Abstract: A method of processing speech includes: obtaining a speech input; obtaining an instruction related to the speech input; obtaining a speech representation corresponding to the speech input; obtaining an adapter that includes speech information by fusing a pre-trained adapter with the speech representation; and obtaining a response corresponding to the instruction by inputting both the adapter that includes the speech information and the instruction to a language model, the language model generating the response based on the adapter that includes the speech model and the speech information.

Abstract: Provided are an aerosol generating apparatus including a cigarette insertion portion into which a cigarette is insertable; and a vaporizer configured to heat a liquid composition to generate aerosol and discharge the generated aerosol toward the inserted cigarette such that the generated aerosol passes through the cigarette inserted into the cigarette insertion portion, and a cradle for receiving the aerosol generating apparatus.

Abstract: A switching regulator may include; an inductor connected to a switch node, a power switch connected to the switch node and configured to apply a first voltage to the switch node in response to a first control signal and to apply a second voltage to the switch node in response to a second control signal, and a controller configured to generate the first control signal and the second control signal. The second control signal transitions from low to high following a first dead time after the first control signal transitions from low to high, the first control signal transitions from high to low following a second dead time after the second control signal transitions from high to low level, and an inductor current flowing through the inductor flows in a first direction during the first dead time and in a second direction, different from the first direction, during the second dead time.

Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses for controlling traffic signals of traffic lights in a sub-area by using a neural network model. The method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may configure state information of a sub-area by using downstream information obtained in a current cycle time for each of a plurality of intersections included in the sub-area. In addition, the method may input the state information to a trained reinforcement learning model, and obtain action information of the sub-area including green times and offsets, by using an output from the trained reinforcement learning model. Furthermore, the method may generate coordinated signal values for applying the action to traffic lights in the sub-area in a subsequent cycle time.

Abstract: Provided are an aerosol generating apparatus including a cigarette insertion portion into which a cigarette is insertable; and a vaporizer configured to heat a liquid composition to generate aerosol and discharge the generated aerosol toward the inserted cigarette such that the generated aerosol passes through the cigarette inserted into the cigarette insertion portion, and a cradle for receiving the aerosol generating apparatus.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for, preventing, ameliorating or treating dementia by administering a composition containing 2?-fucosyllactose. 2?-FL ameliorates brain damage caused by amyloid beta and neuroinflammation by suppressing or preventing accumulation of the amyloid beta, thus being highly effective in preventing, ameliorating and treating dementia.

Abstract: A method for displaying a message in a messenger service by a user terminal is proposed. The method may include receiving the message from a server. The method may also include receiving a mask command for the message from the server when text information extracted from the message satisfies a preset condition. The method may further include displaying a mask message corresponding to the message in a chat room of the messenger service based on the mask command.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a deposition mask includes: preparing a silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate including an upper silicon substrate, a lower silicon substrate, and an insulating layer between the upper silicon substrate and the lower silicon substrate; forming a mask membrane having a plurality of openings by patterning the upper silicon substrate; forming a first protective layer on the upper silicon substrate and a second protective layer on the lower silicon substrate; forming a cell opening by patterning the lower silicon substrate; and removing the first protective layer and the second protective layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to humanized antibodies or antigen-binding fragments capable of binding specifically to mesothelin antigen and various uses thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed are a lidar apparatus and a control method thereof. The lidar apparatus includes: a transmission and reception module transmitting a laser signal and receiving a reflected signal reflected from an object; an output module outputting a calculated object distance; a memory storing a measurement count allocated for each distance range; and a processor operatively coupled to the transmission and reception module, the output module, and the memory, wherein after repeating a process of generating a histogram by accumulating the reflected signals received through the transmission and reception module for a set measurement count, the processor calculates an object distance based on a peak value of the histogram and outputs the calculated object distance through the output module, and then modifies, based on the object distance, the set measurement count based on the measurement count allocated for each distance range, to repeat the process of calculating the object distance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an embedded device testing method. Preferably, the present invention relates to a function testing method for an embedded device designed to execute a specific function. The embedded device testing method having a hierarchical host structure executed on a computing device according to the present invention includes: receiving, by a main host, setting information for an execution environment of a target device; constructing a virtualized execution environment on a sub host according to the setting information; executing specific software or a specific test case in the constructed execution environment; and monitoring a result of the execution. According to the present invention, resources may be utilized efficiently because there is no need to newly configure and prepare physical hardware resources every time during the development and testing of an embedded device.

