Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the detection of beta amyloid protein as an Alzheimer's disease-causing factor in the palatine tonsil and a use thereof and, more specifically, to the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease by identifying the expression of beta amyloid and/or Staphylococcus aureus in a tonsillar sample. The present disclosure can diagnose Alzheimer's disease through the expression of beta amyloid and/or Staphylococcus aureus in a palatine tonsil tissue and, furthermore, can be very advantageously used for revealing the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and for treating Alzheimer's disease.

Abstract: A display panel includes a base layer having a display area and a non-display area including a pad area; a plurality of transistors on the base layer; a first protective layer covering the plurality of transistors; a conductive layer on the first protective layer; a second protective layer over the conductive layer; a first electrode and a second electrode on the second protective layer, the first and second electrodes being spaced from each other; a plurality of light emitting elements between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first contact electrode on the first electrode, the first contact electrode being in contact with one end portion of the light emitting element, and a second contact electrode on the second electrode, the second contact electrode being in contact with the other end portion of the at least one light emitting element; and a first pad in the pad area.

Abstract: An anode for a lithium secondary battery includes an anode current collector, a second anode active material layer disposed on the anode current collector and including a second anode active material that includes a graphite-based active material and composite particles, and a first anode active material layer disposed between the anode current collector and the second anode active material layer and including a first anode active material that includes a graphite-based active material and does not include the composite particles. Each of the composite particles includes a carbon-based particle including pores, a silicon-containing coating layer disposed on an inside of the pores of the carbon-based particle or on a surface of the carbon-based particle, and a surface oxide layer disposed on the silicon-containing coating layer and including a silicon oxide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dry powder inhaler. The dry powder inhaler includes an inhaler housing, a drug container configured to be provided in the inhaler housing and accommodate the dry powder drug, a drug inlet configured to be disposed above the drug container and through which the dry powder drug is inhaled, and a mesh network configured to be installed on a path of the drug inlet and have a mesh part for collision with the dry powder drug formed therein.

Abstract: Disclosed is a language area invasion determination apparatus including a memory unit including a language area invasion determination model, and a processor that controls an operation of the language area invasion determination model included in the memory unit. The processor trains the language area invasion determination model by using one or more training utterance data and outputs language area invasion determination data of an examiner by using test utterance data and the trained language area invasion determination model. The training utterance data and the test utterance data include utterance speech data of a speaker.

Abstract: A battery container has excellent workability, assembly, expandability, and safety. The battery container includes at least one battery rack including a plurality of battery modules; a container housing having an empty space formed therein to accommodate the battery rack; a plurality of main connectors located on at least one side of the container housing and configured to be electrically connected to the outside; and a main bus bar connected between the plurality of main connectors to transmit power.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a battery pack; a charging housing having an inlet, an outlet, and a pack insertion space into which the battery pack is insertable; a charging part electrically connected to the battery pack inserted into the pack insertion space, for charging the battery pack; a circulation part configured to supply cooling water supplied to the pack insertion space through the inlet and recover cooling water from the pack insertion space through the outlet; a heating part configured to heat to the pack insertion space; and a control part for controlling the charging part, the heating part, and the circulation part.

Abstract: Provided is a near-infrared ray absorbing article. A near-infrared ray absorbing article of the present invention is capable of preventing a decrease in visible transmittance and near-infrared absorption due to the interaction between a plurality of organic materials forming light-absorbing layers. In addition, the near-infrared ray absorbing article of the present invention has the advantage of being able to be thinner. In addition, the near-infrared ray absorbing article of the present invention has the advantage of excellent mechanical properties such as strength and heat resistance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a convolutional artificial neural network-based image and video recognition system, and a method therefor. The recognition system comprises: a mobile device for performing lower layer analysis, transmitting a user question to a server, receiving an answer thereto from the server, and managing the same; the server connected to the mobile device over a network so as to perform data processing in respective neural network layers corresponding to middle and upper layers of a convolutional artificial neural network, and register, analyze, search for, and classify a particular object (image) and video; and a retriever for comparing an FC layer value for artificial neural network processing of an image and video transmitted by the mobile device with an FC layer value for artificial neural network processing of an image and video registered by a content provider.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lung cancer model based on a normal lung organoid, prepared by fusing cancer cells to the normal lung organoid. By using the lung cancer model according to the present invention, it is possible not only to observe the progression or metastasis pattern of lung cancer from the early stage of proliferating lung cancer cells to the stage of forming a tumor but also to compare the effect of an anticancer agent at each stage, and thus the information on an appropriate therapeutic agent may be provided according to the stage of cancer development. In addition, since the lung cancer model according to the present invention includes a normal lung organoid and cancer cells, which are fused, it can be effectively used to confirm the effect of an anticancer agent on normal tissue and the effect of cancer cell-specific apoptosis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising an agent inhibiting gene expression or protein activity of osteopontin as an active ingredient for preventing or treating neurodegenerative disease. According to the present invention, there is an effect of suppressing amyloid beta (A?)-induced neuronal cell death by downregulating the expression or activity of osteopontin. In addition, an inhibitor against the expression or activity of osteopontin decreases a level of pro-inflammatory proteins and conversely, increases a level of anti-inflammatory proteins. Therefore, it is expected that the present invention can be advantageously used as a therapeutic agent for various neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease.

