Abstract: An anisotropic spatial acousto-optic modulator for a holographic display system includes a substrate, an anisotropic waveguide that guides light into a single polarization, and a transducer that generates surface acoustic waves that propagate linearly with the guided, polarized light, converting at least some of the polarized light into a leaky mode of orthogonally polarized light. The acoustic waves may be encoded with holographic information. The modulator may include coupling devices for coupling light into the waveguide, which may have multiple channels. A holographic video display system includes at least one anisotropic spatial acousto-optic modulator. The pattern of the surface acoustic waves, encoded with holographic information, acts as a diffraction pattern that causes the modulator output to form a wavefront that becomes at least part of a holographic image. The system may have multiple channels in multiple waveguides, wherein each waveguide writes one or more lines of the holographic image.

Abstract: Methods of discovery performed in a terminal are disclosed. A method of discovery, performed in a terminal, may comprise selecting a discovery physical channel on which discovery information is transmitted in a discovery frame comprising a plurality of transmission durations, and transmitting the discovery information through the selected discovery physical channel. Thus, efficient discovery between terminals may be performed and efficiency of resource usage can be enhanced.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing intersection collision-related information. The apparatus for providing intersection collision-related information includes a surrounding information acquisition unit, a collision-related information calculation unit, and a collision-related information provision unit. The surrounding information acquisition unit acquires intersection traffic information including vehicle heading information, vehicle turning frequency information, vehicle trajectory information and vehicle speed information from one or more of a road sensor provided at an intersection and a vehicle sensor provided in a vehicle. The collision-related information calculation unit calculates intersection collision-related information including the degree of vehicle collision risk that is calculated using the intersection traffic information. The collision-related information provision unit provides the calculated intersection collision-related information to a user.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for efficiently recovering solid selenium or gaseous selenium from wastewater/waste using a microorganism. The present invention provides a method for recovering selenium, comprising reducing a water-soluble selenium compound so as to produce elemental selenium or gaseous selenium by allowing a sample containing a water-soluble selenium compound to come into contact at a temperature which is more than 35° C. and is 40° C. or less at pH 7.0 to 9.4 with a microorganism capable of producing elemental selenium or gaseous selenium through reduction of a water-soluble selenium compound.

Abstract: The present invention provides, among other things, multilayer film coating compositions, coated substrates and methods thereof. In some embodiments, a structure includes a substrate; and a multilayer film coated on the substrate, wherein adjacent layers of the multilayer film are associated with one another via one or more non-covalent interactions, wherein the multilayer film comprises a first nucleic acid agent present at a loading density, and further wherein the multilayer film is characterized in that, when the structure is placed on a subject so that the multilayer film contacts cells, the first nucleic acid agent is released with a profile characterized by a feature selected from the group consisting of 1) being a burst-free release; 2) being a sustained release; and 3) exhibiting in vitro and/or in vivo biological effectiveness.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the formation of virtually defect-free monolayers of particles with long-range order. The technique involves assembling the monolayer of particles on the interface between a solidifiable liquid and a fluid, which can be air or another liquid, ordering the particles using an electric field and then solidifying the former, e.g., by applying UV light. The monolayer becomes embedded on the surface of the solidified film. The monolayers can be coated onto the surface of materials to optimize their mechanical, thermal, electrical and optical properties.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical formulation for sustained delivery of a therapeutic agent, preferably a protein, polypeptide, an antibody or an antibody fragment, comprising one or more gel forming peptides wherein the formulation exhibits sustained delivery for at least two weeks, three weeks, four weeks, five weeks, six weeks, seven weeks, eight weeks, nine weeks, ten weeks, eleven weeks, twelve weeks or more. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a formulation comprising self-assembling peptides that undergo sol-gel transition in the presence of an electrolyte solution such as biological fluids and salts. The formulation can provide sustained release of antibody and antibody fragments, in particular, IgG. Antibody diffusivities can be decreased with increasing hydrogel nanofiber density, providing a means to control the release kinetics.

Abstract: Provided are an enzyme treatment apparatus for proteins using a hollow fiber membrane and an on-line proteomics method using same. The enzyme treatment apparatus for proteins according to the present invention can increase a recovery rate of peptides, which are recovered through an enzyme treatment process, by basically solving the problem of low reproducibility of an enzyme activity which may occur during a conventional enzyme treatment process, and can also reduce a time for purification and provide higher yield by performing separation and purification through a single step. In particular, the present invention can be usefully applied for developing a disease-specific protein biomarker through a statistical analysis method having highly efficient detectability for proteins in research for finding biomarkers related to human diseases.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for assessing the degree of critical illness of patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs), and the detection of occurrence of specific clinical outcomes, pursued through the monitoring of a variety of physiological signals, extraction of multiple measures of variability, and integration of the relevant information the measures of variability bring. The integration process leads to the creation of a compound variable, referred to as a composite measure of variability, which can be tuned to various clinical needs, since the process of normalization, feature selection and data integration are customizable to the clinical indication, planned use of the composite variability monitoring. The system and method also enable joining the composite measure of variability with clinical factors, so as to estimate the likelihood of developing specific clinical outcomes.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing a building energy consumption diagnosis and a real-time commissioning processing, includes a database section configured to store building related information; a real-time commissioning section configured to diagnose energy efficiency and obstruction of the mechanical facilities using the building related information. Further, the apparatus includes a building energy consumption information analysis section configured to determine an energy consumption references and diagnose energy consumption of the buildings to be commissioned using the building related information, the real-time operation information and the measured information on the basis of the determined energy consumption reference.

