Abstract: An oven appliance may include a cabinet, a plurality of chamber walls, a cooking surface, a top heating element, a temperature sensor, and a controller. The cooking surface may be defined in a cooking chamber. The top heating element may be mounted above the cooking surface to heat the cooking chamber. The temperature sensor may be disposed within the cabinet. The controller may be configured to initiate a cooking operation that includes initiating preheat activation of the top heating element, receiving temperature signals from the temperature sensor during the preheat activation, determining a preheat threshold is met based on the received temperature signals, and initiating cooking activation of the top heating element based on a cooking cycle having a predetermined time interval subsequent to determining the preheat threshold is met. Initiating cooking activation may include directing the top heating element based on the cooking cycle for the predetermined time interval.

Abstract: A serializer clock delay optimization system comprising a multiplexer configured to receive two or more low-rate data signals and a multiplexer control signal. The multiplexer generates a full-rate data signal by combining the two or more low-rate data signals such that the multiplexer control signal determines sampling time of the low-rate data signals. A data monitor monitors and evaluates the full-rate data signal to generate a quality value representing the quality of the full-rate data signal. The quality of the full-rate data signal is based on the accuracy of the sampling time of the low-rate data signals. A delay controller processes the quality value to generate a delay control signal or value. A delay receives a clock signal and the delay control signal or value. Responsive to the delay control signal or value, the delay modifies the timing of the clock signal to create the multiplexer control signal.

Abstract: A medical apparatus can include a garment having a body portion with an outward facing surface and an inward facing surface and defines an access opening. The access opening provides access from the outward facing surface to the inward facing surface. An anchor secured on the outward facing surface can be configured for releasable securement of a first portion of a medical device. An outer panel can span at least a portion of the access opening and define a selectively closesable pocket configured to retain a second portion of the medical device. The garment can have a sleeve that defines an opening through which a third portion of the medical device extending through the arm opening can be routed and secured.

Abstract: A system and method of preparing an augmented reality display system is provided and includes an augmented reality editor, a neural network, and an augmented reality viewer. The augmented reality editor is configured to allow editing and entry of volume information for access by the augmented reality viewer that is configured to generate an augmented reality composite image. The augmented reality editor includes an editor display device, electronic memory storage, a computer accessible database containing volume information stored in the electronic memory storage and identifying property features from at least a first data gathering source and at least a second data gather source, and a computational device and editing software configured to allow entry and selective modifications to the volume information. The neural network may access the volume information and assign a weight value for each of the data gathering sources used.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for predicting a health risk. In an embodiment, a method of predicting a health risk may include collecting a health condition index, generating time-series data by accumulating the health condition index at given time intervals, calculating a health condition index prediction value in a future time by inputting the generated time-series data to a health condition index prediction model, comparing the calculated health condition index prediction value with a preset threshold, and generating a danger alert signal when the calculated health condition index prediction value is out of the threshold.

Abstract: Power umbilical (1) comprising a plurality of power cables (7) for electric power transmission, elongated filler elements (5), and an outer sheath (3). The elongated filler elements (5) abut against each other at abutment faces (5a), thereby forming a complete ring enclosing the power cables (7). The elongated filler elements (5) comprise cable recesses (5b) within which the power cables (7) are embedded. The power umbilical (1) further comprises one or more friction control profiles (13, 15, 116), wherein the material of the friction control profile (13, 15, 116) is softer than the material of the elongated filler elements (5). The one or more friction control profiles (13, 15) are arranged in a deformed state.

Abstract: A method of detecting a lamination defect of an electrode assembly in the initial stage, including: forming an insulating member having a predetermined width and a predetermined height in an overhang region of one end or two ends of one surface of a negative electrode; manufacturing an electrode assembly by sequentially laminating a separator and a positive electrode on one surface of the negative electrode; and determining whether there is a lamination defect in the electrode assembly by measuring a thickness of the electrode assembly. Also provided are an electrode assembly including an insulating member, and a battery cell including the electrode assembly.

Abstract: An electrode for a secondary battery is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an electrode for a secondary battery includes an electrode current collector; and an active material layer disposed on the electrode current collector, wherein the active material layer is prepared by coating an electrode slurry onto the electrode current collector, wherein the electrode slurry is an aqueous solution containing an anode active material, a conductive material, a surfactant and a binder is coated onto the electrode current collector, and wherein the binder comprises a water-soluble polymer.

Abstract: An additive, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution including the same, and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt, a non-aqueous solvent including a propyl propionate, and a compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

Abstract: An optical wavelength calibrator is configured to be used on premises with instrumentation such as an optical spectrum analyzer. The on-premises calibrator includes both a fixed wavelength source and a tunable wavelength source, with a variable optical attenuator controlling the power level of a calibration beam provided as an output. A controller within the on-premises calibrator is used to generate the control signals for the various components in response to received external commands, typically via from an external GUI of the user's computer system. The controller is used in combination with the tunable wavelength source to provide a series of output calibration signals at different wavelengths, providing the ability to performance calibration across a desired spectral region and not just a single wavelength. The on-premises calibrator maintains real-time wavelength stability of the instrument to minimize down time when compared off-site extensive re-calibration services.

