Abstract: An example method to allocate a virtual disk for a virtual machine in a virtualized computing system includes allocating a plurality of virtual machine disk file (VMDK) candidates in a virtual machine file system (VMFS) volume, selecting a subset of VMDK candidates from the plurality of VMDK candidates for having performance scores indicative of higher I/O throughputs associated with the one or more physical hard disks than rest of the plurality of VMDK candidates, and configuring the virtual disk based on the subset of the VMDK candidates. The VMFS volume is supported by one or more physical hard disks in a storage system in the virtualized computing system.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are isolated human monoclonal antibodies, and functional fragments thereof, that specifically bind HMW-MAA. Nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors including these nucleic acid molecules, and isolated host cells that express the nucleic acid molecules are also disclosed. The antibodies can be used to detect HMW-MAA in a sample. Methods of diagnosing cancer, or confirming a diagnosis of cancer, are disclosed herein that utilize these antibodies. Methods of treating a subject with cancer are also disclosed.

Abstract: A housing assembly for an electric motor having a rotor shaft rotatable about an axis includes a housing cover and a housing case. The housing cover defines a first bearing seat for rotatably supporting a first portion of the rotor shaft. The housing case defines a second bearing seat for rotatably supporting a second portion of the rotor shaft. At least one of the housing cover and the housing case includes a plurality of mounting lugs substantially circumferentially evenly spaced about the shaft axis for mounting the electric motor to a surface.

Abstract: A power conversion system is disclosed including a DC bus for receiving DC power, a power converter for converting the DC power to AC power, and a controller. The controller includes an active power regulator for generating a phase angle command signal, a reactive power regulator for generating a voltage magnitude command, and an active power (P) and reactive power (Q) decoupling unit for decoupling interaction between the active and reactive power regulators. The PQ decoupling unit includes an active power compensation element and a reactive power compensation element. The active power compensation element is used for generating a phase angle compensation signal based on a reactive power error signal, to compensate the phase angle command signal. The reactive power compensation element is used for generating a voltage magnitude compensation signal based on an active power error signal, to compensate the voltage magnitude command signal.

Abstract: It is disclosed herein that condroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4 (CSPG4), also known as high molecular weight melanoma associated antigen, is overexpressed on basal breast carcinoma cells (BBC), specifically triple negative basal breast carcinoma cells (TNBC). Methods for detecting basal breast cancer in a subject are disclosed. Methods are also disclosed for inhibiting the growth of a basal breast cancer cell. These methods include contacting the basal breast cancer cell with an effective amount of an antibody that specifically binds CSPG4. Additional treatment methods, and the use of antibody panels, are also described herein.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer stabilized vertical alignment liquid crystal display panel. It comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the two substrates, and a bezel sealant for sealing liquid crystal molecules between the two substrates. The liquid crystal layer material comprises negative liquid crystal molecules, stabilizer, and reactive monomers polymerizable when irradiated with ultraviolet light. The bezel sealant comprises epoxy resin, curing agent, methacrylate resin or acrylate resin, photoinitiator, filler, and silane coupling agent. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display correspondingly. According to the embodiment of the present invention, the dissolution of the methacrylate resin or acrylate resin in the bezel sealant by the liquid crystal medium is prevented to avoid the over-sized bumps formed in the periphery of the bezel.

Abstract: A method for allocating storage for a virtual machine includes receiving a request to allocate a block of disk storage on a physical disk to a virtual disk associated with the virtual machine. The method also includes identifying a plurality of available blocks on the physical disk, each of the plurality of available blocks defining a radial distance from a center axis of a platter of the physical disk. The method further includes determining which of the plurality of available blocks has a greatest radial distance from the center axis of the platter and, based on the determining, selecting an allocation block from the plurality of available blocks, the allocation block having the greatest radial distance from the center axis of the platter. The method also includes allocating the allocation block to the virtual machine.

Abstract: The present invention provides an access method and a system for a Machine-Type Communication (MTC) device, and an MTC device. The method comprises the steps of: an MTC device sending, when performing channel request, a channel request cause value and a random reference value to a Base Station Subsystem (BSS) (100), and the BSS sending the received channel request cause value and random reference value back to the MTC device when completing channel allocation (101). The present invention distinguishes the MTC services from other non-MTC services through the channel request cause value, that is, when the cause values are different, the collision will not occur even if the random reference values are the same, thus reducing the probability of the random reference value collision, implementing the effective management for access operations of large numbers of MTC devices, and avoiding the influence of random reference value collision on the normal implementation of original services.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal medium composition for use in liquid crystal display, which includes the following constituent components: a negative type liquid crystal material, a stabilizer, and two or more than two polymerizable monomers that undergo polymerization reactions under UV radiation. The polymerizable monomers are in an amount of 0.1-1% by weight based on total weight of the liquid crystal medium composition. The polymerizable monomers have a structural formula composed of a single benzene ring, two benzene rings, or a naphthalene ring. The structural formula composed of two benzene rings is formed by two benzene rings that are directly linked or linked via a moiety. The benzene ring and naphthalene ring are directly linked at least one polymerizable moiety. Through use of two or more than two polymerizable monomers in the liquid crystal medium composition, polymer bumps having a small size and excellent homogeneity can be obtained.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition of liquid crystal medium. The composition of liquid crystal medium includes a negative type liquid crystal material, a stabilizer, one or more than one type of polymerizable monomers capable of forming a polymerization under ultraviolent irradiation and a polymerizable photo-initiator; wherein a structural formula of the polymerizable monomers comprises at least one aromatic ring and at least a polymerizable group connected to the aromatic ring. In the composition of liquid crystal medium according to the present invention, a structural formula of the polymerizable monomers includes at least one aromatic ring and at least a polymerizable group connected to the aromatic ring, and a structural formula of the polymerizable photo-initiator includes a benzene ring or cyclohexane so as to provide a broader conjugate system than conventional photo-initiators.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mixture for liquid crystal medium and a liquid crystal display using the same. The mixture for liquid crystal medium comprises: at least one anisotropic liquid crystal material and two or more polymerizable monomers which will polymerize under UV irradiation. The liquid crystal material comprises an alkenyl compound which is stable to the polymerization reaction during the polymerization of the polymerizable monomers. The weight percentage of the polymerizable monomers accounts for 0.1% to 1% of the total mixture for liquid crystal medium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dual-TFT-substrate blue-phase liquid crystal display panel. The dual-TFT-substrate blue-phase liquid crystal display panel includes a top polarizer, a top TFT substrate, a blue phase liquid crystal layer, a bottom TFT substrate, and a bottom polarizer, which are sequentially stacked from top to bottom. The top and bottom TFT substrates have identical IPS electrode structures and the IPS electrode structures respectively drives the top and bottom TFT substrates. The dual-TFT-substrate blue-phase liquid crystal display panel further includes a color filter, which is arranged at one side of the top TFT substrate or one side of the bottom TFT substrate. The dual-TFT-substrate blue-phase liquid crystal display panel of the present invention uses an arrangement of dual-side IPS structure to reduce the operation voltage of a blue phase liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: A battery label having a black appearance and exhibiting flame retardancy properties is described.

