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The method, system, and computer-readable medium facilitates monitoring a vehicle operator, the environment ahead of the vehicle, and / or forces acting on the vehicle during the course of vehicle operation to determine whether the vehicle operator is impaired (e.g., distracted, drowsy, intoxicated), alerting the vehicle operator when impairment is detected, and log data relating to vehicle operator impairment for further analysis. The method, system, and computer-readable medium may monitor the vehicle operator, the environment ahead of the vehicle, and / or forces acting on the vehicle using either or both of optical sensors or accelerometers. In particular, one optical sensor may monitor the vehicle operator to detect eye blinks, head nods, head rotations, and / or gaze fixation. Another optical sensor may monitor the road ahead of the vehicle to detect lane deviation, lane centering, and time to collision. The accelerometers may detect acceleration in the direction of vehicle travel and / or lateral acceleration.

The present invention is directed to encapsulated fragrance materials. The fragrance materials are comprised of high ClogP materials or high ClogP fragrance materials along with high logP solvent materials. The encapsulated fragrance and solvent materials can then be further coated with a second coating, preferably a cationic coating.

Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE). A wireless communications system may improve UE discovery latency by dynamically selecting and switching beam forming codebooks at the millimeter wave base station and the wireless device. Selecting an optimal beam forming codebook may allow the wireless communication system to improve link margins between the base station without compromising resources. In some examples, a wireless device may determine whether the received signals from the millimeter wave base station satisfy established signal to noise (SNR) thresholds, and select an optimal beam codebook to establish communication. Additionally or alternately, the wireless device may further signal the selected beam codebook to the millimeter wave base station and direct the millimeter wave base station to adjust its codebook based on the selection.

Optical apparatus includes a multimode, gain-producing fiber for providing gain to signal light propagating in the core of the fiber, and a pump source for providing pump light that is absorbed in the core, characterized in that (i) the pump source illustratively comprises a low brightness array of laser diodes and a converter for increasing the brightness of the pump light, (ii) the pump light is coupled directly into the core, and (iii) the area of the core exceeds approximately 350 μm2. In one embodiment, the signal light propagates in a single mode, and the pump light co-propagates in at least the same, single mode, both in a standard input fiber before entering the gain-producing fiber, and a mode expander is disposed between the input fiber and the gain-producing fiber. In another embodiment, multiple pumps are coupled into the core of the gain-producing fiber. The pumps may generate light of the same wavelength or of different wavelengths. In accordance with a particular embodiment of our invention, we have demonstrated amplification of nanosecond optical pulses at 1545 nm in a single clad Er-doped fiber having a core area of 875 μm2; the core was pumped by a high brightness Raman laser at 1480 nm; and the pulses had a record peak power of several hundred kW.

The present invention provides an apparatus and method of multiple antenna receiver combining of high data rate wideband packetized wireless communication signals, where the apparatus includes M receive antennas, receiving M high data rate wideband packetized wireless communication signals, where each of the signals includes N frequency bins. The apparatus, in an exemplary embodiment, includes (1) a joint timing recovery units that perform joint coarse signal timing estimation, joint frequency offset estimation, and joint fine timing estimation on each of the signals, (2) M Fast Fourier Transform units (FFTs) that each convert the digital data for each of the M signals into frequency domain information for each of the N received frequencies and that output Q pilots for each of the signals, where Q is a positive integer, and (3) a combiner that weights and combines the outputs of the M FFTs for each of the N received frequencies.

The present invention relates to use of particular substituted heterocycle fused gamma-carbolines as described herein, in free, pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug form, and pharmaceutical composition comprising the same optionally in combination with one or more agents, for the prophylaxis or treatment of one or more disorders associated with dementia, particularly behavioral or mood disturbances (e.g., agitation / aggression), psychosis, depression and sleep disturbances among others in patients suffering from dementia.

