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This invention provides a process and system for a comprehensive surgical assist system, called a Therapy Imaging and Model Management System (TIMMS), which combines and integrates all of the necessary information and communication technology; workflow analysis, data processing and data synthesis; interactive interfaces between surgeon and mechatronic devices; and, cognitive agents; to provide comprehensive assistance and guidance throughout complex medical and surgical therapies, such as image guided surgery. The components of this invention, which are modular, scalable and may be distributed in location, act synergistically to provide functionality and utility that exceeds the sum of its individual parts.A method of performing surgery on a patient comprising the step of comparing a chosen patient's data to statistical data in a repository of patient data to develop a patient specific model, wherein the data comprises information from two or more sub databases selected from the group consisting of workflow data, electronic medical records, diagnostic data, biological data, measurement data, anatomical data, physiological data, genetic data, molecular data, imaging data, chemical data, clinical laboratory data, simulated data, coordinate data and surgical result and wherein the patient specific model aids in the preoperative, operative or post operative phase of surgery performed in real time on the patient.

In some embodiments, a comprehensive computer system and method (See FIGS. 1, 1a, 2) for automating and facilitating the performing and processing of tasks, information transfer, and information storage associated with the home sale (See FIG. 3a), mortgage origination (See FIG. 3b), and settlement process (See FIG. 3c), and the home mortgage refinancing origination and settlement process (See FIGS. 1b, 1c, 2a) (or performing other business processes), over a distributed computing network are disclosed. One aspect of the invention is a greatly simplified process for a home buyer to search for a home and simultaneously receive accurate and competitive bids for mortgages and services from multiple lenders and service providers. The process includes an automated underwriting process which generates complete, accurate information on the costs of buying and owning a home at very beginning of the home buying process. Another aspect of the invention is greatly automating the entire sale, loan and settlement process.

The invention belongs to the technical field of information of the building industry, and provides an engine device and a method for data integration and exchange of building information mode based on IFC (industry foundation classes) standards, which are used for creating and applying a building information model (BIM). The method is based on a BIM database created on the basis of the IFC standards and a relational database, and BIM resolution in an IFC format, conversion of building information in non-IFC formats, extraction and integration of BIM submodels and storage, exchange and access control of BIM data are realized. The engine device comprises an IFC entity library, an IFC file resolver, an IFC geometric model converter, a Project-IFC converter, a BIM submodel integrator, a BIM submodel extractor, a data access controller, a BIM data storage device, a BIM data extractor, an IFC file generator and the like. The building information model data integration and exchange engine device and the method support conversion of BIM data in various formats, and BIM data integration and exchange oriented to various stages of the life cycle of a building or different applications can be realized. In addition, BIM data integration and exchange efficiency is effectively improved by the aid of data batch processing technology.

The invention discloses a credit-based blockchain consensus method for large-scale e-commerce. According to the method, by applying a blockchain to the large-scale e-commerce application scene, the scalability needed by the large-scale e-commerce scene can be achieved, millions of nodes can be supported, the consensus requirement that the service speed of the e-commerce is ten millions per second can be met, energy consumption such as Bitcoins is not needed, and the problem that a blockchain adopting proof of stake (POS) is lack of security guarantee is solved. The method comprises the steps that 1, the structure of the blockchain is composed of an alliance chain environment in a firewall, a gateway environment in a non-military isolation area and a platform in the public Internet; 2, alliance chain members elect a few nodes with a high trust degree from a public environment to serve as first-stage consensus nodes; and 3, a first-stage consensus result is sent to a alliance chain, the alliance chain members perform secondary consensus through voting to ensure the accuracy of the consensus result from the public environment, and then the security requirement is met.

The invention relates to an agrobacterium strain (Agrobacterium sp.) with heterotrophic nitrification-aerobic denitrification capability and an application thereof in nitrogenous effluent treatment. The bacterial strain is characterized in that: 16S rRNA gene contains nucleotide sequence shown in sequence table with a sequence length of 1418bp and a accession number FJ639330 in Genbank. The preservation number thereof is CGMCC No.2962. The agrobacterium of the invention has not only heterotrophic nitrification capability but also aerobic denitrification capability. During nitrogenous effluent treatment, and one aerobic phase can cause ammonian to change into gaseous product with high denitrification efficiency and easy operation and tremendous economic benefit compared with the traditional biological denitrification process.

