Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area including a plurality of pixels, a peripheral area around the display area, and a bending area disposed in the peripheral area. A plurality of transistors is disposed in each pixel; a driving voltage line is disposed in the display area and transmits a driving voltage; a driving voltage transmission line is disposed in the peripheral area and is connected to the driving voltage line; and a conductive overlap layer overlaps at least one of the plurality of transistors.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating article according to one aspect of the present disclosure may include a tobacco medium portion, a filter portion disposed to be spaced apart from the tobacco medium portion, and a tubular cooling portion disposed between the tobacco medium portion and the filter portion. A cooling material may be included in a body constituting the cooling portion.

Abstract: Devices and methods are described for a contrast tray and framing devices for use with imagers. Some embodiments describe a contrast tray for use with an imager comprising one or more light diffusing layers configured to shift at least some of an imaging light and one or more light filtering layers configured to filter out at least some of the imaging light. Light diffusing and light filtering layers can be further configured to upconvert at least some of the diffused and/or non-filtered light. Contrast trays can be used to improve imaging of gels such as PAGE gels when using a green or blue-green light. Other embodiments of the disclosure describe a framing device that provides better illumination and lower background fluorescence for fluorescent gels, such as nucleic acid gels.

Abstract: A vibration apparatus includes a vibration layer including a piezoelectric material, a first electrode layer at a first surface of the vibration layer, a second electrode layer at a second surface of the vibration layer different from the first surface, and a discharge member electrically connected to the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is an aerosol generating device including: a housing including an air flow passage; a sensor deformable by an air flow in the air flow passage, and including a resistor having a resistance value that varies according to a degree of deformation of the sensor; and a processor electrically connected to the sensor, and configured to: measure the resistance value of the resistor; and detect a puff based on the measured resistance value being maintained at or above a first threshold value during a first time interval.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a tobacco material including a flavor material and a method of preparing the tobacco material. The tobacco material may have a core-shell structure in which a core includes a first tobacco mixture and a flavor material and is surrounded by a shell including a second tobacco mixture, such that the aerosol generating article including the tobacco material generates a characteristic flavor.

Abstract: A liver-targeted fluorescence/photoacoustic dual-modal probe for the early detection of drug-induced hepatic inflammation and autoimmune hepatitis is disclosed. The chemical makeup of the probe hCy-Tf-CA is shown in Equation 1. The fluorescence and photoacoustic signal of probe-only solution is very weak, the dual-modal signal was significantly increased after selectively reacting with O2·?. The probe has the advantages of early preparation, live-targeting ability, high selectivity and sensitivity and dual-modal imaging. The probe can in situ visualization of O2·? in early hepatic inflammation with fluorescent/photoacoustic dual-modal imaging, providing a potential strategy in biomedical field with broad application prospects.

Abstract: Disclosed is a machinable dental bulk block that is a glass ceramic block including an amorphous glass matrix and crystalline phases introduced into the matrix. A major crystalline phase is lithium disilicate and a minor crystalline phase is lithium phosphate. The dental block is made of a functionally gradient material in which the major crystalline phase exhibits a gradient of particle sizes in a depth direction of the dental block and which has no interface at a point where the gradient of particle sizes of the major crystalline phase changes. The dental bulk block is useful for production of a dental prosthesis (artificial tooth) similar to a natural tooth. The dental bulk block can reduce time and the number of processing steps to manufacture a dental prosthesis and provides improved structural stability through good force distribution obtained by functionally graded mechanical properties.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating article according to one aspect of the present disclosure may include a tobacco medium portion, a filter portion disposed to be spaced apart from the tobacco medium portion, and a tubular cooling portion disposed between the tobacco medium portion and the filter portion. An inner peripheral surface of the cooling portion may include a nicotine component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a gene/carrier complex having the effect of preventing or treating acute inflammatory disease, comprising a tumor necrosis factor-alpha converting enzyme (TACE) siRNA and a non-viral gene carrier, wherein the non-viral gene carrier comprises a TFA salt of TKPR-oligo-arginine.

Abstract: Methods for manufacturing a glass-ceramic substrate and a glass-ceramic substrate manufactured thereby. The method comprises a step of manufacturing a predetermined-shaped substrate from a specific bulk glass composition, followed by heat treatment step. In the method, the heat treatment step is performed by one method selected from: a) a method of raising and maintaining the temperature within a maximum temperature range of 500° C. to 650° C.; b) a method of raising and maintaining the temperature within a maximum temperature range of 650° C. to 700° C.; c) a method of raising and maintaining the temperature within a maximum temperature range of 700° C. to 800° C.; and d) a method of raising and maintaining the temperature within a maximum temperature range of 800° C. to 870° C., whereby the method is capable of easily manufacturing several types of glass-ceramic substrates with various combinations of flexural strength and light transmittance.

