Abstract: A system includes N-distant independent plasmonic graphene waveguides. The N-distant independent plasmonic graphene waveguides are used to generate an N-partite continuous variable entangled state.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a compressive hyperspectral imaging system. The compressive hyperspectral imaging system can include a coded aperture configured to spatially encode an optical signal associated with a scene, an integrated photonic device configured to disperse the spatially encoded optical signal, and an array of photo detectors configured to detect the dispersed and spatially encoded optical signal. The output of the array of photo detectors is used for reconstruction of a hyperspectral image corresponding to the scene.

Abstract: There is provided a computer-implemented method for synthesising magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) images from other types of inputted magnetic resonance (MR) images, in a subject-specific manner, the method comprising providing a conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) that learns a combined latent representation of the inputted magnetic resonance images for each subject and learns to transform this combined latent representation to a magnetic resonance angiography image corresponding to that subject, providing a plurality of magnetic resonance (MR) images as input into the cGAN, and outputting a plurality of MRA images from the cGAN based on the plurality of inputted MR images.

Abstract: Proposed is an anti-obesity composition containing a hemp seed extract as an active ingredient. Specifically, food and pharmaceutical compositions for preventing or reducing obesity, each of which contains a hemp seed extract as an active ingredient, are proposed. Additionally, proposed is a method of preparing a hemp seed unsaponifiable extract having an anti-obesity activity. The method includes (1) adding a hemp seed, pyrogallol, and potassium hydroxide (KOH) to a reaction vessel and filling the reaction vessel with nitrogen, (2) causing a reaction in a water bath at a temperature in a range of 70° C. to 80° C. for 40 to 60 minutes and then cooling the resulting product, and (3) adding sodium chloride (NaCl) and an extraction solvent in which dibutylhydroxytoluene (BHT) hexane and ethyl acetate are mixed to the cooled product and shaking the resulting mixture to obtain a supernatant.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image encoding method and an image decoding method. The image decoding method, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: decoding information associated with a clipping range of a current block; and performing sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering on the basis of the information associated with the clipping range, wherein the information associated with the clipping range may include information on the maximum and minimum values of a pixel value included in the current block.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, a machine-learning based system for mental health disorder identification and monitoring is disclosed. The system includes one or more processors configured to interact with a plurality of wearable medical sensors (WMSs). The processors are configured to receive physiological data from the WMSs. The processors are further configured to train at least one neural network based on raw physiological data augmented with synthetic data and subjected to a grow-and-prune paradigm to generate at least one mental health disorder inference model. The processors are also configured to output a mental health disorder-based decision by inputting the received physiological data into the generated mental health disorder inference model.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a binarized neural network circuitry using silicon-gated diodes. The binarized neural network circuitry according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of silicon-gated diodes in which a diode structure as a channel area is located between an anode terminal and a cathode terminal, a gate terminal is located on the diode structure to implement unidirectional switching through potential barrier control in the channel area based on different voltages applied to each of the anode terminal and the gate terminal, and memory characteristics are realized as holes or electrons accumulate in the potential well due to a positive feedback loop.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, computer program products, and other implementations, including a method for signal detection is disclosed that includes obtaining samples of observation data comprising a signal component produced by a source object, and a noise component, and generating based on at least one of the samples of the observation data, processed by a machine learning template derivation system, a filtering template to separate the signal component from the noise component, with the machine learning template derivation system including one or more trainable layers, and with at least one layer of the one or more trainable layers implementing a respective one of one or more iterations of an unrolled optimization process to determine optimized template parameters for the filtering template. The method further includes applying the filtering template to one or more of the samples of the observation data to obtain the signal component of the observation data.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a compensation method, system, device and medium of a IR Drop of a display panel. The compensation method includes: constructing a IR Drop model of the display panel based on a distribution of equivalent resistances between adjacent pixels in the display panel; constructing a vector matrix equation of the IR Drop according to the IR Drop model; performing an equivalent processing on the vector matrix equation of the IR Drop to form a plurality of equivalent sub-matrices; iteratively solving IR Drop data of each node in each equivalent sub-matrix; and performing a voltage compensation on each pixel in the display panel according to the IR Drop data. The disclosure may realize a point-to-point accurate compensation of all nodes in the display panel, and improves a problem of uneven brightness of a high-resolution display panel caused by the IR Drop.

Abstract: Provided is an electrolysis apparatus. The electrolysis apparatus includes: an anode module configured to electrochemically oxidize water (H2O) to generate an oxide including oxygen (O2) and hydrogen ions (protons); a cathode module arranged opposite to the anode module, and configured to electrochemically reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) to generate a reduced material including ethanol and acetone; and a separation module configured to receive the reduced material from the cathode module, and separate the ethanol or the acetone from the reduced material.

Abstract: The invention provides luminescent lanthanide nanoparticles having simultaneously an improved brightness and an increased lifetime of the excited-state. These nanoparticles comprise terbium ions and ions of a second lanthanide, preferentially europium, and are coated with molecules of chromophore ligand bonded to the surface of the nanoparticle. The ligand is an organic molecule comprising at least one chromophore radical of formula I or of formula II: wherein R is selected from H, CN group or COOH group. The phosphorescence excited-state lifetime is improved by energy transfer from surface terbium ions to core ions of the second lanthanide. The nanoparticle may further comprise a carrier molecule of analytical interest covalently attached to at least one ligand molecule.

