Abstract: A compound comprising a first ligand LA of Formula I, is provided. In the compound, ring B is a 5- or 6-membered ring; each of Z and X1 to X4 is C or N; Y is a linking atom; K is a direct bond or a linking atom; each R*, RA, RB, and RC is hydrogen or a General Substituent defined herein; a total of at least two of RB and/or RC substituents are independently electron-withdrawing groups; and LA is coordinated to a metal M, having an atomic mass of at least 40. Formulations, OLEDs, and consumer products containing the compound are also provided.

Abstract: Techniques are described for implementing a class of multimode bosonic codes that protect against errors within an ancilla qubit coupled to a bosonic system, that can be realized experimentally. A logical qubit state is represented by the states of multiple different modes of one or more bosonic systems, which may include multiple modes of a single bosonic system and/or single modes from multiple bosonic systems. Techniques for correcting errors are also described. In particular, a series of operations are described that autonomously detect and correct errors by repeatedly performing a sequence of operations that are each applied to the multiple bosonic modes and/or to the ancilla qubit that is coupled to each of the bosonic modes. The codes allow ancilla errors to propagate to the modes of the bosonic system as correctable errors, where they can be corrected, instead of presenting as logical errors in the ancilla qubit.

Abstract: A node positioning method for marine environmental monitoring wireless sensor networks is provided, which jointly estimates node positions and path loss factors by considering the node real-time movement and the path loss and absorption effect of underwater communication; transforms an original non-convex problem into a non-negative constrained least squares framework, and finds the optimal solution of marine node positions by two stages of interior point method and block coordinate update. In the first stage, the problem is re-expressed by using the penalty function according to the interior point method to obtain the approximate solution; and in the second stage, the original problem is transformed into a generalized trust region sub-problem, and the approximate solution obtained by the interior point method is used as the initial estimation, the accurate estimation values of the marine node position and path loss factor are obtained by iterative solutions combined with the block coordinate update.

Abstract: A catalyst including ruthenium, a promoter metal, and a second metal, optionally disposed on a support, and methods of using the catalyst to catalyze the formation of ammonia.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a colorimetric nanosensor for detecting trace-levels of Hg2+ in environmental water, which is composed of Fe7S8 nanosheets, glutathione or its aqueous solution, 3,3?,5,5?-tetramethylbenzidine colorimetric solution, H2O2 aqueous solution, and NaAc-Hac buffer. The preparation method of Fe7S8 nanosheets is as follows: FeCl2·4H2O and CH4N2S are dissolved in ethylene glycol in a mass ratio of (2˜3):1, heated at 200° C. for 10˜15 hours, cooled, centrifuged, washed, and dried to obtain. The colorimetric nanosensor of the present disclosure can quickly and sensitively determine the trace-levels Hg2+ in environmental water. The colorimetric nanosensor of the present disclosure does not rely on large detection instruments, and the nanozymes used is low-cost, stable, and recyclable. It has important practical significance for accurate, fast, and low-cost detection of trace-levels of Hg2+ in environmental water.

Abstract: The present invention provides cationic polymeric nanoparticles, and nanoparticle formulations thereof. The invention also provides methods for preparing cationic polymeric nanoparticles, and methods of treating diseases, reducing tumor growth, and increasing uptake of a therapeutic agent by a tumor cell in a subject in need thereof.

Abstract: A process for water, mineral, and/or organics recovery, as well as devices and systems that practice the process, are disclosed. The process may include providing a plurality of evaporator structures, each structure physically separated from the others, and contacting the first end of each evaporator structure with a liquid containing a plurality of materials (such as a solvent and one or more minerals). The process may include allowing capillary forces and siphonic action to draw at least one material of the plurality of materials (which may be, e.g., the solvent, a volatile organic material, and/or a mineral) from the first end towards the second end, and evaporating one or more of the plurality of materials by transferring at least one form of environmental energy (such as solar energy, wind energy, and/or ambient heat of air) directly to each evaporator structure, thereby providing the latent heat of vaporization.

Abstract: An extreme ultraviolet light generation chamber device includes a chamber including a plasma generation region in which a droplet target irradiated with laser light is turned into plasma and extreme ultraviolet light is generated, a light concentrating mirror arranged in the chamber and concentrating the extreme ultraviolet light, a gas curtain forming device injecting a gas to form a gas curtain intersecting an optical path of the extreme ultraviolet light propagating from the plasma generation region to the light concentrating mirror, an etching gas supply unit supplying an etching gas into the chamber, and a gas exhaust unit exhausting a residual gas in the chamber. Pressure in a second space that is a space on a side toward the light concentrating mirror from the gas curtain is lower than pressure in a first space that is a space on a side toward the plasma generation region from the gas curtain.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of space electric propulsion of spacecrafts, and discloses a thrust-quantitatively-controllable and self-neutralizable Kaufman ion thruster and a use method thereof. The Kaufman ion thruster includes a discharge chamber, a central cathode, a gas supply assembly, a steel magnetic assembly, an insulating barrier and a grid system, wherein the central cathode is coaxially inserted in the center of a front panel; the gas supply assembly includes an electronegative working substance gas source, a conventional working substance gas source, N electronegative working medium gas supply pipes and N working medium gas supply pipes; the insulating barrier includes a central connecting rod and 2N fins. Self-neutralization can be achieved without the need of neutralizers. In addition, the center-oriented thrust modes can be used for spacecraft orbit control; and the eccentric thrust mode can be used for spacecraft attitude adjustment.

