Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sleeve gastrectomy aid device including: a guide configured to be inserted into a stomach of a patient; an expander configured to be disposed outside the guide and have a volume that changes according to an amount of air therein; a first measurer configured to measure a pressure applied to the expander and have a shape that changes in accordance with a change in the volume of the expander; and a monitor configured to be connected to the first measurer and provide resection position information through a value of the pressure measured by the first measurer.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an acoustic metamaterial-based muffler for exhaust noise reduction, including an exhaust flow body that is provided with an inlet through which exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine flows in on one side, and an outlet through which the exhaust gas flows out on the other side, and a flow passage for guiding a movement of the exhaust gas therein; and a plurality of noise reduction units that are sequentially disposed along a discharge direction of the exhaust gas inside the exhaust flow body to reduce noise in a specific frequency band in exhaust noise of the exhaust gas caused by the movement of the exhaust gas on the inside of the exhaust flow body.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating an HDR image includes an input image generator that generates a first image and a second image and an HDR image generator that generates a high dynamic range (HDR) in which a dynamic range of an original image is extended from the first image and the second image using a pre-trained model including a first neural network, a second neural network, and a third neural network, in which the first neural network is pre-trained to output a third image, the second neural network is pre-trained to output a fourth image and the third neural network is pre-trained to generate the HDR image based on the third image and the fourth image.

Abstract: There is provided a haptic glove apparatus including a glove-shaped base portion and at least one actuator disposed on the base portion. The at least one actuator includes a driving force applying portion extending in a first direction and expanding or contracting in the first direction, and an elastic support portion disposed to surround the driving force applying portion and expanding or contracting in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction according to the expansion or the contraction of the driving force applying portion.

Abstract: A method of analyzing debt management capability information by a computing device working with a plurality of user equipments (UEs) and operating under the control of at least one processor includes receiving debt repayment information for each round from the plurality of UEs according to a debt assessment scenario set up with a plurality of rounds. The method further includes determining a number of groups into which users of the plurality of UEs are to be grouped, based on the debt repayment information, grouping the users into as many groups as the number of groups created based on the debt repayment information, and deriving characteristics of each of the groups according to debt management capability characteristics of the users.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a target analyte detection composition based on a proximity proteolysis reaction and a target analyte detection method using same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for detecting a target analyte, the method comprising a step in which when a first binder and a second binder bind to the target analyte, hybridization is made between ssDNA linked to the first binder and ssDNA linked to a protease and between ssDNA linked to the second binder and ssDNA linked to a zymogen, whereby a signal generated by a proximity proteolysis reaction between the protease and the zymogen is detected.

Abstract: A method for providing a driving guideline in a moving object may include: triggering a driving guideline provision instruction in the moving object; based on the implemented triggering, generating, by the moving object, a driving guideline; outputting the generated driving guideline; and driving, by the moving object, based on the driving guideline.

Abstract: A method for producing a copper composite structure is disclosed. The method for producing a copper composite structure includes a first step of forming a copper pillar structure; and a second step of annealing the copper pillar structure under a nitrogen atmosphere.

Abstract: A NLRP3-inhibitory compound 7 (NIC7) and a potent derivative NIC7w are disclosed. NLRP3-inhibitory compound 7 (NIC7) and a potent derivative NIC7w are a novel small-molecule inhibitor for inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasomes are identified. These compounds inhibit main elements of the NLRP3 signaling pathway, primarily IL-1? and caspase 1, and improve cognitive behaviors of mice in Alzheimer disease mouse models. Compositions of NIC7 and NIC7w are suitable as a therapeutic agent in treating, preventing, or improving the conditions of Alzheimer's disease.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a polyolefin block copolymer, the method comprising: a first step of coordination polymerization of an olefin monomer with a transition metal catalyst in the presence of organozinc; and a second step of continuously adding a diacyl peroxide compound to perform polymerization, and to a polyolefin block copolymer prepared therefrom.

Abstract: There are disclosed a monitoring system and method for a hydrogen refueling station and a computing device for executing the same. The monitoring system for a hydrogen refueling station according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes an Internet of things (IoT) sensor mounted on each of components of the hydrogen refueling station and configured to generate sensing data by measuring preset monitoring elements and an analysis server configured to obtain the sensing data and monitor a state of the hydrogen refueling station based on the obtained sensing data.

Abstract: A gadget for retroreflected signal measurement is disclosed. The gadget for measuring the retroreflected signal includes a partitioning wall; a portable terminal receiving portion disposed on one surface of the partitioning wall; a biosensor receiving portion disposed on the other surface of the partitioning wall and constructed to receive a biosensor therein; a light exit channel defined in the partitioning wall and at one side thereof; and a light-receiving channel adjacent to the light exit channel and defined in the partitioning wall, wherein light passes through the light exit channel and then is reflected from the biosensor, and then is incident into the light-receiving channel.

