Abstract: An elasticity measuring system determines tissue displacement between a pre-deformation and post-deformation image by a matching process using a cost function accepting as its arguments continuity of the tissue motion and correlation of the tissue in making the block matching. The invention allows the selection among different cost functions for different imaging situations or tissue types, to provide improved displacement calculations using a priori knowledge about the tissue and structure of tissue interfaces or information derived during the scanning process.

Abstract: Provided is a memory mapping method, and particularly provided is a nonvolatile main memory mapping method for managing a nonvolatile main memory. The nonvolatile memory mapping method includes: performing a system call in order to access a file page that is required to operate a process stored in a kernel area of a nonvolatile main memory, wherein both the file page and process are stored in the kernel area of the nonvolatile main memory; and mapping a physical address of the file page to a virtual address of a user area of the nonvolatile main memory.

Abstract: A biologically-inspired model for sequence representation, method of construction and application of such models, and systems incorporating same are provided. The model captures the statistical nature of sequences and uses that for sequence encoding, recognition, and recall. The model can be trained in real time, has few tunable parameters, and is highly parallelizable, which ensures that it can scale up to very large problems. Applications of the model to word and speech recognition, machine leaning, robotics, computational bioinformatics, genetics datasets, and other sequence processing pipelines are provided.

Abstract: Example embodiments relate to a stacking structure having a material layer formed on a graphene layer, and a method of forming the material layer on the graphene layer. In the stacking structure, when the material layer is formed on the graphene layer by using an ALD method, an intermediate layer as a seed layer may be formed on the graphene layer by using a linear type precursor.

Abstract: A video encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses for performing the methods thereof are provided. The video encoding method includes: determining a region in a current image having a change in at least one of a scale and an angle with respect to a reference image; generating variation information representing a variation in at least one of the scale and the angle between the region in the current image and a reference region in the reference image corresponding to the region in the current image; and encoding residual information representing a difference between a predicted sample value from the reference image and a sample value of the current image based on the generated variation information.

Abstract: There are provided peptide tags derived from bacteriophytochrome (BphP) that is photoreceptor protein of Deinococcusradiodurans, an antibody capable of specifically recognizing the peptide tags, hybridoma cell lines capable of producing the antibody, and uses thereof. The novel peptide tag has advantages in that it has a short length and can remove a non-specific reaction of the conventional c-myc tag and FLAG tag. Therefore, in the case of using the novel peptide tag and antibody thereto, the fusion protein expressed in a recombinant cell can be very effectively detected or purified. In addition, an epitope tagging system including the novel peptide tag and antibody thereto can be applied in various fields such as a determination of an intracellular site, a confirmation of functionality, detection and purification of specific protein, and researches on interaction between proteins.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a surgical grasper for measuring force, the surgical grasper having a first gripping part and a second gripping part, the first gripping part being provided with a first recess portion recessed inwardly from an outer surface of the first gripping part, the surgical grasper including: a first elastic dielectric body having one surface surface-contacting the first recess portion; an electrode part including a pair of electrodes opposed to each other on opposite surfaces of the first elastic dielectric body and having a distance between the electrodes, varied by external force applied thereto; and a first finishing part surface-contacting the other surface of the first elastic dielectric body and formed to correspond to the first recess portion to thereby be inserted into the first recess portion.

Abstract: A Fresnel zone plate is provided for encountering incident light having a wavelength. The Fresnel zone plate has a focal length and a wafer including alternating transparent and opaque zones, and a mounting surface. A plurality of silicon nanowires extend into opaque zone of the wafer. A mechanically stretchable turning structure is mounted to the mounting surface such that stretching of the tuning structure varies the focal length of the Fresnel zone plate.

Abstract: Computational resources of an electronic computer are monitored by predictors that establish predicted trade-offs between performance and power for a particular workload while the workload is being executed. A coordinator combines prediction values to identify a limited number of combinations of operating states of the computational resources, allowing operating states of the computational resources to be readily adapted during program execution based on a particular workload. The limited number of combinations of operating states are ideally Pareto optimal combinations.

Abstract: Time-varying hyperglycemic stresses are derived from actual ICU patients and applied to non-critically ill virtual patients, using any model of normal glucose-insulin physiology that fulfills certain requirements, in order to model and simulate stress hyperglycemia. Other aspects provide: 1) a methodology to perform sensitivity analyses of the parameters of ICU insulin infusion therapy protocols and to improve the protocols; and 2) a training system for clinicians about the course and management of stress hyperglycemia in the ICU or other facility.