The invention relates to a two-stage hybrid particle swarm optimization clustering method, which is mainly used for solving the problems of greater time consumption and low accuracy of the conventional particle swarm optimization K-mean clustering method when the number of dimensions of samples is higher. The technical scheme disclosed by the invention comprises the following steps: (1) reading a data set and the number K of clusters; (2) taking statistics on information of dimensionality; (3) standardizing the dimensionality; (4) calculating a similarity matrix; (5) generating a candidate initial clustering center; (6) performing particle swarm K-mean partitional clustering; and (7) outputting a particle swarm optimal fitness value and a corresponding data set class cluster partition result. According to the two-stage hybrid particle swarm optimization clustering method disclosed by the invention, the first-stage clustering is firstly performed by adopting agglomerative hierarchical clustering, a simplified particle encoding way is provided, the second-stage clustering is performed on data by particle swarm optimization K-mean clustering, the advantages of hierarchical agglomeration, K-mean and particle swarm optimization methods are integrated, the clustering speed is accelerated, and the global convergence ability and the accuracy of the clustering result of the method are improved.

The invention relates to an electric power engineering project investment management system, and belongs to the technical field of informatization and consists of a DMS framework platform layer, a basic data layer, a business application layer and a statistical analysis layer. The system comprises a management system standard module for storing professional files related to project investment andproviding basic information support; a project investment management module used for storing project information, data information of each stage of a project and related files and carrying out all-around and all-factor tracking control on engineering construction; a report center module, covering various engineering project investment reports; and a system management module used for basic settingand daily maintenance of the system. The system controls, analyzes, tracks and guides data information of the whole process of engineering construction, realizes resource sharing, promotes standardized construction, refined management and large-scale development of engineering projects, improves the working efficiency and quality, and provides effective technical support for realizing benefit maximization of the whole life cycle of the projects and enhancing the core competitiveness of enterprises.

System and methods are provided for performing privacy-preserving, high-performance, and scalable DNA read mapping on hybrid clouds including a public cloud and a private cloud. The systems and methods offer strong privacy protection and have the capacity to process millions of reads and allocate most of the workload to the public cloud at a small overall cost. The systems and methods perform seeding on the public cloud using keyed hash values of individual sequencing reads' seeds and then extend matched seeds on the private cloud. The systems and methods are designed to move the workload of read mapping from the extension stage to the seeding stage, thereby ensuring that the dominant portion of the overhead is shouldered by the public cloud.

The present invention provides a complex digital asset-orientated multi-stage PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance) consensus system and method. The complex digital asset-orientated multi-stage PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance) consensus system includes a transaction checker, a primary node self-checker, a transaction batch consensus device, a view rotator, a consensus message processor and a block builder; the transaction checker completes transaction-related consistency and security check during a commit phase; the primary node self-checker performs processing in a ViewChange message processing process; the transaction batch consensus device is responsible for batch processing of a plurality of transactions; the view rotator is used for completing the selection of a primarynode, the update of a new round of view and the recording of the information of a last view in a ViewChange protocol process so as to ensure the continuity of a new view; the consensus message processor achieves the global consistency of messages through a consensus processes at different stages; and the block builder can complete block-related transaction submission and sorting, as well as blockconstruction, block verification, block bifurcation-prevention guaranteeing and other operations.

