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A structure of a structure release and a manufacturing method are provided. The structure and manufacturing method are adapted for an interference display cell. The structure of the interference display cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode and at least one supporter. The second electrode has at least one hole and is arranged about parallel with the first electrode. The supporter is located between the first electrode and the second electrode and a cavity is formed. In the release etch process of manufacturing the structure, an etchant can pass through the hole to etch a sacrificial layer between the first and the second electrodes to form the cavity; therefore, the time needed for the process becomes shorter.

A method of milking an animal involves admitting the animal into a milking box and expelling the animal from the milking box, the milking box comprising a connecting device, such as a robot arm, for automatically connecting a teat cup to a teat of the animal. The step of expelling the animal from the milking box is carried out using the robot arm. An installation for milking an animal is also described, the installation being provided with a milking box for the animal; a robot arm for automatically connecting a teat cup to a teat of the animal; and a device for expelling the animal from the milking box. The device for expelling the animal from the milking box comprises part of the robot arm.

A method for machining and releasing closed forms from a transparent, brittle substrate includes using a burst of ultrafast laser pulses to drill patterns of orifices in the substrate. Orifices are formed by photoacoustic compression and they extend completely or partially in the transparent substrate. A scribed line of spaced apart orifices in the transparent substrate comprise a closed form pattern in the substrate. A heat source is applied in a region about said scribed line of spaced apart orifices until the closed form pattern releases from the transparent substrate.

A method for covering a set of open microchannel structures which are fabricated on a planar surface made of plastics and which comprise two or more part areas that have different surface characteristics. The method comprises the steps of: a) providing the surface comprising the set of microchannel structures; b) providing a lid-forming sheet having on one side an even layer of a thermoglue; c) applying the side of the sheet having the thermoglue against the surface carrying the microchannel structure; d) heating the assembly created in step (c) to selectively liquefy the hot-melt adhesive while at the same time pressing the sheet material and the planar surface of the substrate together; e) permitting the resulting laminate-covered microchannel structure to cool. An assembly comprising (a) a planar substrate, the surface of which has a set of one or more open microchannel structures each of which comprises part areas representing different functionalities, and (b) a lid-forming material covering said set of microchannel structures and having one or more openings going from a microchannel structure to ambient atmosphere. The assembly is characterized in that the joint between said surface and said sheet material is a thermoglue that possibly has been cured.

A structure of a structure release and a manufacturing method are provided. The structure and manufacturing method are adapted for an interference display cell. The structure of the interference display cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode and at least one supporter. The second electrode has at least one hole and is arranged about parallel with the first electrode. The supporter is located between the first electrode and the second electrode and a cavity is formed. In the release etch process of manufacturing the structure, an etchant can pass through the hole to etch a sacrificial layer between the first and the second electrodes to form the cavity; therefore, the time needed for the process becomes shorter.

Lazy timestamping in a transaction time database is performed using volatile reference counting and checkpointing. Volatile reference counting is employed to provide a low cost way of garbage collecting persistent timestamp information about a transaction by identifying exactly when all record versions of a transaction are timestamped and the versions are persistent. A volatile timestamp (VTS) table is created in a volatile memory, and stores timestamp, reference count, transaction ID, and LSN information. Active portions of a persisted timestamp (PTS) table are stored in the VTS table to provide faster and more efficient timestamp processing via accesses to the VTS table information. The reference count information is stored only in the VTS table for faster access. When the reference count information decrements to zero, it is known that all record versions that were updates for a transaction were timestamped. A checkpointing component facilitates checkpoint processing for verifying that timestamped records have been written to the persistent database and that garbage collection of the PTS table can be performed for transaction entries with zero reference counts.

Disclosed is a remote monitoring apparatus comprising a control / monitoring unit located in a user's place for remote monitoring; a mobile communication terminal with a camera for photographing a subject, for performing a call service and an image processing / transmission service including an operation of photographing a subject with the camera; and a dynamic support located in a remote place to be monitored and having the mobile communication terminal mounted on the dynamic support itself, for controlling a posture of the mounted mobile communication terminal and positional movement of the dynamic support itself upon receiving a posture / position control command on the mounted mobile communication terminal from the control / monitoring unit via the wireless Internet and the mounted mobile communication terminal.

In an approach to preparing a query execution plan, a host node receives a query implicating one or more data tables. The host node broadcasts one or more implicated data tables to one or more processing nodes. The host node receives a set of node-specific query execution plans and execution cost estimates associated with each of the node-specific query execution plans, which have been prepared in parallel based on global statistics and node-specific low level statistics. The host node selects an optimal query execution plan based on minimized execution cost.

