Otis Elevator Company

Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Chinese Academy of Scinces

Shan Li

Kun Wu

Qian Jack Liu

Xiangdong Fu

Peile Duan

HengFeng Xie

Jianfeng Wu

Ming Chen

Donald F Cominelli

Hong Chen

Uwe Schoenauer

Jiangwei Huang

Shaokui Wang

Xiaolin Harry Wang

Pumeng Wei

Yonghang Tian

Kui Yu

Meifang Li

The invention relates to methods for increasing nitrogen uptake, nitrogen assimilation, nitrogen use efficiency as well as yield in a plant, without affecting plant height, the method comprising increasing the expression or levels of a growth regulatory factor (GRF). Also described are genetically altered plants characterised by the above phenotype as well as methods of producing such plants.

Methods of increasing nutrient use efficiency

A jumping elevator system and a jumping method used in construction process of building. The jumping method includes preliminarily positioning and mounting, by means of a temporary working platform at a first height, a guide rail on the hoistway substantially corresponding to the first height; removing the temporary working platform from the position, corresponding to the first height, of the hoistway; lifting, by use of a lifting assembly, a jumping platform from a second height to a third height, wherein the third height is greater than the second height and less than or equal to the first height; and lifting, by use of the lifting assembly, the elevator car to extend its traveling distance in the hoistway, and operating, during lifting of the elevator car, on the top of the elevator car for reinforcing the mount of the guide rail.

Low cost roped jump lift concept

System and method are disclosed for stream computing. An exemplary method may include receive data from a data processing module and determining whether the received data are effective data that are neither incomplete nor duplicative. The method may also include obtaining the effective data when it is determined that the received data are either incomplete or duplicative. In addition, the method may include storing the effective data in a log file of a file system.

Stream computing system and method

The present application provides methods and systems for limiting data traffic. According to some embodiments, one exemplary method includes: determining, at an application layer, one or more parent process objects corresponding to a service object; creating at least one corresponding child process object by using the parent process objects respectively, and allocating a maximum input/output (I/O) bandwidth threshold for the child process object and prompting, when it is detected that the child process object inputs or outputs a network data packet, an operating system kernel layer to limit data traffic of the network data packet according to the maximum I/O bandwidth threshold. Embodiments of the present application can improve the stability of network isolation.

Method and system for controlling network data traffic in a hierarchical system

The invention relates to plants with an improved organ phenotype. In particular, the invention relates to rice plants which have better grain quality and altered seed phenotype due to increased expression of GW7 (LOC_Os07g41200) or due to a combination of increased expression of GW7 and reduced expression of GS3 (OsSPL16). Grains show increased length and increased slenderness.

Rice plants with altered seed phenotype and quality

A detection method for elevator brake moment solves the problems that operation of the brake detection device in the prior art is required to be manually executed, the brake detection device is not convenient and facilitative to operate, the function is singular and the brake moment change trend and the brake wear trend cannot be reflected. In the method, by inputting stagewise torque current to the motor and determine whether the torque during rotation of a motor is within the design moment range of a brake, whether torque of the brake is enough can be determined and the brake wear trend can be analyzed according to torque recorded at each time. The method has advantages that the automatic detection is performed periodically, the functions are diversified, the detection accuracy is high, the brake moment change trend can be reflected and the brake wear trend can also be reflected.

Detection method for elevator brake moment

An elevator system () includes an elevator hoistway () having a plurality of landings (), an elevator car () configured to move within the elevator hoistway (), and a position determining system () having a plurality of landing position indicators () and a plurality of dummy position indicators (). At least one of the landing position indicators () is mounted proximate to each of the plurality of landings (). Each dummy position indicator () is mounted within the elevator hoistway () at a predetermined vertical position between various of the plurality of landing position indicators (). The position determining system () additionally includes a sensor () configured to determine when the elevator car is adjacent one of the plurality of landing position indicators () or one of the plurality of dummy position indicators (). The plurality of landing position indicators () and the plurality of dummy position indicators () are positioned to form a sequence of unique patterns. The position determining system is more cost effective and timesaving than the absolute position reference systems.

Position recovery via dummy landing patterns

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Hangzhou, China

Shan Li