Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel portable apparatus suitable for providing an optimized amount of refrigerant to a refrigeration system, and to methods of using the novel portable apparatus.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, an apparatus for real-time object detection in an image captured by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) including an image splitter configured to receive an input image and split the input image into a left image and a right image; and an object detector configured to detect an object from each of the left image and the right image provided from the image splitter is provided.

Abstract: A system architecture encoded on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the system architecture includes a first protocol. The first protocol is configured to receive a plurality of outputs from an ICS used in controlling an industrial system. The first protocol is configured to receive a plurality of inputs from a physical module. The physical module includes at least one of a component, a sensor, or the ICS. Additionally, the system architecture includes a second protocol, wherein the second protocol is configured to validate the plurality of inputs from the first protocol. Moreover, the system architectures includes a third protocol, wherein the third protocol is configured to validate the plurality of outputs from the first protocol. Further, the system architecture includes a fourth protocol, wherein the fourth protocol is configured to manage the ICS based on the second protocol and the third protocol.

Abstract: By using a polycyclic aromatic compound as a material for a light-emitting layer, formed by connecting a plurality of aromatic rings with a boron atom and an oxygen, sulfur, or selenium atom, which have been substituted by a specific aryl such as anthracene, an organic EL element having at least one of excellent quantum efficiency and element life can be provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for inhibiting ice recrystallization, including: A nucleic acid structure comprising a scaffold nucleic acid folded at predetermined positions to form a plurality of strands, and a plurality of staple nucleic acids, wherein at least a portion thereof has a complementary sequence to at least a portion of the scaffold nucleic acid, thereby binding to the scaffold nucleic acid to form a double strand. Therefore, it is possible to increase a survival rate of cells due to having excellent effect of inhibiting ice recrystallization upon cryopreservation of the cells, and maintain a texture of food even when using the composition in the freezing of food.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of fabricating a resistive switching memory. A method of fabricating a resistive switching memory according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a step of forming a lower electrode on a substrate; a step of forming a resistive switching layer on the lower electrode using sputtering; and a step of forming an upper electrode on the resistive switching layer, wherein, in the step of forming a resistive switching layer on the lower electrode using sputtering, the substrate is disposed in a region, which is not reached by plasma generated by the first and second targets, between the first target and the second target disposed above the substrate to deposit the resistive switching layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to macrocyclic peptides and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The invention further provides macrocyclic tetrapeptides comprising sarcosine. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions for modulating opioid receptor activity. The macrocyclic tetrapeptides provided herein are useful in treating diseases or disorders relating to the activity of one or more opioid receptors, such as neurological disorders.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrolyte, a metal anode and a cathode. The metal anode includes a porous material disposed thereon to protect the metal anode. The porous material has a zeta potential with a magnitude of at least above 15 mV in the electrolyte. The porous material can include a cross-linked polymer having segments with polar functional groups. Examples of polar functional groups include, but are not limited to, those comprising one or more among O, N, P, S, and B.

Abstract: A method includes identifying a plurality of local tracklets from a plurality of targets, creating a plurality of global tracklets from the plurality of local tracklets, wherein each global tracklet comprises a set of local tracklet of the plurality of local tracklets, wherein the set of local tracklet corresponds to a target of the plurality of targets; extracting motion features of the target from the each global tracklet of the plurality of global tracklets, wherein the motion features of each target of the plurality of targets from each global tracklet of the plurality of global tracklets are distinguishable from the motion features of remaining targets of the plurality of targets from remaining global tracklets; transforming the motion features into an address code by using a hashing process; and transmitting a plurality of address codes and a transformation parameter of the hashing process to a communication device.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for compacting soil and granular materials are disclosed. In some embodiments, the soil compaction apparatuses include an arrangement of diametric expansion elements that, in their expanded state, form a larger compaction surface. In another embodiment, a compaction chamber can be provided with diametric restriction elements and a flow-through passage in the upper portion of the chamber exterior of a drive shaft. The diametric expansion or restriction elements can be fabricated from, for example, individual chains, cables, or wire rope, or a lattice of vertically and horizontally connected chains, cables, or wire rope. Embodiments of the soil compaction apparatus include, but are not limited to, closed-ended driving shafts, open-ended driving shafts, flow-through passages, no flow-through passages, removable rings for holding the diametric expansion/restriction elements, and any combinations thereof.

