Abstract: Disclosed are a pressure sensor for sensing pressure in a vertical direction, a strain sensor for sensing tension in a horizontal direction, and a method for manufacturing the sensors. The disclosed pressure sensor includes a plurality of pressure sensor units stacked in multiple layers, and at least one of a pressure elastic modulus and an amount of conductive particles per unit area of each of the plurality of pressure sensor units is different from each other.

Abstract: A method of producing a conditional knockout animal, and techniques related thereto, e.g., a method of efficiently producing a floxed animal, are provided. By introducing recombinase recognition sequences such as loxP into both ends of a target region on a chromosome at different timings, an animal having the pair of recombinase recognition sequences on the chromosome, such as a floxed animal, is produced.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for improving tenderness of raw meat and meat products by mechanical vibration. In the method, the raw meat is vibrated to loosen meat tissue and improve meat tenderness, or is vibrated during curing to reduce curing time while improving the tenderness. The method mechanically vibrates the raw meat to loosen the structure of the raw meat, and ultimately improves the meat tenderness; or vibrates during curing to improve the tenderness while reducing the curing time, effectively ensuring the sensory meat quality. The method of the present disclosure not only effectively solves the problem of the tenderness of meat and meat products, but also improves sensory quality and safety thereof, enables wider popularization and utilization of meat and meat products, and directly increases economic benefits of enterprises and opens up a new way for future development thereof.

Abstract: This invention relates to tracking of hand-held devices and vehicles with respect to each other, in circumstances where there are two or more users or existent objects interacting in the same share space (co-location). It extends conventional global and body-relative approaches to “cooperatively” estimate the relative poses between all useful combinations of user-worn tracked devices such as HMDs and hand-held controllers worn (or held) by multiple users. Additionally, the invention provides for tracking of vehicles such as cars and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Abstract: An on-line quantitative evaluation method for the stability of a welding process includes the steps of monitoring and acquiring the arc voltage U and the welding current I during the welding process, and drawing a phase diagram of each U-I cycle; converting the phase diagram of each U-I cycle into a binary image K; obtaining an area JN through which a dynamic working curve passes in the binary image K; obtaining a welding process stability evaluation index P according to the formula (1), where JN is the area of a U-I curve, N is the number of cycles passed, L is the total number of samples in N cycles, and P is the repetition rate of the i-th U-I cycle and other cycles (i=1 . . . N); and evaluating the stability of the welding process according to the obtained welding stability evaluation index P.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to magnetic nanoparticles having a non-narcotic analgesic, as well as methods of preparation and use thereof. A magnetically response pharmaceutical can include a core region having magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) and a protein-based analgesic. Further, an exterior coating comprising a polymer can be formed around the core region. The magnetically responsive pharmaceutical can be administered to a recipient and directed to a target region using an external magnetic field.

Abstract: This disclosure addresses the single-image compressive sensing (CS) and reconstruction problem. A scalable Laplacian pyramid reconstructive adversarial network (LAPRAN) facilitates high-fidelity, flexible and fast CS image reconstruction. LAPRAN progressively reconstructs an image following the concept of the Laplacian pyramid through multiple stages of reconstructive adversarial networks (RANs). At each pyramid level, CS measurements are fused with a contextual latent vector to generate a high-frequency image residual. Consequently, LAPRAN can produce hierarchies of reconstructed images and each with an incremental resolution and improved quality. The scalable pyramid structure of LAPRAN enables high-fidelity CS reconstruction with a flexible resolution that is adaptive to a wide range of compression ratios (CRs), which is infeasible with existing methods.

Abstract: A method of increasing a fluorescence signal of a fluorophore is provided. The method includes dissolving the fluorophore in a solvent to form a solution and adding silver nanoparticles to the solution to form a mixture. The silver nanoparticles have a size of 3-10 nm, and the silver nanoparticles have an irregular shape and at least one fractal structure. The method further includes at least partially coating a substrate with the mixture to form a fluorescence sample and recording a fluorescence image of the fluorescence sample. The fluorophore is adsorbed to at least one silver nanoparticle and the fluorescence signal of the fluorescence image is higher than a fluorescence signal of a fluorescence image of the fluorophore without the silver nanoparticles.

Abstract: Provided are a multi-flexible display device having improved image discontinuity at a panel boundary, and a method of manufacturing a double-sided reflector therefor. An image discontinuity phenomenon at a boundary between panels of a multi-flexible display device manufactured by tiling a plurality of flexible displays including a bendable panel may be easily and simply ameliorated using a double-sided reflector capable of being manufactured through a simple process and at low cost.

Abstract: A circuit structure and a driving method thereof, a neural network are disclosed. The circuit structure includes at least one circuit unit, each circuit unit includes a first group of resistive switching devices and a second group of resistive switching devices, the first group of resistive switching devices includes a resistance gradual-change device, the second group of resistive switching devices includes a resistance abrupt-change device, the first group of resistive switching devices and the second group of resistive switching devices are connected in series, in a case that no voltage is applied, a resistance value of the first group of resistive switching devices is larger than a resistance value of the second group of resistive switching devices.

