Abstract: Disclosed are a glycoprotein analysis kit and use thereof. The glycoprotein analysis kit comprises a fluorescently labeled antibody, a fluorescently labeled biomaterial, and a support, and is used in a dual probing method for analyzing the content of a glycoprotein and profiling the oligosaccharide chain, simultaneously, and a method for selecting a single cell producing the glycoprotein having a desired glycosylation pattern. Also, a single cell producing the glycoprotein having a desired glycosylation pattern is provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to inherently electrostatic dissipative polymers, such as thermoplastic urethanes (TPU), and compositions thereof. The present invention provides a composition comprising: (a) an inherently dissipative polymer and (b) a halogen-free metal salt of an amidoalkanesulfonic acid, a hydrocarbyl-substituted benzenesulfonic acid, or a mixture thereof, or a polymer derived therefrom. The invention also provides a shaped polymeric article comprising the inherently dissipative polymer compositions described herein. The invention also provides a process of making the inherently dissipative polymer compositions described herein. The process includes the step of mixing a halogen-free metal-containing salt into an inherently dissipative polymer.

Abstract: A method of preparing a nucleic acid library in droplets in contact with oil, including: (a) blunt-ending nucleic acid fragments in a droplet in the oil to yield blunt-ended nucleic acid fragments; (b) phosphorylating the blunt-ended nucleic acid fragments in a droplet in the oil to yield phosphorylated nucleic acid fragments; coupling A-tails to the phosphorylated nucleic acid fragments in a droplet in the oil to yield A-tailed nucleic acid fragments; and (d) coupling nucleic acid adapters to the A-tailed nucleic acid fragments in a droplet in the oil to yield the nucleic acid library comprising adapter-ligated nucleic acid fragments.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of preparing a functional chitosan scaffold and said functional chitosan scaffold for use as a filtering medium. Said method involves freeze-drying chitosan in the presence of appropriate cross-linkers and additives. The present chitosan scaffold is associated with an increased mechanical strength and elasticity and an adjustable surface polarity, porosity and morphology which enable its use in a wide range of devices, equipments and appliances in need of a filtering medium such as air or water purification system.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element in which at least one organic layer including a light emitting layer is sandwiched between an anode and a cathode, wherein the at least one organic layer includes an iridium complex compound represented by a following general formula (1).

Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) having an individual reflective structure and a method for manufacturing a light emitting diode (LED) package using the same, which can prevent reabsorption of light between LED chips by providing an individual reflective structure between the LED chips when the LED package is configured using two or more LED chips. The PCB includes a PCB; a wiring pattern-forming material layer formed on the PCB with an insulating layer interposed therebetween; dams formed on the wiring pattern-forming layer around chip mounting areas of the PCB; and a light reabsorption prevention dam formed on the wiring pattern-forming material layer between the chip mounting areas where LED chips are mounted.

Abstract: A method for obtaining, with high selectivity as compared to a conventional method of mixing reaction substrates and thereafter reacting the mixture under heating, a facial isomer of tris-orthometallated iridium that is suitably used particularly as an organic electroluminescence device material, among complexes of tris-orthometallated iridium. The method for producing a complex of tris-orthometallated iridium according to the present disclosure includes, in order, a step (1) of preliminarily heating at least one of the complex of orthometallated iridium or the bidentate organic ligand; a step (2) of mixing the complex of orthometallated iridium and the bidentate organic ligand; and a step (3) of reacting the complex of orthometallated iridium and the bidentate organic ligand.

Abstract: A new generation environmental friendly water-based coating composition which exhibits excellent coating film properties is disclosed. Said water-based coating composition comprises mesoporous silica nanoparticles in organosilica, water, and a film-forming catalyst, and optionally with a small amount of ethanol. Method for manufacturing said water-based coating composition and the use thereof are also disclosed.

Abstract: A device for rotating a turntable includes a turret and a turntable bearing The turret is rotatable in a through-going opening or well in the hull of a vessel and has axial and radial bearing assemblies arranged in a polar array about the turret center line. In order to reduce the substantial wear caused by relative movements between the axial wheels of the bearing assembly and the circular rail on the bearing support structure, the axial wheels are conically shaped with a double curved surface rolling on the upward facing edge of the circular rail with a slope aligned with an extension line of the rail substantially intersecting with the shaft center line at the center line of the turret. The radial bearing assembly includes horizontally arranged radial wheels with double curved surfaces. Each wheel rolls on an inward facing edge of the circular rail.

Abstract: A marketplace system includes a mobile application registration unit configured to allow a user to register a mobile application which is to be provided for a mobile terminal; a linked site-mobile application database configured to store information on a link between a mobile application and a site which a mobile application is to be provided for; and a mobile application list unit configured to receive location information from a mobile terminal which wishes to receive a mobile application, determine a site including a location of the mobile terminal, which wishes to receive the mobile application, based on the received location information, generate a list of mobile applications linked to the determined site using the linked site-mobile application database and provide the list of mobile applications for the mobile terminal which wishes to receive the mobile application.