Abstract: Compositions of saltwater-stable adhesive hydrogels are provided, as well as methods of use thereof in adhesion, drug delivery, antibiotic delivery, surface coating, and antifouling applications. Disclosed copolymer complexes exhibit reversible ionic strength-based solubility between a soluble complex and an insoluble hydrogel, and include a first polynorbornene (PNB)-based bottlebrush copolymer including a plurality of ?-cyclodextrin (?-CD)-terminated oligoethylene glycol sidechains and a second PNB-based bottlebrush copolymer including a plurality of positively charged adamantane (Ad)-terminated oligoviologen sidechains. In some embodiments, the second PNB-based bottlebrush copolymer further includes at least one porphyrin-terminated sidechain and/or has at least one electrostatically loaded, negatively charged therapeutic drug.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a bionic cuttlefish-typed underwater detection robot, including a bionic “cuttlefish”-typed body structure, a piezoelectric energy capture device, a circuit rectification and storage assembly and a power control assembly. The bionic “cuttlefish”-typed body structure includes a head and a main body; the piezoelectric energy capture device includes piezoelectric ceramic elements arranged around the main body and PVDF floating belts, and an end of each piezoelectric ceramic element is connected to a spherical spoiler component, the PVDF floating belts are evenly distributed at a tail end of the main body. The present disclosure adopts piezoelectric ceramic elements with spoiler components and PVDF floating belts to generate electricity, converts wave energy and ocean current energy into electric energy, powers the power control assembly of the detection robot.

Abstract: A model implemented by a processor and trained for patch embedding of anatomical consistency captures the anatomical structure consistency between patients of different genders and weights and between different views of the same patient, which enhances the interpretability for medical image analysis. The model is trained via a self-supervised learning (SSL) framework that captures both global and local patterns embedded within medical images.

Abstract: A system and method of fine-grained image category discovery with few human annotations includes a camera and a trained machine learning model, which predicts a label for an object in a captured image and outputs the predicted label. The machine learning model is trained by contrastive affinity learning, including retrieving images having an object, a warm-up stage in which semi-supervised contrastive learning is performed based on projected features of a class token and an ensembled prompt, respectively. In a contrastive affinity learning stage, a student model and an exponentially moving averaged teacher model are forwarded with different augmented views of the retrieved images. Teacher embeddings are enqueued into a token-specific memory. A semi-supervised contrastive loss is computed on a current batch and a contrastive affinity learning loss for student embeddings and the teacher embeddings with pseudo-labels from a affinity graph dynamically generated by semi-supervised affinity generation.

Abstract: In a normal human being the pulsing of blood through the brain during sleep causes a periodic headpulse of high amplitude, detectable and measurable using cranial accelerometry. A patient's sleeping headpulse is compared to one or more reference headpulse patterns from normal and abnormal patients to determine health and condition of the brain and vasculature.

Abstract: A method for desalinating a brine includes the use of a cooled intermediate-cold-liquid (ICL), which combines with the brine in a crystallization or freezing tank, where the brine and cooled ICL are contacted for a time sufficient to produce a slurry of ice, brine, and ICL. The method includes steps for separating the ICL, ice and brine, and melting the separated ice to form a volume of desalinated water. The method is significant in that it produces desalinated liquid water and solid salts. The combination of superior heat transfer with high quality purified water and competitive desalination economy makes the disclosed freeze desalination technology an attractive solution for desalination of highly concentrated brines produced in a variety of industries, including but not limited to the oil and gas industry and reject brine management.

Abstract: A compact rotary algae biofilm reactor includes an algae biofilm module and a light guide module. The algae biofilm module includes a plurality of rotary members and a reaction tank. In the rotary member, an algae biofilm growth carrier and a power transmission belt are wound on a driving shaft and a driven shaft. A top end of the rotary member is fixed on a fixing frame while a bottom end thereof is submerged in the reaction tank. The light guide module includes a rotatable lens holder. The rotatable lens holder is fixedly provided with a linear Fresnel lens on an upper end thereof and is provided with a light guide plate on a lower end thereof. One side of the linear Fresnel lens is provided with a step motor configured to control the linear Fresnel lens to rotate with an angle of sunlight.

Abstract: A plasticized pyrotechnic material can be easily portioned and formed or molded into a desired shape and burns at a high temperature (>2000° C.) but does not detonate. The plasticized pyrotechnic material may preferably include a combination of about 70-99% by weight of a pyrotechnic composition and about 1-30% by weight of a plasticizer composition comprising various low to mid molecular weight polyisobutylenes. The pyrotechnic material comprises inorganic oxidizers (e.g. metal oxides, oxohalide salts, nitrates, nitrites, chlorates/perchlorates) and metal or metal oxides powders mixed intimately. The plasticizer may include a small amount of a fluoropolymer, such as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and may also include up to 1-2% by weight of a processed oil, such as a mineral oil or motor oil. Some embodiments may also include a biocide precursor molecule.

Abstract: A water-retaining material, including: a polymer chain segment provided by a hydrophilic polymer; and a proton carrier group grafted to the polymer chain segment. The polymer chain segment contains a hydrophilic group. A method for preparing a water-retaining material, includes: performing, in a reaction system including an activator and a catalyst, a grafting reaction between a hydrophilic polymer and a proton carrier compound to yield the water-retaining material. The water-retaining material contains a polymer chain segment containing a hydrophilic group. A water-retaining proton exchange membrane, includes a matrix. The matrix is doped with a water-retaining material; and the water-retaining material including the above water-retaining material.