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Disclosed here is a composition containing menthol and menthyl lactate, and its preparation method and its applications as a cooling agent and a flavoring agent.The present invention provides a composition characterized in that it comprises menthol and menthyl lactate in a ratio by weight in the range of 1:4˜4:1 and the corresponding crystallization point is below room temperature of 25° C. Such composition has the advantages of being liquid at room temperature; easy to use as a cooling agent or a flavoring agent; no need to use heat to melt menthol and menthyl lactate, which not only saves time, money and heating equipment, but also simplifies manufacturing process and can be used in cold processes at room temperature. The composition can be used as a cooling and / or flavoring agent and / or a fragrance ingredient in toothpaste, mouthwash, fragrance, cleansers, shaving cream, after shave products; shampoo, deodorant, antiperspirant, bath products, drinks, confectionary products, tobacco, pharmaceutical, foods, flavoring and fragrance products.

A wearable sensor may be provided. The wearable sensor may include a timing mechanism; a plurality of sensor pairs coupled to the timing mechanism wherein each sensor pair comprises an emitter and a detector; and a microcontroller coupled in communication to the timing mechanism and the plurality of sensor pairs.

A system and method for enhancing passwords, access codes, and personal identification numbers by making them pace, rhythm, or tempo sensitive. The password includes a sequence of characters and an associated timing element. To access a restricted device or function a user enters the correct character sequence according to the correct pace, rhythm, or tempo. The entered sequence and timing element are compared with stored values and access is granted only if the entered and stored values match. In an alternative embodiment the stored timing element is set, and periodically altered, by a computer or program without consent from the user and visual, auditory, and / or tactile prompts indicate the correct timing element to the user during the authentication process. The meaning of the prompts are provided to the user in advance.

A method and apparatus for optically assaying a targeted substance in a sample using a diffraction anomaly grating sensor. The optical sensor has a diffraction grating coated with at least one dielectric layer such that the sensor is sensitized to interact with the targeted substance. Upon interaction, light incident upon the sensor at a particular angle propagates through the dielectric, thereby exhibiting a dip in zero-order reflectance. Advantages of the present invention include facilitating increased sensitivity while protecting the metal grating from tarnishing and degradation. The present invention also allows for the construction of sensors that are sensitized to a plurality of substances, thus eliminating the need for an operator to reconfigure the sensing system in order to assay different substances.

The present invention relates to bead incubating and washing on a droplet actuator. Methods for incubating magnetically responsive beads that are labeled with primary antibody, a sample (i.e., analyte), and secondary reporter antibodies on a magnet, on and off a magnet, and completely off a magnet are provided. Also provided are methods for washing magnetically responsive beads using shape-assisted merging of droplets. Also provided are methods for shape-mediated splitting, transporting, and dispensing of a sample droplet that contains magnetically responsive beads. The apparatuses and methods of the invention provide for rapid time to result and optimum detection of an analyte in an immunoassay.

A transceiver preferably embedded within a wearable security watch, PDA, or other device which achieves a variety of wireless ultrasonic and / or radio-frequency based functions, including digital identification and proximity and sensation monitoring of assets, individuals, pets, and the like. The portable or wearable device realizes these functions by periodically polling and receiving information tags within the transmitting distance of the device. The invention can help reduce the likelihood of the theft, loss, or misplacement by detecting that a tag associated with or attached to an entity has left an individual's proximity and sounding an alarm. The device can also assist individuals with sensory impairments, including persons who are deaf, diabetic, and the like, by detecting a tagged entity as it enters the space around an individual, or by detecting environmental stimuli, such as excessive heat in an individual's proximity or vital sign changes, and sounding an alarm.

Biosensors including resonant optical cavities. The resonant optical cavities are shaped so as to generate whispering gallery modes, which increase the quality factors of the cavities and facilitate the detection of analytes in a sample with enhanced sensitivity. The sizes of the resonant optical cavities facilitate their use in biosensors that include arrays of sensing zones. Accordingly, the resonant optical cavities may be used in high-density sensing arrays that can be read in real-time and in parallel. Thus, the resonant optical cavities are useful for detecting small concentrations of samples in real-time and with high throughput. Different embodiments of the biosensors are also disclosed, as are methods for using the biosensors.

Cardiac sensing and / or stimulation devices and methods that adapt to implant location and positioning, and may employ automated vector selection from multiple electrodes. Devices include a housing having a first face opposing a second face, and an edge extending around the perimeter. A pulse generator and controller are coupled to three or more electrodes. Electrode arrangement facilitates selection of the particular electrodes that sense cardiac activity irrespective of one or more of positioning of the device, rotation of the housing, and which of the first and second faces of the housing is orientated toward the patient's skin. A first vector may be selected that provides for sensing cardiac activity, and a second vector may sense skeletal muscle activity. The vectors may be selected based on amplitude or signal-to-noise ratio exceeding a predetermined threshold. Methods may involve delivering defibrillation or cardioversion energy and / or determining cardiac rhythm states using selected vectors.

