Abstract: The present invention provides methods for treating or ameliorating metabolic diseases, cholestatic liver diseases, or organ fibrosis, which comprises administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising an isoxazole derivative, a racemate, an enantiomer, or a diastereoisomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the derivative, the racemate, the enantiomer, or the diastereoisomer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new compounds derived from marine actinomycetes Streptomyces, and the new compound according to the present invention has an inhibitory effect of NO production on BV-2 microglia stimulated with LPS, and thus can be utilized for the prevention and treatment of neuroinflammatory diseases.

Abstract: Disclosed are a process and system that are capable of performing selective hydrogenation on aromatic fractions by configuring a catalyst bed through staged loading of a plurality of hydrogenation catalysts with different catalytic properties, or configuring a catalyst system in which a plurality of hydrogenation catalysts are arranged using a plurality of reactors in such a way as to be equivalent with the staged loading, and as a result, are capable of suppressing aromatic loss while improving the selective removal of unsaturated hydrocarbons in the aromatic fraction and durability compared to the case of using a single catalyst.

Abstract: The disclosed is a device and a method for detecting a target antigen in a sample, the device includes: a container; a carbon nanomaterial; and an antibody conjugated with a marker, where the antibody is immobilized on a surface of the carbon nanomaterial, where the antibody has a binding site of the target antigen, and where, when the target antigen binds to the binding site of the antibody, the antibody conjugated with the marker detaches from the carbon nanomaterial and the marker-labeled antibody bound with the target antigen generates a signal.

Abstract: A pump container includes: a container in which a liquid is contained; a shoulder member configured as a cylindrical member, the upper and lower portions of which are open, the shoulder member having a lower outer peripheral portion formed to have an inner diameter larger than that of an upper inner peripheral portion; a valve housing comprising a cylinder portion, a hose being inserted/connected into/to the lower portion of the cylinder portion, the upper portion of the cylinder portion being open, the valve housing comprising an outer-periphery cylinder portion configured on the outer peripheral edge of the cylinder portion in a flared shape, the upper portion of the outer-periphery cylinder portion being open, the valve housing comprising an upper-end insertion portion bent outwards, and the valve housing comprising a seating portion bent outwards from the upper end of the upper-end insertion portion and a discharge cap.

Abstract: Provided are a camera lens assembly capable of communicating with a camera body and having a controller and a memory therein. The camera lens assembly includes a user interface through which functions represented by a plurality of modes are designated by a user, a switch for selecting one of the modes to which the functions have been designated, a switch detection unit for detecting the current mode of the switch, a manual ring detection unit for detecting the operation of a manual ring provided on the outside of the camera lens assembly so that the user can operate the manual ring by a rotating method; and a lens controller for, when the operation of the manual ring is detected, carrying out a designated function according to the detected current mode of the switch.

Abstract: Disclosed are a process and system that are capable of performing selective hydrogenation on aromatic fractions by configuring a catalyst bed through staged loading of a plurality of hydrogenation catalysts with different catalytic properties, or configuring a catalyst system in which a plurality of hydrogenation catalysts are arranged using a plurality of reactors in such a way as to be equivalent with the staged loading, and as a result, are capable of suppressing aromatic loss while improving the selective removal of unsaturated hydrocarbons in the aromatic fraction and durability compared to the case of using a single catalyst.

Abstract: Disclosed are a catalyst and a preparation method therefor, the catalyst being able to maintain a high production yield of C8 aromatic hydrocarbons in the process of converting a feedstock containing alkyl aromatics to C8 aromatic hydrocarbons such as mixed xylene through disproportionation/transalkylation/dealkylation while reducing a content of ethylbenzene in the products.

Abstract: A memory system includes a plurality of memory groups capable of performing a data input/output operation, and a controller configured to divide an operation subject to a data input/output command into at least one unit operation corresponding to the plurality of memory groups, and assign the at least one unit operation to plural queues corresponding to the respective memory groups, based on first information regarding operation statuses of the plurality of memory groups and second information regarding available resources.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a 3D structure comprising a tissue layer having a first surface defining an interior chamber and an opposing second surface supporting a first plurality of cells outwardly positioned from the interior chamber, wherein the interior chamber comprises an extracellular matrix mixture. The present disclosure also provides a method of making a 3D structure, the method comprising mixing an extracellular matrix mixture at a first temperature with a culture medium at a second temperature, the second temperature greater than the first temperature, culturing a first plurality of cells in the extracellular matrix mixture and culture medium, and forming a 3D structure having an interior chamber enclosed by the first plurality of cells configured to interface with an environment external to the 3D structure.

