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Methods and compositions for the treatment of treatment-resistant depression are described. More specifically, the invention demonstrates that intranasal administration of ketamine is effective to ameliorate the symptoms of depression in a patient who has not responded to an adequate trial of one antidepressant in the current episode and has recurrent or chronic depressive symptoms (>2 years).

A method for transmitting a web page to a client device is described. Template information, sub-template information, and delta information are identified based on a request for information from the client device. The template information includes seldom changing elements of a web page. The sub-template information includes: (i) information that changes less frequently than delta information, and (ii) elements of a web page shared by several templates. At least one of the template information, sub-template information, and delta information is retrieved from a location other than an originating server that is the original provider of information requested by the client device. The request is responded to by sending to the client device the template information, sub-template information and delta information. In addition, a system for transmitting a web page to a client device is described.

A mobile payment transaction aggregator designed to identify, on a per transaction basis, a payment processor from a plurality of available payment processors with the lowest processing fee for the given transaction. Additionally, the aggregator may bundle multiple payment transactions of a single consumer across multiple merchants for additional savings.

A method and/or apparatus providing for an improved user interface for controlling a complex thermostat or Energy Management System is disclosed. The invention provides for a user selection of an energy management profile from a number of preconfigured stored profiles, the selection of the profile by the user then providing setting or control of many complex control settings for an energy management system or thermostat. The profiles can be labelled and/or ordered in levels or percentages of energy savings, and/or given names meaningful in making a selection.

The invention relates to a somatostatin receptor-mediated tumor targeted pharmaceutical composition which adopts a targeted somatostatin receptor functional polypeptide and polyethylene glycol for simultaneously modifying a pharmaceutical carrier, and an anti-tumor drug or/and an anti-angiogenic drug is delivered to the tumor part, thereby enhancing the tumor treatment effect.

A method and system are disclosed for managing saved process states in a memory of a data processing system that has multiple partitions executing independent operating systems. A hypervisor manager affords access to any processor in the data processing system for the purpose of storing process states for that processor to the memory, independent of the operating system running on the processor.

A system and method of reducing the net carbon dioxide footprint of an industrial process that generates power from the combustion of hydrocarbon fuels in which ambient air is admixed with up to 50% by volume of an effluent gas from the power generator of the industrial process, in order to substantially increase the CO₂ concentration in the air prior to treatment. The treatment comprises adsorbing CO₂ from the admixed ambient air utilizing a cooled, porous substrate-supported amine adsorbent, wherein the porous substrate initially contacts the mixed ambient air containing condensed water in its pores, which act as an intrinsic coolant with respect to the exothermic heat generated by the adsorption process. In addition, prior to regenerating the supported adsorbent, air pressure is substantially reduced in the sealed regeneration chamber and the low pressure chamber is placed in fluid connection with a higher pressure regeneration chamber containing steam and carbon dioxide, to preheat the sorbent to be regenerated and to quickly cool the regenerated sorbent prior to use for further CO₂ adsorption.

The invention relates to a method for grading and utilizing waste material of sandstone system production, including the following steps: 1) sieving and washing are carried out; 2) slurry obtained by sieving is subject to separation of fine sand powder and slurry by virtue of a hydrocyclone grading device; 3) the fine sand powder is subject to high frequency sieving and dewatering, and the slurry is placed into a setting device, so as to further separate water and concentrated slurry; 4) water is returned to the washing step, and the concentrated slurry is subject to filter pressing or filtering and then is delivered to a waste material stock yard. In the method for grading and utilizing waste material of sandstone system production provided by the invention, a hydrocyclone grading device is added in slurry sand grading production process to separate fine sand powder and slurry, and a high frequency sieving dewater procedure is adopted, recycling of fine sand powder from slurry is realized, by adopting the method of the invention, more than 90% of useful material can be recycled from slurry, and more than 70% of recycling can be realized after waste water is purified.

