Abstract: The present invention relates to a flow rate measuring method comprising: establishing a database which includes a plurality of flow profiles; measuring the flow in a flow field using a plurality of transducers wherein in between every two transducers there exists an acoustic path which indicates the flow speed of the flow between the two transducers, and a feature map can be derived from the flow speeds; comparing the feature map with the database; selecting a matching flow profile from the flow profiles wherein the matching flow profile has a plurality of weighting functions corresponding to the acoustic paths; and calibrating the flow speed using the weighting functions.

Abstract: An atmospheric water generator for extracting water droplets from ambient air includes an insulating substrate, a plurality of electrode film units, and a liquid crystal/polymer composite film. Each of surface regions of the liquid crystal/polymer composite film has a plurality of liquid crystal molecules each having a hydrophilic functional group and a hydrophobic moiety. Each of the surface regions normally has one of hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties. When a voltage is applied to one of the electrode film units, the respective surface region is switched to have the other one of hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties, to thereby allow the water droplets condensed from the ambient air to move on the surface regions.

Abstract: Provided is a continuous microalgae culture module, including an outdoor culture unit, a high-density culture unit, a pigment induced unit, and a harvesting unit. A method of culturing microalgae containing macular pigment is also provided, including sequentially culturing microalgae with medium in the outdoor culture unit and the high-density culture unit, producing macular pigment in the pigment induced unit through different light irradiation, and collecting the microalgal biomass containing macular pigment in the harvesting unit.

Abstract: A silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor with a wide-bandgap III-V compound semiconductor drain and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. The method fabricates a hundred nanometer-scale hole in a (100) silicon substrate to expose the (111) facet of the silicon substrate, which favors to use selective area growth to form lattice matched III-V materials with high quality.

Abstract: A signal processing method is provided. First, at least one transmitted signal is output to at least one target, and the target reflects at least one reflected signal to receiving antennas, which then generate receiving signals upon receipt of the reflected signal. Next, the transmitted signal and each receiving signal are processed to generate processing signals. The processing signals are arranged in a form of matrix, to generate a channel coefficient matrix having M×N channel coefficient matrix blocks. Next, the channel coefficient matrix is divided into Ndivide×Mdivide secondary channel coefficient matrices, which are then substituted into a snapshot vector matrix equation to generate a snapshot vector matrix for calculating an angle of the target. The signal processing method can establish an optimal secondary channel coefficient matrix arrangement by using a special signal preprocessing manner, to improve the resolution and accuracy of the estimated angle parameter of the target.

Abstract: Pressure assisted positioning method and device thereof are disclosed in the present invention. The pressure assisted positioning device is exerted for positioning a target under the circumstance of altitude change since the target enters a specific region. The pressure assisted positioning method includes the following steps. First, confirming the entrance of the specific region of the target and detecting a plurality of pressure data. Then, calculating a pressure variation between the two selected pressure data. At last, comparing the pressure variation to a threshold. An altitude change within the specific region is confirmed as the pressure variation is greater than the threshold. On the other hand, as the pressure variation is greater than the threshold, it refers to no altitude change within the specific region.

Abstract: A radio frequency integrated circuit includes a silicon CMOS substrate with at least one CMOS device buried therein, and at least one thin film transistor formed on the silicon CMOS substrate and functioning as a radio frequency device. The thin film transistor includes a T-shaped gate electrode. A method for the fabricating a radio frequency integrated circuit is also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of treating a subject having arterial stenosis. The method comprises: (a) providing a plurality of image frames of an artery of the subject taken in sequence; (b) in a plurality of cross-sections of the artery, determining a maximum diameter and a minimum diameter of each of the plurality of cross-sections of the artery among the plurality of image frames of the step (a); (c) calculating an average vasodilation ratio of the artery base on the maximum diameter and the minimum diameter determined in the step (b); and (d) treating the subject based on the average vasodilation ratio calculated in the step (c), by implanting a stent to the subject when the average vasodilation ratio is equal to or greater than 0.2; or administering to the subject an effective amount of a vasodilator when the average vasodilation ratio is less than 0.2.

Abstract: A text comparison method is adapted for comparing a query file with an existing file. The text comparison method includes: converting the existing file, by an irreversible method, to obtain a first intermediate file, wherein the first intermediate file includes a plurality of characters, and a number of different characters of the plurality of characters is a predetermined value; receiving a second intermediate file which is a file converted from the query file by the irreversible method; and according to a predetermined string length, comparing the second intermediate file with the first intermediate file by a high repeating-character comparison method to output a comparison result. Therefore, the second intermediate file can be created offline and then only the second intermediate file but not the original query file is submitted through internet for private text comparison.

Abstract: The invention provides a quantum dot manufacturing method and related quantum dot semiconductor structure. The quantum dot semiconductor structure includes: a conductive ridge on a substrate; an insulative layer covering the substrate and the conductive ridge, wherein the insulative layer includes a top portion and two sidewalls over the conductive ridge; a plurality of quantum dots respectively embedded within a plurality of silicon dioxide spacer islands, which are adhered to the sidewalls of the insulative layer; and a plurality of conductive ledges adhered to the silicon dioxide spacer islands, wherein each of the conductive ledges is a portion of an electrode with alignment to the corresponding quantum dot.

