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Systems and methods for processing sensor analyte data are disclosed, including initiating calibration, updating calibration, evaluating clinical acceptability of reference and sensor analyte data, and evaluating the quality of sensor calibration. The sensor can be calibrated using a calibration set of one or more matched sensor and reference analyte data pairs. Reference data resulting from benchtop testing an analyte sensor prior to its insertion can be used to provide initial calibration of the sensor data. Reference data from a short term continuous analyte sensor implanted in a user can be used to initially calibrate or update sensor data from a long term continuous analyte sensor.

The invention relates to a medical device for delivering a therapeutic agent to a tissue. The medical device has a layer overlying the exterior surface of the medical device. The layer contains a therapeutic agent and an additive. The additive has a hydrophilic part and a hydrophobic part and the therapeutic agent is not enclosed in micelles or encapsulated in particles or controlled release carriers.

A preferred embodiment of the method for converting text to speech using a computing device having a memory is disclosed. The inventive method comprises examining a text to be spoken to an audience for a specific communications purpose, followed by marking-up the text according to a phonetic markup systems such as the Lessac System pronunciation rules notations. A set of rules to control a speech to text generator based on speech principles, such as Lessac principles. Such rules are of the tide normally implemented on prior art text-to-speech engines, and control the operation of the software and the characteristics of the speech generated by a computer using the software. A computer is used to speak the marked-up text expressively. The step of using a computer to speak the marked-up text expressively is repeated using alternative pronunciations of the selected style of expression where each of the tonal, structural, and consonant energies, have a different balance in the speech, are also spoken to a trained speech practitioners that listened to the spoken speech generated by the computer. The spoken speech generated by the computer is then evaluated for consistency with style criteria and / or expressiveness. And audience is then assembled and the spoken speech generated by the computer is played back to the audience. Audience comprehension of spoken speech generated by the computer is evaluated and correlated to a particular implemented rule or rules, and those rules which resulted relatively high audience comprehension are selected.

The invention provides a method for monitoring hydrology and water quality of a river basin under influence of water projects based on Internet of Things. According to the method, various fixed and flowing sensors are additionally mounted so as to obtain real-time hydrology and water quality data of important water areas, in combination with a video technology, monitoring on a spot environment is achieved, the monitoring information is transmitted through the Internet of Things, intelligent prediction for hydrology and water quality of the river basin is carried out through a neural network, and finally, critical applications, such as current situation assessment, tendency estimation, implementation effect estimation and extreme event handling, are achieved through an expert system. The method provided by the invention can provide real-time, reliable and complete hydrology and water quality information for the river basin under influence of water projects, and can achieve cross-regional and multi-machine type integrated remote protection for the river basin.

This invention relates to a method of selectively enhancing the analgesic potency of morphine and other clinically used bimodally-acting opioid agonists and simultaneously attenuating development of physical dependence, tolerance and other undesirable side effects caused by the chronic administration of said bimodally-acting opioid agonists comprising the co-administration of a bimodally-acting opioid agonist which activates both inhibitory and excitatory opioid receptor-mediated functions of neurons in the nociceptive (pain) pathways of the nervous system and an opioid receptor antagonist which selectively inactivates excitatory opioid receptor-mediated side effects. This invention also relates to a method of using excitatory opioid receptor antagonists alone to block the undesirable excitatory side effects of endogenous bimodally-acting opioid agonists which may be markedly elevated during chronic pain. This invention further relates to a method of long-term treatment of previously detoxified opiate, cocaine and alcohol addicts utilizing said excitatory opioid receptor antagonists, either alone or in combination with low-dose methadone, to prevent protracted physical dependence, and to compositions comprising an excitatory opioid receptor antagonist of the invention and a bimodally-acting opioid agonist.

A method and apparatus for trading a standardised contract. The contract obliges the seller to make delivery to the exchange of a standardised debt product on the delivery date of the contract for a price given by the exchange determined settlement price and a conversion factor. The contract further requires to take delivery from the exchange of said debt obligation for the same price. The contract further requires the buyer or seller to make margin payments to the exchange on each trading day, or with a longer period, based on the price movements of the contract during that trading day or period if so required by the trading rules. The contract further obliges the exchange to make similar payments to the buyer or seller if they are entitled to such payments under the trading rules.

