Abstract: Provided are a pellicle film, a pellicle frame and a pellicle having a higher EUV transmittance. An exposure pattern plate capable of performing EUV lithography with the pellicle film, the pellicle frame or the pellicle, and a method for producing a semiconductor device, are provided. A pellicle film for exposure extendable over an opening of a support frame and having a thickness of 200 nm or less is provided. The film includes a carbon nanotube sheet. The carbon nanotube sheet includes bundles each including a plurality of carbon nanotubes, the bundles each have a diameter of 100 nm or shorter, and the bundles are aligned in a planar direction in the carbon nanotube sheet.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rechargeable battery, and a rechargeable battery including: a liquid cathode portion including a sodium-containing solution and a cathode current collector impregnated in the sodium-containing solution; an anode portion including a liquid organic electrolyte, an anode current collector impregnated in the liquid organic electrolyte, and an anode active material provided in the surface of the anode current collector; and a solid electrolyte provided between the cathode portion and the anode portion can be provided.

Abstract: The present description may provide a method of generating a hologram measurement pattern for measuring image quality of holographic display, including: generating a test pattern and a common pattern including at least one grayscale bar; generating measurement pattern data by combining the common pattern with a frame of the test pattern; and generating the hologram measurement pattern by inserting a random phase into the measurement pattern data and an apparatus applied thereto, thereby more accurately measuring the quality of the 3D holographic image reproduced by the holographic display.

Abstract: A physically unclonable function (PUF) device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, a selecting circuit configured to select one or more memory cells among the plurality of memory cells in response to a challenge, and a sense amplifier and quantizer configured to generate a quantize signal from the selected memory cell. The number of quantization sections for generating the quantize signal may be different from the number of resistance state distributions generated from the selected memory cell. One or more quantization sections may exist in one resistance state distribution section.

Abstract: A lung sound monitoring device is provided. The lung sound monitoring device includes an acoustic sensor and a processor. The acoustic sensor is configured to capture the chest cavity sound of a subject at a first monitoring position on the subject and convert the chest cavity sound into a first chest cavity sound signal. The processor is configured to receive the first chest cavity sound signal and perform a filter process to obtain a first lung sound signal, and convert the first lung sound signal into a first lung sound spectrum using time-domain frequency-domain conversion. The processor acquires a first intensity index according to the first lung sound spectrum, and outputs a prompt signal according to the first intensity index to indicate whether the first monitoring position is a qualified monitoring position.

Abstract: Disclosed is fluorophosphate glasses for an active device, the fluorophosphate glasses including: a metaphosphate composition including Mg(PO3)2 of about 20 mol % to about 60 mol %; a fluoride composition including BaF2 of about 20 mol % to about 60 mol % and CaF2 of about 0 mol % to about 40 mol %; and dopants including rare earth elements, in which there is an effect of increasing a carrier lifetime at a metastable state energy level that is stimulated-emitted due to an efficient energy transfer phenomenon by composition optimization of dopants (e.g. Er and Yb).

Abstract: A passive compliance gripper includes a passive compliance part, a displacement measuring element and a gripper mount. A first end of the passive compliance part is fixed, and a second end of the passive compliance part is configured to be transformed. The displacement measuring element is equipped to the passive compliance part, and measures displacement due to transformation of the passive compliance part. The gripper mount is connected to the second end of the passive compliance part, and has a gripper part gripping a component.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a parameter server and a method for sharing distributed deep-learning parameters using the parameter server. The method for sharing distributed deep-learning parameters using the parameter server includes initializing a global weight parameter in response to an initialization request by a master process; performing an update by receiving a learned local gradient parameter from the worker process, which performs deep-learning training after updating a local weight parameter using the global weight parameter; accumulating the gradient parameters in response to a request by the master process; and performing an update by receiving the global weight parameter from the master process that calculates the global weight parameter using the accumulated gradient parameters of the one or more worker processes.

Abstract: A method of rendering a stereoscopic 3D image from a single image, including receiving a collection of pairs of 3D images including an input image and an output image that is a 3D pair of the input image, training a neural network composed of convolutional layers without any fully connected layers, with pairs of 3D images from the collection, to receive an input image and generate an output image that is a 3D pair of the input image, wherein the neural network is provided as an application on a computing device, receiving an input image and generating an output image that is a 3D pair of the input image by the neural network.

Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for extending the half-life of a therapeutic agent. One or more half-life extending moieties may be attached to a therapeutic agent, thereby extending the half life of the therapeutic agent. The modified therapeutic agents (mTAs) comprising one or more half-life extending moieties attached to a therapeutic agent may be used to treat a disease or condition in a subject in need thereof.

Abstract: In one aspect, this disclosure relates to a wheat plant, plant part or plant cell that has increased resistance to powdery mildew, wherein said plant comprises a loss of function mutation in the coding regions of two alleles selected from TaMLO-A1, TaMLO-B1 and TaMLO-D1 and reduced expression of the third TaMLO allele. In another aspect, this disclosure provides a method for producing a wheat plant, plant part or plant cell with increased resistance to powdery mildew, wherein the method comprises using targeted genome modification comprising introducing a loss of function mutation into the coding regions of two MLO alleles selected from TaMLO-A1, TaMLO-B1 and TaMLO-D1 and decreasing expression of the third TaMLO allele.

