Abstract: Disclosed are a polylactide stereocomplex with improved thermal stability and thus improved processability and a method for preparing the same. In order to confer flexibility to polymer chains, D-type polylactide polymer containing a small amount of caprolactone (poly D-lactide-caprolactone copolymer) is synthesized and it is uniformly mixed with L-type single-phase polylactide to prepare a flexible polylactide stereocomplex. Since the polylactide stereocomplex having flexible polymer chains has superior heat resistance and mechanical stability and experiences little decrease of the degree of stereocomplex formation even after thermal processing, the polylactide stereocomplex having improved thermal stability can be advantageously used for engineering plastics requiring high strength and good thermal stability, alternative materials for general-use plastics, high-performance medical materials, or the like because of its remarkably improved processability.

Abstract: An X-ray tube is provided. The X-ray tube includes a cathode electrode which is disposed in one end of a vacuum container and includes an emitter emitting an electron; a gate electrode which is disposed in the vacuum container to be adjacent to the cathode electrode; an anode electrode which is disposed in the vacuum container of the other end of a direction in which the vacuum container extends and inclines with respect to the cathode electrode; and a focusing electrode which is disposed in the vacuum container along an inner circumference surface of the vacuum container between the gate electrode and the anode electrode. The focusing electrode has an opening of which a plan cross section has a maximum width and a minimum width different from each other.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for oxidizing internal olefins to ketones. In various embodiments, each method comprising contacting an organic substrate, having an initial internal olefin, with a mixture of (a) a biscationic palladium salt; and (b) an oxidizing agent; dissolved or dispersed in a solvent system to form a reaction mixture, said solvent system comprising at least one C2-6 carbon nitrile and optionally at least one secondary alkyl amide, said method conducted under conditions sufficient to convert at least 50 mol % of the initial internal olefin to a ketone, said ketone positioned on a carbon of the initial internal olefin. The transformation occurs at room temperature and shows wide substrate scope. Applications to the oxidation of seed oil derivatives and a bioactive natural product are described.

Abstract: The present invention relate to a preparation method of high-purity L-carnitine which belongs to an important technique of quality control in different steps of chiral medicine production.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for analyzing the vulnerability of a wireless local area network (LAN). The apparatus includes a collection unit, an analysis unit, and an attack unit. The collection unit collects packets transmitted and received in a wireless LAN service. The analysis unit analyzes the state of a network using the collected packets. The attack unit makes a wireless attack against an attack target using the state of the network, and controls the mode switching of a device driver based on an operating mode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for inhibiting or preventing viral infection, which comprises an effective dose of poly-gamma-glutamic acid (?-PGA), and more particularly, to a pharmaceutical composition, a functional food, and a feedstuff additive capable of inhibiting viral infection and preventing viral diseases, which comprise poly-gamma-glutamic acid having an infection-inhibiting effect against viruses, such as an influenza virus, inducing respiratory infection or systemic infection, as an effective ingredient. The composition containing poly-gamma-glutamic acid as an effective ingredient according to the present invention, is effective for use as an animal feedstuff additive or a pharmaceutical agent for preventing influenza virus infection and various viral diseases as well as a pharmaceutical composition and a functional food to promote human health.

Abstract: Disclosed is a position estimation device including a feature extraction unit that extracts invariant features from an input image, a matching unit that obtains matching between an input image and a registered place by referring to a database containing each registered place and invariant features in association, a similarity calculation unit that calculates a similarity with inclusion of a registered place near a selected registered place when the matching is a threshold or more, and a position identification unit that identifies the input image as a registered place when the similarity is a threshold or more. The feature extraction unit extracts local features from each input image being sequential images taken sequentially, selects features matched between the sequential images as sequential features, and calculates invariant features based on the sequential features. The number of sequential images is variable depending on the number of matched features.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for automating the acquisition and analysis of contrast enhancement images. Model-free discrimination methods are provided in which discrimination between well-perfused pixels (e.g. normal tissue) and perfusion-deficient pixels (e.g. ablation lesions) is automated based on histogram shape. For example, in selected embodiments, discrimination is made based on pixels corresponding to abnormal perfusion (e.g. ablation lesions) and normal perfusion (e.g. normal tissue) form distinctive lobes separated by a minimum formed due to the presence of border pixels. Segmentation of cumulative dynamic contrast enhancement maps by thresholds identified on such histograms is employed to separate abnormally-perfused tissue from the normally-perfused tissue without any user interactions, freeing the user from the necessity to analyze and interpret original dynamic contrast enhancement images or maps derived from them.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for normally receiving data by accurately estimating and compensating for a frequency offset for a wireless frequency channel through which data are transmitted in a communication system under wireless frequency environment. In the present invention, data transmitted through the wireless frequency channel are received, the frequency offset in the wireless frequency channel from the receive data is estimated based on an interpolation scheme using the periodogram, and the frequency offset is compensated to receive the data by frequency-synchronizing with the wireless frequency channel.

