Abstract: The disclosure develops a multi-scale model that partitions the device into different spatial regions where the high carrier domains are treated as reservoirs in local equilibrium and serve as injectors and receptors of carriers into the neighboring reservoirs through tunneling and thermionic emission. The nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism is used to compute the dynamics (states) and the kinetics (filling of states) in the entire extended complex device. The local density of states in the whole device is computed quantum mechanically within a multi-band tight binding Hamiltonian. The model results agree with experimental I-V curves quantitatively.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition which is for preventing or treating obesity, and comprises a biglycan as an active ingredient. Biglycan according to the present invention suppresses appetite by decreasing the expression of Agrp and NPY, which are appetite promoting peptides, and increasing the expression of POMC, which is an appetite suppressing peptide, and thus is very useful as a medicine for treating obesity.

Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods described herein relate generally to on-the-go entity-to-entity charging for multi-level battery-powered entities in transportation systems. A method can include determining charge levels, current positions, battery configuration, and transport speeds for an electric vehicle (EV), identifying one or more EVs in need of charging, and mobilizing a nearby EV for on-the-go peer-to-peer charging. A processor, with a memory including computer program code, can be configured to receive current charge level data for mobile battery-powered entities, identify one or more EVs to be charged and one or more other EVs that have excess charge to transfer, and send charging instructions to the EVs. A routing and charge transaction scheduling algorithm can be used to optimize the route of one or more battery-powered entities and to schedule charge transactions between EVs and/or a charging entity. A heuristic battery architecture compiler can be used to optimize battery architecture.

Abstract: Provided is a preparing method of an amide directly from a tertiary amine by using a reduced titanium dioxide (Blue TiO2), which is formed by mixing a titanium dioxide having an anatase phase and a rutile phase with a reducing agent and selectively reducing any one of the anatase phase and the rutile phase, as a photocatalyst.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a method of process variation compensating through activation value adjustment of an analog binarized neural network circuit that may recover a decrease in recognition rate performance up to an almost perfect level, even if a binarized neural network is implemented as an analog circuit such that recognition rate performance is decreased due to process variation.

Abstract: A display device and an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The display device comprises: an image-display component, which generates an image light output, wherein at least one pixel light of the image light output has light polarization components of at least two polarization states or has a polarization light component of a polarization state and a non-polarization light component; and a polarization dependent image offset component, which receives the image light output coming from the image display component and deflects the polarization light components based on the polarization states to separate each of the at least one pixel light into at least two pixel lights, or deflects the polarization light component from the non-polarization light component to separate each of the at least one pixel light into at least two pixel lights.

Abstract: An exoskeleton device that includes an artificial joint and a frame member extending from the artificial joint. The frame member is configured for extension over a limb of a user. The exoskeleton device also includes a self-aligning mechanism connected to the frame member. The self-aligning mechanism includes three passive degrees of freedom (pDOF) provided in a prismatic-revolute-revolute (PRR) configuration. The self-aligning mechanism also includes a limb attachment member configured for mechanically coupling to a portion of the limb of the user.

Abstract: An engineered yeast strain capable of efficient fermentation of xylose to ethanol, and methods of making and using the strain, are provided.

Abstract: A multifunctional microstructure patch is provided. The multifunctional microstructure patch, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a base layer having an opening part formed in the center thereof; a plurality of microstructures formed on one surface of the base layer and comprising a first drug; and a cover layer detachably bonded on the other surface of the base layer along the periphery of the opening part, and formed so as to cover the opening part.

Abstract: Provided herein is technology for neoplasia screening, and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods, compositions, and related uses for detecting the presence of cancer, in particular, colorectal cancer.

Abstract: A multi-modal imaging device can include a sensor array, a metamaterial filter, and a memory unit. The sensor array can be any suitable sensor which detects incoming light and is capable of recording a received image. The metamaterial filter can be oriented adjacent the sensor array and can be patterned with pixels having varied physical heights designed to diffract an incoming image to produce an engineered response which is sensitive to 2D spatial coordinates (x, y), time (t), and at least one of depth spatial coordinate (z), spectrum (?), and degree of polarization ({right arrow over (S)}). The memory unit can include instructions that, when executed by a processor, reconstruct the engineered response to produce a reconstructed image which includes the 2D spatial coordinates and at least one of z, ?, and {right arrow over (S)}.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a host box comprising a host processor configured to control an operation of the electronic device, a host motherboard in which the host processor is disposed, and a host power supply unit (PSU) configured to supply power to a component connected to the host motherboard; and one or more extension boxes controlled by the host box, wherein each of the one or more extension boxes comprises an extension motherboard independent of the host box, and an extension PSU independent of the host box and configured to supply power to a component connected to the extension motherboard.