Abstract: There is provided a cooling apparatus for a molten core material, including: two or more cooling material containers disposed under a reactor vessel including a nuclear reactor core and including a cooling material therein; a first screen disposed under the two or more cooling material containers and including two or more first through-holes; and a second screen disposed under the first screen and including two or more second through-holes, wherein an average size of the two or more first through-holes is greater than an average size of the two or more second through-holes.

Abstract: A transparent light-emitting display film includes a transparent substrate in a form of film, a transparent electrode on a first side of the transparent substrate, a through hole formed to penetrate the transparent substrate in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the transparent substrate, a light-emitting device mounted in the through hole, and a connection member configured to electrically connect the transparent electrode and the light-emitting device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence coding for a hyperpolarizing light-gated ion channel or pump gene from an archeon or for a light-active fragment of said gene, or the nucleotide sequence complementary to said nucleotide sequence, for treating or ameliorating blindness. The light-gated ion channel or pump gene can be a halorhodopsin gene.

Abstract: A low density parity check (LDPC) encoder, an LDPC decoder, and an LDPC encoding method are disclosed. The LDPC encoder includes first memory, second memory, and a processor. The first memory stores an LDPC codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 5/15. The second memory is initialized to 0. The processor generates the LDPC codeword corresponding to information bits by performing accumulation with respect to the second memory using a sequence corresponding to a parity check matrix (PCM).

Abstract: A barcode recognition apparatus and a barcode recognition method. The barcode recognition method includes receiving, from a sensor, a triggering message indicating that a product enters, setting a camera focus on the basis of a barcode in an image of the product obtained using a camera upon receiving the triggering message, obtaining a product image according to the set camera focus, performing preprocessing for extracting a barcode region on the product image, extracting the barcode region from the preprocessed image, and deriving barcode information from the extracted barcode region.

Abstract: A method for extracting a person region includes detecting a face from a raw image input in real time; configuring a search range based on the detected face; extracting an outline of a person region by performing preprocessing on an image within the search range; configuring watershed markers on a background and a foreground of the image within the search range based on the extracted outline; performing a watershed transform based on the configured watershed markers; and separating the person region from the raw image using a result of the watershed transform.

Abstract: A brazing material outer coat and a method for preparing the same, an in-situ synthetic metal-coated flux-cored silver brazing material and a method for preparing the same, a welding method and a joint body, wherein the in-situ synthetic metal-coated flux-cored silver brazing material comprises a flux core and a brazing material outer coat wrapping the flux core, the brazing material outer coat comprises, in percentage by weight: silver Ag 20.0˜36.0%, copper Cu 35.0˜45.0%, zinc Zn 27.0˜37.0%, tin Sn 1.0˜3.0%, phosphorus P 0.1%˜0.5%, nickel Ni 0.5˜2.0%, germanium Ge 0.1˜0.3%, and lithium Li 0.1˜0.3%, the flux core comprises, in percentage by weight: elemental boron micropowder 5.0˜10.0%, sodium borohydride 5.0˜10.0%, potassium fluoroborate 15.0˜30.0%, boric anhydride 25.0˜40.0%, sodium fluoride 10.0˜30.0%, sodium bifluoride 2.0˜4.0%, and copper sulfate 1.0˜5.0%.

Abstract: An o-aminoheteroaryl alkynyl-containing compound has a structure represented by formula (I), and the compound of formula (I) has advantages of a high FGFR and RET double target inhibitory activity and a relatively low KDR activity, and the compound of formula (I) exhibits a strong inhibitory activity in a human lung cancer cell line NCI-H1581 and a gastric cancer cell line SNU16 as well as an RET-dependent sensitive cell line BaF3-CCDC6-Ret and a mutant thereof. Pharmacokinetic data shows that the o-aminoheteroaryl alkynyl-containing compound has druggability, and exhibits significant relevant inhibition of the growth of related tumors in a long-term animal model of drug efficacy and results in favorable animal condition at effective doses.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems, methods, devices for performing thought-controlled neuromuscular stimulation. Also described are methods for producing a neuromuscular stimulation cuff. The systems and methods generally relate to receiving and processing thought signals indicative of an intended action, and then delivering stimulation to effectuate the intended action through a neuromuscular stimulation cuff. The neuromuscular stimulation cuff includes a flexible printed circuit board having at least one finger and a plurality of electrogel discs disposed on the at least one finger. The neuromuscular stimulation cuff may be produced by providing a layer of polyimide, etching a conductive copper circuit including a plurality of electrodes into the layer of polyimide to form an etched circuit layer, adhering a cover layer onto the etched circuit layer to form a flexible printed circuit board (PCB), and cutting at least one finger from the flexible PCB.