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This invention provides novel nanofiber enhanced surface area substrates and structures comprising such substrates for use in various medical devices, as well as methods and uses for such substrates and medical devices.

This invention provides novel nanofiber enhanced surface area substrates and structures comprising such substrates for use in various medical devices, as well as methods and uses for such substrates and medical devices. In one particular embodiment, methods for enhancing cellular functions on a surface of a medical device implant are disclosed which generally comprise providing a medical device implant comprising a plurality of nanofibers (e.g., nanowires) thereon and exposing the medical device implant to cells such as osteoblasts.

A thermally-conductive, electrically insulative interface for conductively cooling a heat-generating source, such as an electronic component, having an associated thermal dissipation member such as a heat sink. The interface is provided as a cured sheet of a curable material formulated as a blend of a curable silicone binder, and a particulate alumina, i.e., aluminum oxide (Al2O3), filler. The interface is observed to exhibit a thermal conductivity of at least about 0.8 W/m-K and a wet dielectric breakdown strength of at least about 475 Vac/mil.

The present invention relates to composite solid polymer electrolyte membranes (SPEMs) which include a porous polymer substrate interpenetrated with an ion-conducting material. SPEMs of the present invention are useful in electrochemical applications, including fuel cells and electrodialysis.

The invention provides a multi-component (modular) percutaneous valve device that includes a valve module having valve leaflets and a valve frame. The valve frame includes one or more, for example two, ring members and a plurality of masts. Also provided is a valve frame having specially designed pivot points at the connection between masts and first and second ring members to assist folding the valve module and minimizing delivery diameter. The valve frame may also include wire guides to facilitate combining the valve module with a support module. The masts or a ring of the valve frame may also include locking members, such as shafts for closing the valve module and securing the valve module to the support module. The support module includes corresponding locking members, such as spears that align with the shafts on the valve module for assembly and locking the valve module to the support module.

A system and method for improving cycle lifetimes for a lithium-ion battery pack, particularly for adapting to a dynamic use profile for a user. A battery cell pack charging system, including a charger and a controller, for charging a lithium-ion battery cell pack, the battery cell pack charging system has a circuit for charging the battery cell pack using an adjustable charging system including an adjustable charge profile to charge the battery cell pack wherein the adjustable charge profile includes: an operational parameter identifying a next operation post-charge performance characteristic for the battery cell pack wherein a controller determines a next cycle plan for the battery cell pack that provides the performance characteristic while concurrently enhancing an attribute of the battery cell pack and wherein the attribute is measured over a plurality of applied cycles; and one or more charging stages to produce an energy ending point for the plan; wherein the adjustable charge plan is implemented by the charger in anticipation of a post-charging operation associated with the operational parameter.

Delivery of Janus Kinase 3 (JAK3) inhibitor locally, particularly from an intravascular stent, directly from micropores in the stent body or mixed or bound to a polymer coating applied on stent, to inhibit neointimal tissue proliferation and thereby prevent restenosis. This invention facilitates the performance of the stent in inhibiting restonosis.

Many kinds of dispensing devices for drinks or similar fluid foodstuffs, especially for coffee and/or milk are already known. Said devices comprise supply means for supplying at least two different hot drinks, filling outlets for dispensing hot drinks into at least one cup and valve means for stopping and releasing drink pipelines between the supply devices and the filling devices. According to the invention, in order to improve hygiene and product quality, the valve means are embodied in such a manner that additional pipelines for supplying and/or discharging flushing agents for cleaning, hot water or steam for preheating or other similar fluids, can be connected to the valve means instead of to the drinks pipelines in order to treat the valve means in the areas through which hot drinks flow. As a result, a rinsing process can be automatically controlled between two dispensing steps.

A three dimensional fabric suitable for use as a moisture management system for footwear and apparel which includes a first surface and a second surface which encase a center section. At least one surface is water repellent and may include pores of a predetermined size to allow moisture to pass therethrough. The fabric further contains a moisture absorbing agent which functions to capture and hold moisture which is later evaporated within a predetermined time period.

