Abstract: A security key is configured to be replaced when a device is replaced in a machine-to-machine (M2M) system. A method for operating a first device may include: receiving a first message including first information associated with security key replacement from a second device or a third device; receiving a third message including second information associated with security key replacement, which is generated based on a second message including a security key replacement indication, from the second device or the third device; and replacing the security key.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for parallel charging of at least one power storage unit. In example implementations, an apparatus includes a charging system. The charging system includes a first charger having a first current path and a second charger having a second current path. The charging system also includes a charging controller coupled to the first current path. The charging system further includes an indication path coupled between the second current path and the charging controller.

Abstract: A backlight unit may include: a light source providing coherent light; a light guide plate having a light entrance surface on which light from the light source is incident and a light exit surface through which the light is output; a plurality of diffraction gratings (for example, a first input grating, a second input grating, and a third input grating) that are arranged in different regions of the light guide plate to sequentially diffract the light from the light source such that that the beam width of the light may increase as the light propagates in the light guide plate; and a diffraction grating (for example, an output grating) that diffracts and outputs the light having an increased beam width in a direction toward the outside of the light guide plate.

Abstract: A camera module is provided. The camera module includes a lens barrel in which at least one lens is installed; and a lens holder to which the lens barrel is fixedly installed, wherein one of the lens holder and the lens barrel is provided with a coupling protrusion, and the other thereof is provided with a coupling groove into which the coupling protrusion is inserted, the lens holder is provided with a support portion that supports one end portion of the lens barrel, wherein the one end portion of the lens barrel is disposed between the coupling protrusion and the support portion, and the support portion of the lens holder elastically supports the lens barrel in an optical axis direction.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a creep lifetime prediction method for a P92 main steam pipeline welded joint, which includes the following. Based on the minimally invasive sampling technology and the microstructure characterization equipment, the microstructure of the P92 steel welded joint after service is obtained. An area with a most significant degradation of the P92 steel welded joint is determined by performing grading processing on the microstructure of the welded joint. The maximum main stress of the structural component is obtained through the finite element technology and the actual service pressure of the P92 steel welded component. Through the maximum main stress and the microstructure after grading, based on the temperature-related Larson-Miller creep lifetime prediction method, the creep lifetime of the welded joint under the condition is determined.

Abstract: An optimization method for a digital integrated circuit is provided. Under the precondition of satisfying certain timing constraints, circuit-level, path-level and gate cell-level features of a circuit are extracted to construct a leakage power optimization model, and optimization data from commercial circuit optimization tools is used to train the model to predict voltage threshold types of gate cells after circuit optimization, such that the circuit can be optimized by adjusting voltage thresholds of gate cells in a post-routing gate-level netlist, thus realizing the optimization objective of reducing leakage power.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a diisocynate compound having anhydrosugar alcohol core and a preparation method therefor and, more specifically, to a diisocynate compound having anhydrosugar alcohol core and a preparation method therefor, wherein the diisocynate compound is prepared through a reaction with a nitrile compound, a hydrogenation reaction, and an end-group substitution reaction while a recyclable, plant-based anhydrosugar alcohol or anhydrosugar alcohol-alkylene glycol is used as a raw material, and the diisocynate compound can be utilized in various fields, such as soft or hard polyurethane expanded foams, molded foams, coating, adhesives or glues, fibers, and polymer synthesis.

Abstract: A display device includes pixels disposed on a substrate. Each of the pixels include a pixel circuit layer disposed on the substrate and includes at least one transistor, a first electrode disposed on the pixel circuit layer and electrically connected to the at least one transistor, a bank disposed on the first electrode, the bank including an opening exposing the first electrode, a conductive pattern disposed on a side surface of the bank surrounding the opening of the bank and the exposed first electrode, a light-emitting element disposed on the conductive pattern in the opening of the bank and electrically connected to the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on the light-emitting element. The conductive pattern is a guide member that guides light emitted from the light-emitting element to an upper portion of the second electrode.

Abstract: Discussed is a display device and a method for manufacturing same, specifically, to a display device using semiconductor light-emitting elements of a few micrometers to tens of micrometers in size, and includes substrate having a wiring electrode, and a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements electrically connected to the wiring electrode, wherein each of the plurality of light-emitting elements includes of a buffer layer and an oxide layer formed on the buffer layer, and the oxide layer includes of an oxide of the buffer layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.

Abstract: Disclosed are an array substrate, a display panel, a display device and a method for manufacturing an array substrate. The array substrate includes a substrate and a film layer structure provided on the substrate. The film layer structure includes a first film layer segment and a second film layer segment provided at a periphery of the first film layer segment, a hollow portion for accommodating liquid crystal is formed on a side of the first film layer segment away from the substrate, and a distance between the hollow portion and the substrate is smaller than a distance between a side of the second film layer segment away from the substrate and the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a certificate issuing system based on a block chain, the system having a means for directly generating a certificate-specific public key and a certificate-specific private key in a user terminal operated by a user, guiding the certificate-specific public key and the certificate-specific private key so as to be generated in a state in which a network in the user terminal is blocked, and eliminating the costs incurred for constructing, operating, and maintaining the certificate issuing system having a high-grade security system linked therewith so as to block hacking, which occurred in the past, as much as possible, since the certificate-specific public key requiring maintenance is stored and managed in an electronic wallet, installed in servers that hold block chains, through a peer-to-peer network (P2P)-based distributed database, not by a server run by a certificate authority (CA).

Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium secondary battery which includes a positive electrode including a first lithium cobalt oxide and a second lithium cobalt oxide which have different average particle diameters (D50) from each other, a negative electrode including first graphite and second graphite which have different average particle diameters (D50) from each other, and an electrolyte including a a first additive as a nitrile-based compound, wherein the first lithium cobalt oxide and the second lithium cobalt oxide each independently contain aluminum in a concentration of 2,500 ppm to 4,000 ppm.

Abstract: A system can selectively synchronize content based on synchronization settings. In some examples, a client stores a local tree representing a local set of content items associated with an account on a content management system, the local tree including respective local nodes corresponding to the local set of content items. The client stores a remote tree representing a remote set of content items associated with the account, the remote set being stored at the content management system and including respective remote nodes corresponding to the remote set of content items. The client receives a synchronization setting disabling local storage of the content item. In response, the client deletes a local copy of the content item, removes a corresponding local node from the local tree, and adds, to a remote node on the remote tree, an attribute indicating that local storage of the content item has been disabled.

Abstract: A color converting substrate includes: a base part having, defined therein a first light transmitting region, a second light transmitting region spaced apart from the first light transmitting region in a first direction, and a first light blocking region between the first light transmitting region and the second light transmitting region; a first color filter positioned on one surface of the base part and overlapping the first light transmitting region; a second color filter positioned on the one surface of the base part and overlapping the second light transmitting region; a light blocking pattern overlapping the first light blocking region and positioned on the one surface of the base part; and a light transmitting pattern positioned on the first color filter, the second color filter, and the light blocking pattern, wherein the first color filter and the second color filter include a coloring material of a first color.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a laurolactam preparation method and synthesis apparatus, and epoxidation and a rearrangement reaction are performed in the conversion of cyclododecene into cyclododecanone so that the preparation method can synthesize laurolactam having a higher purity with a higher selectivity and in a higher yield than a conventional preparation method.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first and second active patterns on first and second active regions of a substrate, respectively, a pair of first source/drain patterns and a first channel pattern therebetween which are in an upper portion of the first active pattern, a pair of second source/drain patterns and a second channel pattern therebetween which are in an upper portion of the second active pattern, and first and second gate electrodes intersecting the first and second channel patterns, respectively. Each of the first and second gate electrodes includes a first metal pattern adjacent to a corresponding one of the first and second channel patterns. The first and second channel patterns include SiGe. A Ge concentration of the second channel pattern is higher than a Ge concentration of the first channel pattern. A thickness of the first metal pattern of the second gate electrode is greater than a thickness of the first metal pattern of the first gate electrode.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and systems for multi-modality joint analysis of a plurality of vascular images. The exemplary system may include a communication interface configured to receive the plurality of vascular images acquired using a plurality of imaging modalities. The system may further include at least one processor, configured to extract a plurality of vessel models for a vessel of interest from the plurality of vascular images. The plurality of vessel models are associated with the plurality of imaging modalities, respectively. The at least one processor is also configured to fuse the plurality of vessel models associated with the plurality of imaging modalities to generate a fused model for the vessel of interest. The at least one processor is further configured to provide a diagnostic analysis result based on the fused model of the vessel of interest.

Abstract: A method is provided for calculating gaseous diffusion and oxidation evolution of a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) structure, which includes determining temperature and load distribution in a structural member; determining matrix crack distribution in the structure; establishing an equivalent diffusion coefficient model of a fiber bundle scale to predict a gas flow channel in a fiber bundle: averaging a total amount of gaseous diffusion in the channel to establish the equivalent diffusion coefficient model of the fiber bundle composite scale related to the matrix crack distribution; establishing a representative volume element (RVE) model; establishing an equivalent diffusion coefficient model of a RVE scale; calculating the distribution of the gas concentration and oxidation products in the structure; calculating a growth thickness of an oxide at cracks and pores in each element; and updating sealing conditions of the gas channel, and calculating a new equivalent diffusion coefficient field and the distribut

Abstract: A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a first compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and a second compound represented by Chemical Formula 2, the second compound having a smaller particle size than that of the first compound, wherein cation mixing in the surface portion of the positive active material is less than or equal to about 7.5%, cation mixing in the bulk of the positive active material is less than or equal to about 3%, a residual lithium content on the surface of the positive active material is less than or equal to about 3,000 ppm, and the first compound and the second compound each independently include 90 at % to about 98 at % of Ni with respect to the metals excluding Li. Lia1Nix1Coy1M11?x1?y1O2,??Chemical Formula 1 Lia2Nix2Coy2M21?x2?y2O2.