Abstract: A disaster emergency rescue system is provided, which may include a first mobile device and a second mobile device. The first mobile device executes a first application to broadcast a positioning signal based on a first communication protocol. The second mobile device receives the positioning signal to activate a second application, originally in suspended status or not-running status, installed on the second mobile device. After the second application is activated, the first application of the first mobile device communicates with the second application of the second mobile device.

Abstract: An assessment system for structural concept learning, which may include a situation interface, a plurality of learning concept units and a concept connection interface. A user can select some of learning concept units according to the information of the situation interface, and use the proposition containers and the relation operators of the concept connection interface to define the connection relation and order relation between the selected learning concept units; after the connection relation and the order relation are compared with the standard situation solution, the comparison can be used to analysis and present the user's structural knowledge learning outcome, such concept mapping.

Abstract: An organic nanofiber includes a fiber body containing multiple inorganic oxide particles selected from polycrystalline titanium dioxide particles and polycrystalline tin(IV) oxide particles, and having a particle size ranging from 15 to 75 nm. A method for manufacturing the inorganic nanofibers, including: mixing a metal precursor, an organic polymer and a solvent to obtain a solution, the metal precursor being a titanium-containing precursor or a tin-containing precursor; electrospinning the solution at a relative humidity ranging from 50 to 60% to form multiple nanofibers; and annealing the nanofibers at a temperature ranging from 600 to 800° C. to obtain multiple inorganic nanofibers.

Abstract: A physiological information collecting system and a transceiver device thereof are configured to collect physiological information from animal bodies. The transceiver device includes a front-end circuit, a follower circuit, a quadrature delay line and an output circuit. The front-end circuit separates a discontinuous signal into an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal. The follower circuit outputs a control voltage and rotates the in-phase signal by a predetermined phase angle to output a follower signal. The quadrature delay line rotates the quadrature signal by a corresponding phase angle according to the control voltage. The output circuit synthesizes the follower signal and the quadrature signal and outputs a data signal by demodulating the discontinuous signal.

Abstract: An indoor air quality control system, including a plurality of fixed detectors, an unmanned vehicle platform and a cloud computing platform. The fixed detectors detect the indoor air quality at respective designated positions in an indoor area. The unmanned vehicle platform moves along a designated route in the indoor area. When an index corresponding to the indoor air quality at a designated position reaches an air pollution warning value, a processing unit of the unmanned vehicle platform controls the unmanned vehicle platform to move towards a corresponding one of the designated positions and controls an air cleaning device on the unmanned vehicle platform to perform air cleaning. The cloud computing platform receives the indoor air quality detected by the respective fixed detectors and the mobile air quality detected by a mobile detector on the unmanned vehicle platform over the Internet.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a porous membrane includes: mixing silicon carbide powders and a coagulant to form a first mixture; adding a sintering aid to the first mixture to form a second mixture; compressing the second mixture; and sintering the compressed second mixture. More particularly, the coagulant is in an amount of 1% to 3% by weight of the silicon carbide powders and the sintering aid is in an amount of 10% by weight of the first mixture.

Abstract: The present invention provides a block-based principal component analysis transformation method and a device thereof. The principal component analysis transformation method includes: obtaining an input signal; dividing the input signal and obtaining a plurality of one-dimension vectors corresponding to the divided input signal, wherein a number of the one-dimension vectors is a division number; after arranging the one-dimension vectors to a two-dimension vector, subtracting an average value of the one-dimension vectors of the division number to obtain a zero-mean vector; calculating a covariance matrix of the zero-mean vector; calculating an eigenvector of the covariance matrix; multiplying the zero-mean vector by the eigenvector to obtain a projection coefficient.

