Abstract: The present invention provides a meter retrofit and method for use thereof, utilizing a transducer with an encoder driven by a rotating shaft of a meter reading dial, the transducer including a plurality of encoder contacts surrounding a rotation axis, with each encoder contact connected to a magnetic switch. A wiper connects to the shaft and rotates around the rotation axis, sequentially contacting the plurality of encoder contacts, providing a variable signal to a monitoring device.

Abstract: A composition and method for producing the same are provided. The composition includes transition metal oxides adhered to a surface of a cerium oxide support, and can additionally include alkali metal or alkaline earth metal promotors. The method includes incipient wetness impregnation of the support with metal salt in solution, and can include impregnation with a metal chelator salt. The composition can be useful as a catalyst for the reduction of noxious gases in combustion exhaust streams. The composition can be of particular use as a component of an automobile catalytic converter, for the specific catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides to nitrogen gas.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for chemically modifying a surface of a substrate, preferably a silicon substrate, including the steps of providing a substrate having at least a portion of a surface thereof coated with an organic coating composition including unsaturated moieties forming a surface coating, and introducing a vapor phase reactive intermediate species based on a Group 14 or Group 15 element from the Periodic Table of Elements to the substrate whereupon the reactive intermediate species is able to react with a number of the unsaturated moieties in the coating composition thereby chemically modifying the surface coating. Also disclosed is a surface-modified substrate obtained or obtainable by the method, and uses thereof in the fabrication of MEMS and IC devices.

Abstract: A resistive random access memory includes an oxygen-poor layer disposed on a first electrode layer and formed by indium tin oxide, indium oxide, tin dioxide, or zinc oxide. An insulating layer is disposed on the oxygen-poor layer and is formed by silicon dioxide or hafnium oxide. A second electrode layer is disposed on the insulating layer. A method for producing a resistive random access memory includes preparing a first electrode layer. An oxygen-poor layer is then formed on the first electrode layer. The oxygen-poor layer is formed by indium tin oxide, indium oxide, tin dioxide, or zinc oxide. Next, an insulating layer is formed on the oxygen-poor layer. The insulating layer formed by silicon dioxide or hafnium oxide. A second electrode layer is then formed on the insulating layer.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems implementing digital background calibration techniques for identifying and remedying dynamic path-mismatch errors in time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters (TI-ADC). The disclosed systems and methods employ a calibration technique specifically focuses on removing the timing skew and input bandwidth mismatches by equalizing each sub-ADC in an array to a common reference ADC using direct input derivative information. The errors are identified by correlating the ensuing conversion error to the input derivatives of various orders to identify the mismatch parameters. Simple passive high-pass filters (HPF) are used to extract input derivatives followed by one-bit quantizers.

Abstract: This invention provides for a method of preventing or treating a cadherin-11 related disease in a subject, which includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a compound of the following formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, X1 and X2 are as defined herein.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fullerene derivative having an electron donating group adjacent to the fullerene nucleus, represented by formula (I) which exhibits a high LUMO energy and a high open circuit voltage based thereon and which is highly compatible with polymers and excellent in charge mobility and charge separation ability: wherein the encircled FL represents fullerene C60 or C70, Donor-Sub represents a substituent having at least one electron donating substituent atom located at a position apart from the fullerene nucleus by two bonds, R is hydrogen, Donor-Sub, an alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkoxy, alkoxy-substituted alkyl, alkoxy-substituted alkoxy, alkylthio-substituted alkoxy, alkylthio, alkylthio-substituted alkylthio, or alkoxy-substituted alkylthio group, having a total carbon atoms of 1 or more and 20 or fewer, or a benzyl or phenyl group, and n is an integer of 1 to 10.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for synthesizing semi-crystalline polylactides (PLA) even from a lactide mixture including meso-LA and rac-LA. According to the invention, when a mixture of racemic lactide and meso-lactide ispolymerized using a catalyst capable of iso-selectively polymerizing L-lactide and D-lactide, an amorphous poly (meso-lactide) block is formed from meso-lactide and a semi-crystalline poly (racemic lactide) block is formed from racemic lactide by separately polymerizing racemic lactide and meso-lactide by taking advantage of a difference in physicochemical properties between racemic lactide and meso-lactide, whereby polylactide which is semi-crystalline as a whole is produced.

Abstract: A high-power microwave RF window is provided that includes a cylindrical waveguide, where the cylindrical waveguide includes a ceramic disk concentrically housed in a central region of the cylindrical waveguide, a first rectangular waveguide, where the first rectangular waveguide is connected by a first elliptical joint to a proximal end of the cylindrical waveguide, and a second rectangular waveguide, where the second rectangular waveguide is connected by a second elliptical joint to a distal end of the cylindrical waveguide.

