Abstract: A compound having the following formula (I): is disclosed. A method of preparing the compound of formula (I) is also disclosed.

Abstract: This invention relates to the field of polymers and olefin polymerization, and more specifically olefin metathesis polymerization. Specifically, the present invention provides a polymer comprising rigorously alternating AB subunits and methods of formation of the AB alternating polymers. In the polymers and process of the invention, the A monomer is derived from a cyclobutene derivative, and the B monomer is derived from a cyclohexene derivative. The polymerization takes place in the presence of an olefin metathesis catalyst.

Abstract: Provided are a novel cultivation method and a storage method that are suitable for storing bacteria belonging to the genus Collimonas for a long period of time. The cultivation method for bacteria belonging to the genus Collimonas is characterized in that bacteria belonging to the genus Collimonas are cultivated in a sealed state on a culture medium that includes a rice bran culture medium and/or a soy pulp culture medium. The storage method for bacteria belonging to the genus Collimonas is characterized in that the cultivated bacteria belonging to the genus Collimonas are stored at room temperature.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for analyzing target compounds. An excitation signal comprising light having a time-varying intensity is transmitted into a target compound. In response to receiving the excitation signal, the target compound generates an emission signal. To increase the intensity of the emission signal, a fluorophore may be provided to the target compound. The fluorophore may be configured to react with a characteristic of the target compound so that the fluorophore generates the emission signal in response to the presence of both the characteristic and the excitation signal. The emission signal may be compared to the excitation signal in a frequency domain to determine a phase of the emission signal relative to the excitation signal. The phase may be used to determine a luminescence lifetime of the emission signal. If the detected luminescence lifetime matches an expected luminescence lifetime, the target compound likely includes the characteristic.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device having a donor layer containing a donor compound, a spacer layer containing a spacer compound, and an acceptor layer containing an acceptor compound in that order, wherein the donor compound and the acceptor compound are compounds to form an exciplex to radiate delayed fluorescence, and the excited triplet energy of the spacer compound is higher than the excited triplet energy of the exciplex, can be controlled to have different emission wavelengths not requiring change of the combination of the donor compound and the acceptor compound therein.

Abstract: Van der Waals heterojunctions are extended to semiconducting p-type single-walled carbon nanotube (s-SWCNT) and n-type film that can be solution-processed with high spatial uniformity at the wafer scale. The resulting large-area, low-voltage p-n heterojunctions can exhibit anti-ambipolar transfer characteristics with high on/off ratios. The charge transport can be efficiently utilized in analog circuits such as frequency doublers and keying circuits that are widely used, for example, in telecommunication and wireless data transmission technologies.

Abstract: A memory element includes a free magnetization layer (“FR-ML”) in a film form, a nonmagnetic layer (“NML”), and a fixed magnetization layer (“FX-ML”), The NML and FX-ML are stacked on the FR-ML. The FR ML stores a single bit of data “0” or “1” according to a magnetization direction and rewrites the data by reversing the magnetization direction. An antiferromagnet that exhibits the anomalous Hall effect and has a reversible magnetization direction is used for the FR-M. The reversal of the magnetization direction of the FR-ML is performed using the FX-ML by the spin-transfer torque technique. To read data, a reading current is caused to flow in one direction, and a Hall voltage generated in the FR-ML by the anomalous Hall effect is extracted from the FR-ML. The polarity of the Hall voltage is reversed in accordance with the magnetization direction of the FR-ML.

Abstract: An expandable plugging agent is described. The expandable plugging agent is obtained through a polymerization reaction of acrylamide, a strength improving material, an acrylate, and gelatinized colloid, the acrylate is obtained through a neutralization reaction of an acidity neutralizer and acrylic acid, and the gelatinized colloid is obtained through a gelatinization reaction of starch in deionized water.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the oral administration of Bryostatins for the treatment of neuro-degenerative disease.

Abstract: An camera, the camera including: an photosensitive device and an image processor, wherein the photosensitive device includes a plurality of photosensitive units, a measuring device and a data processor; the plurality of photosensitive units are distributed in an array, wherein each photosensitive unit is configured to receive and convert light signal to form a temperature difference or a potential difference; the measuring device is configured to measure the temperature difference or the potential difference; a data processor is configured to analyze and calculate the potential difference or the temperature difference.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring small changes in the centroid of the spectrum of a light field by conversion of optical frequency centroid shifts into time delays are described. A time delay for a particular frequency of light is created by directing the light into an optically dispersive system that converts the change in center frequency to a change in transit time through the system as the dispersive element causes different colors to travel at different speeds. Examples of such dispersive elements include, but are not limited to, optical fibers, bulk materials, volumetric or fiber Bragg gratings, and grating or prism based pulse stretchers. This time delay can be measured, by detecting the change in transit time (or time of flight through the dispersive element) by using a detector such as a photodiode, PMT, etc. that converts the incident optical pulse train into an electronic pulsed signal.

