Abstract: Disclosed is a secondary battery separator including a cellulose coating layer containing cellulose nanofibers and cellulose nanocrystals on a porous support. The secondary battery separator has a light weight, excellent air permeability and excellent puncture strength, and thus can provide a lithium secondary battery with excellent physical properties, including ion conductivity, wettability with an electrolyte and heat stability.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a source layer, a semiconductor layer including a semiconductor protrusion structure, and a drain layer arranged in a first horizontal direction on a substrate, a cell capacitor extending in the first horizontal direction on the substrate and including a lower electrode layer, a capacitor dielectric film, and an upper electrode layer connected to the drain layer, a bit line extending in a vertical direction on the substrate and connected to the source layer, and a gate structure covering the semiconductor protrusion structure and including a gate dielectric film on the semiconductor protrusion structure and a gate electrode film on the gate dielectric film. A value of a first thickness of an end portion of the semiconductor protrusion structure facing the drain layer is greater than a value of a second thickness of another end portion of the semiconductor protrusion structure facing the source layer.

Abstract: A hydrogen generation and carbon dioxide storage system for producing an alkali bicarbonate is provided. The system may include: a metal-carbon dioxide battery comprising an anode, a cathode, and a separator interposed between the anode and the cathode; a first supplier configured to provide a first electrolyte to the anode; a second supplier configured to provide a second electrolyte to the cathode; a reaction unit configured to manufacture a precursor material by reacting starting materials comprising aqueous alkali carbonate solution and carbon dioxide; a third supplier configured to provide the aqueous alkali carbonate solution to the reaction unit; a fourth supplier configured to provide the carbon dioxide to the reaction unit; and a hydrogen gas separator configured to separate hydrogen gas from a product discharged from the cathode and to provide a remainder of the product to the reaction unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a secondary battery separator including a cellulose coating layer containing cellulose nanofibers and cellulose microfibers and prepared by using a specific content of dispersant, on a porous support layer. The secondary battery separator has a light weight, improved air permeability and excellent puncture strength, and thus realizes excellent physical properties, such as lithium-ion conductivity, wettability with an electrolyte and heat stability.

Abstract: An impulse wireless communication system includes an oscillation signal generator that generates a plurality of oscillation signals having a delay interval with each other and having the same phase and amplitude or different phases and amplitudes, an envelope signal generator that extracts a sync signal and a data signal making up communication signal data and generates an envelope signal for the sync signal and an envelope signal for the data signal, a signal synthesizer that synthesizes the plurality of oscillation signals with the envelope signals, an envelope signal extractor that extracts a plurality of modulation envelope signals from the impulse signal, an amplitude phase determiner that determines the phase and the amplitude in the plurality of modulation envelope signals based on the plurality of oscillation signals, and a calculator that extracts the envelope signals from the plurality of modulation envelope signals based on the phase and the amplitude.

Abstract: A capacitance detection circuit using a dynamic current mirror includes a first dynamic current mirror circuit including a reference capacitor connected in series with a first transistor and an input capacitor connected in series with a second transistor, and an oscillator circuit connected to an output node of the first dynamic current mirror circuit and configured to charge an integration capacitance using current output from the first dynamic current mirror circuit. The amount of change in voltage at a first node positioned between a source of the first transistor and the reference capacitor may be identical to the amount of change in voltage at a second node positioned between a source of the second transistor and the input capacitor.

Abstract: A memory controller that controls a memory module including a plurality of memory chips, the memory controller including an error correction circuit including an encoding circuit and a processor to control the error correction circuit. The encoding circuit, in a write operation, divides a user data set into data units, generates data flags indicating types of the data units, generates data parities based on the data units, generates flag parities based on the data flags, generates an encoded user data set by using at least one null data unit in which all or half of included data bits are zero, as a data duplication space for duplicating a valid data unit, generates a codeword set by interleaving the encoded user data set, the data parities, the data flags, the flag parities and a null bit bit-wisely, and transmits the codeword set to the memory module.

Abstract: There is provided a spatiotemporal data processing including a preprocessing unit that generates a continuous path for each node in time series data, and a main processing unit that combines a graph convolution network (GCN) with a neural controlled differential equation (NCDE) for the generated path to perform integration processing on temporal information and spatial information, and the main processing unit performs temporal processing and spatial processing on each node with two controlled differential equation (CDE) functions to calculate a last hidden vector and forecast an output layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for discovering factors determining adhesion dependence of cells and a method for preventing or treating cancer, specifically metastatic cancer by regulating the expression of the factors. The present disclosure suggests a completely new inhibitory target for cancer metastasis, which allows remarkable blocking of the production of circulating tumor cells from primary cancer tissues and, ultimately, provision of an effective anticancer composition capable of significantly reducing the mortality rate of cancer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for improving sleep quality, and particularly, to a system and method for improving sleep quality that can induce correct sleep behavior of a user by measuring objective sleep quality in a wearless state and measuring and analyzing subjective sleep quality in a user-friendly manner. The system for improving sleep quality according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a mattress configured to measure objective sleep quality information of a user in a wearless type; a behavior correction assistance device disposed at a predetermined distance from the mattress; and an AI speaker configured to integrate and analyze objective sleep quality information measured by the mattress and subjective sleep quality information determined through Q&A with the user.

