Abstract: An axially actuating device having an elastic joining portion is provided, which is used for carrying an object and actuating the object to move axially, and comprises a fixed portion, a moving portion, and a joining member. The joining member is used to combine the fixed portion with the moving portion, such that the fixed portion and the moving portion are axially coupled with each other. Moreover, the fixed portion and the moving portion are respectively a fixed magnet and a coil, such that when a current is applied to the moving portion, the moving portion generates a relative displacement with respect to the fixed portion according to the current, so as to provide an axial displacement. Meanwhile, the moving energy is generated due to the repulsive interaction of the magnetic field, and thus a shock proofing efficacy is also provided.

Abstract: An electrolysis-type apparatus for treating ballast water using NaOCl and a method thereof is provided. The apparatus includes: a ballast tank; an electrolyzer; a first circulation pump; a second circulation pump; and a controller. The ballast tank is installed in a ship to store seawater. The electrolyzer is connected with the ballast tank and electrolyzes the seawater. The circulation pumps are installed to allow the ballast water to flow into the electrolyzer and to discharge the electrolyzed water containing NaOCl to the ballast tank. The controller supplies power to the electrolyzer so as to control an NaOCl density and controls the circulation pumps. The apparatus and the method safely treat the seawater. Thus, environment pollution and ecosystem destruction can be minimized.

Abstract: A substrate-free light emitting diode (LED) including an epitaxy layer, a conductive supporting layer, and a first contact pad is provided. The epitaxy layer includes a first type doped semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer, and a second type doped semiconductor layer. The light emitting layer is disposed on the first type doped semiconductor layer, and a portion of the first type doped semiconductor layer is exposed. The second type doped semiconductor layer and the conductive supporting layer are sequentially disposed on the second type doped semiconductor layer. The first contact pad is disposed on the exposed first type doped semiconductor layer and electrically connected thereto. The first contact pad and the conductive supporting layer serving as an electrode are disposed on the same side of the epitaxy layer to avoid the light shielding effects of the electrode to improve the front light emitting efficiency of the LED.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liposome having a sugar chain bonded thereto, the sugar chain having an activity of specifically binding to various lectins (sugar chain recognizing proteins) present on the cell surfaces of various tissues and thus being capable of actually distinguishing a cell and a tissue in vivo, thereby efficiently delivering a medicinal drug or a gene.

Abstract: Described is a device for generating an acoustic signal in an electrically conductive medium such as salt water. The device of the present invention has a broadband frequency response and supports high bandwidth data transmission. Reliability is improved in comparison to conventional underwater acoustic transmitters as the device includes no moving components. In one embodiment, the device includes a parallel and alternating arrangement of electrodes and magnets. Neighboring electrodes have different voltages and neighboring magnets have opposite pole configurations such that the magnetic fields overlap the currents between the electrodes in the medium. The currents or the magnetic fields are modulated according to a data signal to generate an acoustic signal in the medium.

Abstract: The present invention provides a complex oxide having a composition represented by the formula LavM1wNixM2yOz; wherein M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Na, K, Sr, Ca, Bi and Nd; M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co and Cu; and the subscripts are numbers which respectively satisfy 0.5?v?1.2; 0?w?0.5; 0.5?x?1.2; 0.01 ?y?0.5; and 2.8?z?3.2. The complex oxide of the invention has a negative Seebeck coefficient and a low electrical resistivity, i.e., an electrical resistivity of 10 m?cm or less, at 100° C. or higher and is a novel material with an excellent performance as an n-type thermoelectric material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of delivering solid material at a position far enough from any surrounding solid with high enough target density without scattering debris to the environment. In the present invention, radiation is generated from plasma produced by laser irradiation on a material. This material is a cluster of particles that is composed of many fine particles bound together with a binder that vaporizes at temperature lower than melting point of fine particles. Density of particles in a particle-cluster 8 is increased by vaporizing a solvent 7 by heating a droplet 5 with the irradiation of laser 6. Solvent of a droplet occupies large fraction of the droplet in order to stabilize droplet generation. This solvent is vaporized prior to delivery to a vacuum chamber 9 for plasma generation. This vaporization helps to avoid degradation of vacuum of the chamber 9. The diameter of a particle-cluster thus condensed is several tens ?m.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave (SAW) bio-chip is designed with signal processing circuits. The chip can achieve precise measurements or detection quantitatively via the difference between the experiment-control mode, and followed by amplification and filtering of the signal processing circuits. By changing the designs of the substrate, quantitative detection toward different analyses can be achievable.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of preparing a multicolor quantum dot-tagged bead, a multicolor quantum dot-tagged bead, a conjugate thereof, and a composition comprising such a bead or conjugate. Additionally, the present invention provides a method of making a conjugate thereof and methods of using a conjugate for multiplexed analysis of target molecules.

