Abstract: The method comprises separating the outer green rind the room aloe vera leaf thereby cleaning and drying in sunlight for two days followed by oven drying at 80° C. for about 24 hours; pyrolyzing the dried outer green rind in an inert environment of N2 gas at 400° C. for about 1 hour to obtain a pre-carbonized carbon (AV-C); mixing the AV-C with K2CO3 in a 2:1 impregnation ratio to obtain a mixture;; pyrolyzing the mixture of the AV-C and K2CO3 at 900° C.; removing resulting black charred residue and cleaning the resulting charred residue with double-distilled water and isopropyl alcohol; homogenizing the cleaned black material of reduced graphene oxide using an ultrasonic homogenizer at 30% power for 1 hour with 10 pulse rates thereby drying and filtering the reduced graphene oxide to obtain 3D-HPN-rGO; h) preparing an electrode using the obtained 3D-HPN-rGO; and i) constructing a supercapacitor device using the electrodes.

Abstract: A method of detecting active liveness using a facial image includes generating, by an authentication device, a command for user authentication, outputting, by the authentication device, the command to a screen and capturing a facial image of a user pronouncing the output command, and extracting, by the authentication device, feature points for a change in mouth shape from the facial image and determining whether the user pronounces the command.

Abstract: A method for automated driving minimum risk maneuver and a device therefor are provided. The method includes performing a dynamic driving task (DDT) by an automated driving system (ADS), determining, by the ADS, whether a minimum risk maneuver (MRM) is needed, based on a trigger condition for the MRM, and controlling a subject vehicle (SV) to a minimum risk condition (MRC) by the ADS.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a peptide of a novel sequence, which has an activity for promoting hair growth and preventing hair loss. Since the peptide has activity for promoting or inducing the proliferation or activation of cells related to hair formation, a composition containing the peptide can be useful for preventing hair loss or promoting hair growth.

Abstract: A manifold can include a manifold body including a fluid passage allowing a fluid to flow and a port provided to discharge the fluid from the fluid passage, a pipe inserted into the port of the manifold body, and including a pipe fluid passage connected to the fluid passage when the pipe is inserted into the port, a nut member inserted into the port and coupled to the manifold body while supporting the pipe, and a sealing member provided to receive a sensing dye inside the sealing member and to discharge the sensing dye out of the port through the fluid flowing of the port from the fluid passage or the pipe fluid passage.

Abstract: Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a routing method and apparatus, a cloud resource registering method and apparatus, and a storage medium and an electronic apparatus.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a gate structure, a first epitaxial layer, a second epitaxial layer and a cap layer. The gate structure is disposed on a substrate. The first epitaxial layer is disposed in the substrate and at two sides of the gate structure. The second epitaxial layer is disposed on the first epitaxial layer, in which an included angle between a surface of the second epitaxial layer and a horizontal direction is 15 degrees to 35 degrees. The cap layer is disposed on the second epitaxial layer.

Abstract: Provided is a transparent indium zinc tin oxide (IZTO) electrode with a PANI:PSS interlayer, wherein the PANI:PSS interlayer is formed on an upper surface of an IZTO film. Accordingly, it is possible to manufacture a transparent IZTO electrode with improved mechanical stability by forming a PANI:PSS interlayer to prevent fractures in the inorganic IZTO layer, thereby significantly improving the retention rate of the initial average visible transmittance (AVT) even after bending cycles and reducing sheet resistance.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a lower redistribution structure, a lower semiconductor chip on the lower redistribution structure, and an upper redistribution structure t on the lower semiconductor chip and including a signal pad, a power pad, a grounding plane, and an upper insulation layer, where the signal pad, the power pad, and the grounding plane are in the upper insulation layer, where a distance between the signal pad and the lower redistribution structure in a vertical direction is less than a distance between the power pad and the lower redistribution structure in the vertical direction, and where the vertical direction is perpendicular to an upper surface of the lower redistribution structure.

Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a semiconductor processing kit includes a reflector assembly. The reflector assembly configured to support one or more sensing devices therein. The reflector assembly includes a body having a top surface and a volume at least partially defined by an inner surface and an outer surface. The reflector assembly further includes a baffle and a fluid channel disposed within the baffle. The fluid channel is configured to flow a fluid to adjust a temperature of the one or more sensing devices. A ring is disposed on the top surface. The ring is configured to reduce a flow of a fluid into the volume. A reflector is concentrically disposed radially outward of the outer surface and creates a gap that allows the fluid to partially flow between the inner surface of the reflector and the outer surface.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for software-defined cognitive networking for wireless communications are provided. An example method of wireless communication includes performing, at a first node of a plurality of nodes, multiple network interference measurements to generate a first local interference model, receiving, from a second node of the plurality of nodes, a second local interference model, combining, at the first node, the first local interference model and the second local interference model to generate a joint interference model, generating, based on the joint interference model, a plurality of interference parameters that characterize a communication channel between the first node and the second node, selecting, based on the plurality of interference parameters, an operating waveform from a plurality of waveforms such that a performance metric for a data communication from the first node to the second node exceeds a threshold, and performing, using the operating waveform, the data communication.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a system for parameter adjustment of street lamps in a smart city based on an Internet of Things, the method is realized by the system, which includes a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform and an object platform, the method is executed by the management platform, comprising: issuing a data acquisition instruction to receive road images acquired by the object platform; issuing a parameter determination instruction to determine irradiation intensities of the street lamps on a road based on the road images; acquiring navigation routes of vehicles by communicating with navigation systems of the vehicles; determining road segments where the vehicles are coming and estimated times when the vehicles arrive at the road segments; and adjusting the irradiation intensities of the street lamps at the road segments in a preset time in advance.

Abstract: Provided is an otitis media treatment instrument and, more particularly, to an otitis media treatment instrument having a ventilation tube installed thereon, the otitis media treatment instrument including: a cutting sheath which is configured in a tube shape, and which has an inner diameter larger than the outer diameter of the ventilation tube; and a suction pipe formed to be able to move relative to the cutting sheath inside the cutting sheath along the longitudinal direction of the cutting sheath, the suction pipe having, on the front end portion thereof, an insertion portion having an outer diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the ventilation tube and having a fixing portion which extends toward the front end of the insertion portion, and which has an outer diameter larger than the inner diameter of the ventilation tube.

Abstract: A substrate transfer device includes a transfer unit configured to transfer, in a first direction, a carrier in which substrates are stored, an upper interface unit configured to move the transfer unit, a lower interface unit configured to receive the carrier from the transfer unit, and a controller configured to control the upper interface unit and the lower interface unit integrally such that the transfer unit and the carrier move in the first direction at the same time.

Abstract: A polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display including the same are provided. A polarizing plate includes a polarizing film and a contrast-improving optical film sequentially stacked in the stated order. The contrast-improving optical film includes a contrast-improving layer including a first resin layer and a second resin layer facing the first resin layer. The second resin layer includes a patterned portion having optical patterns and a flat section between the optical patterns. The second resin layer satisfies Equation 1, and the polarizing plate has a contrast ratio gain of about 1.00 or more, as represented by Equation 2.

Abstract: A Peripheral Component Interconnect express (PCIe) device includes: a plurality of ports forming a plurality of lanes; and a link controller configured to set a link including the plurality of lanes to allocate non-sequential lane numbers to lanes adjacent to each other among the plurality of lanes.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor structure are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a trench and a word line. The substrate includes an isolation structure and an active area. The active area includes irons of a first type. The trench is arranged in the active area, an inner surface of the trench includes an inversion doping layer and an oxide layer which are arranged adjacent to each other, and the inversion doping layer is arranged above the oxide layer. The word line is arranged in the trench. The inversion doping layer includes ions of a second type. The first type is contrary to the second type.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatuses for managing memory of storage system. In some embodiments, a controller of a storage system includes a memory storing a program, and a processor configured to execute the program to determine whether a type of data stored in the memory is at least one of a first data type and a second data type, store, in the memory, a header of the data stored in the memory, based on a first determination that the data stored in the memory is of the first data type, compress the data stored in the memory, based on a second determination that data stored in the memory is of the second data type, and power off the memory based on at least one of the header of the data and the compressed data having been stored in the memory.