Abstract: Microporous structures in face films are described for improving printability of the films. Also described are laminates and pressure sensitive adhesive laminates including the microporous structured face films. Various related methods are additionally described.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to polyethylene blends, films thereof, and methods thereof. In at least one embodiment, a polymer blend includes a first polyethylene having a density of about 0.94 g/cm3 to about 0.97 g/cm3 and a melt index of about 0.1 g/10 min to about 10 g/10 min. The blend includes a second polyethylene comprising at least 80 wt % ethylene derived-units. The second polyethylene has a density of about 0.918 g/cm3 to about 0.945 g/cm3, a number average molecular weight (Mn) of about 10,000 g/mol to about 20,000 g/mol, a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of about 75,000 g/mol to about 300,000 g/mol, a melt index (2.16 kg) of about 0.1 g/10 min to about 5 g/10 min, a high load melt index (21.6 kg) of about 25 g/10 min to about 80 g/10 min, and a melt index ratio of about 10 to about 50.

Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure provide coloring methods that sort and pre-color nodes of G0-linked networks in a multiple-patterning technology (MPT)-compliant layout design by coordinate. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying target networks in a circuit layout, each target network having two or more linked nodes representing circuit patterns, and each target network being presented in an imaginary X-Y coordinate plane, assigning a first feature to a first node in each target network, the first node is determined using a coordinate-based method, and assigning the first feature and a second feature to remaining nodes in each target network in an alternating manner so that any two immediately adjacent linked nodes in each target network have different features.

Abstract: The present application relates to a modified Prp43 helicase and use thereof. The Prp43 helicase has enhanced ATP hydrolytic or unwinding activity due to introduction of mutations and/or introduction of an auxiliary protein, and can remain binding to the target polynucleotide for a long period of time, thereby allowing the enzyme to control the rate of movement of the polynucleotide continuously and stably at a suitable rate required for sequencing. Thus, the modified or engineered Prp43 helicase mutant of the present application allows for the control of movement of a target polynucleotide in a more advantageous manner, which can be used for nanopore sequencing.

Abstract: A chip package structure and a method for producing the same are provided. The method at least includes: providing a substrate; placing a chip upside-down on the substrate; forming bonding wires coupled with the chip and the substrate; providing at least one reflecting member on an upper surface of the substrate, forming a support body on the substrate to cover the at least one reflecting member; providing a package cover adhered to the support body by a glass adhesive; performing a solidifying process in which a solidifying light beam is emitted to the reflecting member and the reflecting member reflects the solidifying light beam to the glass adhesive to solidify the glass adhesive; performing a packaging process in which a package body is formed to cover an edge surface of the package cover and a top part of the support body.

Abstract: The invention provides a power supply module and a charged particle beam device that are capable of reducing ripple noise. A high-voltage generation circuit 101 includes booster circuits CPa and CPb of two systems that are configured to be symmetrical to each other, and performs a boosting operation by using a capacitive element and a diode in the booster circuits CPa and CPb of the two systems. The high-voltage generation circuit is housed in a housing and a reference power supply voltage is applied thereto. A left electrode 102a is fixedly provided in the vicinity of one of the booster circuits CPa and CPb of the two systems in the housing, and a right electrode 102b is fixedly provided in the vicinity of the other of the booster circuits CPa and CPb of the two systems in the housing.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for pipelining memory operations with error correction coding are disclosed. A method for pipelining consecutive write mask operations is disclosed wherein a second read operation of a second write mask operation occurs during error correction code calculation of a first write mask operation. The method may further including writing data from the first write mask operation during the error correction code calculation of the second write mask operation. A method for pipelining consecutive operations is disclosed where a first read operation may be cancelled if the first operation is not a write mask operation. An apparatus including a memory having separate global read and write input-output lines is disclosed.

