Abstract: An electronic device includes a narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) circuit; a shared central processor to control the narrowband internet of things circuit; a shared memory to store data or code from the shared central processor; and a communicator controlled by the shared central processor. The communicator stores the data or the code in the shared memory.

Abstract: A power control system comprises a battery system including N battery packs. A plurality of contactors selectively connects N battery packs of a battery system in a first configuration supplying a first voltage level, a second configuration supplying a second voltage level, and a disconnected configuration. M power inverters connect the battery system to M electric machines, respectively. A controller is configured to determine when to transition between the first configuration and the second configuration. The controller is configured to transition between the first configuration and the second configuration by causing one of a positive torque transient and a negative torque transient to be generated by at least one of the M electric machines, transitioning the battery system from one of the first configuration and the second configuration to the disconnected configuration, and transitioning from the disconnected configuration to the other one of the first configuration and the second configuration.

Abstract: A method of an electronic device for controlling sharing of video and an electronic device adapted to the method are provided. The electronic device includes a display, a communication circuit, a control circuit, and a memory electrically connected to the control circuit, where the memory stores instructions enabling the control circuit to control the communication circuit to transmit a first video to an external device connected to the electronic device, when a video sharing function is executed, display an icon on the display, when transmitting the first video, and control the communication circuit to pause the transmission of the first video and to transmit a second video to the external device, in response to a first input applied to the icon.

Abstract: A touch sensor may include a substrate and may include electrode units, first demultiplexers, second demultiplexers, and driving pads all located on the substrate. The electrode units each may include a plurality of electrode groups, the electrode groups each including a plurality of touch electrodes. The first demultiplexers each may include a plurality of sub-demultiplexers and each may be electrically connected to a corresponding one of the electrode units. Each of the sub-demultiplexers of a first demultiplexer may be electrically connected to a corresponding one of the electrode groups of a corresponding electrode unit. The second demultiplexers may be connected between the first demultiplexers and the driving pads.

Abstract: A lend moving apparatus includes a circuit board including a mounting groove, an image sensor arranged within the mounting groove of the circuit board, and a first epoxy arranged within the mounting groove. The mounting groove includes a first side surface and a second side surface that face each other, and a third side surface and a fourth side surface that face each other. The circuit board includes at least one application groove provided on the first side surface and/or the second side surface of the mounting groove. The at least one application groove includes an opening opened toward the upper surface of the circuit board. At least a portion of the first epoxy is arranged in the at least one application groove.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydrogel composition comprising a chloroplast, a chloroplast transit peptide, alginate, and a pancreatic cell, and can supply oxygen to a cell or a tissue and control carbon dioxide and exhibits excellent preventive or therapeutic effects on diseases such as diabetes, etc., and thus may be utilized in the tissue engineering field such as organ transplant.

Abstract: A method of a terminal may comprise: transmitting channel state prediction-related information to a base station; receiving a channel prediction request signal for a first time instance from the base station; receiving auxiliary reference signal(s) (RS(s)) and a first RS from the base station based on the channel state prediction-related information; and transmitting channel prediction information for the first time instance to the base station, wherein the channel state prediction-related information includes information indicating that channel state information prediction of the terminal is possible, and the channel prediction request signal includes configuration information of the auxiliary RS(s) and configuration information of the first RS.

Abstract: A method of a terminal may comprise: receiving a channel state information (CSI) request message from a base station, the CSI request message including first indication information indicating one of quantization configuration information of a first artificial intelligence (AI) model configured in the terminal to encode and transmit CSI; quantizing generated CSI feedback information based on the first indication information; and transmitting a CSI report message including the quantized CSI feedback information to the base station.

Abstract: In a method for recovering lithium hydroxide from a lithium secondary battery, cathode powder is prepared from a cathode of the lithium secondary battery. A cathode active material mixture is prepared by mixing the cathode powder with a calcium compound. The cathode active material mixture is reduced to form a preliminary precursor mixture. A lithium precursor is recovered from the preliminary precursor mixture. Therefore, a lithium precursor can be obtained with high purity without a complicated leaching process or an additional process, which result from a wet-based acid solution process.

Abstract: A method of a communication node may comprise: transmitting required network configurations for applying each of artificial neural network models to a network node; and transmitting a status report of the first model including a model identifier field and a model information field for each of the artificial neural network models to the network node to activate at least one artificial neural network model among the artificial neural network models, wherein each of the required network configurations includes a configuration identifier and network configuration information.

