Abstract: A method for determining the position of a mobile node applied to a roadside unit (RSU) is provided. The RSU and a plurality of mobile nodes form a communication network of a road. The method includes the steps of: obtaining, by, via at least one sensor, first road information, wherein the first road information provides absolute position distribution information associated with the mobile nodes; receiving, by a communication device, second road information from a first mobile node of the mobile nodes, wherein the second road information provides relative position distribution information associated with the first mobile node and second mobile nodes adjacent to the first mobile node; and determining, by a comparison device, the position of the first mobile node on the road according to the first road information and the second road information.

Abstract: Isolation for antennas in a wireless communication system is achieved between transmit and receive paths for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna array by separating a first transmit path from an associated receive path to be matched with a second transmit path and matching the first receive path with the second receive path. It is expected that the two transmit paths operate on sufficiently different frequencies that there is minimal interference there and the additional spacing from the transmit path to the receive path will reduce interference therebetween without increasing a footprint of the antenna array.

Abstract: An orientation evaluation device includes: a diode laser configured to periodically irradiate a sample with light to heat the sample, the sample being carbon fiber reinforced plastics; an infrared thermography configured to detect delay in response to a change in a temperature distribution of an area of the sample, the area including a spot heated by the diode laser; and a computer configured to output information on orientation of the sample based on the delay in the response detected by the infrared thermography. The orientation evaluation device enables a non-contact and quick evaluation of the orientation of the sample.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of managing a disaggregated memory. According to the present disclosure, the method includes: assigning at least one memory page to a local memory and a remote memory; checking a request for access to the memory page; checking whether a target performance ratio required in service is satisfied or not when the memory page requested to be accessed is assigned to the remote memory; predicting a size of the local memory on the basis of an LRU distance-based histogram when the target performance ratio is not satisfied; and reassigning the memory page requested to be accessed in consideration of the predicted size of the local memory.

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving mapping of a surrounding environment by a mapping vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying dynamic objects within the surrounding environment that are proximate to the mapping vehicle from sensor data of at least one sensor of the mapping vehicle. The dynamic objects are trackable objects that are moving within the surrounding environment. The method includes generating paths of the dynamic objects through the surrounding environment relative to the mapping vehicle according to separate observations of the dynamic objects embodied within the sensor data. The method includes producing a map of the surrounding environment from the paths.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for suppressing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) comprising a Pistacia weinmannifolia extract, a fraction thereof, or a compound isolated therefrom and, more particularly, to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating COPD comprising a Pistacia weinmannifolia extract, a fraction thereof, or a compound isolated therefrom; a food composition for preventing or improving COPD, and the compound isolated therefrom. The composition comprising a Pistacia weinmannifolia extract, a fraction thereof, or a compound isolated therefrom, according to the present invention, is not toxic, suppresses the invasion of inflammatory cells into the bronchial tube of a COPD-induced animal model, and effectively suppresses the expression of CXCL-1, TNF-?, or MIP-2.

Abstract: Methods for treating angiogenesis-mediated diseases are disclosed. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to methods of inhibiting ferrochelatase as an antiangiogenic therapy.

Abstract: This invention generally relates to a method for preparing and transferring a monolayer or thin film. In particular this present invention is an improved version of the Langmuir-Schaefer technique for preparing and transferring a monolayer or thin film, incorporating in situ thermal control of the substrate during the transfer process.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a channel coding/decoding method in which a parity check matrix is transformed and an apparatus using the same. The channel-coding method includes loading a first exponent matrix, transforming the first exponent matrix into a second exponent matrix, creating a parity check matrix corresponding to a required block size using the second exponent matrix, and performing LDPC encoding using the parity check matrix.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and materials for improving brain function and/or promoting neurogenesis m a patient suffering from impaired brain function. Specifically exemplified herein ls the co-administration of phenserine and NBI-18. A method of treating a neurodegenerative disease in a patient in need thereof, said method comprising co-administering to the patient phenserine, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and NBI-18, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in respective amounts and frequency such that they work together to improve brain function or induce neurogenesis in the patient.

