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A method and system for blending and dispensing fuels that makes it easier for a retail filling station (10) to provide blended fuels to its customers and that more effectively encourages customers to purchase the blended fuels. Gasoline and additives such as ethanol are received and stored in separate tanks (12-18) at the filling station. Customers of the filling station are then allowed to select the amount of additive, if any, to add to their gasoline. Once a selection has been made, a proportioner (40) blends the selected amount of additive with gasoline at the time of purchase and then dispenses the blended fuel to the customer.

In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for driving demand for services. An appointment platform operating on a server may identify, based on an appointment inventory of a service provider, an open appointment to be filled. The appointment platform may rank a plurality of users to which the open appointment may be offered. The appointment platform may rank a user of the plurality of users based on a current membership score of the user. The appointment platform may determine, based on the ranking, to offer the user the open appointment. The appointment platform may identify, based on the current membership score of the user, a type of incentive from a plurality of types of incentives, to offer to the user for filling the open appointment.

A method of forming an array of selectively shaped optical elements on a substrate, the method including the steps of providing the substrate, the substrate having an optical layer placed thereon; placing a layer of particles on the optical layer; performing an etching cycle. The cycle includes the steps of: etching the layer of particles, using a first etching process so as to reduce the size of the particles within the layer, then; simultaneously etching the optical layer and the layer of particles, using a second etching process, the further reducing particles forming a mask over areas of the optical layer to create discrete optical elements from the optical layer.

A calling method using a communication integration system, which has a CIS server configuring a cell bound in connection of plural communication means and plural communication networks and a relay server connected to at least two CIS servers, includes the steps of: (a) transmitting a fittest communication route calculation request signal from the CIS server to the relay server; (b) the relay server calculating a fittest communication route between users based on a predetermined weight according to the request signal and then providing the fittest communication route to the CIS server; and (c) the CIS server connecting a call between communication terminals of the users.

This invention discloses a multi-function breadmaker comprising: a housing, a base plate, an oven chamber, an electric heater, pan assemblies, a control assembly, an electric motor, a transmission assembly and multiple driving shafts; said base plate is installed at the bottom within the housing, said oven chamber and electric motor are both installed on the base plate, said transmission assembly is installed below the base plate; said multiple driving shafts, passing through the base plate, are installed at the bottom of the oven chamber, and driven simultaneously by the electric motor; characterized in that, there are at least two sets of pan assemblies, each set includes pans of different number and different size; each pan assembly includes a pan, a pan base and at least one kneading bar; each set of pan assemblies is interchangeable with another set, and can be installed on the bottom of said oven chamber, the kneading bar of each pan assembly engaging with corresponding driving shaft can be driven by said driving shaft; said control assembly includes software, whereby said breadmaker can work in different modes with corresponding set of pan assemblies loaded.

The invention discloses an intelligent auxiliary monitoring system and method for a substation. The system comprises an adaptive communication module, an intelligent electronic device (IED) model automatic configuration module, a version automatic matching module and an XML based interface configuration module. The adaptive communication module is used for achieving adaptive communication between a comprehensive monitoring host and various sub-monitoring systems. The IED model automatic configuration module is used for generating IED performance description files rapidly after the system configuration is changed. The version automatic matching module is used for achieving automatic matching of an integrated power supply system and the comprehensive monitoring host software version. The XML based interface configuration module is used for enabling XML files to perform description modeling on the whole character lattice LCD human-computer interface to generate an interface according to the model files. By the aid of the system and the method, high multi-system fusion is performed on technologies of IED model automatic configuration, version automatic matching, adaptive communication, interface configuration and the like, and a uniform novel intelligent auxiliary monitoring system platform which is intelligent and efficient and adaptive to substation development requirements is built.

An image forming apparatus comprises an image former that prints target data on a sheet, a first judger that judges a supply unit that is replaceably loaded thereon and has a memory storing identification information uniquely given to the supply unit and information about a plurality of vendors providing the supply unit, is whether or not a reproduced product, an accessor that accesses a server owned by a vendor supplying the supply unit according to the information about the vendors providing the supply unit, which is stored in the memory of the supply unit, if the first judger judges that the supply unit is a reproduced product, a second judger that judges whether or not the identification information stored in the memory of the supply unit is registered in the server owned by the vendor supplying the supply unit, which is accessed by the accessor. Print operations performed by the image former are limited if the second judger judges that the identification information is not registered in the server, meanwhile, print operations performed by the image former are permitted if the second judger judges that the identification information is registered in the server.

Provided are silica nanoparticles doped with dyes having a negative charge by using cationic polyelectrolyte as templet and preparing method thereof. The nanoparticles have a core-shell structure, inner core comprises cationic polyelectrolyte aggregates, in which fluorescent dye having a negative charge and SiO2 are doped, and optional additive having a negative charge, the shell is consisted of SiO2, wherein the sum of negative charge carried by the additives and the fluorescent dye is less than that of positive charge carried by the polyelectrolyte aggregates. The preparing method comprises the following steps: preparing complex solution of polyelectrolyte and fluorescent dye; prehydrolysis of organosilicon source; coating with organosilicon source. The method can be applied to dope silica with various fluorescent dyes having a negative charge. Various dyes can be doped at the same time, the doping amount, and particle diameter and shape of the product can be controlled by the method. The nanoparticles are spherical, the particle diameter thereof is uniform, and colloid formed therefrom is stable.

The invention discloses a method and system for utilizing distance sensing to reduce mobile phone radiation. The method includes the steps of S1, answering a mobile phone; S2, utilizing a distance sensor to detect the distance between a tested target and the mobile phone; S3, judging whether or not the distance between the target and the mobile phone satisfies a preset condition and obtaining a judgement result; S4, according to the judgement result, conducting corresponding adjustment on the radio frequency power of the mobile phone. The system includes a signal detection module, a comparisonmodule connected with the signal detection module and an adjustment module connected with the comparison module; the signal detection module detects the distance between the mobile phone and the cheek of a user; the comparison module compares the distance detected between the mobile phone and the cheek of the user by the signal detection module with a set distance to determine whether or not thedistance between the mobile phone and the cheek of the user is in accordance with the set distance, and obtains a judgement result; the adjustment module carries out corresponding adjustment on the radio frequency power of the mobile phone according to the judgement result. The method and system can be used for reducing the radio frequency power when it is detected that the cheek of the user approaches the mobile phone, the mobile phone radiation is decreased without adding SAR sensors and increasing the cost of hardware, and the practicability is high.

Disclosed is an air handling system, comprising: a top cover (1), a base (5) and at least one air handling device (2, 3, 4) arranged between the top cover (1) and the base (5). An air outlet (102) is arranged on the top surface of the top cover (1), and at least one air inlet (191) is arranged on the bottom surface of the top cover (1); an air inlet is arranged on the bottom surface of the base (5), and at least one air outlet is arranged on the top surface of the base (5); and at least one air inlet (431) is arranged on the bottom surface of the air handling device (2, 3, 4), and at least one air outlet (432) is arranged on the top surface of the air handling device (2, 3, 4).