Abstract: The invention provides a herbal extract having anti-influenza virus activity, by extracting Sophora flavescens Ait, Thesium chinense Turcz, licorice, or mixture thereof with solvent.

Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes providing a stack structure having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The stack structure includes a bottom wafer comprising a substrate; a plurality of through-silicon vias in the substrate; and a plurality of under bump metallurgies (UBMs) connected to the plurality of through-silicon vias, wherein the UBMs are on the first side of the stack structure. The method further includes attaching a handling wafer on the second side of the stack structure; performing a chip probing process; and removing the handling wafer from the stack structure.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a housing and an electronic device installed in the housing. The housing has a shell body having a top wall, a front wall and a mounting zone defined by a part of the top wall and a part of the front wall, and a cover coupled to the mounting zone. The mounting zone is provided with a first row of through holes and a second row of through holes. The cover has a row of light-guiding rods at a back side thereof, which are respectively selectively insertable into the first or second row of through holes. The electronic device includes a circuit board and a plurality of lamps electrically connected to and controlled by the circuit board.

Abstract: The present invention disclose an iris recognition method, which utilizes a matching pursuit algorithm to simplify the extraction and reconstruction of iris features and reduce the memory space required by each iris feature vector without the penalty of recognition accuracy. The iris recognition method of the present invention comprises an iris-localization component and a pattern matching component. The iris-localization component locates the iris region via the color difference between different portions of the eyeball. The primary iris features are extracted from iris information and transformed into a sequence of iris feature vectors by a matching pursuit algorithm. Thus, the iris image can be represented by a sequence of atoms, and each atom contains base, amplitude and location. Then, the comparison between the feature vectors of two irises is performed to determine whether the two irises match.

Abstract: This invention relates to a rubber composition which contains a dispersion of a particulate hydrophilic water absorbing polymer and tire with a tread thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for skin care comprising administering an the water insoluble fraction of Astragalus membranaceus, or astragaloside compounds to a subject in need thereof at an effective amount for improving skin texture, reducing wrinkles, UV protection, and anti-aging effect.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for synthesizing rubbery copolymers, such as styrene-butadiene rubber, or rubbery homopolymers, such as polybutadiene rubber, that are alkoxy functionalized, e.g., alkoxysilane functionalized, and provide desirable dispersion of silica in rubber compounds, such as for use in tire treads. To that end, the method, in one embodiment, involves admixing anionically polymerizable conjugated diene monomers with optional vinyl aromatic, an anionic-polymerization initiator, i.e., an organolithium compound, and a lithium alkoxide to form an admixture of living polymers, then adding a halogenated coupling agent to the admixture of living polymers effecting conditions to form an alkoxy functionalized rubbery polymer. The alkoxy functionalized rubbery polymers can be utilized in tire tread rubbers where the rubbery polymers may provide desirable wear properties without substantially sacrificing other performance characteristic(s), e.g., traction properties.

Abstract: A DRAM cell and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The method includes: forming a trench in a substrate; forming a first capacitor dielectric layer on the surface of the trench; forming a conducting layer inside the trench; forming a second capacitor dielectric layer on the surface of the substrate and on the conducting layer, wherein the substrate around the first and second capacitor dielectric layers serves as a bottom electrode; forming a protruding electrode on the substrate, the protruding electrode being on the substrate around the trench and covering a junction between the trench and the substrate; and electrically connecting the protruding electrode and the conducting layer, the conducting layer and the protruding electrode being an upper electrode.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. A substrate is first provided, and than several IO devices and several core devices are formed on the substrate, wherein those IO devises include IO PMOS and IO NMOS, and those core devises include core PMOS and core NMOS. Thereafter, a buffer layer is formed on the substrate, and then the buffer layer except a surface of the IO PMOS is removed in order to reduce the negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) of the IO PMOS. Afterwards, a tensile contact etching stop layer (CESL) is formed on the IO NMOS and the core NMOS, and a compressive CESL is formed the core PMOS.

Abstract: This invention relates to the preparation of silica-rich rubber compositions which contain silica reinforcement and silica coupler together with a specified combination of zinc oxide and long chain (fatty) carboxylic acid such as stearic acid. The silica, silica coupling agent, zinc oxide and stearic acid are combined in a manner to form a complex network. The silica is a precipitated silica in a form of silica aggregates which contain hydroxyl groups on its surface. A preferred silica coupling agent is a bis (3-trialkoxysilylalkyl) polysulfide which contains an average of from 2 to about 4, preferably from 2 to about 2.6, connecting sulfur atoms in its polysulfidic bridge. The invention further relates to tires having a component thereof such as, for example, a tread.

Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device. The method comprises steps of providing a substrate having a first transistor, a second transistor and non-salicide device formed thereon and the conductive type of the first transistor is different from that of the second transistor. A buffer layer is formed over the substrate and a tensile material layer is formed over the buffer layer. A portion of the tensile material layer over the second transistor is thinned and a spike annealing process is performed. The tensile material layer is removed to expose the buffer layer over the substrate and a patterned salicide blocking layer is formed over the non-salicide device. A salicide process is performed for forming a salicide layer on a portion of the first transistor and the second transistor.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor is provided. A first gate structure and a second gate structure are formed on a substrate. The first gate structure has a dimension greater than the second gate structure. Then, first lightly doped drain regions are formed in the substrate on two sides of the first gate structure. A lightly doped drain annealing process is performed. Next, second lightly doped drain regions are formed in the substrate on two sides of the second gate structure. First spacers are formed on the sidewalls of the first gate structure and second spacers are formed on the sidewalls of the second gate structure at the same time. Afterwards, first source/drain regions are formed in the substrate on two sides of the first spacers and second source/drain regions are formed in the substrate on two sides of the second spacers. A source/drain annealing process is performed.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an amine containing catalyst system for synthesizing rubbery polymers, such as polybutadiene rubber and styrene-butadiene rubber, having a high trans microstructure. The catalyst system, in one embodiment, includes (a) an organolithium compound, (b) a group IIa metal salt, (c) an organoaluminum compound, and (d) an amine compound which can be selected from (1) a heterocyclic aromatic compound which includes a ring structure with one or more nitrogen atoms as part of the ring; (2) a heterocyclic non-aromatic compound which includes a ring structure with two or more nitrogen atoms as part of the ring; (3) an aromatic compound including a ring structure substituted with at least one amine and at least one polar functionality containing group selected from a carboxyl group or a hydroxyl group; (4) a bicyclic chelating diamine compound; or (5) an aliphatic amine which includes a C5-C20 alkyl group.

Abstract: A fluoropolymer blend with high ionic conductivity that can be applied in electroactive polymer composite includes following components: PVDF-g-SPS (styrene-grafted and sulfonated PVDF); PVDF; and hydrocarbon- or fluoro-elastomer. PVDF-g-PS(styrene-grafted PVDF) ? PVDF and hydrocarbon- or fluoro-elastomer are mixed with specific proportion and being dissolved in an aprotic solvent ? the solution is then cast film on a substrate followed by sulfonation to give the aforementioned compound membrane. The obtained compound membrane has excellent properties, such as thermal stability, acid-alkali resistance, good mechanical performance, excellent flexibility, and capability for processing appropriate cross-link for further enhancing the mechanical performance of this membrane.

Abstract: This invention relates to a silica reinforced rubber composition containing an ionic compound and article having a component thereof. The invention particularly relates to an article such as a rubber tire having a component of such rubber composition. Said ionic compound is composed of a combination of an organic cation moiety and an organic or inorganic anion moiety. Said ionic compound is desirably an ionically conductive ionic compound. The invention particularly relates to improvement of one or more physical properties of a rubber composition by an inclusion of such ionic compound and/or providing a path of least electrical resistance for a electrically resistive component of an article such as a tire by an inclusion in the rubber composition of said component of an ionically conductive ionic compound composed of a combination of an organic cation moiety and an organic or inorganic anion moiety.

Abstract: A safety braking assembly for a bicycle has a cylinder box, a pair of upper protecting pipes, a pair of lower protecting pipes, a front brake cable, a rear brake cable, a lower fixed block and an upper fixed block. The cylinder box has a mounting sleeve, an upper cover and a lower cover. The covers are mounted over two ends of the mounting sleeve. The upper protecting pipes are connected to the upper cover. The lower protecting pipes are connected to the lower cover. The brake cables are extended through the cylinder box and extend out the upper protecting pipes and the lower protecting pipes. The upper fixed block is connected to the rear brake cable and can slide relative to the front brake cable. The lower fixed block is connected to the front brake cable and can push against the upper fixed block.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a catalyst system for synthesizing rubbery polymers, such as polybutadiene rubber and styrene-butadiene rubber, having a high trans microstructure. The catalyst system, in one embodiment, includes (a) a barium salt of an alcohol that is soluble in a hydrocarbon solvent, and (b) an organomagnesium compound. In one example, the alcohol is a primary or secondary alcohol. The catalyst system can further optionally include an alkali metal alkoxide, an organolithium compound, an amine compound, or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: This invention discloses a method for diagnosing Crescentic glomerulonephritis (CRGN) using at least a sample from a patient. The method is to find a least one biomarker for diagnosing Crescentic glomerulonephritis. The genetic performance of Sparc, Lcn2 and/or Spp1 can be used as biomarkers.

Abstract: An optical system representing the configuration of a tested element disposed therein is provided. The optical system comprises a light source emitting a spatial-incoherent light having a phase shifting scheme toward the tested element and then forming an image with a transverse ray aberration on the image plane of the tested element; a spatial filter on the image plane to spatially filter the image formed by the tested element; and a detection module comprising a detector for receiving the spatially filtered image.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for virtual bass synthesis. The low frequency signal is attained by applying a low pass filter to the original. In order to reduce the operations, process of down sampling the low frequency signal, moving the low frequency signal to a series of harmonics whose frequencies are integral times as large as the frequency of low frequency signals, and then up sampling them are provided. By means of psycho-acoustic theory, the weights of harmonics are attained and applied to the harmonics. Finally the weighted harmonics are combined to produce the bass signal. As the result, the virtual bass effect which is almost the same as the low frequency of the original audio signal can be accomplished. Because the harmonic signals are high frequency ones, the virtual effect can be made in the panel speakers or ordinary low-end speakers.