Abstract: Some embodiments provide a soft tissue device, such as a transverse carpal ligament cutting device having one or more balloons that are deflated when the device is in an inactive position and are inflated when the device is in an active position. Other embodiments provide a soft tissue cutting method, such as a method of cutting a transverse carpal ligament that uses a soft tissue cutting device.

Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes receiving a set of images, each image depicting a view of a scene, generating sparse depth data from each image of the set of images, training a monocular depth estimation model with the sparse depth data, generating, with the trained monocular depth estimation model, depth data and uncertainty data for each image, training a NeRF model with the set of images, wherein the training is constrained by the depth data and uncertainty data, and rendering, with the trained NeRF model, a new image having a new view of the scene.

Abstract: A multiplexing scheme for both energy and timing information is provided for a particle detection system having an optical sensor array with multiple optical sensors. Each optical sensor is associated with multiple scintillator modules. The system has a segmented prismatoid light guide comprising multiple prismatoid segments. Each segment is associated with multiple optical sensors, where the optical sensors are adjacent. One end each scintillator module is in contact with its associated optical sensor and the other is in contact with its associated segment. Multiple optical sensors may be connected to an energy readout channel, respectively, such that optical sensors associated with the same segments are not connected to the same energy readout channel. Each energy readout channel has at least two timestamps associated therewith.

Abstract: Proposed is a device for switching an optical signal, the device including a first waveguide constituting an input port and a first output port; and a second waveguide constituting a second output port, wherein the first waveguide is formed of a first material, wherein the second waveguide is formed of the first material and contains a second material, wherein a gap between the first and second waveguides has a first value in a first section, a gap therebetween has a value increasing from the first value to a second value in a second section, and a gap therebetween has a third value in a third section, wherein at least one portion of the first section and at least one portion of the second section overlap in the one section, and wherein a grating structure applies to the first and second waveguides in at least one portion of the first section.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a video image based on transform. The method for decoding a video includes: determining a transform mode of a current block; inverse-transforming residual data of the current block according to the transform mode of the current block; and rearranging the inverse-transformed residual data of the current block according to the transform mode of the current block, wherein the transform mode includes at least one of SDST (Shuffling Discrete Sine Transform), SDCT (Shuffling Discrete cosine Transform), DST (Discrete Sine Transform) or DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform).

Abstract: The manufacturing method of a palladium transition metal core-based core-shell electrode catalyst according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first step of preparing a slurry by irradiating ultrasonic wave to a dispersion solution including a solvent, a platinum precursor, a palladium precursor, a carbon support, and a transition metal precursor, a second step of preparing a solid material by filtering, washing, and drying the slurry prepared in the first step, and a third step of preparing a core-shell electrode catalyst by thermally treating the solid prepared in the second step in a specific gas atmosphere.

Abstract: A textile part (10) including at least two textile layers superimposed on one another and each including fibres, the layers being formed by an energy-generating layer (11; 12) configured to generate an electric current from light radiation or from mechanical stresses, and an energy storage layer (13) for supplying an electronic device with an electric current, the storage layer (13) being electrically connected to the generating layer (11; 13) and configured to store the electric current.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for producing powders of novel multicomponent based shape memory alloys. The memory shape alloys are made by combining at least 4 to 6 elements selected from a combination of group IUPAC 4 transition metal (Ti) with group IUPAC 10 transition metals (Ni and Pt) to make up the basic ternary alloy with further additions of 1 up to 3 other transition metals making a final alloy of a maximum of 4 up to 6 components.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a communication system, and more particularly, to a method for time-deterministic packet forwarding that guarantees a maximum and minimum latency requirement of a service, the method including: receiving latency information of links and nodes on a path, and buffer resource information of the nodes; calculating, on the basis of the buffer resource information of the last node, local latency budgets that the other nodes need to guarantee; performing control so that the nodes transmit a packet on the basis of the local latency budgets; and finally guaranteeing, by the last node, a residual latency budget remaining after the nodes transmit the packet within the local latency budgets.

Abstract: Provided are a resist compound and an underlayer compound, which may improve the resolution and sensitivity of a resist pattern and restrain the collapse of the resist pattern. The underlayer compound includes a cellulose structure having at least one hydroxyl group (—OH) and at least one vinyl silyl group. The resist compound includes an alkylated metal oxide nanocluster having a counter anion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel manganese complexes and their use, inter alia, for homogeneous catalysis in (1) the preparation of imine by dehydrogenative coupling of an alcohol and amine; (2)C—C coupling in Michael addition reaction using nitriles as Michael donors; (3) dehydrogenative coupling of alcohols to give esters and hydrogen gas (4) hydrogenation of esters to form alcohols (including hydrogenation of cyclic esters (lactones) or cyclic di-esters (di-lactones), or polyesters); (5) hydrogenation of amides (including cyclic dipeptides, lactams, diamide, polypeptides and polyamides) to alcohols and amines (or diamine); (6) hydrogenation of organic carbonates (including polycarbonates) to alcohols or hydrogenation of carbamates (including polycarbamates) or urea derivatives to alcohols and amines; (7) dehydrogenation of secondary alcohols to ketones; (8) amidation of esters (i.e.

