Abstract: A composite film includes a substrate that is not responsive to relative humidity, and also one or more layers of hygromorphic material. The hygromorphic material expands in response to an increase in relative humidity and contracts in response to a decrease in relative humidity. In some cases, the composite film is bi-layer or tri-layer. The composite films are fabricated such that they undergo a desired bending pattern in response to changes in relative humidity. In some cases, these bending patterns are combinations of two bending primitives: a smooth curve and a sharply angled curve. These two primitives are combined to create a variety of shape transformations including 1D linear transformation, 2D surface expansion and contraction, 2.5D texture change and 3D folding. Any type of hygromorphic material may be employed, including living gram positive and gram negative bacterial cells, yeast cells, plant cells, mammalian cells, cell debris, or hydrogel.

Abstract: On a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate, heat treatment is performed after one layer or two or more layers of an oxide film, a nitride film, or an oxynitride film are formed as a gate insulating film. The heat treatment after the gate insulating film is formed is performed for a given period in an atmosphere that includes H2 and H2O without including O2. As a result, hydrogen or hydroxyl groups can be segregated in a limited region that includes the interface of the silicon carbide substrate and the gate insulating film. The width of the region to which the hydrogen or hydroxyl groups is segregated is from 0.5 nm to 10 nm. In such a manner, the interface state density can be lowered and high channel mobility can be realized.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for processing a large scale graph using GPUs, and more particularly, to a system and method capable of processing larger-scale graph data beyond the capacity of device memory of GPUs using a streaming method. A large-scale graph processing system using GPUs according to an aspect of the present invention includes a main memory, device memories of a plurality of GPUs that process graph data transferred from the main memory; a loop controller that processes graph data transfer in a nested loop join scheme in the graph data transfer between the main memory and the device memory of the GPU, and a streaming controller that copies the graph data to the device memory of the GPU in a chunk or streaming manner using a GPU stream according to the nested loop join scheme.

Abstract: A wavelength-converting polymer, a method for fabricating the same and a wavelength-converting device employing the same are provided. The wavelength-converting polymer has a chemical structure represented by formula (I): In formula (I), B and D are the same or different and independently include hydrogen, C1-8 alkyl group, C1-8 alkoxy group, aryloxy group, carboxyl group, —COOK, —COONa or —NH2, or B and D are connected to form a heteroaromatic ring, wherein Z is hydrogen, C1-8 alkyl group, cycloalkyl group or aryloxy group, X1-X4 are the same or different and independently include hydrogen, halogen, C1-8 alkyl group or C1-8 alkoxy group, R is C1-8 alkyl group with or without substitution, and n is an integer of 5 to 1,000.

Abstract: The present invention discloses novel compositions and methods for enhancing cardiac differentiation efficiency of stem cells or promoting ventricular and atrial cardiomyocytes formation from stem cells. The present invention also discloses the atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes formed from the stem cells, and the uses of the cardiomyocytes for repairing cardiac injuries and screening for new medicaments for treating cardiac injuries.

Abstract: Provided are a compound represented by Formula I, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof; and a pharmaceutical composition for cancer treatment and a pharmaceutical composition for a radiation sensitizer for cancer treatment, each pharmaceutical composition including the compound of Formula I, the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or the solvate thereof: wherein, in Formula I, —R1 is a C1-C3 alkoxy, ?O, or —OH, and —R2 is a 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl including 1 to 2 hetero atoms selected from nitrogen and oxygen, wherein a carbon of the 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl is optionally substituted with a C1-C3 alkyl a C1-C3 alkoxy, or hydroxy.

Abstract: An energy storage device comprising: an anode; and a solute-containing electrolyte composition wherein the solute concentration in the electrolyte composition is sufficiently high to form a regenerative solid electrolyte interface layer on a surface of the anode only during charging of the energy storage device, wherein the regenerative layer comprises at least one solute or solvated solute from the electrolyte composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hybrid reforming system for producing syngas through a reforming reaction between carbon dioxide plasma and a hydrocarbon material, the system comprising: a carbon dioxide feeder (110) which feeds carbon dioxide; a hydrocarbon material feeder (120) which feeds the hydrocarbon material; a plasma reformer (200) which respectively receives carbon dioxide and the hydrocarbon material from the carbon dioxide feeder (110) and the hydrocarbon material feeder (120), and produces primary syngas through a reforming reaction while producing the carbon dioxide plasma using electromagnetic waves; a wet carbon-refining device (130) which is arranged at a gas exhaust end of the plasma reformer (200) and filters and refines carbon contained in the primary syngas; and a catalyst dry-reformer (140) which is arranged at a gas exhaust end of the wet carbon-refining device (130) and produces secondary syngas by making the refined syngas undergo a catalyst dry-reforming reaction.

Abstract: An aquaculture method and a method for reducing biofouling of vessels or submerged structures, the method comprising broadcasting into the marine environment sound at a frequency or in a frequency range effective to attract one or more marine species to the sound source.

Abstract: A method for reducing metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) is disclosed. The method for reducing metal artifacts in CT includes: obtaining a sinogram reduced in size from an original sinogram; setting up a linear algebraic equation according to remaining data excluding data damaged by a metal based on the obtained sinogram; restoring a low-resolution image based on the set up linear algebraic equation; calculating a sinogram from the restored low-resolution image; restoring a sinogram by disposing the calculated sinogram data in the original sinogram and by utilizing the calculated sinogram data as pre-information; and restoring a final CT image from the restored sinogram. Through introduction of a novel metal artifact reduction (MAR) technique referred to as an algebraic correction technique (ACT) using an intermediate image of an attenuation coefficient of an outside of a metal area, an image closest to an original image can be obtained by minimizing metal artifacts in CT.