The invention discloses a hormone-free tissue culture method for dendrobium candidum, which comprises four tissue culture stages including germinating of seeds of the dendrobium candidum into spherical stems, multiplication and differentiation, and rootage and sound seedlings at stem sections; culture media used at the four stages include a hormone-free MS (Murashige and Skoog) culture medium, a hormone-free MS basal culture medium plus 15-20 g / l mashed potato culture medium, a hormone-free MS basal culture medium plus 15-20 g / l mashed banana plus 15-20 g / l mashed potato culture medium and a hormone-free 1 / 2 MS basal culture medium plus 15-20 g / l mashed banana plus 15-20 g / l mashed potato culture medium. The polysaccharide content and total alkaloid content in the culture of the dendrobium candidum obtained by hormone-free culture are increased compared with hormone-containing culture; the growth state of the dendrobium candidum is normal; the genetic diversity of the plant variety is protected; with the adoption of the method, the tissue culture of the dendrobium candidum is more convenient, green and environmentally friendly, and the resources are saved.

The invention discloses a method for improving output of cordyceps militars fruiting body and cordycepin by adopting red yeast rice synergistic fermentation, wherein bacteria strain activation and antagonism test are required beforehand, and afterwards, the cordycepin are required to be detected. The method comprises four stages: (1) red yeast rice cultivation; (2) cordyceps militars cultivation; (3) dixenie mixed synergistic fermentation; and (4) fruiting body management. The method not only can significantly improve the output of the cordyceps militars fruiting body by more than 30 percent, but also can improve the quality of the cordyceps militars fruiting body, thus causing the content of cordycepin in the fruiting body to be improved by 20 percent and reach more than 20.2mg / g. The method has great significance in improving the output and efficiency of cordyceps militars solid fermentation, and improving the content of effective constituents in medical cordycepin powder and capsule, thus having good application and development prospect.

The invention discloses a set of apparatus and a method for culturing Haematococcus pluvialis and converting astaxanthin in large scale. The apparatus consists of a photo-bioreactor system set on the frisket, aeration equipment, culture fluid inoculation equipment and still cell harvesting equipment. Floating or sunken pulse equipment is set on the frisket. The apparatus don't need establishment of artificial culture pool and other institution, but uses natural water body to culture Haematococcus pluvialis in large scale. It is low cost, the culture temperature, illumination and water flow rate is stable, culture fluid flows with each other, aeration is continuous, culture conditions are precedent, which make the growth and increment of Haematococcus pluvialis almost at equal pace. The growth rate of Haematococcus pluvialis can reach to 25%, biomass increase is fast, doubles 3-5 days. The photo-bioreactor can be hoisted into required depth of the water, which solves the contradiction of difference of temperature, illumination and nutrition of Haematococcus pluvialis culture and astaxanthin conversion.

The invention (the process, its supporting devices, and applications) serves the endeavor of shellfish aquaculture. The invention improves and innovates: 1) tidally powered systems for raising shellfish seed, 2) grow-out, 3) brood stock conditioning, 4) market conditioning, & food supplement, 5) hatchery systems, 6) hatchery / nursery integration, resource sharing and optimization, ergonomics and economics, 7) water treatment, 8) Propulsion, 9) Anchorage, 10) Security, and 11) Devices for the Integration of Neighborhood Values and Shellfish Production. Such large increased economies of production suggest new uses for shellfish. Shellfish grow-out can provide cost effective and ecologically advantageous infrastructure benefits to eroding beaches, unstable channels, and water quality and the health of estuaries in general. The system is flexible in operation so that it may maximize the use of estuarine tidal energy and phytoplankton in order to maximize the ecological and economic benefits of the operation. The system is designed with particular attention to Virginia and Federal law so that permitting needs are minimized. Moreover the system is optimized to fit in well with the estuarine community and be a desirable, unobtrusive neighbor.

Embodiments of the present disclosure can provide an automated mass rearing system for insect larvae. The automated mass rearing system can facilitate hatching, feeding, monitoring the growth and emergence of insect larvae and pupae. In some embodiments, the automated mass rearing system can include a production unit, a transportation unit, a storage unit, a dispensing unit, and a monitoring unit. In some embodiments, this automated mass rearing system can facilitate mass mosquito growth from egg hatching all the way through to full adults or certain stages in between such as the larvae rearing process (i.e., from larvae to pupae) with little or no human intervention. By automating the rearing and transportation of insect eggs, larvae, and pupae, deaths or developmental issues can be minimized. Various techniques and apparatuses are used in this automation that causes minimal disturbance to the insects during development, and thereby maximizing survival rate and fitness of the insects.

