Abstract: An analysis method for the causal inference of human physiological network in multiscale time series signals includes the following steps: S1: decomposing physiological signals u1, u2, . . . , um to be analyzed by using a noise-assisted multivariate empirical mode decomposition (NA-MEND) algorithm; S2: carrying out a causal analysis between two different physiological signals ui, uj, where i=1, 2, . . . , m, j=1, 2, . . . , m, and i?j, to obtain a causality between the two signals; and S3: repeating step S2 for any two signals in u1, u2, . . . , um until a causality between each two signals in u1, u2, . . . , um is obtained to form the causal network. The present invention can effectively analyze the causal network of the physiological signals, thereby facilitating the application of the physiological signals.

Abstract: Maillard reaction products produced by heating carbohydrates with one or more amino acids (e.g., lysine), at basic pH and for a selected reaction time at a particular concentration in solution, can exhibit inhibitory activity against Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans.

Abstract: A hybrid ID system for a medical practitioner and patient care includes a hybrid electronic ID/key having a transmitter device having circuitry for storing ID data and transmitting a signal containing the ID data, and a key having a predetermined shape on a surface of the hybrid electronic ID/key. A radio frequency receptor device having circuitry, storing location information, that detects the signal containing ID data, a matching detection section configured to match the predetermined shape of the key, and a movement tracking portion that tracks movement of the predetermined shape as the key is rotated. A computer system including a patient database is configured to receive the ID data in conjunction with the location information from the radio frequency receptor device when the predetermined shape is completely rotated to a final position, and store the ID data, location information, together with patient data associated with the location.

Abstract: A magnetic microparticle drug carrier comprising mesoporous iron oxide is described. The drug carrier has an average diameter in a range of 0.5-1.2 ?m, a BET surface area ranging from 50-300 m2/g, and a pore volume ranging from 0.15-0.65 cm3/g. The drug carrier is made using a hard mesoporous silica template which is completely removed from the deposited iron oxide. The drug carrier may be loaded with high amounts of hydrophilic anticancer chemotherapeutic drugs and/or hydrophobic hormonal anticancer drugs, and released in a pH-controlled manner inside cancerous cells. Compared to free drugs, the drug microparticle carrier displays enhanced drug accumulation inside tumor tissues, deeply penetrates into a tumor region and kills the tumor cells inside. The designed carriers described here entrap and release different kinds of anticancer drugs in a controlled manner for synergistic combinatorial chemo/hormonal cancer therapy.

Abstract: A finger protector to prevent lacerations to the fingers of a surgeon during suturing. A kit comprising the finger protector and a method of using it during surgery.

Abstract: An imaging device, an imaging control method, an electronic apparatus, and a readable medium. The imaging device comprises: an image sensing assembly; a liquid crystal lens assembly provided with light control components corresponding to an image sensing component, wherein each of the light control components comprises a first liquid crystal component and a second liquid crystal component, which are arranged opposite each other, and the orientation of liquid crystal molecules in the first liquid crystal component is perpendicular to the orientation of liquid crystal molecules in the second liquid crystal component; and a processing assembly, wherein the processing assembly is respectively electrically connected to the image sensing assembly and the liquid crystal lens assembly, and is configured to adjust, according to a light receiving amount measured by the image sensing assembly, the voltage applied to the light control component.

Abstract: A bifunctional expandable stent delivery assembly having a bifunctional expandable stent, a breakable cover, and a balloon. The bifunctional expandable stent has a balloon-expandable body portion and a self-expandable trumpet portion. The breakable cover fits over only the self-expandable trumpet portion and prevents self-expansion. The balloon is used to expand the balloon-expandable portion, which breaks the breakable cover and allows the self-expandable trumpet portion to self-expand. A method of stenting a patient using the bifunctional expandable stent delivery assembly is also provided.

