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An apparatus for controlling an automotive vehicle having a primary drive power source and an auxiliary drive power source. The apparatus includes a controller adapted to control the auxiliary drive power source such that an assisting drive torque which is generated by the auxiliary drive power source and applied to the vehicle in addition to a primary drive torque generated by the primary drive power source increases with an increase of a required output of the vehicle desired by the vehicle operator, and such that the auxiliary drive power source is operated for a length of time which decreases with the increase of the required output of the vehicle.

An erosion control system and method wherein a fabric filter bag is embedded with and / or filled with a flocculating polymer and is positioned on a sloping soil surface to dam and pond water flowing thereacross for settling of the particles in the water, and as the ponding water seeps into the bag the colloidal particles will be filtered or agglomerated for settling. The water then passes through and out of the bag and is further subjected to agglomeration and filtering by a skirt of filter material also impregnated with flocculating polymer, said skirt being anchored to the bag or stacked to maintain the position adjacent and downslope from the bag.

The present invention provides a parametric speech synthesis method and a parametric speech synthesis system. The method comprises sequentially processing each frame of speech of each phone in a phone sequence of an input text as follows: for a current phone, extracting a corresponding statistic model from a statistic model library and using model parameters of the statistic model that correspond to the current frame of the current phone as rough values of currently predicted speech parameters; according to the rough values and information about a predetermined number of speech frames occurring before the current time point, obtaining smoothed values of the currently predicted speech parameters; according to global mean values and global standard deviation ratios of the speech parameters obtained through statistics, performing global optimization on the smoothed values of the speech parameters to generate necessary speech parameters; and synthesizing the generated speech parameters to obtain a frame of speech synthesized for the current frame of the current phone. With this solution, the capacity of an RAM needed by speech synthesis will not increase with the length of the synthesized speech, and the time length of the synthesized speech is no longer limited by the RAM.

This disclosure relates to aligning semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) uplink and downlink communications. In one embodiment, a cellular base station may select SPS parameters for a wireless device. The SPS parameters may include a subframe offset, a downlink SPS interval, and an uplink SPS interval. The subframe offset may indicate a subframe at which both an initial downlink subframe and an initial uplink subframe are scheduled. An indication of the SPS parameters may be transmitted to the UE. The wireless device and the cellular base station may perform uplink and downlink communication according to the SPS parameters.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for processing bank notes present as separate deposits. To improve the processing reliability of the individual deposits, it is provided that the beginning and / or end of each deposit is recognized, and a separate carrier is used for each deposit for transporting the deposit to processing.

Example embodiments of rapid charging power supply systems are disclosed herein. One example rapid charging power supply system comprises: a stationary rapid charger (11); a power supply switch (11m) for switching and supplying DC power from the stationary rapid charger (11) to either a first charging circuit (20A) for supplying the DC power to a first electric moving vehicle (50) or a second charging circuit (20B) for supplying the DC power to a second electric moving body (53); a stationary electric storage unit (15) capable of storing DC power from the first charging circuit (20A) and used for being directly supplied to at least the first electric moving body (50); and a power feeding controller (12) for stopping power supply to the stationary electric storage unit (15) when charging an on-vehicle electric storage unit (85) of the first electric moving body (50).

A method of operating a fuel injector including a piezoelectric actuator having a stack of piezoelectric elements, and wherein in use the injector communicates with a fuel rail, the method comprises: applying a discharge current to the actuator for a discharge period so as to discharge the stack from a first differential voltage level across the stack to a second differential voltage level across the stack; maintaining the second differential voltage level for a period of time; and applying a charge current to the actuator for a charge period so as to charge the stack from the second differential voltage level to a third differential voltage level; wherein the third differential voltage level is selected in dependence on at least two engine parameters, the at least two engine parameters selected from: rail pressure; the electric pulse time; and the piezoelectric stack temperature.

Systems and methods are provided for matching a first user in a first geographic location with a second user in a second geographic location, and enabling the first user to find the second user in the second geographic location. The first geographic location can be the same as the second geographic location. The first user and second user can be matched based on user-specific matching criteria, including a first user profile of the first user and a second user profile of the second user. The first user can communicate with the second user.

In a method of producing a casting, molding or pressing tool (1) or tool insert (2) with at least one material layer (3, 5, 7) and with temperature control medium channels (6) arranged in the at least one material layer (3, 5, 7), the temperature control medium channels (6) are introduced into the at least one material layer (3, 5, 7) using a thermal spray process (2).

An apparatus and method for depositing a particulate containing composition onto mammalian skin such that when the particles contact the mammalian skin they have a momentum defined by ρvr, which is within the range of about 0.1 kg / ms≦ρvr≦about 12.0 kg / ms. The particles can be in the range of from about 10 nanometers to about 10 micrometers, in size. And the particles may be selected from the group consisting of titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, iron oxide, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polycarbonate, polyvinyl chloride, glass, silica and mixtures thereof. The particles are imbedded below the first layer of dead skin cells in the stratum corneum but they do not pass all the way through the stratum corneum into the living cells of the epidermis or dermis layers of the skin.

The invention discloses an efficient sewage treatment device, which comprises a device body and a motor, wherein a filter plate is fixedly welded in the device body, an opening in the lower end of thefilter plate is in seamless butt joint with an opening in the upper end of a sewage draining port, the sewage draining port is fixedly formed in the lower end of the device body, water outlets are symmetrically formed in the left end and the right end of the device body, a filter cylinder is fixedly welded to the upper end in the device body, a bottom cover is arranged at the lower end of the filter cylinder and installed at the lower end of a rotating shaft through a bearing, two sets of rotating plates are symmetrically welded to the rotating shaft, and bristles are fixedly installed at theends, away from the rotating shaft, of the rotating plates. According to the sewage treatment device, impurities with large sizes in sewage are preliminarily filtered by arranging the filter cylinder, and the sewage accumulated in the filter cylinder can be driven to rotate by the rotating plates through the rotation of the rotating plates, so that the speed of the sewage passing through the filter cylinder is increased by centrifugal force during rotation so as to enhance the preliminary filtering effect of the sewage.

A supercharging system includes a waste gate valve and an ECU. The ECU is configured to: calculate a first parameter and a second parameter, each of which has a positive correlation with an intake air amount; obtain a first difference by subtracting a first boost pressure from a second boost pressure; obtain a second difference by subtracting the first parameter from the second parameter; obtain a quotient by dividing the first difference by the second difference; and determine that a malfunction occurs in the waste gate valve when the quotient is larger than a threshold value.

The present invention relates to an image-based computer-aided prognosis (CAP) system and method that seeks to replicate the prognostic power of molecular assays in histopathology and pathological processes, including but not limited to cancer. Using only a tissue slide samples, a mechanism for digital slide scanning, and a computer, the present invention relates to an image-based CAP system and method which aims to overcome many of the drawbacks associated with prognostic molecular assays (e.g. Oncotype DX) including the high cost associated with the assay, limited laboratory facilities with specialized equipment, and length of time between biopsy and prognostic prediction.