Abstract: This application discloses a method for operating virtual characters within a virtual environment performed by a computer device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a secondary battery. The secondary battery may include an electrode assembly including a plurality of positive electrode plates with each plate having a positive electrode tab, a plurality of negative electrode plates with each plate having a negative electrode tab, and a plurality of separators with each separator interposed between a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate, a case accommodating the electrode assembly, and a tab welding portion comprising welded overlapping positive electrode tabs and welded overlapping negative electrode tabs. A length of the tab welding portion in an extension direction of the positive electrode tab or the negative electrode tab may be constant or different across a thickness direction of the positive electrode tab or the negative electrode tab.

Abstract: An electronic device including a memory device with improved reliability is provided. The semiconductor device comprises a data pin configured to transmit a data signal, a command/address pin configured to transmit a command and an address, a command/address receiver connected to the command/address pin, and a computing unit connected to the command/address receiver, wherein the command/address receiver receives a first command and a first address from the outside through the command/address pin and generates a first instruction on the basis of the first command and the first address, and the computing unit receives the first instruction and performs computation based on the first instruction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a food composition for relieving stress, and specifically, to a food composition for relieving stress, which reduces secretion of the stress hormone cortisol and increases secretion of the happy hormone serotonin by containing fermented and aged noni and calamansi as active ingredients, has no side effects, and is safe for the human body. The composition of the present invention may be used as a health functional food or a pharmaceutical composition. The composition of the present invention has an excellent anti-stress effect.

Abstract: A sound-generating apparatus and a vehicle including the same are provided. A sound-generating apparatus includes: a plurality of first portions at a vibration region including a bendable region and a peripheral portion connected to the bendable region; and a plurality of second portions between the plurality of first portions, wherein two or more second portions at the bendable region among the plurality of second portions have a cross-sectional shape that differs from a cross-sectional shape of another second portion disposed at the peripheral portion among the plurality of second portions.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area including a plurality of pixels, a peripheral area around the display area, and a bending area disposed in the peripheral area. A plurality of transistors is disposed in each pixel; a driving voltage line is disposed in the display area and transmits a driving voltage; a driving voltage transmission line is disposed in the peripheral area and is connected to the driving voltage line; and a conductive overlap layer overlaps at least one of the plurality of transistors.

Abstract: Display panel and display apparatus including the same. A display panel includes a first substrate including a display portion configured to display an image, a second substrate attached to the first substrate by an adhesive member, and a vibration generating module within the adhesive member to overlap the display portion. The vibration generating module is surrounded by the second substrate and the adhesive member.

Abstract: A method for determining an action of a bot automatically playing a champion within a battlefield of League of Legends (LoL), and a computing system for performing same. The computing system comprising: an acquisition module for periodically acquiring observation data observable in the computer game at each predetermined observation unit time while a game is in progress in a battlefield of the computer game; an agent module for, when the acquisition module acquires observation data, determining an action that the bot is to execute, by using the acquired observation data and a predetermined policy network, wherein the policy network is a deep neural network that outputs a probability of each of multiple executable actions that the bot is able to execute; and a learning module for periodically learning the policy network at each predetermined learning unit time while a game is in progress in the battlefield.

Abstract: A venting device inserted into a sealing part of a pouch of a secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a housing inserted between confronting surfaces of the sealing part so as to be sealed together with the sealing part, the housing being made from a metal plate; a gasket made of a polymer and disposed in the housing and through which a passage is defined providing gas communication between an inside and an outside of the pouch; and a plate spring made of a metal, the plate spring being disposed in the housing and assembled with the gasket, the plate spring being configured to open and close the passage in response to a change in an internal pressure of the pouch, wherein the housing includes a crimping part crimped together with the gasket on an upper end of the housing.

