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The invention relates to methods and pharmaceutical compositions for inhibiting or preventing preterm birth, inhibiting or delaying cervical ripening, inhibiting myometrial contractility and treating or inhibiting uterine contractility disorders. The methods comprise administering an effective amount of a composition comprising steroid hormones such as soluble progesterone.

A decorative laminate assembly having a decorative laminate top layer assembly. This top layer assembly includes, in descending superimposed relationship, a decorative layer and a core layer that includes PETG, or other polymeric material. Preferably, the top layer assembly also includes a wear resistant overlay layer on top of the decorative layer, and the core layer's PETG is in a sheet form. The top layer assembly may be directly bonded to a water resistant substrate. The decorative laminate assembly of the present invention can be used for a variety of purposes, including flooring applications. When the present invention is used for flooring applications, it is preferred that the overlay layer has enhanced wear resistant qualities and that the water resistant substrate comprise PVC or cement fiberboard.

The invention relates to a dendrobium nobile standardized facility cultivating method which includes the following steps that a field is selected and prepared; a propagating method is performed; a cultivating method is performed; the field is managed; pest and disease damage is prevented and treated; pest and disease damage is prevented and treated. According to the dendrobium nobile standardized facility cultivating method, a rate of survival of dendrobium nobile is high and the output of the dendrobium nobile is greatly improved. More than 450 kilograms of the dendrobium nobile is produced per mu. The saleroom of the dendrobium nobile per mu is twenty thousand yuan, a profit can reach ten thousand yuan and the number of surplus labor which can be settled in countryside is one hundred or so.

A station side transmission unit in an optical network includes two redundant modules. An interface of each of the redundant modules for connection to an outside of the station side transmission unit includes a function of releasing closure of the interface. One of the redundant modules serves as an active module and the other serves as a backup module. During occurrence of a loss of signal, the active module closes the interface of the active module and the backup module releases closure of the interface of the backup module, whereby reliability and availability of an access network are improved.

An engine mount wherein an elastic body connecting upper and lower rigid members has a front-back dimension of its upper half smaller than that of its lower half with the upper half constitutes a front-back direction rubber stopper portion opposed to and spaced apart from a pair of leg portions of a bridge shaped stopper member in the front-back direction by a stopper clearance. The bridge shaped stopper member is press fitted onto the elastic body and the lower rigid member by being assembled through an opening of a lower end thereof, with the lower half clamped elastically between the pair of leg portions. With the stopper member being press fitted onto the elastic body and the lower rigid member, the pressing portions of the stopper member press downwardly the shoulder portions of the elastic body causing compression deformation of the lower half, producing a state of fixation of the lower half to the stopper member.

A decorative laminate assembly having a decorative laminate top layer assembly. This top layer assembly includes, in descending superimposed relationship, a decorative layer and a core layer that includes PETG, or other polymeric material. Preferably, the top layer assembly also includes a wear resistant overlay layer on top of the decorative layer, and the core layer's PETG is in a sheet form. The top layer assembly may be directly bonded to a water resistant substrate. The decorative laminate assembly of the present invention can be used for a variety of purposes, including flooring applications. When the present invention is used for flooring applications, it is preferred that the overlay layer has enhanced wear resistant qualities and that the water resistant substrate comprise PVC or cement fiberboard.

The present invention provides a server cooling system and device, the system comprising a shell accommodated with a cooling liquid, a condensation module, a mechanical arm, a buffer bin and a control module. The server cooling system of the present application can automatically take out and place in a heating element, and avoids the gasified cooling liquid steam from leaking, thus improving the safety factor during operation, and reducing the loss of the cooling liquid.

A short span flat drywall ceiling construction comprising a pair of spaced parallel wall angles facing one another, the wall angles each having a vertical leg secured to vertical support surfaces and a horizontal leg cantilevered from its respective vertical leg towards the other wall angle, a plurality of substantially identical roll-formed sheet metal tees extending between the wall angles and vertically supported thereby, each tee having a main body formed of a single strip of sheet steel, the tee having a horizontal single layer lower flange, a vertical double layer central web disposed above the flange, and a bulb at the top of the web centered on a plane of symmetry, a sheet metal U-shaped reinforcement channel fitted on a central part of the length of the tee such that it is in contact with at least the sidewalls of the bulb.

