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This invention relates to a vaccine and a method for immune activation which is effective for eliciting both a systemic, non-antigen specific immune response and a strong antigen-specific immune response in a mammal. The method is particularly effective for protecting a mammal from a disease including cancer, a disease associated with allergic inflammation, an infectious disease, or a condition associated with a deleterious activity of a self-antigen. Also disclosed are therapeutic compositions useful in such a method.

An internal combustion engine in which power is generated by burning a mixture of fuel supplied from a port injector and/or an in-cylinder injector and air in a combustion chamber, includes a valve drive mechanism which can change a valve opening characteristic of at least one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve; a turbocharger which supercharges air taken into the combustion chamber; a turbo motor which changes supercharging pressure generated by the turbocharger; a catalyst device including a catalyst which purifies exhaust gas discharged from the combustion chamber; and an ECU which controls the turbo motor such that pressure of the air taken into the combustion chamber becomes larger than back pressure until it is determined that the catalyst has been activated, and which sets a valve overlap period during which both of the intake valve and the exhaust valve are opened.

Disclosed herein are apparatuses and devices, and methods for using and making the same, for use in performing desired activities in an automated, microscale format. Microparticles are ushered about within a microscale apparatus, to selectively move between various stations in a selected order and manner. Some embodiments include reaction, micro-weighing, micro-analysis, reagent acquisition and deposition, and incubation stations. Microparticles can individually move, or move as trains. Samples, including particulate and solid tissue samples may be manipulated and analyzed within the device. Some embodiments may engage in micro-fabrication activities or micro-deconstruction activities. Systems for controlling such apparatuses are included as well as methods of operation.

Medical apparatus and processes controllably generate medically useful micro or nano bubbles of medically desirable and controllably selectable size, size distribution, homogeneity and concentration (and/or other key bubble parameters) for patient infusion, and/or which may incorporate therapeutic or other agents for patient infusion and/or may be combined with therapeutic or other agents prior to infusion into patients. The bubble generation apparatus and processes controllably permit the adjustment and selection of key bubble parameters through bubble generation actuation and orientation techniques and through selection of bubble fluid compositions in order to facilitate medical research and/or to optimize treatment for imaging, therapy, sonoporation, inertial and non-inertial cavitation, and acoustic activation, among other medical uses. Disposable cartridges containing such bubbles are provided and may include means for patient infusion.

A shieldable needle device for shielding used needle cannulas. The device generally includes a hub housing and an elongated shield housing. A needle cannula having a distal puncture tip extends from the hub housing, with at least a portion of the needle cannula extending through the passageway of the shield housing. A biasing member acts on the shield housing to bias the shield housing from a first biased position adjacent the hub housing toward a second position covering the distal puncture tip of the needle cannula. An engagement mechanism extends dorsally from the hub housing and is in releasable engagement with a portion of the shield housing for releasably retaining the shield housing in the first biased position adjacent the hub housing. Activation of the engagement mechanism to shield the needle can be effectively accomplished during removal of the needle device from a patient, thereby providing for a passive activation of the device during normal use.

A device detects a wake-up keyword from a received speech signal of a user by using a wake-up keyword model, and transmits a wake-up keyword detection/non-detection signal and the received speech signal of the user to a speech recognition server. The speech recognition server performs a recognition process on the speech signal of the user by setting a speech recognition model according to the detection or non-detection of the wake-up keyword.

By incorporating carbon by means of ion implantation and a subsequent flash-based or laser-based anneal process, strained silicon/carbon material with tensile strain may be positioned in close proximity to the channel region, thereby enhancing the strain-inducing mechanism. The carbon implantation may be preceded by a pre-amorphization implantation, for instance on the basis of silicon. Moreover, by removing a spacer structure used for forming deep drain and source regions, the degree of lateral offset of the strained silicon/carbon material with respect to the gate electrode may be determined substantially independently from other process requirements. Moreover, an additional sidewall spacer used for forming metal silicide regions may be provided with reduced permittivity, thereby additionally contributing to an overall performance enhancement.

The invention provides enhancements to service discovery procedures associated with short-range communication in mobile terminals. In particular, the present invention employs a layered service discovery decision-making process that relies on historical information stored in the mobile terminal and mobile terminal analysis of the information associated with tag to make decisions regarding service discovery. As such, the present invention provides efficient service discovery that limits unnecessary connections to external servers and, thereby accelerates the overall service discovery process.

