Abstract: According to some aspects, a magnetic resonance imaging system capable of imaging a patient is provided. The magnetic resonance imaging system comprising at least one B0 magnet to produce a magnetic field to contribute to a B0 magnetic field for the magnetic resonance imaging system and a member configured to engage with a releasable securing mechanism of a radio frequency coil apparatus, the member attached to the magnetic resonance imaging system at a location so that, when the member is engaged with the releasable securing mechanism of the radio frequency coil apparatus, the radio frequency coil apparatus is secured to the magnetic resonance imaging system substantially within an imaging region of the magnetic resonance imaging system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for diagnosing prostate cancer and especially diagnosing LG, HG, PrCa Met and CRPC. Specifically, the present invention relates to methods for in vitro diagnosing prostate cancer in a human individual comprising: 1) determining the expression of one or more genes chosen from the group consisting of ACSM1, ALDH3B2, CGREF1, COMP, C19orf48, DLX1, GLYATL1, MS4A8B, NKAIN1, PPFIA2, PTPRT, TDRD1 and/or UGT2B15; and 2) establishing up regulation of expression of said one or more genes as compared to expression of the respective one or more genes in a sample from an individual without prostate cancer thereby providing said diagnosis of prostate cancer.

Abstract: A composite pressure vessel includes: a body including an inner liner which includes a cylindrical portion extending along a longitudinal axis, and which is made of a thermoplastic polymer material; and an outer thermoset reinforcing structure wrapped around the body and made of a continuous fiber reinforced thermoset matrix composite, including reinforcing fibers and a thermoset matrix. The body further includes a thermoplastic reinforcement layer made of a continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite, including reinforcing fiber and a thermoplastic matrix, which is adhered to the cylindrical portion of the inner liner.

Abstract: A system for controlling a drill string located in a borehole. The drill string has a top portion and a bottom hole assembly (BHA) coupled thereto. The system includes: a processor; sensors coupled to the top portion of the drill string and to the processor. The sensors configured to measure values of variables of the top portion of the drill string, to obtain top portion measured value. A non-transitory tangible computer readable medium having instructions recorded thereon are carried out by the processor to obtain a soft sensor to generate estimated values of variables of the BHA in accordance with the top portion measured values and in accordance with angular motion equations of the drill string. A drill string controller is configured to generate a control signal in accordance with the estimated values of variables of the BHA to control the top portion in accordance with the control signal.

Abstract: An ultra-sensitive speckle-analyzing system is disclosed which includes an image capture device configured to receive a scattered field having a speckle configuration and thereby capture i) a reference speckle image, and ii) a subsequent speckle image, each of the reference and the subsequent speckle images having a plurality of speckles on a background; and a processor configured to generate a cross-correlation between the plurality of speckles of the reference and the subsequent speckle images, to thereby represent a change in the speckle configuration.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a softening temperature of copper and copper alloy, including: selecting a plurality of samples of the same material, annealing the plurality of samples at different temperatures, air-cooling the plurality of samples; measuring the tensile strength of an original sample and the plurality of samples after the annealing; plotting a data of the measured tensile strength into a temperature-tensile strength curve; a temperature at which the tensile strength in the temperature-tensile strength curve drops to a certain value of an original sample tensile strength is the softening temperature of the material. The above technical solution in the present disclosure uses the tensile strength instead of hardness to measure the softening temperature. It can effectively improve the detection efficiency and reduce the cost, and can be widely used in determination of the softening temperature of fine materials of copper and copper alloy.

Abstract: Provided is a method of granting access, including compiling a training profile of each of two or more persons, wherein the training profile includes one or more oculomotor features exhibited during one or more tasks, associating a training profile of one of the two or more persons with a permission, detecting a testing profile of one of the two or more persons, wherein the testing profile includes one or more of the one or more oculomotor features exhibited by during one or more of the one or more tasks, identifying a target profile, granting access if and only if the target profile is associated with the permission, wherein the one or more tasks are selected from fixation, saccade speed, saccade accuracy, visually-guided saccades, anti-saccades, memory-guided saccades, free viewing, pursuit.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a circuit board including a substrate and at least one first electronic element disposed on one side of the substrate; a first heat dissipation component; and a first heat conduction component including a first heat conduction plate and at least one first heat conduction member disposed on the first heat conduction plate and corresponding to the at least one first electronic element. A material of the first heat conduction component is different from that of the first heat dissipation component, and the first heat conduction component is disposed between the first heat dissipation component and the circuit board.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for treating or preventing or delaying the progression or onset of autoimmune disease, comprising the use of dietary metabolites.

Abstract: One embodiment can include a system for providing an image-capturing recommendation. During operation the system receives, from a mobile computing device, one or more images. The one or more images are captured by one or more cameras associated with the mobile computing device. The system analyzes the received images to obtain image-capturing conditions for capturing images of a target within a physical space; determines, based on the obtained image-capturing conditions and a predetermined image-quality requirement, one or more image-capturing settings; and recommends the determined one or more image-capturing settings to a user.

Abstract: A convergent three-dimensional (3D) additive manufacturing system is disclosed which includes a header, a base, a first dispensing system mounted onto the header, the space between the header and the base adjacent to the first dispensing system defining a first zone, a second dispensing system mounted onto the header, the space between the header and the base adjacent the second dispensing system defining a second zone, the first zone, and the second zone are separated by a screen adapted to prevent contamination across the first and second zones, the first dispensing system carrying raw material for a first product, and the second dispensing system carrying raw material for a second product.

