Abstract: A dynamic packet relay method of a personal area network (PAN) coordinator in a sensor network includes receiving a Child_Register message that includes information about a device associated with a coordinator and building or updating a network hierarchical structure; monitoring reception of a packet or a beacon from the coordinator and determining whether the coordinator is defective or not; and in response to a determination that the coordinator is defective, changing the current coordinator to one of devices belonging to a PAN as a new coordinator.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a FinFET device is provided, comprising: a. providing a substrate (100); b. forming a fin (200) on the substrate; c. forming an shallow trench isolation structure (300) on the substrate; d. forming an sacrificial gate stack on the isolation structure, wherein the sacrificial gate stack intersects the fin; e. forming source/drain doping regions by ion implantation into the fin; f. depositing an interlayer dielectric layer (400) on the substrate; g. removing the sacrificial gate stack to form a sacrificial gate vacancy; h. forming an doped region (201) under the sacrificial gate vacancy; i. etching the shallow trench isolation structure (300) under the sacrificial gate vacancy until the top surface of the shallow trench isolation structure (300) levels with the bottom surface of the source/drain doping regions; j. forming a new gate stack in the sacrificial gate vacancy.

Abstract: In a method of producing a glass substrate including a laminate preparing step of laminating a glass film 1 having flexibility and a support glass 2 supporting the same, to prepare a laminate 3; a process step of forming an organic EL device 4 on the glass film 1 in the laminate 3, involving heating; and a peeling step of peeling off the glass film 1 on which the organic EL device 4 is formed from the support glass 2 to obtain a glass substrate 5, a heating step of heating the glass film 1 and the support glass 2 is executed before execution of the laminate preparing step, and the glass film 1 and the support glass 2 are laminated in the condition that they are heated at the time of execution of the laminate preparing step.

Abstract: Transmission microscopy imaging systems include a mask and/or other modulator situated to encode image beams, e.g., by deflecting the image beam with respect to the mask and/or sensor. The beam is modulated/masked either before or after transmission through a sample to induce a spatially and/or temporally encoded signal by modifying any of the beam/image components including the phase/coherence, intensity, or position of the beam at the sensor. For example, a mask can be placed/translated through the beam so that several masked beams are received by a sensor during a single sensor integration time. Images associated with multiple mask displacements are then used to reconstruct a video sequence using a compressive sensing method. Another example of masked modulation involves a mechanism for phase-retrieval, whereby the beam is modulated by a set of different masks in the image plane and each masked image is recorded in the diffraction plane.

Abstract: The invention provides compounds that inhibit ROCK activity. In certain embodiments the compounds of the invention enhance cognitive function. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions that comprise ROCK inhibitors and to methods enhance cognitive function and reducing and/or treat cognitive function decline.

Abstract: A multi-stage bubble-column vapor mixture condenser comprises at least a first stage and a second stage. Each stage includes a carrier-gas inlet and a carrier-gas outlet, as well as a condenser chamber containing a condensing bath in fluid communication with the carrier-gas inlet and the carrier-gas outlet. The carrier-gas inlet is positioned to bubble carrier gas from the carrier-gas inlet up through the condensing bath, overcoming a hydrostatic head of the condensing bath. The carrier-gas outlet is positioned with an opening for carrier-gas extraction above the condensing bath, wherein the first-stage carrier-gas outlet is in fluid communication with the carrier-gas inlet of the second stage to facilitate flow of the carrier gas through the condensing bath in the condenser chamber of the first stage and then through the condensing bath in the condenser chamber of the second stage.

Abstract: In some embodiments, macromolecules and related methods are provided. In some embodiments, an iterative growth process may be used to form a macromolecule comprising one or more repeat units comprising a functionalizable pendant group, with precise control over mass, length, backbone sequence, pendant group sequence, and/or stereochemistry, amongst other features. Macromolecules (e.g., non-natural macromolecules) form from the iterative growth process, described herein, may be used for a wide variety of applications, including the delivery of active agents.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for measuring an input time of an input signal, and more particularly, an apparatus for measuring an input time of an input signal more precisely than a reference clock using a delay circuit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a highly safe antibacterial composition showing antibacterial activity against both Gram-positive bacteria and Gram-negative bacteria, of which flavor is not impaired. The antibacterial composition of the present invention contains nisin, and one or two or more kinds of plant-derived ingredients selected from the group consisting of juice, extract, and distillate of a Rosaceae plant, and a mixture of these. It is preferred that the Rosaceae plant is a plant belonging to the genus Prunus, it is more preferred that the plant belonging to the genus Prunus is Prunus mume, and it is particularly preferred that the plant-derived ingredient is Prunus mume fruit juice. The antibacterial composition of the present invention is useful especially as a composition for oral cavity.

