Abstract: A method for making a cantilever sensor includes forming a beam extending between a proximal portion and a distal end, and forming and attaching an electrode on the proximal portion. The beam is attached to a substrate in cantilever form so that the proximal portion of the beam is anchored to the substrate and the distal end of the beam is unsupported. The method includes modifying the resonance frequency of the cantilever sensor by forming at least the tip of the beam of a material having one or both of a density and Young's modulus that provides the desired resonant frequency, or by forming at least the tip of the beam so that it has a greater height in a Z direction transverse to a length of the beam than the proximal portion of the beam to thereby tune a resonant frequency of the sensor.

Abstract: Alpha-Synuclein mutants and uses thereof are disclosed herein. The mutants of the present invention are non-self-aggregating forms of Alpha-Synuclein which make them a suitable candidate for use as substrates in aggregation assay for evaluating the presence of misfolded ?-Syn protein. Also disclosed are kits and method for detection of synucleinopathies in individuals, using the mutants of the present invention.

Abstract: A method of forming a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device includes: providing a substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; forming a cavity in the substrate, the cavity extending between the first surface and the second surface; forming an interconnection structure on the first surface of the substrate and over the cavity; and forming a proof mass in the cavity, connected to the interconnection structure, the proof mass having a thickness which is smaller than a thickness of the substrate.

Abstract: A piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphone is provided comprising a substrate including walls defining a cavity and at least one of the walls defining an anchor region, a piezoelectric film layer supported by the substrate at the anchor region such that the piezoelectric film layer is cantilevered, the piezoelectric film layer being formed to introduce differential stress between a front surface of the piezoelectric film layer oriented away from the cavity and a back surface of the piezoelectric film layer oriented towards the cavity such that the piezoelectric film layer is bent into the cavity, and an electrode disposed over the piezoelectric film layer and adjacent the anchor region. A method of manufacturing such a MEMS microphone is also provided.

Abstract: A cantilever sensor (e.g., piezoelectric sensor) includes a beam with a sensor or electrode at a proximal end and a tip that extends from the sensor to the distal (unsupported) end of the beam. The tip is modified to modify (e.g., tune) the resonant frequency of the cantilever sensor. The resonant frequency of the cantilever sensor is tuned by using a material for the tip with a stiffness (e.g., a Young's Modulus) and/or a mass or density that results in the desired resonant frequency. The resonant frequency of the cantilever sensor can also be tuned by modifying the shape of the tip to have a higher vertical structure in a Z direction transverse to a length of the beam of the sensor.

Abstract: A side-port piezoelectric microelectromechanical system microphone package includes a microelectromechanical system die disposed on the microphone substrate and including a microphone membrane and a membrane support substrate, the microphone membrane being disposed on a wall of a membrane support substrate, and an acoustic port defined by an aperture passing through a portion of the wall of the membrane support substrate.

Abstract: An acoustic sensor (e.g., for use in a piezoelectric MEMS microphone) includes a substrate and a cantilever beam attached to the substrate. The cantilever beam has a proximal portion attached to the substrate and a distal portion that extends from the proximal portion to a free end of the beam, the beam extending in a first direction between the proximal portion and the free end, the distal portion of the beam having a corrugated section including one or more grooves that extend generally in the first direction. The corrugated section inhibits bending of the corrugated section along the length of the distal portion when the acoustic sensor is subjected to sound pressure. An electrode is disposed on or in the proximal portion of the beam.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device and a method of forming the same. The MEMS device includes a substrate, a cavity, an interconnection structure and a proof mass. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The cavity is disposed in the substrate, extending between the first surface and the second surface. The interconnection structure is disposed on the first surface of the substrate, over the cavity. The proof mass is disposed in the cavity, connected to the interconnection structure, the proof mass having a thickness which is smaller than a thickness of the substrate.

Abstract: A piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems microphone is provided comprising a substrate including at least one wall defining a cavity, the at least one wall defining an anchor region around a perimeter, a piezoelectric film layer forming a membrane, the piezoelectric film layer being supported at the anchor region by a spring region, and an electrode disposed over the piezoelectric film layer. A method of manufacturing such a MEMS microphone is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides which, when expressed in a Triticeae plant cell, particularly wheat, barley or rye plant cells confer or enhance resistance or tolerance towards leaf rust disease and/or stripe rust disease, and to Triticeae plants comprising the polynucleotides that are tolerant or resistant to the rust diseases, as well as to methods of producing same and of identifying resistant plants.

Abstract: A method for making a piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphone is provided, comprising depositing a piezoelectric film layer onto a substrate; selectively etching the piezoelectric film layer to define lines; removing the substrate to define a cavity; and breaking the piezoelectric film layer along the lines, such that the microphone has at least two cantilevered beams. The piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphone is also provided.

