Abstract: Conditions necessary for antibodies to human PD-1 to have agonist activity are searched and an optimized agonist antibody is provided based on the conditions and used as a therapeutic for human inflammatory diseases. An agonist antibody to human PD-1 or a functional fragment thereof, wherein the antibody or a functional fragment thereof binds to domain #7 of human PD-1 as shown in SEQ ID NO: 9 is provided.

Abstract: A material comprising an electron-accepting unit of formula (I).

Abstract: A processor-implemented method including merging a first super-sampled image frame, having been generated at a first time point, with a second input image frame corresponding to a super-sampling target for a second time point to generate a merged image and generating a second super-sampled image frame by performing a super-sampling operation at the second time point that includes increasing a bit-precision of a result of an executing, by the processor, of a super-sampling neural network model provided a decreased bit precision of the merged image.

Abstract: A communication method is provided. The method includes determining a first message frame in any link of a plurality of links and transmitting the first message frame. The first message frame includes information indicating at least one traffic identifier TID.

Abstract: Provided are a resist composition and a method of forming a pattern using the same, wherein the resist composition may include an organometallic compound represented by Formula 1 below, and a polymer including a repeating unit represented by Formula 2 below. For a description of M11, R11, R12, n, A21, L21 to L23, A21 to a23, R21 to R22, b22, and p in Formula 1 and Formula 2, the specification is referred to.

Abstract: A problem is to provide a formed adsorber having excellent adsorption and desorption performance for fuel vapor (in particular, n-butane) of a wide concentration range from a low concentration to a high concentration. A formed product including activated carbon fiber, granular activated carbon, and a binder is prepared. A weight ratio of the activated carbon fiber to the granular activated carbon is 5 to 95 parts by weight of the activated carbon fiber to 95 to 5 parts by weight of the granular activated carbon, in a total weight of the activated carbon fiber and the granular activated carbon, a content ratio of the binder in the formed adsorber is 0.3 to 20 parts by weight of the binder to 100 parts by weight of the activated carbon fiber and the granular activated carbon, the granular activated carbon has a total pore volume ranging from 0.90 to 2.50 cm3/g, and the activated carbon fiber has a total pore volume ranging from 0.50 to 1.20 cm3/g.

Abstract: A component of an electrochemical cell, the component including a metal substrate and a layer system that is at least partially electroplated onto the metal substrate; the layer system optionally includes a first layer disposed on the metal substrate, and includes at least one second layer that is disposed on the metal substrate or, if applicable, on the first layer, the optional first layer being made of copper or nickel, and the at least one second layer being made of an alloy including at least two of the elements tin, copper, nickel, silver, zinc, bismuth, antimony, cobalt, manganese, tungsten, nonmetal particles having electrically conductive particles being incorporated into the alloy. The component forms in particular an electrode for a redox flow cell or a flow field plate for a fuel cell or an electrolyser.

Abstract: A battery pack is mounted on a vehicle. The battery pack has a battery module including battery cells laminated in a first direction of a horizontal direction, and a load-bearing member extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction of the horizontal direction, and a battery case accommodating the battery module. The battery case includes a base plate, a frame member joined to an outer edge of the base plate and forming an outer frame of the battery case, a first fixing portion provided on the frame member at a position overlapped with the load-bearing member when viewed from the second direction and fixing a first part of the battery module to the frame member, and a second fixing portion provided on the frame member at a position different from the overlapped position and fixing a second part of the battery module to the frame member.

Abstract: A decoding device configured to decode video data, the device including a motion compensation predictor configured to generate a prediction block of a current prediction unit using a reference index and a motion vector of the current prediction unit; an entropy decoder configured to entropy decode a bitstream to generate a quantized coefficient sequence; an inverse quantizer/inverse transformer configured to generate a quantized block using the quantized coefficient sequence and inversely quantize the quantized block to generate a transformed block using a quantization parameter, and inversely transform the transformed block to generate a residual block, wherein the inverse quantizer/inverse transformer generates the quantization block by selecting two effective quantization parameters that are available and exist among left, upper, and previous quantization parameters according to an order of priority levels set for the left, upper, and previous quantization parameters and by using an average of the two effe

Abstract: A synchronization method, a synchronization device and a terminal are provided, and relate to the field of Internet of Vehicles technology. The synchronization method is used for a first terminal, and includes: receiving, by the first terminal, first synchronization signaling transmitted by at least one second terminal in the case that the first terminal is in a first synchronization state; and performing, by the first terminal, a synchronization operation in accordance with the first synchronization signaling, and the first terminal switching to a second synchronization state.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for data correction. The method is applied to a medical scanning device including a ray emitting device and a detector. The detector may include a plurality of detector pixel units. The method for data correction may include obtaining spatial positions of the plurality of detector pixel units; determining cosine correction data based on the spatial positions of the plurality of detector pixel units and a spatial position of a focal point of the ray emitting device; determining response data to be corrected of the detector; determining target data by correcting the response data to be corrected using the cosine correction data; determining one or more correction coefficients corresponding to the plurality of detector pixel units based on the target data; and correcting response data of a subject to be detected based on the one or more correction coefficients.

