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A device for delivering fluid to a person includes a reservoir for containing a fluid to be delivered to the person; a fluid transport device for dispensing fluid from the reservoir to the person, the fluid transport device including a proximal end in fluid communication with the reservoir and a distal end having a penetrating member for piercing the skin of the person to facilitate the delivery of fluid to the person through the fluid transport device; a housing containing the reservoir and the fluid transport device, the housing including an exit port for receiving the distal end of the fluid transport device upon injection of the distal end into the person and means for securing a first wall of the housing to the skin of the person; and an injection activation device including a driving mechanism contacting the fluid transport device for driving the penetrating member from a first position within the housing, through the exit port to a second position, external to the housing and into the skin of the person.

The invention provides an automatic purse-string device, which comprises an upper shell and a lower shell, and nail warehouse components arranged inside of the shells, wherein the nail warehouse components comprise a nail warehouse, a nail pushing piece and a nail arranged in the nail warehouse. When in an initial state, one end of the upper shell and one end of the lower shell are in pivot connection and are arranged in an angle; and when in the process of working, the upper shell rotates relative to the lower shell, and the upper shell and the lower shell move relative to make the nail pushing piece push the nail out of the nail warehouse after the upper shell is parallel to the lower shell. The automatic purse-string device has the main advantages that the device is compact in appearance, can be packaged and sold serving as an attachment of other surgical instruments, saves material cost, can reduce the economic burden of a patient, and can satisfy the use in a smaller surgical space, thereby enlarging use range and providing a doctor with convenience.

A device for delivering a fluid to a patient, including an exit port, a dispenser for causing fluid from a reservoir to flow to the exit port, a local processor programmed to cause a flow of fluid to the exit port based on flow instructions from a separate, remote control device, and a wireless receiver connected to the local processor for receiving the flow instructions. The device also includes a housing free of user input components for providing flow instructions to the local processor, in order to reduce the complexity and costs of the device so that the device lends itself to being disposable in nature. A system and a kit are also described that include the fluid delivery device, a separate, remote control device, and accessories for transcutaneous delivery of fluid medications. Methods of utilizing the fluid delivery device to infuse fluid medications are additionally disclosed.

A device for delivering fluid to a person including a reservoir for containing a fluid to be delivered to the person, a fluid transport device for dispensing fluid from said reservoir to the person, said fluid transport device including a proximal end in fluid communication with said reservoir and a distal end having a penetrating member for piercing the skin of the person to facilitate the delivery of fluid to the person through the fluid transport device, a housing containing said reservoir and said fluid transport device, said housing including an exit port for receiving said distal end of said fluid transport device upon injection of said distal end into said person and means for securing a first wall of said housing to the skin of the person, a injection activation device including a driving mechanism contacting said fluid transport device for driving said penetrating member from a first position within said housing, through said exit port to a second position, external to said housing and into the skin of said person, and an electrically driven actuator for activating said driving mechanism.

A method for using a digital electrical apparatus to electrically process signals in generating output for insurance documentation, the method including the steps of: in a digital electrical computer apparatus comprising a digital computer having a processor, the processor electrically connected to a memory device for storing and retrieving operations including machine-readable signals in the memory device, to an input device for receiving input data and converting the input data into input electrical data, to a visual display unit for converting output electrical data into output having a visual presentation, to a printer for converting the output electrical data into printed documentation, wherein the processor is programmed to control the apparatus to receive the input data and to produce the output data by steps including: defining a plurality of patient categories; and for each of the categories, determining a periodic duration-specific insurance benefit amount for long-term care patients; the method further including the step of inserting the periodic duration-specific insurance benefit amounts in a long-term care insurance policy.

A secure and efficient system and method that allows restaurant patrons to combine, split and / or pay for one or more components of an outstanding bill via a mobile computing device. In the most ideal embodiment, the restaurant has an existing order management / Point of Sale (POS) system installed on a computer network with wireless (Wi-Fi or Bluetooth) capabilities. When patrons have finished eating and are ready to pay for their bill, all outstanding check details are downloaded from a POS database to a mobile computing device over the wireless network. Each patron reviews the check details (listed in an orderly fashion on the screen of the mobile device) to determine how much they each want to pay. Patrons can pay for all or specific parts of the entire bill as well as all or specific parts of each item that was ordered. After a specific payment amount has been identified, each patron can manually enter their card details, swipe a bank card through a magnetic card reader attached to the mobile device or they can choose to have the waitperson pick up a specific amount of cash. The use of smart cards can be used for incentive programs or other related processes. If communicated over a wireless network, bank card transaction details can be sent to the server of the restaurant and can be processed by a 3rd party credit agency of choice.

