Abstract: The present invention discloses a glass with high refractive index for fiber optic imaging elements with medium-expansion and fabrication method therefor, the glass comprising the following components in percentage by weight: SiO2 5-9%, Al2O3 0-1%, B2O3 23-28%, CaO 0-3%, BaO 6-12%, La2O3 30-34%, Nb2O5 4-8%, Ta2O5 0-1%, Y2O3 0-1%, ZnO 4-9%, TiO2 4-8%, ZrO2 4-6%, SnO2 0-1%. The present invention further provides a fabrication method for the glass with a high refractive index, comprising: putting raw materials quartz sand, aluminum hydroxide, boric acid or boric anhydride, calcium carbonate, barium carbonate or barium nitrate, lanthanum oxide, niobium oxide, tantalum oxide, yttrium oxide, zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, zirconium oxide and stannic oxide, etc. into a platinum crucible according to the requirement of dosing, melting at a high temperature, cooling and fining, leaking and casting to form a glass rod, and then annealing, cooling and chilling the molded glass rod.

Abstract: Some disclosed systems are configured to obtain a knowledge module configured to receive one or more knowledge inputs corresponding to one or more different modalities and generate a set of knowledge embeddings to be integrated with a set of multi-modal embeddings generated by a multi-modal main model. The systems receive a knowledge input at the knowledge module, identify a knowledge type associated with the knowledge input, and extract a knowledge unit from the knowledge input. The systems select a representation model that corresponds to the knowledge type and select a grounding type configured to ground the at least one knowledge unit into the representation model. The systems then ground the knowledge unit into the representation model according to the grounding type.

Abstract: A fiber optic imaging element includes medium-expansion and a fabrication method including: (1) matching a core glass rod with a cladding glass tube to perform mono fiber drawing; (2) arranging the mono fibers into a mono fiber bundle rod, and then drawing the mono fiber bundle rod into a multi fiber; (3) arranging the multi fiber into a multi fiber bundle rod, and then drawing the multi fiber bundle rod into a multi-multi fiber; (4) cutting the multi-multi fiber, and then arranging the multi-multi fiber into a fiber assembly buddle, then putting the fiber assembly buddle into a mold of heat press fusion process, and performing the heat press fusion process to prepare a block of the fiber optic imaging element with medium-expansion; and (5) edged rounding, cutting and slicing,

Abstract: A transcription of audio speech included in electronic content associated with a meeting is created by an ASR model trained on speech-to-text data. The transcription is post-processed by modifying text included in the transcription, for example, by modifying punctuation, grammar, or formatting introduced by the ASR model and by changing or omitting one or more words that were included in both the audio speech and the transcription. After the transcription is post-processed, output based on the post-processed transcription is generated in the form of a meeting summary and/or template.

Abstract: A waveguide is provided. The waveguide includes a substrate having two outer surfaces for propagating a beam of light in the substrate by reflecting the beam from the two outer surfaces. The waveguide includes at least one polarization volume hologram (PVH) grating to couple light in and/or out of the waveguide. The PVH grating may be a multi-layer PVH grating with graded birefringence.

Abstract: A waveguide display includes a waveguide, an input coupler configured to couple display light into the waveguide, and a surface-relief grating on the waveguide and configured to couple the display light out of the waveguide towards an eyebox of the waveguide display on a first side of the waveguide. The surface-relief grating is formed in a plurality of grating layers having uniform or non-uniform thickness profiles. The plurality of grating layers is characterized by a refractive index modulation that increases and then decreases as the distance of the grating layer from the waveguide increases.

Abstract: Beverages comprising a sweetening amount of rebaudioside M or sucrose and non-sweetening amounts of siamenoside I are provided. Said beverages have improved flavor profiles, including more rounded flavor. Methods of preparing beverages and methods of improving the flavor profile of beverages are also provided.

Abstract: A method and system device for performing multi-carrying of a linear motor for magnetic levitation transportation is provided. With the method for performing multi-carrying of a linear motor for magnetic levitation transportation, linear motor traction power information and other linear motor carried information are generated, and the other linear motor carried information is transmitted through a channel for carrying the linear motor traction power information that is constructed based on a linear motor structure.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to determining node embedding using multi-view graphs for analyzing electronic content.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first and a second nitride-based semiconductor layers, a first and a second electrodes, a first and a second gate electrodes, a first and a second passivation layers and a conductive layer. The first passivation layer has a first portion covered with a first end portion of the first field plate and a second portion free from coverage of the first field plate. The second passivation layer has a first portion covered by the conductive layer and a second portion free from coverage of the conductive layer. A thickness difference between the first and the second portions of the first passivation layer is less than a thickness difference between the first and the second portions of the second passivation layer.

