Abstract: The present disclosure provides a textile coating composition comprising a primer bonding to at least one surface of a textile and a polymer brush bonding to the primer. The primer is of general formula (I) and the polymer brush is of general formula (II). A coated textile comprising a textile coated with the textile coating composition and a method of forming the coated textile are also provided.

Abstract: A method of forming an electrode including dissolving a copper salt and benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate in a solvent and heating to a temperature of 60° C. to 100° C. to form a framework. Further, the method includes mixing a zinc salt and the framework to form a zinc doped framework and heating the zinc doped framework to a temperature of 300° C. to 600° C. under air to form ZnCuO nanoparticles. Furthermore, the method includes mixing the ZnCuO nanoparticles, a binding compound, and a conductive carbon compound in a solvent to form a suspension. Moreover, the method includes coating a substrate with the suspension and drying to form the electrode and the ZnCuO nanoparticles have an oval shape with an average size of 50 nm to 200 nm.

Abstract: A physical method for regulating molecular transport within a brain extracellular space includes: applying an external pressure to brain tissue of an animal, wherein a rhythm of applying the external pressure is related to intrinsic rhythmicity of the animal. An apparatus for regulating molecular transport within a brain extracellular space includes: a detection mechanism (10), a pressurization mechanism (30), and a control mechanism (50). The detection mechanism (10) is capable of detecting intrinsic rhythmicity of an animal. The pressurization mechanism (30) is capable of applying an external pressure to brain tissue of the animal. The control mechanism (50) is capable of control the pressurization mechanism (10) based on a detection result of the detection mechanism (30), such that a rhythm of applying the external pressure by the pressurization mechanism (30) is related to the intrinsic rhythmicity of the animal.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method capable of more conveniently determining at an earlier stage whether a cell population collected from a vertebrate animal adipose tissue has mesenchymal stem cells (ASCs) at high purity, a kit for determining it, etc. The present disclosure includes, for example, a method for determining whether a cell population derived from an adipose tissue collected from a vertebrate animal comprises mesenchymal stem cells (ASCs) at high purity, the method comprising detecting expression of one or more genes in the cell population.

Abstract: A robotic system to assist a surgeon during ankle fracture procedures includes an imaging system configured to be at least one of mounted on or arranged adjacent to a robotic device. The system includes a passive arm, a separate actuatable section, and a controller configured to communicate with the actuatable section. The passive arm is structured to be placed on a side of a patient's leg fixed to a platform and the passive arm comprises a fastening mechanism structured to be attached to a tibia of the patient's leg. The actuatable section is structured to be placed on a side of said patient's leg fixed to the platform and the actuatable section comprises a fastening mechanism structured to be attached to a fibula of the patient's leg.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to anti-fibrotic sialidase-inhibitor compounds and methods of preventing or inhibiting fibrosis using such compounds. The present disclosure also relates to methods of controlling the formation of fibrocytes or their activity using such compounds. The compounds may include both antibodies as well as small molecules. The methods may involve administering the compounds to a patient with or at risk of developing fibrosis in a manner that inhibits at least one sialidase in the patient.

Abstract: A manipulator execution path planning method for a complex space guided measurement task, includes: determining a measurement space of a manipulator and a starting point and a target point of a path; determining an obstructed space and a free space of the measurement space and a proportion of the obstructed space in the measurement space using a collision algorithm, and classifying and constructing a space compression model according to the proportion of the obstructed space in the measurement space to compress the measurement space and remove an invalid space; finding candidate paths for connecting the starting point and the target point by constructing an adjacent node tree connected topology network; finding a required path in the candidate paths, and performing high-order curve fitting to obtain a final path; discretizing the final path, and solving joint angles of the manipulator to obtain a joint track.

Abstract: A method for ammonia (NH3) decomposition to hydrogen (H2) and nitrogen (N2) includes introducing and passing a H2-containing feed gas stream into a reactor containing an industrial waste-based nickel (Ni-SMR) catalyst at a temperature of 500 to 900° C. to form a reduced Ni-SMR catalyst; introducing and passing an NH3-containing feed gas stream through the reactor in contact with the reduced Ni-SMR catalyst at a temperature of 100 to 1000° C. thereby converting at least a portion of the NH3 to H2 and regenerating the Ni-SMR catalyst particles to form a regenerated Ni-SMR catalyst, and producing a residue gas stream leaving the reactor; and separating the H2 from the residue gas stream to generate a H2-containing product gas stream.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for re-programming effector T cells to a central memory phenotype comprising culturing the effector T cells with a histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) and IL-21. Further provided are methods of treating cancer comprising administering the central memory T cells.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the disclosure concern a device including a nozzle configured to receive a heated polymer solution from a reservoir and a power supply configured to generate an electrostatic field between a tip portion of the nozzle and a substrate so as to draw a charged jet of the heated polymer solution out of the tip portion of the nozzle toward a substrate situated at an operating distance from the tip portion of the nozzle and form a polymer fiber on the substrate. The heated polymer solution is at an operating temperature that is greater than or equal to 40° C.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a photoresist composition including a tin-oxo cluster, an oxidizing agent, and a polar organic solvent in which when irradiated with ultraviolet, bonds constituting the cluster are broken to form cross-linking between the clusters