The present invention provides a universal serial bus (USB) voltage transformer, which comprises a main body, a transformer circuit unit, and several connectors. The transformer circuit unit is disposed in or at the inside of the main body. The connectors are electrically connected to the transformer circuit unit directly or via a connection cable. A USB voltage transformer having travel charging function is thus formed. The USB voltage transformer of the present invention can simultaneously charge several portable electronic devices like mobile phones, personal digital assistants, electronic translators, and small cameras.

The invention relates to a method for preparing composite biological medical material used to avoid adhering organisms, wherein said film is formed by two layers; the layer used as base material is formed by degradable composite macromolecule polylactic acid, glycolic acid, or their copolymer, treated by static spin technique, to make film fiber into nanometer level; then coats one layer of degradable natural macromolecule chitose or relative derivant on the base film, to be treated to obtain the degradable composite biological medical film; and the invention can add different amounts of medical elasticizer between two layers to adjust the degrade speed. The invention can improve immunity with haemostasis function, etc.

The invention discloses a chronic disease health management system and method. The system comprises a health monitoring and acquisition apparatus, an information acquisition and processing module, a management module, a terminal device and a real-time tracking and monitoring module, wherein the health monitoring and acquisition apparatus acquires health information of a chronic disease patient and generates health data; the information acquisition and processing module processes, analyzes and assesses the acquired health data and generates analysis and assessment result data of the chronic disease patient; a management scheme is generated through the management module and sent to the terminal device so as to perform intervention management on the chronic disease patient; and the real-time tracking and monitoring module tracks and monitors the health information of the chronic disease patient in real time, evaluates an intervention management feedback effect and continuously adjusts and perfects the management scheme. According to the system and method, effective management can be carried out for dangerous factors of chronic disease crowds and professionalized and personalized 8S health management schemes can be provided for chronic disease patients.

The invention relates to a bone implanting and internal fixation appliance with bioactivity and absorbability, which belongs to the field of bio-medical appliances, particularly to the field of medical appliances used for bone wound surgery, reparative and reconstructive surgery and plastic and cosmetic surgery. The appliance includes bone nails and a bone plate made of magnesium and the alloy thereof with bioactivity and absorbability. The bone implanting and internal fixation appliance is a bone internal fixation device, which comprises a blade plate and matched screws, intramedullary nails, a fracture and dislocation fixing device of vertebral column, bone nails or screws having individual fixation effect, wherein the bone internal fixation device is made of magnesium and the alloy thereof with bioactivity and absorbability. The bone internal fixation device can solve the problem in bioactivity of prior bone internal fixation device and promote healing the tissue where the device in implanted. The device also includes a protection layer prepared on the surface of the internal fixation device for controlling the degradation rate of magnesium alloy and the dissolution rate of magnesium ions, thus controlling the bioactivity and the absorption speed of the magnesium alloy device in an organism.

The present invention is objective, quantitative and precise method of predicting serious complication risk degree after gastric cancer operation. The method includes the following steps: 1. screening out factors affecting the serious complication after gastric cancer operation through overall single factor analysis; 2. determining the prognostic determining factor through two-value multiple non-conditional logic regression analysis; 3. determining the optimal prediction value dividing value through the work characteristic analysis on the testee; and 4. establishing the predicting model with main risk factor as the independent variable and judging the serious complication risk degree after gastric cancer operation by means of the prediction probability. The present invention is one objective and quantitative intelligent risk evaluation system.

A length-adjustable shoe is disclosed. The shoe includes an outsole, an insole attached on the outsole, an upper attached on the insole, means for adjusting a length of the insole, which is provided at the insole, an upper tension member provided at the upper, a lower tension member provided at the outsole, and means for fastening a front part and a rear part of the upper divided by the upper tension member to maintain a size of the shoe at a wearer's foot size. The shoe is extended and contracted longitudinally without change of an outer shape of the shoe, by the length-adjusting means, the upper tension member, the lower tension member, and the fastening means. The shoe can accommodate a wearer suffering hallux valgus or hallux varus, a wearer with both feet having different sizes, and a wearer with rapid growth rate. The shoe can be worn by a wearer for a long period of time without needless expenditure due to purchase of two pair of shoes.

This invention involves a mushroom cultivation material and production process, it belongs to the field of bio-engineering technology. This mushroom cultivation material contains Chinese crud drug residue 30 ~ 40 share, cotton shells 50 ~ 60 share, urea 1 ~ 2 share, wheat bran 5 ~ 7 share, potassium sulfate 0.5 to 1.5 share, calcium superphosphate 0.5 to 1.2 share, zinc sulfate, magnesium sulfate, borax, ferrous sulfate together for 0.4~1 share, calcined lime 0.5 to1.3 share. Because of using materials containing substances such as Chinese crud drug residue, the produced mushroom cultivation material of this invention has antibacterial effect. Through the implementation of the invention reached so no longer waste residue cause environmental pollution, reduce the factory heavy economic burden caused by the sewage problem.