Abstract: A system and method for material decomposition of a single energy spectrum x-ray dataset includes accessing the single energy spectrum x-ray dataset, receiving a user-selection of a desired energy for decomposition, and decomposing the single energy spectrum x-ray dataset into material bases as a linear combination of energy dependence function of selected basis materials and the corresponding spatial dependence material bases images.

Abstract: In some aspects, the disclosure relates to production of bacterial secondary metabolites. In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to a genetically engineered Streptomyces J1074 bacterium, wherein the bacterium comprises a nucleic acid having a modification to at least one global regulator gene.

Abstract: A multi-channel real-time cardiovascular performance evaluation system, includes: a multi-channel ECG signals measurement unit, a multi-channel ECG signals processing device, and an ECG signals reconstruction unit. The method uses a MAMA-END algorithm, to mark ECG signals to replace the original ECG signal, and to extract characteristic peak value of the ECG signal. As such, the method is able to extract and reconstruct a first signal having QRS wave, and a second signal having T wave; then the method detects and marks the start of Q wave and the end of T wave on the first signal and the second signal. Therefore, the method is able to determine and evaluate if a patient does have cardiovascular disease, and to locate the lesion positions of a patient having cardiovascular disease.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cryogel scaffold capable of controlling the degree of degradation and a soft bio-integrated device in which a drug modulating an immunosuppressive action in solid tumor microenvironment is loaded in the scaffold.

Abstract: The present invention provides a device for measuring a particle size at a low temperature, specifically, which includes a refrigerant tank containing a refrigerant; a heat conduction plate thermally connected to the refrigerant tank; and a nanoantenna located on the heat conduction plate, thereby it is possible to determine a degree of light transmission to the sample to be measured located on an upper portion of the nanoantenna, and predict the physical properties of the sample.

Abstract: The disclosure provides helix grafted proteins, methods of producing helix grafted proteins and methods of use of helix grafted proteins as inhibitors of protein-protein interactions involved in disease pathogenesis.

Abstract: This invention generally relates to methods useful for measuring heart rate, respiration conditions, and oxygen saturation and a wearable device that incorporate those methods with a computerized system supporting data collection, analysis, readout and sharing. Particularly this present invention relates to a wearable device, such as a wristwatch or ring, for real time measuring heart rate, respiration conditions, and oxygen saturation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical use of actinin-4 involved in the induction of cervical cancer, and more specifically, characterizes actinin-4 as a marker protein capable of inducing cervical cancer, thereby providing the pharmaceutical use of actinin-4 that can be used in the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of cervical cancer.

Abstract: This invention is directed to selective androgen receptor degrader (SARD) compounds pharmaceutical compositions and uses thereof in treating early prostate cancer, prostate cancer, advanced prostate cancer, castration resistant prostate cancer, triple negative breast cancer, other cancers expressing the androgen receptor, androgenic alopecia or other hyperandrogenic dermal diseases, Kennedy's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), and uterine fibroids, and to methods for reducing the levels of androgen receptor-full length (AR-FL) including pathogenic or resistance mutations, AR-splice variants (AR-SV), and pathogenic polyglutamine (polyQ) polymorphisms of AR in a subject.

Abstract: A method for improved prediction and enhancement of hydrocarbon recovery from ultra-tight/unconventional reservoirs for both the primary production and any subsequent solvent huff'n'puff periods based on facilitating the diffusion process may include steps of defining one or more initial properties of a reservoir and integrating characterization data of the reservoir; defining a wellbore trajectory for each of at least one well and one or more parameters associated with a completion/reservoir stimulation design; specifying operating conditions for a current development cycle; performing diffusion-based dynamic fracture/reservoir simulation for calculating hydrocarbon recovery and efficiency of a hydrocarbon process; and; determining whether to commence or continue enhanced oil recovery (EOR) or enhanced gas recovery (EGR) cycles.