Abstract: A switch assembly for electrically coupling and uncoupling a first device to a second device may include a first switch configured to electrically couple and uncouple a first device to the second device, and a first switching barrel. The switch assembly may further include a second switch configured to electrically couple and uncouple a power source to the second device, and a second switching barrel. The switch assembly may also include an isolator barrier separating the first and second switches from one another and the first and second switching barrels from one another. The switch assembly may further include a shaft associated with the first and second switching barrels, such that rotation of the shaft causes angular displacement of the first and second switching barrels, electrically coupling or uncoupling of the first device to the second device, and electrically coupling or uncoupling of the power source to the second device.

Abstract: A light-emitting device and a driving device thereof. The driving device is coupled to a load and includes a first current source and a second current source. The first current source provides a base current to drive the load. The second current source generates an adjustment current according to an adjustment voltage and enables the adjustment current to adjust magnitude of a current flowing through the load.

Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid or microbial lipid comprising docosahexaenoic acid, and/or docosapentaenoic acid, and processes for producing the extracted lipid.

Abstract: A method of operating a first-in-first-out memory, called a FIFO, includes performing write and read operations of data with a FIFO. The FIFO has a size fifo_size and a maximum retention time. Once a datum is written to the FIFO, there is a limit of fifo_size-1 write operations before the datum becomes invalid and there is a limit of fifo_size-1 read operations before the datum is read, and the data is refreshed before reaching the maximum retention time. During the refreshing, the FIFO is available for further write and read operations.

Abstract: An edge ring configured to surround an outer periphery of a substrate support in a plasma processing chamber wherein plasma is generated and used to process a substrate is disclosed, the substrate support comprising a base plate, a top plate, an elastomer seal assembly between the base plate and the top plate, and an elastomer seal configured to surround the elastomer seal assembly. The edge ring includes an upper inner surface having an edge step directed towards an interior portion of the edge ring and arranged to extend from an outer periphery of a top surface of the top plate to an outer periphery of an upper surface of the base plate, a lower inner surface, an outer surface, a lower surface extending from the lower inner surface to the outer surface, and a top surface extending from the outer surface to the upper inner surface.

Abstract: A heterodimeric Fc-fused protein and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the heterodimeric Fc-fused protein are disclosed. The heterodimeric Fc-fused protein comprises first and second Fc regions of an immunoglobulin heavy chain constant region (Fc) pair and in which IL-21 is bound to at least one of the N-terminus or the C-terminus of the first Fc region and/or the second Fc region, wherein CH3 domains of the first Fc region and the second Fc region are mutated such that the formation of a heterodimer is promoted. When the heterodimeric Fc-fused protein according to the present invention is used, an in vivo half-life of IL-21 included in the heterodimeric Fc-fused protein may be significantly increased.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing ternary metal-based nanowire networks. The method comprises combining an aqueous mixture of a platinum hydrate, a ruthenium hydrate, and an iron hydrate with a solution of hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide in chloroform to form an inverse micellar network; adding a reducing agent to reduce metal ions within the inverse micellar network; and isolating the nanowires. The relative amounts of the platinum, ruthenium and iron in the mixture correlate to the atomic ratio of the platinum, ruthenium and iron in the ternary nanowires. The diameters of the ternary nanowires are from about 0.5 nm to about 5 nm.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave impedance measuring apparatus includes a network analyzer, configured to measure scattering parameters according to a frequency, including a first port and a second port; and a multilayer substrate, connected to the first port and the second port by a coaxial cable, having a via connecting conductive layers to each other and including three or more conductive layers including at least an uppermost layer, a lowermost layer, and an intermediate layer. The multilayer substrate includes a test sample disposed between the uppermost layer and the lowermost layer; a through calibration standard disposed between the uppermost layer and the lowermost layer; a reflect calibration standard disposed between the uppermost layer and the lowermost layer; and a line calibration standard disposed between the uppermost layer and the lowermost layer.

