93 results about "Potential effect" patented technology

The system and method for determining fuzzy cause and effect relationships in an intelligent workload management system described herein may combine potential causes and effects captured from various different sources associated with an information technology infrastructure with substantially instantaneous feedback mechanisms and other knowledge sources. As such, fuzzy correlation logic may then be applied to the combined information to determine potential cause and effect relationships and thereby diagnose problems and otherwise manage interactions that occur in the infrastructure. For example, information describing potential causes and potential effects associated with an operational state of the infrastructure may be captured and combined, and any patterns among the information that describes the multiple potential causes and effects may then be identified. As such, fuzzy logic may the be applied to any such patterns to determine possible relationships among the potential causes and the potential effects associated with the infrastructure operational state.

A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for managing the transmission suitability of a channel in a multi access scheme. In general, information relating to noise associated with a channel is obtained. A potential effect of the noise on a transmission quality of the channel is then estimated based on the obtained information. Next, a rating is assigned to the channel based on the estimated potential effect. Based on the assigned rating, the channel is classified into a grade of service class. Information relating to the channel and its associated rating and grade of service class is then stored in a database.

A mechanism associated with a network management system (NMS) interprets and predicts the impact on a network of a network configuration change proactively. By providing pre-configuration analysis in this manner, a network administrator can determine the potential effect of the proposed configuration change in advance of actually inserting a configuration command in the network that might otherwise have unforeseen and damaging consequences. The technique is implemented using a predictive analytics engine that receives a proposed network command and, using a current network topology, executes the command against one or more NMS algorithms to verify that the command can be implemented safely.

A mechanism associated with a network management system (NMS) interprets and predicts the impact on a network of a network configuration change proactively. By providing pre-configuration analysis in this manner, a network administrator can determine the potential effect of the proposed configuration change in advance of actually inserting a configuration command in the network that might otherwise have unforeseen and damaging consequences. The technique is implemented using a predictive analytics engine that receives a proposed network command and, using a current network topology, executes the command against one or more NMS algorithms to verify that the command can be implemented safely.

In a fuel cell system of the invention, a pressure regulator is provided in the pathway of a hydrogen supply conduit that connects a hydrogen tank to a fuel cell stack. An anode off gas discharged from the fuel cell stack is recirculated through a recirculation pipe into the hydrogen supply conduit. A hydrogen pump is provided in the pathway of the recirculation pipe to increase the pressure of the anode off gas. A control unit of the fuel cell system includes a hydrogen pump control module, an abnormality diagnosis module, and an atmospheric pressure-based correction module. The hydrogen pump control module regulates the rotation speed of the hydrogen pump corresponding to a power demand to be output from the fuel cell system. The abnormality diagnosis module detects an abnormal state, based on a result of determination of whether the pressure of the hydrogen supply measured by a pressure sensor is within a certain range defined by two preset threshold values. The atmospheric pressure-based correction module corrects the rotation speed of the hydrogen pump and the threshold values used for abnormality diagnosis according to the atmospheric pressure measured by an atmospheric pressure sensor. Even in the state of unstable output of the pressure regulator with a variation of the atmospheric pressure, such correction compensates for the varying flow rate of the hydrogen supply to the fuel cell stack and thus effectively prevents misjudgment of abnormality diagnosis. Namely the technique of the invention reduces the potential effect of the varying pressure of the hydrogen supply to the fuel cell system with a variation of the atmospheric pressure.

In a fuel cell system 20 mounted on a fuel cell vehicle of the invention, water separated by a gas-liquid separator 38 included in a hydrogen supply system and by a gas-liquid separator 48 included in an air supply discharge system 40 is temporarily accumulated in buffer tanks 62a through 62c, which are set inside a front fender or inside a front bumper of the vehicle. The accumulated water is released from water outlets 64b and 64c located forward and backward a front wheel of the vehicle having relatively little potential effects of vehicle wind or air flow caused by motion of the vehicle. For the purpose of reducing the potential effects of the vehicle wind on the released water, the fuel cell vehicle may have an air flow path that makes the released water flown obliquely backward the vehicle by the air flow or form an air curtain of exhaust gas or the air ahead of the released water. This arrangement effectively restricts the released water from being scattered by and swirled on the vehicle wind and thereby prevents potential troubles such that the released water is scattered on other vehicles running on the side and behind.

