Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes quantum dots and an RGB color filter layer having quantum dots and thus is capable of removing 100% of interference among red, green, and blue color filters.

Abstract: Tandem electrodialysis (ED) cell systems and methods for using the tandem ED cell systems to extract and recover ions from ion-containing solutions are provided. The tandem ED cell systems are composed of ion-extraction and ion-recovery ED cells. A redox couple contained in the anolyte of the ion-extraction ED cell is different from a redox couple contained in the catholyte of the ion-extraction ED cell. The electrode reactions in the ion-extraction ED cell are reversed in the ion-recovery ED cell, with the anolyte and catholyte of the two ED cells swapped and continuously circulated. As a result, the redox species in the anolyte and catholyte of the two cells are never depleted, which allows for achieving ion extraction and ion recovery with the use of a minimal amount of the redox couples.

Abstract: A circuit of cells used as a memory array and capable of in-memory arithmetic which includes a plurality of signed ternary processing, each signed ternary processing cell includes a first memory cell, adapted to hold a first digital value, a second memory cell, adapted to hold a second digital value, wherein a binary combination of the first digital value and the second digital value establishes a first signed ternary operand, a signed ternary input forming a second signed ternary operand, and a signed ternary output, wherein the signed ternary output represents a signed multiplication of the first signed ternary operand and the second signed ternary operand, a sense circuit adapted to output a subtraction result.

Abstract: A method for measuring blood sugar that is performed by an apparatus for measuring blood is provided. The method includes calculating color data from multiple skin regions of interest in a skin image, classifying a user's meal state into a pre-meal state or a post-meal state through analysis of acquired user information, estimating blood sugar by applying the calculated color data to a blood sugar regression linear equation corresponding to the classified user's meal state, and measuring robust blood sugar by weighted averaging the estimated blood sugar.

Abstract: The apparatus and the method for estimating a channel of a wireless power transmission system using an intelligent reflecting surface according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure check a strength of a received signal received by a terminal with respect to a measured signal transmitted from the transmitter, regardless of the number of reflective elements of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) or the number of terminals and estimate a channel between the transmitter and the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and the channel between the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and the terminal so that the channel information can be efficiently acquired even in the wireless power transmission system including a low power terminal.

Abstract: The electrocatalyst system that is configured to oxidize a methanol molecule using piezo-electrocatalysis includes a substrate and a piezoelectric semiconductor. The piezoelectric semiconductor is coupled to the substrate. The piezoelectric semiconductor includes a nanostructured semiconducting zinc oxide (ZnO) catalyst. The nanostructured semiconducting zinc oxide catalyst is characterized by a UV-ozone (UV-O3) treatment process. The electrocatalyst system may be provided in a methanol fuel cell.

Abstract: Methods of modeling the in vivo efficacy of drug combinations for the treatment or prevention of viral infection are described. The described methods combine data for single drugs and drug combinations from pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, and viral dynamics models under a series of estimated in vivo drug potencies to provide predictions of the in vivo effects of the drug combinations. These predictions can be used to more accurately select drugs and drug treatment regimens that can be successful in controlling viral infection in animal studies, clinical trials and in medical or veterinary interventions. Also described is a method of treating or preventing filovirus infections using combinations of orally available drugs based on predictions from the modeling methods.

Abstract: A method of authenticating an item is disclosed which includes applying light to an item, wherein the item includes a random distribution of fluorescent particles disposed thereon, capturing one or more images from the item, generating a cryptographic pattern from the one or more captured images by a host processing system, communicating the cryptographic pattern to a remote processing system having a plurality of cryptographic keys in a database each uniquely associated with a corresponding item, comparing the cryptographic pattern with the plurality of cryptographic keys in the database, and communicating a positive evaluation for authentication to the host processing system if a match is found between one of the plurality of cryptographic keys and the communicated cryptographic pattern.

Abstract: [SUMMARY] An integrated noise and echo signal removal device using parallel deep neural network according to an embodiment comprises a microphone encoder that receives a microphone input signal including an echo signal, and a speaker's voice signal, converts the microphone input signal into first input information, and outputs the converted first input information, a far-end signal encoder that receives a far-end signal, converts the far-end signal into second input information, and outputs the converted second input information, a pre-learned second artificial neural network having a third input information, which is the sum of the first input information and the second input information, as input information, and having an estimated echo signal obtained by estimating the echo signal from the second input information as output information, a pre-learned third artificial neural network having the third input information as input information and having an estimated noise signal obtained by estimating the noise

Abstract: There are provided a metal carbide catalyst complex for a bifunctional zinc-air battery, containing vanadium metal and a different transition metal, and a zinc-air battery system including the same. Because a catalytic reaction region may be increased by a substituted iron ion and a substituted vanadium ion in a metal carbide catalyst complex for a zinc-air battery, high activity for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) performance and high activity for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) performance may be exhibited.

