Abstract: A system for monitoring individual food intake of a livestock animal includes a calibration system configured to measure weight or volume of food intake of an animal over a pre-defined period of time and to calibrate a mathematical model for the animal based on the measure, a tracking system configured track animal eating behavior at times other than the pre-defined period of time and a computing system. The pre-defined period of time is less than three weeks. The mathematical model relates eating behavior of the animal and defined physiological parameters of the animal with food intake. The computing system determines food intake of the animal over a lactation period based on the mathematical model for the animal as calibrated and the eating behavior at the times other than the pre-defined period of time.

Abstract: A peptide that binds to the Si spike protein of Middle East Respiratory syndrome coronavirus or MERS-CoV and a method for inhibiting infection of a subject exposed to or having MERS-CoV by administering the peptide.

Abstract: Confronted with the rapid evolution and dissemination of antibiotic resistance, there is an urgent need to develop alternative treatment strategies for drug-resistant S. aureus, especially for methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). We report a photonic approach to eradicate MRSA through blue-light photolysis of staphyloxanthin (STX), an anti-oxidative carotenoid acting as the constituent lipid of the functional membrane microdomains of S. aureus. Our transient absorption imaging study and mass spectrometry unveil the photolysis process of STX. After effective STX photolysis by pulsed laser, cell membranes are found severely disorganized and malfunctioned to defense antibiotics, as unveiled by membrane permeabilization, membrane fluidification, and detachment of membrane protein, PBP2a.

Abstract: According to a moving body, position and direction of a user are calculated from distance measurement data, and on the basis thereof, the position and direction of the moving body are calculated. If the moving body is located in the first or fourth quadrant of the user coordinate system, a right-side moving target is set as the moving target. If the moving body is in the second or the third quadrant of the user coordinate system, a left-side moving target is set as the moving target. Accordingly, the moving target is set on the basis of the position of the moving body with respect to the user, so the moving body is prevented from cutting across in front of the user while its travelling.

Abstract: A system evaluates a plurality of faults in an operation of a machine at a set of future instances of time. The system uses a neural network including a first subnetwork sequentially connected with a sequence of second subnetworks for each of the future instance of time such that an output of one subnetwork is an input to a subsequent subnetwork. The first subnetwork accepts the current time-series data and the current setpoints of operation of the machine. Each of the second subnetworks accepts the output of a preceding subnetwork, an internal state of the preceding subnetwork, and a future setpoint for a corresponding future instance of time. Each of the second subnetworks outputs an individual prediction of each fault of a plurality of faults at the corresponding future instance of time.

Abstract: A computerized information processing method for evaluating blood vessels is provided. The method includes acquiring a series of sequences of measurements, each at different time points in at least one cardiac cycle and at a different point along a blood vessel segment of a subject, generating corresponding profiles, calculating a transfer function for a subsegment between two selected points along a blood flow direction, and based thereon determining the physiological property of the subsegment. The measurements can contain information of blood velocity or blood pressure. A processing device and system implementing the information processing method are also provided. This approach can be used to evaluate arteries or veins and can be applied in screening, diagnosis, or prognosis of a variety of vascular diseases. For example, when combined with MRI scan, this approach can be used for non-invasively diagnosing pulmonary hypertension (PH) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), etc.

Abstract: Alkali free fluorophosphate-based glass system that is highly radiation resistance (for example, they remain transparent and do not solarize before, during, and after application of high energy radiation of 105 Rad or (1 kGy) or greater) and hence, reusable and further, when used with Ce provide a mechanism for determining the existence of radiation.

Abstract: A method for estimating a volume of thawed liquid in a motor vehicle tank, wherein the following operations are executed at regular time intervals: obtaining a temperature of the ambient air outside the tank using a thermometer; determining, according to said temperature outside the tank and by a first pre-established relation, a thermal energy transfer between the contents of the tank and the outside environment; determining, as a function of the power produced by a heating element, and by a second pre-established relation, a thermal energy transfer between the heating element and the contents of the tank; determining, as a function of the energy transfers, and by a third pre-established relation, an amount of thawed or refrozen liquid, during said time interval; the amounts of thawed and refrozen liquid are added during the preceding consecutive time intervals to estimate a volume of thawed liquid present in the tank.

Abstract: A domain adaptation-based object recognition apparatus includes a memory configured to store a domain adaptation-based object recognition program and a processor configured to execute the program. The processor learns a generative model for generating a feature or an image similar to a gallery image on the basis of domain adaptation in association with an input probe image and learns an object recognition classification model by using a learning database corresponding to the gallery image and the input probe image, thereby performing object recognition using the input probe image.

Abstract: A binder composition for asphalt pavements that includes: an asphalt binder; an elastomeric polymer; a wax modifier; and optionally at least one of: i) fumed silica or fumed alumina; and ii) a saponified fatty acid and a resin acid gelling compound. The composition is applied as a tack coat and/or a stress absorbing membrane interlayer and is non-tracking.

