Abstract: A prediction management system that makes a prediction regarding a material, includes: a descriptor storage unit that stores descriptors each describing a parameter regarding processing means, a structure, a property, or a performance of the material; a prediction model storage unit that stores prediction models each describing an input and output relationship among the descriptors, wherein each prediction model accepts, as an input, one of at least two of the processing means, the structure, the property, and the performance, and outputs another one thereof; a workflow storage unit that stores workflows each describing that at least two of the prediction models are connected to each other via the descriptor, wherein an output of one prediction model is accepted as an input of another prediction model; an execution unit that gives an input to each of the workflows, executes the workflow, and stores an execution result including an output result of each prediction model included in the workflow; and a processi

Abstract: Semiconductor devices may include a stacked structure including interlayer insulating layers and gate electrodes alternately stacked in a vertical direction, a core region extending in the vertical direction in the stacked structure, a channel layer on a side surface of the core region and facing the gate electrodes and the interlayer insulating layers, a first dielectric layer, a data storage layer and a second dielectric layer, which are between the channel layer and the gate electrodes in order, and an anti-ferroelectric layer including a portion interposed between the first dielectric layer and a first gate electrode of the gate electrodes. The second dielectric layer may contact the channel layer. The anti-ferroelectric layer may be formed of an anti-ferroelectric material having a tetragonal phase.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for manufacturing a soft magnetic composite using ultrasonic vibration and a soft magnetic composite manufactured using the ultrasonic vibration.

Abstract: A medical support system includes a first transmitting antenna attached to a body surface that transmits a first transmitting wave, and a reflector that is present in the body and reflects the first transmitting wave transmitted from the first transmitting antenna. A first receiving antenna attached to the body surface receives the first transmitting wave transmitted from the first transmitting antenna and a reflected wave reflected by the reflector, and a location estimation device estimates the passage of the reflector in the body based on changes in the respective phases of the first transmitting wave received by the first receiving antenna and the reflected wave, at time t and time t+?t.

Abstract: An audio signal encoding method performed by an encoder includes identifying an audio signal of a time domain in units of a block, generating a combined block by combining i) a current original block of the audio signal and ii) a previous original block chronologically adjacent to the current original block, extracting a first residual signal of a frequency domain from the combined block using linear predictive coding of a time domain, overlapping chronologically adjacent first residual signals among first residual signals converted into a time domain, and quantizing a second residual signal of a time domain extracted from the overlapped first residual signal by converting the second residual signal of the time domain into a frequency domain using linear predictive coding of a frequency domain.

Abstract: The present invention provides a low-energy coastal beach restoration method, comprising: constructing a convex beach berm, determining an aspect ratio of the beach berm edge, determining a beach face slope, performing sand replenishment, determining the dredging zone and dredging depth, and determining the steps of building a sediment groin. The present invention utilizes the feature of the convergence effect of the wave energy on the headland, artificially constructs a convex headland shaped beach berm, and determines the required beach face range and slope according to the convex beach berm edge. During beach restoration, dredging around the beach face, while reducing mud sources and increasing the nearshore water depth, it also builds a convex nearshore terrain, which effectively increases the wave energy at the restoration site and improves the coast muddy situation of low-energy coasts.

Abstract: In various embodiments, disclosed herein are methods of assessing therapeutic efficacy of an anticoagulant. Preferably, the method comprising providing a blood sample; perfusing the blood sample over a surface coated with collagen or immobilized rTF; measuring platelet aggregation and fibrin deposition on the surface coated with collagen or immobilized rTF; and assessing therapeutic efficacy of the anticoagulant based on the volume of platelet aggregates and/or deposited fibrin.

Abstract: A strain measurement method includes disposing a 3D camera module at a first measurement position; using the 3D camera module to acquire a first 3D image of a to-be-measured object at a first to-be-measured position; acquiring a second 3D image of the to-be-measured object at the first to-be-measured position; and splicing the first and second 3D images to obtain an initial 3D image. The method still includes: moving the 3D camera module from the first measurement position to a second measurement position; using the 3D camera module to acquire a third 3D image of the to-be-measured object at a second to-be-measured position; acquiring a fourth 3D image of the to-be-measured object at the second to-be-measured position; and splicing the third and fourth 3D images to obtain a deformed 3D image. The method further includes comparing the initial 3D image and the deformed 3D image to output 3D deformation information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bogie structure for a mountain railway car. The bogie structure is configured as follows: a traction motor for driving an axle of mountain railway car is installed on a car body to simplify the bogie structure and to minimized interference between the traction motor and other components constituting the bogie, and a first and a second bearing are respectively inserted and installed between a first and a second axle and a first and a second wheel, so that a first and a second wheel located in one side close to a turning center are rotated less than a first and a second wheel located in the other side opposite thereof and a traveling distance of the wheels located in the turning-centered side is generated corresponding to a length of a turning-centered side railway, whereby the mountain railway car is improved in traveling stability.

