Abstract: A data recovery circuit may include a data sampling unit suitable for sampling source data including an edge data using data clocks and an edge clock, a data extraction unit suitable for extracting the edge data from sampled data outputted from the data sampling unit, a control signal generation unit suitable for generating a phase control signal in response to the edge data, and a multi-clock control unit suitable for controlling phases of the data clocks and the edge clock in response to the phase control signal.

Abstract: In one embodiment, identifying a parameter of interest from captured image data includes capturing image data with a signal-amplifying image detector having at least one detection element in a manner in which on average fewer than approximately 10 photons are detected by each detection element and estimating the parameter of interest from the image data with a standard deviation that is no greater than approximately 1.5 times the square root of the Cramer-Rao lower bound.

Abstract: This invention provides a peptide that comprises an amino acid sequence consisting of 14 to 18 amino acid residues represented by Formula (I) and is capable of binding to human IgA: (SEQ?ID?NO:?1) H-(X1)-V-C-L-S-Y-R-(X2)-(X3)-G-(X4)-P-(X5)-C- (X6)-(X7)-(X8)(I) wherein each X is independently selected from among the following: X1 represents a Gln residue or a Met residue; X2 and X3 each independently represent an arbitrary amino acid residue other than Cys or either or both thereof are deleted; X4 represents an Arg residue or a Gln residue; X5 represents a Val residue or a Thr residue; X6 represents a Phe residue or a Tyr residue; X7 represents a Ser residue or is null; and X8 represents a Leu residue, a Thr residue, or is null, provided that, when X1 represents a Met residue, X7 represents a Ser residue or is null, and X8 is null. The invention also provides a method for purifying or analyzing human IgA using such peptide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a brain cooling device for a craniotomy patient, and more specifically, to a brain cooling device for a craniotomy for cooling the brain so as to prevent damage to the brain after a brain surgery. To this end, the present invention provides the brain cooling device for a craniotomy patient comprising: a cooling portion which is buried in such a manner to come into contact with the brain or the dura mater; and one withdrawal tube, which is one end of the cooling portion that is exposed to the exterior, wherein the withdrawal tube is exposed to the exterior by penetrating through the scalp and the cranium.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and compositions for detecting the presence of cancer. In particular, methods and compositions for detecting endometrial cancer or ovarian cancer are provided.

Abstract: Compressive sensing based video rate imaging techniques are presented. Rather than scan the entire image, the imaging system only scans part of the topography of the sample as a compressed scan. After the data has been collected, an algorithm for image reconstruction is applied for recovering the image. Because compressive sensing is used, the imaging rate is increased from several minutes per frame to seconds per frame. Non-vector space control techniques are also presented. No-vector space control use image or compressive data as the input and feedback to generate a closed-loop motion control. Compressive sensing technique provides an efficient data reduction method to retain the essential information in the original image. The non-vector space control method can be used as motion control method with compressive feedback without or with noise.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for assessing the presence and risk of developing type 2 diabetes, cancer of all sites, or cardiovascular disease in a subject by detecting sequence variation in one or more genes such as carboxypeptidase E (CPE) and insulin degradation enzyme (IDE). A kit, array, and device useful for such a method are also provided. In addition, the present invention provides a method for treating type 2 diabetes, cancer of all sites, or cardiovascular disease in patients who have been tested and shown to have the pertinent genetic variations.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a substrate, a display panel on the substrate, and an encapsulation film sealing the display panel. The encapsulation film includes at least one organic layer and/or at least one inorganic layer and at least one pair of conductive layers.

Abstract: A multi-chip module (MCM) is disclosed, which in some embodiments can include a packaging substrate, an interposer coupled to the substrate and having a power converter coupled to one or more vias, and a CMOS integrated circuit comprising one or more connecters aligned with and disposed proximate to the one or more vias to electrically couple the interposer to the integrated circuit. Methods of forming a voltage regulator on an interposer of a multi-chip module (MCM) are also provided.

Abstract: A stereo microscope capable of not only adjusting the three dimensional effect of stereoscopic image but also focusing exactly even when the three dimensional effect of stereoscopic image is adjusted, is provided. A spacing distance of a pair of zoom unit can be adjusted so that a user can adjust three dimensional effect of image seen through an ocular lens according to personal tendency to improve convenience. Additionally, an object with a depth such as a hole can be exactly observed without interference of a boundary. Further, even though the three dimensional effect of an image is adjusted by adjusting the spacing distance of the pair of zoom units, the to focus of optical system can be exactly adjusted.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for purifying tail gases from an ore-smelting electrical furnace by catalytic oxidization, which comprises: impregnating a catalyst carrier in an impregnating solution, then aging, calcinating, and finally drying, so as to prepare a catalyst of high efficiency; then washing the tail gases from an ore-smelting electrical furnace with an aqueous alkali-containing solution, pre-heating the alkali-washed tail gas; and adjusting the oxygen volume content in the tail gases, charging the tail gases at a certain speed, purifying the gases by a catalytic oxidization fixed bed containing the catalyst of high efficiency, cooling the purified gas, so as to obtain the feed gases for C1 chemistry.

