Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for the separation of proteins, comprising a capillary isoelectric focusing unit (2) for primarily separating protein samples on the basis of pi; and a hollow fiber flow field flow fractionation unit (4), connected to one side of the capillary isoelectric focusing unit (2), for secondarily separating the protein samples. The apparatus allows proteins to be separated on the basis of pi and molecular weight without denaturation and can further be applied for the identification of proteins in conjunction with nanoflow liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry after enzymatic digestion of the protein fractions.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for allocating resources for a mobile station in a communication system is provided. The method includes determining if a mobile station within a cell is located in one of a first region corresponding to a cell center, a third region corresponding to a cell edge, and a second region corresponding to an area between the first and third regions, allocating frequency resources within an entire frequency band to the mobile station when the mobile station is located in the first region, wherein the entire frequency band comprises at least a first frequency band and a second frequency band, allocating frequency resources within the first frequency band to the mobile station when the mobile station is located in the third region, and allocating frequency resources within the second frequency band to the mobile station when the mobile station is located in the second region.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for data transmission in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication system are provided.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a Base Station (BS) of a communication system are provided. A controller determines a location of a Mobile Station (MS), and determines a transmission/reception scheme for data transmission and reception to/from the MS according to the location of the MS. A transceiver transmits and receives data to/from the MS using the determined transmission/reception scheme. Preferably, the MS is located in any one of a cell's inner region and a cell's outer region, the cell's inner region has a radius which varies according to interference between adjacent cells, and the cell's outer region is a region defined by excepting the cell's inner region from the entire cell region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the aerosol synthesis of carbon nanostructures under atmospheric pressure comprising a spark generation step of generating a spark between a graphite electrode made of carbon and a metal electrode made of a catalytic metal inducing the graphitization of carbon and vaporizing the carbon component of the graphite electrode and the metal component of the metal electrode utilizing the heat produced by the spark, thereby generating carbon vapor and metal vapor; and a carbon nanostructure generation step of cooling and condensing the carbon vapor and the metal vapor to form a graphitic carbon layer and catalytic metal particles and generating carbon nanostructures in which the graphitic carbon layer grows on the surface of the catalytic metal particles and covers the catalytic metal particles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system for enhancing transmission performance. The MIMO system uses space-time encoding and transmit antenna selection methods, and includes a transmitter (100) and a receiver (200). The transmitter (100) includes N transmit antennas (130-1, 130-4) that are more than M tansrni antennas (130-1, 130-3) used for transmitting a signal to space channel, selects the M transmit antennas (130-1, 130-3) among the N transmit antennas (130-3 130-4), and transmits symbol by space-time encoding the symbol. The receiver (200) includes M receive antenna (120-1, 210-2) for receiving a signal from the space channel, detects an information symbol by using the signal received through the receive antenna (210-1, 210-2), generates transmit antenna selection information for selecting M transmit antennas (130-1, 130-3) among transmit antennas (i30-1, . . . 7130-4) with reference to a channel estimate, and returns the information to the transmitter.

Abstract: A system for evaluating video quality using auxiliary information of a codec includes a video transmitter that includes a source video input unit for inputting source video, an encoding unit for encoding the input source video, a decoding unit for decoding encoded video data, and a video quality evaluation unit for evaluating video quality using the decoded video data. The encoding unit transmits auxiliary information required for video quality evaluation, among information acquired in an encoding procedure, to the video quality evaluation unit. The video quality evaluation unit evaluates video quality using the decoded video data received from the decoding unit, and the auxiliary information received from the encoding unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vertical-alignment type porous silicon including a first pore 11 which is formed in an upper side of the silicon, a second pore 12 which is formed in a lower side of the first pore 11 and has a diameter that is larger or smaller than a diameter of the first pore 11, a third pore 13 which is formed in a lower side of the second pore 12 and has a diameter that is identical or similar to the diameter of the first pore 11, and one or more pore parts 11, 12, and 13 which includes the first pore 11, the second pore 12, and the third pore 13. A pore part having a double structure is formed in a silicon. Thus, the silicon having an improved surface area can be obtained as compared to a known porous silicon, and since different electronic materials can be implanted into different pores, it is easy to form interfaces of the implanted electronic materials.

Abstract: Provided is a catalytic surface activation method for electroless deposition comprising a metallic aerosol nanoparticle generation step of generating metallic aerosol nanoparticles, which act as plating initiation catalyst; a metallic aerosol nanoparticle fixation step of fixing the resultant metallic aerosol nanoparticles on a plating surface; and an electroless deposition step of impregnating the material to be plated in an electroless deposition solution to form a plating layer on the plating surface on which the metallic aerosol nanoparticles have been fixed. The catalytic surface activation method for electroless deposition of the present invention is applicable to large-scale plating with simple process and superior applicability, improves the plating characteristics with little impurity generation, requires no post-treatment process for removing impurities and is environment-friendly with no wastewater generation by directly fixing metallic aerosol nanoparticles on the material to be plated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus that obtain error correction data by adjusting the LOS vector of a sensor, and assign precise ground coordinates to respective image coordinates of an image using the error correction data and auxiliary data for the image. In the method of correcting geometry of an image using a LOS vector adjustment model of the present invention, an image, obtained by photographing a ground surface, and auxiliary data for the image, are acquired. Ground coordinates for a ground control point, and image coordinates of the image matching the ground coordinates are acquired. A LOS vector of a sensor of a photographing device is adjusted, thus obtaining error correction data. The auxiliary data and the error correction data are applied to LOS vector adjustment models, and ground coordinates are assigned to respective image coordinates of the image, thus performing exterior orientation.

