Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention include inventive compounds (e.g., boron compounds of Formula (I)), inventive lipid particles, and inventive lipoplexes. Other embodiments include compositions (e.g., pharmaceutical compositions) comprising the inventive compound, inventive lipid particles, or inventive lipoplexes. Some embodiments include methods of using the inventive lipoplexes (e.g., in compositions or in pharmaceutical compositions) for administering, treating disease, inducing an immune response, and combinations thereof. Further embodiments include methods for making the inventive compounds. Additional embodiments of the invention are also discussed herein.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a compiler-based deep learning model pruning apparatus and method. The compiler-based deep learning model pruning method includes extracting multiple subgraphs from a first deep learning model, generating programs representing respective tasks allocated to the extracted multiple subgraphs, compiling the first deep learning model based on selected programs and measuring execution times of tasks of the first deep learning model on respective devices, and creating a second deep learning model by pruning a subgraph corresponding to at least one task selected from among the tasks from the first deep learning model based on the execution times on the respective devices.

Abstract: A transmitter includes a driver including an edge driver that is configured to output a first signal and a fourth signal based on a selection drive signal and a middle driver that is configured to output a second signal and a third signal, a body bias circuit configured to provide the body bias voltage to the middle driver based on a body bias control signal, a control circuit configured to provide the selection drive signal to the driver and to transmit the body bias control signal to the body bias circuit, based on a first comparison result or a second comparison result, and a comparator configured to provide the first comparison result of comparing a level of the second signal with a second level and to provide the second comparison result of comparing a level of the third signal with a third level.

Abstract: An image encoding method according to the present disclosure may include performing a low gradational conversion for an original depth image of a first bit depth to generate a first depth image of a second bit depth; and encoding the first depth image through a color image of a third bit depth. In this case, the third bit depth may be smaller than the second bit depth.

Abstract: Disclosed are a prefabricated wire mesh assembly for a ballast and a method of constructing a gravel-ballasted track using the same. When a gravel ballast is used by filling a box-shaped rebar mesh with crushed stones and injecting a filling material, the prefabricated wire mesh assembly increases injection efficiency by further installing an internal partition wall to effectively support loads without forming a separate ballast shoulder and injecting a filling material through injection pipes installed on an internal partition wall, and prevents water accumulation on a roadbed by a drainage pipe. The prefabricated wire mesh assembly for a ballast is assembled by installing the injection pipe along with the lower mesh and the internal partition wall, thereby allowing the filling material to be injected without installation of a plurality of separate injection pipes, and securing construction quality by increasing injection efficiency of the filling material through the installed injection pipes.

Abstract: Provided are a polymer compound and a composition for nucleic acid delivery comprising the same, wherein the polymer compound has a high binding affinity to nucleic acids and effectively protects nucleic acids from nucleases, thereby improving the nucleic acid delivery effect and stability.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of determining the trapped volume and the trapped aqueous volume of a plurality of liposomes in a liposomal composition. The method can be used for calculating the concentration of an active pharmaceutical ingredient entrapped within the liposomes and for quality assurance of a pre-formed liposomal composition.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for personalizing autonomous driving. The system can receive historical data on a driver of the vehicle's performance and population data indicating a population driving style. Speed data can be recorded as the driver of the vehicle drives the vehicle during a trial period. The historical data, population data, and speed data can be input into a machine learning model to determine a style for the driver. The system can receive one or more parameters from the machine learning model indicating the style. These parameters can be applied to the vehicle's automated driving system.

Abstract: A photonic switch system includes an optical chip having an optical input configured to receive an optical signal into the optical chip and an optical output configured to output the optical signal from the optical chip in an ON state. The optical chip defines an optical path from the optical input to the optical output in the ON state. A moveable member is included in the optical path proximate the optical input and a stationary member is included in the optical path proximate the optical output. In the ON state, the optical path runs from the optical input, into the moveable member, through the moveable member, into the stationary member, though the stationary member, and to the optical output. In an OFF state, the optical path diverts away from the optical output.

Abstract: A method for preparing pure hypochlorous acid includes a step of combining a predetermined amount of sodium hypochlorite with a predetermined volume of a nonpolar solvent and a predetermined amount of a weak acid (e.g., acetic acid) to form a biphasic mixture that includes an aqueous phase and an organic phase. The biphasic mixture is agitated, and then the organic phase is separated from the aqueous phase. The nonpolar solvent is removed from the organic phase to obtain the pure hypochlorous acid.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for key-policy attribute-based encryption. The method includes receiving a message to be encrypted, a master public key, and a set of attributes. A random integer s is sampled between 1 and a prime integer p, where p is established by a pairing-friendly curve comprising three groups of two source groups and one target group. Every attribute in the set is hashed to a first source group of the pairing-friendly curve and multiplied by s to generate a set of attribute encodings. A target group element in the master public key is multiplied by s to generate a blinding factor. The message is masked with the blinding factor. A ciphertext is computed comprising the masked message, the set of attributes, the set of attribute encodings, and an encoding of s in a second source group of the pairing-friendly curve. The ciphertext is then outputted.

