Abstract: A method of determining service routes for a plurality of crews is provided. Outage data identifying a plurality of service outage source locations, a number of affected customers associated with each location of the plurality of locations, and a type of repair to perform at each location of the plurality of locations is received. A repair time is estimated for each location. Crew data identifying a plurality of crews and a start location for the plurality of crews is received. A service route for each crew is determined based on a crew skill indicator associated with each crew satisfying the type of repair to perform at each location and based on the estimated repair time for each location. The service route for a crew of the plurality of crews includes the start location as a first location and at least one location of the plurality of locations.

Abstract: Disclosed are a pyrrolo-pyrroledione-thiophenequinone compound as shown by formula I, a preparation process thereof and the use thereof as an organic semiconductor material. The preparation process for the compound of formula I comprises reacting NaH, an ?-bromine substituted pyrrolo-pyrroledione-thiophene oligomer as shown by formula II and malononitrile sodium salt, in the presence of catalytic Pd(PPh3)4, and then adding to the reaction system saturated bromine water to carry out an oxidation reaction, so as to obtain the compound of formula I. The compound of formula I has a good field effect performance, an electron mobility of above 0.1 cm2V?1s?1, an on/off current ratio up to 105, and is stable in air.

Abstract: Isolated peptides, compositions and methods of use for treating tumors infiltrated with macrophages, such as glioblastomas.

Abstract: An ultrasound probe structure dedicated for guiding the puncture needle. It has a passage in the center of the structure and the diameter of the passage is equal to the outer diameter of puncture needle. The bony and non-bony tissues can be distinguished according to the strength of the echoes so that the puncture needle can be guided to avoid hitting the bony tissue before or during insertion.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for identifying agents which modulate microRNA activity. The invention involves contacting a cell harboring a microRNA and a microRNA binding sequence, which is operably linked to a nucleic acid molecule encoding a reporter protein, with a test agent and determining whether the test agent increases or decreases the expression of the reporter protein thereby identifying a microRNA modulator. Antagonists identified by this screening assay are provided, as are methods for using the same to inhibit microRNA activity and prevent or treat disease.

Abstract: A filtration device including a contoured support having 1) an interior surface, 2) an outside peripheral surface spaced farther from a center of the contoured support than the interior surface, and 3) a rim enclosed and sealed to a perimeter of the contoured support. The filtration device includes macroscopic openings in the contoured support extending from the interior surface to the outside peripheral surface, and a plurality of nanofibers having diameters less than 1 micron. The nanofibers are disposed on the outside peripheral surface of the contoured support, and cover the macroscopic openings to form a filtration medium on the contoured support.

Abstract: Techniques to refine solutions to linear optimization problems using symmetries are described. Some embodiments are particularly directed to techniques to refine solutions to linear optimization problems using symmetries to permute an existing solution into other feasible solutions that may improve upon the objective function. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a configuration component, an optimization component, a symmetries component, and an improvement component. The configuration component may be operative to receive an optimization problem described by an objective and constraints on a plurality of variables. The optimization interface component may be operative to receive an initial feasible solution to the optimization problem, the initial feasible solution comprising an assignment of values to the plurality of variables satisfying all the constraints, the initial feasible solution producing an initial objective value when applied to the objective.

Abstract: The invention provides the nucleotide sequence and amino acid sequence of the CDR3 domain of the T cell receptor (TCR) gene of a WT1-specific cytotoxic T cell (CTL) against WT1 protein. Also provided are a method for testing for and treating cancer using the nucleotide sequence and amino acid sequence, and a chip, primer set, kit, and device for testing for cancer comprising the nucleotide sequence and amino acid sequence.

Abstract: Disclosed is a computation device for optimizing photovoltaic power generation by computing a wire connection pattern of a plurality of photovoltaic modules, the computation device including a parameter acquisition unit configured to acquire a parameter including at least a current value from each of the photovoltaic modules; a class classification unit configured to perform class classification of the photovoltaic modules based on the parameter acquired by the parameter acquisition unit; and a wire connection pattern selection unit configured to select the wire connection pattern based on the class classification performed by the class classification unit.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for manufacturing an electrode including mixing at least two electrode materials selected from a carbon material, a metal oxide precursor, and a conductive polymer with a solvent to prepare a mixture, coating the mixture on a current collector, and radiating IPL (intense pulsed light) on the mixture coated on the current collector, the electrode manufactured according to the method, and a supercapacitor and rechargeable lithium battery including the electrode.

