Abstract: Embodiments of the current invention entail a highly visible tag that is attached to products at a highly visible locations. It can easily be removed once purchasers buy the product. To remove it, purchasers must destroy the tag to use the product in public, and it cannot be reattached by the purchaser. Absence of a tag makes it clear that the buyer has removed the tag and provides an indication that the product has been used. A retailer's policies determines how an attempt to return a tagless product is handled. The tag is most effective for products that are used in public. The tag has an optical code to prevent a counterfeit tag from being attached to the product in order to return it, when it has been used by the purchaser. The optical code may be alphanumeric or machine readable. The tag may carry EAS technology.

Abstract: A highly visible single use tag prevents the fraudulent return of garments. Two members are connected by a hinge. The hinge allows the members to move from an open configuration to a closed configuration where the members form and enclose a space. Complementary latch elements on the members engage and hold the members in the closed configuration. At least one of the members has a tack extending inwardly into the space enclosed by the members. This tack pierces a garment intended to be protected by the tag and maintains the tag on the garment. At least one of the members has at least one perforated line across the width of the member. This perforated line allows that member to be pulled apart and the tag removed without the need of any tool to do so.

Abstract: A gate forming process includes the following steps. A gate dielectric layer is formed on a substrate. A barrier layer is formed on the gate dielectric layer. A silicon seed layer and a silicon layer are sequentially and directly formed on the barrier layer, wherein the silicon seed layer and the silicon layer are formed by different precursors.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided for registering a Common Information Model (CIM) provider to at least one Common Information Model Object Manager (CIMOM). The CIMOM pre-stores at least one class definition. The CIMOM sends information to the Common Information Model (CIM) provider in order for the CIM provider to determine the at least one CIMOM existing in a network. The CIMOM sends the at least one class definition stored in the CIMOM in order for the CIM provider to determine if the CIMOM comprises a class definition suitable for the CIM provider to operate. Responsive to the CIM provider determining that the CIMOM comprises a suitable class definition, the CMOM registers the CIM provider by recording an identifier of the CIM provider under the name of the class definition suitable to the CIM provider in the at least one CIMOM.

Abstract: A semiconductor monitoring device includes a substrate, a die seal ring formed on the substrate, a deep n-typed well formed in the substrate under the die seal ring, and a monitoring device electrically connected to the die seal ring. The monitoring device is formed in a scribe line region defined on the substrate. A width of the deep n-typed well is larger than a width of the die seal ring.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided includes a substrate, a gate structure formed on the substrate, an epitaxial source/drain structure respectively formed at two sides of the gate structure, and a boron-rich interface layer. The boron-rich interface layer includes a bottom-and-sidewall portion and a top portion, and the epitaxial source/drain structure is enclosed by the bottom-and-sidewall portion and the top portion.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of mutating one or more target nucleic acid sequences in a stem cell or a zygote comprising introducing into the stem cell or zygote (i) ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequences that comprise a portion that is complementary to a portion of each of the target nucleic acid sequences and comprise a binding site for a CRISPR associated (Cas) protein; and a Cas nucleic acid sequence or a variant thereof that encodes a Cas protein having nuclease activity. The stem cell or zygote is maintained under conditions in which the target nucleic acid sequences are mutated in the stem cell or zygote. The invention is also directed to methods of producing a non human mammal carrying mutations and methods of modulating the expression and/or activity target nucleic acid sequences and cells or zygotes.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to printing graphics onto advancing substrates in diaper converting lines, wherein first graphics having relatively low print resolutions and second graphics having relatively high print resolutions may be both printed onto advancing substrates. During the assembly process, localized speed variances may be imparted to the advancing substrates to achieve the different print resolutions. In some configurations, first graphics with relatively low print resolutions may be printed onto the substrate while advancing at relatively high speeds, and second graphics with relatively high print resolutions may be printed onto portions of the substrate that have been temporarily stopped or slowed to relatively slow speed. The printed substrates may then be incorporated into assembled diapers so as place the graphics in desired positions on the diapers.

Abstract: An anti-theft tag has two slightly concave shells attached to each other by a hinge. One shell has an aperture through it and the other shell has a post located to insert through the aperture when the two shells are brought together. At least one catch tab extends laterally from the end of the post. The catch tab exceeds the width of the aperture and is constructed to give to allow the post to insert into the aperture, but to resist and prevent the extraction of the post. The post is severable to allow the remove of the catch tab to allow the opening of the tag. One of the shells also has a slot and the other has a tack. When the post is inserted through the aperture, the tack inserts into the slot. The tack passes through an object to be protected and maintains the tag in place.

Abstract: Disclosed are a time synchronization method and system using WiFi-direct. The method comprises: a master control device obtaining from a base station standard date and time information used for time synchronization; establishing a WiFi-Direct connection between the master control device and a slave device; in accordance with an active manner, the slave device obtaining a time synchronization manner or a passive reception time synchronization manner, and obtaining the standard date and time information from the master control device through the WiFi-Direct connection; and the slave device calculating an actual standard date and time with the influence of transmission time delay eliminated using the standard date and time information, and setting a system date and time thereof using the actual standard date and time.