Abstract: An automated system and method are disclosed for producing an inflatable product having a first sheet, a second sheet, and a plurality of tensioning structures between the first and second sheets. The system includes an upstream tensioning structure production subsystem that produces the tensioning structures and a downstream preassembly production subsystem that couples the tensioning structures to the first and second sheets. The subsystems may operate simultaneously to produce the inflatable product in an automated, efficient, and repeatable manner.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes various processes of forming an electrochromic stack using at most one metallic lithium deposition station. In some aspects, a process may include depositing metallic lithium only within an electrochromic counter-electrode of an electrochromic stack. In some aspects, a process may include using a lithium-containing ceramic counter-electrode target to form an electrochromic counter-electrode and depositing metallic lithium only within or above an electrochromic electrode of the electrochromic stack. In some embodiments, a process may include using a lithium-containing ceramic electrode target, and optionally additionally depositing metallic lithium to add mobile lithium to the electrochromic stack. In some embodiments, a process may include using a single metallic lithium deposition station to deposit metallic lithium between an ion-conducting layer and an electrochromic electrode of the electrochromic stack.

Abstract: The invention provides a self-organized quantum dot semiconductor structure. The quantum dot semiconductor structure includes: a conductive ridge on a substrate; an insulative layer covering the substrate and the conductive ridge, wherein the insulative layer includes a top portion and two sidewalls over the conductive ridge; a semiconductor mechanism of etching back and thermal oxidation, implemented on a semiconductor-alloyed layer set on the insulative layer; a plurality of quantum dots respectively embedded within a plurality of silicon dioxide spacer islands based on the semiconductor mechanism, the quantum dots and the silicon dioxide spacer islands adhered to the sidewalls of the insulative layer; and a plurality of conductive ledges adhered to the silicon dioxide spacer islands, wherein each of the conductive ledges is a portion of an electrode self-alignment to the quantum dot.

Abstract: An outdoor display module includes a housing defined therein a closed space and a recessed room formed in the closed space and a display device securely received inside the closed space. A glass panel is received in the recessed room and sealingly attached to a periphery defining the recessed room. The glass panel is securely and directly attached to a side face of the display device to reflect a large portion of radiation heat from the sun. A heat exchanger is received in the closed space and located at a rear side of the display device to dissipate heat from electronic devices and the backlight assembly inside the housing.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a composite tubular material and a preparation method thereof. The tubular material is prepared from extracellular matrix and directionally arranged synthetic polymer fibers through compounding; the synthetic polymer fibers serve as an internal skeleton, a fiber diameter ranges from 1 ?m to 2000 ?m, a fiber angle ranges from 0° to 180°, and a wall thickness ranges from 1 ?m to 1000 ?m; and extracellular matrix components are obtained from human or animal tissue through decellularization. According to the present disclosure, the tubular material with bioactivity and excellent mechanical properties can be prepared from the synthetic polymer and the natural material extracellular matrix through compounding; the synthetic polymer fibers with controllable fiber angle and diameter serve as the internal skeleton of the tubular material, and accordingly the tubular material has the mechanical properties of resistance to bending and squeezing.

Abstract: An expandable sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnet, a preparation method, and an application are provided. The magnet has a sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnet and an expandable coating coated on the surface of the sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnet. The sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnet coated with the expandable coating is used to replace a conventional assembly method of an epoxy resin adhesive coating magnet and potting resin glue, so that the magnet coated with the expandable coating may be inserted into a magnetic steel groove. The irreversible expansion of the coating itself is used to fix the magnet in the magnetic steel groove. Meanwhile, the use of the expandable coating shortens the assembly time of motors and improves the assembly accuracy of the motors.

Abstract: A memory apparatus and a data rearrangement method for computing in memory (CIM) are provided. The method includes determining whether first sequence data has two target bits that are both of a first value, inserting a non-target bit of a second value between the two target bits that are both of the first value and adjacent to each other to generate second sequence data, and receiving the second sequence data through memory cells in a memory to perform a multiply-accumulate (MAC) operation on the second sequence data. Each bit in the first sequence data is the first value or the second value. One of the two target bits is located adjacent to the other one of the two target bits in the first sequence data. The two target bits and the non-target bit are located in the first sequence data. Accordingly, the error rate is decreased.

