Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor fin, and a gate stack over the semiconductor fin. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer over a channel region of the semiconductor fin, a work function material layer over the gate dielectric layer, wherein the work function material layer includes dopants, and a gate electrode layer over the work function material layer. The gate dielectric layer is free of the dopants.

Abstract: A suspension system for a vehicle may include a knuckle configured of rotatably supporting a wheel, and a lower control arm mounted along a vehicle's width direction and connecting the knuckle and a vehicle body, wherein the lower control arm may include a wheel-side end portion connected to a lower portion of the knuckle through a lower external joint, a vehicle body-side front end portion connected to the vehicle body through a front lower inner joint, and a vehicle body-side rear end portion connected to the vehicle body through a rear lower inner joint, wherein one of the vehicle body-side front and rear end portions is connected to a portion of the vehicle body through a compliance control arm.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a Doherty combiner used in a Doherty power amplifier, the Doherty combiner comprising: a phase shift section connected to one end of a carrier amplifier so as to change a phase of an RF signal output from the carrier amplifier; a matching section connected to an output terminal of the Doherty power amplifier so as to impedance-match an output of the Doherty power amplifier; and a bandwidth improvement section connected to one end of a peaking amplifier so as to change at least one of a phase bandwidth and an amplitude bandwidth of the Doherty power amplifier.

Abstract: A pair of detachable crutches extends in a longitudinal direction, where each of the detachable crutches includes a metal ball having magnetic properties and a holder having magnetic properties. A magnetic force is generated between the metal ball provided at one of the crutches and the holder provided at the other one of the crutches so as to maintain attachment therebetween. Each of the crutches further includes a sensor configured to sense whether the metal ball and the holder have been attached to each other.

Abstract: A shift lever apparatus is normally hidden, and provides traveling sensitivity according to a driver's preference when deployed for a specific mode. The shift lever apparatus includes a shift lever that is deployed or undeployed in a housing according to a rotating location; an operating mechanism installed on the shift lever to be rotated together with the shift lever, and provided with a stopper drawn out or drawn into the operating mechanism depending on whether an operation is performed; a guide installed in the housing to guide movement of the stopper and having a first fixing hole and a second fixing hole spaced apart from each other within a rotating radius of the stopper; and a sensing sensor sensing the rotating location of the shift lever when the stopper is located in the second fixing hole to transfer a shift signal according to the rotating location.

Abstract: A method of simultaneously analyzing RNA and DNA in a sample, the method comprising the step (a) contacting the sample with a reverse primer from a first primer pair directed to a target RNA region to effect reverse transcription of RNA into cDNA with a reverse transcriptase; (b) subsequently contacting the sample with (i) a forward primer from the first primer pair directed to a second cDNA region, (ii) a forward and a reverse primers from a second primer pair targeted to a DNA region, and (ii) a DNA polymerase to simultaneously amplify the target cDNA and target DNA region; and (c) analyzing the amplified target cDNA region and/or amplified target DNA region. Also encompassed are uses of the method to analyze gene expression and mutations, kits comprising primers, enzymes, buffers.

Abstract: A suspension system for a vehicle may include a knuckle rotatably supporting a wheel, and a lower control arm disposed along a vehicle's width direction and connecting the knuckle and a vehicle body, wherein the lower control arm includes a wheel-side end portion connected to a lower portion of the knuckle through a front lower external joint and a rear lower external joint, and two vehicle body-side end portions connected to the vehicle body through a front lower inner joint and a rear lower inner joint, the two vehicle body-side end portions including first and second vehicle body-side end portions, wherein the first vehicle body-side end portion among the two vehicle body-side end portions is connected to the vehicle body interposing a compliance control arm between the first vehicle body-side end portion and the vehicle body.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for recognizing a driving lane of a vehicle are provided. The apparatus includes an information acquisition device that acquires forward information of a road on which the vehicle is driving, and a processor that recognizes an entrance section and an exit section on a front left side of the vehicle based on the forward information, and determines a driving lane of the vehicle by correcting a number of lanes of the road in the entrance section and the exit section.

Abstract: An apparatus for displaying a floating image is disclosed. The apparatus includes a light source that extends in a planar direction and emits light for realizing the floating image, a collecting lens, which extends parallel to the light source and refracts the light, a reflective plate, which faces the collecting lens and reflects the light that is refracted at the collective lens, and a dihedral reflector array, which extends in a planar direction and includes mirrors extending in directions intersecting each other, where a first surface of the dihedral reflector array facing the reflective plate such that the reflected light is incident on the first surface, and the reflected light is emitted from a second surface of the dihedral reflector array by being reflected by the mirrors, thereby realizing the floating image at a position spaced apart from the second surface.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material including lithium titanium oxide particles, wherein the lithium titanium oxide particles have a Na content of 50 ppm-300 ppm, a K content of 500 ppm-2400 ppm and a crystallite size of 100-200 nm, and a lithium secondary battery including the same.

