Abstract: A computer-implemented method for producing real-time media content customized for a travel event in a dynamic travel route between an origin and a destination of a connected vehicle. The method includes maintaining media production data, receiving information on a travel event including route information, producing media content based on the travel event and travel route information, and streaming the media content to connected cars and servers along the travel route.

Abstract: A method for converting a source video content constrained to a first color space to a video content constrained to a second color space using an artificial intelligence machine-learning algorithm based on a creative profile.

Abstract: A method for receiving and processing sonic messaging by a mixed reality (xR) device from acoustic output of a media player playing content for a two-dimensional (2D) screen or projection surface, to coordinate the rendering and playing of an xR output in the xR device with the playing of the 2D content at the media player.

Abstract: Disclosed is a nuclear fuel rod including at least one or more fuel pellets, a cladding tube surrounding the fuel pellets, and burnable absorber inside the cladding tube. The burnable absorber comprises a burnable absorber material and a cladding material surrounding the burnable absorber material. The burnable absorber has a disk shape, and the cladding material is an alloy comprising zirconium.

Abstract: A patient simulator may include a pump, a compressor, a power source, and a simulated torso in which the pump, the compressor, and the power source are contained. The compressor may include an inlet to which a bellows is coupled. A head coupling may detachably couple a simulated neck to the simulated torso. Similarly, an extremity coupling may detachably couple a simulated lower extremity to a simulated upper extremity, which simulated upper extremity is coupled to the simulated torso. The pump, the compressor, and/or the power source may provide hydraulic fluid, pneumatic fluid, and or electrical power, respectively, into: the simulated neck via the head coupling; or the simulated lower extremity via the extremity coupling. In addition, or instead, the patient simulator may include an invasive blood pressure (IBP) assembly having an armature adapted to contact a tube to change a fluid pressure in the IBP assembly.

Abstract: Disclosed is a nuclear fuel rod including at least one or more fuel pellets, a cladding tube surrounding the fuel pellets, and burnable absorber inside the cladding tube. The burnable absorber comprises a burnable absorber material and a cladding material surrounding the burnable absorber material. The burnable absorber has a disk shape, and the cladding material is an alloy comprising zirconium.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a mesh network having nodes connected via both wired and wireless connections, at differing data rates. Each node of the invention also has a plurality of interfaces and a backhaul network. The invention provides a method of managing the mesh network such that at least one node is capable of being in communication with a plurality of other nodes within the network and send and receive packets to other nodes without being hampered by differing protocols, standards, or data rates.

Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with xanthine analogs, methods of making xanthine analogs, and methods of treating West Nile virus using these analogs. 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 semiconductor device includes a first interlayer dielectric film on a substrate, first and second wires respectively extending in a first direction within the first interlayer dielectric film, the first and second wires being adjacent to each other in a second direction different from the first direction, a hard mask pattern on the first interlayer dielectric film, the hard mask pattern including an opening, and an air gap within the first interlayer dielectric film, the air gap including a first portion overlapping vertically with the opening and a second portion not overlapping with the opening in the first direction.

Abstract: Applications for a Content Engagement Power (CEP) value include directing live actors during a performance, for experience in a real or virtual theater. The CEP is computed based on biometric sensor data processed to express audience engagement with content along multiple dimensions such as valence, arousal, and dominance. An apparatus is configured to perform the method using hardware, firmware, and/or software.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first insulating interlayer on a first region of a substrate and a second insulating interlayer on a second region of the substrate, a plurality of first wiring structures on the first insulating interlayer, the first wiring structures being spaced apart from each other, a plurality of second wiring structures filling a plurality of trenches on the second insulating interlayer, respectively, an insulation capping structure selectively on a surface of the first insulating interlayer between the first wiring structures and on a sidewall and an upper surface of each of the first wiring structures, the insulation capping structure including an insulating material, a third insulating interlayer on the first and second wiring structures, and an air gap among the first wiring structures under the third insulating interlayer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first interlayer dielectric film on a substrate, first and second wires respectively extending in a first direction within the first interlayer dielectric film, the first and second wires being adjacent to each other in a second direction different from the first direction, a hard mask pattern on the first interlayer dielectric film, the hard mask pattern including an opening, and an air gap within the first interlayer dielectric film, the air gap including a first portion overlapping vertically with the opening and a second portion not overlapping with the opening in the first direction.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first interlayer dielectric film on a substrate, first and second wires respectively extending in a first direction within the first interlayer dielectric film, the first and second wires being adjacent to each other in a second direction different from the first direction, a hard mask pattern on the first interlayer dielectric film, the hard mask pattern including an opening, and an air gap within the first interlayer dielectric film, the air gap including a first portion overlapping vertically with the opening and a second portion not overlapping with the opening in the first direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing a cell line having a desired target protein expression and to a device for selecting cell lines having a desired target protein expression.