Abstract: Disclosed are novel means, protocols, and compositions of matter for creating targeted immune responses and/or induction of immunological memory towards the tumor vasculature. In one embodiment pluripotent stem cells are transfected with one or more genes capable of eliciting immunity, induced to differentiate into endothelial-like cells which resemble the tumor endothelial cells, and utilized as a vaccine. In some embodiment's genes are engineered under control of specific promoters to allow for various specificities of activity. In one specific embodiment pluripotent stem cells engineered to endow properties capable of inducing expression of the ?-Gal epitope (Gal?1,3Gal?1,4GlcNAc-R). Addition of adjuvants to enhance antigen presentation of the vaccine composition, as well as means of stimulating systemic enhancement of circulating endothelial specific T cells are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery module that secures the rigidity and simplifies the structure, and a battery pack including the same. The battery module according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a battery cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked; a lower frame for housing the battery cell stack; an upper plate for covering an upper surface of the battery cell stack; and an end plate for covering the front and rear surfaces of the battery cell stack, wherein module mounting portions are formed at both ends of the upper plate.

Abstract: A disinfection tunnel includes an enclosure, an ozonated water tank, an ozonated water generator, a set of nozzles, a mist generator, and a processor. The ozonated water generator generates ozonated water and stores the ozonated water in the tank. When a person enters the enclosure, the processor starts the mist generator. The mist generator receives ozonated water from the tank, turns the ozonated water to a mist of ozonated water, and pumps the mist of ozonated water to the nozzles. The nozzles spray the mist of ozonated water inside the enclosure for a time period.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information sharing apparatus that can promote products and the like at low cost and easily. An information sharing apparatus (40) of the present invention includes a visitor management unit (41), an organizer management unit (42), and an exhibitor management unit (43), the visitor management unit (41) includes an acquisition unit (411) and an output unit (412), the organizer management unit (42) includes an acquisition unit (421) and an output unit (422), the exhibitor management unit (43) includes an acquisition unit (431) and an output unit (432), and the respective components manage information sharing of a visitor's terminal, an organizer's terminal, and an exhibitor's terminal.

Abstract: Disclosed are compositions of matter, therapeutics, and protocols useful for reduction and/or reversion of pulmonary fibrosis. In one specific embodiment lithium chloride is administered together with a regenerative cell in a patient suffering from, or at risk of pulmonary fibrosis. In one embodiment said lithium chloride is administered as an adjuvant to a regenerative therapy, wherein said regenerative therapy is a gene therapy, a protein therapy, a cell therapy, or a tissue transplant. In one embodiment lithium chloride, or a salt thereof is utilized alone, or with a regenerative means, to evoke preservation and/or elongation of telomere length in pulmonary tissue.

Abstract: An apparatus for diagnosing a degree of degradation of a battery includes a measuring unit configured to measure a voltage of each of a plurality of battery cells in each of a plurality of cycles where charging and discharging is performed and output voltage information about the plurality of measured voltages, and a control unit configured to receive the plurality of voltage information, calculate a voltage deviation of each cycle for each battery cell based on a reference voltage of each of the plurality of battery cells, select a cycle section satisfying a predetermined condition for each of the plurality of battery cells based on the calculated voltage deviation, calculate a voltage deviation change rate corresponding to each of the plurality of selected cycle sections, and diagnose a relative degree of degradation of the plurality of battery cells based on the plurality of calculated voltage deviation change rates.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for generating a quick response QR code and a printing apparatus, a method for generating a quick response (QR) code, comprising obtaining an original image of the QR code, wherein the original image of the QR code is a bitmap image and is a color image or a grayscale image; obtaining information contained in the QR code; and generating a monochrome image of the QR code based on the information.

Abstract: A load support system includes an elongate support member having a first diameter and a first end and a second end. The elongate support member includes, toward the first end, a first portion for direct earth burial and further includes, toward the second end, a second portion to which the load can be coupled. The first portion has a first length. The system additionally includes a lateral support having a second diameter greater than the first diameter and a second length less than the first length. The lateral support is mounted about the first portion of the elongate support member. The lateral support includes a first opening formed therein at a first location relative to a long axis of the elongate support member and a second opening formed therein at a different second location relative to the long axis in order to support a range of embedment depths.

Abstract: A test color sheet of color strips of color patches is used in calibration operations for a printing device. Control color patches are used to identify each color strip and the scanning direction of any measured data captured by a color measurement tool. The control color patches have a unique pattern for each row. The patterns are changed according to an updating process that associates each unique pattern with its respective color strip. Scanning operations may be done in any sequence or direction without having to update the data being captured. The control color patches include a specified control color that differs from the color patches used for calibration operations.