Abstract: Ophthalmic tissue delivery devices that include an injector and injector carriers and methods for endothelial keratoplasty surgical procedures are provided. Injectors include a conduit sized to accommodate ophthalmic tissue. One end of the injector is configured for insertion into a patient's eye to inject ophthalmic tissue. Injector carriers include a container, a cap configured to seal an opening of the container. The injector can be coupled to a pressure actuated valve and a syringe where activating the syringe opens the value and allows fluid to flow from the syringe, through the valve, and through the injector to dispense ophthalmic tissue from the injector into a patient's eye without the need to physically contact the ophthalmic tissue.

Abstract: Provided are an optical modulating device and a system including the optical modulating device. The optical modulating device includes a substrate, and a phase modulator formed on the substrate and including a Fabry-Perot cavity. The Fabry-Perot cavity of the phase modulator includes a first reflective layer, a second reflective layer, and a tunable core formed between the first reflective layer and the second reflective layer, wherein the tunable core is formed of a semiconductor material and is configured to modulate a phase of light corresponding to modulation of a refractive index of the tunable core according to electrical control.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there are provided a composite body that enables the formation of a lithium ion conductor that exhibits good lithium ion conductivity by a pressurization treatment without sintering at a high temperature (about 1,000° C.) while using a lithium-containing oxide having excellent safety and stability, as well as a lithium ion conductor, an all-solid state lithium ion secondary battery, an electrode sheet for an all-solid state lithium ion secondary battery, and lithium tetraborate. The composite body according to the embodiment of the present invention contains a lithium compound having a lithium ion conductivity of 1.0×10?6 S/cm or more at 25° C. and lithium tetraborate that satisfies the following requirement 1. The requirement 1: In a reduced two-body distribution function G(r) obtained from an X-ray total scattering measurement of the lithium tetraborate, a first peak in which a peak top is located in a range where r is 1.43±0.

Abstract: A chemical pattern recognition method for evaluating the quality of a traditional Chinese medicine based on medicine effect information, comprising: collecting chemical information of a traditional Chinese medicine sample, obtaining medicine effect information reflecting a clinical therapeutic effect thereof, performing spectrum-effect relationship analysis on the chemical information and the medicine effect information, and obtaining an index significantly related to the medicine effect as a feature chemical index; dividing the traditional Chinese medicine sample into a training set and a test set; using a pattern recognition method to extract a feature variable from samples of the training set by taking the feature chemical index as an input variable; building a pattern recognition model using the feature variable; and substituting feature variable values of samples of the test set into the model, and completing chemical pattern recognition evaluation of the quality of the traditional Chinese medicine.

Abstract: A staggered magnet array (SMA) based electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) system and method for controlling the direction of the ultrasonic waves in the electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) using staggered magnet array (SMA) configurations, is disclosed herein. The EMAT device proposed herein comprises at least one conductive racetrack coil and at least two magnet arrays wherein the magnet array comprises of permanent magnets, where each magnet is oriented according to a specific configuration to produce ultrasonic waves in order to form an ultrasonic beam by shifting the position of the magnet arrays up or down creating a SMA configuration.

Abstract: A system and a method with boil-off management for liquefied fuel storage are provided. The system includes a cryotank for storing a liquefied fuel, a pump for providing and compressing a first stream of the liquefied fuel, a heat exchanger for provide cooling duty to the first stream of the liquefied fuel, and an expansion valve for expanding the first stream of the liquefied fuel after the heat exchanger into a multiphase stream comprising a liquid phase and a gas phase. The multiphase stream has a temperature lower than an initial temperature of the first stream from the cryotank. The system further comprises a liquid-vapor splitter for separating the liquid phase and gas phase in the multiphase stream. The liquid phase is returned into the cryotank.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an object recognition apparatus and method based on environment matching. The object recognition apparatus includes memory for storing at least one program, and a processor for executing the program, wherein the program performs extracting at least one key frame from a video that is input in real time, determining a similarity between the key frame extracted from the input video and each of videos used as training data of prestored multiple recognition models, based on a pretrained similarity-matching network, and selecting a recognition model pretrained with a video having a maximal similarity to the key frame extracted from the input video, preprocessing the input video such that at least one of color and size of a video used as training data of an initial model is similar to that of the input video, and recognizing the preprocessed video based on the initial model.

Abstract: A quantum phased array comprising one or more arrays of emitter elements each emitting one or more particles having one or more quantum wavefunctions; one or more a phase shifting elements coupled to the emitter elements, each of the phase shifting elements comprising a source of a vector potential applying one or more phase shifts to the one or more quantum wavefunctions; and a control circuit coupled to the one or more phase shifting elements, the control circuit configuring the one or more vector potentials to control an interference of the quantum wavefunctions forming a distribution of the one or more particles at a target, and wherein the distribution is described by a wavefunction interference pattern resulting from the interference controlled by the vector potentials.

Abstract: Provided herein are compositions comprising aptamers that specifically bind monocytes and/or macrophage and methods for their use. These aptamer compositions can be used in methods for isolating and/or enriching monocytes and/or macrophages or depleting cell populations of monocytes and/or macrophages. Further provided are methods of using the aptamers or cell populations generated using them in the methods disclosed herein for therapies and/or drug delivery.

