Abstract: A device and a method for calculating a swinging direction of a human face in an obscured human face image are provided. The method includes the following. An obscured human face image including a human face is captured. Non-obscured face detection technology is used to obtain a feature anchor point to be replaced in the obscured human face image, obscured face detection technology is used to obtain a plurality of candidate feature anchor points in the obscured human face image, and the plurality of candidate feature anchor points are used to determine an updated feature anchor point corresponding to the feature anchor point to be replaced. An adjustment operation is performed on a three-dimensional model to obtain an adjusted three-dimensional model. The updated feature anchor point and the adjusted three-dimensional model are used to calculate a swinging direction of the human face.

Abstract: A method of classifying, by an apparatus including a processor and a memory, a subject-independent driver state according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include (a) learning a state classification model that receives one or more drivers' bio-signal data from a database to output the drivers' state classification (b) receiving a new driver's bio-signal, (c) preprocessing the received new driver's bio-signal, and (d) inputting the preprocessed new driver's bio-signal to the state classification model to output the driver's state classification result, wherein the bio-signal is at least one of an electroencephalogram (EEG), an electrooculogram (EOG), an electrocardiogram (ECG), and a photoplethysmogram (PPG).

Abstract: The invention provides a chimeric receptor comprising NKG2D, DAP10 and CD3 zeta. Also disclosed is a composition comprising this chimeric receptor and methods for making and using it to enhance the cytotoxicity and antitumor capacity of NK cells. The invention also encompasses methods for use of NKG2D-DAP10-CD3 zeta polypeptides, vectors and cells in methods for treating cancer and other proliferative disorders, as well as infectious diseases.

Abstract: An electric signal reconstruction system includes a signal generator and a computing element. The signal generator has a time constant and is configured to generate a plurality of signal value corresponding to a plurality of time points within a time period, wherein the signal values include a designated value, the time points include a designated time point, and the designated value corresponds to the designated time point. The computing element is electrically connected to the signal generator and is configured to perform operations including: performing a differential calculation or an integral calculation according to the time points and the signal values to generate a fundamental value; calculating a correction constant associated with the time constant; calculating a product of the correction constant and the fundamental value as a correction value; calculating a sum of the correction value and the designated value as a reconstruction value; and outputting the reconstruction value.

Abstract: A method of moving a magic qubit in logical qubit arrangement architecture based on a checkerboard may include generating a plurality of distilled magic qubits necessary for a predetermined logic operation through a magic state distiller, storing the plurality of distilled magic qubits in a magic qubit repository, primarily moving the stored magic qubit to an area adjacent to a logical qubit block corresponding to a destination through an external bus and an internal bus, and secondarily moving the magic qubit from the area adjacent to the logical qubit block to the destination within the logical qubit block through a temporary bus.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for monitoring the duty cycle of a memory clock signal. The apparatus for monitoring a duty cycle of a memory clock signal includes a clock frequency converter configured to generate a second monitoring target clock signal by decreasing a frequency of a first monitoring target clock signal while maintaining a duty cycle of the first monitoring target clock signal, and a pulse counter configured to measure a pulse width of the second monitoring target clock signal using a reference clock signal.

Abstract: The invention provides a nano-silicon agglomerate composite negative electrode material of pine needle and branch-shaped three-dimensional network structure and a method for preparing the same. The nano-silicon agglomerate composite negative electrode material comprises nano-sized core particles, a nano-silicon agglomerate of pine needle and branch-shaped three-dimensional network structure growing around the nano-sized core particles, and a composite coating layer over the nano-silicon agglomerate of needles and branch-shaped three-dimensional network structure. With measurements, it is shown that the nano-silicon agglomerate composite negative electrode material, when being applied in lithium ion battery, has excellent battery charge-discharge cycle performances and rate capability, and it has an initial discharge capacity per gram of more than 2600 mAh/g, and an initial coulombic efficiency of no less than 85%.