Abstract: In a post-quantum asymmetric key generation method and system, a processing unit generates, based on a prime and an arithmetic function or a classical string, a prime vector which has an infinite number of components; generates a prime array based on the prime vector; generates an associated matrix based on the prime array; obtains, based on the associated matrix and a first reference prime, a first reference inverse prime array that serves as a private key; and obtains a public key that is paired with the private key based on a second reference inverse prime array. The second reference inverse prime array is obtained based on the associated matrix, the first reference prime, a second reference prime, and a randomization array.

Abstract: A microRNA (miRNA) expression signature for predicting triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) recurrence is provided. The miRNA expression signature consists essentially of hsa-miR-139-5p, hsa-miR-10b-5p, hsa-miR-486-5p, hsa-miR-455-3p, hsa-miR-107, hsa-miR-146b-5p, hsa-miR-324-5p, and hsa-miR-20a-5p.

Abstract: A system for synthesizing signal of user equipment and a method thereof are provided. The system includes a physical channel modeler and a physical channel training module. The physical channel modeler receives geo information of a field under test of and a sparse real physical field channel feature to build a physical channel model. The physical channel modeler estimates a plurality of predefined positions of the geo information to obtain a plurality of simulated physical field channel features corresponding to the predefined positions. The physical channel training module receives and performs training on the geo information, the sparse real physical field channel feature and the simulated physical field channel features by using an AI algorithm to perform an inference of a fully real physical field channel feature.

Abstract: A rotary coding disc and a method for designing the same is applied to an optical encoder. N-bit De Bruijn sequences include 1 and 0. The N-bit De Bruijn sequence has the maximum binary code and the minimum binary code. When a binary code having M bits is located between the maximum binary code and the minimum binary code, the corresponding N-bit De Bruijn sequences are selected as diagonal De Bruijn sequences, wherein 2 N - 2 ? N 2 - N 2 < M < 2 N - 2 ? N 2 + N 2 . The De Bruijn sequence may be converted into a De Bruijn energy level. The total number of 1 consecutively neighboring 0 and (N?1) consecutively neighboring N of the De Bruijn energy level is calculated. The transparent areas and the opaque areas are located based on the De Bruijn sequence or the De Bruijn energy level that corresponds to the total number less than or equal to N.

Abstract: A structure of trench transistors includes the following elements. A substrate serves as a drain of the structure of trench transistors. An epitaxial layer is disposed on the substrate. A plurality of trenches are disposed in the epitaxial layer. A plurality of gate insulator layers are respectively disposed on the inner surfaces of the trenches. A plurality of gates are respectively disposed on the gate insulator layers. A plurality of first base regions are respectively disposed in the epitaxial layer between the adjacent trenches, and have a first depth from the top surface of the epitaxial layer. A plurality of second base regions are respectively disposed in the epitaxial layer adjacent to the sidewalls of the trenches, and each has a second depth from the bottom surface of the first base region. A plurality of sources are respectively disposed in the first base region beside the sidewalls of the trenches.

Abstract: A high-speed data-plane packet aggregation and disaggregation method is disclosed. The method includes following steps: receiving a plurality of packets by the P4 switch; parsing each of the plurality of packets by using a parse graph; determining the type of the packets by using a match-action table; conducting packet aggregation and disaggregation process at the pipeline of the P4 switch; and transmitting the aggregated packet or the original data packet to a deparser of the P4 switch and outputting the aggregated packet or the original data packet by the P4 switch.

Abstract: A system for analyzing brain tissue components based on magnetic resonance image. The system includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores instructions. The processor accesses and executes the instructions to perform the following: extracting maps of tissue from a brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) corresponding to normal subjects; averaging the maps of tissue according to a number of the normal subjects to generate reference maps that correspond to different tissues; receiving a brain MRI sample having a targeted region; and analyzing the brain MRI sample based on the reference maps and the targeted region to generate an analysis result, in which the analysis result indicates a ratio of tissues in the targeted region of the brain MRI sample.

Abstract: An optical pulse measuring method measuring an optical pulse generated from a pulse light source is provided. The method includes: splitting the optical pulse and then focusing them at a measuring point, so as to generate gas plasma by the autocorrelation of the split optical pulses; receiving the sound signal from the gas plasma and generate a plasma sound signal; and using the plasma sound signal to calculate the characteristics of the optical pulse. A measuring device is also provided.

Abstract: A reinforcement learning method for frame-level bit allocation is disclosed. The reinforcement learning method includes steps of: (a) at a testing time, computing a state according to a plurality of features; (b) determining an action according to a policy; (c) determining a number of bits allocated to an i-th frame in a group of pictures (GOP) according to the action, a GOP-level bit budget and the state, wherein i is a positive integer; (d) encoding the i-th frame according to the number of bits allocated to the i-th frame in the GOP; and (e) repeating the steps (a)˜(d) until an end of the GOP.

Abstract: A method includes steps of: measuring a variation in joint angle of a knee of a cyclist to obtain joint angle data; sensing a torque applied on a crank of a cycle or pedaling force applied to a pedal of the cycle to obtain force data; measuring an angular position of the crank to obtain crank angle data; measuring an electrical potential variation of a measured muscle of the cyclist to generate a measured EMG signal; estimating activation data and joint moment data based on aforementioned data and characteristics data; converting the activation data into estimated EMG signals based on the measured EMG signal and the activation data; and computing a coactivation parameter based on the aforementioned EMG signals.