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An ultrasonic surgical instrument having a handle with a finger actuator, and more particularly, an ultrasonic surgical device adapted to be held by a surgeon and fingers-operated with precise movements while opening and closing an ultrasonic instrument while meeting the ergonomic requirements of the surgeon with regard to comfort and imparting the surgeon with an enhanced dextral control for easy maneuverability of the instrument. The instrument incorporates a thimble-shaped lever at the distal end of the handle for actuating the clamp arm of the ultrasonic surgical instrument, and votator structure for selective rotation of the surgical device whereby the ergonomic thimble-shaped lever and pencil grip provide the physician with an improved degree of control, greater comfort in manipulating the instrument, and the ability to perform blunt dissections.

The present invention discloses a method for providing QoS guarantee by an edge router, the edge router transporting user traffic between the access network and core network, the method comprising: creating a service traffic flow classification table; establishing a plurality of label switching paths; configuring the attributes of the label switching paths; classifying and conditioning the service traffic flows entering into the core network at a downlink interface of an edge router according to the service traffic flow classification table; forwarding the processed traffic by an uplink interface of the edge router according to the attributes of the label switching paths. The present invention also discloses an apparatus for providing QoS guarantee by an edge router. Using the present invention, an edge router can provide exact QoS guarantee and QoS routing control for the application flows.

The invention relates to an apparatus 1 comprising a broadcast receiver circuit, an embedded antenna for receiving broadcast signals and a tuning circuit coupled between the antenna and the receiver circuit, which tuning circuit comprises a filter circuit coupled to ground, wherein the tuning circuit is designed to have a first resonance at a first frequency below a broadcast band of interest, and a second resonance at a second frequency above the broadcast band and wherein the tuning circuit comprises an amplifier with an output to the receiver circuit and with an input to the filter circuit, and wherein the tuning circuit is provided with a carrier to noise ratio (CNR) which is substantially fiat across the broadcast band.

A multiple speed transmission capable of producing five underdrive gear ratios, one direct drive ratio, four overdrive ratios, and four reverse ratios includes four interconnected planetary gearsets, multi-plate clutches and brakes controlling the gearset elements, and a coupler that changes between forward drive and reverse drive by holding and releasing alternate gearset components against rotation on the transmission case. The transmission in combination with a single-speed transfer case having either an on-demand transfer clutch, or a full-time all-wheel drive system, are formed in an integrated package.

A method for providing content items located on a server (2) to a client (3), the server (2) being able to communicate with the client (3) via a communication network (7), comprises the following steps: a) transferring a first content recommendation list request from the client (3) to the server (2), b) generating a first content recommendation list (81) comprising several content recommendation list entries (9) at the server (2) in dependence on a user feedback profile, each content recommendation list entry (9) representing a content item, c) transferring the first content recommendation list (81) from the server (2) to the client (3), d) providing a visual and / or audible representation of the first content recommendation list entries through a client user interface, each entry being selectable and arranged such that for each entry, user feedback may be generated and corresponding user feedback information sent to the server and that upon selection of an entry at a predetermined position in the first content recommendation list, a second recommendation list request is transferred to the server, e) generating at the server, a second content recommendation list in dependence on the user feedback profile and also, if received, in dependence on the user feedback information, and f) transferring the second content recommendation list from the server to the client in response to the second recommendation list request and providing a visual and / or audible representation of the second content recommendation list entries through the client user interface, wherein the client initiates at least one transfer process of content items from the server to the client based on user selections of recommendation list entries, and wherein the second content recommendation list is prepared at the server in advance of receiving the second recommendation list request from the client.

The method employs interrelated cryptographic processes and protocols to provide reliability to vote casting, ballots recount, and verification of vote or poll results. These cryptographic processes and protocols jointly constitute a cryptographic voting scheme capable of meeting the specific reliability requirements of an electronic voting where voters remotely cast their votes. These reliability requirements include voter authentication and privacy; accurate results, the impossibility of coercion and sale of votes, verifying the final results and, if necessary, the secrecy of intermediate results before completing the vote or poll. The cryptographic voting method minimizes the confidence level to be placed on any of the electronic voting individual party and participants.

A LED lighting lamp tube comprises a transparent tube body, lamp caps, electrode pins, pedestals mounted at the connection position of the transparent tube body and the lamp caps, a power supply converter located adjacent to the lamp caps and inside the tube body, a PCB and a plurality of LED mounted on the PCB. These LED are connected in parallel or in series, and a light-scattering plate may be disposed over these LED. A plurality of LED chips can be directly mounted on the light-scattering plate. The lamp caps and the electrode pins possess the same international standards as common lamp tubes.

Based on the small world theory of networking, the present invention provides access to a previously unavailable source of private data, necessary for commerce, by facilitating the sale of private data from members of the general public. For example, the seeker of private data, such as consumer information, submits a data request to an online portal system. The request submission includes legal representations stating the legally permissible purpose for seeking the information. The portal system may display the data request to registered data providers, based on their demographic data. The system facilitates the exchange between the data buyer and the data provider. A payment invoice can be generated and electronically presented by the portal system. The payment may be electronically debited from the designated account of a data. In addition, a portion of such funds may be retained by the portal entity.

An electronic signature capture system and process meets the legal requirements of a valid electronic signature while also providing electronically signed documents that have the appearance, and thus equivalent acceptability, of a traditional pen-and-ink signature. The documents can be signed using a mouse, a stylus, a touch screen, a graphics tablet, or other suitable input device to draw a signature analogue on the screen similar to signing a paper document with a pen. A fingerprint image, retinal scan image, or other similar biometric input may be captured in addition to or instead of a signature. The signature analogue is saved and linked to a particular user and to particular documents. The signature analogue may be combined with the document in a composite image file, or the signature analogue may be applied dynamically to appropriate document components to assemble an executed document as needed.

The present invention provides calcium phosphate-based (CaP) microcarriers and their use, for example, in cell culturing systems, chromatography, and implantable biomedical materials.

A modular filter system is provided with one or more modules that can be interchangeable, depending upon the specific application or specific health or environmental issue presented. Disclosed combinations can include one or more of any of the following modules in any relative position to one another: (a) a microbiological contaminant mitigation module, preferably in the form of an inverted u-shaped hollow fiber filter module wherein the fibers have ends potted on the downstream side and that consists essentially of hydrophilic fibers for water filtration with a small amount of hydrophobic fibers for venting of entrapped air; (b) a first chemical mitigation module, preferably in the form of an adsorption module comprising carbon or the combination of carbon and a deionization resin; and (c) a second chemical mitigation module, preferably in the form of a deionization resin module. Modules including a carbon bed or a resin bed may be equipped with a pair of hydrophobic foam bed restraints that apply opposing axial pressure to the bed in all operating conditions.

Discretely coated sensors or eyelets are provided for use in medical electrodes. Also provided are sensors for use in medical electrodes where the sensors are coated with a with a silver / silver chloride coating in a discrete area. Silver / silver chloride medical electrodes are provided that have a sensor or eyelet made of conductive plastic which is discretely coated with silver / silver chloride only in the area in which the sensor makes direct contact with the electrolyte gel in the conductive pathway.