Abstract: The present invention relates to a blood pump. The blood pump according to the present invention includes: a housing including an inlet, through which blood flows, at an upper part of the housing and an outlet, through which the blood is discharged, along an edge of the housing; an impeller part, which is rotatable and disposed inside the housing, including a plurality of blades on the surface thereof so as to move the blood flowing in through the inlet toward the outlet by using a centrifugal force; a rotary shaft member disposed to penetrate the center part of the impeller part so as to support the impeller part to be rotatable which moves the blood to the lower part thereof; and a magnetic body disposed on the impeller part for rotating the impeller part in a predetermined direction according to a change in a magnetic field outside the housing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a complex prepared by conjugating indocyanine green to mannosyl serum albumin in order to overcome shortcomings such as low light stability and low in vivo stability of indocyanine green that is a fluorescent dye reagent that is used during surgical operations, a preparation method thereof, an optical imaging probe comprising the same, and a kit comprising the probe.

Abstract: A memory device may include a memory cell array, a bloom-filter circuit, a cache memory circuit, and a selecting circuit. The bloom-filter circuit may be configured to output a determination result signal that indicates that there is a possibility that a received address is one of failed addresses corresponding to failed cells of the memory cell array. The cache memory circuit may be configured to, store the failed addresses and a first set of data corresponding to the respective failed addresses, and configured to, when the determination result signal indicates a possibility, provide a comparison result signal by determining whether received address coincides with one of the failed addresses. The selecting circuit may be configured to output either first data of the first set of data or second data of the memory cell array corresponding to the received address based on determination result signal and comparison result signal.

Abstract: A method for labeling exosomes with a radioactive substance using an amine group on surfaces of the exosomes includes providing a cell-derived exosome, treating a surface of the exosome with N-hydroxysuccinimide-azadibenzocyclooctyne (NHS-ADIBO), and mixing the treated exosome with N3-introduced chelator-radioactive substance to conduct a reaction between the chelator and an amine group present on the surface of the exosome, wherein the radioactive substance is introduced inside the exosome by the above reaction. The exosomes can be stably labeled at high labeling efficiency, and the exosomes can be favorably used as an agent for nuclear medicine imaging and therapeutic imaging for confirming the biological distribution of exosomes and whether the exosomes move to target organs and target diseases in animals including a human being.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a positive electrode active material including at least one selected from among compounds represented by Formula 1 below and a lithium secondary battery including the same that is capable of improving lifetime characteristics and rate characteristics while exhibiting excellent safety: xLi2MyMn(1-y)O3-zAz*(1?x)LiM?O2-z?A?z? (1), where M is at least one element selected from a group consisting of Ru, Mo, Nb, Te, Re, Ir, Pt, Cr, S, W, Os, and Po, M? is at least one element selected from a group consisting of Ni, Ti, Co, Al, Mn, Fe, Mg, B, Cr, Zr, Zn, and second row transition metals, A and A? are each independently a negative monovalent or divalent anion, and 0<x<1, 0.3<y<1, 0?z<0.5, and 0?z?<0.5.

Abstract: An acupressure device includes an acupressure section, a driving part and a control part. The acupressure section is disposed in front of the belly and presses the belly. The driving part is connected to the acupressure section and fixed at a backside of a user and moving the acupressure section toward the belly. The control part is controlled by the user and changing an intensity of a pressure from the acupressure section.

Abstract: Provided is a vertical neuromorphic devices stacked structure comprising a main gate which is formed on a substrate and has a vertical pillar shape, a main gate insulating layer stack formed on outer side surface of the main gate; a semiconductor region formed on outer side surface of the main gate insulating layer stack, a plurality of electrode layers formed on the side surface of the semiconductor region, a plurality of control gates formed on the side surface of the semiconductor region; and a plurality of control gate insulating layer stacks which are surrounding surfaces of the control gates and are formed between the control gate and the semiconductor region, and between the control gate and the electrode layer, and wherein the electrode layers and the control gates surrounded by the control gate insulating layer stack are stacked sequentially and alternately on the side surface of the semiconductor region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel pentadienoyl piperidine derivative, a pharmaceutical composition containing the same for prevention or treatment of metabolic diseases, and a functional food composition using the same for improvement or relief of metabolic diseases. The pentadienoyl piperidine derivative of the present invention inhibits the differentiation of preadipocytes, reduces body weight, visceral fat, blood lipid levels, and blood glucose levels, improves a blood liver function index, and suppresses metabolic inflammation responses. Thus, ultimately, the derivative can be usefully used as a medicine or a functional food composition, which exhibits the preventive or therapeutic activity for metabolic diseases selected from the group consisting of obesity, diabetes, dyslipidemia, fatty liver and insulin resistance syndrome.