Abstract: Disclosed are a logical network separation method and apparatus. The logical network separation method includes generating a first hash key on the basis of address information included in a service request packet, generating hash information on the basis of a transmission property of the service request packet corresponding to the first hash key when the same hash key as the first hash key is not in the hash table, and generating the policy about the reception of the service response packet corresponding to the service request packet on the basis of a destination of the service request packet. Accordingly, it is possible to block a cyber attack such as hacking, a malicious program, etc.

Abstract: A communication station includes a transceiving circuit, a radio signal distribution circuit and a control circuit. The radio signal distribution circuit configures an antenna array to communication with a communication device with a first antenna port formation pattern (APFP) and a second APFP based on an elevation beamforming technique. The control circuit configures the transceiving circuit to generate a first reference signal and a second reference signal, and configures the radio signal distribution circuit to configure the antenna array to transmit the first reference signal and the second reference signal respectively with the first APFP and the second APFP to the communication device. The control circuit further configures the transceiving circuit to receive the first channel state information and the second channel state information respectively corresponding to the first reference signal and the second reference signal through the radio signal distribution circuit.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: forming a gate stacked structure on a silicic substrate; depositing a Nickel-based metal layer on the substrate and the gate stacked structure; performing a first annealing so that the silicon in the substrate reacts with the Nickel-based metal layer to form a Ni-rich phase of metal silicide; performing an ion implantation by implanting doping ions into the Ni-rich phase of metal silicide; performing a second annealing so that the Ni-rich phase of metal to silicide is transformed into a Nickel-based metal silicide source/drain, and meanwhile, forming a segregation region of the doping ions at an interface between the Nickel-based metal silicide source/drain and the substrate.

Abstract: A method of repairing diseased or dysfunctional pancreas or liver is provided. The method involves preparation of a suspension of stem cells and/or progenitor cells such as biliary tree stem cells, hepatic stem cells, pancreatic stem cells or their descendants, committed progenitor cells, from healthy tissue of the patient or of the biliary tree of a non-autologous donor and engrafting the cells into the wall of bile ducts near to the organ to be treated. The graft consists of stem cells or progenitors that are admixed with biomaterials and, optionally, with cytokines and/or native epithelial-mesenchymal cells appropriate for the maturational lineage stage of the cells to be engrafted.

Abstract: A biomedical implant according to this invention comprises ceramic complex, which includes a surface-modified basic ceramic particles, which are basic ceramic particles modified their surface with first biodegradable polymers, and the second biodegradable polymers. The first and second biodegradable polymer are combined each other and form a stereo complex. The biomedical implant has a superior effect to suppress inflammation caused by degradation of biodegradable polymers with improving its mechanical property.

Abstract: The compounds according to formula (VIII), their pharmaceutically acceptable acid or base addition salts, and the uses thereof. These compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid or base addition salts can be used for preparing medicaments for modulating estrogen related receptors (ERR), and treating metabolic diseases, such as high blood fat, fatty liver, hyperglycemia, diabetes, obesity. The substituents of the formula are defined in the description.

Abstract: Provided is a method of generating a pilot pattern capable of perform adaptive channel estimation, and a method and apparatus of a base station and a method and apparatus of a terminal using the pilot pattern. The pilot pattern selects pilot symbol positions based on distances from pilots of previous orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) symbols to a subcarrier position of a current OFDMA symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain, so that a low pilot density is maintained so as to effectively transmit data, and stable channel estimation performance can be obtained even in a bad channel environment. In addition, the minimum burst allocation size is determined according to the channel environment between the base station and the terminal, guaranteeing channel estimation performance suitable for the channel environment, and improving granularity, channel estimation latency, and channel estimation memory size.

Abstract: A fiber wadding for filling bone defects having a flocculent three-dimensional structure is disclosed. The fiber wadding includes a plurality of fibers that contain a biodegradable resin as a principal component and a siloxane. Outside diameter of the plurality of fibers of the wadding is from about 0.05 ?m to about 30 ?m. Bulk density of the fiber wadding is about 0.005-0.3 g/cm3.

Abstract: A three-dimensional integrated circuit (3-D IC) includes a controller chip and at least one memory chip, in which, besides an original storage capacity, the memory chip further includes multiple spare memory cells and an address translation circuit with an external activation/enablement function. After the memory chip and the controller chip are stacked, the controller chip may still activate/enable a spare in the memory chip to repair a damaged or deteriorated memory cell in the memory chip through at least one vertical interconnect (for example, through-silicon via (TSV)), regardless of whether the damaged or deteriorated memory cell has been repaired or not before the controller chip and the memory chip are stacked.

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a blue-aimed phosphor powder which is more excellent in emission characteristic than the conventional rare-earth activated sialon phosphors and which is more excellent in durability than the conventional oxide phosphors. The solving means resides in: firing a starting material mixture in a nitrogen atmosphere at a temperature range between 1,500° C. inclusive and 2,200° C. inclusive, wherein the starting material mixture is a mixture of metallic compounds, and is capable of constituting a composition comprising M, A, Si, Al, O, and N (M is one kind or two or more kinds of element(s) selected from Mn, Ce, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb; and A is one kind or two or more kinds of element(s) selected from C, Si, Ge, Sn, B, Ga, In, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Sc, Y, La, Gd, Lu, Ti, Zr, Hf, Ta, and W) by firing; to obtain a phosphor which emits fluorescence having a peak at a wavelength within a range of 400 nm to 700 nm, by irradiation of an excitation source.