Abstract: A method of performing Raman spectroscopy comprising: generating wavelength shifted excitation light for exciting a Raman response from at least one sample, wherein the wavelength shifted excitation light comprises at least two excitation wavelengths; providing the wavelength shifted excitation light to the at least one sample and collecting signal light from the at least one sample; obtaining response signals from the collected signal light; processing the obtained response signals to determine a Raman response and a fluorescence response, wherein determining the Raman response uses at least one characteristic of an expected Raman response to the wavelength shifted excitation light and wherein determining the fluorescence response uses at least one characteristic of an expected fluorescence response to the shifted excitation light.

Abstract: A method for realizing rate-splitting multi-access in a mobile cell-free massive MIMO system includes the following steps: splitting, by an access point, the data of each user into two parts with common message and private message, coding all the common message into one super message common message stream, coding each piece of the private message into a private message stream; coding, by the access point, the private message stream using an arbitrary linear pre-coding method, coding the super common message stream using an optimal pre-coding method, and sending the final coded super common message streams to user terminals after superimposing the final coded super common message stream on the private message streams; first decoding, by the user terminals, the super common message stream, removing the super common message stream using successive interference cancellation technology, and then decoding the private message streams.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor system sensing a physical quantity. The system includes an excitation source for generating an excitation signal. A sensing volume includes quantum system(s), wherein the sensing volume is arranged to receive the excitation signal. The excitation signal induces an emission and/or an adaption of an optical signal by the sensing volume. A characteristic(s) of the optical signal depends on the physical quantity. An imaging system applies a transformation to the optical signal, thereby generating a transformed optical signal at an image plane. A spatially dependent attenuator is arranged at the image plane and attenuates the transformed optical signal. An optical sensor captures the thus attenuated optical signal and detects an image formed by the optical signal. A processor extracts an information on the physical quantity from the captured image pattern.

Abstract: This invention generally relates to a system and process for implementing computer vision and machine learning in a poultry processing plant. In one mode of operation, the invention is configured to analyze images of processed poultry moved by a conveyor to automatically determine if the poultry carcasses have any defects. In another mode of operation, the system is configured to analyze images of processed poultry parts being weighed on a scale. In this mode of operation, the system is configured to automatically classify the poultry carcass part being weighed.

Abstract: A first part of a joint for joining pre-cast driven geothermal pile segments comprises a cap having an end plate and a peripheral wall extending from a periphery of the end plate, the end plate and peripheral wall defining a volume; and at least two apertures passing through the cap, wherein each aperture provides a passage from an inside of the cap to an outside of the cap; and wherein each aperture is provided within a recess in the peripheral wall such that each aperture is thereby recessed within the volume defined by the end plate and the peripheral wall. The apertures being recessed ensures that they, and any fluid connection made thereat, are shielded from any damage and the harsh forces involved in the installation of the driven pile segments.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a reservoir scheduling method considering power generation, an ecological flow, and a surface water temperature. A plurality of optimization objectives of power generation, an ecological flow, and a surface water temperature of a reservoir are determined through analysis, and a multi-objective optimization model is constructed. A non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm III (NSGAII) algorithm is used to obtain an optimal value of a to-be-optimized parameter through solving. Scheduling control is performed on the reservoir based on the optimal value of the to-be-optimized parameter. The present disclosure quantifies a competitive and cooperative relationship among the power generation, the ecological flow, and the surface water temperature of the reservoir by using a multi-objective optimization method, and a reservoir scheduling rule that can balance the power generation, the ecological flow, and the surface water temperature of the reservoir is selected through analysis.

Abstract: A reconfigurable MBIST method based on an adaptive March algorithm is provided. The reconfigurable MBIST method automatically reconfigures different algorithm circuits according to external environment and user instructions to satisfy detection requirements for different faults. The provided adaptive March algorithm is capable of adaptively reorganizing algorithms with different complexities, such that dynamic adjustments can be executed between time complexities of the algorithm and fault coverage rates to achieve a good balance, and the static fault coverage rates are high, thereby effectively improving dynamic fault coverage rates.

Abstract: Methods for treating and preventing pain are described. The methods include administering a therapeutically effective amount of a GPR37L1 ligand to a subject in need thereof. Also described herein are pharmaceutical compositions containing the GPR37L1 ligands.

Abstract: The present invention features methods and compositions for treatment of heart failure. The compositions can include an isolated nucleic acid encoding a BAG3 polypeptide or fragment thereof.

Abstract: A solid-state lithium battery having an interfacial layer of silicon nitride (Si3N4) that ensures an intimate contact between a garnet-type electrolyte and the lithium due to its lithiophilic nature and formation of an intermediate lithium-metal alloy. The interfacial resistance experiences an exponential drop from 1197 ?cm2 to 84.5 ?cm2 and lithium symmetrical cells with an Si3N4-modified garnet exhibited low overpotential and long-term stable plating/stripping cycles at room temperature compared to bare garnet and was demonstrated to operate with high cycling efficiency and energy density, excellent rate capability and stability.

