Abstract: A process for the capture of CO2 from gas streams, the process including contacting a CO2 containing gas stream with a compound including: a primary or non-sterically hindered secondary amine group and at least one tertiary amine or sterically hindered secondary amine group; wherein the primary or non-sterically hindered secondary amine and the nearest tertiary or sterically hindered secondary amine group are separated by a carbon chain including 3 or 4 carbon atoms and wherein the compound is a compound of Formula (I).

Abstract: A video processing device includes a video processing unit that decodes a video input signal into a decoded video signal in accordance with a video compression protocol, based on uncompressed video frame data. A tile engine includes a tile accumulation module that accumulates the uncompressed video frame data into a plurality of tile units, wherein each of the plurality of tile units includes a plurality of video span units. A tile compression/decompression module generates compressed video frame data for storage in a compressed video frame buffer by compressing the plurality of video span units into a plurality of compressed video span units and further that retrieves the compressed video frame data from the compressed video frame buffer by retrieving the plurality of compressed video span units and generating the uncompressed video frame data by decompressing the plurality of compressed video span units.

Abstract: Geographic atrophy of the eye can be detected and measured by imaging the eye at a depth greater than the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) at a plurality of locations of the eye, for example, using optical coherence tomography (OCT); determining a ratio of the intensities of imaging signals of a retinal layer(s) with respect to the intensity of imaging signals of a sub-RPE layer(s) at each location; determining representative values based at least in part on the determined ratios; generating a map of the representative values; and identifying diseased areas from the map. Contours and binary maps may be generated based on the identified diseased areas. The size and shape of the identified areas may be analyzed and monitored over a period of time to phenotype subjects and classify diseases.

Abstract: A fluid cylinder comprises a cylinder tube having a first tube end and a second tube end with respect to a tube axis of the cylinder tube, wherein the tube axis refers to the axis of the cylinder tube and the extension of the axis; an opening arranged at the first tube end for allowing fluid to enter into the cylinder tube; a piston; a sealing member arranged on the piston and adapted to provide a fluid-tight sealing between the piston and an inner wall of the cylinder tube; and a driving member adapted to drive the piston to perform a piston motion in the cylinder tube along the tube axis, wherein the cylinder tube, the opening, the piston, the sealing member, the inner wall and the driving member are adapted.

Abstract: A wavelength selective switch and a wavelength selection method are provided. The wavelength selective switch comprises a plurality of input ports, via which a plurality of light beams are input respectively, each light beam including at least one optical signal of a predetermined wavelength; at least one output port; and a wavelength separation apparatus including a wavelength separation device and a micro-mirror group, the wavelength separation device being configured to separate at least one optical signal from a light beam input via a predetermined one of the plurality of input ports, and the micro-mirror group being configured to adjust a propagation direction of the at least one optical signal, so that the at least one optical signal is output via a predetermined one of the at least one output port.

Abstract: A wavelength selective switch and a wavelength selection method are provided. The wavelength selective switch comprises an input port, through which a light beam, including a plurality of optical signals having different wavelengths, is incident; a wavelength separation apparatus, including a Blue Phase Liquid Crystal (BPLC) device and configured to separate at least one optical signal from the light beam through the BPLC device; and at least one output port, configured to output the at least one optical signal separated by the wavelength separation apparatus respectively. With the wavelength selective switch and the wavelength selection method, a polarization-independent phase modulation can be realized without a depolarization device disposed in an optical path, which thereby simplifies an optical path, reduces an insertion loss, and lowers costs of the wavelength selective switch and even the entire optical communication system.

Abstract: Embodiments of the presently-disclosed subject matter include a composition that comprises a particle, a plurality of surface functional groups on a surface of the particle, and a plurality of coating polymers bound to the surface functional groups and forming a coating on the particle that includes a density ratio of about 0.1 to about 20.0, the density ratio being equal to a Flory radius of the plurality of coating polymers divided by a distance between adjacent surface functional groups. Embodiments of the presently-disclosed subject matter also include methods for making the present compositions as well as methods for using the present compositions to deliver a bioactive agent and treat a subject in need thereof.

Abstract: A transmitting system, a receiving system, a transmitting method and a receiving method capable of implementing communications with multiple rates are described.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a dual-channel orthogonal carriers assisted optical signal transmitting device, and a direct detection method and a direct detection system using the dual-channel orthogonal carriers assisted optical signal. The direct detection system using the dual-channel orthogonal carriers assisted optical signal comprises a transmitting device and a receiving device. The transmitting device is configured to generate and transmit a dual-channel orthogonal carriers assisted optical signal to be detected, wherein the dual-channel orthogonal carriers assisted optical signal is modulated with a modulation signal. The receiving device is configured to receive the dual-channel orthogonal carriers assisted optical signal, and recover amplitude and phase information of the modulation signal based on the dual-channel orthogonal carriers assisted optical signal.

Abstract: A software defined network (SDN) controller sends a load switch command to a network device. The load switch command includes identification of a source server cluster and identification of a target server cluster.

