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A plurality of solar cells is connected together in a shingled fashion. Each of the solar cells includes grid wires that are attached to an electrode of the solar cell so as to receive charge carriers produced when photons are absorbed by the solar cell. The grid wires are then interconnected with adjacent solar cells when the solar cells are shingled together. The grid wires may be applied to the solar cells via a laminate and the electrical interconnection of the grid wires may be achieved by the use of a conductive epoxy.

A coupling device for the coupling of reinforcing bars, the coupling device comprising an elongate tubular body configured for receiving reinforcing bars, in particular their end portions, at least one recessed gripping surface being formed on an inner surface of the elongate tubular body, the recessed gripping surface comprising a plurality of teeth being configured to engage the reinforcing bars in response to the engagement of the reinforcing bars by a plurality of engaging bolts being adjustably positioned through the elongate tubular body.

A magnetizable composition comprises a phase made of a thermoplastic polymer material, a second phase containing a cured elastomeric material, and a hard magnetic material dispersed in both the thermoplastic and the elastomeric phases. The phases are blended into a homogenous mixture suitable for use in fabricating shaped articles. The shaped articles may be magnetized to create alternating opposite poles along the surface of the article, to provide articles useful as encoders and targets for measuring rotational position or speed.

A method and an arrangement are provided for updating a first block of digital data (601) by performing a number of update operations which must either all succeed together or all fail together. The number of update operations is greater than or equal to one. A first identifier (TID) is activated (701) which is common to all those update operations that concern the first block of data and must either all succeed together or all fail together. All those update operations are performed (703) that concern the first block of data and must either all succeed together or all fail together. The updated first block of digital data is stored (707) into a logical flash memory device (1101) together with a value that associates the updated first block of data with the first identifier. The first identifier is deactivated (710).

A method for operating a wireless messaging system, the messaging system being configured to comprise a plurality of mobile wireless clients (1, 1′, 1″), a core messaging system (7) and at least two gateway processes or gateways (5, 5′, 5″) acting as proxies on behalf of the clients (1, 1′, 1″), the method comprising, in order for a client (1) to establish a connection with one of the gateways (5, 5′, 5″), a two phase connect procedure with the steps of,

• • the client (1) maintaining a list of access points, each access point defining an address at one of the gateways (5, 5′, 5″);
  • the client (1) sending, over a wireless bearer (4, 4′, 4″), a phase one connection request to one of the access points;
  • the gateway (5, 5′, 5″) that is addressed by the phase one connection request, sending, in response to the phase one connection request, over a wireless bearer (4, 4′, 4″), a list of connect points to the client (1), each connect point defining an address at one of the gateways (5, 5′, 5″);
  • the client (1) sending, over a wireless bearer (4, 4′, 4″), a phase two connection request to at least one of the connect points; and
  • the gateway (5, 5′, 5″) that is addressed by the phase two connection request responding to the phase two connection request, and the client (1) establishing a connection with the gateway (5, 5′, 5″) specified by said connect point.

An electrochemical deposition system having two or more electrochemical deposition modules arranged on a common platform and configured for depositing one or more metals on a substrate is described. Each electrochemical deposition module includes an anode compartment configured to contain a volume of anolyte fluid, a cathode compartment configured to contain a volume of catholyte fluid, and a membrane separating the anode compartment from the cathode compartment. Each electrochemical deposition module further includes a workpiece holder configured to hold opposing edges of a flexible workpiece between first and second leg members via a clamping mechanism, and a loader module configured to position the flexible workpiece in the workpiece holder while holding the flexible workpiece using an air cushion on each opposing planar surface of the flexible workpiece.

An eigenprojection matrix (#14) is generated from a learning image group (#10), in which high-quality images and low-quality images are paired up, by a projection operation (#12) using a locality relationship, and a projection nuclear tensor (#16) that defines the correspondence relationship between the low-quality image and an intermediate eigenspace and the correspondence relationship between the high-quality image and the intermediate engenspace is created. A first sub nuclear tensor is created (#24) by first setting from the projection nuclear tensor, and a coefficient vector in the intermediate eigenspace is calculated by projecting (#30) an inputted low-quality image (#20) using the eigenprojection matrix and the first sub nuclear tensor. A high-quality image (#36) is obtained by projecting (#34) the coefficient vector using a second sub nuclear tensor (#26) created by second setting from the projection nuclear tensor, and the eigenprojection matrix. Consequently, highly accurate and highly robust image conversion that enables the relaxation of the input condition of an image that is a conversion source can be implemented, and also the reduction of the processing load, the increase of the processing speed, and the reduction of the required amount of memory can be achieved.