The invention relates to a droplet actuator device and methods for integrated sample preparation and analysis of a biological sample. A droplet actuator device is provided for conducting droplet operations. The droplet actuator device may include a bottom substrate and a top substrate separated from each other to form a gap therebetween; an arrangement of droplet operations electrodes arranged on one or both of the bottom and / or top substrates for conducting droplet operations thereon; a reagent storage layer comprising one or more compartments bound to the top substrate; and one or more openings arranged to provide a fluidic path from the one or more compartments into the gap, upon breach of a breachable seal separating the one or more compartments and openings.

A method and device for video conferencing between first and second conference locations. Each conference location is provided with a video camera and a video image monitor to carry the image of a video conferee to a remote location. The video cameras are located proximate the video monitors such that each video camera is placed upon an emotionally neutral field of the image of the remotely located conferee and aimed substantially at the eyes of the local conferee facing the conferee's monitor in order to create eye-to-eye contact between conferees while positioning the video camera as to not interfere with said conference.

The present invention pertains to: a conductive sheet, a touch panel, a display device, a method for producing the conductive sheet, and a recording medium. In the present invention, the relative refractive index of a substrate with respect to a first protective layer, and / or the relative refractive index of the substrate with respect to a second protective layer is 0.86-1.15. The relative refractive index of a first substrate with respect to the first protective layer, and / or the relative refractive index of a second substrate with respect to the second protective layer is 0.86-1.15.

The invention discloses a stage method for improving the uniform expansion effect of granular fruits and vegetables during microwave spouted drying, which belongs to the technical field of the processing of fruit and vegetable foods. The method mainly comprises the steps of: performing selection, washing, dicing, enzyme killing by blanching, and color protection treatment on fruit and vegetable raw materials; placing the pretreated fruit and vegetable cubes into a microwave spouted drying bed; setting the microwave power and the air inlet heating temperature; then performing the combined drying of stage hot air drying and microwave drying; and controlling different spouted air intakes at different drying stages, wherein the uniform expansion effect of products is improved during the quick microwave drying. The method has the advantages that the method ensures that the granular fruits and vegetables are evenly heated in a microwave field through a hot air and microwave spouted drying stage method, has quick moisture evaporation, ensures that the fruits and vegetables have porous structures after the drying, effectively improves the expansion degree of the products, also improves the expansion effect of the products and ensures the uniform expansion of the products while the granular fruits and vegetables are quickly dried, and has the characteristics of good preservation of nutrient content and good qualities of color luster, sense and the like.

A 3D integrated circuit memory array has a plurality of plane positions. Multiple bit line structures have a multiple sequences of multiple plane positions. Each sequence characterizes an order in which a bit line structure couples the plane positions to bit lines. Each bit line is coupled to at least two different plane positions to access memory cells at two or more different plane positions.

A jumping robot is provided. In another aspect, a jumping robot weighs less than 50 grams, jumps at least 20 cm high and has a maximum linear dimension of 10 cm. A further aspect provides a robot that employs an electromagnetic actuator that actuates at least two of: jumping, steering, self-righting, and / or mid-air orientation control.

In one embodiment, a method is provided for the manufacture of a nano-sensor array. A base having a sensing region is provided along with a plurality of nano-sensors. Each of the plurality of nano-sensors is formed by: forming a first nanoneedle along a surface of the base, forming a dielectric on the first nanoneedle, and forming a second nanoneedle on the dielectric layer. The first nanoneedle of each sensor has a first end adjacent to the sensing region of the base. The second nanoneedle is separated from the first nanoneedle by the dielectric and has a first end adjacent the first end of the first nanoneedle. The base is provided with a fluidic channel. The plurality of nano-sensors and the fluidic channel are configured and arranged with the first ends proximate the fluidic channel to facilitate sensing of targeted matter in the fluidic channel.

The invention relates to a fabric made of cored piezoelectric fibers by weaving or knitting. A plurality of cored piezoelectric fibers are parallelly woven or knitted along a same straight line or curved line direction, crosswise woven or knitted along different straight line or curved line directions, or woven or knitted to form knots extending in the straight line or curved line direction to form an area with the cored piezoelectric fibers, and the area with the cored piezoelectric fibers is woven or knitted with an area formed by weaving or knitting other textile fibers to form one or more layers of the fabric. Thus, the area with the cored piezoelectric fibers in the fabric can serve as a sensor or drive. Due to flexibility and foldability, the cored piezoelectric fiber fabric can be made into wearable structures such as gloves, vests, wrist bands, ankle pads, socks and the like which can be put on a living body or a robot body to serve as sensors for sensing health conditions in the living body, movements of the living body or the robot body or external acting forces; the wearable structures can also serve as drives for adding external signals onto the fabric, the living body can sense the external signals by sensing deformation, vibration and the like of the fabric; the wearable structures can further serve as sonic sensors or sonic drives to sense external sound waves or transmit sound waves.