Abstract: A photomultiplier tube for use in an imaging plate scanner. In one embodiment, the photomultiplier tube includes a housing having a window; a focusing electrode located in the housing; an electron multiplier dynode located in the housing; an anode; a cathode and a memory storing parameters. Another embodiment provides An imaging plate scanner including a photomultiplier tube having a window, an anode, and a cathode; a light source positioned to radiate light on the anode or cathode; and an electronic processor communicatively coupled to the light source and configured to generate a supply voltage value for the photomultiplier tube, activate the light source and determine an output current of the anode or of the cathode, and generate an error message if the output current deviates from an expected current range. A power supply is electrically connected to the electronic processor and configured to generate the supply voltage.

Abstract: A photomultiplier tube for use in an imaging plate scanner. In one embodiment, the photomultiplier tube includes a housing having a window; a focusing electrode located in the housing; an electron multiplier dynode located in the housing; an anode; a cathode and a memory storing parameters. Another embodiment provides An imaging plate scanner including a photomultiplier tube having a window, an anode, and a cathode; a light source positioned to radiate light on the anode or cathode; and an electronic processor communicatively coupled to the light source and configured to generate a supply voltage value for the photomultiplier tube, activate the light source and determine an output current of the anode or of the cathode, and generate an error message if the output current deviates from an expected current range. A power supply is electrically connected to the electronic processor and configured to generate the supply voltage.

Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods according to which simulated thoracic, urinary, pulmonary, and/or capillary procedures may be performed.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first insulating interlayer on a first region of a substrate and a second insulating interlayer on a second region of the substrate, a plurality of first wiring structures on the first insulating interlayer, the first wiring structures being spaced apart from each other, a plurality of second wiring structures filling a plurality of trenches on the second insulating interlayer, respectively, an insulation capping structure selectively on a surface of the first insulating interlayer between the first wiring structures and on a sidewall and an upper surface of each of the first wiring structures, the insulation capping structure including an insulating material, a third insulating interlayer on the first and second wiring structures, and an air gap among the first wiring structures under the third insulating interlayer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first insulating interlayer on a first region of a substrate and a second insulating interlayer on a second region of the substrate, a plurality of first wiring structures on the first insulating interlayer, the first wiring structures being spaced apart from each other, a plurality of second wiring structures filling a plurality of trenches on the second insulating interlayer, respectively, an insulation capping structure selectively on a surface of the first insulating interlayer between the first wiring structures and on a sidewall and an upper surface of each of the first wiring structures, the insulation capping structure including an insulating material, a third insulating interlayer on the first and second wiring structures, and an air gap among the first wiring structures under the third insulating interlayer.

Abstract: Methods for fabricating semiconductor devices may provide enhanced performance and reliability by recovering quality of a low-k insulating film damaged by a plasma process. A method may include forming a first interlayer insulating film having a trench therein on a substrate, filling at least a portion of the trench with a metal wiring region, exposing a surface of the metal wiring region and a surface of the first interlayer insulating film to a plasma in a first surface treatment process, then exposing the surface of the first interlayer insulating film to a recovery gas containing a methyl group (—CH3) in a second surface treatment process, and then forming an etch stop layer on the metal wiring region and the first interlayer insulating film.