Abstract: When the inspection unit corresponding to at least one disabled layer of a multilayer system is unavailable, a fault-eliminating device defines the at least one disabled layer and a target layer as a combined layer. The fault dependency of the target layer is the lowest among the fault dependency of the at least one available layer. The inspection unit of the at least one available layer is active and the fault dependency thereof is higher than the disabled layer. Then, the device makes the inspection unit and the fault symptom corresponding to the target layer correspond to the combined layer, so as to update a list of layers and a fault model. After that, the device determines a source of a fault from the layers according to the list of layers and the fault model, and performs a strategy of fault elimination corresponding to the source, to eliminate the fault.

Abstract: A magnesium-based bulk metallic glass composite includes a magnesium-based bulk metallic glass composite comprising a magnesium-based material and a TiZr alloy.

Abstract: A dynamic balancing apparatus includes a dynamic balancing assembly and a plurality of damping particles. The dynamic balancing assembly includes at least two structural members separately arranged on a rotating shaft connected to a rotor, wherein each structural member includes at least one recess portion. The plurality of damping particles are introduced into at least one recess portion of each structural member, such that a centroid of each structural member deviates from the axis. Accordingly, each structural member generates inertial force and moment of inertia as rotation of the rotor to offset another inertial force and moment of inertia generated by centroid deviation of the rotor while rotating to achieve dynamic balance. The plurality of damping particles can move in the recess portion as rotation of the rotor to induce friction and collision so as to achieve the effects of vibration reduction and noise reduction.

Abstract: A method for estimating a risk for a subject suffering from encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis is provided, including measuring an expression level of at least one microRNA from a sample of the subject, and the microRNA is selected from miR-17, miR-100, miR-155, miR-202, miR-422a, and miR-483; comparing the expression level of the microRNA in the sample to that of a same miRNA of a control, when the expression level of miRNA in the sample is lower than that of the control, the subject is estimated having the risk of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis. A kit for estimating a risk for a subject suffering from encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis is also provided, including at least one agent for identifying the at least one microRNA as above mentioned from the sample of the subject.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an environmental coverage oriented motion system. The system includes a rangefinder module configured to measure a distance in real time; an odometry module configured to measure a velocity or a position in real time; a powered vehicle carrying the rangefinder module and the odometry module; and a controller module carried by the powered vehicle, configured to receive one of the distance, the velocity and the position, performing an environmental coverage oriented motion scheme based on one of the distance, the velocity and the position to select a plurality of positions, and commanding the powered vehicle to move among the plurality of positions.

Abstract: Universal human induced pluripotent stem cells (universal hiPSCs) and a method of forming the same are provided in the disclosure, including the following steps: providing a first cell group including human stem cells; providing a second cell group including human mononuclear cells; in some embodiments, the second cell group further includes human stem cells, in which the human stem cells of the second cell group are allogenic cells from the first cell group; mixing the first cell group and the second cell group to form cell mixture; maintaining the cell mixture at a temperature below 30° C. for at least one day; reprogramming the human stem cells of the cell mixture to obtain universal hiPSCs. The universal hiPSCs includes human leukocyte antigen-1 (HLA class I) gene and human leukocyte antigen-2 (HLA class II) gene, but no HLA class I and HLA class II expressions.

Abstract: A method for scanning artificial structure, wherein a scanning artificial structure apparatus comprises four magnetic-field sensors, the four magnetic-field sensors are non-coplanar configured, the method comprises following steps of: moving the scanning artificial structure apparatus along a scanning path within a to-be-tested area, in the meantime, measuring magnetic field by the four magnetic-field sensors, and recording a position sequence when measuring magnetic field, wherein four magnetic-field measurement sequences are measured by the four magnetic-field sensors; and calculating a magnetic-field variation distribution from the four magnetic-field measurement sequences and the position sequence, wherein the magnetic-field variation distribution is corresponding to at least one artificial structure distribution.

Abstract: An apparatus of adaptive index structures is provided. Four common data attributes, including time, space, keyword, and value, are used. The present invention is a structure adaptively selecting the most efficient combined index by estimating index performance and selectivity rate. The main concept is to set indexes with high selectivity rates at positions having higher priorities for processing query. The intermediate result of query is minimized and the performance is further improved. The present invention uses multiple indexes, where all possible combined-index orders are considered and the best combined index is selected according to different query adaptabilities. As a result, the structure has a high chance of saving query time at a rate of more than 25 times as compared to a structure with indexes of a single attribute sequence. Furthermore, as compared to the traditional relational database PostGIS, the reaction time is also twice faster.

Abstract: A training data generation method for human facial recognition and a data generation apparatus are provided. A large amount of virtual synthesized models are generated based on a face deformation model, where changes are made to face shapes, expressions, and/or angles to increase diversity of the training data. Experimental results show that the aforementioned training data may improve the accuracy of human face recognition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication relay system for an unmanned vehicle includes a control station providing as a console for an implementation of a remote control; an unmanned mission vehicle operated in a first area and receiving the remote control from the control station through a communication link; and an unmanned relay vehicle operated in a second area and in the communication link between the control station and the unmanned mission vehicle.

