Abstract: This disclosure relates to a digital holographic microscope which is robust to an external environment. According to an aspect of the present embodiment, there is provided an optical system for a digital holographic microscope, the optical system including a beam splitter which reflects a light radiated from a light source toward an object, or passes a light reflected from and traveling from the object; an objective lens focusing the light reflected by the beam splitter on the object; a transflective mirror which is located on the surface of the objective lens and is determined to be transparent or reflective depending on a polarization direction of a light incident to the transflective mirror; and a wave plate which converts the light passing through the beam splitter into a circularly polarized light.

Abstract: The computing device receives data for a plurality of events that includes a timestamp associated with a digital traffic campaign in an event processing system. Based on the timestamp of the data for each event, the computing device executes operations comprising: applying filtering using digital signal processing to the event count for the combined data for each of the one or more intervals, executing a model to compute one or more backward difference approximations for the one or more candidate systems time constants from the evaluated exponential curve, and selecting a system time constant that predicts a first time instant wherein the data for the plurality of events approaches a point on a horizontal asymptote for the evaluated exponential curve. The computing device determines an epoch for the selected system time constant and outputs the determined epoch for the selected system time constant in the graphical user interface.

Abstract: A shock indicator, including a first cover, a base, a counterweight, and a shrapnel, is provided. The first cover has an accommodating space. The base is disposed in the accommodating space of the first cover. The counterweight is located in the accommodating space. The counterweight has a pivot end pivotally disposed on the base, and the counterweight rotates relative to the base with the pivot end as a rotation axis. The shrapnel is disposed on the base and is located in the accommodating space. The counterweight and the shrapnel are located on two opposite sides of the base. The shrapnel has two ends, and the two ends of the shrapnel clamp the counterweight along a contour of the counterweight.

Abstract: Provided is a binder composition for a negative electrode which can achieve both a high capacity and an excellent capacity retention rate of a lithium-ion secondary battery. The binder composition for a lithium-ion secondary battery negative electrode of this invention is characterized by containing a vinylphosphonic acid- or vinylphosphonic acid ester-derived vinyl phosphorus polymer and a cellulose-based water-soluble polymer.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for measuring texture characteristics of a holographic image that is reconstructed optically by a holographic display device. Provided is an apparatus for measuring texture characteristics of a holographic image, which measures texture characteristics of a holographic image that is reconstructed optically by a holographic display device.

Abstract: A computing task dispatching method, a terminal electronic device and a computing system using the same are provided. The computing task dispatching method includes the following steps. At least one terminal electronic device monitors a terminal hardware resource usage information of a plurality of sub-tasks. According to the terminal hardware resource usage information, a work dispatching decision is determined to dispatch the sub-tasks to the terminal electronic device or an edge server. The work dispatching decision is used to increase or maximize a utilization rate of the terminal electronic device. The work dispatching decisions is executed.

Abstract: A method for producing carbon nanotube sheets is provided. The method may include steps of: dispersing carbon nanotubes and cellulose in a solvent to form a slurry, stirring the slurry, and depositing the slurry onto a substrate using a coating method to form a carbon nanotube sheet. The carbon nanotube sheet may include 0.1 wt. % to about 95 wt. % cellulose relative to the total weight of the carbon nanotube sheet and may have an emissivity of about 0.05 to about 0.3. The carbon nanotube sheet may be utilized to provide infrared shielding to a surface.

Abstract: Provided is a quantum imaging device. The device includes a first light source configured to generate first light, a first photon pair generation part configured to generate a first entangled photon pair using the first light, a first beam splitter configured to separate the first entangled photon pair into a first signal idler and a first signal line, a first detector configured to receive the first signal idler, a first mirror configured to provide the first signal line to a target, a second detector configured to receive the first signal line transmitted or reflected to the target, and a signal processor connected to the first and second detectors and configured to obtain a target image by comparing a measurement image with a reference image.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a bonded object or a method for manufacturing a bonded object, the bonded object having bases bonded therein while placing an adhesive layer in between, the adhesive layer being obtained from a fluororubber composition that contains at least one fluororubber selected from fluoroelastomer (FKM) and perfluoroelastomer (FFKM), and has a Mooney viscosity (ML 1+10) at 121° C., measured in accordance with ASTM D1646, of 80 to 115.

Abstract: A transformer bushing partial discharge monitoring chip device and method are provided. An acquisition unit comprises three sensor modules installed at end screens of three-phase bushings of a transformer respectively for acquiring partial discharge signals and power frequency current signals from the transformer bushing end screens; each of the sensor modules is connected to an SIP digitization unit through a wire; the SIP digitization unit is fixedly installed beneath a base of the acquisition unit for digitizing the partial discharge signals and the power frequency current signals; an output end of the SIP digitization unit is connected to an input end of a background processing terminal.

