Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to green oxidizer compositions and method of synthesizing and using the same. Such green oxidizers are stable, may be used in conventional bipropellant thrusters, including, but not limited to LDACS applications, and offer several benefits over conventional oxidizers with respect to toxicity and/or corrosion. The present disclosure also relates to methods of synthesizing poly-nitrated oxetane, a green oxidizer, in an Argon-rich environment.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fluorination method comprising providing an aryl fluorosulfonate and a fluorinating reagent to a reaction mixture; and reacting the aryl fluorosulfonate and the fluorinating reagent to provide a fluorinated aryl species. Also disclosed is a fluorination method comprising providing, a salt comprising a cation and an aryloxylate, and SO2F2 to a reaction mixture; reacting the SO2F2 and the ammonium salt to provide a fluorinated aryl species. Further disclosed a fluorination method comprising providing a compound having the structure Ar—OH to a reaction mixture; where Ar is an aryl or heteroaryl; providing SO2F2 to the reaction mixture; providing a fluorinating reagent to the reaction mixture; reacting the SO2F2, the fluorinating reagent and the compound having the structure Ar—OH to provide a fluorinated aryl species having the structure Ar—F.

Abstract: A method includes loading a wafer into a processing chamber, wherein the processing chamber is wound by a coil, and the coil is coupled to an RF system; supplying an aromatic hydrocarbon precursor into the processing chamber; after supplying the aromatic hydrocarbon precursor, turning on an RF power of the RF system to decompose the aromatic hydrocarbon precursor into active radicals and cyclize the active radicals into a graphene layer over a metal layer on the wafer; and after an entirety of the metal layer being covered by the graphene layer, turning off the RF power of the RF system to stop forming the graphene layer.

Abstract: A water-based wellbore fluid may include an aqueous base fluid and a modified graphene shale inhibitor that comprises one or more substituents that are covalently bonded to graphene via a linking group. One of the one or more substituents may be a hydrocarbon group that has a number of carbon atoms in the range from 8 to 14.

Abstract: The present invention aims at establishing a molecular therapy for Alport syndrome. The present invention provides an oligonucleotide of 15-30 bp comprising a nucleotide sequence complementary to the cDNA of COL4A5 gene, wherein the oligonucleotide is capable of inducing skipping of an exon which has a truncating mutation found in COL4A5 gene in Alport syndrome patients and whose nucleotide number is a multiple of 3, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof. Also provided is a pharmaceutical drug comprising the above oligonucleotide, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof (therapeutic drug for Alport syndrome).

Abstract: A defrost or thaw measuring device has a dumbbell or hourglass-shaped rotatable compartment with a cavity, the cavity being partly filled with at least two phase change materials having different melting points. The measuring device may determine the time period of thawing at two or more temperature intervals in the refrigeration space.

Abstract: In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods for making resorbable ear tubes including the steps of providing a silk fibroin solution, and forming a silk ear tube from the silk fibroin solution, wherein the silk ear tube is less than 2 mm in length and has an outer diameter of less than 1.5 mm, and wherein the silk ear tube is resorbable. In some embodiments, the present invention also provides methods for treating otitis media including the step of introducing a silk ear tube into the ear canal of a subject, wherein the silk ear tube is less than 2 mm in length and has an outer diameter of less than 1.5 mm, and wherein the silk ear tube is resorbed by the subject.

Abstract: The Cascaded Wind Turbine is a new concept of wind turbine design featuring multiple hubs in succession, each hub segment adds another tier that create a cascading blade configuration. Each blade set is connected to a separate rotor via a telescopic shaft.

Abstract: The present invention provides genetically engineered strains of the Bordetella species to include one or more mutations preventing expression of the gene encoding the Bordetella Sigma Regulator (also referred to as “bsr,” “btrS,” and “brpL”), compositions and vaccines thereof, and the use of such engineered strains in methods to protect against Bordetella spp, including but not limited to Bordetella bronchiseptica, B. pertussis, B. parapertussis, B. homelsii, or B. avium. In some aspects, the present invention provides the Bordetella bronchiseptica strain RB50?bsr, compositions and vaccines thereof, and the use of Bordetella bronchiseptica strain RB50?fer in methods to protect against Bordetella spp, including but not limited to Bordetella bronchiseptica, B. pertussis, B. parapertussis, B. homelsii, or B. avium.

Abstract: A soft robotic spinal orthosis includes a control system having at least one processor, a plurality of adjustable pressure fluid bladders to provide at least one variable supporting force to a torso of a user, a plurality of supports to secure the fluid bladders to the torso, at least one sensor to detect a position of the torso, and at least one pressure device to increase and decrease a fluid pressure of the fluid bladders.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a desalination system, comprising a membrane distillation unit; a preheater having a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet, the outlet being in communication with the inlet; an evaporator in communication with the liquid outlet of the MD, and having a fluid inlet configured to provide heat to aqueous liquid in the evaporator, the evaporator having a vapor outlet; at least one adsorption-desorption unit, having a vapor inlet in communication with the vapor outlet of the evaporator, the AD including a fluid inlet configured to receive either a heating or a cooling fluid and a fluid outlet, the AD having a vapor outlet and further including a fluid inlet in communication with the fluid inlet of the AD, a fluid outlet in communication with the heating fluid inlet of the preheater; and a condenser in communication with the permeate vapor outlet of the MD or the AD or both and having a condensation outlet.

