Abstract: A large area deposition type additive manufacturing equipment is disclosed. The large area deposition type additive manufacturing equipment includes a light source module, a dynamic photomask module, a raw material tank and a deposition module. The light source module includes a plurality of light emitting members, a light diffusion member, a light enhancement member and a light emitting angle limiter. Light emitted from the light emitting members passes through the light diffusion member, the light enhancement member and the light emitting angle limiter to become a collimated curing light. The collimated curing light travels through a transparent member of the raw material tank and a dynamic photomask module to reach liquid photocurable material in the raw material tank, thereby curing the liquid photocurable material. The angle of emitted light ranges within ±30° with respect to a normal line of an incident plane of the light source module.

Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods of making high density nucleic acid polymers.

Abstract: Disclosed are a spin-orbit torque (SOT)-based magnetic tunnel junction and a method of fabricating the same. More particularly, the SOT-based magnetic tunnel junction includes a spin-orbit torque (SOT)-based magnetic tunnel junction, including: a spin-orbit active layer formed on the substrate; a free layer formed on the spin-orbit active layer; a tunnel barrier layer formed on the free layer; and a pinned layer formed on the tunnel barrier layer, wherein the spin-orbit active layer includes a W—X alloy (where W is tungsten and X includes at least one of group IV semiconductors and group III-V semiconductors).

Abstract: Various arrangements described herein relate to a dual-sided display with improved light scattering. In one embodiment, a display is disclosed. The display includes an inside transparent layer disposed parallel to and spaced apart from an outside transparent layer. The display also includes a liquid crystal (LC) layer disposed between the inside transparent layer and the outside transparent layer and together forming a waveguide that is planar. The display includes ground electrodes disposed between the LC layer and the outside transparent layer and arranged in strips along the transparent layer, the strips being spaced apart and parallel. The display includes inside electrodes and outside electrodes disposed between the inside transparent layer and the LC layer and defining a geometric pattern that is in plane with the waveguide and a light source disposed at an edge surface of the waveguide and providing light along the waveguide.

Abstract: Aspects of the application relate to methods and compositions for delivering therapeutic nucleic acids to neural cells or tissue in a subject. Additional aspects of the application relate to therapeutic nucleic acids, for example therapeutic ribozymes, that are useful for inhibiting viral reactivation in a subject.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of alleviating a symptom or delaying disease progression of a condition associated with a thiamine deficiency, a thiamine-dependent enzyme, or an associated cofactor and/or treating a condition associated with a thiamine deficiency, a thiamine-dependent enzyme, or an associated cofactor. The present methods result in alleviating a symptom or delaying disease progression of the condition associated with the thiamine deficiency, the thiamine-dependent enzyme, or the associated cofactor, treatment of the condition associated with the thiamine deficiency, the thiamine-dependent enzyme, or the associated cofactor, and/or alteration of a phenotypic characteristic of the condition associated with the thiamine deficiency, the thiamine-dependent enzyme, or the associated cofactor.

Abstract: A method of preparing iron oxide nanoparticles using an herbal mixture comprising Capparis spinosa, Cichorium intybus, Solanum nigrum, Cassia occidentalis, Terminalia arjuna, Achillea millefolium, and Tamarix gallica. The method produces crystalline ?—Fe2O3 nanoparticles which are superparamagnetic. The iron oxide nanoparticles are used in a method of killing or inhibiting the growth of a bacteria and/or fungus, particularly in the form of a biofilm. The nanoparticles are also used in a method of treating colon cancer.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition includes a Quisqualis indica extract as an active ingredient, for preventing or treating prostatic hyperplasia, and to a food composition. The Quisqualis indica extract can be favorably used to treat and prevent prostatic hyperplasia by exhibiting effects of a reduction in prostate weight, a reduction in DHT as a prostatic hyperplasia inducing factor, and a reduction in prostate epithelial cell hyperplasia.

Abstract: An exemplary portable automated device is developed for in vitro testing of blood vascular occlusion as a result of sickle cell disease. The portable automated device may be controlled by a computer (e.g., smartphone) application. Calibration of the portable device may be performed using a component of known impedance value. With the developed portable automated device, analysis may be performed on sickle cell samples on a microfluidic platform that mimics the structure of human capillaries. Significant differences in cell impedance signals may be observed between sickle cells and normal cells, as well as between sickle cells under hypoxia and normoxia conditions.

Abstract: The elastocaloric effect underpins a promising solid-state heat pumping technology that, when adopted for commercial and residential applications, can revolutionize the cooling and heating industry due to low environmental impact and substantial energy savings. Known operational demonstration devices based on the elastocaloric effect suffer from low endurance of materials and, in most experimental systems, from large footprints due to bulky actuators required to provide sufficient forces and displacements. We demonstrate a new approach which has the potential to enable a more effective exploitation of the elastocaloric effect by reducing the forces required for actuation. Thin strips of NiTi were incorporated into composite structures with base polymer, such that bending the structures results in either exclusively compression or exclusively tension applied to the elastocaloric strips.

