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A semiconductor lighting device includes at least one semiconductor light emitter and at least one wavelength converting element, physically separated from the light emitter. At least one wavelength converting element has a reflective member underneath it, so that both primary light and converted light from the wavelength converting layer become a forward transferred light preventing from backscattering loss into the light emitter. The reflective member may be a thermal conductive element to effectively remove the heat from the wavelength converting element. Accordingly, the remote wavelength conversion on a reflective surface improves the thermal stability of the wavelength conversion material and prevents backscattering loss to produce a higher radiance result from the device.

A method for encoding a video image includes: generating a prediction image for each of a plurality of pixel blocks that are divided from an input image into a predetermined size, and generating a prediction residual signal that indicates prediction residual between the prediction image and each of the pixel blocks, for each of a plurality of prediction modes; obtaining an orthogonal transformation coefficient by performing orthogonal transformation to the prediction residual signal corresponding to each of the prediction modes; selecting a target prediction mode from among the prediction modes based on a number of the orthogonal transformation coefficients that become non-zero as a quantization processing is performed; encoding each of the pixel blocks in the target prediction mode respectively selected.

The present invention includes compositions and methods for making and using a vaccine that includes a DC-specific antibody or fragment thereof to which an engineered Gag antigen is attached to form an antibody-antigen complex, wherein the Gag antigen is less susceptible to proteolytic degradation by eliminating one or more proteolytic sites or a DC-specific antibody or fragment thereof to which an engineered Nef antigen is attached to form an antibody-antigen complex, wherein the Nef antigen comprises one or more codon usage optimization that increase antibody-antigen complex secretion, or both, wherein the vaccine is able to elicit an HIV-specific T cell immune response to Gag p17, Gag p24, Nef and/or Cyclin D1.

An object of the present invention is to provide a nonaqueous secondary battery with high capacity and less cycle degradation and a method for producing thereof. The nonaqueous secondary battery of the present invention comprises a positive electrode having a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode mixture layer disposed on the positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode having a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mixture layer disposed on the negative electrode current collector and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein the positive electrode mixture layer or the negative electrode mixture layer contains active material particles and a particulate binder adhered to the surface of the active material particles.

The present invention is related to a process for the production of high quality fatty acids and rosin acids and their mixtures from crude tall oil by means of short path distillation of saponified crude tall oil, acidulation and fractionation by distillation.

Composite glass with films based on partially acetalated polyvinyl alcohol containing a softening agent, especially PVB based, as an intermediate layer with magnesium salts or calcium salts of organic acids as an adhesion-reducing additive (anti-adhesive agent) exhibit large amounts of fluctions with regard to adhesion when the composite glass is subjected to thermal stress. According to the invention, phosphorous compounds are used, selected from the group consisting of organophosphites i.e. esters of phosphorinic acid with organic radicals, organophosphates, i.e. esters of orthonophosphoric acid, as an additive which during further processing compensates for fluctations in adhesion in films based on partially acetalated polyvinyl alcohol containing a softening agent. The invention is used in the production of films for the manufacture of safety glass, especially used in the building and automotive industry.

An explosive detection system based on an ion mobility spectrometer detects the presence of trace molecules in air. Such instruments require an ion source to ionize the trace molecules. An ion source that does not require a radioactive source to operate can use the photoelectric effect to produce electrons. Such a photoelectric ion source will gradually be contaminated and lose its photoelectron emission properties when operated in the air. The photocathode of the ion source can be automatically regenerated by a heater in thermal communication with the photocathode. The heater may be activated when the photoelectron emission falls below a predetermined value ro may run or cycle continuously.

Oxidation resistant crosslinked ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) is described, wherein at least two different additives in the manufacture synergistically increase the oxidation resistance of crosslinked UHMWPE. This allows the manufacture of oxidation resistant crosslinked UHMWPE using lower levels of additives and/or lower levels of crosslinking irradiation or chemicals. The lower levels of additives and/or crosslinking produce crosslinked UHMWPE having desired physical properties not possible without the synergistic interaction of the additives. This crosslinked UHMWPE may be used in medical prostheses such as in bearing components having desired physical properties such as wear resistance and oxidation resistance not possible without the synergistic interaction of the additives.

It is an object to encode an image signal or a shape signal more efficiently than the prior art. As a means to accomplish the object, the change pixel detector 2 receives the input signal 1 as an input signal and detects the pixel which changes the two-valued pixel value. Further, the change pixel predictor 4 also reads out the reference image stored in the memory 3, and predicts the change pixel of the particular input signal. The difference value calculator 5 subtracts the output of the change pixel predictor 4 from the output of the change pixel detector 2. The difference value rounder 7 compares the tolerance value e and the prediction error D, and outputs x which requires the minimum bit number for being encoded in the value D-e<=x<=D+e. The output of the difference value rounder 7 is encoded by the decoder 8 to become the encoded signal 9. Also, the output of the difference value rounder 7 is added in the difference value adder 11 to the predicted pixel 4 of the predicted pixel predictor 4, whereby the change pixel is calculated, and in the change pixel decoder 10, the respective pixels from the already decoded pixel indicated by the change pixel predictor 4 to the change pixel is decoded to be stored in the memory 3.