Abstract: A composition, comprising: a plurality of mechanically-activated microcapsules; a mechanically-activated microcapsule defining a shell and an exterior surface; and the mechanically-activated microcapsule comprising one or more adhesion groups disposed Non the exterior surface of the mechanically-activated microcapsule, the one or more adhesion groups being configured to effect a covalent interaction, a non-covalent interaction, or both between the one or more adhesion groups and a matrix material, the covalent interaction, the non-covalent interaction, or both adhering the mechanically-activated microcapsule to the matrix material. Also provided are related methods and related articles.

Abstract: Cathodes and lithium secondary batteries including the cathodes are disclosed. In some implementations, a cathode may include a cathode current collector and a cathode active material layer disposed on the cathode current collector and including cathode active material particles such that the cathode active material layer satisfies a specific equation. The cathode active material particles may include lithium metal oxide particles that include nickel, and may have a mole fraction of cobalt of 0.02 or less with respect to all elements except for lithium and oxygen.

Abstract: Structures and methods that facilitate the formation of gate contacts for vertical transistors constructed with semiconductor pillars and spacer-like gates are disclosed. In a first embodiment, a gate contact rests on an extended gate region, a piece of a gate film, patterned at a side of a vertical transistor at the bottom of the gate. In a second embodiment, an extended gate region is patterned on top of one or more vertical transistors, resulting in a modified transistor structure. In a third embodiment, a gate contact rests on a top surface of a gate merged between two closely spaced vertical transistors. Optional methods and the resultant intermediate structures are included in the first two embodiments in order to overcome the related topography and ease the photolithography. The third embodiment includes alternatives for isolating the gate contact from the semiconductor pillars or for isolating the affected semiconductor pillars from the substrate.

Abstract: Structures and methods that facilitate the formation of gate contacts for vertical transistors constructed with semiconductor pillars and spacer-like gates are disclosed. In a first embodiment, a gate contact rests on an extended gate region, a piece of a gate film, patterned at a side of a vertical transistor at the bottom of the gate. In a second embodiment, an extended gate region is patterned on top of one or more vertical transistors, resulting in a modified transistor structure. In a third embodiment, a gate contact rests on a top surface of a gate merged between two closely spaced vertical transistors. Optional methods and the resultant intermediate structures are included in the first two embodiments in order to overcome the related topography and ease the photolithography. The third embodiment includes alternatives for isolating the gate contact from the semiconductor pillars or for isolating the affected semiconductor pillars from the substrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an expanded foam solution for forming a thermosetting expanded foam having excellent flame retardancy produced using the same. According to the present disclosure, nanoclay is mixed with a polyol-based compound using ultrasonic waves, an isocyanate-based compound is added, and a trimerization catalyst or an isocyanurate compound is mixed with the polyol-based compound so that an isocyanurate structure is formed.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first active pattern on a substrate. The first active pattern includes a pair of first source/drain patterns and a first channel pattern therebetween. A gate electrode is disposed on the first channel pattern, and a first gate spacer is disposed on a side surface of the gate electrode. The first gate spacer includes a first spacer and a second spacer. A top surface of the first spacer is lower than a top surface of the second spacer. A first blocking pattern is disposed on the first spacer, and a gate contact is coupled to the gate electrode. The first blocking pattern is interposed between the gate contact and the second spacer.

Abstract: The Zero User Interface (UI)-based automatic speech translation system and method can solve problems such as the procedural inconvenience of inputting speech signals and the malfunction of speech recognition due to crosstalk when users who speak difference languages have a face-to-face conversation. The system includes an automatic speech translation server, speaker terminals and a counterpart terminal. The automatic speech translation server selects a speech signal of a speaker among multiple speech signals received from speaker terminals connected to an automatic speech translation service and transmits a result of translating the speech signal of the speaker into a target language to a counterpart terminal.

Abstract: A battery pressure measuring sensor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate; a plurality of variable resistor units provided at a plurality of locations in consideration of a swelling characteristic of a battery on the substrate and configured to change a resistance value within a corresponding resistance range according to a pressure applied to each unit; and a plurality of sensing lines configured to be connected to the plurality of variable resistor units, respectively.

Abstract: A transparent conductor according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a transparent substrate, and a transparent conductive pattern formed on the transparent substrate, and the transparent conductor includes a nanostructure on an upper surface of at least one of the transparent substrate and the transparent conductive pattern.

Abstract: A cleaning and disinfection system. More particularly, aspects of the invention relate to a system and method for enhancing the Environment, Social, Governance of a company through autonomous cleaning and disinfection mobile robots. In particular, cleaning, disinfecting and sterilizing public space in mass transportation, for example railway system, by using the autonomous cleaning and disinfection mobile robot.