Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: an inter-layer dielectric layer over a substrate including a cell region, a first peripheral region, and a second peripheral region; a capping layer over the inter-layer dielectric layer; a capacitor capped by the inter-layer dielectric layer in the cell region; a contact plug penetrating the inter-layer dielectric layer in the first peripheral region; a metal interconnection formed over the contact plug through the capping layer; and a through electrode penetrating the capping layer and the inter-layer dielectric layer and extending into the substrate in the second peripheral region.

Abstract: A method for coding image information includes generating prediction information by predicting information on a current coding unit, and determining whether the information on the current coding unit is the same as the prediction information. When the information on the current coding unit is the same as the prediction information, a flag indicating that the information on the current coding unit is the same as the prediction information is coded and transmitted. When the information on the current coding unit is not the same as the prediction information, a flag indicating that the information on the current coding unit is not the same as the prediction information and the information on the current coding unit are coded and transmitted.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a wick structure of a heat pipe that is capable of bending while increasing a heat transferring operation limit value is provided by improving the wick structure provided inside the heat pipe.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a data driver configured to provide data voltages to the pixels, and a gate driver configured to provide gate signals to the pixels. The display device also includes a controller configured to control the data driver and the gate driver, and to control the magnitude of a sensing initialization voltage applied to the pixels based on a frame rate value when operating in a variable frame mode.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for inducing a prediction motion vector and an apparatus using the same. An image decoding method can include: a step of determining the information related to a plurality of spatial candidate prediction motion vectors from peripheral predicted blocks of a predicted target block; and a step of determining the information related to temporal candidate prediction motion vectors on the basis of the information related to the plurality of spatial candidate prediction motion vectors. Accordingly, the present invention can reduce complexity and can enhance coding efficiency when inducing the optimum prediction motion vector.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. An image encoding method according to the present invention may comprise generating a transform block by performing at least one of transform and quantization; grouping at least one coefficient included in the transform block into at least one coefficient group (CG); scanning at least one coefficient included in the coefficient group; and encoding the at least one coefficient.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image encoding method and an image decoding method. The image decoding method includes partitioning a picture into a plurality of coding units, constructing a coding unit group including at least one coding unit of the plurality of coding units, obtaining coding information in units of one coding unit group, and decoding at least one coding unit of the plurality of coding units included in the coding unit group by using the obtained coding information.

Abstract: A condensed cyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the condensed cyclic compound are provided. The condensed cyclic compound is represented by Formula 1. The A3 ring of Formula 1 is a group represented by Formula 2A or a group represented by Formula 2B. The organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, the organic layer including at least one of the condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1.

Abstract: An electroluminescent display device includes an electroluminescent display device includes a substrate; a first pixel row on the substrate including a first plurality of pixels arranged along a first direction; a second pixel row on the substrate including a second plurality of pixels arranged along the first direction, the second pixel row being spaced apart from the first pixel row in a second direction; a first groove between the first and second pixel rows; and a light emitting diode in each pixel of the first and second pixel rows, wherein the first groove includes a first portion at one end of the first pixel row, a second portion at the other end of the first pixel row and a third portion between the first and second portions, and wherein third portion is smaller than the first portion and greater than the second portion.

Abstract: The liquefied gas storage tank includes a primary barrier, a primary insulation wall, a secondary barrier, and a secondary insulation wall. In a state where unit elements are arranged adjacent to each other, each of the unit elements being formed by stacking the secondary insulation wall, the secondary barrier, and a fixed insulation wall which is a part of the primary insulation wall, the primary insulation wall may comprise: a connection insulation wall provided in the space between the adjacent fixed insulation walls; first slits formed between the fixed insulation walls and the connection insulation wall when the connection insulation wall is inserted and installed between the adjacent fixed insulation walls; a plurality of second slits formed in a lengthwise direction and a widthwise direction of the fixed insulation walls; and a first insulating filler material for filling the first slits.

Abstract: Provided is a peptide composition for preventing or treating Alzheimer's dementia. A peptide or a salt substituent thereof according to the presently claimed subject matter exhibits effects such as suppression of LPS-mediated cytokine production, suppression of LPS-induced neuroinflammation, amelioration of cognitive impairment, suppression of beta amyloid or tau protein aggregation, and suppression of neuronal loss. The polypeptide or the salt substituent thereof can permeate the blood-brain barrier, and thus, is expected to be usefully used for preventing or treating Alzheimer's dementia.

Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method for reselling a reserved instance, which creates earnings by purchasing a reserved instance from a reserved instance providing system, such as a cloud service system, and reselling the reserved instance to a client, and a recording medium in which a program for executing the method is written. The system purchases a reserved instance from a reserved instance providing system and resells the reserved instance to a client, and includes an instance usage prediction unit for predicting instance usage of a client using a machine learning model pre-trained in relation to the instance usage, a reserved instance purchase quantity determination unit for determining a reserved instance purchase quantity based on the instance usage, a reserved instance purchase unit for purchasing the reserved instance based on the reserved instance purchase quantity, and an instance reselling unit for reselling the purchased reserved instance to the client.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for encoding and decoding an image by skip encoding. The image-encoding method by skip encoding, which performs intra-prediction, comprises: performing a filtering operation on the signal which is reconstructed prior to an encoding object signal in an encoding object image; using the filtered reconstructed signal to generate a prediction signal for the encoding object signal; setting the generated prediction signal as a reconstruction signal for the encoding object signal; and not encoding the residual signal which can be generated on the basis of the difference between the encoding object signal and the prediction signal, thereby performing skip encoding on the encoding object signal.

Abstract: A memory may include a first wafer, and a second wafer stacked on and bonded to the first wafer. The first wafer may include a cell structure including a memory cell array; and a first logic structure disposed under the cell structure, and including a row control circuit. The second wafer may include a second logic structure including a column control circuit.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an image encoding apparatus comprises: a motion prediction unit which derives motion information on a current block in the form of the motion information including L0 motion information and L1 motion information; a motion compensation unit which performs a motion compensation for the current block on the basis of at least one of the L0 motion information and L1 motion information so as to generate a prediction block corresponding to the current block; and a restoration block generating unit which generates a restoration block corresponding to the current block based on the prediction block. According to the present invention, image encoding efficiency can be improved.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first region, and a second region, a first gate structure and a second gate structure on the substrate of the first region, a third gate structure and a fourth gate structure on the substrate of the second region, a first interlayer insulating film on the substrate of the first region and including a first lower interlayer insulating film and a first upper interlayer insulating film, a second interlayer insulating film on the substrate of the second region and including a second lower interlayer insulating film and a second upper interlayer insulating film, a first contact between the first gate structure and the second gate structure and within the first interlayer insulating film, and a second contact formed between the third gate structure and the fourth gate structure and within the second interlayer insulating film.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: an inter-layer dielectric layer over a substrate including a cell region, a first peripheral region, and a second peripheral region; a capping layer over the inter-layer dielectric layer; a capacitor capped by the inter-layer dielectric layer in the cell region; a contact plug penetrating the inter-layer dielectric layer in the first peripheral region; a metal interconnection formed over the contact plug through the capping layer; and a through electrode penetrating the capping layer and the inter-layer dielectric layer and extending into the substrate in the second peripheral region.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composition for detecting or measuring an analyte and an analysis method using the composition. In particular, efficiency and performance of sample analysis may be greatly improved through the composition and analysis method of the present disclosure.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes active fins on a substrate, a first isolation pattern on the substrate, the first isolation pattern extending on a lower sidewall of each of the active fins, a third isolation pattern including an upper portion extending into the first isolation pattern and a lower portion extending into an upper portion of the substrate, the lower portion contacting the upper portion of the third isolation pattern, and having a lower surface with a width greater than that of an upper surface thereof, and a second isolation pattern extending in the substrate under the third isolation pattern, contacting the third isolation pattern, and having a rounded lower surface.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for supporting a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation in a Node B in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes defining a second System Frame Number (SFN) where one cycle of a first SFN corresponds to one bit, transmitting information on the second SFN to a User Equipment (UE), determining a second SFN which is used to transmit a paging signal to the UE, determining a first SFN which is used to transmit the paging signal in the determined second SFN, and transmitting the paging signal to the UE at the determined first SFN.