Abstract: A frequency comb generator including a semiconductor, wherein the semiconductor outputs a frequency comb in response to frequency mixing of an optical field and at terahertz field in the semiconductor using a high order sideband (HSG) mechanism. The frequency comb spans a bandwidth sufficient for self-referencing and may be used in optical clock applications, for example.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and system for power amplifier characterization and digital predistortion. The method includes receiving a test signal including K samples with a sampling rate fS, generating a synthetic test signal including the test signal and a sequence of (N?1) delayed versions of the test signal, generating an under-sampled signal including M samples by sampling, at a sampling rate fS/N, an output signal of a device-under-test (DUT) with the synthetic test signal as an input of the DUT, the M samples of the under-sampled signal including N segments each including K/N samples, and generating a reconstructed signal including the M samples of the under-sampled signal.

Abstract: Providing a method for pyrolysis treatment of oily sludge and environment-friendly renovation of the residue thereof with humic acid substance. The method relates to inside-mixing solid heat carrier with oily sludge to improve the liquid yield, and completely removing the petroleum hydrocarbons from pyrolyzing residue by calcinating it in a fluidized bed, and using the fractionated large and medium particles as the circulating heat carrier, and discharging the fine particles, and performing environment-friendly renovation with the biological humic acid substance to achieve combinations of the harmless technical measures, thereby achieve harmlessness, reduced quantity and resourceful treatment of the oily sludge.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel IgE antibodies useful for inhibiting or preventing metastatic cancer. Also provided are methods to inhibit tumor metastasis by modulating the activity of at least one non-tumor cell, treating a patient to inhibit or prevent tumor metastases of a primary solid tumor, treating metastatic carcinoma, reducing metastasis of carcinoma cells, and reducing the growth kinetics of a primary solid tumor or a metastasized cell or tumor.

Abstract: A duty cycle corrector includes a delay chain, an edge detector, a falling edge shift (FES) controller, a plurality of falling edge modulator (FEM) cores, and a phase interpolator. The delay chain delays a first clock to generate a delay clock, and generates first and second sampling control signals. The edge detector samples the first clock and a second clock using the first and second sampling control signals to obtain first and second sampling signals. The FES controller determines a modulation direction and a modulation width based on the first and second sampling signals. The plurality of FEM cores first modulate the first edge of the first clock and second modulate the first edge of the delay clock using the modulation direction and the modulation width. The phase interpolator performs phase interpolation on the results of the first and second modulations.

Abstract: A hybrid distributed amplification method based on a random fiber laser generated within erbium fiber with low doping concentration, i.e. weak erbium-doped fiber (WEDF), which includes: Step 1. constructing a fiber link via WEDF; Step 2. generating the random fiber laser based on the fiber link, the pump source, the wavelength division multiplexer and the strong feedback module; Step 3. constructing the spatial equalized gain based on hybrid gain of the erbium fiber and random fiber laser; Step 4. the signal is amplified by the hybrid spatial equalized gain. The present invention solves the typical problem of high laser threshold and low pump conversion efficiency when conventional fiber is used to generate random fiber laser for distributed amplification.

Abstract: A polygeneration method of biomass downflow circulation bed millisecond pyrolysis liquefaction-gasification coupling is provided.

Abstract: Described here is a device comprising a microfluidic chip and an acoustic transducer external to the microfluidic chip, wherein the microfluidic chip comprises a channel in communication with a microwell having a volume less than one microliter, and wherein the acoustic transducer is coupled to the microfluidic chip via a coupling medium.

