Abstract: Provided are a negative electrode active material including a three-dimensional composite. The three-dimensional composite includes secondary particles containing a silicon carbide-based (SiCx, 0<x?1) nanosheet having a bent portion and amorphous carbon. Also provided are a method of producing the same, and a negative electrode and a lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode active material.

Abstract: A method for coding image information includes generating prediction information by predicting information on a current coding unit, and determining whether the information on the current coding unit is the same as the prediction information. When the information on the current coding unit is the same as the prediction information, a flag indicating that the information on the current coding unit is the same as the prediction information is coded and transmitted. When the information on the current coding unit is not the same as the prediction information, a flag indicating that the information on the current coding unit is not the same as the prediction information and the information on the current coding unit are coded and transmitted.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an image decoding method, the method including generating a candidate list including motion information derived from a spatial neighboring block and a temporal neighboring block adjacent to a current block; deriving motion information of the current block using the candidate list; generating a prediction block of the current block using the derived motion information; and updating the derived motion information in a motion information list, wherein the generating of the candidate list is performed in such a manner as to include at least one information of the motion information included in the updated motion information list in a block decoded before the current block.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical filter having a narrow bandpass, high transmittance in the bandpass, low transmittance outside the bandpass, little change in optical properties even when the incident angle of light changes and thus, being advantageous in terms of yield and cost per hour. In addition, the present invention may provide a LiDAR system including the optical filter and an application of the optical filter and the LiDAR system.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of integrally optimizing different types of parameters that require setting during a machine learning process. The disclosed method of integrally optimizing the parameters includes performing training on a machine learning model by selecting sensor parameters and machine learning model hyperparameters until a predetermined termination condition is satisfied; and determining, among the selected sensor parameters and machine learning model hyperparameters, an optimized sensor parameter and optimized machine learning model hyperparameter that minimize a loss value for the machine learning model, wherein the performing of the training on the machine learning model includes selecting the sensor parameters and machine learning model hyperparameters that satisfy a predetermined optimization range, and performing training on the machine learning model based on sensor data provided from a sensor by the selected sensor parameters and the machine learning model hyperparameters.

Abstract: An infusion flow regulator includes: a main body having an inlet through which fluid is introduced and an outlet through which the fluid is discharged; and a rotary dial rotatably coupled to the main body, with a sealing member interposed therebetween, so as to regulate a flow rate of the fluid, in which the rotary dial includes a regulating flow path having a shape of a recessed groove in cross section with a first width and a first height, and the regulating flow path includes a first region in which the first width is constant and the first height is decreased, and a second region in which both the first width and the first height are decreased. By the aforementioned configuration, the infusion flow regulator for the fluid can accurately regulate the flow rate even in a region where the flow rate of the fluid is very small.

Abstract: A pump assembly includes: a cylinder open on top and bottom thereof and having a hollow portion formed therein and a first wing protruding outward from the outer peripheral surface of top thereof; a sealing part having at least a portion thereof inserted into the cylinder to at least partly seal the upper peripheral surface of the cylinder and a second wing protruding outward from the outer peripheral surface of the top thereof; a stem moving downward by means of an external force to vary internal pressure of the cylinder; an elastic member disposed between the stem and the sealing part to apply an elastic force to the stem from the sealing part; and a housing coupled to the cylinder in such a way to surround the outer peripheral surface of the upper portion of the cylinder and adapted to detachably couple the pump assembly to a container.

Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including a process chamber and a boat having a support member supporting substrates arranged in a first direction. An inner tube encloses the boat and includes a slit along a side wall. A nozzle supplies a process gas and includes a gas injection port at a position corresponding to the slit. The gas injection port includes a first inlet and first outlet. The slit includes a second inlet and second outlet. A distance to an end of the first inlet from a center line that connects a center of the first inlet and a center of the second outlet is different from the distance from the center line to an end of the first outlet and/or a distance from the center line to an end of the second inlet is different from a distance from the center line to an end of the second outlet.

Abstract: A Merkle tree-based data management method may comprise: aligning data into two-dimensional square matrix; calculating a hash value of each node of the two-dimensional square matrix; calculating hash values of each row of the two-dimensional square matrix; generating an additional column with nodes having the hash values of each row; calculating hash values of each column of the two-dimensional square matrix; generating an additional row with nodes having hash values of each column; and calculating a Merkle root by concatenating the hash values of the additional column and the hash values of the additional row.

