Abstract: A sensing system is provided that includes a transceiver. The transceiver includes a transmitter chain that transmits a double-sideband signal having first and second frequency components, and a receiving chain that receives the double-sideband signal after it is reflected by a target. The system further includes a baseband circuit for extracting information content from the received double-sideband signal. A separation between a first frequency of the first frequency component and a second frequency of the second frequency component causes a spike in a signal response generated by one sideband of the received double-sideband signal to substantially overlap a null point of a signal response generated by the other sideband of the received double-sideband signal.

Abstract: Organic light emitting materials and devices comprising phosphorescent metal complexes comprising ligands comprising aryl or heteroaryl groups substituted at both ortho positions are described. An organic light emitting device, comprising: an anode; a hole transport layer; an organic emissive layer comprising an emissive layer host and an emissive dopant; an electron impeding layer; an electron transport layer; and a cathode disposed, in that order, over a substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides genetic markers, SOX5 and SPARC, for distant metastasis and poor prognosis of detection of the high risk potential for cancer patients. In addition, the present invention also provides a method to predict the risk potential for cancer patients with distant metastasis and poor prognosis. This method comprises obtaining a tissue sample from a patient; evaluating the expression levels of the SOX5 and/or SPARC genetic markers in the sample; and comparing the expression levels of genetic markers with those of non-cancerous tissues. The patient is determined to have the high risk of distant metastasis or poor prognosis when the expression level of SOX5 is higher, or when the expression level of SPARC is lower, than that of non-cancerous tissue.

Abstract: Various embodiments of a multi-laser system are disclosed. In some embodiments, the multi-laser system includes a plurality of lasers, a plurality of laser beams, a beam positioning system, beam focusing optics, a thermally stable enclosure and a temperature controller. The thermally stable enclosure is configured to thermally and mechanically couple to a flow cell. The thermally stable enclosure substantially comprises a material with high thermal conductivity. The thermally stable enclosure can have a relatively small volume.

Abstract: An underwater oil storage method, which includes the steps of: a) excavating a cellar in the ground earth and constructing a wall structure in the cellar to form a water pool, b) setting an oil tank in the water pool, c) supplying a predetermined amount of water to the water pool, and d) filling the oil to be stored into the oil tank and regulating the amount of water in the water pool subject to the amount of storage oil stored in the oil tank for enabling water in the water pool to support the oil tank and storage oil in the oil tank and to keep the oil tank in balance by means of the physical characteristic that the specific gravity of the storage oil is lower than water.

Abstract: A one-time programmable memory cell is provided, the one-time programmable memory cell comprises: a gate dielectric layer disposed on a well; a gate electrode disposed on the gate dielectric layer; source/drain regions disposed in the well at the sides of the gate electrode, respectively; a first salicide layer disposed on one of the source/drain regions; a capacitive dielectric layer disposed on the gate electrode and the other of the source/drain regions; a first conductive plug disposed on the first salicide layer; and a second conductive plug disposed on the capacitive dielectric layer. The size of the first conductive plug is different form the size of the second conductive plug.

Abstract: The present invention relates to C-7 isoxazolyl quinoline/naphthyridine derivatives useful as antimicrobial compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said derivatives and the use of said derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions as antimicrobial agents against pathogenic microorganisms, particularly against resistant microbes.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing ordered capture clocks to detect or locate faults within N clock domains and faults crossing any two clock domains in a scan-based integrated circuit or circuit assembly in self-test or scan-test mode, where N>1 and each domain has a plurality of scan cells. The method and apparatus will apply an ordered sequence of capture clocks to all scan cells within N clock domains where one or more capture clocks must contain one or more shift clock pulses during the capture operation. A computer-aided design (CAD) method is further developed to realize the method and synthesize the apparatus. In order to further improve the circuit's fault coverage, a CAD method and apparatus are further developed to minimize the memory usage and generate scan patterns for full-scan and feed-forward partial-scan designs containing transparent storage cells, asynchronous set/reset signals, tri-state busses, and low-power gated clocks.

Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having lipase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.

Abstract: A transistor, which can be referred to as a multi-gate transistor or as a FinFET, includes a gate structure having a length, a width and a height. The transistor further includes at least one electrically conductive channel or fin between a source region and a drain region that passes through the width of the gate structure. The channel has a first height (h1) within the gate structure that is less than the height of the gate structure, and has a second height (h2) external to the gate structure, where h2 is less than h1. The transistor further includes a silicide layer disposed at least partially over the at least one channel external to the gate structure. Reducing the fin height external to the gate structure is shown to beneficially reduce parasitic resistance.

