Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hydrocracking catalyst for preparing a C6-C9 light aromatic hydrocarbons having an increased BTX content from a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, a method for preparing the same and a method for preparing a C6-C9 light aromatic hydrocarbons having an increased BTX content by using the same. More specifically, an effect of obtaining a C6-C9 light aromatic hydrocarbons having an increased BTX content with a high yield from the byproducts of oil refining and petrochemical processes, which contain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as naphthalene, alkylnaphthalene, etc., can be achieved by using a catalyst in which one or more metal selected from group VIII and one or more metal selected from group VIB are supported on a composite zeolite support of zeolite beta and zeolite ZSM-5.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for preventing and treating endocrine disrupting chemicals-induced diseases and a treating method using the same. Since the composition has an effect of decreasing lipid accumulation caused by endocrine disrupting chemicals, for example, persistent organic pollutants (POPs) including polychlorinated biphenyl and the like and can improve insulin resistance caused by the POPs through reduction of insulin receptor substrate 1 (IR1), the composition can be helpfully used for treating diseases including obesity, insulin resistance, and the like caused by the endocrine disrupting chemicals. Further, according to the present disclosure, the composition has an effect of excreting the endocrine disrupting chemicals.

Abstract: A system for cooling a vehicle including a power conversion component, a motor, a radiator, an electronic water pump, and a cooling unit cooling the power conversion component includes: an air conditioning unit configured to interlock with the cooling unit to perform air conditioning of the vehicle; a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of air in the air conditioning unit; a cooling water temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of cooling water flowing in the cooling unit; and a cooling control controller configured to calculate a targeted air flow rate and a targeted cooling water flow rate to control the cooling of the cooling unit.

Abstract: Provided is a method for preventing or treating skin rash comprising administering to a subject in need thereof epidermal growth factor as an active ingredient. The skin rash includes a skin disorder caused by administering an epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor, such as erlotinib, as an adverse event.

Abstract: The present invention relates to recombinant glycosyl transferase UGT72E3/2 gene having an excellent syringin synthesis ability based on remarkable enzyme specificity for sinapyl alcohol, a method for producing a transgenic plant with increased syringin production based on a metabolic process which uses F5H and CHS genes that are involved with the phenylpropanoid biosynthesis pathway and Myb58 gene as a transcription factor for positive regulation of the gene that is involved with lignin biosynthesis pathway, and a plant obtained by the method. According to the present invention, syringin with various pharmaceutical applications can be effectively produced in a large amount in a plant, and thus it is expected to allow the development of an industry relating to agrobiological materials that are highly valuable as foods or pharmaceuticals.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the anticancer composition containing an effective amount of herbal extract, and more particularly to the anticancer composition containing an effective amount of extract of Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix, Chrysanthemum indicum, Acanthopanax senticosus, Cinnamomum cassia Blume, Eucommia ulmoides Oliv., Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch, Pueraria thunbergiana Benth, Crataegus pinnatifida Bunge, Cassia tora, Carthamus tinctorius L., Paeonia lactiflora Pall, and Angelica gigas Nakai. The anticancer composition containing an effective amount of herbal extract has advantage of minimal or few side effects and cytotoxicity as compared to many existing anticancer drugs having cytotoxicity and side effects.

Abstract: An automotive rain shield system including: an air compressor that injects and sucks air to operate a rain shield; a shield module including a lift tube that operates an X-shaped frame so that the rain shield like a tent expands, by expanding when the air compressor injects air into the lift tube, and a rain shield tube that expands when the air compressor injects air into the rain shield tube so that the rain shield like a tent expands; an external switch that inputs a signal for making the air compressor inject air, outside a vehicle; and a door sensor that senses a door of the vehicle closing so that the air compressor returns the rain shield by sucking the air.

Abstract: A photocharge storage element includes a gate insulator formed on a gate electrode, a channel formed on the gate insulator between a source electrode and a drain electrode, and an organic photoelectric conversion element formed on the channel. The organic photoelectric conversion element generates photocharges in response to light. The channel accumulates the photocharges generated by the organic photoelectric conversion element. The photocharges accumulated in the channel are read out from the channel in response to a voltage between the source electrode and the drain electrode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an immunoregulating agent comprising a peptide, a pharmaceutical composition and a method of preventing or treating immune-related disorder such as sever sepsis or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and the use of peptide for anti-inflammatory agent, an antibacterial agent, or an inhibiting agent of an immune cell apoptosis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oil-pressure type fixed piston sampler for sampling a soil sample for site investigation. The oil-pressure type fixed piston sampler comprises a sampling unit (12) and an oil-pressure controller (14). Here, when the sampling unit (12) inserted into a drilled hole and a movable piston (80) moves downward, a sampling tube (1) moves downward to take a sample. The oil-pressure controller (14) connected with the sampling unit (12) controls oil pressure to cause the movable piston (80) to shift vertically. The sampling unit (12) comprises an upper head (20), a lower head (40), a piston housing (70), a rod block (100), a movable rod (90), a fixed piston (110), a fixed rod (92) and a separation rod (94). Since the sampling tube (1) takes a sample by a piston indentation method, high-quality, undisturbed samples can be obtained.

Abstract: There are provided an apparatus and a method for estimating edge areas of pixels in a digital image to thereby prevent an edge sharpening algorithm from being applied to non-edge area of the digital image. Therefore, the apparatus can accurately determine whether each pixel is in an edge area or in a non-edge area, by generating a binary mask obtained by using a luminance difference average between each pixel and each of neighboring pixels in the digital image. Moreover, the determination of an edge-area or a non-edge area may be applied to various digital images, by adjusting a level of edge-area determination.

