Abstract: The present invention provides a composite membrane suitable for liquid-liquid filtration/reverse osmosis. The invention also provides a copolymer useful in the composite membrane, the copolymer comprising an anchoring repeating unit and a foulant-repelling repeating unit, as well as methods for preparing the composite membrane and copolymers. In a preferred embodiment, a copolymer (P [SBMA-co-HEMA]) is synthesized via the free radical copolymerization of a zwitterionic monomer of sulfobetaine methacrylate (SBMA) and an anchoring monomer of hydroxyl ethyl methacrylate (HEMA).

Abstract: An electrode plate includes a current collector. The current collector includes a conductive layer and an insulating layer. The conductive layer includes a tab portion. In thickness direction of the electrode plate, the conductive layer is provided at two opposite sides of the insulating layer. The insulating layer includes a first region and a second region, and in width direction of the electrode plate, at least one end of the first region is connected to the second region. Thickness of the second region is less than thickness of the first region, and the tab portion is at least partially disposed in the second region. The electrode plate further includes an active substance layer applied on a surface of the conductive layer facing away from the insulating layer. The tab portion is not coated with the active substance layer.

Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure is a method for processing remote sensing images by fusing elevation information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a computer system and a method for processing a debug message of a computer system. The method includes the following steps: performing, by a first timer, timing when a computer system starts up; determining whether a first-stage confirmation signal is received within a first specific time; stopping the first timer and enabling a second timer to perform timing if the first-stage confirmation signal is received; determining whether a second-stage confirmation signal is received within a second specific time; stopping the second timer if the second-stage confirmation signal is received; enabling an input pin of a general-purpose input/output (GPIO) device to be at a low level if the first-stage confirmation signal is not received within the first specific time or the second-stage confirmation signal is not received within the second specific time; and outputting a debug message based on the low level.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to HARQ-ACK codebook determination. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method performed by a UE may include: receiving a set of first DCI formats for scheduling a first group of PDSCHs, wherein each of the first DCI formats schedules at least one PDSCH on a serving cell of the UE and indicates a first DAI, and the first DAI indicates an accumulative number of PDSCHs among the first group of PDSCHs; receiving a set of second DCI formats for scheduling a second group of PDSCHs, wherein each of the second DCI formats may schedule a maximum of one PDSCH on a serving cell of the UE and indicates a second DAI, and the second DAI indicates an accumulative number of PDCCH transmissions carrying the second DCI formats; and transmitting a HARQ-ACK codebook including a first HARQ-ACK sub-codebook for the first group of PDSCHs and a second HARQ-ACK sub-codebook for the second group of PDSCHs.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, first control signaling configuring multiple aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) trigger states including at least a first trigger state for a first power mode and a second trigger state for a second power mode. The UE may receive second control signaling indicating a trigger state of the multiple A-CSI trigger states. The UE may determine a current power mode of the network based on the indicated trigger state. In some examples, the UE may receive third control signaling indicating a subset of the multiple A-CSI trigger states, and the second control signaling may indicate one trigger state from the subset of A-CSI trigger states. The UE may transmit a channel state information (CSI) report based on the indicated trigger state and the current power mode of the network.

Abstract: A system for classifying working memory task magnetoencephalography based on machine learning, including: the magnetoencephalography data acquisition module configured to acquire magnetoencephalography data of a subject in different working memory task states; the magnetoencephalography data preprocessing module configured to control the quality of magnetoencephalography data in different working memory tasks and separate noises and artifacts; the magnetoencephalography source reconstruction module configured for sensor signal analysis and source reconstruction analysis for the data processed by the magnetoencephalography data preprocessing module; and the machine learning classification module is configured to classify the working memory tasks to which the subjects belong by taking power time series as features.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques described herein may enable transmission power control (TPC) for user equipments (UEs) supporting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). For example, a first UE may receive a control message indicating multiple parameter sets associated with calculating a transmission power for a transmission. Each parameter set may be associated with a communication link, a presence of one or more RISs, and whether the one or more RISs are assisting the first UE or a second UE. The UE may transmit signaling in accordance with a calculated transmission power based on selecting a first parameter set from the multiple parameter sets, where the first parameter set is selected based on a communication link associated with the transmission, a presence of one or more RISs during the transmission, and whether the one or more RISs are assisting the first UE or the second UE.

