Abstract: Disclosed herein are wirelessly powered tissue ablation devices comprising an alternating magnetic field generator; an ablation probe comprising an ablation tip; a catheter comprising an opening at a tissue insertion end and a lumen extending along a length of the catheter to the catheter opening; and a magnetic field receiving coil configured to be electrically coupled to the ablation probe; wherein at least a portion of the ablation probe is positionable within the lumen of the catheter, and wherein the ablation tip protrudes through the opening of the catheter. Also disclosed are methods of using wirelessly powered tissue ablation devices.

Abstract: A radiative cooling apparatus including a layer of a material. The layer defines an exterior face. The material has a composition such that the layer is configured to reflect, at the exterior face, at least partly of the incoming electromagnetic radiation of at least some wavelengths in the solar spectrum. The layer is further configured to emit thermally-generated electromagnetic emission of at least some mid-infrared wavelengths out from the exterior face. Ceramics provided by embodiments of the invention could produce extra cooling effect without any electricity consumption, creating a prominent benefit to the energy saving of air conditioning systems of buildings.

Abstract: An microheater array system includes an integrated microheater array configured to generate a localized heat and having a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes: an inductor; a stacked oscillator configured to generate a magnetic field at microwave frequencies with tunable intensity and frequency; and an electro-thermal loop. The microheater array system may further include a plurality of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs).

Abstract: Disclosed is an immunity-inducing agent having excellent ease of production and high immunostimulatory activity, the immunity-inducing agent comprising, as an active component, a polynucleotide/peptide conjugate in which an antigenic peptide is covalently bound to a single-stranded polynucleotide or polynucleotide derivative. Also disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition comprising said immunity-inducing agent.

Abstract: Silver and titanium oxide nanoparticles produced with Fomes fomentarius or Fomitopsis pinicola aqueous extracts and methods for treating bacterial infections or cancer using them.

Abstract: Immunogenic peptides, fusion polypeptides, and carrier molecules which include the immunogenic peptides, and immunogenic compositions which include these immunogenic peptides, fusion polypeptides, and/or carrier molecules bearing the peptides, and which are able to elicit antibody production against Haemophilus influenzae (Hi), are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of their use in causing an antibody response against one or more strains of Hi.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cationic ?-cyclodextrin and a preparation method and uses thereof, as well as a cationic ?-cyclodextrin functionalized silver nanoparticles and a preparation method and uses thereof. The cationic ?-cyclodextrin of the present invention is introduced with an amine group and quaternary ammonium groups, while retaining the special structure and properties of cyclodextrin itself. The amine group contained in the structure plays a role in reducing and complexing Ag+ in the synthesis of AgNPs, and plays a certain role in stabilizing nanoparticles and forming a complex in combination with quaternary ammonium groups.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a phase change thermal storage ceramic having high service temperature and improved utilization rate and utilization efficiency of heat. It is prepared at a low cost with a simple, easy-to-industrially-realized method. A mixture is obtained by mixing and stirring evenly 50-85 wt % of fused mullite powder, 10-45 wt % of pretreated aluminum-silicon alloy powder, and 3-8 wt % of ball clay. A ceramic body is formed by press molding the mixture at 80-150 MPa. The ceramic body is cured at 25-28° C. and a relative humidity of 70-75 RH for 24-36 h, dried at 80-120° C. for 24-36 h, and held at 1,100-1,300° C. for 3-5 h to prepare the phase change thermal storage ceramic. The pretreated aluminum-silicon alloy powder is prepared by holding aluminum-silicon alloy powder in water vapor at 0.02-0.20 MPa for 0.5-3 h to impregnate in an alkaline silica sol and drying the impregnated powder.

Abstract: A histotripsy therapy system configured for the treatment of brain tissue is provided, which may include any number of features. In one embodiment, the system includes an ultrasound therapy transducer, a drainage catheter, and a plurality of piezoelectric sensors disposed in the drainage catheter. The ultrasound therapy is configured to transmit ultrasound pulses into the brain to generate cavitation that liquefies a target tissue in the brain. The drainage catheter is configured to detect the ultrasound pulses. An aberration correction algorithm can be executed by the system based on the ultrasound pulses measured by the drainage catheter to automatically correct for an aberration effect caused by the ultrasound pulses passing through a skullcap of the patient.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a master-slave robot arm control system and method. The control method includes steps of: (a) providing a master and a slave robot arms; (b) executing a robot arm demonstration task, wherein the step (b) includes steps of: (b1) utilizing the slave robot arm to output a force feedback; (b2) generating an action command by operating the master robot arm; (b3) calculating and generating a movement command; (b4) controlling the slave robot arm to move and to generate a movement trajectory and the force feedback correspondingly; (c) repeating the step (b) to collect a plurality of movement trajectories of the slave robot arm; (d) utilizing a statistic module to analyze the plurality of movement trajectories; (e) generating an optimized trajectory of the slave robot arm; and (f) controlling the slave robot arm to execute a robot arm task.