Abstract: A device suitable for guiding a trajectory of a surgical shunt or needle comprising two protractors on a curved frame configured to fit over, or attach to, the skull of a patient, wherein the two protractors are respectively oriented in a circular dimension and anterior-posterior/medio-lateral directions. A method for using the device to guide a surgical needle, probe, shunt or other instrument during surgery.

Abstract: A hybrid ID system for a medical practitioner and patient care includes a hybrid electronic ID/key having a transmitter device having circuitry for storing ID data and transmitting a signal containing the ID data, and a key having a predetermined shape on a surface of the hybrid electronic ID/key. A radio frequency receptor device having circuitry, storing location information, that detects the signal containing ID data, a matching detection section configured to match the predetermined shape of the key, and a movement tracking portion that tracks movement of the predetermined shape as the key is rotated. A computer system including a patient database is configured to receive the ID data in conjunction with the location information from the radio frequency receptor device when the predetermined shape is completely rotated to a final position, and store the ID data, location information, together with patient data associated with the location.

Abstract: A method is for analyzing the correlation between different line loss actions, which records, for each individual to which line loss actions occur, all the line loss actions that occur to the individual; and counts, based on two categorization manners: by individual and by line loss action, line loss actions recorded in the database, to obtain line loss action counting results corresponding to respective categorization manners; then, based on the two counting results, collects respective multi-line loss action sequences; and acquires probability data as a data source for probability calculation, to obtain line loss action occurrence conditional probabilities for different line loss actions, so that a targeted a targeted loss reduction plan can be formulated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the unexpected discovery of a new strain of yeast, dubbed GY7B, which is related to, but genetically and phenotypically distinct from, Lachancea thermotolerans. The invention provides methods of brewing sour beer using GY7B, wherein the methods do not require use of lactic acid or lactic acid producing bacteria.

Abstract: A method for neighbor discovery in a wireless ad hoc network based on an adaptive antenna array includes: generating a synchronous SSS with a period length of n+?log2n?+1 timeslots, or generating a asynchronous SSS with a period length of 4n timeslots; labeling the n?log2n?+1 timeslots in each period of the synchronous SSS by 0, 1, . . . , n+?log2n?; labeling the 4n timeslots in each period of the asynchronous SSS by 0, 1, . . . , 4n?1; if the node is synchronized with its neighbors, representing the number of bit 0 in a binary sequence b0b1 . . . bn?1 by a (?log2n?+1)-bit binary sequence c0c1 . . . c?log2n?, and then appending the (?log2n?+1)-bit binary sequence c0c1 . . . c?log2n? behind the binary sequence b0b1 . . . bn?1 to generate an (n+?log2n?+1)-bit binary sequence b0b1 . . . bn?1c0c1 . . . c?log2n?; otherwise, extending the binary sequence b0b1 . . . bn?1 into a 4n-bit binary sequence; and based on the (n+?log2n?+1)-bit or 4n-bit binary sequence, generating the synchronous or asynchronous SSS.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for processing an infrared image of a power device based on a measured temperature. The method includes: S1: acquiring grey data images of a power device at different environmental temperatures with an infrared thermal imager; and S2: constructing, according to the grey data images of the power device acquired at the different environmental temperatures with the infrared thermal imager in step S1, a machine learning (ML) temperature conversion model, and converting the grey data images at the different environmental temperatures into temperature data with the model. The method for processing an infrared image of a power device based on a measured temperature provided by the present disclosure greatly improves the practicability of the infrared image in the power device, and achieves a better processing effect than the conventional grey data imaging method.

Abstract: The invention relates to metallic nanoparticles made by that have been made in a plant cell suspension, and methods of making the metallic particles.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an MXene-based terahertz wave broadband super-strong absorbing foam, and belongs to the technical field of electromagnetic functional materials. The MXene-based terahertz wave broadband super-strong absorbing foam includes a porous polymer foam and a MXene nanosheet attached onto the porous polymer foam, wherein the MXene nanosheet is attached onto the porous polymer foam in a coating form, a film forming form and a suspension form; the average pore diameter of the porous polymer foam ?500 ?m, the thickness of the porous polymer foam ?10 mm, and the filling mass of the MXene nanosheet is less than 50% of the mass of the absorbing foam.

