Abstract: Disclosed are a method of preparing an ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer comprising hydrolyzing an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer in the presence of a catalyst in a solvent containing alcohol and water to prepare a reaction product containing an ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer, and a system for preparing an ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer.

Abstract: An acrylic elastomer copolymer comprising a copolymerizable antioxidant represented by the general formula: (R1: a C1-20 aliphatic hydrocarbon group, a C7-20 aralkyl group, or a C2-20 acyl group, R2: a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, A: a direct bond or a divalent organic group, B: a direct bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a sulfoxide group, or a sulfone group, and x: 0 or 1), an alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer and/or an alkoxyalkyl (meth)acrylate monomer, and a crosslinking site monomer. The acrylic elastomer copolymer is stabilized against thermal oxidative deterioration.

Abstract: A robot and a controlling method thereof are provided. The robot includes: a driver; first and second communication interfaces; a memory storing instructions; and a processors configured to execute the instructions and cause the robot to: based on receiving an instruction to move to a second floor from a first floor, control the robot to board an elevator, based on identifying that the elevator is stopped, obtain through the first communication interface Wi-Fi device identification information, identify whether a floor on which the elevator is stopped is the second floor based on the Wi-Fi device identification information, based on identifying that the elevator is stopped on the second floor, identify whether the elevator door is open based on a RSSI value of a signal received through the second communication interface, and based on identifying that the elevator door is open, control the robot to get off the elevator.

Abstract: The present application relates to a targeting device for developing a securement of a prosthesis with a bone securement element on a bone, comprising holding means for positioning the prosthesis in a first axis, a mounting-guide receptacle forming a guide opening which is oriented along a second axis and penetrates the targeting device and is developed to receive a protective sleeve, and arresting means which comprises the at least one elastically deflectable finger which can be axially and/or radially deflected with respect to the second axis, and wherein the first axis and the second axis intersect, wherein the at least one finger projects into the guide opening.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a base body including a plurality of voids, a protective material covering a part or a whole of an outer surface of the base body, and an external electrode covering a part of an outer surface of the protective material. The protective material is glass containing a silane compound having a carbon chain with 3 or more carbon atoms. The protective material includes a filling portion occupying at least some of the voids, and a film portion covering the outer surface of the base body.

Abstract: The embodiment relates to a ceramic substrate for a heat dissipation substrate, a heat dissipation substrate for a power semiconductor module, a power semiconductor module including the same, a power converter including the same, and a method of manufacturing the same. The method of manufacturing a heat dissipation substrate for a power semiconductor module includes preparing an insulating substrate, preparing first and second metal plates, stacking the first metal plates, stacking the insulating substrate on the first metal plate, stacking a second metal plate on the insulating substrate and performing a hot press process on the stacked first metal plate, the insulating substrate, and the second metal plate. And A first thickness of the first metal plate may be different from a second thickness of the second metal plate.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a serial connection structure of a battery cell, and more particularly, to a serial connection structure of a battery cell applied to a device that serially connects a plurality of pouch-type battery cells to perform charging and discharging, thereby dramatically shortening a cable length by simplifying a cable structure for serially connecting each battery cell and minimizing loss and cost caused by the cable.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing method executed by an information processing device including a memory in which a program is stored and at least one processor that executes the program, the method including specifying, by the processor, a characteristic of a voice that induces a change in a state value based on correspondence information in which the change in the state value before and after each transmission timing of multiple voices transmitted to a target person in action is associated with a characteristic of each of the multiple voices, the state value representing an action state of the target person.

Abstract: A silicone-containing polymer material containing an internal wetting agent and being excellent in transparency, the silicone-containing polymer material being improved in antifouling property against lipids. The polymer material of the present invention is a polymer material, which is obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable mixture containing monomer components (a) and a hydrophilic polymer component (b), wherein the monomer components (a) include a silicone-containing monomer (a-1) having a siloxane bond and being free of any hydroxyl group, and a compatibilizing monomer (a-2) having a hydrogen bonding proton-containing group and being free of any silicon atom, and wherein the compatibilizing monomer has four or more carbon atoms, excluding carbon atoms contained in a polymerizable functional group, and has a solubility of less than 0.03 g/mL in water at 25° C.

Abstract: A polishing composition for a semiconductor process includes abrasive particles, a polyoxyalkylene-based surfactant, and a skew inhibitor of Formula 1 below. The polyoxyalkylene-based surfactant has a hydrophile-lipophile balance (HLB) value of 13 or higher. In Formula 1 above, R1 is H, a methyl group or an ethyl group, and R2, R3, and R4 are each independently a methyl or ethyl group. When the polishing composition having these characteristics is applied to the polishing of a substrate comprising two or more layers, the polishing composition can provide a smoother polished surface while maintaining a certain level of polishing speed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heterojunction solar cell, a manufacturing method thereof and a photovoltaic module. The heterojunction solar cell includes a substrate of a first conductivity type, a tunnel layer located on a light-receiving surface of the substrate, and a doped polysilicon layer located on a top surface of the tunnel layer. The doped polysilicon layer has the first conductivity type.