Methods and materials, including novel compositions, dosage forms and methods of administration, useful for treating arthritic conditions, inflammation associated with a chronic condition, and / or chronic pain, including pain from arthritis and inflammation, using opioid antagonists, including combinations of opioid antagonists and opioid agonists. Methods and materials comprising opioid antagonists or combinations opioid antagonists and agonists may optionally include one or more additional therapeutic agents.

A method and a language processing and knowledge building system (LPKBS) for processing textual data, receives textual data and a language object; segments the textual data into sentences and each sentence into words; generates a list of one or more natural language phrase objects (NLPOs) for each word by identifying vocabulary classes and vocabulary class features for each word based on vocabulary class feature differentiators; creates sentence phrase lists, each including a combination of one NLPO selected per word from each list of NLPOs; groups two or more NLPOs in each sentence phrase list based on word to word association rules, the vocabulary classes, the vocabulary class features, and a position of each NLPO; replaces each such group of NLPOs with a consolidated NLPO; maps each segmented sentence to a sentence type; identifies a semantic item for each mapped NLPO; and identifies and stores associated attributes and relations.

The invention discloses a Chinese event extraction method. The method comprises the following steps of: 1) carrying out entity identification on a to-be-extracted Chinese text, taking identified entities as candidate words of event elements, labeling the Chinese text word by word, and identifying an event triggering word in the Chinese text and event types described by the Chinese text by combing a labeling mode according to the labeling result; 2) inputting the Chinese text, the candidate words of the event elements, the event triggering word and the event types into a classification model, and judging whether each candidate word is a real event element or not; and 3) obtaining a whole event structure according to the obtained event elements, the event triggering word and the event types so as to complete event extraction. According to the method disclosed by the invention, the problem that the event triggering word is not completely matched with the words in the text in the Chinese event extraction is solved, and the correctness of the Chinese event extraction is improved.

The invention discloses an attitude control system for space vehicle and a method thereof. The control system has only one biased momentum wheel, one set of tri-axial magnetic torquer and one attitude controller loaded with algorithm. The method comprises a step of rate damping controlling, a step of initially capturing controlling and a step of stationarity controlling. At the rate damping stage, geomagnetism change is used to control the magnetic control of three passages of a satellite by B-dot; at the initially capturing stage, the magnetic control is realized, PD control is performed by pitching and the passages are rolled and yawed to carry out nutation and precession composite control; at the stationarity controlling stage, the magnetic control is realized, PD control is performed by pitching and the passages are rolled and yawed to carry out nutation and precession composite control. The capturing stage and the stationarity controlling stage fully depend on magnetic torquer to perform positive magnetic control, thereby changing which a satellite only uses a magnetic torquer to carry out unload of the momentum wheel or auxiliary magnetic control, so as to refine system configuration to further improve reliability of the system. Momentum of a satellite is biased to rotate on the ground, so as to ensure stable separation of the satellite without performing air injection control. Therefore, the magnetic torquer can be used for realizing fast and stable initial rate damping.

The invention discloses an embedded real-time emulation and fault simulation system based on multiple data buses, comprising upper computer simulation management software and an embedded real-time emulation and fault simulation device. The upper computer simulation management software guides the user to perform emulation configuration and fault setting aiming at a fault-tolerant control system to be tested through a human-computer interface, and generates fault emulation data of multiple redundancy equipment. The embedded real-time emulation and fault simulation device outputs the fault emulation data in real-time and synchronously through the multiple data buses, simulates the fault of the multiple redundancy equipment and outputs the fault data stream. The upper computer and a lower computer communicate mutually through an Ethernet to achieve the downloading of the information configuration, the fault emulation data and the emulation control command of the upper computer, and the uploading of the working condition of the lower computer. The invention overcomes the defects of poor universality and lower synchronous precision of the traditional multiple equipment fault simulation device based on the emulation, and is suitable for the test and the verification of the different redundancy fault-tolerant designs of the complex spacecraft system with numerous equipment and frequent data exchange.