Abstract: Provided is a high-durability coloring metal member. The high-durability coloring metal member includes a metal substrate, a dielectric layer provided on the metal substrate, and an oxynitride compound layer provided on the dielectric layer. The metal member is capable of expressing vivid and various colors with a color protection layer applied on the surface of the metal member.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method includes acquiring a partitioning index of a current block from a bitstream, and generating a prediction sample of the current block by weighted-summing a prediction sample of a first subblock of the current block and a prediction sample of a second subblock of the current block based on the partitioning index. The partitioning index indicates a partitioning distance and a partitioning direction included in a predefined table.

Abstract: The present application relates to the field of superalloy, disclosing a method for internal stress regulation in superalloy disk forgings by pre-spinning. The method includes: Step S1, determining a target revolution for regulating internal stress in the disk forgings, and determining a target deformation magnitude of plastic deformation required for regulating the internal stress by the pre-spinning of the disk forgings; and Step S2, performing the pre-spinning of the disk forgings by the target revolution, monitoring a deformation magnitude of the disk forgings, and stopping the pre-spinning when a monitored deformation magnitude of the disk forgings reaches the target deformation magnitude.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus for estimating a camera pose using multi-view images of a 2D array structure and a method using the same. The method performed by the apparatus includes acquiring multi-view images from a 2D array camera system, forming a 2D image link structure corresponding to the multi-view images in consideration of the geometric structure of the camera system, estimating an initial camera pose based on an adjacent image extracted from the 2D image link structure and a pair of corresponding feature points, and estimating a final camera pose by reconstructing a 3D structure based on the initial camera pose and performing correction so as to minimize a reprojection error of the reconstructed 3D structure.

Abstract: A peer-to-peer terminal includes a bid data obtaining unit, a bid data transmitter, a contract result calculator, a contract result transmitter, a contract result receiver, and a contract result selector. The bid data obtaining unit obtains bid data. The bid data transmitter transmits the bid data to another peer-to-peer terminal. The contract result calculator calculates a contract result from a bid data set obtained by the bid data obtaining unit and including the bid data. The contract result transmitter transmits the contract result to the other peer-to-peer terminal. The contract result receiver receives, from the other peer-to-peer terminal, another contract result calculated by the other peer-to-peer terminal. The contract result selector selects one contract result from among the contract result and the other contract result.

Abstract: A battery cell assembly electrically connected to a circuit board and a battery package including multiple battery cell assemblies are disclosed. The battery cell assembly includes a battery cell forming electrodes with opposite polarities on the upper and the lower ends, one end fixed to the upper end electrode so that an electric current can flow, the first connector including the other end extended in a direction away from the center of the battery cell, is made of metal plate, and includes the second connector including the other end extended in a direction away from the center of the battery cell. The other end of the first connector and the other end of the second connector are extended in directions, so that the space between the two ends gets wider as they approach the bottom end, and directions that the two ends are not parallel with each other.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods of treating malaria comprising administration of compounds of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, to a subject in need thereof, wherein the variables are as defined herein. The invention also provides uses of the compounds of Formula (I), as defined herein, for the possible inhibition of plasmepsin X, plasmepsin IX or plasmepsin X and IX activity, for treating a Plasmodium infection, and for treating malaria. Also provided are methods of treatment further comprising administration of one or more additional anti-malarial compounds.

Abstract: This invention provides methods and systems for measuring the concentration of multiple nucleic acid sequences in a sample. The nucleic acid sequences in the sample are simultaneously amplified, for example, using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in the presence of an array of nucleic acid probes. The amount of amplicon corresponding to the multiple nucleic acid sequences can be measured in real-time during or after each cycle using a real-time microarray. The measured amount of amplicon produced can be used to determine the original amount of the nucleic acid sequences in the sample.

Abstract: Pyrrolidine carboxamido derivatives, optical isomers thereof, and salts thereof that are able to prevent, improve, and/or treat inflammatory conditions, including inflammatory bowel disease, and methods for preparing and using the same are provided.

Abstract: An anion exchange membrane is composed of a copolymer of 1,1-diphenylethylene and one or more styrene monomers, such as 4-tert-butylstyrene. The copolymer includes a backbone substituted with a plurality of ionic groups coupled to phenyl groups on the backbone via hydrocarbyl tethers between about 1 and about 7 carbons in length. High-temperature conditions enabled by these copolymers enhance conductivity performance, making them particularly suitable for use in anion exchange membranes in fuel cells, electrolyzers employing hydrogen, ion separations, etc. The properties of the membranes can be tuned via the degree of functionalization of the phenyl groups and selection of the functional groups, such as quaternary ammonium groups. Several processes can be used to incorporate the desired ionic functional groups into the polymers, such as chloromethylation, radical bromination, Friedel-Crafts acylation and alkylation, sulfonation followed by amination, or combinations thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to rice grain with thickened aleurone. Also provided is a rice plant comprising at least one genetic variation which reduces the activity of at least one ROS1a gene in the plant. Grain of the invention, or aleurone there-from, has improved nutritional properties, and hence is particularly useful for human and animal feed products.