Abstract: A process includes feeding atmospheric air to an air separation unit to produce a flow of nitrogen and a flow of oxygen; combining the oxygen with a hydrocarbon flow and water in an auto-thermal reformer to produce a retentate stream to a membrane water gas shift reactor (M-WGSR); generating, from the retentate stream to the M-WGSR, a permeate stream from the M-WGSR that includes a first flow of carbon dioxide and a first combined flow of hydrogen and nitrogen; feeding a retentate stream to a membrane steam methane reformer (M-SMR) to produce a permeate stream from the M-SMR that includes a second flow of carbon dioxide and a second combined flow of hydrogen and nitrogen; feeding the first and second combined flows to an ammonia synthesis unit to produce ammonia; and feeding the first and second flows of carbon dioxide and the ammonia to a urea synthesis unit to produce a flow of urea by fully utilizing the carbon dioxide.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for extending functionality of memory controllers using a loopback mode for testing are disclosed herein. In one aspect, a processor-based device provides a memory access intercept circuit configured to receive a memory write request that is directed to and received by a memory controller. The memory access intercept circuit transmits proxy write data to the memory controller, and intercepts write data directed to the memory controller for the memory write request. The memory access intercept circuit stores the write data in a write data buffer, and, upon intercepting the proxy write data from the memory controller directed to a physical (PHY) interface circuit, retrieves the write data from the write data buffer and transmits the write data to the PHY interface circuit. The memory access intercept circuit subsequently receives, from the PHY interface circuit, loopback data, and stores the loopback data in a read data buffer.

Abstract: There is provided a system for modulating a graphical user interface (GUI). The system comprising a user device and a system controller in communication therewith. The user device comprises a device controller and a display interface for displaying the GUI. Execution of processor executable code stored in the system controller or provided for storage in the user device by the system controller or by the device controller or by the combination thereof synergistically provides for the system controller or the device controller or the combination thereof with performing computer-implementable steps. The computer implementable steps comprise splitting the GUI into two or more sub-GUI portions positioned within the GUI frame boundary and providing for the two or more sub-GUI portions to simultaneously display respective content stored within the user device and/or hosted by the system controller and/or a same or different remote host controllers in communication with the user device.

Abstract: An embodiment may involve obtaining a specification of connectivity between a plurality of electronic components, a property library of logical validations, and a set of restrictions for an execution environment of the electronic components, wherein each of the electronic components is associated with at least one of the logical validations; determining that, according to properties in the property library applied to their associated electronic components, a subset of the electronic components exhibit invariance within the execution environment; based on the subset of the electronic components that exhibit invariance within the execution environment, rewiring the connectivity between the plurality of electronic components; and performing logic synthesis on the connectivity between the plurality of electronic components as rewired to simplify at least some of the subset of the electronic components that exhibit invariance within the execution environment.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for object detection in sensor data having at least two modalities using a common embedding space includes creating first modality vector representations of features of sensor data having a first modality and second modality vector representations of features of sensor data having a second modality, projecting the first and second modality vector representations into the common embedding space such that related embedded modality vectors are closer together in the common embedding space than unrelated modality vectors, combining the projected first and second modality vector representations, and determining a similarity between the combined modality vector representations and respective embedded vector representations of features of objects in the common embedding space to identify at least one object depicted by the captured sensor data. In some instances, data manipulation of the method, apparatus and system can be guided by physics properties of a sensor and/or sensor data.

Abstract: A radar system comprising a plurality of receivers, each receiver having its clock generator generating a clock signal with a sampling frequency for sampling a radar signal received on one or more receiving antennas and a plurality of delay estimation and compensation (DEC) blocks implemented within the corresponding plurality of receivers, wherein, each DEC block is configured to synchronise the clock generator of one receiver with every other receiver. A method in a radar comprising, generating a sync pulse in a first receiver in the plurality of receives, measuring a delay between the sync pulse and the clock signal in the first receiver, transmitting the sync pulse to other receivers in the plurality of receivers measuring a second delay between the sync pulse and the clock pulse in the other receivers and changing the frequency of the clock generator in the other receivers from the sampling frequency to first frequency for a first time duration.

Abstract: A method of making an acoustic sensor includes forming or providing a mold having one or more grooves extending in a direction of the length of the mold to a distal end of the mold. The method also includes forming or depositing a structure having one or more piezoelectric layers over the top surface of the mold to define a beam with a proximal portion and a distal portion, the distal portion having a corrugated section including one or more grooves that correspond to the one or more grooves of the mold. The method also includes forming or applying an electrode to the proximal portion of the structure and releasing the structure from the mold to form one or more cantilever beams. The corrugated section inhibits bending of the corrugated section along the length of the distal portion of the structure when the acoustic sensor is subjected to sound pressure.

Abstract: One disclosed method involves receiving, at a first application programming interface (API) endpoint of a computing system, a first API call requesting performance of a first type of operation; invoking, by the computing system and based on the first API call, a first process to send at least a second API call to a second API endpoint of a first system of record; receiving, by the computing system and from the first system of record, a first response to the second API call; and sending, from the computing system to a source of the first API call, a second response that is based at least in part on the first response.

Abstract: A computing system may (A) determine that a target service is to receive portions of a first file in a particular sequence from the computing system via a first hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) connection between the computing system and the target service, (B) receive a first portion of the first file from a client device via a second HTTP connection established between the computing system and the client device, (C) determine that the first portion of the first file is next in the particular sequence of file portions to be sent to the target service, (D) send, to the target service via the first HTTP connection, the first portion of the first file based at least in part on the first portion of the first file being next in the particular sequence, (E) receive a second portion of the first file from the client device via a third HTTP connection established between the computing system and the client device, (F) determine that the second portion of the first file is next in the particular sequence, and (G)