Abstract: A continuous-time delta-sigma modulator includes a loop filter, a quantizer, a finite impulse response (FIR) filter, and a digital to analog converter. The loop filter integrates a difference between an input signal and a feedback signal. The quantizer quantizes a signal output from the loop filter to convert the quantized signal into a digital signal. The FIR filter performs an FIR filtering process on the digital signal output from the quantizer. The digital to analog converter converts a signal output from the FIR filter into an analog signal and outputs the converted analog signal as a feedback signal.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for treating or preventing a cognitive disease or disorder, containing a compound represented by Formula (I), an enantiomer thereof, a diastereomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A Wireless Sensor Network for providing Base Station anonymity is described. The network comprises sensor nodes, cluster heads, fake base stations and a base station arranged in a grid configuration. The location of the base station is obscured by managing the traffic in the network by a coverage-aware technique. The coverage aware technique achieves Base Station anonymity by using data aggregation and fake packet injection without affecting coverage of the sensor nodes.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a thin-film transistor having a plurality of carbon nanotubes in its active layer, its manufacturing method, and an array substrate. The manufacturing method as such comprises: forming an insulating layer to at least substantially cover a channel region of the active layer between a source electrode and a drain electrode of the thin-film transistor, wherein the insulating layer is configured to substantially insulate from an environment, and have substantially little influence on, the plurality of carbon nanotubes in the active layer.

Abstract: The invention provides an anticancer agent adsorbing sheet body that exhibits a sufficient effect of adsorbing and retaining highly toxic chemical agents such as anticancer agents, and that further improves safety for health care professionals in medical environments.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for IrO2 catalysts, methods of making IrO2 catalysts, methods of using IrO2 catalysts to make methanol, formaldehyde, and/or ethylene from CH4, systems for using IrO2 catalysts, and the like.

Abstract: The present application provides a method and an apparatus for parsing and processing a three-dimensional CAD model, where the method includes: determining three kinds of adjacency relation information for each component in the three-dimensional model; performing aggregation processing on all components of the three-dimensional model, and generating three part hypothesis sets for the three-dimensional model; performing voxelization expression processing on each part hypothesis in each part hypothesis set, and generating voxelization information for each part hypothesis; inputting voxelization information of all part hypotheses in each part hypothesis set into an identification model to obtain a confidence score and a semantic category probability distribution for each part hypothesis; and constructing, according to the confidence score and the semantic category probability distribution of each part hypothesis in the part hypothesis sets, a high-order conditional random field model, and obtaining a semantic ca

Abstract: Described herein are nanoparticle drug conjugates (NDCs), which, in certain embodiments, comprise a non-toxic, multi-modality, clinically proven silica-based nanoparticle platform with covalently attached drug molecules/moieties. The nanoparticle drug conjugates (NDCs) demonstrate imaging capability and targeting ligands which efficiently clear through the kidneys. Furthermore, the conjugates incorporate therapeutic agents for cancer detection, prevention, and/or treatment.

Abstract: Provided are a communication system and a communication device that allow a reception node to estimate delay time, a generation time point or the like of a message. A delay time estimation part in an ECU determines whether a message received by itself is transmitted in sequence with another message without being provided with time information by a transmission node. If the received message is transmitted in sequence with another message, the received message may be delayed due to arbitrary processing. Thus, the delay time estimation part checks the priority of one or more sequential messages preceding the received message, and estimates delay time of the received message occurring due to the arbitrary processing in accordance with the priority of each message. A generation time point estimation part estimates the time point when the received message is generated by an ECU, based on the delay time estimated.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved system and method for carrying out the petroleum coking process. The improvements provide for recovery of gaseous hydrocarbons from operational units and use of the recovered gaseous hydrocarbons in place of steam during the coking process and during the stripping of volatile compounds from the coke drums.

Abstract: A method of allocating registers, includes for each of a plurality of live ranges of variables, calculating an energy saving value of each of the plurality of live ranges of the variables; classifying the plurality of live ranges of the variables into a plurality of queues according to the energy saving values of the plurality of live ranges of the variables; and assigning the plurality of live ranges of the variables in the plurality of queues into a plurality of registers.

Abstract: An inventive approach is disclosed to integrate Digital Image Correlation (DIC) with the Acoustic Emission method that may be used for structural health monitoring and assessment of critical structural components in civil, mechanical, and aerospace industries. The inventive approach relies on passively recording acoustic emission across the specimen being tested and activating the DIC cameras automatically to measure deformation on the specimen's surface. The resulting acousto-optic system can be used to determine damage initiation, progressive damage development, identify critical regions and make lifetime predictions of the tested specimen.