Abstract: A fit checking material composition for dental use includes a first paste and a second paste. A mixture of the first paste and the second paste 35 seconds after mixing the first paste and the second paste, has a consistency of 37 mm or greater and 43 mm or less at 23° C.

Abstract: A battery module includes a plurality of cells, an end plate, and a side plate. The end plate and the side plate define an accommodating area, and the plurality of cells are sequentially arranged in the accommodating area. The side plate is provided with an avoidance notch configured to avoid a crossbeam or longitudinal beam of a lower casing, and the cells are arranged to avoid a position in the accommodating area corresponding to the avoidance notch, so that the battery module is mounted across the crossbeam or the longitudinal beam of the lower casing.

Abstract: Discussed is a battery pack including a housing having a plate part, a plurality of battery devices on a first side of the plate part of the housing, a cover plate on a second side of the plate part of the housing, and a plurality of fastening members configured to fix the cover plate and the housing, in which each of the plurality of fastening members includes a head part and a shank, in which a diameter of the shank is less than a diameter of the head part, and the head part of each of the plurality of fastening members is in contact with the cover plate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for preventing or treating a neurodegenerative disease containing a phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE-5) inhibitor and an anti-diabetic therapeutic including sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor and a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (PPD-4) inhibitor and a method using thereof, wherein the PDE5 inhibitor is selected from among mirodenafil, sildenafil, vardenafil, tadalafil, udenafil, dasantafil, avanafil, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, and a mixture thereof; and the SGLT2 inhibitor is selected from among canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, empagliflozin, ertugliflozin, ipragliflozin, luseogliflozin, tofogliflozin, remogliflozin etabonate, sergliflozin etabonate, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates and a mixture thereof; and the neurodegenerative disease is selected from the group among dementia, Parkinson's disease (PD), Dementia with Lewy body (DLB), Alzheimer's disease (AD), Huntington's disease (HD), Multiple sclerosis (MS), Vascula

Abstract: A chemical vapor deposition process is provided for forming a layer based on nickel oxide over a glass substrate. A gaseous mixture is formed and includes a nickel-containing compound selected from the group consisting of nickel(II) acetylacetonate and derivatives thereof, and an oxygen-containing precursor selected from the group consisting of a carbonyl compound and molecular oxygen. The gaseous mixture is directed toward and along the glass substrate, and is reacted over the glass substrate to form a nickel oxide coating thereon.

Abstract: Provided herein is a method for producing oligonucleotides, that curbs the amount of nucleoside phosphoramidites remaining in a reaction container in a synthesis step, and that reduces the usage amount of nucleoside phosphoramidites.

Abstract: Provided are a structure for producing a high-quality single crystal diamond, and a method for manufacturing the structure for producing diamond. A structure for producing a diamond is composed of a base substrate and an Ir thin film formed on the base substrate. The thermal expansion coefficient of the base substrate is 5 times or less of the thermal expansion coefficient of diamond and the melting point of the base substrate is 700° C. or higher. The peak angle in the X-ray diffraction pattern of the Ir thin film is different from the peak angle in the X-ray diffraction pattern of the base substrate.

Abstract: Described herein are resource optimization methods and devices using a dynamic spinlock. According to one embodiment, a method includes generating a plurality of spinlock resources depending on data sharers, measuring a spinlock time for each spinlock resource among the plurality of spinlock resources, and integrating at least two spinlock resources of the plurality of spinlock resources with short spinlock times.

Abstract: A hydrocarbon production equipment includes: a first reaction device that receives a source gas and causes the source gas to react by using a catalyst to generate a first intermediate gas; a second reaction device that causes the first intermediate gas to react by using a catalyst to generate a second intermediate gas; a heat supplier that can supply heat for heating the catalyst to a reactor and can supply heat for heating the catalyst to the reactor; and a controller that controls an operation of the heat supplier. The controller selectively outputs a first control signal for supplying heat to each of the first reaction device and the second reaction device and a second control signal for supplying heat to only one of the first reaction device and the second reaction device to the heat supplier. The controller selects any one of the first control signal and the second control signal based on the amount of hydrogen included in the source gas.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for examining an air conditioner for a vehicle are provided. The apparatus may include: an outside air temperature value receiving module configured to receive a vehicle outside air temperature value from an outside air temperature sensor; a refrigerant pressure value receiving module configured to receive a vehicle refrigerant pressure value from a refrigerant pressure sensor; a refrigerant amount examination module configured to examine a minimum amount of refrigerant in a vehicle by using the outside air temperature value and the refrigerant pressure value; and a notification display module configured to display a notification to a user according to a result of examining the amount of refrigerant.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an autonomous driving vehicle simulator system that operates a simulator, which is operated on the basis of data in a database, wherein one piece of autonomous driving vehicle data in the database is segmented into a plurality of data sets and each data set includes at least one data packet, so that one data packet is selected in each data set. Therefore, the autonomous driving vehicle simulator system enables multiple users to share their own algorithms with each other and allows users' own algorithms to be interchangeable with other algorithms, so as to enable simulation in a more diverse environment.