A control device for a vehicle drive apparatus that includes a differential mechanism and an electric motor provided in the differential mechanism, which can be miniaturized in structure with improved fuel economy and enabling suppression of occurrence in switching shocks. With a provision of a switching clutch or a switching brake, a shifting mechanism is placed in either a continuously variable shifting state or a step variable shifting state. During a shifting of an automatic shifting portion, an engaging control variable control alters a method of learning an engaging pressure. This allows a rotation speed of a transmitting member to achieve a given variation during the shifting, depending on a continuously variable shifting state and a non-continuously variable shifting state, for thereby providing a balance between an improvement in a feeling and a suppressing of shifting shocks.

A communication unit communicates with an external communication device. An authentication unit authenticates a subscription right for communication. A position detector detects information of a current position. An interface carries out, according to a standardized signal mode, reception and transmission of input and output signals between an application device selected as a communication terminal from a group of application devices and the communication unit and the position detector.

A collaboration commerce method, which, with customers not knowing the whole collaboration commerce operation procedure, lowers the operation and executive costs among different supplier to achieve the optimal gains of collaboration commerce. The method comprises the steps of: a customer ordering a commodity through a web page; transmitting the commodity ordering information to a collaboration server; transmitting the commodity ordering information further to a plurality of enterprise resource planning servers; executing the integrated operation step of the plurality of enterprise resource planning server to generate a customized table list; sending the customized table list back to the customer for confirmation.

A system providing methodology for cost-based enumeration of subqueries using a left-deep tree join enumeration algorithm is described. In one embodiment, for example, in a database system, a method of the present invention is described for optimizing a database query, the method comprises steps of: receiving a database query including at least one subquery; building a query optimization graph for each query block of the database query, the query optimization graph including plan nodes representing subqueries of each query block; generating a set of access methods and join methods for each plan node, including generating at least one access method for a subquery quantifier based on subquery type and semantic properties of the database query; determining an optimal access plan for each query block based upon selecting access methods, join methods, and join order for plan nodes of the query optimization graph having favorable execution costs; and constructing a detailed access plan for execution of the database query based upon the optimal access plan determined for each query block.

A method of forming a composite door is disclosed. The method comprises: mixing together a thermoplastic polymer with an organic fibrous material in a ratio such that the organic fibrous material constitutes 40 to 60 percent by weight of the mixture; extruding the mixture under heat and pressure to create a thin sheet form; cutting the sheet to a predetermined size; removing material from at least one surface of the sheet to create a homogeneous appearance devoid of obvious fibrous particles; thermoforming the sheet to impart to the at least one surface an exterior three dimensional door surface to create a thin door facing; and assembling two of the thermoformed thin door facings, a peripheral frame and a core material into a door.

A method, system and computer program product for reducing the execution cost of sampled queries of tables in a database. A subset of entries comprising row identifiers or key values based on an input query of data in the tables of the database is generated. A sampling predicate to reduce the number of entries in the subset is generated. The sampling predicate is applied to the subset to reduce the number of entries in the subset. The data in the database corresponding to the reduced subset is retrieved from the database.

The invention discloses a regression test case screening method based on partial multi-coverage, comprising the following steps of: firstly establishing a test requirement coverage matrix according to software system characteristics and a test case library; then aiming at a correction assembly, dividing a test requirement set into a concerned set and an independent set; selecting a regression test set by adopting an HATS (Host Access Transformation Service) algorithm; maintaining the test case library by adopting a multi-coverage category based on risk or operational profile definition test requirements; and screening the test case set by adopting an MHATS algorithm according to the given multi-coverage category. In the invention, redundant test cases can be reserved by adopting the multi-coverage category, therefore, the defect detection capacity of the test case library is maintained while the test case library is simplified; and in addition, the regression test case screening method is oriented to partial coverage while selecting the regression test set, simultaneously avoids from covering irrelative test requirements, and reduces the test execution and analysis costs while reducing the test case quantity.

In one embodiment, a method of transmitting contact data in a peer to peer communications network includes transmitting a list of contacts from a first contact store to a first compare means. At the first compare means, the list of contacts from the first contact store is compared with a list of contacts from a second contact store to identify common contacts between the lists of contacts from the first and second contact stores, the first compare means outputting a contacts result based on the identification of the common contacts. At a second compare means, the contacts result output from the first compare means is compared with a list of contacts from a third contact store. An output of the second compare means is used to identify at least one contact to recommend as a new contact to a recommendee user in the network. The first contact store is at a node of the network and the first compare means is at another node of the network, and the list of contacts transmitted from the first contact store is transmitted over the network to the first compare means.

