Abstract: Methods for transmitting and receiving data of a station includes setting a direct route to a corresponding station and a relay route to a relay device, selecting one route as between the direct route and relay route, and transmitting and receiving data through the selected route. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may store a program including instructions to cause a computer to perform the method. The setting may be performed by a processor and the transmitting and receiving may be performed respectively by a transmitter and a receiver.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a screening method for a drug target gene by using chemical-genetic profile compendium of the heterozygous deletion fission yeast strain and the comparative genetic analysis using the same. More precisely, the present inventors constructed the chemical-genetic profile compendium for drug candidates from the heterozygous deletion fission yeast strain of Schizosaccharomyces pombe (S. pombe), and then compared with the compendium with the chemical-genetic profile compendium of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae) in order to select efficiently drug target genes showing drug sensitivity. The screening method of the present invention can be efficiently used for the identification of a drug target gene in various eukaryotes because it facilitates the selection of a drug target gene showing sensitivity to the drug from the chemical-genetic profile compendium of the heterozygous deletion fission yeast strain.

Abstract: An agent for use in a vaccine therapy to prevent or treat a Burkholderia infection in a mammal, wherein the agent is selected from a polypeptide of SEQUENCE ID NO:1, or a therapeutically effective variant thereof having at least 90% sequence identity with SEQUENCE ID NO: 1; a polypeptide of SEQUENCE ID NO:3, or a therapeutically effective variant thereof having at least 90% sequence identity with SEQUENCE ID NO: 3; and an immunogenic portion of the polypeptides of SEQUENCE ID NO:1 or SEQUENCE ID NO:3.

Abstract: The present invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising, or consisting of, the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 or a nucleic acid sequence of at least 200 bp having at least 70% identity to said sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, wherein said isolated nucleic acid molecule specifically leads to the expression in cones and/or OFF bipolar cells of a gene when operatively linked to a nucleic acid sequence coding for said gene.

Abstract: Provided is a video encoding apparatus, including a signal separator to separate a differential image block into a first domain and a second domain, based on a boundary line included in the differential image block, the differential image block indicating a difference between an original image and a prediction image with respect to the original image, a transform encoder to perform a transform encoding with respect to the first domain using a discrete cosine transform (DCT), a quantization unit to quantize an output of the transform encoding unit in a frequency domain, a space domain quantization unit to quantize the second domain in a space domain, and an entropy encoder to perform an entropy encoding using outputs of the quantization unit and the space domain quantization unit.

Abstract: A dianhydride and a polyimide formed by the same are provided. The dianhydride has a chemical structure represented below: wherein Ar is a fluorene-containing group. The dianhydride can be polymerized with a diamine to form a polyimide with a repeating unit of a chemical formula: wherein Ar is the fluorene-containing group, and n is a positive integer from 1 to 5. The polyimide simultaneously has excellent thermal stability and hot workability, and can therefore be applied in several industries.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional integrated circuit comprising an aluminum nitride interposer is introduced. The method includes providing a first circuit component; providing a plurality of first conductive blocks on the first circuit component; providing an aluminum nitride interposer on the first circuit component, wherein the aluminum nitride interposer has microvias each comprising therein a conductor with an end in contact with a corresponding one of the first conductive blocks; providing second conductive blocks on the aluminum nitride interposer, wherein the second conductive blocks are in contact with the other ends of the conductors in the microvias; and providing at least a second circuit component disposed on the aluminum nitride interposer and electrically connected to the first circuit component through the first and second conductive blocks and the conductors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to model lipid bilayers surrounding a nano- or microsized particle comprising, membrane proteins immobilized to the surface of the particle and a sheet of a lipid bilayer interspaced between the membrane proteins and enveloping said particle, wherein said membrane protein is immobilized to the surface of the particle by a linker molecule with a length of at most 5.5 nm, as well as method of using said particles in membrane protein ligand binding or activity assays.

