Abstract: A surface adaptation method suitable for a vehicle includes evaluating a plurality of longitudinal forces with respect to a plurality of sampling points, evaluating a plurality of wheel slips with respect to the plurality of sampling points, determining a maximum longitudinal force from the plurality of longitudinal forces, and determining a wheel slip threshold from the plurality of wheel slips. The wheel slip threshold corresponds to the maximum longitudinal force.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a decoding method for a bit stream that supports a plurality of layers. The decoding method may include receiving information on a set of video parameters that includes information on the plurality of layers, and parsing the set of video parameters to grasp information on the layers in the bit stream.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide for syntheses and uses of mechanism-based nutritional colorants from vitamin C and amino-containing compounds, wherein the amino-containing compounds can be one of natural compounds or synthetic compounds, wherein the amino-containing compounds can be made through environmentally-friendly radical reactions that follow the antioxidant mechanism of action of vitamin C.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides the compound having inhibitory property against TNIK having a specific chemical structure or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt. The present disclosure also provides a composition comprising the compound or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt. The present disclosure also provides a medical use of the compound, its salt or the composition comprising the compound or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt for treating or preventing cancer. The present disclosure also provides a method of treatment or prevention of cancer comprising administering the compound, its salt or the composition comprising the compound or its salt to a subject in need of such treatment or prevention.

Abstract: The present application discloses a windshield for a vehicle with the windshield having a first glass layer, a second glass layer, a first plastic interlayer between the first glass layer and the second glass layer, and an electronic display between the first glass layer and the plastic layer. The electronic display is configured to display at least one image when in operation.

Abstract: A deformable sensor is provided. The deformable sensor includes a first deformable member defining a first cavity configured to be filled with a medium, a second deformable member defining a second cavity, a rigid component disposed between the first deformable member and the second deformable member such that the first deformable member is positioned on a first portion of the rigid component and the second deformable member is positioned on a second portion of the rigid component, the rigid component including an aperture disposed thereon, and a valve member configured to fluidly couple the first cavity of the first deformable member to the second cavity of the second deformable member via the aperture. The first deformable member has a first rigidity value when the valve member is configured in a first orientation, and a second rigidity value when the valve member is configured in the second orientation.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid metal-based flexible electronic device and a method for preparing a liquid metal-based flexible electronic device, that includes: preparing an Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) plastic model; performing an ion sputtering on a surface of the ABS plastic model to form a gold film, to obtain a gold-plated ABS circuit; introducing a first silica gel into a mold to suspend the gold-plated ABS circuit inside the mold, and curing the first silica gel to obtain a cured model; immersing the cured model in acetone to dissolve the ABS model, to obtain a microchannel with a gold plating on an inner wall of the microchannel in a first silica gel substrate; and injecting a gallium-indium eutectic, inserting a copper wire, and applying a second silica gel and curing the second silica gel, to obtain the liquid metal-based flexible electronic device.

Abstract: Specific binding members, particularly antibodies and fragments thereof, which bind to transforming growth factor beta 3 (TGF-?3) are provided, particularly recognizing human and mouse TGF-?3, particularly antibodies and fragments that do not recognize or bind TGF-?1 or TGF-?2. Particular antibodies are provided which specifically recognize and neutralize TGF-?3. These antibodies are useful in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions associated with activated or elevated TGF-?3, including cancer, and for modulating immune cells and immune response, including immune response to cancer or cancer antigens. The anti-TGF-?3 antibodies, variable regions or CDR domain sequences thereof, and fragments thereof may also be used in therapy in combination with chemotherapeutics, immune modulators, or anti-cancer agents and/or with other antibodies or fragments thereof.

Abstract: A sample chamber holder for MAS-NMR capable of operating at both low and high pressures. In one example the sample chamber holder is made up of a sample holder body defining a sample chamber therein, a connector configured to operatively statically hold an in situ rotor within the sample chamber; a coupler configured to operatively connect the sampler holder body to a magnetically coupled rotation member. The magnetically coupled rotation member is configured to engage and rotate a sealing cap from an NMR rotor in such a way so as to allow an NMR cap to be alternatively opened or sealed in-situ while the NMR rotor remains statically positioned in an NMR device.

Abstract: A sensing system is provided. The sensing system includes an electrical pulse generator that receives first optical pulses output from a pulsed laser, through a first path, and photo-electrically converts the first optical pulses to generate an electrical pulses; and an optical phase detector that receives second optical pulses output from the pulsed laser, through a second path, and outputs an electrical signal that corresponds to a phase error between the electrical pulses and the second optical pulses based on electro-optic sampling.