Abstract: An apparatus for enhancing the visibility of color images includes: a luminance value cumulative distribution calculator that calculates a cumulative distribution function of the number of pixels from a minimum value of luminance values; a baseband signal determining unit that determines baseband signal pixels having luminance values smaller than a threshold level; a luminance compensation value generator that generates luminance compensation values to apply the lower-level luminance compensation values as the pixels have higher-level luminance values, for the pixels having the luminance values larger than the threshold level; a luminance gain generator that determines a luminance gain applied to the luminance compensation values according to a mean luminance values of the input images and the level of the luminance values of the pixels to which the luminance compensation values are applied; and a luminance value enhancing unit that summing the luminance compensation values including the gain with the luminan

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for constructing a cable-stayed bridge with a tensionless stay cable, including the steps for: constructing a main tower 100, continuously installing a suspension cable 200 over a main span and a side span, installing a plurality of hangers 210 on the suspension cable 200, arranging an anchorage cable 220 in a longitudinal direction by connecting the anchorage cable 220 to a lower end of the hanger 210, installing a stay cable 110 in sequence, constructing a girder by connecting a segment 300 constituting the girder to each of the stay cables 110 in sequence, and connecting the segments 300 one another in a longitudinal direction, and removing the suspension cable 200, the hanger, and the anchorage cable 220.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for improving the sharpness of an image, which may prevent occurrence of distortion of an image in an edge enhancement process of the image by applying an active weight in accordance with a two-dimensional (2D) high pass filtering value of the image. The apparatus may include: a 2D high pass filter outputting a high frequency element value for the luminance values of pixels of an input image; a weight generating unit generating a weight changed depending on a magnitude of the high frequency element value; a weight applying unit applying the weight to the high frequency element value; and an edge enhancement image generating unit adding, to the luminance values of the pixels of the input image, the high frequency element value to which the weight is applied to thereby output an image of which an edge is enhanced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for constructing a cable-stayed bridge with a tensionless stay cable, including the steps for: constructing a main tower 100, continuously installing a suspension cable 200 over a main span and a side span, installing a plurality of hangers 210 on the suspension cable 200, arranging an anchorage cable 220 in a longitudinal direction by connecting the anchorage cable 220 to a lower end of the hanger 210, installing a stay cable 110 in sequence, constructing a girder by connecting a segment 300 constituting the girder to each of the stay cables 110 in sequence, and connecting the segments 300 one another in a longitudinal direction, and removing the suspension cable 200, the hanger, and the anchorage cable 220.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel iridium complex into which carbazole-substituted pyridine derivatives and various substituents-substituted phenyl derivatives are introduced as main ligand and a electrophosphorescence diode containing the same as a dopant of a light-emitting layer. When the iridium complex according to the present invention is applied to an organic light-emitting diode, the heat-resistance property and the light-emitting property can be significantly improved as well as the light-emitting efficiency and the like can be significantly improved by doping the iridium complex compound into the light-emitting layer as compared to the conventional organic light-emitting diode.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for improving the sharpness of an image, which may prevent occurrence of distortion of an image in an edge enhancement process of the image by applying an active weight in accordance with a two-dimensional (2D) high pass filtering value of the image. The apparatus may include: a 2D high pass filter outputting a high frequency element value for the luminance values of pixels of an input image; a weight generating unit generating a weight changed depending on a magnitude of the high frequency element value; a weight applying unit applying the weight to the high frequency element value; and an edge enhancement image generating unit adding, to the luminance values of the pixels of the input image, the high frequency element value to which the weight is applied to thereby output an image of which an edge is enhanced.

Abstract: There are provided an apparatus and a method for estimating edge areas of pixels in a digital image to thereby prevent an edge sharpening algorithm from being applied to non-edge area of the digital image. Therefore, the apparatus can accurately determine whether each pixel is in an edge area or in a non-edge area, by generating a binary mask obtained by using a luminance difference average between each pixel and each of neighboring pixels in the digital image. Moreover, the determination of an edge-area or a non-edge area may be applied to various digital images, by adjusting a level of edge-area determination.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the anticancer composition containing an effective amount of herbal extract, and more particularly to the anticancer composition containing an effective amount of extract of Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix, Chrysanthemum indicum, Acanthopanax senticosus, Cinnamomum cassia Blume, Eucommia ulmoides Oliv., Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch, Pueraria thunbergiana Benth, Crataegus pinnatifida Bunge, Cassia tora, Carthamus tinctorius L., Paeonia lactiflora Pall, and Angelica gigas Nakai. The anticancer composition containing an effective amount of herbal extract has advantage of minimal or few side effects and cytotoxicity as compared to many existing anticancer drugs having cytotoxicity and side effects.

Abstract: A wireless wake-up system and an operation method thereof are provided to optimize power consumption when wireless data is received. The wireless wake-up system activates a wake-up detection module and then compares a wireless input signal received through an antenna with a pre-stored reference value. If the wireless input signal is equal to the reference value, the wireless wake-up system determines that the input signal is a wake-up signal with a low bit rate, and then generates a wake-up command corresponding to the wake-up signal. Also, the wireless wake-up system activates a selected module kept in an inactive state by sending the wake-up command to the selected module. The activated module may be a microcontroller unit (MCU). When the MCU is activated, the wireless wake-up system may inactivate the wake-up detection module.