Abstract: Provided is a method and system for predicting a hydration reaction degree of cement based on a cycle generative adversarial network (CycleGAN). The method includes the following steps: S1, acquiring a micro-structure image of a cement paste test specimen; S2, establishing a micro-pore structure image dataset; S3, establishing a cement micro-hydration prediction model based on a CycleGAN; and S4, completing prediction based on a final cement micro-hydration prediction model. A deep learning algorithm is applied to micro-hydration prediction of cement. A complex theoretical formula is replaced with a data driven mode. Dependence on ideal hypotheses is reduced, and the accuracy of prediction on micro-hydration of cement is thus improved.

Abstract: A method of processing speech includes: obtaining a speech input; obtaining an instruction related to the speech input; obtaining a speech representation corresponding to the speech input; obtaining an adapter that includes speech information by fusing a pre-trained adapter with the speech representation; and obtaining a response corresponding to the instruction by inputting both the adapter that includes the speech information and the instruction to a language model, the language model generating the response based on the adapter that includes the speech model and the speech information.

Abstract: A first-order differential microphone array (FODMA) system with a steerable beamformer. The system includes a plurality (M) of microphones located on a substantially planar platform, the plurality of microphones comprising a first subset (M_1) of microphones and a second subset (M_2) of microphones, and a processing device, communicatively coupled to the plurality of microphones, configured to construct a first sub-beamformer based on the first sub-set (M_1) of microphones and a target beampattern at a steering angle ?, wherein the first sub-beamformer is characterized according to a first-order cosine (cardioid) first sub-beampattern, construct a second sub-beamformer based on the second sub-set (M_2) of the microphones and the target beampattern at the steering angle ?, wherein the second sub-beamformer is characterized according to a first-order sinusoidal (dipole) second sub-beampattern, and generate the steerable beamformer based on the first sub-beamformer and the second sub-beamformer.

Abstract: A large-tonnage disc-shaped suspension ceramic insulator includes a ceramic insulator body, and a metal pin and a metal cap coaxially assembled with the ceramic insulator body through adhesive material, assembly interfaces of the ceramic insulator body, the metal cap, and the metal pin are coated with a primer; the adhesive material includes an expansion agent; and the expansion agent is configured to make the adhesive material expand after hardening so as to create a prestress between the ceramic insulator body and the metal pin as well as the metal cap. The present disclosure achieves overall compressive prestress distribution of the ceramic insulator product, mitigating thermal stress caused by temperature changes and improving the tensile strength of the large-tonnage disc-shaped suspension ceramic insulator assembly. By treating the assembly interfaces with the primer, the present disclosure significantly improves the assembly strength of the ceramic insulator/metal assembly.

Abstract: A method for decoding an image signal according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: determining whether there is a brightness change between a current image including a current block and a reference image of the current image; if it is determined that there is a brightness change between the current image and the reference image, determining weight prediction parameter candidates for the current block; determining a weight prediction parameter for the current block on the basis of index information which specifies any one of the weight prediction parameter candidates; and performing a prediction on the current block on the basis of the weight prediction parameter.

Abstract: Disclosed are a cell-level analysis method of a memory and a computing device for performing the same. The cell-level analysis method of a memory is a cell-level analysis method of a memory that is executed in a computing device including one or more processors and a memory storing one or more programs executed by the one or more processors, the cell-level analysis method including acquiring information on a location of each cell in the memory, generating graph-structured data for a target cell based on the location of each cell in the memory, and training a graph neural network model to predict one or more of an electrical characteristic of the target cell and a program and verify level (PV level) of the target cell by inputting the graph-structured data into the graph neural network model.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are monospecific and bispecific antibodies that comprise a ALPPL2/ALPP-binding variable region. The bi-specific antibody is comprises of a monoclonal antibody targeting a tumor-specific cell surface antigen (ALPPL2/ALPP) with exquisite tissue specificity and a monoclonal antibody targeting a cell surface molecule (e.g., CD3) expressed by immune effector cells.

Abstract: Methods of using the small molecule STAT3 inhibitor LLL 12B in the treatment of cancer, such as triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and pancreatic cancer, either alone or in combination with additional therapeutic agents, such as PARP inhibitors and CDK inhibitors, are provided.

Abstract: Provided herein are compositions, systems, and methods to provide two gene editing-based approaches that can be used to correct the CD35 SCID-causing C202T mutation (TGA?CGA). In certain embodiments one approach involves CRISPR/Cas9 homology-directed repair (HDR)-mediated correction with a single-strand oligodeoxynucleotide (ssODN) homologous donor. In certain embodiments another approach comprises Adenine Base Editing (ABE)-correction, to precisely revert the CD35 SCID-causing C202T mutation (TGA?CGA).