The invention discloses an automatic judging method, device and system for the service life of a filter screen. According to the automatic judging method, device and system, a wind speed sensor is used for detecting the wind speed change, the fouling and blockage situations of the filter screen are judged according to the attenuation rate of the wind speed, because an air conditioner fan has a fixed wind speed under each of different wind gears, the wind speed would be gradually reduced along with the dirtying and blockage of the filter screen, after the wind speed is reduced to a certain degree, different degrees of warnings are given to the user. Compared with the prior art, the automatic judging method, device and system for the service life of the filter screen solve the dependency on air quality level, do not need air quality detection cost and do not need the user to set manually according to the local air quality level, and therefore, the problem of imprecision due to judging according to the air quality level is solved, and moreover, the user does not need to manually set the air quality level and manually clear the accumulated time; the automatic judging method, device and system for the service life of the filter screen are more intelligent and more friendly to human and very convenient for the user.

The invention relates to a motion track planning method in an operation space of a heavy-duty industrial robot, which relates to a planning method of a robot motion track. In order to solve the problem of discontinuous acceleration at the start point and end point of the multi-point spline in space in the existing heavy-duty robot motion planning method, the present invention does not realize the smoothness of the motion command; and the existing heavy-duty robot motion planning does not realize the optimal time , the best compromise between the optimal energy consumption. Technical points: This method corrects the traditional cubic spline through additional items. Make it keep continuous in speed and acceleration in the whole process. At the same time, comprehensively considering the optimal problem of time and energy consumption, based on the dynamic model, the energy consumption and execution time of the system are selected as the optimization target, and the speed, torque, and jerk are used as the constraint conditions. A multi-objective optimization model is established, and the NSGA2 non-dominated genetic algorithm is used for Optimize the model solution. It is suitable for off-line calculation processes such as trajectory planning and motion planning of heavy-duty industrial robots.

The invention discloses a preparation method of nylon fibers. The preparation method comprises the following steps: directly spinning after taking raw materials containing 1,5-pentamethylene diamine and adipic acid to react. The invention further provides the nylon fibers prepared by the method. The method adopts a manner of combining nylon polymerization and fusion direct spinning to prepare nylon 56 wires so that the production cost is reduced, the waste gas is reduced and the pollution to the environment is reduced. The high-performance nylon fibers prepared by the method can be further used for preparing textile materials including yarns, woven fabrics, knitted fabrics or non-woven fabrics, can be widely applied to the fields of clothing material industries, decoration carpets and the like, and has a wide industrial application prospect.

A device for use in optical scanning and CT scanning including a radiographic template and at least one shape of known dimension (SKD). The radiographic template includes a plurality of radio-opaque markers and is configured to take an impression of at least one surface of a patient. The SKD is removably attached to the radiographic template and serves as a basis for registration of data of a CT scan of the device with data of an optical scan of the device. The device may further comprise a mounting plate. The SKD is mounted on the mounting plate such that the at least one SKD is in an exact same position with respect to surfaces in a model formed from the impression as when the impression of the patient is formed in the radiographic template.

A method of translating an input sentence in a source language to an output sentence in a target language uses a store comprising a plurality of example sentences. A base example sentence is chosen from the store based on a comparison of the input sentence with a plurality of example sentences, and its paired translation is used as a translation basis. A portion of the input sentence differing from a corresponding portion of the base example sentence is identified. A portion of the translation basis aligned with the base example unmatched is located. The input unmatched portion is used to select a set of subsidiary example sentences from the store. A choice of possible translations corresponding to the input unmatched portion is determined from the set of subsidiary example sentences. A translation is selected from the choice based on a predetermined selection algorithm.

The city road net traffic flow state estimating method is based on vehicular GPS data combined with SCATS provided traffic signal state information. The present invention establishes city road net traffic flow state model by adopting unit oriented road sections as targets and through least-square method fitting in the three-dimensional space of distance, time and speed. Through the conversion from curved surface in the three-dimensional space to the curve in the two-dimensional space, the average speeds in various oriented road sections of the city road net in fixed time are obtained, and the current traffic flow jamming state is analyzed and estimated with speed as index. The traffic flow state estimation is completed through establishing the traffic flow state model for each of the unit oriented road sections between two signal lamps and connecting the curve surface models of adjacent equidirectional road sections.

