Abstract:
An identifiable mark on a portion of a polished facet of a surface of an article and being identifiable by an optical magnifying viewing device, said identifiable mark comprising a nano-structure formed by a two-dimensional or a three-dimensional lattice of a plurality of discrete nanometer sized recessed or protruded entities, wherein said entities are arranged within a predefined region of said polished facet in a predetermined arrangement in relation to each other and such that an outer interface surface between the facet of the article and air is formed and an inner interface surface between the facet of the article and air is formed. Said predetermined arrangement of said entities is non-uniform and non-periodic arrangement, and wherein said entities are sized and shaped so as to cause optical scattering upon reflection of incident light and the distance from the inner interface surface to the outer interface surface is greater than the amplitude of the non-marked portion of said polished face. Upon reflection of incident light having one or more predetermined wavelengths by said lattice at a predetermined angle of incidence to said lattice, interference due to scattering of light from said lattice is induced such that said reflected light has a variation in intensity providing one or more local maxima of one or more wavelengths. Said mark is identifiable by way of an optical magnifying viewing device inclined at a requisite viewing angle such that a local maxima is detected.
Abstract:
A conjugate (110) comprising a nanoparticle (210) for delivery of a drug to a treatment site in the body of a subject; a drug molecule (220) releasably linked to said nanoparticle (210), wherein said drug molecule (220) has a therapeutic effect at the treatment site in the body of the subject; and a disease targeting molecule (230) releasably linked to said nanoparticle (210); wherein upon said conjugate (110) being adjacent diseased tissue (240) of a subject, said disease targeting molecule (230) retains the conjugate (110) adjacent said diseased tissue (240); said drug molecule (220) is released from said nanoparticle (110) so as to provide a therapeutic effect to said diseased tissue (240); and said disease targeting molecule (230) is subsequently released from said nanoparticle (210) such that retention of the nanoparticle (210) is released, and such that the nanoparticle (210) is dispersible from said diseased tissue (240).
Abstract:
A torque-restoring element for an oscillator for a mechanical timepiece and having an oscillator frequency, said torque restoring element comprising a spiral spring body having a number N turnings with an inner terminal end for engagement with a rotational inertial element via a collet, and an outer terminal for engagement with a stationary cock element, and having a width, a height and a total arc length; wherein the spiral spring body includes a core formed from mono-crystalline silicon wafer oriented along the crystallographic axis ; and wherein the spiral spring body includes at least one peripheral coating of a material having a thermal elastic constant different from that of the core of the spiral spring body so as to maintain the oscillator frequency an oscillator including the torque-restoring element substantially insensitive to variations of ambient temperature.
Abstract:
A method of forming a non-optically detectable identifiable mark at an outer surface of an article formed from a solid state material, said method including the steps of forming a plurality of recesses within a predetermined region of a photoresist 5 applied to an outer surface of an article formed from a solid state material, wherein said plurality of recesses is formed by two-photon absorption lithography and wherein said one or more recesses extend at least partially through the photoresist and from an outer surface of the photoresist and towards said outer surface of the article 10 formed from a solid state material; and applying an etching process such that at least a portion of the outer surface of said article is exposed and etched so as to form a plurality of etched portions extending into said article from the outer surface of the article and corresponding to said plurality of recesses; wherein said predetermined region of said photoresist defines an identifiable mark to be applied to the outer 15 surface of said article; wherein said plurality of etched portions forms the nonoptically identifiable mark on the outer surface of said article; and wherein the maximum width of the etched portions of is less than 200 nm such that the identifiable mark is non-optically detectable in the visible light spectrum.
Abstract:
A method of increasing concentricity in use of a spiral hairspring mechanical timepiece; the hairspring having an inner terminal end portion for engagement with a collet, an outer terminal end portion for engagement with a stud, a first limb portion extending from the inner terminal end portion towards the outer terminal end portion, and a stiffening portion positioned at the outer turn of the hairspring and having a cross-sectional second moment of area different to that of the first limb portion such that bending stiffness of the stiffening portion has a greater bending stiffness than the single limb portion. The method includes modifying cross-sectional second moments of an area of the first limb portion and the stiffening portion by minimizing a cost function throughout the amplitude of the rotation of hairspring in use, the cost function being correlated to the net concentricity of the hairspring.
Abstract:
Process for classification status of acquired image from subject according to pre-determined classification status, wherein the process comprising the steps of (i) dividing a acquired image from a subject into a plurality of instances; (ii) converting said acquired image to a graph according to the spatial relationship between the plurality of instances of step (i); (iii) extracting initial feature representations from the plurality of instances; (iv) inputting said graph acquired in step (ii) and said initial feature representations acquired in step (iii) into a pre-trained graph convolutional network, for transforming the instances into low-dimensional embeddings, wherein the pre-trained graph convolutional network has been pre-trained utilising one or more training data input sets, wherein said data inputs include a plurality of training images each of which is labeled according to a predetermined classification status; (v) computing a weighting vector for each instance utilising the graph of step (ii) and the low-dimensional embeddings of step (iv) by a graph attention mechanism which integrates the spatial relationship of the plurality of instances into the attention mechanism; (vi) calculating a weighting sum of the plurality of instances based on said lower-dimensional embeddings acquired in step (iv) and the and the weighting vector for each instance of step (v); wherein the weighting sum of the plurality of instances is converted into a class score indicating the classification status of the acquired image.
Abstract:
A system (300) for providing a three-dimensional computer tomography image of a gemstone, the system (300) comprising an X-ray source (330) for providing an X-ray towards a gemstone (320); an X-ray detector system for detecting X-rays transmitted through or diffracted by the gemstone (320). The X-ray detector system surrounds the gemstone (320) and detects a three-dimensional multi-angle X-ray diffraction pattern from the gemstone (320) upon rotation of the gemstone (320) within the X-ray field, and provides an output signal therefrom, wherein the output signal provides for invasive three-dimension multiangle X-ray diffraction reconstructed computed tomography from the three-dimension multiangle X-ray diffraction pattern.
Abstract:
A conjugate comprising (a) a nanodiamond; (b) human serum albumin (HSA) adhered on the surface of nanodiamond by physical adsorption; and (c) a drug molecule chemically linked to said human serum albumin, wherein said drug molecule has a therapeutic effect.
Abstract:
A method of distinguishing cancerous cells and healthy cells of a subject from each other comprises the steps: (i) contacting a region of tissue of a subject suspected of including at least some cancer cells with a plurality of nanodiamonds, wherein the plurality of nanodiamonds comprise a first plurality of conjugates, wherein the conjugates of the first plurality of conjugates consist of first nanodiamonds and one or more cancer cell targeting agents, wherein the first nanodiamonds have a first type of colour center, and a second plurality of conjugates, wherein the conjugates of the second plurality of conjugates consist of second nanodiamonds and one or more healthy cell targeting agents, wherein the second nanodiamonds have a second type of colour center; and (ii) applying light of a first wavelength so as to excite the first type of colour center and applying light of a second wavelength so as to excite the second type of colour center, wherein upon contacting the region of tissue with the plurality of nanodiamonds, cancer cells are adhered to the first plurality of conjugates, and healthy cells are adhered to the second plurality of conjugates; wherein upon applying light to the region of tissue, the colour centers of the nanodiamonds of the first plurality of conjugates adhered to cancer cells emit fluorescence at a first wavelength, and the colour centers of the nanodiamonds of the second plurality of conjugates adhered to healthy cells emit fluorescence at a second wavelength; and wherein the colour contrast between the two wavelengths and the positions of respective conjugates delineate the area of cancer cells and the area of healthy cells from each other.