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Methods, devices and systems for wireless communication. A device user defines a list of contacts and receives a collective indication of which contacts are located within a neighborhood of the device. The neighborhood is defined at the device, for example by the device itself or by the user. A plurality of device users define respective user profiles including user attributes. One of the users defines a target attribute, and receives an indication of which other users that have that attribute have devices in the first user's neighborhood. The devices communicate among themselves either indirectly, for example via cellular base stations, or directly.

An improved field-flow fractionation method and apparatus for the separation of sample species 28 contained in a carrier fluid, wherein a stream of the sample species-containing carrier fluid is forced through a flow channel 14 having a depletion wall 18, an accumulation wall 20, side walls, a channel inlet 10, and a channel outlet 34, by introducing the sample species-containing carrier fluid into the flow channel 14 through the channel inlet 10 and withdrawing the sample species-containing carrier fluid through the channel outlet 34, a field 32 is applied to the carrier fluid in the flow channel 14 to induce a driving force on the sample species 28 acting across the flow channel 14 from the depletion wall 18 towards the accumulation wall 20 and perpendicular to the orientation of the main axis of the flow channel 14, the sample species 28 are subjected to fractionation as they flow through the flow channel 14 and emerge as sample species fractions at the channel outlet 34, wherein at least one additional stream of sample species-depleted carrier fluid is introduced into the flow channel 14 through at least one orifice 12 and the relative flow rates of the different streams are adjusted such that the stream of sample species-containing carrier fluid is positioned adjacent to the accumulation wall 20 and the sample species-depleted carrier fluid is positioned between the depletion wall 18 and the sample species-containing carrier fluid, no mechanical barrier being provided inside the flow channel 14 between the orifice 12 and the channel inlet 10 for separating the stream of sample species-depleted carrier fluid introduced through the orifice 12 and the stream of sample species-containing carrier fluid introduced through the channel inlet 10.

A system for accurately determining whether a work piece such as a plastic molded bottle cap is defective from quality norms and removing those defective pieces from a stream of work pieces includes a feed conveyor for serially delivering work pieces where adjacent work pieces are in contact with each other. The feed conveyor delivers these work pieces onto an inspection conveyor with a plurality of air holes. Air is forced through the air holes to impinge upon the work piece and thus rapidly accelerate them away from the adjacent work piece it was in contact with and move through an inspection station. An air blower provides pressurized air through the air holes to continue accelerating and separating the work pieces as they move. The inspection station includes a camera to image each work piece. The camera communicates these images to a processing unit such as a computer that can rapidly compare the image to a set of quality control standards each work piece should meet.

Disclosed is a set of golf clubs. The clubs are divided into at least a first group and at least a second group of golf clubs. The first group desirably comprises a plurality of club heads each having a main body of low density metallic material. The second group of golf clubs desirably comprises a plurality of club heads each having a main body of higher density metallic material than the density of the metallic material of the main body of each of the heads of the first group. The first group of clubs desirably comprises lower numbered clubs than the second group of clubs.

A method of identifying a music recording substantially contemporaneously with the broadcast of the music recording including the steps of: establishing a music recording broadcast database whereby music recordings are identified by an automated software process as music recordings are broadcast from a plurality of different stations; receiving a request for the music recording substantially contemporaneous with its broadcast by a telephone call, the request comprising a station field established by DNIS and a requester identity field established by CID; generating a timestamp value associated with the time the request was received; querying the music recording broadcast database using the station field and the timestamp value to identify the music recording; and returning the query results to a destination associated with the requestor identity field.

Methods are provided for determining an estimated volumetric ratio of a material to total materials in a mixing vessel. In various embodiments, the methods may comprise: summing a commanded input flowrate of the material and a volumetric disturbance flowrate of the material being fed to the mixing vessel; estimating the output flowrate of the material exiting the mixing vessel; negatively feeding back the estimated output flowrate of the material to obtain an estimated volumetric rate of change of the material in the mixing vessel; and integrating the estimated volumetric rate of change of the material to compute the estimated volumetric ratio of the material to the total materials in the mixing vessel.

Methods of controlling a volumetric ratio of a material to total materials in a mixing vessel are provided. In various embodiments, the methods may comprise: estimating the volumetric ratio of the material to the total materials in the mixing vessel and an output flowrate of the material from the mixing vessel using a volumetric ratio observer; dynamically recomputing the commanded input flowrate of the material based on outputs of the volumetric ratio observer using a flow regulator; and adjusting an input valve of the material based on the commanded input flowrate of the material using a flow modulator. The mixing vessel may include a first mixing vessel partially separated from a second mixing vessel. In this case, a height of the total materials in the second mixing vessel may be estimated using a height observer.

A method for implementing and integrating biometrical markers, identification, real-time transaction monitoring with fraud detection and anti-money laundering predictive modeling systems as the means of identifying, measuring, detecting and reporting the importance assigned to each member of a population of transactions coupled with images of participants whereby a relationship exists, or groups of relationships, by and between the transactions and the persons identified in the images and/or being affected by at least one suspicious activity factor, transaction or pattern. According to the method, an image is captured and attached to a financial transaction. An identifier is assigned to each member of the image population of persons making transactions for the benefit of one or more financial accounts. The image is cross-referenced against a cloud-based relational database of identified images, known associate persons per images and notations to purported activities and potential risk factors. The cloud-based relational database stores the shared information with subscribers cooperating in the uploading, updating and notating to the identifier record.

