Abstract: This invention relates to a molecular sieve, especially a SCM-1 molecular sieve or SCM-2 molecular sieve of the MWW family as represented in FIGS. 1 and 2. As compared with a prior art molecular sieve, the molecular sieve according to this invention exhibits improved catalytic performance and good service life and regeneration performance. The molecular sieve can be produced with a simplified procedure, under mild operation conditions, with less energy and material consumption and fewer side reactions, with a high product purity at low cost and a high yield. This invention further relates to a process for producing these molecular sieves and use thereof as an adsorbent or a catalyst.

Abstract: A device applied to a display includes a receiving circuit, a detecting circuit, an image processing circuit and a response time enhancing circuit. The receiving circuit receives an input image signal. The detecting circuit detects a frame rate of image data of a frame in the input image signal. The image processing circuit performs image processing on the image data of the frame to generate a target pixel value of multiple pixels in the frame. The response time enhancing circuit determines multiple adjusted pixel values of the multiple pixels according to the frame rate, and outputs the adjusted pixel values to a display panel. For a pixel, the adjusted pixel values generated for the pixel under different frame rates are different.

Abstract: A charger with a wide range output voltage includes a voltage output side, a first constant voltage output unit, a voltage modulation unit and a load voltage detection unit. The first constant voltage output unit generates a first constant voltage. The load voltage detection unit detects a load voltage and transmits the load voltage to the voltage modulation unit. According to the load voltage and a load charging voltage requirement, the voltage modulation unit generates a modulation voltage and transmits the modulation voltage to the first constant voltage output unit. The first constant voltage output unit transmits the first constant voltage and the modulation voltage to the voltage output side. Moreover, the modulation voltage is an n times of a second constant voltage. The n is a positive number.

Abstract: Disclosed are a composition for preventing and treating atherosclerosis which includes chalcone compound. In particular, the chalcone compound bound with 2-hydroxyl in ring A and 4?-methyoxy in ring B has versatile therapeutic potentials on anti-atherosclerosis by acting as PPAR? inducer, p44/42 MAPK inhibitor and cell cycle blocker and does not show toxicity to human aortic smooth muscle cells (HASMCs). In addition, the chalcone compound exhibits synergistic effect with the PPAR? ligand (rosiglitazone) to inhibit cell proliferation and the upregulation of cyclin D1, cyclin D3, interleukin-1? (IL-1?) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) induced by oxidized low density lipoprotein (Ox-LDL).

Abstract: Disclosed is a dome camera, including a spherical surface part (A) positioned in the center and an edge part (B) connected thereto, wherein an internal surface (3) and an external surface (4) of the edge part (B) are revolving surfaces, and a revolution axis thereof is parallel to that of the spherical surface part (A); the internal surface (3) is in a direction away from the spherical surface part (A) from a joint with the spherical surface part (A), with a monotonically increasing revolution radius; and focal power in both a meridian direction and a sagittal direction of the edge part (B) is the same as that of the spherical surface part (A).

Abstract: The present invention provides methods of diagnosing and/or predicting autism spectrum disorder comprising determining the presence of microdeletions and microduplications on chromosomes 15 and 16.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the alignment of moieties (e.g., nanoparticles and/or nanowires) into prescribed architectures on two- and/or three-dimensional substrates (e.g., nucleic acid nanostructures/crystals). The present disclosure also relates to a nucleic acid (e.g., DNA) lithography method that includes, in some embodiments, adsorbing a bare nucleic acid nanostructure onto a surface of a substrate, and etching the surface of the substrate containing the bare nucleic acid nanostructure, thereby producing a patterned substrate.

Abstract: The latest High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard achieves significant compression efficiency improvement over the H.264 standard, at a much higher cost of computational complexity. A framework for software-based H.264 to HEVC transcoding on multicore processors and distributed systems is provided. By utilizing information extracted from the input H.264 bitstream, the transcoding process can be accelerated at a high ratio with modest visual quality loss. Wavefront Parallel Processing (WPP) and SIMD acceleration are also implemented to improve the trans coding efficiency on multi-core processors with SIMD instruction set extensions. Based on the HEVC HM 12.0 reference software and using standard HEVC test bitstreams, the proposed transcoder can achieve around 120× speed up over decoding and re-encoding based on ffmpeg and the HM software without significant R-D performance loss.

Abstract: Replacement chemistries for the cC4F8 passivation gas in the Bosch etch process and processes for using the same are disclosed. These chemistries have the formula CxHyFz, with 1?x<7, 1?y?13, and 1?z?13. The replacement chemistries may reduce RIE lag associated with deep silicon aperture etching.

Abstract: A method for making a circuit board comprising: providing a silver clad laminate comprising a substrate and two silver foils; forming at least one through hole on the silver clad laminate, the through hole comprises an annular middle wall and two annular edge walls connected to two sides of the annular middle wall; forming an organic conductive film on the annular middle wall; forming a dry film pattern layer on the second area; plating copper to form a copper circuit layer on the first area, and to form a via hole in the through hole; removing the dry film pattern layer; and etching the second area of the silver foil away. The first area changes to a silver circuit layer. The copper circuit layer and the silver circuit layer define a conductive circuit layer. A circuit board made by the method is also provided.

