Abstract: Provided is a focusing assembly including a focusing barrel and a barrel retaining ring; the focusing barrel includes a first sleeve, a second sleeve, and a third sleeve that are sequentially sleeved from inside to outside of the focusing barrel; the first sleeve is provided with a lens mounting portion for mounting a focusing lens, a first end of the second sleeve is provided with a display screen mounting portion for mounting a display screen, a second end of the second sleeve is detachably connected to the barrel retaining ring, the first end and the second end being opposite ends of the second sleeve; and the lens mounting portion and the display screen mounting portion are configured such that the relative position thereof in a focusing direction of the focusing assembly is adjustable.

Abstract: A preparation method of a crop straw-based seawater desalinator and a product thereof, and the preparation process is as follows: (1) crushing crop straws, and screening the crushed crop straws through a mesh sieve to obtain straw powder; (2) calcining the straw powder at a high temperature under nitrogen protection to obtain biochar, and then putting the biochar into a ball mill for ball milling to obtain ball-milled biochar; (3) adding the straw powder into a sodium hydroxide solution for reaction, and centrifuging a reactant to obtain a viscous product; and (4) stirring the viscous product uniformly with the ball-milled biochar to obtain a mixture, pouring the mixture into a mold, and freezing and drying the mixture to obtain a seawater desalinator. The evaporator features high evaporation rate and the photothermal conversion efficiency, and the ion concentration of the water body after evaporation is greatly reduced.

Abstract: Exemplary methods of semiconductor processing may include forming a layer of silicon-containing material on a semiconductor substrate. The methods may include performing a post-formation treatment on the layer of silicon-containing material to yield a treated layer of silicon-containing material. The methods may include contacting the treated layer of silicon-containing material with an adhesion agent. The methods may include forming a layer of a resist material on the treated layer of silicon-containing material.

Abstract: A charge-domain IMC circuit is disclosed and includes: a cluster of 6T SRAM cells; a charge- domain MAC circuit; and an LBL connected to a bit-line of each of the 6T SRAM cells. The MAC circuit includes: a MOS transistor; an input switch; an output switch; an input port; an output port; and a capacitor. The LBL is connected to a gate of the MOS transistor. A first terminal of the MOS transistor is connected to a DC voltage, and a second terminal of the MOS transistor is connected to the output port via the output switch. The second terminal of the MOS transistor is connected to the input port via the input switch and to a first side of the capacitor. A second side of the capacitor is grounded. Other variants of the IMC circuit are disclosed, some of which having a ciSAR ADC or a TD-ADC.

Abstract: Provided area second-order sliding mode observation-based fan power control method and system. The method includes: calculating, by second-order sliding mode observation, an observed rotational speed value of a fan, and calculating a maximum power reference current corresponding to maximum power of the fan according to a relational expression between the rotational speed and maximum power point; and performing, by controlling a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) switch to be toggled, system Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) according to the maximum power reference current, so as to control the fan to operate stably at the maximum power point.

Abstract: Provided area second-order sliding mode observation-based fan power control method and system. The method includes: calculating, by second-order sliding mode observation, an observed rotational speed value of a fan, and calculating a maximum power reference current corresponding to maximum power of the fan according to a relational expression between the rotational speed and maximum power point; and performing, by controlling a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) switch to be toggled, system Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) according to the maximum power reference current, so as to control the fan to operate stably at the maximum power point.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a system for treating high-salt high-organic wastewater and recovering energy, the system includes a cold wall-type reactor (6), a multi-level cyclone separator (16, 19, and 25), a waste liquid feeding system, an oxidant feeding system and a fuel feeding system; The cold wall-type reactor designed by the disclosure is formed by inner and outer double-housing structures, a cooling medium is fed into a gap between the inner housing and the outer housing of the reactor, the fluid on an inner wall surface of the inner housing of the reactor is cooled below a supercritical temperature of the water by using countercurrent heat exchange, blockage of the inorganic salts is effectively prevented. The disclosure is capable of realizing gradient utilization of the reaction heat of the high-salt high-organic wastewater supercritical water oxidation system, and improving a system energy recovery utilization ratio in the greatest degree.

Abstract: Various defects in an electronic assembly can be intelligently identified with a system having at least a server connected to a first capture module and a second capture module. The first capture module may be positioned proximal a first manufacturing line while the second capture module is positioned proximal a second manufacturing line. Images can be collected of first and second electronic assemblies by respective first and second capture modules prior to the images being sent to a classification module of the server where at least one defect is automatically detected in each of the first and second electronic assemblies concurrently with the classification module.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes an automatic speech recognition (ASR) module, a natural-language understanding (NLU) module, a dialog manager, one or more agents, an arbitrator, a delivery system, one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to receive a user input, process the user input using the ASR module, the NLU module, the dialog manager, one or more of the agents, the arbitrator, and the delivery system, and provide a response to the user input.

Abstract: A method of analyzing an atomic force microscope image includes receiving data related to an atomic force microscope image, where the data includes at least a first channel of data and a second channel of data relating to a first and second image data type. The method also includes identifying at least a first location of high contrast within the image using the first image data type using edge detection and identifying a first artifact within the image based on the identified first location of high contrast. The method also includes accessing the second image data type corresponding to the identified first location of the first artifact and determining a type of the first artifact by comparing the first image data type with the second image data type relating to the identified location of the first artifact.

