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An interactive map web-based tool is provided which gives the user the ability to customize their use of a map. The present invention includes a customized overlay of point of interest information on an existing map. The information overlay includes icons, drop down lists, information panels, advertising content, pop-up windows and hypertext links which are associated with points of interest, where each point of interest is associated with a class. Drop down lists permit the user to display one or more points of interest by location or class. Visual cues, including color coding, icon shaping and text differentiation for different classes of points of interest allow a user of the map to quickly differentiate area resources. With such an arrangement a traveler can easily select for display only those particular resources that are of interest to the traveler and thereby create a local search experience focused on their specific travel needs.

An image based obstacle detection method. A camera mounted on a vehicle provides a set of image frames whilst the vehicle is in motion. The image frames define an image plane having a vertical aspect and a horizontal aspect. The relevancy of an object is determined by (i) selecting first and second feature points from the object that are spaced apart vertically in a first image frame; (ii) tracking the positions of the first and second feature points over at least a second image frame; and (iii) deciding the object to be relevant if the first and second feature points move dissimilar distances in physical space, within a tolerance, and deciding the object to be irrelevant otherwise. The motion of relevant objects is then estimated to determine if any relevant object is likely to become an obstacle to the vehicle.

Compositions comprising bioactive glass compositions or extracts thereof which include ions in an appropriate concentration and ratio that they enhance osteoblast production, and methods of preparation and use thereof, are disclosed. The compositions can be included in implantable devices that are capable of inducing tissue formation in autogeneic, allogeneic and xenogeneic implants, for example as coatings and / or matrix materials. Examples of such devices include prosthetic implants, sutures, stents, screws, plates, tubes, and the like. Aqueous extracts of the bioactive glass compositions, which extracts are capable of stimulating osteoblast production, are also disclosed. The compositions can be used, for example, to induce local tissue formation from a progenitor cell in a mammal, for accelerating allograft repair in a mammal, for promoting in vivo integration of an implantable prosthetic device to enhance the bond strength between the prosthesis and the existing target tissue at the joining site, and for treating tissue degenerative conditions.

The invention relates to an underwater target tracking and positioning method, which comprises the following steps that: a central processing unit transmits a starting instruction and required positioning data rate information to a blue and green laser transmitting and receiving integral rotatable device, scans an underwater responder, and transmits a laser signal containing the data rate information to the underwater responder; the underwater responder reflects the laser signal according to the prior path, and a transducer is opened; after the reflected laser signal is received, the transducer transmits a synchronous timing signal to the central processing unit, and the central processing unit begins timing; the underwater responder transmits a periodical frequency hopping pulse signal of corresponding data rate to a hydrophorce according to the data rate information; the hydrophorce transmits a direct signal to the central processing unit; and the central processing unit calculates distance information, corrects the coordinate and calculates the coordinate of the underwater responder. The invention also relates to an underwater target tracking and positioning system. The invention adopts a blue and green laser synchronous time synchronization mechanism and a hydroacoustic frequency hopping mechanism to solve the problems of synchronous error and multi-path interference in the prior short-baseline hydroacoustic positioning system respectively.

The present invention relates generally to an assay for detecting and differentiating multiple analytes, if present, in a single fluid sample, including devices and methods therefore.

The present invention provide purified Flt4 receptor tyrosine kinase polypeptides and fragments thereof, polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides, antibodies that specifically bind such polypeptides, and uses therefor.

A corrosion-resistant antifriction bearing is disclosed that includes a multi-layer corrosion protection system over a metallic substrate. The corrosion-resistant system may be applied to a single or multiple components of the bearing, including inner and outer rings, bearing elements, collars, and so forth. The system includes a nickel-phosphorous alloy plating layer applied by an autocatalytic process after surface preparation of the protected component. The surface preparation aids in adherence of the nickel-phosphorous alloy plating layer to the substrate. The preparation may include the application of rust inhibitors, liquid vapor honing, acid neutralizing, and so forth. Additional topcoat layers may be applied to the nickel-phosphorous alloy plating layer. These may include a chromate conversion coating and a polymeric topcoat layer. The polymeric topcoat layer, such as polytetrafluoroethylene, may include a UV marker to enable identification of the bearing when placed in service and throughout its useful life.