The invention belongs to the plant growing field, and in particular relates to a method for raising seedlings by cutting olives. The technical problem to be solved in the invention is that the seedling cultivating quality of the olives is low in the prior art. A technical scheme for solving the problem in the invention is as follows: the method for raising seedlings by cutting the olives is provided. The method comprises the following steps of: a, cutting, b, domesticating the seedlings, c, cultivating in a first stage; and d, cultivating in a second stage. Compared with the prior art, the method can be used for effectively increasing the number and quality of the qualified olive seedlings; and both the number of early blossoming and early bearing and the quality of the cultivated qualified seedlings after growing for two years in a field are superior to those in the prior art. The method provided by the invention has the advantages of easiness in operation, low cost and good application prospects.

The invention discloses a method for comprehensive treatment of a town river way. The method comprises exogenous pollution control: sewage draining outlet pretreatment and branch surge pretreatment; endogenous pollution removal: bottom mud pollutant treatment and biological purification of polluted water; in-situ remediation of a river channel ecological system: ecological restoration of aquatic plants and restoration of aquatic animals; and supplemented feeding of an efficient microbial agent and ecological restoration monitoring of the river channel. A staged treatment principle is adopted for the method for comprehensive treatment of the town river way, conditions are created positively to gradually reduce river channel pollution; through the exogenous pollution control, the endogenous pollution removal, the in-situ remediation of the river channel ecological system, later period maintenance and ecological regulation and the like, a water system is made smooth, the river channel is made clean, the ecological system is established artificially, the self-cleaning capacity of the river channel is restored gradually, healthy water circulation of the river channel is achieved, biodiversity is promoted, and virtuous circle of the town and country environment and the ecological system is promoted.

The present invention belongs to the technical field of water ecological restoration, and specifically discloses a rapid method for constructing a river way water ecosystem, the method includes the following steps: 1, collecting of to-be-repaired river way water ecological information; 2, detailed analysis of pollution information, sewage interception reoxygenation and blackness and odor removal by microbial decomposition; 3, planting of emergent proper aquatic plants, submerged plants and the like according to water and hydrological information; 4, control of algae by aquatic animals; and 5, water ecosystem maintenance; wherein aquatic plants are usually harvested in November each year, and plant body residues are cleaned up in early spring. Through combination of an ECO-EGG plug-flow aerator and the constructed river way water ecosystem, physical, chemical and biological-ecological approaches are effectively combined for phased treatment, water quality is rapidly improved, water eutrophication is controlled, water self-purification capacity can be improved, the water ecological structure and function can be restored, water quality can be long term and effectively improved, meanwhile the effectiveness, long effectiveness, economical efficiency and ecological compatibility of polluted water treatment can be unified.

The invention discloses an achromobacter xylosoxidans strain for biological denitrificaion and application thereof. The achromobacter xylosoxidans strain GAD3 is preserved in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC for short) with preservation number CGMCC No. 2964 in March 19th, 2009. The strain is added to nitrogenous effluent with 2 to 6mg / L of dissolved oxygen to realize biological denitrificaion. The strain not only has the capability of heterotrophic nitrification, but also has the capability of aerobic denitrification. In the process of treating the nitrogenous effluent, only one aerobic stage is needed, the denitrification efficiency is high, and the operation is convenient and quick; and compared with the conventional biological denitrification process, the application has huge economic benefits.

The invention discloses a culture medium to ferment and manufacture Cordyceps sinensis mycelium, which consists of bevel culture medium and fermentation culture medium, wherein different culture mediums are adopted in different stages to ensure plain growth of the Cordyceps sinensis and equal quality of fermented and natural Cordyceps sinensis, which modifies the product quality and improves the production with certain effect. The invention supports the character of nourishment with natural Cordyceps sinensis, which is fit for industrial manufacturing need.

