Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for strain-specific identification and assessment of susceptibility of microorganisms based on the response of sensors in a colorimetric sensor array to metabolic products of the microorganism.

Abstract: Disclosed are a data concealment apparatus and a data concealment method using an Error Correction Code. According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to prevent important information from being easily exposed to a third person by generating encoding data through convolution encoding of input data and thereafter, concealing the encoding data on an image through adjustment of a pixel value on the image and minimize an error which can occur at the time of recovering the input data by extracting the encoding data from the image in a soft decision scheme and performing Viterbi-decoding on the extracted encoding data in order to recover the input data concealed in the image.

Abstract: A display device includes a display area including a gate line and a data line and a gate driver connected to an end of the gate line, the gate driver including at least one stages integrated on a substrate configured to output a gate voltage, in which the stage includes an inverter unit and an output unit, in which the output unit includes a first transistor and a first capacitor. The first transistor includes an input terminal applied with a clock signal, a control terminal connected to the node Q, and an output terminal connected to a gate voltage output terminal through which the gate voltage is output. An inverter voltage output from the inverter is lower than the low voltage of the gate voltage output by the output unit.

Abstract: An electronic card connector comprises: an insulating housing and a plurality of terminals mounted to the insulating housing. Each terminal comprises two resilient arms, a contacting structure and a tail. The two resilient arms each have a first end and a second end, the two first ends of the two resilient arms are spaced apart from each other and fixed to the insulating housing, and the two second ends of the two resilient arms are connected to the contacting structure. The contacting structure comprises a convex curved surface for contacting the corresponding conducting pad of the electronic card.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to novel vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR)-binding polypeptides and methods for using these polypeptides to inhibit biological activities mediated by vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs). The present disclosure also provides various improvements relating to single domain binding polypeptides.

Abstract: An analog amplifier for recovering an abnormal operation of a common-mode feedback is provided. An analog variable amplifier includes a first input transistor and a second input transistor, a first output transistor and a second output transistor, a third transistor and a fourth transistor, a first current source, a fifth transistor and a sixth transistor, and a second current source. The first input transistor and the second input transistor amplify a bias current depending on a magnitude of a first input voltage and a second input voltage. The first output transistor and the second output transistor output the amplified bias current. The third transistor and the fourth transistor receive an output voltage of the first output transistor as an input and amplifying the received output voltage. The first current source provides a predetermined current between the first output transistor and the third transistor.

Abstract: A printed circuit board for a memory card includes an insulating layer; a mounting part on a first surface of the insulating layer, the mounting part being electrically connected to a memory device; and a terminal part on a second surface of the insulating layer, the terminal part being electrically connected to an external electronic appliance, wherein a same metal layer having a same property is formed on exposed surfaces of the mounting part and the terminal part.

Abstract: A sputtering apparatus includes a sputtering cathode and a target overlying the sputtering cathode. A shield overlies the target and forms an aperture configured to direct sputtering particles onto a substrate. The shield includes a lower shield portion overlying the target, a channel outlet overlying the lower shield portion, and an upper shield portion overlying the channel. In some embodiments the shield includes a first shield and a second shield. The first shield includes a front gas injection outlet. The second shield overlies the first shield and forms the aperture. In various embodiments, the second shield is operable to adjust plasma confinement between the first shield and the second shield.

Abstract: Electronic devices and systems having semiconductor memory are provided. In one implementation, for example, an electronic device may include a substrate; an under layer disposed over the substrate and including conductive hafnium silicate; a free layer disposed over the under layer and having a variable magnetization direction; a tunnel barrier layer disposed over the free layer; and a pinned layer disposed over the tunnel barrier layer and having a pinned magnetization direction, and wherein the free layer includes: a first ferromagnetic material; a second ferromagnetic material having a coercive force smaller than that of the first ferromagnetic material; and an amorphous spacer interposed between the first ferromagnetic material and the second ferromagnetic material.

Abstract: A policy language for an information management system has a three-layer structure that allows specifying one or more policies using policy abstractions. The policies and policy abstractions are in two different layers and decoupled from one another, so policies and policy abstractions may be specified and altered separately from each other. A third layer includes entity objects. A policy may refer to any number of policy abstractions. Multiple policies may reference a single policy abstraction, and a change to that policy abstraction will result in multiple policies being changed. Further, policy abstractions may be nested, so one policy abstraction may reference another policy abstraction, and so forth.

