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The invention provides variant heavy chain variable domains (VH) with increased folding stability. Libraries comprising a plurality of these polypeptides are also provided. In addition, compositions and methods of generating and using these polypeptides and libraries are provided.

The present invention is directed to reversibly inactivation of membrane active polymers useful for cellular delivery of compounds. Described are polyconjugates systems that incorporate targeting, anti-opsonization, anti-aggregation, and transfection activities into small biocompatible in vivo delivery conjugates. The use of multiple reversible linkages connecting component parts provides for physiologically responsive activity modulation.

The present invention relates generally to the field of high content screening of particles, e.g., cells in a flow cytometric system. In particular, the present invention relates to devices, methods and systems to obtain line-scan images of particles, e.g., cells, of a plurality of different samples simultaneously, where the line-scan images can be used to identify cells based on at least one of a variety of phenotypic characteristics such as shape, asymmetry, and intracellular information for cell sorting and selection. In some embodiments, the line-scan images are obtained as the particles, e.g., cells, in a plurality of different samples flow through a plurality of microchannels, reducing the need and time for focusing of the image detection system. In some embodiments, the laser spot size has a small spatial resolution for rapid capturing of images of cells. In some embodiments, the laser spot size has a larger spatial resolution for imaging of larger particles or cells, e.g., rare cells in a sample. In some embodiments, the devices, methods and systems are automated for a high-throughput, high content screening of particles such as cells in a plurality of samples.

Methods for preparing monomeric cytotoxic drug / carrier conjugates with a drug loading significantly higher than in previously reported procedures and with decreased aggregation and low conjugate fraction (LCF) are described. Cytotoxic drug derivative / antibody conjugates, compositions comprising the conjugates and uses of the conjugates are also described. Monomeric calicheamicin derivative / anti-CD22 antibody conjugates, compositions comprising the conjugates and uses of the conjugates are also described.

A method of stenting, comprises: implanting a stent assembly in a vessel of a subject, the stent assembly, including: a stent jacket, comprising an expansible mesh structure, formed of fibers of a diameter between about 7 micrometers and about 18 micrometers, the diameter having a property of forming a substantially stable layer of endothelial cells, covering the fibers, thus reducing platelet aggregation, and an expansible stent, operatively associated with the stent jacket. The method further comprises administering to the subject an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) comprising a platelet aggregation reducer for a shortened time period, not exceeding six months, the shortened time period being a consequence of the property. In accordance with some embodiments, the administration of a platelet aggregation.

Biocompatible polymeric materials capable of providing in situ release of nitric oxide (NO) included diazeniumdiolated fumed silica as a filler in a multilayer polymer structure to release NO upon contact with water (blood). The blood-contacting polymer surface is preferably multi-layered so that the NO-releasing layer, containing the diazeniumdiolated fumed silica, is shielded from blood contact by one or more top (or base) coats. When in contact with blood, the NO released at the surface of the polymer prevents platelet activation and adhesion to the surface, thereby reducing platelet consumption, risk of thrombus formation and other clinical complications associated with interactions between blood and foreign materials.

Two satellite communications systems can use the same frequency or frequencies in geographically overlapping footprints, without creating undue interference in a given system that is caused by the same frequency signal(s) that is / are used by the other system. In particular, an aggregate Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of the radioterminals and / or ancillary terrestrial components of a second satellite communications system in the common footprint is sufficiently low, and / or the receive antenna gain of a first satellite communications system is sufficiently low compared to the receive antenna gain of the second satellite communications system, so as to increase an aggregate receiver noise that is seen by the first satellite system receivers by an amount that does not substantially change a Quality of Service (QoS) of the first satellite communications system.

An object of the invention is to provide a negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a small surface film resistance and a high negative electrode strength. The present invention relates to a negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, wherein an active material layer containing an active material and a binder is formed on a collector, the active material being a material in which metal oxide fine particles having an average particle diameter of 250 nm or less are attached to the surface and the binder being a binder having an olefinic unsaturated bond.

Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for treating or preventing Huntington's Disease.

A process for preparing low-carbon olefin from methanol or dimethyl ether includes loading its raw material and silicon aluminium phosphate (SAPO34) molecular sieve as catalyst into gas-solid parallel down-flowing fluidized bed reactor, super-short contact, reaction, fast gas-solid separation to separating resultant from catalyst to prevent secondary reaction, and regerating catalyst for cyclic use. Its advantages include high output rate (93%), high conversion rate of raw material, and less by-product.

A method of chemically modifying carbon nanotubes having a diameter less than one micron comprising: contacting the nanotubes with a peroxygen compound selected from the group consisting of organic peroxyacids, inorganic peroxoacids and organic hydroperoxides, or a salt thereof, under oxidation conditions and thereby producing modified carbon nanotubes. Oxidation of the nanotubes increases the degree of dispersion of aggregates of nanotubes and aids in the disassembling of such aggregates. The dispersed nanotubes are used to prepare rigid structures and can be used in electrodes and capacitors.