Abstract: A secure synchronization apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium thereof are provided. The secure synchronization apparatus of the present invention includes a storage unit, an interface, and a processing unit. The interface is electrically connected to a storage server via a network. The processing unit is electrically connected to the storage unit and the interface. The processing unit is configured to execute an operating system and execute an agent program installed on the operating system. The agent program configures an isolated space, manages an extended space within the storage unit, and synchronizes an object between the isolated space, extended space, and the storage server through the interface. The isolated space and the extended space are only recognized by the agent program installed on the operating system and the object in the two spaces is accessible only via the agent program.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an siRNA that inhibits the expression of USP 15 protein and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same for preventing or treating cancers. According to the present invention, the siRNA of the present invention inhibits the expression of USP 15 protein thereby substantially inhibiting the growth and metastasis of cancer cells.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery and a preparation method thereof, and particularly, to a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery having improved battery characteristics because of manganese phosphate uniformly coated on the surface of a Ni-rich cathode active material, and a preparation method thereof. According to the present invention, because manganese phosphate is uniformly coated on the surface of the Ni-rich cathode active material, a side reaction of the electrolyte is inhibited and a lithium secondary battery having excellent power characteristics, high temperature cycle life characteristics, and thermal stability can be prepared.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a thinned flat plate heat pipe, including forming a body part having a flat plate shape by using an extrusion process, forming a through-hole in the longitudinal direction of the body part, and forming one or more grooves on at least one side of an inner wall of the through-hole to allow a working fluid to flow.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a nickel-based alloy barrier layer of a wiring connection terminal includes providing a substrate having a metal wiring; electroplating a nickel or a nickel-based alloy to the metal wiring at a deposition rate of 15-30 ?m/hr to form a first layer thereon, wherein the first layer is of a thickness of 0.5 ?m-5 ?m, and the nickel-based alloy layer has nickel content of at least 50%; and plating a gold layer to the first layer to form thereon a second layer of a thickness of 0.03 ?m-0.3 ?m. The surface of the nickel-based alloy electroplated layer features a crystalline-phase structure full of micro-protuberances, and the thickness of the gold plated layer is reduced to 0.03 ?m.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods useful for treating cancer, systemic or chronic inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, obesity, T-cell mediated autoimmune disease, ischemia, and other complications associated with these diseases and disorders.

Abstract: The present invention belongs to a technical field of optical microscopic imaging and spectral measurement, and discloses a laser differential confocal mapping-spectrum microscopic imaging method and device. The core concept of the present invention is to combine the differential confocal detection and the spectrum detection techniques and use a dichroic beam splitting system (13) to separate the Rayleigh light for geometric position detection from the Raman scattering light for spectrum detection, by mean of the property that the zero-cross point of the differential confocal curve (43) accurately corresponds to the focus of the objective, the spectral information at focus of the excitation spot being accurately captured by the zero trigger to accomplish the spectrum detection with high spatial resolution. Therefore, the present invention provides a method and device that may be able to accomplish the spectrum detection with high spatial resolution to a micro-area of a sample.

Abstract: A method of determining stiffness index of an arterial network is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining a pulse waveform related to the arterial network; estimating a source pulse based on at least one predetermined feature of the pulse waveform; determining a plurality of characteristics of the pulse waveform based on a relationship between the pulse waveform and the source pulse; and calculating the stiffness index of the arterial network based on the plurality of characteristics of the pulse waveform. An arterial stiffness index measuring device employing the above methodology is also disclosed therein.

Abstract: An ocular prosthesis includes a display device visible at an anterior portion of the ocular prosthesis. The display device is configured to present a changeable image that represents a natural appearance and movement for a visible portion of an eyeball of a subject. A system includes, besides the ocular prosthesis, an implant marker configured to move with an orbital implant disposed in an eye socket of a subject. A method includes determining a change in orientation of an orbital implant in a subject and determining an update to a natural appearance for a visible portion of an eyeball for the subject based on the change in orientation of the orbital implant. The method also includes rendering an update to an image of the natural appearance for a display device disposed in an ocular prosthesis configured to be inserted in the subject anterior to the orbital implant.

Abstract: Provided is a data compression apparatus. The data compression apparatus includes a header information extraction extracting block header information on compressed data from I/Q data block generated by dividing data on a block basis, a block scaling unit generating an I/Q data scaling block by performing block scaling on the I/Q data block based on the block header information, and a compressed data generation unit generating compressed data by using a block header based on the block header information and the I/Q data scaling block.

Abstract: A system and process are disclosed for dissolution of solids and “difficult-to-dissolve” solids. A solid sample may be ablated in an ablation device to generate nanoscale particles. Nanoparticles may then swept into a coupled plasma device operating at atmospheric pressure where the solid nanoparticles are atomized. The plasma exhaust may be delivered directly into an aqueous fluid to form a solution containing the atomized and dissolved solids. The composition of the resulting solution reflects the composition of the original solid sample.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding images based on constrained offset compensation and a loop filter. The image decoding apparatus: receives, from an encoder, a first indicator indicating whether a sequence, a picture, a frame, a slice, a coding unit (CU), a prediction unit (PU), and/or a transform unit (TU) supports constrained offset compensation; receives, from the encoder, a second indicator indicating whether constrained sample adaptive offset (SAO) compensation or an adaptive loop filter (ALF) is applied; receives a parameter from the encoder; and applies the SAO compensation or the ALF to pixels of a restored image on the basis of the second indicator and the parameter.