A system and method for providing improved adaptive multi-rate wideband (AMR-WB) discontinuous transmission (DTX) synchronization. According to various embodiments, an indication on the start of the inactive speech period is signalled to the decoder via a voice activity detection (VAD) flag a predetermined number of frames before the DTX period will start, i.e., before the SID_FIRST frame is received. When the VAD flag indicates active speech, or when the VAD flag has been set to zero less than the predetermined number of frames ago, the received NO_DATA frame can be classified with a high degree of reliability as active speech, i.e., considered as transmitter, network or terminal-initiated signalling, and can be substituted by a SPEECH_LOST frame. When the VAD flag was set to zero eight frames ago or earlier, the NO_DATA frame is classified as DTX.

The invention discloses a dense correspondence prediction method based on non-rigid point clouds. The method comprises the following steps: respectively extracting geometric features of a three-dimensional template and point clouds by using a graph convolutional neural network and a plurality of set abstraction layers; utilizing a global regression network to deduce global displacement according to the associated global features of the template and the point cloud; utilizing a local feature embedding technology, introducing an attention mechanism, and fusing local depth features of the point cloud and geometric features of the graph; utilizing a local regression network to predict displacement increment; utilizing a weak supervision fine tuning method to process the real point cloud, and unifying the real point cloud and the two-stage regression network in a complete framework. The local geometric features of the point cloud are fully utilized, the attention strategy is adopted to improve the corresponding precision, the weak supervision fine tuning method is adopted to robustly process the real point cloud, and the conditions that the prediction model is unreasonably distorted and is obviously inconsistent with the input shape due to the lack of training data are effectively improved.

The invention relates to a method for detecting a salient object in an image based on dark channel prior and regional covariance. Local and global estimation is mainly adopted to define the significance of each super-pixel. The accuracy of salient object detection is directly influenced by feature extraction, the feature extraction is a key step of converting visual stimulation into visual information for processing, and the saliency of each superpixel is calculated through two descriptors, namely a dark channel feature and a covariance feature. In order to optimize the saliency map, a map model is utilized to enhance the visual effect. The overall performance of the proposed saliency model is verified on a foggy image dataset in order to prove the robustness of the model and detect the advantage of a salient target in a low-contrast image. According to the invention, challenging foggy weather images can be well processed. This means that the model can more uniformly display the foreground object and can more fully suppress the foggy day background, which proves the superiority of the proposed model.

A test-specimen holder for gripping test specimens to perform material tests in the form of compressive and tensile tests has two grabs coaxially aligned relative to each other and capable of gripping the test specimen. The grabs have angled faces on sides facing away from the test specimen gripped between them. Respective hydraulic gripping cylinders are connected to the grabs for shifting same axially and a wedge can engage the angled faces of both grabs. A fluid-operated synchronization cylinder is connected to the wedge for moving the wedge perpendicular to the axis of the grabs into and out of engagement with the angled faces of the grabs. A fluid reservoir is connected through a 4/2 directional control valve with the gripping cylinders for actuating same. An adjustable first pressure-limiting valve and a check valve connected parallel thereto are connected between the 4/2 valve and the synchronization cylinder.

Provided is a method for handling a section of a wind turbine, including the steps: Inserting an inner part) of a first tool into an open first end of the section and/or inserting the first end of the section into an outer part of the first tool, actuating the first tool to exert pressure onto an inner surface and/or an outer surface of a wall of the section along the entire circumference or in multiple areas spaced along the circumference of the wall, and moving the first tool while the first tool is exerting the pressure on the inner and/or outer surface to move the section.

Processes for removing residual spin solvent from a gel spun, UHMwPE filament having an effective diameter of above 16 μm, comprise the steps of removing residual spin solvent from the filament to a level of below 100 ppm at elevated temperature, while keeping the filament taut. Gel spun UHMwPE filaments having an effective diameter of above 16 μm and a residual spin solvent residue of less than 100 ppm are also provided. Preferably the filament has a creep rate, measured at 50° C., under a load, so that the initial stress is 600 MPa, of less than 5·10⁻⁶ sec⁻¹.