Abstract: An imaging system is provided that includes a pulsed light source providing pulsed light and is applicable to both microscopes and endoscopes. One or more optical elements with certain dispersive properties are positioned to receive the pulsed light and apply selective dispersive properties to shift the focal plane according to the user and to produce two photon (2p) wide field uniform illumination and 2p wide field structured illumination for the purpose of improving the optical axial resolution and rejection of background signal. An imaging element receives the signal arising from the 2p wide field uniform illumination and 2p wide field structured illumination and produces a respective 3D resolved image of a sample.

Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for utilizing a peptide of thrombospondin-1 as an anti-inflammatory agent.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a radio frequency switching circuit including an antenna terminal, a transmitter terminal, a receiver terminal, a first switching module, a second switching module, a first switching component, and a second switching component. The first switching module is connected between the antenna terminal and the transmitter terminal. The second switching module is connected between the antenna terminal and the receiver terminal. The first and second switching modules include several transistors respectively, and each of the transistors includes a gate terminal, a drain terminal, a source terminal, and a bulk. The first switching component has a first anode terminal connecting with the gate terminal, and a first cathode terminal connecting with the drain terminal. The second switching component has a second anode terminal connecting with the gate terminal, and a second cathode terminal connecting with the source terminal.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for detecting an antigen. The method includes: reacting an antigen as an analyte having an absorption wavelength at 300 nm to 400 nm with an antibody to form an antigen-antibody conjugate; irradiating light to the antigen-antibody conjugate to induce fluorescence resonance energy transfer, thereby obtaining a fluorescence spectrum; and determining the presence of the antigen as the analyte by analyzing the fluorescence spectrum, and then measuring the concentration of the antigen. The method is capable of directly detecting various antigens in a homogeneous liquid state, which induces no competitive reaction, with high sensitivity and high selectivity through fluorescent resonance energy transfer, without any modification.

Abstract: An optoelectric control apparatus for a satellite laser ranging system comprises a communication controller for externally receiving optoelectric control data. Memory is connected to the communication controller and stores a round trip distance to a satellite. A laser generation control unit is connected to the communication controller and outputs a laser fire signal. A signal measurement unit receives a laser start time. A real-time conversion unit is connected to the signal measurement unit and the communication controller, and converts a predicted laser arrival time into real time. A Lagrange interpolation processor is connected to the real-time conversion unit and the memory, and calculates a time at which laser light fired by a laser transmission unit returns back to a laser reception unit (laser arrival time). The clock unit is connected to a time measurement unit, the real-time conversion unit, a register unit, and a delay unit, and outputs time information.

Abstract: The invention provides modified hepatitis C virus (HCV) E2 glycoproteins comprising the HCV-E2 receptor-binding domain (RBD) including the HVR1, HVR2 and igVR variable regions wherein in at least one of said variable regions at least a part of the variable region is replaced with a flexible linker sequence. The invention also provides vaccine compositions comprising the modified glycoproteins as well as methods of use thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a graphite powder composite supported by transition metal particles for storing hydrogen, and more specifically, to a method for preparing a graphite powder composite supported by transition metal particles having significantly improved hydrogen storage capacity, by means of introducing the transition metal particles having support capacity and particle diameters which are controlled, of transition metals such as nickel (Ni), palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt), and yttrium (Y), to an oxidized graphite powder that is provided with functionality through a chemical surface treatment.

Abstract: A sludge treatment apparatus includes an aeration tank serving to degrade microorganisms other than Bacillus sp. in sludge to produce organic matter to thereby activate Bacillus sp.; a poor aeration tank serving to reduce the activity of microorganisms in the sludge; a spore-forming tank operated under oxygen-free conditions and serving to induce the degradation and death of microorganisms remaining in the sludge while inducing the formation of spores of Bacillus sp.; a Bacillus sp.-activating reactor provided in an internal return line extending from the spore-forming tank to the aeration tank and serving to supply minerals to the sludge returned from the spore-forming tank to activate spore-type Bacillus sp.; and a sedimentation tank serving to induce the gravity sedimentation of the sludge discharged from the spore-forming tank to separate the discharged sludge into a supernatant and a concentrated sludge.

Abstract: An image recognizing apparatus includes a sample image acquiring unit configured to acquire a sample image having one or more target objects therein from a camera; and a reference range setting unit configured to calculate image locations and image heights for the respective target objects from the sample image and set a reference range of the image heights depending on the image positions. Further, the image recognizing apparatus includes a selection unit configured to determine whether a candidate area of each target object in the sample image acquired by the camera falls within the reference range to select an effective candidate area.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a polypropylene with narrow molecular weight distribution and a process for preparing the same in a reactor using a Ziegler-Natta catalyst.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an automatic locking screw machine, which includes an automatic separating module, an automatic feeding module, and an automatic locking module. The automatic separating module separates a plurality of screws arranged in an array. The automatic feeding module is connected to the automatic separating module, and includes a feeding duct for conveying the screws separated by the automatic separating module. The automatic locking module is connected to the automatic feeding module, and includes a first spring ball mechanism and a screwdriver. The first spring ball mechanism supports the screws conveyed by the feeding duct, and the screwdriver locks the screws supported by the first spring ball mechanism onto a workpiece.

