Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for wideband short-range wireless communication using a directional antenna in a millimeter wave band, and the method for wideband short-range wireless communication according to an embodiment may determine a first time interval and a second time interval for a cooperated data frame transfer based on a packet transmission time at each transmission from a source node to a destination node, transmit a frame to a relay node through an antenna pattern directed towards the relay node at a start point of the first time interval, and transmit the frame to the destination node through an antenna pattern directed towards the destination node after a predetermined period of time from a start point of the second time interval.

Abstract: A zeolite membrane composite including a porous support and a zeolite membrane formed on a surface of the porous support. The zeolite membrane has an LTA-type crystal structure. The first atomic ratio: Si/Al of silicon element (Si) to aluminum element (Al) in the zeolite membrane is 1.29 or greater and 1.60 or less.

Abstract: A trust reality service brokering apparatus located on an edge cloud receives a context rule, analyzes event data of at least one physical entity connected to the edge cloud based on the context rule, and transmits an action command to a physical entity or virtual entity corresponding to the event when it is determined that an event has occurred according to an analysis result.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a dynamic stability analysis method and device for a linear time-periodic (LTP) system. The method includes the following steps. Calculate the Q matrix corresponding to the LTP system, and use the eigenvalue of Q matrix whose real part is positive as an instability eigenvalue. Each instability eigenvalue is subjected to the following steps. (S1) the state space model is transformed into the infinite-order harmonic state space (HSS) model, and the truncation order m of HSS model is initialized to 1. (S2) after m-th order truncation of the HSS model, its eigenvalue thereof is calculated. If the real part of the eigenvalue of HSS model is not the same as the real part of the instability eigenvalue, m is updated, and step (S2) is performed again; otherwise, modal participation factor analysis is performed to obtain the state variables that dominate the system instability.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating efficient planning routes for vehicles, including autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles are presented. A route planner may generate dynamic maps and routes that reduces the uncertainty of road-agent environmental and behavioral data in an efficient manner. Route planning may be accomplished using a statistical approach in which known data from one geographic or behavioral feature set may be used and relied upon by a vehicle in another geographical and behavioral context to estimate the environmental and behavioral data relevant to the vehicles current operation.

Abstract: A colon linearizing device installed in an endoscope to linearize a colon by performing translation and expansion motions in the colon may include a ring-shaped proximal member installed to surround an outer circumferential surface of an insertion tube of an endoscope, a fixed end secured to the insertion tube, a ring-shaped distal member positioned between the proximal member and the fixed end and movably installed along a longitudinal direction of the insertion tube, and an elastic member connected between the fixed end and the distal member.

Abstract: A novel method for producing an olefinic resin porous material with no skin layer is provided. The method for producing an olefinic resin porous material disclosed herein includes the steps of preparing a single phase in which an olefinic resin, a hydrocarbon compound, and a polar compound are mixed one another, in a pressure-resistant container, introducing high pressure carbon dioxide into the pressure-resistant container, and releasing the pressure in the pressure-resistant container. The polar compound has a hydroxy group or a carbonyl group. Introducing the high pressure carbon dioxide is carried out such that the pressure in the pressure-resistant container reaches 6 MPa or higher.

Abstract: A method for autonomously assembling a plurality of tiles is performed in a microgravity environment. Each tile includes a shell having a first geometrical shape and an arrangement of first magnets and a controller that are supported by the shell. The controller controls operation of the arrangement of first magnets to self-assemble the shell with another tile. The first magnets are controlled to mate with a complementary arrangement of second magnets on the other tile when the complementary arrangement of second magnets floats to within a range of magnetic attractive force of the arrangement of first magnets, with or without the aid of propulsion. The controllers in the tiles detect the status of the magnetic bonds to determine whether each pair of tiles is properly bonded or has a magnetic bond error. When an error is detected, the tiles are controlled to disassemble and reassemble to correct the error.