Abstract: A coated substrate includes a sapphire substrate and an anti-reflective coating comprising a silicon-based material, wherein the anti-reflective coating has refractive index of 1.23 to 1.45 and a Mohs hardness of at least 4. A method of coating a sapphire substrate with an anti-reflective coating includes applying a liquid formulation to a sapphire substrate to form a coated substrate, and curing the coated substrate at a temperature of at least 500° C. to form an anti-reflective layer on the sapphire substrate.

Abstract: Embodiments include systems and methods for optimization of micro-benchmark analysis for microprocessor designs. For example, embodiments seek to generate a suite of micro-benchmarks and associated weighting factors, which can be used to effectively define a weighted aggregate workload condition for a fine-grained (e.g., RTL) simulation in a manner that is a sufficient proxy for predicted commercial workload conditions. The suite of micro-benchmarks can be appreciably more efficient to simulate than the commercial workload, so that using the suite of micro-benchmarks as a proxy for the commercial workload can provide many benefits, including more efficient iterative design.

Abstract: A method for etching a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) structure is described. A stack of MTJ layers is provided on a bottom electrode. A top electrode is provided on the MTJ stack. The top electrode is patterned. Thereafter, the MTJ stack not covered by the patterned top electrode is oxidized or nitridized. Then, the MTJ stack is patterned to form a MTJ device wherein any sidewall re-deposition formed on sidewalls of the MTJ device is non-conductive and wherein some of the dielectric layer remains on horizontal surfaces of the bottom electrode.

Abstract: An example remote radio apparatus is provided, including a body, a mainboard, a mainboard heat sink, a maintenance cavity, an optical module, and an optical module heat sink. The maintenance cavity and the optical module heat sink are integrally connected, while the optical module is mounted on a bottom surface of the optical module heat sink. The maintenance cavity and the optical module heat sink are mounted on a side surface of the body, and the mainboard heat sink is mounted on and covers the mainboard. The mainboard heat sink and the mainboard are installed on a front surface of the body, and the mainboard heat sink and the optical module heat sink are spaced by a preset distance. The temperature of the optical module is controlled within a range required by a specification.

Abstract: Transgenic oilseeds having increased total fatty acid content of at least 10% and altered fatty acid profiles when compared to the total fatty acid content of null segregant oilseeds are described. Novel DGAT genes are used to achieve the increase in seed storage lipids.

Abstract: A power on reset circuit includes a bias current generation module for generating a bias current, a power on reset module for generating a power on reset voltage signal, and a feedback latch module, which are electrically connected in sequence. The power on reset module includes two series switches capable of being turned on or off to adjust the bias current to further adjust the power on reset time. The feedback latch module is used for latching the power on reset voltage signal to restrain the jitter of the power voltage within the input voltage range VIL-VIH of inverters in the power on stage and to avoid jump of the signal. The feedback latch module comprises a feedback branch, which is formed by two NMOS transistors in series connection and achieves rapider and stable output of the power on reset voltage signal through feedback of the signal.

Abstract: A coaxial connector of the present invention applies a first conducting element to receive a multi-frequency signal from a multi-frequency transmission element, and applies a multi-frequency dividing circuit to divide the multi-frequency signal to a plurality of different frequency signals such that the different frequency signals are respectively transmitted to the first coaxial cable and the second coaxial cable of a second conducting element. Furthermore, a first frequency contacting end to which a first RF element is connected and a second frequency contacting end to which a second RF element is connected are respectively connected on one end of the first coaxial cable and one end of the second coaxial cable. Accordingly, two RF elements with two different frequency bands can use only one coaxial connector to connect to a transmission element.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor column vertically disposed on the substrate, a first contact material layer on the substrate and in contact with a lower portion of the semiconductor column, a first insulating material layer on the first contact material layer and having an upper surface lower than an upper surface of the semiconductor column, a gate dielectric material layer on the first insulating material layer and on a portion of sidewalls of the semiconductor column while exposing an upper portion of the semiconductor column, and a gate stack structure on the gate dielectric material layer and surrounding a portion of the gate dielectric material layer on the sidewalls of the semiconductor column. The gate stack structure includes from inside to outside a P-type work function layer, an N-type work function layer, and a gate.

Abstract: System and methods of modeling casing deformation for hydraulic fracturing design are provided. A three-dimensional (3D) global model of a subsurface formation is generated. Values of material parameters for different points of the subsurface formation represented by the 3D global model are calculated based on a geomechanical analysis of well log data obtained for the subsurface formation. The calculated values are assigned to corresponding points of the global model. A 3D sub-model of a selected portion of the formation including a casing to be placed along a planned trajectory of a wellbore is generated based at least partly on the values assigned to the global model. Numerical damage models are applied to the global model and sub-model to simulate effects of a hydraulic fracturing treatment on the formation and casing along the planned wellbore trajectory. Casing deformation along the planned wellbore trajectory is estimated, based on the simulation.

Abstract: Piston rings are disclosed that relate to seal performance in piston containing machines such as piston driven engines. The piston rings may include a piston ring contact side for contact with a cylinder wall in which the piston ring contact side has multiple cavities configured on alternating edges of the piston ring contact side. Certain examples of these piston rings have cavities with an average depth that is less than 1/300th of the piston ring width and which collectively occupy a cavity area percentage of the piston ring contact side that is between 20% and 30% of the total area of the piston ring contact side.