Abstract: Provided are a method and system for upgrading firmware. The method includes: an upgrading control single board receives a firmware upgrading request from a master control single board, wherein the firmware upgrading request carries firmware upgrading parameter information; the upgrading control single board determines, according to the firmware upgrading parameter information, a sublink to be upgraded corresponding to the firmware upgrading parameter information; and the upgrading control single board acquires, from the master control single board, firmware upgrading data corresponding to the sublink to be upgraded, and upgrades, by adopting the firmware upgrading data, one or more pieces of firmware on the sublink to be upgraded. According to the solution, under a power-on state of a bare single board to be upgraded, remote firmware upgrading can be performed for the single board, so that the risk of influence of firmware upgrading operation on normal running of the system is lowered.

Abstract: An example method is provided and includes determining, during a desktop sharing session of a meeting session, a content identity of a content item that is being shared, storing information indicative of the content identity in desktop sharing historical information, determining that the meeting session has ended, determining a post-meeting representation of the desktop sharing historical information, and causing display of the post meeting representation of the desktop sharing historical information.

Abstract: Provided are a system, a method and a device for forwarding a packet. The system comprises: an LCC comprising a first LCC's control ether switch unit and a second LCC's control ether switch unit, a first CFC comprising a first CFC's control ether switch unit, and a second CFC comprising a second CFC's control ether switch unit, wherein a control message channel and a protocol packet channel are separately arranged between the first and the second LCC's control ether switch units and the first and the second CFC's control ether switch units. Through the disclosure, the problem that the reliability and security of the cluster-based router may be reduced if the control message and the protocol packet are transmitted in the same channel in the related arts is solved, so as to achieve the effects of forwarding the control message and the protocol packet in a cluster-based router separately and enhancing the reliability and the security of the cluster-based router.

Abstract: A video processing device includes a video processing unit that decodes a video input signal into a decoded video signal in accordance with a video compression protocol, based on uncompressed video frame data. A data object compression/decompression module generates compressed video frame data for storage in a compressed video frame buffer by compressing a plurality of video data objects into a plurality of compressed video data objects, wherein a first subset of the plurality of video data objects are compressed via lossless compression and a second subset of the plurality of video data objects are compressed via lossy compression.

Abstract: In an example embodiment disclosed herein, there is described methods and a system for sharing of content in collaborative computing sessions. The methods and the system are operable to initiate a collaborative computing session between a plurality of participant devices, wherein at least one participant device operates as a presenter device to share data with at least one other participant viewer device. The methods and system are further operable to designate data to be shared with at least one viewer device. The methods and system are also operable to transmit the designated shared data to the at least one viewer device, render the shared data for display on at least one viewer device, wherein the shared data is rendered in accordance with display capabilities of the at least one viewer device, and display the rendered shared data on the at least one viewer device.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a Mg—Ca—Zn—Zr magnesium alloy sheet, having the chemical compositions in weight percentage: Ca: 0.5˜1.0%, Zn: 0.4˜1.0%, Zr: 0.5˜1.0%, the remainders being Mg and unavoidable impurities; wherein the magnesium alloy sheet has an average grain size of less than or equal to 10 ?m, an interarea texture strength of less than or equal to 5, an interarea texture strength after annealing at 250˜400° C. of less than or equal to 3, and a limiting drawing ratio at room temperature of more than AZ31; and the grain size thereof is remarkably less than that of AZ31B sheet produced in the same conditions, and the sheet texture is notably weakened.

Abstract: An endoscopic surgical cutting stapler with a chain articulation is provided, in which a joint is implemented by a chain articulation, teeth are provided at two ends of a chain plate of the chain articulation, and teeth of adjacent chain plates in the same row are engaged. Through mesh transmission of engaged teeth of the adjacent chain plates in the same row, an angle of a most proximal chain plate of the chain articulation is gradually multiplied at several stages and transmitted to an end effector. The end effector can rotate for 90° with small drive motion of the operating mechanism, thereby achieving precise placement of the chain articulation after rotation. The end effector can be precisely aligned with a part to be cut and stapled, and a radius of curvature of the chain articulation can be significantly increased.

Abstract: A transmitting device, a receiving device, an optical communication system, and associated methods are provided. The transmitting device transmits an optical signal containing data, and comprises: an optical tone generator for generating at least one optical tone; at least one encoder for performing advanced coding on at least one data signal respectively, each of the at least one data signal carrying a part of the data; at least one mapper for performing high order modulation on the at least one coded data signal; and an up-converter for up-converting the at least one high-order-modulated data signal into the optical signal to be outputted through the at least optical tone. Thereby, high speed (e.g., over 1-Tb/s) transmission per single channel over a long-haul distance (e.g. over 1000-km) with error-free recovery may be achieved.

Abstract: Based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging of a portion of an eye, a mask of an anatomical feature is derived. Using the mask as a reference, a scan path is determined that is at least partially fitted to and/or partially enclosing the mask. OCT scan data corresponding to the scan path is acquired and analyzed to detect optic neuropathies.

Abstract: Geographic atrophy of the eye can be detected and measured by imaging the eye at a depth greater than the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) at a plurality of locations of the eye, for example, using optical coherence tomography (OCT); determining a ratio of the intensities of imaging signals of a retinal layer(s) with respect to the intensity of imaging signals of a sub-RPE layer(s) at each location; determining representative values based at least in part on the determined ratios; generating a map of the representative values; and identifying diseased areas from the map. Contours and binary maps may be generated based on the identified diseased areas. The size and shape of the identified areas may be analyzed and monitored over a period of time.