Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a process for manufacturing a processable dried cellulose nanomaterial using a co-solvent of tert-butyl alcohol (TBA), of which unique physical/chemical properties enable facile modification/derivatization. This present disclosure also relates to materials and process of generating of superhydrophobic surface coating using hydrophobic carboxylic acid modified cellulose nanofibers. Both the processes and the products thereof are within the scope of this disclosure.

Abstract: A lifelong learning intrusion detection system and methods are provided. The system may capture network data directed to a host node. The host node may include a honeypot. The honeypot may emulate operation of a physical or virtual device to attract malicious activity. The system may classify, based on a supervised machine learning model, the network data as being not malicious or not malicious. The system may classify, based on an unsupervised machine learning model, the network data as being anomalous or not anomalous. The system may alter operation of the honeypot to induce malicious activity. The system may determine, after operation of the honeypot is altered, the honeypot is accessed. The system may retrain the supervised machine learning model and/or unsupervised machine learning model based the network data.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating spectrally compressed photons from broadband emitted photon pulses. The system can include an input coupling having a first coupling ratio an output coupling having a second coupling ratio. The first coupling ratio is configurable and the second coupling ratio is fixed. A cavity can be connected to the input coupling and the output coupling. A controller in electrical communication with the coupling device can be configured to change the first coupling ratio of the input coupling.

Abstract: A method of generating knowledge graphs is disclosed which includes receiving a first input dataset representing unstructured sentences each having a head, a tail, and a predicate, receiving a second input dataset representing classification of heads and tails, generating a first structured database including a plurality of rows each row including a masked sentence where the sentence from the first structured database is substituted with a mask, generating prompts for the masks associated with each row in the first structured database to thereby generate a second structured database; communicating with a language model (LM) the second structured database to thereby generate and process candidate predicates, numerically representing the predicate candidates based on the associated probability numbers, clustering the numerical representation of the predicate candidates, fusing relations of the predicate candidates based on the clustering, and generating an optimized knowledge graph based on reduced repetition o

Abstract: A software architecture where the software architecture processes a method, wherein the method includes defining initial conditions for a set of Büttiker probes. The set of Büttiker probes include various interaction equations between one or several many-body systems. The method includes computing properties of particles with quantum transport methods. A quantum transport method of the quantum transport methods include a set of Büttiker probes. The particles include the particles of one or several many-body systems. Further, the method includes calculating a current for each Büttiker probe of the set of Büttiker probes. The current includes at least one of momentum current, particle current, energy current, spin current, color charge or chirality current. The method includes setting up a set of continuity equations such that for each continuity equation a calculated current of a Büttiker probe is in a particular relation with an another calculated current of an another Büttiker probe.

Abstract: Composite electrodes, supercapacitors equipped therewith, ternary materials for composite electrodes, and related methods. Such a composite electrode has a composite CNT-ZIF structure formed of a conductive network of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and a zeolitic imidazole framework (ZIF) coating covering the conductive network. A layer of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) structures having flower-like morphologies is disposed on the composite CNT-ZIF structure. The MoS2 structures have pores that provide diffusion paths for ions to and/or from the ZIF coating and/or the conductive network of CNT.

Abstract: Ternary composite material, electrode, supercapacitor, and related methods. A ternary composite material includes a scaffold formed of carbon nanotubes (CNT), a first layer of zeolitic imidazolate 8 (ZIF-8) crystals formed on the scaffold of the CNT, and a second layer of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) flakes formed on the first layer of the ZIF-8 crystals. An electrode can be formed with the ternary composite. A supercapacitor may include one or more electrodes that are at least partly formed of the ternary composite material. Methods of producing the ternary composite material and the electrodes are also disclosed.

Abstract: A novel multi-modal audio video framework is disclosed. The framework advantageously leverages both audio and video information to accurately detect whether the video has been manipulated, e.g., detect whether the video is a so-called ‘deepfake.’ In a video-only pipeline, the framework adopts a vision encoder having a feature extractor and a Transformer encoder that leverages self-attention mechanisms to detect artifacts in a facial region of the video. Additionally, in a separate audio-video pipeline, the framework adopts an audio+lip encoder having a Transformer encoder that leverages cross-attention mechanisms to identify discrepancies between lip movements of the person and words spoken by the person in the video. These two modalities are used jointly to make an inference as to whether the video has been manipulated.