The present invention concerns compositions and methods for preventing miscarriage and premature labor, and for treating and preventing Bacterial Vaginosis using a pH-buffering polymer. The present invention further concerns formulating such a composition or method in such a way as to provide therapeutically sufficient levels of the composition to a patient in need thereof.

The invention provides a credit card payment system and a method thereof, used for paying credit cards of users, comprising a third-party payment. The third-party payment further comprises a user interaction unit, a user count storage cell, a payment unit and a company interaction unit. The user interaction unit is connected with a user terminal. The user count storage cell is used for storing count data on third-party payment flat. The payment unit is connected with the user interaction unit and the user count storage cell, respectively. The company interaction unit is connected with the payment unit and a company credit card center, respectively. The invention further provides a convenient, highly-effective and rapid credit card payment way.

The invention provides an inner supporting device for a reinforcement cage of an extra-high pressure cast-in-place pile foundation and relates to the technical field of reinforcement cage manufacturing. The inner supporting device is used for increasing the processing efficiency of the reinforcement cage and solving the problem that a supporting rod cannot be reused when a welding supporting rod mode is adopted for supporting a stirrup. The inner supporting device for the reinforcement cage of the extra-high pressure cast-in-place pile foundation is characterized in that a sliding rod is driven by a motor and a driving assembly to linearly slide so as to realize the stretching of the sliding rod; a supporting plate at a free end of the stretching sliding rod is in contact with the inner side of the stirrup; a spring is arranged between the free end of the sliding rod and the supporting plate; the arrangement of the spring can compensate for the measuring error caused by the stirrup manufacturing, can ensure the tight contact between the supporting plate and the stirrup and can excellently ensure the supporting for the stirrup. After the supporting device is used, the motor can be driven to reversely act, so that the sliding rod can contract and can be reused. The labor capacity of welding and fixing, and then gas-cutting and detaching in the prior art is avoided and the unnecessary waste of resources is avoided.

There is provided a technology that enables an operator to designate whether or not to continue imaging if divided capture has been interrupted in a radiographic apparatus. During continuation of divided capture, the state of an irradiation switch for designating irradiation of radiation is detected by an irradiation switch state detection unit. When a suspension of the designation of irradiation of radiation has been detected, information indicating continuation of imaging, performing of imaging again, or cancellation of imaging is presented to an operator, thereby preventing an unintended interruption of imaging.

The invention discloses a space enclosing structure convenient for opening a door opening, which consists of a door opening portion and a periphery portion around the door opening portion. The door opening portion is a slotted section corresponding to a proper caliber size for the access of a tunneling machine; and the slotted section is filled with soil cement and vertically inserted with a plurality of H-shaped steels in sequence so as to form a profiled bar retaining wall that can block water and satisfy the rigidness required for digging a foundation ditch. The invention also discloses a construction method of the space enclosing structure convenient for opening the door opening, an out-start well method and an in-reception well method using the space enclosing structure convenient for opening the door opening. The invention can avoid the labour capacity required for manually opening the door opening, can save the working period and effectively reduce the construction risk. As additional large-scale devices are unnecessary to be installed and the H-shaped steel can be recycled, the invention also has the advantages of simple construction and low construction cost.

A battery system includes a first cell that is electrically connected to a second cell via a push-on clip. The clip is an electrically conductive plate that includes a first cutout that is configured to receive and snap onto a first terminal of the first cell, and a second cutout that is configured to receive and snap onto a second terminal of the second cell. The first and second cutouts are irregularly shaped and formed in the peripheral edge of the clip. The first and second terminals each have a widened distal end, and an interference fit is formed between the clip cutouts and the corresponding widened distal end, whereby a secure electrical connection between the terminals and the clip is provided.

