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A method and apparatus for requesting bandwidth in a subscriber station is disclosed. The method dynamically changes the size of the bandwidth request based on the prediction of the number of packets needed to be transmitted. The average delay experienced by packets in a queue is measured, and this information is then used to change the coefficient of a prediction equation. When the experienced average delay is below the agreed upon QoS latency parameter or delay target, the method reduces the size of the bandwidth requests by making the prediction equation more conservative. On the other hand, when the experienced delay is above the agreed upon latency, the algorithm will make the prediction equation more aggressive, increasing the bandwidth requests and reducing the latency for future packets. By modifying the prediction equation based on the measured delay, the method is able to select the optimal point for achieving time delay requirements while preserving air-link resources.

A method of designing a material by optimising values for design variables includes the steps of: (i) providing one or more property models that produce a prediction for a value of a respective property of the material as a function of the design variables and produce a value for the uncertainty in the prediction, (ii) setting a specification target for a desired value for each property and a probability for that specification target to be met or exceeded, (iii) determining a probabilistic target for a value for each property, the probabilistic target being based on the specification target and the probability, and defining a merit index factor based on the degree to which a given prediction satisfies the probabilistic target, (iv) constructing an overall merit factor from the individual merit index factors of the properties, and (v) determining a set of optimal design variables that optimise the overall merit factor.

A system for facilitating residential home mortgage transactions comprises a workflow management module and a collaborative transaction management module. The workflow management module is configured for implementing workflow management of residential home mortgage transaction tasks dependent upon at least one of workflow states of the residential home mortgage transaction tasks and prescribed workflow management rules. The collaborative transaction management module is coupled to the workflow management module for enabling interaction between the modules and is configured for implementing access to system-managed workflow information by designated transaction parties dependent upon at least one of the workflow states of the residential home mortgage transaction tasks, the prescribed workflow management rules and prescribed collaborative transaction management rules.

The present invention relates to a rotary joint for joining two waveguides for guiding electromagnetic waves, comprising a first portion adapted to receive a first waveguide, a second portion adapted to receive a second waveguide, and a third portion adapted for polarization rotation and arranged between the first portion and the second portion. The rotary joint is configured such that two portions selected from the group comprising the first portion, the second portion and the third portion are rotatable between at least two different angular positions around a central axis. Further, the rotary joint being configured to switch between a jointed state, in which the portions contact each other for electrical connection, and a non-jointed state. The present invention also relates to a method of operating such a rotary joint and a computer program and a computer readable non-transitory medium for implementing such a method.

A securities trading system utilizes distributed data processing effected by a central processing station and a plurality of processing consoles all tied to a common network. The central station includes several computation sequences that can be used to compute the autocorrelation distribution function of any one security price to predict the probable price variation increment within a contract consummation interval, the cross correlation between various securities to determine any pattern of offsetting trades, and a reconciliation sequence to effect the securities transactions within the price variation increment. The autocorrelation and cross correlation sequences can be transferred for processing in one of the consoles, thereby allowing for a distributed processing arrangement of a plurality of securities patterns, and the computation results can be displayed on the console monitor that is interested in the particular security. A price increment selected for a particular level of probability is included in each buy and sell offer and if the offers intersect a transaction is consummated. The ratios of the buy and sell increments are then used to distribute the price overlap.

To provide efficient and effective modeling of data set, the data set is initially separated into several subsets which can then be processed independently. The subsets themselves are chosen to have some internal commonality, thus providing effective independent tools where possible. This commonality may include correlation between variables or interaction amongst the variables in the subset. Once separated, each subset is independently modeled, creating a subset model having predictive qualities related to the data subset. Next, the subset models themselves are aggregated to generate a overall final model. This final model is predictive of outcomes based upon all data in the data set, thus providing a more robust stable model.

A container or dish is useful for the micro manipulation, micro injection, biopsy and fertilization in oocyte and embryo manipulation and culturing. The dish allows the user to more readily perform procedures used to fertilize oocytes by Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) or other procedures, biopsy embryos and perform additional procedures for use in assisted reproductive techniques (ART), human reproduction and in-vitro fertilization (IVF). The invention allows ease in use, the reduction in the number of micro tools used in the procedure, as opposed to conventional dishes and procedures, and will allow the user to more readily locate the oocytes and embryos to be handled and worked on. The invention will add repetitiveness, consistency, improve efficacy and ease of procedure and may improve outcomes. The invention will also give the user a more ergonomically practical dish for these types of procedures and related protocols. Specimens other than oocytes and embryos can be treated in the container by means of micro manipulation.

A data processing system 2 incorporating an instruction pipeline 14 and a prefetch unit 16 is provided with a branch prediction mechanism using both a branch prediction memory 20 storing 1-bit values indicating strongly taken or strongly not taken together with a branch prediction cache indicating for certain selected branch history values either weakly taken or weakly not taken predictions. When a conditional branch instruction is encountered, then the preceding branch prediction history is used to access a first prediction within the branch prediction memory 20 and is looked up to check for a hit within the branch prediction cache 22. If a hit occurs, then a second prediction within the branch prediction cache 22 is used in preference to the first prediction, otherwise the first prediction is used. The misprediction by a first prediction value stored within the branch prediction memory 20 triggers a second prediction to be cached within the branch prediction cache 22 corresponding to that mispredicted history value.

A system and method are disclosed for optimizing website effectiveness. Original input data associated with a plurality of website effectiveness variables is processed using a website effectiveness model to generate a first website effectiveness value, which in turn is processed to generate a dependent variable. Input data corresponding to an individual website effectiveness variable is then processed to generate changed input data, which in turn is processed by the website effectiveness model with the original input data and the dependent variable to generate a second website effectiveness value. The first and second website effectiveness values are then processed to determine the effect of the changed data on the first website effectiveness value.

The systems and methods of the present invention provide an economically feasible means of thermally processing items such as food products. In some embodiments, the thermal process is a pasteurization process. In other embodiments, the thermal process is a sterilization process. The thermal process utilizes a volumetric heating process to quickly and efficiently add heat energy to the item and then utilizes a surface heating process to obtain a relatively even, highly elevated, temperature throughout the item. In this way, the time required to perform various thermal processes, such as pasteurization and/or sterilization, is greatly reduced compared with traditional processes while still being more reliable and more predictable than other recently developed processes. Furthermore, the system and method is less complicated and more efficient than other systems and processes currently known. Furthermore still, the method includes spraying fluid onto a surface of the item to reduce edge heating.