Abstract: An insulating sheet is used for a battery cell. The battery cell includes an electrode assembly, and the electrode assembly includes a first tab. The insulating sheet includes a first sheet body and a second sheet body. The first sheet body includes a first wall surface. The second sheet body is connected to the first sheet body, and the second sheet body includes a second wall surface facing the first wall surface. The first wall surface and the second wall surface jointly define a first gap, and the first gap has a first port and a second port distributed opposite each other. A direction from the first port to the second port is a first direction, and the first direction intersects with a direction perpendicular to the first wall surface.

Abstract: A solid-state lithium battery includes a solid electrolyte layer, a first electrode layer structure, a second electrode layer structure, a first collector layer and a second collector layer. The first electrode layer structure includes a first buffer electrolyte layer and a first microporous electrode layer. The first buffer electrolyte layer is located between the first microporous electrode layer and the first surface of the solid electrolyte layer. The first buffer electrolyte layer is embedded with the first surface of the solid electrolyte layer. The second electrode layer structure is disposed on the second surface of the solid electrolyte layer. The first microporous electrode layer is disposed between the first collector layer and first buffer electrolyte layer. The second electrode layer structure is disposed between the second collector layer and the second surface of the solid electrolyte layer.

Abstract: A delay compensation method and device are provided. The method includes: obtaining a control plane message; obtaining a path delay of each of multiple radio units, and determining a compensation time length corresponding to each of the radio units based on a reference path delay and the path delay of each of the radio units; and sending the control plane message to each of the radio units based on the compensation time length corresponding to each of the radio units.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel spiro-macrocyclic compounds of general formula (I) which are Orexin 2 receptor agonists.

Abstract: Control logic in a memory device initiates a program operation to program one or more memory cells of a first sub-block of a memory array, the program operation including a seeding phase. During the seeding phase, a first wordline voltage is caused to be applied to a first wordline segment associated with a first portion of the memory array. During the seeding phase, a second wordline voltage is caused to be applied to a second wordline segment associated with a second portion of the memory array, where the first wordline voltage and the second wordline voltage cause a seeding bias voltage to be applied to the first sub-block group and inhibit application of the seeding bias voltage to the second sub-block group.

Abstract: A method is described for aligning high efficiency (HE), extremely high throughput (EHT), and EHT+sub-physical layer protocol data units (sub-PPDUs) included in an aggregated PPDU (APPDU) trigger frame. The method includes aligning a preamble portion of the sub-PPDUs by applying a multi-user PPDU (MU-PPDU) format to each of the sub-PPDUs and aligning a data portion of the sub-PPDUs by including a padding subfield in each of the sub-PPDUs to produce a common length.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data. The method includes: receiving, from the bitstream, a plurality of syntax elements associated with a coding unit, the plurality of syntax elements indicating the coding tree type of the coding unit, and whether the local dual tree mode is enabled for the coding unit; and in accordance with the determination that the coding tree type of the coding unit is a single tree, and the local dual tree mode is enabled for the coding unit: disabling the palette mode for the coding unit when the coding unit has the size equal to or less than a predefined threshold. The disabling palette mode for the coding unit may include: disabling the palette mode for both the luma component and chroma component of the coding unit, or disabling the palette mode for only the chroma component of the coding unit.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure includes forming an active area in a substrate, in which the substrate has an array region and a peripheral region adjacent to the array region. A word line structure is formed in the array region of the substrate. A first protection layer is formed covering the active area and the word line structure. A hard mask stack is formed on the first protection layer. A bit line feature is formed in the first protection layer. After forming the bit line feature, a gate dielectric layer is formed on the active area in the peripheral region of the substrate. A gate electrode layer is formed on the gate dielectric layer.

Abstract: Provided are a method for multimedia recommendation and an apparatus thereof. The method for multimedia recommendation includes: obtaining first user data of a user wearing a wearable device that is collected by the wearable device; obtaining second user data of the user, where the second user data includes at least one of attribute data of the user or multimedia preference data of the user; obtaining scenario data corresponding to a current multimedia usage scenario; determining a target multimedia item from a plurality of candidate multimedia items based on the first user data, the second user data and the scenario data; and recommending the target multimedia item to the user.

Abstract: The invention relates to antiviral compounds, compositions comprising antiviral compounds, and methods of use. In particular, the antiviral compounds are cytidine triphosphate synthetase 1 (CTPS1) inhibitors that are effective in treating and/or preventing viral infection and in particular, SARS-CoV-2 infection and/or COVID-19 disease.

Abstract: A display device includes light-emitting elements disposed on an array substrate. The array substrate includes a substrate, switch elements disposed on the substrate, an insulating layer, a connecting layer, a conductive layer and a spacer layer. The insulating layer is disposed on the switching elements and has through holes. The connecting layer is disposed on the insulating layer and is electrically connected to the switching elements through the through holes. The conductive layer is disposed on the connecting layer and includes pads electrically connected to the connecting layer. The spacer layer disposed between the connecting layer and the conductive layer. The conductive layer extends on the spacer layer and is orthographically projected on the substrate to form a first orthographic projection area, where the through holes are located in the first orthographic projection.

