Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for monitoring a status of a satellite, including classifying satellite telemetry information and space weather information and storing the information in a storage unit including respective databases, predicting whether a predetermined type of satellite failure occurs based on the space weather information, and generating satellite control command information to change a status of a predetermined satellite configuration when a satellite failure determining index used to determine a possibility of the satellite failure is beyond a predetermined critical alert range.

Abstract: A bipod robotic walking apparatus consisting of two feet on the coupler link of a spherical four-bar linkage, for movement in a forward or rearward direction by repeated motions of the four-bar linkage. Three four-bar linkages may be connected in tandem to form a hexapod with three points of contact with the ground.

Abstract: A prediction mode determining method in scalable video coding based on a structure of multiple layers is provided. The prediction mode determining method includes: deriving a coded block pattern (CBP) value of a luma component for a 16×16 mode of an encoding target picture; determining first candidate modes for the encoding target picture according to the derived CPB value; and determining a final prediction mode for the encoding target picture based on the determined first candidate modes. According to the present invention, encoding efficiency may be improved, and complexity may be reduced.

Abstract: A computer system is configured for performing audio matching. The computer system includes a client terminal and a server. The client terminal includes a classifier, a first landmark extraction module, a first encoder module and an integration module. The classifier is configured for estimating an identification difficulty. The first landmark extraction module is configured for determining the number of times for landmark extraction, and for extracting first landmarks. The first encoder module is configured for encoding the first landmarks. The server includes a second landmark extraction module, a second encoder module, a hash table, a table-lookup module, an analysis module and a decision module. The second landmark extraction module is configured for extracting second landmarks. The second encoder module is configured for encoding the second landmarks. The table-lookup module is configured for performing a table lookup. The decision module is configured for determining an audio matching result.

Abstract: An apparatus for X-ray photography includes a first X-ray source, a first driving device, and an image detecting device. The first X-ray source has a light emitting end, provided with a block element. The first X-ray source generates an X-ray beam, and the block element is used for constraining a projection field of the X-ray beam, so that the X-ray beam has a first boundary. The X-ray beam is cast onto an object, and the object has a reference center and an imageable area. The first driving device is used for driving the first X-ray source to rotate around the object within an angle range with the reference center of the object as a center, so that when the first X-ray source is located at a first position, the first boundary passes through the reference center.

Abstract: Disclosed are payload formatting and deformatting methods for burst data loss recovery. The payload formatting method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: generating an XOR operation packet by performing an XOR operation on the basis of a base layer packet and any one of enhancement layer packets of a group of pictures (GoP), the GoP including the base layer packet and the enhancement layer packets; and adding the XOR operation packet to the GoP.

Abstract: A method of arranging a shortened resource block (RB) without a direct current (DC) subcarrier for a wireless communication system comprising a communication device and a network is disclosed. The method comprises selecting a RB from a plurality of RBs comprising a plurality of available subcarriers, according to a configuration, wherein the RB comprises a plurality of subcarriers; and removing the DC subcarrier from the plurality of subcarriers of the RB according to the configuration, to construct the shortened RB without the DC subcarrier.

Abstract: An image encoding method using a Binary Partition Tree (BPT) includes performing the BPT on a reference frame, detecting blocks, each having a difference in a pixel value exceeding a threshold value in a current frame, based on a result of the BPT of the reference frame, and performing the BPT of the current frame on the detected blocks. In accordance with the present invention, block partition is not applied to all frames, but a partial partition method based on a difference between the pixel values of a reference frame and a current frame to be encoded is provided. Accordingly, the encoding speed within the P frame or the B frame can be improved. Furthermore, the PSNR of a corresponding frame can be maintained within a specific range of the PSNR of a reference frame, and a compression effect can be improved.

Abstract: Provided is an amplifier circuit with cross wiring of direct-current signals and microwave signals, which includes: two branch sub-circuits being mirrors with each other and a third capacitor The sub-circuit includes a direct-current feeding circuit and a microwave signal circuit. The direct-current feeding circuit further comprising: a transistor core drain power-up port (Vds) of a heterojunction field effect transistor (FET), a first micro-strip inductor, a first capacitor, a pair of third inductors, a pair of branched second inductors. The microwave signal circuit further comprising: A pair of third inductors, a pair of first capacitors, a pair of second capacitors, a pair of ground inductors, a pair of fourth inductors, a serially connected fifth inductor.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a BCH encoding, decoding, and multi-stage decoding circuits and method, and an error correction circuit of a flash memory device using the same. The concatenated BCH multi-stage decoding circuit includes: a first stage encoding unit that receives a part or all of data input to a flash memory device, performs BCH encoding, and outputs a first output BCH code or a parity bit thereof; an interleaving unit that receives a part or all of data input to the flash memory device, interleaves, and outputs the data, and a second stage encoding unit that performs BCH encoding of the BCH code or data that is the output of the interleaving unit, and outputs a second output BCH code or a parity bit thereof.

