Abstract: An internal combustion engine for use with hydrogen fuel, the engine having at least one cylinder assembly which includes a combustion chamber having a cylinder, a cylinder head and a reciprocating piston assembly, the cylinder defining a cylinder longitudinal axis; a fuel injector for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber, the fuel injector defining an injector longitudinal axis; and a fuel flow director, wherein the fuel flow director is located in the fuel flow path between an outlet of the fuel injector and the combustion chamber. The fuel injector is oriented such that the injector longitudinal axis extends at a first angle; and the fuel flow director is configured to direct fuel flow into the combustion chamber at a second angle, different to the first angle.

Abstract: A metal alloy is provided which includes by weight percentage of the metal alloy, 28 to 55 percent copper, 45 to 63 percent nickel, and 4 to 10 percent iron. The metal alloy may be weight percentage 28 percent copper, 62 percent nickel, and 10 percent iron. The metal alloy may be formed into a foil which may have a thickness of 100 ?m or less or 50 ?m or less. A magnetic field instrument may include a magnetometer core body formed from one or more layers of the foil. The magnetometer core body may be a ring core or a racetrack core. The magnetic field instrument may further include a sense winding and may further include a drive winding. The magnetic field instrument may be a fluxgate magnetometer.

Abstract: A method of rendering object audio and electronic device for performing the method are provided. The method includes identifying object audio and metadata including a reference distance of the object audio and an audio source distance between the object audio and a listener, identifying a maximum distance of the object audio determined based on the reference distance, when the audio source distance is less than or equal to the maximum distance, determining a gain of the object audio based on the audio source distance and the reference distance, and rendering the object audio according to the gain of the object audio.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and materials for embolization of one or more blood vessels (e.g., one or more arteries). For example, biomaterial compositions (e.g., BEM compositions containing PRF and one or more nanoclay materials) for embolization of one or more blood vessels (e.g., one or more arteries) within a mammal (e.g., a human) are provided.

Abstract: The invention provides American chestnut leaf compositions comprising oxalate oxidase. The compositions reduce oxalate levels in dietary sources of oxalate and are useful in reducing oxalate levels and reducing stone disease in patients. The invention provides methods of extracting and purifying oxalate oxidase from American chestnut leaf. The invention provides methods of extracting oxalate from biological samples.

Abstract: The use of inhibitors upstream of mTOR in the CSF1 pathway of neuroinflammation, inhibitors of chemokine receptor CXCR3, functional derivatives thereof, and/or immunosuppressant drugs to reduce neuroinflammation are disclosed. The inhibitors and/or immunosuppressant drugs can treat genetic or environmental encephalopathies and/or reduce microglial activation. Treated encephalopathies include Leigh Syndrome and Wernicke encephalopathy.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for estimating depth information of an image are disclosed. The depth information estimation method of the image includes providing a confidence map for a ground truth depth map; and learning a depth information estimation model for estimating depth information of an image based on the ground truth depth map and the confidence map.

Abstract: The present disclosure featured compositions and methods related to the detection and molecular profiling of extracellular vesicles using optical probes, dual imaging approaches, and computationally programing-based image analysis methods. These compositions and methods leverage the unique optoelectrical properties of quantum dots, fluorescently labeled nanoparticles, and gold nanoparticles, which allow reliable, real-time detection of extracellular vesicles and vesicle surface bound or lumenal molecules at single vesicle level.

Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods for treating autoimmune diseases such as lupus, including immune cells expressing at least a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) polypeptides that binds CD83 and uses thereof for suppressing and/or killing autoreactive cells in a subject having an autoimmune disease.

Abstract: A beta2-microglobulin concentration analyzing method includes: preparing a sample with dialysate, and putting the sample into a differential mobility analyzing device for analysis to obtain a beta2-microglobulin concentration. The present invention further provides a beta2-microglobulin concentration analyzing system, which includes: a preparation device and a differential mobility analyzing device, wherein the preparation device is configured to prepare a sample with dialysate, and the differential mobility analyzing device is configured to analyze the sample to obtain a beta2-microglobulin concentration.

Abstract: A wire voltage measurement method includes: acquiring a first corresponding relationship of an electric field intensity of a to-be-measured wire, a voltage of the to-be-measured wire, and a perpendicular distance between an electric field sensor and the to-be-measured wire; measuring at least four initial electric field intensities in an electric field sensitive direction through the at least four electric field sensors, and acquiring distances among the four electric field sensors along the straight line; calculating a second corresponding relationship of the voltage of the to-be-measured wire and an external interference electric field intensity in the electric field sensitive direction according to the four initial electric field intensities, the distances among the four electric field sensors along the straight line, the first corresponding relationship, and a spatial position relationship of the at least four electric field sensors; calculating the voltage of the to-be-measured wire according to the seco

Abstract: A method for inhibiting ice recrystallization in a cryogenic medium is provided. The method includes the steps of cryopreserving a biological substrate including at least one of cryopreserved biological cells, cryopreserved biological tissue, and cryopreserved biological organs; and applying a bile salt to the cryopreserved biological substrate before and/or during cryopreservation of the biological substrate. A corresponding stabilized cryopreserved medium is also provided.

