Abstract: A data recovery circuit may include a data sampling unit suitable for sampling source data including an edge data using data clocks and an edge clock, a data extraction unit suitable for extracting the edge data from sampled data outputted from the data sampling unit, a control signal generation unit suitable for generating a phase control signal in response to the edge data, and a multi-clock control unit suitable for controlling phases of the data clocks and the edge clock in response to the phase control signal.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system and method for symbol compression using conditional entropy estimation. One method for symbol compression using conditional entropy estimation includes approximating a quantity of symbol encoding bits for a number of symbols using a conditional entropy estimation. Dictionary entries are generated from the number of symbols so as to minimize a total bit-stream quantity. The total bit-stream quantity includes at least the approximated quantity of symbol encoding bits and a quantity of dictionary entries encoding bits. The symbols are encoded using the dictionary entries as a reference.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition and a method for treating glioma are provided. The pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating glioma includes a Tar RNA binding protein 2 (Tarbp2) protein or gene encoding the same as an active component. The method for treating glioma includes administering to a subject in need thereof a pharmaceutically effective amount of aTar RNA binding protein 2 (Tarbp2) protein or gene encoding the same.

Abstract: A charge transfer circuit for capacitive sensing is disclosed. The charge transfer circuit for capacitive sensing includes a variable capacitor, an X-drive unit, and an active output voltage feedback (AVF) part. The variable capacitor is disposed between the output terminal of an X-drive line and the input terminal of a Y-drive line. The X-drive unit is connected between the input unit of the X-drive line and a voltage input terminal. The active output voltage feedback (AVF) part is connected between the output terminal of the Y-drive line and a voltage output terminal. The output terminal of the AVF part is connected to the output terminal of the Y-drive line.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for generating an acceleration structure in a ray tracing system. The method of generating an acceleration structure includes splitting, at an acceleration structure generator, a space comprising a three-dimensional (3D) object into a plurality of sub spaces, calculating costs for traversing the plurality of sub spaces based on occlusion information of primitives in the plurality of sub spaces, selecting the plurality of sub spaces that minimize the costs for traversing, and generating an acceleration structure based on setting the selected plurality of sub spaces as nodes.

Abstract: This document features methods of evaluating mammals by assessing expression of B7-H1 in a body fluid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a module type microfluidic chip comprising: (a) printing electrode patterns on a substrate using a conductive ink and inkjet printing; (b) cutting the printed electrode patterns; and (c) assembling the cut electrode patterns to manufacture the module type microfluidic paper chip. Unlike the traditional method for manufacturing printed circuit substrate using a patterning agent or device, the method of the present invention only incorporates a simple printing process using an inkjet printer, and thus patterning can be simplified and various types of chips can be manufactured depending on the assembly type of electrode patterns. Accordingly, inexpensive, economical, and highly utilizable microfluidic chips can be provided using the method of the present invention.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a visible light-responsive photocatalyst with an excellent removal efficiency of environmental contaminants, and a method of preparing the same. According to the present invention, the TiO2 surface having an increased visible light absorbance due to nitrogen-doping has been modified into a hydrophilic surface using polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), i.e., a silicon-carbon precursor, and thereby significantly improved the removal efficiency of environmental contaminants under visible light. Additionally, the photocatalyst of the present invention for removing environmental contaminants is applicable to environment-friendly fields such as removal of volatile organic compounds, air purification, wastewater treatment and sterilization, and enables to remove contaminants by being attached to the surfaces of external walls of buildings, construction materials, glass windows, sound-absorbing walls, road facilities, signboards, etc., while preventing damages by sunlight.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method to construct a device that includes a plurality of nanowires (NWs) each having a core and at least one shell. The method includes providing a plurality of radially encoded NWs where each shell contains one of a plurality of different shell materials; and differentiating individual ones of the NWs from one another by selectively removing or not removing shell material within areas to be electrically coupled to individual ones of a plurality of mesowires (MWs). Also disclosed is a nanowire array that contains radially encoded NWs, and a computer program product useful in forming a nanowire array.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a spectrum sensing apparatus and method for a cognitive radio (CCR) network in a non-Gaussian noise environment and an FC apparatus and CCR system using the same. The cooperative cognitive radio (CCR) system includes M cognitive radios (CRs), and a fusion center (FC). Each of the M CRs samples a baseband signal obtained by down-converting a radio signal detected in the corresponding frequency spectrum, and generates spectrum sensing information (SSI) indicating that a PU signal has been detected based on the results of the sampling. The FC determines a joint threshold ?FC that can maximize an expected average throughput of a secondary user (SU) signal in a given communication environment including a maximum interference condition, calculates a joint test statistic from received M pieces of SSI, and determines whether the PU signal is present by comparing the calculated joint test statistic with the joint threshold.