The invention provides a depression risk screening system and method based on a virtual reality scene electroencephalogram signal. Under the stimulation of a virtual reality scene, real-time acquisition, processing and analysis of data are carried out on the electroencephalogram signal by an electroencephalogram acquisition system, and finally, a depression risk is screened by a data mining method. The system provided by the invention comprises a virtual reality induction system, a electroencephalogram signal acquisition system and a data analysis system; the virtual reality induction system is used for establishing different virtual reality scenes; the electroencephalogram signal acquisition system is used for acquiring the electroencephalogram signal of a human brain, which is generated under the stimulation of the virtual reality scene and is continuously changed, and outputting the processed electroencephalogram signal and extracted real-time feature information; the data analysis system has a classification discrimination model trained by labeled healthy populations and depression risk populations, compares feature information required in a depression screening process with feature parameters of the classification discrimination model, and distinguishes and discriminates the healthy populations and the depression risk populations.

The present invention relates to a glove or mitten having a pocket or other similar holder for a cell phone positioned against the wrist of the wearer. The pocket has a mouth opening toward the glove wrist so that the phone is easily removed from the pocket either simultaneously with removal of the glove or without requiring the removal of the glove. The location of the phone on the wrist allows the wearer to more readily hear the “ring” of an incoming call or feel an alert if vibration of the phone is used as an incoming call alert.

The present invention relates to bead incubating and washing on a droplet actuator. Methods for incubating magnetically responsive beads that are labeled with primary antibody, a sample (i.e., analyte), and secondary reporter antibodies on a magnet, on and off a magnet, and completely off a magnet are provided. Also provided are methods for washing magnetically responsive beads using shape-assisted merging of droplets. Also provided are methods for shape-mediated splitting, transporting, and dispensing of a sample droplet that contains magnetically responsive beads. The apparatuses and methods of the invention provide for rapid time to result and optimum detection of an analyte in an immunoassay.

Disclosed is a device for varying capacitance which pertains to the field of application of electronic devices and components. The technical essentials of the present invention lie in that: two dielectrics are disposed in parallel with an isolation layer interposed therebetween; the two dielectrics each are connected to an electrode at the same one end face thereof; the other end face of each of the two dielectrics is provided with an elastic conductive pad; a gasket is provided between the two dielectrics and the elastic conductive pads. The relative position and compressed area between the elastic conductive pads and the dielectrics vary according to the magnitude of the external force so that the capacitance between the electrodes of the dielectrics is varied accordingly within a certain range. Therefore, once the value and the variation of the capacitance between the electrodes are measured, the magnitude and the status of the external force which brings about the variation of the capacitance can be obtained. The device of the present invention has a simple structure and high sensitivity. Also, it has a definite zero initial value and a maximum value of the capacitance, and therefore is easy for handing and measurement.

A wearable tactile stimulation device can include a facial mask, an air-suit, and a pair of gloves. A wearable tactile stimulation device can include integrated conduits and nozzles configured to deliver tactile stimulation to portions of a users face, hands, and / or body. The tactile stimulation can be delivered via puffs of air transmitted through the conduits and nozzles. A controller can be configured to control tactile stimulation by controlling the generation and delivery of puffs of air. The puffs can be delivered individually, or in combination.

In one embodiment, a method is provided for the manufacture of a nano-sensor array. A base having a sensing region is provided along with a plurality of nano-sensors. Each of the plurality of nano-sensors is formed by: forming a first nanoneedle along a surface of the base, forming a dielectric on the first nanoneedle, and forming a second nanoneedle on the dielectric layer. The first nanoneedle of each sensor has a first end adjacent to the sensing region of the base. The second nanoneedle is separated from the first nanoneedle by the dielectric and has a first end adjacent the first end of the first nanoneedle. The base is provided with a fluidic channel. The plurality of nano-sensors and the fluidic channel are configured and arranged with the first ends proximate the fluidic channel to facilitate sensing of targeted matter in the fluidic channel.

A transceiver preferably embedded within a wearable security watch, PDA, or other device which achieves a variety of wireless ultrasonic and / or radio-frequency based functions, including digital identification and proximity and sensation monitoring of assets, individuals, pets, and the like. The portable or wearable device realizes these functions by periodically polling and receiving information tags within the transmitting distance of the device. The invention can help reduce the likelihood of the theft, loss, or misplacement by detecting that a tag associated with or attached to an entity has left an individual's proximity and sounding an alarm. The device can also assist individuals with sensory impairments, including persons who are deaf, diabetic, and the like, by detecting a tagged entity as it enters the space around an individual, or by detecting environmental stimuli, such as excessive heat in an individual's proximity or vital sign changes, and sounding an alarm.