Abstract: A cluster system and a communication method in the cluster system are disclosed herein. The cluster system includes one or more nodes. Each of the one or more nodes includes at least one physical computation device and a virtualization module. The virtualization module manages at least one computation device. The each of the one or more nodes operates as a host node based on the virtual computation device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a smart soft composite actuator which enables user-desiring deformation by changing the position of smart material functioning as an active component, wherein the smart soft composite actuator comprises a smart material whose shape is changeable based on an external signal; and a matrix for supporting the smart material and determining an external shape, wherein the smart material is positioned inside the matrix or in a surface of the matrix, and at least one of in-plane shear deformation and out-of-plane deformation is realized by controlling the position of smart material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a water-soluble fluorescent compound of resveratrone 6-O-?-glucoside [(E)-4-(8-hydroxy-6-(((2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yl)oxy)naphthalen-2-yl)but-3-en-2-one] and its derivatives of Formula I which have at least one water-soluble substituent, and a method for preparing the same by a photochemical reaction of resveratrol 3-O-?-glucoside and its derivatives of having Formula 3 which are not fluorescent. Said new water-soluble fluorescent compounds has single-photon absorptive characteristics and/or two-photon absorptive characteristics as well as no or little toxicity, and can be usefully utilized in fields that requires water-soluble fluorescent characteristics (diagnosis, fluorescent probe, in vivo imaging, display, etc.).

Abstract: An electrode for a lithium secondary battery including a silicon-based alloy having an expansion coefficient of 10% or greater and an electrochemically inactive whisker, and a lithium secondary battery using the electrode for a lithium secondary battery.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a modularized patient-specific registration guide and a system using the same and, more specifically, to a modularized patient-specific registration guide capable of rapidly carrying out an initial registration step for a bone, which is a surgical site, and inducing a registration step to be easily performed even during an operation, and a system using the same. The modularized patient-specific registration guide, according to one embodiment of the present invention, is a registration guide manufactured according to a three-dimensional shape of a bone obtained in an imaging device, the registration guide comprising: a first member having one or more markers and one or more extending parts that come in contact with the bone, and having a groove on one side thereof; and a second member accommodated in or separable from the groove of the first member and having one or more markers.

Abstract: A temperature sensing device, temperature sensor using the same and wearable device having the same. In one aspect, the temperature sensing device includes a first layer formed of a temperature sensing material. The resistance of the temperature sensing material is configured to vary in response to changes in temperature. The temperature sensing device further includes a second layer comprising silver nano-particles and a third layer formed of the temperature sensing material. The second layer is interposed between the first and third layers.

Abstract: A field-programmable analog array including an array of a plurality of programmable analog timing circuits, the field-programmable analog array being field-programmable to a plurality of analog or analog-to-digital conversion circuits, such as relaxation oscillators, phase shifters, phase interpolators, pulse width modulators, pseudo exponential digitally controlled oscillators, etc. through programming, without physical re-processing of circuit.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for controlling a fuel cell system, which includes multiple hot boxes including multiple fuel cell stacks, using a reconfigurable network having linear switching complexity, includes: a power conversion system for supplying outputs of normal stacks among the multiple fuel cell stacks to a load; at least one auxiliary power conversion system for supplying an output of at least one deteriorated stack among the multiple stacks to a load; a reconfigurable switch network for connecting in series or in parallel stacks of any hot box to stacks of another hot box; and a control unit for controlling an operation of the reconfigurable switch network by detecting a state of each of the stacks.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for controlling power and an apparatus therefor in a wireless communication system supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication. Specifically, a method for a terminal for controlling the transmission power of a physical sidelink discovery channel (PSDCH) in a wireless communication system supporting D2D communication comprises the steps of: calculating the sum of reception strengths of the total number of PSDCHs received from a set PSDCH reception period; and transmitting the PSDCH, wherein if the sum of reception strengths of the total number of PSDCHs is greater than a previously set threshold value, then the PSDCH to be transmitted is transmitted under the transmission power controlled by the terminal, and if the sum of reception strengths of the total number of PSDCHs is less than a previously set threshold value, then the PSDCH to be transmitted can be transmitted under the maximum transmission power.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a power apparatus including a first motor, a second motor connected with the first motor in parallel, a driver configured to supply driving currents to the first and second motors, a current detector configured to detect the driving current of the first motor and the driving current of the second motor, a speed calculator configured to calculate a rotating speed of the first motor and a rotating speed of the second motor, and a controller configured to control the driver based on the rotating speed of the first motor, wherein the controller controls the driver so that the rotating speed of the first motor and the rotating speed of the second motor are the same as each other, when the rotating speed of the first motor and the rotating speed of the second motor are different from each other.

Abstract: Provided is a client-side ACK regulation based adaptive streaming method including changing a goal download time (GDT) of a video segment and regulating an app buffer level, regulating reading of a receive socket on the basis of a leaky bucket and determining the number of tokens using the changed GDT, and controlling a size of a receive socket buffer on the basis of the determined number of tokens.

Abstract: A system of controlling a vision device based on motion commands may include: a movable body; a vision device driven by being connected to the body and receiving image information; a driving unit driving the body in accordance with a motion command; and a control unit which calculates motion information of the body using the motion command and drives the vision device so as to compensate an influence caused by the motion of the body using the calculated motion information. By using the system, reliable image information may be obtained in a manner such that a vision device included in a subject such as a locomobile robot is controlled to watch a predetermined target even when the subject moves.