Abstract: Provided are a circuit and method for measuring capacitance and capacitance-voltage characteristics of a microelectronic device. The circuit includes a pulse generation sub-circuit, a sub-circuit P, and a sub-circuit N. The pulse generation sub-circuit generates clock pulses CLK1 and CLK2 with non-overlapping active levels. The sub-circuit P includes a first current mirror, a first large capacitor, a first transmission gate, a second transmission gate, a first OR gate, a first AND gate, a first NOT gate, a second NOT gate, and a third NOT gate. The sub-circuit N includes a second current mirror, a second large capacitor, a third transmission gate, a fourth transmission gate, a second OR gate, a second AND gate, a fourth NOT gate, a fifth NOT gate, a sixth NOT gate, and a seventh NOT gate.

Abstract: Provided are fault current-limiting control method and device for photovoltaic grid-forming system. The method includes: obtaining voltage amplitude of the common-coupling point and voltage signal and current signal in a stationary synchronous frame system based on voltage signal and current signal of converter at the common-coupling point; determining a fault depth based on the voltage amplitude of the common-coupling point to determine active power reference of the inverter; generating voltage reference value and phase reference value of the inverter based on the voltage signal and the current signal in the stationary synchronous frame system and the active power reference of the inverter, to obtain current reference value through fixed virtual impedance; and obtaining inverter modulating wave based on the current reference value, and obtaining control signal of each switch transistor of the inverter after modulating the inverter modulating wave through SPWM.

Abstract: An alloy includes a mixture of aluminum, tin and magnesium. An amount of the magnesium is between about 2.5% and 6.5% by weight of the mixture. The alloy is binder jet printed and liquid phase sintered.

Abstract: Medical energy devices, systems, and methods that allows for treatment of systemic inflammatory disorders through modulation of neural activity.

Abstract: Wearable technologies for personalized monitoring require sensors that track biomarkers often present at low levels. Cortisol—a key stress biomarker—is present in sweat at low nanomolar concentrations. Previous wearable sensing systems are limited to analytes in the micromolar-millimolar ranges. To overcome these and other limitations, the present embodiments include a flexible field-effect transistor (FET) biosensor array that exploits a new cortisol aptamer coupled to nanometer-thin-film In2O3 FETs. Cortisol levels were determined via molecular recognition by aptamers where binding was transduced to electrical signals on FETs. The physiological relevance of cortisol as a stress biomarker was demonstrated by tracking salivary cortisol levels in participants in a Trier Social Stress Test and establishing correlations between cortisol in diurnal saliva and sweat samples.

Abstract: Articles and method of making articles including a solid porous material having a selenium nanomaterial bound to a surface of and within the solid porous material. The article may be a include no polymeric stabilizer or proteinaceous stabilizer. The solid porous material may be a sponge, a film, a fabric, a non-woven material, or a metal-organic framework (MOF), or a combination thereof. The article may be produced by treating a solid porous material with an aqueous selenous acid solution and heating the solid porous material to form the selenium nanomaterial on the surface of and within the solid porous material.

Abstract: Disclosed are implementations, including a method for medical/clinical monitoring that includes obtaining clinical and physiological measurement data for a patient, and contextual information associated with the patient and representative of location and time at which the clinical and physiological measurement data were obtained, and obtaining clinician behavior data for the clinicians while treating the patient. The method further includes determining intermittently, using an ensemble learning process, based on the measurement data and the contextual information, one of a plurality of medical state prediction models best suited for a current clinical situation associated with the patient.

Abstract: An excellent ultra-small microphone device with improved mechanical properties due to a protective layer formed on an upper and/or lower surface of a two-dimensional material having piezoelectric properties is provided to replace a conventional MEMS (Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems) microphone device. In the microphone device, the protective layer of a thickness of several hundred nm is formed on the upper and/or lower surface of the two-dimensional TMD material to protect the piezoelectric material layer during a back etching process and to contribute to the mechanical stability of the device.

Abstract: Provided herein is a device for rapid fixation and embedding of a biological specimen, the device including a barrel having a first end and a second end, the first end receiving a plunger and the second end opening to a compartment defining a block mold; and a plunger for inserting in the barrel, the plunger having a first end, a second end, and an interior conduit connecting the first and second ends, wherein the first end of the plunger connects to a vacuum source and the second end of the plunger includes a filter barrier between the interior conduit of the plunger and a receptacle for receiving, fixing, and embedding the specimen, the receptacle defined inside the barrel when the plunger is disposed in the barrel. Also provided are a system and method for rapid fixation and embedding of a biological specimen.