Abstract: A filling pipe for use in high-temperature heat pipe filling operation includes an alkali metal filling unit, metallic pipe fixing unit, hermetic seal cover and stopping net. The alkali metal filling unit has a filling body, a receiving space disposed in the filling body. A feed inlet and a feeding pipe are disposed at the top and bottom of the filling body, respectively. A vacuum-generating component is disposed at the filling body laterally. The metallic pipe fixing unit has a fixing body and a taper opening disposed thereon and adapted to limit the metallic pipe. When the fixing body gets connected to the filling body, the feeding pipe is inserted into metallic pipe. The hermetic seal cover covers separably the feed inlet. The stopping net is movably disposed in the receiving space. Therefore, solid alkali metals are filled into a metallic pipe easily and safely.

Abstract: A composition for inhibiting ?-glucosidase has lower side effects to a user, other than the inhibition of ?-glucosidase. The composition comprises adenine, (3-hydroxy-dl-proline, nicotinic acid, (3,6-dioxo-piperazin-2-yl)-acetic acid amide, 2-ethylhexyl heptanoate, and a pharmaceutically compatible salt.

Abstract: A rotary emulsification device structure includes a housing, a emulsification element and a rotary disk. The housing includes a chamber with a first inlet, a second inlet and an outlet. The emulsification element is disposed in the chamber and divides the chamber into a first space and a second space. The first inlet is disposed to communicate with the first space, and the second inlet and the outlet are disposed to communicate with the second space. The emulsification element includes a plurality of pores communicating with the first space and the second space. The rotary disk is disposed in the second space and rotates in the second space when being driven. The rotary disk includes a plurality of through holes.

Abstract: A method and an image processing apparatus for image-based object feature description are provided. In the method, an object of interest in an input image is detected and a centroid and a direction angle of the object of interest are calculated. Next, a contour of the object of interest is recognized and a distance and a relative angle of each pixel on the contour to the centroid are calculated, in which the relative angle of each pixel is calibrated by using the direction angle. Then, a 360-degree range centered on the centroid is equally divided into multiple angle intervals and the pixels on the contour are separated into multiple groups according to a range covered by each angle interval. Afterwards, a maximum among the distances of the pixels in each group is obtained and used as a feature value of the group. Finally, the feature values of the groups are normalized and collected to form a feature vector that serves as a feature descriptor of the object of interest.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a carbon-based composite material includes: bearing a carbon-based composite material layer containing an amorphous carbon matrix and a plurality of equi-axed ultrananocrystalline diamond grains dispersed in the amorphous carbon matrix on a susceptor and applying a plasma treatment on the carbon-based composite material layer in a plasma environment containing a C2 species and a CN species. The susceptor is provided with a negative bias voltage, and is bombarded by the plasma species to be naturally heated to a working temperature less than 500° C. The C2 species and CN species are attracted by the negative bias voltage to the carbon-based composite material layer to make the carbon-based composite material layer generate a phase transformation, so as to facilitate growth of each of the adjacent equi-axed ultrananocrystalline diamond into a nano needle-like diamond grain wrapped by a nano graphite phase.

Abstract: A method and an image processing apparatus for image-based object feature description are provided. In the method, an object of interest in an input image is detected and a centroid and a direction angle of the object of interest are calculated. Next, a contour of the object of interest is recognized and a distance and a relative angle of each pixel on the contour to the centroid are calculated, in which the relative angle of each pixel is calibrated by using the direction angle. Then, a 360-degree range centered on the centroid is equally divided into multiple angle intervals and the pixels on the contour are separated into multiple groups according to a range covered by each angle interval. Afterwards, a maximum among the distances of the pixels in each group is obtained and used as a feature value of the group. Finally, the feature values of the groups are normalized and collected to form a feature vector that serves as a feature descriptor of the object of interest.

Abstract: A method for producing alpha-glucosidase inhibitors utilizing Paenibacillus sp., wherein utilizing a Paenibacillus sp. strain which is deposited at Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen and Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ) and numbered No. DSM 32521 to produce the alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, the Paenibacillus sp. Strain is cultivated in a commercial culture medium or a shrimp/crab residue-contained culture medium, and the alpha-glucosidase inhibitors is separated from a fermented supernatant. The alpha-glucosidase inhibitors have strong inhibitory activity.