Abstract: Disclosed are a design method for an ROPS framework and a cab for engineering machines. The design method for an ROPS framework comprises: obtaining target values of a lateral load Fmax and lateral load energy Umax of an ROPS framework by calculation according to the standards of earth-moving machines; selecting a suitable cab framework structure type from a simply supported beamstructural mechanics model; and calculating the sum of profile sectional moduli of all pillars and top cross beams according to a maximum lateral load Fmax quick calculation formula and a maximum load energy Umax quick calculation formula, selecting suitable profiles based on the sum, and constructing a closed spatial framework structure according to the selected cab framework structure type.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, source/drain regions on the substrate, a channel layer between the source/drain regions and including indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO), a variable resistance layer on the channel layer and including metal oxide that satisfies a stoichiometric ratio of metal to oxygen, a gate insulating layer on the variable resistance layer and including metal oxide that does not satisfy the stoichiometric ratio of metal to oxygen, and a gate electrode on the gate insulating layer.

Abstract: Parts made by additive manufacturing are often structural in nature, rather than having functional properties conveyed by a polymer or other component present therein. Printed parts having piezoelectric properties may be formed using compositions comprising a polymer material comprising at least one thermoplastic polymer, at least one polymer precursor, or any combination thereof, and a plurality of piezoelectric particles dispersed in at least a portion of the polymer material. The piezoelectric particles may interact non-covalently with at least a portion of the polymer material, be covalently bonded to at least a portion of the polymer material, and/or be reactive with at least a portion of the polymer material. The compositions may be extrudable and formable into a self-standing three-dimensional structure upon being extruded. Additive manufacturing processes may comprise forming a printed part by depositing the compositions layer-by-layer.

Abstract: Provided is a quaternary ammonium salt having a specific structure, an organic structure-directing agent containing the quaternary ammonium salt, and a method for producing the quaternary ammonium salt. Also, provided is a CON-type zeolite, which is a mixed crystal in which a molar ratio (Si/Al) of silicon (Si) and aluminum (Al) is 200 or more and 2000 or less, and which contains 25 mass % or more of Polymorph A, a catalyst containing a CON-type zeolite, and a method for producing a lower olefin using the catalyst.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for transmitting, by a terminal, a sounding reference signal (SRS). The terminal receives a grant for uplink multiple subframes from a base station. The terminal determines a first subframe for an SRS transmission of the terminal among the uplink multiple subframes on the basis of SRS transmission position information received from the base station. Further, the terminal transmits the SRS in the first subframe.

Abstract: A method of treating a disease or disorder for which an increase in immune cells in the brain is therapeutic in a subject is disclosed. The method comprises administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an agent which specifically binds and increases activity of a receptor selected from the group consisting of a 5HT2C receptor, a 5HT2A receptor and a 5HT2B receptor in the postcentral gyrus and/or the choroid plexus (CP) of the brain of the subject. Compositions for treating these diseases are also disclosed.

Abstract: Provided are a resist composition for photolithography and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device using the same. The resist composition includes a metal phthalocyanine compound in which an aromatic functional group is introduced. The aromatic functional group has a substituent selected among a vinyl group, a halogenated alkyl group of 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a halogenated alkyl ether halogenated alkyl group of 2 to 20 carbon atoms, a halogenated alkyl ether halogenated alkylene ether halogenated alkyl group of 3 to 20 carbon atoms, and a halogenated aryl group of 6 to 20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The invention relates to a battery sub-module (11) for a motor vehicle, the sub-module comprising two battery cells in pouch form and a carrier frame (33), each battery cell comprising two electrodes (37, 38; 39, 40), each electrode (37, 38, 39, 40) protruding from the carrier frame (33), a first electrode (37) of the first battery cell being such that, outside the carrier frame (33), it faces a first electrode (39) of the second battery cell and is connected to said first electrode (39) by a welded connection, the second electrode (38) of the first battery cell being such that, outside the carrier frame (33), it faces a second electrode (40) of the second battery cell and is connected to said second electrode (40) by a welded connection. The invention also relates to a battery module for a motor vehicle, the module comprising a plurality of battery sub-modules of the aforementioned type.

Abstract: An image sensing device and a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) device include a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array including SPAD pixels, a signal transmission unit including row lines connected in units of SPAD pixels of a same row and column lines connected in units of SPAD pixels of a same column, a bias circuit unit outputting a row bias signal corresponding to a row photon signal transmitted through a row line of the signal transmission unit and outputting a column bias signal corresponding to a column photon signal transmitted through a column line of the signal transmission unit, a logic circuit unit identifying, based on the row bias signal and the column bias signal, a SPAD pixel that has detected a photon, and a counter array performing photon counting with respect to a counter that corresponds to the identified SPAD pixel among counters corresponding to the SPAD array.