A process for forming a coordination catalyst system comprising sequentially or substantially simultaneously contacting: (I) pre-catalyst reactants comprising (a) at least one first ligand-containing reactant; and (b) at least one first transition metal reactant suitable to form at least one metallocene or constrained geometry pre-catalyst compound (e.g., rac-ethylene bis(indenyl)zirconiUm dichloride); an optionally (c) at least one second ligand-containing reactant and (d) at least one second transition metal reactant suitable to form at least one non-metallocene, non-constrained geometry, bidentate or tridentate transition metal compound (e.g., tridentate 2,6-diacetylpyridine-bis(2,4,6-trimethylanaline)FeCl₂) and (II) further contacting, jointly or individually, the pre-catalyst compound(s) and optional bidentate or tridentate compound(s) with at least one support-activator agglomerate (e.g., spray dried silica/clay agglomerate). When individually contacted, the supported catalyst components can be mixed or blended. The resulting transition metal catalyst systems are suitable for addition polymerization of unsaturated monomers, e.g., ethylene and propylene.

The invention provides an application method of cold field plasma discharge assisted high energy ball milled powder and a plasma assisted high energy ball milling device using the cold field plasma discharge assisted high energy ball milling method. The method comprises the following steps: utilizing dielectric barrier discharge to generate plasmas, introducing a dielectric barrier discharge electrode bar into a high-speed vibrating ball-milling tank, on one hand, requiring a solid insulating medium on the outer layer of the electrode bar to simultaneously bear high-voltage discharge and mechanical shock failure of the grinding ball, and on the other hand, requiring the high-speed vibrating ball milling device to uniformly process the powder. The method is based on the ordinary ball milling technology; the processing efficiency and the effect of the ball mill can be greatly improved by the following steps: under a non-heat-balance discharge condition of the pressure that the discharge space pressure is set to be about 102-106 Pa, introducing the discharge plasmas to input another effective energy to the processed powder, promoting the powder to be processed to be subjected to combined action of the mechanical stress effect and the heat effect of the external electric field, and further accelerating refining of the powder and promoting the alloying progress.

The present invention provides a mask filter exhibiting a high antimicrobial/antiviral activity, a high dust filtration ability, a high ventilation characteristic, a high failure-strength and a high workability into a mask and the mask produced using such mask filter. An antimicrobial polyolefin fiber sheet is provided wherein the polyolefin fiber sheet has one or more spots in which 1/100 or more by volume of individual inorganic antimicrobial agent particles are exposed on surfaces of polyolefin fibers per fiber sheet area of 1.0×10⁻² mm² or has one or more spots in which the inorganic antimicrobial agent particles are exposed on the surfaces of polyolefin fibers each occupying an area of 0.01 μm² or larger per fiber sheet area of 1.0×10⁻² mm². Such polyolefin fiber sheet is arranged as the core layer and this core layer is sandwiched between upper and lower layers of dry nonwoven fabric to form the mask filter in the form of a laminated sheet. Such mask filter is used to form the mask.

This specification discloses an AV system with the skin care and health care functions. An AV system and a pulse current generator are integrated. A conductor transmits a pulse current output from the pulse current generator to a human body. The pulse current cures or alleviates the user in pain, melancholy, anxiety, and insomnia, accelerates the recovery of wound or bone, and reduces the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

The invention discloses a method for utilizing a heterogeneous catalyst to efficiently activate persulfate so as to treat organic wastewater, belonging to the technical field of water pollution control. According to the method, nano Fe0, nano FeOxHy (y=2x-3 or 3y=6x-8) and FeOxHy@Fe0 (FeOxHy@Fe0, y=2x-3 or 3y=6x-8) nano composite materials are used as a heterogeneous catalyst, so that persulfate is activated to produce sulfate free radicals having strong oxidizing property, thereby removing nondegradable organic substances in wastewater. Besides, due to the characteristics of high specific area, high catalytic activity and the like, the solid-phase nano catalyst can efficiently and persistently activate the persulfate to be subjected to heterogeneous activation. The method is applicable to treatment of various organic wastewater, has the advantages of high efficiency, favorable persistence, convenient operation process and environment friendliness, and can efficiently remove toxic and harmful pollutants in the wastewater in a wider pH value range, thus providing broad prospects for treatment of toxic, harmful and nonbiodegradable organic wastewater.