Abstract: A quantum dot including a core comprising a first semiconductor nanocrystal including a zinc chalcogenide and a semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the surface of the core and comprising zinc, selenium, and sulfur. The quantum dot does not comprise cadmium, emits blue light, and may exhibit a digital diffraction pattern obtained by a Fast Fourier Transform of a transmission electron microscopic image including a (100) facet of a zinc blende structure. In an X-ray diffraction spectrum of the quantum dot, a ratio of a defect peak area with respect to a peak area of a zinc blende crystal structure is less than about 0.8:1. A method of producing the quantum dot, and an electroluminescent device including the quantum dot are also disclosed.

Abstract: A chemical supply apparatus includes an evaporation unit disposed downstream of a chemical supply source to vaporize supplied chemical thereto, a filter unit disposed downstream of the evaporation unit, wherein the filter unit filters impurities in the vaporized chemical while the vaporized chemical passes through the filter unit, a liquefaction unit disposed downstream of the filter unit to liquefy the vaporized chemical, and a chemical storage tank disposed downstream of the liquefaction unit to store the liquefied chemical therein, wherein an electrode is disposed between the chemical supply source and the liquefaction unit, wherein the electrode electrically reacts with the chemical or particles in the chemical to change electrical properties of the chemical or the particles.

Abstract: A vibration apparatus and an apparatus including the same are provided. A vibration apparatus includes a vibration part, a film member including at least one signal line connected with the vibration part, and an adhesive member adjacent to the film member and the vibration part with the at least one signal line between the adhesive member and the vibration part.

Abstract: A directed chemical conjugate of a glucagon-like peptide-2 mutant, and a use thereof are provided. The glucagon-like peptide-2 mutant is based on the human glucagon-like peptide-2 through multiple site mutations and carboxy terminus extensions. By introducing a targeted chemical modification site, the glucagon-like peptide-2 mutant has biological activities consistent with the natural human glucagon-like peptide-2, and meanwhile, the half-life period in vivo is significantly prolonged, and the administration frequency is reduced, thereby achieving the purpose of treating or preventing short intestinal syndrome, intestinal mucosa injury caused by chemotherapy medicaments or radioactive treatment factors, ulcerative enteritis, chronic enteritis and non-inflammatory bowel injury disease.

Abstract: A battery cell includes an anode electrode comprising a first current collector. Anode active material is arranged on a first surface of the first current collector and is configured to exchange lithium ions. The anode active material comprises silicon. Empty spaces are formed in the anode active material in a predetermined pattern. A solid electrolyte layer is arranged adjacent to the anode electrode. A cathode electrode comprises a second current collector and cathode active material configured to exchange lithium ions and arranged adjacent to the solid electrolyte layer.

Abstract: A bipolar battery cell includes a bipolar electrode including a bipolar current collector and a cathode electrode arranged on one side of the bipolar current collector. The cathode electrode includes cathode active material for exchanging lithium ions, a first solid electrolyte, and first polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) fibrils. An anode electrode is arranged on an opposite side of the bipolar current collector, wherein the anode electrode includes anode active material for exchanging lithium ions, a second solid electrolyte, and second PTFE fibrils.

Abstract: An electrochemical cell includes a first electrode that includes a first current collector and a first electroactive material layer disposed on or near the first current collector, a second electrode that includes a second current collector and a second electroactive material layer disposed on or near the second current collector, and a separating layer disposed between the first electroactive material layer and the second electroactive material layer. The second electroactive material layer includes a plurality of hierarchical silicon columns, each of the hierarchical silicon columns has a longest dimension perpendicular to a major axis of the second current collector. The second electroactive material layer also includes a carbonaceous network that at least partially fills interstices defined between hierarchical silicon columns of the plurality of hierarchical silicon columns. The carbonaceous network includes linked carbon atoms that define a plurality of pores.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a technique for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The UE monitors a concurrent operation on multiple operating bands within a same subscriber identity module (SIM) or between multiple SIMs that involves sharing at least one radio frequency (RF) component. The UE enables or disables the at least one RF component based on the monitoring.

Abstract: An anode electrode includes a current collector and a first anode layer arranged on the current collector and comprising first anode active material. A first pre-lithiation layer is arranged on the first anode layer. A second anode layer arranged on the first pre-lithiation layer and comprising second anode active material.