Abstract: A thermoelectric module includes a first electrode, a first oxidation preventing layer, a plurality of first bonding layers containing silver (Ag), a second oxidation preventing layer, a first plating layer, a thermoelectric element, a second plating layer, a third oxidation preventing layer, a second bonding layer containing silver (Ag), a fourth oxidation preventing layer, and a second electrode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a focus ring for improvement of a semiconductor plasma etching process, which is circular, penetrates vertically into the middle portion thereof, and has a plurality of slots equally spaced apart from one another by a given distance on the edge periphery of the underside thereof in a longitudinal direction thereof, wherein so as to allow a plasma to be dispersed and exhausted uniformly at a fast speed through the slots, each slot becomes increased or decreased in diameter in a direction from top to bottom thereof to thus have a top diameter and a bottom diameter different from each other, and otherwise, each slot is rounded inward from both of top and bottom peripheries thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a convolutional artificial neural network-based image and video recognition system, and a method therefor. The recognition system comprises: a mobile device for performing lower layer analysis, transmitting a user question to a server, receiving an answer thereto from the server, and managing the same; the server connected to the mobile device over a network so as to perform data processing in respective neural network layers corresponding to middle and upper layers of a convolutional artificial neural network, and register, analyze, search for, and classify a particular object (image) and video; and a retriever for comparing an FC layer value for artificial neural network processing of an image and video transmitted by the mobile device with an FC layer value for artificial neural network processing of an image and video registered by a content provider.

Abstract: A thermoelectric module includes: an electrode; a double layer stacked on a thermoelectric pellet; and a solder layer interposed between the double layer and the electrode to bond the double layer to the electrode, the solder layer containing a Sn—Cu-based alloy. The solder layer is formed to have an interface with one of the double layer and the electrode and has at least one ? layer having an ? phase (Cu3Sn).

Abstract: A thermoelectric module includes: an electrode; a double layer stacked on a thermoelectric pellet; and a solder layer interposed between the double layer and the electrode to bond the double layer to the electrode, the solder layer containing a Sn—Cu-based alloy. The solder layer is formed to have an interface with one of the double layer and the electrode and has at least one ? layer having an ? phase (Cu3Sn).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a Bi—Te-based thermoelectric material. More particularly, the present invention provides a novel manufacturing method capable of improving thermoelectric properties by controlling uniformity of the ribbon composition by precisely controlling the temperature of a rapid solidification process (RSP) used when manufacturing a metallic ribbon.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes preparing a display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, pretilting liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer, and molding the display panel into a curved shape having a first curvature, in which the liquid crystal molecules are pretilted according to a gap interposed between the first and second substrates that overlap the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate comprising a pixel area, a second substrate having a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first and second substrates, where the first substrate includes a first pixel electrode which is arranged on the pixel area and in which a diamond shaped open unit is defined, and a plate shaped second pixel electrode arranged on the first pixel electrode, the first pixel electrode having first and second sides parallel to one side of the pixel area, third and fourth sides extending from one side of the first and second sides, inclined against the first and second sides, and parallel to each other, and fifth and sixth sides that connect the first and second sides with the third and fourth sides, and are parallel to each other, and the second pixel electrode includes a cross-shaped stem unit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate including a first light blocking region, wherein a plurality of transistors are formed in the first light blocking region; a second substrate facing the first substrate, the second substrate including a common electrode disposed thereon; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate includes: a data line disposed extending in a vertical direction; color filters, each of the color filters overlapping adjacent color filters to form a color filter overlapping portion in boundary regions of the color filters in a vertical direction; and a light blocking member disposed extending in a horizontal direction covering the first light blocking region, wherein the data line and the color filter overlapping portion are spaced apart from each other in a horizontal direction in a region where the light blocking member is formed.