Abstract: A data processing method for acoustic event includes: establishing a simulated acoustic frequency event module, a data capturing module, and a sound application decision module in a software manner, setting a simulated hardware parameter to the simulated acoustic frequency event module, inputting a sound signal to a frequency filtering module of the simulated acoustic frequency event module, and obtaining metadata from a frequency event quantizer of the simulated acoustic frequency event module, dividing each of the metadata into multiple frames according to a time interval by the data capturing module, accumulating an event number of each frame by the data capturing module, setting a label of each frame according to the event number, storing these frames, the event number and the label in a database, and training a decision model by the sound application decision module according to the database and a sound application.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ultrasound guided intraarticular administration of a combination of a composition comprising pooled mesenchymal stromal cells, and mid molecular weight hyaluronic acid for treatment of osteoarthritis. The disclosure also provides methods for increasing levels of anti-inflammatory marker and decreasing levels of disease progression marker in a human subject suffering from osteoarthritis through the use of the said combination. The present disclosure accordingly also relates to a kit comprising the said composition and the hyaluronic acid as such for the said use and treatment.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a laser-sintered perovskite solar cell and a manufacturing method thereof. The method includes: forming a hole blocking layer on a conductive base substrate; forming a mesoporous nanocrystalline layer on the hole blocking layer, and sintering the mesoporous nanocrystalline layer through a laser beam; forming an insulation interlayer on the mesoporous nanocrystalline layer; forming a counter electrode layer on the insulation interlayer, and sintering the insulation layer and the counter electrode layer; and applying a perovskite precursor solution on the counter electrode layer to obtain the laser-sintered perovskite solar cell.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods of use for draining cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from a brain or a spinal canal in a subject, for example, to treat hydrocephalus or other conditions. In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to a device comprising a flow controller positioned within a conduit that allows CSF to flow through the conduit from a first end to a second end. This may allow the CSF to drain, for example, from an intradural space (such as a thecal sac) into, for example, a paraspinal space, paraspinal vein or other venous space, or peritoneal cavity. A variety of methods may be used to hold or anchor the device in place, for example, an expansion apparatus. In some embodiments, the device can be implanted percutaneously at a location along or within a subject's spinal column, thus reducing the need for surgery, general anesthesia, and hospitalizations.

Abstract: Proposed is a treatment system using vagus nerve stimulation. The treatment system includes a treatment part including an electrode configured to be worn on at least one of the left and right ears and configured to generate electrical stimulation on the vagus nerve in the auricle, a controller configured to transmit an electrical stimulation signal for generating the electrical stimulation to the treatment part, an input part configured to allow a user to input user information, and a measurement part configured to measure biometric information on the user. The controller adjusts an intensity and a pattern of the electrical stimulation on the basis of the biometric information measured by the measurement part, and adjusts a treatment protocol including treatment time and treatment intensity on the basis of the biometric information measured by the measurement part and the user information input by the input part.

Abstract: A processor-implemented method including identifying, from received Radio Frequency (RF) signals, a signal feature map, the signal feature map containing information calculated to detect a presence of a person, identifying, from the received RF signals, visual clues according to association information between first information based on a result of image-based Multi-Person Pose Estimation (MPPE) learning and second information based on a result of RF signal-based Multi-Person Pose Estimation (MPPE) learning, detecting one or more persons by utilizing the signal feature map and the visual clues, and detecting one or more poses of the one more persons based on the signal feature map and the visual clues.

Abstract: A three-dimensional nanolithography system includes forming a photocurable resin including one or more organic monomers, a photoinitiator, and an inhibitor, defining a lithographical patterning region, directing a light beam toward the lithographical patterning region to initiate polymerization, and controlling an initiator depletion technique to reduce an undesired portion of the polymerization.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for synthesizing the voice based on brain waves during imagined speech. The method for synthesizing the voice based on brain waves during imagined speech according to an embodiment of the present invention may include the following steps: a step to obtain the user's brain waves during imagined speech; a step to convert the above-mentioned brain waves of imagined speech into embedding vectors; a step to generate the mel-spectrograms based on the above-mentioned embedding vectors; a step to generate the voice using the above-mentioned mel-spectrograms; a step to output the above-mentioned voice.

Abstract: A physical neural network system includes a physical and digital component. The digital component includes a computing system. The physical component and the digital component work in conjunction to execute a physics aware training process. The physics aware training process includes generating, by the digital component, an input data set for input to the physical component, applying, by the physical component, one or more transformations to the input data set to generate an output for a forward pass of the physics aware training process, comparing, by the digital component, the generated output to a canonical output to determine an error, generating, by the digital component, a loss gradient using a differentiable digital model for a backward pass of the physics aware training process, and updating, by the digital component, training parameters for subsequent input to the physical component based on the loss gradient.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a brain signal-based user assisting method including the steps of: acquiring learning data for setting a designated command; setting one of a plurality of designated command candidates as a designated command, based on the acquired learning data; performing a background process for recognizing the designated command; determining whether the designated command is recognized continuously more than given times, based on the background process; and if it is determined that the designated command is recognized continuously more than the given times, performing a user's brain signal recording.

Abstract: A mold for manufacturing, by extrusion blow-molding, containing two parts having at least a first section having a first molding surface having a plurality of contact regions configured to simultaneously form, by pressing, regions for fixing at least one internal component to the inside of a parison, and a second section having a second molding surface. The second section of the part of the mold is movable with respect to the at least one first section associated with the part of the mold.

Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter provides for chimeric receptors that target MUC16 and cells comprising such chimeric receptors. The presently disclosed subject matter further provides uses of the chimeric receptors for treatment.

Abstract: A van der Waals stacked Josephson junction structure and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The van der Waals stacked Josephson junction structure according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate, a first layer of a van der Waals material separable into layers and positioned on the substrate, and a second layer of the van der Waals material positioned on the first layer, in which the first layer and the second layer are twisted at a predetermined angle with each other, and a Josephson junction is formed between the first layer and the second layer.