Humanized Ep-CAM-targeting antibodies and methods of making and using the same are provided.

The invention discloses a routing forwarding, routing table building and content obtaining method and a device thereof. The routing forwarding method comprises the following steps: a content request packet, which carries a content name of a request content and container information of the request content, is received; whether a forwarding entry which matches the content name of the request content exists in FIB is determined; whether a forwarding entry which matches a container sign in the container information exists in the FIB is determined when a forwarding entry which matches the content name of the request content doesn't exist in the FIB; and the content request packet is sent according to an interface in the matched forwarding entry when the forwarding entry which matches the container sign in the container information of the request content exists in the FIB. According to the embodiment of the invention, by increasing the container information based on the content name, dependence of routing forwarding on the content name can be minimized. Thus, it is possible to reduced routing table entries in a routing table, and it makes possible to solve problems such as route extension and the like which are caused by the content name.

The present invention relates to Lithium Metal batteries. In particular, it is related to lithium metal batteries containing a polyimide-based electrolyte. The present invention concerns a new concept of polyimide-based electrolytic component having an electrolyte consisting of at least one solvent and at least one alkali metal salt, with specific amounts of solvents, to optimize the properties of conductivity of the polyimide-based electrolyte and the mechanical properties of the polyimide-based electrolyte separator towards metallic lithium anode to prevent dendrites growths.

A high temperature (on the order of about 90° C. or above) non-aqueous synthetic procedure for the preparation of substantially monodisperse IV-VI semiconductor nanoparticles (quantum dots) is provided. The procedure includes first introducing a first precursor selected from the group consisting of a molecular precursor of a Group IV element and a molecular precursor of a Group VI element into a reaction vessel that comprises at least an organic solvent to form a mixture. Next, the mixture is heated to a temperature of about 90° C. or above and thereafter a second precursor which is different from the first precursor and is selected from the group consisting of a molecular precursor of a Group IV element and a molecular precursor of a Group VI element is added into the heated mixture. The reaction mixture is then mixed to initiate nucleation of IV-VI nanocrystals and the temperature of the reaction mixture is controlled to provide substantially monodispersed IV-VI nanoparticles having a diameter of about 20 nm or less.

The present disclosure relates to a media attribution system that improves multi-channel media attribution by employing discrete-time survival modeling. In particular, the media attribution system uses event data (e.g., interactions and conversions) to generate positive and negative conversion paths, which the media attribution system uses to train an algorithmic attribution model. The media attribution system also uses the trained algorithmic attribution model to determine attribution scores for each interaction used in the conversion paths. Generally, the attribution score for an interaction indicates the effect the interaction has in influencing a user toward conversion.

The invention relates to a two-door gate inhibition system and a control method, based on biology character recognize technique, comprising a biology character gate inhibition device, a controller, an electric lock, a switch box, a biology character register terminal, and a gate inhibition system server, wherein the biology character register terminal registers the biology character information, to record and build database for general biology character and alarm biology character, when passes two doors, the gate inhibition device checks and receives biology character, to extract and compare the biology character information, and when the biology character information is authorized one, to send an outer door open request to the controller, and when the biology character information is alarm biology character, send out an outdoor door open request and an alarm signal. The invention provides forced alarm method, to open door with starting alarm response, to alarm on time and protect owner.

A very low inventory method of making eyeglasses. Two lens elements having special complementary surfaces are provided. These lens elements can be positioned relative to each other to provide wide ranges of focus correction and astigmatism correction. Various preferred embodiments of the invention are described. In one embodiment the required inventory is only identical sets of two complementary lenses for providing correction for almost all needed eye correction for a typical population. In this embodiment, the lens units are first adjusted relative to each other to provide a desired focusing power. Astigmatism may be corrected by a small adjustment in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction followed by a rotation of the two lenses about the axis of the two lenses. When the adjustments have been made the two lenses are fixed with respect to each other and installed in eyeglass frames. Cutting to the shape of the eyeglass frames can occur either before or after the fixing.