Abstract: A driving controlling apparatus and method of a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a navigation device providing a guide route and a travelable route and a controller. The controller is configured to determine one of the guide route and the travelable route as a driving control target depending on a result of determining whether to deviate from the guide route and a result of determining whether the guide route is set on a pocket-shaped off ramp and the vehicle is driving on an outermost lane of a road on which the vehicle is currently driving.

Abstract: Disclosed are a robot that may allow a user to monitor a state and a posture of the user in real time to perceive a state of health and the posture and receive useful contents that are helpful, and effectively help the health and correction of the posture of the user, and a real-time posture monitoring method.

Abstract: A threshing device with two-way pull wires and adjustable threshing clearance includes a tensioning mechanism, and several grid bars in clearance fit with side plates, wherein the tensioning mechanism is mounted on the several grid bars so that the grid bars can move in radial and tangential directions in the clearance; the tensioning mechanism includes a tangential tensioning device and a radial tensioning device, wherein the radial tensioning device is mounted in the radial direction of any one of the grid bars, so that the grid bars can move in the radial direction in the clearance; the tangential tensioning device is mounted in series in the tangential direction of the grid bars, so that the grid bars can move in the tangential direction in the clearance. The present invention further provides a combined harvester, which includes the threshing device with two-way pull wires and adjustable threshing clearance.

Abstract: A cloud server including a memory, a communication device, and a processor. The memory storing address information of a user terminal device corresponding to a subscriber. The communication device to receive fax data. The processor to, in response to receiving the fax data for the subscriber, control the communication device to notify the user terminal device a fax was received based on the address information of the user terminal device, and in response to receiving a request to output the received fax data, control the communication device to transmit the received fax data to an image forming apparatus designated by the subscriber.

Abstract: A composition for skin whitening and wrinkle improvement includes an adventitious root extract of Centella asiatica as an effective ingredient. The adventitious root extract of Centella asiatica has an excellent anti-inflammation and antioxidant activity without any cytotoxicity and also has an excellent effect of inhibiting the melanin pigmentation and matrix metalloprotease and enhancing the production of procollagen as a precursor of collagen. Accordingly, it can be advantageously used as a cosmetic, a preparation for external application on skin, or the like for skin whitening and wrinkle improvement.

Abstract: Provided are a composite precursor of a cathode active material, the composite precursor including a cobalt hydroxide and a cobalt oxyhydroxide, where an X-ray diffraction spectrum of the composite precursor has a first peak observed at a diffraction angle (2?) of 19.5°±0.5° and a second peak observed at a diffraction angle (2?) of 38.5°±0.5°; a cathode active material prepared from the composite precursor; a cathode and a lithium battery including the composite precursor; and a method of preparing the composite precursor.

Abstract: A ramp apparatus of a door for a vehicle is provided. The ramp apparatus includes a door configured to open and close an interior of a vehicle, the door having an interior space, a guide unit installed in the interior space of the door, wherein the guide unit is configured to be slid to be extracted to an outside of the door or to be inserted into the door, and a ramp mechanism installed in the guide unit, wherein the ramp mechanism is configured to be rotatable, the ramp mechanism comprising a plurality of ramp panels connected to each other and rotatable with respect to each other, wherein the ramp panels are configured to be folded when being located in the interior of the door and to be unfolded when being extracted to the outside of the door by the guide unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel compound as an mTOR inhibitor and a use thereof and, more specifically, to a novel compound represented by formula 1 that exhibits mTOR inhibitory activity and a pharmaceutical composition comprising same as an active ingredient for preventing or treating brain diseases associated with an mTOR pathway.

Abstract: An electronic device package includes: a substrate including a central region, and a first side region and a second side region at opposite sides of the central region; a first component in the first side region or the second side region, the first component having a first height above a surface of the substrate; a second component in the central region, the second component having a second height above the surface of the substrate that is lower than the first height; a reinforcement member in the central region and overlapping the second component, the reinforcement member having a third height above the surface of the substrate that is lower than the first height and higher than the second height; and an encapsulation member covering the first component and the second component.

Abstract: Disclosed are a negative electrode active material including lithium titanium oxide particles, wherein the lithium titanium oxide particles have an average particle diameter (D50) of 0.5-9 ?m, a specific surface area of 3-7 m2/g, and a pellet density of 1.7 g/cc or more under a pressure of 64 MPa, and a lithium secondary battery including the same.