Abstract: An aluminum alloy material suitable for the manufacture of automotive body panels comprising: Si 0.6 to 1.2 wt %, Mg 0.7 to 1.3 wt %, Zn 0.25 to 0.8 wt %, Cu 0.02 to 0.20 wt %, Mn 0.01 to 0.25 wt %, Zr 0.01 to 0.20 wt %, with the balance being Al and incidental elements, based on the total weight of the aluminum alloy material. The aluminum alloy material satisfies the inequation of: 2.30 wt %?(Si+Mg+Zn+2Cu) wt %?3.20 wt %.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods for silylating aromatic derivatives, comprising the use of hydrosilanes and potassium hydroxide.

Abstract: Providing user assistance in a vehicle includes identifying a driving behavior of the vehicle based on an evaluation of information about manual operation of the vehicle and information about an environment surrounding the vehicle, and issuing an alert to a user prompting the user to implement corrective manual operation. The user assistance further includes receiving a traffic behavior model that describes a predominating driving behavior of a like population of reference vehicles, and issuing the alert to a user prompting the user to implement corrective manual operation in response to identifying that the driving behavior of the vehicle does not match the predominating driving behavior of the like population of reference vehicles. Under the corrective manual operation, the driving behavior of the vehicle matches the predominating driving behavior of the like population of reference vehicles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method for clear channel assessment, and more particularly, to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for performing an efficient clear channel assessment for spatial reuse of a communication system.

Abstract: A flow energy harvesting system including a nozzle-diffuser defining a spline-shaped flow channel and a flow energy harvesting device in the spline-shaped flow channel of the nozzle-diffuser. The spline-shaped flow channel includes a converging portion, a diverging portion, and a constriction section between the converging and diverging portions. The flow energy harvesting device includes a flextensional member having a frame and a cantilever extending outward from the frame, and a stack of piezoelectric elements housed in an interior cavity defined in the frame. The cantilever is a non-piezoelectric material. The frame of the flextensional member is in the converging portion and the cantilever is in the constriction section of the spline-shaped flow channel. The frame is configured to deform and elongate the piezoelectric elements to generate a current based on the piezoelectric effect when a fluid flows through the spline-shaped flow channel and generates unbalanced forces on the cantilever due.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus that uses a brine from a well that is used to both generate electricity and recover valuable minerals present in the brine. The method and apparatus uses a hydrophobic membrane to separate water vapor from the brine to concentrate the brine that is then used to recover the minerals.

Abstract: A catalyst for removing nitrogen oxides, and the catalyst for removing the nitrogen oxides includes a first catalyst having a component including Pt, Ba, and Ce supported on a first support, and a second catalyst physically mixed with the first catalyst and having a component including Cu and Ce supported on a second support.

Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving scheduling information in a communication system is disclosed. A method for operating a UE comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a control channel including scheduling information of first data in slot #n; receiving, from the base station, a data channel including the first data and second data in the slot #n; receiving, from the base station, a control channel in slot #n+k, the control channel including PI indicating a transmission position of the second data in the slot #n; and demodulating the data channel on the basis of the scheduling information and the PI. Therefore, the performance of a communication system can be improved.

Abstract: The first object of the invention is directed to field-effect gate transistor comprising (a) a substrate, (b) a source terminal, (c) a drain terminal, and (d) a channel between the source terminal and the drain terminal, the channel being a layer of CuxCryO2 in which the y/x ratio is superior to 1. The field-effect gate transistor is remarkable in that the channel of CuxCryO2 presents a gradient of holes concentration. The second object of the invention is directed to a method for laser annealing a field-effect gate transistor in accordance with the first object of the invention.

Abstract: Autonomous driving includes evaluating information about an environment surrounding a vehicle, generating, based on the evaluation of the information about the environment surrounding the vehicle, a driving plan for performing a driving maneuver, and operating vehicle systems in the vehicle to perform the driving maneuver according to the driving plan. The autonomous driving further includes receiving a traffic behavior model that describes a predominating driving behavior of a like population of reference vehicles. Under the driving plan, a driving behavior of the vehicle matches the predominating driving behavior of the like population of reference vehiclesAutonomous driving includes identifying a driving behavior of a vehicle based on an evaluation of information about manual operation of the vehicle and information about an environment surrounding the vehicle, and operating vehicle systems in the vehicle to perform a driving maneuver according to a driving plan for performing the driving maneuver.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nickel-based superalloy material, which comprises 0.06 wt % or less carbon, 11.61˜11.93 wt % chromium, 1.52˜2.85 wt % titanium, 5.89˜6.08 wt % aluminum, 0.009 wt % or less boron, 0.07 wt % or less zirconium, 2.16˜2.18 wt % niobium, 4.22˜4.29 wt % molybdenum, and the balance being composed of nickel and incidental impurities, whereby the effect of obtaining the nickel-based superalloy with better mechanical properties can be achieved.