The invention discloses a photo processing method and system. The method comprises obtaining a photographed photo and detecting whether the photo meets the preset flaw conditions, if so, storing the photo into a recycle area; when the photo meets the preset photo deleting conditions, deleting the photo in the recycle area. According to the photo processing method and system, by detecting whether photographed photos meet the preset flaw conditions, storing the photos meeting the preset flaw conditions into the recycle area and automatically deleting the photos in the recycle area when the photos meet the preset deleting conditions, the photos meeting the flaw conditions can be distinguished out of the photographed photos, large amounts of photo organization time can be saved, and meanwhile other operations on photos except the photos meeting the preset flaw conditions can be facilitated.

This invention provides a new method for rapidly analyzing single bioparticles to assess their material condition and state of health. The method is enabled by use of a resonant cavity apparatus to measure an optical property related to the bioparticle size and refractive index. Measuring the refractive index is useful for determining material properties of the bioparticle. The material properties depend on the biomolecular composition of the bioparticle. The biomolecular composition is, in turn, dependent on the state of health of the bioparticle. Thus, measured optical properties can be used to differentiate normal (healthy) and abnormal (diseased) states of bioparticles derived from cells or tissues. The method is illustrated with data obtained from a resonator with a gain medium. The invention also provides new methods for making multiple measurements in a single device and detecting, analyzing, and manipulating bioparticles that are much smaller than the wavelength of light.

An absolute position-sensing device is usable to measure the relative position of two elements. An absolute scale includes an integrated track extending along a measuring axis of the scale. The integrated track includes a plurality of code portions interleaved with, or embedded in, a plurality of periodic portions. Each periodic portion includes a plurality of periodically-placed incremental scale elements. Each code portion includes a plurality of code elements indicative of an absolute measurement value. The code elements are arranged in code element zones along the direction perpendicular to the motion axis, and are detectable by associated variations along the direction perpendicular to the motion axis. The offset of the periodically placed elements relative to a readhead of the device is combined with the absolute measurement value to determine an absolute position.

The invention provides an identity authentication method and an identity authentication system based on a human face, which are used for solving the problem of distinguishing real persons from photos in the authentication process of the human face. The identity authentication method comprises the following steps of: carrying out human face authentication and facial expression recognition on a current frame image; carrying out comprehensive authentication on a human face authentication result and a facial expression recognition result of a continuous multiframe according to a preset strategy; and if the comprehensive authentication result is human face authentication pass and at least comprises two expressions, passing the identity authentication of the human face. According to the identity authentication method and the identity authentication system provided by the invention, by combining the expression recognition with human face recognition, the authentication performance is improved and the phenomenon that a jactitator passes the authentication by using a photo is avoided.

A device for characterizing ex vivo tissue employs a set of independent electrodes that may be used to scan the tissue by moving a voltage gradient across the tissue surface acquiring impedance spectrographs that may be mapped to an image.

A stylus comprising: an elongate chassis molding; a nib at one end of the chassis molding; and, an elongate cover molding for close-fitting engagement with the chassis molding; such that, the cover molding is user replaceable.

The invention provides the appraisal and selective method for the antineoplastic drug based on the cell micrograph information, which uses a sort of selection and appraisal hardware system to appraisal and select the antineoplastic drug by different fluorescence dye marking and measuring the multicellular parameter change in cell. The hardware system is made up of the high precision electric hydrous platform, the fluorescence vision system, the image collecting and processing system and working station. The diacetoxyl fluoresceine dyeing measures the active cell number; the double dyeing method of Hoechst33342 and iodized pyridine appraise the drug inducing the cell die; the three dyeing method of FDA, Hoechst33342 and PI analyzes the die mode induced by drug. The invention can measure at least two kinds of single cell or cell subgroup which expresses different drone cell organ. The method is in reason and can be used in study of drug action mechanism and selecting the high hedonic drug and toxicity analyzing, which can be used in selecting drug and appraising the drug toxicity.

The present invention provide purified Flt4 receptor tyrosine kinase polypeptides and fragments thereof, polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides, antibodies that specifically bind such polypeptides, and uses therefor.

A rapid diagnosis method for organ specific disease state is based on obtaining an infrared absorbance spectra of a patient's blood at a frequency range from about 400 cm<-1 >to about 2000 cm<-1 >and further from about 3000 cm<-1 >to about 3100 cm<-1>. Comparing it with the predetermined normal infrared absorbance spectra of known healthy subjects for the presence or absence of predetermined features such as increase or decrease of infrared absorbance, peaks at particular frequencies allows for accurate diagnosis of a disease of an organ, including most major organs such as a heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, brain, etc.