Abstract: Provided herein is a method for measuring the size distribution and/or hardness of free falling rock pieces. The method comprises projecting at least one laser line on the falling rock pieces by a laser device; capturing images of the falling rock pieces at an angle from the at least one laser line by at least one camera; and obtaining size distribution data of the falling rock pieces based on data obtained from a topographical map generated from the captured images. Certain embodiments further comprise: obtaining at least one of the volume and area of individual rock pieces from the topographical map; conducting a data analysis on at least one of the volume and area measurements of the rock pieces to reduce at least one of sampling and measurement errors; determining the size distribution of the falling rock pieces based on the data analysis and, optionally, evaluating a rock hardness index for the rock.

Abstract: An operation method of a terminal performing handover in a mobile communication system may comprise transmitting packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) downlink reception status information of the terminal and information on a target base station to a source base station; receiving downlink data from a user plane function (UPF) via the source base station based on a first tunnel configured between the source base station and the UPF; receiving downlink data from the UPF via the target base station based on a second tunnel configured by the UPF between the target base station and the UPF by using the PDCP downlink reception status information and the information on the target base station, which are transferred from the source base station; and discarding duplicated-received protocol data units (PDUs) from the source base station and the target base station, and reordering remaining PDUs.

Abstract: A Hall probe comprising a Hall effect sensing element. The probe is capable of precisely measuring the strength of a magnetic field in high-voltage and vacuum environments.

Abstract: Provided are a flat plate pulsating heat pipe having flexibility and having an improved sealing ability so as not to leak a working fluid therein, and a manufacturing method thereof. The flat plate pulsating heat pipe includes a base part having an upper surface or a lower surface which is plasma-treated, wherein the base part has a plurality of channels formed therein and both end portions of each of the channels are bent and connected to each other to form a closed-loop type or a closed type; and a pair of surface films bonded to an upper portion and a lower portion of the base part and bonded to each other at an outer portion of the base part to seal the channels.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of performing motion compensation by using motion vector prediction. To this end, a method of decoding an image may include: generating multiple motion vector candidate lists according to an inter-prediction direction of a current block; deriving multiple motion vectors for the current block by using the multiple motion vector candidate lists; determining multiple prediction blocks for the current block by using the multiple motion vectors; and obtaining a final prediction block for the current block based on the multiple prediction blocks.

Abstract: A fan-in-wing aerial vehicle according to an embodiment may comprise: a fuselage; main wings expending from both sides of the fuselage in the span direction; rotors rotatably mounted inside the main wings, respectively; and opening/closing portions installed on the main wings such that the same can be opened/closed and thereby expose the rotors to the outside or conceal the rotors from the outside, respectively.

Abstract: Provided is a sound event recognition method that may improve a sound event recognition performance using a correlation between difference sound signal feature parameters based on a neural network, in detail, that may extract a sound signal feature parameter from a sound signal including a sound event, and recognize the sound event included in the sound signal by applying a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained using the sound signal feature parameter.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for measuring video quality based on a perceptually sensitive region. The quality of video may be measured based on a perceptually sensitive region and a change in the perceptually sensitive region. The perceptually sensitive region includes a spatial perceptually sensitive region, a temporal perceptually sensitive region, and a spatio-temporal perceptually sensitive region. Perceptual weights are applied to a detected perceptually sensitive region and a change in the detected perceptually sensitive region. Distortion is calculated based on the perceptually sensitive region and the change in the perceptually sensitive region, and a result of quality measurement for a video is generated based on the calculated distortion.

Abstract: A system and method for predicting pedestrian intent is provided. A prediction circuit comprising a plurality of gated recurrent units (GRUB) receives a sequence of images captured by a camera. The prediction circuit parses each frame of the sequence of images to identify one or more pedestrians and one or more objects. Using the parsed data, the prediction circuit generates a pedestrian-centric spatiotemporal graph, the parsed data comprising one or more identified pedestrians and one or more identified object. The prediction circuit uses the pedestrian-centric graph to determine a probability of one or more pedestrians crossing a street for each frame of the sequence of images.

Abstract: Provided is a nitrogen oxide (NOX) reduction catalyst including an active site including at least one of a metal vanadate expressed by [Chemical Formula 1] and a metal vanadate expressed by [Chemical Formula 2], and a support for loading the active site thereon. (M1)XV2OX+5??[Chemical Formula 1] (where M1 denotes one selected from among manganese (Mn), cobalt (Co), and nickel (Ni), and X denotes a real number having a value between 1 and 3.) (M2)YVO4??[Chemical Formula 2] (where M2 denotes one selected from among lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), and lutetium (Lu), and Y denotes a real number having a value between 0.5 and 1.5).

Abstract: Provided is a quantum dot (QD) light modulator and an apparatus including the QD light modulator. The QD light modulator may include a QD-containing layer including QDs having light-emission characteristics, a refractive index change layer arranged adjacent to the QD-containing layer, and a reflector arranged facing the QD-containing layer. The refractive index change layer may include a carrier density change area in which a carrier density changes, and the carrier density change area may be arranged adjacent to the QD-containing layer. The light-emission characteristics of the QD-containing layer may be modulated according to a change in a property of the refractive index change layer. The QD light modulator may further include a nano-antenna structure arranged on the QD-containing layer.