Abstract: A display panel includes a circuit board and an element layer disposed on the circuit board and including a pixel defining layer having a plurality of openings, and a spacer disposed on the pixel defining layer. The plurality of openings include a first opening, a second opening, and a third opening that are adjacent to the spacer. The spacer includes a central portion disposed between the first, second, and third openings and a first extension, a second extension, and a third extension that protrude from the central portion in three directions, respectively. End portions of the first, second, and third extensions are disposed in a region defined by virtual lines connecting a first center of the first opening, a second center of the second opening, and a third center of the third opening.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a stack body including a plurality of recess target layers over a lower structure; forming sacrificial isolation openings in the stack body; forming sacrificial isolation layers in the sacrificial isolation openings; forming sacrificial vertical openings having bottom surfaces disposed at a lower level than bottom surfaces of the sacrificial isolation openings in the stack body between the sacrificial isolation layers; forming preliminary horizontal layers by recessing the recess target layers through the sacrificial vertical openings; forming sacrificial pillar structures that fill the sacrificial vertical openings; forming cell isolation openings by removing the sacrificial isolation layers; forming horizontal layers by trimming the preliminary horizontal layers through the cell isolation openings; and forming cell isolation layers that fill the cell isolation openings.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a lower structure; a plurality of horizontal conductive layers oriented in a direction parallel to a surface of the lower structure; a plurality of reservoir capacitors commonly coupled to first-side ends of the horizontal conductive layers, wherein each of the plurality of the reservoir capacitors is vertically stacked over the lower structure, and includes a cylindrical storage node; and a vertical conductive line commonly coupled to second-side ends opposite to first-side ends of the horizontal conductive layers, extending in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the surface of the lower structure, and including a plurality of electrode portions, each electrode portion being symmetrical with the cylindrical storage node of a corresponding reservoir capacitor.

Abstract: An embodiment is an autonomous driving system in a heterogeneous SD map and precise map environment, which can provide an autonomous driving service using a heterogeneous SD map having properties that do not match those of a precise map. The autonomous driving system in a heterogeneous SD map and HD map environment includes a service platform and an autonomous vehicle, and the operation and operation method of the system depend on whether a user can input TBT in addition to a start point and a destination.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a display device may include a semiconductor wafer substrate, a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit layer disposed on the semiconductor wafer substrate, and a light emitting element layer disposed on the CMOS circuit layer. The light emitting element layer may include a pixel defining film partitioning a plurality of pixels, a pixel electrode disposed independently in each of the plurality of pixels, an aging wiring disposed between the plurality of pixels, a light emitting layer commonly covering the pixel electrodes of each of the plurality of pixels and the aging wiring, and a common electrode covering the light emitting layer. A portion positioned between the aging wiring and the common electrode of the light emitting layer may include an aged portion in which at least a portion of a conductive layer included in the light emitting layer is aged.

Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of first pixels, a substrate, a first semiconductor layer which is disposed on the substrate and includes an active layer of a first transistor, a first insulating layer which is disposed on the first semiconductor layer, a first conductive layer which is disposed on the first insulating layer and includes a gate electrode of the first transistor, a second insulating layer which is disposed on the first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer which is disposed on the second insulating layer and includes a first electrode and a second electrode of the first transistor, where a first opening exposing the first conductive layer in an area in which the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer of each of the plurality of first pixels do not overlap is defined in the second insulating layer.

Abstract: An operating method is disclosed for a dehydrogenation reaction system. The method includes providing a system having: an acid aqueous solution tank including an acid aqueous solution; a dehydrogenation reactor including a chemical hydride of a solid state and receiving an acid aqueous solution from the acid aqueous solution tank to react the chemical hydride with the acid aqueous solution to generate hydrogen; and a fuel cell stack receiving hydrogen generated from the dehydrogenation reactor to be reacted with oxygen to generate water and simultaneously to generate electrical energy. The method also includes recycling the water generated from the fuel cell stack to one or all of the acid aqueous solution tank, the dehydrogenation reactor, and a separate water tank. The acid is formic acid and, in in the dehydrogenation reactor, the temperature is in a range of 10° C. to 400° C. and the pressure is in a range of 1 bar to 100 bar.

Abstract: The present application relates to instant rice, and more particularly, to a honey Yakbab in the form of an instant rice, and the instant rice can exhibit sufficient sterilization effect due to microorganisms lower than a threshold value in the final instant rice, even when the instant rice is prepared using raw ingredients that are susceptible to microbial contamination of are difficult to sterilize, and does not cause the problem of deterioration in rice quality that may occur due to strict sterilization, and thus can exhibit excellent texture and taste.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for collecting reaction by-products for semiconductor processes through pyrolysis in a high-temperature region and an oxidation reaction in a low-temperature region, and an object of the present disclosure is to provide an apparatus for collecting reaction by-products, which is capable of collecting powdered oxides grown from High K materials by inducing an oxidation reaction in a box-shaped collection part having a low-temperature region formed by a cooling pad part after thermally decomposing the High K material at a high temperature of a heater in an inlet port of the collection apparatus when High K deposition precursors, which are supplied to a process chamber for an oxidation process for depositing a semiconductor dielectric film with the High K material having high permittivity in order to miniaturize a semiconductor circuit, are discharged together with exhaust gas.