Abstract: A semiconductor system and semiconductor device may be provided. The semiconductor system may include a first semiconductor device configured to generate a test mode signal and configured to receive output data. The semiconductor system may include a second semiconductor device configured to enter a test mode, based on the test mode signal, and block the output data of data that is stored in redundancy memory cells connected to unrepaired redundancy word lines which are not used among redundancy word lines provided for replacing failed word lines.

Abstract: A pain sensing device includes a sensor array including a plurality of sensors that sense pressure generated due to a contact of an object and output electrical piezoelectric signals; and a signal processor configured to recognize the shape of the object based on the number of sensors that output the piezoelectric signals among the plurality of sensors, and to generate a pain signal according to the recognized shape of the object.

Abstract: A gate protection circuit includes: a clock signal generator to generate a plurality of gate clock signals; a gate driver to output gate signals based on the plurality of gate clock signals, the gate driver including a plurality of gate driving circuits cascaded to each other; and a monitoring line configured to transmit a feedback signal based on the plurality of gate clock signals via the plurality of gate driving circuits to the clock signal generator. The clock signal generator is to block generation of the plurality of gate clock signals in response to the feedback signal.

Abstract: A memory including a plurality of word lines to which one or more memory cells are coupled, an address storage unit suitable for storing an input address corresponding to a first external signal that is inputted at a random time, and a control unit suitable for activating a word line corresponding to the input address of the plurality of word lines in response to an active command and refreshing one or more target word lines selected using an address stored in the address storage unit when performing a refresh operation.

Abstract: An aliphatic polycarbonate is disclosed in which a salt consisting of a metal or onium cation and an anion having a pKa not greater than 3 is dispersed. The aliphatic polycarbonate includes repeating units of Formula 1: [-A-OC(O)O-] (wherein A is a substituted or unsubstituted C3-C60 alkylene, or a substituted or unsubstituted C3-C60 heteroalkylene and the O-A-O units in one polymer chain may be identical to or different from each other).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating liver diseases, containing a plasmalogen precursor, plasmalogen, or a plasmalogen analog as an effective component. More specifically, a plasmalogen precursor, or plasmalogen or a plasmalogen analog produced by metabolizing the plasmalogen precursor, can prevent or treat liver diseases such as hepatic steatosis, hepatitis, or liver cirrhosis, etc. by decreasing accumulation of neutral fats in the liver, repressing expressions of inflammatory cytokine genes, and increasing fatty acid oxidation capacity of peroxisome.

Abstract: Disclosed is an X-ray imaging apparatus, which includes a plurality of X-ray generation modules configured to emit X-rays to a subject, the X-ray generation modules being configured to move independently of one another, an X-ray detector configured to detect a plurality of X-rays emitted from the plurality of X-ray generation modules and which have passed through the subject, and an image processor configured to acquire a plurality of X-ray images from the plurality of detected X-rays.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a gamma controller configured to determine whether the target pixel unit is driven in both time division method and space division method based on a plurality of comparison values and a reference condition, and an output controller configured to generate normal gamma-data of the target pixel unit using a normal gamma curve if the plurality of comparison values satisfy the reference condition and to generate high gamma-data and low gamma-data of the target pixel unit using a high gamma curve and a low gamma curve in both time division method and space division method if the plurality of comparison values do not satisfy the reference condition.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a rectifying device and a method of fabricating the same. The rectifying device includes a first electrode formed in a flat shape, an insulating layer deposited on the first electrode and a second electrode formed on a preset region of the insulating layer in a nanaopillar shape in a longitudinal direction to be asymmetrical to the first electrode, thereby increasing current flow.

Abstract: The X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray source that emits X-rays to an object at different original-view positions, an X-ray detector that acquires original-view images by detecting X-rays having passed through the object, and an image controller that reconstructs a 3D volume image representation of the object from the original-view images and generates close-view images by virtually emitting X-rays to the 3D volume image representation of the object at a shorter distance than a distance between the X-ray source and the object.

Abstract: Semiconductor devices are provided. The semiconductor devices may include a substrate and a transistor on the substrate. The semiconductor devices may include a first guard ring of first conductivity type in the substrate adjacent the transistor. The semiconductor devices may include a second guard ring of second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type in the substrate adjacent the first guard ring. Related semiconductor systems are also provided.