An airway is adapted to lie in a cheek pathway in a user's mouth, traversing a path from a position outside a user's lips, between a user's otherwise closed lips, along a user's inner cheek wall outside a user's dental arches, curving dorsally of a user's rear-most teeth through a user's rear-jaw space, and reaching into airspace over a user's tongue in a user's rear-mouth cavity. The airway provides supplemental air to a user's rear-mouth cavity independently of a user's restricted nasal airways while a user's lips remain closed. The airway is adapted to be manufactured in-line and folded by a user to fit a particular user's cheek pathway. There are single-cheek and dual-cheek versions. Extensions of the airway can anchor it about a user's lips or ears. A cheek pocket anchor, formed of a resilient filament, is adapted for placement adjacent to a user's inner cheek wall within a user's cheek pocket and is user-adjustable to fit a particular user's cheek pocket. Spring-like action of the cheek pocket anchor dynamically maintains a bridge spanning across a user's inter occlusal space and lip opening as a user's jaws open and close. The cheek pocket anchor can be formed of a series of connected loops, the spans of which can be mutually adjusted to enable adjustment of the span of the whole cheek pocket anchor. The cheek pocket anchor is adapted to be joined to a work piece, such as a cheek path airway, to stabilize that work piece in a user's mouth. The cheek path airway, with or without the cheek pocket anchor, is adapted for use in combination with mandibular jaw-control and tongue-control devices which restrain a user's mandible and tongue from sagging into a user's throat airway, whereby the combination of airway and such jaw and tongue control devices simultaneously mitigates restrictions in a user's nasal and throat airways.

An expression vector for eukaryotic cells comprising a gene which codes for a protein of interest, functionally linked to a hamster-ubiquitin / S27a-promoter and a gene which codes for a fluorescent protein. Preferably the expression vector also contains an amplifiable selectable marker gene. The invention also describes host cells, preferably mammalian cells, which have been transfected with the expression vector, processes for producing heterologous gene products and a method of selecting high-producing cells.

The invention relates to a novel drug combination therapy useful in the treatment of dementia comprising administering an 1-aminocyclohexane derivative such as memantine or neramexane and an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (AChEI) such as galantamine, tacrine, donepezil, or rivastigmine.

The present invention provides an apparatus and method of multiple antenna receiver combining of high data rate wideband packetized wireless communication signals, where the apparatus includes M receive antennas, receiving M high data rate wideband packetized wireless communication signals, where each of the signals includes N frequency bins. The apparatus, in an exemplary embodiment, includes (1) a joint timing recovery units that perform joint coarse signal timing estimation, joint frequency offset estimation, and joint fine timing estimation on each of the signals, (2) M Fast Fourier Transform units (FFTs) that each convert the digital data for each of the M signals into frequency domain information for each of the N received frequencies and that output Q pilots for each of the signals, where Q is a positive integer, and (3) a combiner that weights and combines the outputs of the M FFTs for each of the N received frequencies.

Described is a method of reducing transmitter error in an optical communications channel. An optical signal transmitted from an optical transmitter that has impairment due to transmitter error is processed to generate a digitally-equalized signal. A nonlinear characteristic of the digitally-equalized signal that relates to the transmitter error is determined. An optical control signal comprising data that are based on the nonlinear characteristic is transmitted to the optical transmitter. The optical transmitter modifies a transmitter parameter in response to the optical control signal to change the nonlinear characteristic and thereby reduce the impairment.

The invention discloses an aviation piston engine all-purpose parameter test device and a method thereof, the test device includes: a control unit TCU, an IMS, a flight control computer, a servo-electric motor, a turbo-charger and an engine. The turbo-charger is driven by the engine discharge gas and supplies the turbo-charged air for the engine, the servo-electric motor is controlled by the control signal outputted from the turbo control unit TCU which senses and calculates correlation parameters, which causes the connected valve deflexion, in order to change the turbo-charged air pressure which is transferred from the turbo-charger to the aviation piston engine. The all-purpose parameter test system IMS, taken the singlechip as the kernel, obtains engines running status parameter and TCU controlling parameter, judges the two parts of parameters with overrun judgment and gives status code according to the fault mode, packs this two parts of parameters and status codes; transmits the packed parameters to the flight control computer; the flight control computer then carries the followed processing and transmits the data down to the ground.