Abstract: The pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 protein Bax initiates apoptosis in almost all apoptotic paradigms. Agents facilitating disruptive Bax insertion into mitochondrial membranes have potential as cancer therapeutics. Small molecule compounds associating with the hydrophobic groove of the pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 protein Bax have been identified and found to promote Bax-dependent, but not Bak-dependent, apoptosis. The compounds alter Bax protein stability in vitro and promote Bax insertion into mitochondria, leading to Bax-dependent mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization and apoptosis. The compounds activating the pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 protein Bax inhibit the growth of tumors by inducing apoptosis. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds that activate Bax and induce Bax-dependent apoptosis are useful as anti-cancer therapeutic agents alone or with other anti-cancer agents. Methods for inducing apoptosis and for treating cancer involve administering the compounds to a patient in need thereof.

Abstract: A system and a method for objectively evaluating qualitative levels of academic journals in the field of science and engineering are disclosed. The system for evaluating journals includes: a winner or member's paper database which includes information of papers published by a researcher who is awarded a prize or elected to a member of the academy in the field of science and engineering; a journal database which includes information of papers published in journals to be evaluated; a winner or member's paper ratio evaluation section which calculates a winner or member's paper ratio for the journals by using the information of papers of the journal database and the information of papers of the winner or member's paper database; and a journal evaluation section which evaluates a degree of contribution of the journals in awarding the prize or electing to the member of the academy from the winner or member's paper ratio calculated by the winner or member's paper ratio evaluation section.

Abstract: A micron-sized anode active material containing titanium dioxide nanoparticles double-coated with titanium(III) ions (Ti3+) and carbon, wherein the titanium dioxide nanoparticles are coupled to one another to form a micron-sized structure, thereby forming pores between the nanosized particles.

Abstract: A biosensor and a sample inflow sensing method are disclosed. The biosensor includes a sample sensing electrode configured to sense inflow of a sample; a component measuring electrode configured to measure a specific component contained in the sample; and an integrated circuit unit for controlling configured to apply a power to the sample sensing electrode periodically and to determine the inflow of the sample based on a capacitance generated by the power applied to the sample sensing electrode.

Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods for treating bacterial infections.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for increasing the efficacy of an agent that directly or indirectly affects a muscarinic receptor by administering a pyrophosphate analog. Methods and compositions for protecting a pharmacological agent in a formulation, comprising combining the pharmacological agent with at least one pyrophosphate analog. Methods and compositions for increasing the efficacy of a neurologic agent by administering at least one pyrophosphate analog. Methods and compositions for increasing the efficacy of an agent that neither directly nor indirectly affects a muscarinic receptor by administering at least one pyrophosphate analog.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for inhibiting angiogenesis comprising an isolated peptide comprising the heparin-binding domain of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-5 (IGFBP-5), a method for inhibiting angiogenesis using the peptide, a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of cancer comprising the peptide, a method for treating cancer using the peptide, a novel angiogenesis-inhibiting peptide derived from heparin-binding domain of IGFBP-5, a polynucleotide encoding the peptide, an expression vector comprising the polynucleotide and a transformant comprising the vector.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for recognizing a parking space line marking for a vehicle, including: detecting, by a processor, a plurality of parking spaces from a portion of a parking space line marking in an image; calculating, by the processor, an overlap coefficient representing a degree of overlapping between the detected parking spaces; selecting, by the processor, a parking space having a largest brightness coefficient as a final parking space by determining overlap when the overlap coefficient has a predetermined magnitude and comparing the brightness degrees of the overlapped parking spaces.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for performing spectrum sensing to detect a signal for a terminal of a primary user in each sensing node. The method for performing sensing may comprise the steps of: performing, by the sensing node, spectrum sensing to detect a signal for a terminal of a primary user; computing, by the sensing node, a local test statistic on the basis of the result of the spectrum sensing; calculating, by the sensing node, the transmission probability on the basis of the computed local test statistic; and transmitting, by the sensing node, sensing information to a convergence center on the basis of the calculated transmission probability. In this case, the convergence center can determine whether the signal for a primary user exists on the basis of the transmitted sensing information.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are reagents that include a moiety that includes a metal such as titanium and that readily binds to phosphorylated molecules the reagents also include at least one moiety that produces a signal or that binds to a molecule that produces a signal. The reagent may also include a moiety that binds to a larger molecule or to a surface. Some forms of the reagent include a dendrimer that can simultaneously bind to multiple metal moieties that include a metal such as titanium and multiple moieties that can be used to detected bound molecules. These reagents can be used in detection and/or measurement and/or at least partial purification of phosphorylated molecules. These reagents and methods using them are used to analyze proteins, polypeptides, nucleic acids, phospholipids and the like. They are readily adapted for use in gels, blots, plate based high through put assays and for mass spectrometry.