A container unit for a drug is composed of a container, which is formed of a cylindrical drug-solution-containing portion and a drug-solution-filling neck portion, and a rubber closure for sealing the drug-solution-filling neck portion. The rubber closure comprises a disk-shaped head portion and a substantially cylindrical leg portion arranged on a lower wall of the head portion. The container is provided with a flat surface formed on a side of its inner wall at a boundary between the drug-solution-containing portion and the drug-solution-filling neck portion such that a lower end wall of the leg portion of the rubber closure can be brought into close contact with the flat surface, and at least a side wall of the drug-solution-containing portion forms a cornerless, rounded surface on a side where a drug solution is to be contained. When the drug-solution-filling neck portion has been sealed with the rubber closure, the lower end wall of the leg portion and the flat surface of the container are maintained in close contact with each other without any protrusion of an inner circumferential edge of the lower end wall into an interior of the container beyond an inner circumferential edge of the flat surface.

The utility model discloses a computer management system of ship engineering material handling, which is characterized in that: five layer system architecture of Browser / Server is adopted in current mainstream, comprising a bottom layer which is computer network hardware and system software layer, the second layer which is application server layer, the third layer which is Quick digitalization management integration platform, the fourth layer which is application server layer and the upper most layer which is Web application layer. The computer management system of ship engineering material handling is constructed on the Quick integration platform, comprising information getting and transferring, basic data management, purchase management, shipping and monitoring management, inventory management, per ship accounting and system service and management function module. The utility model is a set of quantification data sheet showing material handling management. The utility model has the advantages that the efficiency and intelligence is high; the original ordering data can be get and used to automatically implementing the information, automatically counting data with high efficiency, controlling cost and strengthening management, configuring other management system, realizing multi management and easily being grasped.

The invention relates to a system of monitoring fishing boats for anti-collision alarm, which is a new system for fishing boats on the sea to monitor the condition of boats around in real time, realize anti-collision alarm and avoid net lost. The information of boats around is obtained by adopting a communication computer in the private communication channel in the fishery of our country and information of boats with an AIS system is received through AIS. The system consists of a reception portion, an input and output interface portion, a data processing portion, a data storing portion and a display portion. Information about fishing boats and merchant ships on the sea is received through the reception interface portion for data analysis and judgment processing through a data processing centre to realize remote control, inquiry and tracking to the fishing boats and merchant ships around. Relevant data such as the sailing direction and speed of the boats is displayed on an electronic sea chart of the computer in real time. Real-time alarm is given to boats in the preset alarm range to achieve the aim of avoiding terrible accidents such as collision and net lost so as to ensure safe production and sailing of fishing boats.

The invention provides a real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) kit for detecting the expression level of HER2 genes and relates to a PCR kit. The real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR kit comprises PCR reaction liquid of the HER2 genes, PCR reaction liquid of ACTB genes, a Taq enzyme system, a control product and a packaging object; and the adopted primer is an annular primer, 3-8 self-designed basic groups are at the 5' end, and can be combined with the sequence at the 3' end under proper conditions so as to form double chains. The real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR kit has the advantages that the non-specific amplification products especially primer dimer generated by nonspecific amplification products especially the primer can be effectively prevented from being formed, the specificity is increased; and a relative-quantitative RT-PCR method is utilized for detecting the expression level of the HER2 genes of a patient with the breast cancer, adopts a 2-delta deltaCt value method for quantifying the detected result, and can be used for diagnosis of early stage and transferring of the breast cancer and assisting multiple fields such as clinicalmedicine selection and prognosis.

The marsh gas fermentation process with composite microbial preparation treated stalk includes the following steps: crushing stalk material, wetting with water for 18 hr, adding composite microbial preparation and ammonium bicarbonate as the nitrogen source, replenishing water and mixing, stacking and covering with plastic foil, fermenting for 3-6 days and maintaining at temperature over 50 deg.c for 3 days, transferring to marsh gas tank, adding ammonium bicarbonate methane producing inoculum and sealing for 2-7 days to produce marsh gas. The present invention has fast marsh gas producing speed and raised marsh gas producing quantity.