A system and method for enhancing passwords, access codes, and personal identification numbers by making them pace, rhythm, or tempo sensitive. The password includes a sequence of characters and an associated timing element. To access a restricted device or function a user enters the correct character sequence according to the correct pace, rhythm, or tempo. The entered sequence and timing element are compared with stored values and access is granted only if the entered and stored values match. In an alternative embodiment the stored timing element is set, and periodically altered, by a computer or program without consent from the user and visual, auditory, and / or tactile prompts indicate the correct timing element to the user during the authentication process. The meaning of the prompts are provided to the user in advance.

The invention discloses a film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) and a preparation method thereof. The film bulk acoustic resonator comprises a substrate, an acoustic wave reflecting layer and a sandwich piezoelectric stack which are integrated into a whole, wherein the substrate comprises an integrated circuit chip capable of carrying out FBAR signal processing and a passivation layer which is deposited on the integrated circuit chip and polished on the surface; and the acoustic wave reflecting layer and the sandwich piezoelectric stack are positioned on the surface of the passivation layer of the substrate. The FBAR does not additionally occupy the area of a silicon wafer, can greatly reduce the area and the cost of the chip, has simple and reliable structure, is convenient for sensing, is connected with a processing circuit by a communication hole, can reduce the reflection of a radio frequency signal and can be used for single-chip integrated design of a plurality of radio frequency systems and micro-quality sensing systems.

The invention relates to an instant rice food comprising the following raw materials (by weight ratio): oat 20-30 parts, black wheat 5-10 parts, Chinese sorghum 20-25 parts, buckwheat 15-20 parts, maize particles 15-20 parts. The food is prepared through the steps of immersing, boiling, immersing, and boiling again.

The invention discloses a method for preparing bioactive protein powder through endogenous enzymolysis of marine low-value coarse fish, which is characterized by comprising steps of raw material preparation, primary crushing, enzymolysis, small peptide liquid preparation, mixing and drying, post treatment and the like. During enzymolysis, enzymolysis process parameters are selected according to the endogenous enzyme activity measured from the raw materials; and during mixing and drying, peeled bean pulp powder is used as a carrier to prepare a bioactive protein material. The method of the invention performs process improvement based on the enzymolysis of the primary exogenous proteinase preparation, solves the difficult problems of high production cost, unstable exogenous enzyme activity and non-thorough enzymolysis in the endogenous enzymolysis process, and is more suitable for industrialized production; and the prepared bioactive protein powder has the sense, flavor and cultivation effects superior to those of the fish powder, and is a good fish powder substitute.

The invention discloses a safety and automatic distribution network cabinet capable of automatic heat dissipation. The safety and automatic distribution network cabinet comprises support legs, wherein a distribution network automatic box body is fixedly connected with top ends of the support legs, a heat dissipation fan is fixedly connected with an inner bottom wall of the distribution network automatic box body, air inlets and a heat dissipation outlet are respectively formed in the inner bottom wall and an inner top wall of the distribution network automatic box body, a protection net and a drying layer are fixedly connected with an inner wall of each air inlet, water blocking rings are fixedly connected with a top end of the heat dissipation outlet, and a filtering net is fixedly connected with an inner wall of the heat dissipation outlet. By the safety and automatic distribution network cabinet, the effect of temperature induction to control heat dissipation on the heat dissipation fin is achieved, and the effect of sensing a temperature in the distribution network cabinet is achieved; and the temperature is risen, alcohol is thermally expanded, a first contact and a second contact are electrically connected, the heat dissipation fan is started, so that the effect of energy saving is achieved, and the problems of electric energy waste and relatively poor rainproof capability of an ordinary distribution network automatic cabinet are effectively solved.

{Object} To provide an oil-in-water emulsified hair cosmetic of the present invention manifests good absorption and spreadability into the hair, doesn't cause dripping during use, and yet has an aesthetic appearance of transparent or semi-transparent gel despite the fact that it has a high mending effect and a rich sensation as is found in oil-based hair care agents.{Means to achieve the object} (a) Silicones chosen from high polymer silicone that is gum-like or has a viscosity of 1 million cs or higher, silicone with both ends hydroxy-modified, amino-modified silicone, ammonium-modified silicone, and polyalkylene glycol-modified silicone: 0.1-10 wt %, (b) Dimethylpolysiloxane having a viscosity of 100 cs or less: 0.5-79 wt %, (c) Polyhydric alcohol: 1-25 wt %, and (d) Hydrophilic surfactant: 1-10 wt % are blended in, the blend ratio of the oil phase is made to be 50-80 wt %, and the blend ratio (mass ratio) between (a) and (b) is made to be (a):(b)=1:5-1:100.[Selected drawings] None