A method has been developed for the post-synthesis separation of nanotubes by size and / or type. Solubilized, functionalized nanotubes are passed over a GPC column such that length-separated fractions are collected. These length-separated fractions can then further be separated by diameter or type. Particularly useful are methods for separating nanotubes into metallic and semiconducting fractions.

The invention provides a graphene-ionic liquid composite material and a preparation method thereof. The composite material comprises the following compositions in percentage by mass: 0.01-99.99% of graphene and 0.01-99.99% of ionic liquid, wherein the ionic liquid has a polar electron cloud structure, the graphene is in a graphene sheet structure, and the ionic liquid is doped in the graphene sheets through the polar electron cloud structure of the ionic liquid so a to form a graphene-ionic liquid composite structure. Because the polar electron cloud structure of the ionic liquid can damage the interaction force between the graphene sheets and reduce the gathering of the graphene, the obtained composite material has a high specific surface area and a large specific capacity, and can be suitable to be used as the electrode materials of batteries or capacitors, and the like.

A method for the production of a robust, chemically stable, crystalline, passivated nanoparticle and composition containing the same, that emit light with high efficiencies and size-tunable and excitation energy tunable color. The methods include the thermal degradation of a precursor molecule in the presence of a capping agent at high temperature and elevated pressure. A particular composition prepared by the methods is a passivated silicon nanoparticle composition displaying discrete optical transitions.

A method of treating a mammal with a formulation comprising an antibody which binds IgE as described.

A method of reducing packet congestion at a network node in a packet-switched data communication network, which method comprises the steps of marking one or more packets in said queue, wherein a probability of marking a packet in the queue is higher for a first proportion of the packets than for a second proportion of the packets, one or more packets of said first proportion having spent less time on said network than one or more packets of said second proportion.

A pyrene based compound and its use in an organic light emitting device (OLED) according to the following formula: In the above formula, Z1 represents a hydrogen atom, deuterium atom, oxygen atom, silicon atom, selenium atom, substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group, substituted or unsubstituted aryl amine or a combination thereof, and Z2 represents a hydrogen or deuterium atom. One of Y1 and Y2 represents a hydrogen atom, deuterium atom, oxygen atom, silicon atom, selenium atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group, substituted or unsubstituted aryl amine or a combination thereof, and the other of Y1 and Y2 represents a hydrogen or deuterium atom. X1 through X6 independently represent hydrogen atoms, deuterium atoms, alkyl groups or aryl groups, and at least one of X1 through X6 represents a bulky alkyl group or bulky aryl group. Also, at least one of X1 through X6, Y1, Y2, Z1, and Z2 represents a deuterium atom. The pyrene based compounds of this invention are useful in emissive layers, hole transport layers, or electron transport layers of an organic light emitting device (OLED). Within these layers, the pyrene based compound can serve directly to constitute the layers or as a host and / or dopant.

The invention relates to a graphene-based porous macroscopic carbon material and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the technical field of porous macroscopic carbon materials. The material comprises graphene and carbon from polyvinyl alcohol and has large specific surface area. The preparation method comprises the following processes of: mixing a graphene oxide water solution and a polyvinyl alcohol solution, and placing the uniformly mixed solution into a hydro-thermal reaction kettle to obtain a graphene-based hydrogel; freezing and drying the hydrogel to obtain a graphene-based aerosol; and carrying out thermal treatment on the aerosol under the protection of an argon gas atmosphere to obtain the graphene-based porous macroscopic carbon material. The invention has the following advantages of simple preparation process and wide raw material source scope; and the prepared porous macroscopic carbon material has the following advantages of well-developed pore structure, extra-large specific surface area, favorable structural stability and wide application range.

The present invention relates to alkylglycoside-containing compositions and methods for increasing the stability, reducing the aggregation and immunogenicity, increasing the biological activity, and reducing or preventing fibrillar formation of a peptide, polypeptide, or variant thereof, for example amylin, a monoclonal antibody, insulin, Peptide T or analog thereof, gastrin, gastrin releasing peptides, gastrin releasing peptide-like (GRP) proteins, epidermal growth factor or analog thereof.

In various embodiments, the present invention provides fluorescent dyes that are linked to another species through an adaptor moiety. In an exemplary embodiment, the dye is linked to a polyphosphate nucleic acid through an adaptor. An adaptor can be a component of a linker. These conjugates find use in single molecule DNA sequencing and other applications. In various embodiments, the dye moiety is a cyanine dye. Cyanine dyes that are highly charged, such as those including multiple sulfonate, alkylsulfonate, carboxylate and / or alkylcarboxylate moieties are examples of cyanine dyes of use in the compounds of the invention.