Abstract: An optical isolator according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a first polarizer through which incident light transmits, a Faraday rotator configured to rotate the polarization direction of the light, and a second polarizer through which the light transmits. The Faraday rotator includes a calcium fluoride crystal. When a, b, and c axes are the [001], [100], and [010] crystallographic axes, respectively, and x, y, and z axes are obtained by rotating the three axes by a first angle of 40° to 50° about the c axis and by a second angle of 45° to 75° about the b axis rotated by the first angle, the z axis is parallel to the propagation direction of the light, and the calcium fluoride crystal is disposed such that the transmission axis of the first polarizer and the x axis have an angle difference of 0° to 45°.

Abstract: An inter-prediction method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: deriving motion information of a current block; and generating a prediction block for the current block on the basis of the derived motion information. According to the present invention, computational complexity can be reduced and encoding efficiency can be improved.

Abstract: Provided herein are charge complementary peptides coupled to a cargo polypeptide (e.g., a uricase protein) (e.g., uricase) that are capable of self-assembling under stimulating conditions. The charge complementary peptides can be capable of forming supramolecular structures. Also provided herein are methods of using the charge complementary peptides provided herein (e.g., to treat gout).

Abstract: The present invention discloses plating apparatuses and plating methods for metal deposition on a substrate with pattern structures. In an embodiment, a plating apparatus comprises a plating bath configured to accommodate electrolyte, a substrate holding module configured to hold a substrate, and at least one driving device configured to drive the substrate holding module together with the substrate to horizontally vibrate and/or vertically vibrate during the substrate being immersed into the electrolyte to be plated. The present invention can enhance mass transfer during the substrate being plated by vibrating the substrate holding module so as to raise plating rate and uniformly plating on the pattern structures.

Abstract: One or more of HLA gene primers selected from the group consisting of the following (1) to (3): (1) one or more HLA-G gene primers which are (1a) a first primer including the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO. 1 and/or (1b) a second primer including the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO. 3, (2) one or more HLA-E gene primers which are (2a) a first primer including the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO. 5 and/or (2b) a second primer including the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO. 7, and (3) one or more HLA-F gene primers which are (3a) a first primer including the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO. 9 and/or (3b) a second primer including the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO. 11.

Abstract: A benthonic animal isolation frame and a method for studying an aquatic ecosystem by using the same is provided. The benthonic animal isolation frame includes side surfaces and a bottom surface of the isolation frame as hollow structures. Joints of the side surfaces and the bottom surface are provided with clamping grooves. The bottom surface is provided with a filter membrane; and the filter membrane is fixed on the bottom surface through the clamping grooves. The benthonic animal isolation frame can be used for easily studying the influence of the benthonic animal and excrement thereof on a water body ecological system.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a binder for coating a secondary battery separator, wherein the method may include performing a first polymerization on a first monomer to form a precursor solution including a chain-type particle, and adding a second monomer to the precursor solution and performing a second polymerization to form an emulsion particle on the chain-type particle. In an embodiment, the second polymerization may include an emulsification polymerization in which the chain-type particle acts as an emulsifier.

Abstract: An ultraviolet laser apparatus includes an oscillation-stage laser, an amplifier that amplifies the pulse laser light, and an optical isolator. The optical isolator includes a first Faraday rotator that rotates the polarization direction of the pulse laser light output from the oscillation-stage laser by a first angle in a first rotation direction, a first polarizer so disposed to transmit the pulse laser light that exits out of the first Faraday rotator at normalized transmittance greater than or equal to 0.9, a second Faraday rotator that rotates the polarization direction of the pulse laser light passing through the first polarizer by a second angle in the opposite direction to the first rotation direction, and a second polarizer so disposed to transmit the pulse laser light that exits out of the second Faraday rotator at the normalized transmittance greater than or equal to 0.9.

Abstract: A metal-ion deposition regulator to regulate the flux and deposition of metal ions in an electrochemical cell. The regulator containing two membranes made of a polymer and a plurality of two-dimensional porous nanosheets sandwiched between the two membranes. The regulator is capable of distributing flux of metal ions passing through the metal-ion deposition regulator and regulating the deposition of the metal ions onto the cathode or anode thereby suppressing dendrite growth in the electrochemical cell. An electrochemical cell containing an anode, a cathode, a liquid electrolyte, and a metal-ion deposition regulator. A method of making a metal-ion deposition regulator. The method includes fabricating two-dimensional porous nanosheets utilizing graphene oxide as an expendable template, and sandwiching the porous nanosheets between two membranes made of a polymer such that the nanosheets are in contact with the two membranes.