Abstract: An estimation method in an optical transmission system that performs communication by a digital coherent system including an optical transmission device and an optical reception device, the estimation method including calculating a ratio of a linearly transformed amount after converting a tap coefficient of a digital filter included in the optical reception device into a frequency domain signal by digital Fourier transform, and estimating a physical quantity related to at least a response between the optical transmission device and the optical reception device based on amplitude and phase information of the ratio of the calculated linearly transformed amount.

Abstract: Carbon nanofiber doped alumina (Al-CNF) supported MoCo catalysts in hydrodesulfurization (HDS), and/or boron doping, e.g., up to 5 wt % of total catalyst weight, can improve catalytic efficiency. Al-CNF-supported MoCo catalysts, (Al-CNF-MoCo), can reduce the sulfur concentration in fuel, esp. liquid fuel, to below the required limit in a 6 h reaction time. Thus, Al-CNF-MoCo has a higher catalytic activity than Al—MoCo, which may be explained by higher mesoporous surface area and better dispersion of MoCo metals on the AlCNF support relative to alumina support. The BET surface area of Al—MoCo may be 75% less than Al-CNF-MoCo, e.g., 166 vs. 200 m2/g. SEM images indicate that the catalyst nanoparticles can be evenly distributed on the surface of the CNF. The surface area of the AlMoCoB5% may be 206 m2/g, which is higher than AlMoCoB0% and AlMoCoB2%, and AlMoCoB5% has the highest HDS activity, removing more than 98% sulfur and below allowed levels.

Abstract: An operation method of performing a neural network operation of fully homomorphic encrypted data is provided. The operation method includes: receiving data for performing the neural network operation and receiving a parameter for generating an approximation polynomial corresponding to the neural network operation; obtaining layer information corresponding to layers of a neural network model, the layer information based on the data; determining importances of the layers, respectively, wherein the determining of the importances is based on the parameter and the layer information; generating an approximation polynomial approximating the neural network operation for each of the layers, wherein the generating is based on the layer importance; and generating an operation result by performing the neural network operation based on the approximation polynomial, wherein the parameter includes a computation time condition that the neural network operation must satisfy.

Abstract: Provided in this disclosure is an appliance dosing pump with an integrated reservoir liquid level sensing feature that includes a dosing pump head, a capacitive sensor, a motor housing, and a liquid reservoir. The dosing pump head has a vertical tube, an inlet port, and an outlet port. The capacitive sensor may include a plurality of sensing pads, and the liquid reservoir may have an outlet port. Together, the liquid reservoir outlet port and dosing pump head inlet port may define a fluid passage, which fluid passage may include a plurality of check valves therein.

Abstract: A system comprising an agitation and flocculation system and a particulate filter capture system, and optionally a feedback system and/or an ion exchange resin system. The agitation and flocculation system configured to receive a contaminated aqueous stream and an anhydrite quantity, and comprising means for agitating the aqueous stream and a means for mixing the aqueous stream with the anhydrite, such that a precipitate of calcium+contaminant complexes is formed. Also, a system comprising a fixed-bed type cross-flow system and a particulate filter capture system, and a corresponding method of removing per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances from the contaminated aqueous stream. The method comprising the acts of: providing an anhydrite quantity; contacting and agitating the anhydrite quantity with a contaminated aqueous stream; and collecting the precipitate of calcium+contaminant complexes formed from the aqueous stream.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods of differentiating cell types in a cell population. The methods include removing at least some non-Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-T cells from a fluidic sample obtained from a subject without centrifuging the fluidic sample to produce a purified fluidic sample. The fluidic sample comprises CAR-T cells and the non-CAR-T cells. The methods also include capturing cells in the purified fluidic sample on a surface that comprises binding moieties that bind at least to the CAR-T cells to produce a captured cell population. In addition, the methods also include distinguishing the CAR-T cells from the non-CAR-T cells in the captured cell population using a trained machine learning model to produce a captured CAR-T cell population data set. Additional methods as well as related devices and systems are also provided.

Abstract: The method for predicting Alzheimer's disease-related biomarkers according to the present disclosure involves a method executed by one or more processors of a computing device. The method comprises collecting medical images of a subject, preprocessing the collected medical images to generate training data, training a biomarker prediction model using the generated training data and the subject's demographic and clinical information, where the training includes assigning weights to the training data, and predicting Alzheimer's disease-related biomarkers for a patient using the trained biomarker prediction model.

Abstract: An ultra-wideband radio frequency (RF) apparatus for combining and/or dividing RF signals. RF apparatus includes a circuit board, a communication cable that operably engages with the circuit board, at least two transmission lines that are formed on the circuit board and operably engages with the communication cable, and at least two connectors that operably engages with the at least two transmission lines. The RF apparatus is operable in a first configuration and a second configuration. When the RF apparatus is provided in the first configuration, the RF apparatus is operable to divide a first RF signal into at least two RF signals. When the RF apparatus is provided in the second configuration, the RF apparatus is operable to combine the at least two RF signals into a second RF signal. The RF apparatus is capable of achieving a low insertion loss less than 1 dB over a bandwidth greater than 20:1.

