Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a wireless power supply apparatus, which has a power pickup core formed to wrap a corner of a power pickup cable to increase an inductive electromotive force induced in a power pickup unit, has a power feeding unit configured to transfer a magnetic flux by only a power feeding cable without a power feeding core, to reduce the enormous cost for materials required to fabricate the power feeding core and thus enhance the price competitiveness, and reduce the weight and volume thereof and thus simplify the installation thereof, and has the power pickup core configured to include a plurality of power pickup core members, to reduce the weight and volume of the power pickup unit and thus increase the operational efficiency of the vehicle under which the power pickup unit is mounted.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for estimation of a target value, which can change the aggregation of estimation results based on the degrees of confidence, taking the nature of an input observation signal into consideration. An unknown observation signal is input to a plurality of regression models. A plurality of estimated values are respectively obtained by a plurality of regression models corresponding to the plurality of features of the unknown observation signal. A target value of the unknown observation signal is estimated by aggregation of the target values. The estimating section calculates weights to be added the estimation results output from the regression models, based on the degrees of confidence with respect to the inputs into the regression models. A target value of the unknown observation signal is estimated through the aggregation by calculating a weighted sum of the estimation results output from the regression models.

Abstract: Disclosed are polymer nanofiber sensors for detecting gas, which generates visible color change although a specific gas having a concentration of less than 1 ppm is exposed to the sensor in a short time, in which it is impossible to detect the gas using existing colorimetric sensors, through securing high surface area and porosity, and a method of the same.

Abstract: Certain embodiments comprise administering a residence structure to a subject (e.g., a patient) such that the residence structure is retained at a location internal to the subject for a particular amount of time (e.g., at least about 24 hours) before being released. In certain embodiments, the structure has a modular design, combining a material configured for controlled release of therapeutic, diagnostic, and/or enhancement agents with a structural material necessary for gastric residence but configured for controlled and/or tunable degradation/dissolution to determine the time at which retention shape integrity is lost and the structure passes out of the gastric cavity. For example, in certain embodiments, the residence structure comprises a first elastic component, a second component configured to release an active substance, and, optionally, a linker. In some such embodiments, the linker may be configured to degrade.

Abstract: Disclosed is a drug conjugate as a prodrug that is degraded by cathepsin B specifically expressed in tumor tissues to release doxorubicin. The drug conjugate can form self-assembled nanoparticles. In addition, the drug conjugate specifically responds to and is activated in tumor cells. Therefore, the use of the drug conjugate eliminates the incidence of side effects (for example, cell damage and apoptosis) during the course of cancer prevention or treatment.

Abstract: A low frequency ultrasonic communication system includes: a low frequency ultrasonic transmitting apparatus configured to transmit data using a low frequency ultrasonic wave; and a low frequency ultrasonic receiving apparatus configured to recover the data by processing a low frequency ultrasonic reception signal transmitted from the low frequency ultrasonic transmitting apparatus. In communication between the transmitting apparatus and the receiving apparatus, modulation is performed using a DPSK scheme, and FEC coding is used to perform channel coding before the modulation.

Abstract: Methods for the production of lipids and biofuels with a culture of Candidatus Microthrix spp. grown on a medium such as wastewater or sewage sludge are provided. The Candidatus Microthrix spp. may be cultured with additional microorganisms that contribute to the accumulation of lipids from the growth medium such as Zoog!oea spp., Rhizobacter spp., Blautia spp., Hydrolatea spp., ODI genera incertae sedis. Further discloses are transformed organisms comprising genes isolated from Candidatus Microthrix parvicella, as well as methods and processes for producing lipids, fatty acids, or biofuels in vitro using the protein products of the isolated genes.

Abstract: Diagnostic assays for discriminating Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia from IgM monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance are provided. The method comprises obtaining a biological sample from a subject in need thereof, performing an allele-specific polymerase chain reaction assay to determine in the biological sample a level of a transcript comprising a mutation at position 38182641 in chromosome 3p22.2, and providing a report indicating whether delta CT value of the biological sample is less than a reference value, wherein the subject has Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia if the delta CT value is less than the reference value.

Abstract: A battery health state evaluation method for evaluating a health state of a battery comprises a charging step, an idling step, a pulse discharging step, an evaluation index calculating step, and an evaluation result yielding step. The evaluation index calculating step retrieves a continuous voltage data and a continuous current data in a charging process, an idling process, and a pulse discharge process and calculates a plurality of evaluation indexed according to the continuous voltage data and continuous current data. The evaluation indexes are associated with the health state of the battery. The evaluation result yielding step evaluates the health state of the battery according to the indexes and yields an evaluation result. Therefore, the battery health state evaluation method is easy, convenient, and effective in performing a test quickly and accurately.

Abstract: A biometric device includes an illuminating unit and an imaging module. The imaging module includes an optical angular selective structure and a sensing layer. The light selecting structure includes a micro lens array, a refractive layer and a light shielding layer. The refractive layer is disposed between the micro lens array and the light shielding layer. The micro lens array includes a plurality of lens unit units, and the light shielding layer has a plurality of light passing portions. The sensing layer defines multiple sensing regions which are spaced apart from each other. The light shielding layer is disposed between the refractive layer and the sensing layer. The sensing regions correspond to the light passing portions, respectively. An optical angular selective distance is defined between the light shielding layer and the sensing layer.

