Abstract: An electronic circuit includes a cell array including memory cells each including a bistable circuit that includes first and second inverter circuits, each having a first mode characterized by there being substantially no hysteresis in transfer characteristics and a second mode characterized by there being hysteresis in the transfer characteristics, and being switchable between the first and second modes, and a control circuit configured to, after powering off a first memory cell that store data that are not required to be retained, put the bistable circuit in a remaining second memory cell into the second mode, and supply a second power supply voltage that allows the bistable circuit in the second mode to retain data and is lower than a first power supply voltage supplied to the bistable circuit when data is read and/or written, to the bistable circuit in the second memory cell while maintaining the second mode.

Abstract: A wireless sensor network (WSN) and a method of routing in a wireless sensor network (WSN) includes wireless sensor nodes for monitoring an environment and a base station having a WSN manager to which information about the environment is sent from the wireless sensor nodes via multiple hop communication. The method includes responding to an attack on the wireless sensor network by an adversary to locate critical nodes among the wireless sensor nodes by adaptively deploying a sequence of different routing mechanisms, by the WSN manager, to the wireless sensor nodes such that location privacy preservation (LPP) is protected by preventing detection of location of the critical nodes.

Abstract: A method of a transmitting node may comprise: exchanging, with a receiving node, configuration information for beam direction search; generating DoA measurement request frames based on the configuration information; transmitting the DoA measurement request frames to the receiving node through a coarse beam in a partitioned area selected among partitioned areas within a bean search range, in a transmission occasion of the DoA measurement request frames based on the configuration information; receiving a DoA measurement response message from the receiving node; identifying whether the receiving node is located within the selected partitioned area based on DoA information included in the DoA measurement response message; and in response to the receiving node being located within the selected partitioned area, changing a beam direction for beam alignment based on the DoA information.

Abstract: An event tracking system is provided. The system includes one or more sensors. The sensors are configured to generate data regarding an event occurring on a physical event surface. The system is configured to generate a plurality of virtual event surface sections corresponding to a physical event surface, and to receive the event data from the sensors. The event data from the physical event surface includes a first position indicator and an activity indicator. The system is configured to correlate the event data to the virtual event surface sections using the first position indicator, and to determine a result value associated with the event data based on the activity indicator. The system is configured to update accumulated result values of users based on the result value and the correlated virtual event surface sections. The system is configured to perform an action based on the updated accumulated result values.

Abstract: An input processing unit receives an image and a three-dimensional point cloud including three-dimensional points having reflection intensity on a surface of an object for which at least a relationship between an image capturing position and a measurement position is obtained in advance, and obtains pixel positions on the image corresponding to the respective three-dimensional points of the three-dimensional point cloud. A shadow region estimation unit performs clustering on pixels of the image on the basis of pixel values and pixel positions, obtains an average reflection intensity and an average value of quantified color information for each of clusters, and estimates a shadow region by performing comparison in the average reflection intensity and the average value of the color information between the clusters. A shadow correction unit corrects pixel values of the shadow region from the shadow region estimated and the image.

Abstract: A charged particle beam apparatus includes: a stage on which a sample is placed; a first charged particle beam unit comprising a charged particle source, a detector, and a first objective lens configured to irradiate a sample with a charged particle beam of charged particles generated by the charged particle source and induce secondary electrons generated from the sample to the detector; and a second charged particle beam unit comprising a second objective lens. An incoming electric field is generated between the first objective lens and the sample to pull the secondary electrons into the first objective lens. An induced electric field is generated between the second objective lens and the sample to guide the secondary electrons to travel to the detector.

Abstract: Provided are a base editor, specifically, a base editor in the form of a ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex, and uses in gene correction in vivo using the same. When using the base editor in the form of an RNP complex of the present disclosure, target genes can be effectively corrected by reducing off-target effects.

Abstract: A communications circuit includes a first circuit block and a second circuit block. The first circuit block includes a first splitter, a first signal path coupled to a first output of the first splitter, a second signal path coupled to a second output of the first splitter, and a first switch configured to couple the second signal path to a third signal path or to couple a fourth signal path to the third signal path. The second circuit block includes a second splitter, a fifth signal path coupled to a first output of the second splitter, a sixth signal path coupled to a second output of the second splitter, and a second switch configured to couple the sixth signal path to the third signal path or to couple a seventh signal path to the third signal path. The third signal path extends between the first and second circuit blocks.

Abstract: An optical transmission system, comprising: a transmission unit that maximizes a frequency interval between a plurality of channel components within a transmission band, and generates a first optical signal that is an optical signal in which the plurality of channel components are wavelength-division multiplexed, a first transmission path for transmitting the first optical signal, a phase conjugate conversion unit that generates a second optical signal by inverting a spectrum of the first optical signal, and a second transmission path for transmitting the second optical signal. The first transmission path and the second transmission path wavelength-disperse the plurality of channel components of the first optical signal and the second optical signal. The first transmission path may include one or more first optical relay units for amplifying and relaying the first optical signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a photovoltaic module including forming a solar cell assembly by connecting a plurality of solar cells in an alignment direction in series, forming a plurality of solar cell units by cutting the solar cell assembly along a cutting line in a direction being different from the alignment direction, and disposing the plurality of solar cell units in an encapsulation member such that angles defined by a height direction of the encapsulation member and upper surfaces of the solar cell units are 30 degrees to 90 degrees.

