Abstract: It is related to a positive electrode active material for lithium secondary battery, and to a lithium secondary battery containing the same. To improve the battery characteristics of high-capacity positive electrode materials by simultaneously doping tungsten (W) element, which has an excellent effect on electrical conductivity, and boron (B) element, which is positioned on the surface to suppress the negative reaction of residual lithium and electrolyte solution.

Abstract: Antigen binding molecules capable of binding to CDI22 and/or common y? chain (CDI32) are disclosed herein. Also disclosed are compositions comprising such antigen binding molecules, and uses and methods using the same.

Abstract: A nondestructive method for detecting damage in parts and/or characterizing effective material properties may include: exposing a material to one or more nondestructive stimuli; measuring a response of the material to the stimuli; selecting at least one of a specific length scale or a specific time scale; and analyzing the measurement of the response with a scale-aware single- or multi-physics model to identify anomalies in the measurements as compared to an expected response of the material to the stimuli, wherein the scale-aware single- or multi-physics model is based on the at least one of the specific length scale or the specific time scale.

Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method is disclosed. An image decoding method of the present invention may comprise identifying a region by partitioning an image, and determining a prediction mode of the region on the basis of at least one of a size of the region, a partition shape, and a coding parameter of the region. The determined prediction mode of the region may be determined as a prediction mode of all coding blocks included in the region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optimum method for mass-producing colanic acid by changes in the genetic factors of the strain and the environmental factors of the strain culture. The biological production amount of colanic acid can be significantly increased using the recombinant strain and culture conditions of the present invention.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for encoding an audio signal and a method of an operation thereof. An audio signal encoding method includes obtaining quantized linear prediction (LP) coefficients by performing a linear predictive coding (LPC) analysis and quantization on an input audio signal, generating a reference signal by applying discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to the input audio signal, obtaining LP residual coefficients from the reference signal, scaling magnitudes of the LP residual coefficients using the quantized LP coefficients and the reference signal, and quantizing phases of the LP residual coefficients and the scaled magnitudes of the LP residual coefficients.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display device. An embodiment of the inventive concept provides a display device that includes a substrate including a first sub pixel region, a second sub pixel region, and a third sub pixel region, reflective bottom electrodes provided on the substrate, a blue light emitting layer provided on the lower reflective electrodes, an encapsulation layer provided on the blue light emitting layer, a green color conversion layer provided on the encapsulation layer in the first sub pixel region, a color conversion layer provided on the encapsulation layer in the second sub pixel region, a blue reflective layer provided on both the green color conversion layer and the color conversion layer, and a blue transmissive layer disposed adjacent to the color conversion layer and provided on the encapsulation layer in the third sub pixel region.

Abstract: A method systematically developing reduced-order (e.g., upscaled or coarse-grained, lumped- or distributed-parameter) multi-physics models for simulating additive manufacturing may include: describing governing equations of an additive manufacturing process; refactoring the governing equations into (1) constitutive laws with unknown coefficients and (2) conservation laws; discretizing the governing equations; and training the unknown coefficients of the constitutive laws with simulated data and/or experimental data relating to the additive manufacturing process where the conservation laws are enforced in the training regardless of a granularity of the constitutive laws, thereby yielding a reduced-order set of governing equations.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for interlayer prediction, and the method for interlayer prediction, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: deciding whether to apply an interlayer prediction to an enhancement layer; and performing a prediction on a current block of the enhancement layer based on reference information that is generalized and generated from a reference picture, which is decoded, of a reference layer, when the interlayer prediction is applied, wherein the reference layer information can be encoding information of a reference block, which corresponds to a current block of the enhancement layer, from the reference layer, and residual information.

Abstract: Disclosed are a bipolar polymer electrolyte membrane for water electrolysis and manufacturing method thereof. A bipolar polymer electrolyte membrane for water electrolysis according to the present disclosure may comprise a proton exchange membrane that is composed of a first compound including a poly(fluorene biphenyl indole) polymer compound as a main chain and an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having a cation exchange group on a side chain of the polymer compound, and an anion exchange membrane that is composed of a second compound represented by Formula 1 below, wherein the proton exchange membrane and the anion exchange membrane have structures bonded to each other: in Formula 1, R1 is the anion exchange group and m is an integer from 70 to 90.

Abstract: Mass vaccination of one or more animals may be performed topically using viscosified fluids and a spray delivery device. When applied to one or more animals, the viscosified fluids may adhere a medicament upon a topical surface of the one or more animals. The spray delivery device may comprise at least a spray component, a fluid reservoir component, a plunger, an electronics component, and a battery.