Abstract: Provided is a portable electronic device with an embedded electric shock protection function. A portable electronic device with an embedded electric shock protection function according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises: a circuit board; a camera module mounted on the circuit board; a conductive cover disposed to cover a part of an upper side of the camera module; a conductive connecting part mounted on the circuit board and configured to come into electrical contact with the conductive cover; and an electric shock protection element mounted on the circuit board to be connected in series to the conductive connecting part and configured to pass static electricity introduced from the conductive cover and block a leakage current of an external power source introduced into a ground of the circuit board.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to highlight recovery of a high-resolution image using a single low-resolution image captured at a lower exposure. An example apparatus includes a hue target circuit that receives an input image at a high-resolution including at least one pixel with a clipped color channel. For example, the input image is a Blue sky image with a pixel having clipped Blue channel. The hue target circuit also receives a set of candidate hue maps having a pixel resolution lower than the high-resolution of the input image. The hue target circuit generates a target hue value for the at least one pixel using the pixel information of the set of candidate hue maps. The apparatus also includes a hue recovery circuit that generates a recovered version of the input image by adjusting hue information of the clipped color channel based on the generated target hue.

Abstract: A method and system for a platform wide party system that may be deployed in a multiplayer gaming environment. Players may associate themselves with one or more parties, wherein players within a party may choose to automatically exchange messages associated with changes in state of the players in a gaming environment. The party system exposes an API providing a plurality of function calls that may be integrated seamlessly with game play. A first player may indicate desired notification events to be received from a second player associated with the same party as the first player. Upon detection of a desired notification event on the video game console of the second player, an event notification may be communicated to a video game console of the first player causing an action to be performed on the first player's video game console.

Abstract: An array substrate for a display device is disclosed. The array substrate includes a substrate comprising a plurality of subpixels, at least one of which is a white subpixel. The array substrate also includes an insulating layer disposed on the substrate in each of the subpixels and a plurality of color filter layers disposed on the insulating layer, each of the color filter layers being disposed respectively in a corresponding one of the subpixels. At least two of the color filter layers have a same color and are respectively disposed in the white subpixel and in at least one of the subpixels adjacent to the white subpixel. The insulating layer has a slope at a boundary between the white subpixel and the at least one of the subpixels adjacent to the white subpixel.

Abstract: A stochastic channel state information transmission/reception method and apparatus is provided for use in a multiuser radio communication system. The signal method of transmitting and receiving signals in a terminal in a mobile communication system according to the present disclosure includes receiving a reference signal transmitted by a base station, estimating channel information based on the reference signal, predicting a channel estimation error based on the channel information, generating feedback information based on the channel estimation error, and transmitting feedback information to the base station.

Abstract: A polarizing plater includes a polarizer, a protective film disposed on at least one surface of the polarizer, and a diffusing adhesive layer and a transparent adhesive layer interposed between the polarizer and the protective film. The diffusing adhesive layer includes a diffusing particle. The diffusing particle includes a first diffusing particle and a second diffusing particle which have different average diameters from each other.

Abstract: A microscope that comprises a unibody core having a unibody front and a unibody side, a carrier ring rotatably coupled to said unibody front to rotate components from an upright to an inverted configuration, wherein said carrier ring has the general form of a torus, an objective turret coupled within said carrier ring, a condenser lens coupled within said carrier ring, gliding rails coupled to said unibody core, a camera coupled to said unibody core, a gliding stage extensibly coupled to said gliding rails and an attachment node coupled to said unibody side and moveably coupled to said gliding rails to modulate said gliding stage.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nanoparticle heterodimer in which Raman-active molecules are located at a binding portion of the nanoparticle heterodimer, and more particularly, to a core-shell nanoparticle heterodimer comprising: a gold or silver core having a surface to which oligonucleotides are bonded; and a gold or silver shell covering the core. In addition, the present invention relates to the core-shell nanoparticle dimer, to a method for preparing same, and to the use thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-halogen thermoplastic resin composition and a cable including the same. More particularly, the present invention provides a non-halogen thermoplastic resin composition in which a halogen-based flame retardant causing environmental and human health problems is not included and the content of a phosphorus flame retardant causing decrease in appearance and properties is decreased, but which has identical or superior mechanical strength, chemical resistance, heat resistance, and flame retardancy, compared to existing thermoplastic resin compositions, and a cable including the same.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5G or a pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data rate following 4G communication systems such as LTE. In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of a base station includes: checking an operation mode depending on whether beam sweeping is supported, transmitting a signal related to the operation mode to a terminal, and performing communication with the terminal according to the operation mode.