Abstract: Positron emission tomography (PET) with partially known attenuation accounts for the missing attenuation. Since a computed tomography (CT) scan may provide attenuation for less than all the locations used in PET reconstruction, artificial intelligence corrects for the missing attenuation. For example, the unknown attenuation or attenuation correction factors are estimated by the artificial intelligence. The known and estimated attenuations or correction factors are used in the PET reconstruction, providing more uniform PET sensitivity and better accounting for scatter. As another example, the artificial intelligence alters intensity of the activity in some locations to account for reconstruction with missing attenuation information, correcting for sensitivity variation and/or lack of scatter information for some locations.

Abstract: A device for measuring the amount of moisture in a medium that includes a transmission antenna that sends a signal as an electromagnetic wave, a reception antenna that receives the electromagnetic wave sent from the transmission antenna and transmitted through a medium, a measurement section that measures the electromagnetic wave propagated to the reception antenna, and a sensor casing. The sensor device further includes a transmission substrate that includes a plurality of wiring layers and a reception substrate that includes a plurality of wiring layers, or a first covering layer that partially covers an outer periphery of the transmission substrate and a second covering layer that partially covers an outer periphery of the reception substrate The coverings are formed of an electromagnetic wave absorption material. The sensor casing includes a transmission probe casing that accommodates the transmission substrate and a reception probe casing that accommodates the reception substrate.

Abstract: Container for storing a liquid and allowing extraction of the liquid on-demand. The container comprises a casing for storing the liquid, the casing defining an aperture. The container comprises a resealable membrane covering the aperture of the casing, the resealable membrane being adapted for receiving a liquid extraction tube therethrough for on-demand liquid extraction from the casing, the resealable membrane automatically resealing the aperture upon withdrawal of the liquid extraction tube. The container comprises an air permeable membrane for balancing a pressure in the casing upon extracting liquid by the liquid extraction tube. The resealable membrane and the air permeable membrane are provided as a cap for closing the aperture of the casing. Alternatively, the casing, the resealable membrane and the air permeable membrane are provided as a capsule. A multi-servings beverage dispensing system is adapted for receiving the container in removable engagement.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for a first purpose forms an image on a sheet, according to a sheet type. The image forming apparatus for the first purpose includes a conversion device and an image forming device. The conversion device converts second information for defining the sheet type in association with another image forming apparatus for a second purpose different from the first purpose, into third information of a same format as the first information for defining the sheet type in association with the image forming apparatus for the first purpose. The image forming device forms an image on the sheet P according to the third information, when the sheet P, the sheet type of which has been defined by the second information, is designated. The first information and the third information each define the sheet type more detailedly than the second information.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging element, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device capable of implementing a stacked structure of a plurality of photodiodes, thereby improving sensitivity. A solid-state imaging element according to the present technology includes a plurality of photodiodes stacked in a semiconductor substrate in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate, and a transistor including a gate electrode at least a part of which is embedded in the semiconductor substrate, the transistor that individually reads a signal charge accumulated in each of the plurality of photodiodes according to a voltage applied to the gate electrode. The present technology is applicable to, for example, an imaging device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides variant OmpG polypeptides, compositions comprising the OmpG variant polypeptides, and methods for using the variant OmpG polypeptides as nanopores for determining the sequence of single stranded nucleic acids. The variant OmpG nanopores reduce the ionic current noise versus the parental OmpG polypeptide from which they are derived and thereby enable sequencing of polynucleotides with single nucleotide resolution. The reduced ionic current noise also provides for the use of these OmpG nanopore variants in other single molecule sensing applications, e.g., protein sequencing.

Abstract: A measurement method includes a step of measuring an object to be measured and a reference object by a first measurement unit and a second measurement unit. The first measurement unit has a first displacement meter and a second displacement meter that face each other in a first direction and measure the distance from the object to be measured. The second measurement unit has a third displacement meter and a fourth displacement meter that face each other in the first direction and measure the distance from the reference object. A frame-like supporting member includes a first frame portion supporting the first displacement meter and the third displacement meter, a second frame portion supporting the second displacement meter and the fourth displacement meter, and a third frame portion and a fourth frame portion that connect both end portions of the first frame portion and the second frame portion to each other.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for separating hydrocarbons from a matrix sample that includes one or more nonpolar hydrocarbons. The apparatus includes a first container, a second container and a connector connecting the first container and the second container together. The connector is arranged to enable the passage of the matrix sample back and forth between the first container and the second container and includes an analyte retainer that captures polar hydrocarbons while allowing nonpolar hydrocarbons to pass through. The portion of the sample including the hydrocarbons is dried and reconstituted. It can then be transferred to a device configured to enable analysis of the matrix sample for detection of the at least one or more nonpolar hydrocarbons.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyance device; an image forming device that forms an image on a recording paper sheet conveyed by the conveyance device; and a controller that determines a conveyance speed for the recording medium in accordance with a predetermined condition and allows the conveyance device to convey the recording medium at the determined conveyance speed for the recording medium. In allowing the conveyance device to convey the recording paper sheet and subsequently allowing the conveyance device to convey a slip sheet, the controller allows the conveyance device to convey the slip sheet at the same speed as the determined conveyance speed for the recording paper sheet.