Methods and compositions involving enzyme-activatable fluorophore polymer imaging agents for photodetection of specific tissues and/or human diseases and disorders are provided. In certain embodiments, the imaging agent comprises a hydrophilic polymer backbone (e.g., poly(L)lysine), a hydrophobic fluorophore, and a hydrophilic solubilizing agent. The solubilizing agent may comprise a quarternary ammonium group (e.g., a 1-methylnicotinic group) to enhance self-quenching of the fluorophore. Various methods for the generation and purification of imaging agents are also provided, including methods involving solid phase probe extraction or ion exchange purification.

A semiconductor device includes at least one thin-film transistor 116, which includes: a crystalline semiconductor layer 120 including a region 110 to be a channel region and source and drain regions 113; a gate electrode 107 for controlling the conductivity of the region 110 to be a channel region; a gate insulating film 106 arranged between the semiconductor layer 120 and the gate electrode 107; and source and drain electrodes 115 connected to the source and drain regions 113, respectively. At least one of the source and drain regions 113 contains an element to be a donor or an acceptor and a rare-gas element, but the region 110 to be a channel region does not contain the rare-gas element. The atomic weight of the rare-gas element is greater than that of the element to be a donor or an acceptor. The concentration of the rare-gas element in the at least one region as measured in the thickness direction thereof decreases continuously from the upper surface of the at least one region toward its lower surface.

A method of activating a radiotelephone operable in a spread-spectrum multiple access radiotelephone system. A searcher receiver (114) is activated, and the searcher receiver (114) acquires a PN sequence timing of a pilot signal. At least one demodulation branch (122) is activated after activation of the searcher receiver (114), and the demodulation branch synchronizes to the PN sequence timing of the selected pilot signal after the searcher receiver (114) has acquired the PN sequence timing.

Extracts of various species of the Moraceae family have estrogenic properties. For example, aqueous and ethanolic extracts of Ligustrum lucidum Ait. of the Oleaceae Family possess estrogenic properties in both ERα+ and ERβ+ cells. These estrogenic effects include estrogen response element (ERE) stimulation as well as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) repression. Methods are provided for treating climacteric symptoms, breast and/or uterine cancer, and osteoporosis.

A method of co-producing activated carbon in a circulating, fluidized bed gasification process includes gasifying carbonaceous fuel in a fluidized bed to form syngas and char, activating the char to form particles of activated carbon, discharging syngas and particulate solids entrained with the syngas from the reactor, separating entrained solids from the syngas with a particle separator and returning at least a portion of the separated solids to the reaction chamber, but allowing a solids product, including activated carbon and having an average size smaller than a predetermined size, to exit the particle separator with the syngas. The solids product is separated from the syngas in a dust separator to form cleaned syngas, and both the cleaned syngas and the solids product are discharged from the gasifier.

The invention belongs to the field of lithium-sulfur battery cathode materials and particularly relates to a preparation method of a preparation method of biomass-based porous carbon/sulfur composite, comprising the specific steps of S1, calcining biomass material to obtain a primary product of carbon material; S2, removing impurities from the primary product of carbon material to obtain biomass carbon material; S3, mixing well the biomass carbon material with an activator and water, and calcining to obtain activated mixture; S4, removing impurities from the mixture to obtain activated porous carbon material; S5, mixing the porous carbon material with sulfur for the purpose of reacting to obtain the porous carbon/sulfur composite. The invention also discloses application of the porous carbon/sulfur composite as a cathode material in batteries or supercapacitors. A battery prepared with the biomass carbon/sulfur composite prepared herein has high discharge capacity, good cycle stability and high coulombic efficiency, and has a promising application.

To provide a method for producing a comb-shaped electrode capable of precisely carrying a large amount of active materials on a surface of current collectors with a fine shape. The method for producing comb-shaped electrodes 1a, 1b of the present invention includes a current collector forming step of forming a pair of comb-shaped current collectors 2a, 2b on a surface of a substrate 4, a resist coating step of forming a resist layer 6 on the surface of the substrate 4, and a guide hole forming step of forming guide holes 7a, 7b for forming a positive electrode 1a or a negative electrode 1b, in which a cationic polymerization type resist composition (i), a novolak type resist composition (ii), a chemically-amplified type resist composition (iii), or a radical polymerization type resist composition (iv), is used as a resist composition for forming the resist layer 6.