Abstract: When a transmitting apparatus wants to transmit a preemptable frame, the transmitting apparatus transmits a preemptable packet by a custom preamble including frame length information on a payload of the preemptable frame to the payload of the preemptable frame. A receiving apparatus determines whether a received preemptable frame is fragmented using frame length information set in the custom preamble of the received preemptable frame. As described above, since it is possible to check whether the received frame is fragmented using the frame length information set in the custom preamble, there is no need to perform CRC calculation to determine whether the received frame is fragmented as in the prior art.

Abstract: A system for providing a solar harvesting building envelope is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of solar harvesting apparatus configured to be installed as or on a building envelope in a manner like that of traditional shingles or siding. The apparatus includes a frame having a photovoltaic end wall, and reflective base and side walls. A translucent, wedge-shaped body layer is positioned on the frame. A luminescent species film is positioned at and substantially parallel to a base of the wedge-shaped body layer, such that the luminescent species film is positioned at an angle relative to the photovoltaic end wall. Light incident on the wedge-shaped body layer is concentrated towards the photovoltaic end wall, such as through absorption and re-emission along with scattering by the luminescent species film and internal reflection by the wedge-shaped body layer and the reflective base and side walls of the frame.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for compressing an image for machine vision, the method including detecting objects in an input image using an object detection network, generating a foreground image including bounding boxes corresponding to the objects and a background image, which is an image acquired by excluding the bounding boxes from the input image, encoding the foreground image and the background image, and decoding the encoded foreground image and the encoded background image.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating central nerve system diseases, and by means of a compound according to one aspect, by inhibiting the death of adult hippocampal neural stem cells caused by stress and preserving the number of neural stem cells, the composition can be utilized in the prevention, amelioration, or treatment of mental diseases or neurodegenerative diseases, or in the prevention or amelioration of stress.

Abstract: A method of forming dialkyl carbonate is provided, which includes introducing carbon dioxide into a catalyst to form dialkyl carbonate, wherein the catalyst is formed by activating a catalyst precursor using alcohol, wherein alcohol is R3—OH, and R3 is C1-12 alkyl group or C5-12 aryl or heteroaryl group. The catalyst precursor is formed by reacting Sn(R1)2(L)2 and Ti(OR2)4, and Sn(R1)2(L)2 and Ti(OR2)4 have a molar ratio of 1:2 to 2:1. R1 is C1-10 alkyl group, R2 is H or C1-12 alkyl group, and L is O—(C?O)—R5, and R5 is C1-12 alkyl group.

Abstract: A highly sensitive allergen measurement method is provided. A method for detecting an allergen in a sample, comprising: treating a sample with a protease; and detecting presence or absence of an allergen marker in the enzyme-treated sample by analysis that utilizes chromatographic separation. The allergen comprises buckwheat and wheat.

Abstract: An apparatus for memory integrated management in a cluster system including a plurality of physical nodes connected to each other by a network determines one of the plurality of physical nodes as a node to place a new virtual machine, allocates the first type of memory allocated to the one physical node to the new virtual machine as much as the memory capacity required by the new virtual machine, and distributes the second type of memory to a plurality of virtual machines running on the plurality of physical nodes by integrating and managing the second type of memory allocated to each of the plurality of physical nodes. In this case, the access speed of the second type of memory is faster than that of the first type of memory.

Abstract: A battery power management unit (BPMU), an electrical energy storage system comprising one or more such BPMUs, and method of using the same are provided. Such a BPMU includes a microcontroller and one or more processors having at least one tangible, non-transitory machine readable medium encoded with one or more programs. The BPMU is configured to perform steps of: reading data from the internal BMU of a respective battery pack to establish capacity, an energy baseline, state of health (SOH), and an initial value of state of charge (SOC) of the respective battery pack, checking voltage and current at a time interval, calculating power of the respective battery pack, determining and updating battery date such as SOH and SOC, and transmitting updated battery data to a system controller for controlling discharging power from or charging power to the respective battery pack.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to immune adjuvants containing IAP inhibitors, including Smac mimetics. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions and vaccines containing an IAP inhibitor and an antigen. Methods of enhancing an immune response by administration of an IAP inhibitor, methods of treating or preventing cancer, methods of treating or preventing infections, methods of treating autoimmune disorders, and methods of potentiating cytokine or antibody production are also provided.