The invention discloses a Pep-1 peptide modified gliomas targeted nano drug delivery system and a preparation method thereof. The nano drug delivery system comprises polymer nano particles prepared by using an amphiphilic block copolymer (Pep-PEG-PLGA) as a carrier material, paclitaxel wrapped and carried by the polymer nano particles, and modified ligand Pep-1 polypeptide on the surfaces of the polymer nano particles. The amphiphilic block copolymer (Pep-PEG-PLGA) is composed of Male-PEG-PLGA and MePEG-PLGA, Pep-1 is adopted as a molecule with targeting function, the amphiphilic block copolymer PEG-PLGA is taken as a carrier material, the Pep-1 polypeptide is modified on the carrier material via covalent binding, and gliomas targeted polymer nano particles are prepared. According to the Pep-1 peptide modified gliomas targeted nano drug delivery system, gliomas targeting can be voluntarily performed, and the uptaking and accumulation of an anti-tumour drug in the gliomas part can be improved, as a result, the gliomas therapeutic effect is improved.

A tumble dryer with at least one heat pump system has an air stream circuit (10) including at least one drum (12) for receiving laundry to be dried, at least one refrigerant circuit (14) including at least one compressor (16) with a variable rotation speed, a first heat exchanger (18) for a thermal coupling between the air stream circuit (10) and the refrigerant circuit (14), and a second heat exchanger (20) for a further thermal coupling between the air stream circuit (10) and the refrigerant circuit (14). The tumble dryer further includes a control unit (22) for controlling the rotation speed of the compressor (16) and at least one sensor for detecting at least one physical parameter (TDI, TDO; TEI, TEO; TF; Z; RH) as function of the time of the air stream, the refrigerant ad/or the laundry. A central processing unit is provided, which is arranged to evaluate the time development of the physical parameter (TDI, TDO, TEI, TEO; TF; Z; RH) and which reduces the rotation speed of the compressor (16) according to the evaluation of the time development of the physical parameter (TDI, TDO, TEI, TEO; TF; Z; RH). A corresponding method for controlling a heat pump system for a tumble dryer is also set forth.

The invention provides a glomerulus-targeted protein nanoparticle pharmaceutical composition and an application thereof. The protein nanoparticle pharmaceutical composition is mainly prepared from a protein ingredient, a pharmacological active substance and a stabilizer, and the grain size of the protein nanoparticle pharmaceutical composition ranges from 10nm to 170nm. With the application of the pharmaceutical composition, passive targeted drug delivery of glomerular mesangial cells is achieved, and the aggregation concentration of a drug in a glomerulus is obviously improved or the aggregation duration of the drug in the glomerulus is prolonged, so that the curative effect of the drug is remarkably improved, and meanwhile, the toxic and side effects of the drug on a non-targeted part are greatly reduced.

A module of hollow fiber membranes is re-configured to break up and rearrange a skein into multiple miniskeins each having no more than 250 fibers, all lower miniheaders of the miniskeins being slidably held for vertical movement in vertical slots in an aerator box. Upon shrinkage of the fibers, the lower miniheaders rise in the box. Each miniskein has from 2-12 planar ordered arrays in which the fibers are adhesively secured, preferably without potting the lower miniheaders. The lower ends of the fibers are dead-ended and lower miniheaders are positioned sequentially, transverse to the longitudinal axes of the upper header and the aerator box; its upper miniheader is potted in a choice of configurations. This configuration of miniskeins provides a packing density in each miniheader, whether upper or lower, not attainable in a prior art skein; the use of an aerator box having an area (footprint) no greater than 35% of that of the upper header, provides an effective packing density in the aerator box which provides exceptionally effective use of sparging air and readily removable sludge which drops through the bottom of the aerator box.

The invention discloses an anthracycline liposome injection, including the injection and a frozen powder injection and a preparation process of the injection. The frozen liposome consists of the anthracycline or an anthracycline hydrochloride, compound neutral phospholipids, surfactant, negative-charge phospholipids, buffers, PH regulators and freezing protection agent. The preparation process includes the following steps: preparation of a hollow liposome, a homogenized liposome, an anthracycline lopsome and an anthracycline lopsome suspension; adding the freezing protection agent; constant volume; sterilization; sub-package; freezing and drying; storage, etc. The liposome injection can be preserved for 12 months under the room temperature with better stability. And the encapsulation rate can be above 95 percent and a granule diameter is between 30 and 300mm. The side effect is low and the technique is simple, thus being convenient for industrial production.