Abstract: An artificial foot and ankle joint consists of a curved leaf spring foot member having a heel extremity and a toe extremity, and a flexible elastic ankle member that connects the foot member for rotation at the ankle joint. An actuator motor applies torque to the ankle joint to orient the foot when it is not in contact with the support surface and to store energy in a catapult spring that is released along with the energy stored in the leaf spring to propel the wearer forward. A ribbon clutch prevents the foot member from rotating in one direction beyond a predetermined limit position. A controllable damper is employed to lock the ankle joint or to absorb mechanical energy as needed. The controller and sensing mechanisms control both the actuator motor and the controllable damper at different times during the walking cycle for level walking, stair ascent, and stair descent.

Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to techniques for countering oscillation in community assignments of nodes in a network during detection of its communities. A computer-program product tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium includes instructions operable to cause a computing device to derive a first connectedness metric of a first community to which a first node of a network belongs and a second connectedness metric of a second community to which a second node of the network belongs in parallel in an iteration of parallel detection of communities in the network, wherein the first and second nodes are connected in the network; randomly pin the first node to prevent its reassignment to another community during the iteration; compare the first and second connectedness metrics during the iteration; and reassign the second node from the second community to the first community based on the comparison. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for deducing a viewing household member profile. According to the method and apparatus, a viewing pattern of a general viewing household is analyzed based on viewer group classification criteria generated using the standard household member profile, and thus the member profile of the viewing household may be deduced and the deduced profile may be provided, thereby effectively providing advertisements corresponding to the inclination of viewing household members.

Abstract: The invention relates to an immunogenic composition and its use. It comprises “OLPs,” or overlapping peptides, derived from a longer, tumor antigen, in combination with polyICLC, and Montanide.

Abstract: Provided is a process for treating or preventing a viral infection in a subject, wherein the viral infection is from a flavivirus selected from the group consisting of Hepatitis C Virus (genotypes 1-7) and Japanese Encephalitis Virus.

Abstract: A semantic-based search system includes a log generating unit configured to generate a common log storing knowledge corresponding to general knowledge and a user log stored by reflecting user preference, an instance analyzing unit configured to analyze vector characteristics corresponding to an instance among interpretation alternatives according to a keyword input by a user, a weighted value calculating unit configured to calculate weighted values of confidence values and cosine similarity values of interpretation alternatives including vector characteristics of the instance with respect to at least an one of the common log and the user log, and an aligning unit configured to align rankings of the interpretation alternatives according to the keyword input on the basis of the calculated weight values of the confidence values and the cosine similarity values.

Abstract: Provided are a signal detector for an uplink control channel and a time error correction method capable of simply correcting time errors, which occur during adjustment of a starting point of an FFT of an uplink control channel signal, by use of differential demodulation and thus improving the signal detection performance of an uplink control channel.

Abstract: A method of determining service routes for a plurality of crews is provided. Outage data identifying service outage source locations, a number of affected customers associated with each location, and a type of repair to perform at each location is received. Crew data identifying a start location and a crew skill indicator for each crew is received. A service route is determined for each crew using a mixed integer linear program minimizing a total customer time without the service subject to the crew skill indicator satisfying the type of repair to perform at each location. The service route for a crew includes the start location as a first location and at least one location of the plurality of locations.

Abstract: The present invention relates to contrast medium composition and a method of bio imagination using the same. The contrast medium composition of the present invention includes a biomolecule, DNA nanostructure, as an active ingredient, is fundamentally non-cytotoxic and non-immunogenic and is not likely to induce safety problems that may be observed in other organic or inorganic contrast medium composition. In addition, the contrast medium composition of the present invention not only facilitates diagnosis of disease through sufficient contrast enhancement effect by showing excellent cellular uptake and intracellular stability and can visualize even SLNs which is difficult to be visualized traditionally, so can judge metastasis of cancer easily and apply lower invasive treatment.

Abstract: A method of a multicast/broadcast server to count the number of terminals. The method includes transmitting a request message to a base station to request to count the number of terminals currently being provided with one or more multicast/broadcast services or interested in the multicast/broadcast services; and switching mode of a corresponding service to unicast mode or multicast/broadcast mode according to whether the number of counted terminals is greater than a predefined threshold wherein the number of counted terminals is contained in a message received from the base station as a response to the request message.