Abstract: A method for managing autonomous operation of a vehicle includes detecting, while the vehicle is operating in an autonomous mode, an assistance condition that triggers activation of an assistance component of a set of assistance components associated with a driver assistance system. The method also includes determining whether the operation of the vehicle in the autonomous mode satisfies a safety condition associated with the assistance component. The method further includes adjusting an activation signal that triggers the activation of the assistance component based on determining the operation of the vehicle in the autonomous mode satisfies the safety condition.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for detecting a malicious script. The apparatus includes one or more processors and executable memory for storing at least one program executed by the one or more processors. The at least one program is configured to extract token-type features, each of which corresponds to a lexical unit, and tree-node-type features of an abstract syntax tree from an input script, to train two learning models to respectively learn two pieces of learning data that are generated in consideration of features extracted respectively from the token-type features and the node-type features as having the highest frequency, and to detect whether the script is a malicious script based on the result of ensemble-based malicious script detection performed for the script, which is acquired using an ensemble detection model generated from the two learning models.

Abstract: A composition comprising a carbon material comprising a first channel with a width in the range of 50 nm to 1000 nm and a second channel with a width in the range of 20 nm to 200 nm, wherein the second channel comprises branches and is in fluid communication with the first channel, is provided. Further, articles comprising the composition are provided. A method for making a templated carbon material with hierarchical porosity is also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical interconnection device that includes an alignment ferrule assembly formed from an alignment substrate and optical fibers. The optical interconnection device also has an alignment assembly formed by a planar support member with guide features. A receiving region resides between the guide features in which the alignment substrate is secured. An evanescent optical coupler can be formed using the optical interconnection device as a first device and another optical interconnection device as a second device. The second device is constituted by a planar lightwave circuit that operably supports waveguides and an adapter. The adapter of the second device is configured to engage the alignment assembly of the first device to place the optical fibers and the optical waveguides of the respective devices in evanescent optical communication.

Abstract: An optical fiber cable including a central strength member, a first plurality of tight-buffered ribbon stacks, a binder film, and a cable sheath. The central strength member extends along a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber cable. The tight-buffered ribbon stacks are SZ-stranded around the central strength member. An interstitial space is provided between adjacent tight-buffered ribbon stacks. A binder film continuously and contiguously surrounds the first plurality of tight-buffered ribbon stacks along the longitudinal axis. The binder film includes first portions and at least one second portion. Each of the at least one second portion of the binder film extends into one of the interstitial spaces of the first plurality of tight-buffered ribbon stacks. The cable sheath continuously and contiguously surrounds the binder film along the longitudinal axis, and the cable sheath is coupled to the first portions of the binder film.

Abstract: An encoding, a decoding method, a system for encoding and decoding, an encoder, and a decoder are provided. The encoding method includes the following. In a palette mode, if colors of pixels of a coding unit block are all represented by one or more major colors of the coding unit block, a flag is set as a first state value, and if the color of at least one pixel of the coding unit block is not represented by the one or more major colors of the coding unit block, the flag is set as a second state value. The encoding method further includes establishing a palette table corresponding to the coding unit block according to a state value of the flag and the one or more major colors.

Abstract: A sensor device is for detecting metal. The sensor device may have a substrate, an electrode on the substrate, and a biopolymer-metal composite film on the electrode. The biopolymer-metal composite film may include a metal and a biopolymer. The sensor device may further have circuitry coupled to the electrode and configured to apply a sensing signal to the electrode.

Abstract: An isolation system includes an input junction coupled to one or more RF power supplies via a match network for receiving radio frequency (RF) power. The isolation system further includes a plurality of channel paths connected to the input junction for distributing the RF power among the channel paths. The isolation system includes an output junction connected between each of the channel paths and to an electrode of a plasma chamber for receiving portions of the distributed RF power to output combined power and providing the combined RF power to the electrode. Each of the channel paths includes bottom and top capacitors for blocking a signal of the different type than that of the RF power. The isolation system avoids a risk of electrical arcing created by a voltage difference between an RF terminal and a non-RF terminal when the terminals are placed proximate to each other.