The invention provides a cabazitaxel albumin nanoparticle preparation and a preparation method thereof. The cabazitaxel albumin nanoparticle preparation comprises cabazitaxel, albumin and pharmaceutically necessary auxiliary materials and can be prepared with a high-pressure homogenization method, a film shearing method, a solvent evaporation method and the like. According to the cabazitaxel albumin nanoparticle preparation and the preparation method thereof, problems of the drug loading capacity and the stability of existing albumin nanoparticles are solved; a low-toxicity organic solvent is adopted, so that highly allergic reactions due to the fact that Tween-80 is adopted in a cabazitaxel injection liquid can be avoided; by the aid of the high permeability and the retention effect of the nanoparticle on tumors, more drugs can be targeted passively to be concentrated in tumor tissue, so that the anti-tumor effect is improved; the preparation method is simple and suitable for industrial mass production.

The invention relates to a gold-gadolinium composite nano material as well as a preparation method and application of the gold-gadolinium composite nano material. The gold-gadolinium composite nano material provided by the invention comprises an inner core of a gold nano rod modified by silicon dioxide, and a gadolinium-containing silicon dioxide layer covering the outer side of the inner core. The gold-gadolinium composite nano material is high in gadolinium contain and each nano particle contains 1.5*10<6> Gd ions; the gold-gadolinium composite nano material is good in imaging effect and small in toxic side effect and can be used for loading a plurality of types of drugs and probe molecules, and target molecules can be adsorbed on the surface of the gold-gadolinium composite nano material, so that the drugs and the molecules can be efficiently transported to focus parts and multifunctional diagnosis and treatment can be realized. After the gold-gadolinium composite nano material is used as a carrier for loading the drugs, the gold-gadolinium composite nano material has the synergistic effect of thermal therapy and chemical therapy under laser irradiation in a treatment process of tumor-bearing mice, so that the growth of tumors is effectively inhibited; the gold-gadolinium composite nano material has multiple imaging functions including CT (Computed Tomography), MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), photo-acoustic imaging and the like, and is suitable for being applied to complicated need tumor diagnosis and treatment.

The invention relates to the field of pharmacy and provides a preparation method of targeting and photo-thermal integrated erythrocyte bionic nanoparticles. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, extracting erythrocyte membranes, then loading indocyanine green to a polylactic acid-hydroxyl acetic acid solution, burying adriamycin amycin to the system, and preparing an indocyanine greenpolylactic acid-hydroxyl acetic acid solution buried with adriamycin amycin through a secondary emulsification-solvent evaporation method; then carrying out a reaction on folic chitosan oligosaccharide and the indocyanine green polylactic acid-hydroxyl acetic acid solution to obtain an adriamycin amycin-folic chitosan oligosaccharide-indocyanine green-polylactic acid-hydroxyl acetic acid solution; and finally, extruding the adriamycin amycin-folic chitosan oligosaccharide-indocyanine green-polylactic acid-hydroxyl acetic acid solution into the erythrocyte membranes to obtain the erythrocyte bionic nanoparticles.

The invention relates to a cultivation and application method of poplar woods special for morchella, and belongs to the technical field of edible fungi planting. The cultivation and application methodincludes selecting poplar strains which sprout early in spring and defoliate late in autumn; selecting fertile sandy soil, with the pH value of 5-7.5, as soil for planting plots; planting poplars onthe planting plots according to the planting spacing of 3*4m or 4*4m, taking each 20mu as a planting area, arranging an operation road between every two adjacent planting areas, and cultivating the poplars for more than 3 years. The planting land special for the poplar woods is subjected to earth-up for morchella planting in every autumn. The cultivation and application method has the advantages that proper species, planting density, modification modes and under-forest morchella planting methods are selected based on existing poplar species; the morchella is planted every autumn after earth-up, so that yield of the morchella is increased, high product quality is achieved, and green food requirements are met.