Abstract: A display panel is provided. A first substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area. The peripheral area surrounds the display area. A second substrate is disposed on the first substrate. The second substrate faces the first substrate along a first direction. A liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. A multi-layered sealant is disposed on the peripheral area of the first substrate. The multi-layered sealant surrounds the liquid crystal layer. The multi-layered sealant includes a first sealant layer including an acrylate resin having a functional group having at least 3 carbon atoms, and a second sealant layer including an epoxy resin having a (meth)arcylate group.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel which displays an image, a compensation area determiner which divides a display area of the display panel into a compensation area and a normal area, a compensation coefficient determiner which determines a compensation coefficient corresponding to input data of the compensation area, a compensation look up table which stores a noise compensation data which compensates a luminance difference of the compensation area by an interference noise of a light-source driving signal, and a correction data calculator which calculates a correction data corresponding to the input data of the compensation area using the compensation coefficient and the noise compensation data.

Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a thin film transistor array substrate. According to one or more exemplary embodiments, a display panel includes: a first substrate including a pixel area and a non-pixel area; a second substrate that faces the first substrate; and a crack guide groove disposed on a surface of at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: A light path adjustment apparatus includes: a support plate with a first through hole through which light passes; a plurality of optical units, including first and second optical units, that move between an open location where the first through hole is opened by the optical units moving toward an outside of the first through hole and a closing location where the first through hole is divided into a plurality of regions by the plurality of optical units moving toward the first through hole and blocking at least a part of the light; and a rotation plate that has a second through hole corresponding to the first through hole and is rotatably disposed with respect to the support plate. The first and second optical units correspond to first and second regions of the first through hole, respectively, and are coupled to the support plate and the rotation plate, respectively.

Abstract: A variable partition apparatus for a trunk of a vehicle may include a luggage board having a guide rail and arranged on an bottom surface of a trunk room, an actuating unit configured to move forwards, rearwards, leftwards, and rightwards along the guide rail, a board fixing unit coupled to an upper portion of the actuating unit and in which a partition board may be fixedly assembled while being erected, and a partition board configured to move and rotate on the luggage board by the actuating unit to variably divide the trunk room.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of simulating an electronic circuit or system. The method includes receiving an input stimulus represented as a linear combination of one or more basis functions and their coefficients and the circuit or system described in an s-domain transfer function, calculating the response of the circuit or system to the input stimulus whenever the input coefficients change based on the s-domain representations of the input stimulus and circuit or system using an event-driven method, and converting the response to a representation using a linear combination of one or more basis functions and their coefficients.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of simulating a switching electrical circuit, including one or more reactive elements and one or more switches. The method includes receiving an electrical circuit including one or more reactive elements and one or more switches and a stimulus expressed in a form of a linear combination of one or more basis functions; calculating a response of the electrical circuit before the switching in a form of a linear combination of one or more basis functions, using an s-domain transfer function of the electrical circuit before the switching, initial values of the reactive elements before the switching, and the stimulus expressed in a form of a linear combination of one or more basis functions; and calculating a response of the electrical circuit after the switching in a form of a linear combination of one or more basis functions, using an s-domain transfer function of the electrical circuit after the switching and initial values of the reactive elements after the switching.

Abstract: A system for a fuel cell vehicle is provided. The system includes an electrolytic cell installed to react residual hydrogen or oxygen within a stack when a fuel cell starts up and is shut down instead of an auxiliary resistor mounted on an exterior of a stack, thereby increasing stack durability. Particularly, the system for the fuel cell vehicle includes a stack unit of a fuel cell and an electrolytic cell unit configured to store energy in the form of hydrogen or oxygen.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a power metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor including a semiconductor substrate, an impurity region on the semiconductor substrate, the impurity region having a first conductivity, a drift region in the impurity region, the drift region having the first conductivity, a body region in the impurity region adjacent to the drift region, the body region having a second conductivity different from the first conductivity, a drain extension insulating layer on the drift region, a gate insulating layer and a gate electrode sequentially stacked across a portion of the body region and a portion of the drift region, a drain extension electrode on the drain extension insulating layer, a drain region contacting a side of the drift region opposite to the body region, the drain region having the first conductivity, and a source region in the body region, the source region having the second conductivity.