Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer disposed on the first conductive semiconductor layer, and an active layer disposed between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer. The first conductive semiconductor layer includes a first superlattice layer including a plurality of first sub layers and a plurality of second sub layers, and a first sub layer of the plurality of first sub layers and a second sub layer of the plurality of second sub layers are alternately disposed. The semiconductor structure includes a composition of a first dopant which is a n-type dopant.

Abstract: Compositions containing extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from a Faecalibacterium sp. strain are disclosed. The compositions can be used to prevent and/or treat cancer and/or ameliorate symptoms of cancer, and can be pharmaceutical composition, food stuffs, or dietary supplements. The compositions may contain a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient. The compositions exhibit an excellent effect on the prevention or treatment of cancer, or ameliorating symptoms of cancer.

Abstract: A carrier substrate includes a base layer, an antireflection layer, and an energy absorption layer, wherein the antireflection layer is formed on one surface of the base layer and allows an elastic wave generated by a first laser beam transmitted through an element adhesively bonded to the antireflection layer to be transmitted through the base layer without being reflected towards the element, the first laser beam being applied to the element through a source substrate of the element, and the energy absorption layer is formed between the base layer and the antireflection layer to be aligned with the element, and evaporates upon energy absorption.

Abstract: A battery management system, a battery pack, an electric vehicle and a battery charging time prediction method are provided. The battery management system includes a memory for storing a plurality of reference charging maps, a sensing unit for detecting voltage, current, and temperature of a battery, and a control unit for determining an estimated SOC value of the battery. Each reference charging map includes first to Mth reference current values and first to Mth reference power curves associated with first to Mth SOC sections. The control unit obtains a mth reference power curve and a mth reference current value associated with a mth SOC section to which the estimated SOC value belongs, from the reference charging map associated with the temperature section to which the temperature detection value of the battery belongs.

Abstract: A novel Akkermansia muciniphila EB-AMDK39 strain (KCTC 13765BP) and composition containing the novel strain or extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from the strain are disclosed. The composition can be in a form of pharmaceutical, food, or veterinary composition. The compositions are useful to preventing or treating cancer or inflammatory disease, or ameliorating cancer or inflammatory disease.

Abstract: An integrated logistics management system including a vessel tracking server that processes transportation information about vessels by using pieces of vessel identification information received from the terminal and provides the transportation information about the vessels to the terminal. The vessel tracking server includes a vessel-map mapping part that receives pieces of navigation information of the vessels corresponding to the pieces of vessel identification information from a vessel information operator server by providing the pieces of vessel identification information to the vessel information operator server, and maps navigation routes of the vessels and real-time locations of the vessels onto a map, and a vessel-cargo mapping part that maps vessel cargo information to a corresponding vessel among the vessels.

Abstract: Disclosed in an embodiment is a semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor structure, which comprises a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, and an active layer disposed between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer, wherein: the first conductive semiconductor layer comprises a first super lattice layer comprising a plurality of first sub layers and a plurality of second sub layers, the first and second sub layers being alternately arranged; the semiconductor structure emits ions of indium, aluminum, and a first and second dopant during a primary ion irradiation; the intensity of indium ions emitted from the active layer includes a maximum indium intensity peak; the doping concentration of the first dopant emitted from the first conductive semiconductor layer includes a maximum concentration peak; the maximum indium intensity peak is disposed to be spaced from the maximum concentration peak in a first direction; th

Abstract: A novel Akkermansia muciniphila strain is disclosed. The novel strain has effects of preventing or treating inflammatory or metabolic diseases. A composition containing the novel strain or a culture thereof are also disclosed. The novel strain, cultures thereof, or compositions containing the novel strain and/or cultures thereof are suitable to use in methods of preventing or treating inflammatory or metabolic diseases.

Abstract: A drop assembly for a paper product dispenser is provided that transitions an upper carriage for a second roll of paper product into a primary or first position after depletion of a first or primary roll of paper product without user intervention. The drop assembly transitions the upper carriage into approximately the same position previously occupied by the lower carriage, allowing a small aperture in a front face of a dispenser to be used. Additionally, the drop assembly can include a reset connection to transition the drop assembly back to the firsts position upon opening of a dispenser front face.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to providing an SOC estimating apparatus and method, which may accurately estimate OCV and SOC of a battery cell even when a voltage rough graph of the battery cell exhibits a nonlinear rough graph. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the SOC estimating apparatus has an advantage of estimating the SOC of the battery cell more accurately and more reliably. In addition, the SOC estimating apparatus has an advantage of estimating the final SOC of the battery cell quickly even in an environment where it is difficult to secure a sufficient rest period, by estimating the second SOC based on voltage information obtained during the charging and discharging interruption time.

