Abstract: The present invention provides a contrast agent which is efficiently and specifically absorbed by tumor cells, suitable for use in single photon emission computed tomography for the diagnosis, efficacy assessment and tumor tracking of neuroblastoma, pheochromocytoma or congestive heart failure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a helmet that includes an outer shell, a heads-up information system that comprises a display, and an attachment assembly. The heads-up information system is movable from a storage position within the outer shell to a use position in which the display of the heads-up information system is visible by a user, without obstructing the field of vision of the user, when the helmet is worn by the user. The attachment assembly is coupled to outer shell and the heads-up information system, and is operable to move the heads-up information system between the storage position and the use position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an X-ray imaging device for minimally invasive surgery, the device including: a rod having a clamp module disposed at a first end of the rod and including a first clamp body, a second clamp body, and a clamp support; an X-ray emission module; an X-ray sensing module; and a manipulation module, in which the rod is inserted into the human body, X-rays are emitted from the X-ray emission module with the first end of the first clamp body and the first end of the second clamp body open with a lesion positioned therebetween in the human body, and the X-rays travel through the lesion and is then sensed by the X-ray sensing module.

Abstract: A bone screw may be insertable into a bone. The bone screw may have a distal member with bone-engaging threads, a proximal member configured to slidably engage the distal member, and a tension member with a proximal end coupled to the proximal member, and a distal end coupled to the distal member such that, in response to motion of the distal member away from the proximal member, the tension member elongates and urges the distal member to move toward the proximal member.

Abstract: A direct-current (DC)-DC converter includes a converting circuit including an inductor element. The converting circuit is configured to generate an output voltage from an input voltage based on a switching operation. An inductor current emulator is configured to adjust at least one parameter for changing a current peak value of the inductor element in response to a change in a level of the input voltage and is configured to generate an internal voltage based on the at least one parameter, which is adjusted. The inductor current emulator is configured to generate a control signal for controlling the switching operation such that current of the inductor element has a pattern corresponding to a pattern of the internal voltage.

Abstract: Methods and devices for ex-utero mouse embryonic development are provided. Accordingly, there is provided a method of ex-utero culturing a mouse embryo at a zygote stage under conditions that allow developments of the embryo to organogenesis or any developmental stage therein-between. Also provided a fetal incubation system, and methods of using same.

Abstract: Amphiphilic co-polymer lipid particle has a core comprising a chlorophyll pigment-protein complex or a bacteriochlorophyll pigment-protein complex within an annulus of membrane lipids, and an outermost layer of amphiphilic co-polymer surrounding an outermost surface of the membrane lipids. Such lipid particles are made by isolating photosynthetic membrane to form isolated photosynthetic membrane, adjusting the chlorophyll concentration of the isolated photosynthetic membrane, and solubilizing the isolated photosynthetic membranes in an amphiphilic co-polymer for a preselected time period that allows amphiphilic co-polymer lipid particles to form. The amphiphilic co-polymer lipid particles form a layer between a cathode and an anode in a photo-electrical energy generating device, and methods of making the same, including a layer of detergent micelles encapsulating lipid proteins rather than amphiphilic co-polymer lipid particles.

Abstract: A method of generating additional supervision data to improve learning of a geometrically-consistent latent scene representation with a geometric scene representation architecture is provided. The method includes receiving, with a computing device, a latent scene representation encoding a pointcloud from images of a scene captured by a plurality of cameras each with known intrinsics and poses, generating a virtual camera having a viewpoint different from viewpoints of the plurality of cameras, projecting information from the pointcloud onto the viewpoint of the virtual camera, and decoding the latent scene representation based on the virtual camera thereby generating an RGB image and depth map corresponding to the viewpoint of the virtual camera for implementation as additional supervision data.

Abstract: Methods and systems for producing a structure having selectable piezoelectric properties via additive manufacturing. Such methods can include coupling an ultrasound generating device to a print head of the additive manufacturing apparatus; transmitting acoustic energy from the ultrasound generating device to the print head to vibrate the print head in an oscillatory manner; extruding a feed material from the print head; moving the print head in at least one dimension relative to a substrate on which the structure is being manufactured; and dispensing layers sequentially on top of each other to form the structure. Such systems can include an additive manufacturing apparatus comprising a print head movable in at least one dimension relative to a base configured to support the structure being produced; and an ultrasound generating device that is connected to the print head.

Abstract: Agents binding modified antigen dependent peptides and use of same are provided. Accordingly, there is provided an agent capable of specifically binding an MHC presented peptide comprising a post translational modification (PTM), wherein the agent does not bind a peptide having the same amino acid sequence as said peptide but does not comprise said modification. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the agent, cells expressing same and methods of use thereof. Also provided is a computer implemented method for generating a dataset of PTM on MHC bound peptides.

