Abstract: An ultra-large horizontal seepage test system with intelligent graded loading and variable seepage path is provided, which includes a water storage system, a water pressure system, a horizontal seepage test system and an intelligent loading and control system. The water storage system, the water pressure system and the horizontal seepage test system are connected in sequence, and the water pressure system is used to apply a water pressure and a vertical pressure to a test piece to be tested in the horizontal seepage test system. An outlet valve of the horizontal seepage test system is connected to the water storage system, and the intelligent loading and control system is used to control operations of electrical components of the water pressure system and the horizontal seepage test system. With the test system, a water head pressure can be loaded intelligently, and an infiltration angle of water inflow can be adjusted.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a preparation method of a copper green rust pigment, particularly a preparation method of a copper green rust pigment that can replace the traditional Dancheong Hayeob pigment comprising the following steps: a step of preparing a copper powder comprising at least one of copper; and a copper alloy comprising copper and at least one of tin (Sn), zinc (Zn), and lead (Pb); and a step of corroding the copper powder by mixing the copper powder with a corrosive agent containing sodium chloride and ammonium chloride. The corrosive agent includes 75 to 90 weight % of the sodium chloride and 10 to 25 weight % of the ammonium chloride based on the total weight.

Abstract: A block production method and a block producing node including creating an entangled transaction list by combining a plurality of transactions received through the communication unit and producing a block using the entangled transaction list are provided.

Abstract: A vehicle power supply system provides redundant high-voltage and low-voltage power supply for an electric vehicle or a hybrid-electric vehicle. The power supply system includes first and second high-voltage battery units. A positive terminal of the first unit is connected to a positive power distribution arrangement and a positive terminal of the second unit is connected to a negative terminal of the first high-voltage battery unit via an intermediate power distribution arrangement, and a negative terminal of the second unit is connected to a negative power distribution arrangement. The system has a first bypass line connecting the positive power distribution arrangement with the intermediate power distribution arrangement, and a second bypass line connecting the negative power distribution arrangement with the intermediate power distribution arrangement.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are agricultural biocontrol compounds and compositions comprising the compounds, and methods of using the same. Specifically, nematacide fungicidal and herbecidial compounds, compositions comprising thereof, and methods for preventing and inhibiting nematodes, fungi and weed growth are disclosed herein.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a CIELAB color space-based quantitative testing and analysis method for rice seed viability, and the method comprises removing husks on surfaces of rice seeds, soaking and imbibing the rice seeds without the husks removed, staining the rice seeds by using a TTC staining solution, and longitudinally cutting the rice seeds along embryos; converting the longitudinal section image of the rice seed from an RGB color space to a CIELAB color space, and calculating L value, a value and b value per unit area of the rice embryo as a staining intensity per unit area, and converting the staining intensity into a rice seed viability score according to a pre-established conversion model of the staining intensity and the rice seed viability score. According to the present invention, a reference result can be provided for the rapid, accurate and objective evaluation of the seed viability.

Abstract: A cluster-supporting catalyst including porous carrier particles having acid sites, and catalyst metal clusters supported within the pores of the porous carrier particles. In the cluster-supporting catalyst including porous carrier particles having acid sites, and catalyst metal clusters supported within the pores of the porous carrier particles, the catalyst metal may be rhodium, the catalyst metal may be palladium, the catalyst metal may be platinum, or the catalyst metal may be copper.

Abstract: Disclosed are a sensor including a first metal layer and a second metal layer facing each other, and a volume changeable layer disposed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer and capable of absorbing a material to change the thickness thereof, wherein at least one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer is a semi-transmissive layer and the sensor indicates a color change by changing a resonance wavelength of light transmitted through the semi-transmissive layer according to a change in thickness of the volume changeable layer, and a sensor device, an electronic device, a smart window, and an IoT system including the same.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the disclosed apparatus is a process cooling-water isolation system used in a process tool. The system includes an isolation valve coupled between a water supply and an inlet of one or more components in a process-module water-cooling circuit. An open device allows cooling water to flow to the one or more components, while a close device prevents cooling water from flowing to the one or more components. At least one water-leak sensor is coupled to the close device to detect a water leak within the process tool. A check valve having an inlet port is coupled to an outlet of the one or more components, and an outlet port is coupled to a water-return reservoir. The check valve prevents water from back-flowing from the water-return reservoir into the one or more components. Other apparatuses and methods are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides pyrazole derivatives, e.g., a compound of Formula (I), and their uses in methods of treating malignant disease and disorders and methods for treating inflammatory diseases and disorders.

