTW)-based real-time diagnosis method for a commutation failure (CF). The method includes: designing a time series template S0 containing a change of a firing angle of a phase-controlled rectifier, and having a length n and a Euclidean distance L; using an n*n matrix M to represent a Euclidean distance between each point in the S0 and each point in the Si, and constricting the matrix M with an Itakura window; calculating values of the matrix M in the search range H; setting different weights for data at different locations, and searching a shortest path L* from point (x1, y1) to point (xn, yn) of the matrix; and setting a range of the distance L of the S0 as ?, determining that the CF fault occurs if the L* is greater than ?L, or otherwise, determining that a system works normally.

Abstract: A heating device with VPD control for indoor residential cannabis cultivation includes a control module with a processing unit, a display screen and an IO interface; a heater for providing heat and a fan for circulating heat in response to a control signal from the control module; and a temperature-humidity sensor for sensing an environmental temperature value T and an environmental relative humidity value RH within an indoor cannabis cultivation environment. The environmental temperature value T and the environmental relative humidity value RH are transmitted to the control module in real time, and a VPD value is calculated from the environmental temperature value T and the environmental relative humidity value RH by the processing unit of the control module. The VPD value is compared with a pre-determined VPD threshold value to determine running modes of the heater and the fan to control the VPD within the indoor cannabis cultivation environment.

Abstract: A tooling assembly for use in infiltrating a plurality of hollow fibrous preforms includes a hollow base plate disposed at a first end of the tooling assembly relative to a direction of a flow of reactive gas, a solid cover plate disposed at an opposing second end of the tooling assembly, a plurality of seal plates in physical contact with disposed between adjacent ones of the plurality of fibrous preforms, and a plurality of support bars extending between the base plate and the cover plate and disposed about a periphery of the tooling assembly.

Abstract: A device for venting and ejection, and an injection mold for plastic injection are provided. The device includes a gas permeable layer and a gas storage chamber. The gas permeable layer is arranged at the end of a filling area in the injection mold, is made of porous metal materials used for the gas to pass through. The gas storage chamber is arranged on the side of the gas permeable layer opposite the mold cavity, and a cavity which only communicates with the pores is arranged in the gas storage chamber. During injection molding, after raw materials enter the mold cavity, gas in the mold cavity is compressed by the raw materials and passes through the gas permeable layer to achieve exhaust, to facilitate filling of the raw materials. The compressed gas layer can be stored in the cavity, and then released after the injection is completed.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electronic device is provided. The method for manufacturing the electronic device includes: providing a substrate with elements disposed thereon and transferring at least one of the elements from the substrate to a driving substrate, which includes illuminating a region of the substrate overlapped with the at least one of the elements by an energy beam, wherein the driving substrate includes a circuit board and a pixel defining layer disposed on the circuit board, and the pixel defining layer includes a hole for accommodating the at least one of the elements. A bottom surface of the at least one of the elements is higher than a top surface of the pixel definition layer when the region of the substrate is illuminated by the energy beam.

Abstract: Pixel circuit includes light emitting element, driving transistor, capacitor, writing circuit, first transistor and second transistor. Light emitting element is coupled to first system voltage source. Driving transistor is coupled to first node, second node and second system voltage source. Capacitor and writing circuit are coupled to second node and third node. Writing circuit writes a data voltage and an initial voltage to both terminals of capacitor according to a control signal. First transistor is coupled between driving transistor and light emitting element, and is conducted in response to a driving signal. Second transistor is coupled to first node and third node, and is conducted in response to driving signal to change data voltage and initial voltage at both terminals of capacitor to conduct driving transistor to generate a driving current between two system voltage sources, flowing through driving transistor and first transistor, to light up light emitting element.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of microbiology, in particular to Bacillus aryabhattai having the function of hydrolyzing silicon and use thereof. The strain is selected from those: 1) preserved in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center with the preservation number: CGMCC No. 17204; and preserved on Jan. 16, 2019; and/or 2) preserved in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center with the preservation number: CGMCC No. 17203; and preserved on Jan. 16, 2019. The strain has the ability to hydrolyze silicon, and can also promote plant growth, and have alkali resistance, salt resistance and hypoxia resistance, thus having a very good application prospect.

Abstract: The invention relates to Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin Kexin type 9 (PCSK9) antagonists, such as antibodies and fragments, as well as methods, uses and combinations.

Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device includes: forming a metal gate structure over a fin that protrudes above a substrate, the metal gate structure being surrounded by an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer; recessing the metal gate structure below an upper surface of the ILD layer distal from the substrate; after the recessing, forming a first dielectric layer over the recessed metal gate structure; forming an etch stop layer (ESL) over the first dielectric layer and the ILD layer; forming a second dielectric layer over the ESL; performing a first dry etch process to form an opening that extends through the second dielectric layer, through the ESL, and into the first dielectric layer; after the first dry etch process, performing a wet etch process to clean the opening; and after the wet etch process, performing a second dry etch process to extend the opening through the first dielectric layer.

Abstract: An LED device includes an epitaxial layered structure that includes a first semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer and a second semiconductor layer, first and second electrodes that are disposed on the epitaxial layered structure, and an insulating structure. The first electrode includes a first body portion and a first extending portion connected together. The first extending portion includes a first part and multiple second parts. A projection of the first part on the first semiconductor layer does not overlap a projection of the insulating structure on the first semiconductor layer. The first part has a first sub-part and multiple second sub-parts. A projection of the first sub-part on the first semiconductor layer has a first length, and a projection of each of the second sub-parts on the first semiconductor layer independently has a second length measured in the same direction. The first length is greater than the second length.