Abstract: A design method of a multi-zone grouped and light-homogenized Fresnel lens for a concentrating system includes: step 1, designing, according to a basic principle of a Fresnel lens, a planar Fresnel lens; step 2, establishing, according to an optical path characteristic of the concentrating system, an optical path equation of the concentrating system; step 3, determining a differential form of uniform distribution of luminous energy density; and step 4, based on the step 3, calculating design parameters of the multi-zone grouped and light-homogenized Fresnel lens to obtain the multi-zone grouped and light homogenized Fresnel lens.

Abstract: Composites having a polymer or natural leather skin layer and a polyurethane foam layer are made in a molding process. The polyurethane foam layer is made from a foam formulation that includes certain polyester polyols. The presence of the polyester polyol improves flow characteristics of the foam formulation. The foam so produced has unexpectedly low quantities of VOCs.

Abstract: Provided is an analysis method for transmission and reflection coefficients of a wire mesh of a mesh antenna. The method mainly derives coordinate points of a minimum repeating unit of the wire mesh according to model parameters of the wire mesh; secondly, determines a minimum repeating unit curve of the wire mesh by periodic cubic spline curve interpolation, and determines an organization structure of the wire mesh by vector superposition; thirdly, discretizes an organization structure curve of the organization structure of the wire mesh, to extract a coordinate point of an electromagnetic analysis periodic unit of the wire mesh, and establishes a solid model of the electromagnetic analysis periodic unit of the wire mesh to realize the analysis of the transmission coefficient and the reflection coefficient of the wire mesh; and finally, determines the transmission coefficient and the reflection coefficient of the deformed wire mesh by static analysis.

Abstract: A method of processing data may include receiving a stream of first keys associated with first data, receiving a stream of second keys associated with second data, comparing, in parallel, a batch of the first keys and a batch of the second keys, collecting one or more results from the comparing, and gathering one or more results from the collecting. The collecting may include reducing an index matrix and a mask matrix. Gathering one or more results may include storing, in a leftover vector, at least a portion of the one or more results from the collecting. Gathering one or more results further may include combining at least a portion of the leftover vector from a first cycle with at least a portion of the one or more results from the collecting from a second cycle.

Abstract: Provided is a binarization method for CT sectional image of fiber package containing artifacts, which includes: performing brightness adjustment on the source image obtained after converting of the HSV image model by using a composite tangent function; creating a planar morphological structural element having a morphology similar to that of a target object to obtain a background image without the target object; obtaining a second intermediate image by a subtraction operation of the first intermediate image and the background image; improving an image contrast of the second intermediate image again to obtain a third intermediate image; and binarizing the third intermediate image by using a local adaptive threshold binarization algorithm and removing a background noise to obtain a final binarized image. The binarization method can improve the uneven brightness of the image under complex illumination, alleviate the artifacts, and strip similar objects from the background with similar gray scales.

Abstract: Disclosed are a many-to-many laser communication networking device and a method. The device includes: an optical field array control module, a transceiver lens array module, an array phase detection module, an array characteristic splitting module, a beam switching array module and a signal transmission module. The optical field array control module is configured to receive a plurality of beams of laser light with different angles, and adjust the corresponding angle of the laser. The transceiver lens array module is configured to convert the angle-adjusted laser into beams of second optical fiber light. The array characteristic splitting module is configured to analyze the second optical fiber light to obtain the second characteristic information. The beam switching array module is configured to control the second optical fiber light to be demodulated into baseband signals via a first path or to be forwarded via a second path according to the second characteristic information.

Abstract: Disclosed are a many-to-many laser communication networking device and a method. The device includes: an optical field array control module, a transceiver lens array module, an array phase detection module, an array characteristic splitting module, a beam switching array module and a signal transmission module. The optical field array control module is configured to receive a plurality of beams of laser light with different angles, and adjust the corresponding angle of the laser. The transceiver lens array module is configured to convert the angle-adjusted laser into beams of second optical fiber light. The array characteristic splitting module is configured to analyze the second optical fiber light to obtain the second characteristic information. The beam switching array module is configured to control the second optical fiber light to be demodulated into baseband signals via a first path or to be forwarded via a second path according to the second characteristic information.

Abstract: A deployable mesh antenna based on dome-type tensegrity includes: a wire mesh reflector, a dome-type reflector support system, and a peripheral deployable truss which are coaxially arranged; the peripheral deployable truss includes: a annular main rod and end-to-end truss units disposed on the main rod; an outermost cable boundary of the dome-type reflector support system is fixedly connected to the peripheral deployable truss, and the dome-type reflector support system includes: an inner strut ring, an outer circumference of the inner strut ring is connected to radial rib units, each radial rib unit is arranged at a radial direction of the inner strut ring, and the radial rib units are connected through hoop cables; the wire mesh reflector is covered on the dome-type reflector support system to form a parabolic structure, the wire mesh reflector is petal-shaped, and the wire mesh reflector has a grid structure.

Abstract: A deployable mesh antenna based on dome-type tensegrity includes: a wire mesh reflector, a dome-type reflector support system, and a peripheral deployable truss which are coaxially arranged; the peripheral deployable truss includes: a annular main rod and end-to-end truss units disposed on the main rod; an outermost cable boundary of the dome-type reflector support system is fixedly connected to the peripheral deployable truss, and the dome-type reflector support system includes: an inner strut ring, an outer circumference of the inner strut ring is connected to radial rib units, each radial rib unit is arranged at a radial direction of the inner strut ring, and the radial rib units are connected through hoop cables; the wire mesh reflector is covered on the dome-type reflector support system to form a parabolic structure, the wire mesh reflector is petal-shaped, and the wire mesh reflector has a grid structure.