Abstract: A performance test bench device for a centrifugal compressor under a variable working condition of an engine is composed of: a turbine back disk temperature simulator and the centrifugal compressor being coaxially arranged, and being sequentially connected with a speed regulator and a driver. Meanwhile, a thermocouple array is arranged on a surface of a simulator back plate. A temperature measurement probe is arranged at an inlet and an outlet of the centrifugal compressor, and a thermocouple array is also arranged on a surface of a cover plate of the centrifugal compressor and a surface of a rotating blade. An airflow passes through the inlet pipeline, the flow meter and the air inlet rectification system, is pressurized by the centrifugal compressor, and is then discharged by the outlet pipeline.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for the treatment, prevention, or reversal of a brain disease or disorder characterized by accumulation of debris within a brain in a subject in need by administration of a therapeutically effective amount of a composition comprising a perivascular macrophage (PVM) stimulating compound are disclosed.

Abstract: Modified zeolites may include a microporous framework including a plurality of micropores having diameters of less than or equal to 2 nm. The microporous framework may include at least silicon atoms and oxygen atoms. The modified zeolite may include a plurality of mesopores having diameters of greater than 2 nm and less than or equal to 50 nm, wherein the plurality of mesopores are ordered with cubic symmetry. The modified zeolite may include a plurality of hafnium hydride moieties each bonded to at least two bridging oxygen atoms, wherein a hafnium atom of the hafnium hydride is bonded to the bridging oxygen atom, and wherein the bridging oxygen atom bridges the hafnium atom of the hafnium hydride moiety and a silicon atom of the microporous framework.

Abstract: Described herein are zeolite Beta particles with radially arranged mesopores and methods of making the same. In one or more embodiments, a zeolite Beta particle may include a Beta zeolitic framework including a plurality of micropores having diameters of less than or equal to 2 nm. In embodiments, the Beta zeolitic framework may include alumina and silica. In embodiments, the zeolite Beta particles disclosed herein may include a plurality of mesopores having diameters of greater than 2 nm and less than or equal to 50 nm. In embodiments, the plurality of mesopores may be arranged in a center-radial configuration, such that mesopores run from a central region of the zeolite Beta particle towards the edge of the zeolite Beta particle.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods of forming a zeolite composition, the method comprising calcining one or more clay mineral compositions to form metakaolin, wherein the one or more clay mineral compositions may comprise greater than or equal to 10 wt. % halloysite, forming a slurry by combining at least the metakaolin, a shape selective zeolite, a basic compound, silica particles, and a templating agent, hydrothermally treating the slurry to form a hydrothermal product, calcining the hydrothermal product to form a zeolite product, combining the zeolite product and at least one metal precursor, wherein the at least one metal precursor may comprise a manganese precursor, a phosphorous precursor, or both a manganese precursor and a phosphorous precursor to form a zeolite composition comprising manganese, phosphorus, or both manganese and phosphorous.

Abstract: Disclosed is a framework called SCouT that employs a Transformer architecture to make counterfactual predictions that can be used in healthcare and other longitudinal decision-making scenarios. The disclosed approach can use longitudinal donors under an intervention to estimate the synthetic counterfactual for other units. The Transformer-based encoder-decoder model uses a causal map, which enables spatial bidirectionality, to autoregressively generate a synthetic control of a target unit.

Abstract: A performance testing device for the piston rod sealing assembly includes a bracket, a support apparatus, a drive apparatus and a leakage detection apparatus, where the support apparatus includes a cylinder body that is internally provided with a movable channel, and the movable channel is configured to allow a piston rod equipped with a sealing component to pass therethrough; the drive apparatus is provided on the bracket and configured to be connected with the piston rod; the leakage detection apparatus includes a limit member and an oil receiver, the limit member is provided with a detection channel and an oil channel and connected to the cylinder body, the detection channel is communicated with the movable channel and configured to allow the piston rod to pass therethrough; one end of the oil channels is communicated with the detection channel and the other end thereof is communicated with the oil receiver.

Abstract: An internal solitary wave (ISW) early warning method for an offshore platform based on a baroclinic mode includes the following steps: S1: providing a hydrophone and a bottom-founded transmitting transducer in a sea area of an offshore platform, and acquiring an actually measured sound pressure; S2: solving a hydrodynamic equation to obtain a baroclinic mode of the sea area of the offshore platform; S3: constructing a seawater sound velocity equation according to the baroclinic mode; S4: transforming the seawater sound velocity equation to obtain a relational expression between an amplitude of the baroclinic mode and a seawater sound velocity; S5: solving, according to the actually measured sound pressure, and the relational expression between the amplitude of the baroclinic mode and the seawater sound velocity, the amplitude of the baroclinic mode with a genetic algorithm (GA); and S6: performing monitoring and early warning on an ISW.

Abstract: A sand column grouting filtration experimental device includes a sand column, a grout injection structure connected above the sand column and a grout exit structure connected below the sand column, the sand column comprises a plurality of connecting units; Four screws are provided around the sand column, and the four screws run through the grout injection structure and grout exit structure; A bottom plate is provided below the grout exit structure, a support plate one and a support plate two are provided between the bottom plate and the grout exit structure, and a sand column consolidation structure is provided between the support plate two and the support plate one. The experiment adopts a segmented combined sand column, in addition to ensuring the experimental results that can be obtained by the general sand column, segmented study of the interception and percolation effect of cement slurry in the sand column is implemented.

Abstract: A LoS MIMO system can be applied to all frequency bands used in general mobile communication. Particularly, the LoS MIMO system is very important in high frequency bands (for example, 10 GHz-100 GHz, or three-digit GHz or Tera-Hz (THz)). Accordingly, the present specification proposes a procedure-related method and apparatus of each air interface layer in the line of sight (LoS) MIMO system applicable to a next-generation wireless communication system.

Abstract: A method for detecting a kidney dysfunction diagnostic marker, the method including measurement of an expression amount of MUC1 and/or MGAM in urinary extracellular vesicles derived from a subject.