Abstract: Disclosed a combined rock-breaking TBM tunneling method in complex strata for realizing three-way force detection, comprising the steps of preparing a combined mechanical-hydraulic rock-breaking cutter head for TBM construction; starting construction; advancing the combined mechanical-hydraulic rock-breaking cutter head; pushing and pressing against a tunnel face by a mechanical cutter tool; subjecting a three-way force detection cutter to squeezing forces; feeding back three-way force data by a three-way force sensor; processing information by a TBM back-end control processor; obtaining a value of rock-cutter contact angle ?; feeding back parameter information to a TBM cutter head control center by a lithology index center; responding by the TBM cutter head control center, obtaining and adjusting parameters by the mechanical cutter tool equipped with the three-way force sensor; and breaking rock by the combined mechanical-hydraulic rock-breaking cutter head.

Abstract: A method of feedback controlling a 3D printing process in real time, and a system therefor are disclosed. The method includes collecting big data, generated through 3D printing experiments, related to process variables of 3D printing, measurement signals, and 3D printing quality of the 3D printing object; building an artificial neural network model by performing machine-learning based on the collected big data; evaluating whether or not a 3D printing quality of the 3D printing object is abnormal in real time based on an actual measurement signal of the 3D printing object and the artificial neural network model; and feedback controlling printing quality of the 3D printing object in real time based on the evaluation result of whether or not the 3D printing quality of the 3D printing object is abnormal.

Abstract: An information transmission method, a base station and a network management entity are provided. The information transmission method includes: transmitting and/or receiving, by the base station, a reference signal in accordance with a configuration of reference frame structure, and/or determining, by the base station, an uplink and/or downlink time-domain transmission resource configuration in accordance with the configuration of reference frame structure. The uplink and/or downlink time-domain transmission resource configuration is used when the base station communicates with a UE served by the base station, and the configuration of reference frame structure includes a period of a reference frame, and at least one of a first reference point and a second reference point in the period of the reference frame.

Abstract: A gaze tracking method includes the following steps. Firstly, a to-be-analyzed facial image is captured. Then, whether the to-be-analyzed facial image conforms to a customized 3D face model is determined If not, a customized 3D face model of the to-be-analyzed facial image is created. If yes, an eye area image of the to-be-analyzed facial image is obtained. Then, according to the customized 3D face model and the to-be-analyzed facial image, head posture information is obtained. Then, an eye camera coordinate value referenced to a camera coordinate system is obtained. Then, the eye camera coordinate value is converted into an eye frame coordinate value referenced to a display frame coordinate system. Then, according to the eye frame coordinate value, the head posture information and an eyeball radius, an eyeball center point coordinate value is obtained, and accordingly a gaze coordinate value is obtained.

Abstract: The method and system for bringing a nuclear power plant to a safe state after extreme effect reduce the temperature of the coolant after extreme effect. The system includes inlet and outlet pipelines, a steam generator, a storage tank and a heat exchanger, a separation tank above the steam generator and connected by two pipelines to a storage tank, a pump, a control unit. The method involves filling the system with coolant, feeding the coolant from the steam generator through the inlet pipeline and the storage tank to the heat exchanger, and feeding the coolant through the outlet pipeline back to the steam generator, wherein the pump is turned on for feeding the coolant and subsequent operation of the system. The first air valve is used to maintain pressure in the system, ensuring the absence of boiling of the coolant.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for fusion proteins comprising multipsecific variable regions that bind more than one ELR+ CXC chemokine.

Abstract: Described are an intelligence system and process for material blending in the gasification. The system includes a subsystem for material blending in the gasification, wherein the subsystem for material blending in the gasification includes a raw material property rapid analysis module, for obtaining raw material property parameters of raw materials according to characteristic spectral line intensities of in-furnace raw materials; a blended material property prediction module, for establishing a prediction model, and predicting blended material property parameters by means of the prediction model according to raw material property parameters and raw material proportions; a blending scheme optimization module, for establishing an optimization model, and obtaining an optimized blending scheme by means of the optimization model according to blended material property parameters; a blending scheme economy evaluation module, for outputting a blending scheme with the optimum technical economy.

Abstract: As an approach of efficiently inducing differentiation from pluripotent stem cells into insulin-producing cells, provided is a method comprising the step of three-dimensionally culturing cells in a medium containing a dihydroindolizinone derivative.