Abstract: Methods are proposed for object positioning for an X-Y projected capacitive touch panel. In an embodiment, capacitance sensing under inphase excitation of traces is applied to set a base value when the capacitive touch panel is not touched and to obtain capacitances at intersections when the capacitive touch panel is touched, and the base value is compared with the measured capacitances to identify touch points. In other embodiments, X-Y projected sensing and all-point sensing are combined to reduce the amount of calculation and achieve the same positioning effect as an all-point capacitive touch panel.

Abstract: Systems and methods for authentication using paired dynamic secrets in secured wireless networks are provided. Each authenticated user is assigned a random secret generated so as to be unique to the user. The secret is associated with a wireless interface belonging to the user, so that no other wireless interface may use the same secret to access the network. The secret may be updated either periodically or at the request of a network administrator, and reauthentication of the wireless network may be required.

Abstract: Provided is an active non-contact probe card including a carrier, a support base, a piezoelectric material layer, an active sensor array chip and a control circuit. The support base is disposed on the carrier. The piezoelectric material layer is connected with the support base. The position of the active sensor array chip with respect to the carrier is determined according to the thicknesses of the support base and the thicknesses of the piezoelectric material layer. A control circuit provides a control voltage to the piezoelectric material layer to control the thickness of the piezoelectric material layer, so as to adjust the position of the active sensor array chip with respect to the carrier.

Abstract: An approach is provided for messaging gateway services. It is determined whether a user profile specifies opting to receive content. The content is selectively forwarded, according to a multimedia protocol, to a device of a user as a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message or a short messaging service (SMS) message based on the determination, wherein the multimedia protocol supports both MMS messaging and SMS messaging.

Abstract: A system and method to establish the lock point of a digital synchronous circuit (e.g., a DLL) at the center of or close to the center of its delay line is disclosed. The synchronous circuit is configured to selectively use either a reference clock or its inverted version as the clock signal input to the delay line based on a relationship among the phases of the reference clock, the inverted reference clock, and a feedback clock may be used during determination of the phase relationship. The selective use of the opposite phase of the reference clock for the input of the delay line results in centralization of the lock point for most cases as well as improvement in the tuning range and the time to establish the initial lock, without requiring an additional delay line.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition having a transcription factor decoy and a pharmaceutical acceptable carrier thereof is provided, wherein the transcription factor decoy is TCF decoy. A method for curing or preventing endotoxin-treated endothelial cells from apoptosis is provided. A method for treating or meliorating septic shock is also provided. The transcription factor decoy is effective on melioration of endothelial cell death after lipopolysaccharide challenge. Furthermore, the pharmaceutical composition is easy to be prepared, economic and has low immunogenicity.

Abstract: A pixel and an illuminating device thereof are provided. The pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a transistor, a first switch, a second switch and a capacitor. One end of the OLED is electrically connected to a first voltage. A first source/drain of the transistor is electrically connected to a first potential point. The first switch is electrically connected between a second source/drain of the transistor and a second potential point, and is controlled by a first driving signal. The second switch is electrically connected between the second source/drain of the transistor and a gate of the transistor, and is controlled by a second driving signal. The capacitor is electrically connected between the gate of the transistor and a data line. The first driving signal and the second driving signal are used to alternately enable/disable the first and the second switches, so as to drive the pixel.

Abstract: An operating system including a host module and a periphery device is disclosed. The host module includes a plurality of processing units and a first lookup table. The periphery device includes an executive program and a plurality of drivers. The executive program reads the first lookup table and installs a portion of drivers required by the processing units according to the reading result.

Abstract: A driving circuit includes a receiving module, a data mapping module, a shift register module, a plurality of output channels, and a switching module. The receiving module receives data from a first number of parallel inputs. The data mapping module is coupled to the receiving module for mapping the data from the first number of parallel inputs to a second number of data buses according to a bus mode signal. The shift register module is used for generating a plurality of shift control signals. Each of the output channels latches data on the data buses based on the corresponding shift control signal. The switching module is connected between the shift register module and the output channels for outputting the shift control signals to the plurality of output channels according to the bus mode signal.

Abstract: A method for use in semiconductor fabrication is provided that includes providing manufacturing data of a semiconductor process, providing a plurality of functional transformations, optimizing each of the functional transformations based on the manufacturing data, selecting one of the functional transformations that has a least deviation with respect to the manufacturing data, predicting performance of the semiconductor process using the selected transformation function, and controlling a fabrication tool based on the predicted performance.