Abstract: A system for controlling an operation of a vehicle to rendezvous with a target over a finite time horizon, wherein the vehicle and the target form a multi-object celestial system. A processor to formulate passive unsafe regions as passive safety constraints. The passive unsafe regions represents regions of space around the target guaranteeing collision trajectories with the target, in an event of total thruster failure. Update a controller having a model of dynamics of the vehicle with received data, and subject the updated controller to the passive safety constraints to generate control commands that produce a collision free rendezvous trajectory which avoids unsafe regions for the specified time period, guaranteeing a collision free trajectory with respect to the target in the event of the total vehicle thruster failure, so the vehicle does not collide with the target. Output the control commands to activate or not activate thrusters of the vehicle.

Abstract: A new class of cost-effective carbon fiber precursors that comprise both hydrocarbon polymer and Pitch structural features in the same polymer structure to exhibit complementary advantages of both PAN- and Pitch-based carbon fiber precursors. The new class of carbon fiber precursors comprise a polymeric pitch copolymer, wherein the polymeric pitch copolymer includes a polymer chain and several pitch polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules grafted or chemically bonded to the polymer chain. Method and processes for the creation of the new class of carbon fiber precursors are also presented, wherein said methods may comprise a thermally-induced coupling and extrusion step.

Abstract: An interferometer for use in remote sensing systems includes a beam splitter that separates an input wave into a reflected wave, which travels along a first optical path within an upper interferometer arm, and a transmitted wave, which travels along a second optical path within a lower interferometer arm. The reflected and transmitted waves are subsequently recombined by the beam splitter for imaging onto a sensor. A highly dispersive element is incorporated into at least one of the pair of interferometer arms. Due to anomalous dispersion, a frequency shift in a wave transmitted through a dispersive element changes the optical path length within its corresponding arm. As a result, the recombined wave produces an interference pattern with a measurable phase change that can be utilized to calculate the original frequency shift in the input wave with great precision and potential sub-Hertz sensitivity.

Abstract: Patients being treated successfully with a drug of abuse and at low risk for abusing the drug nevertheless may be at high risk of being misidentified as a high risk of abuse. These patients may need and benefit from treatment with the drug but restricted or cut off from the treatment altogether due to the misidentification and then abandoned. Evaluating a patient's risk of drug treatment change due to a category misidentification may include developing a model for identifying such abandoned patients, applying the model to data of a patient, and determining a patient risk score for the patient based on a result of applying the model.

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods for bisulfite-free identification in a nucleic acid sequence of the locations of 5-methylcytosine, 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, 5-carboxylcytosine and 5-formylcytosine.

Abstract: A system and method for authoring and implementing context-aware applications (CAPs) are disclosed. The system and method enables users to record their daily activities and then build and deploy customized CAPs onto augmented reality platforms in which automated actions are performed in response to user-defined human actions. The system and method utilizes an integrated augmented reality platform composed of multiple camera systems, which allows for non-intrusive recording of end-users' activities and context detection while authoring and implementing CAPs. The system and method provides an augmented reality authoring interface for browsing, selecting, and editing recorded activities, and creating flexible CAPs through spatial interaction and visual programming.

Abstract: The invention provides methods for reprogramming somatic cells to generate multipotent or pluripotent cells. Such methods are useful for a variety of purposes, including treating or preventing a medical condition in an individual. The invention further provides methods for identifying an agent that reprograms somatic cells to a less differentiated state.

Abstract: Embodiments are provided that enable an implantable connector, along with related apparatuses, devices, systems, methods, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like to serve patients with neural interfaces requiring connectors with higher channel densities (>0.05 ch/mm3) or higher channel counts (>32) than is practical with conventional implant-connector technology.

Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for treating spasticity, hypertonia or dystonia are disclosed. Treatment involves applying a source of direct current to one or more locations in a subject (animal, human, or other sentient being). Locations for application of direct current include the spinal column, peripheral nerves, and the cranium. The delivery of direct current is adjusted to change biological activity of or level of gene expression and/or protein expression of target molecule NKCC1.

Abstract: A method of designing an optimized seawater pumping apparatus, using a computer in a system in which a seawater pumping apparatus including a pumping pipe and a well disposed to surround a lateral surface of a land-buried portion of the pumping pipe is installed to reduce seawater intrusion in a land in which an aquifer with a seawater-fresh water boundary surface is formed, includes applying an optimization algorithm to initial condition data of the aquifer to generate n decision variable sets of the seawater pumping apparatus, applying an underground water flow model to each of the n decision variable sets to generate n prediction results of change in the seawater-fresh water boundary surface, calculating a performance evaluation value of each of the n prediction results, and selecting a decision variable set having a maximum performance evaluation value, where n is an integer and equal to or greater than 2.