Abstract: Provided is a system or method configured to present reactions exhibited by participants in an online event to users such that individual participants are not identified, thereby preventing the participants from being conscious that their reactions are being sensed, and thus enabling them to naturally exhibit their reactions, which allows the users to acquire information on the participants' naturally-exhibited reactions. The system includes a user terminal provided with a camera; and an analysis server configured to acquire camera images of each participant from the terminal device, and perform a reaction sensing operation to sense reactions exhibited by the each participant based on the camera images. The analysis server aggregates results of the reaction sensing operation for all the participants to thereby generate reaction information on the all the participant's reactions (e.g., level information and proportion information), and generates display information that visualizes the reaction information.

Abstract: A state estimation method includes: capturing a thermal image of at least one imaging target, each of which is a person or an animal, using a thermal imaging camera; obtaining identification information for identifying the at least one imaging target in the thermal image captured in the capturing; and estimating a state of each of at least one estimation target included among the at least one imaging target, based on the thermal image captured in the capturing and the identification information obtained in the obtaining.

Abstract: A display panel has functional component regions arranged along a first direction and a display region at least partially surrounding the functional component regions. The functional component regions include a first functional component region and a second functional component region that are arranged along a first direction. The display region located therebetween is provided with sub-pixels. The display panel includes first signal lines located in the display region. One of the first signal lines has a least one part extending in the first direction, and the first signal lines are arranged in a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The first signal lines include a first-type signal line and a second-type signal line, and the first-type signal line at least partially surrounds the functional component regions. In the first direction, at least one second-type signal line is broken at two sides of one of the functional component region.

Abstract: An AI image diagnosis apparatus into which three-dimensional tooth image data captured by a dental OCT device is inputted and which analyzes the inputted three-dimensional tooth image data, comprising: a model executor that sequentially inputs two-dimensional tomographic image data constituting the diagnostic target three-dimensional tooth image data into a trained model, to thereby obtain, as an execution processing result of the trained model, lesion information data, which is data related to a part identified as a characteristic part such as a lesion in the inputted tomographic image data, for each piece of tomographic image data in the three-dimensional tooth image data, and detect lesions from the inputted three-dimensional tooth image data using the obtained lesion information data, wherein the trained model is constructed by training of three-dimensional tooth image data of multiple examinees captured by a dental OCT device in the past.

Abstract: A power semiconductor module having a substrate, with a power semiconductor component, a connecting device, external terminal elements, a potting body and a pressure device, wherein the substrate has an insulant body and substrate conductor tracks, and the power semiconductor component is on a substrate conductor track, the connecting device is embodied as a film stack having a first electrically conductive film, a second electrically conductive film and an electrically insulating film arranged therebetween, wherein the external terminal elements each have a contact device for a substrate conductor track. The potting body completely covers the entire connecting device, envelops the substrate, and the external terminal elements apart from contact portions, and the pressure device exerts pressure on the potting body directly with a spring.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and an IoT system for smart control of a collection terminal. The method includes: receiving gas data and environmental monitoring data; in response to at least one of the gas data or the environmental monitoring data does not meeting a first preset condition, generating a first adjustment parameter; sending the first adjustment parameter to one or more first associated gas pipeline network data collection terminals; predicting future environmental change data at a future time point for an environment in which the gas pipeline network data collection terminal is located; in response to determining that the future environmental change data does not meet a second preset condition, determining a gas pipeline network data collection terminal to be adjusted; generating a second adjustment parameter; and sending the second adjustment parameter to the gas pipeline network data collection terminal to be adjusted.

Abstract: An image transmission method performed by instructions in an image transmission device including a processor and a memory storing the instructions executable by the processor includes, receiving a video, recognizing an object from the received video, generating metadata of the recognized object, calculating a score of the recognized object using the generated metadata; selecting the recognized object as a main object when the score exceeds a reference value, transmitting the metadata on the selected main object, and transmitting one of an image frame including the main object in the video and a best shot cropped from the image frame.

Abstract: This application provides a method and an apparatus for processing sidelink transmission in an unlicensed band, and a related device. The method includes: obtaining, by a first terminal, first information; and determining, by the first terminal, whether to perform a first behavior or whether a first behavior needs to be performed. The first information includes at least one of first preset information or second preset information. The first behavior includes at least one of: monitoring a first resource object according to the first information or using the first resource object according to the first information. When a first preset condition is met, the first terminal determines to perform the first behavior or that the first behavior needs to be performed.

Abstract: A steering gear for a surgical instrument includes two motorized drives designed to spatially align a wobble plate via the adjustment angle of the two drives, which is designed to control a distal angling mechanism of the surgical instrument. A first of the two drives has a first motor, which drives a drive pinion via a driveshaft, which engages with a lateral toothing of a first toothed rack, driving a first transmission pinion of a first double gear. A second of the two drives has a second motor driving a drive pinion via a driveshaft, which engages with a lateral toothing of a second toothed rack and drives a second transmission pinion of a second double gear wheel. The wobble plate is arranged between the two bevel gear rims, which are facing one another and lie on a common axis.