The invention relates to a door lock provided with a roller catch (11). When the door is closed an immobile locking part (10) moves into said roller catch (11), causing it to pivot from an open position into a preliminary or main latching position, the roller catch (11) being held by a latch. For greater user comfort and a more compact door lock the invention provides for the same drive motor (30) to be used as locking aid and as opening aid. A transmission element (35) which can be moved into two different positions is introduced into the gear assembly (31, 37). The drive energy generated by the drive motor (30) is transmitted in one position to the roller catch and in the other position to a second output track leading to the locking latch (20).

A utility vehicle with underfloor structure giving protection from mine explosions. There is a wedge at the edge of the driver compartment which splits the detonation blast from a mine buried in the track of a front wheel. There is a multilayer stack, inboard of the wedge, which crushes upward to reduce the detonation wave from a mine buried under the vehicle. The stack comprises panels to catch the detonation wave and separated by spacers. Spacers are longitudinal stringers stacked above each other and welded, forming deep beams joined to bulkheads, making the vehicle's frame. The wedge also bolts to bulkheads, augmenting the frame. In cross section, the stack is curved, tapering off at each end to merge with the “V” of a wedge. The wedge crushes sideways under the detonation wave, providing protection at the edge of the driver compartment where stack material has run out.

Disclosed is a method for estimating the maximum power of a battery, which can inexpensively perform an estimation of the maximum power of a battery in a relatively simple manner of using the internal resistance of the battery, which has a correlation with and a largest effect on the maximum power of the battery. The method includes the steps of: measuring an internal resistance and a temperature of the battery and estimating a state of charge, if an estimation of the maximum power of the battery is requested; and reading a value of the maximum power of the battery, which corresponds to the measured temperature, the estimated state of charge, and the measured internal resistance, from a table in which the internal resistances and the maximum powers of the battery are mapped according to the temperatures and states of charge.

The invention provides an unmanned plane control apparatus and method based on 4G communication. A central processor distributes identity recognition identifiers (such as IP addresses) and radio frequency communication frequencies to each unmanned plane, and the central processor parses a preset airplane control program, obtains flight parameters, sends the flight parameters through a 4G network to the unmanned planes corresponding to the identity recognition identifiers, at the same time, senses manual operation of users, generates operation instructions, and sends the operation instructions through radio frequency communication to the unmanned planes matching the radio frequency communication frequencies. The 4G communication distance is long, the execution cost is low, the bandwidth capacity is large, and the message transmission rate is high. By using the 4G communication to undertake major communication tasks, the control cost of the unmanned planes can be remarkably reduced. Besides, the 4G communication is employed for long-distance transmission, the defect that conventional radio frequency communication cannot realize long-distance accurate communication can be overcome, and the unmanned planes can be stably controlled.

The invention discloses a method for constraining workflow scheduling in a cloud environment based on the ant colony optimization algorithm through deadline. The method comprises the steps: employing an ant colony system with a candidate list; respectively searching a workflow scheduling scheme in the cloud environment through a plurality of ants; carrying out the communication of a workflow scheduling result among the ants in a pheromone mode, thereby guiding the deciding of the subsequent search direction of ants and the workflow scheduling scheme. Compared with a conventional workflow scheduling method, the method can reduce the cost of the workflow scheduling in the cloud environment and improves the service quality for cloud users under the condition of meeting the deadline time QoS requirements of users.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for minimizing the total expected execution cost of securities trades through a real-time analysis and optimization process incorporating: (1) the currently offered share price and liquidity in the securities markets; (2) execution costs as input in real-time by executing brokers; (3) expected price improvement based on current and recent trading data; (4) time required to execute an order by an executing broker; and (5) the current rate of change in the share price of a security during the time required to execute the transaction. Based on these factors, the invention ranks, in dollars and cents per shares, brokers from lowest to highest expected total execution cost. The initiating party to the securities transaction can route the order(s) to the executing brokers with the lowest expected total execution costs to minimize the total execution cost.

