Abstract: A fluid control valve system suitable for use in fluid systems. The valve system includes at least one check valve assembly that has a controllable bidirectional flow capability. The valve system and its check valve assembly can be installed in a fluid system that contains a pump/motor to enable the displacement output of the pump/motor to be controlled. The valve system further includes a pilot valve assembly and a device for controlling the check and pilot valve assemblies. The controlling device is adapted to control the pressure of at least one pilot fluid delivered to the pilot valve assembly, which enables the check valve assembly to selectively check flow of a working fluid flowing therethrough in either of two directions.

Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods related to variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs). More particularly, disclosed are a variety of antigen specific polypeptides, including soluble, monoclonal, and multivalent forms, as well as methods of using the polypeptides, antibodies that bind the antigen specific polypeptides, and nucleic acids, vectors and expression systems that encode the polypeptides. Antigen specific polypeptides that selectively bind pathogens, like anthrax, and carbohydrates, like blood group determinants, are specifically disclosed.

Abstract: Methods of fabricating complex three-dimensional structures on patterned substrates and related compositions are provided. The methods involve depositing on the substrate a block copolymer material that is “mismatched” to the substrate pattern, and then ordering the material to form a complex three-dimensional structure. According to various embodiments, the copolymer material mismatches the substrate pattern in that the symmetry and/or length scale of its bulk morphology differs from that of the pattern. When ordered, a balance between the physics that determines the bulk block copolymer morphology and the physics that determines the substrate surface interfacial interactions results in a thermodynamically stable complex three-dimensional film that varies in a direction perpendicular to the substrate and has a morphology that differs from its bulk morphology.

Abstract: A method of relaying a base station that operates as a relay link in order for a first base station to communicate with a second base station that is connected to backhaul includes: forming, by the first base station, a relay station with the second base station; and starting, by the first base station, a relay mode.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a producing method for oxynitride or nitride phosphor powders which can be used in displays such as vacuum fluorescent display (VFD), field emission display (FED) and LED display devices, or in lighting devices such as cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL) and LED lamps, or in light-emitting apparatuses such as back-lights, wherein the producing method for phosphor powders comprises the step of subjecting part or all of a metal oxide to nitriding by calcining in an atmosphere containing nitrogen, using a fine carbon substance.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for treating cardiotoxicity, cardiomyopathy, and/or cancer in a subject, as well as related compositions and kits, that employ a therapeutic agent, or a nucleic acid sequence encoding a therapeutic agent, selected from apolipoprotein A-1 (ApoA1), an ApoA1 mimetic, an agent that increases expression of ApoA1, or a binding agent specific for oxidized ApoA1, where the therapeutic agent is effective in preventing or reducing the level of cardiotoxicity and/or cardiomyopathy induced by the chemotherapeutic.

Abstract: A method of reproducing an original analog signal modified by a distortion and sampled. The distortion may be linear or nonlinear, and the samples may be either ideal or non-ideal. The method determines a stationary point of a cost function based on an error vector. The method iteratively computes approximated analog signals until the approximated analog signals converge to the original analog signal. The method may utilize Fr?chet derivatives and Moore-Penrose pseudo inverse transformations in order to iteratively compute the original analog signal. An apparatus performing said method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A memory cell includes a pair of sub-cells, each including an access transistor, a storage transistor, and an isolation transistor that are serially coupled in sequence with their source/drain connected. The isolation transistor is shared with a sub-cell of an adjacent memory cell and always turned off, wherein the storage transistor is always turned on. A wordline is coupled to a gate of the access transistor of each sub-cell, and complementary bit lines are respectively coupled to sources/drains of the access transistors of the pair of sub-cells, such that data bit may be accessed between the bit line and the corresponding storage transistor through the corresponding access transistor.

Abstract: A novel prophylactic/remedy for immunopathy is provided which is not neutralized by a neutralizing antibody to Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB), known as one of superantigens, and may effectively act as a superantigen. A modified SEB having a reduced reactivity with a neutralizing antibody to SEB (anti-SEB antibody) and a prophylactic/remedy for immunopathy comprising as an active ingredient said modified SEB. The modified SEB of the present invention may be prepared with the evolutionary molecular engineering technique by introducing amino acid substitution in the amino acid sequence of SEB, especially at an epitope recognition site of the anti-SEB antibody in the amino acid sequence of SEB.

Abstract: The present invention relates to plant proteins produced by a plant's epidermal layer that contribute to the innate pest/disease resistance of the plant (“phylloplanins”), compositions comprising the phylloplanins and methods of using them. In particular the methods relate to inhibiting or preventing microbial, e.g., fungal or bacterial, growth on a subject, organism or surface by administering a phylloplanin. The invention also relates to transformed host cells that produce phylloplanins, and to transgenic plants producing phylloplanins conferring increased resistance to microbial infections/growth.

Abstract: A method of forming articles having closed microchannels includes the steps of providing a substrate including a composite material, the composite having metal nanoparticles dispersed in a polymer matrix. The substrate is irradiated with a laser beam at an intensity and time sufficient to selectively remove the polymer below a surface of said substrate to form at least one microchannel, wherein the intensity and time is low enough to avoid removing the polymer above the microchannel, wherein an article having at least one closed microchannel is formed. A metal nanoparticle/polymer composite composition can have functionality that can undergo addition reactions to seal or join pieces of polymers or composites upon irradiation of the composition placed on one or more pieces.