The invention relates to an ecological breeding method for honeysuckle flower chicken. The method comprises a heat preservation eliminating stage, a feed training stage and a stocking stage, wherein at the heat preservation eliminating stage, 5kg of insect protein additive and 1kg of Chinese medicinal epidemic prevention additive are added into 100kg of basal feed; at the feed training stage, adding 1-1.5kg of insect protein additive and 1.5kg of Chinese medicinal epidemic prevention additive into 100kg of basal feed; at the stocking stage, adding 1-1.5kg of insect protein additive and 2kg of Chinese medicinal epidemic prevention additive into 100kg of basal feed; at the stocking stage, 1-1.5kg of insect protein additive, 2kg of Chinese medicinal epidemic prevention additive and 1kg of meat quality improving additive are added into 100kg of basal feed two months before marketing in order to improve the meat quality of the honeysuckle flower chicken. According to the ecological breeding method for honeysuckle flower chicken, hormones, antibiotics and artificial proteins are not fed, and a stocking way is adopted, so that the obtained honeysuckle flower chicken have the advantages of good mouthfeel, compact meat quality and abundant nutrients.

The invention discloses a large-scale cultivation method and a quality detection method of cordyceps militaris fruit bodies, comprising the steps of: (1) screening spawn; (2) preparing a rice solid culture medium (40-55 parts of rice and 45-60 parts of nutrient solution in every 100 parts by weight) and killing bacteria; (3) preparing liquid spawn: activating the spawn, inoculating the spawn into a liquid culture medium, conducting static culture for 24 hours and performing suspension culture on a shaking table; (4) culturing fruit bodies: inoculating the liquid spawn on the solid culture medium for dark culture for 6 days at the temperature of 20 DEG C until the surface of the medium is covered by mycelium; placing the well grown mycelium under incandescence with light intensity of 100 to 300 lux, wherein during a primordium growth phase, illumination is performed for 20-24 hours per day at the temperature of 20-24 DEG C; and during a fruit bodies growth phase, illumination is performed for 8-12 hours per day at the temperature of 18-20 DEG C and the fruit bodies are harvested 5 to 8 days after mature. The cordyceps militaris fruit bodies cultured by the method have the advantages of high yield and high content of active ingredients. Batches of cordyceps militaris fruit bodies have fingerprints with a similarity value greater than 0.950, indicating stable and controllable quality.

The invention discloses an LSTM-based medium and small river short-term flood forecasting method, which comprises the following steps of: constructing an intelligent flood forecasting model by using historical hydrological data, and excavating medium and small river basin rainfall; the hidden information of the runoff is used for forecasting the short-term river outlet flow in the future on the basis of known or unknown future rainfall. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, preprocessing hydrological historical data, including data missing completion, normalization and the like; secondly, constructing an LSTM model, training the model through the selected training set, and adjusting parameters to improve the model precision; and finally, evaluating the performance of the modelthrough the performance of the model in the test set. The method has the advantages that the forecasting precision of the flood forecasting model based on the LSTM is superior to that of a traditional support vector machine model, and particularly the peak appearance time and peak forecasting precision of the model in the flood peak stage are greatly improved.

It includes the stages of grinding the lignocellulosic biomass to a size of 15-30 mm, subjecting the product obtained to steam explosion pre-treatment at a temperature of 190-230 DEG C for between 1 and 10 minutes in a reactor (2), collecting the pre-treated material in a cyclone (3) and separating the liquid and solid fractions by filtration in a filter press (9), introducing the solid fraction in a fermentation deposit (10), adding a cellulase at a concentration of 15 UFP per gram of cellulose and 12.6 International Units of beta -glucosidase enzyme dissolved in citrate buffer pH 4.8, inoculating the fermentation deposit (10) with a culture of the heat-tolerant bacteria Kluyveromyces marxianus CECT 10875, obtained by chemical mutagenesis from strain DER-26 of Kluyveromyces marxianus and shaking the mixture for 72 hours at 42 DEG C.

