Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition, which comprises a Stemonae Radix extract, for preventing or treating the occurrence of inflammatory bowel diseases due to cigarette smoke, a method for preventing or treating the occurrence of inflammatory bowel diseases using the composition, a method for suppressing the expression of inflammatory cytokines using the composition, and to a food composition, which comprises the Stemonae Radix extract, for preventing or treating the occurrence of inflammatory bowel diseases due to cigarette smoke.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nitrogen-rich wastewater treatment apparatus using a partial nitritation sequencing batch reactor (SBR) tank, ammonium oxidizing bacteria (AOB) granules and anaerobic ammonium oxidation (ANAMMOX). AOB granules can efficiently be formed by means of a sludge exchange between the SBR tank and an AOB granule production tank. Moreover, partial nitritation is performed by means of allowing the AOB granules to flow into the SBR tank again, nitrogen is quickly removed by means of ANAMMOX without a supply of an external carbon source, and oxygen and an organic material are reduced and a sludge yield decreases compared to an existing method.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image sensor and a method of manufacturing the same. An image sensor includes a first substrate, a barrier structure, a first structure, a second substrate, and a second structure. The first substrate includes a device region in which unit pixels are disposed and a first residual scribe lane region surrounding the device region. The first substrate has a first surface and a second surface. The barrier structure penetrates the first substrate in the first residual scribe lane region. The first surface of the first substrate is on the first structure. The second substrate includes a second residual scribe lane region facing the first residual scribe lane region. The second substrate has a front surface and a rear surface. The second structure is on the front surface of the second substrate and faces the first surface of the first substrate. The second structure is bonded to the first structure.

Abstract: A Jones matrix OCT offers improved image stability, image quality, and depth range of image, wherein light from a wavelength-scanning light source is split into two optical paths, and a reference arm is provided along one optical path, while a probe arm that irradiates and reflects light onto the measuring target to generate object light is provided along the other optical path. The probe arm has a polarization delay unit that linearly polarizes the light and then splits it into S-wave component and P-wave component, where the S-wave component and P-wave component are superimposed through optical paths of different optical path lengths, respectively, after which optical detectors are used to detect different spectral interference beams in the depth direction of the measuring target corresponding to the vertically polarized component and horizontally polarized component, which respectively correspond to the S-wave component and P-wave component, to obtain four spectral interference signals.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising formic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient for preventing or treating obesity or metabolic syndromes; and to a food composition and a health functional food each comprising the active ingredient. The formic acid or the salt thereof according to the present invention not only has effects of reducing body weight and inhibiting fat accumulation in organs, but also has activity to effectively lower blood triglyceride and cholesterol levels, and therefore, the composition comprising the formic acid or the salt thereof as an active ingredient can be favorably used as a composition capable of preventing/alleviating or treating obesity or metabolic syndromes. Therefore, the formic acid or the salt thereof according to the present invention can be favorably used as a material for a medical product or health food.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a cylindrical membrane wall including a plurality of tubes having a coolant passing through an inner part thereof. The method includes producing a plurality of sub-bundles by welding a plurality of tubes to each other after longitudinally arranging the tubes to be adjacent to each other in parallel, producing a plurality of panel-type bundles by welding the sub-bundles to each other, forming a plurality of curved bundles having a curved surface of a predetermined curvature by pressing the panel-type bundles, and welding the curved bundles to each other using a jig.

Abstract: Provided is a photon detector. The photon detector includes an optical waveguide including input and detection regions, which are spaced apart from each other in a first direction, and a conversion region between the input region and the detection region, a nano pattern disposed on the optical waveguide in the conversion region, and a nanowire disposed on the optical waveguide in the detection region. The nano pattern includes a first pattern and a second pattern, which extend in the first direction, and the first pattern and the second pattern are spaced apart from each other in a second direction crossing the first direction.

Abstract: Provided is a microorganism of the genus Epidermidibacterium belonging to the family Sporichthyaceae, or a culture thereof, or a composition for preventing, improving, or treating skin conditions or inflammatory diseases including the same.

Abstract: A bicycle crank transmission apparatus includes: a hollow shaft member; a base plate coupled to the shaft member on one side and installed securely on a bottom bracket featuring a spindle on the other side; a chainring housing coupled to the shaft member in a way that allows its rotation and having a ring gear installed securely inside; a reduction gear unit arranged in the middle of the ring gear; a directly-coupled ratchet unit installed on the ring gear; a crank cover where a coupling shaft coupled to the spindle is perpendicularly provided in the center and where clutch ratchet teeth, which are engaged with the directly-coupled ratchet unit, and directly-coupled ratchet teeth are vertically stacked on the internal wall surface; and a sun gear installed on the coupling shaft in such a way that it only rotates in clockwise direction and partially engaged with the reduction gear unit.

