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A network is provided herein comprising a plurality of network resources, and at least one network cluster having a plurality of cluster members. Each member of the cluster may be configured for utilizing one or more of the network resources and for tracking usage thereof. For example, each member of the cluster may include one or more token buckets for tracking that member's usage of the network resources. At least one member of the cluster (i.e., a “reservation coordinator”) may include a first set of computer-executable instructions for receiving network traffic destined for a particular network resource at a first rate (i.e., a maximum average sustained rate). In addition, the reservation coordinator may include a second set of computer-executable instructions for distributing the first rate among at least a subset of the cluster members. In some cases, each member of the cluster may include a third set of computer-executable instructions for changing how the first rate is distributed among members of the subset. For example, the third set of computer-executable instructions may include instructions for attempting to reserve a substantially larger or smaller portion of the first rate.

Disclosed is a method for efficiently transmitting and receiving control information messages necessary for a Multimedia Broadcast / Multicast Service (MBMS) provided in a mobile communication system. The method includes setting information elements for the control information messages to reduce unnecessary signaling overhead during the transmission of the control information. The method prevents a user equipment (UE) from performing duplicate reception on the control information, thereby reducing power consumption of a battery.

A needle aspiration biopsy device includes a syringe, a valve coupler for controlling a vacuum in the syringe barrel, and an anti-reflux head. The head includes a hub, defining a large collection well preferably several hundred micro liters in volume, and a needle mounted to the hub. A passageway is defined either by a contoured needle or a straight needle and an internal channel in the hub wall such that a proximal end of the passageway extends inside the hub and opens in spaced relation to a floor of the collection well. A method of biopsy using the device is also disclosed.

A process for treating an aqueous liquid. The process includes: passing the liquid by force of gravity through a treatment area, the liquid having an upper surface exposed to ambient pressure; disrupting the flow of the liquid as it passes through the treatment area, and exposing the upper surface of the liquid as the flow is disrupted to UV light. Disrupting the flow includes directing lower portions of the liquid toward the surface of the liquid to bring such portions into contact with UV light. A process for treating an aqueous liquid in which the treatment process is monitored. This process includes passing the liquid through a treatment area to bring the liquid into contact with reflective walls submerged below an upper surface of the liquid, and exposing the upper surface of the liquid to light emitted from a UV light source such that UV light penetrates the liquid to strike the submerged reflective surfaces and to be reflected therefrom to emerge through the upper surface of the liquid. The process also involves determining the intensity of the UV light emitted from the light source, determining the intensity of UV light received by a UV light sensor trained to receive emergent light and determining whether the treatment has a predetermined effectiveness based on the intensity of the UV light emitted from the light source and the intensity of the UV light received by the sensor. Apparatuses for carrying out processes of the invention are also described.

Gene panels, biomarker panels and microarrays relating to lipid formation in stratum corneum of human skin as a function of extrinsic and / or intrinsic aging conditions, and methods for assessing the age status of human skin, methods for identifying or evaluating an agent as effective for improving stratum corneum barrier maintenance and / or repair properties in aged skin, and cosmetic composition comprising the identified agents are all provided.

The invention relates to an assay to select a candidate drug for the treatment of inflammatory disease due to cytokine production. The assay comprises: a) exposing said candidate drug to intestinal cells; and b) analysing the effect of the said candidate drug selected from the group consisting of the variation of nuclear export or import of transcription factors from the NF-κB family the disruption of transcriptional activity of transcription factors from the NF-κB family, the differential histone acetylation of p65 (RelA); the variation of the amount of PPARγ / RelA complexes in the cytosol of the cells; and a combination thereof. The invention further relates to methods for the treatment of inflammatory cytokine production associated diseases and to the use of a therapeutically effective dose of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron or a component thereof.

Techniques involving gestures and other functionality are described. In one or more implementations, the techniques describe gestures that are usable to provide inputs to a computing device. A variety of different gestures are contemplated, including bimodal gestures (e.g., using more than one type of input) and single modal gestures. Additionally, the gesture techniques may be configured to leverage these different input types to increase the amount of gestures that are made available to initiate operations of a computing device.

Methods, systems, and computer programs for generating revenue in an online game are presented. One method includes an operation for creating, in the online game, a first virtual currency and a game score, where the amount of the first virtual currency can be increased in exchange for real currency. The first virtual currency can be traded for advancement in the online game. Further, a game module, that is an autonomous game within the online game, is started, and a second virtual currency and a module score are created in the game module. The amount of the second virtual currency can be increased in exchange for real currency, where the second virtual currency can be traded for advancement in the game module and cannot be traded for advancement in the online game outside of the game module. Advancement in the game module increases the module score and does not increase the game score. In addition, at least one form of advancement in the game module can be obtained with the second virtual currency and cannot be obtained with the first virtual currency.

