Abstract: A system and method for brain-machine interface communication utilizing Bi-Phasic Quasi-Static Brain Communication (BP-QBC). The system includes a first device and a second device that are in wireless communication together. The system and method include signal transmission between the first device and the second device through dipole coupling. The system is configured to utilize compressive sensing and collision avoidance for enhanced net energy efficiency. The system and method utilize fully electrical quasi-static signaling to militate against energy transduction losses.

Abstract: Cyclic nucleotides, both mono- and di-nucleotides, play diverse roles in the prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Described are compounds, which inhibit phosphodiesterases that inhibit cyclic mononucleotide or dinucleotides and/or both mononucleotide and dinucleotide. These compounds have potential diverse applications as antiviral, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and anticancer agents, including cancer immunotherapy. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating those kinase related diseases are within the scope of this invention.

Abstract: A rotating detonation engine (RDE) is disclosed which includes a housing, an injector assembly disposed within the housing, the injector assembly includes a fuel manifold, an oxidizer manifold, and a combustion chamber, fuel from the fuel manifold and an oxidizer from the oxidizer manifold are combined and combusted in the combustion chamber, each of the fuel and oxidizer manifolds communicates with the combustion chamber via a plurality of Tesla valves each via a corresponding port, wherein the plurality of Tesla valves substantially eliminate reverse flow of exhaust gases from the combustion chamber back to the fuel manifold or the oxidizer manifold.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for controlling termite populations by leveraging newly discovered mechanisms for symbiont- and host mediated anti-fungal defenses in the termite hind-gut. Such methods may include administering a composition to a termite, the composition formulated to promote protist dysbiosis in the gut of the termite, or silencing specific host or symbiont genes by RNA interference, and exposing the termite to a pathogen, where the composition increases the susceptibility of the termite to the pathogen. Compositions are also provided for the treatment of fungal infections, the composition comprising a medically effective amount of recombinant glycosyl hydrolase family 7 cellulase, as well as methods for utilizing the same.

Abstract: A method of providing a barrier to diffusion of metal into a dielectric in a metal interconnect arrangement is disclosed which includes forming a damascene trench, including forming a dielectric base, with a trench made therein, depositing one or more two dimensional diffusion barrier layers formed over the trench, depositing a conductor layer formed atop the diffusion layer, wherein the one or more two-dimensional diffusion barrier layers substantially prevent diffusion of constituents of the conductor layer into the dielectric base, wherein each of the one or more two-dimensional diffusion barrier layers is a polycrystalline material selected from the group consisting of TaSex, TaTex, TiSx, TiSex, TiTex, and TaSx, and wherein x is between 1.5-1.9.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system and methods for measuring electrochemical state of rechargeable batteries such as state of charge (SoC) and state of health (SoH). In various aspects, the system may include an inductive coil attached to the battery and a battery current sensor. Alternating current with a fixed frequency is applied to the coil to generate magnetic fields, and the magnetic fields induce losses including Eddy current loss and a loss related to battery currents. The system compensates for the effect of the loss related to battery currents for battery electrochemical state estimation. In another aspect, the system uses both coil-based measurement and ampere hour counting (AHC) measurement for SoC measurement. The system conducts coil-based SoC measurement only occasionally to reset the accumulated error of AHC-based SoC measurement. In yet another aspect, the system combines coil-based measurement with other measurements.

Abstract: A method for hand pose identification in an automated system includes providing depth map data of a hand of a user to a first neural network trained to classify features corresponding to a joint angle of a wrist in the hand to generate a first plurality of activation features and performing a first search in a predetermined plurality of activation features stored in a database in the memory to identify a first plurality of hand pose parameters for the wrist associated with predetermined activation features in the database that are nearest neighbors to the first plurality of activation features. The method further includes generating a hand pose model corresponding to the hand of the user based on the first plurality of hand pose parameters and performing an operation in the automated system in response to input from the user based on the hand pose model.

Abstract: Methods and systems suitable for fabricating multi-layer elastic electronic devices, and elastic electronic devices formed thereby. A method of fabricating an elastomer-based electronic device includes printing a first liquid material and then a second liquid material on a fabric substrate that comprises fibers. The first and second liquid materials are sequentially printed with a three-dimensional printer that directly prints the first liquid material onto the fabric substrate so that the first liquid material wicks through some of the fibers of the fabric substrate and forms a solid matrix of an elastomer-based composite that comprises the matrix and the fabric substrate, after which the three-dimensional printer directly prints the second liquid material on the elastomer-based composite to form a film thereon. The elastomer-based composite and film are electrical components of the elastomer-based electronic device.