Abstract: A high temperature piezoelectric sensor device such as a high temperature accelerometer, force sensor, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, acoustic sensor and/or acoustic transducer for use at temperatures up to 1000° C. The high temperature device includes a base, a piezoelectric element attached to the base and a pair of electrodes in electrical communication with the piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element can have a d15 piezoelectric coefficient between 16.0-18.0 pC/N for all temperatures between 25 to 700° C., and a rotated d33 piezoelectric coefficient of 8.0-9.5 pC/N with zero face shear/thickness shear piezoelectric coefficients d34. d35 and d36 in the same temperature range. The piezoelectric element can also have an electromechanical coupling factor k15 variation of less than 7%, and d15 and rotated d33 piezoelectric coefficient variations of less than 5% for temperatures between 25 to 700° C.

Abstract: Provided are tomato plants having fruit with red and yellow segments that appear across the fruit from the internal seed area to the most external layer of the epidermis. The present invention discloses that this phenotype, designated Arlecchino, is linked to insertion mutation within the Phytoene synthase 1 (Psy1) gene.

Abstract: A tank manufactured from a plastic material. The tank includes a reinforcement member. The reinforcement member includes a first portion made of a first material weldable to the plastic material of the tank and a second portion made of a second material having a tensile stress at break which is three to nine times larger than the tensile stress at yield of the first material. The second portion includes at least one through-hole, and the first material extends in the at least one through-hole and at opposite sides of the second portion adjacent the at least one through-hole.

Abstract: System and methods to provide ceiling-only suppression fire protection of up to fifty feet (50 ft.) of rack storage of cartoned unexpanded plastic commodities and less hazardous commodities, such as for example, Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4 and/or combinations thereof beneath a ceiling having a maximum ceiling height up to fifty-five feet (55 ft.). The systems and methods provide for hydraulic and system parameters that include a hydraulic design area based upon five to no more than twelve hydraulically most remote sprinklers spaced at a preferred sprinkler-to-sprinkler spacing of eight to ten feet (8-10 ft.) coupled to two to four branch lines tied to a common cross main supply pipe of firefighting fluid.

Abstract: A robot is provided. The robot includes a main body, one or more wheels coupled to the main body, one or more elastic members coupled to the main body, a disc coupled to the one or more elastic members, and one or more sensors. The disc is configured to move relative to the main body in response to a force exerted against the disc. The one or more sensors may detect a dislocation of the disc relative to the main body in response to the force exerted against the disc.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an image encoding apparatus comprises: a motion prediction unit which derives motion information on a current block in the form of the motion information including L0 motion information and L1 motion information; a motion compensation unit which performs a motion compensation for the current block on the basis of at least one of the L0 motion information and L1 motion information so as to generate a prediction block corresponding to the current block; and a restoration block generating unit which generates a restoration block corresponding to the current block based on the prediction block. According to the present invention, image encoding efficiency can be improved.

Abstract: A flexible hybrid electronic (FHE) system includes a carrier, a first redistribution structure on the carrier, a first device on the first redistribution structure, and an encapsulation layer encapsulating the first device. The carrier has a first Young's modulus Y1. The first redistribution structure has a second Young's modulus Y2. The first device and a portion of the encapsulation layer form a top surface of the first redistribution structure to a top surface of the first device is a first portion having a third Young's modulus Y3. The other portion of the encapsulation layer from the top surface of the first device to a top surface of the encapsulation layer is a second portion having a fourth Young's modulus Y4. A ratio of Y3/Y4 is between 1.62 and 1.98; a ratio of Y3/Y2 is between 0.18 and 0.22; and a ratio of Y3/Y1 is between 280.62 and 342.98.

Abstract: Attenuated vaccines to protect vertebrate animals and people against tick-born rickettsial, Ehrlichia and Anaplasma species infections is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods to modify the organism to achieve the desired immunity through the modification of a novel genetic region involved in pathogenesis. These compounds represent a needed vaccine against an organism causing life-threatening febrile illness in humans and animals, and also represent the potential to develop new classes of drugs targeting the gene products of genes Ech_0379 and Ech_0230, and their homologs of other related rickettsial pathogens.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides antibody sequences found in antibodies that bind to human CD25. In particular, the present disclosure provides sequences of anti-human CD25 antibodies, which do not block the binding of CD25 to IL-2 or IL-2 signalling. Antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof including such sequences can be used in pharmaceutical composition and methods of treatment, in particular for treating cancer.

Abstract: A device for producing a subwavelength hologram. The device comprises a metasurface layer attached to a substrate. The metasurface layer includes an array of plasmonic antennas that simultaneously encode both wavelength and phase information of light directed through the array to produce a hologram. The wavelength is determined by the size of the antennas, and the phase is determined by the orientation of the antennas.