The invention relates to the technical field of human body fall-down detection and provides a human body fall-down preventing early warning method and a human body fall-down preventing early warning device. The method includes the steps that real-time detection is performed on the body posture of a monitored object, body posture information of the monitored object is collected, and detection data are obtained; fusion processing is performed on the detection data, and signal data are obtained after being processed; the processed signal data are compared with a set threshold, whether the monitored object inclines to fall down or not is judged, when the monitored object inclines to fall down, warning is given before the monitored object falls down; the body posture information of the monitored object includes triaxial acceleration information, triaxial angular velocity information and triaxial body angle of inclination information of the monitored object, the detection data are nine-axial inertia sensing data which are obtained through detection by an integrated chip, and collection of the body posture information, fusion processing of the detection data and the fall-down judgment of the monitored object are completed on the same circuit board. The human body fall-down preventing early warning method and the human body fall-down preventing early warning device achieve early warning before the human body falls down and are high in integration level.

A human-oriented object programming system (HOOPS) and its debugger provide an interactive and dynamic modeling system to assist in the incremental generation of symbolic information of computer programs that facilitates the development of complex computer programs such as operating systems and large applications with graphic user interfaces (GUIs). A program is modeled as a collection of units called components. A component represents a single compilable language element such as a class or a function. One major functionality built in HOOPS is the debugger, using symbolic properties. The database stores the components and properties. The debugger, using a GUI, displays to the user the execution state of the program. To display the execution state in terms of the programmer's source code, the debugger demands retrieval and/or generation of the symbolic properties of the program. The compiler, which is responsible for calculating the dependencies associated with a component, uses those dependencies to generate the information stored in symbolic properties. The debugger matches versions of source and object code and retrieves source code configuration as needed. Symbolic properties that are stored in the database can be removed to reduce database and disk memory usage; they can be later reconstructed using the same method of demand-based generation of symbolic information.

The present disclosure describes a method of sentiment oriented slang for opinion mining. With increasing use of internet, many users can submit their review comments directly to the companies which can be automatically processed and summarized with critical issues from time to time and help the company get real time feedback from its customers. The method comprises, receiving at least one document comprising a plurality of sentiment oriented slang. The next step of the method comprises identifying the plurality of sentiment oriented slang in the at least one document. Further, a polarity score of each of a slang word identified is determined and sentiment information is displayed on an output device as an output.

The invention is directed toward a micro-endoscope assembly for the removal of tissue and cells from breast ducts comprising a cylindrical guide tube with a beveled distal end defining an internal cylindrical passageway and a first smaller cylindrical tube eccentrically formed in the cylindrical passageway of a smaller diameter than the tube internal cylindrical passageway and adapted to receive and guide an endoscope with a handle assembly wherein the smaller cylindrical tube together with an inner wall surface of the cylindrical guide tube forms a second passageway. A second conduit of a smaller diameter than the smaller cylindrical tube is mounted in the second passageway to divide the second passageway into two separate divided sections and is of sufficient diameter to receive a laser fiber and a micro-endoscope is mounted in the smaller cylindrical tube and a laser is mounted in the second cylindrical tube in the second passageway. The assembly is inserted into a mammary duct and the interior of the duct is viewed until an abnormality is determined in the duct. The tissue and cells from the abnormality area are dislodged, irrigated and aspirated through a suction channel to a removable collection device.

A video format bridge employs a plurality of techniques to insure that the line buffer does not suffer underflow or overflow conditions, and that the output frame rate matches the input frame rate. The bridge handles the problem of residue lines, addresses fluctuations in the input and output clock rates, and allows adjustment of the ratio of the input and output the number of lines per frame or number of pixels per line so that output device specifications are not exceeded. A single integrated circuit may provided which is adapted to perform a plurality of techniques, and includes resources by which the user is able to enable and disable such techniques as needed for the particular bridging operation being executed. Bridge logic produces an output video stream which has an output frame rate matching the input frame rate, and in which the output frame has at least one of a variable number of pixels per line within an output frame, and/or a variable number of lines per frame among output frames in a set of more than one output frames.

A metric measurement mechanism is used to determine network characteristics such as latency and round trip time with more precision than that available from layer three metric measurement mechanisms. The metric measurement mechanism can use the same architecture used by layer three metric measurement mechanisms while more accurately measuring network latency and isolating network device processing delays.

A device for delivering fluid, comprising an elongated outer casing (10) provided with a substantially cylindrical inner chamber (11); a plunger (21) movable axially along a longitudinal axis A-A of an inner reservoir (22) towards an outlet (28); an actuator comprising a multi-stage lead-screw with a plurality of coaxial, screwably-interconnected bushings and an output spindle or an output bushing linked to the movable plunger (21), whereby a rotation of the rotating element causes a translation of the bushings relative to each other in telescopic fashion, and a translation of the movable plunger in the cartridge.

Systems and methods of gaming that provide the user with increased wagering within a specific game of chance. Multiple wager selectors each having a specific value ed therewith provide the user with a wide range of wager amounts that may be placed on gaming device. As the user's current wager increases or decreases, a theoretical percentage is displayed to the user.