Abstract: The present invention provides a biochip for tracking postoperative recurrence status of a patient with lung adenocarcinoma. The biochip comprises a bare plate layer, the bare plate layer comprises a sensing electrode, and the sensing electrode comprises a biological agent capable of measuring an expression amount of a GPNMB gene. The present invention further provides a method for tracking the postoperative recurrence status of a patient with lung adenocarcinoma. The method comprises the following steps: step one, providing a sample from a patient with lung adenocarcinoma; step two: contacting the sample with a carrier capable of detecting an expression amount of a GPNMB gene; and step three: analyzing a change of the expression amount of the GPNMB gene to track the postoperative recurrence status of the patient with lung adenocarcinoma.

Abstract: An automated system and method are disclosed for producing an inflatable product having a first sheet, a second sheet, and a plurality of tensioning structures between the first and second sheets. The system includes an upstream tensioning structure production subsystem that produces the tensioning structures and a downstream preassembly production subsystem that couples the tensioning structures to the first and second sheets. The subsystems may operate simultaneously to produce the inflatable product in an automated, efficient, and repeatable manner.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes various processes of forming an electrochromic stack using at most one metallic lithium deposition station. In some aspects, a process may include depositing metallic lithium only within an electrochromic counter-electrode of an electrochromic stack. In some aspects, a process may include using a lithium-containing ceramic counter-electrode target to form an electrochromic counter-electrode and depositing metallic lithium only within or above an electrochromic electrode of the electrochromic stack. In some embodiments, a process may include using a lithium-containing ceramic electrode target, and optionally additionally depositing metallic lithium to add mobile lithium to the electrochromic stack. In some embodiments, a process may include using a single metallic lithium deposition station to deposit metallic lithium between an ion-conducting layer and an electrochromic electrode of the electrochromic stack.

Abstract: The high voltage amplifier includes: an input circuit configured to amplify an input signal and connected to a positive-electrode-side level shift circuit and a negative-electrode-side level shift circuit; a high-voltage output circuit including a positive-electrode-side output circuit configured to amplify a signal from the positive-electrode-side level shift circuit and a negative-electrode-side output circuit configured to amplify a signal from the negative-electrode-side level shift circuit; a feedback circuit which feeds back an output signal from the high-voltage output circuit to the input signal; a detection circuit configured to detect currents of the positive-electrode-side and negative-electrode-side output circuits, and an offset adjustment circuit configured to increase an offset amount of the negative-electrode-side level shift circuit to a negative side when a current of the positive-electrode-side output circuit increases, and increase an offset amount of the positive-electrode-side level shif

Abstract: Provided is a promoter sequence induced by methyl jasmonate. Also provided are an expression cassette, a recombinant vector and a recombinant cell comprising the promoter sequence. In addition, further provided is a method for producing an exogenous protein using the expression vector, and in particular a method for producing a human elastin in a rice cell using the expression vector. Further provided is a skin care composition comprising the exogenous protein. The composition is not cytotoxic to HaCaT cell lines and CCD966SK cell lines, and can increase the expression levels of water retention-related genes hHAS2, hHAS3, hAQP3 and hFLG in a cell, thereby improving the water retention and barrier functions in the cell as well as having a broad application prospect.

Abstract: A system and a method for determining aiming point and/or six degrees of freedom of an aiming device. The system include the aiming device, a camera mounted thereon, and a computing device. The aiming point is an intersection between a line of interest (LOI) of the aiming device and surface of an aimed object. A parallel auxiliary line (PAL) is a line starting from the camera and parallel to the LOI. The PAL is a point (PAL-T) in a template image captured by the first camera. The computing device is configured to: provide a reference image; map the template image to the reference image; project the PAL-T to the reference image using the mapping relation to obtain a reference point (PAL-R); determine 3D coordinates PAL-3D of the PAL-R; and determine 3D coordinates of the aiming point based on the PAL-3D and a relationship between the LOI and the PAL.