The device (10, 36, 38, 42, 68) applies a negative pressure to an endoluminal surface in the body of a patient to facilitate healing of a wound in the endoluminal surface. The device comprises a flexible porous element (14) with a peripheral outer face (32) for contact with the wound, the outer face being defined between opposite proximal and distal ends of the porous element. A suction tube (30) for being connected to a suction source externally of the patient's body is provided in fluid communication with the porous element to apply a negative pressure to the wound via the outer face (32) of the porous element (14) upon operation of the suction source. The porous element (14) has at least one through passageway (16) extending from its proximal end to its distal end for passage of bodily substances of the patient through the porous element. The device can also include a drainage tube (22) for collection and drainage of the bodily substances from the patient, wherein the drainage tube is received in the through passageway of the porous element. The device is particularly suitable for assisted healing of anastomotic wounds but its use is not limited thereto.

Herein we describe shotgun shells each having a degradable wad comprising a polyhydroxyalkanoate polymer, as well as methods for ensuring that such wad degrades quickly after landing in an aquatic environment. Plastic, aquatic debris has a negative economic and ecological impact, and thus it is advantageous to use implements that will degrade into environmentally benign compounds. Incorporating a degradable wad into shotgun shells provides an effective, economical solution. Suitable degradable shotgun wads and methods are described herein.

A wall adaptor includes an adaptor body, a terminal unit and a connector module. The terminal unit is disposed on the adaptor body and has a pin arrangement, and the connector module is detachably disposed on the adaptor body. The connector module has a module body and at least a first connector disposed on the adaptor body, the connector module and the adaptor body are in electrical communication through electrical contacts. The connector module is replaceable for broader implementation.

There are provided devices for applying negative pressure to a wound in an endoluminal surface of a patient to facilitate healing of the wound and methods for use of the devices. The device (69, 94, 134, 140, 156, 164) comprises a flexible porous element with an outer face defined between opposite proximal and distal ends of the porous element. A suction tube (30) for being connected to a suction source externally of the patient's body is in fluid communication with the porous element (14) to apply the negative pressure to the wound via the outer face of the porous element. In some embodiments, the porous element has a longtitudinal passageway (16) for passage of bodily substances of the patient along the lumen defining the endoluminal surface through the porous element. In such embodiments, the device may also have at least one absorbent element (70, 80) for absorbing the bodily substances and which is disposed forwardly or rearwardly of the porous element (14). Embodiments of the device may also include a drainage tube (22) for collection and drainage of bodily substances from the patient and which is received in the longtitudinal passageway (16) of the porous element. In other embodiments, the porous element can be in the form of a mat wrapped around a feeding or other insertion tube. The porous element of a device embodied by the invention may also include one or more irrigation channels (85, 86) for delivery of an irrigation fluid into or though, the porous element. The porous element and / or absorbent element(s) may be sponge(s).

The invention relates to an edible fungus compost, a production method thereof and an edible fungus culture process. The edible fungus compost disclosed by the invention consists of 40 to 90 parts of residual waste (spent mushroom substrate) left over after the harvest of edible fungi, 5 to 40 parts of cottonseed hulls, 3 to 20 parts of bran, 2 to 8 parts of corn meal, 1 to 2 parts of gypsum powder, 0 to 5 parts of quicklime, 0 to 2 parts of superphosphate and 0.05 to 0.8 parts of fungus-strengthening substance, and the pH value is 6 to 9. The invention adopts the residual waste (spent mushroom substrate) left over after the harvest of edible fungi as main material ingredient to produce the edible fungus compost. By implementing the invention, the residual waste of edible fungi cannot pollute the environment any more, and is made profitable, and the resource can be recycled; an edible fungus material resource is added, the economic burden caused by the shortage and higher prices of edible fungus materials is decreased for edible fungus farmers, the production cost of the method is reduced by more than 50 percent in comparison with the production cost of the conventional method, the yield is increased by 10 to 15 percent, the bioconversion rate reaches 80 to 120 percent, and economic income and social benefit are increased. The method is applicable to a variety of edible fungi.

A length-adjustable shoe is disclosed. The shoe includes an outsole, an insole attached on the outsole, an upper attached on the insole, means for adjusting a length of the insole, which is provided at the insole, an upper tension member provided at the upper, a lower tension member provided at the outsole, and means for fastening a front part and a rear part of the upper divided by the upper tension member to maintain a size of the shoe at a wearer's foot size. The shoe is extended and contracted longitudinally without change of an outer shape of the shoe, by the length-adjusting means, the upper tension member, the lower tension member, and the fastening means. The shoe can accommodate a wearer suffering hallux valgus or hallux varus, a wearer with both feet having different sizes, and a wearer with rapid growth rate. The shoe can be worn by a wearer for a long period of time without needless expenditure due to purchase of two pair of shoes.