Abstract: A power amplifier according to examples includes an amplifying circuit configured to amplify an input signal, a feedback circuit configured to feedback the amplified signal to the amplifying unit, and a feedback controlling circuit configured to control a power of the fed-back signal based on a power of the input signal. The feedback controlling unit performs controlling so that the power of the fed-back signal is increased as the power of the input signal is increased.

Abstract: Disclosed is a smart remote node optical network node including an optical layer monitoring unit configured to transmit a monitoring light signal to an optical network unit through an optical switch and receive a monitoring light signal reflected from the optical network unit, an infra recognition unit configured to recognize whether an optical connector is connected to an output port of a remote node and an identification number of the optical connector when the optical connector is connected thereto, and a control unit connected to the optical layer monitoring unit and the infra recognition unit and configured to control recognition and monitoring operations of the remote node according to a remote node application.

Abstract: The inventive technology may involve, in particular embodiments, novel use of a non-porous, high surface energy stationary phase to adsorb, in reversible fashion, the most polar component of a resins fraction of an input hydrocarbon when a mobile phase is passed over the stationary phase. Such reversible adsorption prevents irreversibly adsorption of such components on active stationary phase(s) downflow of the non-porous, high surface energy stationary phase, thereby conserving stationary phase costs and increasing resolution of resins elutions, and accuracy of hydrocarbon component results. Aspects of the inventive technology may also involve a novel combination of a solubility based asphaltene component fractionating and analysis method and an adsorption chromatography method for separating and/or analyzing saturate, aromatics and resins components of an input hydrocarbon.

Abstract: A power amplifier include an amplifier including at least one field effect transistor (FET) that operates in an amplifying stage configured to amplify an input signal, and a body controller configured to control a bias voltage of a body terminal of the FET based on a power of the input signal. The body controller performs controlling so that the bias voltage of the body terminal is reduced in response to the power of the input signal being increased. Accordingly, such a power amplifier exhibits improved linearity.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a service transmission method and device. The service transmission method may include: determining, by a user terminal, whether a service of the user terminal is a service needing global cooperation; transmitting, by the user terminal, the service with a global Base Band Unit (BBU) pool mode if the service of the user terminal is the service needing the global cooperation; and transmitting, by the user terminal, the service with a non-global BBU pool mode if the service of the user terminal is the service, which does not need the global cooperation.

Abstract: L-cysteine can be produced inexpensively and efficiently by using a bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae modified to reduce activity of O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase B thereof, the bacterium being modified so that the C terminal region of its thiosulfate-binding protein is deleted, and the bacterium having an increased ability to produce L-cysteine in the presence of a sulfate.

Abstract: A wearable augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) display apparatus includes an optical waveguide; an optical free-form surface; and a microdisplay; wherein optical free-form surface is optically coupled to the waveguide through an inclined optical path.

Abstract: A system includes a device that is disposed within an environment and is adapted to communicate over a radio frequency communication link. The system also includes a wireless access point disposed within the environment, including a wireless transceiver in communication with the device over a radio frequency communication link using a plurality of channels, and recording a channel state information data set for the radio frequency communication link. The system also includes a monitoring device including a memory storing a plurality of activity profiles, each of which includes an activity and a channel state information profile corresponding to the activity, and a processor receiving, from the wireless access point, the channel state information data set and determining, based on a comparison of the channel state information data set to the channel state information profile of each of the plurality of activity profiles, the activity of the person in the environment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing a signal, which are used to effectively reproduce an audio signal, and more particularly, to a method for generating a filter for an audio signal, which are used for implementing a filtering for input audio signals with a low computational complexity and a parameterization apparatus therefor.

Abstract: There are provided a remote behavior navigation system and a method thereof, which allow an instructor at a remote location to perform guidance to a worker while watching a work video picture of the worker. Corresponding to a video picture from a worker-side camera at time t1, an instructor-side computer extracts a work instruction video picture from a video picture of an instructor-side camera at time t2. The instructor-side computer superimposes the work instruction video picture at the time t2 on the video picture from the worker-side camera at the time t1, and displays the superimposed video picture on an instructor-side monitor. A worker-side computer provides the work instruction video picture at the time t2 with a time difference correction, then superimposes the corrected work instruction video picture on a video picture from the worker-side camera at time t3, and displays the superimposed video picture on a worker-side monitor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing a signal, which are used to effectively reproduce an audio signal, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for processing an audio signal, which are used for implementing a filtering for input audio signals with a low computational complexity.