Abstract: A modular combustion system for flexible energy generation is provided. The system comprises a plurality of combustion boilers, at least one oxidizer supply unit providing an oxidizer stream to the combustion boilers, at least one feeder to provide fuel to the combustion boilers, at least one particle removal unit to remove particles from a flue gas output stream from the combustion boilers, and a pollution removal unit to remove pollutant gases from the flue gas output stream. A process for flexible energy generation using the modular combustion system is disclosed that includes providing an oxidizer stream to a plurality of combustion boilers with at least one oxidizer supply unit, providing fuel to the plurality of combustion boilers with at least one feeder, removing particles from a flue gas output stream from the plurality of combustion boilers with at least one particle removal unit, and removing pollutant gases from a particle-free flue gas output stream with at least one pollution removal unit.

Abstract: A leakage measurement error compensation method based on cloud-edge collaborative computing is implemented on a communication network formed by an interconnection between a leakage current edge monitoring terminal and a power consumption management cloud platform. The method includes the following steps: iteratively training, by the power consumption management cloud platform, a pseudo-leakage compensation model by using the received leakage current data, continuously updating pseudo-leakage model parameters, and feeding the pseudo-leakage model parameters back to the leakage current edge monitoring terminal; and processing, by the leakage current edge monitoring terminal, the leakage current data according to the pseudo-leakage compensation model parameters.

Abstract: A method for searching a path by using a 3D reconstructed map includes: receiving 3D point-cloud map information and 3D material map information; clustering the 3D point-cloud map information with a clustering algorithm to obtain clustering information, and identifying material attributes of objects in the 3D point-cloud map information with a material neural network model to obtain material attribute information; fusing the those map information based on their coordinate information, thereby outputting fused map information; identifying obstacle areas and non-obstacle areas in the fused map information based on an obstacle neural network model, the clustering information, and the material attribute information; and generating 3D path information according to the non-obstacle areas. Since the 3D path information is generated based on those map information, the obstacle areas and flight spaces are effectively determined to generate an accurate flight path.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving reference signals for sidelink communication are provided. The operation method of a first terminal includes receiving a message including a first DMRS scrambling identifier for sidelink communication from a base station and calculating a first DMRS sequence based on the first DMRS scrambling identifier. Additionally, the method includes transmitting SCI and a first DMRS generated based on the first DMRS sequence to a second terminal.

Abstract: Plasma jet assemblies utilizing evanescent mode cavity resonators, and methods of making the same and using the same, are described.

Abstract: The construction method of NALU (Network Abstraction Layer Unit) for IPv6 label switching and its using algorithms of video encoding, QoS control, and decoding are provided. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the NALU format is composed of the NALH (Network Abstraction Layer Header) including the label and the NAL (Network Ab¬ straction Layer) payload. Here, the label is determined based on layer information which is combination of a spatial scalable level, a temporal scalable level, and a quality scalable level of the encoded data. The decoder uses the label to decide which one of multiple decoding modules is used to decode the current NAL payload. Moreover, the label can be included in the packet header so that the MANE (Media Aware Network Element) can use the label to decide whether to forward the packet or drop it. For example, the label in the packet header can be used for QoS control of video service by using the flow label field in IPv6 packet header.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of estimating the pose of a ligand in a receptor comprising identifying all possible atom pairs of protein-ligand complexes in a given configuration space for a system that comprises proteins; creating a first database and a second database; where the first database comprises associated pairwise distant dependent energies and where the second database comprises all probabilities that include how the atom pairs can combine; combining the first database with the second database via statistical mechanics to accurately estimate binding free energies as well as a pose of a ligand in a receptor; and selecting a protein-ligand complex for further study.

Abstract: The present invention proposes a fabric defect detection method based on multi-modal deep learning. First, a tactile sensor is placed onto the fabric surface with different defects to collect the fabric texture images, a camera is used to collect the corresponding fabric external images, and a fabric external image and a fabric texture image constitute a set of fabric detection data; then, a feature extraction network and a multi-modal fusion network are connected to establish a classification model based on multi-modal deep learning, which uses the fabric texture image and fabric external image in each set of collected fabric detection data as input, and the fabric defect as output; said classification model is trained using the collected fabric detection data; finally, the trained classification model is used to detect the fabric defect. The present invention employs vision-touch complementary information, which can greatly improve the accuracy and robustness of detection.

Abstract: A power conversion system includes one or more switched capacitor input cells connected between an input dc source and a plurality of interleaved multilevel voltage rails, one or more inductor links connected to the plurality of interleaved multilevel voltage rails, and one or more output cells, wherein each output cell is connected to an output load and all of the plurality of interleaved multilevel voltage rails through a corresponding inductor link.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electron beam (eBeam) resist composition, particularly an (eBeam) resist composition for use in the fabrication of integrated circuits. Such resist compositions include an anti-scattering compound which minimises scattering and secondary electron generation, thus affording extremely high resolution lithography. Such high resolution lithography may be used directly upon silicon-based substrates to produce integrated circuits, or may alternatively be used to produce a lithographic mask (e.g. photomask) to facilitate high-resolution lithography.