The invention discloses a real-name authentication safe login method and system based on a cell phone number, and relates to the field of internet real-name authentication. The method includes the steps that a real-name identity management server carries out verification and registration according to identity information provided by a user; the user activates an account number through cell phone dynamic verification codes and a digital certificate after passing the verification; a third-party application applies for a login service, a request is sent to a unified login server and transmitted to a real-time authentication server, the real-time authentication server sends the request to the user for validation, the unified login server adjusts whether the third-party application is allowed to log in according to a result returned to the unified login server, and the unified login server saves session information in a session management server and returns the information to the third-party application if the third-party application is allowed to log in. The real-name authentication safe login method and system based on the cell phone number solve the problem that the user relies on user information in different applications, can guarantee safety of the information through cell phone authentication and brings convenience to management for network management departments, the user does not need to maintain personal information again in all the applications, convenience is brought to the user, and worry about privacy disclosure of the user is reduced.

The invention relates to a medical device for delivering a therapeutic agent to a tissue. The medical device has a layer overlying the exterior surface of the medical device. The layer contains a therapeutic agent and an additive. In certain embodiments, the additive has a hydrophilic part and a drug affinity part, wherein the drug affinity part is at least one of a hydrophobic part, a part that has an affinity to the therapeutic agent by hydrogen bonding, and a part that has an affinity to the therapeutic agent by van der Waals interactions. In embodiments, the additive is water-soluble. In further embodiments, the additive is at least one of a surfactant and a chemical compound, and the chemical compound has a molecular weight of from 80 to 750 or has more than four hydroxyl groups.

The invention discloses a two-dimensional code based block chain logistics source-tracing tracking and anti-counterfeiting method. The method takes a source-tracing tracking and anti-counterfeiting system as a basis. The source-tracing tracking and anti-counterfeiting system comprises a block chain background system capable of being publicly authenticated, a block chain gateway system, a mobile intelligent reading and writing terminal, a cache database and two-dimensional code anti-counterfeiting label. The method comprises the steps of (1) generating a two-dimensional code anti-counterfeiting label; (2) initializing the anti-counterfeiting label; (3) activating by a manufacturer; (4) adding information by an intermediate merchant; and finally (5) performing verification by a user, wherein the two-dimensional code becomes invalid after the user verifies the authenticity. The method disclosed by the invention can solve problems of trust dependence of the user for each node, trust dependence of the user for a third-party, dependence of the user for technologies, trust dependence of the user for an anti-counterfeiting identifier and trust object dislocation in each link of product logistics, is low in entry threshold and can greatly improve the anti-counterfeiting safety and reliability.

The invention discloses a method and system for obtaining a dynamic feed index. Better query performance can be obtained on the occasion of high concurrent query and large data amount of an index table. An index table cache is established by a storage structure by means of a key value, and a feed index in the index table cache is consistent with a corresponding feed index in a relation type database. The method includes that a client server sends a query request to the index table cache and the relation type database, and takes query results fed back by the index table cache and the relation type database as the obtained feed index.

The invention discloses a mass production testing method of a CIS chip. The method is carried out based on an FPGA module and includes the steps that a testing system provided with a testing machine and a testing carrier plate is provided, wherein an MIPI bridge chip and the FPGA module are installed on the testing carrier plate; the CIS chip is controlled by the testing machine to collect an image; image data are output to the MIPI bridge chip by the CIS chip in a high-speed serial signal mode; the MIPI bridge chip is controlled by the FPGA module to read high-speed serial signals, convert the high-speed serial signals to parallel low-speed data signals and upload the parallel low-speed data signals to the FPGA module; the parallel low-speed data signals are read by the FPGA module, technical processing is carried out, and calculation results are acquired and are uploaded under the control of the testing machine; judgment and program flow control are carried out after the results are read by the testing machine. Data conversion carried out through the specific MIPI bridge chip avoids dependence on high-speed signal ports of the testing machine; due to the adoption of DSP data processing in the FPGA module, the data calculation speed is improved, and multi-station parallel data calculation is achieved and shortens data processing time when compared with serial calculation on a testing machine working station.

The invention relates to a gas shielded welding method and device of a narrow gap or a super-narrow gap impulse jet current consumable electrode controlled by electromagnetic of the heavy section part with middle and high strength. The invention uses a magnetic coil (3) to provide excitation current processed by an excitation source, which can generate an extra magnetic field. Under the conditions of narrow gap or super-narrow gap, high feed rate, fused drop spray transfer and impulse welding current, the process of the gas shielded welding of the rotating jet current consumable electrode with high-melting frequency pulse that is controlled by the electromagnetic for the heavy section part with middle and high strength can be realized. The device of the invention comprises the excitation source, excitation equipment, auxiliary equipment and a water cooling system. The excitation equipment is the magnetic coil (3) with or without a conducting core (5). The excitation equipment is fixed on a welding burner (6), which is positioned above a work piece (9). The excitation current provided by the excitation source (10) produces stationary or time-varying electromagnetic mixing magnetic field that has the combination control over the processes of arc welding, wire burn-off, drop transfer, melting bath flow and welding line coagulation, which finally forms the welding line of good quality.