Abstract: A fully sampled calibration data set, which may be Cartesian k-space data, is used to obtain targeted and optimal interpolation kernels for non-regularly sampled data. The calibration data are self-calibration data obtained from a time-averaged image, or re-sampled data. ACS data are resampled for calibration of region-specific kernels. Subsequently, an explicit noise-based regularized solution can be utilized to estimate region-specific kernels for reconstruction.

Abstract: The method of producing induced lightweight exosomes (iLE) provided by the present invention includes preparing a cell culture containing prescribed cultured cells; supplying at least once an artificially produced synthetic peptide to the cell culture and culturing the cell culture for a prescribed interval; and obtaining exosomes produced by the cultured cells following culturing. Here, the synthetic peptide is provided with: (1) an exosome-inducing peptide sequence and (2) a CPP sequence, and has a total number of amino acid residues of 100 or less.

Abstract: The present invention keeps a dialogue continuing for a long time without causing uncomfortable feeling to a user. A dialogue system 10 includes at least an input part 1 that receives a user utterance, which is an utterance from a user and a presentation part 5 that presents the utterance. The input part 1 receives a user utterance performed by the user. A presentation part 5-1 presents a dialogue-establishing utterance which does not include any content words. A presentation part 5-2 presents a second utterance associated with a generation target utterance, which is one or more utterances performed before user utterance that includes at least the user utterance, after the dialogue-establishing utterance.

Abstract: An operation method of a base station in a time division duplex communication system includes: a step for setting a time period in which a terminal can transmit an uplink in a downlink period; a step for generating a sparse vector signal including information about the time period; and a step for transmitting the sparse vector signal to the terminal. In addition, an operation method of the terminal in the time division duplex communication system includes: a step for receiving a part of a sparse vector signal from the base station; a step for recovering the received sparse vector signal by compressed sensing; and a step for transmitting uplink data in a time period instructed in a downlink period based on the basis of the recovered signal.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining ischemic status. The method comprises acquiring magnetic resonance diffusion tensor matrices and obtaining a relative decrease of diffusion magnitude due to the ischemic status from the magnetic resonance diffusion tensor matrices. The invention also relates to a method for assessing stroke onset time. The method comprises acquiring magnetic resonance diffusion tensor matrices and obtaining a relative decrease of pure anisotropy due to stroke from the magnetic resonance diffusion tensor matrices.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mini hot press apparatus, and more particularly, to an apparatus which can be used for making or annealing a polycrystalline material by pressurization and heating in various surrounding environments such as in a low vacuum, high vacuum, ultrahigh vacuum, high pressure gas, gas flow, even in air, etc.

Abstract: An immunoassay includes forming first mixtures by reacting a combination reagent with serum of a subject; simultaneously forming second mixtures by reacting randomly selected platelet samples with the serum wherein in each mixture there are immunity compounds formed by combining the platelet antigens with predetermined antibodies in the serum, and other platelet antigens and other antibodies in the serum not forming the immunity compounds; preparing an interception device including receptacles and a filter net; placing each mixture in one receptacle; washing the mixtures wherein the mixtures forming the immunity compounds are intercepted by the filter net with others passing through; adding a signal sensing reagent to each receptacle; reacting the signal sensing reagent with the intercepted mixtures forming the immunity compounds to form final products; and performing a signal sensing to determine whether the final products contain anti-platelet antibodies and determine compatibility of cross matching of resp

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a gate-all-around (GAA) transistor. The GAA transistor may include regrown source/drain layers in source/drain stressors. Atomic ratio differences among the regrown source/drain layers are tuned to reduce strain mismatch among the semiconductor nanosheets. Alternatively, the GAA transistor may include strained channels formed using a layer stack of alternating semiconductor layers having different lattice constants.

Abstract: A mobile device network that routes packets includes programmable switch devices that dynamically make packet switching decisions for routing the packets, a network controller for configuring the switch devices, a sender device connected in the network, and a receiver device connected in the network. The sender device and the receiver device can each be a mobile device or other network appliance. The sender device selects a path including links to predefined switch devices that a packet will follow, in which the packet contains an authenticator. Every predefined switch device that forwards the packet performs a computation that alters the authenticator based on an identity-based encryption algorithm, and the receiver device verifies that the packet was forwarded through the selected path based on a final value of the authenticator resulting from the computation performed by a last switch device that forwards the packet to the receiver.