Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a binder for coating a secondary battery separator, wherein the method may include performing a first polymerization on a first monomer to form a precursor solution including a chain-type particle, and adding a second monomer to the precursor solution and performing a second polymerization to form an emulsion particle on the chain-type particle. In an embodiment, the second polymerization may include an emulsification polymerization in which the chain-type particle acts as an emulsifier.

Abstract: The invention relates to systems, methods, network devices, and machine-readable media for encrypting and decrypting messages in a decentralized multi-authority attribute-based encryption (MA-ABE) scheme for a non-trivial class of access policies whose security is based in the random oracle model solely on the Learning With Errors (LWE) assumption. In some embodiments, any party can become an authority and there is no requirement for any global coordination other than the creation of an initial set of common reference parameters.

Abstract: An optical isolator according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a first polarizer through which incident light transmits, a Faraday rotator configured to rotate the polarization direction of the light, and a second polarizer through which the light transmits. The Faraday rotator includes a calcium fluoride crystal. When a, b, and c axes are the [001], [100], and [010] crystallographic axes, respectively, and x, y, and z axes are obtained by rotating the three axes by a first angle of 40° to 50° about the c axis and by a second angle of 45° to 75° about the b axis rotated by the first angle, the z axis is parallel to the propagation direction of the light, and the calcium fluoride crystal is disposed such that the transmission axis of the first polarizer and the x axis have an angle difference of 0° to 45°.

Abstract: Provided is a fused ring diimide derivative having a chemical structure of formula I. Further provided is a preparation method therefor. The fused ring diimide derivative has excellent anti-tumor activity, and the anti-proliferative activity on various cancer cells is significantly better than that of similar compounds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic interpretation method and system for converting only voice of a speaker into a target language. The present invention may significantly improve performance of automatic interpretation with a foreigner to be communicated with, even in a high-noise environment in which multiple speakers utter at the same time by utilizing voice and image information input to a smart device in a complex manner. In addition, the present invention may determine a situation based on text information and image information existing around a user, and reflect the situation information together with multimodal information to an interpretation engine in real time. In addition, the present invention may significantly improve user convenience of an automatic interpretation system by directly augmenting and displaying an interpreted sentence directly next to a speaker image or generating a synthesized sound by distinguishing the interpreted sentence from other speeches.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a communication system, and more particularly, to a method for time-deterministic packet forwarding that guarantees a maximum and minimum latency requirement of a service, the method including: receiving latency information of links and nodes on a path, and buffer resource information of the nodes; calculating, on the basis of the buffer resource information of the last node, local latency budgets that the other nodes need to guarantee; performing control so that the nodes transmit a packet on the basis of the local latency budgets; and finally guaranteeing, by the last node, a residual latency budget remaining after the nodes transmit the packet within the local latency budgets.

Abstract: One or more of HLA gene primers selected from the group consisting of the following (1) to (3): (1) one or more HLA-G gene primers which are (1a) a first primer including the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO. 1 and/or (1b) a second primer including the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO. 3, (2) one or more HLA-E gene primers which are (2a) a first primer including the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO. 5 and/or (2b) a second primer including the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO. 7, and (3) one or more HLA-F gene primers which are (3a) a first primer including the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO. 9 and/or (3b) a second primer including the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO. 11.

Abstract: A textile part (10) including at least two textile layers superimposed on one another and each including fibres, the layers being formed by an energy-generating layer (11; 12) configured to generate an electric current from light radiation or from mechanical stresses, and an energy storage layer (13) for supplying an electronic device with an electric current, the storage layer (13) being electrically connected to the generating layer (11; 13) and configured to store the electric current.

Abstract: A method for producing an HSL protein with increased catalytic activity to oxidize a 4-HPPD inhibitor in a 2-oxoglutarate-dependent manner is disclosed. A method for producing a plant with increased resistance to a 4-HPPD inhibitor using the method for producing the HSL protein is also disclosed. It has been revealed that, by mutating position 140 to a basic amino acid in an HSL protein, the catalytic activity of the protein to oxidize a 4-HPPD inhibitor in a 2-oxoglutarate-dependent manner can be increased, and an activity of the protein to decompose the inhibitor can be increased.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transceiving data. A method in which a transmitting terminal transmits data to a receiving terminal in a MIMO system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the following steps: generating a data field containing the data; generating a signal field containing information on the data field; generating a data frame containing the data field and the signal field; and transmitting the data frame to the receiving terminal. According to the present invention, an end of the frame being transmitted is accurately notified to the receiving terminal in a communication system in which the frame is transmitted using MIMO, thereby decoding the frame in a more efficient manner at the receiving terminal.

