National Applied Research Laboratories

A steel panel damper is provided for reinforcing a building structure. The steel panel damper is disposed between a first member and an opposite second member arranged in the building structure. The steel panel damper comprises a first elastic segment, a second elastic segment, an energy dissipation segment, a first end plate, and a second end plate. In terms of the cross-sectional area perpendicular to the first direction, the first elastic segment and the second elastic segment are greater than the energy dissipation segment.

The present application provides an identity authentication system and method thereof, which applied for an operational processing unit executing an identity authentication program for inputting a first voice signal to a speaker identification unit and further identifying the first voice signal to generate a corresponding signal sample data. Hereby, further executing the identity authentication program for randomly generating an authentication tip message and outputting it. Thereby, a second voice signal corresponding to the authentication tip message is inputted to the speaker identification unit and compared with a signal segment of the signal sample data. While the second voice signal matches the signal segment, the second voice signal is identified for generating a semantic object data, and the semantic object data and the authentication tip message are compared to generate an identity authentication result.

A method for creating a genogram of a family using touch and voice input includes: in response to a user touching a part of a touchscreen, generating a touch signal indicating a set of coordinates on the touchscreen at which a touch action occurred; recording a voice input from the user, the voice input including speech describing the family; obtaining an input text that is converted from the voice input; obtaining, using a generative language model based on a content of the input text, a genogram dataset in a format that is for generating the genogram; transforming the genogram dataset into a graphical genogram dataset; and creating the genogram based on the graphical genogram dataset, using the set of coordinates as a reference point, the genogram including at least one icon representing a member of the family.

The present disclosure is directed to an integrated device for inhalation medication and peak flow measurement and method of using the same. The integrated device integrates a respiratory flow rate measurement unit and a wireless communication module into the inhaler device, so that the inhaler device has both a medication function and a respiratory flow rate measurement function, and the integrated device is capable of transmitting the measured respiratory flow data to an electronic device by wireless transmission, so as to construct a personalized health assessment model, which can be used as a reference for medical personnel to make treatment decisions.

A method for generating an alert for potential structural damage from an earthquake includes: in response to receipt of a first-arrival seismic wave dataset related to a first-arrival seismic wave of the earthquake, calculating an estimated seismic wave parameter set that includes a spectral acceleration; calculating, based on the estimated seismic wave parameter set and a basic structural parameter set associated with a target structure, a ductility value, the basic structural parameter set including a geographical location of the target structure, a structural ultimate base shear coefficient, and an initially hypothetical structural fundamental oscillation period; and in a case where the ductility value is larger than a predetermined threshold, transmitting an alert control signal to control an external alert device to output an alert for potential structural damage of the target structure based on the alert control signal.

Disclosed herein is a chip for producing vascularized tissues. According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the chip comprises a loading chamber, a culture chamber, a fluid collection chamber, an inflow channel, at least one outflow channel, two side channels, two upstream reservoirs, and two downstream reservoirs. Also disclosed herein is a system comprising a pair of the present chips, and methods of producing vascularized tissues by using the present chip or system.

A method for retrieving information for similar cases is provided, which includes the following steps: obtaining a technical context; performing a text cleaning process on the technical context to generate a cleaned technical context; performing word segmentation on the cleaned technical context to obtain a plurality of words; identifying one or more first features and second features using the words associated with the technical context; filtering the one or more second features using a subset selected from the one or more first features; retrieving candidate word vectors of candidate cases from a database using the filtered second features; performing word vector analysis on the words to generate a plurality of word vectors; and determining a most similar case associated with the technical context according to a similarity score for each candidate case calculated using the word vectors and the candidate word vectors corresponding to each candidate case.

The present invention provides an electroencephalogram measurement structure formed by an ear-hanging structure and a second circuit board. The ear-hanging structure includes a body. An ear-hanging member is disposed at the extension of the body. The body can be worn on the ear via the ear-hanging member. In addition, a first reference electrode and a second reference electrode are disposed on the body and coupled to a first circuit board. The first circuit board is coupled to an electrical jack; the second circuit board is coupled to the electrical jack via an electrical plug. Thereby, the electroencephalogram measurement can be performed simply by wearing the ear-hanging member on the ear of the person under test. Hence, the problems of complicated wiring and inconvenience in wearing can be solved concurrently.

A self-centering energy dissipation device is adapted to be connected to first and second objects, and includes a first base seat, at least one main shaft, two second base seats and at least one pair of elastic members. The first base seat is adapted to be connected to the first object. The at least one main shaft extends through the first base seat. The second base seats are connected respectively and movably to two opposite ends of the at least one main shaft and are adapted to be connected to the second object. The at least one pair of elastic members are sleeved on the at least one main shaft. Each of the at least one pair of elastic members has a first end abutting against the first base seat, and a second end abutting against a respective one of the second base seats.

A method for retrieving information about similar medical devices is provided, which includes the following steps: obtaining a first technical context of a specific medical device; utilizing a first machine-learning model to extract one or more technical items of the specific medical device based on technical content of the first technical context; utilizing the first machine-learning model to generate candidate medical devices using the technical items; searching a database for device information about the candidate medical devices; retrieving summary files of the candidate medical devices from the database based on the device information; utilizing the first machine-learning model to infer a second technical context of each candidate medical device; and determining a most similar medical device for the specific medical device according to a similarity score for each candidate medical device calculated from the second technical context and the first technical context using a second machine-learning model.