Abstract: A display device is provided in the present application. The display device includes a flexible display screen and a plate-shaped back reinforcing member attached to a back face of the flexible display screen. The back reinforcing member includes a surface facing the back face and an inner face facing away from the surface, and includes first region portion(s) and second region portion(s) adjacent to each other in a first direction that is along the surface. When the back reinforcing member is viewed in section in a second direction that is along the surface and perpendicular to the first direction, through hole(s) through the back reinforcing member are provided in first region portion(s) in a third direction perpendicular to both the first direction and the second direction, and concave portion(s) recessed from the surface toward the inner face are provided in the second region portion(s).

Abstract: An information generation device acquires past event information including information on a position where a predetermined event occurred and supplementary information regarding the position, and generates simulated event information obtained by simulating occurrence of the event in a predetermined area, with an occurrence position of the simulated event information being a position in the predetermined area based on the position included in the past event information and the supplementary information regarding the position.

Abstract: Disclosed are use of a polynucleotide, protein, and biological material in the regulation and control of plant tuber development, and related products and production methods thereof. The tuber plant or part thereof, comprising a sequence encoding a polypeptide comprising a sequence having at least 92% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein the polypeptide is inhibited-expressed, loss-function, or overexpressed, and the development of plant tuber is changed. The polynucleotide is an identity gene of a tuber, and can control whether a tuber is formed, the formation time, the tuber size etc. by regulating and controlling a protein function, an expression quantity etc.

Abstract: Provided is a qubit state reading apparatus including a probe signal provider configured to provide a probe signal to a qubit and a readout module configured to receive a qubit signal output from the qubit to which the probe signal is provided and read a state of the qubit, in which the readout module includes a local oscillation (LO) signal generator configured to generate an LO signal, a mixer configured to down-convert the qubit signal using the LO signal, an accumulator configured to accumulate output signals of the mixer, and a comparator configured to compare an output signal of the accumulator with a threshold and output a signal corresponding to the state of the qubit, and the readout module down-converts the qubit signal and the LO signal in a homodyne manner.

Abstract: A processor-implemented method includes determining a first width, the first width being a minimum width of a plurality of sectors into which an input range for a non-linear function is divided, and a plurality of second widths dividing the plurality of sectors each into one or more segments, determining a final width of a target sector, the target sector being one of the plurality of sectors, for approximating the non-linear function, based on one or more among the first width and the plurality of second widths, and dividing the non-linear function into one or more segments comprised in the target sector and approximating the divided non-linear function for each of the one or more segments to a linear function.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods to determine a homeostatic steady-state of a biological entity. Also disclosed are methods to quantify an exchange rate between at least two compartments in a biological system, to use Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to characterize physiological water transport, and methods for non-invasively measuring transmembrane exchange rates of endogenous water in a biological system under steady-state or non-steady-state conditions in near-real time.

Abstract: The avirulent strain A257 of the bacterial rice pathogen Burkholderia glumae is an effective priming material to reduce or suppress major diseases in rice and other plants. Protection includes that against bacterial panicle blight, sheath blight, and narrow brown leaf spot. A mutant derivative of A257, A257?qsmR, significantly reduces the risk that the priming agent might potentially revert to wild-type pathogenicity.

Abstract: A drawer assembly includes a member having a first locking element. A drawer includes a frame and a handle having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is coupled to the frame. The second portion is coupled to the first portion. A drawer release includes a first end and a second end and is rotatably coupled to the drawer. The first end includes a second locking element. The second portion is rotatable relative to the first portion to move the drawer release between a first orientation in which the second locking element directly engages the first locking element to prevent the drawer from translating relative to the member and a second orientation in which the second locking element is spaced apart from the first locking element to allow the drawer to translate relative to the member.

Abstract: The disclosure belongs to the technical field related to additive manufacturing model preprocessing, and discloses a field-based additive manufacturing digital model feature identification and extraction method and device, the method can convert the digital model represented by the facet into a signed distance field and introduce a simulated physical field of the forming/service simulation, the feature distance field after the frequency domain analysis filtering, and the geometric feature field obtained by the multi-precision convolution unit analysis according to the requirement of feature to be identified, then, multiple fields are combined to realize feature classification determination and labeling of features, and finally feature extraction is completed based on field data and isosurface and isoline reconstruction algorithms.

Abstract: A cancellation device includes a sound signal processing unit 2 that generates a cancellation signal for suppressing noise acquired by one or more reference microphones 1 for acquiring noise, and one or more cancellation loudspeakers 3 that emit sound on the basis of the cancellation signal. The sound signal processing unit 2 generates the cancellation signal on the basis of sound signals obtained by one or more error microphones 4 disposed in a region where noise is desired to be suppressed, and the one or more reference microphones 1 have directivity and are disposed in the vicinity of the cancellation loudspeakers 3.