A technique for correcting an image by using frequency division images and decomposition images corresponding in number to reference points is disclosed. An image correction apparatus includes an image divider which divides an inspection reference image into frequency regions to form frequency division images, a decomposition image generator for defining reference points at several locations within at least one frequency division image and for applying weighting with each reference point as a reference to thereby generate decomposition images corresponding in number to the reference points, a model parameter identifier for identifying a model parameter by using 2D linear prediction models of an image being tested, the decomposition images and a frequency division image which is out of the generation of decomposition images, and a model image generator for using the model parameter to generate a model image. An image inspection apparatus using the correction apparatus and an image correction method are also disclosed.

A wind driven generator includes a rotor disposed in a cylindrical duct and supported by a frame for rotation in response to wind flowing through the duct. The rotor includes plural circumferentially spaced paralleled rotor blades supported for rotation about a generally horizontal axis. Each blade is supported for pivotal movement to change blade pitch, angle of attack or camber as the rotor rotates. A pitch or camber control motor, self-governing wind vane mechanism, or governing mechanism is operable to move a circular cam to vary blade pitch or camber to control rotor speed. The duct is mounted on a mast having a base supported on a foundation for pivotal movement to face the wind for maximizing air flow through the duct. Electric power generators are connected to opposite ends of the rotor at respective power output or drive shafts.

Information handling system hard disk drive firmware updates are initiated on a hard disk drive without disrupting operations of the information handling system. A firmware update is copied in executable form to the hard disk drive's buffer and executed by the hard disk drive's controller without aborting queued tasks or losing system synchronization. The controller then copies the firmware update to flash memory in parallel with execution of the firmware update so that the hard disk drive operates with minimal degradation in performance.

The invention relates to a nano-fibrosis silk fibroin gel and a preparation method of the nano-fibrosis silk fibroin gel. Silk is degummed and then dissolved in salt-formic acid to obtain a silk fibroin solution; a silk fibroin-salt-formic acid solution is injected into a mould; the mould placed with the silk fibroin solution is immersed in an organic solvent or an aqueous solution, and stood for a certain time to form the silk fibroin gel. The preparation method disclosed by the invention is simple in preparation method, short in process, convenient to operate and easy for realization of batch production. The silk fibroin gel prepared by the invention has a natural bionic nanometer fibrillar structure, and is adjustable in mechanical properties and good in biocompatibility.

The invention is intended to reduce overall image degradation when frame interpolation is performed by means of an adaptive image compression technique. A compression unit which adaptively compresses input image data, determines an error rate, i.e., a quantity of data loss, depending on input image data. A compression rate is set, depending on the determined error rate (or the quantity of data loss). For an image that is likely to be degraded by compression because of a large error rate determined for it, a process of generating an interpolated image by an interpolated image generating unit is disabled and an original image is used instead of an interpolated frame.

There is provided an active matrix display device including a flattening layer formed so as to surround a source electrode wiring, a drain electrode wiring, and a signal line, so that the source electrode wiring, the drain electrode wiring, and the signal line form substantially the same surface with the flattening layer.

A solid state radiation sensor, in which an electrode is disposed on each side of a recording photoconductive layer, and charges generated in the recording photoconductive layer by the irradiation of radiation, with a predetermined bias voltage being applied between the electrodes, are detected as electrical signals. Here, a predetermined region is provided between the electrodes, and the average density of an alkali metal in the predetermined region is greater than or equal to 10 times the average density of the alkali metal in the area between the electrodes other than the predetermined region.

A process of removing a volatile organic compound (VOC) from a gaseous environment, involving contacting a gaseous feedstream containing one or more VOC's, such as an odoriferous compound, an irritant, a contaminant or pollutant, for example, formaldehyde, with a sorbent under conditions sufficient to reduce the concentration of the VOC's in the gaseous feedstream. The sorbent is comprised of a functionalized graphene prepared by amination of graphene oxide. The sorbent is regenerated by adsorbate desorption under mild conditions of air flow. The process can be run through multiple adsorption-desorption cycles in a single fixed bed or swing bed configuration, and is applicable to purifying indoor air and ventilation air as well as reducing pollutants in industrial waste gas streams.

The blue phosphor of the present invention is represented by the general formula aBaO.bSrO.(1−a−b)EuO.cMgO.dAlO_3/2.eWO₃, where 0.70≦a≦0.95, 0≦b≦0.15, 0.95≦c≦1.15, 9.00≦d≦11.00, 0.001≦e≦0.200, and a+b≦0.97 are satisfied. In the blue phosphor of the present invention, two peaks whose tops are located in a range of diffraction angle 2θ=13.0 to 13.6 degrees and one peak whose top is located in a range of diffraction angle 2θ=14.6 to 14.8 degrees are present in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by measurement on the blue phosphor using an X-ray with a wavelength of 0.774 Å.