Abstract: The invention generally features compositions comprising induced pluripotent stem cell progenitors (also termed reprogramming progenitor cells) and methods of isolating such cells. The invention also provides compositions comprising induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from such progenitor cells. Induced pluripotent stem cell progenitors generate iPSCs at high efficiency.

Abstract: Provided is a method for transmitting paging information in a cellular system. An object of the method is transmitting paging information which can improve applicability of a limited radio resource by variably and flexibly setting up and mapping a transport channel and a physical channel in order to transmit information notifying start of downlink information from a base station to a terminal in a cellular system for packet transmission. The method includes the steps of: forming a paging channel (PCH) in a transport channel corresponding to generation of paging information; setting a paging indication channel (PICH) based on the paging information and forming the paging indication channel in a radio resource of a physical layer; and allocating the paging channel to the radio resource of the physical layer.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for recognizing whether an action objective is achieved. The apparatus includes a video feature extraction module configured to receive a video and output a video feature sequence through an operator, such as a convolution operator, an action case memory module configured to compress and store action case information for each action type and each of success and failure groups transmitted from the video feature extraction module and return the action case information according to a query including a pair of an action type and whether the action is successful, and an action success or failure determination module configured to receive a pair of a video feature sequence and an action type identifier and output whether an action of the given video feature sequence is successful in connection with the action case memory module.

Abstract: An operation method of a base station in a communication system may comprise: transmitting first indication information to a terminal, the first indication information indicating use of a first CQI table among CQI tables; transmitting a first reference signal to the terminal; and receiving first CSI from the terminal, the first CSI including a first CQI index selected within the first CQI table based on the first reference signal, wherein the CQI tables include the first CQI table and a second CQI table, and a spectral efficiency indicated by at least one CQI index within the first CQI table is identical to a spectral efficiency indicated by at least one CQI index within the second CQI table.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a selector and a preparation method thereof. The selector includes: a substrate 1; an alternating layer 2 provided on the substrate 1, the alternating layer 2 being alternately formed by a bottom electrode layer 21 and an insulating layer 22; the alternating layer 2 is provided with a U-shaped groove; a selective layer 3 and a dielectric layer 4 being sequentially deposited in a direction from an inner wall of the U-shaped groove to a center of the U-shaped groove; and a top electrode layer 5 is filled in a concave space defined by the dielectric layer 4. The selector and the preparation method according to one or more embodiments of the disclosure can address the technical problem of high leakage current of the selector in existing technology and provide a selector with low leakage current.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pop count-based deep learning neural network computation method, a multiply accumulator, and a device thereof. The computation method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a computation method for a deep learning neural network, including a step of generating one-hot encoding codes according to the type of first multiplication result values for a multiplication (first multiplication) of weights (W) and input values (A); a step of performing a pop-count for each generated code; and a step of accumulating result values for a constant multiplication (second multiplication) between each type of the first multiplication result value and each count value of the pop-count which are different constant values.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method includes obtaining subblock based transform (SBT) use information, obtaining at least one of SBT division information, SBT division direction information or SBT position information, when the SBT use information indicates use of an SBT, and performing the SBT with respect to a current block based on at least one of the SBT division information, the SBT division direction information or the SBT position information. The SBT use information may be obtained when a width of the current block and a height of the current block are less than a maximum transform size.

Abstract: There is provided an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image encoding method of the present invention includes: generating at least one candidate block including warped reference picture (WRP) Flag information in an advanced motion vector prediction (AMVP) mode; constructing a candidate list including the at least one candidate block; and generating a prediction block of a current block based on the candidate list.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a peanut whole-process production line and a method. The peanut whole-process production line includes a peanut cleaning system, a shell breaking system, a skin removing system, a peanut kernel classification system, an ultra-fine pulverization system and a classification packaging system; a first procedure is cleaning and impurity removal of peanuts, breaking of peanut shells is performed after the cleaning and impurity removal of peanuts, removal of peanut kernel skins and ultra-fine pulverization of the peanut shells are respectively performed after the breaking of peanut shells, classification of peanut kernels is performed after the removal of peanut kernel skins, and classification packaging of ultra-fine peanut shell powder is performed after the ultra-fine pulverization of the peanut shells; whole-process processing of peanuts is completed by using the peanut whole-process production line, and peanut resources are fully utilized.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the disclosure, there is provided a microwave reactor including a container for storing a bath fluid, a tube including an inlet at one end through which a target fluid is introduced, an outlet at another end through which the target fluid is discharged, wherein at least a portion of the tube is submerged in the bath fluid, and at least one radiator located outside the container and configured to irradiate microwaves into the container.

Abstract: A method for controlling at least one effector trajectory of an effector of a robot for solving a predefined task is proposed. A sequence of postures are acquired to modify at least one of a contact constraint topology and an object constraint topology. A set of constraint equations are generated based on at least one of the modified contact constraint topology and the modified object constraint topology. On the generated set of constraint equations, a constraint relaxation is performed to generate a task description including a set of relaxed constraint equations. The at least one effector trajectory is generated by applying a trajectory generation algorithm on the task description. An inverse kinematics algorithm is performed to generate a control signal from the at least one effector trajectory. At least one effector is controlled to execute the at least one effector trajectory based on the generated control signal.

