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The presently claimed invention provides methods and kits for amplifying a target sequence from within a nucleic acid population. The presently claimed invention provides selection probes which are complementary to at least a portion of said target sequence and mechanisms for adding a probe sequence to the 3' end of a target sequence that is hybridized to a selection probe. The added 3' probe sequence and a probe sequence added at the 5' end of the target by adaptor ligation allow for selective amplification of the target sequence.

The system evaluates a set of incentives based upon a variety of factors and/or predetermined rules and consumers are provided incentives when they satisfy one or more criteria of making payments for their transaction accounts. The one or more criteria include making an early payment, paying more than a minimum amount due, and making the payment through an automatic payment scheme. If a received payment satisfies one or more predefined criteria, one or more incentives are selected for the consumer, tracked, and provided to the consumer. The system analyzes payment information to determine attributes and positive (desirable) behavior and provides incentives to the consumer based on such positive behaviors.

The system evaluates a set of incentives based upon a variety of factors and/or predetermined rules and consumers are provided incentives when they satisfy one or more criteria of making payments for their transaction accounts. The one or more criteria include making an early payment, paying more than a minimum amount due, and making the payment through an automatic payment scheme. If a received payment satisfies one or more predefined criteria, one or more incentives are selected for the consumer, tracked, and provided to the consumer. The system analyzes payment information to determine attributes and positive (desirable) behavior and provides incentives to the consumer based on such positive behaviors.

A system for providing an activity-centric collaboration space provides representations of the tasks that the team has planned, is engaged in, and has completed as a means of enhancing cross-team awareness and coordination. The system enables a user to explicitly indicate what task she is currently engaged in on behalf of the team, and makes this current task information available to other team members. A “tasks” view user interface component provides a shared view of all ongoing, planned, and completed tasks for a team. Information about team members' task assignments, and the ability to monitor team members' current tasks, may be used to manage potential interruptions caused by requests for instant messaging sessions and the like. Team members can explicitly establish interruption management policies indicating how task assignments and current tasks should be used to determine whether a communication attempt should be blocked or forwarded to a team member. Team space resources that are most important to an individual team member may also be identified, and changes made to those resources made more visually apparent and/or readily available to that user than changes to artifacts with which they are less concerned. Personalized differential awareness user interface representations may also be provided, and the associations that tasks establish between resources and team members also enables convenient determination of whether newly added or modified resources would be of interest to a particular user.

The system evaluates a set of incentives based upon a variety of factors and/or predetermined rules and consumers are provided incentives when they satisfy one or more criteria of making payments for their transaction accounts. The one or more criteria include making an early payment, paying more than a minimum amount due, and making the payment through an automatic payment scheme. If a received payment satisfies one or more predefined criteria, one or more incentives are selected for the consumer, tracked, and provided to the consumer. The system analyzes payment information to determine attributes and positive (desirable) behavior and provides incentives to the consumer based on such positive behaviors.

A method of extending promotional discounts and special prices on items for sale to identified consumers. After the identification of a consumer by a unique identifier; a selected item is promoted with a discount or special price to the identified consumer. The discount or special price is granted upon a purchase of the item by the identified consumer prior to the withdrawal or termination of the promotion to the identified consumer. The withdrawal or termination of the promotion is held in abeyance upon an acknowledgment of the promotion by the identified consumer. In other words, the identified consumer must take specific action to prevent a promotional discount from being withdrawn. This inverted promotion provides for greater incentives for the consumer to provide information about his or her purchasing habits.

A system and method is disclosed that creates a next sale “buy one more time” network of merchants who, in one embodiment, are physically near each other, who promote a next purchase at a next merchant through the use of an electronic commerce medium with an incentive for a current merchant to become a paid sales agent for a next merchant.

The system evaluates a set of incentives based upon a variety of factors and/or predetermined rules and consumers are provided incentives when they satisfy one or more criteria of making payments for their transaction accounts. The one or more criteria include making an early payment, paying more than a minimum amount due, and making the payment through an automatic payment scheme. If a received payment satisfies one or more predefined criteria, one or more incentives are selected for the consumer, tracked, and provided to the consumer. The system analyzes payment information to determine attributes and positive (desirable) behavior and provides incentives to the consumer based on such positive behaviors.

The system evaluates a set of incentives based upon a variety of factors and/or predetermined rules and consumers are provided incentives when they satisfy one or more criteria of making payments for their transaction accounts. The one or more criteria include making an early payment, paying more than a minimum amount due, and making the payment through an automatic payment scheme. If a received payment satisfies one or more predefined criteria, one or more incentives are selected for the consumer, tracked, and provided to the consumer. The system analyzes payment information to determine attributes and positive (desirable) behavior and provides incentives to the consumer based on such positive behaviors.

A system and method to award a person to engage and complete a designated activity by setting up an escrow account with monetary funds or award items ready to reward the person immediately following the completion of the activity. The timeliness of the award can enhance the effectiveness of the motivation system.

This combined chest press and leg press exercise machine is comprised of an inclined seat with a weight resistance mechanism attached to handles and a foot-plate for providing adjustable resistance to arm and leg movement. At least one hand rail is positioned to aid entry to and exit from the machine and to stabilize the user while exercising.

A method for using the chest and leg exercise machine is for the user to sit on the inclined seat, hold the weight resistance handles and place his feet on the weight resistance foot-plate. He then pushes with his hands, the said handles forwards, away from the direction of the user's body. Simultaneously, he pushes with his legs on the said foot-plate also away from the direction of the user's body. The said handles and the said foot-plate are then controllably returned to their starting position and the exercise is repeated as desired.

Other methods for using the chest and leg exercise machine could be to operate the chest press and leg press independently or alternately or mostly the chest press with some help from the leg press or visa versa.

The system evaluates a set of incentives based upon a variety of factors and/or predetermined rules and consumers are provided incentives when they satisfy one or more criteria of making payments for their transaction accounts. The one or more criteria include making an early payment, paying more than a minimum amount due, and making the payment through an automatic payment scheme. If a received payment satisfies one or more predefined criteria, one or more incentives are selected for the consumer, tracked, and provided to the consumer. The system analyzes payment information to determine attributes and positive (desirable) behavior and provides incentives to the consumer based on such positive behaviors.

The invention relates to the field of Internet work attendance, and specifically relates to an Internet work attendance method based on task detection. Before work attendance, whether a user has a work task is detected through a server, and if there is a work task, the server records work attendance information and the work attendance succeeds, such that the user can quantify a daily workload with the help of the method, responsibilities are specified and clarified, each work content can be well organized, and labor initiative of enterprise employers is greatly stimulated; and when the user punches out after work, the server detects whether the user creates a work daily report, and if not, the user cannot successfully punch out unless he creates the work daily report, such that the user can make a summary of daily work with the help of the method, and development of a good work habit can be facilitated.