The present invention provides methods of detecting unamplifed genomic nucleic acid anchored to a solid support. The methods are useful for the detecting genetic abnormalities associated with various diseases, diagnosis, and prognosis.

Direct Deposit Donation requires the automatic deduction of money from one's paycheck to an electronic donation receptacle. This money would be donated and tracked based on the employee's employee identification number.

A method and apparatus for promoting the creation and distribution of creative works. The invention provides a novel cooperative auction means collecting funds for payment for inducing a rightholder to donate rights in a piece of intellectual property to the public domain.

In various embodiments of the invention, a unique construction for Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) with at least one luminescent rod and extracting optical elements used to generate a variety of high brightness light sources with different emission spectra. In an embodiment of the invention, forced air cooling is used to cool the luminescent rod. In an embodiment of the invention, totally internal reflected light can be redirected outward and refocused. In another embodiment of the invention, light emitted by the luminescent rod is out-coupled for use in a variety of applications.

The present invention is directed to a process of producing ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass, which comprises pre-treating a lignocellulosic feedstock to produce a reactive carbohydrate mixture; adding activated carbon in free form; converting said reactive carbohydrate mixture to form a beer; separating solids from said carbohydrate mixture or said beer or both, wherein said activated carbon is separated along with the solids in said mixture, said beer or both; and drying said solids. The invention is also directed to the production of a dried solid fuel to be combusted during said process.

Image data is encoded using a block consisting of a plurality of pixels as a unit of processing. A statistics section extracts statistical information for each pixel value, from a plurality of encoded blocks adjacent to an encoding target block, at each corresponding position within the respective blocks. An encoding processing section performs encoding on the encoding target block using the statistical information extracted by the statistics section. The encoding processing section comprises a prediction section that predicts a value of an encoding target pixel from the selected reference pixel based on the statistical information, a comparison section that detects an error between the predicted value and the value of the encoding target pixel, and an encoding section that performs entropy encoding on the prediction error.

An evaporator with a cool storage function includes flat refrigerant flow tubes and flat cool storage material containers each brazed to one side surface of the corresponding refrigerant flow tube. A plurality of sets each composed of refrigerant flow tubes and a cool storage material container are disposed such that they are spaced from one another. A fin is disposed in an air-passing clearance between adjacent sets, and is joined to the corresponding refrigerant flow tubes and the corresponding cool storage material container. Front portions of the cool storage material containers and the fins project frontward from the refrigerant flow tubes, and an internal-volume-increasing portion, whose container height is greater than that of the container body portion, is provided at the frontward projecting portion of each cool storage material container. Fins are brazed to opposite side surfaces of the internal-volume-increasing portion of each cool storage material container.

Programming phase-change memory devices and driver circuits for programming phase-change memory devices are provided that control an amount of current supplied to a phase-change material of the phase-change memory device based on a measure of resistance of the phase-change material during programming of the phase-change memory device. Such control may be based on detected voltage or current. The amount of current supplied to the phase-change material may be increased until the measured voltage level changes with respect to a reference voltage value and the current maintained constant if the measured voltage level has changed with respect to the reference voltage value. The change of the measured voltage level with respect to the reference voltage may be the measured voltage level falling below the reference voltage value.

In an apparatus for the fibre-sorting or fibre-selection of a fibre bundle comprising textile fibres, especially for combing, clamping devices are provided which clamp the fibre bundle at a distance from its free end, and a mechanical arrangement is present which generates a combing action from the clamping site to the free end, in order to loosen and remove non-clamped constituents. To enable productivity to be substantially increased in a simple manner and an improved combed sliver to be obtained, downstream of the supply device there are arranged at least two rotatably mounted rollers, clamping devices being distributed spaced apart in the region of at least one said roller's periphery, and the arrangement for generating a combing action is inside the roller.

In a particular embodiment, an absorbent article incorporates a material having an inherently extensible base layer of a generally fluid permeable material and at least two strips or regions of elastomeric material attached to the extensible base layer material with a space therebetween such that a center region of the extensible base layer material is bordered on at least two sides by composite regions of the elastomeric materials and the base layer material. The center region of extensible material is maintained in an untensioned condition and attached to an absorbent body of the article. The composite side regions are stretchable in at least a first direction because of the extensible nature of the base layer material. The composite material may be incorporated as a bodyside liner in the absorbent article.