Abstract: A magneto-optical memory interface includes: a memory cell structure having multiple allocated magnetic recording cells, a selection means configured to select an individual or a predetermined number of the multiple allocated magnetic recording cells of the memory structure, and configured for an electronic signal to be applicable thereto; and a light irradiation part configured to irradiate the predetermined number of the multiple allocated magnetic memory cells with an optical signal, wherein each of the magnetic recording cells is a magnetic recording cell whose sensitivity to changes in a magnetization state thereof increases in response to an irradiation light from the light irradiation part, and each of the magnetic recording cells is a magnetic recording cell whose magnetization state changes in response to an applied electrical signal resulting from selection by the selection means and the irradiation light from the light irradiation part.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a drain-gate voltage excitation and source-drain current acquisition system and method for gas-sensitive organic field effect transistors (OFETs). The system includes an acquisition device and a gas-sensitive OFET array. The device includes a microcontroller module, a power supply management module, a voltage excitation module, a voltage regulation module, a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) module, a fully-differential low-side current detection module, a voltage acquisition module, a signal transmission module and an array switching module. In the present disclosure, the real-time monitoring of various harmful gases and the performance testing of the gas-sensitive OFETs are realized. The device has two current detection modes, thereby not only stabilizing drain electric potentials, but also enabling drain-source currents to be measured with sufficient accuracy.

Abstract: An integrated game play system includes a game play platform, an amusement park, and a controller. The game play platform provides access to multiple games and the amusement park includes an attraction including one or more attraction features. Moreover, the controller detects presence of a guest on the game play platform and/or at the attraction, identifies the guest, and determines guest data based on the identification of the guest. In response to determining the guest data, the controller determines a modification to an organization of the multiple games on a display interface of the game play platform and/or a modification to the one or more attraction features (e.g., an animation, a lighting effect, and/or a sound effect), based on the guest data. The controller also sends a control signal indicative of the modification to the game play platform and/or the modification of the one or more attraction features.

Abstract: Devices and methods for use in extraction procedures of analytes (organic and inorganic, including heavy metals) from matrices (e.g., complex matrices) in various fields (e.g., biological, clinical, chemical, environmental, toxicological, and forensic) are provided. The device can comprise a support structure acting as a rigid and stable support for extraction materials that can be inserted thereinto. The device can comprise a plurality of windows in the support structure through which the extraction materials can be exposed. The device can include two portions that can join together (e.g., using an interlocking system).

Abstract: The present application relates to probiotic compositions, e.g., comprising at least one bacterial strain selected from: Streptococcus thermophilus, Bifidobacterium longum, Bifidobacterium breve, Bifidobacterium infantis, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus paracasei, KE99, and Lactobacillus bulgaricus, optionally wherein the at least one bacterial strain is either alive or sonicated.

Abstract: Fabricating a vertical-channel junction field-effect transistor includes forming an unintentionally doped GaN layer on a bulk GaN layer by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition, forming a Cr/SiO2 hard mask on the unintentionally doped GaN layer, patterning a fin by electron beam lithography, defining the Cr and SiO2 hard masks by reactive ion etching, improving a regrowth surface with inductively coupled plasma etching, removing hard mask residuals, regrowing a p-GaN layer, selectively etching the p-GaN layer, forming gate electrodes by electron beam evaporation, and forming source and drain electrodes by electron beam evaporation. The resulting vertical-channel junction field-effect transistor includes a doped GaN layer, an unintentionally doped GaN layer on the doped GaN layer, and a p-GaN regrowth layer on the unintentionally doped GaN layer. Portions of the p-GaN regrowth layer are separated by a vertical channel of the unintentionally doped GaN layer.

Abstract: A microstructured optical fiber sensor for sensing changes in a physical characteristic up to a predetermined temperature is disclosed. The sensor includes a microstructured optical fiber and a fiber Bragg grating formed in the microstructured optical fiber by generating a periodic modulation in the refractive index along a core region of the suspended core. The fiber Bragg grating is configured to produce a band reflection spectra including a fundamental mode and a plurality of higher order modes whose respective wavelengths vary in accordance with changes in the physical characteristic at the core region of the microstructured optical fiber. The microstructured optical fiber is configured to increase the confinement loss of the plurality of higher order modes of the band reflection spectra relative to the fundamental mode.

Abstract: A treatment method for cerebral vasospasm involves determining amounts of let-7b-5p, miR-9-3p, miR-142-3p, miR-15b-5p, miR-17-5p, miR-19b-3p, miR-20a-5p, miR-24-3p, miR-29a-3p, miR-125b-5p, and miR-142-3p in a biological sample obtained from a subject following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) to identify the subject as having an elevated risk of cerebral vasospasm, and administering a treatment to the subject when the elevated risk of cerebral vasospasm is identified.

Abstract: Disclosed are a sulfur-molybdenum cluster modified MOF material and a preparation method and application thereof, and the material is prepared by taking an MOF material as a metal organic framework material, and modifying ammonium tetrathiomolybdate inside the metal organic framework material; and according to the mass percentage, the MOF material accounts for 45 wt % to 90 wt %, and a modification amount of the ammonium tetrathiomolybdate accounts for 10 wt % to 55 wt %. The ammonium tetrathiomolybdate is embedded into an MOF material framework in a solution in a form of an anion MoS42? for modification. According to the invention, the MOF material is modified by the ammonium tetrathiomolybdate, and compared with an existing sulfydryl modified composite material, the modified composite material shows a higher adsorption capacity, a higher adsorption rate and a higher S atom effective utilization rate in the application of removing Hg (II) in water, and meets a wider practical application scene.

Abstract: Systems and methods that enable automated spray deposition of biological specimens carried on microscope slides are described herein. Aspects of the technology are directed, for example, to automated specimen deposition systems and methods of generating high-quality, reproducible specimen-bearing microscope slides in automated processing systems.