Abstract: An information display board with improved display performance by light-extending light sources is revealed. The information display board includes a display board and a plurality of light-extending light sources each of which consists of a light emitting diode (LED) and a reflective panel. The LED has a light emitting side and a backside while the reflective panel is disposed on the light emitting side of the LED for reflecting a part of light emitted from the light emitting side to the display board on the backside to form an expanded area. Thus illuminance and illuminated area of information shown on the display board are increased. By continuous lighting generated, messages/information shown on the information display board such as traffic sign can be read more clearly and comfortably.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compressed sensing apparatus for compressed sensing of a set function consisting of a plurality of input sets containing a group of data. The apparatus includes: a plurality of sensing units acquiring a group of sampling data representing a plurality of sampling sets selected out of the plurality of input sets; a compression and computation unit enabling a compression to the group of data based on the group of sampling data in accordance with a Fourier basis set generated on the basis of the plurality of input sets and sampling sets, and a computation to compute a Fourier coefficient set based on a sparse regression technique which is in relation with the Fourier basis set; and a reconstruction unit predicting the group of data based on the Fourier coefficient set.

Abstract: An ECG signal lossless compression system includes: a signal difference value generating module and a compression module. The signal difference value generating module performs an adaptive linear prediction encoding on an ECG signal, so as to generate a plurality of signal difference values corresponding to each datum of the ECG signal; the compression module divides the signal difference values into a plurality of groups and performs an adaptive linear lossless compression encoding on each group, so as to generate a plurality of window compression streams, wherein each group corresponds to a bit reference index configured to be a compression encoding parameter of the adaptive linear lossless compression encoding.

Abstract: A kit for detecting urothelial carcinoma is provided. The kit includes at least one primer or probe for detecting one or more miRNAs, and the one or more miRNAs are selected from the group consisting of miR-19b-1, miR-636, miR-150, miR-155, miR-183, miR-378, miR-210, miR-487, and combinations thereof. A method for detecting urothelial carcinoma is also provided. The method includes detecting the expression level(s) of one or more miRNAs in a sample of a subject, and the one or more miRNAs are selected from the group consisting of miR-19b-1, miR-636, miR-150, miR-155, miR-183, miR-378, miR-210, miR-487, and combinations thereof.

Abstract: A method for reading and writing with holographic system includes the following operations: (a) providing a reference light and a signal light; (b) transferring the reference light and the signal light to an optical recording medium, for recording an interference grating; (c) changing the reference light and the signal light and repeating the operations (a) to (b) until M interference gratings are recorded on the optical recording medium; (d) providing a reading light to the optical recording medium, for reading the M interference gratings at the same time to generate an interference result, wherein the interference result is a result that diffraction signals of the M interference gratings interfere to each other; and (e) changing the reading light and repeating the operation (d), for obtaining N interference results. A holographic storage system is also disclosed herein.

Abstract: A single-photon detector is provided. The detector has multiple avalanche layers. It has an avalanche photodiode (APD) structure using single photon. The APD is made of indium aluminum arsenide (InAlAs). At least two avalanche layers are designed. When the layer for avalanche is numbered only one and the gain is very big, the speed will be deteriorated very quickly. With the design of two avalanche layers in the present invention for the very big gain, the speed deterioration can be suppressed. After measuring, the present invention shows a faster speed as compared to prior arts. It proves that, by using more than two avalanche layers, the present invention effectively improves the feature of single-photon detector. Hence, the present invention is especially suitable for single-photon detection.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a traffic situation detecting method. The method includes steps of acquiring a current location, a speed of movement and a direction of movement for a ground vehicle; using the current location as a starting point and drawing a detecting scope on a digital map toward the direction of movement; varying a size of the detecting scope in adaptive to an interval of the speed to which the speed of movement belongs; accessing a traffic server to retrieve a traffic event and determining whether the traffic event is situated within the detecting scope; and marking the traffic event located within the detecting scope on a digital map.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixed reality system integrated with a surgical navigation system including a group of moveable position markers configured on a surgical instrument; a position sensor sensing the group of moveable position markers to acquire an instrument coordinate for the surgical instrument; a registered positioning marker configured in proximity to a surgical area to acquire a surgical area coordinate for the surgical area; a plurality of mixed reality sensors detecting the registered positioning marker and a plurality of mixed reality information; a computing unit module configured to receive the instrument coordinate, the surgical area coordinate, the plurality of mixed reality information, and a digital model of the surgical area, to render the digital model corresponded to the surgical area, and to add a digital instrument object into the digital model in accordance with the instrument coordinate; and a mixed reality display providing for a user to view and showing the digital model

Abstract: A light-driven rotor applied to a water surface includes a bottom plate, a thermally conductive sheet having a base portion covering on an upper surface of the bottom plate and a plurality of leads extended from the border of the base portion and bent downwardly from the edge of the bottom plate to contact the water surface, and a light-absorbing material attached to an upper surface of the thermally conductive sheet for absorbing the light irradiated thereon by a light source and providing light energy required for heating the thermally conductive sheet so that the heat generated by the thermally conductive sheet is conducted to the water surface via the leads to form a gradient change in surface tension, providing a resultant torque for driving the light-driven rotor to rotate. The materials selected for the three-layer structure design of the light-driven rotor are generally applicable, inexpensive and easy to obtain.

Abstract: An avalanche photodiode (APD) is provided with a mixed composite charge layer. A novel structure of InAlAs is designed with the mixed layer. A single P-type field control layer is divided into three layers of different materials with each two forming a heterojunction structure. By controlling the relative concentration distributions and thicknesses of the first, second, and third P-type field control layers along with a mesa shape formed through chemical selective etching, a part of the second P-type field control layer is exposed to the air with a part of the first one etched out at the same time through this single structure having the mesa shape. Thus, the field of a multiplication layer is further confined at center to concentrate electric-field so that fringe field is low but not collapsed. Hence, the overall speed is increased, the intensity high, and sensitivity good while response is fast and efficiency high.