Abstract: Provided are a multitask learning apparatus and method for improving learning performance of heterogeneous small datasets. The multitask learning apparatus includes a first layer configured to generate feature vectors by projecting training data pairs generated from different tasks to one feature space, a second layer configured to extract a common feature from the projected feature vectors, and a third layer configured to draw each individual inference from the extracted common feature. Here, the first layer and the third layer are task-specific layers, and the second layer is a layer shared between tasks. The first layer, the second layer, and the third layer perform forward propagation in one artificial neural network.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cancer cell-specific complex for targeting cancer. The complex for targeting cancer according to the present disclosure includes EGF, but is affected more by lysosomal activity rather than the EGFR signaling pathway, and thus can overcome the shortcomings of the existing EGF therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic compositions and provide successfully personalized and improved effects of treating, preventing and alleviating cancer. A diagnostic composition according to the present disclosure enables the prediction of the anticancer performance of a therapeutic composition of the present disclosure in a subject, and thus enables anticancer treatment to be designed stably.

Abstract: A non-magnetic method is disclosed for determining presence and/or concentration of at least one radical species in a sample.

Abstract: A method for representing atomic structures as Gaussian processes is described. The method includes mapping a crystal structure of chemical elements in a real space, in which atoms of the chemical elements are represented in a unit cell. The method also includes learning, by a machine learning model, a 3D embedding of each of the chemical elements in the real space according to the mapping of the crystal structure of the chemical elements. The method further includes training the machine learning model according to a representation of the atoms of the chemical elements in the unit cell based on the mapping of the crystal structure of the chemical elements. The method also includes predicting a material property corresponding to a point within the real space.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for image encoding, the apparatus including: a transmitter memory configured to store a program for encoding a stereoscopic 3D image; and an encoding processor configured to execute the program stored in the transmitter memory, wherein the encoding processor is configured to: generate a first stream and a second stream from a left image and a down-converted right image, decode the first stream and the second stream to generate a decoded left image and a first decoded right image; generate a third stream from the decoded left image, the first decoded right image, and an original right image, and decode the third stream to generate a second decoded right image; and generate a fourth stream from the second decoded right image and the original right image.

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein support enhanced computer vision capabilities which may be applicable to, for example, autonomous vehicle operation. An example method includes generating, through training, a shared latent space based on (i) image data that include multiple images, where each image has a different viewing frame of a scene, and (ii) first and second types of embeddings, and training a decoder based on the first type of embeddings. The method also includes generating an embedding based on the first type of embeddings that is representative of a novel viewing frame of the scene, decoding, with the decoder, the shared latent space using cross-attention with the generated embedding, and generating the novel viewing frame of the scene based on an output of the decoder.

Abstract: A reflection-type Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM), a control method of the reflection-type FPM, and a system thereof are disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a reflection FPM may include an objective lens; a light splitter connected to a member including the objective lens; a first illumination system including a first LED array composed of a plurality of LEDs for irradiating a first beam passing through the objective lens through the light splitter; a second illumination system including a plurality of LEDs for radiating a second beam to a measurement sample in a periphery of the objective lens, and repeatedly moving in an up and down direction based on a virtual center line penetrating the objective lens; and a camera.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a video decoding method and apparatus and a video encoding method and apparatus. Coding decision information of a representative channel of a target block is shared as coding decision information of a target channel of the target block, and decoding of the target block is performed using the coding decision information of the target channel. Since the coding decision information of the representative channel is shared with an additional channel, repeated signaling of identical coding decision information may be prevented. By means of this prevention, the efficiency of encoding and decoding of the target block or the like may be improved.

Abstract: A molded electronic assembly including a circuit substrate, a plurality of electronic devices, and at least one patterned heat dissipation structure is provided. The circuit substrate includes a substrate and a circuit, where the substrate has a top surface, and the circuit has a plurality of signal contacts distributed on the top surface. The electronic devices are disposed on the circuit substrate, and each of the electronic devices has a plurality of device pins connected to the signal contacts. The at least one patterned heat dissipation structure corresponds to a signal contact of the signal contacts and starts from the corresponding signal contact and extends toward a plurality of directions on the top surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A method of encoding a video according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: calculating horizontal and vertical displacements of an image block on the basis of a unit horizontal interval and a unit vertical interval; encoding a motion vector corresponding to the image block using the horizontal and vertical displacements; and encoding the unit horizontal interval and the unit vertical interval.