Abstract: A method and system for controlling at least one effector trajectory for at least one effector of a robot for solving a predefined task are proposed. A graph of postures is acquired, and at least one of a contact constraint topology and an object constraint topology are accordingly modified. A set of constraint equations based on at least one of the modified contact constraint topology and the modified object constraint topology are generated. Constraint relaxation is performed on the generated set of constraint equations to generate a task description including the relaxed set of constraint equations. The effector trajectory is generated by applying a trajectory generation algorithm on the generated task description. An inverse kinematics algorithm is performed on the generated effector trajectory for generating a control signal, and the effector is controlled to execute the effector trajectory based on the generated control signal.

Abstract: A method for controlling a deformable mirror surface shape based on a radial primary function processes samples of a neural network training set, obtains elements of the neural network training set, characterizes the complex surface shape of the deformable mirror in each sample by using a radial primary function, takes characterization parameters of the surface shape in the each sample as an input of a neural network, and trains the neural network by taking a voltage of each piezoelectric ceramic corresponding to the complex surface shape as a corresponding output of the neural network. Training times of the neural network are consistent with a number of the samples. Finally, the trained neural network is obtained to verify the training effect of the neural network. According to the characterization parameters of the required surface, the neural network is used to control the deformable mirror to generate the required surface.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides improved adenosine base editors (ABE) that have an expanded range of PAM sequence recognition capability (i.e., recognition of non-canonical ?5-NGG-?3 PAM sequence). In addition, the present disclosure provides improved cytidine base editors (CBE) and adenosine base editors (ABE) comprising circular permutant variants of Cas9 (CP-Cas9) with an increased window of base editing within the protospacer sequence (e.g., from about 4-5 nucleotides to up to about 8-9 nucleotides) and even outside of the protospacer sequence.

Abstract: Proposed is an anti-vibration mount using combination of multiple springs in which a main spring is provided between an upper frame and a lower frame to reduce vibration, and an auxiliary spring is provided at each of the side portions of the upper frame such that the direction and magnitude of a force applied by the auxiliary spring change according to the compressed degree of the main spring, so the effect of an air spring is realized only with the combination of the main and auxiliary springs which are coil springs. The anti-vibration mount includes: the upper frame allowing an object to be installed thereon; the lower frame provided under the upper frame by being spaced apart therefrom; the main spring provided between the upper frame and the lower frame; and the auxiliary spring elastically supporting each of opposite sides of the upper frame and the lower frame.

Abstract: A learning device calculates a feature of each data included in a pair of datasets in which two modalities among a plurality of modalities are combined, using a model that receives data on a corresponding modality among the modalities and outputs a feature obtained by mapping the received data into an embedding space. The learning device then selects similar data similar to each target data that is data on a first modality in a first dataset of the datasets, from data on a second modality included in a second dataset of the datasets. The learning device further updates a parameter of the model such that the features of the data in the pair included in the first and the second datasets are similar to one another, and the feature of data paired with the target data is similar to the feature of data paired with the similar data.

Abstract: This electrode comprises: an electrode component containing a columnar structure; and a porous collector layer that is prepared on the electrode component. The columnar structure comprises a multiple columnar sections, the lateral surfaces of which are at least partially in contact with each other. Each columnar part section is provided with a multilayer part wherein different inorganic compound layers are stacked. In addition, the columnar structure comprises two or more adjacent columnar sections, which are different from each other in the stacking direction of the multilayer part. For example, each columnar section has a width of 10 nm to 100 nm, and each inorganic compound layer has a thickness of 1 nm to 10 nm.

Abstract: An array antenna capable of steering a beam in a first communication node of a wireless communication system may comprise: a plurality of single antennas each capable of variably adjusting a beam steering direction; a plurality of beamforming control units each of which is connected to each of the plurality of single antennas to control a beamforming operation of each of the plurality of single antennas; and an array antenna control unit connected to the plurality of beamforming control units to control a beamforming operation of the entire array antenna, wherein the plurality of single antennas are arranged in a cylindrical shape and are installed to face a direction opposite to a central direction of the cylinder shape, and the array antenna is configured to steer a beam to a predetermined area around the first communication node through at least one single antenna among the plurality of single antennas.

Abstract: A pipelined analog-to-digital converter and an output calibration method for the same. The pipelined analog-to-digital converter introduces an error calibration mechanism on the basis of traditional pipelined analog-to-digital converters through a control module, an equivalent gain error extraction module, an error storage module and a coding reconstruction module to compensate for gain errors and setup errors caused by operational amplifiers in a pipelined conversion module, so that the analog-to-digital conversion accuracy is improved, and requirements for the gain and bandwidth of the operational amplifier are relaxed, which can effectively reduce the power consumption of the analog-to-digital converter and the complexity of the corresponding analog circuit; a curve fitting method is adopted to obtain an ideal output sequence and then calculate errors; meanwhile, extraction and calibration of equivalent gain errors are all done in digital ways, and therefore accuracy thereof is high.

Abstract: A method for generating and outputting a prompt for performing a task in a designated time segment is provided. The method includes obtaining, from a plurality of sensors, context data associated of the user related to time segments, categorizing each of the time segments into one of a plurality of thought states based on the context data, mapping a task from a task dataset associated with the user into one of the plurality of thought states, and generating a prompt for performing the task during a designated time segment of the time segments, the designated time segment corresponding to the one of the plurality of thought states to which the task is mapped.