Abstract: A transcription of audio speech included in electronic content associated with a meeting is created by an ASR model trained on speech-to-text data. The transcription is post-processed by modifying text included in the transcription, for example, by modifying punctuation, grammar, or formatting introduced by the ASR model and by changing or omitting one or more words that were included in both the audio speech and the transcription. After the transcription is post-processed, output based on the post-processed transcription is generated in the form of a meeting summary and/or template.

Abstract: Semiconductor device structures and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate, a first nitride semiconductor layer, a second nitride semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a first electrode, a first via and a second via. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface. The first nitride semiconductor layer is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The second nitride semiconductor layer is disposed on the first nitride semiconductor layer and has a bandgap exceeding that of the first nitride semiconductor layer. The gate electrode and the first electrode are disposed on the second nitride semiconductor layer. The first via extends from the second surface and is electrically connected to the first electrode. The second via extends from the second surface. The depth of the first via is different from the depth of the second via.

Abstract: A diffraction grating includes a substrate and a plurality of fringes supported by the substrate. The fringes run parallel to each other in a first direction. A refractive index of a material of the plurality of fringes is anisotropic, whereby a refractive index contrast of the diffraction grating depends on direction of electric field of an impinging light beam, and through that dependence is a function of an azimuthal angle of the impinging light beam. A dependence of the diffraction efficiency on the azimuthal angle is affected by the dependence of the refractive index contrast on the direction of electric field of an impinging light beam. A pupil-replicating waveguide may use such a diffraction grating as a coupler for in- our out-coupling image light.

Abstract: A single-use, oral dosage forms (e.g., fast-dissolving strips) is disclosed, as well as methods of using such oral dosage forms to sweeten edible compositions. Methods of manufacturing single-use, oral dosage forms are also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for processing a message. A statement sentence message and a message processing parameter associated with a user's session message are obtained. One or more first statement sentence nodes that are semantic-matched with the statement sentence message are determined in the knowledge map. One or more second statement sentence nodes corresponding to the message processing parameters are obtained from the knowledge map, based on the node relationship properties of the first statement sentence nodes. A response is generated based at least in part on statement sentences of the one or more second statement sentence nodes. The generated response is provided to the user.

Abstract: A method for training a machine learning algorithm that classifies predictive regions-of interest (“ROI”) of progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The method includes acquiring a set of computed tomography (CT) images of a plurality of patients and selecting a plurality of ROIs within the set of images. Each of the ROIs designates a label that indicates progression of pulmonary fibrosis and training a machine learning algorithm by inputting the plurality of ROIs and the associated labels into the algorithm. The algorithm identifies the ROIs in the set of images as indicating regions of pulmonary fibrosis within the set of images based on the features.

Abstract: A device includes an optical assembly and a digital projector. The optical assembly is configured to receive visible scene light at a backside of the optical assembly and to direct the visible scene light on an optical path toward an eyeward side. The optical assembly includes a dimming layer disposed on the optical path. The dimming layer includes a photochromic material that is configured to darken in response to exposure to a range of light wavelengths. The digital projector is disposed on the eyeward side of the optical assembly and is configured to selectively emit an activation light within the range of light wavelengths to activate a darkening of a region of the dimming layer to dim the visible scene light within the region.

Abstract: A pupil replication waveguide for a projector display includes a slab of transparent material for propagating display light in the slab via total internal reflection. A diffraction grating is supported by the slab. The diffraction grating includes a plurality of tapered slanted fringes in a substrate for out-coupling the display light from the slab by diffraction into a blazed diffraction order. A greater portion of the display light is out-coupled into the blazed diffraction order, and a smaller portion of the display light is out-coupled into a non-blazed diffraction order. The tapered fringes result in the duty cycle of the diffraction grating varying along the thickness direction of the diffraction grating, to facilitate suppressing the portion of the display light out-coupled into the non-blazed diffraction order.

Abstract: This disclosure provides new methods, compositions, containers, preforms, and designs for refillable carbonated soft drink bottles having improved caustic stress cracking resistance. The method of this disclosure combine the use of PET-based co-polyester resin that incorporates a cyclic hydrocarbon diacid co-monomer and/or a cyclic hydrocarbon diol comonomer, with a bottle design incorporating a petaloid base, for unexpectedly enhanced performance.

Abstract: An example intent-recognition system comprises a processor and memory storing instructions. The instructions cause the processor to receive speech input comprising spoken words. The instructions cause the processor to generate text results based on the speech input and generate acoustic feature annotations based on the speech input. The instructions also cause the processor to apply an intent model to the text result and the acoustic feature annotations to recognize an intent based on the speech input. An example system for adapting an emotional text-to-speech model comprises a processor and memory. The memory stores instructions that cause the processor to receive training examples comprising speech input and receive labelling data comprising emotion information associated with the speech input. The instructions also cause the processor to extract audio signal vectors from the training examples and generate an emotion-adapted voice font model based on the audio signal vectors and the labelling data.