Abstract: In one aspect, light emitting devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a light emitting device described herein comprises an inorganic semiconductor substrate and a layer of quantum dots (QDs) covalently bonded to the inorganic semiconductor substrate. Such a device may further comprise an electrode and an overlayer positioned between the electrode and the layer of QDs. Moreover, the overlayer can be immediately adjacent to and in contact with the layer of QDs. Further, in some cases, the layer of QDs is a close-packed layer of QDs. Additionally, the light emitting device can be a green-emitting light emitting diode (LED) or an amber-emitting LED.

Abstract: A method for constructing networked preferential gas migration pathways and diverting and extracting gas. The method proposes that a fracture generation hole, a fracture guidance and development hole, a lateral rupture hole, and a fracture connection hole are respectively constructed in a roof in roadways on two sides of a working face in advance of an advance stress change area. Artificial guided fractures are actively constructed and formed inside the hard roof. Under a mining-induced stress effect, the artificial guided fractures and mining-induced fractures intersect with and are connected to each other to form networked preferential gas migration pathways. Meanwhile, boreholes for artificial guided fractures accelerate roof fracturing to form a rupture bed separation fracture area in a roof. Gas flows and migrates in a timely and efficient manner along networked fracture pathways and concentrates in the rupture bed separation fracture area in the roof.

Abstract: A system for embedding phase and amplitude into a real valued unipolar signal suitable for intensity modulation (IM) by optical transmitters. The system includes a complex-to-unipolar conversion engine configured to receive complex symbols in Cartesian format and convert the complex symbols from the Cartesian format to a polar coordinate format and generate real valued unipolar symbols including embedded phase and amplitude information of complex symbols in the Cartesian format.

Abstract: The electrolyzed water-generating apparatus 1 includes: a first electrode chamber Da; a first water inlet path 4a connected to the first electrode chamber Da to supply the first electrode chamber Da with raw water from outside; a first water outlet path 7a connected to the first electrode chamber Da, and dispensing out of the first electrode chamber Da electrolyzed hydrogen water generated by electrolysis in the first electrode chamber Da; and a charge amount adjuster 10 connected to the electrolysis tank D to adjust an amount of electrical charge to be provided to the electrolyzed hydrogen water. The charge amount adjuster 10 adjusts, based on a flow rate of the raw water, the amount of the electrical charge per unit quantity of the generated electrolyzed hydrogen water through control of an electrolytic current or an electrolytic voltage, so that the adjusted amount of the electrical charge is constant.

Abstract: A method includes generating a bias signal from a first device, and applying the bias signal to a second device, the first device having (a) a superconducting trace and (b) a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), in which a first terminal of the SQUID is electrically coupled to a first end of the superconducting trace, and a second terminal of the SQUID is electrically coupled to a second end of the superconducting trace, where generating the bias signal from the first device includes: applying a first signal ?1 to a first sub-loop of the SQUID; and applying a second signal ?2 to a second sub-loop of the SQUID, in which the first signal ?1 and the second signal ?2 are applied such that a value of a superconducting phase of the first device is incremented or decremented by a non-zero integer multiple n of 2?.

Abstract: The oligonucleotide derivative of the present invention is represented by Formula (1). This derivative is considered to be introduced into cells by binding of its amino sugar chain moiety to a ligand on cell surfaces, and have selective drug delivery function. The oligonucleotide derivative can be easily synthesized and introduced into cells without using a lipofection reagent. wherein A and B are independently modified or unmodified oligonucleotides whose total chain length is 3 or more, and A and B do not contain hydroxyl groups at 3? and 5? ends of the oligonucleotide; S represents a sugar substituent, a peptide chain, or a tocopherol-binding group; and an alkyl group may be bound instead of hydrogen bound to a benzene ring.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention provides methods of treatment which use therapeutically effective amounts of Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein (CETP) inhibitors to treat a variety of cancers. In certain embodiments, the inhibitor is a CETP-inhibiting small molecule, CETP-inhibiting antisense oligonucleotide, CETP-inhibiting siRNA or a CETP-inhibiting antibody. Related pharmaceutical compositions, kits, diagnostics and screens are also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a DNA-targeting RNA that comprises a targeting sequence and, together with a modifying polypeptide, provides for site-specific modification of a target DNA and/or a polypeptide associated with the target DNA. The present disclosure further provides site-specific modifying polypeptides. The present disclosure further provides methods of site-specific modification of a target DNA and/or a polypeptide associated with the target DNA The present disclosure provides methods of modulating transcription of a target nucleic acid in a target cell, generally involving contacting the target nucleic acid with an enzymatically inactive Cas9 polypeptide and a DNA-targeting RNA. Kits and compositions for carrying out the methods are also provided. The present disclosure provides genetically modified cells that produce Cas9; and Cas9 transgenic non-human multicellular organisms.

Abstract: The disclosure provides methods for selecting modified plants with a mutation in a target gene and plants produced by the methods. Specifically, the disclosure provides methods comprising introducing a recombinant expression cassette encoding a genome editing protein into meristematic or germline cells of a parent plant, wherein the genome editing protein specifically recognizes a target gene; crossing or selfing the parent plant, thereby producing a plurality of progeny seeds; and selecting progeny plants grown from the progeny seeds that express a phenotype that can be selected at the intact plant level.