Abstract: A rotary piezoelectric motor, in particular for a timepiece, the motor including: a rotor configured to rotate and actuate a mechanical device, a stator configured to rotate the rotor, the stator including a piezoelectric actuator, the piezoelectric actuator including a moving element whose movement causes the rotor to rotate in a first direction, the piezoelectric actuator including only two electrically actuatable resonators, the two resonators being connected to the moving element to move it against the rotor to cause it to rotate, the two resonators being arranged relative to the moving element so as to cause the moving element to oscillate in first and second directions different from each other, each resonator including a centre of rotation, the two resonators being disposed relative to the moving element so that, around each centre of rotation, the torque resulting from all the acceleration forces being applied in the plane of each resonator is zero.

Abstract: A quantum computing system includes a first resonator couplable to a first alkali atom, a second resonator couplable to a second alkali atom, and lasers for trapping, cooling, and manipulating the first alkali atom and the second alkali atom. Detectors detect a presence of the trapped first alkali atom and the trapped second alkali atom, and a processor is configured to receive at least one input signal from at least one of the detectors, the input signal indicating a presence of the trapped first alkali atom and the trapped second alkali atom, and, based on the received input, control at least some of the lasers to manipulate at least one of the trapped first alkali atom and the trapped second alkali atom to thereby generate photonic qubits using the trapped first alkali atom or generate entanglement between photonic qubits transmitted to the trapped second alkali atom.

Abstract: A highly integrated multi-channel optical module is provided. The optical module includes an optical source device mounted on a substrate by an optical source mount unit, a waveguide mounted on the substrate by a waveguide mount unit, a lens mount unit disposed between the optical source device and the waveguide and mounted on the substrate, and a lens unit fixed to the lens mount unit by an adhesive cured by ultraviolet (UV) parallel light, wherein a light path of the UV parallel light is formed in the lens mount unit by a reflector attached on a side surface of the lens mount unit, and the UV parallel light moves along the light path and cures the adhesive coated on an upper portion of the lens mount unit facing a lower end portion of the lens unit.

Abstract: In various aspects, the present disclosure provides methods for applying ablation therapy to a target tissue region within a patient, which methods include: (a) navigating a catheter to a target tissue region within the patient, the catheter including an elongate body having a proximal portion and a distal portion and a balloon structure positioned at the distal portion of the elongate body, which balloon structure may be permeable to a calcium-ion-containing solution that comprises one or more calcium salts; (b) positioning the balloon structure at the target tissue region; (c) delivering energy to the target tissue region; and (d) eluting the calcium-ion-containing solution from the balloon structure before, during, and/or after delivering the energy to the target tissue region. In various other aspects, the present disclosure provides apparatuses that can be used for performing such methods, among others.

Abstract: A method of forming a titania-coated inorganic particle comprising the steps of: (a) agitating a mixture of inorganic particle and organic solvent; (b) adding titania precursor dropwise into the mixture of step (a) under agitation; and (c) adding catalyst to the mixture of step (b) thereby converting said titania precursor to titania which then forms a coating on said inorganic particle; wherein steps (a) to (c) are performed at neutral pH and ambient temperature.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a testing method and a testing device. The testing method includes: configuring one or more testing parameters for a to-be-tested object, and performing at least two testing processes to obtain a testing value of each performance index for each testing process, each of the at least two testing processes being used to test different performance index of the to-be-tested object or to test different performance indices of the to-be-tested object; and generating a testing result of the to-be-tested object in accordance with the testing value of each performance index for each testing process. According to the present disclosure, it is able to perform the multi-dimensional test, thereby to meet the requirement on the performance indices in different scenarios, improve the testing efficiency, and increase the reliability of the testing result for true performance of a terminal.

Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for making and using anti DC-ASGPR antibodies that can, e.g., activate DCs and other cells.

Abstract: A method comprising: generating a parametrized three-dimensional (3D) body surface model on a training set comprising a plurality of 3D scans of subjects, wherein at least some of said 3D scans are of subjects having a skeletal deformity; receiving one or more target 3D scans of a target subject; optimizing said body surface model with respect to said one or more target 3D scans to calculate a target body surface model of said target subject; training a skeletal estimation model on a training set comprising: (i) body surface models of a plurality of subjects, and (ii) skeletal landmarks sets of said plurality of subjects; and applying said trained skeletal estimation model to said calculated target body surface model of said target subject, to estimate a skeletal shape of said target subject.

Abstract: A nuclear reactor includes a reactor container, a reactor core, a control drum assembly, a hot channel, a heat exchanger and a main pump. The reactor container contains a coolant; the reactor core is arranged at a lower middle part of the reactor container; the control drum assembly is arranged on an outer periphery of the reactor core, and includes control drums arranged at intervals along a peripheral direction of the reactor core; the hot channel is arranged in the reactor container and located above the reactor core. The hot channel has a bottom hermetically connected to the control drum assembly and a top hermetically connected to an inner top surface of the reactor container. The hot channel has a hot pool passage for the coolant to pass through. The heat exchanger is arranged in the reactor container and located on an outer periphery of the hot channel.

Abstract: An ambulance-compatible magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system for on-site emergency diagnosis includes a mid-field super-conducting head-only magnet including a bore and an active shield arranged relative to the magnet, a passive shield arranged relative to the magnet, the passive shield including a first flange arranged adjacent to a first side of the magnet bore, a second flange arranged adjacent to a second side of the magnet bore, wherein the first flange and the second flange are electrically connected to each other, and wherein the passive shield is operative to capture flux extending out from the magnet bore and return the flux to the magnet. An asymmetric head gradient assembly for generating magnetic gradient field in the mid-field super-conducting magnet is also provided, the magnetic gradient field being between 100-150 mT/m or having a slew rate between 400-800 T/m/s.

