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A high performance zoom lens system suitable for use with a camera is disclosed. The zoom lens systems employs liquid optics and a movable lens group to provide optical performance over the zoom focal length range at focus distances from close to infinity. The system also provides compensation for undesirable thermally induced effects by adjustments of the zoom group and the variably shaped optical surface in the liquid lens cell.

The invention provides for compositions and methods of reducing pain in a subject by administering a combination of mu-opioid receptor agonist, kappa1-opioid receptor agonist and a nonselective opioid receptor antagonist in amounts effective to reduce pain and ameliorate an adverse side effect of treatment combining opioid-receptor agonists. The invention also provides for methods of enhancing an analgesic effect of treatment with an opioid-receptor agonist in a subject suffering from pain while reducing an adverse side effect of the treatment. The invention also provides for methods of reducing the hyperalgesic effect of treatment with an opioid-receptor agonist in a subject suffering from pain while reducing an adverse side effect of the treatment. The invention further provides for methods of promoting the additive analgesia of pain treatment with an opioid-receptor agonist in a subject in need while reducing an adverse side effect of the treatment.

A method of fabricating transistors includes: providing a substrate including an N-type well and P-type well; forming a first gate on the N-type well and a second gate on the P-type well, respectively; forming a third spacer on the first gate; forming an epitaxial layer in the substrate at two sides of the first gate; forming a fourth spacer on the second gate; forming a silicon cap layer covering the surface of the epitaxial layer and the surface of the substrate at two sides of the fourth spacer; and forming a first source/drain doping region and a second source/drain doping region at two sides of the first gate and the second gate respectively.

Self-propagating, fusogenic blebs are produced from cells infected with a population of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus replicon particles (VRP). The self-propagating, fusogenic nature of the blebs is derived from expression of heterologous genes encoding viral fusion proteins that are incorporated into the replication defective replicon particles. The resulting blebs can be harvested from supernatants of cells displaying severe cytopathic effects. The blebs are used to make immunogenic compositions and devise methods of immunizing mammals against paramyxoviruses such as parainfluenza virus type 3.

A moving image converting apparatus includes: a block dividing unit executing block division processing for each of frames that form the moving image data; a motion amount detecting unit detecting a block motion amount corresponding to a motion amount of an object contained in each of blocks obtained; a line-of-sight motion amount detecting unit calculating a line-of-sight motion amount of a viewer who views the moving image data; a sampling point phase change amount determining unit receiving the block motion amount and the line-of-sight motion amount as input, and determining a block-corresponding sampling point phase change amount to be applied to spatial decimation processing on each of the blocks; and a decimation executing unit receiving the blocks obtained as input, executing the spatial decimation processing on the inputted blocks, the spatial decimation processing being executed by applying the block-corresponding sampling point phase change amount determined.

According to an embodiment of the invention, a radiation detector device (10) for detecting a primary radiation (6) comprises a scintillator (12) which generates a converted primary radiation in response to incoming primary radiation (6) and a photo detector (14) for detecting the converted primary radiation. The radiation detector device (10) further comprises a secondary radiation source (20) for irradiating the scintillator (12) with a secondary radiation (22) which has a wavelength different from a wavelength of the first radiation (6) and which is capable of producing a spatially more uniform response of the scintillator (12) to primary radiation. In an embodiment of the invention, the radiation detector device (10) is an X-ray detector of an X-ray imaging apparatus where the primary radiation is X-ray radiation and the secondary radiation has a wavelength between 350 nm and 450 nm. According to an embodiment, the irradiation with the secondary radiation, e.g. UV radiation, produces a uniform gain distribution of the X-ray detector (10).

The invention provides a vaccine composition for transdermal or transmucosal administration for inducing cellular immunity, comprising (i) an antigen; and (ii) a pharmacologically acceptable acid or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof as a first cellular immunity induction promoter.

