Abstract: One or more synchronization procedures in wireless communications are provided. A wireless user device may determine a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) as a synchronization reference source associated with a sidelink synchronization. The wireless user device may determine, based on the GNSS being the synchronization reference source associated with a sidelink synchronization and a subcarrier spacing index for sidelink, a slot number for sidelink communication. The wireless user device may transmit, based on the slot number, a sidelink synchronization signal from the wireless user device to a second wireless user device.

Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel, and a display device are provided. In the array substrate, each of the pixel units includes a first pixel region and a second pixel region. The array substrate includes an alignment film located on the base substrate, a plurality of first electrode strips located in the first pixel region, and a plurality of second electrode strips located in the second pixel region. The alignment film has a first alignment direction and a second alignment direction. An extension direction of the first electrode strip and the first alignment direction have a first included angle, an extension direction of the second electrode strip and the second alignment direction have a second included angle, and the first included angle is less than the second included angle.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a sidelink synchronization signal in a wireless communication system. A method of transmitting, by a first user equipment (UE), a sidelink synchronization signal to a second UE in a wireless communication system according to an example of the present disclosure may include determining values of NID(1) and NID(2) corresponding to a sidelink identifier (SLID) value based on a number of types of a physical layer sidelink synchronization identity set and a number of sequences included in each type of the physical layer sidelink synchronization identity set; generating a sidelink primary synchronization signal (PSS) sequence and a sidelink secondary synchronization signal (SSS) sequence based on a first primitive polynomial, a second primitive polynomial, and a cyclic shift (CS) value; and mapping, on physical resources, and thereby transmitting the sidelink PSS sequence and the sidelink SSS sequence.

Abstract: The present invention relates to: Podoviridae bacteriophage Vib-PAP-2 (accession number KCTC 12910BP) which has the capability to specifically destroy Vibrio parahaemolyticus, is characterized by having a genome represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, and is isolated from nature; and a method for preventing and treating Vibrio parahaemolyticus infections, using a composition containing bacteriophage Vib-PAP-2 as an active ingredient.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus for authenticating a user in a user terminal and a method thereof. The method according to the present disclosure includes a step of providing a guide for inducing a user motion, a step of emitting a radar signal and generating a reference signal based on a reflected signal generated by a user motion, a step of generating a plurality of additional signals based on the characteristic values of the reference signal, and generating a plurality of additional samples self-duplicated by combining the additional signals with the reference signal, a step of outputting a guide for inducing a user motion for user authentication upon determining that user authentication is required, a step of recognizing a user motion based on the radar signal, and a step of performing user authentication based on the recognized user motion.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array that includes memory cells arranged in rows and columns, row decoder circuitry that is connected to the rows of the memory cells through word lines and controls voltages of the word lines, and page buffer circuitry that is connected to the columns of the memory cells through bit lines and includes first transistors configured to sense voltages of the bit lines and second transistors configured to invert and sense the voltages of the bit lines. The page buffer circuitry is configured to obtain first values by performing a first sensing operation on first bit lines of the bit lines through the first transistors and obtain second values by performing a second sensing operation on the second bit lines of the bit lines through the second transistors, wherein the first values or the second values are inverted.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems described herein generally relate to a reference signal generation and mapping. For example, a method comprises determining a first set of antenna ports for a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) transmission; determining, based on the first set, a frequency index associated with four adjacent resource elements, wherein the four adjacent resource elements correspond to two adjacent symbols in a time axis and to two adjacent subcarriers in a frequency axis; generating, based on a first orthogonal cover code and a second orthogonal cover code, a DM-RS associated with the first set of antenna ports; and transmitting, via a mapping to the four adjacent resource elements, the DM-RS associated with the first set of antenna ports.

Abstract: A vehicular air conditioning system includes an intake unit configured to inhale an indoor air and an outdoor air. The intake unit includes an outdoor air inlet configured to introduce the outdoor air, an indoor air inlet configured to introduce the indoor air and a plurality of doors configured to selectively open the outdoor air inlet and the indoor air inlet. The intake unit further includes an auxiliary indoor air introduction part configured to introduce the indoor air. The auxiliary indoor air introduction part is configured to introduce a part of the indoor air existing on the side of the indoor air inlet.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a main body having a storage compartment; an inner door rotatably provided at the main body; and an outer door configured to open and close the storage compartment together with the inner door and rotatably provided at the inner door, wherein the inner door includes a connector seating portion disposed at an upper portion of the inner door and configured to connect a first electric wire extending from the main body to the inner door to a second electric wire extending from the outer door to the inner door. Connections between the electric wires are improved so as not to be influenced by the inner and outer doors such that durability of the electric wires can be improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a Myoviridae bacteriophage Vib-PAP-7 (Accession number: KCTC 13247BP) isolated from nature, which has the ability to kill Vibrio parahaemolyticus and has the genome represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, and a method for preventing or treating a disease caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus using a composition containing the Myoviridae bacteriophage Vib-PAP-7 as an active ingredient.

