Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for performing assays. In particular, provided herein are systems and methods for performing sensitive and rapid immunoassays.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for controlling a seawater desalination plant. The apparatus includes: a dissolved air flotation device configured to provide treated water obtained by treating seawater according to a dissolved air flotation (DAF); an ultrafiltration device including a plurality of ultrafiltration units each having an ultrafiltration membrane, and configured to perform an ultrafiltration (UF) process of filtering impurities remaining in the treated water using the ultrafiltration membranes of the plurality of ultrafiltration units; a reverse osmosis device; an information collection unit; and a state treatment unit.

Abstract: The present technology relate to an equipment and method for drying an electrode substrate including a screen for distributing the flow of hot air, and according to the present technology, it is possible to uniformly dry the electrode substrate in the width direction.

Abstract: A semiconductor device, and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes second conductive patterns separated from each other above a first stack structure which is penetrated by first channel structures and enclosing second channel structures coupled to the first channel structures, respectively. Each of the second conductive patterns includes electrode portions stacked in a first direction and at least one connecting portion extending in the first direction to be coupled to the electrode portions.

Abstract: A reverse osmosis apparatus for a seawater desalination system is provided. The reverse osmosis apparatus includes a barrel in which a plurality of vessels receiving reverse osmosis membrane units are arranged, a feed tank provided in an intermediate portion of the barrel and connected to a seawater inlet, a first water tank provided inside a first end portion of the barrel and connected to a plurality of first vessels connected to a first side of the feed tank, and a second water tank provided inside a second end portion of the barrel and connected to a plurality of second vessels connected to a second side of the feed tank.

Abstract: The inventive concept relates to an upper-limb rehabilitation robot that includes a finger exercise device that is mounted on the back of a patient's hand and that exercises a finger of the patient for rehabilitation, a wrist exercise device that is provided on a wrist of the patient and that exercises the wrist of the patient, and an upper-limb exercise device that is spaced apart from the wrist exercise device and that exercises an upper limb of the patient.

Abstract: Provided herein is an air monitoring system with a venturi pump including an air supply passageway, a sample passageway, and a discharge passageway, the discharge passageway in fluid communication with the air supply passageway and the sample passageway, and a detection device including a biochip, a light emitting source, a photodetector, and a controller electronically coupled to the photodetector. Also provided herein is a photonic biogel and uses thereof for spectroscopic detection of airborne pathogens.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may group multiple carriers with transmission time intervals (TTIs) having different durations into different physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) groups. The UE may reserve power per each PUCCH group. Alternatively, the UE may reserve power per each TTI duration across the one or more PUCCH groups.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle lamp module, and the vehicle lamp module includes a light source device including a substrate and a plurality of light sources mounted on the substrate, a rod device that provides a path through which light generated by the light source device moves and forms a predetermined beam pattern, and a lens device provided so that the light emitted from the rod device is transmitted and discharged to an outside, wherein some of the plurality of light sources are arranged on the substrate in two rows in a longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A semiconductor device, and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device, the method includes forming a first stack structure penetrated by first channel structures, forming electrode patterns surrounding second channel structures and separated from each other by first slits and second slits, the second channel structures coupled to the first channel structures, and the second slits comprising a different width from the first slits, filling each of the first slits and the second slits with an insulating material to cover sidewalk of the electrode patterns, and forming third slits passing through the insulating material in each of the second slits and extending to pass through the first stack structure.

Abstract: Disclosed is a rehabilitation training apparatus. The rehabilitation training apparatus includes a pair of first tracks formed parallel to each other along first axis, a second track disposed on the pair of first tracks, and moving along the first axis, and formed along second axis, a hand holder disposed on the second track, and moving along the second track, and on which at least one of hand and arm of a user is held, a stopper for a track disposed on the pair of first tracks for limiting a movement range of the second track, and a stopper for a holder disposed on the second track for limiting a movement range of the second pair of first tracks, wherein the first axis and the second axis are disposed with an inclination.

