Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition and health functional food for preventing and treating a respiratory inflammation disease using a mixed herbal mixture. Through various experiments, for example, determination of the cell number of BAL (bronchoalveolar lavage) (Experimental Example 1); Determination of CD11b+/Gr-1+ ratio in leukocyte within BAL fluid (Experimental Example 2); Determination of expressed RNA level of inflammatory cytokines in lung tissue (Experimental Example 3); Determination of expressed RNA level of inflammatory cytokines in BALF (Experimental Example 4); Lung histology (Experimental Example 5); Brief Clinical test (Experimental Example 7) etc, it has been verified that the inventive combined extract showed more potent inhibiting effect on respiratory inflammation disease than each herb extract.

Abstract: A backlight unit for a display device includes: a light guide including a light incident surface; a substrate facing the light incident surface; a plurality of light sources on one surface of the substrate facing the light incident surface; and a first member disposed between the substrate and the light incident surface to space the light sources apart from the light guide. The first member includes: a support on one surface of the substrate that do not include the light source, the support having a first surface facing the light incident surface and a second surface facing the light sources; and a first layer disposed on the first surface and the second surface of the support to improve luminance uniformity across the light incident surface.

Abstract: A display device includes light-emitting elements disposed on a substrate, wherein each of the light-emitting elements includes a first semiconductor layer, an active layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer disposed on the active layer, and a porous layer disposed on the second semiconductor layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle air conditioner capable of increasing the aft flow effective region of an inner flow path by reducing the space occupied by support parts of doors for opening/closing a plurality of regions. The vehicle air conditioner comprises: an air-conditioning case in which an air flow path is formed; and a cooling heat exchanger and a heating heat exchanger provided in the air flow path of the air-conditioning case, wherein the air flow path is partitioned and divided into a plurality of regions, and has a plurality of doors for opening/closing each region and a shaft for driving the doors, and the distance between one door and the shaft is different from the distance between another door and the shaft.

Abstract: Techniques for providing mobile device content delivery acceleration for mobile applications are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a mobile accelerator system including a plurality of point-of-presences (POPs) and a control tower system. The control tower system may be configured to control mobile data transfer acceleration between a mobile device and the content server via the plurality of POPs of the mobile accelerator system. Each mobile application executing on the mobile device may be registered, validated, and then associated with a device POP that forms a dedicated connection with an entry POP of the plurality of POPs. Mobile data transfer acceleration for each mobile application may be selectively activated or deactivated, such as based on user configurations at the application level, domain name level, and/or country level.

Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel connected to each of a first scan line, a second scan line, and a data line; a scan driver supplying a first scan signal to the first scan line and a second scan signal to the second scan line; a controller dividing one frame period into an active period and a blank period and generating a count signal in which a time duration of the blank period is counted and a power control signal; a data driver supplying a data signal to the data line; and a power supply controlling a source driving voltage supplied to the data driver according to a duration of the blank period based on the power control signal. When the count signal reaches a reference value, the controller supplies a start signal for output of the first scan signal to the scan driver.

Abstract: The present invention provides a direct-fired supercritical carbon dioxide power generation system and a power generation method thereof, the system comprising: a combustor for burning hydrocarbon fuel and oxygen; a turbine driven by combustion gas discharged from the combustor; a heat exchanger for cooling combustion gas discharged after driving the turbine, by heat exchange with combustion gas recycled and supplied to the combustor; and an air separation unit for separating air to produce oxygen, wherein a portion of the combustion gas discharged after driving the turbine is branched before being introduced to the heat exchanger and is supplied to the air separation unit.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of pixel regions, a first surface, and a second surface opposing the first surface, a plurality of transistors adjacent to the first surface of the semiconductor substrate in each of the plurality of pixel regions, a microlens on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of conductive patterns in contact with the semiconductor substrate and closer to the second surface of the semiconductor substrate than to the first surface of the semiconductor substrate in each of the plurality of pixel regions.

Abstract: Disclosed are a lithium-air battery including a redox mediator in an electrolyte and having a protective layer on an anode, and a method of manufacturing the same. The lithium-air battery includes an anode including a lithium metal, a protective layer positioned on the anode and including lithium fluoride (LiF), a cathode, and an electrolyte positioned between the protective layer and the cathode. Particularly, the electrolyte includes a halogen ion (X?) which is a redox mediator.