The method of the invention is applicable to oil production to obtain the impact of technical and economic uncertainties on the economic profitability of a reservoir and / or to optimize the position of a new well in order to meet a development strategy. The invention includes in stage 1, uncertain technical parameters having an influence on the reservoir production are selected; in stage 2, an analytic model expressing the reservoir production in the course of time is determined as a function of the parameters selected in stage 1, from production values obtained by means of a flow simulator; and in stage 3, a model expressing the economic profitability of the reservoir is determined as a function of the technical and economic parameters, from the analytic model determined in stage 2.

A technique for culturing cordyceps by insect includes such steps as collecting fresh wild cordyceps, tissue separation to obtain its bacterial strain, reproduction, culturing slant strain and liquidbacteria, choosing host insect or host insect surrogate, spraying bacterial liquid for infecting the host insect, and culturing in the condition stimulating the wild environment. Its advantages are low cost and high effect.

A distributed software integration service method for open robot development based on the Internet is disclosed, which makes it possible to manufacture a user-oriented robot through combination of independent heterogeneous modules. The invention involves a robot development procedure and a new robot development environment / tool for providing user-oriented services and for integrated operating of distributed software installed in the modules over the Internet. The robot development procedure includes three independent specialized development stages, i.e., a platform development stage, a module development stage, and a user-oriented robot development / user service development stage. The invention makes it possible to mass-produce autonomous robots in units of interoperable functional modules. It is also possible to meet various demands of consumers, achieve specialization, and accelerate technology development since the development procedures are specialized in an independent manner and are suitable for manufacturing a wide variety of robot products in small quantities.

The chemistry regulation and control cultivate means of the hot pepper's high output and good quality is one of the cultivate means of the vegetable crop. Basing on the insufficiency of recent hot pepper cultivate means, dispose hot pepper at its critical growing period by using plant growth regulator such as fruitone, drop-defending element and casing coupling amine, as well as cultivate synthetically by using cultivate measures such as scientific, rational manure and proper planting density, including nursery sock growing, planting, chemical controlled treatment, fertilizer water quality management, branching and wiping bud processes. It makes the output of the hot pepper increase quickly, with the average increase production of 18percent to 30percent, the quality improves evidently, besides, the content of vitamin C and deoxidizing sugar are improved apparently, it is also suitable for different kinds of hot pepper.

The present invention utilizes extracts of the pre-sporulation (preconidial) mycelial stage of entomopathogenic fungi as insect and arthropod attractants and / or pathogens and can be employed to limit the zoonotic diseases they transmit. The fungus can be cultivated on grain, wood, agricultural wastes or other cellulosic material and extracts can be made thereof. More than one fungus and substrate can be used in combination with one or more antimicrobial, antiprotozoal, antiviral, and genetically modified agents that result in reduced spread of contagions and lessens the damage they inflict on animals, and plants.

A technique is described for generating a knowledge graph that links names associated with a first subject matter category (C1) (such as brands) with names associated with a second subject matter category (C2) (such as products). In one implementation, the technique relies on two similarly-constituted processing pipelines, a first processing pipeline for processing the C1 names, and a second processing pipeline for processing the C2 names. Each processing pipeline includes three main stages, including a name-generation stage, a verification stage, and an augmentation stage. The generation stage uses a voting strategy to form an initial set of seed names. The verification stage removes noisy seed names. And the augmentation stage expands each verified name to include related terms. A final edge-forming stage identifies relationships between the expanded C1 names and the expanded C2 names using a voting strategy.

A method of producing a high-protein insect meal for use as a fish, shrimp and animal feed by providing a closed, environmentally controlled mass insect production facility into which are introduced one or more species of insects that are rich in protein and particularly suited for use in fish, shrimp and animal feeds. The insects can be chosen from, but not limited to, the orders of Blattodea, Orthoptera, Diptera, or Lepidoptera. Also, the chosen insects can be of the species moths, butterflies, flies, beetles and crickets. The insects are then fed a food source which can be vegetable, grain, plant, or animal components, and fish and animal wastes. Upon reaching the desired life stage, the insects are harvested and then processed into a dried protein meal.