Abstract: A method includes receiving an input text sequence to be synthesized into speech in a first language and obtaining a speaker embedding, the speaker embedding specifying specific voice characteristics of a target speaker for synthesizing the input text sequence into speech that clones a voice of the target speaker. The target speaker includes a native speaker of a second language different than the first language. The method also includes generating, using a text-to-speech (TTS) model, an output audio feature representation of the input text by processing the input text sequence and the speaker embedding. The output audio feature representation includes the voice characteristics of the target speaker specified by the speaker embedding.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to HARQ-ACK codebook determination. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a UE may receive a plurality of DCI formats. Each of the DCI formats may schedule at least one PDSCH transmission on at least one serving cell of the UE. The plurality of DCI formats may indicate the same slot for transmitting a HARQ-ACK codebook. The UE may generate the HARQ-ACK codebook according to various methods as disclosed in the present disclosure.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, from a UE to a base station, one or more reference signals over a channel. The UE may receive, from the base station based at least in part on transmitting the one or more reference signals, control signaling indicating a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) and a rank indicator (RI) based at least in part on the UE having at least eight transmit antennas and based at least in part on a phase difference between different subsets of transmit antennas of the at least eight transmit antennas. The UE may transmit, to the base station, an uplink transmission configured according to the PMI and the RI.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for testing high-voltage ride-through of a photovoltaic inverter. The method for testing high-voltage ride-through of a photovoltaic inverter includes: connecting a board-to-board (BTB) circuit to a passive circuit in series, and connecting circuit breakers to the passive circuit to form an inverter test device; connecting one end of the inverter test device to an alternating current power supply, and connecting the other end of the inverter test device to a tested apparatus; and performing testing by adjusting a parameter of the passive circuit and a switching mode of the circuit breakers by means of the BTB circuit. According to the present disclosure, an influence of the device for testing high-voltage ride-through of a photovoltaic inverter on power supply voltage is eliminated, a requirement on supply of reactive power of the power supply is eliminated, applicability is better, and cost is lower.

Abstract: Provided are a cloud platform binding method and system for an Internet of Things card, and a device and a medium. The method comprises: in response to a device online instruction, acquiring a login message and device identification information and sending to an Internet of Things server; if they pass the verification of the Internet of Things server, loading a preset PGW network element configuration first-level script, and pushing acquired card information to the Internet of Things server; receiving a cloud object storage address which corresponds to the card information; if a data uploading request is detected, loading a preset PGW network element configuration second-level script, and sending the cloud object storage address to the Internet of Things server for legitimacy verification; and if it passes the legitimacy verification, sending the card information and acquired device data to the Internet of Things server. An automatic cloud-card binding function is realized.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For instance, a first wireless device may receive, from a controller of a reconfigurable surface, an indication of a capability of the controller of the reconfigurable surface to perform one or more operations associated with communications between the controller and the first wireless device. The first wireless device may communicate first information with the controller of the reconfigurable surface based on receiving the indication of the capability and may communicate with a second wireless device via the reconfigurable surface, where an adjustment for the reconfigurable surface for communicating with the second wireless device is based on the first information.

Abstract: A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) may include multiple sub-RIS, and the base station may configure the RIS and the multiple sub-RIS with RIS sync raster including multiple center frequencies. The RIS may be configured to simultaneously apply different water-markings and reflect the incident beam into different beams in different directions. The base station may perform a beam-sweeping by transmitting synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) on multiple SSB beams, and the RIS may receive one SSB beam of the multiple SSB beams and reflect the SSB beams on the RIS sync raster. A UE may be configured to monitor the base sync raster and the RIS sync raster for a suitable SSB beam, and transmit a feedback report to the base station indicating the suitable beam. The base station may configure the RIS based on the feedback report received from the base station for beam management.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may receive a first signal from a second wireless device and may identify a first bundle size for a precoding resource group (PRG) based on a characteristic of the first signal and, in some examples, based on performing channel estimation on the first signal. The first wireless device may transmit a feedback message to the second wireless device indicating a second bundle size for the PRG and associated with a second signal based on identifying the first bundle size. In some examples, the first wireless device may receive the second signal on a set of resources in accordance with the second bundle size. The first signal may be an example of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), and the second signal may be an example of a precoded CSI-RS or a demodulation reference signal (DMRS).

Abstract: A method includes receiving training data that includes unspoken text utterances and un-transcribed non-synthetic speech utterances. Each unspoken text utterance is not paired with any corresponding spoken utterance of non-synthetic speech. Each un-transcribed non-synthetic speech utterance is not paired with a corresponding transcription. The method also includes generating a corresponding synthetic speech representation for each unspoken textual utterance of the received training data using a text-to-speech model. The method also includes pre-training an audio encoder on the synthetic speech representations generated for the unspoken textual utterances and the un-transcribed non-synthetic speech utterances to teach the audio encoder to jointly learn shared speech and text representations.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a data transmission apparatus and a data transmission system. The data transmission apparatus comprises a first transmission unit and a second transmission unit. The first transmission unit comprises a plurality of sensor interfaces and is configured to receive sensor data from a plurality of sensors through the plurality of sensor interfaces, and the second transmission unit comprises a computing system interface and is configured to receive the sensor data from the first transmission unit and to send the sensor data to a computing system through the computing system interface.

Abstract: Provided are suppression DNA constructs and CRISPR/Cas9 DNA constructs that are useful for conferring improved drought tolerance, yield, and/or nitrogen stress tolerance in a plant. Also provided are genome edited plants, or plants expressing a suppression DNA construct, having improved drought tolerance, yield and/nitrogen stress tolerance. Further provided are methods for improving drought tolerance, yield, and/or nitrogen stress tolerance by introducing a genome edit in a plant or expressing a suppression DNA construct in a plant.