Abstract: An Operational Technology (OT) device database is trained by interrogating physical OT devices over the data communication network, and from responses, generating a profile for each interrogated physical OT device, each profile comprising at least data used to set up decoy OT devices that are virtualized to mirror each interrogated physical OT device. A list of local physical OT devices running on a remote private network is received from a specific deception appliance on the remote private network. OT device profiles are selected from the OT device database based on the list of local physical OT devices. The selected OT device profiles are transmitted to the specific deception appliance, at the remote private network. The specific deception appliance maintains VM machines for running decoy OT devices, based on the selected OT device profiles, on the remote private network.

Abstract: A display device includes a first transistor including a first transistor including a light blocking pattern on a substrate, an active pattern on the light blocking pattern, and a gate electrode on the active pattern, a second transistor configured to provide a data voltage to the first transistor in response to a gate signal, and a storage capacitor electrically connected to the gate electrode and the light blocking pattern, and including a first conductive pattern in a same layer as the light blocking pattern, a second conductive pattern on the first conductive pattern and overlapping the first conductive pattern, a third conductive pattern in a same layer as the gate electrode, overlapping the second conductive pattern, and electrically connected to the first conductive pattern, and a fourth conductive pattern on the third conductive pattern, overlapping the third conductive pattern, and electrically connected to the second conductive pattern.

Abstract: A multi-module fuel cell system capable of preventing backflow of purged hydrogen may include a plurality of fuel cell modules each including an air compressor, an air inlet valve, an air outlet valve, and a fuel cell stack, a discharge pipe interconnecting air outlet portions of the plurality of fuel cell modules to allow at least one of air or hydrogen discharged from the plurality of fuel cell modules to flow therethrough, and a controller configured to determine whether at least one of the plurality of fuel cell modules requires hydrogen purge, to calculate a purge pressure of a fuel cell module requiring hydrogen purge, and to calculate an air discharge pressure of a remaining fuel cell modules based on the calculated purge pressure.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate; a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in each of a plurality of transfer areas on the substrate; and a black matrix having a plurality of transmissive holes each corresponding to one of the plurality of light-emitting elements, wherein the plurality of transfer areas include a first transfer area and a second transfer area arranged adjacent to each other, the black matrix includes a first area corresponding to the first transfer area and a second area corresponding to the second transfer area, the first area and the second area are arranged adjacent to each other based on a virtual boundary line, the first area includes a first transmissive hole disposed at a first distance from the virtual boundary line and a second transmissive hole disposed at a second distance from the virtual boundary line, and a size of the first transmissive hole is larger than a size of the second transmissive hole.

Abstract: Nanoparticles and formulations for preventing or reducing peri-/post-menopausal bone loss and/or obesity in a subject are disclosed. The nanoparticles contain a cage, such as a zeolitic imidazolate framework (“ZIF”), a surface modifying agent, a targeting ligand, and an active agent. The surface modifying agent is attached to the outer surface of the cage and the targeting ligand is exposed to the surrounding environment. The active agent is encapsulated in the cage. The targeting ligand binds to a reproductive hormone or a receptor of a reproductive hormone. The active agent can be a ribosome inactivating protein, an apoptosis inducer, a hormone, a receptor ligand, or a nucleic acid, or a combination thereof, that inactivate ribosomes of gonadotroph cells and/or prevent or reduce secretion of follicle-stimulating hormones in the subject. Uses for formulations incorporating the nanoparticles for preventing or reducing peri-/post-menopausal bone loss and/or obesity in a subject are also disclosed.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a cross-linked poly(aspartic acid) product that can retain the gel shape, water absorbency, water retentivity, and other performance because it does not undergo hydrolysis over time owing to the absence of an ester bond, and a method for producing the cross-linked poly(aspartic acid) product. The cross-linked poly(aspartic acid) product according to an embodiment of the present invention is a reaction product of a polysuccinimide (PSI), a compound (A: a1-A1-a2) containing a first functional group (a1) and a second functional group (a2), and a polyfunctional epoxy compound (B). The cross-linked poly(aspartic acid) product contains a cross-linked structure (PABAP) represented by PSI-a1-A1-a2-B-a2-A1-a1-PSI, the cross-linked structure (PABAP) is partially hydrolyzed, and the second functional group of the compound (A) does not react with the polysuccinimide (PSI) or is less reactive with the polysuccinimide (PSI) than the first functional group.

Abstract: An information processing method, an information processing system, and a recording medium are provided.

Abstract: There is provide an image encoding method including transforming an image block into a first latent representation based on an invertible neural network, transforming the first latent representation into a second latent representation based on a non-invertible neural network, estimating a probability distribution of the first latent representation, and performing entropy encoding on the first latent representation based on the probability distribution by using an entropy encoder.

Abstract: An anode active material for a lithium secondary battery according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes composite particles including carbon-based particles including pores, and a silicon-containing coating formed on a surface of the carbon-based particles, wherein the composite particles have an equivalent porosity of 5 to 25.1%, which is defined by Equation 1 below: Equivalent ? porosity ? ( % ) = ( 1 - W c ? a ? r ? b ? o ? n D c ? a ? r ? b ? o ? n + W S ? i D Si W c ? a ? rbon + W Si D P ) * 1 ? 0 ? 0 [ Equation ? 1 ] In Equation 1, Dcarbon is a density (g/cm3) of carbon, DSi is a density (g/cm3) of silicon, DP is a density (g/cm3) of the composite particles measured by a helium (He) pycnometer, WSi is a weight (g) of silicon included in the composite particles, and Wcarbon is a weight (g) of carbon included in the composite particles.