Abstract: A composition for preventing, ameliorating or treating a respiratory disease includes fermented Centella asiatica extract as effective component. The composition is effective in, in bronchial epithelial cells as respiratory cells, reducing the production amount of the inflammatory chemokine RANTES, protecting damaged cells induced by LPS, and reducing the expression level of the inflammatory cytokine IL-6, and it can also reduce the neutrophil count and regulate the expression level of inflammatory cytokines or chemokines in an animal model of lung injury. Accordingly, it can be advantageously used for a functional health food for preventing or ameliorating a respiratory disease, or a pharmaceutical product for preventing or treating a respiratory disease.

Abstract: Disclosed is an automotive painting product including a base color layer that is located on a substrate layer and includes a thermosetting paint composition and a clear layer that is located on the base color layer and includes a UV-curable paint composition. The thermosetting paint composition includes (i) a main portion including a first acrylic resin, a second acrylic resin having lower Tg than the first acrylic resin, a first surface conditioner, a curing accelerator, and a first organic solvent, and (ii) a curing portion including a curing agent containing an isocyanate group and a second organic solvent. The UV-curable paint composition includes at least two acrylate oligomers having different numbers of functional groups, an acrylate monomer, a photoinitiator, a second surface conditioner, a UV stabilizer, and a third organic solvent.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a substituted piperidine compound of Chemical Formula 1, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof having activity of degrading androgen receptor (AR). The present disclosure also provides a composition comprising such a substituted piperidine compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present disclosure also provides a medical use of a substituted piperidine compound according to the present disclosure, a salt thereof, and a composition comprising the same for the treatment or prophylaxis of AR-related diseases. The present disclosure also provides a method for treating or preventing an AR-related disease comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of a substituted piperidine compound according to the present disclosure, a salt thereof, or a composition comprising the same.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a capacitor structure. The capacitor structure includes a lower electrode, a dielectric layer on the lower electrode, an upper electrode on the dielectric layer, and a defect preventing layer between the lower electrode and the upper electrode. The defect preventing layer includes at least one of a first defect preventing layer between the lower electrode and the dielectric layer or a second defect preventing layer between the upper electrode and the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer includes a ferroelectric layer that includes at least one of a ferroelectric material or an anti-ferroelectric material. The ferroelectric layer includes a polarization region and a non-polarization region surrounded by the polarization region.

Abstract: A short wavelength infrared up-conversion device of one embodiment includes a first electrode connected to an anode, an OLED layer stacked on the first electrode and up-converting short-wavelength infrared ray incident through the first electrode into visible light, a blocking layer located between the first electrode and an infrared-sensitive thin film layer to prevent hole injection into the infrared-sensitive thin film layer, an infrared-sensitive thin film layer located between the blocking layer and the OLED layer, and injecting holes into the OLED layer from electron-hole pairs created by absorbing the short-wavelength infrared ray incident through the first electrode, and a transparent second electrode stacked on the OLED layer and connected to a cathode, wherein the first electrode includes a transparent electrode unit, and a reflective electrode unit that reflects visible light incident from the OLED layer to the first electrode toward the second electrode.

Abstract: Disclosed are a composite fiber (MXene composite fiber) and a manufacturing method thereof. The composite fibers are manufactured by braiding a MXene-PAN fiber heat-treated with a polymer fiber. The method includes preparing a first dispersion including an MXene compound and a first solvent, preparing a second dispersion including polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and a second solvent, obtaining an admixture including the first dispersion and the second dispersion, obtaining a spun fiber by performing wet-spinning of the admixture, obtaining an MXene-PAN fiber by performing heat treatment of the spun fiber, and obtaining the MXene composite fiber by braiding the MXene-PAN fibers with a polymer fiber. An electrical conductivity of the MXene-PAN fiber is about 0.1 Scm?1 to 1,000 Scm?1.

Abstract: A mask includes a body frame defining at least one opening arranged on a plane, at least one sub-mask overlapping the opening, and defining holes through which a deposition material is able to pass, and an aligner between the sub-mask and the body frame, and configured to move the sub-mask within the opening in response to applied voltages.

Abstract: A deformation analysis device and a non-destructive analysis method for a secondary battery are capable of accurately diagnosing electrode deformation of the secondary battery using a computed tomography (CT) image. The deformation analysis method for the secondary battery includes performing computed tomography (CT) scanning on each of a first area and a second area of the secondary battery to acquire a first image corresponding to the first area and a second image corresponding to the second area, measuring a first angle from a winding front end to a winding distal end of an electrode of an electrode assembly in the first image and measuring a second angle from the winding front end to the winding distal end of the electrode of the electrode assembly in the second image, and determining that the electrode assembly is deformed if a difference value between the first angle and the second angle is greater than a reference value.