Abstract: A temporal domain rate distortion optimization based on video content characteristic and QP-? correction provides the temporal domain rate distortion optimization based on the video content characteristic and the QP-? correction for a new generation encoder AV1, wherein according to a previous temporal domain dependency relationship under an HEVC-RA coding structure, a feature of the new generation encoder AV1 and a video sequence feature, an aggregation distortion of a current coding unit and an affected future coding unit is estimated and to propagation factor of the current coding unit in a temporal domain distortion propagation model is calculated by constructing a temporal domain distortion propagation chain, wherein a Lagrange multiplier is adjusted through a more accurate propagation factor to realize a temporal domain dependency rate distortion optimization, and a relationship of QP-? is re-corrected and an I frame is adjusted to achieve a better coding effect

Abstract: A key distribution method based on broadband physical random sources includes: utilizing a driving semiconductor laser to generate an optical signal, passing the optical signal through a phase modulator driven by a random signal and then equally dividing the phase-modulated optical signal into two identical paths, injecting the two identical paths into slave semiconductor lasers at both communication parties Alice and Bob's sides, respectively, to generate initial synchronized signals, using the generated initial synchronized signals as driving signals to phase-modulate optical signals generated by continuous-wave (CW) light sources, and inputting the modulated optical signals to dispersion modules; wherein after the modulated CW optical signals pass through the dispersion modules, two synchronized broadband noise-like random signals are generated, and then high-speed synchronized keys are generated by a post-processing method.

Abstract: A Li3Mg2SbO6-based microwave dielectric ceramic material easy to sinter and with high Q value, and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. A chemical formula of the material is Li3(Mg1-xZnx)2SbO6, wherein 0.02?x?0.08. The preparation method includes: 1) mixing and ball-milling Sb2O3 and Li2CO3 according to a chemical ratio and then drying, and conducting pre-sintering to obtain a Li3SbO4 phase; and 2) mixing and ball-milling MgO, ZnO and Li3SbO4 powder according a chemical ratio of Li3(Mg1-xZnx)2SbO6 and then drying, conducting granulation and sieving after adding an adhesive, pressing into a cylindrical body, and sintering the cylindrical body into ceramic in the air at 1325° C. and under normal pressure, wherein a dielectric constant is 7.2-8.5, a quality factor is 51844-97719 GHz, and a temperature coefficient of resonance frequency is ?14-1 ppm/° C.

Abstract: A one-step solution casting method for preparing a PVDF-based pyroelectric polymer film is provided, which belongs to the technical field of functional material preparation. The method comprises steps of: treating a substrate with a hydrophilic reagent to obtain a hydrophilically-modified substrate, and then casting the organic solution of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) or its copolymer on the hydrophilically-modified substrate. After cured, the as-casted PVDF-based film shows pyroelectricity without undergoing any stretching or poling post-treatment, indicates that the dipoles of the one-step prepared film are aligned. The self-polarization of the prepared film is attributed to a hydrogen bond induced layer-by-layer electrostatic self-assembly growth mechanism. The method is simple, low cost, high efficient, high capability to produce thick and large-area film with smooth morphology and ease to be scalized.

Abstract: A three-dimensional folding self-driving flexible respiration monitoring sensor and the preparing method thereof is disclosed. In the present invention a first friction unit and a second friction unit are set on a bottom of the box, which comprise a substrate, a conductive electrode layer and a friction layer respectively; the second friction unit is fixed on the bottom of the box; a friction layer of the first friction unit faces a friction layer of the second friction unit; a back plate is set on a substrate of the first friction unit; a balloon is between the box and the back plate; an inlet tube connects the balloon and the box, which is on a side wall of the box; the conductive electrode layer of the first friction layer and the second friction layer are connected to the electrometer respectively. Micro-energy of the respiration is adopted to monitor the breathing.