Abstract: Provided is a method for bonding panel of a microfluidic element by using a releasing film including preparing a panel having a pattern for a microfluidic channel formed on one surface thereof, preparing a release film coated with silicon nanoparticles on one or both surfaces thereof, plasma-treating one surface of the panel on which the pattern for the microfluidic channel is formed and the surface of the release film, and bonding the panel and the release film by performing heat treatment at a predetermined temperature range in a state in which the plasma-treated panel and the release film are attached to each other.

Abstract: A method of operating a storage device including a neural network processor includes outputting, by a controller device, a trigger signal instructing the neural network processor to perform a neural network operation in response to a command from a host device, requesting, by a neural network processor, target model data about parameters of a target model and instruction data for instructing the neural network operation to a memory device storing the target model data and the instruction data in response to the trigger signal, receiving, by the neural network processor, the target model data and the instruction data from the memory device and outputting, by the neural network processor, inference data based on the target model data and the instruction data.

Abstract: The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to a framelet-based iterative algorithm for polychromatic CT which can reconstruct two components using a single scan. The algorithm can have various steps including a scaled-gradient descent step of constant or variant step sizes; a non-negativity step; a soft thresholding step; and a color reconstruction step.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the composition and process for the production of an ultra-strong, biocompatible, electroconductive, and stretchable hydrogel, which comprises: a step (a) of physical or chemical modification of natural polymers e.g., preparation of silk nanofiber and double methacrylation of gelatin; a step (b) of graphene oxide (GO) carboxylation; a step (c) of carbodiimidation between methacrylated natural polymers of step (a) and carboxylated GO of step (b); and a step (d) of three dimensional (3D) bioprinting of step (c) with/without silk nanofiber. It was found that these steps in this disclosure give rise to a biocompatible hydrogel with high mechanical strength in the range of load-bearing soft tissue such as tendon and heart as opposed to conventional hydrogels.

Abstract: System and methods are disclosed to facilitate intra-operative procedures and planning. A method can include storing tracking data in memory, the tracking data being generated by a tracking system to represent a location of an object in a tracking coordinate system of the tracking system. The method can also include storing a patient-specific implicit model in memory, the patient-specific implicit model being generated based on image data acquired for the patient to define geometry of an anatomical structure of the patient. The method can also include registering the tracking data and the patient-specific implicit model in a common three-dimensional coordinate system. The method can also include generating an output visualization representing a location of the object relative to the geometry of the anatomical structure of the patient in the common coordinate system.

Abstract: An embodiment of the disclosure provides a bidirectional stretchable nerve interface and manufacturing method thereof. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a bidirectional stretchable nerve interface may provide a fiber-based bidirectional stretchable nerve interface that is soft, has high electrical and mechanical durability, and has excellent stimulation and neural signal measurement performance.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for assisting an active motion of a finger including a standard stabilizer, a hyperextension-specific stabilizer having a shape being bent in a first direction, in which the finger is extended, an active motion-specific elastic part that generates an elastic force in the first direction or a second direction being an opposite direction to the first direction, and a mounting part, to which one of the standard stabilizer, the hyperextension-specific stabilizer, and the active motion-specific elastic part is selectively coupled to be separable, and on which the finger is worn.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fiber-nanowire composite-based sheet having super-amphiphilic characteristics. In the present invention, fibers including metal nanoparticles or metal oxide nanoparticles embedded in the fibers or located on the surface of the fibers are synthesized, and a sheet based on a composite in which metal nanowires or metal oxide nanowires have been grown from the above fibers is provided. A sheet of the present invention has super-amphiphilic characteristics and can be used in various fields such as the antibacterial filter field, the antibacterial film field, the antiviral filter field, the antiviral film field, the antifouling coating field, the drug delivery vehicle field, or the water treatment filter field.