Abstract: A heat exchange device includes a housing having an opening on one side, and a heat exchange core body. The heat exchange device also includes a connection block provided with a first channel, a second channel, a first interface, and a second interface. The connection block is also provided with a first socket of the first channel, and a first socket of the second channel. The heat exchange core body includes at least one flat tube. At least one part of one end of the flat tube extends into the first socket of the first channel and is mounted in a sealed manner with the first socket of the first channel (31), and at least one part of the other end of the flat tube extends into the first socket of the second channel and is mounted in a sealed manner with the first socket of the second channel.

Abstract: Provided is a waveguide including an input end configured to receive an input wave from an outside; a filtering portion configured to change a frequency range of the input wave; an output end configured to output an output wave of which a frequency range is changed from the frequency range of the input wave; and an inner wall controller configured to control a size of an inner wall of the filtering portion such that the frequency range of the input wave changes to the frequency range of the output wave.

Abstract: A method of treating an ischemic heart disease in a subject in need thereof is provided. The method comprises administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of Agrin in an anterograde intracoronary manner, thereby treating the ischemic heart disease in the subject.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting or receiving uplink feedback information in a communication system. An operation method of a terminal may comprise receiving downlink control information (DCI) from a base station, the DCI including resource allocation information of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); receiving data # n from the base station through the PDSCH indicated by the DCI; generating a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) codebook including an HARQ response bit # n for the data # n and an HARQ response bit # n?1 for data # n?1 received from the base station before the data # n; and transmitting the HARQ codebook to the base station. Therefore, the performance of the communication system can be improved.

Abstract: A cartilage repair implant, an auxiliary surgical tool kit and a cartilage repair system are provided. The cartilage repair implant includes a body and a plurality of pins. The body is a porous structure and is configured to carry cartilage repair material. The pins are fixed to the body for being inserted into a patient's bone. The auxiliary surgical tool kit includes a positioning sleeve and a click tool. The positioning sleeve has a through passage. A first alignment structure is disposed on the sidewall of the through passage. The click tool includes an outer tube and a push rod. A second alignment structure mutually aligned with the first alignment structure is disposed on the outer wall of the outer tube. The outer tube is configured to pass through the through passage. The push rod is slidably disposed in the outer tube. One end of the outer tube has a shaping blade for slicing a to-be-implanted region on an affected area of the patient.

Abstract: Provided is a conductive polymer composite material including an intrinsically conductive polymer, a cellulose nanofiber, and a polyol, wherein the surface of the cellulose nanofiber contains a carboxylic group. In one embodiment, based on 100 parts by weight of the intrinsically conductive polymer, the content of the cellulose nanofiber is 1 to 100 parts by weight, and the content of the polyol is 10 to 3,000 parts by weight. A capacitor including the conductive polymer composite material is also provided.

Abstract: A system includes a turbine combustor. The turbine combustor has a combustor liner disposed about a combustion chamber, a flow sleeve, and a radial passageway. The flow sleeve disposed at an offset about the combustor liner to define a passage, wherein the passage is configured to direct an exhaust gas flow toward a head end of the turbine combustor. The radial passageway extends between the flow sleeve and the combustor liner, and the radial passageway is configured to isolate an oxidant flow through the radial passageway from the exhaust gas flow through the passage for a first operating condition and a second operating condition of the turbine combustor. The offset between the combustor liner and the flow sleeve at the first operating condition is greater than the offset between the combustor liner and the flow sleeve at the second operating condition.

Abstract: A non-silicon defoaming agent, includes an acrylate polymer, an organic solvent carrier, hydrophobic particles and defoaming auxiliaries; and the acrylate polymer is prepared from following raw material components: monomer-1, monomer-2, unsaturated terminated polyether, alkene, diluent and initiator. The present invention further includes a preparing method for the non-silicon defoaming agent and the application of the non-silicon defoaming agent to the defoaming and foam inhibiting in systems rich in anionic surfactants. The defoaming agent takes the acrylate polymer as the main active substance and has excellent defoaming and foam inhibiting performance.

Abstract: A camera auxiliary device for privacy protection and a privacy protection method using the camera auxiliary device. The camera auxiliary device for privacy protection includes a processor for splitting an input light beam that is reflected from a capturing target into a first input beam for detecting a privacy protection area and a second input beam to be transferred to a camera connected to a user terminal, detecting a privacy protection area in an image signal generated based on the first input beam, and converting the second input beam and then transferring a converted second input beam to the camera so that personal information included in the privacy protection area is not visually identified, and a memory for storing the image signal and the privacy protection area.

Abstract: Systems and methods that can improve the safety and efficacy of chest tube thoracostomy are described. For example, this document provides systems and methods that facilitate direct visual confirmation of the proper placement of a chest tube within the thoracic space.