The invention discloses a rechargeable stimulator for deep parts of brain, which comprises an electrical energy transforming apparatus, an exterior control monitoring apparatus outside human body and a stimulation impulse generator implanted into hypodermal of human body, wherein the electric energy transforming apparatus is used to generate high-frequency resonant electromagnetic field, the high-frequency resonant electromagnetic field penetrates human body skin and conveys electrical energy to the stimulation impulse generator, which includes an electric energy coupling module for receiving the high-frequency resonant electromagnetic field and transform it into electric energy, wherein the power supply regulating module provide electrical source to the stimulation pulse generator.

The invention relates to the bamboo-wood mixed structure of building construction. A hollow original bamboo rod piece is made into a solid member with processing and strength properties similar to that of the wood by pouring fiber reinforced gypsum and inserting wood core columns into the cavity of the original bamboo, thus fundamentally overcoming the disadvantages that the original bamboo has the hollow structure and is easy to crack; and then the processed original bamboo rod piece is mixed with wood for use, thus forming the light bamboo-wood mixed structure. All original bamboo members of the structure are covered by fireproof material and plates, thus having good fireproof performance, expanding the application range of original bamboo buildings and being capable of building permanent bamboo buildings with at least two floors. The bamboo-wood mixed structure can not only replace brick-concrete structure, reinforced concrete structure and traditional timberwork so as to be used as the main structure of the rural residence, but also can be used for the construction of scenic spots and reconstruction in disaster areas. The bamboo-wood mixed structure can significantly reduce the demand for wood of rural housing construction, protect forest resources and protect the ecological environment, and has factory production and relatively low manufacturing cost.

The invention discloses a traffic condition prompting method, device and system. The traffic condition prompting method comprises the steps that a cloud-side server acquires position information of a vehicle, vehicle speed information of the vehicle and traffic light information in front of the vehicle; and the cloud-side server judges whether the vehicle can pass the traffic light under the current state according to the position information of the vehicle, the vehicle speed information of the vehicle and the traffic light information in front of the vehicle and prompts a driver according to the judgment result. According to the traffic condition prompting method, driving labor intensity of the driver is mitigated so that traffic accident rate is reduced. Besides, damage to a photographing device in the vehicle can be reduced, the service life of the photographing device can be prolonged and energy consumption of the vehicle and the economic burden of a user can also be reduced.

The invention provides an environment-friendly organic-inorganic compound fertilizer. The fertilizer comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight: 30-50 parts of solid waste organic, 30-50 parts of inorganic nitrogen phosphorus and potassium nutrient, 1-8 parts of glutathione, 1-2 parts of phosphate-solubilizing compound strain, and 5-10 parts of filler. The organic-matter containing raw material adopted by the fertilizer is from a large amount of solid waste organic from other industries, the byproduct or leftovers are used for providing abundant organic matter so as to produce the organic-inorganic compound fertilizer, the waste is turned into wealth, the environmental protection is realized, the cost is saved, and the enterprise benefit is increased. The detoxication effect of the glutathione is used for producing the organic-inorganic compound fertilizer, so that the blank in China is filled.

The present invention relates to the treatment of wounds by the topical administration of arginine or ornithine to wound sites. There is described herein a wound healing enhancing medicinal composition formulated from the amino acid arginine or a by-product thereof. Topical application of the medicinal composition to the wound site enhances wound healing by increasing collagen biosynthesis. A medical composition of the present invention may be administered alone, on dressings, or in combination with common vehicles for topical application including, for example, oil-based emulsions, gels, creams, ointments, and the like.

The invention discloses a treatment method of arsenic wastewater. The treatment method comprises the following steps: optionally adding acid liquor into the arsenic wastewater to adjust the pH value to 0-5; introducing the arsenic wastewater into a reaction unit, continuously removing arsenic by adding sulfide in multistage manner; carrying out solid-liquid separation on the effluent after reaction, recycling the separated arsenic slag; adding alkali into the separated effluent to perform electrochemical advanced treatment, wherein the electrochemical advanced treatment includes an electrolytic coagulation step, an electrolytic flotation step and an electrolytic oxidation reduction step, in the electrolytic coagulation, cations are generated by the electrolyzation of a soluble anodic iron plate for flocculation; carrying out aerated oxidation on the effluent after flocculation to generate floc and micelle sediment including ferric ions, and then carrying out solid-liquid separation, wherein the liquid supernatant after separation can be recycled or reach the standard and drain outwards. The treatment method of arsenic wastewater has the advantages of simple technology, low investment, low cost and high resource recovery and recycling rate, and being green and environment-friendly, and being capable of treating continuously and the like.