Abstract: A demodulation method using phase detection and an apparatus thereof are provided. The demodulation method includes detecting phase information by sampling a received signal, synchronizing at least one clock signal by using the detected phase information, oversampling the received signal by the synchronized clock signal, and demodulating the received signal by using the oversampled result. With this, the demodulating apparatus can demodulate the modulated signal by using the phase detection, and use a digital filter as a filter for removing a jitter from the demodulated signal, thereby allowing a size thereof to be minimized.

Abstract: Provided is a parallel interleaving method and apparatus. The parallel interleaving method includes dividing input information bits into a predetermined number of sub-blocks and interleaving the information bits divided into the sub-blocks according to a predetermined first interleaving rule.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting a signal in a communication system are provided. An information vector is encoded according to a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoding scheme, thereby generating an LDPC codeword. Minimum surviving check nodes are reserved for recovery of punctured nodes in the LDPC codeword. A check node is selected having a smallest cost function from among unreserved check nodes. A variable node is selected being unpunctured and having a smallest cost function from among variable nodes connected to the selected check node. The selected variable node is punctured when the selected variable node is not connected to the reserved check node. A stopping set check is performed when the selected variable node is connected to the reserved check node. The variable node is punctured when the stopping set check has been successfully performed. The check node is selected until there remains no variable node to be punctured and puncturing the variable node.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are biodegradable solid microneedles and a fabrication method thereof. The microneedles are small in diameter and are long and hard enough to pass through the stratum corneum. Thus, the biodegradable solid microneedles can be used for painless transdermal drug delivery, the detection of biological samples such as blood, and biopsy.

Abstract: A girder bridge protection device. The girder protection device includes a sacrifice member having girders installed on an upper surface of a bridge seat of an abutment or pier to support a bridge floor, a symmetrical main support member connecting two of the girders and having an elongated tubular configuration, and an auxiliary support member projecting from one surface of a center portion of the main support member in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the main support member; and a restraining member secured to the bridge seat of the abutment or pier and having an accommodating section accommodating the auxiliary support member such that the auxiliary support member is separated from the accommodating section in a forward and rearward direction and in a leftward and rightward direction, thereby controlling the behavior of the auxiliary support member.

Abstract: Handover apparatus and method using a Relay Node (RN) in a cellular system are provided. The handover method includes receiving, at an RN, broadcast control information of a serving Base Station (BS) and a neighbor BS; network-encoding and broadcasting, at the RN, the received broadcast control information; receiving and storing, at a Mobile Station (MS), the broadcast control information of the serving BS; receiving, at the MS, the network-encoded information from the RN when the MS enters a cell overlapping area; and acquiring, at the MS, the broadcast control information of the neighbor BS by decoding the received network-encoded information with the broadcast control information of the serving BS.

Abstract: Selection of a relay station in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. In the broadband wireless communication system, a Base Station (BS) includes a sorter for generating a first index group in which indices of relay stations are sorted according to channel information between the BS and each relay station; a receiver for receiving a second index group in which the indices of the relay stations are sorted according to channel information between a Mobile Station (MS) and each relay station; and a selector for selecting a relay station to be used to communicate with the MS by using the first index group and the second index group.

Abstract: Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for attenuation of neuropathic pain comprising a GAD65-expressing recombinant vector. Direct introduction of the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention into a sciatic nerve leads to immediate therapeutic effects on peripheral neuropathic pain with a sustained and constant duration for several months. Therefore, the composition of the present invention is effective for the alleviation of peripheral neuropathic pain.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for allocating resources in a mobile communication system. The apparatus includes a modulating/coding unit for modulating transmission data of one or more users according to a predetermined modulation scheme and for outputting a complex signal; a 2-Dimensional (2D)/1-Dimensional (1D) converter for converting the complex signal into a 1D signal; and a re-modulator for reconstructing the 1D signal to a 2D signal and for allocating two components of the 2D signal to two different frequency bands.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for setting a guard band with respect to an asynchronous Base Station (BS) in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The BS includes a controller for generating a control signal to set a guard band when a time offset occurs between BSs; a mapper for mapping and outputting transmit data to a band, excluding the guard band, of a unique band of the BS according to the control signal; and an operator for multicarrier-modulating data fed from the mapper.