Abstract: A secondary battery includes: an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator; a case accommodating the electrode assembly and having an opening; a cap plate coupled to and sealing the opening in the case; a first terminal plate on the cap plate and electrically connected to the first electrode plate; and a first current collector plate between the first terminal plate and the electrode assembly to electrically connect the first terminal plate to the electrode assembly. The first current collector plate has a first protrusion that passes through the cap plate and is connected to the first terminal plate.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a neural network-based personalized speech are provided. The method includes outputting a first bit stream in which an input speech signal is encrypted, based on the input speech signal, and outputting a second bit stream in which speaker information of the input speech signal is encrypted, based on the input speech signal.

Abstract: A method and device for encoding/decoding an audio signal based on dequantization through potential diffusion are provided. The method of decoding an audio signal includes obtaining a discrete latent vector in which a speech signal is quantized and based on the discrete latent vector, outputting a continuous latent vector in which the discrete latent vector is dequantized.

Abstract: Disclosed are a device and method for audio signal processing. The audio signal processing device according to an embodiment includes a receiver configured to receive a bitstream corresponding to a compressed audio signal and a processor. The processor may be configured to generate a real restoration signal or a complex restoration signal by performing inverse quantization on real data of the bitstream or complex data of the bitstream, generate a result of real Frequency Domain Noise Shaping (FDNS) synthesis or a result of complex FDNS synthesis by performing FDNS synthesis on the real restoration signal or the complex restoration signal, and generate a restored audio signal by performing frequency-to-time transform on the result of the real FDNS synthesis or the result of the complex FDNS synthesis.

Abstract: A lighting device including at least one first light source configured to emit a visible light through a first light emitting surface, at least one second light source spaced apart from the first light source and configured to emit light having a wavelength for sterilization through a second light emitting surface, and a housing having a bottom portion, on which the first and second light sources are disposed. The housing can include at least one sidewall portion connected to the bottom portion to enclose the first light source and the second light source in one common area, in which the first and second light emitting surfaces face substantially the same direction, and both the first light emitting surface and the second light emitting surface can be disposed at a different elevation from the bottom portion of the housing.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition includes 100 parts by weight of a base resin including 3 to 22% by weight of an alkyl acrylate-aromatic vinyl compound-vinyl cyanide compound graft copolymer (A-1) containing alkyl acrylate rubber having an average particle diameter of 50 to 200 nm, 20 to 40% by weight of an alkyl acrylate-aromatic vinyl compound-vinyl cyanide compound graft copolymer (A-2) containing alkyl acrylate rubber having an average particle diameter of greater than 200 nm and 600 nm or less, and 50 to 72% by weight of an aromatic vinyl compound-vinyl cyanide compound copolymer (B); and 0.6 to 1.9 parts by weight of a lubricant (C), wherein, based on 100% by weight in total of the thermoplastic resin composition, a total content of rubber as measured by FT-IR is 15 to 21% by weight.

Abstract: A display panel can include a plurality of first pixel circuits configured to receive a pixel driving voltage and a reference voltage for displaying an image; and a plurality of second pixel circuits including a power line supplied with the pixel driving voltage and a reference voltage line supplied with the reference voltage, the plurality of second pixel circuits being configured to short-circuit the power line to the reference voltage line for at least some amount of time within a vertical blank period. Also, the plurality of second pixel circuits can maintain uniform luminance of the plurality of first pixel circuits.

Abstract: Provided herein are novel compounds, e.g., those of Formula (I), as GCN2 inhibitors. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions including one or more of the novel compounds, and pharmaceutical uses thereof. Compounds provided herein can typically inhibit an activity of a GCN2 and thus can be used for treating or preventing diseases related thereto.

Abstract: An embodiment vehicle air conditioner includes an air conditioning device connected to a blower device to receive air supplied from the blower device, a heat exchange core provided in the air conditioning device and disposed in parallel with a flow direction of the air supplied from the blower device, a partition wall disposed to divide the heat exchange core into a first core part disposed to be close in distance to the blower device and a second core part disposed to be distant from the blower device, such that the air supplied from the blower device is distributed and supplied to the first core part and the second core part, and an air guide provided in a connection portion between the blower device and the air conditioning device and configured to guide the air to be supplied to the second core part of the heat exchange core.

Abstract: A Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) function includes an access identification information controller generating first access identification information for allowing an access to the PCIe function, and providing the first access identification information to an assigned system image to which the PCIe function has been assigned, the assigned system image being one of a plurality of system images, a data packet receiver receiving a data packet including target identification information indicating a target system image selected from the plurality of system images from the target system image, and an access allowance determiner determining whether or not to allow an access of the target system image based on the first access identification information and the target identification information.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a thermoplastic resin composition and an exterior material including the same. The thermoplastic resin composition includes 100 parts by weight of styrene-based resins; 0.5 to 5 parts by weight of a first polyamide resin having a melting temperature (Tm) of 230° C. or less; and 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of a second polyamide resin having a melting temperature (Tm) of 250° C. or more. Both the first and second polyamide resins have a relative viscosity of 2.5 or less. The present disclosure advantageously provides a low-gloss thermoplastic resin composition having excellent aesthetics, such as softness, luxuriousness, and naturalness, due to uniform and low gloss, and improvement in surface texture while having mechanical properties and processability equal or superior to those of conventional ASA resins; and an exterior material including the low-gloss thermoplastic resin composition.