Abstract: The invention discloses a robot network structure suitable for an unstructured environment and a sensing system. The robot network structure is a basic unit or superposition of multiple basic units. An upper structure of the basic unit comprises at least two first nodes, and a lower structure comprises at least two second nodes which are not coplanar with the at least two first nodes. All the first nodes and all the second nodes form a three-dimensional network structure through connecting rods.

Abstract: An air purification piece and an air purification module including same. The air purification piece includes a substrate piece and a purification coating (4), which is provided on the outer surface of the substrate piece; the substrate piece comprises a first support piece (11), a second support piece (12) and a heating component (2), which is provided between the first support piece (11) and the second support piece (12).

Abstract: An access control apparatus having a protective covering configure to cover at least one of a subject or an object inside said protective covering is provided, where an opening is configured to provide access to the at least one of a subject or an object and a covering element configured to selectively cover said opening. A receiving element is provided on the protective covering and an activating device with an activating element is provided external to the protective covering.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and devices for identifying and quantifying, including low abundance, nucleotide base mutations, insertions, deletions, translocations, splice variants, miRNA variants, alternative transcripts, alternative start sites, alternative coding sequences, alternative non-coding sequences, alternative splicings, exon insertions, exon deletions, intron insertions, or other rearrangement at the genome level and/or methylated nucleotide bases.

Abstract: Described herein is a wireless charging system including switched capacitor (SC) rectifiers with output regulation. The load for the receiver on mobile devices using wireless charging is a battery. Regulation is needed for battery charging applications, e.g. constant voltage charging, constant current charging, and pulsed charging. For this purpose, the wireless power transfer (WPT) receiver can possess some “intelligence” to monitor the output voltage/current, adjust the behavior of the electronic circuitries and achieve a closed-loop control. Because a multilevel switched-capacitor (MSC) rectifier has output control ability, this can allow the MSC rectifier to directly charge the battery without an additional DC/DC charger on-board the device.

Abstract: A system includes spatially isolated nodes proximal to a cortical surface or spinal cord, a telemetric antenna array located above the dura, the telemetric antenna array configured to provide power to and exchange data with the spatially isolated nodes, and a power and data distribution unit configured to power the spatially isolated nodes, aggregate recorded data, send the aggregated recorded data and commands through a wireless link.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a pedestrian re-identification method based on a spatio-temporal joint model of a residual attention mechanism and a device thereof. The method includes: performing feature extraction for an input pedestrian with a pre-trained ResNet-50 model; constructing a residual attention mechanism network including a residual attention mechanism module, a feature sampling layer, a global average pooling layer and a local feature connection layer; calculating a feature distance by using a cosine distance and denoting the feature distance as a visual probability according to the trained residual attention mechanism network; performing modeling for a spatio-temporal probability according to camera ID and frame number information in a pedestrian tag of a training sample, and performing Laplace smoothing for a probability model; and calculating a final spatio-temporal joint probability by using the visual probability and the spatio-temporal probability to obtain a pedestrian re-identification result.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a PPA from a microorganism belonging to the family Halobacteriaceae (HPPA), for example, a PPA from Haloferax volcanii. The HPPA provided by the invention is soluble, thermostable and active at high concentrations of salt and/or organic solvent. An embodiment of the invention provides a method of increasing the rate of a reaction by adding an HPPA to the reaction mixture, wherein the reaction produces PPi, for example, an enzymatic reaction, and wherein the reaction is carried out at moderately high temperature and/or low water activity. Further embodiments of the invention provide an assay to detect the PPi released during a reaction which produces PPi by adding an HPPA to convert the PPi in to Pi and measuring the resultant Pi. The invention further pertains to an assay to monitor a reaction which produces PPi in the presence or the absence of an HPPA.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for treating or sensitizing interferon beta resistant cancer disease comprising cFLIP siRNA, and, more specifically, to a pharmaceutical composition for treating interferon beta resistant cancer disease, comprising, as an active ingredient: (a) an siRNA complementarily binding to mRNA of a cFLIP gene; and (b) a human interferon beta variant which comprises glycine-asparagine-isoleucine-treonine-valine sequence (GNITV) at C-terminus in a human natural interferon beta amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, or has replaced the 27th arginine amino acid with threonine or serine, and to a composition for sensitizing interferon beta resistant cancer cells comprising cFLIP siRNA as an active ingredient.

Abstract: This document provides methods and materials relating to isolated polypeptides, polypeptide preparations, vaccine preparations (e.g., anti-cancer vaccine preparations), and methods for vaccinating mammals. For example, polypeptides (e.g., CMV, MUC1, HER2, Mesothelin (MESO), TRAG-3, or CALR polypeptides) having the ability to be processed into different polypeptides such that the processed polypeptides as a group are capable of being presented by different MHC molecules present in a particular mammalian population are provided.