Abstract: The present invention relates to techniques for determining unknown concentration of constituents of any known mixture. The said techniques comprising: obtaining a plurality of chromatograms relating to known concentration of known mixtures and at least one chromatogram relating to unknown concentration of the known mixture; converting each of the chromatograms into signal vectors; condensing the dimensions of each of the signal vectors for obtaining low dimensional signal vectors; processing the low dimensional signal vectors representing the chromatograms relating to known concentrations to obtain output values; and processing the at least one low dimensional signal vector representing the chromatogram relating to unknown concentration by utilizing the obtained output values for determining the unknown concentration of each of the constitutes of the known mixture.

Abstract: Provided are an electrode active material having a plurality of pores and a secondary battery including the same, and more particularly, a porous electrode active material including silicon-based oxide expressed by SiOx (0.5?x?1.2) and having a Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller (BET) specific surface area ranging from 2 m2/g to 100 m2/g, and a secondary battery including a cathode including a cathode active material, a separator, an anode including an anode active material, and an electrolyte, in which the anode active material includes a porous electrode active material including silicon-based oxide expressed by SiOx (0.5?x?1.2) and having a BET specific surface area ranging from 2 m2/g to 100 m2/g.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for sharing a candidate list. A method of generating a merging candidate list for a predictive block may include: producing, on the basis of a coding block including a predictive block on which a parallel merging process is performed, at least one of a spatial merging candidate and a temporal merging candidate of the predictive block; and generating a single merging candidate list for the coding block on the basis of the produced merging candidate. Thus, it is possible to increase processing speeds for coding and decoding by performing inter-picture prediction in parallel on a plurality of predictive blocks.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electric vehicle including: a plurality of transmission shafts, wherein each transmission shaft is arranged along a lateral direction of the electric vehicle, the plurality of transmission shafts are spaced along the longitudinal direction of the electric vehicle, and each transmission shaft is used for driving wheels which are coaxially arranged and are located at opposite sides of the vehicle; at least two drive motors each of which is in transmission connection with at least one transmission shaft and is used for driving the at least one transmission shaft; wherein, at least one of the at least two drive motors is a single-shaft drive motor which is in transmission connection with only one transmission shaft to drive the only one transmission shaft. In the present invention, since the number of the drive motors is increased, the drive control of any transmission shaft can be realized.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for various intracellular responses throughout the life cycle of cells. The simulation apparatus for intracellular responses, includes a database configured to include information regarding cells for cell model generation, a model generation module configured to receive the information regarding cells from the database and to generate a cell model, an expression module configured to receive the information regarding cells from the database and to construct a numerical model for protein quantification, and a simulation module configured to allocate intracellular responses in the generated cell model to at least one computer and to simulate the intracellular responses.

Abstract: The invention related to a material that can stably hold an imide anion (NH2?) therein even in the atmosphere or in a solvent, and a method for synthesizing the material and a use of the material. A mayenite-type compound into which imide anions are incorporated at a concentration of 1×1018 cm?3 or more are provided. The mayenite-type compound can be produced by heating a mayenite-type compound including electrons or free oxygen ions in a cage thereof, in liquefied ammonia at 450 to 700° C. and at a pressure of 30 to 100 MPa. The compound has properties such that active imide anions can be easily incorporated into the compound and the active imide anions can be easily released in the form of ammonia from the compound, and the compound has chemical stability.

Abstract: A method for making a polyolefin composite separator is disclosed. Methyl methacrylate and ?-(triethoxysilyl)propyl methacrylate are polymerized to form a copolymer. The copolymer is dissolved in a first solvent to form a copolymer solution. The copolymer solution is applied to a surface of a polyolefin porous film, and dried to form a gel polymer electrolyte precursor layer on the surface of the polyolefin porous film. The polyolefin porous film having the gel polymer electrolyte precursor layer applied thereon is fumigated in an atmosphere of hydrochloric acid gas. A polyolefin composite separator and a lithium ion battery are also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for supporting choreography, which can easily and systematically search for existing dances through various interfaces and can check the simulation of the found dances. For this, the apparatus includes a dance motion DB for storing pieces of motion capture data about respective multiple dance motions, a dance attribute DB for storing pieces of biomechanical information about respective multiple dance motions, a search unit for receiving a search target dance from a user using a method corresponding to at least one of a sectional motion search and a dance attribute search, and searching the dance motion DB and the dance attribute DB for choreographic data based on similarity determination, and a display unit for displaying choreographic data of the dance motion DB and the dance attribute DB, found as a result of the search based on similarity determined by the search unit.