Abstract: A system for numerical simulation and test verification of icing characteristics of an aerostat includes an aerostat icing characteristic calculation model and an aerostat icing characteristic test system. The aerostat icing characteristic calculation model is configured to obtain icing data of the aerostat through numerical simulation, and the aerostat icing characteristic test system is configured to obtain icing characteristic data of the aerostat through a physical simulation test. The calculation result obtained through the numerical simulation and the test result obtained through the physical simulation test are mutually verified and improved, so as to facilitate the in-depth research and accurate analysis of the icing characteristics of the aerostat.

Abstract: A system may receive imaging data generated by an imaging device directed at a heart. The system may receive a first input operation indicative of a selected time-frame. The system may display images of the heart based on the intensity values mapped to the selected time-frame. The system may receive, based on interaction with the images, an apex coordinate and a base coordinate. The system may calculate, based on the apex coordinate and the base coordinate, a truncated ellipsoid representative an endocardial or epicardial boundary of the heart. The system may generate a four-dimensional mesh comprising three-dimensional vertices spaced along the mesh. The system may overlay, on the displayed images, markers representative of the vertices. The system may receive a second input operation corresponding to a selected marker. The system may enhance the mesh by adjusting or interpolating vertices across multiple time-frames.

Abstract: Disclosed herein a method of removing a point cloud outlier and an apparatus implementing the method. The method includes: arranging a point cloud obtained from a laser scanner along at least a first direction; selecting, neighboring first-axis points, between which a separation degree satisfies an inspection start threshold condition, as a first leading-side representative point and a first trailing-side representative point; selecting a first leading-side outlier candidate and a first trailing-side outlier candidate based on a first leading-side separation degree and a first trailing-side separation degree; and determining the first leading-side outlier candidate and the first trailing-side outlier candidate as a first outlier point, when the number of the outlier candidates satisfies an allowable threshold condition.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for testing dissolution properties of a drug, especially anti-inflammatory drugs administered by aerosol into the respiratory system. The apparatus shortens the time it takes for a drug to dissolve and thus provides for rapid testing of new drugs for quality control as well as for regulatory purposes. It is suitable for evaluating bioequivalence or to study the pharmacokinetics of drugs administered into the respiratory system. This method shortens dissolution times for testing a drug to about 10 and 20 minutes and thus provides for rapid testing.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for cleaning semiconductor wafers(202).

Abstract: An operation method of a transmitting apparatus in a wireless communication system includes transmitting, to a receiving apparatus, reverse mapping flag information indicating a direction of mapping data symbols to one or more subcarriers included in a resource block allocated to the receiving apparatus; mapping the data symbols to the one or more subcarriers of the resource block based on the reverse mapping flag information; and transmitting the resource block to the receiving apparatus. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the amount of subcarrier phase shift noises due to an SFO occurring in proportion to synchronization impairment and subcarrier index can be reduced in a multi-carrier communication system, thereby increasing data retransmission efficiency.

Abstract: A braking control method according to friction of road surface includes computing a real-time wheel speed according to a signal received from a wheel speed sensor; storing the real-time wheel speed as a wheel initial velocity when a braking event occurs; determining a relative-peak value according to the real-time wheel speed; estimating a vehicle deceleration according to the relative-peak value and the wheel initial velocity; computing an adjustment parameter according to the vehicle deceleration and a tire slip threshold, wherein the adjustment parameter reflects friction coefficient of road surface; and adjusting time length of an enhancement stage in an enhance-pressure control period of a stepped pressure-increasing phase according to the adjustment parameter; or adjusting time length of a reduction stage in a reduce-pressure control period of a stepped pressure-decreasing phase according to the adjustment parameter.

Abstract: The invention is an improved method of making a carbon molecular sieve (CMS) membrane in which a polyimide precursor polymer is pyrolyzed to form a carbon molecular sieve membrane by heating, in a furnace, said polyimide precursor polymer to a final pyrolysis temperature of 600 C to 700 C at a pyrolysis heating rate of 3 to 7 C/minute from 400 C to the final pyrolysis temperature, the final pyrolysis temperature being held for a pyrolysis time of at most 60 minutes in a non-oxidizing atmosphere. In a particular embodiment, the cooling rate from the pyrolysis temperature is accelerated by methods to remove heat. The CMS membranes have shown an improved combination of selectivity and permeance as well as being particularly suitable to separate gases in gas streams such methane from natural gas, oxygen from air and ethylene or propylene from light hydrocarbon streams.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a test node-based wireless positioning method and a device thereof, the method comprising the steps of mapping and storing the number and position coordinates of anchor nodes, which are within a set distance from a test node, for each of a plurality of test nodes set at uniform intervals in a space formed by a plurality of anchor nodes; acquiring each position coordinate of the anchor nodes, which are within the set distance from a unknown node to be positioned; comparing each of the acquired position coordinates of the anchor nodes and the position coordinates of the anchor node mapped on the test nodes, so as to select the test nodes of which the number of position coordinates coinciding with the anchor nodes greater than a threshold; and estimating the position of the unknown node by using the position coordinates of the selected test nodes.