Abstract: A Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) device performing communication with a host through a PCIe link includes a first physical function, a plurality of second physical functions, and a function mode controller. The first physical function manages the PCIe link and receives function mode control information from the host. Each of the plurality of second physical functions may be enabled or disabled according to a respective operation mode. Based on the function mode control information, the function mode controller sets the operation modes of the plurality of second physical functions to one of an active mode and an inactive mode.

Abstract: Provided herein are compounds of formula (II): or a stereoisomer or tautomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of any of the foregoing, wherein m, n, p, R1, R2, R3, L1, L2, L3, R4, X1, X2, X3, and X4 are as defined herein. Also provided are methods of preparing compounds of formula (II), or a stereoisomer or tautomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of any of the foregoing. Also provided are methods of inhibiting APOL1 and methods of treating an APOL1-mediated disease, disorder, or condition in an individual.

Abstract: A charging cable for an electric vehicle includes a cable main body having a flat cross-section in a width direction thereof and partitioned into a plurality of internal regions. The charging cable includes terminal portions through which positive and negative power cables, a communication/sensor cable, a coolant flow channel, and a ground pass into the plurality of internal regions, respectively. The terminal portions are arranged in a row in the width direction of the cable main body.

Abstract: A connector position alignment assembly includes a first part and a second part coupled to each other through a connector and including a guide portion aligning a position of the connector. The guide portion is provided with a guide pin and a guide boss including portions protruding toward each other, and the guide pin and the guide boss respectively protrude further than the connector, in a direction in which the first part and the second part face each other, such that a portion of the guide pin is accommodated in the guide boss before the connectors are coupled to each other.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present specification provides a method for preparing a catalyst for preparing a carbon nanotube, comprising: (a) dissolving a main catalyst precursor, a support precursor, a cocatalyst precursor and a precipitation inhibitor in a solvent to prepare a precursor solution; and (b) pyrolyzing the precursor solution by spraying the precursor solution into a reactor, wherein a mole fraction of the precipitation inhibitor to the cocatalyst precursor is 0.1 to 1.5.

Abstract: An eco-friendly power source such as a battery module is provided for a transportation vehicle, including: a first sub-module and a second sub-module respectively including a cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked; and a central wall disposed between the first sub-module and the second sub-module, wherein the central wall includes a first central wall facing the first sub-module and a second central wall facing the second sub-module, wherein the first central wall has a rotationary symmetrical shape of the second central wall around a first axis.

Abstract: An eco-friendly power source, such as a battery module provided for a transportation vehicle includes a first sub-module and a second sub-module disposed in a first direction, the first sub-module and the second sub-module respectively including a plurality of battery cells stacked in a second direction, which is perpendicular to the first direction, and a lower cover coupled to the first sub-module and the second sub-module. The first sub-module and the second sub-module are disposed to be rotationally symmetrical to each other about a central axis, which is perpendicular to both the first direction and the second direction.

Abstract: In one example, a semiconductor device can comprise a substrate, a device stack, first and second internal interconnects, and an encapsulant. The substrate can comprise a first and second substrate sides opposite each other, a substrate outer sidewall between the first substrate side and the second substrate side, and a substrate inner sidewall defining a cavity between the first substrate side and the second substrate side. The device stack can be in the cavity and can comprise a first electronic device, and a second electronic device stacked on the first electronic device. The first internal interconnect can be coupled to the substrate and the device stack. The encapsulant can cover the substrate inner sidewall and the device stack and can fill the cavity. Other examples and related methods are disclosed herein.

Abstract: Provided is a display device comprising a substrate, a first data line and a second data line disposed on the substrate and extended in a first direction, an anode electrode disposed on the first data line and the second data line, a pixel-defining film disposed over the anode electrode and defining an emission area, an organic light-emitting layer disposed on the anode electrode, and a cathode electrode disposed on the organic light-emitting layer, wherein each of the first data line and the second data line has a curved shape when viewed from a top where the first anode electrode and the second anode electrode overlap the anode electrode.

Abstract: An example electronic device includes a housing; a touchscreen display; a microphone; at least one speaker; a button disposed on a portion of the housing or set to be displayed on the touchscreen display; a wireless communication circuit; a processor; and a memory. When a user interface is not displayed on the touchscreen display, the electronic device enables a user to receive a user input through the button, receives user speech through the microphone, and then provides data on the user speech to an external server. An instruction for performing a task is received from the server. When the user interface is displayed on the touchscreen display, the electronic device enables the user to receive the user input through the button, receives user speech through the microphone, and then provides data on the user speech to the external server.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for updating an Internet-based malware detection engine using virtual machine scaling. The method may include creating a scaling group and an update group set based on a first virtual machine image, creating a second virtual machine image for a running virtual machine in response to occurrence of a snapshot event in the virtual update group run based on the first virtual machine image, modifying the scale-out image of the scaling group to the second virtual machine image, updating the scaling group by triggering a scale-out event and a scale-in event in the scaling group in response to occurrence of an update event, and modifying the scale-in image of the scaling group to the second virtual machine image.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for converting a credential data schema.

