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A method and apparatus is described for multiple-party data attribute management system and interface structure which permits different categories of users to contribute and control different types of source data, while adding informational value to data contributed by other users. The system provides a secure repository for verified and authenticated data, and provides a system of controlled access to the repository. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a data verification and certification system which in a principal embodiment is useful to create a data bank to match job seekers with potential employers based on verified resume data and employer specified search criteria. The interface structure The system of the invention preferably includes computer databases and interactive Internet based server systems.

In order to facilitate rendering of scenery elements in a role playing game, or in any other virtual universe (also known as a metaverse), there is provided a scenery container together with a play manager which cooperatively interact to achieve the loading, saving and storage of sets of scenery elements. Renderings are thus carried out more quickly and efficiently and with easier efforts on the part of the users.

A rational method for obtaining a novel molecule capable of a desired interaction with a substrate of interest comprising selecting hosts or replicators which encode said novel molecules based upon cell or replicator growth caused by the desired interaction of the novel molecule and a selection molecule expressed by said host.

According to a preferred aspect of the instant invention, there is provided a system and method that allows an individual to upload any combination of still images, video images, and / or audio files to a central server. Then, the system will automatically and dynamically create a slide show using the materials provided. The images might be shown sequentially or randomly. The user's video files will be incorporated into the show and the audio data will be used to create a background soundtrack when displaying still images. Additionally, the resolution and the data values of specific multimedia files comprising the slide show will be modified dynamically to fit the user's bandwidth, with high resolution images / videos being used if the user has a high speed connection to the central server.

Systems and methods for automatic FOV selection in immunoscore computation that involve reading images for individual markers from an unmixed multiplex slide or single stain slides, and computing the tissue region mask from the individual marker image. The heat map of each marker is determined by applying the low pass filter on the individual marker image channel and selecting the top K highest intensity regions from the heat map as the candidate FOVs for each marker. The candidate FOVs from the individual marker images are merged together in the same coordinate system by either adding all of the FOVs together or by only adding the FOVs from the selected marker images depending on the user's choice, and registering all the individual marker images to a common coordinate system and transferring the FOVs back to the original images.

The invention discloses a renewable energy source cooling, heating and power microgrid system and a control method. The renewable energy source cooling, heating and power microgrid system comprises a power module and a cooling / heating module. According to the power module, a solar power generation system is sequentially connected with a DC / DC converter and a DC / AC converter in series and then connected with an AC bus, a wind power generation system is sequentially connected with an AC / DC converter and a DC / AC converter and then connected with the AC bus, a gas internal combustion generation system is directly connected with the AC bus, a storage battery pack is connected with the AC bus through a bi-directional DC / AC converter, variable power electricity storage hot water tanks are connected with the AC bus, and the AC bus is connected with a power distribution network through a PCC. The renewable energy source cooling, heating and power microgrid system and the control method have the advantages that clean renewable energy sources such as methane, wind energy and solar energy are adopted as energy sources of a cooling, heating and power microgrid, no pollution is caused to the environment, operation cost is very low, and the application range is wide; by the adoption of a multi-microsource energy supply mode, the problem of capacity allocation redundancy of a single energy supply system can be solved.

The invention relates to a legrest for a wheelchair, provided with a footrest and a calfrest. In a first, supporting position (ready for use), this footrest and calfrest are designed for supporting at least a part of a leg of a user seated during use in the wheelchair. The calfrest can be moved to a non-supporting, second position (ready for transfer), wherein the calfrest is located outside the space which is occupied by the legs of a wheelchair user upon sitting down in and / or rising from the wheelchair. The pivotal direction of the calfrest is then such that the path of travel between said first and second position is located substantially outside the space occupied by the legs of the wheelchair user in the first, supporting position.

A method and a server acting as a Home Agent are provided for packet switched data transmission between a first mobile node and a correspondent mobile node in a mobile communication system comprising a plurality of mobile networks. Each of the first mobile node and the correspondent mobile node are allocated to respective home networks, and a network server is provided as a home agent to each mobile node, respectively. Then, data packets are routed from the first mobile node to the correspondent mobile node, over a first data tunnel from the first mobile node to any first one of the home agents and over a second data tunnel from said first one of the home agents to the correspondent mobile node without passing the respective other home agent.