The invention discloses a network pharmacology method used for finding active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine and effect targets thereof. The network pharmacology method comprises the steps as follows: chemical compounds and proteins that can build training sets are collected, and characteristic descriptors are calculated according to molecular structures of the chemical compounds and amino acid sequences of the proteins; the training sets are built based on the characteristic descriptors of the chemical compounds and the proteins, predictive models relative to the interaction of the chemical compounds and the proteins are built according to a machine learning method; the known chemical compound ingredients of the traditional Chinese medicine needing to be forecasted, the characteristic descriptors are calculated, and forecast sets are built; the built predictive models are utilized to forecast the forecast sets, and the chemical compounds and the proteins with the forecasted interaction results greater than a given threshold are used for building a network; and the chemical compounds and the proteins with larger network node connection number are the potential active ingredients and the potential effect targets. The network pharmacology method can improve the finding accuracy rate and finding efficiency of the active ingredients of the traditional Chinese medicine and the effect targets.

The system and method for determining fuzzy cause and effect relationships in an intelligent workload management system described herein may combine potential causes and effects captured from various different sources associated with an information technology infrastructure with substantially instantaneous feedback mechanisms and other knowledge sources. As such, fuzzy correlation logic may then be applied to the combined information to determine potential cause and effect relationships and thereby diagnose problems and otherwise manage interactions that occur in the infrastructure. For example, information describing potential causes and potential effects associated with an operational state of the infrastructure may be captured and combined, and any patterns among the information that describes the multiple potential causes and effects may then be identified. As such, fuzzy logic may the be applied to any such patterns to determine possible relationships among the potential causes and the potential effects associated with the infrastructure operational state.

The invention provides a vaccine for protecting a human patient against infection by a human influenza virus strain, wherein the vaccine comprises an antigen from an avian influenza virus strain that can cause highly pathogenic avian influenza. The antigen can invoke an antibody response in the patient that is capable of neutralising said human influenza virus strain. Whereas the prior art used known non-pathogenic avian strains to generate antibodies in humans against known pathogenic avian strains, the invention uses known pathogenic avian strains to protect against emerging pathogenic human strains. Furthermore, whereas the prior art focused on achieving a close antigenic match between the vaccine strain and the target strain, the invention selects vaccine strains based on their pathogenicity, regardless of any perceived close antigenic relationship to the target strain. As the invention does not require detailed knowledge of an emerging strain, a vaccine can be provided further in advance to reduce the risk and potential effects of a human pandemic outbreak.

A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for managing the transmission suitability of a channel in a multi access scheme. In general, information relating to noise associated with a channel is obtained. A potential effect of the noise on a transmission quality of the channel is then estimated based on the obtained information. Next, a rating is assigned to the channel based on the estimated potential effect. Based on the assigned rating, the channel is classified into a grade of service class. Information relating to the channel and its associated rating and grade of service class is then stored in a database.

A method for forming quantum dots includes the following steps: (a) depositing a metal layer (4) on a substrate (2); (b) using an atomic force microscope (AFM) probe (6) to form a plurality of nanopores (42) in the metal layer (4); (c) depositing a semiconductor layer (3) on the metal layer and in the nanopores; and (d) removing the metal layer and the portions of the semiconductor layer located on the metal layer, thereby forming a plurality of quantum dots (82) on the substrate. The method does not use a photolithography technique, thus reduces or even avoids the possibility of forming various surface states. Furthermore, a potential effect of the thermal expansion coefficient of the metal is finite over the temperature range involved and thus the size of the nanopores, which are restricted by the metal layer, is essentially constant. Therefore, a size of the quantum dots is controllable.

A mechanism associated with a network management system (NMS) interprets and predicts the impact on a network of a network configuration change proactively. By providing pre-configuration analysis in this manner, a network administrator can determine the potential effect of the proposed configuration change in advance of actually inserting a configuration command in the network that might otherwise have unforeseen and damaging consequences. The technique is implemented using a predictive analytics engine that receives a proposed network command and, using a current network topology, executes the command against one or more NMS algorithms to verify that the command can be implemented safely.

The invention belongs to the field of natural plant extraction and application, and particularly relates to a chive seed extract, a preparation method and application thereof to cigarette production. The extract is produced by the following method: chive seeds, as the raw material, are weeded, dried and shattered; with ethanol as the extractant or the entrainer, the raw material is processed through heating circumfluence or carbon dioxide supercritical extraction to get an ethanol extracting solution; the ethanol extracting solution is concentrated to get the chive seed extract. Added to cigarettes, the chive seed extract of the invention can significantly improve the sensory quality of the cigarettes and, in addition, has some potential effect on reducing the cigarette harm and enriching the cigarette function.