Abstract: A piping apparatus is provided, which comprises a strainer comprising a strainer housing including a strainer branch; wherein the strainer housing includes one or more pressure sensors; wherein, when a strainer element is in the strainer branch, at least one pressure sensor of the plurality of pressure sensors is fixed to the strainer housing at a location upstream of the strainer element and/or is fixed to the strainer housing at a location downstream of the strainer element.

Abstract: The disclosure includes: a first transistor, supplying a first power voltage to the output terminal when becoming ON according to a voltage of the input signal received by a gate; a second transistor, supplying a second power voltage to the output terminal in a case of becoming ON in accordance with the voltage of the input signal received by a gate; and an output control part, transitioning to ON by changing a voltage of the gate of the transistor in OFF between the first and second transistors at a change speed based on a current value of a bias current generated by a bias part when the voltage of the input signal changes. According to a voltage change of the input signal, the bias part sets a bias current value to a first value throughout a predetermined period, and switches to a second, lower value in other periods.

Abstract: An electronic package is formed by disposing an electronic element and a lead frame having a plurality of conductive posts on a carrier structure having an antenna function, and encapsulating the electronic element and the lead frame with an encapsulant. The encapsulant is defined with a first encapsulating portion and a second encapsulating portion lower than the first encapsulating portion. The electronic element is positioned in the first encapsulating portion, and the plurality of conductive posts are positioned in the second encapsulating portion. End surfaces of the plurality of conductive posts are exposed from a surface of the second encapsulating portion so as to be electrically connected to a connector.

Abstract: A pad includes a terminal portion having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a curved concave portion formed in one of the first surface and the second surface, wherein the curved concave portion is configured to clad a portion of a connecting conductor.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a square battery and a welding method. The square battery includes: a cover plate provided with a pole; and a core provided with a tab, where the tab is directly connected to the pole by laser welding, so that construction of an energy transmission path of the battery is realized, and a charging and discharging function of the core is realized. Additionally, since the tab of the core of the square battery is directly connected to the cover plate of the square battery, an auxiliary welding sheet and a connection sheet are removed, thereby improving the internal space utilization rate and the mass specific energy of the square battery.

Abstract: Provided is an operation method of a user equipment performing narrowband Internet of Things-based communication, the operation method including determining a delayed distance based on at least one of a channel characteristic and a channel estimation technique-related coefficient, estimating, based on a time axis, a channel of a target subframe using reference signals of subframes from a start subframe prior to the target subframe to an end subframe corresponding to a determined delayed distance after the target subframe, and decoding the target subframe based on the estimated channel.

Abstract: Provided are a thinner composition, which may be generally used for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photoresist as well as KrF and ArF photoresists and exhibits improved performance in reduced resist coating (RRC) and edge bead removal (EBR), and which has an excellent pipe cleaning capability, and a method of treating a substrate surface by using the thinner composition. The thinner composition includes a C2-C4 alkylene glycol C1-C4 alkyl ether acetate, a C2-C3 alkylene glycol C1-C4 alkyl ether, and a cycloketone.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a target layer on a substrate, forming a mask pattern on the substrate including the target layer, and etching the target layer using the mask pattern as an etching mask to form a resulting pattern, wherein the mask pattern includes a first mask layer including an amorphous metal oxide, an amorphous insulating material including an amorphous metal oxide or no metal, and an upper mask layer and a lower mask layer covering upper and lower surfaces of the first mask layer, respectively.

Abstract: A lubricating oil composition that is hard to increase in viscosity in the low temperature range and is easy to increase in viscosity in the high temperature range. The lubricating oil composition contains a base oil and a viscosity index improver. The base oil contains a mineral oil and an oxygen-containing synthetic oil. The viscosity index improver contains a comb-shaped polymer. The lubricating oil composition has a kinematic viscosity of 100° C. of 9.3 mm2/s or less, a viscosity index of 280 or more, and a content Y (% by mass) of the oxygen-containing synthetic oil based on the total amount of the lubricating oil composition satisfying the following expression (1): ??Y<?3.7 ln(X)+? (1), where ?=0.5, ?=19, and X represents a ratio of the number of carbon atoms and the number of oxygen atoms per one molecule of the oxygen-containing synthetic oil.