Abstract: An automatic para-virtualization apparatus of an OS kernel is provided. The automatic para-virtualization apparatus includes a kernel profiler that detects profile information from a native OS kernel, and a virtualization unit that automatically generates a para-virtualized OS kernel that operates on a para-virtualization virtual machine monitor by combining the native OS kernel and the profile information.

Abstract: The invention relates to expression profiles of HIV-specific T-cells and their methods of use, including but not limited to treatment of HIV, increasing T-cell function and/or survival in HIV infected subjects, monitoring HIV disease progression and classifying HIV infected subjects as controllers or chronic progressors.

Abstract: A method to prepare polymer woven fabric surface with selective oleophilicity or hydrophobicity and oil-oil separation and oil-water separation filter prepared by using the surface. The method to prepare the surface with selective oleophilicity or hydrophobicity includes steps comprising a step to form nano meter sized pores on the surface of the polymer woven fabric surface with micro sized pores through drying type etching; and a step to form selective oleophobic or hydrophobic film on the nano meter sized pores. It is possible to control hydrophobic/oleophobic property according to pore size, material or thickness of the film and this polymer surface with hybrid pores can be used in various areas such as an oil filter for car capable of selective separation of oil-oil mixture and water-oil mixture, disposal of waste oil, treatment of marine oil leakage, and pretreatment of crude oil refinement.

Abstract: Provided is an electrical system including an intelligent learning terminal to analyze biometric information associated with a user and calculate an intensity of electrical stimulation for the user based on a result of the analyzing, and at least one wireless electrical stimulator to provide electrical stimulation to the user based on the calculated intensity of electrical stimulation, wherein the intelligent learning terminal is connected to the at least one wireless electrical stimulator based on wired or wireless communication.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for dynamically detecting the interactions between various materials including bioactive molecules and for detecting target molecules. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for dynamically detecting bait-prey interactions and a method for easily detecting target molecules which blocks or activates the interactions, the method comprising: allowing a material capable of forming a nano-assembly matrix, a bait and a prey to interact with each other, and analyzing whether a nano-assembly matrix is formed by the interaction between the bait and the prey in vitro or in vivo; or allowing a material capable of forming a nano-assembly matrix, a bait and a prey to interact with each other, inducing the formation of a nano-assembly matrix by a mediator (regulator) material in vitro or in vivo, and then analyzing whether the prey and the bait co-localizes on the nano-assembly matrix.

Abstract: The present invention includes influenza Hemagglutinin protein fragments that fold properly when expressed in bacteria.

Abstract: An electrical component includes an inkjet-printed graphene electrode. Graphene oxide flakes are deposited on a substrate in a graphene oxide ink using an inkjet printer. The deposited graphene oxide is thermally reduced to graphene. The electrical properties of the electrode are comparable to those of electrodes made using activated carbon, carbon nanotubes or graphene made by other methods. The electrical properties of the graphene electrodes may be tailored by adding nanoparticles of other materials to the ink to serve as conductivity enhancers, spacers, or to confer pseudocapacitance. Inkjet-printing can be used to make graphene electrodes of a desired thickness in preselected patterns. Inkjet printing can be used to make highly-transparent graphene electrodes. Inkjet-printed graphene electrodes may be used to fabricate double-layer capacitors that store energy by nanoscale charge separation at the electrode-electrolyte interface (i.e., “supercapacitors”).

Abstract: A device is presented comprising a multi-layer structure with a plurality of metal islands on the surface of a solid transparent substrate. The islands are coated by an ultrathin sol-gel derived silica film via self-assembled monolayer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pharmaceutical technical field, to melonine bisindole compounds, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and preparation methods thereof. Specifically, the present invention relates to melonine bisindole compounds of Formula I, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The present invention further relates to method for preparing the melonine bisindole compounds of Formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and the use of the melonine bisindole compounds of Formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof in the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment or prophylaxis of cancers.

Abstract: A structure of a thermoelectric film including a thermoelectric substrate and a pair of first diamond-like carbon (DLC) layers is provided. The first DLC layers are respectively located on two opposite surfaces of the thermoelectric substrate and have electrical conductivity.