Abstract: Disclosed is a p-type organic semiconductor material having the formula: Each Con is the same and consists of a conjugated oligomer. Each EW is the same and consists of an electron withdrawing group. The p-type organic semiconductor material can be applied in an active layer of an optoelectronic device, such as an organic solar cell, an organic light-emitting diode, or an organic thin-film transistor.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for building a map of probability distribution are provided. The apparatus for building the map of probability distribution includes: a sensor information collector configured to collect sensor information from a plurality of sensors; as object recognizer configured to recognize an object by integrating and inferring the sensor information, and to acquire object information; and a probability distribution creator configured to determine whether to apply an object property model including at least one of kinematic properties, shape properties, and probabilistic properties in correspondence to the object information, to acquire object properties corresponding to the object information, and to create a probability distribution based on foe object properties. Accordingly, it is possible to build a map with high reliability.

Abstract: Disclosed are 1,3-Dioxoindene derivatives, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof or enantiomers, a preparation method thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of viral diseases, comprising the same as an active ingredient. The 1,3-Dioxoindene derivatives have excellent inhibitory activity against picornaviruses including coxsackie-, entero-, echo-, Polio-, and rhinoviruses, as well as exhibiting low cytotoxicity, so that they can be useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of viral diseases including poliomyelitis, paralysis, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, viral meningitis, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, vesicular disease, hepatitis A, myositis, myocarditis, pancreatitis, diabetes, epidemic myalgia, encephalitis, flu, herpangina, foot-and-mouth disease, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, sinusitis or otitis media.

Abstract: The manufacturing method of nano porous material according to an example of the present invention comprises: a preparing step to prepare a substrate; and a manufacturing step to prepare nano porous material with a network structure in which nanoclusters are connected to each other using plasma deposition through over 300 mTorr of working pressure. Using the manufacturing method, it is possible to form a nano porous material having desired surface energy without formation of additional coating layer as well as pores distributed both within and on the surface of the nano porous material with only one deposition process.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ionization chamber with a built-in temperature sensor, which is especially adapted for devices, such as X-ray units, gamma irradiators and linear accelerators, whichever is used for performing radiation dose output measurement accordingly. In an embodiment, the ionization chamber comprises: a cavity, an inner electrode, a chamber wall, an outer electrode, a guard electrode and a calibrated temperature sensor for detecting real-time temperature inside the cavity of ionization chamber to be used in the correction process of radiation dose measurement signals. With the aforesaid device, not only the accuracy of measurement can be improved effectively, but also the time consumed in a radiation dose measurement period can be reduced greatly since it will no longer bear the disadvantage that the radiation dose measurement has to wait until the temperatures inside and outside the cavity of ionization chamber had reached a thermal equilibrium before the measurement.

Abstract: Provided is a method for preparing a carbon material based on an organic nanofilm using thermal evaporation, including: depositing a liquid polymer or polymer solution containing a polymer and a solvent onto a substrate, thereby forming an organic nanofilm; stabilizing the organic nanofilm so that the carbon atoms in the organic nanofilm have a cyclic arrangement; and carbonizing the stabilized organic nanofilm, thereby forming a carbon material, wherein the organic nanofilm is formed from the liquid polymer or polymer solution through a thermal evaporation process. The method provides a carbon material with a thickness, sheet resistance and surface roughness suitable for various applications and allows control thereof. In addition, the method uses a relatively inexpensive starting material, pitch, thereby reducing the overall production cost, and avoids a need for a complicated additional patterning operation, so that the carbon material is applied directly to electronic devices.

Abstract: Systems and methods for conflict resolution and stabilizing cut generation in a mixed integer linear program (MILP) solver are disclosed. One disclosed method includes receiving a mixed integer linear problem (MILP), the MILP having a root node and one or more global bounds; pre-processing the MILP, the MILP being associated with nodes; establishing a first threshold for a learning phase branch-and-cut process; performing, by one or more processors, the learning phase branch-and-cut process for nodes associated with the MILP, wherein performing the learning phase branch-and-cut process includes: evaluating the nodes associated with the MILP, collecting conflict information about the MILP, and determining whether the first threshold has been reached; responsive to reaching the first threshold, removing all of the nodes and restoring a root node of the MILP; and solving, with the one or more processors, the MILP using the restored root node and the collected conflict information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for interlayer prediction, and the method for interlayer prediction, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: deciding whether to apply an interlayer prediction to an enhancement layer; and performing a prediction on a current block of the enhancement layer based on reference information that is generalized and generated from a reference picture, which is decoded, of a reference layer, when the interlayer prediction is applied, wherein the reference layer information can be encoding information of a reference block, which corresponds to a current block of the enhancement layer, from the reference layer, and residual information.

Abstract: Disclosed is a calibration system for stereo cameras. The calibration system includes a rig control module configured to, when a camera calibration parameter is input, control an auto rig according to the camera calibration parameter to perform physical calibration for a camera, a stereo image calibration apparatus configured to calibrate a stereo image to acquire the camera calibration parameter, and output the acquired camera calibration parameter, and a camera control module configured to output the camera calibration parameter, which is input from the stereo image calibration apparatus, to the rig control module, or screen-output the camera calibration parameter. Therefore, physical calibration and image processing calibration for a camera are performed in association with each other.