Abstract: A Multimodality Brain Mapping System (MBMS), comprising one or more scopes (e.g., microscopes or endoscopes) coupled to one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors obtain training data from one or more first images and/or first data, wherein one or more abnormal regions and one or more normal regions are identified; receive a second image captured by one or more of the scopes at a later time than the one or more first images and/or first data and/or captured using a different imaging technique; and generate, using machine learning trained using the training data, one or more viewable indicators identifying one or abnormalities in the second image, wherein the one or more viewable indicators are generated in real time as the second image is formed. One or more of the scopes display the one or more viewable indicators on the second image.

Abstract: An identification film and pattern having high transparency and a reflectance spectrum with respect to a particular wavelength and including photonic crystals patterned into a particular shape and an anticounterfeiting product including the same are disclosed. A highly transparent colloidal photonic crystal film is easily manufactured using photocurable colloidal suspensions. Even though a plurality of patterns (including sub-patterns) is formed in plural films, there is no reduction in optical characteristics such as transparency, reflectance spectra, and the like. Thus, a film patterned into a desired shape is manufactured and thus usability thereof is enhanced, and a plurality of reflectance spectra with various wavelength ranges is provided and thus identification capability or security is enhanced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for detecting the undifferentiated human pluripotent stem cells comprising an agent useful for measuring the level of Desmoglein 2 (Dsg 2) mRNA or the protein thereof, a kit for detecting the undifferentiated human pluripotent stem cells comprising the said composition, a method for detecting the undifferentiated human pluripotent stem cells containing the step of measuring the level of Desmoglein 2 mRNA or the protein thereof, a method for evaluating the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells and thereafter for separating the undifferentiated human pluripotent stem cells, a method for reducing the undifferentiated status of human pluripotent stem cells by inhibiting the expression or activation of Desmoglein 2, and a monoclonal antibody binding specifically to human Desmoglein 2.

Abstract: A scanning module including first path shifting unit changing a path of an incident electromagnetic wave from a light source; a first driving unit adjusting the path of the electromagnetic wave by moving the first path shifting unit; and a Bessel beam generating unit making a Bessel beam on a portion of an object, using the electromagnetic wave with the path changed by the path shifting unit. A detection probe which includes a light source generating an electromagnetic wave; a path shifting unit changing a path of an electromagnetic wave from a light source; a Bessel beam generating unit making a Bessel beam on a portion of an object, using the electromagnetic wave with the path changed by the path shifting unit; a detecting unit detecting intensity of a wave from the object, and a housing accommodating the light source, path shifting unit, Bessel beam generating unit, and detecting unit.

Abstract: An optical transceiver of a flexible modulation format. The optical transceiver may include an optical transmitter to convert an electrical signal to an optical signal and transmit the optical signal, an optical receiver to receive and convert the optical signal to an electrical signal, and a controller to set modulation formats of the optical transmitter and the optical receivers according to modulation format information.

Abstract: A method of providing real-time feedback of task performance includes receiving sensor data from sensors coupled to an object. The sensor data is received in response to tasks performed on the object and references positional data with respect to a location on the object at which tasks are performed. The method also includes applying the sensor data to a model of performance measurements, which reflect a standard of performance. The method further includes identifying any deviations of the sensor data from data in the model, and outputting feedback in real-time. The feedback includes indicators signaling tasks performed are correctly implemented and indicators signaling tasks performed are incorrectly implemented. Corrective indicators include measures for modifying task performance to achieve an outcome that approaches or meets the standard of performance. The indicators correspond to one or more locations on the object as determined by the positional data.

Abstract: A satellite communication system and a method of cancelling interference in the satellite communication system are disclosed. The method of cancelling interference in the satellite communication system may include receiving a signal by a central station from a terminal via a satellite transponder, estimating, from the signal, a nonlinear characteristic associated with a central station signal transmitted from the central station, and cancelling an interference signal from the signal using the estimated nonlinear characteristic.

Abstract: This invention includes a sacrificial thin film formation step for chemical-mechanical polishing a temporary substrate made of a readily polishable material and sputtering a metal thin film along the smoothly polished surface, and a first bonding step for forming a sealing frame obtained by bringing at least a noble metal on the metal thin film and bonding a substrate on the sealing frame. This invention also includes a temporary substrate removal step for then removing the metal thin film along with the temporary substrate and exposing a new surface at the tip of the sealing frame; and a second bonding step for sputtering a noble metal thin film around a precision machine element on the machine substrate, bringing the new surface of the sealing frame into contact onto the noble metal thin film and bonding the new surface of the sealing frame onto the noble metal thin film at room temperature.

Abstract: The disclosure provides bio-asphalt, bio-asphalt compositions and a method for preparing them. It belongs to the technical field of asphalt material. The method of the disclosure uses bio-oil as the raw material, adopts a combination of extraction process and oxidation process to prepare bio-asphalt, and modifies the product obtained from bio-oil by extraction process or bio-asphalt with ordinary petroleum asphalt and/or aromatic hydrocarbon oil and a macromolecular material to obtain a bio-asphalt composition.

