Abstract: The present invention discloses a preparation method and recycling method for degradable and recyclable paper plastics with water resistance and high-strength. By coating cyclic carbonate and amine compounds on paper, these compounds penetrate the paper's fiber structure, followed by curing treatment, resulting in a recyclable, degradable, and reprocessed paper plastic material with water resistance and high-strength. This method involves coating only cyclic carbonate and amines onto the paper, which, after heating, yields the paper plastic. The invention offers versatility, enhancing various paper types with improved mechanical properties, temperature resistance, water resistance, and solvent resistance while maintaining degradation capability. The paper plastic exhibits excellent self-healing, plasticity, degradation, and reprocessing properties. The process method is straightforward and user-friendly, making it suitable for industrial-scale production.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of preparing an anisotropic pitch for carbon fiber, and more particularly, to a method of preparing an anisotropic pitch of preparing a pitch having a low softening point by thermally polymerizing heavy oil or residue oil generated in an oil refining process, extracting only a mesogen component, and then heat-treating at a high temperature for a short time. The anisotropic pitch prepared in the present disclosure has advantages of exhibiting the anisotropic content of 100% and controlling the anisotropic content only a simple temperature control as desired and may be used as a precursor of a high value-added carbon material such as carbon fiber and an anode material for a lithium secondary battery.

Abstract: The invention relates to a GDSL lipase, genetically-engineered bacteria and an application thereof. The GDSL lipase is derived from Streptomyces diastaticus CS1801 and its amino acid sequence is as shown in SEQ ID NO.2. After construction of a genetically-engineered bacterium strain, a GDSL lipase is generated through fermentation. Through this enzyme, vitamin A and palmitic acid are converted to produce vitamin A palmitate. The content of the vitamin A palmitate obtained from the conversion is 16.35 mg/L at most. The conversion efficiency is 81.75% at most. This lipase provides a new path to synthesize vitamin A palmitate by the enzymatic method and has an important application prospect.

Abstract: Provided herein are lighting devices, systems, and methods. In particular, provided herein are lighting systems configured for use in a variety of medical settings to improve patient and health care worker health, performance, and well-being.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method according to the present invention may comprise acquiring transform coefficients distribution information of a neighboring block from a bitstream; direction-adaptively determining an intra prediction mode of a current block to be decoded, according to the transform coefficients distribution information of the neighboring block; and reconstructing the current block, based on the determined intra prediction mode, wherein the direction-adaptively determining includes determining similarity flag information corresponding to the neighboring block, based on the transform coefficients distribution information of the neighboring block.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds, which in certain embodiments are ACSS2 inhibitors. In certain embodiments, the compounds of the disclosure are useful for treating, ameliorating, and/or preventing certain types of cancer.

Abstract: Provided is a method of managing a data history and a device performing the method. The method of managing the data history includes generating second data based on first data, calculating a second hash value for the second data based on the second data and a first hash value for the first data, and storing the second hash value on a blockchain network to verify the second data, and a history of the first data is verified using the first hash value stored on the blockchain network.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for recognizing whether an action objective is achieved. The apparatus includes a video feature extraction module configured to receive a video and output a video feature sequence through an operator, such as a convolution operator, an action case memory module configured to compress and store action case information for each action type and each of success and failure groups transmitted from the video feature extraction module and return the action case information according to a query including a pair of an action type and whether the action is successful, and an action success or failure determination module configured to receive a pair of a video feature sequence and an action type identifier and output whether an action of the given video feature sequence is successful in connection with the action case memory module.

Abstract: Processes of polymerizing olefin monomers using catalyst systems and catalysts systems that include a procatalyst having a structure according to formula (I): (I).

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a hybrid download method and apparatus for multiview streaming. The hybrid download method includes requesting a group download for an n?1-th segment from a server, playing an n?3-th segment at a viewpoint VP1 of a viewer, when a group download request for the n?1-th segment is completed, making a group download request for an n-th segment, when a change in a viewpoint of the viewer occurs at a time at which an n?2-th segment is played, playing a low-quality n?2-th segment at a viewpoint VP3, when the group download for the n-th segment is completed, requesting a single download for a high-quality n?1-th segment corresponding to the viewpoint VP3 from the server, and when the single download for the high-quality n?1-th segment corresponding to the viewpoint VP3 is completed, playing the high-quality n?1-th segment at the viewpoint VP3.

Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a device for suppressing a first HVDC commutation failure under an AC system fault are provided. The method includes: obtaining a three-phase voltage of a converter bus, and calculating a zero-sequence component amplitude and an ?? component amplitude; calculating a first trigger-angle command for a single-phase fault and a second trigger-angle command for a three-phase fault; selecting a smaller one of the first trigger angle command and the second trigger angle command as a trigger-angle command for an extinction-angle controller; and adjusting a trigger angle of the HVDC transmission system by using the trigger-angle command as an upper limit value for an output of the extinction-angle controller of the HVDC transmission system.

