Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed to techniques and mechanisms that provide reliable packet delivery in cloud computing environments. For example, an aspect of the disclosed technology is a process that replicates an original packet at the guest layer or within a virtual machine (VM) of a cloud computing system, adds different flow labels to the packet copies and original packet at the guest layer or virtualization layer, and maps two or more of the copies and original packets to different tunnels between source and destination nodes.

Abstract: Provided are a compound represented by Formula 24, an organic electric element comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic material layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode and comprising the compound of Formula 24, and an electronic device thereof, the element and device having improved driving voltage, luminous efficiency and lifetime from the employment of the compound.

Abstract: A thermoelectric device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a duct; a first thermoelectric module disposed on the duct and including a thermoelectric element; and a shield member disposed on the first thermoelectric module, wherein the first thermoelectric module includes: a first substrate; a first electrode part disposed on the first substrate; a semiconductor element part disposed on the first electrode part; a second electrode part disposed on the semiconductor element part; a second substrate disposed on the second electrode part; and a second terminal electrode and a first terminal electrode arranged in an area on the first substrate in which the first electrode part is not disposed, and the shield member includes a first protruding part protruding toward the first substrate in a corresponding area between the first terminal electrode and the second terminal electrode.

Abstract: A printed circuit board includes a glass layer, a through-hole penetrating through the glass layer, a seed layer provided along an inner wall of the through-hole, and a through-via disposed on the seed layer and filling the through-hole. The seed layer includes a carbon-based conductive material.

Abstract: A station may use information from a reduced neighbor report to determine which neighboring access points (APs) to scan. A station may receive the reduced neighbor report from an AP. The reduced neighbor report may include one or more parameters related to security, verification status, or capabilities of neighbor APs. The station may scan channels of the one or more of the neighbor APs based on the security, the verification status, or the capabilities of the neighbor APs.

Abstract: Disclosed are heat pipes of the type having a condenser section in which gaseous refrigerant is condensed to produce liquid refrigerant comprising: (a) at least one closed pipe comprising: (i) a condenser section, (ii) a first evaporator section in fluid communication with said condenser section; and (iii) at least a second evaporator section in fluid communication with said condenser section; (b) refrigerant contained in said heat pipe; (c) at least a first liquid flow path leading a first portion of liquid refrigerant condensed in said condenser section to said first evaporator section; and (d) at least a second liquid flow path leading a second portion of liquid refrigerant condensed in said condenser section to said second evaporator section, wherein said second evaporator section comprises a reservoir holding liquid refrigerant at a location different than said first evaporator section.

Abstract: The present invention relates to exercise equipment and, more specifically, to exercise equipment which can be utilized in a space that is not large while preventing noise between floors indoors and forms elastic waves in the waving direction of a user so that an exercise effect which is the same as that of battle ropes can be provided to the body of the user, the exercise equipment comprising: an elastic plate made from an elastic material of a predetermined length; and a weighted member provided at one end of the elastic plate, wherein waves are elastically formed in the elastic plate as the user holding a handle provided at the other end of the elastic plate waves same.

Abstract: A shoe care apparatus includes a main body, a moving body, and an air-blowing part. The main body and the moving body together form an accommodation space. A shoe is accommodated in the accommodation space. The air-blowing part circulates air in the accommodation space. The moving body comprises a base, a turntable, and a plurality of rotating balls. The base is slidably coupled to the main body so as to open and close the accommodation space. The turntable is rotatably coupled to the base about a vertical axis. The turntable forms a lower surface of the accommodation space together with the base. The rotating balls are rotatably coupled to the base. The rotating balls are in point-contact with a bottom surface of the turntable and support a load of the turntable.

Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes a cylindrical accommodation portion having an accommodation space configured to accommodate at least a portion of a cigarette in an inner space, a coil arranged outside the accommodation portion to generate an induced magnetic field, a battery configured to supply power to the coil, a sensor connector including a metal material, and arranged in the accommodation portion to contact the cigarette, a temperature sensor contacting the sensor connector, and two or more cigarette support elements supporting an outer surface of the cigarette, and spaced apart from each other on an inner wall of the accommodation portion to form an air flow passage between the cigarette and the accommodation portion.