Abstract: A large-area wrinkled graphene substrate capable of being manufactured in a large-area, and a method for manufacturing the same is provided. A method for manufacturing a wrinkled graphene substrate includes: i) providing a graphene unit; ii) inserting a carrier film and a graphene unit between a pair of rolls and rotating the pair of rolls in opposite directions to attach a carrier film on the graphene unit, iii) immersing the graphene unit in an etching solution to provide graphene, iv) between a pair of rolls, graphene and poly(4-styrene sulfonic acid)/polystyrene (PSS/PS) substrate attaching graphene onto the PSS/PS substrate, v) attaching an ethylene vinyl acetate/polyethylene terephthalate (EVA/PET) substrate to wrinkled graphene on PSS/PS substrate by inserting EVA/PET and WGr/PSS/PS stack between the rolls, viii) removing the PSS/PS substrate by immersing PET/EVA/WGr/PSS/PS stack in water, and ix) providing a wrinkled graphene substrate on the EVA/PET substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a video decoding method including acquiring adaptation parameter sets including an adaptive in-loop filter (ALF) set including a plurality of ALFs, determining an adaptation parameter set applied to a current picture or slice and including an ALF set applied to the current picture or slice, from among the adaptive parameter sets, determining an adaptation parameter set applied to a current coding tree block (CTB) and including an ALF set applied to the current CTB included in the current picture or slice, from the adaptation parameter set applied to the current picture or slice, and filtering the current CTB based on the ALF set of the determined adaptation parameter set applied to the current CTB, wherein the acquired adaptation parameter sets include chroma ALF number information, and wherein the ALF set includes chroma ALFs, the number of which is indicated by the chroma ALF number information.

Abstract: SAR ADC and sampling method based on single-channel TIS. The SAR ADC comprises: a capacitor array comprising a weight capacitor and a compensation capacitor, a first switch array, a second switch array, a channel switch group and a sampling switch; when in a sampling state: a lower plate of the weight capacitor is connected to an input voltage by means of the first switch array, and an upper plate of the capacitor array is connected to a common mode voltage by the sampling switch and the channel switch group; when in a successive approximation state: the lower plate of the weight capacitor is connected to a reference voltage by the second switch array. Input signals are sampled by using a unified to sampling switch, which solves the problem in the traditional technology that sampling moments are mismatched due to different sampling signals in each time-interleaved channel.

Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus of the present invention may divide one picture into a plurality of division units, determine whether to perform filtering on a boundary of a current division unit based on a predetermined flag, and perform filtering on the boundary of the current division unit in response to the determination.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds that possess inhibitory activity against FAK. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and methods of using the compounds to treat cancer mediated by aberrant FAK activity.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, prodrugs, and compositions thereof. The compounds described herein are used as enhancers and/or modifiers of an immune response (e.g., innate and/or adaptive immune response), and are useful in treating and/or preventing a disease, as adjuvants in a vaccine for the disease, (e.g., proliferative disease, inflammatory disease, autoimmune disease, infectious disease, or chronic disease), or as stand alone anti-infective or immune response modifying agents. Also provided in the present disclosure are pharmaceutical compositions, kits, methods, and uses including or using a compound described herein.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for converting a neural network. The method includes separating neural network data of a source framework to form a tree structure by analyzing the same, converting the neural network data in a tree structure to a neural network optimized for a target framework, classifying training data based on the result of analysis of the neural network data of the source framework, converting the classified training data to the training data structure of the target framework, and creating a neural network and training data of the target framework by combining the converted neural network and the converted training data.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and a recording medium storing a bitstream. The image decoding method according to the present invention includes: deriving slice mode information for at least one slice comprised in a current picture; deriving information on the number of slices based on the slice mode information; deriving tile information of a current slice based on the information on the number of slices; and, decoding the current slice based on the tile information. Herein, the tile information includes tile index presence information and tile index difference value information, and the tile index difference value information is not signaled for a last slice included in the current picture.

Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies against influenza neuraminidase, compositions containing the antibodies and methods of using the antibodies.

Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image encoding method performed by an image encoding apparatus may comprise determining an intra-prediction mode of a current block, configuring a reference sample of intra prediction by using at least one of a neighbor pixel of the current block in a current picture and a pixel of a reference picture, and performing intra prediction for the current block based on the intra-prediction mode and the reference sample.

Abstract: As a simple antigen detection approach using Q-body, provided is a kit for antigen detection, comprising: a first peptide conjugated with two fluorescent dyes capable of forming a FRET pair or a fluorescent dye and a luminescent material capable of forming a BRET pair, and an antibody fragment with a second peptide added thereto, wherein 1) one of the first peptide and the second peptide is positively charged, and the other peptide is negatively charged, and 2) the first peptide and the second peptide are capable of forming a coiled coil.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating early T-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ETP T-ALL).