Abstract: A battery management system (BMS) to detect conditions favorable to thermal runway. The BMS includes Interdigitated Platinum Electrode (IPE) on a substrate. The IPE contains a coating containing PEDOT:PSS (poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate). The system has an impedance measuring system (IMS) to measure impedance changes caused in the IPE due to exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOC's) resulting from decomposition of electrolyte in a battery. The impedance changes are indicative of release of the VOC's from the battery signaling a temperature increase in components of the battery. A method of inferring the concentration of VOC's produced by an electrochemical cell. The method includes providing a sensor integrated into the electrochemical cell, the sensor being IPE on a substrate containing a coating containing PEDOT:PSS, recording the impedance response of the sensor to the VOC's released by the electrochemical cell and inferring the concentration of the VOC's.

Abstract: Provided are a resist compound and an underlayer compound, which may improve the resolution and sensitivity of a resist pattern and restrain the collapse of the resist pattern. The underlayer compound includes a cellulose structure having at least one hydroxyl group (—OH) and at least one vinyl silyl group. The resist compound includes an alkylated metal oxide nanocluster having a counter anion.

Abstract: A time-of-flight system includes an emitter-circuit generating and directing pulses of light toward a target, and a receiver-circuit including a photodetector coupled between a bias node and a sensing node to detect pulses that have reflected off the target, a comparison circuit comparing a sense voltage at the sensing node to a reference, a timing measurement circuit measuring elapsed time between generation of a given pulse and detection thereof after reflection off the target, and a programmable current sink that sinks a current from the sensing node equal to a portion of a photocurrent generated by the photodetector due to detection of ambient light. A timing-generation circuit synchronizes generation of the pulses and measurement of elapsed time by the timing circuit. A processor adjusts a magnitude of the current sunk from the sensing node based upon output of the comparison circuit when the emitter circuit is deactivated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a video image based on transform. The method for decoding a video includes: determining a transform mode of a current block; inverse-transforming residual data of the current block according to the transform mode of the current block; and rearranging the inverse-transformed residual data of the current block according to the transform mode of the current block, wherein the transform mode includes at least one of SDST (Shuffling Discrete Sine Transform), SDCT (Shuffling Discrete cosine Transform), DST (Discrete Sine Transform) or DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform).

Abstract: A method and system for detecting a malicious change in the positioning signal of a User Equipment (UE), by using the time difference of arrival (TDOA) method in a communication system that uses, for example, a low earth orbiting satellites (LEOs) based non-terrestrial network (NTN). A position comparator module is incorporated in a position computation entity that compares the geolocation of a UE, computed by using the transmitted time Ttrans in the positioning signal, with the geolocation computed by the TDOA method, and if the difference is above a threshold value, an alert is generated. Using this system a and method prevents a UE from faking its own geolocation to other UEs and communication devices in the communication system by more than few hundred of meters. As a result, the Location Based Services (LBS) can be offered reliably to legitimate users only.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides, as a sleeper pad for railroad sleepers in which a nonwoven fabric is attached to a rubber pad by a thermal fusion process, a nonwoven fabric-integrated sleeper pad using a rubber pad embedded with a stiffener and methods of manufacturing and constructing the same, which can adjust vertical support stiffness of the rubber pad by the stiffener embedded in the middle of the rubber pad and which can secure the flatness of the rubber pad by resisting bending deformation due to a difference in shrinkage between rubber and nonwoven fabric.

Abstract: An external part component (10) of a watch including a photovoltaic cell (20) including an elementary solar cell (21) interposed between two electrodes, one of which is an upper electrode (22) arranged over a face of the elementary solar cell (21) intended to be subjected to an incident light radiation, the upper electrode (22) being formed by sections (220) arranged according to a predetermined pattern matching with a graphical representation of a constellation, the photovoltaic cell (20) being intended to be electrically connected to an electronic horological movement (30).

Abstract: Provided is a method for deciphering obfuscated text for cyber security and an apparatus for the same. The method according to some embodiments includes: converting text including a target character string into an image; recognizing a character string in the image using a text recognition model; and determining that the target character string is an obfuscated character string, based on a similarity between the target character string and the recognized character string being equal to or less than a first reference value.

Abstract: A topochemical approach for creating elongated C—C bonds with a bond length of 1.57˜1.70 ? between monomers in the solid state; and topochemically prepared highly crystalline polymers.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for image encoding/decoding. The method for image decoding includes comparing whether a size of a current transform block and a size of a smallest transform block (smallest transform unit (STU)) are the same as each other, and decoding information indicating whether transformation is performed on the current transform block and determining whether to perform inverse transformation on the current transform block based on the decoded information indicating whether the transformation is performed when the size of the current transform block and the size of a smallest transform block are the same as each other.