Abstract: A biomaterial structure for proliferation of stem cells includes at least one lattice sub-structure, and a structural gradient in which one or more geometrical features of the biomaterial structure varies along at least one dimension of the biomaterial structure in three-dimensional space. In some embodiments, the structural gradient is accomplished by the first and second lattice sub-structures having at least one different geometrical parameter.

Abstract: Fabry-Pérot filters having different cavity thicknesses are formed in arrays on a substrate for spectral sensing. The filter array can be coupled to a detector array to make a compact, low size, weight and power spectral sensor that detects spectral information in a scene viewed by the detector array. The spectral sensor can be used in a compact spectrometer to detect the presence of harmful chemical vapors.

Abstract: A hydride ion conductor is represented by: MAMBH4-xFx??Formula (1), where MA is selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr, and Ba, MB is selected from the group consisting of Mg and Ca, and is different from MA, and x is 0<x<4.

Abstract: A composite metal foil and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The composite metal foil includes at least a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The first metal layer is copper foil, nickel foil, stainless steel foil, or a combination thereof. The second metal layer is disposed on a surface of the first metal layer. A contact angle of a surface of the second metal layer to liquid lithium metal is lower than 90 degrees.

Abstract: A method, scheduling server and system for improving automated scheduling are provided. The automated scheduling is at least partially based on user settings input by users includes: obtaining user settings for the users, the user settings defining user preferences and personal constraints of each user, obtaining system boundary conditions from a schedule goal and technical conditions to achieve a desired goal and calculating a schedule. The acceptance probabilities for alternative user settings are predicted. At least one alternative user setting is selected and an alternative schedule for each selected alternative setting is calculated. The alternative schedules are compared to the initially calculated schedule with respect to quality measure. After reading in the user's response to the suggested alternative setting another alternative setting is selected in case the user declined, or the systems proceeds with accepting the alternative setting as obtained user specific setting.

Abstract: An acquisition control unit acquires spot urine nutritional component indexes of nutritional component indexes contained in one spot urine excreted by a human. The nutritional component indexes two or more selected from a sodium/potassium ratio indicating a ratio, a magnesium/creatinine ratio, an urea-nitrogen/creatinine ratio, and a sodium/creatinine ratio. The determination control unit compares the spot urine nutritional component index with a reference value preset for the spot urine nutritional component index for each of spot urine nutritional component indexes, and determines whether or not the spot urine nutritional component index is equal to or more than the reference value. The decision control unit decides a diet evaluation pattern indicating a balance of the diet of the human from the determination result for each of the determined spot urine nutritional component indexes. The output control unit outputs a diet evaluation comment improving the balance of the diet of the human.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor package including a circuit board, a semiconductor chip on the circuit board, a heat dissipation member adjacent to the semiconductor chip, and a heat transmission member between the semiconductor chip and the heat dissipation member, the heat transmission member including a resin insulating body and phase change metal particles connected to each other in the resin insulating body, wherein the phase change metal particles connect the semiconductor chip and the heat dissipation member, the phase change metal particles being configured to transmit heat generated by the semiconductor chip to the heat dissipation member.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polarized light generating device based on an optical waveguide, which includes first to fourth input optical waveguides, respectively, for receiving input light from an outside, first to fifth optical splitters configured to receive at least one light and output the received at least one light as at least one light, and an optical converter configured to receive at least one light from the fifth optical splitter and convert the received light to generate polarized light. The polarized light generating device receives the input light through one of the first to fourth input optical waveguides, and generates a first polarized light, a second polarized light, a third polarized light, and a fourth polarized light. The first to fourth polarized lights belong to elements of two arbitrary two-dimensional mutually unbiased basis sets.

Abstract: There is provided a system for intelligent industrial safety monitoring. The system includes a global monitoring unit configured to generate first monitoring information by globally monitoring a work area of an industrial site, a local monitoring unit attached to a work object at work within the work area and configured to generate second monitoring information by monitoring a surrounding area of the work object, a communication unit configured to transmit and receive data to and from the global monitoring unit and the local monitoring unit, and a first controller configured to generate information on a location of the work object based on the first monitoring information and track a moving path of the work object and at least one second controller configured to predict an at-risk object that has approached within a predetermined distance of the work object based on the second monitoring information.

Abstract: A machine learning system for predicting a time dependent property of a material system includes a processor and a memory communicably coupled to the processor. Stored in the memory is an acquisition module and a machine learning module. The machine learning module includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor during each of one or more iterations, to train a machine learning model to learn an initial state vector, Hermitian operators encoding observables, and a Hamiltonian of a material system from the Schrödinger equation of the material system propagated in a time series. The machine learning model also predicts, based at least in part on the learned initial state vector, Hermitian operators, and Hamiltonian, at least one time dependent property of the material system at time not equal to zero.