Abstract: An interdigitated electrode biosensor includes an insulating layer configured to fully cover a sensor forming region of a substrate, a first interdigitated microelectrode configured such that a plurality of first protruding electrodes is arranged in a shape of a comb on the substrate, a second interdigitated microelectrode configured such that a plurality of second protruding electrodes is arranged in a shape of a comb and each interdigitates with the plurality of first protruding electrodes, and a plurality of receptors that is immobilized in a space between the first interdigitated microelectrode and the second interdigitated microelectrode and reacts specifically to target biomaterials.

Abstract: Autonomous driving includes identifying a traffic behavior of an object in an environment surrounding a vehicle based on an evaluation of information about the environment surrounding the vehicle while the vehicle is in the midst of manual operation, and operating vehicle systems in the vehicle to perform a driving maneuver according to a driving plan for performing the driving maneuver. The autonomous driving further includes receiving a traffic behavior model that describes a predominating traffic behavior of a like population of reference objects, and operating the vehicle systems to perform the driving maneuver according to the driving plan in response to identifying that the traffic behavior of the object does not match the predominating traffic behavior of the like population of reference objects. Under the driving plan, the traffic behavior of the object is addressed.

Abstract: A nuclear image processing method is provided. The method includes the following steps: inputting a normalized standard space nuclear image; selecting a voxel of the normalized standard space nuclear image and collecting the values of the neighbor voxels to form a voxel value set; conducting a data augmentation algorithm to generate a voxel distribution function; calculating an expected value of the distribution and calculating a first standard deviation of the portion over the expected value and a second standard deviation of the portion lower than the expected value; repeating the above steps to calculate the expected value, the first standard deviation and the second standard deviation of the necessary voxels, so as to form an image standardization template set including expected value template, first standard deviation template and the second standard deviation template.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of identifying location information of a signal source, the method including: identifying, at a first position, first position information and first posture information of an UAV equipped with a linear array antenna; identifying, after identifying a first measured azimuth between the signal source and the antenna at the first position, a first corrected azimuth; identifying, at at least one second position, at least one piece of second position information and at least one of second posture information of the UAV; identifying, after identifying at least one second measured azimuth between the signal source and the antenna at the at least one second position, at least one second corrected azimuth; and estimating the location information of the signal source by using the first position information, the first posture information, the first corrected azimuth, the second position information, the second posture information, and the second corrected azimuth.

Abstract: A device and method for reducing and homogenizing residual stress of a component by an array of high-energy elastic waves. The device includes a tubular body consisting of at least two elements, multiple first through holes and a clamping device provided on an outer side of the tubular body. Exciters are connected with exciting wedges so that an end face of each of the exciting wedges is closely coupled to a surface of the component. A connection portion is coupled to an emitting end of each of the exciters, where the axis of the emitting end coincides with a normal line at a pressed surface of the component A multi-channel signal amplifier is electrically connected to each of the exciters and a multi-channel excitation control module is electrically connected to the multi-channel signal amplifier.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods of altering expression of a genomic locus of interest or specifically targeting a genomic locus of interest in an animal cell, which may involve contacting the genomic locus with a non-naturally occurring or engineered composition that includes a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) binding polypeptide having a N-terminal capping region, a DNA binding domain comprising at least five or more Transcription activator-like effector (TALE) monomers and at least one or more half-monomers specifically ordered to target the genomic locus of interest, and a C-terminal capping region, wherein the polypeptide includes at least one or more effector domains, and wherein the polypeptide is encoded by and translated from a codon optimized nucleic acid molecule so that the polypeptide preferentially binds to the DNA of the genomic locus.

Abstract: A Ti—Ni-based alloy, which has a torsion angle for Interface I that is a junction plane between habit plane variants of a martensitic phase, of less than 1.00°; a wire, an electrically conductive actuator, and a temperature sensor, each of which uses that alloy; and a method of producing the Ti—Ni-based alloy.

Abstract: A low density parity check (LDPC) encoder, an LDPC decoder, and an LDPC encoding method are disclosed. The LDPC encoder includes first memory, second memory, and a processor. The first memory stores an LDPC codeword having a length of 16200 and a code rate of 4/15. The second memory is initialized to 0. The processor generates the LDPC codeword corresponding to information bits by performing accumulation with respect to the second memory using a sequence corresponding to a parity check matrix (PCM).

Abstract: Disclosed is a valve mechanical linkage system. A valve comprises a main valve and a secondary valve; the system comprises a first transmission mechanism and a second transmission mechanism; the first transmission mechanism is connected with the main valve and used for converting the up-and-down reciprocating motion of the main valve into a rotational reciprocating motion; the first transmission mechanism and the second transmission mechanism are connected by means of a coupling (4), and the rotational force of the rotational reciprocating motion is transferred to the second transmission mechanism by means of the coupling (4); the second transmission mechanism is connected with the secondary valve, and achieves on-off control on the secondary valve by converting the rotational reciprocating motion into the up-and-down reciprocating motion.