Abstract: A method of detecting a virus having a hemagglutinin-esterase activity in a sample is disclosed, the method includes: contacting the sample with a substrate for an enzyme of hemagglutinin-esterase (HE) of coronavirus or hemagglutinin-esterase fusion protein (HEF) of influenza C virus; and detecting activity of the enzyme, the detection of the activity indicates that the sample contains coronavirus or influenza C virus.

Abstract: Disclosed are a catalyst and a preparation method therefor, the catalyst being able to maintain a high production yield of C8 aromatic hydrocarbons in the process of converting a feedstock containing alkyl aromatics to C8 aromatic hydrocarbons such as mixed xylene through disproportionation/transalkylation/dealkylation while reducing a content of ethylbenzene in the products.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for providing improved hydrogenation activity by pretreating a catalyst in a three-step manner before selective hydrogenation of unsaturated hydrocarbons in an aromatic fraction in the presence of an oxide-type bimetallic (particularly nickel-molybdenum) supported catalyst.

Abstract: Disclosed are a novel recombinant transition vector for increasing expression of a foreign protein in a native form without fusion partners, and a method for mass production of a foreign target protein using the same. The recombinant transition vector according to the present disclosure may allow a large amount of a foreign target protein with a high therapeutic and prophylactic value to be expressed in an insect cell. In particular, the vector may increase the expression of the foreign target protein in an own form thereof, not fused with other fusion partners. Therefore, the use of the recombinant transition vector may produce useful proteins such as antigens in insect cells at low cost and high efficiency.

Abstract: Disclosed are a bifunctional catalyst and a preparation method therefor, the bifunctional catalyst being suitable to produce high-value aromatic hydrocarbons by subjecting alkylaromatic hydrocarbons to a disproportionation/transalkylation/dealkylation reaction while suppressing aromatic loss or subjecting C8 aromatic hydrocarbons to an isomerization reaction while suppressing xylene loss.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing hydrogen, carbon, and ethylene from a methane-containing feedstock even without recycling of unreacted methane by providing a single process or system in which a methane-containing feedstock is subjected to two methane conversion steps. The method includes a first conversion step of producing hydrogen and carbonaceous materials and a second conversion step of producing acetylene from unreacted methane and hydrogen discharged from the first conversion step while maintaining a good methane conversion and suppressing coke formation, followed by separating and recovering ethylene and hydrogen produced through selective hydrogenation of acetylene.

Abstract: Provided are: a novel pyrrolidine derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and a pharmaceutical composition containing same and having the effects of inhibiting beta-amyloid and/or tau protein aggregation, and/or breaking down beta-amyloid and/or tau protein aggregates, and/or preventing and/or treating beta-amyloid and/or tau protein-associated diseases.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a precursor material of a positive electrode active material from a waste lithium secondary battery, to a method of preparing a lithium secondary battery positive electrode active material including a precursor material prepared by the same precursor preparation method, and to a lithium secondary battery positive electrode active material prepared by the same positive electrode active material preparation method.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 7-amino-3,4-dihydropyrimidopyrimidin-2-one derivative compound exhibiting excellent anti-proliferative effects against cancer cells, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a hydrate thereof, or a stereoisomer thereof, a production method therefor, a pharmaceutical composition for preventing, alleviating or treating cancer metastasis and proliferative disease containing the same as an active ingredient, and an anti-cancer composition against cancer cells. The compound exhibits excellent cancer cell inhibitory activity and anti-proliferative effects, and thus is effective in inhibiting cancer cells, preventing cancer metastasis and proliferative diseases or treating cancer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for producing, high-purity lithium hydroxide from a lithium-containing waste liquid of a spent lithium secondary battery.