The invention discloses a group of novel molecular markers of human myocardial cells, and applications of the novel molecular markers. The group of markers comprises the following 29 genes: POPDC2, ALPK2, TRIM55, ASPH, FILIP1, HSPB7, NPPA, KBTBD10, MYL4, CRYAB, LRRN4, MYOZ2, OBSCN, SMPX, NRK, ABLIM1, SYNPO2L, ANKRD1, TNNI1, MYH6, ABRA, TPM1, C15orf52, MYOM1, MASP1, MYBPC3, TNS1, FLNC and F2RL2. The markers play an important role in screening and identifying the myocardial cells, and have potential effect and huge significance on the early development research of human hearts, the construction of heart disease models, treatment of heart diseases, and the development of heart disease medicament targets or in research and development of medicaments.

The present invention provides a biomedical degradable metal capable of treating rheumatoid arthritis. The biomedical degradable metal is a magnesium alloy and contains magnesium and a second component, wherein the second component is one or a plurality of materials selected from zinc, manganese, selenium, strontium and calcium, the content of the second component is less than or equal to 10 wt%, and the balance is magnesium. According to the present invention, the magnesium alloy has characteristics of good biocompatibility, satisfactory corrosion resistance and no significant cytotoxicity, can be degraded and absorbed in biological body fluids or bloods, has application values in medical fields of endovascular interventional therapy, endosseous implant and the like, and especially releases beneficial elements through in vivo degradation so as to inhibit activation of macrophages and other inflammatory cells, promote osteoblast bone formation, and inhibit osteoclast bone resorption, such that the biomedical degradable metal has the potential effects of rheumatoid arthritis treating and the like.

The invention relates to a novel quinoline dye capable of being used as a Golgi apparatus organelle probe. In comparison of dye with a commercial Golgi apparatus organelle dye in term of imaging results in human osteosarcoma cells U2OS, the result proves that the dye disclosed by the invention can be used for targeted localization of the Golgi apparatus organelle. The dye has a great potential effect in the field of marking of the Golgi apparatus organelle.

The invention discloses a hollow cathode thruster for cubesats, and relates to the field of thrusters. In order to solve the problems that an existing electric propulsion system is complex in structure and cannot be miniaturized onto 1U directly, discharging gas and electronegative gas are connected into a hollow cathode ventilation pipe. According to the hollow cathode thruster, the electronegative gas is used as a main propulsive working medium, the discharging gas is used for discharging in the hollow cathode thruster to form a high-density plasma environment, the electronegative gas can be decomposed through electrons to form negative ions, the negative ions are accelerated outwards under the potential effect inside the hollow cathode thruster, and accordingly a high specific impulse propulsion effect can be achieved. The hollow cathode thruster is suitable for the cubesats.

A system and method are provided for the determining of the potential effect(s) that a degraded system, subsystem, or component may have on the overall capabilities of a vehicle or other system, and any mitigating actions that may need to be taken. Mission-related capabilities of the system are decomposed into a plurality of lower-level capabilities that have an impact on the mission-related capabilities. One or more faults that have an impact on at least one of the lower-level capabilities are mapped to appropriate lower-level capabilities. The lower-level capabilities to which the one or more vehicle faults is mapped are computed, and values of the mission-related capabilities are computed from each of the lower-level capabilities.