Abstract: The invention discloses a polymerizable mixture and a liquid crystal composition for polymer stabilized vertical alignment. The polymerizable mixture comprises one or more types of the reactive monomers and a photo initiator. structure of the reactive monomer comprises a single benzene ring, two benzene rings, or a naphthalene ring, wherein the two benzene rings are formed by direct connection of two single benzene rings or indirect connection with a substituent group therebetween, the benzene ring and the naphthalene ring are directly connected with at least one polymerizable group. The liquid crystal composition includes a negative type liquid crystal material, a stabilizer, and the polymerizable mixture. The reaction rate and the conversion rate of the reactive monomer can be improved by adding the photo initiator, so that the residues of the reactive monomers can be reduced after UV irradiation to solve the panel quality problems effectively.

Abstract: A golf club head is provided having a club body and a contact plate secured to the club body. The contact plate defines at least a portion of a striking surface having a plurality of striking surface grooves. The contact plate is formed using an electroforming process.

Abstract: A liquid crystal medium composition of liquid crystal display includes: a negative liquid crystal material, reactive monomer, an initiator, and a stabilizer. The initiator functions to induce photo polymerization of the reactive monomer. The initiator has a molecular structure comprising aromatic rings, carbonyl groups connected to the aromatic rings, and substituted moieties connected to the aromatic rings. The initiator lowers the activation energy of chain initiation reaction of the polymerization of reactive monomer to allow the photo polymerization of the reactive monomer to take place in a wider wavelength range of 200-450 nm, so as to reduce the required intensity and luminance of ultraviolet light and to speed up the reaction of the reactive monomers and also to provide a uniform result of reaction, to reduce the destruction that the ultraviolet light causes on the material of alignment layer and the liquid crystal material, and to improve stability of the panel.

Abstract: Field effect transistors fabricated using atomic layer doping processes are disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of an atomic layer doping method, a semiconducting surface and a dopant gas mixture are prepared. Further, a dopant layer is grown on the semiconducting surface by applying the dopant gas mixture to the semiconducting surface under a pressure that is less than 500 Torr and a temperature that is between 300° C. and 750° C. The dopant layer includes at least 4×1020 active dopant atoms per cm3 that react with atoms on the semiconducting surface such that the reacted atoms increase the conductivity of the semiconducting surface.

Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor structure may include forming at least one fin and forming, over a first portion of the at least one fin structure, a gate. Gate spacers may be formed on the sidewalls of the gate, whereby the forming of the spacers creates recessed regions adjacent the sidewalls of the at least one fin. A first epitaxial region is formed that covers both one of the recessed regions and a second portion of the at least one fin, such that the second portion extends outwardly from one of the gate spacers. A first epitaxial layer is formed within the one of the recessed regions by etching the first epitaxial region and the second portion of the at least one fin. A second epitaxial region is formed at a location adjacent one of the spacers and over the first epitaxial layer within one of the recessed regions.

Abstract: It is disclosed herein that condroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4 (CSPG4), also known as high molecular weight melanoma associated antigen, is overexpressed on basal breast carcinoma cells (BBC), specifically triple negative basal breast carcinoma cells (TNBC). Methods for detecting basal breast cancer in a subject are disclosed. Methods are also disclosed for inhibiting the growth of a basal breast cancer cell. These methods include contacting the basal breast cancer cell with an effective amount of an antibody that specifically binds CSPG4. Additional treatment methods, and the use of antibody panels, are also described herein.

Abstract: The present invention provides a blue phase liquid crystal display panel, which includes: a first substrate (10), where the first substrate (10) includes a first transparent substrate (11), multiple sets of first electrodes (40) that are formed on the first transparent substrate (11) and are parallel to each other, an insulation layer (15) that is formed on the first transparent substrate (11) and the multiple sets of first electrodes (40), and multiple sets of second electrodes (50) that are formed on the insulation layer (15) and are parallel to each other, the first electrodes (40) and the second electrodes (50) defining therebetween an included angle; a second substrate (20); and a blue phase liquid crystal layer (30).