Abstract: The electronic device for improving the inference performance of a pre-trained language model according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a processor for sequentially passing input data through a plurality of transformer layers of the pre-trained language model and obtaining output data, wherein the processor calculates a probability distribution for prediction results received from each transformer layer in each of a plurality of middle layers connected to each rear end of the plurality of transformer layers, and measures a confidence level of the prediction results based on an entropy value calculated by using the probability distribution, and wherein when a confidence level less than a predefined value is measured in a predefined number of consecutive middle layers among the plurality of middle layers, the processor outputs a prediction result of the first middle layer as the output data by taking the last first middle layer among the consecutive middle layers as an exit.

Abstract: Ophthalmic therapeutic agents having as pharmaceutically active ingredient a poorly water soluble drug of formula 1 are described. Specifically, an ophthalmic formulation containing an inclusion complex of a poorly soluble drug of formula 1 enclosed in cyclodextrin or a cyclodextrin derivative in an aqueous solution of pH 10 or higher is administered to a patient in need of optic nerve protection.

Abstract: The present embodiment provides an assessment education device and method for a debt management capability, the device and method generate an event that causes psychological confusion in rounds on a debt management assessment scenario and provide education contents when a user who is in a psychologically confused state repays the debt, such that individuals attempting to repay the debt can be induced to make rational decisions in a situation in which various debts are nixed and the debt management capability of individuals can be improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for checking mental health using contents, and may include collecting text data, which is content uploaded to at least one service server providing a social network service, by an electronic apparatus, performing preprocessing by which the electronic apparatus removes obsolete text from the text data and converts the extracted meaningful text to lowercase letters, performing, by the electronic apparatus, labeling of preprocessed meaningful text, performing, by the electronic apparatus, word embedding for the labeled meaningful text, and checking the mental health status of a user who has uploaded the text data by applying the word embedding result to a deep learning algorithm by the electronic apparatus, and it is possible to apply to other exemplary embodiments.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a depth of a tread groove may include: a camera module capturing a video including an upper end portion of a tire while rotating around an upper end portion of the tire having a plurality of tread grooves, the video including a plurality of frames; a control module obtaining, based on the plurality of frames, a cross-sectional width of the tire in units of pixels by adding widths and depths of each of the plurality of tread grooves in units of pixels, a width of an inner block in units of pixels, and a width of an outer block in units of pixels, the inner and outer blocks are disposed on the tire; and a conversion module converting the depth of the tread groove in units of pixels into the depth in units of pixels.

Abstract: A COTL1 gene or protein maintains and regulates the homeostasis of hematopoietic stem cells. A method of diagnosis and treatment of blood-related disease caused either by abnormalities in the homeostasis of hematopoietic stem cells, which result from a mutation in the COTL1 gene or a decrease in the expression of the COTL1 protein, or by an imbalance between the differentiation or proliferation and damage or death of hematopoietic stem cells, or by abnormalities in mitochondrial homeostasis are disclosed. The COTL1 gene or protein plays an important role in regulating mitochondrial morphology, and when it is knocked down, the number of hematopoietic stem cells decreases.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a serum exosomal SF3B4 marker composition for diagnosing early stage hepatocellular carcinoma for noninvasive in vitro diagnosis, wherein, by analyzing an expression level of SF3B4 in plasma proteins as well as expression of SF3B4 in exosomes present in sera of hepatocellular carcinoma patients, the possibility as the most suitable liquid biopsy marker was identified, and a new noninvasive biomarker with high diagnostic accuracy in early stage hepatocellular carcinoma for which no reliable biomarker exists at this present was discovered. As such, by using exosomes to identify cancer cell genomes and proteomes without biopsy, the exosomes are highly applicable in the future as a diagnostic biomarker that is useful in a disease group with a high risk in the biopsy such as hepatocellular carcinoma.

Abstract: A method for producing induced pluripotent stem cells by using CRISPR/Cas system is disclosed. The method includes a step of inserting a reprogramming factor by using a CRSPR/Cas system containing in a safe harbor of somatic cells a delivery means including two guides RNAs and a Cas protein-encoding nucleic acid. The method can prevent mutation in an off-target region and integrate a reprogramming factor into an on-target region safely and specifically, and regulates the reprogramming factor with doxycycline to guarantee consistent expression, whereby induced pluripotent stem cells can be effectively produced. In addition, the induced pluripotent stem cells produced by the method exhibit multipotent markers similar to those of human embryonic stem cells and can differentiate into derivatives of all the three germ layers.