The present invention provides a method and device for conducting a rapid in vitro enzyme immunoassay test for the direct and qualitative detection of two or more viral antigens from specimens of symptomatic patients. The method for immunoassay of viral antigens is performed on a membrane. Non-immunological capture of viral antigens takes place by absorption onto the membrane. Captured antigen binds to a detection reagent that includes a label conjugated to a specific antibody. The test is a differentiated test such that two or more viral antigens may be distinguished from each other in a single test. The invention also includes a kit for performing an assay in accordance with the method of the present invention, wherein the kit comprises the device of the present invention.

A method and apparatus for a navigation system automatically assigns or allows a user to assign a brand icon to a particular location. The navigation system displays the assigned brand icon as well as generic icons on a map image. Thus, the navigation system enables the user to quickly distinguish a particular place such as a point of interest (POI) from other similar type of POIs on a map image. The user can identify a particular chain restaurant from other restaurant by the brand icon unique to the particular chain restaurant on the map image so that the user can easily specify the favorite restaurant as a destination.

A stylus comprising: an elongate chassis molding; a nib at one end of the chassis molding; and, an elongate cover molding for close-fitting engagement with the chassis molding; such that, the cover molding is user replaceable.

The invention discloses fluorescent quantitative PCR (polymerase chain reaction) primers and probes for porcine epidemic diarrhea viruses. An upstream primer and a downstream primer are shown as SEQIDNO: 1-2; a probe P1 is shown as SEQIDNO: 3; a probe P2 is shown as SEQIDNO: 4; the 3' end of sequences of the probe 1 and the probe 2 are combined with a fluorescent quenching group; and the 5' end of sequences of the probe 1 and the probe 2 are combined with different fluorescent reporter groups. The primers are relatively high in specificity and sensitivity, can detect out variant PEDV (porcine epidemic diarrhea viruses), and can detect and differentiate a variety of clinical samples so as to quickly differentiate epidemic PEDV strains; the operation is simple and practical.

A method for separating microorganisms, especially infectious agents, from a mixture by two dimensional centrifugation on the basis of sedimentation rate and isopycnic banding density, for sedimenting such microorganisms through zones of immobilized reagents to which they are resistant, for detecting banded particles by light scatter or fluorescence using nucleic acid specific dyes, and for recovering the banded particles in very small volumes for characterization by mass spectrometry of viral protein subunits and intact viral particles, and by fluorescence flow cytometric determination of both nucleic acid mass and the masses of fragments produced by restriction enzymes. The method is based on the discovery that individual microorganisms, such as bacterial and viral species, are each physically relatively homogeneous, and are distinguishable in their biophysical properties from other biological particles, and from non-biological particles found in nature. The method is useful for distinguishing infections, for identifying known microorganisms, and for discovering and characterizing new microorganisms. The method provides very rapid identification of microorganisms, and hence allows a rational choice of therapy for identified infectious agents. A particularly useful application is in clinical trials of new antibiotics and antivirals, where it is essential to identify at the outset individuals infected with the targeted infectious agent.

The invention discloses a method for distinguishing conventional cotton and hybrid cotton in an assistant mode and a special kit thereof. The method for distinguishing the conventional cotton and the hybrid cotton in the assistant mode comprises the following steps of (1) extracting a genomic DNA of cotton to be distinguished; (2) respectively carrying out PCR amplification on each pair of primers in the kit by using the genomic DNA of the cotton to be distinguished as a template to obtain the spectrums of PCR amplification products of each pair of the primers; and (3) detecting spectrums of the PCR amplification products of each pair of the primers. Proved by experiments, the kit, an SSR spectrum and the distinguishing method can effectively, accurately and quickly distinguish the cotton to be tested to be the conventional cotton or the hybrid cotton and a cotton seed to be tested to be an F1 generation or an F2 generation, thus the kit, the SSR spectrum and the distinguishing method have wide application prospect.