A method, system, and / or apparatus for automatically tracking and sending electronic reminder messages to a mobile user using the user's mobile device as a function of the user's tracked location. This invention is particularly useful in the field of social media, such as for detecting and tracking the location of a user and her community for actuating reminders based upon the user's location and / or the location of members of the community. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as GPS, cell phone usage, WiFi triangulation, and / or other device applications.

The invention discloses a block chain logistic source tracking anti-fake method based on NFC (Near Field Communication). The method is based on a source tracking anti-fake system and comprises a publicly verifiable block chain background system, a block chain gateway system, a mobile intelligent read-write terminal, a cash databank and an NFC (IC) (Integrated Circuit) or internal NFC (IC) anti-fake label. The method comprises the following steps: generating an anti-fake label; initializing the anti-fake label; activating by a producer; adding information by a middleman; and verifying by a final user; after the anti-fake label is scanned at the read-write terminal each time, substituting a hidden password on an NFC chip and a corresponding visible password in a block chain by newly generated hidden passwords and visible passwords, and disabling the used hidden password and the visible password. By adopting the method, problems of trust dependence of users upon nodes in different product logistic procedures, trust dependence upon a third party, dependence upon techniques, trust dependence upon anti-fake labels and trust target deviation are solved, the introduction threshold is low, and the anti-fake security and reliability can be greatly improved.

A magnetically controlled welding method with consumable electrode features that a pair of exciting coils for upper and lower electrodes are arranged respectively above and under the workpiece to be welded, and an exciting power supply is used to provide the exciting current to said coils and generate an external vertical magnetic field for controlling and perform the welding to the workpiece protected by active gas or CO2. Its welding apparatus has exciting power supply, exciting unit and water cooling system.

Embodiments of the invention include a document management system for the construction industry that organizes projects into accessible documents in an online computer network, such as the Internet, or computer readable media, such as an optical disk or other media. In one embodiment, the system includes a software utility for generating job-specific websites. Subcontractors, vendors, and the like, accessing the website can gather information useful in the submission of construction bids to the general contractor for all or a portion of the construction.

The invention provides a light distribution optimization method for two-dimensional reconstruction of a combustion flow field by combining a tunable semiconductor laser absorption spectrum technology and a computed tomography technology. The method comprises the following steps: a light matrix calculation step, a combustion flow field reconstruction step and a light distribution optimization step and particularly comprises the following steps: step 1, discretizing a region to be tested; pre-setting a light space distribution manner and calculating the length of light penetrating through the discretized region to obtain a light distribution matrix; step 2, selecting a suitable absorption spectrum line and calculating a light projection result of an initial gas distribution model; reconstructing temperatures and concentrations of the tested flow field by using an algebra iterative algorithm and calculating a reconstruction error and a standard deviation; and step 3, wholly searching by using a self-adaption simulated annealing method to obtain an optimal light distribution range and partially searching by using a sequential quadratic programming method to obtain optimal light distribution.

A method is disclosed of translating an input sentence in a source language to an output sentence in a target language using a store comprising a plurality of example sentences in the source language each paired with its translation in the target language. A base example sentence is chosen from the store based on a comparison of the input sentence with each of a plurality of example sentences from the store, and its paired translation is used as a translation basis (S2). A portion of the input sentence differing from a corresponding portion of the base example sentence is identified (S3), these portions being designated input and base example unmatched portions respectively. A portion of the translation basis aligned with the base example unmatched portion is located (S4). The input unmatched portion is used to select a set of subsidiary example sentences from the store (S5). A choice of possible translations corresponding to the input unmatched portion is determined from the set of subsidiary example sentences (S6). A translation is selected (S7) from the choice based on a predetermined selection algorithm and the selected translation is used to replace (S9) the portion of the translation basis located previously. The result of this replacement is used as a basis for the output sentence. The method is also applicable to translating a sequence of data items.