Abstract: A regulating member (10) for a horological movement including a balance, a balance spring including a flexible strip (2) coiled on itself in several turns, the strip (2) having a predefined rigidity to enable the balance to perform a rotary oscillatory movement, the strip including an outer end (9). The regulating member (10) includes a resilient device for compensating the direction of gravity with respect to the regulating member (10), the resilient device adapting its stiffness according to gravity to compensate for the effect of gravity on the regulating member, the resilient device including a resilient element (5) connecting the outer end (9) to a first non-movable support (7) with respect to the horological movement, as well as prestressing means (6) for applying a variable force or torque on the resilient element (5) according to the direction of gravity with respect to the regulating member (10).

Abstract: The invention relates to a horological movement comprising a striking mechanism of a watch including a vibrating element and a striking device of said vibrating element comprising a hammer fixed overhanging a structure of the horological movement by means of strips of a flexible guide, said strips being both arranged so as to extend in directions intersecting at a point materialising an instantaneous centre of rotation C disposed along an axis T tangent to the vibrating element.

Abstract: Metapneumovirus (MPV) F proteins stabilized in a prefusion conformation, nucleic acid molecules and vectors encoding these proteins, and methods of their use and production are disclosed. In several embodiments, the MPV F proteins and/or nucleic acid molecules can be used to generate an immune response to MPV in a subject. In additional embodiments, the therapeutically effective amount of the MPV F ectodomain trimers and/or nucleic acid molecules can be administered to a subject in a method of treating or preventing MPV infection.

Abstract: A system and method for providing discharge monitoring of a firearm can include an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and an event detection module. The IMU is disposed on the firearm and senses accelerations. The event detection module receives a plurality of input signals from the IMU indicative of the accelerations. The event detection module assigns the plurality of input signals to sample event candidates at respective windows of time, creates and runs an identification algorithm at a machine learning module using the plurality of input signals. An occurrence of a shot discharge is identified based on an output of the identification algorithm.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lens that can be used for a hologram, an augmented/virtual reality display, and the like, and more particularly, to a meta-lens using a meta surface.

Abstract: Techniques to couple a high bandwidth memory device on a silicon substrate and a package substrate are disclosed. Examples include selectively activating input/out (I/O) or command and address (CA) contacts on a bottom side of a logic layer for the high bandwidth device based on a mode of operation. The I/O and CA contacts are for accessing one or more memory devices include in the high bandwidth memory device via one or more data channels.

Abstract: The disclosure provides implicit representations for multi-object 3D shape, 6D pose and size, and appearance optimization, including obtaining shape, 6D pose and size, and appearance codes. Training is employed using shape and appearance priors from an implicit joint differential database. 2D masks are also obtained and are used in an optimization process that utilizes a combined loss minimizing function and an Octree-based coarse-to-fine differentiable optimization to jointly optimize the latest shape, appearance, pose and size, and 2D masks. An object surface is recovered from the latest shape codes to a desired resolution level. The database represents shapes as Signed Distance Fields (SDF), and appearance as Texture Fields (TF).

Abstract: A positive electrode and a battery employing the same encapsulant composition are provided. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active layer and a first layer, wherein the first layer is disposed on the positive electrode active layer, and the first layer includes a lithium-iron-phosphorus-containing oxide and a first binder. The electric resistance ratio of the first layer to the positive electrode active layer is greater than or equal to 100.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are disclosed for video coding using a block vector with an adaptive spatial resolution. The video coding method and the apparatus signal the spatial resolution of a block vector (BV) indicating the position of a reference block adaptively or signal the sign of a block vector difference adaptively in order to improve coding efficiency when intra block copy (IBC) is applied to a current block.

Abstract: A method of building upstream-and-downstream configuration of sensors includes determining two sets of geographic position data of a target sensor and a candidate sensor, obtaining pollution-associated periods according to pieces of flow field data, the sets of geographic position data and pieces of target sensing data of the target sensor to determine a pollution-associated period, calculating a correlation between target sensing data obtained by the target sensor during the pollution-associated period and candidate sensing data obtained by the candidate sensor during the associated air pollution period to obtain sensor correlations, and determining the target sensor and the candidate sensor having a upstream-and-downstream relationship with the candidate sensor being used as a satellite sensor of the target sensor when a quantity ratio of sensor correlations being larger than or equal to a correlation threshold is larger than or equal to a default ratio.