Abstract: Disclosed is a flyback converter using a coaxial cable transformer which includes: a flyback driving unit that supplies a primary current; a transformer that is formed by winding a cable, which has a plurality of inner conductors as a primary cable and an outer conductor enclosing the inner conductors as a secondary cable, around a magnetic core and by connecting both ends of the primary cable and that receives the primary current and outputs a secondary current in accordance with the turn ratio of the primary cable and the secondary cable; a rectifying diode that rectifies the secondary current; and an output capacitor that smoothes a voltage through the rectifying diode.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method for maintaining objects within a camera field of view include identifying constraints to be enforced, each constraint relating to an attribute of the viewed objects, identifying a priority rank for the constraints such that more important constraints have a higher priority that less important constraints, and determining the set of solutions that satisfy the constraints relative to the order of their priority rank such that solutions that satisfy lower ranking constraints are only considered viable if they also satisfy any higher ranking constraints, each solution providing an indication as to how to control the camera to maintain the objects within the camera field of view.

Abstract: In one aspect, the invention relates to substituted 1H-benzo[d][1,2,3]triazol-1-ol analgoues, derivatives thereof, and related compound; synthetic methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating disorders, e.g. various tumors and cancers, associated with ?-catenin/Tcf protein-protein interaction dysfunction using the compounds and compositions. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.

Abstract: A high-efficacy, long-acting, slow-release formulation of the poorly soluble drug, comprising solid dispersion of the poorly soluble drug, silica nanoparticles loaded with the poorly soluble drug, matrix material, and release enhancer, wherein the mass ratio of these components is solid dispersion of the poorly soluble drug: silica nanoparticles loaded with the poorly soluble drug: matrix material: release enhancer=1: 0.5˜1.25: 0.1˜0.3: 0.1˜0.3; the said solid dispersion of the poorly soluble drug contains povidone K30, soybean lecithin, and acrylic resin IV, wherein the mass ratio of the drug and the accessory materials is poorly soluble drug: povidone K30: soybean lecithin: acrylic resin IV=1: 1˜3: 0.3˜0.8: 0.2˜0.5. Compared with the existing formulations, the in vivo half life of the high-efficacy, long-acting formulation of the poorly soluble drug disclosed in this invention is 2.3˜14.8 times longer while the mean residence time (MRT) of which is 7.94˜4.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bifunctional material which comprises copper and which is capable of storing nitric oxide (NO), as well as catalytically producing nitric oxide from a suitable precursor. The material typically includes a zeolite and the copper may be part of, or separate from the zeolite. In this manner the material may include a single bifunctional material; that is, a material which is capable of both storing NO and catalytically producing NO, such as Cu-MFI or Cu-X. Alternatively the material may include at least two components, a first component to store NO, such as a zeolite Zn-LTA, and a further component including Cu(I), such as Cu2O, to catalytically produce NO from a suitable precursor. The bifunctional material may be used in a pharmaceutical, neutraceutical or cosmetic preparation, or comprised in a medical article, a cosmetic and/or personal hygiene product.

Abstract: Methods are provided for, inter alia, detecting nucleic acid molecules resistant to degradation, such as a plurality of RNA molecules bound to a ribosome, using various technologies including deep sequencing.

Abstract: Provided herein are metabolically modified microorganisms characterized by having an increased keto-acid flux when compared with the wild-type organism and comprising at least one polynucleotide encoding an enzyme that when expressed results in the production of a greater quantity of a chemical product when compared with the wild-type organism. The recombinant microorganisms are useful for producing a large number of chemical compositions from various nitrogen containing biomass compositions and other carbon sources.

Abstract: An optical passive repeater is provided. The repeater is operated under a state of polariton Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). A phase transition from a thermal polariton state to a condensed polariton state is controlled, where system temperatures and densities are lower than thermal dissociation temperatures and nonlinear saturation densities, respectively. Original input multimode laser signals are transformed into final output single-mode laser signals. Thus, the polariton BEC passive repeater becomes a power-efficient and low-cost device to increase the reach of optical links without sacrificing its signal quality and integrity.

Abstract: An alloy composition of Fe(100-X-Y-Z)BXPYCuz, where 4?X?14 atomic %, 0<Y?10 atomic %, and 0.5?Z?2 atomic %. This alloy composition has an amorphous phase as a main phase. This alloy composition is used as a starting material and exposed to a heat-treatment so that nanocrystals comprising no more than 25 nm of bccFe can be crystallized. Thus, an Fe-based nano-crystalline alloy having superior magnetic properties can be obtained.

Abstract: Novel 3?-deoxy-3?-acylaminospectinomycin compounds are described. Also described are methods of using the 3?-deoxy-3-acylaminospectinomycin compounds and other spectinomycin analogs in treating tuberculosis and in treating microbial infections.

Abstract: A power generation apparatus includes a dielectric, a movable member being opposed to the dielectric with a predetermined distance, and an electret and an opposing electrode that are formed on the surface of the movable member facing the dielectric so as to generate a fringe electric field penetrating the dielectric between the two electrodes. When the volume occupancy of the dielectric between the electret and the opposing electrode varies in accordance with a displacement of the movable member, the power generation apparatus outputs the electric charge induced in the opposing electrode as electric current.