Abstract: A blood biomarker analysis systems providing fast biomarker identification includes a multimodal bioassay device having a biosensor within a portable pipette-shaped device and using nanoplasmonic barcode detectors, such as formed of antibody conjugated gold nanoparticle arrays (AuNPs), capable of capturing any of a plurality of biomarkers. The biomarker analysis system further includes the pipette-shaped device being smartphone-connected and portable to form a highly accurate, point-of-care bioassay device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for estimating a battery free capacity, and more particularly, an apparatus for estimating a free capacity of a half cell of a battery. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to accurately estimate a free capacity of a half cell without inserting a reference electrode by revising an entire SOC region of a half cell by using an inflection point detected based on SOC-voltage data of a full cell and a half cell of the battery, respectively, and then estimating SOC-voltage data based on a SOC difference between the entire SOC regions before and after the revision.

Abstract: A reverse osmosis apparatus for a seawater desalination system is provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing an electrode for a lithium secondary battery and an electrode for a lithium secondary battery prepared thereby, wherein, since the method may suppress the migration of a binder and may uniformly control the distribution of the binder in the electrode by forming a plurality of negative electrode active material layers and allowing a drying condition of each of the negative electrode active material layers to be different, the method may improve life characteristics by improving adhesion between a negative electrode active material and a current collector and may improve charging characteristics by reducing interfacial resistance of the negative electrode.

Abstract: A method of predicting membrane fouling in a reverse osmosis process includes collecting information relative to the reverse osmosis process being performed over a predetermined period of time, the collected information including a process factor and a water quality factor, the process factor including a produced water flow rate; calculating a salt removal rate and a pressure drop based on the collected information; normalizing the produced water flow rate, the salt removal rate, and the pressure drop; generating a prediction equation using normalized values of the produced water flow rate, the salt removal rate, and the pressure drop values; and predicting membrane fouling through the generated prediction equation to determine a chemical cleaning time. Process and water quality factors are normalized to temperature and/or flow rate, and the prediction equation uses the normalized factors. Both short-term and long-term predictions are made for chemical cleaning time and membrane module replacement time.

Abstract: A method for recommending golf-related contents is provided. The method includes detecting at least one body part of a user from a captured image by using an artificial neural network model, when the captured image related to the golf swing of the user is acquired; estimating at least one problem about the golf swing of the user by referring to the position of the detected at least one body part; and deriving, in reference to information related to the problem associated with the golf-related contents, at least one piece of candidate content associated with the at least one problem from among golf-related contents.

Abstract: A device for processing convolution operations includes: a processor that executes, in a neural network, a convolution operation on input data in a form of width×height×input channel and on a filter in a form of K×K×input channel or K×K to correspond to a form of the input data, K being an integer greater than or equal to one, and that generates output data in a form of width×height×output channel; and a reader that sequentially reads, from a memory storing the input data, a data group having more pieces of data than unit data throughput of an operator, and provides the data group to the operator to reuse at least one piece of data constituting the data group in the convolution operation. The processor executes, by using one or more operators identical to the operator, the convolution operation multiple times based on the unit data throughput.

Abstract: Disclosed is a rehabilitation glove including a body surrounding at least a portion of a hand of a user, and a strap unit coupled to the body, and formed to provide a tensile force in a direction, in which a joint of a finger is spread, at a hand back part of the user.

Abstract: A method is presented for reducing glare in images captured by an imaging system. As a starting point, multiple images of a scene are captured by an imaging system to form a set of images, where the imaging system includes a voltage tunable polarizer and each image in the set of images is captured with the voltage tunable polarizer set at a different polarization angle. The method further includes: partitioning each image in the set of images into a plurality of segments; for corresponding segments in the set of images, determining an amount of change in intensity across corresponding segments of images; quantifying the amount of intensity change for each image in the set of images; and identifying a given image from the set of images based on the quantified amount of intensity change, where the given image has least amount of intensity change amongst the set of images.