Provided are electrode compositions for lithium-ion electrochemical cells that include novel binders. The novel binders include lithium polysalts of carboxylic and sulfonic acids, lithium salts of copolymers of acids, lithium polysulfonate fluoropolymers, a cured phenolic resin, cured glucose, and combinations thereof.

The invention discloses a reinforced friction material of copper-based particle in the friction material making domain, which comprises the following parts: 30-70% Cu, 4-11% Sn, 1-15% Al, 5-18% Fe, 2-15% Al2O3, 2-15% SiO2, 0-15% ferrochrome and 5-20% graphite.

The invention discloses a micro bio-chip for real-time detection of substances in body fluids, the micro bio-chip is assembled by a circulating microfluidic chip and a film biosensor, parts of the circulating microfluidic chip in turn are connected with each other to form a complete fluid pathway, and the film biosensor includes a working electrode, a counter electrode and a reference electrode; in a testing room of the circulating microfluidic chip, one or more film biosensors are embedded in the manner of series connection, or parallel connection / series connection and parallel connection, so that the surfaces of the embedded film biosensors are always contacted with the body fluid flowing by for real-time detection of the substances in the body fluids.

The invention discloses an integrated monitoring ring device of a machine tool spindle, comprising an angular contact bearing of a support principal axis. The angular contact bearing is provided with an inner ring spacer bush and an outer ring spacer bush, wherein the radial direction of the outer ring spacer bush is provided with three eddy current displacement sensors near the inner ring spacer bush along the peripheral direction; the axial direction is provided with one eddy current displacement sensor; the outer edge of the outer ring spacer bush is provided with an acceleration transducer and a temperature sensor; the inner ring spacer bush of the angular contact bearing rotates along with the principal axis in the operation process of the principal axis of the machine tool; four eddy current displacement sensors respectively monitor the axial and radial vibration displacement of the principal axis; the acceleration transducer monitors the vibration acceleration of the angular contact bearing; the temperature sensor monitors the temperature of the angular contact bearing; and finally, comprehensive analysis is carried out to judge the operation state of the principal axis and realize real-time on-lime monitoring of the operation state of the principal axis.

A method for use with the formation of a capacitor includes providing a capacitor structure by forming a first electrode on a portion of a substrate assembly, forming a high dielectric material over at least a portion of the first electrode, and forming a second electrode over the high dielectric material. An additional layer may be formed over at least a portion of the second electrode. The portion of the substrate assembly on which the first electrode is formed and / or the layer formed over the second electrode are formed of an excess oxygen containing material.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a physical-layer-based method and device for realizing indoor positioning of a wireless network. The method comprises the steps of: acquiring the channel state information of a plurality of subcarriers of a target node based on an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) platform of a physical layer; calculating signal intensity according to the channel state information of the plurality of subcarriers; optimizing a propagation path loss model of an indoor environment according to the signal intensity; calculating the distance between each sending party and each receiving party according to the optimized propagation path loss model; and positioning the target node according to the signal intensity and the distances. In the embodiment of the invention, under the condition that an indoor environment multipath effect is ubiquitous, the precise channel state information is utilized to calculate the signal intensity in the wireless local area network so as to further realize the indoor positioning, the frequency diversity of the channel state information is utilized to reduce multipath attenuation and reduce the influences of the indoor environment multipath effect and frequency selective attenuation, and thus, the position information of the target node can be calculated more precisely and the positioning precision is increased.

The present invention provides multi-channel protection switching systems and methods for increased reliability and reduced cost. Advantageously, the multi-channel protection switching systems and methods of the present invention use pre-FEC rate measurements, and changes in pre-FEC rate measurements, to detect and avoid potential link failures before they occur. The multi-channel protection switching systems and methods of the present invention also use “wavelength-hopping” and other protection schemes to alleviate wavelength and time-dependent optical propagation impairments. Advantageously, the multi-channel protection switching systems and methods of the present invention switch proactively on diminished, rather than failed, signals; do not require the pre-provisioning of bandwidth through an alternate physical path; allow for switching in either the electrical or optical domain; and incorporate buffering of the data sources involved such that they may be synchronized, thereby providing “hitless” switching between channel sources on the client side.

