Abstract: A method and apparatus for training a search model, and a method and apparatus for searching for a target object are provided. The method may comprise: obtaining, based on sample query information, a first sample data set used to train the search model. The method may further comprise: determining, based on a pre-constructed knowledge base, additional query information associated with the sample query information. In addition, the method may further comprise: obtaining, based on the additional query information, a second sample data set used to train the search model, wherein the second sample data set is different from the first sample data set. Moreover, the method may further comprise: training the search model based on the sample query information, the first sample data set, and the second sample data set.

Abstract: This invention is related to automatic monitoring and collaboration among aircrafts. Specifically, an aircraft receives the current and future state of adjacent aircrafts by broadcast, then analyzes the start time of collaborative tasks. Base on the start time and prior knowledge, it adjusts automatically the prediction accuracy requirements of its future states, the check interval of predicted state errors and the minimum check interval. And it makes a new prediction and broadcasts new future states based on the check results of prediction errors. In the invention, an aircraft does not periodically broadcast its states, but broadcasts irregularly its future states according to its current tasks, its states and surrounding environment. The invention guarantees that collaborative tasks can be can be correctly carried out among aircrafts while it reduces the bandwidth requirement of wireless communication. It provides guarantee of high density flight and collaboration among many aircrafts.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and/or methods that can facilitate plating one or more metal layers onto a niobium-titanium substrate are provided. According to an embodiment, a device can comprise a niobium-titanium substrate. The device can further comprise a first metal layer plated on a portion of the niobium-titanium substrate. The device can further comprise a second metal layer plated on the first metal layer. The device can further comprise a third metal layer plated on the second metal layer.

Abstract: A method of promoting compensatory plasticity of spared neural cells after a neural injury includes contacting the spared neural cells with an effective amount of a therapeutic agent comprising a therapeutic peptide, wherein the therapeutic peptide comprises an amino acid sequence with at least 70% identity to SEQ ID NO:32.

Abstract: Present disclosure relates to magnetic materials, chips having magnetic materials, and methods of forming magnetic materials. In certain embodiments, magnetic materials may include a seed layer, and a cobalt-based alloy formed on seed layer. The seed layer may include copper, cobalt, nickel, platinum, palladium, ruthenium, iron, nickel alloy, cobalt-iron-boron alloy, nickel-iron alloy, and any combination of these materials. In certain embodiments, the chip may include one or more on-chip magnetic structures. Each on-chip magnetic structure may include a seed layer, and a cobalt-based alloy formed on seed layer. In certain embodiments, method may include: placing a seed layer in an aqueous electroless plating bath to form a cobalt-based alloy on seed layer. In certain embodiments, the aqueous electroless plating bath may include sodium tetraborate, an alkali metal tartrate, ammonium sulfate, cobalt sulfate, ferric ammonium sulfate and sodium borohydride and has a pH between about 9 to about 13.

Abstract: Disclosed is a ruthenium-based catalyst for hydrogen production from ammonia decomposition, comprising an active component, a promoter and a carrier, wherein the active component is ruthenium, the promoter is cesium and/or potassium, and the carrier comprises magnesium oxide, an activated carbon, cerium oxide, molybdenum oxide, tungsten oxide, barium oxide and potassium oxide. The present invention further discloses a preparation method and application of the aforementioned ruthenium-based catalyst for hydrogen production from ammonia decomposition. Compared with the prior art, the ruthenium-based catalyst for hydrogen production from ammonia decomposition provided by the present invention is low in preparation cost and simple in process, and has high catalytic activity at low temperature and good heat resistance.

Abstract: An ammonia decomposition apparatus comprises a casing, a heating zone, a heat exchange zone, a reaction section and a heat exchange coil. The heat exchange coil is spirally wound on an outer wall of the reaction section to efficiently heat ammonia gas. The reaction section has a first reaction zone and a second reaction zone communicated successively, the ammonia gas decomposed into a nitrogen-hydrogen mixture after entering the first reaction zone, with the second reaction zone decomposing for the second time the residual ammonia gas in the nitrogen-hydrogen mixture produced in the first reaction zone, so that the ammonia gas is decomposed more thoroughly. The conversion rate of ammonia gas can reach 99.9% or more, and the residual amount of ammonia gas in the nitrogen-hydrogen mixture can be less than 1000 ppm.

Abstract: A PFM control circuit includes a switching circuit, a slope-decision circuit, a flip-flop, a first and a second comparison circuits. The first comparison circuit outputs a first signal according to an output voltage of a power conversion circuit. The switching circuit outputs a switching signal according to an output current of the power conversion circuit. The slope-decision circuit outputs a slope modulation voltage, and determines a slope modulation voltage with a first or a second slope according to the switching signal. The second comparison circuit outputs the second signal according to the slope modulation voltage. The flip-flop outputs a control signal to the power conversion circuit according to the first and the second signals. When the slope modulation voltage has the first or the second slope, the control signal has a first or a second frequency accordingly. The first frequency is higher than the second frequency.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing an aggregate result of question-and-answer information are provided. An embodiment of the method includes: acquiring a search expression inputted by a user, and determining an entity corresponding to the search expression; and pushing aggregate information corresponding to the entity to the user. The aggregate information includes: a question-answer pair corresponding to each tag of the entity. When the user searches for information on a given aspect of the entity, the aggregate information containing question-answer pairs on a plurality of aspects of the entity is pushed to the user. Thus, the user may acquire information on the plurality of aspects of the entity.

Abstract: Log messages are compressed, searched, and decompressed. A dictionary is used to store non-numeric expressions found in log messages. Both numeric and non-numeric expressions found in log messages are represented by placeholders in a string of log “type” information. Another dictionary is used to store the log type information. A compressed log message contains a key to the log-type dictionary and a sequence of values that are keys to the non-numeric dictionary and/or numeric values. Searching may be performed by parsing a search query into subqueries that target the dictionaries and/or content of the compressed log messages. A dictionary may reference segments that contain a number of log messages, so that all log message need not be considered for some searches.