An intermediary apparatus includes a communication interface connectable to an image processing apparatus via a first network and also connectable to a service via a second network, and a controller configured to: acquire tagging request information, which is transmitted from the image processing apparatus, for requesting to associate tag data with electronic data which has been uploaded to the service from the image processing apparatus; acquire upload notification information, which is transmitted from the image processing apparatus, indicating that the electronic data has been uploaded from the image processing apparatus to the service; output tagging instruction information for requesting to associate the tag data with the electronic data which has been uploaded from the image processing apparatus and stored in the service in response to acquiring the tagging request information and the upload notification information; and transmit the tagging instruction information to the service via the communication interface.

An oxidative halogenation process involving contacting methane, a C1 halogenated hydrocarbon, or a mixture thereof with a source of halogen and a source of oxygen, at a molar ratio of reactant hydrocarbon to source of halogen in a feed to the reactor greater than 23 / 1, and / or at a molar ratio of reactant hydrocarbon to source of oxygen in a feed to the reactor greater than about 46 / 1; in the presence of a rare earth halide or rare earth oxyhalide catalyst, to produce a halogenated C1 product having at least one more halogen as compared with the C1 reactant hydrocarbon, preferably, methyl chloride. The process can be advantageously conducted to total conversion of source of halogen and source of oxygen. The process can be advantageously conducted with essentially no halogen in the feed to the reactor, by employing a separate catalyst halogenation step in a pulse, swing or circulating bed mode. The production of methyl halide can be integrated into downstream processes for manufacture of valuable commodity chemicals.

A CPU life-extension apparatus and method makes a processor appear to be an upgraded CPU to substantially all software applications accessed thereby, thereby reducing the need and expense of upgrading a selected processor. A CPU life-extension module translates new instructions, intended for a CPU upgrade, into instructions recognized by the processor. In addition, the CPU life-extension module is programmed to monitor reads from and writes to a processor's flags register to modify the flags to emulate those of an upgraded CPU. The CPU life-extension module is configured to respond to interrupts generated by the processor in order to perform its various tasks.

Phase shifting allows generating very narrow features in a printed features layer. Thus, forming a fabrication layout for a physical design layout having critical features typically includes providing a layout for shifters. Specifically, pairs of shifters can be placed to define critical features, wherein the pairs of shifters conform to predetermined design rules. After placement, phase information for the shifters associated with the set of critical features can be assigned. Complex designs can lead to phase-shift conflicts among shifters in the fabrication layout. An irresolvable conflict can be passed to the design process earlier than in a conventional processes, thereby saving valuable time in the fabrication process for printed circuits.

An adjustable vehicle steering column is locked to a vehicle chassis by a remote-controlled electrically-operable locking arrangement that is carried by one end of a locking arm the other end of which is pivotally connected with the vehicle chassis. The locking arrangement has a locking axis that is parallel with and spaced a given distance from the pivot axis of the locking arm.

Systems and methods for receiving product data for products featured in a media asset are described. In some embodiments, the system includes control circuitry that receives from a server data for products featured in a media asset and timestamps for the media asset associated with the products featured in the media asset. The control circuitry generates for display a list including one or more of the products. The control circuitry receives from user input circuitry a selection of a product in the list. The control circuitry transmits to the server a request for a portion of the media asset featuring the selected product based on a timestamp associated with the selected product.

A camera body allows the mounting of a lens unit configured to form an optical image of a subject, and includes a body mount, an imaging element, a capacitor, and a housing member. The body mount allows a lens unit to be mounted. The imaging element includes a light receiving face arranged to receive light passing through the lens unit, and converts an optical image of the subject into an electrical signal. The capacitor is disposed above the imaging element and more to the imaging element side than the body mount in a landscape orientation. The housing member accommodates the imaging element and the capacitor.

The present invention discloses a crop information and sample acquisition method and system. The method comprises: generating a plurality of acquisition tasks according a preset acquisition plan and the target acquisition parameters of crop information; sending down acquisition tasks corresponding to the screened acquisition terminals through a network; performing crop information acquisition through a plurality of acquisition terminals according to corresponding acquisition tasks, uploading the collected crop information to a data center; and receiving and processing the crop information sent by the acquisition terminals through the data center. The system comprises the data center and a plurality of the acquisition terminals; the data center is configured to generate a plurality of sampling tasks and process received acquisition data of the crop information; and the acquisition terminals are configured to complete the acquisition of corresponding crop information and samples and upload the corresponding crop information and samples to the data center through the network. According to the invention, the defects are avoided that a traditional method is used for acquisition of simple crop physical parameters and agricultural condition information with large time and labor consumption and low efficiency.