Abstract: A thermoplastic composite suitable for induction welding including a polymer laminate including two or more plies, wherein the polymer is selected from polyaryletherketone (PAEK) polymers such as polyetherketone (PEK), polyether ether ketone (PEEK), polyetherketoneketone (PEKK), polyetheretherketoneketone (PEEKK), and polyetherketoneetherketoneketone (PEKEKK), or preferably, the polymer laminate comprises polyetherketoneketone (PEKK), and one or more layers of a continuous carbon nanomaterial based susceptor between each pair of the plies. Methods for making the thermoplastic composite are also described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition, for preventing or treating a neurodegenerative disease, comprising a miRNA-214 inhibitor capable of controlling expression of miRNA-214 or a gene to be bound thereto. The pharmaceutical composition comprising a miRNA-214 inhibitor exhibits effects such as phagocytic function recovery, reduced neuroinflammation factors in microglia, autophagy-related factor control, expression/activation of nucleocytoplasmic trafficking-related factors and the like, and thus may be used for preventing and treating a neurodegenerative disease.

Abstract: A method of encoding/decoding a speech signal and a device for performing the same are provided. The method includes outputting, based on a first input speech signal of a previous timepoint and a second input speech signal of a current timepoint, a predicted signal that predicts the second input speech signal from the first input speech signal and obtaining, based on the second input speech signal and the predicted signal, a residual signal by removing a correlation between the first input speech signal and the second input speech signal from the second input speech signal.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a tissue construct comprising vascular endothelial cells, the method comprising incubating cells comprising at least adipose-derived stem cells from human in the presence of a TGF? type I receptor inhibitor.

Abstract: An EBM variable-direction formation dynamic slicing method in cooperation with an 840D digital control system includes: creating a vertex array object, adjusting a projection matrix to a slice height, outputting a binary image of a two-dimensional cross-section; obtaining, by means of two-dimensional contour extraction, data of a contour line from the binary image, outputting coordinates of a closed contour, and connecting all adjacent coordinates into a straight line to form a closed curve; when a triangle tolerance is 1, dividing contour data into a straight line part and a curve part by taking a starting point of small straight lines with an angle of 140° therebetween as a dividing point, removing adjacent points, repeated points and internal points of a same straight line, and performing segmentation fitting on curve parts of the slice data, and then performing dynamic slicing through the 840D numerical control system.

Abstract: Devices and methods for extraction and processing of substantia gelatinea funiculi umbilicalis (Wharton's Jelly) from an umbilical cord.

Abstract: A complex includes an amyloid peptide complexed with a cholinesterase inhibitor, an NMDA receptor antagonist, or a combination, of a cholinesterase inhibitor and an NMDA receptor antagonist, wherein the amyloid peptide comprises X1X2GAIIGX3X4 (SEQ ID NO: 2), wherein X1 and X4 are each independently YF or FY, and X2 and X3 are each 1 amino acid long, and are each independently T, N, S, or Q; or X2 and X3 are each 2 amino acid long and X2 is (Y or F)T, (Y or F)N, (Y or F)S or (Y or F)Q, and X3 is T(Y or F), N(Y or F), S(Y or F) or Q(Y or F), wherein the amyloid peptide self-assembles into amyloid fibrils, and wherein the peptide has a total length of 11-13 amino acids.

Abstract: Metal halide perovskite crystals, composite materials that include metal halide perovskite crystals and a polymeric matrix material, devices that include metal halide perovskite crystals, and methods of forming metal halide perovskite crystals, composite materials, and devices. The devices may include optoelectronic devices, such as light-emitting diodes. The light-emitting diodes may emit red light.

Abstract: Herein discloses a method of carbonating reactive magnesia cement, which includes: (i) providing an aqueous suspension including a carbon dioxide-producing bacteria; (ii) mixing the aqueous suspension with a precursor which the carbon dioxide-producing bacteria generates carbon dioxide from for a duration to form an aqueous mixture sufficient for substantially carbonating the reactive magnesia cement; (iii) mixing the aqueous mixture with the reactive magnesia cement to form a blend; wherein a nutrient is provided in the aqueous suspension of step (i) or in the reactive magnesia cement of step (iii) to sustain the carbon dioxide-producing bacteria in the reactive magnesia cement; and (iv) curing the blend to carbonate the reactive magnesia cement. A reactive magnesia cement composite formed by the method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A compound 3-(1-(3-(dimethylamino)propyl)-4,5-diphenyl-1H-imidazol-2-yl)pyridin-2-ol compound, its synthesis, and its use as an anticancer, anti-inflammatory, and/or antimicrobial agent.