Abstract: A transmission for a vehicle includes a shift lever rotatable around a rotation axis so that one of a plurality of shift stages is selected; a pawl member disposed in the shift lever to be movable in a radial direction with respect to the rotation axis; a detent plate including a plurality of detent grooves formed therein and arranged along a rotational direction of the shift lever so that the pawl member is inserted into each of the plurality of detent grooves corresponding to each of the plurality of shift stages; and a shift lever actuator that rotates the shift lever. The shift lever actuator includes a driving unit; and a driven unit that is rotated about the rotation axis by the driving unit to cause the pawl member to move in the radial direction and to apply a force to the pawl member in the rotation direction of the shift lever.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a medium composition for culturing Faecalibacterium prausnitzii composed of vegetable peptone, yeast extract, a phosphate compound, a carbonate compound, cyanocobalamin (B12), L-cysteine, ammonium acetate, and maltose, and a method of mass-culturing Faecalibacterium prausnitzii using the medium composition. When the medium composition and the method for culturing Faecalibacterium prausnitzii according to the present invention are used, high-density culture and mass production of strains of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii phylogroup II are possible. In addition, when Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is mass-cultured in the medium composition free of animal components, it may be cultured at high density even in high-concentration anaerobic nitrogen gas, and thus it is possible to provide a culture method which is more economical and suitable for industrialization.

Abstract: A polypeptide having superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and/or extracellular vesicles containing SOD is effective for the prevention and/or treatment of respiratory viral infection or diseases caused by respiratory viral infection in a subject. The polypeptide has SOD activity derived from a Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain and/or extracellular vesicles containing SOD derived from a Bacillus subtillis strain is useful for the prevention and/or treatment of respiratory viral infection or diseases caused by respiratory viral infection in a subject.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition effective for the prevention or treatment of atopic disease is disclosed. The pharmaceutical composition contains a Faecalibacterium prausnitzii EB-FPDK11 strain or a culture or dried product thereof. While traditional probiotics generally have an insignificant therapeutic effect for atopic disease, the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention exhibits a preventive or therapeutic effect on atopic disease at the same level as that of steroid-based drugs, and thus is not only promising as pharmabiotics, but also useful in the development of food and cosmetics.

Abstract: A transmission for a vehicle includes a shift lever rotatable around a rotation axis so that one of a plurality of shift stages is selected; a pawl member disposed in the shift lever to be movable in a radial direction with respect to the rotation axis; a detent plate including a plurality of detent grooves formed therein and arranged along a rotational direction of the shift lever so that the pawl member is inserted into each of the plurality of detent grooves corresponding to each of the plurality of shift stages; and a shift controller that rotates the shift lever. The shift controller includes a driving unit; and a driven unit that is rotated about the rotation axis by the driving unit to cause the pawl member to move in the radial direction and to apply a force to the pawl member in the rotation direction of the shift lever.

Abstract: The present invention relates, in part, to methods of preventing or treating macular degeneration in a subject by co-administering a superoxide dismutase enzyme and probiotic Bacillus sp. spores, especially a Bacillus amyloliquefaciens GF423 or GF424 mutant strain. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical and/or food compositions comprising a superoxide dismutase enzyme and probiotic Bacillus sp. spores.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel Faecalibacterium prausnitzii EB-FPDK9 strain and the use thereof. Administration of a composition containing at least one selected from the group consisting of the F. prausnitzii EB-FPDK9 strain, a culture of the strain, a lysate of the strain, and an extract of the strain has the effects of preventing, ameliorating and treating inflammatory disease, liver disease or metabolic disease.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition containing an Akkermansia muciniphila EB-AMDK19 strain or a culture or dried product thereof and uses thereof are disclosed. The composition is effective for the prevention or treatment of atopic disease. The pharmaceutical composition exhibits a preventive or therapeutic effect on atopic disease at the same level as that of steroid-based drugs, and thus is not only promising as pharmabiotics, but also useful in the development of food and cosmetics.

Abstract: A computing device according to an embodiment includes one or more processors, a memory in which one or more programs to be executed by the one or more processors are stored, a network information manager configured to transmit a peer-to-peer (P2P) network information of the computing device and network quality information at the time of connection of the computing device to a management server, and a network monitor configured to generate network quality information by measuring a network quality at the time of connection of the computing device.

Abstract: A data transmission method according to an embodiment is performed by a computing device including one or more processors and a memory in which one or more programs to be executed by the one or more processors are stored. The data transmission method includes receiving, from connected client devices, peer-to-peer (P2P) network information of the client devices, extracting one or more of information on whether network access is successful and network quality information, which are matched with the P2P network information and pre-stored, and determining one of a first data transmission path and a second data transmission path as a data transmission path for the client devices based on one or more of the information on whether network access is successful and the network quality information.