Abstract: Disclosed is a noble metal-manganese oxide composite catalyst for a positive electrode of an aqueous rechargeable battery that can regenerate a solvent of an aqueous electrolyte. Also disclosed are a method for preparing the composite catalyst, a positive electrode for an aqueous rechargeable battery including the composite catalyst, and an aqueous rechargeable battery including the positive electrode. The composite catalyst can regenerate reaction products, including gases continuously generated from spontaneous corrosion of the electrodes or side reactions, back to water to prevent depletion of the electrolyte. Due to this ability, the composite catalyst improves the life characteristics of the battery and suppresses the occurrence of excessive overpotentials at the electrodes. Therefore, the use of the composite catalyst is effective in preventing the performance of the battery from deteriorating.

Abstract: A micro focus X-ray tube is provided. The micro focus X-ray tube has a bonding structure in which a ceramic and a metal without an exhaust pipe are stacked by using a nano electric field emitter of an excellent feature.

Abstract: An imaging lens structure and method of imaging are presented. The imaging lens structure comprising a lens region defining an effective aperture of the lens structure. The lens region comprises an arrangement of lens zones distributed within the lens region and comprising zones of at least two different optical functions differently affecting light passing therethrough. The zones of at least two different optical functions are arranged in an interlaced fashion along said lens region corresponding to a surface relief of the lens region such that adjacent lens zones of different optical functions are spaced apart from one another along an optical axis of the lens structure a distance larger than a coherence length of light at least one spectral range for which said lens structure is designed.

Abstract: A conductive composite material of graphene contains graphene nano-sheets and conjugated copolymers. The conjugated copolymers has alkynyl groups and are in a linear structure and grafted to the graphene nano-sheets. The preparation of conductive composite material includes the steps of: pretreating the graphene nano-sheets with 4-bromobenzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate, and forming the conjugated copolymers in the presence of the pretreated graphene nano-sheets. The conductive composite material of graphene can be uniformly dispersed in an electrode slurry, reduce the internal resistance of an electrode, and improve the electrical conductivity of an electrode. At the same time, the flexible structure associated with the graphene nano-sheets can buffer the volume expansion of the silicon-containing negative materials during charge-discharge cycling. Such a composite material can be in a lithium-ion battery.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave guidance and beam reshaping structure is favorable to incorporate a radiation source antenna into an energy focusing system. The electromagnetic wave guidance and beam reshaping structure includes a substrate, a plurality of metal patterns and a plurality of hollow structures. The substrate includes a central portion and a peripheral portion that surrounds the central portion. The plurality of metal patterns are disposed on the central portion. The plurality of hollow structures are disposed in the peripheral portion. The metal patterns are axisymmetrically arranged with respect to a central axis of the substrate, and the hollow structures are axisymmetrically arranged with respect to the central axis of the substrate.

Abstract: A method of searching a cell in a mobile station of a communication system in which a plurality of cells are grouped into a plurality of cell groups, each cell group including at least two cells, includes: detecting a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal from a received signal; and identifying a cell based on a combination of the primary synchronization signal and the secondary synchronization signal. The secondary synchronization signal is related to the cell group to which the mobile station belongs and the primary synchronization signal is related to the cell to which the mobile station belongs within the cell group.

Abstract: An implant may include a first body member and a second body member, at least one bone contacting arched member, and a first external element extending from the first body member to the second body member, wherein the first external element has an undulating planar geometry in which the first external element undulates in a single plane.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method used in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor, comprising the steps of: transmitting an uplink channel on a slot set; and transmitting a DMRS for transmission of the uplink channel on the slot set, wherein the DMRS is transmitted to maintain phase continuity and power consistency over a plurality of consecutive slots in a time window, and, when the length of the time window is not configured by a base station, the time window is determined according to the proposal of the present invention.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for calibrating a sound velocity applied to a multi-layer variable thickness structure, comprising: constructing a planar multi-layer medium stacked structure and determining a sound velocity of each layer of medium material in the planar multi-layer medium stacked structure; establishing a curved multi-layer medium stacked structure, the curved multi-layer medium stacked structure being arranged with a plurality of discrete elements; at the same time, establishing a fluctuation equation for determining a sound pressure value of each of the plurality of discrete elements; establishing a loss function between the sound pressure value of each discrete element calculated by the fluctuation equation and a measured sound pressure value of each discrete element; performing a gradient descent calculation on the sound pressure value of each discrete element based on the loss function, iteratively updating to obtain a sound velocity value being used as a weighting