Abstract: An EAS tag has an arming switch protruding from its body to detect when the EAS tag is being forcibly removed from an object to which it is attached. A plate covers the arming switch to provide a broader surface for interacting with the attached object. The plate is capable of floating and moving when it is impinged upon by an attached object. When moved by an object when the EAS tag is attached to an object, the plate actuates the arming switch and changes its state. This can arm the EAS tag or can be a step in the arming process of the EAS tag. When the EAS tag is forcibly removed from an object, the plate and arming switch are released, and electronics onboard the EAS tag determine an alarm condition.

Abstract: A cleaning process for oxide includes the following step. A substrate having a first area and a second area is provided. A first oxide layer is formed on the substrate of the first area and the second area. An ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) containing process is performed on the first oxide layer of the first area and the second area. A photoresist layer covers the first oxide layer of the first area while exposing the first oxide layer of the second area. The first oxide layer of the second area is removed. The photoresist layer is then removed.

Abstract: A display driving apparatus includes a timing controller, for generating and outputting a first clock signal and a first data signal; and a plurality of source drivers, each source driver receiving the first clock signal and the first data signal, wherein there is a respective first skew value between the received first clock signal and the received first data signal for each source driver; wherein each source driver adjusts the respective first skew value to a respective second skew value.

Abstract: A highly visible single use tag prevents the fraudulent return of garments. Two members are connected by a hinge. The hinge allows the members to move from an open configuration to a closed configuration where the members form and enclose a space. Complementary latch elements on the members engage and hold the members in the closed configuration. At least one of the members has a tack extending inwardly into the space enclosed by the members. This tack pierces a garment intended to be protected by the tag and maintains the tag on the garment. At least one of the members has at least one perforated line across the width of the member. This perforated line allows that member to be pulled apart and the tag removed without the need of any tool to do so.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computer-aided diagnosis system and a computer-aided diagnosis method. This method includes the step of performing a principal component analysis to acquire an effect of light and shade portions from a color image of skin to serves as a first principal component. This method performs the principal component analysis further to acquire a second principal component and a third principal component, and the second and third principal components contain color variability. The third principal component is correlated with a skin cancer and serves as a main indicator of variegated colors for malignancy diagnosis.

Abstract: Provided is a preparation method of a crystalline silicon film. The method includes: 1) forming a mask for making a periodic silicon rod array on a monocrystalline silicon wafer substrate, and forming the periodic silicon rod array on the monocrystalline silicon substrate by a wet chemical etching or dry etching process; 2) forming barrier layers on the surface of the monocrystalline silicon substrate and the surface of the silicon rod array for next selectively epitaxial growth of silicon; 3) exposing silicon cores on the heads of the rod array by a selective etching process to form a silicon seed array; 4) growing a continuous silicon film at the top of the rod array by a chemical vapor deposition method using the exposed silicon cores as seeds for selectively epitaxial growth of silicon; and 5) lifting off the silicon film and transferring the silicon film to a preset substrate, and the seeded substrate is reusable.

Abstract: A modular electrode device comprises a plurality of main bodies, a first electrode, at least one second electrode, at least one first connecting member and two second connecting members. Each main body has a side edge, an internal chamber and a gas inlet communicative in space between the chamber and the atmosphere. The first electrode is mounted at the side edge of one main body, while the in-serial second electrodes connected to one end of the first electrode are mounted at the side edges of the other main bodies. The main bodies are separated by the parallel third electrodes. The third, the second and the third electrodes are connected to each other. The first connecting member bridges in-serially the first electrode and the neighboring second electrode. The second connecting members are applied to both opposing end of the in-serial combination of the first and the second electrodes.

Abstract: An anti-theft device monitors bottles. It is comprised of a two components hingably connected together. They can move from an open position to a closed position to enclose the neck of a bottle. One component has a first latch element and contains electronics including an arming switch. The other component has a second latch element. The latch elements combine to hold the two components in the closed position. When the two components are moved to the closed position, and a bottle is in position, the bottle changes the state of the arming switch. One of the components, or both, may have a protrusion that engages a feature on the bottle to keep the tag in place on the bottle. The anti-theft device may be armed or disarmed by remote devices. The latching elements may be releasably lockable such as by a magnet. The anti-theft device may have passcode protection capabilities.

Abstract: A noninvasive arterial condition detecting system includes a processing device and an electronic stethoscope configured for auscultating carotid artery to receive sound signals. The processing device is connected to the electronic stethoscope. The processing device records the sound signals, preprocesses the sound signal to reduce noise, measures a trough-peak distance and a trough-peak time, and generates an estimate result of arterial conditions according to the trough-peak distance and the trough-peak time. The trough-peak distance and the trough-peak time are related to the health of the carotid artery walls.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of fabricating a semiconductor device including forming a patterned hardmask layer over a substrate comprising a major surface. The method further includes forming a plurality of first trenches and a plurality of second trenches performed at an electrostatic chuck (ESC) temperature between about 90° C. to 120° C. in the substrate. The plurality of first trenches have a first width and extend downward from the substrate major surface to a first height, and the plurality of second trenches have a second width less than first width and extend downward from the substrate major surface to a second height greater than the first height.