The invention relates to a method for video semantic mining, comprising the steps of: firstly performing a Chinese continuous speech recognition, a video target recognition and a video character recognition on a to-be-processed video; then performing a Chinese word division and a part-of-speech tagging on the recognition result, reserving nouns and verbs as the peaks of a graph model, wherein a side weight between the peaks is set to be the Chinese semantic distance of words represented by the two peaks; and finally mining the semantic information of the video according to a dense subgraph finding algorithm. The semantic mining of the video is realized by the fusion of the three recognition results of the Chinese continuous speech recognition, the video target recognition and the video character recognition; the video is represented to be a graph model, wherein the peaks are the words in the video, and the side weight is set to be the semantic distance between the two peaks; the video semantic mining algorithm is further transformed to be the dense subgraph finding algorithm of the graph model. The method and the device in the invention solve the problems of high error rate of a single recognition result and incapability of efficiently fusing a plurality of recognition results in the process of the Chinese continuous speech recognition, the video target recognition and the video character recognition, as well as solve the problem of the video structured expression and the problem of the video semantic mining algorithm realization. The method and the device in the invention can be used for performing automatic marking, classification and semantic mining on batches of videos.

The invention discloses a walking type detection platform for the static load of engineering foundation piles, which comprises a supporting platform movably supported on two long boats and two short boats, wherein the two short boats are respectively arranged at two ends of the supporting platform, and a short-boat walking vehicle is arranged on each short boat and is fixedly connected with a short-boat slewing platform; vertical lifting hydraulic cylinders mounted on the supporting platform is hinged to the short-boat supporting platforms; the short-boat slewing platforms are hinged to the short-boat supporting platforms through swing pin shafts; two long-boats are respectively arranged on two sides of the supporting platform; each long boat is provided with two movable long-boat walking vehicles which are hinged to the lower ends of the corresponding legs of the long boats; the legs of the long boats are mounted on the supporting platform through beams of legs of the long boats; long-boat walking hydraulic cylinders are arranged between the long-boat walking vehicles and the long boats; a crane is mounted on the supporting platform. The detection platform can perform self-propelled move as a whole, requires no repetitive construction and hoisting, and has the features of safety in use, reasonable structure, high operating efficiency and the like.

A method for reducing resources for selecting seed to be produced in commercial quantities or for research is disclosed. Samples of seed which are candidates for selection are collected and given an identifier. Specific tissue or structure from candidate seed is removed. A test or analysis is performed on the candidate seed or the removed tissue or structure. Results of the test or analysis are recorded and correlated to the seed's identifier. The results are evaluated and a decision is made whether to select a candidate seed for commercial production or for research. Time, space, and labor associated with growing plants in an experimental plot or greenhouse and taking tissue samples from growing plants is saved.

The invention discloses nucleic acid for detecting Zika virus, a real-time fluorescence RPA kit and a detection method thereof. The real-time fluorescence RPA kit is convenient to use, the quantity of reagents adopted is small, the cost is low, the compatibility of required instruments is high, reaction can be performed on a real-time fluorescence PCR instrument and instruments with a fluorescent trapping function, and the greatest advantage of the kit lines in performing isothermal amplication and being capable of detecting fluorescence signals in real time within 10 to 30 min. The detection method greatly simplifies the operation process, reduces steps of repetitive operation, saves time, reduces labor force consumed by repetitive operation, and effectively lowers the cost, and a detection result shows that the method is high in specificity and sensitivity, and rapid and accurate screening of Zika virus is realized.

The invention relates to an intelligent deposit locker system, an intelligent depositing method and device. The intelligent depositing method is applied to a central server, and comprises the following steps of: 1, obtaining the physical information of the deposit lockers; 2, receiving request information from an intelligent terminal; 3, finding the corresponding matched deposit locker according to the request information of the intelligent terminal and the physical information of the deposit lockers, generating the opening password corresponding to the deposit locker, and sending the physical information and the opening password of the corresponding deposit locker to the intelligent terminal. According to the intelligent deposit locker system, and the intelligent depositing method and device, the state information of the deposit lockers can be intelligently obtained, and a user does not need to check on the spot.

The invention discloses a bamboo skin scraping, interior wall processing and pressing integrated operation system. In the system, a primary flattening device, a primary scrapping device, a secondary flattening device, a combing and scraping device, a secondary scraping device, a rolling device and a tertiary flattening device are arranged on the tabletop of an on-line operation standard station in turn. The system can realize the integrated processing of skin treatment, interior partition wall treatment and rolling of raw bamboo, improves the stability of the overall processing quality of bamboo, has high yield, saves labor force and meets needs for industrial production; and meanwhile, the system can save bamboo, land resources, processing space and energy.