Abstract: Disclosed is a plasma generator. The plasma generator may include a gripping portion including at least one interface unit configured to receive an input from a user; a head portion including a plasma generating portion configured to generate the plasma; a first cartridge configured to detachably couple at a first end of the head portion and generate the plasma over a predetermined region; and a light irradiation portion provided at a second end of the head portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a skin care device using plasma. The skin care device may include a first plasma generating device; and a main body configured to supply power to the first plasma generating device and to control the first plasma generating device based on an input from a user.

Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including a process chamber and a boat having a support member supporting substrates arranged in a first direction. An inner tube encloses the boat and includes a slit along a side wall. A nozzle supplies a process gas and includes a gas injection port at a position corresponding to the slit. The gas injection port includes a first inlet and first outlet. The slit includes a second inlet and second outlet. A distance to an end of the first inlet from a center line that connects a center of the first inlet and a center of the second outlet is different from the distance from the center line to an end of the first outlet and/or a distance from the center line to an end of the second inlet is different from a distance from the center line to an end of the second outlet.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method capable of recognizing disease-related factors included in document data and extracting relations between the disease-related factors.

Abstract: A printed board, a screen-printing ink, and a screen-printing method are provided. The printed board comprises a printed pattern and/or printed line which comprises a polymer binder and a fluorine-based surfactant, has excellent thickness uniformity and straightness, has no edge top defect, and is not damaged even when formed on a repeatedly folded substrate.

Abstract: There is provided, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus which reduces loss of a process gas or a precursor transferred from a nozzle to a wafer by improving the injection efficiency of the process gas or the precursor from the nozzle to the substrate. The semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a boat on which a substrate is loaded in a first direction, an inner tube which covers the boat, a nozzle which extends in the first direction and through which a process gas to be provided to the substrate moves, a nozzle tube which surrounds the nozzle and comprises a gas injection hole for injecting the process gas toward the substrate, and a nozzle protrusion which is connected to the gas injection hole and extends in a second direction, wherein a shortest distance from an end of the nozzle protrusion to the substrate is greater than 0 mm and less than 9 mm.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless power transmitting apparatus including a power transmitting coil generating an induced electromotive force on a power receiving coil of a terminal, a magnet casing composed of a first space in a cylinder shape where the power transmitting coil is inserted, and a second space sharing a central axis of the cylinder with the first space, wherein the second space is a space between the first space and a cylinder having a diameter greater than a diameter of the cylinder of the first space, a ring magnet disposed in the second space of the magnet casing in a shape of a ring, wherein the ring magnet has a height smaller than a height of the magnet casing, and is movable in a vertical direction of the magnet casing by external magnetism, and a cover constructed in a direction perpendicular to an axis of the power transmitting coil.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a novel allulose epimerase variant in which an amino acid residue present at a specific position of an amino acid sequence of a wild-type D-allulose 3-epimerase derived from Flavonifractor plautii is substituted with another amino acid residue; and various uses of the novel allulose epimerase variant. The novel allulose epimerase variant according to the present invention has a higher conversion rate of fructose to allulose compared to that of the wild-type D-allulose 3-epimerase derived from Flavonifractor plautii, and has excellent thermal stability especially under high temperature conditions of 60° C. or higher, and thus can prevent contamination during an industrial-scale enzymatic conversion reaction for the mass production of allulose, shorten production time, and reduce production costs.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a novel allulose epimerase variant in which an amino acid residue present at a specific position of an amino acid sequence of a wild-type D-allulose 3-epimerase derived from Flavonifractor plautii is substituted with another amino acid residue; and various uses of the novel allulose epimerase variant. The novel allulose epimerase variant according to the present invention has a higher conversion rate of fructose to allulose compared to that of the wild-type D-allulose 3-epimerase derived from Flavonifractor plautii, and has excellent thermal stability especially under high temperature conditions of 60° C. or higher, and thus can prevent contamination during an industrial-scale enzymatic conversion reaction for the mass production of allulose, shorten production time, and reduce production costs.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless power transmitting apparatus including a power transmitting coil generating an induced electromotive force on a power receiving coil of a terminal, a magnet casing composed of a first space in a cylinder shape where the power transmitting coil is inserted, and a second space sharing a central axis of the cylinder with the first space, wherein the second space is a space between the first space and a cylinder having a diameter greater than a diameter of the cylinder of the first space, a ring magnet disposed in the second space of the magnet casing in a shape of a ring, wherein the ring magnet has a height smaller than a height of the magnet casing, and is movable in a vertical direction of the magnet casing by external magnetism, and a cover constructed in a direction perpendicular to an axis of the power transmitting coil.