Disclosed is an optical composite for use in a backlight unit of a liquid crystal display or an illumination apparatus, which is able to sufficiently increase luminance and in which adhesion portions are regularly arranged to thus induce an optical illusion effect so that scratches or stains cannot be seen clearly. A method of manufacturing such an optical composite is also provided. There is no need to additionally use optical films or prism sheets, thus making it possible to inexpensively manufacture optical devices, such as backlight units.

The present invention provides a vaccine composition which comprises a cellular immunity induction promoter universally usable against various antigens in cellular immunity induction by mucosal administration of the antigen and exerts a high cellular immunity inducing effect by mucosal administration. The present invention provides a vaccine composition for mucosal administration to induce cellular immunity, comprising: (i) an antigen; and (ii) one or more cellular immunity induction promoters selected from the group consisting of a TLR ligand, a cyclic dinucleotide, a helper peptide and an immunomodulatory small molecule drug.

Anti-tumor conjugates, which consists of foliate or analogues thereof, linkers, an antibodies such as immunoglobulin G. The linker comprises glutathione, cysteamine or cysteine residue, and further comprises N-hydroxysuccinimide. The Conjugates target folate-receptor-positive tumor cells. Also provided are preparation methods and anti-tumor and anti-autoimmune disease uses of the conjugates.

The chemically peeling agent contains a component (A) having the following general formula:(wherein B is an alcohol residue;AO is an alkylene-oxy group having 3 to 18 carbon atoms;a is an integer of 1 or more;m is an integer of 4 or more; andn is 0 or an integer of 1 or more;provided that a molar amount m of the oxidized ethylene to be added is a value that amounts to 40% or more of the entire molecular weight of an ethylene oxide chain moiety)and a phenol compound (B) formulated in an amount ranging from 10% to 30% by weight.

Provided herein is a method for treating a pulmonary disease using mesenchymal stem cell-derived artificial nanosomes exhibiting a significantly excellent capability to regenerate alveoli compared to mesenchymal stem cells themselves and natural exosomes derived from human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells, wherein the mesenchymal stem cell-derived artificial nanosomes of the present disclosure may be collected through a simple production method using an extruder and an ultracentrifuge, instead of treating mesenchymal stem cells with a separate chemical substance and the potential side effects caused by stem cell therapeutic agents is low.

A basketball goal provides a support that has upper and lower end portions. A backboard is affixed to the upper end portion of the support. A hoop or rim is affixed to the backboard. A jacking mechanism elevates the hoop when the hoop pivots downwardly when a player dunks a basketball through the hoop or rim. In such a case, the player typically contacts the rim or hoop with his or her hands or hand forcing it downwardly. With each such dunk shot, the rim or hoop is deflected downwardly and the jacking mechanism elevates the hoop about half an inch. A control positioned on the support enables the hoop to be selectively used in the jacking mode or in a fixed mode wherein the hoop or rim is affixed to a selected position in a selected elevation thus overriding the jacking mechanism. The control has multiple selectable positions including a position that engages the jacking mechanism and a fixed position that overrides the jacking mechanism. A third mode can be optionally provided that lowers the hoop or rim when the control is placed in the third, lowering position.

A tunable optical filter comprising an index grating produced in a waveguide defining a longitudinal direction of propagation of an incident optical signal, said grating being defined by a plurality of optical parameters, is characterized in that the optical guide contains semiconductor nanoparticles and in that the index grating is made up of a refractive index variation in the guide that is at least partly induced by a Kerr effect linked to the 3^rd order dielectric susceptibility (χ³) of said nanoparticles, at least one of said parameters of said index grating being modified by application of an optical control signal coupled into the guide and propagating longitudinally in said guide.

A memory structure includes: a substrate; a control gate positioned on the substrate; floating gates positioned at two sides of the control gate, wherein the floating gates have a U-shaped bottom embedded in the substrate; a first dielectric layer positioned between the control gate and the substrate; a second dielectric layer positioned between the U-shaped bottom of the floating gates and the substrate; a third dielectric layer positioned between the control gate and the floating gates; a local doping region positioned around the floating gates channel; and a source/drain doping region positioned in the substrate at a side of the floating gates.