Abstract: Provided are an urban digital twin platform system and a moving object information analysis and management method therefor. Through the urban digital twin platform system and the moving object information analysis and management method, a moving object such as a vehicle or a pedestrian may be detected from multimodal sensor data, data on the moving object may be generated, and a situation may be quickly determined by deriving complex actions of the moving object. The urban digital twin platform system includes a multimodal sensor data input and objectification module configured to detect a moving object and to generate objectification data, a multimodal sensor data analysis module configured to classify basic actions of the moving object, to classify complex actions of the moving object, and to generate moving object information, and an urban space data server configured to store the objectification data and the moving object information.

Abstract: An autonomous self-driving assembly that includes a shape-shifting tread unit. The tread unit is utilized the support the mobility of the assembly while also of a shape-shifting capacity to brace the assembly in a narrow space of a confined area. In this manner, a load-based application may be performed with the assembly in a stable and reliable manner. Once more, the shape-shifting tread unit includes jacking mechanisms to support the raising of the vertical profile of the unit to attain the bracing. At the same time, tensioners are used to cooperatively shorten the vertical profile so as to maintain a predetermined range of tension on the treads of the unit during the shape shifting.

Abstract: Disclosed is a robust topology optimization design method of a damping composite stiffened cylindrical shell box structure, comprising: constructing working load data, and obtaining circumferential target modal frequencies based on the working load data and the stiffened cylindrical shell box; laying constrained layer damping materials on the stiffened cylindrical shell box to construct a damping composite stiffened cylindrical shell box; constructing interval parameters based on the damping composite stiffened cylindrical shell box, and obtaining modal loss factor based on the interval parameters; constructing an objective function based on the modal loss factors, constructing design variables and constraint conditions based on the damping composite stiffened cylindrical shell box, integrating the objective function, design variables and constraint conditions to form an interval robust topology optimization model; updating the design variables based on the interval robust topology optimization model, and obt

Abstract: Provided is a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) logic element. The CMOS logic element includes a substrate including a PMOS area, a circuit wiring structure including an insulating layer and a wiring layer alternately stacked on the substrate, wherein the circuit wiring structure includes an NMOS area vertically spaced apart from the PMOS area, a first transistor disposed on the PMOS area, and a second transistor disposed on the NMOS area and complementarily connected to the first transistor, wherein the first transistor includes a first gate electrode, source/drain areas formed on the PMOS area on both sides of the first gate electrode, and a first channel connecting the source and drain areas to each other, wherein the second transistor includes a second gate electrode and a second channel vertically overlapping the second gate electrode, wherein the first channel includes silicon, wherein the second channel includes an oxide semiconductor.

Abstract: A measurement gap configuration method and a device are provided. The method includes: sending, by a secondary node, first indication information or second indication information to a master node; receiving, by the master node, the first indication information or the second indication information sent by the secondary node, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate that the secondary node needs to configure a terminal to perform an E-UTRAN inter-frequency measurement, or is used to request the master node to configure a measurement gap, the second indication information is used to indicate that the secondary node does not need to configure a terminal to perform an E-UTRAN inter-frequency measurement, or is used for not requesting the master node to configure a measurement gap.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel phosphorous (V) (P(V)) reagents, methods for preparing thereof, and methods for preparing organophosphorous (V) compounds by using the novel reagents.

Abstract: A method for inducing reprogramming of a cell of a first type which is not a non-hepatocyte (non-hepatocyte cell), into a cell with functional hepatic drug metabolizing and transporting capabilities, is disclosed. The non-hepatocyte is induced to express or overexpress hepatic fate conversion and maturation factors, cultured in somatic cell culture medium, hepatocyte cell culture medium and hepatocyte maturation medium for a sufficient period of time to convert the non-hepatocyte cell into a cell with hepatocyte-like properties. The iHeps induced according to the methods disclosed herein are functional induced hepatocytes (iHeps) in that they express I and II drug-metabolizing enzymes and phase III drug transporters and show superior drug metabolizing activity compared to iHeps obtained by prior art methods. The iHeps thus provide a cell resource for pharmaceutical applications.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an encoding method and decoding method, and a device using the same. The encoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: specifying an intra prediction mode for a current block; and scanning a residual signal by intra prediction of the current block, wherein the step of scanning the residual signal can determine a scanning type for a luminance signal and a chroma signal of the current block according to an intra prediction mode for a luminance sample of the current block.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an immersive video processing method. The immersive video processing method includes: determining a priority order of pruning for input videos; extracting patches from the input videos based on the priority order of pruning; generating at least one atlas based on the extracted patches; and encoding metadata. Herein, the metadata may include information on a priority order of pruning among input videos.

