Abstract: Disclosed herein is mobile middleware, a context monitoring method, a context-aware system, and a context-aware service provision method, which support energy-efficient context monitoring. The mobile middleware receives a request for a CMQ from context-aware application programs, receives sensor data from sensors, monitors whether the CMQ is satisfied, and transmits an event to the context-aware application programs according to results of the monitoring. In this case, the mobile middleware controls the sensors so that only sensor data required to determine whether the CMQ is satisfied needs to be transmitted so as to reduce energy consumption during the performance of the monitoring. Therefore, the mobile middleware can perform energy-efficient context monitoring, required by the context-aware application programs.

Abstract: A mobile apparatus includes a processing planner and a plan processor. The processing planner generates a plurality of resource use plans in response to a context monitoring query (CMQ) of an application, and selects a final plan satisfying a request of the CMQ among the resource use plans. The plan processor executes the final plan. Accordingly, the mobile apparatus may support resource-efficient context monitoring.

Abstract: Provided is a composition for prophylaxis or treatment of an eye disease comprising a compound represented by General Formula I: S-(MS)p-(MS)q??General Formula I wherein S represents sialic acid, and (MS)p and (MS)q independently represent a monosaccharide residue. The compound used as the active ingredient inhibits expression of MMP-9 and inflammation-mediated cytokines (IL-1?, TNF-?, etc.) in corneal epithelial cells and inhibits VEGF-mediated VEGFR-2 activation in human retinal endothelial cells (HREC), thereby exhibiting prophylactic or therapeutic activity for eye diseases such as dry eye syndrome, inflammatory eye disease, neovascularization-associated eye disease and side effects of wearing of contact lenses. Also, because it has no cytotoxicity or skin side effect, the provided composition may be safely used as a pharmaceutical composition, a neutraceutical composition or a food composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aspect-level news browsing service system and method for mitigating effects of media bias, which group news articles having different aspects on the same event on the basis of aspects, and simultaneously provide grouped news articles to users. The aspect-level news browsing service system may include a user terminal for accessing a news service server over an Internet and receiving aspect-level news article information from the news service server. A news provision server may transmit news article information to the news service server over the Internet. The news service server may extract aspects from the received news article information, classify the news article information based on the extracted aspects, and may transmit the aspect-level news article information to the user terminal depending on the aspects to enable the news article information to be displayed. The Internet may be configured to connect the user terminal to the news service server.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating hypertrophic scar or keloid, comprising as an active ingredient a compound represented by the following general formula I: S-(MS)p-(MS)q ??(I) wherein S represents sialic acid, and (MS)p and (MS)q independently represent a monosaccharide residue. The composition of the present invention inhibits proliferation of keloid fibroblasts and induces apoptosis of keloid fibroblasts, thereby effectively preventing or treating keloid. The active ingredient used in this invention is a natural compound or its derivative or isomer and therefore very safe to human.

Abstract: A mobile apparatus includes a processing planner and a plan processor. The processing planner generates a plurality of resource use plans in response to a context monitoring query (CMQ) of an application, and selects a final plan satisfying a request of the CMQ among the resource use plans. The plan processor executes the final plan. Accordingly, the mobile apparatus may support resource-efficient context monitoring.

Abstract: Provided is a composition for prophylaxis or treatment of an eye disease comprising a compound represented by General Formula I: S-(MS)p-(MS)q??General Formula I wherein S represents sialic acid, and (MS)p and (MS)q independently represent a monosaccharide residue. The compound used as the active ingredient inhibits expression of MMP-9 and inflammation-mediated cytokines (IL-1?, TNF-?, etc.) in corneal epithelial cells and inhibits VEGF-mediated VEGFR-2 activation in human retinal endothelial cells (HREC), thereby exhibiting prophylactic or therapeutic activity for eye diseases such as dry eye syndrome, inflammatory eye disease, neovascularization-associated eye disease and side effects of wearing of contact lenses. Also, because it has no cytotoxicity or skin side effect, the provided composition may be safely used as a pharmaceutical composition, a neutraceutical composition or a food composition.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composition for prophylaxis or treatment of hyperlipidemia, fatty liver, cardiovascular disease or obesity including a compound represented by General Formula I as an effective ingredient: S- (MS)p-(MS)q??General Formula I wherein S represents sialic acid, and (MS)p and (MS)q independently represent a monosaccharide residue. The compound used as the effective ingredient induces body weight loss, decrease of organ fat, decrease of total cholesterol level, increase of HDL-cholesterol level, decrease of LDL-cholesterol level and decrease of leptin, and thereby provides prophylactic or therapeutic activity for hyperlipidemia, fatty liver, cardiovascular disease or obesity. Also, because it has no cytotoxicity or skin side effect, the provided composition may be safely used as a pharmaceutical composition, a neutraceutical composition or a food composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a processing method of data stream using Border Monitoring Query, and more particularly a monitoring method and a system for data streams which are a large volume of data and continuously generated such as financial ticker, GPS data or a ubiquitous sensor network (USN). The objectives of the present invention are to process a large number of BMQs over data streams in high-performance and scalable manner. For this purpose, the invention presents BMQ-Index, a scalable and high performance data stream monitoring framework. The main idea of BMQ-Index is shared and incremental processing. For shared processing, BMQ-Index adopts a query indexing approach, thereby achieving a high level of scalability. Once BMQ-Index is built on registered queries, only relevant queries are quickly searched for upon an incoming data. For incremental processing, BMQ-Index employs an incremental access method, i.e.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aspect-level news browsing service system and method for mitigating effects of media bias, which group news articles having different aspects on the same event on the basis of aspects, and simultaneously provide grouped news articles to users. The aspect-level news browsing service system may include a user terminal for accessing a news service server over an Internet and receiving aspect-level news article information from the news service server. A news provision server may transmit news article information to the news service server over the Internet. The news service server may extract aspects from the received news article information, classify the news article information based on the extracted aspects, and may transmit the aspect-level news article information to the user terminal depending on the aspects to enable the news article information to be displayed. The Internet may be configured to connect the user terminal to the news service server.