The invention provides two methods of propulsion for vertical and horizontal aerospace flight. Both methods manipulate the mass of a moving particle stream to achieve a desired result. In vertical propulsion, the invention circulates matter, within the confine of a machine, such that a portion of particle speed, which is perpendicular to gravity, is greater than the magnitude of velocity required for circular orbit of the planet, so as to develop radial acceleration relative to the planet center, creating a vertical force, associated with the mass of the particle stream times the radial acceleration, thereby generating vertical thrust. This methodology shall be referred to as “Gyroscopic Lift”. This invention also provides an additional method of horizontal propulsion. In horizontal propulsion, the invention may alternate acceleration and deceleration of matter, as it travels in a circulatory system, so as to create changing centripetal acceleration, and a directional imbalance of forces, thereby developing an outlet to be employed in horizontal thrust. As particles accelerate to the rear during the first ½ cycle an opposite but equal reaction causes forward horizontal propulsion. As particles decelerate in the 2nd ½ cycle, the opposition to slowing down causes forward horizontal propulsion. On port and starboard sides, forces causing particle stream acceleration or deceleration are balanced so as to cancel each others effect. This method of alternating acceleration and deceleration shall be referred to as “Impulse Propulsion”. Although the particular embodiment shown utilizes particles traveling perpendicular to gravity, it should not be concluded that this is the only arrangement possible. Whenever a particle has a component of velocity perpendicular to gravity in excess of circular orbit velocity, it is suitable to provide some measure of vertical thrust. Thus many particle accelerator designs utilizing this feature are feasible for the present invention. As an example, a particle accelerator whose axis of rotation is not aligned with the z axis should provide vertical lift and possibly other precession types of motion for a vehicle. As an alterative embodiment of this invention it provides some measure of gyroscopic lift that may be harnessed. Another example; If the circulatory path of the doughnut is comprised of a shape other than a circle it may increase the potential effect of impulse propulsion, but reduce gyroscopic lift efficiency. A shape comprised of two half circle accelerators, linked into a circulatory pattern by two parallel linear accelerators, would increase the potential horizontal thrust of impulse propulsion. Such is an alternative embodiment of this invention. Thus the invention embraces all space engines which utilize the principles of Gyroscopic Lift, or Impulse Propulsion. Obviously, many modifications and variations of the present invention are possible in the light of the above teachings. It is therefore to be understood that within the scope of the appended claims, the invention may be practiced other than as specifically described.

An example customized documentation generation apparatus is disclosed that generates documents relevant to a software update / upgrade of a particular process control system. A notes instrumentation module instruments general release notes for at least one of an update or an upgrade of a process control system to correlate the release notes with a general process control system configuration to produce instrumented notes. An upgrade assessment module determines configuration information for a particular process control system to provide default filter settings. An items of interest filter applies the default filter settings for the particular process control system to the instrumented notes to filter the instrumented notes and produce custom release notes for the particular process control system. The custom release notes are provided to a user to alert the user regarding potential effects of the update / upgrade on the particular process control system.

A lamellar water logging exhausted oil well blocking and dredging combined tapping potential production increase method is applied to oilfield development. Production test data are used for determining a low seepage layer or a lower pressure layer which is high in oil saturation and low in recovery percentage to be a potential layer, then well cementation cement paste of metalloid powder is used for plugging an opened oil layer, redundant cement plugs in a shaft are removed in a drilled mode, a new oil outlet channel between the potential layer and the shaft is rebuilt by the potential layer in a mode of depth penetrating hole, and finally dredging and plugging removing are carried out by using acid liquor composed of 1.5-8% of hydrofluoric acid, 5-15% of hydrochloric acid, 2-5% of acetic acid and 1-2% of poly-quaternary amine. Average increased oil production of a single well after production recovery achieves more than 2.7 times, average effective rate is more than 90%, average valid period of the single well is more than 300 days, and average well stimulation cost of oil per ton reduces by more than 80%, so that the method has the advantages of being good in tapping potential effect, high in succeed rate, small in risk, long in period of validity and low in cost.

A system that provides detection, annunciation, mitigation, and alleviation of stress attacks by executing algorithms based on measurement of intensity of light. The system determines to execute algorithms to take programmed action based on potential effects of a detected stress attack. The system can be used, for example, to determine the position of potential attacks to conduits that transport electricity, oil, gas, foodstuffs, water, people, and materials.

An inexpensive, easily manufactured aquaculture apparatus featuring a water temperature control feature, useful for studying the effect of water temperature changes on the viability of aquatic species. The apparatus is useful to, for example, study the potential effect of global warming and rising ocean water temperatures on various aquatic species.

A two-range DC potential difference meter for DC voltage measurement includes a first stepping panel composed of a measuring panel of 21x10 ohm and two bracket panels without resistance, a second stepping panel comprising a measuring panel formed of ring resistance meshwork and a bracket panel formed by a 10x0.5 ohm resistance, a third stepping panel comprising of a measuring panel of 10x1 ohm and a substitution panel. Each contact of the forth stepping panel is connected with the corresponding contact of the measuring panel of the third stepping panel, using the resistance of the measuring panel of the third stepping panel together, and a resistance of 100 ohm are used to shunt current for range conversion at x0.1 range with the minimum resolution reaching 0.1 muV, the measuring panels are connected by conductors without on-off switch, which is capable of ignoring variation and potential effect when measuring by potential difference meter.