Abstract: Provided is an absolute position color scale disposed to represent a binary code using a first symbol, having a first width and representing a first state (“HIGH”), and a second symbol having the first width and representing a second state (“LOW”). Each of the first and second symbols is divided into two or more segments having the same structure, and the first symbol has the same shape as the second symbol, but has a color pattern different from a color pattern of the symbol.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing substrates is provided. A first gas source is provided. A first gas manifold is connected to the first gas source. A second gas manifold is connected to the first gas source. A first processing station has a first gas outlet, wherein the first gas outlet is connected to the first gas manifold. A second processing station has a second gas outlet, wherein the second gas outlet is connected to the second gas manifold. A first variable conductance valve is between the first gas source and the first gas outlet along the first gas manifold. A second variable conductance valve is between the first gas source and the second gas outlet along the second gas manifold.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of determining the age of a body fluid stain in a sample. This method involves providing the sample containing a body fluid stain; providing a statistical model for determination of the age of the body fluid stain in the sample; subjecting the sample or an area of the sample containing the stain to a spectroscopic analysis to produce a spectroscopic signature for the sample; and applying the spectroscopic signature for the sample to the statistical model to ascertain the age of the body fluid stain in the sample. A method of establishing a statistical model for determination of the age of a body fluid stain in a sample is also disclosed.

Abstract: A network system for providing one or more services to one or more end-user devices communicatively coupled to the network system over a wireless access network, the network system comprising: a policy enforcement function, a first policy element, a second policy element, and a network element, wherein the network element is communicatively coupled to the policy enforcement function, the first policy element, and the second policy element, and wherein the network element is configured to communicate first policy information between the policy enforcement function and the first policy element, and communicate second policy information between the first policy enforcement function and the second policy element.

Abstract: The invention provides compositions featuring chitosan and methods for using such compositions for the local delivery of biologically active agents to an open fracture, complex wound or other site of infection. Advantageously, the degradation and drug elution profiles of the chitosan compositions can be tailored to the needs of particular patients at the point of care (e.g., in a surgical suite, clinic, physician's office, or other clinical setting).

Abstract: Method for mapping a 3D grid or mesh from a faulted subsurface domain to a continuous design domain, wherein the grid may be used to represent a discrete model of a subsurface material property (such as permeability) to use, for example, in a reservoir simulator. The mapping is geometry-based, not physics-based. The mapping is determined by an iterative optimization procedure designed to penalize deformation of tessellated mesh cells (703) in the design domain compared to their geometric quality in the faulted domain (701), but subject to stitching constraints (702) appearing as a penalty term or Lagrange multiplier term in the optimization objective function to influence the final mesh to co-locate pairs of points identified on opposite sides of a fault as having been located together before the fault occurred.

Abstract: Provided is a field emission device. The field emission device includes a cathode electrode having a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface, the cathode electrode including grooves that are recessed from the first surface toward the second surface, the grooves extending in a first direction parallel to the first surface and emitter structures which are disposed within the grooves and each of which includes a core extending in the first direction and a conductive wire configured to surround the core. The grooves may be arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, and the emitter structures may be disposed at vertical levels different from each other.

Abstract: A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 2/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 16-symbol mapping.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rotor mechanism includes a rotor core and a plurality of rotor bars. The rotor core has a plurality of insertion slots arranged along an edge of the rotor core. Each of the plurality of rotor bars has an insertion portion and two protruding portions. The insertion portions are respectively located in the plurality of insertion slots, wherein in each of the plurality of rotor bars, the two protruding portions are respectively connected to two opposite ends of the insertion portion and respectively protrude from two opposite sides of the rotor core, and the two protruding portions each has an extension direction, that has an angle with respect to an extension direction of the insertion portion, in order to clamp and fix the rotor core therebetween. In addition, the present disclosure also provides a method for manufacturing the rotor mechanism.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing metal powders in a continuous type, metal is heated at a temperature greater than a melting point to form a liquid phase metal, and the liquid phase metal and an emulsion carrier, which is emulsified without reacting with the liquid phase metal, are supplied into a container, and the liquid phase metal and the emulsion carrier are emulsified through Taylor flow to form an emulsion solution. The emulsion solution is discharged from the container, and then, the emulsion solution is cooled at a temperature smaller than the melting point to selectively solidifying the liquid phase metal in the emulsion solution to form the metal powders.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for supporting setting of a network routing path, which includes a sub-cast list management unit for managing a sub-cast list that contains information about one or more other apparatuses for supporting setting of a network routing path with which the apparatus establishes a network session; a session management unit for simultaneously transmitting a SYNC message to at least some of the apparatuses included in the sub-cast list and establishing a network session with one of the apparatuses included in the sub-cast list in consideration of responses to the SYNC message; and a communication unit for transmitting data via the established network session.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for forming nanopores. The method includes (A) preparing a dispersion of gold nanoparticles (S100), (B) dipping a membrane in the dispersion to attach the gold nanoparticles to the surface of the membrane (S200), and (C) heating the membrane attached with the gold nanoparticles to a predetermined processing temperature such that the surface layers of the gold nanoparticles are liquefied and evaporated, to form nanopores with predetermined shapes on the membrane (S300).