Abstract: The present invention discloses the application of mesenchymal stem cells in the prophylaxis or treatment of stress response-induced weakened immunity. More particularly, the present invention provides the use of mesenchymal stem cells in preparing a pharmaceutical composition for the prophylaxis or treatment of stress response-induced lymphopenia; and/or the use thereof in preparing a pharmaceutical composition for the prophylaxis or treatment of stress response-induced weakened immunity; and/or the use thereof in preparing a pharmaceutical composition for the promotion of interleukin 4 (IL-4) expression and/or enhanced or strengthened activity. The present invention has found that mesenchymal stem cells can, by means of regulating IL-4 and down-stream related signaling pathways, protect against hormonal disorder-induced lymphopenia, thus having the function of activating immune response.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an inner sleeve for a taper collet containing a cylindrical part containing a damping alloy having a slit provided thereon, and to a cutting tool holder containing a collet chuck body, a taper collet, and the inner sleeve for a taper collet

Abstract: Disclosed are a wearable device including a modular functional block and a method for extending a function of a wearable device using a modular functional block. The wearable device including the modular functional block according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of functional blocks that are removably fastened to a strap connected to a main block of the wearable device. Here, a processing block of at least one of the main block and the plurality of functional blocks recognizes a mounting state of each of the other functional blocks, and generates application information provided in a combination of the functional blocks fastened to the strap.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for automatically optimizing point cloud data quality, including the following steps of: acquiring initial point cloud data for a target to be reconstructed, to obtain an initial discrete point cloud; performing preliminary data cleaning on the obtained initial discrete point cloud to obtain a Locally Optimal Projection operator (LOP) sampling model; obtaining a Possion reconstruction point cloud model by using a Possion surface reconstruction method on the obtained initial discrete point cloud; performing iterative closest point algorithm registration on the obtained Possion reconstruction point cloud model and the obtained initial discrete point cloud; and for each point on a currently registered model, calculating a weight of a surrounding point within a certain radius distance region of a position corresponding to the point for the point on the obtained LOP sampling model, and comparing the weight with a threshold, to determine whether a region where the point is located requires rep

Abstract: A measurement control system for a multi-shaft supported air floatation platform, the system comprising a load feedback unit (5), an execution unit (6), a position measurement unit (7), a safety protection unit (8), a controller (9), a rotating motor (10), and a linear light source 11; the load feedback unit comprises M pressure sensors (5-1) and four differential sensors (5-2); the execution unit comprises M servo voice coil motors (6-1) and M servo voice coil motor drivers (6-2); the position measurement unit comprises a plane grating (7-1), M linear gratings (7-2) a linear array CCD (7-3), a tilt sensor (7-4), M electronic levels (7-5), and an indoor GPS (7-6); the safety protection unit comprises 2M proximity sensors (8-1) and M temperature sensors (8-2); and the linear array CCD consists of no few then six CCDs. The system solves the problems of leveling limitations and narrow application range of existing supporting platforms.

Abstract: At least some example embodiments disclose a device and a method for generating a synthetic image and a different-angled image and eliminating noise. The method may include receiving input images, extracting feature values corresponding to the input images using an image learning model, the image learning model permitting an input and an output to be identical and generating a synthetic image based on the feature values corresponding to the input images using the image learning model.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for allocating a resource to a D2D link of a base station, including determining a D2D link resource to be allocated to the D2D link among cellular resources of the base station, and transmitting uplink control information including information on the D2D link resource to at least two terminals which are connected by the D2D link among a plurality of cellular terminals connected to the base station, and a method for transmitting/receiving data to and from a terminal, including: searching for a white space of cellular resources; transmitting a search result for the white space to a base station of coverage to which the terminal belongs; receiving resource information determined depending on the search result; and transmitting/receiving data to and from the adjacent terminals through the D2D link based on the resource information.

Abstract: A transmitting apparatus in a mobile communication system determines a size of a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) that allocates a transmitting symbol in a minimum unit according to a quantity of data to transmit to each receiving apparatus and a latency time, allocates a control channel and a data channel in a frequency domain of a subframe including a plurality of transmitting symbols, and transmits respective control information and data to corresponding receiving apparatuses through the control channel and the data channel at the determined TTI in a radio frame including a plurality of subframes.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling an array antenna through a step of generating control data by processing input data based on interrelationship between the n number of storage element included in generator, and a step of controlling a plurality of parasitic elements included in the array antenna based on the control data are provided.

Abstract: Provided is a boil-off gas temporary storage system and, more particularly, is a boil-off gas temporary storage system which compresses boil-off gas at high pressure, temporarily stores the compressed boil-off gas in a boil-off gas absorbing tank, supplies the stored boil-off gas to a high-pressure gas transmission part and a high-pressure liquefied natural gas transmission part to recycle the boil-off gas, controls the pressure of a low-pressure liquefied natural gas cargo tank and a fuel liquefied natural gas tank of a ship to be filled with gas, and removes the necessity of a complicated and high-priced re-liquefaction device, in a method for removing the boil-off gas to depressurize the fuel liquefied natural gas tank of a ship to be filled with gas in the relatively high-pressure state before supplying the liquefied natural gas to a ship to be filled with gas.