Abstract: Increasing engine idle speed, combined with modulating the timing of the exhaust valve during idling, increases heat transfer from the engine to aftertreatment systems to reduce the time required for the aftertreatment system to reach a minimum temperature for efficient operation. The resultant increases in heat transfer include an increase of at least 30% in the flow rate of exhaust gases and an increase of exhaust temperature by at least 25° C.

Abstract: A field-effect transistor (FET) includes a fin, an insulator region, and at least one gate. The fin has a doped first region, a doped second region, and an interior region between the first region and the second region. The interior region is undoped or more lightly doped than the first and second regions. The interior region of the fin is formed as a superlattice of layers of first and second materials alternating vertically. The insulator layer extends around the interior region. The gate is formed on at least a portion of the insulator region. The insulator layer and the gate are configured to generate an inhomogeneous electrostatic potential within the interior region, the inhomogeneous electrostatic potential cooperating with physical properties of the superlattice to cause scattering of charge carriers sufficient to change a quantum property of such charge carriers to change the ability of the charge carriers to move between the first and second materials.

Abstract: The invention generally relates to systems and methods for conducting reactions and screening for reaction products.

Abstract: A novel catalyst composition and its use in the oligomerization reactions of light alkenes to higher molecular weight hydrocarbons. The catalyst comprises boron added to an Al-containing or Ga-containing or Fe-containing support. The catalyst composition is an active and selective catalyst for the catalytic oligomerization reactions of light alkenes to higher molecular weight hydrocarbons.

Abstract: A time-varying optical metasurface, comprising a plurality of modulated nano-antennas configured to vary dynamically over time. The metasurface may be implemented as part of an optical isolator, wherein the time-varying metasurface provides uni-directional light flow. The metasurface allows the breakage of Lorentz reciprocity in time-reversal. The metasurface may operate in a transmission mode or a reflection mode.

Abstract: A vision system having a telecentric lens. The vision system includes a projector having a non-telecentric pin-hole lens, a camera having a telecentric lens positioned a distance away from the projector, and a processor. The processor controls the camera and the projector and is configured to calibrate the camera and projector.

Abstract: A method executed by a processing system of an edge router deployed in a content distribution network includes receiving a request from an endpoint device for a first file, determining that a portion of the first file is not stored in a cache of the edge router, determining that the cache is at a capacity threshold, selecting a second file to evict from the cache, wherein the second file is one of a plurality of files stored in the cache, wherein each file of the plurality of files is scheduled to be evicted from the cache when a threshold period of time has passed since a last request for the each file was received by the edge router, and wherein the threshold period of time associated with the second file is scheduled to expire soonest among all of the plurality of files, and evicting the second file from the cache.

Abstract: The invention generally relates to systems and methods for isolating a target ion in an ion trap. In certain aspects, the invention provides a system that includes a mass spectrometer having an ion trap, and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU includes storage coupled to the CPU for storing instructions that when executed by the CPU cause the system to apply a dual frequency waveform to the ion trap that ejects non-target ions from the ion trap while retaining a target ion in the ion trap.

Abstract: This present patent application relates to a method for controlling a targeted gene expression with an environmental trigger useful for manufacturing a natural product or an analogue thereof biologically. In particular, the present invention discloses an expression system comprises a gene expressing for a fusion protein of elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) and a transcription factor, wherein a targeted gene expression is regulated by the phase change of the fusion protein initiated by an environmental trigger, including changes of temperature, pH value, ionic strength or a combination thereof. The method, the expression system and their products are within the scope of this invention.

Abstract: A simple and practical antibacterial treatment with nisin in cracked or uncracked metal tools is provided and easily monitored for its bacteriocin effect.

Abstract: Methods for producing components for use in high temperature systems that include reacting a fluid reactant and a porous preform that has a pore volume and contains a solid oxide reactant that defines a solid volume of the porous preform. The method includes infiltrating the fluid reactant into the porous preform to react with the solid oxide reactant to produce a oxide/metal composite component, during which a displacing metal replaces a displaceable species of the solid oxide reactant to produce at least one solid oxide reaction product that has a reaction product volume that at least partially fills the pore volume. The oxide/metal composite component includes at least one oxide phase and at least one metal phase. The component is exposed to temperatures greater than 500° C. and the at least one oxide phase and the at least one metal phase exhibit thermal expansion values within 50% of one another.

Abstract: A nanodevice provides for electric-field control of magnon-QSD interactions. The nanodevice includes a ferroelectric substrate, a ferromagnetic material disposed over the ferroelectric substrate, and a nanodiamond including an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) spins, each NV magnetically interfacing with the ferromagnetic material. An electric field is measured by applying a voltage across the ferroelectric substrate and the ferromagnetic material, changing a magnon excitation spectrum of the ferromagnetic material with respect to an electron spin resonance frequency of the ensemble of NV spins, and measuring a relaxation rate of the ensemble of NV spins.