Abstract: This disclosure is related to the use of precipitated calcium carbonate as a flow aid in forming free-flowing detergent granules. A solid detergent composition including a plurality of detergent granules is provided. Each of the detergent granule includes: a) a base particle including one or more surfactants; and b) a coating layer over the base particle, while such coating layer includes precipitated calcium carbonate. The solid detergent composition is characterized by a surfactant content ranging from 5% to 80% and a precipitated calcium carbonate content ranging from 0.1% to 10%, by total weight of such solid detergent composition.

Abstract: A method of processing data in a system having a host and a storage node may include performing a shuffle operation on data stored at the storage node, wherein the shuffle operation may include performing a shuffle write operation, and performing a shuffle read operation, wherein at least a portion of the shuffle operation is performed by an accelerator at the storage node. A method for partitioning data may include sampling, at a device, data from one or more partitions based on a number of samples, transferring the sampled data from the device to a host, determining, at the host, one or more splitters based on the sampled data, communicating the one or more splitters from the host to the device, and partitioning, at the device, data for the one or more partitions based on the one or more splitters.

Abstract: Composites having a polymer or natural leather skin layer and a polyurethane foam layer are made in a molding process. The polyurethane foam layer is made from a foam formulation that includes certain polyester polyols. The presence of the polyester polyol improves flow characteristics of the foam formulation. The foam so produced has unexpectedly low quantities of VOCs.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for an isocyanate-reactive composition that can react with an isocyanate compound in a reaction mixture to form a polyurethane-based foam. The isocyanate-reactive composition includes an isocyanate reactive compound and a combustion modifier composition. The isocyanate reactive compound has an isocyanate reactive moiety and an aromatic moiety. The combustion modifier composition includes both phosphorus from a halogen-free flame-retardant compound and a transition metal from a transition metal compound. The combustion modifier composition can have a molar ratio of the transition metal to phosphorus (mole transition metal:mole phosphorous) of 0.05:1 to 5:1.

Abstract: A method of processing data may include receiving a stream of first keys associated with first data, receiving a stream of second keys associated with second data, comparing, in parallel, a batch of the first keys and a batch of the second keys, collecting one or more results from the comparing, and gathering one or more results from the collecting. The collecting may include reducing an index matrix and a mask matrix. Gathering one or more results may include storing, in a leftover vector, at least a portion of the one or more results from the collecting. Gathering one or more results further may include combining at least a portion of the leftover vector from a first cycle with at least a portion of the one or more results from the collecting from a second cycle.

Abstract: A method of processing data in a system having a host and a storage node may include performing a shuffle operation on data stored at the storage node, wherein the shuffle operation may include performing a shuffle write operation, and performing a shuffle read operation, wherein at least a portion of the shuffle operation is performed by an accelerator at the storage node. A method for partitioning data may include sampling, at a device, data from one or more partitions based on a number of samples, transferring the sampled data from the device to a host, determining, at the host, one or more splitters based on the sampled data, communicating the one or more splitters from the host to the device, and partitioning, at the device, data for the one or more partitions based on the one or more splitters.

Abstract: A key distribution method based on broadband physical random sources includes: utilizing a driving semiconductor laser to generate an optical signal, passing the optical signal through a phase modulator driven by a random signal and then equally dividing the phase-modulated optical signal into two identical paths, injecting the two identical paths into slave semiconductor lasers at both communication parties Alice and Bob's sides, respectively, to generate initial synchronized signals, using the generated initial synchronized signals as driving signals to phase-modulate optical signals generated by continuous-wave (CW) light sources, and inputting the modulated optical signals to dispersion modules; wherein after the modulated CW optical signals pass through the dispersion modules, two synchronized broadband noise-like random signals are generated, and then high-speed synchronized keys are generated by a post-processing method.

Abstract: A key distribution method based on broadband physical random sources includes: utilizing a driving semiconductor laser to generate an optical signal, passing the optical signal through a phase modulator driven by a random signal and then equally dividing the phase-modulated optical signal into two identical paths, injecting the two identical paths into slave semiconductor lasers at both communication parties Alice and Bob's sides, respectively, to generate initial synchronized signals, using the generated initial synchronized signals as driving signals to phase-modulate optical signals generated by continuous-wave (CW) light sources, and inputting the modulated optical signals to dispersion modules; wherein after the modulated CW optical signals pass through the dispersion modules, two synchronized broadband noise-like random signals are generated, and then high-speed synchronized keys are generated by a post-processing method.

Abstract: The present invention provides an oral care composition, containing at least 0.5% by weight of silica agglomerates, wherein each of the silica agglomerates has: (i) an overall particle size from 200 ?m to 2000 ?m, and (ii) a crush strength from 0.1N to 5N. The silica particles that make up the silica agglomerate can have an average particle size from 1 ?m to 50 ?m. The composition can have a viscosity from 10 to 90 BKU. The present invention also provides a method of encouraging proper tooth cleaning by administering the oral care composition of the present invention to a subject's tooth surface. The present invention further provides the use of a silica agglomerate in manufacturing an oral care composition for encouraging proper tooth cleaning.

Abstract: A plugging and wall reinforcing device and a method of using thereof. The nesting plugging and wall reinforcing device comprises an external slotted metal pipe and an internal nested blasting tool, wherein the slotted metal pipe has spiral slits or straight slits cut on a pipe wall thereof; the nested blasting tool is a mandrel having a surface provided with a plurality of explosive grooves in which explosives are placed; the slotted metal pipe is disposed around the mandrel, with a movable fit therebetween. The present invention can effectively improve the plugging success rate.

Abstract: The compounds of the invention are antagonists of MDM2 and MDMX, with excellent specificity for MDM2 and MDMX over other proteins, and with selective binding affinity to MDMX over MDM2. The compounds can therefore regulate p53 activity and treat a variety of cancers. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.