Abstract: A multicore computer architecture provides for clock dividers on each core, the clock dividers capable of providing rapid changes in the clock frequency of the core. The clock dividers are used to reduce the clock frequency of individual cores spinning while waiting for a synchronization instruction resolution such as a lock variable. Core power demands may be decreased before and after change in dock speed to reduce power bus disruption.

Abstract: A pulse restoration circuit includes: a voltage restorator configured to include an OP amplifier and input an input voltage to an input terminal of the OP amplifier; a rising time restorator configured to be connected to the other input terminal of the OP amplifier; and a falling time restorator configured to be connected to an output terminal of the OP amplifier, whereby it is possible to improve a reduction in performance of the medical image electronics transmitting an analog signal via the cable and a PET detector of a PET-MRI convergence system among the medical image electronics by correcting a distortion phenomenon of an output signal depending on a cable length into the original signal using the pulse restoration circuit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to carbon nanocomposite sorbents. The present invention provides carbon nanocomposite sorbents, methods for making the same, and methods for separation of a pollutant from a gas that includes that pollutant. Various embodiments provide a method for reducing the mercury content of a mercury-containing gas.

Abstract: A method of controlling a storage device, the method including calculating, in a controller of the storage device, data throughput of the storage device in a current period, comparing, in the controller, the data throughput to a reference value and adjusting, with the controller, an operation performance of the storage device in a next period based on the comparison and a delay factor of a period prior the current period.

Abstract: Provided is a method of transforming program code written such that a plurality of work-items are allocated respectively to and concurrently executed on a plurality of processing elements included in a computing unit. A program code translator may identify, in the program code, two or more code regions, which are to be enclosed by work-item coalescing loops (WCLs), based on a synchronization barrier function contained in the program code, such that the work-items are serially executable on a smaller number of processing elements than a number of the processing elements, and may enclose the identified code regions with the WCLs, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention is based, in part, on the discovery that parvovirus (including AAV) capsids can be engineered to incorporate small, selective regions from other parvoviruses that confer desirable properties. The inventors have discovered that in some cases as little as a single amino acid insertion or substitution from a first parvovirus (e.g., an AAV) into the capsid structure of another parvovirus (e.g., an AAV) to create a chimeric parvovirus is sufficient to confer one or more of the desirable properties of the first parvovirus to the resulting chimeric parvovirus and/or to confer a property that is not exhibited by the first parvovirus or is present to a lesser extent.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for improved VA-TIRFM microscopy. The method comprises automatically controlled calibration of one or more laser sources by precise control of presentation of each laser relative a sample for small incremental changes of incident angle over a range of critical TIR angles. The calibration then allows precise scanning of the sample for any of those calibrated angles for higher and more accurate resolution, and better reconstruction of the scans for super resolution reconstruction of the sample. Optionally the system can be controlled for incident angles of the excitation laser at sub-critical angles for pseudo TIRFM. Optionally both above-critical angle and sub critical angle measurements can be accomplished with the same system.

Abstract: The invention provides oil emulsion droplets and a general and facile method for providing same through the use of templating multilayer capsules. The oil emulsion droplets are further useful in fabricating liquid crystal droplet-based biosensors for the detection of target analytes such as bacteria or viruses in a sample.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device may include a first metal gate electrode provided in a NMOS region of a substrate; and a second metal gate electrode provided in a PMOS region of the substrate, wherein the first and second metal gate electrodes may be formed of TiN material or TiAlN material. Here, the first metal gate electrode may have a higher titanium (Ti) content than the second metal gate electrode, and the second metal gate electrode may have a higher nitrogen (N) content than the first metal gate electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for transferring heat using a variable composition organic heat transfer fluid that remains liquid over a wide operating temperature range useful for solar heating applications. Variable composition heat transfer fluids of the present invention comprise a miscible mixture, optionally a completely miscible mixture, of a high boiling point component selected for its beneficial high temperature physical properties, and a low freezing point component selected for its beneficial low temperature physical properties. In some embodiments, the low freezing point component is removed from the heat transfer fluid as the heat transfer fluid is heated, for example by being removed in the vapor phase, thereby selectively varying the composition and physical properties (e.g., vapor pressure, boiling point, etc.) of the heat transfer fluid as a function of temperature.