Abstract: Techniques for manufacturing cross-structures of nanostructures, such as nanowires and carbon nanotubes are provided. In one embodiment, a method for manufacturing cross-structures of nanostructures include providing a substrate, patterning a first mask layer on the substrate, adsorbing first nanostructures onto surface regions of the substrate where the first mask layer does not exist, removing the first mask layer from the substrate, patterning a second mask layer on the substrate to which the first nanostructures are adsorbed, and adsorbing second nanostructures onto the surface regions of the substrate where the second mask layer does not exist, under conditions effective to manufacture cross-structures of nanostructures on the substrate.

Abstract: Provided is a handoff processing method including measuring a moving speed of a mobile terminal; measuring a size of a data packet generated in an application layer; measuring quality of a data transmission channel of the mobile terminal; calculating a maximum handoff delay time based on a relation between the moving speed and the data packet's size; estimating a handoff occurrence time point, based on a relation between a variation of the quality of the data transmission channel and the quality of the data transmission channel; and calculating a packet size and a moving speed of the mobile terminal that can minimize a delay due to a handoff occurrence by taking account of a handoff delay time according to the size of the data packet generated in the application layer and a moving speed of the mobile terminal into consideration, and providing the calculated packet size and moving speed.

Abstract: A method for patterning nanowires on a substrate. The method includes procedures of preparing a substrate having a patterned sacrificial layer of barium fluoride thereon; growing nanowires on an entire surface of the resultant substrate including the patterned sacrificial layer; and removing the patterned sacrificial layer using a solvent to remove part of the nanowires on the patterned sacrificial layer such that part of the nanowires in direct contact with the substrate remains on the substrate to thereby form a nanowire pattern.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an agent for treating traumatic peripheral nerve injury comprising a granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) as an active ingredient and a method for treating traumatic peripheral nerve injury with the same. The therapeutic agent advantageously regenerates nerve cells and blood vessels in peripheral nerve tissues and thus rehabilitates the injured nerve tissues to improve nerve conduction velocity, and relieves pain induced by traumatic peripheral nerve injury.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to compounds providing antibacterial therapeutic agents and preparations, and related methods of using and making antibacterial compounds. Antibacterial compounds of the present invention include chalcone, alkylpyrimidine, aminopyrimidine and cyanopyridine compounds and derivatives thereof exhibiting minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) similar to or less than conventional antibacterial compounds in wide use. For example, the present invention provides chalcone and cyanopyridine compounds, and derivatives thereof, exhibiting high antibacterial activities having multiple electron withdrawing group substituents, such as halogens and fluorinated alky groups, and optionally having hydroxyl and/or alkoxyl groups substituents.

Abstract: Disclosed are self-hydrating membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs), including MEAs that have been magnetically modified, which comprises (i) a cathode comprising an electrically conducting material having a catalytic material on at least a portion of a first surface thereof, the catalytic material comprising an effective amount of at least one catalyst component and at least one ion conducting material; (ii) a separator adjacent to and in substantial contact with the first surface of the cathode and comprising an ion conducting material; and (iii) an anode adjacent to and in substantial contact with the surface of the separator opposite the cathode and comprising an electrically conducting material having a catalytic material on at least a portion of a surface thereof adjacent to the separator, the catalytic material comprising an effective amount of at least one catalyst component and at least one ion conducting material; wherein the separator permits water to pass from the first surface of the cathode to the

Abstract: A method of visually representing pedigree data is provided. A root individual in a genealogical dataset is identified. A first parent and a second parent of the identified root individual are identified from the genealogical dataset. A third parent and a fourth parent of the identified first parent are identified from the genealogical dataset. A pedigree visualization relative to the identified root individual is presented which includes a root indicator, a first parent indicator, a second parent indicator, a third parent indicator, and a fourth parent indicator.

Abstract: Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm) is an important Gram-positive-bacterial pathogen that infects tomato plants causing wilting and cankers and leading to severe economic losses in commercial tomato production worldwide. In order to visualize the infection process of Cmm in germinating seeds, bioluminescent Cmm strains were constructed by transforming the lux reporter gene into the bacterium. A vector pXX2 was constructed by inserting a modified promoterless lux-operon to a Cmm transposon mutagenesis vector, pKGT452C?. After electroporation, pXX2 carrying the Cmxr::luxABCDE::Tn1409 cassette resulted in insertion of lux-operon into the Cmm chromosome. The virulent, stable, constitutively bioluminescent strain BL-Cmm17 was selected for further characterization of growth properties and inoculation on tomato seeds. Using this bioluminescent strain, Cmm colonization dynamics of germinating seeds were monitored in real-time using the in vivo imaging system (IVIS).

Abstract: An ultra-wideband, low profile antenna is provided. The antenna includes a ground plane substrate and a radiating element. The radiating element includes at least two loop sections, wherein each of the at least two loop sections is electrically connected to a feed network and to the ground plane substrate. The radiating element is configured to radiate over a first frequency band when the feed network provides an in-phase input signal to the at least two loop sections and to radiate over a second frequency band when the feed network provides an out-of-phase input signal to the at least two loop sections. The second frequency band includes a lower frequency than the first frequency band.