Abstract: A connection establishment method includes a terminal device obtaining historical data of a multipath transmission control protocol (MPTCP) connection established between the terminal device and an application server. The historical data includes a data transmission delay of a transmission control protocol (TCP) connection corresponding to a Wi-Fi network and a data transmission delay of a TCP connection corresponding to a cellular network. The terminal device determines, based on the historical data, that the data transmission delay of the TCP connection corresponding to the cellular network is less than or equal to the data transmission delay of the TCP connection corresponding to the Wi-Fi network, and establishes a first TCP connection to the application server through an interface of the cellular network; and after the first TCP connection is successfully established, the terminal device establishes a second TCP connection to the application server through an interface of the Wi-Fi network.

Abstract: Given a skeleton knowledge graph including first terms in respective nodes, wherein first terms in connected nodes have a predetermined relationship, an augmented knowledge graph is formed by a first computing device by extracting a second term from a domain corpus to form a term cluster linked with a respective node of the knowledge graph. The second term is associated with the first term of a respective node in the domain corpus while not meeting the predetermined relationship. A semantic feature between the second term and the associated first term is identified in the domain corpus and linked to the pair of the second term and the first term in the augmented knowledge graph. The augmented knowledge graph is useable by a second computing device, which may or may not be the same as the first computing device, to drive a conversation between a chatbot and user.

Abstract: Given a skeleton knowledge graph including first terms in respective nodes, wherein first terms in connected nodes have a predetermined relationship, an augmented knowledge graph is formed by a first computing device by extracting a second term from a domain corpus to form a term cluster linked with a respective node of the knowledge graph. The second term is associated with the first term of a respective node in the domain corpus while not meeting the predetermined relationship. A semantic feature between the second term and the associated first term is identified in the domain corpus and linked to the pair of the second term and the first term in the augmented knowledge graph. The augmented knowledge graph is useable by a second computing device, which may or may not be the same as the first computing device, to drive a conversation between a chatbot and user.

Abstract: A rotor of an electric motor includes a rotating shaft, a rotor core and a commutator fixed to the rotating shaft, and a first sleeve, a second sleeve and a third sleeve arranged around the rotating shaft. The first sleeve is located on a side of the rotor core away from the commutator and abuts against the rotor core, the second sleeve is located between the rotor core and the commutator, and the third sleeve is located on a side of the commutator away from the rotor core.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a system for treating high-salt high-organic wastewater and recovering energy, the system includes a cold wall-type reactor (6), a multi-level cyclone separator (16, 19, and 25), a waste liquid feeding system, an oxidant feeding system and a fuel feeding system; The cold wall-type reactor designed by the disclosure is formed by inner and outer double-housing structures, a cooling medium is fed into a gap between the inner housing and the outer housing of the reactor, the fluid on an inner wall surface of the inner housing of the reactor is cooled below a supercritical temperature of the water by using countercurrent heat exchange, blockage of the inorganic salts is effectively prevented. The disclosure is capable of realizing gradient utilization of the reaction heat of the high-salt high-organic wastewater supercritical water oxidation system, and improving a system energy recovery utilization ratio in the greatest degree.

Abstract: A method of analyzing an atomic force microscope image includes receiving data related to an atomic force microscope image, where the data includes at least a first channel of data and a second channel of data relating to a first and second image data type. The method also includes identifying at least a first location of high contrast within the image using the first image data type using edge detection and identifying a first artifact within the image based on the identified first location of high contrast. The method also includes accessing the second image data type corresponding to the identified first location of the first artifact and determining a type of the first artifact by comparing the first image data type with the second image data type relating to the identified location of the first artifact.

Abstract: A method of analyzing an atomic force microscope image includes receiving data related to an atomic force microscope image, where the data includes at least a first channel of data and a second channel of data relating to a first and second image data type. The method also includes identifying at least a first location of high contrast within the image using the first image data type using edge detection and identifying a first artifact within the image based on the identified first location of high contrast. The method also includes accessing the second image data type corresponding to the identified first location of the first artifact and determining a type of the first artifact by comparing the first image data type with the second image data type relating to the identified location of the first artifact.

Abstract: Various defects in an electronic assembly can be intelligently identified with a system having at least a server connected to a first capture module and a second capture module. The first capture module may be positioned proximal a first manufacturing line while the second capture module is positioned proximal a second manufacturing line. Images can be collected of first and second electronic assemblies by respective first and second capture modules prior to the images being sent to a classification module of the server where at least one defect is automatically detected in each of the first and second electronic assemblies concurrently with the classification module.

Abstract: A brush used to contact with a commutator, includes a brush body which includes two opposite axial end faces and a protruding portion projecting from the brush body toward the commutator. The protruding portion includes a first surface, a second surface and at least two teeth. The first surface and the second surface are respectively adjacent to the two axial end faces. Angles formed between the first surface and the second surface and corresponding adjacent axial end faces are obtuse. The teeth is located between the first surface and the second surface, and extends generally along a circumferential direction of the commutator. The ratio of a total width of the at least two teeth in an axial direction of the brush to an axial height of the brush body is in the range of 0.25-0.75. An electric motor including the brush is also provided.