Abstract: A vibration apparatus comprises a lower vibration structure, an upper vibration structure on the lower vibration structure, and an adhesive member between the lower vibration structure and the upper vibration structure. The lower vibration structure and the upper vibration structure are configured to generate sound waves having different frequencies.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display includes a first thin film transistor of which a channel is formed in a polycrystalline transistor, a second thin film transistor of which a channel is formed in an oxide semiconductor layer, an organic light emitting diode electrically connected to the first thin film transistor, a storage capacitor having a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the second electrode of the storage capacitor is electrically connected to a gate electrode of the first thin film transistor, and an overlapping layer overlapping the oxide semiconductor layer in a plan view and receiving a positive voltage. The oxide semiconductor layer is positioned higher than the gate electrode of the first thin film transistor and the second electrode of the storage capacitor.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image and a vibration generating device configured to vibrate the display panel. The vibration generating device includes a plurality of first portions having a piezoelectric characteristic, and a plurality of second portions disposed between the plurality of first portions to have flexibility.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing marine algae-derived agarotriose, and a use thereof as a prebiotic. More specifically, the present invention investigates the characteristics of agarotriose as a prebiotic which is selectively metabolized by probiotic microorganisms, thereby enabling agarotriose to be used as an anti-cancer or anti-inflammatory agent in the fields of food and pharmaceuticals, and enabling agarotriose to be obtained at high yield through efficient purification with minimal loss after enzymatic hydrolysis of a red algae-derived polysaccharide without pre-treatment.

Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods for the fermentative production of 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BDO), compositions and methods for making methyl ethyl ketone (MEK), and methods of inducing drought tolerance in plants.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for producing inorganic powder, and a method of producing inorganic powder by using such. The apparatus includes a vaporization part where a condensed-phase precursor is vaporized to obtain a gas-phase precursor, a partial precipitation part where the gas-phase precursor obtained in the vaporization part is partially precipitated to a condensed phase, and a reaction part where the gas-phase precursor remaining after being partially precipitated to a condensed phase in the partial precipitation part reacts with a reaction gas to obtain inorganic powder. An equilibrium vapor pressure of the gas-phase precursor in the partial precipitation part is lower than a vapor pressure of the gas-phase precursor obtained in the vaporization part, and an equilibrium vapor pressure of the precursor in the reaction part is equal to or higher than a vapor pressure of the gas-phase precursor partially precipitated to a condensed phase in the partial precipitation part.

Abstract: A display may include flexible substrate, a blocking layer on the flexible substrate, a pixel on the flexible substrate and the blocking layer, and a scan line, a data line, a driving voltage line, and an initialization voltage line connected to the pixel. The pixel may include an organic light emitting diode, a switching transistor connected to the scan line, and a driving transistor to apply a current to the organic light emitting diode. The blocking layer is in an area that overlaps the switching transistor on a plane, and between the switching transistor and the flexible substrate, and receives a voltage through a contact hole that exposes the blocking layer.

Abstract: A composite piezoelectric element and an electronic device having the same are disclosed, in which the composite piezoelectric element includes insulating films and piezoelectric bodies, which are alternately arranged, wherein the piezoelectric bodies may be categorized into general piezoelectric bodies used as at least one of a haptic actuator, a speaker actuator and a receiver actuator, and a finger scan recognition piezoelectric body for finger scan recognition.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a multi-level device which has a ternary characteristic and can reduce hysteresis, and a method of manufacturing the same. The multi-level device can have a plurality of turn-on voltages, that is, a plurality of threshold voltages, thereby providing multi-level conductivity as a ternary device characteristic. In addition, a double insulating layer made of a dielectric layer and an organic polymer layer is used as a separation layer for channel layer separation, and by removing the hysteresis due to a trap charge at an interface between a channel layer and an insulating layer, a uniform ternary characteristic can always be maintained, and by forming the channel layer on an organic polymer layer, the channel layer can be more stably formed on the insulating layer.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a substrate; a first buffer layer on the substrate; a first semiconductor layer on the first buffer layer; a first gate insulating layer on the first semiconductor layer; a first gate electrode and a blocking layer on the first gate insulating layer; a second buffer layer on the first gate electrode; a second semiconductor layer on the second buffer layer; a second gate insulating layer on the second semiconductor layer; and a second gate electrode on the second gate insulating layer.

Abstract: A sound-generating apparatus and a vehicle including the same are provided. A sound-generating apparatus includes: a plurality of first portions at each of first to third regions, and a plurality of second portions between the plurality of first portions, at each of the first to third regions, wherein two or more second portions, at any one region, among the first to third regions, have a cross-sectional shape that differs from a cross-sectional shape of a second portion disposed at each of the other regions, among the first to third regions.