Abstract: Provided is a peptide for targeting gastric cancer, a composition for diagnosing radioresponsiveness-dependent gastric cancer using the peptide, and a drug delivery use of the peptide, wherein a functional peptide capable of targeting cancer has been discovered so as to implement personalized diagnosis and treatment for individual patients having cancer, consideration of problems occurring during treatment in which treatment cases of respective patients differ due to different therapeutic responses resulting from genetic differences in the individual patients.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display panel is disclosed, which comprises: a substrate having a light emitting region and a non-light emitting region, wherein a first electrode layer is disposed on the light emitting region, a pixel defining layer is disposed on the non-light emitting region, and the pixel defining layer has a plurality of concave structures; an organic layer disposed on the first electrode layer and the pixel defining layer; and a second electrode layer disposed on the organic layer; wherein the organic layer is discontinuous at the concave structures.

Abstract: A robot cleaner includes a main body having a suction motor; a moving unit to automatically move the main body; and a suction module to be in communication with the suction motor and to clean a floor, wherein an accommodating portion in which a part of the suction module is accommodated is provided at a lower portion of a front side of the main body, and while the suction module is located in the accommodating portion, a part of the suction module is disposed to be vertically overlapped with the main body, and another part of the suction module protrudes toward both sides from a front portion of the main body, and still another part of the suction module protrudes to a front of the main body.

Abstract: An apparatus according to the present disclosure stacks and aligns predetermined number of laminar members blanked respectively by a blanking block and transports them to a conveyor, thereby eliminating the need for the conventional counting operation and alignment operation of laminar members, and efficiently performing a subsequent adhesion or welding process etc. of laminar members.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image sensor and a method of manufacturing the same. An image sensor includes a first substrate, a barrier structure, a first structure, a second substrate, and a second structure. The first substrate includes a device region in which unit pixels are disposed and a first residual scribe lane region surrounding the device region. The first substrate has a first surface and a second surface. The barrier structure penetrates the first substrate in the first residual scribe lane region. The first surface of the first substrate is on the first structure. The second substrate includes a second residual scribe lane region facing the first residual scribe lane region. The second substrate has a front surface and a rear surface. The second structure is on the front surface of the second substrate and faces the first surface of the first substrate. The second structure is bonded to the first structure.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a curved secondary battery, the method including preparing a flat secondary battery such that the flat secondary battery includes an electrode assembly and a pouch accommodating the electrode assembly; primary shaping the secondary battery such that the primary shaping includes disposing the flat secondary battery in a first jig, and pressing the flat secondary battery to form a primarily-shaped secondary battery such that the primarily-shaped secondary battery has a first curvature radius; secondary shaping the secondary battery such that the secondary shaping includes disposing the primarily-shaped secondary battery in a second jig, and pressing the primarily-shaped secondary battery to form a secondarily-shaped secondary battery having a second curvature radius; and maintaining the secondarily-shaped secondary battery after forming thereof in the second jig for a predetermined time period.

Abstract: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) may be used to acquire cross-sectional or volumetric images of any specimen, including biological specimens such as the retina. Additional processing of the OCT data may be performed to generate images of features of interest. In some embodiments, these features may be in motion relative to their surroundings, e.g., blood in the retinal vasculature. In some embodiments, an acquired image may be degraded by motion artifact. The proposed invention describes OCT system embodiments that may be configured for multi-scale imaging, with the capability of switching between low or high lateral resolution, and with the assistance of adaptive optics for aberration correction. The invention also describes a method for enhancing OCT image quality by reducing or eliminating the negative effects introduced by sources and speed by performing bidirectional scanning.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition, which contains a mixture of extracts of Stemonae Radix, Asparagi Tuber, Scutellariae Radix, Schisandrae Fructus, Rehmanniae Radix Preparata, Armeniacae Semen, and Moutan Cortex Radicis, for suppressing the occurrence of inflammatory bowel diseases due to cigarette smoke, a method for preventing or treating inflammatory bowel diseases, a method for suppressing the expression of inflammatory cytokines by using the composition, and to a food composition, which contains a mixture of extracts of Stemonae Radix, Asparagi Tuber, Scutellariae Radix, Schisandrae Fructus, Rehmanniae Radix Preparata, Armeniacae Semen, and Moutan Cortex Radicis, for preventing or ameliorating inflammatory bowel diseases due to cigarette smoke.

Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a knob assembly to emit light to improve an aesthetic feel and user convenience. The cooking appliance includes a main body having at least one heating source, a panel disposed in the main body and provided with a through hole, and a knob assembly coupled to the panel. The knob assembly includes a knob, at least one light source configured to emit light, a first light guide passing through the through hole and arranged to guide the light emitted from the light source, and a second light guide configured to guide the light guided by the first light guide to an outside of the knob.

Abstract: A method of generating a fin of a FinFET includes depositing a first hard mask layer on or above a first dummy gate and a second dummy gate, generating first spacers and second spacers by etching the first hard mask layer, removing only the first spacers, depositing a second hard mask layer, generating third spacers and fourth spacers by etching the second hard mask layer, removing the first dummy gate and the second dummy gate, generating first fins using the third spacers, and generating second fins using the second spacers and the fourth spacers.

Abstract: Provided are a service providing method performed by a service providing apparatus, the method comprises creating a conference session with a plurality of user terminals, generating a graphic user interface (GUI) that displays an object corresponding to each user terminal of the plurality of user terminals in a first area and displays conference content in a second area and providing the generated GUI to teach user terminal maintaining the conference session, wherein display attributes of the object are changed based on a conference participation grade of a corresponding user terminal.