Abstract: A hydraulic system includes a horizon selection short section comprising a group of hydraulic input ports, a group of hydraulic output ports, and a first group of hydraulic control valves connected therebetween, configured to control the opening and closing of the group of hydraulic output ports through the group of hydraulic control valves; a high and low pressure selection short section including a group of hydraulic connectors, a group of high and low pressure output ports and an oil return ports, and a second group of hydraulic control valves connected therebetween. The group of hydraulic connectors are connected to the group of hydraulic output ports, and are configured to control the opening and closing of the group of high and low pressure output ports and the oil return port through the input mode and pressurization adjustment of the second group of hydraulic control valves and the horizon selection short section.

Abstract: The present invention provides polypeptide modulators of complement activity, including cyclic polypeptide modulators. Also provided are methods of utilizing such modulators as therapeutics.

Abstract: A button battery, a manufacturing method thereof, and an electronic device are disclosed, the button battery includes a housing including a bottom cover on a side of a negative electrode sheet and a positive electrode cover on a side of a positive electrode sheet; the housing includes the positive electrode sheet, a separator, a carbon foil, and the negative electrode sheet stacked in sequence; the separator has an inverted U-shape, and both sides of the inverted U-shape are bent toward the positive electrode sheet; the button battery is filled with electrolyte. The button battery of the present application is provided with the carbon foil between the negative electrode sheet and the separator.

Abstract: Battery management techniques for performing cell balancing for a high voltage (HV) battery system of an electrified vehicle include detecting an ignition-off transition whereby the electrified vehicle is transitioned to a park state and subsequently powered off, during the ignition-off transition, obtaining a set of measured parameters including at least (i) voltages of a plurality of HV battery cells of the HV battery system and (ii) a state of charge (SOC) of a low voltage (LV) battery system of the electrified vehicle, and after the electrified vehicle is subsequently powered off, performing cell balancing of voltages of the plurality of HV battery cells of the HV battery system using the set of measured parameters, wherein the performing of cell balancing of the voltages of the plurality of HV battery cells extends a useful life of the HV battery system.

Abstract: Thermal runaway detection and mitigation techniques for high voltage battery systems of electrified vehicles include a relay connected between two battery modules of the high voltage battery system and control logic for the relay, the control logic being configured to determine a voltage between the two battery modules, detect the thermal runaway event of the high voltage battery system based on a change in the voltage over a period, and open/close the relay in response to detecting the imminent thermal runaway event, wherein the detection of the thermal runaway event and the responsive opening of the relay prevent or mitigate potential thermal propagation outside of the high voltage battery system.

Abstract: The present invention discloses methods and compositions for treating or ameliorating a condition associated with increased or decreased myofibroblast activities and use thereof.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a high-temperature negative-pressure air exchange sterilizer and a sterilization method thereof. An air inlet is disposed at a bottom of a waterproof shell of the sterilizer, and an inlet filter is installed at the air inlet. Air entering from the air inlet is divided into two paths at a check valve. One path is connected with a negative-pressure fan through a pipeline B, and the other path is communicated with an air outlet through a pipeline A. A plurality of heating rods and temperature sensors are disposed in the pipeline A. The pipeline A is zigzag disposed at an upper part of the waterproof shell, and a thermal insulation material is disposed outside a zigzag part. A butterfly valve and an outlet filter screen are sequentially disposed at the air outlet in an air exhaust direction. The problem that viruses exhaled by breathing of an infected person are mixed in aerosol, so that a person in close contact with the infected person is likely to be infected is solved.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating a disorder using a fibromodulin (FMOD) reprogrammed (FReP) cell. The method comprises administering locally to a human being the FReP cell to a site in need thereof of the human being.

Abstract: The invention discloses a data structure-aware prefetching method and device on a graphics processing unit. The method comprises the steps of acquiring information for a memory access request in which a monitoring processor checks a graph data structure and read data, using a data structure access mode defined by a breadth first search and graph data structure information to generate four corresponding vector prefetching requests and store into a prefetching request queue. The device comprises a data prefetching unit distributed into each processing unit, each data prefetching unit is respectively connected with an memory access monitor, a response FIFO and a primary cache of a load/store unit, and comprises an address space classifier, a runtime information table, prefetching request generation units and the prefetching request queue.

Abstract: A method for making an infrared light absorber is provided, and the method includes following steps: providing a first carbon nanotube array on a substrate; truncating the carbon nanotube array by irradiating a top surface of the carbon nanotube array by a laser beam in two directions, the top surface being away from the substrate, wherein the two directions being at an angle, the angle is in a range of 30 degrees to 90 degrees.