Abstract: Methods and systems for acquiring transmission electron microscope video data on a rolling-shutter detector at an enhanced frame rate and without temporal distortions are described. Also described are methods to enhance the dynamic range of image and diffraction data acquired using a transmission electron microscope. The disclosed methods and systems may also be applicable to photon detection and imaging systems.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for user-centered visitor access management, which may include issuing, by a management office server, a digital certificate to a householder terminal; registering, by a wall-pad, a householder in response to a request to register the householder based on the digital certificate; requesting, by the householder terminal, the management office server to register a visitor based on a visit request from a visitor terminal and delegating the digital certificate to the visitor terminal; making an entry request to a management terminal based on the digital certificate; verifying, by the wall-pad, the digital certificate based on a request for verification for entry from a wall-pad management terminal and providing a verification result to the wall-pad management terminal when the management terminal is the wall-pad management terminal; and managing and controlling, by the wall-pad, permission to use home devices based on delegated permission information of the digital certificate.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pressure swing adsorption apparatus for hydrogen purification from decomposed ammonia gas and a hydrogen purification method using the same, and more particularly, the pressure swing adsorption apparatus of the present disclosure includes a plurality of adsorption towers including a pretreatment unit and a hydrogen purification unit wherein the adsorption towers of the pretreatment unit and the hydrogen purification unit are packed with different adsorbents, thereby achieving high purity hydrogen purification from mixed hydrogen gas produced after ammonia decomposition, making it easy to replace the adsorbent for ammonia removal, minimizing the likelihood that the lifetime of the adsorbent in the hydrogen purification unit is drastically reduced by a very small amount of ammonia, and actively responding to a large change in ammonia concentration in the raw material.

Abstract: A composite pad and a battery cell assembly and a battery module including the composite pad are disclosed. In some implementations, the battery cell assembly comprises a plurality of battery cells arranged in a direction, and one or more pads, each pad disposed between two adjacent battery cells of the plurality of battery cells, at least one of the one or more pads including a pad body with elasticity, and a heat generating part coupled to the pad body and connected to an edge of the at least one of the one or more pads and configured to generate heat upon application of electric power to the heat generating part.

Abstract: A display device includes a light emitting element including a pixel electrode, a light emitting layer, and a common electrode. A capping layer is disposed on the common electrode. An auxiliary layer is disposed on the capping layer. A thin film encapsulation layer includes a first encapsulation layer, a second encapsulation layer, and a third encapsulation layer. The first encapsulation layer includes a first inorganic insulating layer including silicon nitride; a second inorganic insulating layer including silicon oxide; and a third inorganic insulating layer including silicon oxynitride. The auxiliary layer has a thickness of 200 ? to 1400 ?, the first inorganic insulating layer has a thickness of 400 ? to 3500 ?, the second inorganic insulating layer has a thickness of 200 ? to 2400 ?, and the third inorganic insulating layer has a thickness of 4000 ? or more.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a positive electrode which includes forming a solid electrolyte by mixing a lithium salt and a polymer for a solid electrolyte in a dry atmosphere, forming a dry mixture by stirring after adding a conductive agent and a positive electrode active material to the solid electrolyte in a dry atmosphere, and pressing after coating a current collector with the dry mixture.

Abstract: Charging system and method using a motor driving system are proposed. The charging system includes a battery, an inverter to which D.C. power stored in the battery is applied, including a plurality of legs each including two switching elements, a motor including a plurality of coils of which first ends are respectively connected to connection nodes of the switching elements of each of the plurality of legs, and second ends are connected to each other to form a neutral point, and an inverter driving part configured to control switching of the switching elements, so that switching speeds of the switching elements are different for each mode of a motor driving mode and a charging mode so as to change magnitude of charging voltage supplied to the neutral point of the motor and to output the charging voltage to the battery.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of improving the corrosion resistance of a metal substrate surface using an oxygen reduction catalyst, which may improve the corrosion resistance of the metal substrate surface by coating the metal substrate surface with the oxygen reduction catalyst so that the metal substrate surface is changed to a passive state through the action of the oxygen reduction catalyst in an environment in which a stable oxide layer is not spontaneously formed on the metal substrate surface. The present invention has an advantage in that it can dramatically improve the corrosion resistance of the metal substrate under a corrosive environment by allowing a recoverable oxide layer to be formed on the metal substrate surface through the action of the oxygen reduction catalyst, applied to the surface, even in an environment in which an oxide layer is not spontaneously formed on the metal substrate.