Abstract: A signal transmission method includes the following operations: selectively enabling a first backoff timer based on a spatial reuse condition when a channel on a transmission medium is in a busy state; selectively enabling a second backoff timer when the channel on the transmission medium switches from the busy state to an idle state; and controlling a transmitter circuit to transmit a data signal through the transmission medium based on a corresponding timer of the first backoff timer and the second backoff timer, in which when the corresponding timer is the first backoff timer, the transmitter circuit is controlled to transmit the data signal at first power, and when the corresponding timer is the second backoff timer, the transmitter circuit is controlled to transmit the data signal at second power, and the first power is lower than the second power.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech synthesis. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining an audio representation of speech of a target speaker, obtaining input text for which speech is to be synthesized in a voice of the target speaker, generating a speaker vector by providing the audio representation to a speaker encoder engine that is trained to distinguish speakers from one another, generating an audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker by providing the input text and the speaker vector to a spectrogram generation engine that is trained using voices of reference speakers to generate audio representations, and providing the audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker for output.

Abstract: The invention introduces a method for scheduling and executing host data-update commands. A first queue and a second queue are provided. The first queue includes first host data-update commands each including a first logical address. The second queue includes second host data-update commands each including a second logical address. A third host data-update command including a third logical address is generated and is labeled as a first type of host data-update command according to a host command received from a host side. A redundant first logical address is removed from a matched one of the first host data-update commands in response that the third logical address is the same as any first logical address. A redundant second logical address is removed from a matched one of the second host data-update commands in response that the third logical address is the same as any second logical address.

Abstract: Base station antennas include an externally accessible active antenna module releasably coupled to a recessed segment that is over a chamber in the base station antenna and that is longitudinally and laterally extending along and across a rear of a base station antenna housing. The base station antenna housing has a passive antenna assembly that cooperates with the active antenna module.

Abstract: A communication system provides reliable wideband communications with reduced power consumption in a user equipment (UE) receiver. A UE may include receiver circuitry to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from a wireless network and output an analog baseband signal. The RF signal includes M copies of a duplicated signal in a frequency domain. The analog baseband signal includes the M copies of the duplicated signal uniformly offset from one another in the frequency domain by a bandwidth F and including a gap between adjacent copies. The UE further includes an anti-aliasing analog filter an analog to digital converter (ADC). The ADC samples an output of the anti-aliasing analog filter at a sampling frequency selected to obtain a digital baseband signal comprising a combined digital copy of the M copies of the duplicated signal folded over each other.

Abstract: Systems, devices, kits, and methods for detecting and quantifying targeted compounds within a liquid (such as urine) are provided. Such systems, devices, and methods may be autonomous, noninvasive, and provide quick and accurate results. The systems and devices are at least partially disposable (single-use) and configured to be embedded within or applied to a conventional diaper or the like. Methods for using the systems and devices hereof include receiving a liquid to be tested within a portion of a disposable device, allowing the liquid to traverse through one or more channels defined within the device in a controlled fashion, reacting the liquid with one or more chemical reagents, using a sensing unit to collect photocurrent data regarding the chemical reach on(s), and wirelessly transmitting that data to a computing unit for storage and quantitative analysis.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for planning an obstacle-free measurement trajectory of a coordinate measuring machine, and a computer program are provided. An original measurement trajectory is determined, all compact obstacles along the original measurement trajectory are determined, an obstacle entrance pose on the original measurement trajectory and an obstacle exit pose on the original measurement trajectory are determined for each compact obstacle, and at least one obstacle-free alternative measurement trajectory is determined for each compact obstacle.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for predicting irregular motions of one or more mechanical components of a semiconductor processing apparatus. A mechanical motion irregular prediction system includes one or more motion sensors that sense motion-related parameters associated with at least one mechanical component of a semiconductor processing apparatus. The one or more motion sensors output sensing signals based on the sensed motion-related parameters. Defect prediction circuitry predicts an irregular motion of the at least one mechanical component based on the sensing signals.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a drive signal generator that selectively outputs, as a drive signal, one of a first drive signal and a second drive signal. The first drive signal has a first temporal frequency change within a first frequency band that is defined from a first lowest frequency to a first highest frequency inclusive. The second drive signal has a second temporal frequency change within a second frequency band that is defined from a second lowest frequency to a second highest frequency inclusive. Each of the first and second frequency bands has a corresponding one of first and second intermediate frequencies that is defined as one of a center frequency and an average frequency of the corresponding one of the first and second frequency bands. The second intermediate frequency is different from the first intermediate frequency. The second frequency band is partially overlapped with the first frequency band.