Abstract: A method is provided for forming a substantially uniaxially-oriented, high content cellulose nanocrystal film. The method includes providing a plant-biomass-based suspension of cellulose nanocrystals and altering the pH of the cellulose nanocrystals to a substantially neutral pH. The suspension is sheared at a shearing rate. The method further includes orienting the cellulose nanocrystals in a substantially axial direction and removing water from the sheared cellulose nanocrystal suspension. As a result, a substantially uniaxially-oriented cellulose nanocrystal film is formed.

Abstract: The present invention involves the use of 2,4-disulfonyl phenyl tert-butyl nitrone (2,4-ds-PBN) in the treatment and prevention of gliomas. The 2,4-ds-PBN may be used alone or combined with other traditional chemo- and radiotherapies and surgery, to treat or prevent glioma occurrence, recurrence, spread, growth, metastasis, or vascularization.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for correcting the ionospheric distortion of an SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) interferogram are disclosed herein. The apparatus includes a multiple aperture SAR interferometry (MAI) interferogram generation unit, a transformed MAI interferogram generation unit, an ionospheric distortion interferogram generation unit, and a corrected SAR interferogram acquisition unit. The multiple aperture SAR interferometry (MAI) interferogram generation unit generates a multiple aperture SAR interferometry (MAI) interferogram using an SAR interferogram. The transformed MAI interferogram generation unit generates a transformed MAI interferogram representative of the azimuth direction derivatives of ionospheric distortion phases using the phases of the MAI interferogram. The ionospheric distortion interferogram generation unit generates an ionospheric distortion interferogram using the transformed MAI interferogram.

Abstract: A wireless power transmitter and a method for detecting a change in load during wireless charging in the wireless power transmitter is provided. The wireless power transmitter includes a power transmission unit configured to transmit power to a wireless power receiver, a current detection unit configured to measure a voltage value corresponding to a current that is output to the power transmission unit while the power is transmitted from the power transmission unit, and a controller configured to adjust the power transmitted by the power transmission unit based on the measured voltage value.

Abstract: The present technology provides new compositions comprising at least one cross-linked co-polymer. In some embodiments, the polyacrylamide co-polymer comprises water soluble subunits, cross-linking subunits, and iron chelating subunits. In other embodiments, the co-polymer comprises water soluble units, cross-linking subunits, and substituted subunits, which can be conjugated with iron-chelating agents. When these new particles are exposed to certain environments, such the presence of strong acids or oxidation agents, these particles are capable of breaking up so that the iron chelating agents can chelate iron or other metals from their environments. Methods to prepare these new compositions are also provided. These compositions or compositions comprising nanogels of the present technology may be used to treat metal overload conditions such as iron overload resulting from chronic transfusions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nanobubble comprising a continuous outer shell, the outer shell comprising a cross-linked polymeric material, an inner wall of the continuous outer shell and a hollow core within the continuous outer shell. The nanobubble may be less than 250 nm in diameter. In a further aspect of the invention, the cross-linked polymeric material is a cellulose-based material.

Abstract: Systems and methods which utilize spread spectrum sensing on live circuits to obtain information regarding a circuit under test are provided. In some embodiments S/SSTDR testing may be utilized to obtain R, L, C and Z measurements from circuit components. In yet further embodiments, these measurements may be utilized to monitor the output of sensors on a circuit.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a substrate, a display panel on the substrate, and an encapsulation film sealing the display panel. The encapsulation film includes at least one organic layer and/or at least one inorganic layer and at least one pair of conductive layers.

Abstract: The invention generally relates to sensing garments.

Abstract: The low input voltage boost converter with peak inductor current control and offset compensated zero detection provide a boost converter scheme to harvest energy from sources with small output voltages. Some embodiments described herein includes a thermoelectric boost converter that combines an IPEAK control scheme with offset compensation and duty cycled comparators to enable energy harvesting from TEG inputs as low as 5 mV to 10 mV, and the peak inductor current is independent to first order of the input voltage and output voltage. A control circuit can be configured to sample the input voltage (VIN) and then generate a pulse with a duration inversely proportional to VIN so as to control the boost converter switches such that a substantially constant peak inductor current is generated.