Lazy timestamping in a transaction time database is performed using volatile reference counting and checkpointing. Volatile reference counting is employed to provide a low cost way of garbage collecting persistent timestamp information about a transaction by identifying exactly when all record versions of a transaction are timestamped and the versions are persistent. A volatile timestamp (VTS) table is created in a volatile memory, and stores timestamp, reference count, transaction ID, and LSN information. Active portions of a persisted timestamp (PTS) table are stored in the VTS table to provide faster and more efficient timestamp processing via accesses to the VTS table information. The reference count information is stored only in the VTS table for faster access. When the reference count information decrements to zero, it is known that all record versions that were updates for a transaction were timestamped. A checkpointing component facilitates checkpoint processing for verifying that timestamped records have been written to the persistent database and that garbage collection of the PTS table can be performed for transaction entries with zero reference counts.

The invention relates to an upper body MRI scanner comprising a magnet arrangement for producing a horizontally oriented homogeneous main magnetic field, said magnet arrangement being designed to examine the upper body of a standing patient. An image acquisition unit is provided for continuously creating upper body images of the standing patient. A quality checking unit is designed for automatically determining a quality metric characterizing the quality of the upper body images. An imaging controller connected to the image acquisition unit and the quality checking unit is provided for activating the image acquisition unit and outputting signals for influencing the position and / or behavior of the patient as a function of the characteristic quality metric. An output unit connected to the image acquisition unit is used for displaying and / or storing at least some of the upper body images.

The invention relates to the technical field of cloud computing, in particular to a workflow scheduling and data distribution method under a cloud environment. The method comprises the following stepsthat current workflow of a cloud platform is obtained; the height of each task in the workflow is calculated according to a scheduling model, and the tasks are arranged in an ascending order according to the heights; a particle swarm optimization algorithm is used, the execution time and execution cost of the workflow serve as an optimization objective, and a globally optimal particle code is obtained; the globally optimal particle code is decoded into a workflow scheduling and data distribution scheme and output. Accordingly, data storage is considered, the time of across-node transmission is shortened, and the task execution efficiency and execution cost of the workflow in the cloud platform are optimized.

The present invention relates to a solder stop in through-plated through-holes on micro strip boards (8). A solder resist lacquer (18) with a certain viscosity is applied on a micro strip board (8) wherein the solder resist lacquer (18) flows out over the micro strip (8) and down into a top portion of the through-plated through-hole and dried. A ring-shaped portion of the solder resist lacquer (18) is retained in the top part of the through-plated through-hole.

A utility vehicle with underfloor structure giving protection from mine explosions. There is a wedge at the edge of the driver compartment which splits the detonation blast from a mine buried in the track of a front wheel. There is a multilayer stack, inboard of the wedge, which crushes upward to reduce the detonation wave from a mine buried under the vehicle. The stack comprises panels to catch the detonation wave and separated by spacers. Spacers are longitudinal stringers stacked above each other and welded, forming deep beams joined to bulkheads, making the vehicle's frame. The wedge also bolts to bulkheads, augmenting the frame. In cross section, the stack is curved, tapering off at each end to merge with the “V” of a wedge. The wedge crushes sideways under the detonation wave, providing protection at the edge of the driver compartment where stack material has run out.

A method for repairing and / or waterproofing and / or insulating and / or reinforcing and / or restoring the structural integrity of wall systems, which it consists in providing spaced injection holes within a wall system in a manner suitable to pass through cavities that exist in the wall system, inserting injection tubes in these holes, and then inserting a substance that expands after injection as a consequence of a chemical reaction so that the substance reaches the cavities connected to the injection holes or are proximate thereto, the injection tubes being, preferably gradually retracted along the injection holes in the opposite direction with respect to insertion, to allow the substance diffusing in cavities crossed by the injection holes or proximate thereto.

A system for adjustably mounting the face plate of a drawer so that when the drawer is closed, the drawer face plate is flush with the adjacent drawer face plate and in a desired height, pitch, roll, lateral and skew position with respect to the front surface of the enclosure. The drawer face panel can be easily adjusted in an inward and outward direction, or a rearward and frontward direction, to compensate for differing degrees of tilt and skew of the drawer face panel with adjacent drawer face panels. A face plate alignment mounting system is provided and includes a lateral adjustment mechanism that engages a face plate and a drawer front panel, a first nut fastener, and an adjustable fastener. The first nut fastener preferably includes a head portion that is affixed to a drawer body and a shaft slidably engaged with a first bore of the drawer body. The first nut fastener shaft defines an opening with internal threads. The adjustable fastener has external threads engaged with the internal threads of the first nut fastener shaft opening. The adjustable fastener includes a first mechanism for adjusting the adjustable fastener in a frontward direction and a rearward direction to suitably adjust the distance between the face plate and said drawer front panel, which is preferably accessible at the rear surface of the drawer front panel.