Abstract: In some examples, generative network-based floor plan generation may include receiving, for a floor plan that is to be classified, a layout graph for which user constraints are encoded as a plurality of room types. The user constraints may include spatial connections therebetween. Based on the layout graph, embedding vectors for each room type of the plurality of room types may be generated. Bounding boxes and segmentation masks may be determined for each room embedding from the layout graph, and based on an analysis of the embedding vectors. A space layout may be generated by combining the bounding boxes and the segmentation masks. The floor plan may be generated based on an analysis of the space layout, and synthesized based on the space layout, noise, and a contextual graph embedding to generate a synthesized floor plan. The synthesized floor plan may be classified as authentic or not-authentic.

Abstract: Embodiments provide an alert management and real-time remediation system. The system receives an electronic file that includes an overdraft allowance information data structure comprising overdraft allowance information and automatically parses the overdraft allowance information into overdraft allowance events for the associated customers. The system sends overdraft allowance notification messages to the associated customers. The message includes a link to an authentication interface of an institution associated with the customer. After the customer is authenticated, the system provides a user interface that displays overdraft allowance information for each overdraft allowance event associated with the customer and a display element for a payment option. Responsive to the customer selecting the payment option, the system sends a payment message that causes a transfer of a payment to the institution.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a base, a first circuit board provided on the base, a second circuit board provided on the base at a certain interval from the first circuit board, a first connector provided with a first wire that is bridged between an upper surface of the first circuit board and an upper surface of the second circuit board to connect the two boards, and a first ferrite arranged on the base and directly below the first wire between the first circuit board and the second circuit board.

Abstract: A transition metal compound and an olefin polymerization catalyst containing the transition metal compound are disclosed. A method for preparing the transitional metal and a method for preparing the catalyst are disclosed. The transition metal compound has a carbon-bridged cyclopentadienyl-fluorenyl skeleton bearing a substituted bisphenyl group. The olefin polymerization catalyst contains the transition metal compound and a cocatalyst compound.

Abstract: A sheet conveyance device includes a sheet conveyance passage, a mounting plate, and a sheet detection sensor. The mounting plate is fixed to a recessed portion formed in the inner wall surface of the sheet conveyance passage at its one side it. The sheet detection sensor is fitted on the mounting plate. The sheet detection sensor has a sensor surface. The mounting plate has a mounting surface on which the sheet detection sensor is mounted and a first projection piece which projects from the mounting surface toward the sheet conveyance passage and which is grounded. The first projection piece is disposed upstream, in the sheet conveyance direction, of the sheet detection sensor on the mounting plate. The distance from the mounting surface to the distal end of the first projection piece is greater than the distance from the mounting surface to the sensor surface.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to time-of-flight circuitry configured to: obtain an avalanche signal, which is representative of a light detection event; and process the avalanche signal on the basis of at least one alternating demodulation signal for correlating the avalanche signal with the light detection event.

Abstract: A photoreceptor module (PR) includes a photoelectric conversion element (PD), a first amplifier circuit (110) and a second amplifier circuit (120). The first amplifier circuit (110) includes a first amplifier portion (112) and a first feedback portion (114), wherein an input of the first amplifier portion (112) and a cathode (C) of the photoelectric conversion element (PD) are electrically connected. The second amplifier circuit (120) includes a second amplifier portion (122) and a second feedback portion (124), wherein controlled path of the second feedback portion (124), a controlled path of the first feedback portion (114), and the photoelectric conversion element (PD) are electrically connected in series.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to method for controlling a driving operation of an autonomously controlled vehicle. In particular, a navigation system is controlled to autonomously operate the vehicle in a direction from a position of loss of location to a first upcoming stop position; and to controlling the vehicle to a stand-still operation when the vehicle arrives at the stop position for calibration of a sensor arranged to measure an angular velocity of the vehicle.

Abstract: In a press roll apparatus, bearing portions rotatably support end portions on both sides of a pair of press roll portions, respectively. Each of the bearing portions includes a bearing body portion, a rolling bearing, and a pair of oil seal portions. The bearing body portion has an annular shape, and the press roll portion is inserted. The rolling bearing is positioned on the side of the press roll portion inserted into the bearing body portion as viewed from the bearing body portion, and rotatably supports the press roll portion. The rolling bearing is coated with lubricant. The oil seal portions are positioned on both sides in the first direction as viewed from the rolling bearing. The oil seal portions are connected to the bearing body portion. The oil seal portions are positioned so as to be spaced from the press roll portion inserted into the bearing body portion.

Abstract: In one aspect, compositions are described herein. In some embodiments, a composition comprises a phase change material, a hydrophobic sorption material, and a viscosity modifier. In some embodiments, a composition comprises a foam and a latent heat storage material dispersed in the foam, the latent heat storage material comprising a phase change material and a hydrophobic sorption material.