Abstract: Provided is a micro base station antenna including a substrate etched with first and second micro strip lines, a first inverted F antenna, a second inverted F antenna facing the first inverted F antenna, and an isolator provided between the first inverted F antenna and the second inverted F antenna. According to the present invention, a micro base station antenna that has a wide bandwidth, a high gain, and an enhanced isolation characteristic can be provided.

Abstract: A tangible social network system comprises at least two interactive physical objects adapted for communicatively linking with each other, a visualization application for providing a visual representation of a user's tangible social network, and an object communication frame. An interactive physical object comprises a controller for forming a communicatively linked relationship with another interactive physical object and for receiving and responding to commands and data received from a linked object, and an audio or visual response subsystem. An object communication frame comprises a housing adapted to receive interactive physical objects, a communications subsystem for managing communications with installed objects and with interactive physical objects communicatively linked with installed objects, a controller, and a power subsystem for powering installed objects.

Abstract: An automatic preparation system according to embodiments includes a work table, a robot, and a jig. The robot is disposed near the work table and includes a plurality of arms. The jig is provided on the work table and rotatably holds a syringe. The robot, after taking out the syringe from a syringe storage case and attaching the syringe to the jig, operates the arms in a cooperative manner to perform a preparation of a medication using the syringe.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for expressing, extracting and refining recombinant human growth hormone (hGH). More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for the intracellular expression of a target protein with minimizing the formation of insoluble inclusion bodies during the mass production of the protein in Escherichia coli system. The present invention also relates to a method for extracting and refining the target protein, particularly human growth hormone, with maximizing its solubility during the extraction and with providing a high yield but without losing the biological activity of the target protein.

Abstract: Disclosed is a solid-state plasma antenna that has an adjustable azimuth angle and declination angle and is applied even to a solid-state plasma antenna, which includes an electrode interconnection layer having a curve shape and an electronic path formed therein; a solid-state plasma cell array positioned at an inner side of the curve shape; a plasma activation controller electrically connected with the solid-state plasma cell array through the electrode interconnection layer and configured to activate at least one solid-state plasma cell in the solid plasma cell array based on an input signal; and an RF feed installed a predetermined distance from the inner side of the curve shape and configured to emit an RF signal to the solid-state plasma cell array.

Abstract: A method of continuously generating a joined structure: comprising a cube- or quadratic prism-shaped rock salt-type oxide nanoparticle and a metal nanoparticle, and having high crystallinity, in a gas phase, the method is characterized in that alloy nanoparticles composed of a noble metal and a base metal and having a particle size of 1 to 100 nm are generated in an inert gas; and brought into contact with a hot oxidizing gas, while the nanoparticles are heated at a high temperature together with the inert gas, to oxidize a base metal component in the alloy nanoparticles floating in the gas, and to simultaneously allow phase separation of the metal component, whereby the joined structure.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting device including a graphene layer. The method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting device according to the present invention may include providing a graphene donor unit including a patterned graphene layer, providing a device unit, and attaching the graphene layer of the graphene donor unit to an organic part. The device unit may include a substrate, a lower electrode, and the organic part which are sequentially stacked, and the organic part may include a dopant. The graphene donor unit may include the graphene layer, a release layer, and an elastic stamp layer which are sequentially stacked.

Abstract: The invention provides water removal and storage system adapted for use in a building structure, said system comprising a water storage vessel for the removal and storage of water from one or more supply lines and resupply of water stored on demand. The system of the invention provides either a solution to the problems of flooding due to pipe rupture, interrupted water supply due to freezing, pipe rupture due to freezing, and water damage due to uncontrolled thaw. In one aspect the invention provides a controller adapted to receive control signals remotely, said signals control the valve to regulate the water supply pressure and/or flow rate to a desired set point.

Abstract: Provided are an electrolyte for a dye-sensitized solar cell and a dye-sensitized solar cell including the same. The electrolyte for a dye-sensitized solar cell includes an organic solvent, a metal anion compound, and a quaternary ammonium salt compound (R4N+X?). X? and Y? are multi-redox systems which are in chemical equilibrium.

Abstract: A fuel-free spacecraft propelling system having an open-ended outer cylinder of a propelling device and an atomic oxygen collecting device is disclosed. The latter is arranged at the forwardly-propelled front end of the outer cylinder and is hermetically connected with an RF generating device and an ion cyclotron wave heating device through a magnetic confinement device. A spiral wave discharge oxygen plasma inlet and a spiral wave discharge oxygen plasma outlet in the ion cyclotron wave heating device are respectively provided with another magnetic confinement device. The propulsion of the invention does not need to carry the propellant, which greatly reduces the launch costs, and enables a spacecraft to advantageously have an increased orbit life over existing spacecraft systems.

Abstract: Discussed is a an Osseo-inductive metal implant for a living body having a layer of metal oxide and a layer of bio-active material formed in this order on the surface of the metal implant.