Abstract: A deformation analysis device for a secondary battery and a non-destructive analysis method by which electrode deformation of a secondary battery may be diagnosed using a computed tomography (CT) image, the method including the steps of obtaining an image by performing computed tomography (CT) on the secondary battery, generating an intensity graph using brightness differences from the image, measuring a core peak FWHM (full width at half maximum) or a core diameter change value from the intensity graph, and determining that the electrode assembly is deformed if the measured core peak FWHM is greater than a peak reference value or the core diameter change value is greater than a diameter reference value.

Abstract: The present invention relates to biotechnological methods for producing saturated as well as unsaturated aldehydes, as well as mixtures thereof with at least one alpha-dioxygenase and at least one aldehyde dehydrogenase. The method can be carried out either fermentatively, as biotransformation or enzymatically. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a vector system, as well as sequences and recombinant microorganisms comprising/encoding enzymes which can be used to produce the aldehydes and mixtures according to the invention.

Abstract: Provided are a composition for an organic optoelectronic device, and an organic optoelectronic device including the same, and a display device, the composition for an organic optoelectronic device including a first compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, and a second compound represented by a combination of Chemical Formula 2 and Chemical Formula 3. Details of Chemical Formula 1 to Chemical Formula 3 are as described in the specification.

Abstract: A rotary compressor is disclosed. The rotary compressor includes a sidewall path formed in an inner wall of a cylinder facing a vane slot and configured to form a space facing a side surface of a vane, and the vane is provided with a communication part configured to selectively communicate between the outside of the vane slot and the sidewall path according to a position of the vane.

Abstract: A vehicle body assembly system each forming a pre-buck section and a main-buck section set along a transport path of the floor assembly according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a pre-buck unit configured in the pre-buck section to regulate the seal side and the front and rear sides of side assemblies that are different for each vehicle type, and to assemble the side assembly and the floor assembly, and a main-buck unit configured in the main-buck section to regulates the roof portion and the quarter portion of the side assembly assembled to the floor assembly in the pre-buck section, assemble the roof portion, cowl, roof rail and package tray and assemble the quarter portion and the floor assembly.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hybrid supported metallocene catalyst useful for preparing a polyethylene copolymer capable of producing an mLLDPE shrink film having excellent shrinkage and processability with excellent mechanical properties, and a process for preparing a polyethylene copolymer using the same. The hybrid supported metallocene catalyst comprises at least one first metallocene compound selected from compounds represented by the following Chemical Formula 1 and at least one second metallocene compound selected from compounds represented by the following Chemical Formula 2: wherein the variables are described herein.

Abstract: Provided are a nitrite substitute including a mixture of plasma-treated vegetables and egg white, a food including the nitrite substitute, and a method of preparing a food, the method including mixing the nitrite substitute with raw materials of a food to prepare a food emulsion. Foods having added thereto the nitrite substitute may exhibit colors and effects similar to those in conventional foods without an unpleasant taste.

Abstract: A multilayer electric component includes a body including a dielectric layer and internal electrodes alternately stacked with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween and external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrodes, wherein the internal electrodes include Cu and Ni and a coefficient of variation (CV) value of Cu/Ni (percent by weight) in a region thereof, 5 nm deep from an interface with the dielectric layer is 25.0% or less.

Abstract: A dry etching method includes a first step of adsorbing first radicals into a surface of an etching target, wherein the first radicals are contained in first plasma generated from a plasma generator; and a second step of irradiating ion-beams extracted from second plasma generated from the plasma generator onto the surface of the etching target into which the radicals have been adsorbed, thereby desorbing a surface atomic layer of the etching target, wherein the first step is performed such that: a positive potential greater than a potential of the first plasma is applied to one or two selected from first to third grids, while a ground potential is applied to the rest thereof; and a negative potential equal to or lower than a potential of the third grid is applied to a substrate support structure.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for controlling an operation of a secondary battery using a relative deterioration degree of an electrode. The method includes determining a SOC of the secondary battery whenever a pulse current flows through the secondary battery; determining an electrochemical reaction resistance from a voltage change amount measured during a preset initial time in each pulse current section and determining a lithium ion diffusion resistance from a voltage change amount measured during a remaining time except for the initial time; determining a deterioration-biased electrode by comparing a deterioration diagnosing resistance ratio, which is a relative ratio of the lithium ion diffusion resistance to the electrochemical reaction resistance, with a preset reference deterioration diagnosing resistance ratio; and adaptively adjusting an operation condition of a next charging/discharging cycle according to the type of the deterioration-biased electrode.

Abstract: Provided are an ink composition comprising a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and a solvent represented by Chemical Formula A, an organic material layer including the same and an organic light emitting device including the same, wherein all the variables are described herein.