Abstract: A device for providing respiratory gases comprises a blower configured to receive a first gas from a first gas flow path and generate a flow of a first gas provided through a first gases outlet of the blower; a second gas flow path configured to receive a flow of a second gas and provide the flow of the second gas through a second gases outlet; and a mixing chamber configured to receive a flow of the first gas from the first gases outlet and a flow of the second gas from the second gases outlet. The received gases are configured to mix in the mixing chamber to form a mixed gas. The received gases are configured to travel in a mixing flow direction in the mixing chamber towards a mixed gases inlet, wherein mixed gas exits the mixing chamber via the mixed gases inlet providing flow to a mixed gas flow path.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pipe blockage handling device comprising: a main body part in which high-pressure air capable of removing foreign substances blocking a pipe can accumulate, and which accommodates an accumulator; an air compressor which is connected to one side of the main body part and causes air to accumulate inside the main body part, thereby increasing the air pressure and amount of air accumulated in the main body part; a pipe insertion part which is connected to an end of the main body part and expands to a certain volume and shape when injected with the air accumulated in the main body part, wherein the pipe insertion part can seal the inside and outside of a blocked pipe by deforming to conform to the shape of an inlet of the blocked pipe when pressed against the inlet of the blocked pipe, and can seal the inside and outside of the blocked pipe by expanding to conform to the size and shape of the inside of the pipe and coming into close contact with the inner circumferential surface

Abstract: Provided are circular RNAs (circRNAs) encoding an antigenic polypeptide of a SARS-CoV-2 variant. Provided are circRNA vaccines against a SARS-CoV-2 variant, such as a Delta or Omicron variant. The circRNA vaccine comprises a circRNA comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding an antigenic polypeptide comprising a Spike(S) protein or a fragment thereof of a SRAS-CoV-2 variant. Also provided are methods of treating or preventing a SARS-CoV-2 infection using the circRNAs or compositions thereof.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a Cupriavidus metallidurans CML2, wherein the Cupriavidus metallidurans CML2 is deposited in the China Center for Type Culture Collection with a depository number CCTCC NO: M20231365, and a 16s rDNA of the Cupriavidus metallidurans CML2 has a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID No. 1.

Abstract: A balancing control system for a battery module includes a plurality of battery modules each including a battery outputting a battery voltage, a first DC/DC converter connected to the battery in parallel, and an inverter converting the battery voltage into an AC module voltage and outputting the same, and a controller controlling each of the plurality of battery modules. First DC/DC converters included in the plurality of battery modules are connected to each other in parallel, and the controller is configured to monitor a battery state including at least one of a state-of-charge (SoC) of the battery or the battery voltage, and to control the first DC/DC converter to have an ON state or an OFF state based on the battery state.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to bicyclic heterocycles of Formula (I), and pharmaceutical compositions of the same, that are modulators, antagonists, or inhibitors of the G protein-coupled receptor MRGPRX2 and are useful in the treatment of MRGPRX2 dependent conditions such as inflammatory diseases.

Abstract: A power-supply mode switching circuit and an aerosol generating device are provided. The power-supply mode switching circuit includes an external-power-source power-supply circuit, a protection circuit, and a battery power-supply circuit. A node where the external-power-source power-supply circuit is connected to the protection circuit serves as a power-source input end. A node where the external-power-source power-supply circuit is connected to the battery power-supply circuit serves as a power supply end. The protection circuit is configured to control the battery power-supply circuit to be cut off when the power-source input end is connected to the external power source, to make the external power source supply power to the power supply end. The protection circuit is further configured to control the battery power-supply circuit to be conducted when the power-source input end is not connected to the external power source, to make the battery supply power to the power supply end.

Abstract: A method for cloud gaming. The method including receiving one or more encoded slices of a video frame at a client, wherein the video frame was generated at a server while executing a video game, and encoded by an encoder at the server into the one or more encoded slices. The method including decoding a first encoded slice at a decoder of the client before fully receiving the one or more encoded slices of the video frame.

Abstract: An aerosol generating system includes an aerosol generating article including an aerosol generating material, a housing forming an exterior and having an inner space, an accommodation portion inside the housing and configured to accommodate the aerosol generating article, a battery inside the housing, a heating element inside the housing and configured to generate a magnetic field according to power from the battery, and a susceptor emitting heat because of the magnetic field generated by the heating element and configured to heat the aerosol generating article, wherein at least a portion of the heating element forms coils configured to generate the magnetic field, and the coils are electrically connected to each other, arranged along an outer circumferential surface of the accommodation portion, and configured to generate the magnetic field in a direction crossing a direction, in which the accommodation portion extends, when the power is supplied from the battery.

Abstract: A method is disclosed including setting, at a plurality of devices, a plurality of VSYNC signals to a plurality of VSYNC frequencies, wherein a corresponding device VSYNC signal of a corresponding device is set to a corresponding device VSYNC frequency. The method including sending a plurality of signals between the plurality of devices, which are analyzed and used to adjust the relative timing between corresponding device VSYNC signals of at least two devices.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an aerosol generating device includes a display including a display panel and a touch panel configured to receive a touch input, a battery, and a processor electrically connected to the display and the battery, wherein the processor is configured to detect that a power state of the aerosol generating device is changed to a first state and change the power state of the aerosol generating device to a second state, based on whether a touch input through the touch panel of the display is received within a threshold time after the power state is changed to the first state, the second state being distinguished from the first state. Various embodiments may be made.