The invention relates to a fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant compensation algorithm for a steer-by-wire motor and a sensor. The algorithm comprises the steps of building a three-degree-of-freedom dynamic joint model of a steering mechanism and an electric forklift, and designing a traceless Kalman filtering algorithm to design a corner predictor, establishing a steering motor model, carrying outwheel rotation angle prediction and predictor self-diagnosis, analyzing fault type characteristics of the corner motor and the sensor and modeling various types of faults, designing a fault diagnosisalgorithm based on sensor measurement data, designing a fault diagnosis algorithm based on sensor data residual errors, using a corresponding fault tolerance compensation algorithm according to the sensor fault type, and designing a fault diagnosis method and a fault type judgment method of the steering motor. An error prediction value can be effectively prevented from entering a system fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant compensation module, and misjudgment of the system is avoided. And meanwhile, modeling is carried out for fault characteristics, the accuracy is higher than that of a traditional fault modeling method, and the fault types can be distinguished more effectively and quickly.

A method for separating microorganisms, especially infectious agents, from a mixture by two dimensional centrifugation on the basis of sedimentation rate and isopycnic banding density, for sedimenting such microorganisms through zones of immobilized reagents to which they are resistant, for detecting banded particles by light scatter or fluorescence using nucleic acid specific dyes, and for recovering the banded particles in very small volumes for characterization by mass spectrometry of viral protein subunits and intact viral particles, and by fluorescence flow cytometric determination of both nucleic acid mass and the masses of fragments produced by restriction enzymes. The method is based on the discovery that individual microorganisms, such as bacterial and viral species, are each physically relatively homogeneous, and are distinguishable in their biophysical properties from other biological particles, and from non-biological particles found in nature. The method is useful for distinguishing infections, for identifying known microorganisms, and for discovering and characterizing new microorganisms. The method provides very rapid identification of microorganisms, and hence allows a rational choice of therapy for identified infectious agents. A particularly useful application is in clinical trials of new antibiotics and antivirals, where it is essential to identify at the outset individuals infected with the targeted infectious agent.

The invention is a piece of furniture that can be converted into a ballistic shield wherein a surface of the furniture is pivotally attached to a frame and rotates between a traditional working position and a shield position. The piece of furniture has a front modesty panel mounted between the front legs where an edge of the pivoting tabletop overlaps the upper edge of the modesty screen when rotated into the shield position. Additionally, the pivoting mechanism comprises a lift speed restricting mechanism that prevents the user from lifting the surface too quickly and prevents toppling along with a biasing mechanism to help hold the surface in the shield position. The invention also has a unique color coded system to easily indicate to a user that the piece of furniture can be converted into a ballistic shield.

The present invention provides and apparatus for distinguishing falls from activities of daily living (ADLs). First, the human movements and muscle activities would be obtained by an electromyography measuring unit and / or an inertia measuring unit to record ADLs, and falls would be distinguished from ADLs to trigger the protecting devices in time to prevent or decrease injury. In addition, the apparatus would be preset for different operational conditions to adapt different users by a setting unit to increase accuracy. Finally, the moving distance and the direction of the user would be obtained by the electromyography measuring unit and / or the inertia measuring unit to obtain the location thereof in an interior space.

Compositions, methods and related apparatus, as can be used for selective pathogen detection and identification.

The present invention describes an efficient and rapid protocol to generate hepatocyte cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). According to the method, the iPS cells can be differentiated into functional hepatocyte cells in a short time course (less than 15-20 days). The iPSC-derived hepatocyte cells of the invention have a similar gene expression profile to mature hepatocytes. Moreover, the iPSC-derived hepatocyte cells is proved to rescue lethal fulminant hepatic failure in a non-obese diabetic severe combined immunodeficient mouse model. The rapid and efficient differentiation protocol for generation of iPSC-derived hepatocyte cells may offer an alternative option for treatment of liver diseases.

An image based obstacle detection method. A camera mounted on a vehicle provides a set of image frames while the vehicle is in motion. The image frames define an image plane having a vertical aspect and a horizontal aspect. The relevancy of an object is determined by (i) selecting first and second feature points from the object that are spaced apart vertically in a first image frame; (ii) tracking the positions of the first and second feature points over at least a second image frame; and (iii) deciding the object to be relevant if the first and second feature points move dissimilar distances in physical space, within a tolerance, and deciding the object to be irrelevant otherwise. The motion of relevant objects is then estimated to determine if any relevant object is likely to become an obstacle to the vehicle.