Abstract: A method for multi-camera self-supervised depth evaluation is described. The method includes training a self-supervised depth estimation model and an ego-motion estimation model according to a multi-camera photometric loss associated with a multi-camera rig of an ego vehicle. The method also includes generating a single-scale correction factor according to a depth map of each camera of the multi-camera rig during a time-step. The method further includes predicting a 360° point cloud of a scene surrounding the ego vehicle according to the self-supervised depth estimation model and the ego-motion estimation model. The method also includes scaling the 360° point cloud according to the single-scale correction factor to form an aligned 360° point cloud.

Abstract: A magnetic-field measuring apparatus includes a SQUID; and flux-locked loop circuitry including first circuitry that includes an amplifier connected to an output of the SQUID, and second circuitry connected to the first circuitry. The first circuitry is along an inner surface or an outer surface of a shielding material that separates an inside of a magnetically shielded room from an outside of the magnetically shielded room, the magnetically shielded room including the SQUID. The second circuitry is in the outside of the magnetically shielded room.

Abstract: An impact test apparatus includes a base plate having an upper surface on which a specimen is placed, a collision member that collides with the specimen, a dropping unit that drops the collision member from an upper area of the specimen to the specimen and adjusts a height that the collision member drops, a velocity measurement unit that measures a collision velocity of the collision member when the collision member collides with the specimen, and an evaluation unit that produces a representative value that is a collision velocity at which a probability of breakage of the specimen is about 50%, and evaluates an impact resistance of the specimen based on the representative value.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method including forming a photoresist material layer on a lower film, the photoresist material layer including a crosslinking molecule having a molecular weight of about 1,000 to about 4,000; exposing a partial region of the photoresist material layer; removing an unexposed portion of the photoresist material layer to form a photoresist pattern; and processing the lower film using the photoresist pattern, wherein the crosslinking molecule includes a perfluoro alkyl moiety, the perfluoro alkyl moiety including a carbon-fluorine bond that dissociates in response to the exposing of the partial region of the photoresist material layer.

Abstract: A method for scale-aware depth estimation using multi-camera projection loss is described. The method includes determining a multi-camera photometric loss associated with a multi-camera rig of an ego vehicle. The method also includes training a scale-aware depth estimation model and an ego-motion estimation model according to the multi-camera photometric loss. The method further includes predicting a 360° point cloud of a scene surrounding the ego vehicle according to the scale-aware depth estimation model and the ego-motion estimation model. The method also includes planning a vehicle control action of the ego vehicle according to the 360° point cloud of the scene surrounding the ego vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is a method of jitter monitoring for time sensitive communication (TSC) in a wireless communication network. The method of jitter monitoring may include: receiving, by a user plane function (UPF), a delay and jitter measurement request from an application function (AF); measuring, by the UPF, a delay and a jitter in response to the delay and jitter measurement request; and transmitting, by the UPF, the measured delay and jitter to the AF.

Abstract: The disclosure provides methods of preventing, treating, or ameliorating LV remodeling in a mammalian subject. The methods comprise administering to the subject a therapeutic amount of an aromatic-cationic peptide such as D-Arg-2,6-Dmt-Lys-Phe-NH2.

Abstract: An artificial gene has a 15N abundance exceeding a natural abundance in bases of at least a portion of DNA. A method for mutating a gene includes a first step of producing a state in which 15N is unevenly distributed into a prescribed DNA in a living cell; and a second step of irradiation with a proton beam at an energy at which the 15N produces a resonant nuclear reaction.

Abstract: Systems and methods for targeted gene modification, targeted insertion, perturbation of gene transcripts, and nucleic acid editing. Novel nucleic acid targeting systems comprise components of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) systems and transposable elements.

Abstract: Provided herein are sequestrons for detecting an miRNA profile indicative of a cell state and expressing an output molecule in cells having such an miRNA profile. Also provided are methods of using sequestrons provided herein.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for identifying Richter's transformation patients who benefit from PD-1 blockade.