The invention discloses a dough mixing and dough kneading device for food processing. The device comprises a box body, wherein a fixed plate is fixedly connected between two opposite sides of an innerwall of the box body, the top of the fixed plate is fixedly connected with a dough mixing box, the bottom of the inner wall of the box body is fixedly connected with a first motor, an output shaft end of the first motor is fixedly connected with a stirring shaft through a coupler, one side of the bottom of the inner wall of the box body is fixedly connected with a water pump, a water outlet end of the water pump is communicated with a nozzle through a water discharge pipe, one side of the top of the fixed plate is fixedly connected with a dough kneading box, the top of the dough kneading boxis fixedly connected with a third motor through a fixed mount, an output shaft end of the third motor is in transmission connection with a dough kneading device through a belt, and one side of the dough kneading box is fixedly connected with an extruding device. The invention relates to the technical field of food processing. The dough mixing and dough kneading device for food processing solves the problems of low efficiency and time and energy waste caused by traditional dough mixing and dough kneading, ensures the eating taste, effectively improves the production efficiency and reduces the production cost.

The invention discloses an automatic feeding device for food ingredients. The device comprises a rotatable rack and a food box rack, the rotatable frame comprises a circular chassis and a drive compartment, and a seasoning port is arranged at the middle position on the chassis, and the seasoning device is fixedly installed on the seasoning port, The food material box rack is movably installed on the chassis around the seasoning device, the driving warehouse is provided with a driving device for driving the food material box rack to rotate, the inside of the food material box rack is provided with a box warehouse centered on the seasoning device, two sides of the box warehouse are provided with clamping pieces, and the food material box is fixedly installed in the box warehouse through theclamping pieces. The invention avoids human labor in the cooking process and achieves the preparation work in advance: putting the food ingredients into the food ingredients box, putting the food ingredients box into the machine, and automatically putting the food ingredients according to the set recipe through remote control, thereby effectively liberating the human from the kitchen and effectively saving time.

A device for retarding birth including an upper ring for surrounding a cervix, an anchoring component for anchoring the device, and an elastic component for attaching the upper ring to the anchoring component, wherein the elastic component pushes the upper ring and the anchoring component apart. A device for retarding birth including a sleeve for surrounding a cervix along a greater portion of a length of the cervix, a support strip on the sleeve directed along an axis of the sleeve, and a ring at least partially around the sleeve, in which when a top of the sleeve is pushed to expand radially, the support strip pivots on the ring, such that an end of the support strip near the top of the sleeve moves radially outward, and an end of the support strip near the bottom of the sleeve moves radially inward. Related apparatus and methods are also described.

Novel optical disc storage units comprising transparent polypropylene are provided. Such storage units exhibit sufficient impact resistance to protect the target disc and sufficient clarity that any informational literature may be placed entirely within the storage unit and easily viewed and read through the walls thereof without impediment. Furthermore, the target storage unit must also include a spine section of sufficient width to permit a section of the informational literature to be placed internally thereon and viewed and easily read (such as, for example, the title and accompanying language describing the target disc placed therein) substantially without impediment as well. Additionally, provided therein are novel insert trays that simultaneously permit proper placement of such internally placed informational literature against the internal portion of the aforementioned walls, and particularly the spine portion, as well as provide antitheft properties. Such insert trays are designed to encompass any discs placed therein to the extent that such discs cannot exit such trays when the container is in closed position without breaking the disc itself. Specific novel storage units, in addition to these necessarily transparent walls and spine portions, are also possible to maximize the benefits of the transparent properties thereof.

The present invention is provided for fusion splicing optical fibers with low splice loss even when a shape of a discharge beam for the splicing is distorted. In the present invention, a preliminary discharge is performed with the optical fibers outside a discharge area and an image of the discharge beam thereof is picked up. Based on this image, brightness distributions of the discharge beam are estimated on a plurality of lines in a Z direction that are set in different positions in an X direction, and a discharge center of the beam is found from the plurality of brightness distributions. Then, the abutment portion of the optical fibers is positioned at the discharge center, and a main discharge is performed so as to fusion splice the distal ends of the optical fibers.