Abstract: A wet-dry vacuum cleaner device comprising: a housing; a motor-fan assembly mounted in the housing and arranged to generate an air flow between a dirty air inlet and a clean air outlet; a tank arranged to capture liquid entrained in the dirty air flow, the tank comprising a tank inlet in fluid communication with the dirty air inlet and a tank outlet in fluid communication with the motor fan assembly; wherein the tank outlet is in fluid communication with a liquid trap mounted inside the tank arranged to capture liquid entrained in the air flow exiting the tank.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating a disorder using a fibromodulin (FMOD) reprogrammed (FReP) cell. The method comprises administering locally to a human being the FReP cell to a site in need thereof of the human being.

Abstract: An infrared detector is provided, and the infrared detector includes: a thermoelectric element; an infrared light absorber, located on and in contact with the thermoelectric element, and configured to absorb infrared light and convert infrared light into heat; an electrical signal detector, electrically connected to the thermoelectric element and configured to detect a change in electrical performance of the thermoelectric element; wherein the infrared light absorber includes a carbon nanotube array, the carbon nanotube array includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes, a height of the plurality of carbon nanotubes are substantially the same, and the plurality of carbon nanotubes are perpendicular to the thermoelectric element.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method treating cartilage arthritis in a subject in need thereof, which method comprising administering an effective amount of NELL-1 protein or peptide to the subject to ameliorate or treat at least an osteoinflammatory cartilage condition in the subject. The present invention also provides a composition and method therefor.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a high-temperature negative-pressure air exchange sterilizer and a sterilization method thereof. An air inlet is disposed at a bottom of a waterproof shell of the sterilizer, and an inlet filter is installed at the air inlet. Air entering from the air inlet is divided into two paths at a check valve. One path is connected with a negative-pressure fan through a pipeline B, and the other path is communicated with an air outlet through a pipeline A. A plurality of heating rods and temperature sensors are disposed in the pipeline A. The pipeline A is zigzag disposed at an upper part of the waterproof shell, and a thermal insulation material is disposed outside a zigzag part. A butterfly valve and an outlet filter screen are sequentially disposed at the air outlet in an air exhaust direction. The problem that viruses exhaled by breathing of an infected person are mixed in aerosol, so that a person in close contact with the infected person is likely to be infected is solved.

Abstract: Provided herein is a method of promoting tissue repair, comprising delivering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of fibromodulin (FMOD), FMOD polypeptide, FMOD peptide, or a variant or derivative or analog thereof according to a dosing regimen to cause an injured tissue to form a repaired tissue having an improved condition provided that the improved condition does not include improved condition of scar of skin.

Abstract: The application discloses an implantable device, comprising a galvanic redox system formed on a body substrate of the implantable device. The implantable device has a non-zero surface potential when it is deployed. The galvanic redox system comprises a first metal site and a second metal site, the first metal site comprising a first metal having a first metal electrode potential (FMEP) and the second metal site comprising a second metal having a second metal electrode potential (SMEP), which FMEP being lower than SMEP and SMEP being substantially different such that the implantable device is galvanized when it is deployed. Methods of making and using the implantabe device are also disclosed.

Abstract: A passive tag transponder circuit comprising a receive antenna, reflect antenna, and rectifier network. The receive antenna can be configured to receive an ambient RF signal having a frequency of fc, or, a backscattered RF signal having a frequency of 2fc. The reflect antenna can be configured to receive a rectified output signal from the rectifier network, the rectified output signal having a frequency of 2fc. The reflect antenna can be configured to send a backscattered signal at the frequency of 2fc. The rectifier network can be connected to receive an input corresponding to the ambient RF from the receive antenna and send the rectified output to the reflect antenna.

Abstract: Computer vision systems and methods for localizing image forgery are provided. The system generates a constrained convolution via a plurality of learned rich filters. The system trains a convolutional neural network with the constrained convolution and a plurality of images of a dataset to learn a low level representation of each image among the plurality of images. The low level representation is indicative of a statistical signature of at least one source camera model of each image. The system can determine a splicing manipulation localization by the trained convolutional neural network.

Abstract: A comment quality system for improving comments for source code includes a processor and memory. An operating system is executed by the processor and memory. A comment quality application, executed by the processor and memory, is configured to receive data relating to a number of source code comments that are associated with source code developed in a code developer application, generate a desired number of comments based on an estimated quality of comments for a code developer and a number of reviewers of the source code, and send feedback to the code developer application based on the desired number of comments for the source code and the number of source code comments.