Abstract: Disclosed is a new strategy, composition, and method for a self-assembling peptides (SAP) that will self-assemble atop COVID-19 for immune destruction and act as a functional COVID-19 opsonin. The designed self-assembling peptides bind and assemble atop SARS-CoV-2—providing a new mechanism of infection abrogation. One benefit is avoidance of side effects that other formulations or repurposed drugs contain. Other feature of this technology include: (a) (SAP) are composed of L-amino acids that are highly biocompatible sub-Q, IM and IV (no adverse reaction for 10% blood volume replacement with 1 w % peptide in mice or rats); (b) Highly targeted approach that binds to viral particles preventing side effects; (c) SAP are intrinsically biodegradable and endocytosed; (d) SAP bound COVID-19 may promote engulfment, clearance, and antigen presentation (for immunity development); and (e) targeting the spike protein with SAP may allow treatment of other coronaviruses.

Abstract: A Schottky barrier diode includes a substrate, a first semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, a second semiconductor layer formed on the first semiconductor layer, and a metal layer formed on the second semiconductor layer to form a Schottky barrier, wherein the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer are formed of different materials, and a conduction band offset between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer is less than a set value.

Abstract: Methods for purifying 89Zr are provided, 89Zr compositions are provided, isotope compositions are provided that can include: a radio isotope and a nanoparticle, and methods for radio labeling monoclonal antibodies are provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to purely organic emitter molecules of a new type according to formula I and to the use thereof in optoelectronic devices, in particular in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), comprising donor D: an aromatic or heteraromatic chemical group on which the HOMO is located and which optionally has at least one substitution; acceptor A: an aromatic or heteromatic chemical group on which the LUMO is located and which optionally has at least one substitution; bridge B1, bridge B2: organic groups that link the donor D and the acceptor A in a non-conjugated manner; wherein in particular the energy difference ?E(S1?T1) between the lowest excited singlet (S1) state of the organic emitter molecule and the triplet (T1) state of the organic emitter molecule lying thereunder is less than 2000 cm?1.

Abstract: Unclassified observations are classified. Similarity values are computed for each unclassified observation and for each target variable value. A confidence value is computed for each unclassified observation using the similarity values. A high-confidence threshold value and a low-confidence threshold value are computed from the confidence values. For each observation, when the confidence value is greater than the high-confidence threshold value, the observation is added to a training dataset and, when the confidence value is greater than the low-confidence threshold value and less than the high-confidence threshold value, the observation is added to the training dataset based on a comparison between a random value drawn from a uniform distribution and an inclusion percentage value. A classification model is trained with the training dataset and classified observations. The trained classification model is executed with the unclassified observations to determine a label assignment.

Abstract: Non-fault disturbance-based method and system for measuring short-circuit capacity of a power grid on site including: connecting or disconnecting a reactive compensation device to or from a power grid point of common coupling, to generate a disturbance on a power grid; obtaining total active power and total reactive power of a load of the point of common coupling before the disturbance; determining a vector difference between a voltage of the power grid point of common coupling before the disturbance and a voltage of the power grid point of common coupling after the disturbance; obtaining a voltage effective value of the power grid point of common coupling before the disturbance; obtaining a capacity of the reactive compensation device; and determining a short-circuit capacity of the point of common coupling according to total active power, total reactive power, vector difference between voltages, voltage effective value, and capacity of the reactive compensation device.

Abstract: In the present invention, a composition comprising two types of thienothiophene compounds selected from the group consisting of the compounds indicated by formulas (1) to (4) (in formulas (1) to (4), either one of R1 and R2 represents an alkyl group, an aromatic hydrocarbon group having an alkyl group or a heterocyclic group having an alkyl group, and the other represents a hydrogen atom, an aromatic hydrocarbon group, a heterocyclic group or a substituent represented by formula (5) (in formula (5), R3 represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group or a heterocyclic group)) can form an organic thin film which is homogeneous over a large area, and an organic semiconductor device including the organic thin film is capable of exhibiting high mobility.

Abstract: A system for generating electrical energy from the wave motion of the sea is provided with electrical-energy generating means for exploiting the wave motion of the sea in order to generate electrical energy. A floating body is provided with equipment designed to regulate the frequency of the resonance peak of the system.

Abstract: Provided herein are compounds comprising peptides that bind Bfl-1. Also provided are compositions containing these peptides and methods of using such peptides in the treatment of cancer that include administering to a subject one of the peptides.