Abstract: Disclosed is a synaptic transistor, including a substrate, an expansion gate electrode disposed to extend in one direction on the substrate, a gate insulating layer including ions, covering the expansion gate electrode, and disposed on the substrate, a channel layer disposed on the gate insulating layer to correspond to one end of the expansion gate electrode, source and drain electrodes spaced apart from each other, covering both ends of the channel layer, and disposed on the gate insulating layer, and a pad electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer to correspond to the other end of the expansion gate electrode.

Abstract: An encoding method, a decoding method, an encoder for performing the encoding method, and a decoder for performing the decoding method are provided. The encoding method includes outputting LP coefficients bitstream and a residual signal by performing an LP analysis on an input signal, outputting a first latent signal obtained by encoding a periodic component of the residual signal, a second latent signal obtained by encoding a non-periodic component of the residual signal, and a weight vector for each of the first latent signal and the second latent signal, using a first neural network module, and outputting a first bitstream obtained by quantizing the first latent signal, a second bitstream obtained by quantizing the second latent signal, and a weight bitstream obtained by quantizing the weight vector, using a quantization module.

Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for designing and testing an audio codec using quantization based on white noise modeling. A neural network-based audio encoder design method includes generating a quantized latent vector and a reconstructed signal corresponding to an input signal by using a white noise modeling-based quantization process, computing a total loss for training a neural network-based audio codec, based on the input signal, the reconstruction signal, and the quantized latent vector, training the neural network-based audio codec by using the total loss, and validating the trained neural network-based audio codec to select the best neural network-based audio codec.

Abstract: A display device may include a display panel which is flexible and includes a first surface on which an image is displayed and a second surface on which the image is not displayed, a connection film at least partially overlapping a side of the display panel in a plan view, a printed circuit board at least partially overlapping a side of the connection film in a plan view and electrically connected to the connection film, a control board spaced apart from the printed circuit board, and a cable electrically connecting the printed circuit board and the control board. The cable may have a spiral shape.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel functional derivatives of alanine and proline amino acids. The compounds of the present invention were confirmed to have a very superior antifungal or fungicidal effect. In addition, the compounds of the present invention were confirmed to exhibit a synergistic effect when co-administered with an existing antifungal preparation. Moreover, the compounds of the present invention showed activity on a wide range of fungi. Therefore, the compounds of the present invention can be widely used in a field which requires the treatment with an antifungal or fungicidal preparation against human infectious fungi, animal infectious fungi, and phytopathogenic fungi.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel functional derivatives of alanine and proline amino acids. The compounds of the present invention were confirmed to have a very superior antifungal or fungicidal effect. In addition, the compounds of the present invention were confirmed to exhibit a synergistic effect when co-administered with an existing antifungal preparation. Moreover, the compounds of the present invention showed activity on a wide range of fungi. Therefore, the compounds of the present invention can be widely used in a field which requires the treatment with an antifungal or fungicidal preparation against human infectious fungi, animal infectious fungi, and phytopathogenic fungi.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel functional derivatives of alanine and proline amino acids. The compounds of the present invention were confirmed to have a very superior antifungal or fungicidal effect. In addition, the compounds of the present invention were confirmed to exhibit a synergistic effect when co-administered with an existing antifungal preparation. Moreover, the compounds of the present invention showed activity on a wide range of fungi. Therefore, the compounds of the present invention can be widely used in a field which requires the treatment with an antifungal or fungicidal preparation against human infectious fungi, animal infectious fungi, and phytopathogenic fungi.

Abstract: Provided are a metal-aqueous battery and a hydrogen generation and carbon dioxide storage system including the same. The metal-aqueous battery may include a double cell. The double cell may include a pair of single cells. Each of the single cells include an anode, a cathode, a separator interposed between the anode and the cathode, and a cathode spacer interposed between the separator and the cathode and configured to form a gap between the separator and the cathode. The double cell may also include a current collector interposed between the pair of single cells such that cathodes of the single cells face each other across the current collector.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel functional derivatives of alanine and proline amino acids. The compounds of the present invention were confirmed to have a very superior antifungal or fungicidal effect. In addition, the compounds of the present invention were confirmed to exhibit a synergistic effect when co-administered with an existing antifungal preparation. Moreover, the compounds of the present invention showed activity on a wide range of fungi. Therefore, the compounds of the present invention can be widely used in a field which requires the treatment with an antifungal or fungicidal preparation against human infectious fungi, animal infectious fungi, and phytopathogenic fungi.