Abstract: A subtractive forming method that includes providing a material stack including a samarium and selenium containing layer and an aluminum containing layer in direct contact with the samarium and selenium containing layer. The samarium component of the samarium and selenium containing layer of the exposed portion of the material stack is etched with an etch chemistry comprising citric acid and hydrogen peroxide that is selective to the aluminum containing layer. The hydrogen peroxide reacts with the aluminum containing layer to provide an oxide etch protectant surface on the aluminum containing layer, and the citric acid etches samarium selectively to the oxide etch protectant surface. Thereafter, a remaining selenium component of is removed by elevating a temperature of the selenium component.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention include a non-destructive bond line thickness measurement of thermal interface material on silicon packages. A non-limiting example computer-implemented method includes receiving a chip mounted on a laminate and depositing a high-density material on the chip. The computer-implemented method deposits a thermal interface material on the chip and lids the chip, and the laminate with a lid. The computer-implemented method X-rays the lid, the chip, and the laminate to produce an X-ray and measures, using a processor, from the X-ray a bond line thickness of the TIM as a distance from a bottom of the lid to a top surface of the high-density material.

Abstract: A power supplier circuit supplies a power signal to a codec of an audio apparatus. The power supplier circuit includes a random sequence generation circuit, a control circuit, and a power circuit. The random sequence generation circuit generates a random sequence. The control circuit outputs a first control signal according to the random sequence, a first reference signal, and the power signal. The power circuit generates the power signal according to the first control signal, such that the power signal is spread in response to the random sequence.

Abstract: Vertical via connections to a battery are hermetically sealed to prevent environmental factors (e.g. moisture, oxygen, and nitrogen) from entering the internals of the battery through porous conductive material filling the vias resulting in reduced battery performance and battery failure.

Abstract: A subtractive forming method for piezoresistive material stacks includes applying an etch chemistry to an exposed first portion of a piezoresistive material stack. The etch chemistry includes a citric acid component for removing a first element of a piezoelectric layer of the piezoresistive material stack selectively to a surface oxide. At least one second element of the piezoelectric layer remains. The method further includes heating the piezoresistive material stack after said applying the etch chemistry to vaporize the at least one second element. A second portion of the piezoresistive material stack is protected from the removal and the heating by a mask.

Abstract: A video processing method, apparatus and device. The method includes: acquiring a video to be processed; performing audio processing on a plurality of frames of audios in the video to obtain a first processing result corresponding to each frame of audio; performing image processing on a plurality of frames of images in the video to obtain a second processing result corresponding to each frame of image; determining an entity in the video according to the first processing result and the second processing result; acquiring association information of the entity according to index information of the entity; generating first text information used for describing each frame of image, according to the second processing result corresponding to each frame of image and association information of the entity; and generating a first type of target article according to the plurality of frames of images and first text information of each frame of image.

Abstract: Methods and systems of active discovery and collaborative collision avoidance are described for aircrafts. Specifically, an aircraft predicts firstly the four-dimensional information of its short future flight path based on existing information, then shares the information actively among its adjacent aircrafts, realizes finally collaborative collision avoidance based on the future flight paths of adjacent aircrafts. The described methods contain the following steps: prediction and broadcast of short future flight path, broadcast reception and analysis and collision avoidance, and resumption of planned path and state. According to the methods, a system is also described to implement the above method and it contains seven corresponding modules. Since sharing the future information rather than the past information among aircrafts, the advantage of this intervention is strong real-time, low computation complexity, low cost, and more aircrafts accommodated in the same space.

Abstract: An emotion analysis and recognition system including an automated recognition of bodily expression of emotion (ARBEE) system is described. The system may include program instructions executable by a processor to: receive a plurality of body movement models, each body movement model generated based on a crowdsourced body language dataset, calculate at least one evaluation metric for each body movement model, select a highest ranked body movement model based on the at least one metric calculated for each body movement model, combine the highest ranked body movement model with at least one other body movement model of the plurality of body movement models, calculate at least one evaluation metric for each combination of body movement models, and determine a highest ranked combination of body movement models to predict a bodily expression of emotion.

Abstract: An ammonia decomposition apparatus comprises a casing, a heating zone, a heat exchange zone, a reaction section and a heat exchange coil. The heat exchange coil is spirally wound on an outer wall of the reaction section to efficiently heat ammonia gas. The reaction section has a first reaction zone and a second reaction zone communicated successively, the ammonia gas decomposed into a nitrogen-hydrogen mixture after entering the first reaction zone, with the second reaction zone decomposing for the second time the residual ammonia gas in the nitrogen-hydrogen mixture produced in the first reaction zone, so that the ammonia gas is decomposed more thoroughly. The conversion rate of ammonia gas can reach 99.9% or more, and the residual amount of ammonia gas in the nitrogen-hydrogen mixture can be less than 1000 ppm.

Abstract: An ammonia fuel cell system and an electric device are described. The ammonia fuel cell system includes an ammonia decomposition reaction device, a heating device, a hydrogen fuel cell, a DC/DC converter and an inverter connected successively, a battery pack and a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger of the system, can preheat ammonia gas by energy generated by ammonia decomposition, thereby recycling heat waste. The battery pack supports a quick response and stable output to quickly cope with the acceleration and deceleration of the electric device. This improves the stability of the system operation, and electric energy generated by the hydrogen fuel cell or electric energy in the battery pack can be transferred to the outside. The battery pack or the heating device can provide energy to the ammonia decomposition reaction device, so there is no need to supply outside energy to the ammonia decomposition reaction device.