Abstract: Methods and systems of processing a data stream are disclosed. A developer may develop a service only by programming a Service Unit (SU) including a service logic (SL) and including a Service Unit Description Language (SUDL) file, so that the developer may not need to program complicated stream processing code, such as stream source connection code, network input/output (I/O) code, and buffering code. In addition, the stream source connected dynamically to the service and a service execution mode (such as push and pull modes) may be converted by simply changing setting files based on the service model. The system includes modules for managing and processing the stream in reality, such as stream source connection modules, network I/O processing modules, and stream buffering modules, the modules operating the developed program through the service model.

Abstract: An air conditioner with a service valve assembly is disclosed wherein service valves are used for easy infusion and collection of refrigerant at the time of installation or detachment of separation-type multi-air conditioner mounted with a plurality of indoor units reducing the manufacturing costs and unit size. The air conditioner comprises: an outdoor unit including a compressor and heat exchanger; a plurality of indoor units including an expander and an indoor heat exchanger; a plurality of refrigerant input pipes; a first convergence piping for converging the refrigerant flowing in the plurality of refrigerant input pipes into the compressor; a second convergence piping for converging and introducing the refrigerant having passed the outdoor heat exchanger via the compressor into the plurality of indoor units; a plurality of refrigerant supply pipes; and first and second service valves for controlling fluid flow.

Abstract: A pipe-connection searching apparatus and method for a multiple air conditioner. The apparatus and method involving the identification of one of a plurality of indoor units, based on temperature criteria, and matching the one indoor unit to a corresponding one of a plurality of pipes that connect an outdoor unit to the plurality of indoor units, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a processing method of data stream using Border Monitoring Query, and more particularly a monitoring method and a system for data streams which are a large volume of data and continuously generated such as financial ticker, GPS data or a ubiquitous sensor network (USN). The objectives of the present invention are to process a large number of BMQs over data streams in high-performance and scalable manner. For this purpose, the invention presents BMQ-Index, a scalable and high performance data stream monitoring framework. The main idea of BMQ-Index is shared and incremental processing. For shared processing, BMQ-Index adopts a query indexing approach, thereby achieving a high level of scalability. Once BMQ-Index is built on registered queries, only relevant queries are quickly searched for upon an incoming data. For incremental processing, BMQ-Index employs an incremental access method, i.e.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is mobile middleware, a context monitoring method, a context-aware system, and a context-aware service provision method, which support energy-efficient context monitoring. The mobile middleware receives a request for a CMQ from context-aware application programs, receives sensor data from sensors, monitors whether the CMQ is satisfied, and transmits an event to the context-aware application programs according to results of the monitoring. In this case, the mobile middleware controls the sensors so that only sensor data required to determine whether the CMQ is satisfied needs to be transmitted so as to reduce energy consumption during the performance of the monitoring. Therefore, the mobile middleware can perform energy-efficient context monitoring, required by the context-aware application programs.

Abstract: Methods and systems of processing a data stream are disclosed. A developer may develop a service only by programming a Service Unit (SU) including a service logic (SL) and including a Service Unit Description Language (SUDL) file, so that the developer may not need to program complicated stream processing code, such as stream source connection code, network input/output (I/O) code, and buffering code. In addition, the stream source connected dynamically to the service and a service execution mode (such as push and pull modes) may be converted by simply changing setting files based on the service model. The system includes modules for managing and processing the stream in reality, such as stream source connection modules, network I/O processing modules, and stream buffering modules, the modules operating the developed program through the service model.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes first and second compressors, an outdoor heat exchanger through which refrigerant discharged from the first and second compressors passes, an outdoor fan for forcedly directing air toward the outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion valve for expanding the refrigerant discharged from the outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger through which the refrigerant expanded in the expansion valve passes, a linear expansion valve for adjust a flow rate of the refrigerant, a load detecting unit for deterring an indoor load, and a control unit for controlling the operation of the first and second compressors in accordance with the detected indoor load. In a state where the second compressor is not driven, the control unit allows the second compressor to drive when a driving start conditioner of the second compressor is satisfied and a driving start retarding time has been elapsed.

Abstract: A recombinant thrombin-like enzyme batroxobin expressed by yeast, a production method thereof, and use of the batroxobin as a hemostatic agent or antithrombotic agent is disclosed. In order to express recombinant thrombin-like enzyme, an expression vector is prepared by inserting cDNA encoding the enzyme, the transformed cell is prepared by introducing the expression vector into the cell, the transformed cell then is incubated and the recombinant thrombin-like enzyme is obtained from the cell. The recombinant thrombin-like enzyme may be usefully used as a hemostatic agent because the enzyme effectively decrease bleeding time and blood coagulation time and does not affect various blood coagulation factors.

Abstract: A non-causal error diffusion technique that is capable of gray image signals into binary image signals to prevent the occurrence of visible correlated patterns and/or artifacts. In the non-causal error diffusion method, transformation errors produced when great gray level sets of image signals for a certain pixel are transformed into reduced gray level sets of image signals are reflected to the image signals for pixels at non-causal locations with respect to the certain pixel.