A control valve for discharging a liquid refrigerant in a control chamber at the time of start-up of a variable capacity compressor has a movable a center post for increasing the area of a passage for discharging the liquid refrigerant when discharging the liquid refrigerant.

A method and apparatus for implementing a colorless polarization independent Mach-Zehnder-interferometer (MZI)-based tunable dispersion compensator (TDC) that has only three MZI stages (two in a reflective MZI-TDC ) and two adjustable couplers which are responsive to one control voltage, making it compact, low power, and simple to fabricate, test, and operate. Polarization independence is obtained by using a half-wave plate positioned across the midpoints of the two path lengths of middle stage MZI of the three stage MZI-TDC and by using a quarter-wave plate in front of a reflective facet of the reflective MZI-TDC. A cascaded MZI-TDC arrangement with also only a single control is formed by cascading two MZI-TDC arrangements and driving all adjustable couplers with the same control signal.

Described herein is a resource allocation method for a hierarchical cellular system, and a transmission frame for performing the method. A macrocell dedicated resource and a shared resource are respectively controlled based on a usage rate of the macrocell dedicated resource and a usage rate of the shared resource. The macrocell reports a usage plan of the shared resource that the macrocell uses to a small cell, and the small cell may allocate the shared resource to terminals based on the usage plan of the shared resource. A control message related to the usage plan may be transmitted / received via the transmission frame.

An energy absorber is crushed upon receiving compressive load, thereby absorbing energy. The energy absorber has a first end and a second end with respect to a direction of the compressive load. The energy absorber is formed of fiber-reinforced resin. The fiber-reinforced resin includes a stack of fiber layers having a compression direction fiber layer. The compression direction fiber layer includes fiber bundles of filament fibers. The fiber bundles are arranged such that the extending direction of the fiber bundles has a component of the direction of the compressive load. The density of the fiber bundles is gradually increased from the first end to the second end. Therefore, compressive load required for crushing is prevented from increasing at an early stage of crushing.

A method is provided for fortifying a seed, grain, nut, bean, or the like with an essential fatty acid such as docosahexaenoic acid or eicosapentaenoic acid. Using the method, it is possible to produce seeds that can be used as a dietary source of that essential fatty acid. A seed that has been soaked in an aqueous mixture containing an essential fatty acid so as to become fortified with the fatty acid, and a food product formed using the seed are also provided.

A weight sensitive squirrel proof bird feeder with multiple perch rods. In general, a feed reservoir includes perch rods positioned generally perpendicular to an outer surface of the feed reservoir. When a predetermined weight is placed upon the perches, the perches rotate about their longitudinal axis by a motor thereby expelling the source of the weight, typically squirrels or other undesirable animals from the perches.

The present invention provides a method of increasing neural stem cell numbers or neurogenesis by using a pheromone, a luteinizing hormone (LH) and / or a human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG). The method can be practiced in vivo to obtain more neural stem cells in situ, which can in turn produce more neurons or glial cells to compensate for lost or dysfunctional neural cells. The method can also be practiced in vitro to produce a large number of neural stem cells in culture. The cultured stem cells can be used, for example, for transplantation treatment of patients or animals suffering from or suspected of having neurodegenerative diseases or conditions.

The invention is directed to a method of removing a deleterious substance bound to a protein in blood of a patient by introducing a displacer substance into the blood under conditions in which the displacer substance replaces deleterious substance bound to the protein, thereby resulting in additional unbound deleterious substance in the blood, and removing unbound deleterious substance from the blood by extracorporeal renal replacement treatment.

A vehicle headrest apparatus includes a headrest member including a head restraint section to restrain the head of a seat occupant; and a forward move mechanism to move the head restraint section forward in case of a rear end collision of a vehicle. There is further provided an inclining mechanism to incline the head restraint section forward during a forward movement of the head restraint section, by increasing an amount of a forward movement of an upper part of the head restraint section greater than an amount of a forward movement of a lower part of the head restraint section.

The invention relates to a conjugate comprising an adiponectin polypeptide, and a first non-polypeptide moiety covalently attached to the adiponectin polypeptide, wherein the adiponectin polypeptide comprises an amino acid residue having an attachment group for said first non-polypeptide moiety, wherein said amino acid residue has been introduced in a position that in the parent adiponectin is occupied by a surface exposed amino acid residue.