Abstract: In a method of predicting a position of an object at a future time point for a vehicle, video image information at a current time point and at a plurality of time points before the current time point acquired through a camera of the vehicle may be extracted as semantic segmentation image. A mask image imaging an attribute and position information of an object present in each of the video images may be extracted. A position distribution of the object may be predicted by deriving a plurality of hypotheses for a position of the object at a future time point through deep learning by receiving video images at the current time point and the time points before the current time point, a plurality of semantic segmentation images, a plurality of mask images, and ego-motion information of the vehicle, and calculating the plurality of hypotheses as a Gaussian mixture probability distribution.

Abstract: Polymeric ion conductors composed of a polymeric matrix associated with an isoindolinium moiety represented by Formula I as described in the specification are provided. Anion conducting compositions comprising an anion conducting polymer associated with, or threaded within and having mechanically interlocked therearound, a cyclic moiety are also provided. lonomeric materials, including, for example, ion exchange membranes such as anion exchange membranes, made of the polymeric ion conductor and/or the anion conducting composition, and electrochemical systems and articles-of-manufacturing containing the polymeric ion conductor, the anion conducting composition or the ion exchange membrane are also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating a semiconductor memory device which includes forming a channel hole inside a temporary stack structure including sacrificial layers and insulating layers alternately stacked on each other, forming a ferroelectric layer inside the channel hole, forming a stress control layer on an inner sidewall of the ferroelectric layer, performing a cooling process on an inner sidewall of the stress control layer, removing at least a portion of the stress control layer after the cooling process is performed, forming a vertical structure by sequentially forming a vertical channel layer and a vertical semiconductor layer on the ferroelectric layer, and removing the sacrificial layers from the temperature stack structure, and forming gate electrodes.

Abstract: An optical display system and an electronics apparatus are disclosed. The optical display system comprises: a display unit, which generate a first image light and a second image light, wherein the first image light is in a first polarization state and the second image light is in a second polarization state and the first image light and the second image light are generated by a same display panel; a resolution enhancement optic unit, which enhances the resolution of the first image light with respect to the second image light; and a magnifying optic unit, which magnify the first and second image lights from the resolution enhancement optic unit.

Abstract: Provided herein are Mycobacterium smegmatis porin nanopores, systems that comprise these nanopores, and methods of using and making these nanopores. Such nanopores may be wild-type MspA porins, mutant MspA porins, wild-type MspA paralog porins, wild-type MspA homolog porins, mutant MspA paralog porins, mutant MspA homolog porins, or single-chain Msp porins. Also provided are bacterial strains capable of inducible Msp porin expression.

Abstract: In a range imaging system, a passive optical system has a set of lenses and an optical mask that varies a point spread function of the set of lenses so as to encode in an optical field arriving from a scene range information for objects in the scene that are at least X meters from the mask, where X is at least 10. A digital light sensor receives the optical field, and an image processor processes signals receive signals from the sensor to decode the range information.

Abstract: Ligand-bound zinc sulfide nanoparticles, the method of preparing the ligand-bound zinc sulfide nanoparticles, composition containing ligand-bound zinc sulfide nanoparticles, uses of the ligand-bound zinc sulfide nanoparticles and composition containing the ligand-bound zinc sulfide nanoparticles, including inhibiting the fibrosis of amyloid-? (A?) and reducing the expression of inflammatory factors, treatment of A? fibrosis-caused/related Alzheimer's disease (AD), cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), retinal ganglion cell degeneration in glaucoma (RGCD) or myositis/myopathy (MM), and to prepare drugs for the treatment of AD, CAA, RGCD or MM, and methods for treating the above diseases.

Abstract: An indoor wireless positioning method according to one embodiment of the present invention includes receiving initial received signal strength indicator (RSSI) information from a reception unit; searching for a fingerprint matching measured initial RSSI information in a fingerprint database; determining a first location corresponding to the retrieved fingerprint to be an initial location of the reception unit; receiving additional RSSI information from the reception unit; extracting features of variability between the additional RSSI information and the initial RSSI information; searching for variability fingerprints matching the initial location and extracted RSSI variability features in a variability fingerprint database; and updating a second location to a current location of the reception unit when the second location corresponding to the retrieved variability fingerprint is different from the initial location, wherein the second location is a location in a candidate area within a preset distance range ce

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel supramolecular self-assembly, a carbon nitride and a photocatalyst using same, and a manufacturing method therefor. The present invention can provide, by using a supramolecular self-assembly, a carbon nitride having a high N—C?N bonding ratio, a photocatalyst having excellent photocatalytic activity under visible light, and a manufacturing method therefor, the supramolecular self-assembly comprising: a plurality of complex units formed by hydrogen bonding two or more nitrogen-containing compounds to each other; and linker units connecting the plurality of complex units by hydrogen bonds, wherein the nitrogen-containing compounds and the linker units are each independently a —NH group and capable of hydrogen bonding with the —NH group, and the supramolecular self-assembly contains one or more heteroatoms selected from the group consisting of N, S, and O.