Abstract: The present invention relates to a high reliability field effect power device and a manufacturing method thereof. A method of manufacturing a field effect power device includes sequentially forming a transfer layer, a buffer layer, a barrier layer and a passivation layer on a substrate, patterning the passivation layer by etching a first region of the passivation layer, and forming at least one electrode on the first region of the barrier layer exposed by patterning the passivation layer, wherein the first region is provided to form the at least one electrode, and the passivation layer may include a material having a wider bandgap than the barrier layer to prevent a trapping effect and a leakage current of the field effect power device.

Abstract: Provided is an unmanned aerial vehicle that broadcasts a route and future location information of the unmanned aerial vehicle within preset coverage based on sensing data and current location information of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes a calculator configured to calculate a predicted route and second location information of the unmanned aerial vehicle corresponding to a preset period of time based on first location information and sensing data; and a transmitter configured to periodically broadcast a first notification signal that includes the first location information, the predicted route, and the second location information.

Abstract: The biosensor includes a substrate, an electrode pattern positioned on the substrate, a passivation layer which is formed with a plurality of holes spaced apart from each other, and a bead positioned at one or more holes among the plurality of holes, and to which an antibody is attached, the electrode pattern includes a first electrode pattern part and a second electrode pattern part spaced apart from the first electrode pattern part, which has a same height as a height of the first electrode pattern part, and forms an electric field with the first electrode pattern part.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for time-assisted authentication. A main authentication entity may generate a group of communication entities. In keying protocol a key distributor, i-e main authentication entity, controls the key generation arguments and time factor; other member of the group independently generate the time-based keys using the key generation arguments. Respective keys in the chain of keys may be valid for time intervals predefined for respective keys. A ticket is issued to the valid customer node during initial authentication process, which is further used for re-authentication of customer node with other service providing entities and customer to customer node mutual authentication. A ticket verifier may authenticate a customer node by decrypting the ticket using time based keys.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for inducing direct transdifferentiation of a somatic cell into a vascular progenitor cell and a use thereof and, more specifically, to a composition for inducing direct transdifferentiation of a somatic cell into a vascular progenitor cell, a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of ischemic vascular diseases, a cell therapeutic agent for the prevention or treatment of ischemic vascular diseases, a composition for screening a therapeutic drug for ischemic vascular diseases, a 3D printing biological material composition for the production of an artificial tissue for the treatment of ischemic vascular diseases, and a method for direct transdifferentiation of a somatic cell into a vascular progenitor cell.

Abstract: Described herein are methods for dynamic redirection of metabolic flux in a cell from central metabolism towards production of heterologous products.

Abstract: Radiation detecting-structures and fabrications methods thereof are presented. The methods include, for instance: providing a substrate, the substrate including at least one trench extending into the substrate from an upper surface thereof; and epitaxially forming a radiation-responsive semiconductor material layer from one or more sidewalls of the at least one trench of the substrate, the radiation-responsive semiconductor material layer responding to incident radiation by generating charge carriers therein. In one embodiment, the sidewalls of the at least one trench of the substrate include a (111) surface of the substrate, which facilitates epitaxially forming the radiation-responsive semiconductor material layer. In another embodiment, the radiation-responsive semiconductor material layer includes hexagonal boron nitride, and the epitaxially forming includes providing the hexagonal boron nitride with an a-axis aligned parallel to the sidewalls of the trench.

Abstract: Provided is a thermoelectric device. The thermoelectric device includes an upper substrate and a lower substrate, which face each other, and a thermoelectric conversion part disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. The thermoelectric conversion part includes a first electrode disposed on the lower substrate, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode in a first direction on the lower substrate, a third electrode spaced apart from the first and second electrodes in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction on the lower substrate, a first thermoelectric member disposed between the first electrode and the third electrode and connected to the first electrode and the third electrode, and a second thermoelectric member disposed between the second electrode and the third electrode and connected to the second electrode and the third electrode.

Abstract: Provided is a porous carbon material having carbon nano-rods on the surface thereof. The porous carbon material has an increased specific surface area and an increased electrochemically active area, and thus may be expected to provide improved performance, when used as an electrode for electrochemical reactions. In addition, the carbon nano-rods of the porous carbon material are formed through an etching process using a catalyst for etching formed on the carbon material, and thus the carbon material may have various functions.

Abstract: The present embodiments relate to compositions and methods for treating the inflammatory response in a tissue or organ, such as the liver, by contacting the tissue with a tissue-specific gap junction inhibitor; and compositions and methods of reducing the toxicity of an agent by administering a gap junction inhibitor either simultaneously or sequentially with exposure to the agent. For example, inhibition of the liver-specific gap junction connexin 32 by 2-aminoethyoxydiphenyl-borate, effectively treats and/or prevents hepatotoxicity.