Abstract: An air conditioner according to an aspect of the present invention includes a housing arranged to be mounted on or embedded in a ceiling, a cover panel coupled to a lower portion of the housing, the cover panel including an inlet and an outlet, a blower fan configured to draw in air into the housing through the inlet and discharge air out of the housing through the outlet and a blade configured to open and close the outlet, the blade including a plurality of through holes to control the air discharged out of the housing through the outlet while the blade closes the outlet. With this structure, the air conditioner can discharge air in various ways by varying the wind direction, the wind speed, and the air amount of the discharged air.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a method and apparatus for transmitting a synchronization signal for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system. The method includes: receiving, at a first UE, a D2D synchronization signal transmitted from a second UE, the D2D synchronization signal comprising a primary D2D synchronization signal (PD2DSS) and a secondary D2D synchronization signal (SD2DSS); determining a root index based on the received PD2DSS; and determining a type of a synchronization source based on the root index. The root index corresponds to an integer value X when the type of synchronization source is associated with D2DSSue_net. The root index corresponds to an integer value Y when the type of synchronization source is associated with D2DSSue_oon. Each of the integer value X and integer value Y is not an element of a set {25, 29, 34}.

Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for transmitting a reference signal. The method may comprise: determining, based on at least one of a synchronization signal (SS) block index or an index associated with a time interval, an initialization value for a reference signal associated with a physical broadcast channel (PBCH); generating, based on the initialization value, the reference signal associated with a PBCH; mapping, based on one or more of a frequency domain shift value or a time domain shift value, the generated reference signal to resource elements (REs); and transmitting, to a terminal, the mapped reference signal and the PBCH.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for processing an initialization for a D2D communication between user equipments (UEs). The method includes: determining D2D subframes available for a D2D communication, the D2D subframes including a first D2D subframe and a second D2D subframe, each of the first D2D subframe and the second D2D subframe including a D2D slot corresponding to D2D slot number 0; and at a start of the D2D slot of the first D2D subframe and at a start of the D2D slot of the second D2D subframe, processing an initialization associated with a pseudo-random sequence of a D2D communication. The first D2D subframe and the second D2D subframe each include a D2D slot corresponding to D2D slot number 1. At least one of the first D2D subframe and the second D2D subframe corresponds to a non-zero subframe number of a radio frame.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a method and apparatus for transmitting data through a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs), the method including: generating, at a first UE, first D2D data, the first D2D data corresponding to a transport block (TB) unit; and transmitting, from the first UE to a second UE, the first D2D data through at least one D2D communication resource, the at least one D2D communication resource being based on a sub-RPT (sub-resource pattern for transmission). An RPT defined in a D2D resource pool is configured based on the sub-RPT, and the sub-RPT indicates the at least one D2D communication resource for the transmission of the first D2D data among at least two D2D communication candidate resources.

Abstract: Provided are a method of preparing a dicyclopentadiene-based resin and a dicyclopentadiene-based resin. According to the present invention, provided is a dicyclopentadiene-based resin including an aromatic olefin-based comonomer as a comonomer to have improved quality including high compatibility, a favorable color characteristic, and a low softening point, and also having improved adhesive strength due to a low molecular weight and a narrow molecular weight distribution.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a Myoviridae bacteriophage Aer-HYP-3 (Accession number: KCTC 13479BP) isolated from nature, which has the ability to kill Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria and has the genome represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, and to a method of preventing and treating a disease caused by Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria using a composition containing the same as an active ingredient.

Abstract: Vehicular heat management system includes a refrigerant circulation line including a compressor, a high pressure side indoor heat exchanger, a heat pump mode expansion valve, an outdoor heat exchanger, an air conditioning mode expansion valve, low pressure side indoor heat exchanger and a refrigerant-cooling water heat exchanger; an air conditioning mode branch line branched from the refrigerant circulation line and configured to, in an air conditioning mode, form a cooling loop by circulating a refrigerant through the compressor, the high pressure side indoor heat exchanger, the outdoor heat exchanger, the air conditioning mode expansion valve and low pressure side indoor heat exchanger. Heat pump mode branch line branched from the refrigerant circulation line is configured, in heat pump mode to form a heating loop by circulating the refrigerant through the compressor, the high pressure side indoor heat exchanger, the heat pump mode expansion valve and the refrigerant-cooling water heat exchanger.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of processing a positioning reference signal are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes determining a narrow-band (NB) positioning reference signal (PRS) bitmap indicating a pattern selecting NB PRS subframes, wherein each NB PRS subframe comprises an NB PRS for positioning an NB user equipment (UE), transmitting, to the NB UE, NB PRS configuration information for the NB UE, the NB PRS configuration information comprising the NB PRS bitmap, determining, by a reference cell and based on the NB PRS bitmap, NB PRS subframes of the reference cell, mapping, by the reference cell, a first NB PRS in the NB PRS subframes of the reference cell, and receiving, from the NB UE and in response to the first NB PRS, a reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an antibacterial protein EFAL-2 derived from bacteriophage Ent-FAP-4 (Accession number: KCTC 12854BP), which has the ability to kill Enterococcus faecium and an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2, a pharmaceutical composition containing the same as an active ingredient, and a method for preventing or treating diseases caused by Enterococcus faecium using the pharmaceutical composition.