Abstract: A method of operating a network switch for collective communication includes: receiving, via a network from external electronic devices, a first and second matrix each formatted according to a sparse matrix storage format; and generating a third matrix formatted according to the sparse matrix storage format, wherein the third matrix is generated by combining the first and second matrix according to the sparse matrix storage format, wherein, according to the sparse matrix storage format the first matrix includes first matrix positions of respective first element values and the second matrix includes second matrix positions of respective second element values, and wherein the combining includes comparing the first matrix positions with the second matrix positions.

Abstract: There is provided a graphics processor performance analysis apparatus. The apparatus includes a model definition unit that defines a graphics processor core model for identifying structural stalls of computing and a memory, a data stall of the memory, and an idle stall, a simulation execution unit that simulates an operation of a specific GPU by using architecture parameters of a GPU application and the specific GPU as inputs on the basis of the graphics processor core model, and a performance analysis unit that receives an output of the graphics processor core model as a result of the simulation and analyzes performance of the specific GPU.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ion thermoelectric elastomer, which exhibit excellent thermal and air stability as well as excellent mechanical properties even under tensile stretching by adjusting poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA), 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate (2-HEA), and an ion conductive dopant to a certain content range, and exhibit excellent ionic thermoelectric properties compared to conventional materials by having a high Seebeck coefficient and ionic conductivity, and a thermoelectric element including the same. Accordingly, the thermoelectric element using the ion thermoelectric elastomer according to the present disclosure as a thermoelectric material exhibits excellent mechanical performance and thermal stability, and thus exhibits excellent and stable ionic thermoelectric properties, such as excellent compatibility with a high-temperature curved surface or skin curvature, while generating an output voltage even in various environments.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing hollow activated carbon nanofibers for activating peroxymonosulfate used in water purification; a catalyst for water purification comprising the hollow active carbon nanofibers produced by the method; and a method for purifying contaminated water using the catalyst. The production method of the present invention can easily produce hollow activated carbon nanofibers capable of rapidly purifying contaminated water by highly efficiently activating peroxymonosulfate used for water purification.

Abstract: Provided are perovskite quantum dots showing an independent photoreaction to light stimulation in different wavelength bands from each other, a method for preparing the perovskite quantum dots, and an anti-counterfeiting ink including the perovskite quantum dots.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of operating a swap memory device configured to communicate with a host device and a main memory device. The method includes receiving, from the host device, a request corresponding to target data, determining, by the swap memory device, a first address of the target data and a second address of a target data block that includes the target data, based on the request, providing, by the swap memory device, the target data to the host device based on the first address, and providing, by the swap memory device, the target data block to the main memory device based on the second address.

Abstract: A temperature sensor includes a first electrode, second electrode, and a pyroelectric layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The pyroelectric layer includes a ferroelectric polymer and an ionogel.

Abstract: A muscular atrophy-inducing agent containing, as an active ingredient, a hypometabolism-inducing substance selected from the group consisting of 3-iodothyronamine (T1AM), [D-Ala2,D-Leu5] enkephalin (DADLE), 5?-adenosine monophosphate (5?-AMP), and hydrogen sulfide (H2S), and a method for preventing or treating muscular hypertrophy; and a method for shrinking facial muscle are proposed. The muscular atrophy study model can provide a study model for an economic muscular atrophy study by using a hypometabolism-inducing substance which can be mass-produced, has an effect which may be usefully used by verification for screening of a drug for preventing or treating muscular atrophy, and can be usefully used as a compositions for preventing or treating muscular hypertrophy and a composition for facial muscle shrinkage through the muscular atrophy effect.

Abstract: Disclosed are a CAM-based weakly supervised object localization device and method. The device includes: a feature map extractor configured to extract a feature map of a last convolutional layer in a convolutional neural network (CNN) in a process of applying an image to the CNN; a weight vector binarization unit configured to first binarize a weight vector of a linear layer in a process of sequentially applying the feature map to a pooling layer that generates a feature vector and the linear layer that generates a class label; a feature map binarization unit configured to second binarize the feature map based on the first binarized weight vector; and a class activation map generation unit configured to generate a class activation map for object localization based on the second binarized feature map.

Abstract: An electronic device may include: a first temperature sensor configured to measure a first temperature of a skin surface when a user comes into contact with a main body of the electronic device; a first heating element spaced apart from the first temperature sensor by a first predetermined distance; a second temperature sensor spaced apart from the first heating element by a second predetermined distance and configured to measure a second temperature inside the main body; and a processor configured to: estimate heat flux based on the first temperature and the second temperature; estimate a blood perfusion rate of the user based on a temperature of the first heating element and the first temperature, and estimate a core body temperature of a user based on the first temperature, the estimated heat flux, and the estimated blood perfusion rate.