Abstract: The present invention relates to immunotherapy methods for treating hyperproliferative disease in humans, particularly to hyperproliferative disease that is refractory to therapy. More specifically, the invention is directed, in one embodiment, to methods for treating a subject with a hyperproliferative disease in which the expression of a self gene is upregulated in therapy-resistant hyperproliferative cells. In another embodiment, an adenoviral expression construct comprising a self gene under the control of a promoter operable in eukaryotic cells is administered to the therapy-resistant hyperproliferative cells. The present invention thus provides immunotherapies for treating therapy-resistant hyperproliferative disease by attenuating the natural immune system's CTL response against hyperproliferative cells or overexpressing mutant p53 antigens, for example.

Abstract: Apparatuses with rolling contact handles are described. An apparatus for hand exercising includes an outer frame having a first rail and a second rail spaced apart and an outer handle extending between the first and second rails, the outer handle configured to engage with a thenar of a hand, a roller bar slideably coupled to the first and second rails, the roller bar having a plurality of rollers capable of rotating about an axis of the roller bar, wherein the plurality of rollers are configured to support a plurality of fingers of the hand, and a resistance assembly coupled to the roller bar and the outer frame, the resistance assembly resisting movement of the roller bar towards the outer handle.

Abstract: This invention relates to methods and apparatus for improving communications between humans and devices. The invention provides a method of modulating operation of a device, comprising: providing an attentive user interface for obtaining information about an attentive state of a user; and modulating operation of a device on the basis of the obtained information, wherein the operation that is modulated is initiated by the device. Preferably, the information about the user's attentive state is eye contact of the user with the device that is sensed by the attentive user interface.

Abstract: A method for generating print parameters includes: obtaining a printed paper of a test sample sheet obtained by a printing device after performing double-sided printing on the test sample sheet using preset front print parameters and preset back print parameters; detecting a front effect index of a front print effect and a back effect index of a back print effect for the printed paper of the test sample sheet by a print parameter generating device; comparing the front effect index and the back effect index with a standard effect index to obtain a comparison result, or comparing the front effect index with the back effect index to obtain a comparison result; determining from the comparison result and store in the printing device front print parameters and back print parameters used for double-sided printing on a paper to be printed with the same material and attributes as the test sample sheet.

Abstract: Techniques for opening a target tissue using nanodroplets are provided. An exemplary method can include targeting a region of tissue for opening, delivering a plurality of nanodroplets to the region, and applying an ultrasound beam at the region such that the nanodroplets cavitate, or convert to microbubbles that cavitate, thereby causing the target tissue to open.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of creating a two dimensional code comprises providing a two dimensional code comprising a cell, providing a picture comprising a patch corresponding to the cell of the two dimensional code, providing a plurality of cell patterns different from each other, wherein each cell pattern comprises a plurality of sub-cells, and determining one of the plurality of cell patterns for the cell of the two dimensional code according to the patch of the picture.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally pertain to passive cooling systems and methods for electronics. An exemplary passive cooling system for electronics has a circuit package and dielectric liquid. The circuit package has a cover positioned over a circuit element coupled to a substrate. The cover is attached to the substrate and creates a water-tight seal around the circuit element. The circuit package further has a porous media. The dielectric liquid directly contacts the circuit element, and heat from the circuit element is transferred to the dielectric liquid. As the liquid reaches its boiling point, vapor from the liquid is passed through the porous media for further cooling.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for supporting location registration and mobility for each service flow in relation to a Mobile Node (MN) having a plurality of wired/wireless network interfaces in a wired/wireless integrated network environment. A method includes receiving a location registration message from a specific Handover Control Agent (HCA) connected to an MN, determining a movement of a flow, configured in another HCA to which the MN is connected, based on predetermined static flow binding information or a network status, sending a location registration Ack. message, comprising information on a HCA in which the flow is configured and to which a Corresponding Node (CN) is connected, to the specific HCA, and sending a location notification message, comprising information on the specific HCA to which the flow will be moved and to which the CN is connected, to the HCA.

Abstract: A modular chemical production system includes multiple modules for performing a chemical reaction, particularly of radiochemical compounds, from a remote location. One embodiment comprises a reaction vessel including a moveable heat source with the position thereof relative to the reaction vessel being controllable from a remote position. Alternatively the heat source may be fixed in location and the reaction vial is moveable into and out of the heat source. The reaction vessel has one or more sealing plugs, the positioning of which in relationship to the reaction vessel is controllable from a remote position. Also the one or more reaction vessel sealing plugs can include one or more conduits there through for delivery of reactants, gases at atmospheric or an elevated pressure, inert gases, drawing a vacuum and removal of reaction end products to and from the reaction vial, the reaction vial with sealing plug in position being operable at elevated pressures.