The present invention relates to alkylglycoside-containing compositions and methods for increasing the stability, reducing the aggregation and immunogenicity, increasing the biological activity, and reducing or preventing fibrillar formation of a peptide, polypeptide, or variant thereof, for example insulin and Peptide T or analog thereof.

Washing machines having improved frictional forces with laundry. Those machines include a cabinet with a door, a tub inside for retaining wash water, and an internal vessel, inside the tub that is coupled with a motor that rotates the internal vessel. A friction member inside the internal vessel rubs against laundry. The frictional member includes a friction enhancer, such as a spherical structure or a freely rotating ball, that enhances laundry friction during washing and reduces adhesion of laundry after a dehydration cycle.

A method for preparing transparent mesostructured inorganic / block-copolymer composites or inorganic porous solids containing optically responsive species with selective optical, optoelectronic, and sensing properties resulting therefrom. Mesoscopically organized inorganic / block copolymer composites doped with dyes or complexes are prepared for use as optical hosts, chemical / physical / biological sensors, photochromic materials, optical waveguides, tunable solid-state lasers, or optoelectronic devices. The materials can be processed into a variety of different shapes, such as films, fibers, monoliths, for novel optical and sensing applications.

The invention relates to a refined crystal grain aluminum alloy and the manufacturing method. It is made up from Si 0.2-7.5wt%, Mn 0.05-1.5wt%, Mg 0,05-6.0wt%, Zn 0.03-8.5wt%, Cu 0.05-7.0wt%, Ni 0.1-2.5wt%, Ti 0.01-0.15wt%, RE 0.01-0.3wt%, B 0.0001-0.10wt%, and the rest is Al. The technology feature is that it adds silicon titanium alumina, borax and or rare earth oxide or rare earth carbonate, or titanium oxide, borax and / or rare earth oxide or rare earth carbonate into aluminum cell. Add the manganese oxide, compound of copper or Ni would be also added. Comparing to traditional technology, the refiner is not added, and the refining effect is enhanced and the perdurability is prolonged. It could be used to produce wire, band, tube, panel, aluminum foil, etc.

The present invention describes methods and processes for the production of proteins, particularly glycoproteins, by animal cell or mammalian cell culture, preferably, but not limited to, fed-batch cell cultures. In one aspect, the methods comprise the addition of glucocorticoid compound during the culturing period. The addition of glucocorticoid compound sustain a high viability of the cultured cells, and can yield an increased end titer of protein product, and a high quality of protein product, as determined, e.g., by sialic acid content of the produced protein.

The invention provides nano zero-valent iron with montmorillonite serving as a carrier, and a preparation method and application thereof. The method comprises the steps of dissolving ferrous sulfate, adding soluble starch and montmorillonite particles into the ferrous sulfate solution in proportion, and obtaining mixed liquid; stirring after performing ultrasound treatment to the obtained mixed liquid, and obtaining precursor solution; adding the obtained precursor solution into sodium borohydride or potassium borohydride solution in proportion under the conditions of continuous stirring, continuing stirring for a period of time, performing solid-liquid separation, and obtaining the solid which is the nano zero-valent iron with montmorillonite serving as the carrier. According to the prepared nano zero-valent iron with montmorillonite serving as the carrier, interlayer and surface spaces of montmorillonite can be fully utilized, the activity and the stability are high, polymerization of the nano zero-valent iron can be reduced, and the nano zero-valent iron has remarkable effect when used for treating waste water containing hexavalent chromium.

The present invention relates to bone cements and, more particularly, to multi-solution bone cements and methods for making the same. An embodiment of the present invention provides multi-solution bone cements which include cross-linked PMMA beads, thereby providing for a significant increase in the polymer-to-monomer (P:M) ratio. Another embodiment of the present invention provides cross-linked PMMA beads which are surface modified with unsaturated carbon double bonds. A further embodiment of the present invention provides multi-solution bone cements made with PMMA-PMMA spherical brush polymers.

The present invention relates to an oxynitride phosphor comprising an α-sialon as the main component, which is represented by the general formula: MxSi12−(m+n)Al(m+n)OnN16−n:Lny (wherein 0.3≦x+y<1.5, 0<y<0.7, 0.3≦m<4.5, 0<n<2.25, and assuming that the atomic valence of the metal M is a and the atomic valence of the lanthanide metal Ln is b, m=ax+by) and in which the aggregation index, A1=D50 / DBET≦3.0 or the aggregation index A2=D50 / Dparticle≦3.0; and a production method and usage of the phosphor.The phosphor of the present invention has less aggregation and a narrow particle size distribution, and therefore is easy to uniformly mix with a resin or the like, and a high-brightness white LED can be easily obtained.D50 [μm]: The median diameter in the grain size distribution curve.DBET [μm]: The equivalent-sphere diameter calculated on the basis of a BET specific surface area.Dparticle [μm]: The primary particle diameter measured by the image analysis of a scanning electron micrograph.