Abstract: Conventional light emitting diode designs combined with blue light emitting diodes tend to lack in decorativeness and warmness. The present invention aims at providing a white light emitting diode for emitting white light with warmness at a higher luminance, and an intermediate color light emitting diode satisfying light emission in diversified color tones at a higher luminance.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition for treating and preventing cancer, comprising a Cinnamoni Cortex extract and a Zizyphi Fructus extract. The pharmaceutical composition has effects of inducing apoptosis of cancer cells and inhibiting metastasis of cancer cells, as well as having a synergistic effect in inhibiting the growth of cancer cells compared to the separate use of the two extracts. Also, because the two extracts are extracted from natural origins, the pharmaceutical composition has no toxicity and is thus able to be used as a safe anticancer agent having excellent therapeutic efficacy. Further, the pharmaceutical composition is capable of being used as a functional food for preventing and treating cancer.

Abstract: Suppression or enhancement of various properties of a liquid fluid is aimed by improving uniform dispersion of nanoparticles by means of making a state in which no oxidized film exists on the surfaces of the nanoparticles to be dispersed in the liquid fluid. The location of the liquid fluid is confirmed with ease by enhancing the brightness of light emission of the fluid through uniform dispersion of the nanoparticles in the liquid fluid containing a material having a flame reaction. In this way, as to liquid fluids utilized in various industries, it is possible to offer a technology to desirably enhance or suppress a property desired to be enhanced and a property desired to be suppressed among various properties that its constituents have.

Abstract: Methods for producing alcohols from CO or CO2 and H2 utilizing a palladium-zinc on alumina catalyst are described. Methods of synthesizing alcohols over various catalysts in microchannels are also described. Ethanol, higher alcohols, and other C2+ oxygenates can produced utilizing Rh—Mn or a Fisher-Tropsch catalyst.

Abstract: Disclosed are a continuous wave supercontinuum laser source resonator using low-priced multimode semiconductor lasers as pumping light and applying a rare-earth doped optical fiber and a Highly Nonlinear Dispersion Shifted Fiber (HNL-DSF) to a ring resonator structure to embody a continuous wave supercontinuum light source, and a medical diagnostic apparatus using the same. The resonator consists of a pump combiner for inputting pumping light into the resonator; a rare-earth doped optical fiber for receiving and converting the pumping light into seed light of a predetermined wavelength band; a Highly Nonlinear Dispersion Shifted Fiber (HNL-DSF) for converting the light converted by the rare-earth doped optical fiber and oscillating in the resonator into a continuous wave supercontinuum laser source; and a coupler for outputting the supercontinuum laser source generated from the Highly Nonlinear Dispersion Shifted Fiber (HNL-DSF).

Abstract: Methods for fabricating carbon nano-tube (CNT) powders and field emission display devices. Carbon nano-tube powders are deposited and gathered in a vacuum chamber. A physical surface treatment is performed on the carbon nano-tube powders. The carbon nano-tube powders are mixed into a paste and screen printed on a substrate, wherein the physical surface treatment comprises laser radiation, ion-beam bombardment, high energy particle bombardment, or electron-beam bombardment.

Abstract: A recording layer including a novel dye for a high density optical recording medium, employing short wavelength laser source with a wavelength no longer than 530 nm for recording high density information and reproduction/playback of the high density information recordings, is provided. The dye incorporated in the recording layer has the following general chemical structural formula (I).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a biosensor comprising a substrate with a coating system in which a Ruthenium complex and an enzyme is integrated. The enzyme is able to convert bioproducts, e.g. glucose, fructose or glycerol. The depletion of oxygen during these converting reactions can be monitored via the fluorescence of the Ruthenium complex. The inventive biosensor can be used in biotechnological processes, e.g. the synthesis of biofuels.

Abstract: An optoelectronic system for sensing an electric field signal includes an optically modulated scattering module configured to convert an electric field signal into a modulated scattering signal based on an optical modulation signal, an optoelectronic sensing module configured to generate an optical signal upon receiving the modulated scattering signal, an optical detector coupled to the optoelectronic sensing module, a synchronous detection circuit configured to detect the modulated scattering signal received by the optoelectronic sensing module based on an electric modulation signal and a signal processing circuit electrically connected to the synchronous detection circuit for calculating the amplitude and phase of the electric field signal under test.

Abstract: Artificial limbs and joints which behave like a biological limbs and joints employ a synthetic actuator which consume negligible power when exerting zero force, consume negligible power when outputting force at constant length (isometric) and while performing dissipative, nonconservative work, are capable of independently engaging flexion and extension tendon-like, series springs, are capable of independently varying joint position and stiffness, and exploit series elasticity for mechanical power amplification.

Abstract: A prefabricated tympanic membrane prosthesis includes a piece of collagen sheet processed with a diluted solution of formalin. The piece of collagen sheet is molded on a forming surface of a tool having a shape resembling a natural tympanic membrane of a human subject. The piece of collagen sheet is processed with a diluted solution of formalin so that the resulting tympanic membrane prosthesis retains the shape of the forming surface. The tympanic membrane prosthesis is semi-rigid, yet flexible, and is packaged in a substantially rigid container to protect it shape during shipment and storage.