Abstract: A robot system includes a holding compartment configured to transport one or more items and an electronic control unit having a processor and a non-transitory computer readable memory including a machine-readable instruction set. The robot system further includes a camera for capturing image data of an environment of the holding compartment and a robotic arm each communicatively coupled to the electronic control unit. The machine-readable instruction set causes the processor to receive image data of the environment of the holding compartment from the camera, determine a set of handling instructions for an item collected by the robotic arm, determine a location within the holding compartment for placing the item collected by the robotic arm based on the image data of the environment of the holding compartment and the set of handling instructions, and manipulate the robotic arm to place the item within the holding compartment at the determined location.

Abstract: Provided is an antifungal composition containing a cyclic N-sulfonylamine compound, a cyclic N-sulfonylimine compound or a cyclic N-sulfonyloxaziridine compound, each having an antifungal activity, as an active ingredient. An antifungal composition containing a compound represented by the formula (1): wherein ring A is an optionally further substituted 5- to 7-membered heterocycle, and the 5- to 7-membered heterocycle is optionally condensed with 1 or 2 rings selected from an optionally substituted benzene ring and an optionally substituted 5- to 7-membered heterocycle, X is —N?, —NR2— or —O—; Y1 is a hydrogen atom, and Y2 is a hydroxy group or Y1 and Y2 may be joined to form a bond or —O—; R1 is a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group or an optionally substituted heterocyclic group; and R2 is a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, or a salt thereof as an active ingredient.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound having a bis phenylene group substituted with alkylamide, a composition comprising the same for the control of polyphenylene polymer flowability and a method for controlling polyphenylene polymer flowability using the same. The said compound can improve the flowability of polyphenylene polymer so that it can be used for processing polyphenylene polymer to improve the flowability, thereby providing economic benefits by diversifying PPS parts and improving workability. In addition, the said compound can control and improve the flowability by regulating the length of phenyl-conjugated alkyl, so that it can be effectively used as a flowability regulator of polyphenylene polymer particularly polyphenylene sulfide.

Abstract: A method of measuring the energy content of a gas comprises measuring the speed of sound in the gas; measuring the relative permittivity of the gas using a guided wave radar or non-guided wave (non-contacting) radar sensor; and correlating the measured speed of sound and relative permittivity to derive the energy content of the gas. A system for measuring the energy content of a gas comprises a first sensor for measuring the speed of sound in the gas; a second sensor for measuring the relative permittivity of the gas using a guided wave radar or non-guided wave (non-contacting) radar sensor; and a correlator configured to correlate the measured speed of sound and relative permittivity to derive the energy content of the gas. The carbon dioxide content of the gas may also be measured with a suitable sensor and used in the correlation.

Abstract: The inventive concept relates to a multi-dimensional time series data processing device, a health prediction system including the same, and a method of operating the time series data processing device. A time series data processing device according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes a network interface, a data generator, a predictor, and a processor. The network interface receives the first time series data having the first type. The data generator generates second time series data having a second type based on the first time series data. The predictor generates prediction data based on the first time series data and the second time series data.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are proteins, methods, cells, engineered microorganisms, and kits for generating a modified nucleoside triphosphate transporter from Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Also disclosed herein proteins, methods, cells, engineered microorganisms, and kits for production of a nucleic acid molecule that comprises an unnatural nucleotide utilizing a modified nucleoside triphosphate transporter from Phaeodactylum tricornutum.

Abstract: A measuring apparatus for measuring surface topography of the slides to be measured of a guide rail is provided. The measuring apparatus includes a plurality of detecting probe and at least one moving device. The detecting probes are mounted on a probe support according to the surface topography of the slides to be measured. The moving device shifts the probe support or the slides to be measured on the cross section of the guide rail so that the detecting probe has a displacement relative to the slides to be measured. Each of the detecting probes has a corresponding coordinate system, and the corresponding coordinate system is different from each other. A standard part is utilized to correct deviations among the corresponding coordinate systems to the same coordinate system, and then the same coordinate system as a benchmark to measure the surface topography of the slides to be measured.

Abstract: A wood adhesive is provided. The wood adhesive includes a first agent and a second agent. The first agent includes a sodium carboxymethyl cellulose and a styrene-butadiene rubber polymer. The sodium carboxymethyl cellulose has a molecular weight between 15,000 and 500,000 and a degree of substitution of from 0.4 to 2.00 of the sodium salt. The second agent includes a polymeric quaternary amine.

Abstract: A scanning method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system is provided. The scanning method includes transmitting, by a station, a probe request frame and receiving, by the station, a probe response frame from an access point (AP). The AP determines whether to transmit the probe response frame in response to the probe request frame using information indicated by the probe request frame.

Abstract: A number of devices and methods for biopassivating explosive ordnance are disclosed. In some embodiments, a biopassivation reactor device is used to render energetic material in an explosive ordnance less explosive and/or non-explosive. This can be done by coupling the biopassivation reactor device to the fuse opening of the explosive ordnance. This can also be done by incorporating the biopassivation reactor device into the explosive ordnance at the time of manufacture. The biopassivation reactor device can include a housing enclosing microorganisms, water, additives, and/or the like. In some embodiments, an entire ordnance magazine can be operated as a bioreactor to passivate the explosive ordnance inside.