Abstract: There is disclosed a compound, a pharmaceutical composition and a method of cancer treatment with an improved Myc inhibitor compound. More specifically, there is disclosed an improved compound having with improved solubility, improved binding characteristics and better efficacy and therapeutic activity inhibiting c-MYC wherein the improved compound comprises a tri-substituted pyridine having a thiazoyl moiety at position R1 versus an earlier disclosed genus of tri-substituted pyridine structures.

Abstract: A microscope system for flexibly, efficiently and quickly inspecting patterns and defects on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography photomasks. The system includes a stand-alone plasma-based EUV radiation source with an emission spectrum with a freestanding line emission in the spectral range from 12.5 nm to 14.5 nm has a relative bandwidth of ?/??>1000, means for the broadband spectral filtering ?/??<50 for selecting the dominant freestanding emission line, means for suppressing radiation with wavelengths outside of the EUV spectral region, zone plate optics for magnified imaging of the object with a resolution which corresponds to the width of an outermost zone of the zone plate, a numerical aperture corresponding to more than 1000 zones, and a EUV detector array for capturing the patterned object.

Abstract: Provided are an image encoding method and device. When carrying out image encoding for a block within a slice, at least one block in a restored block of the slice is set as a reference block. When this is done, the encoding parameters of the reference block are distinguished, and the block to be encoded is encoded adaptively based on the encoding parameters.

Abstract: An image decoding method is disclosed in the present specification. An image decoding method according to the present invention may comprise deriving a candidate list for inter-prediction of a current block, deriving motion information of the current block by using the candidate list, deriving a cumulative coding information candidate by using the motion information of the current block, inserting the derived cumulative coding information candidate into a cumulative coding information candidate list and updating the candidate list by using the cumulative coding information candidate list, wherein the updated candidate list is used for inter-prediction of a block to be decoded after the current block.

Abstract: A system for optimizing the performance of at least one downstream task includes one or more processors and a memory having one or more modules. The one or more modules cause the one or more processors to generate visual semantic segmentation data of a scene by a visual semantic segmentation model, generate labeled point cloud data of the scene by a vision model based on raw point cloud data of the scene and the visual semantic segmentation data, generate one or more clusters of the scene by a cluster generator model based on the labeled point cloud data, determine a clustering loss error between the one or more clusters generated by the cluster generator and one or more ground truth clusters and adjust, based on the clustering loss error, one or more model weights the visual semantic segmentation model and/or the vision model.

Abstract: A device and a method for generating floating images are provided. An optical imaging module generates a first floating image. A sensing module sends a detection signal to sense first position information of a tested object at a first time point, and generates a feedback signal according to the first position information when the first position information is within a contour range of the first floating image. A signal processing module is electrically connected to the optical imaging module and the sensing module to receive the feedback signal and generate at least one control command and/or at least one feedback command corresponding to the feedback signal. The at least one control command is transmitted to a controller to perform corresponding control on the controller, and the at least one feedback command is transmitted to the optical imaging module, so that the optical imaging module generates a second floating image different from the first floating image.

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the cycling of batteries by using data and a hierarchical Bayesian model (HBM) for predicting the cycle life of a cycling protocol. In one embodiment, a method includes classifying cycle life of a battery into a class using battery data from cycling with a protocol, wherein the class represents cycle life distributions of cycling protocols. The method also includes quantifying, using the class in a HBM, variability for the battery induced by the protocol. The method also includes predicting, using the HBM, an adjusted cycle life for the protocol according to the variability. The method also includes communicating the adjusted cycle life to operate the battery.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image encoding method. The method includes deriving a motion refinement candidate from among motion information of spatial neighboring blocks, motion information of a temporal neighboring blocks, predefined motion information, and motion information that most frequently occurs in a reference picture, performing a motion information refinement on the derived motion refinement candidate, and generating a prediction block of a current block by using the motion refinement candidate having undergone the motion information refinement.

Abstract: An image decoding method is disclosed in the present specification. An image decoding method according to the present invention may include: determining a position of a co-located block of a current block within a co-located picture (co-located picture); determining a representative motion vector of the current block by using motion information at the position of the co-located block; and deriving motion information on a sub-block included in the current block by using the representative motion vector.

Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus according to the present invention may comprise deriving an intra-prediction mode of a current block, and performing intra-prediction for the current block based on the intra-prediction mode. The deriving of the intra-prediction mode may comprise decoding a predetermined mode sameness indicator.

Abstract: Described are novel nicotine-binding antibodies and methods of using them for treating nicotine addiction and/or facilitating smoking cessation, or for treating nicotine overdose or nicotine poisoning.