Abstract: An apparatus for optimizing control parameters of a power plant is provided. The apparatus for optimizing control parameters of a power plant includes: a model generator configured to configure a forecast model including a process model and a control model, a model corrector configured to correct a first parameter of the process model through operation data of a real power plant, and a tuner configured to tune a second parameter, which is a parameter related to a time delay of the forecast model, so as to have a target load increase rate.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes two housing structures, a hinge structure, and a flexible display, the hinge structure includes a first saw-toothed spur gear, a second saw-toothed spur gear, a third saw-toothed spur gear, a fourth saw-toothed spur gear, a first guide structure fixed to the first housing structure and rotated by the gears, and a second guide structure fixed to the second housing structure and rotated in an opposite direction of the first guide structure, the first guide structure is rotated about a first axis formed from a bottom surface of the flexible display upwards, and the second guide structure is rotated about a second axis that is spaced apart from the first axis and is formed from the bottom surface of the flexible display.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes a temperature detecting circuit and a temperature raising circuit. The temperature detecting circuit detects a temperature to generate temperature detection information. The temperature raising circuit generates heat through a toggling operation based on the temperature detection information.

Abstract: A gate driver includes a first scan signal generator configured to output a logic voltage for driving of a scan transistor through a plurality of stages connected in cascade, the scan transistor performing a switching operation to transfer a data voltage to a driving transistor of a pixel, a second scan signal generator configured to output a logic voltage for driving of a sensing transistor through the plurality of stages, the sensing transistor sensing deterioration of a light emitting element of the pixel, a light emission control signal generator configured to output a logic voltage for control of a light emission control transistor of the pixel through the plurality of stages, and an initialization voltage generator driven by logic voltages received from some nodes of the first scan signal generator based on the light emission control signal generator to supply an initialization voltage to the pixel.

Abstract: A door of an air conditioner for a vehicle, which can prevent damage and distortion by bending during assembly and reinforce strength due to a plate-shaped sliding door with flexibility. The door is disposed inside an air-conditioning case to adjust the degree of opening of an air passageway, and includes a door body formed in a plate shape and formed to be able to slide in the air-conditioning case, and a reinforcing part formed from at least one side of the door body in a thickness direction and extending in an axial direction, which is perpendicular to a sliding direction of the door body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing an X-ray contrast agent iomeprol and, more specifically, to a method for preparing iomeprol by adding an inorganic base, an inorganic chloride, a solvent, etc. to 5-(2-hydroxyacetamido)-N,N?-bis(2,3-dihydroxypropyl)-2,4,6-triiodoisophthalamide (1b) to cause N-methylation reaction, thereby enabling easy separation and removal of inorganic salts generated during the reaction, without treatment with an ion exchange resin, while reducing the conventional production time, and minimization of the amount of reaction impurities.

Abstract: Disclosed is an air conditioner for a vehicle, which makes it possible for an upper case and a lower case to be assembled in correct position without minute misassembly between the upper case and the lower case, thereby making operation of a sliding door smooth. The air conditioner, which includes an air-conditioning case having a plurality of cases and a door disposed inside the air-conditioning case to be able to slide, further includes: a shape-matching part where the plurality of cases are matched each other in shape; and a guide part crossing the shape-matching part to guide a sliding action of the door, wherein a cross section of the guide part at the shape-matching part is formed to be eccentric.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode and an organic light emitting device including the same are described. The organic light emitting diode can include a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and a first emitting part including a red emitting material layer and a first hole transporting layer and positioned between the first and second electrodes. The red emitting material layer can include a first red host and a red dopant, and the first hole transporting layer can include a hole transporting material and is positioned between the first electrode and the red emitting material layer.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for managing a user profile. A user profile management method performed by a server according to an example embodiment includes creating a plurality of profiles corresponding to a user account, receiving a view request for a profile of the other user account in a predetermined relationship with the user account from a user terminal logged in with the user account, providing a UI of a profile of the other user account including an interfacing object regarding the profile of the user account to the user account, receiving an input for selecting a profile to be displayed on the other user terminal logged in the other user account, among a plurality of profiles corresponding to the user account through the interfacing object, and matching the other user account with the selected profile.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fiber-nanowire composite-based sheet having super-amphiphilic characteristics. In the present invention, fibers including metal nanoparticles or metal oxide nanoparticles embedded in the fibers or located on the surface of the fibers are synthesized, and a sheet based on a composite in which metal nanowires or metal oxide nanowires have been grown from the above fibers is provided. A sheet of the present invention has super-amphiphilic characteristics and can be used in various fields such as the antibacterial filter field, the antibacterial film field, the antiviral filter field, the antiviral film field, the antifouling coating field, the drug delivery vehicle field, or the water treatment filter field.

Abstract: Disclosed are a spin-orbit torque (SOT)-based magnetic tunnel junction and a method of fabricating the same. More particularly, the SOT-based magnetic tunnel junction includes a spin-orbit torque (SOT)-based magnetic tunnel junction, including: a spin-orbit active layer formed on the substrate; a free layer formed on the spin-orbit active layer; a tunnel barrier layer formed on the free layer; and a pinned layer formed on the tunnel barrier layer, wherein the spin-orbit active layer includes a W—X alloy (where W is tungsten and X includes at least one of group IV semiconductors and group III-V semiconductors).