Abstract: Technology provided herein relates to methods of treating cancer comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a first stem cell (SC) modified to release an oncolytic virus and a second SC which is gene edited to inactivate a receptor for the oncolytic virus, thereby generating a stem cell resistant to the virus, wherein the second SC is also engineered to express an immunomodulatory polypeptide agent. Compositions comprising a first and second SC, and uses thereof, are also provided herein.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions, methods, kits, and systems relating to efficient delivery of cargos (e.g., therapeutic cargos) into cells, for instance, for in vivo delivery. The present disclosure provides lipid-containing particles (e.g., virus-like particles) for delivering therapeutic cargos. The present disclosure also provides polynucleotides encoding the lipid-containing particles provided herein, which may be useful for producing said lipid-containing particles. Also provided are methods for editing nucleic acid molecules in cells using the lipid-containing particles provided herein, as well as cells and kits comprising the lipid-containing particles.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods aimed towards non-invasive targeted genomic and epigenomic sequencing of spatially-defined cellular or subcellular region. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to methods of using photoselection to achieve non-invasive targeted genomic and epigenomic sequencing of spatially-defined cellular or subcellular regions, via the use of light-activated probes.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a data race detection method and apparatus. The data race detection method includes recording information about an instruction executed by a thread in a destination register in a Central Processing Unit (CPU) corresponding to the thread, setting information of an access log field corresponding to the instruction for a cache line of a cache memory, and detecting a data race using the information of the access log field and information of the destination register.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for accessing a subdural space. In some embodiments, an apparatus may comprise a shaft configured to be slidably disposed within a lumen of a catheter. The shaft may be configured to be advanced distally from a distal end of the catheter and into a blood vessel of a subject. The shaft may include a perforating tip including an energy element configured to generate radiofrequency energy to form an opening through a wall of the blood vessel and dura of the subject and into an extravascular space of the subject. A curved section may be configured to be radially constrained within the lumen of the catheter and to curve toward the wall of the blood vessel and the dura upon exiting the lumen of the catheter such that the energy element is positioned to form the opening.

Abstract: A system described herein may maintain a local copy of a distributed ledger, including a first set of records that each include payload information. The system may maintain a restricted access ledger based on the distributed ledger, including a second set of records that include modified payload information included in the first set of records of the distributed ledger. The system may receive a request to access the distributed ledger, including one or more attributes, and may determine, based on the one or more attributes of the request, whether to grant access to the distributed ledger or to the restricted access ledger. When determining to grant access to the distributed ledger, the system may provide payload information from the distributed ledger in response to the request, and when determining to grant restricted access to the restricted access ledger, the system may provide payload information from the restricted access ledger.

Abstract: The disclose relates to adenomas of the colon. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to biomarkers which may be used for the detection of advanced colorectal pre-cancerous adenomas (APA) The detection and measurement of these biomarkers in a biological sample may be used to inform the clinician as to whether further invasive procedures such as polypectomy are required.

Abstract: Disclosed is a separated multi-core transmitting device based on a ground transient electromagnetic method, comprising: a rectangular transmitting coil enclosed by a cable I, a cable II, a cable III, and a cable IV. Each of the cable I, the cable II, the cable III, and the cable IV is provided with N wires. Two ends of each of the N wires is provided with a sub connector and a female connector, respectively. The sub connectors and the female connectors are detachably connected through sub connector interfaces and female connector interfaces. A first wire of the female connectors of the cable I is led out to serve as a positive electrode of a transient electromagnetic instrument transmitter, and a last wire of the sub connectors of the cable IV is led out to serve as a negative electrode of the transient electromagnetic instrument transmitter.

Abstract: An operation method of a terminal in a communication system may comprise: receiving one or more data units from a base station; generating a HARQ codebook for at least one dada unit of the one or more data units at a reference time; and transmitting the HARQ codebook to the base station, wherein the reference time is shared by the terminal and the base station.

Abstract: An abnormality detection device includes processing circuitry configured to input a normal packet to a Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model learned using the normal packet, and acquire a size of Attention for each byte portion when encoding of the normal packet is performed, sample an important byte portion of the normal packet based on the size of the Attention of each byte portion of the normal packet acquired, and rewrite the sampled important byte portion to a random byte to generate a pseudo-abnormal packet, and determine a threshold value of an abnormality degree for detecting an abnormal packet based on the abnormality degree of the generated pseudo-abnormal packet group and normal packet group.

Abstract: A method of a terminal may comprise: performing a connection procedure with each of a first network and a second network based on a multi-connectivity function; performing uplink communication with the first network and the second network; calculating a power reduction value of the uplink communication for at least one of the first network or the second network; and deciding whether to perform the uplink communication based on the power reduction value.

Abstract: A method for producing a submicron-/nano-jute carbon/epoxy composite anti-corrosion coating is described. The method includes heating a jute stick, grinding the jute stick to form a first powder; pyrolyzing the first powder to form a pyrolyzed carbon; grinding the pyrolyzed carbon to form a second powder; ball milling the second powder under the wet conditions to form a submicron-/nano-jutecarbon; mixing the submicron-/nano-jutecarbon, and an epoxy resin to form a first mixture; mixing a hardener with the first mixture to form a second mixture, and coating the second mixture on a mild steel substrate and curing to form the submicron-/nano-jutecarbon/epoxy composite anti-corrosion coating.