Abstract: Connector assemblies for insertion into a port structure of a telecommunication enclosure to provide an environmentally sealed connection are disclosed herein. An exemplary connector assembly includes a forward connector housing, an intermediate body positioned over a portion of the forward connector housing, an optical connection portion coupled to the forward connector housing, and an adapter, positionable over the intermediate body. The intermediate body comprises a forward portion and a rearward portion, with the forward portion including an external key and a plurality of trigger elements. Each trigger element has a foot portion and a locking portion, and the rearward portion includes an orientation key in substantial alignment with the external key.

Abstract: Proposed are a core-satellite micelle containing a tetra-block copolymer and a preparation method thereof. The core-satellite micelle includes a core, a shell surrounding the core, and a plurality of satellite domains positioned inside the shell. The core-satellite micelle contains a tetra-block copolymer represented by Structural Formula 1 below. The shell includes a first-monomer first block A1 and a first-monomer second block A2, and the satellite domain includes a second-monomer first block B1 and a second-monomer second block B2. The core-satellite micelle is foiled through self-assembly of the tetra-block copolymer, thereby having a larger interfacial contact area than existing block-copolymer micelles. Therefore, the core-satellite micelle can be used in next-generation nanotechnology applications such as drug delivery systems, porous catalyst materials, and sensors.

Abstract: An exemplary method and system is disclosed that facilitates a readily-re-deployable and self-enclosed geofencing and proximity-based intrusion sensing and alerting system in a roadway or construction work zone. The sensing and alerting system is configured in the form factor of a safety cone, barricade or drum to sense and uses acoustic-echoes or LiDAR-based sensing to detect intruders that are in proximity to the sensing and alerting system to generate a siren or loud audible alert, as well as flashing lights, to warn workers of such intrusion.

Abstract: A patella protection system, and a knee brace including such a patella protection system. The patella protection system including an upper member to be positioned in proximity of an upper part of the wearer's leg, a lower member to be positioned in proximity of a lower part of the wearer's leg and an intermediate guard member to be positioned over the patella and operatively connected to the upper member and the lower member. The upper member and the lower member are designed to move within the intermediate guard member between a straight configuration and an angled/angulated configuration.

Abstract: A protection system for abnormal power down of a child node in a rack-scale server includes a logic control module and a plugging/unplugging trigger module. The plugging/unplugging trigger module is configured to detect a contact state, at a second plugging depth, between a power supplying clamp of the child node and the power supplying copper bar through a metal probe, generate a detection signal by conversion, and send the detection signal to the logic control module; the logic control module is configured to successively turn off a main power supply and a standby power supply of the child node after determining that the power supplying clamp is disengaged from the second plugging depth of the power supplying copper bar and before the power supplying clamp is disengaged from the third plugging depth of the power supplying copper bar, so as to execute power down logic of normal power off.

Abstract: A method of etching features in a stack comprising a dielectric material on a substrate is provided. In a step (a) an etch plasma is generated from an etch gas, exposing the stack to the etch plasma, and partially etching features in the stack. In a step (b) after step (a) an atomic layer deposition process is provided to deposit a protective film on sidewalls. The atomic layer deposition process comprises a plurality of cycles, wherein each cycle comprises exposing the stack to a first reactant gas comprising WF6, wherein the first reactant gas is adsorbed onto the stack and exposing the stack to a plasma formed from a second reactant gas, wherein the plasma formed from the second reactant gas reacts with the adsorbed first reactant gas to form the protective film over the stack. In a step (c) steps (a)-(b) are repeated at least one time.

Abstract: Various embodiments include methods to produce low dielectric-constant (low-k) films. In one embodiment, alternating ALD cycles and dopant materials are used to generate a new family of silicon low-k materials. Specifically, these materials were developed to fill high-aspect-ratio structures with re-entrant features. However, such films are also useful in blanket applications where conformal nanolaminates are applicable. Various embodiments also disclose SiOF as well as SiOCF, SiONF, GeOCF, and GeOF. Analogous films may include halide derivatives with iodine and bromine (e.g., replace “F” with “I” or “Br”). Other methods, chemistries, and techniques are disclosed.

Abstract: Objective discrimination of a disease label of a depressive symptom with respect to an active state of a brain is achieved. One means for solving the problems of the present invention is to provide a discriminating device for assisting in determination of whether a subject has a depressive symptom. The discriminating device includes a storage device for storing information for identifying a classifier generated by classifier generation processing based on a signal obtained by using a brain activity detecting apparatus to measure, in advance and time-sequentially, a signal indicating a brain activity of a plurality of predetermined regions of each brain of a plurality of participants in a resting state, the plurality of participants including healthy individuals and patients with depression.

Abstract: Provided is a method of training a real-time simultaneous interpretation model based on external alignment information, the method including: receiving a bilingual corpus having a source language sentence as an input text and a target language sentence as an output text; generating alignment information corresponding to words or tokens (hereinafter, words) in the bilingual corpus; determining a second action following a first action in the simultaneous interpretation model on the basis of the alignment information to generate action sequence information; and training the simultaneous interpretation model on the basis of the bilingual corpus and the action sequence information, wherein the first action and the second action represent a read action of reading the word in the input text or a write action of outputting an intermediate interpretation result corresponding to the read action performed up to a present.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a copper oxide (CuxO) structure onto a Copper (Cu) surface by fabricating an electroactive hierarchical CuxO structure directly onto the Cu surface by laser-induced oxidation (LIO). The generated heat from the laser source provides energy for the oxidation of the Cu surface in the presence of atmospheric oxygen. The electroactive hierarchical CuxO structure is a binder-free nanotextured structure. The electroactive hierarchical CuxO structure may be used as a glucose sensor.