Abstract: A base station of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The base station comprise a communication module; and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit a radio frame divided into a plurality of subframes by using the communication module, wherein a duration of each of the plurality of subframes is 1 ms. When the base station transmits a partial subframe having a duration shorter than the duration of each of the plurality of subframes, the processor starts to transmit a control channel for scheduling data transmitted through the partial subframe at a symbol position for transmitting a reference signal.

Abstract: A multi-channel optical imaging and stimulation system includes a light source to deliver light beams into a light guide. Different light beams are coupled into different spatial modes supported by the light guide. The light guide includes multiple segments, each of which defines a window to couple a specified group of spatial modes out of the light guide to illuminate or stimulate a target. Light reflected, scattered, or emitted by the target is also collected by the windows in the light guide. The light collected by different windows is detected by different pixels of a detector, thereby creating a correspondence between the pixel location and the spatial location of site at which the light is collected. An image of the target is then reconstructed based on this correspondence.

Abstract: Provided is a compact device which captures, over a large solid angle range, electrically charged particles emitted from a point source and parallelizes the trajectories of said charged particles. The present invention is configured from: an electrostatic lens comprising a plurality of axisymmetric electrodes (10-14) and an axisymmetric aspherical mesh (2) which has a surface that is concave away from the point source; and a flat collimator plate (3) positioned coaxially with the electrostatic lens. The acceptance angle for the electrically charged particles generated from a point source (7) is ±30° or greater. The shape of the aspherical mesh (2), and the potentials and the positions of a ground electrode (10) and application electrodes (11-15) are adjusted so that the trajectories of the electrically charged particles are substantially parallelized by the electrostatic lens. The electrostatic lens and the flat collimator plate are positioned on a common axis.

Abstract: A radar and communication (RadCom) system and a method for vehicles using a fast chirp signal are provided. A radar system includes a phase locked loop (PLL) configured to generate a radar signal, a signal generator configured to generate a communication signal and a mixer configured to mix the radar signal and the communication signal. The system also includes a transmitter configured to transmit an output signal from the mixer, a first switch configured to switch not to transmit the communication signal to the mixer in a radar mode, and a second switch configured to switch to connect a first filter to the PLL when the radar mode ends. Accordingly, RadCom transmission and reception using the fast chirp signal is possible.

Abstract: A dangerous situation notification apparatus includes an acoustic information management unit identifying and providing acoustic information including an acoustic source type and acoustic scene information; a user behavior information identification unit generating and providing user behavior information; a behavior context information management unit storing user behavior context information generated using the acoustic information and the user behavior information in advance, and analyzing user's current behavior context information corresponding to the acoustic information and the user behavior information detected in real time; a dangerous situation inference unit inferring whether the acoustic information or the user behavior information corresponds to a dangerous situation; and a dangerous situation notification unit providing a dangerous situation notification.

Abstract: Provided are a compound represented by the following Formula I, or a solvate, stereoisomer, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a composition for preventing or treating hair loss, the compound including the compound as an active ingredient:

Abstract: An intelligent door lock, a control method thereof, and an unlocking apparatus and method thereof are provided. The unlocking method is adapted for an unlocking apparatus to unlock a door lock apparatus, and includes following steps. Receiving a plurality of broadcast packages sent by the door lock apparatus in response to an operation on the door lock apparatus, and detecting a variation in signal strengths of the broadcast packets caused by the operation. Reading a stage message, which is recorded in each of the broadcast packages, of the door lock apparatus corresponding to the operation. Determining whether a variation of the stage messages matches a variation of the signal strengths of the broadcast packages. Sending an unlocking signal to the door lock apparatus for executing unlocking if a determination result indicates match.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an expression vector for restoring male sterility in a plant. The expression vector comprises a regulatory region sequence operably linked to a heterologous nucleotide sequence.

Abstract: A window system according to an aspect of the invention includes: a window frame; an inner window installed at an indoor side of the window frame; an outer window fixed to the window frame and spaced apart from the inner window with a predetermined distance at an outdoor side to form a hollow layer between the outer window and the inner window; an air-flowing opening formed between the outer window and the window frame to form a flow path in which air in the hollow layer flows or circulates; and an opening and closing device provided at one side of the inner window to open and close the inner window from the window frame. The outer window may include a tinted glass or a glass having a high absorption rate and a bracket for fixing the tinted glass to the window frame.

Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided that can be used to vaccinate against and treat HIV. Specifically contemplated are vaccine compositions and methods of using these compositions treat HIV in patients. Aspects of the disclosure relate to an anti-CD40 antibody-HIV antigen fusion protein comprising (i) an anti-CD40 heavy chain (HCD40)-HIV antigen (Ag) fusion protein comprising the formula: HCD40-Ag, wherein Ag is a polypeptide with at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:1; and (ii) an anti-CD40 light chain (LCD40).