Abstract: We describe a method of making a prediction of when a tuber will sprout. In some embodiments the method comprises making a measurement of an optical reflectance of the tuber in an eye region of the tuber; making a reference measurement of optical reflectance of the or another tuber, processing the tuber eye measurement in combination with the reference measurement; and making a prediction of when the tuber will sprout in response.

Abstract: Provided is a thermoelectric material including a metal silicide film, and silicon particles dispersed in the metal silicide film, the total volume of the silicon particles being greater than the volume of the metal silicide film.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a silicon carbide (SiC) sintered body and a SiC sintered body obtained by the method are provided. The method includes: preparing a composite powder by subjecting a SiC raw material and a sintering aid raw material to mechanical alloying; and sintering the composite powder, wherein the sintering aid is at least one selected from the group consisting of an Al—C-based material, an Al—B—C-based material, and a B—C-based material. Accordingly, a SiC sintered body that can be sintered at low temperature, can be densified, and has high strength and high electrical conductivity can be prepared.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to effectively accumulate triacylglycerol in algae cells, the present invention providing a method for introducing a triacylglycerol synthetase gene, a phosphorus starvation-inducible promoter, and a 3? untranslated region into algae.

Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated circuit formed of tunneling field-effect transistors that includes a first tunneling field-effect transistor in which one of a first P-type region and a first N-type region operates as a source region and the other one operates as a drain region; and a second tunneling field-effect transistor in which one of a second P-type region and a second N-type region operates as a source region and the other one operates as a drain region, the first and second tunneling field-effect transistors being formed in one active region to have the same polarity, the first P-type region and the second N-type region being formed adjacently, the adjacent first P-type region and second N-type region being electrically connected through metal semiconductor alloy film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of selecting a nuclease target sequence for gene knockout based on microhomology.

Abstract: Methods and devices for ion separations or manipulations in gas phase are disclosed. The device includes a single non-planar surface. Arrays of electrodes are coupled to the surface. A combination of RF and DC voltages are applied to the arrays of electrodes to create confining and driving fields that move ions through the device. The DC voltages are static DC voltages or time-dependent DC potentials or waveforms.

Abstract: Carbon nanotube (CNT) immobilized membranes for harvesting pure water from air include CNTs incorporated into a layer of super-absorbing polymer. The super-absorbing polymer may be cast over a porous substrate. The super-absorbing polymer binds strongly to water and generates water clusters while the CNTs are operable to interrupt the specific water-polymer and water-water interactions to generate more free water which permeates more easily through the membrane. Methods of forming the CNT immobilized membranes are provided. The CNT immobilized membranes disclosed herein exhibit improved water vapor extraction efficiency, water vapor removal and mass transfer coefficient.

Abstract: A resonance coil includes plural unit coils where directions of magnetic fields which are formed by flowing of electric current are the same, in which the plural unit coils are arranged around a coil center line, and when the resonance coil is seen in a direction of the coil center line, the coil wire that forms the resonance coil is formed so as not to be overlapped.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of fabricating a graphite sheet, including: polymerizing diamines and a dianhydride to form a polyamic acid. The polyamic acid is solvent casted on a substrate and hot baked to form a polyamic acid film or gel film. The polyamic acid film or gel film is biaxially stretched at a high temperature imidization or chemical imidization to form the polyimide film. The polyimide film is then carbonized and graphitized to form a graphite sheet. The diamines include a diamine of Formula 1 and a diamine of Formula 2, and the dianhydride includes a dianhydride of Formulae 3, Formula 4, Formula 5, Formula 6, Formula 7, Formula 8, Formula 9, or combinations thereof.

Abstract: A method for transiting an operation mode of a routing processor is provided, which allows each routing processor in a packet processing system to be transited among a slave operation mode, a slave stand-by mode, a master stand-by mode, and a master operation mode to allow the packet processing system to normally operate even though a failure occurs in the routing processor that is set in the master operation mode, a new routing processor is added, or the routing processor set in the master operation mode is initialized.

Abstract: Provided herein is a health monitoring apparatus that is capable of increasing the reliability and stability of an aviation system, the health monitoring apparatus including a health monitoring manager configured to receive a sensed error from an aeronautic system control apparatus, and to activate one of a process level monitor, a partition level monitor, and a module level monitor according to an error level of the sensed error, and a monitor unit comprising the process level monitor, the partition level monitor, and the module level monitor that are integrated into one system by a partitioning method, wherein the one of the process level monitor, the partition level monitor, and the module level monitor that is activated by the health monitoring manager performs error handling and provides an error processing method suitable to the sensed error to the aeronautic system control apparatus.