Abstract: An optical device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate on the first substrate; multiple optical sensing modules on the first substrate, the multiple optical sensing modules including a first group of optical sensing modules and a second group of optical sensing modules; and a controller electrically connected to the multiple optical sensing modules. When the controller detects a user, the controller sends control signals to drive the first group of optical sensing modules and the second group of optical sensing modules simultaneously to perform a measurement on the user, and obtains a first physiological signal of the user and a second physiological signal of the user simultaneously.

Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to the artificial intelligence (AI) automatic methods, computer program product, and systems and methodology for dietary and medical treatment planning, food waste estimation, analyzing three-dimensional food image construction, measurement, nutrient estimation, nutritional assessment, evaluation, prediction and management. More particularly, the embodiments described herein relate to utilizing an AI-based algorithm that can automatically, detect food items from images acquired by cameras for dietary assessment, dietary planning, and for estimating food waste. In one aspect, the method may include food calorie estimation techniques using machine learning and computer vision techniques for dietary assessment. In another aspect, the tools may apply to personalized nutrition. The method may also include the automation of nutrition planning.

Abstract: This document describes systems, methods, and devices for sensing electrical activity in a brain of a mammal. Some aspects include a cortical electrode assembly configured, in use, to sense electrical activity at a surface of a brain, the assembly comprising: a ring-shaped substrate; and a plurality of electrical sensors affixed to the ring-shaped substrate, wherein the plurality of electrical sensors are spaced along the ring-shaped substrate so as to form a ring of electrical sensors that substantially encircle an aperture formed by the ring-shaped substrate.

Abstract: A direct reductive amination of aldehydes, ketones, and keto acids with trifluoroacetoxyborane-amines (TFAB-amines), which are mild reductive amination agents prepared by monoacetoxylation of borane-amines; Aromatic and aliphatic lactams are obtained via a tandem reductive amination-cycloamidation of keto acids using TFAB-amine.

Abstract: A stop system intended to engage with a tool for heating by direct contact for a machine for plastic welding of a component over an opening in a wall of a motor vehicle tank. The system contains a cam mechanism which includes a straight cam with a longitudinal axis and a follower coupled to the straight cam for converting a translational movement along the longitudinal axis of the follower into a straight or quasi-straight movement of a point of the follower in a direction non-parallel to the longitudinal axis. The cam mechanism of the follower is capable of moving from a rest position, where the stop system is configured to pass freely through an opening in a wall of a motor vehicle tank, to a working position. The stop system is configured to bear against an inner surface of the wall of the tank through which the straight cam passes.

Abstract: Provided is an inductively coupled plasma etching apparatus comprising: a reaction chamber having an inner space to which a gas source is provided; an upper coil part for inducing an electric field into the inner space of the reaction chamber and configured to form an inductively coupled plasma from the gas source by the electric field; a mounting part which faces the upper coil part and on which an object to be etched by the inductively coupled plasma is disposed; and a lower electrode part provided on the lower side of the mounting part to induce at least any one of ions and neutral active species constituting the inductively coupled plasma and involved in etching toward the object to be etched disposed on the mounting part, wherein the frequency of the lower electrode part is lower than the frequency of the upper coil part.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a chondrogenic cell sheet comprising at least two layers of confluent chondrogenically differentiated cells, wherein the cell sheet is prepared from mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), and wherein the chondrogenically differentiated cells on the basal side of the cell sheet express adhesion molecules. The disclosure also relates to a method of preparing a chondrogenic cell sheet comprising: a) culturing MSCs on temperature responsive cultureware until confluent to form a cell sheet; b) detaching the cell sheet by temperature reduction and allowing the cell sheet to contract, forming a contracted cell sheet; c) contacting the contracted cell sheet with a culture surface; and d) treating the contracted cell sheet on the culture surface with chondrogenic medium and culturing to form a chondrogenic cell sheet. Methods of using the chondrogenic cell sheets to repair cartilage tissue or treat joint disease are also disclosed.

Abstract: In a non-contact pressure measurement system of a balloon catheter and a non-contact pressure measurement method of the balloon catheter using the same, the system includes a chamber part, a balloon, a tube part, a pump part and a displacement sensor. The chamber part stores a saline solution. The balloon is disposed inside of a body and is configured to be expanded with supply of the saline solution. The tube part is configured to connect the chamber part with the balloon. The pump part is configured to control the supply of the saline solution via the tube part. The displacement sensor is configured to measure an amount of the expansion of the tube part expanded with the supply of the saline solution, in a predetermined section of the tube part.

Abstract: A deep learning pipeline can be configured to use medical image data to generate predictions of therapeutic responses to a new treatment in members of a cohort of interest of treatment candidates. A plurality of respective deep learning networks may be trained using respective medical image datasets having respective degrees of relevance to the cohort of interest. Learned parameters of one deep learning network may be transferred in succession to another deep learning network after training the one deep learning network with a one of the respective medical image datasets and before training the other deep learning network with another medical image dataset of the respective medical image datasets.