The Jezco Waste Collection Truck provides a completely new method of picking up garbage on the residential and commercial garbage route. Instead of the garbage going into a vehicle that has to be dumped at an intermediate location then reloaded, the garbage goes into a leak proof container which is not dumped till the garbage reaches it final destination. The Jezco Waste Collection Truck is a medium duty 2 axle truck that holds the patented Jezco Container. This truck is a lighter duty vehicle than the standard garbage truck which is typically a 3 axle unit and much heavier. As a result the Jezco Waste Collection Truck is a less expensive unit. The Jezco Container is 100 percent leak proof and will not spill garbage juices onto the roadways and will eliminate the transmission of rodents. The Jezco Container has the ability to access back haul trucking which will reduce the fuel consumption used in hauling garbage and reduce the number of trucks on the road for garbage hauling.

A decorative laminate assembly having, in descending superimposed relationship, a decorative layer, an impregnated tie sheet and a substrate. Preferably, the laminate assembly also includes an overlay layer on top of the decorative layer, and the substrate preferably contains FRP. The tie sheet is preferably impregnated with a bridging agent having a mixture of MEK, an acrylic ester, a polyester and an organic peroxide. Surprisingly, it has been discovered that impregnated tie sheet of the present invention not only bonds remarkably well to the melamine resin treated (or untreated) decorative layer, but also simultaneously bonds extremely well to an FRP substrate. The decorative laminate assemblies of the present invention can be used for a variety of purposes, including wall panels and flooring applications. When the present invention is used for flooring applications, it is preferred that the overlay layer has enhanced wear resistant qualities. The chemical mixture of the bridging agent used in the tie sheet can also be used without any sheet and can be instead deposited directly between two incompatible layers of a laminate.

The invention relates to a double-speed automatic degreasing centrifuge which comprises a hollow centrifuge jacket, wherein a motor is fixed on the outer wall surface of the centrifuge jacket; an oilcontaining bucket is embedded and fixed in an inner cavity of the centrifuge jacket; the top end of a lifting shaft is provided with a lifting rack which can receive a product, and the lifting rack isembedded in and matched with an inner middle cavity of an isolating bucket; a material outlet channel is arranged between the outer wall surface of the oil containing bucket and the inner wall surface of the centrifuge jacket; the circumference of the lifting rack is provided with a lifting plate with a helical structure; the peripheral wall of the isolating bucket is uniformly provided with netholes, and oil liquid generated by the centrifugal rotation of a product is directly thrown into an inner cavity on the upper part of the oil containing bucket through the net holes. The lifting platewith a high-end configuration is adopted, thereby realizing the automatic separation during the lifting of the product. The lifting rack is provided with the lifting plate with the helical structure,thus the product can be easily lifted, and the integral effect is excellent. The lifting rack and the isolating bucket are simultaneously operated at double speed, thus, while the product is thrown to clear greasy dirt, the thrown greasy dirt can be drained outwards, furthermore, the problem of high labor intensity is saved and the mechanized operation degree is improved.

Assay methods for identifying an increased risk of preterm delivery induced by premature rupture of the fetal membranes are provided. More specifically, the invention provides salivary protease assays indicative of amniochorion and fetal membrane concentrations of proteases involved in the degradation of the fetal membranes leading to rupture. An increase in salivary protease levels beyond normal or individual baseline provides an indication that protease levels in fetal membranes and / or the amniotic fluid are abnormally elevated. Abnormally elevated protease levels define an increased risk of a premature delivery caused by rupture of the fetal membranes. Thus, abnormally high levels of salivary protease levels indicates elevated risk of PROM, and provides an indication for therapeutic intervention to prevent PROM-induced preterm labor.

The present invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of metal blanks, discs, and sputtering targets by flattening only one of the two surfaces of a metal plate. The elimination of flattening the metal plate's second surface results in a significant cost reduction. The metal plate of the present invention preferably has a single-side flatness of 0.005 inches or less, which improves the reliability of the bond between the target blank and a backing plate. Preferred metals include, but are not limited to, tantalum, niobium, titanium, and alloys thereof. The present invention also relates to machining the first side of a metal plate, bonding the first side to a backing plate, and then optionally machining the second side of the metal plate.