Abstract: A compound having a first ligand LA of Formula I, In Formula I, each of moiety B and moiety C is a monocyclic ring or a polycyclic fused ring system; each of Z1, X1, and X2 is C or N; K is a direct bond or a linker; each R?, R?, RA, RB, and RC is hydrogen or a General Substituents defined herein; at least one RA comprises an electron-withdrawing group, a silyl group, or a germyl group; LA is coordinated to a metal M, having an atomic mass of at least 40; and any two substituents may be joined or fused to form a ring. Formulations, OLEDs, and consumer products containing the same are also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for treating bone disease, such as bone cancers or bone metastasis of cancers, by administering an engineered bone-targeting compositions, such as an antibody or one or more polypeptides, such as an antibody or polypeptide engineered to comprise bone-homing peptide(s). Further provided herein are bone-targeting compositions, such as an antibody or one or more polypeptides, such as an antibody or polypeptide engineered to comprise bone-homing peptide(s).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ultra-small laser oscillator utilizing self-resonance in a pattered indirect bandgap material. The ultra-small laser oscillator using self-resonance according to an embodiment may include a substrate; and a resonator that is formed of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) on the substrate, supports a whispering gallery mode (WGM), and performs lasing in a form of a continuous wave at room temperature.

Abstract: A probe has a base sequence that does not hybridize with a nucleic acid of a mammal under stringent conditions, and has a sequence including a base sequence set forth in any of SEQ ID NOs:1 to 673. A probe set includes two or more kinds of the probes, and the two or more kinds of the probes do not hybridize with each other under stringent conditions.

Abstract: A specimen analyzer including: a measurement part configured to apply light to a measurement sample and a fluorescent dye that stains white blood cells contained in the blood specimen, detect fluorescence from the white blood cells contained in the measurement sample to which the light has been applied, and measure fluorescence signals on the basis of the detected fluorescence; an information processing part configured to generate, on the basis of the fluorescence signals, information about a distribution width of fluorescence intensities regarding a population of neutrophils contained in the measurement sample, and determine information about a degree of severity of an organ dysfunction due to an infection on the basis of the information about the distribution width of the fluorescence intensities regarding the population of neutrophils; and an output part configured to output the information about the degree of severity of the organ dysfunction due to the infection.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-base station queued preambles allocation method based on collaboration between multiple agent, which provides a non-competitive preambles allocation method in a scenario of multiple base stations and multiple cells, so as to solve the congestion problem caused during random access of massive MTCDs. The devices are queued to select the preambles based on deep reinforcement learning, and a training method based on federal learning is applied, thus effectively solving the congestion problem caused by competitive access. First, the newly accessed devices are grouped and the level of priority is set according to a delay tolerance time. Then, the device are reasonably allocated to idle queues by means of a multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm. Finally, by means of a federal training method, the neural network of each agent is synchronously optimized by means of average optimization of neural network gradients, thus completing preambles allocation to each agent.

Abstract: A train crash energy management (CEM) optimization method based on machine learning is provided. The method includes: establishing a finite element model that is for an eight-marshalling train crash and considers a train energy absorption subsystem and a wheel-rail rolling contact behavior; establishing a machine learning database for train crash energy absorption; constructing a machine learning prediction model for the train crash energy absorption; and performing multi-objective optimization on CEM of a train based on machine learning.

Abstract: In mass casualty (MASCAL) or similar events, combat medics often omit using body substance isolation (BSI) equipment, specifically disposable gloves, as donning gloves takes critical time away from treating patients. A multilayer glove loader and methodology of use that allows users to quickly put on multiple layers of gloves simultaneously addresses these concerns.

Abstract: A mandrel-coiled twisted and coiled polymer fishing line (TCPFL) actuator, method, and computer program product for creating the mandrel-coiled TCPFL) actuator. A plurality of mandrel-coiled TCPFL muscles may be fabricated, wherein fabricating the plurality of mandrel-coiled TCPFL muscles may include synthesizing mesoporous C-NiAg-PVA solution and coating the TCPFL with the mesoporous C-NiAg-PVA solution.

Abstract: Provided are circular RNAs (circRNAs) encoding an antigenic polypeptide of a SARS-CoV-2 variant. Provided are circRNA vaccines against a SARS-CoV-2 variant, such as a Delta or Omicron variant. The circRNA vaccine comprises a circRNA comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding an antigenic polypeptide comprising a Spike(S) protein or a fragment thereof of a SRAS-CoV-2 variant. Also provided are methods of treating or preventing a SARS-CoV-2 infection using the circRNAs or compositions thereof.

Abstract: A system infers continuous potential energy landscapes, including barrier heights and friction coefficients, from smFRET data without the need to discretely approximate a state-space. The system operates within a Bayesian nonparametric paradigm by placing priors on the family of all possible potential curves, and leverages a Structured-Kernel-Interpolation Gaussian Process prior to help curtail computational cost. The system enables decoding information about continuous energy potential landscapes along a continuous coordinate for biological interactions (e.g., protein folding and binding) using a single dataset, including rarely visited barriers between putative potential minima. As such, the system allows resolution enhancement for probing biophysical systems to obtain deeper insight into protein folding, protein binding, and the physics of molecular motors.