Abstract: A cleaning agent for a microelectronic device provided with metal wiring, which has an excellent ability to remove polishing particle residues derived from a polishing agent and an excellent ability to remove metallic residues on an insulating film, and has excellent anticorrosiveness to the metal wiring. The cleaning agent is used at a step subsequent to chemical mechanical polishing in a manufacturing process of a microelectronic device in which a metal wiring, e.g., copper or tungsten, is formed.

Abstract: Provided herein are polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides which have ketoisovalerate decarboxylase activity. Also provided are recombinant host cells comprising such polypeptides and polynucleotides and methods of use thereof.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a digital pre-distortion device and method for use in a dynamic spectrum allocation system, which uses a breadband frequency range, such as a cognitive radio (CR) system, are implemented. Also, while as conventional pre-distortion device only enable the linearization of a signal of a fundamental frequency band, the digital pre-distortion device and method according to the present invention enable not only the linearization of a basic signal on frequency fc, but also simultaneously enable the elimination of harmonic signals on the high frequencies of 2fc, 3fc, 4fc, etc. The digital pre-distortion device for a broadband power amplifier according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises: a nonlinear power amplifier; an equivalent amplifier model estimator; N pre-distorters; and a coefficient extractor for extracting the coefficients of the N pre-distorters.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an approach for coating a biocompatible material, in particular chitosan, onto a surface in need thereof. This approach results in a coating that is highly uniform, even on irregular surfaces, and enables ready adjustment of the morphology of the coated material. A convenient means to add a functional property to the biocompatible material by incorporation of functional additives is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a temporary carrier bonding and detaching process. A first surface of a semiconductor wafer is mounted on a first carrier by a first adhesive, and a first isolation coating is disposed between the first adhesive and the first carrier. Then, a second carrier is mounted on the second surface of the semiconductor wafer. The first carrier is detached. The method of the present invention utilizes the second carrier to support and protect the semiconductor wafer, after which the first carrier is detached. Therefore, the semiconductor wafer will not be damaged or broken, thereby improving the yield rate of the semiconductor process. Furthermore, the simplicity of the detaching method for the first carrier allows for improvement in efficiency of the semiconductor process.

Abstract: A stereo class-D audio system includes a first die including four monolithically integrated NMOS high-side devices and a second a second die including four monolithically integrated PMOS low-side devices. The audio system also includes a set of electrical contacts for connecting the high and low-side devices to components within the a stereo class-D audio system, the set of electrical contacts including at least one supply contact for connecting the drains of the high-side devices to a supply voltage (Vcc) and at least one ground contact for connecting the drains of the low-side devices to ground, the electrical contacts also including respective contacts for each source of the high and low-side devices allowing the source of each high-side device to be connected to the source of a respective low-side device to form two H-bridge circuits.

Abstract: An exemplary system for loading a pre-curved electrode array onto a straightening member includes a loading tool and a straightening member. An exemplary loading tool may include a body and first and second flexible arms each having a fixed end connected to the body and a free end opposite the fixed end. The first and second flexible arms may define a straightening channel configured to constrain a pre-curved electrode array in a straightened configuration. The first and second flexible arms may be further configured to flex away from each other to receive the pre-curved electrode array into the straightening channel. The straightening member is configured to be inserted into the pre-curved electrode array while the pre-curved electrode array is in the straightened configuration and retain the pre-curved electrode array in the straightened configuration after the pre-curved electrode array is removed from the loading tool. Corresponding methods are also described.

Abstract: An exemplary method of minimizing an effect of channel interaction among a plurality of channels in a multi-channel cochlear implant system includes empirically generating an electrical spread matrix that is specific to a patient and representative of a channel interaction among a plurality of channels defined by a plurality patient of electrodes of a multi-channel cochlear implant system associated with the patient, generating a model electrical spread matrix that approximates the empirically generated electrical spread matrix and that has a band inverse matrix, and using the band inverse matrix to determine a set of stimulation current levels to be applied by way of a corresponding set of electrodes included in the plurality of electrodes in order to produce desired stimulation current levels at a plurality of stimulation sites within the cochlea in the presence of the channel interaction. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are disclosed for medical treatment comprising bone access and dilatation and/or cavity creation or enlargement using a narrow gauge, preferably 11-gauge or smaller, cannula wherein a catheter/expandable element assembly meeting medical protocols for such procedures is designed, adapted and fabricated to fit through the interior of the associated 11-gauge or smaller cannula, and further including apparatus and methods for wrapping and/or folding the expandable element either before or after a procedure to reduce its profile to fit through the cannula.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatuses for impedance-matching radio frequency power transmitted from a radio frequency generator to a plasma load in a semiconductor processing chamber. Impedance-matching can be performed via a match network having a variable-reactance circuit. The variable-reactance circuit can comprise one or more reactive elements all connected to a first terminal and selectively shorted to a second terminal via a switch. The switch can comprise a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) or insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) controlled via bias circuitry. In an on-state, the BJT base-emitter junction is forward biased, and AC is conducted between a collector terminal and a base terminal. Thus, AC passes through the BJT primarily from collector to base rather than from collector to emitter. Furthermore, the classic match network topology used with vacuum variable capacitors can be modified such that voltages do not overload the BJT's in the modified topology.