An adaptive arm support provides motion of an armrest within a plane through any direction of translation. A number of vertical rods and bearings permit at least two links to pivot with respect to each other, permitting translation in any direction while staying within the plane. Bushing-tipped set screws are provided which dampen movement, to reduce or eliminate the effects of unintentional tremors. The armrest includes a swivel mounting which is also damped, which permits the longitudinal axis of the armrest to swivel from horizontal orientation to inclined angles which are out of the plane of translation. An elbow pad is provided which also pivots from perpendicular to the armrest longitudinal axis to different angular orientation with respect thereto.

Optical impairments such as dispersion and fibre nonlinearity are compensated by generating a pre-distorted electrical signal at the transmitter. This signal is modulated onto a carrier signal, so that it is upconverted in frequency. This up converted signal is then used to modulate an optical source. Generally the optical signal will have two sidebands, one of which has the correctly pre-distorted information and the other which is unwanted. Information in the unwanted optical sideband is either filtered optically or electrically. In the preferred embodiments, the transmitter uses a tunable semiconductor laser with an integrated electroabsorption modulator to modulate the light. The preferred receiver is a coherent receiver with a tunable local oscillator laser. The receiver uses an electrical filter to remove the information in the unwanted sideband.

A description is given of a device for sensing respiration of a living being, the device including: an active transmitter configured to generate a magnetic or electromagnetic field; and a sensor arranged on the torso of the living being and configured to provide a signal which depends on the magnetic or electromagnetic field and on a change in the distance, caused by the respiration of the living being, between the active transmitter and the sensor.

The display language conversion system of the present invention comprises a first data base 303a, a second data base 303b, an image display processing means 51 and an another-language display processing means 52. The image display processing means 51 displays control data read from the first data base 303a, image data and one language data read from the position information data and the second data base 303b, on a display 3. When the display mode and the display language are specified by the display by the control data displayed on the display 3 and the mouse, and the blowoff frame or the predetermined commentary display region is region specified by the input means, the another-language display processing means 52 displays another language related to the second data base by the region specification in accordance with the display mode. Thus, according to the present invention, without impairing the images of illustrations, photographs and comics and the like, words or commentaries contained therein can be freely displayed by various languages.

A method for manufacturing a sensor element is provided for detecting at least one property of a measuring gas in a measuring gas chamber, in particular for detecting a proportion of a gas component in the measuring gas or a temperature of the measuring gas. The method includes the following steps: providing at least one solid electrolyte which includes at least one functional element; applying, at least in sections, at least one first layer made of a ceramic material to the solid electrolyte, the first layer having a first porosity after the application; and applying, at least in sections, at least one second layer made of a ceramic material, the second layer having a second porosity after the application, and the first layer differing from the second layer with respect to at least one material property. Moreover, a sensor element which is manufacturable according to this method is provided.

A novel and useful apparatus for and method of nonlinear adaptive phase domain equalization for multilevel phase coded demodulators. The invention improves the immunity of phase-modulated signals (PSK) to intersymbol interference (ISI) such as caused by transmitter or receiver impairments, frequency selective channel response filtering, timing offset or carrier frequency offset. The invention uses phase domain signals (r, □ rather than the classical Cartesian quadrature components (I, Q) and employs a nonlinear adaptive equalizer on the phase domain signal. This results in significantly improved ISI performance which simplifies the design of a digital receiver.

The invention belongs to the technical field of aluminum alloy production, and relates to a machining method for 7-series aluminum alloy thick plates. Aluminum alloy ingots comprise the following components in percentage by mass: Si not more than 0.20%, Fe not more than 0.25%, 1.2-2.1% of Cu, 1.2-2.2% of Mg, 5.0-7.0% of Zn, 0.02-0.15% of Ti, 0.02-0.15% of Zr, Ti+Zr not more than 0.15%, single impurity not more than 0.05%, total impurity not more than 0.15%, and the balance of Al. The machining method for the aluminum alloy thick plates adopts a mode of multi-pass hot rolling, and adopts double-stage solid solution and double-stage aging to enable the finally prepared 7-series aluminum alloy thick plates to achieve excellent strength and rupture toughness.