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: Described herein are compounds, compositions, and methods for diagnosing and/or monitoring pathogenic disease using positron emission tomography. Also described are conjugates of the formula B-L-P, wherein B is a radical of a targeting agent selected from vitamin receptor binding ligands (such as folate), PSMA binding ligands, or PSMA inhibitors; L is a divalent linker comprising aspartic acid, lysine, or arginine, and P is a radical of an imaging agent or radiotherapy agent, such as a radionuclide or radionuclide containing group, or a radical of a compound capable of binding a radionuclide, such as a metal chelating group.

Abstract: A method of generating a physically unclonable function (PUF) for pharmaceutical authentication is disclosed which includes generating an edible (PUF), affixing the edible PUF onto a pharmaceutical in a random distribution, and generating a cryptographic key based on the randomly distributed and affixed edible PUF. The present disclosure generally relates to counterfeit measures, and in particular, to an arrangement concerning an edible unclonable function counterfeit measure.

Abstract: A graphics processing unit and methods for comping and executing instructions with opportunistic inter-path reconvergence are provided. An single instruction multiple thread (SIMT) stack of graphics processing unit may store data entries, each data entry comprising an operand mask. The operand mask may include bits corresponding to threads of a warp. The graphics processing unit core may access an instruction for an entry on the SIMT stack. Each of the threads may execute the instruction using either a first set of operands or a second set of operands depending on the corresponding bits of the operand mask.

Abstract: One-pot synthesis methods for producing amines from activated allenes and derivatives thereof are provided, as well as the compounds produced thereby.

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: The present disclosure relates to a novel spherical agglomeration method for proteins, and protein particles made by the spherical agglomeration method. By using continuous oscillatory baffled crystallizer, the method of the present disclosure is capable of maintain the biologically activities and providing protein particles with an average particle size between 1-500 ?m.

Abstract: A method of calibrating hyperspectral images to account for diurnal changes is disclosed which includes receiving a plurality of hyperspectral images obtained over a plurality of days from a field, deriving a plurality of spectra from the received plurality of hyperspectral images, decomposing the derived plurality of spectra into a trend component representing a trend associated with the plurality of days, subtracting the trend component from the derived plurality of spectra to thereby generate diurnal spectra for one or more wavelengths, fitting one or more mathematical functions associating spectrum to time of day to the generated diurnal spectra for each of the one or more wavelengths, generating a mode from the fitted mathematical function for each of the one or more wavelengths, and applying the model to the derived spectra at a first time to generate a calibrated spectra at a second time.

Abstract: A method of generating an output movement layout for a traffic intersection, includes receiving intersection geographical data, establishing a center point for the intersection, receiving connected vehicle (CV) data from vehicles approaching and within the traffic intersection based on a predetermined distance from the center point, establishing an area of interest for the intersection based on the received CV data, establishing entry and exit headings for each vehicle based on the CV data, generating directional groups based on the entry and exit headings of each vehicle, and generating an output movement layout for the intersection based on the generated directional groups.

Abstract: A device includes a contact lens, a corneal sensor that includes a circular trace of conduction paths located at or near an outer peripheral edge of the contact lens that surrounds an unobstructed area at a center region of the contact lens, and a connection wire coupled to the corneal sensor and configured to electrically couple to an external data acquisition system. Methods of fabricating the device may include providing a thin device that includes a sensor and a connection wire coupled to the sensor, transferring the sensor to a curvilinear inner surface of a contact lens, feeding the connection wire through the inner surface of the contact lens and out of an outer surface of the contact lens, and performing electrochemical polymerization of a conducting polymer material over the sensor to anchor the sensor to the inner surface of the contact lens.

Abstract: Methods of producing bioresorbable porous biocomposites for orthopaedic applications are provided. In an exemplary embodiment of a resorbable orthopaedic implant of the present disclosure, the implant comprises a porous alloy of at least a first metal and a second metal sintered together, the alloy configured to resorb into a body at substantially an atomic level without flaking off, wherein a porosity of the implant is defined by a first plurality of interconnected holes having a first range of sizes.

Abstract: A method and system for localizing a plurality of stationary devices, such as Internet of Things (IoT devices), arranged in an environment is disclosed. A mobile device is configured to survey an environment to generate a three-dimensional map of the environment using simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques. The mobile device and the stationary devices are equipped with wireless transceivers, such as Ultra-wideband radios, for measuring distances between the devices using wireless ranging techniques. Based on the measured distances, the mobile device is configured to determine locations of the stationary devices in a reference frame of the three-dimensional map. In some embodiments, the determined locations can be used to enable a variety of spatially aware augmented reality features and interactions between the mobile device and the stationary device.