Abstract: A gripping device comprises a base, a first finger rotatably or movably connected to the base, and a second finger connected to the base. The first finger and the second finger are capable of selectively entering an opened gripping mode and a closed gripping mode to grip an object. In the opened gripping mode, the first and second fingers grip the object from the same side of the object. In the closed gripping mode, the first and second fingers grip the object from different sides of the object.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cross-linking non-fluoro hydrophobic aqueous polyurethane dispersion, which is produced by selecting a compound comprising alcohols, amines, acids, saturated or unsaturated (double-bonded or epoxidized) aliphatic long chain carbon-carbon groups or polydimethylsiloxane comprising alcohol groups, amines, oxosilane to be reacted with IPDI to obtain a PU prepolymer; adding a compound having tertiary amines to neutralize the carboxylic acid of PU prepolymer and adding water to disperse the PU prepolymer; and adding a ambient temperature cross-linking agent to obtain a cross-linking hydrophobic aqueous PU dispersion of the present invention. The hydrophobic aqueous-based PU resin has no fluorine which is friendly to the environment, and may further self cross-links on its applications on fabric, paper, wood, glass and metal surfaces, respectively on drying at ambient temperature which is energy saving process.

Abstract: A method of preparing polyurethane prepolymer does not require using a toxic isocyanate monomer (manufactured by harmful phosgene) as a raw material. Epoxy resin and carbon dioxide are used as major raw materials to form cyclic carbonates to be reacted with a functional group oligomer, and then amino groups in a hydrophilic (ether group) or hydrophobic (siloxane group) diamine polymer are used for performing a ring-opening polymerization, and the microwave irradiation is used in the ring-opening polymerization to efficiently synthesize the amino-terminated PU prepolymer, and then an acrylic group at an end is added to manufacture an UV cross-linking PU (UV-PU) oligomer which can be coated onto a fabric surface, and the fabric is dried by UV radiation for a surface treatment to form a washing-resisted long lasting hydrophilic or hydrophobic PU fabric.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a hard, water-resistant anti-fog coating, and particularly relates to a method for manufacturing a hard, water-resistant anti-fog coating on plastic material. In this method, an organic-inorganic hard adhesion layer and a hydrophilic anti-fog coating film are prepared for manufacturing a hard, water-resistant anti-fog coating. Both of the organic-inorganic hard adhesion layer and the hydrophilic anti-fog coating have C?C double bonds. Therefore, the organic-inorganic hard adhesion layer and the hydrophilic anti-fog coating are adhered to each other tightly. It brings high hardness, high water resistance and good anti-fog effect.

Abstract: An image dynamic range compression with local contrast enhancement method for an image processing device is provided. The method includes the following steps. A plurality of input pixels of an image including a first input pixel are received, and an input luminance pixel value of each of the input pixels as well as a darkness intensity level of the image are obtained. A filter result of the first input pixel is obtained according to filter computation on the input luminance pixel values; an image-related parameter is obtained according to image-related computation on the darkness intensity level. The image-related parameter, the filter result of the first input pixel, and the input luminance pixel value of the first input pixel are transformed into an output luminance pixel value of the first input pixel according to a non-linear intensity transfer function and a dynamic range compression with local contrast enhancement algorithm.

Abstract: A plasma-generating device includes an anode plate and a cathode plate spaced apart from the anode plate. The cathode plate includes a substrate and a hybrid diamond layer formed on the substrate. The hybrid diamond layer includes ultra-nanocrystalline diamond grains, an amorphous carbon disposed among and bonded to the ultra-nanocrystalline diamond grains, micro-crystalline diamond grains disposed among the ultra-nanocrystalline diamond grains, and a graphite phase disposed among the ultra-nanocrystalline diamond grains. Each of the micro-crystalline diamond grains is surrounded by the graphite phase.