Abstract: A motion tracking system makes use of a number antennas to transmit and receive radio frequency signals that are reflected from objects (e.g., people) in the environment of the system, which may include one or more rooms of a building, the interior of a vehicle, etc., and may be partitioned, for example, walls or cloth sheets. In general, the objects in the environment include both fixed objects, such as chairs, walls, etc., as well as moving objects, such as but not limited to people. The system can track people, who may be moving around a room, or may be relatively stationary, for instance, sitting in a chair of lying in bed, but may nevertheless exhibit breathing motion that may be detected. The system may detect body or limb gestures made by the people in the environment, and detect physical activity including detection of falls.

Abstract: A computer-implemented depth estimation method based on non-parametric Census transform with adaptive window patterns and semi-global optimization. A modified cross-based cost aggregation technique adaptively creates the shape of the cross for each pixel distinctly. In addition, a depth refinement algorithm fills holes within the estimated depth map using the surrounding background depth pixels and sharpens the object boundaries by exerting a trilateral filter to the generated depth map. The trilateral filter uses the curvature of pixels as well as texture and depth information to sharpen the edges.

Abstract: A method of repairing diseased or dysfunctional pancreas or liver is provided. The method involves preparation of a suspension of stem cells and/or progenitor cells such as biliary tree stem cells, hepatic stem cells, pancreatic stem cells or their descendants, committed progenitor cells, from healthy tissue of the patient or of the biliary tree of a non-autologous donor and engrafting the cells into the wall of bile ducts near to the organ to be treated. The graft consists of stem cells or progenitors that are admixed with biomaterials and, optionally, with cytokines and/or native epithelial-mesenchymal cells appropriate for the maturational lineage stage of the cells to be engrafted.

Abstract: A technology which enables a high yield and convenient recovery of a protein and also enables a global protein purification is provided. A protein tag comprising an amino acid sequence of the full length or a part of MafG protein or an amino acid sequence in which amino acids serving as protease cleavage sites were inserted into the former amino acid sequence is provided. Since this protein tag can impart a high insolubility attributable to MafG protein to a protein to be tagged thereby insolubilizing the tagged protein, the tagged protein can be recovered into an insoluble fraction at a high yield.

Abstract: A wide-angle lens calibration system is provided, which may include a rotation unit, an image input unit, and a processing unit. A lens to be calibrated may be disposed on the rotation unit; the rotation direction of the rotation unit may be parallel to the horizontal direction; the optical axis center of the lens may be aligned with a reference object. The image input unit may receive images from the lens. The processing unit may control the rotation unit to rotate and analysis the images received from the lens. The processing unit may execute a distortion calibration process, wherein the processing unit may continuously rotate the rotation unit by a predetermined angle and then record the distance between the position of the reference object in the image and the optical axis center and a total rotation angle after each rotation so as to establish a distortion calibration model.

Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.

Abstract: An anthropogenic pest-resistant gene having a nucleotide sequence as represented by SEQ IN NO. 1, and, an anti-Cry1Ab toxin idiotypic single-chain antibody encoded by the anthropogenic pest-resistant gene and having a nucleotide sequence as represented by SEQ IN NO. 2.

Abstract: Methods of selecting a chemotherapy regimen for treatment of cancer in a patient are disclosed. A patient genetic sample from a bilary cancer such as cholangiocarcinoma is analyzed for a mutation in ERRFI1 and a chemotherapeutic agent is selected as a result of the analysis. If a mutation in ERRFI1 is present, treatment with an inhibitor of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) is shown to have inhibitory effects on tumor growth. In this manner, the chemotherapy regimen is targeted to a given mutation in a patient's cancer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cesium borosilicate compound, a nonlinear optical crystal of cesium borosilicate, and a preparation method therefor and a use thereof. The cesium borosilicate compound has a chemical formula of Cs2B4SiO9 and a molecular weight of 481.15, and is prepared using a solid phase method. The nonlinear optical crystal of the cesium borosilicate compound has a chemical formula of Cs2B4SiO9 and a molecular weight of 481.15, does not have a center of symmetry, belongs to the tetragonal system with space group I4 and unit-cell parameters a=6.731(3) ?, c=9.871(9) ? and V=447.2(5) ?3, and has a wide transmittance range. The shortest ultraviolet cutoff edge is smaller than 190 nm, the frequency doubling effect of the crystal is 4.6 KDP, and the crystal is grown by a high-temperature solution spontaneous crystallization method and a flux method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, its preparation method, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, and its use in manufacture of a medicament for treatment of a disease or disorder, wherein R1, R2, R5, R6, X, Y, Q, W, n1 and n2 are defined as those stated in the description.

Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to cell-based therapies for treatment of visual disorders, including disorders of the cornea. Methods are exemplified for directed differentiation of corneal cells from stem cells. Compositions of corneal endothelial cells and uses thereof are also provided. Exemplary compositions exhibit improved cell density and/or more “youthful” gene expression relative to cells obtained from donated tissue.