Abstract: Provided is a network management server that may select a resource entity corresponding to a resource to be allocated to a peer based on shared resource information, transmit resource allocation request information including resource release condition information to the selected resource entity, receive resource allocation result information from the selected resource entity in response to allocating the resource for the peer, based on the resource allocation request information, and transmit the resource allocation result information to the peer.

Abstract: A device prepares drinking water by electrolysis, belonging to the technical field of equipment for electrolysis of water. The device includes a water container, at least one pair of a cathode and an anode arranged within the water container, and an electrolysis power source used for supplying electricity to the cathode and the anode; a water-permeable membrane is arranged between the coupled cathode and anode, and the water-permeable membrane covers the anode, the range of the distance ? between the water-permeable membrane and the cathode being 0???10 mm. The device, when electrolyzing water, can prepare water which has a low oxidation reduction potential, is rich in hydrogen and has a certain sterilization capability and is suitable for drinking.

Abstract: Aspects herein relate to composition, and related methods, for isolating and assembling DNA molecules without intermediate cloning steps.

Abstract: For more efficient and high-performance analysis of a function of a microalgae gene, the present invention provides an empirical analysis method of a metabolic pathway using a microalgae cell-free system, including: preparing microalgae homogenate; allowing a reaction vessel to contain the microalgae homogenate, and then treating with an effector molecule; and comparing with a control, which is not treated with the effector molecule, to measure a biological effect of the effector molecule treatment.

Abstract: Magnetic refrigerating device improves refrigerating capacity and efficiency by improving the heat exchanging method between a magnetic material and a heat exchanging fluid and devising a magnetic field applying method. The magnetic refrigerating device comprises: a cylindrical active magnetic regenerator (AMR) bed accommodating refrigerant therein; two magnetic materials disposed in the AMR bed in the axial direction, configured to be movable in the axial direction of the AMR bed, and made of material having a magnetocaloric effect; at least two permanent magnets positioned to face the two magnetic materials; a rotary shaft positioned between the two magnetic materials in the AMR bed and positioned between the at least two permanent magnets; and a magnetic rotary movement unit that rotationally moves the permanent magnets about the rotary shaft and that repeatedly moves the permanent magnets and the two magnetic materials closer together and farther apart in association with the rotational movement.

Abstract: Nanoparticles comprising a core including transition metal carbide, nitride, phosphide, sulfide, or boride and a noble metal shell can be made by transforming metal oxide core/noble metal shell materials coated in a ceramic material in a controlled environment. The noble metal shell can be a single monolayer. The self-assembly of metal carbide nanoparticles coated with atomically-thin noble metal monolayers results in a highly active, stable, and tunable catalytic platform.

Abstract: A smart bed for a radiation therapy includes a rest to which radiation is applied, a support structure having one end fixed to the ground and having four columns disposed to be spaced apart from one another, centered around the rest, four connection parts extending from one side of each of the columns and connected to each vertex of the rest, and lengthened or shortened through a linear actuator provided on one side thereof, and a controller independently controlling each of the linear actuators to implement movement of the rest, wherein rotational and translational movement of the rest is implemented such that radiation is applied to each position of an upper surface and a lower surface of the rest.

Abstract: A polymer is disclosed, which includes a structure of Formula 1 or Formula 2. R1 is a C2-18 alkylene group or a C6-18 arylene group, R2 is a C1-18 alkyl group, and R3 is a functional group of Formula 3. Each of X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, and X6, being the same or different, is H or methyl. Each of p, q, and r, being the same or different, is an integer of 1 to 60. R4 is —C2H4—, —C3H6—, Each of m and n, being the same or different, is an integer of 0 to 50, and m+n?0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for fine-tuning gene expression levels using a synthetic regulatory sRNA in a prokaryotic cell. The present invention can simultaneously, easily, and quickly apply various target gene combinations to various strains without gene deletion through the synthetic regulatory sRNA for regulating gene expression and is therefore very suitable for measuring the metabolizability of each strain and selecting an optimum strain. In addition, the method has the advantages of easily and quickly selecting a target gene for the inhibition of gene expression and expressing the gene thus selected to a desired degree and thus can be used in producing recombinant strains for the efficient production of various metabolites and establishing a method for the efficient production and is therefore very useful.

Abstract: A method for finding crowd movements is provided. The method includes: collecting location data associated with multiple user devices, mining frequent patterns in the location data to generate multiple representative sequences, and grouping the representative sequences into clusters to find crowd movements according to sequence distances between the representative sequences. Each representative sequence includes at least one line segment between a starting location point and an end location point.