Abstract: A method for making an oil-in-water dispersion or water-in-oil dispersion is disclosed. The method comprises the step of mixing a hydrophilic medium, a hydrophobic composition and non-derivatized cellulose solution in an ionic liquid.

Abstract: Provided herein is a fluorescent probe compound of formula (I): as well as methods of using said compound.

Abstract: Described is a method to make diindolylmethanes and indolyl/pyrrolylmethanes, The method includes the steps of contacting an ether comprising an arylpropargyl moiety and an amine-protected, substituted or unsubstituted aniline moiety with a substituted or unsubstituted indol or a substituted or unsubstituted pyrrole, in the presence of a metal-containing catalyst, for a time and at a temperature to cause an annulation/arylation cascade reaction that yields a diindolylmethane or a indolyl/pyrrolylmethane. The resulting compounds are effective to modulate activity of arylhydrocarbon receptors, to inhibit activity of PCSK9, and to stimulate secretion of glucagon-like peptide 1 in mammals.

Abstract: A method and related system to, among other things, automatically infer answers to all of the ADL questions and the first four questions of the IADL in the home. The inference methods detect the relevant activities unobtrusively, continuously, accurately, objectively, quantifiably and without relying on the patient's own memory (which may be fading due to aging or an existing health condition, such as Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)) or on a caregiver's subjective report. The methods rely on the judicious placement of a number of sensors in the subject's place of residence, including motion detection sensors in every room, the decomposition of each relevant activity into the sub-tasks involved, identification of additional sensors required to detect the relevant sub-tasks and spatial-temporal conditions between the signals of sensors to formulate the rules that will detect the occurrence of the specific activities of interest.

Abstract: A cancer cell proliferation inhibitor including at least one selected from compounds represented by Structural Formulae (1) to (8), wherein the cancer cell is at least one of a cancer cell overexpressing a wild-type epidermal growth factor receptor and a cancer cell expressing an epidermal growth factor receptor mutant vIII.

Abstract: Organic dyes that are covalently bonded multimers or higher order symmetrical structures where one or more dye units may optionally contain deuterium substitutions are disclosed. The disclosed dyes are particularly useful for optical coatings, new optical nanomaterials, high density storage devices. The structural and optical characteristics of the disclosed dyes provide avenues for increased information-content through surface-enhanced Raman resonance spectroscopy.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a microparticle separation apparatus assembly comprising multiple separable panels, more specifically, to a microparticle separation apparatus assembly having a novel structure, comprising: a first panel comprising a magnetic microstructure for applying magnetophoretic force to microparticles; and a second panel, which can be separated from the first panel and through which a sample comprising microparticles passes, wherein the first panel comprising the magnetic microstructure can be recycled.

Abstract: There is provided a tactile feedback device comprising: an array of surface charge generation units; and an array of pressure-generation units, wherein the array of the pressure-generation units is spaced apart from the array of the surface charge generation units, wherein the array of the pressure-generation units is movable relative to the array of the surface charge generation units, wherein an attractive or repulsive force is generated between a corresponding surface charge generation unit of the array of surface charge generation units and a corresponding pressure-generation unit of the array of the pressure-generation units, based on a polarity of surface charges induced in the corresponding surface charge generation unit.

Abstract: Methods of making synthetic yeast cells by mating together two diploid (or higher ploidy) yeast species or hybrids to generate multi-ploid yeast hybrids are provided herein. The synthetic yeast cells made by this process and kits for performing the process are also provided.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Lantana camara plant named ‘UF-1013A-2A’, characterized by its moderate vigor, mounding growth habit, dense branches, round plant form and canopy, free flowering, bright yellow and red flowers, little fruiting, few seeds, high level of female infertility, low level of pollen stainability, high level of male infertility, and lack of hybridization with Lantana depressa.