Abstract: Disclosed herein a method of constructing a blood vessel map, the method including: receiving, by a blood vessel map construction apparatus, a TOF image of the object; extracting, by the blood vessel map construction apparatus, a blood vessel stem, a center line of a blood vessel, and features of the center line included in the TOF image, and detecting branch points of the blood vessel based on the extracted blood vessel stem, center line of the blood vessel, and features of the center line; searching, by the blood vessel map construction apparatus, a reference blood vessel image corresponding to the TOF image in consideration of location information or curvature information of the branch points; calculating a similarity between the TOF image and the reference blood vessel image; and registering the TOF image in the blood vessel map based on the similarity.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a composition for diagnosing or predicting the prognosis of lung cancer is provided, the composition including a primer, probe, or antibody that specifically binds to a GRIP and coiled-coil domain-containing protein (GCC2) gene or protein in an exosome.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system (400) comprising a vehicle (402), an arm assembly (408), first and second cable portions (410a, 410b), at least one cable actuator (406), and an air supply line. The vehicle has a pneumatic source of pressurized air. The arm assembly has an end effector releasably coupled to an end of an axially-extendable arm coupled to the vehicle. The end effector has a gladhand coupling portion. The air supply line can be coupled to the end effector and can deliver pressurized air from the pneumatic source to a braking system of the trailer when the gladhand coupling portion is coupled to the gladhand receptacle of a trailer. After coupling to the gladhand receptacle, the end effector can be disconnected from the arm assembly to allow the remainder of the arm assembly to be stowed.

Abstract: A system and method for dynamically deactivating engine cylinders of an engine equipped with a cylinder deactivation system, where the system and method control torsional vibration in the engine while deactivating cylinders using a computer programed with a desired firing density and a controlled range of engine vibration frequencies. The computer dynamically determines a cylinder firing pattern that provides the desired firing density while optimizing a cost function norm in the controlled range of engine vibration frequencies. The cylinder deactivation system in the engine is then controlled using the determined cylinder firing pattern.

Abstract: A method for improving mechanical properties by changing a gradient nanotwinned structure of metallic materials is the technical field of nanostructured metallic materials. The method uses the inherent principles of microstructure and mechanical properties of metallic materials to improve materials mechanical properties. The metallic materials has a gradient nanotwinned structure. The principles of microstructure and mechanical properties of the metallic materials mean that the mechanical properties of the metallic materials are adjusted by changing the structural gradient scale of the nanotwinned structure. The method combines two strengthening methods of nanotwins and gradient structure, and can obviously improve the mechanical properties of the metallic materials. For pure copper materials of the gradient nanotwinned structure prepared by an electrodeposition technology: the yield strength is 481±15 MPa, the tensile strength is 520±12 MPa, the uniform elongation can be 7±0.

Abstract: A graphene nanowalls (GNW), a manufacturing method thereof, an electrode and a supercapacitor are provided. The manufacturing method of a graphene nanowalls includes: placing a substrate in a microwave plasma apparatus; introducing a hydrocarbon gas and inert gas; and forming a graphene nanowalls on the substrate. The microwave plasma apparatus provides microwave frequency of less than 1 GHz.

Abstract: It is well understood in the medical industry that medical disorders can manifest as serious problems for the affected subjects, their families, and society. Today, psychiatrists, neurologists and other physicians treat these disorders with a variety of medications, many of which have significant negative side effects. The teachings provided herein are directed to a novel system and methods for treating certain neurological, psychological, psychiatric and medical disorders by delivering a “magnetic stimulation” to a subject's neural and perineural system using either a static or electromagnetic field to generate a modulated variable power multi-spectral magnetic stimulation on three axis; the modulated stimulation using methods that have predictable, controlled, modifiable, and repeatable characteristics.

Abstract: Proposed is an apparatus for performing high-capacity wireless communication in a greenhouse environment, the apparatus including: a moving enabling control unit including a motor for moving at least one wireless router in an upper end portion of a greenhouse, a moving enabling module including a motor control module and a motor communication module, and a moving enabling rails installed in a predetermined number, length and direction at the upper end portion of the greenhouse, and a greenhouse integrated control unit configured to set an interval of movement of the wireless router by communicating with the motor communication module and to generate and transmit a control command for controlling the motor control module in such a manner that the wireless router moves at the set interval of movement.

Abstract: Provided is a method of generating direction vectors of particles. The method includes calculating, by a processor, a center of gravity of the particles on the basis of characteristic values of one or more particles in a cluster including the particles, and generating, by the processor, direction vectors of the particles on the basis of the center of gravity.

Abstract: This invention relates to a metrological scanning probe microscope system combining an SPM which employs an optical lever arrangement to measure displacement of the probe indirectly with another SPM which measures the displacement of the probe directly through the use of an interferometric detection scheme.