Abstract: Various embodiments of magnetostrictive transducers (MsTs) for detecting defects in a tubular structure comprise one or more AC coils and one or more magnets. The transducer has a pair of coils (or two coil elements), which are spaced 180 degrees apart relative to the circumference of the tubular structure. Each MsT is selectively operable or configurable so that it may generate either torsional or flexural guided waves.

Abstract: A blood pressure cuff assembly for an ambulatory blood pressure monitor may include a hollow cuff and an elastic liner provided on the reverse side of the cuff. An airbag may be provided in the cuff. A first connection part and a second connection part may be provided on the cuff. A third connection part and a fourth connection part may be correspondingly provided on the liner. The effect of tight inside and loose outside is achieved by the combination of the elastic liner and the cuff. When worn on an upper arm, the elastic liner has an elastic deformation and consequently tightens around the upper arm so as to realize certain slip resistance, and the cuff will not slip down even tied a bit loosely when located on the upper arm. The feeling of constraint from the cuff is reduced significantly and the comfort is improved.

Abstract: In cancer-cell screening, a patient's cells are classified by a convolutional neural network (CNN) to identify abnormal cells. In one approach, a mask having a center more transparent than the mask's periphery is used to mask an input image containing a cell of interest to yield a masked image. Since the cell is usually located around an image center, and since the image often contains irrelevant objects, such as normal cells and micro-organisms, around an image periphery, interference due to the irrelevant objects in training the CNN and in classification is diminished by using the masked image rather than the original one. In another approach, masking is applied to feature maps before classification. In the CNN, this masking is accomplished by convolving each feature map with a convolutional kernel to produce an intermediate feature map followed by chopping off a peripheral region thereof to yield a downsized feature map.

Abstract: Methods, compositions and uses are provided for bispecific antibodies comprising one or more unnatural amino acids. The bispecific antibodies may bind to two or more different receptors, co-receptors, antigens, or cell markers on one or more cells. The bispecific antibodies may be used to treat a disease or condition (e.g., cancer, autoimmune disease, pathogenic infection, inflammatory disease). The bispecific antibodies may be used to modulate (e.g., stimulate or suppress) an immune response.

Abstract: A method to characterize shape variations in brain ventricles during embryonic growth in mammals, the method including extracting a brain ventricle skeleton from one or more images, calculating a volume profile for the skeleton using the extracted images, partitioning the brain ventricle based on the volume profile along the skeleton, the brain ventricle being partitioned into two lateral ventricles and a main ventricle, the main ventricle being further partitioned into three sub regions, determining volume vectors of the two lateral ventricles and the three sub regions, computing a means square error between the determined computed volume vectors and a pretrained mean volume vector of embryos during different gestational stages, and classifying the embryo to the gestational stage having the lowest mean square error.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method of controlling slot-based channel access by an access point (AP) to manage a network in a wireless local area network (WLAN) environment and a slot-based channel access terminal are disclosed. A slot-based channel access control apparatus of a WLAN system according to an exemplary embodiment determines one of each terminal and a group of terminals as a slot allocation target, allocates a slot defined in a beacon interval to the determined terminal or group to distinguish channel access time, and transmits a beacon including information on the allocated slot.

Abstract: The present invention is directed at aqueous suspensions of oxime compounds, such as 2-pyridine aldoxime methyl chloride (2-PAM Cl) for autoinjectors. The suspensions are able to provide 600 mg of 2-PAM Cl in one relatively small dose of less than or equal to 1.0 mL, and are particularly useful for placement in relatively small size autoinjectors.

Abstract: A tandem solar cell module includes a transparent substrate, a first solar cell unit, and a second solar cell unit disposed between the transparent substrate and the first solar cell unit. The first solar cell unit includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first absorption layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the second solar cell unit includes a third electrode, a fourth electrode, and a second absorption layer disposed between the third electrode and the fourth electrode, wherein the second electrode is located adjacent to the third electrode, and the positions of the second electrode, the third electrode, and the fourth electrode are corresponding to each other.

Abstract: A dual cap for protecting a humidity sensor of a radiosonde of an aerological observation system includes an outer cap and an inner cap. The dual cap surrounds the humidity sensor. The outer cap has an outer ventilation hole formed in its top, and an outer air circulation opening formed in its side periphery. The side periphery of the outer cap also has a first wall that acts as a barrier to air flow. The inner cap is affixed to and is disposed inside of the outer cap. A ceiling of the inner cap faces the outer ventilation hole so as to impose a barrier to air flow. The inner cap further has an inner ventilation hole in its top and an inner air circulation opening formed in its side periphery. The inner air circulation opening faces the first wall of the outer cap.

Abstract: The present invention relates compounds for stabilizing cells and methods of their use.