In a method and a computer system for controlling an industrial robot, multiple data packets are received by the computer system, each of the data packets having a destination address with different priority classes being associated therewith in advance by the computer system. A chronological association of tasks with the resources of the computer system is made for processing the individual received data packets, based on the relevant priority class of the destination address of a received data packet.

The invention discloses a construction method for ion chromatography fingerprint spectrums of ganoderma lucidum spore powder polysaccharide, which comprises acid-enzyme partial hydrolysis of the ganoderma lucidum spore powder polysaccharide, the ion chromatography fingerprint analysis of monosaccharide components and oligosaccharide components of hydrolysis products of the ganoderma lucidum spore powder polysaccharide and the confirmation of standard fingerprint spectrums. By means of the high performance anion-exchange chromatography (HPAEC) analysis and the comparison of the fingerprint spectrums of polysaccharide contents in ganoderma lucidum spore powder samples from 20 different production places, the common fingerprint characteristics of the polysaccharide contents in the ganoderma lucidum spore powder samples are determined, the standard fingerprint spectrums of the monosaccharide components and the oligosaccharide components are obtained respectively, and 11 monosaccharide common characteristic peaks in monosaccharide spectrums, 4 oligosaccharide common peaks in the oligosaccharide spectrum and 1 polysaccharide peak are determined. According to the construction method for the ion chromatography fingerprint spectrums of the ganoderma lucidum spore powder polysaccharide, the method is stable, the precision degree is high, the reproducibility is good, the method is easy to master, quality conditions and production places of the ganoderma lucidum spore powder polysaccharide can be grasped from two aspects of fingerprint spectrums of the monosaccharide components and the oligosaccharide components of the acid-enzyme partial hydrolysis products which can reflect the components and structural characteristics of the ganoderma lucidum spore powder polysaccharide, and a new scientific method is provided for the quality control and the authenticity identification of the ganoderma lucidum spore powders.

A pre-stretched film roll of a mono orientated linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) is stretched between 30% and 320% from it's original length depending on the final product that is required. Stretching is in the machine direction (MD) at a controlled rate in two stages. Differentially rewinding the film entraps air between the layers of the roll and creates soft overlapping edges around the roll to produce a spongy, soft roll that prevents and resists drop damage due to its shock absorbent characteristic.

The lens barrel includes a first lens unit, a second lens unit, and a drive unit. The first lens unit includes a first lens element and a first lens support frame supporting the first lens element. The second lens unit includes a second lens element and a second lens support frame supporting the second lens element. The second lens unit is supported by the first lens unit to be movable in the optical axis direction of the first lens element with respect to the first lens unit. The drive unit is arranged to be used to drive the second lens unit with respect to the first lens unit, and is fixed to the first lens unit. When viewed in the optical axis direction, the drive unit is fixed to the first lens unit so that a first profile line formed by the first lens unit and the drive unit is substantially circular.

This application describes how Session Description Protocol (SDP) preconditions signaling can be enhanced to support lead role negotiation, precondition capability exchange, premature precondition attempts and concatenated preconditions processing. The application describes the use of send and receive tags in an SDP message for a given media line. In a given message, a success or failure tag may be associated with a send or receive tag in addition to an optional or mandatory condition indicator tag. A lead role indicator may also be associated with a send or receive tag to indicate a desired preference with regard to the sender or receiver taking the lead role. These additions lead to a greater chance of successful session set-up completion, reduce the number of signaling exchanges in general, and enable precondition attempts to be started earlier and to be executed in parallel.

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die having patterned circuitry, a plurality of terminals coupled to the die, and an indication providing signal noise information of at least one of the terminals.

A method of making an alkali metal salt is described and involves (1) reacting at least one alkali metal formate with an least one acid to form an alkali metal salt in the presence of formate ions and (2) substantially removing the formate ions from the alkali metal salt formed in step (1).