Abstract: Methods for the fabrication of metal strain wave gear flexsplines using a specialized metal additive manufacturing technique are provided. The method allows the entire flexspline to be metal printed, including all the components: the output surface with mating features, the thin wall of the cup, and the teeth integral to the flexspline. The flexspline may be used directly upon removal from the building tray.

Abstract: Provided are a direct wave suppression method and system for a microwave imaging system. The method includes a series of filtering operations, such as conversion from a frequency domain to a time domain, filtering, conversion from the time domain to the frequency domain, and cancellation subtraction, on an echo signal set composed of echo signals obtained by a vertical linear array antenna at all the equivalent antenna collection positions thereof.

Abstract: Systems and methods of tracking objects around an ego vehicle, using state estimation of the objects, where state estimation may include an estimate of a position, velocity, acceleration and bounding box size of the tracked object are disclosed. An object may be detected at one or more poses over time. For each pose, a first bounding box may be generated. The largest bounding box may be determined. For each pose, the first bounding box may be expanded to an expanded bounding box. The expanded bounding box may match the largest bounding box. For each pose, the center of the expanded bounding box may be determined. The object may be tracked according to the center of the expanded bounding box.

Abstract: Disclosed is a communication method of a satellite and a ground station and apparatuses performing the same. The communication method includes transmitting a plurality of frames to a satellite based on a beam hopping time plan (BHTP) of the satellite and a ground station and synchronizing the BHTP based on an index of a frame received through a beam switching window (BSW) allocated to the ground station among the plurality of frames, and an identification value indicating at least one sub-frame included in the frame.

Abstract: Disclosed is a river flow velocity measurement device using optical flow image processing, including: an image photographing unit configured to acquire consecutive images of a flow velocity measurement site of a river; an image conversion analysis unit configured to dynamically extract frames of the consecutive images in order to normalize image data of the image photographing unit, image-convert the extracted frames, and perform homography calculation; an analysis region extracting unit configured to extract an analysis region of an analysis point; a pixel flow velocity calculating unit configured to calculate a pixel flow velocity using an image in the analysis region of the analysis point extracted by the analysis region extracting unit; and an actual flow velocity calculating unit configured to convert the pixel flow velocity calculated by the pixel flow velocity calculating unit into an actual flow velocity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a blow molding device including: a heating unit which is configured to heat a molding material; and molds between which the molding material is loaded and molded, in which the heating unit includes: an infrared lamp configured to emit infrared rays, a reflective mirror configured to concentrate the infrared rays emitted from the infrared lamp; and a light transmitting body configured to transmit the infrared rays concentrated by the reflective mirror to the molding material, and in which the molds mold the molding material by using gas pressures applied to surfaces of the molding material heated to a predetermined temperature by the infrared rays transmitted from the light transmitting body.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a catalyst for dehydrogenation of liquid organic hydrogen carriers, including: a support; and a catalytically active ingredient on the support, wherein the support has a pore size of 10 nm or more.

Abstract: The image decoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: determining the availability of a block adjacent to a current block; configuring a merge candidate list for the current block on the basis of the result of the determined availability; and performing motion compensation for the current block on the basis of the merge candidate list, wherein the step of determining availability comprises the steps of inducing block availability information on the adjacent block and inducing the availability of motion information on the adjacent block, and the step of determining the availability of the adjacent block is such that when there is more than one adjacent block, the availability of adjacent blocks can be determined in accordance with a predetermined order restriction.

Abstract: A print head includes a capillary around an axis of symmetry for a liquid to be printed, the capillary adjoining at least one elastic element and having a nozzle opening which opens into a prechamber. The prechamber has an outlet opening aligned with the nozzle opening of the capillary in its axial orientation of the axis of symmetry and at least one inlet opening for a guide gas. The at least one elastic element forms a guide for the capillary in its axial orientation only. A feed for the liquid to be printed is provided in the capillary. A mechanical oscillation system is provided that includes the at least one elastic element and the capillary with the liquid contained therein. An actuator with a mechanical or magnetic force interaction with the oscillation system is further provided.

Abstract: A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; combining the generated prediction image with a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format.

Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for predicting a second color component block using a first color component block are provided. An image decoding method of the present invention comprises deriving a prediction parameter using the first color component block, and predicting the second color component block using the derived prediction parameter.