The present invention provides a technique that prevents a shift of a driving waveform due to accumulation of errors in a process of generating the driving waveform to drive driving elements on a print head. The technique of the present invention successively sums up a plurality of gradient data at a preset calculation period to give a result of summation and carries out digital-to-analog (D-A) conversion with regard to only specific upper columns in the result of summation in synchronism with the preset calculation period, so as to generate a driving waveform. Each gradient data represents a local gradient of the driving waveform and is stored in a memory. In the process of generating the driving waveform, the technique of the present invention corrects the result of summation to a preset value under a predetermined condition. One preferable embodiment clears specific lower bits in the result of summation in synchronism with a floor signal. Another preferable embodiment forcibly corrects the result of summation to an upper limit value or a lower limit value of a preset range when the result of summation exceeds the preset range. Such correction effectively cancels the potential effects of cumulative error on the driving waveform.

The invention discloses a nanometer silver / berberine slow release coating loaded calcium phosphate ceramic material and a preparation method. The nanometer silver / berberine slow release coating loadedcalcium phosphate ceramic material consists of calcium phosphate ceramics and nanometer silver / berberine composite slow release coating loaded on the surface of the calcium phosphate ceramics. The calcium phosphate ceramics are prepared through sintering calcium phosphate ceramic raw material powder, nanometer silver is prepared through in-situ reduction of silver nitrate through silk fibroin, berberine molecules are mixed, nanometer silver / berberine mixed liquor is obtained and is connected to the surface of the calcium phosphate ceramics through polydopamine, and the nanometer silver / berberine slow release coating loaded calcium phosphate ceramic material is prepared. According to the nanometer silver / berberine slow release coating loaded calcium phosphate ceramic material and the preparation method disclosed by the invention, berberine and antibacterial effects of nanometer silver granules are combined, so that the potential effects of the berberine for promoting osteogenic differentiation of cells can be sufficiently exerted. The berberine and the nanometer silver have the effect of cooperating for resisting bacteria, so that the concentration of the nanometer silver is reduced, and reduction of cytotoxicity of implantation materials is facilitated. The composite material can be applied to bone defect repair and oral cavity implants.

By forming nanoparticles from gas-phase precursors within cracks or defects in a gas-barrier film, crack-width may be determined from the diameter of the nanoparticles formed within. The optical absorption and emission wavelengths of a quantum dot are governed by the particle size. For a particular material, the absorption and / or emission wavelengths may therefore be correlated to the particle size (as determined from techniques such as transmission electron microscopy, TEM). Thus, fluorescence measurement techniques and / or confocal microscopy may be used to determine the size of quantum dots formed within a gas-barrier film, allowing both the size and nature of a defect to be determined. The method may be used to assess the potential effects of defects on the integrity of the gas-barrier film.

The invention belongs to the photoelectric device technology field and especially discloses a manufacturing method of a two-dimensional ordered TiO2 nanometer well film and an application in a self-energized photoelectric device. In the invention, firstly, a two-dimensional ordered TiO2 nanometer well film is manufactured; and then the manufactured TiO2 nanometer well film is taken as a substrate so as to manufacture a heterojunction compound with inorganic-substance layered NiO organic semiconductor polyaniline; and a self-energized photoelectric detector is constructed. The method comprises the following steps of anodic oxidation, physical stripping, heating calcinations, low temperature hydrothermal treatment, in situ polymerization and the like. In the invention, a complex and expensive manufacturing technology of the photoelectric device is avoided and rapid construction of a large-scale device can be realized; a photovoltaic effect of a p-n junction is used, under zero-bias driving, photon-generated carriers are rapidly separated under a built-in potential effect, self-energized performance of the device is realized and a light current is stable and a response speed is fast; and for ultraviolet light, good selection performance is possessed, and the photoelectric detector can be served as an energy-saving high frequency detector and a high-frequency photoelectric converter and can be applied in the fields of optical communication, military, medical treatment, photoelectric storage and the like.

The invention relates to a polysaccharide LBP1a1-1 extracted from fructus lycii, application of the polysaccharide in preparation of medicines or health care products for preventing and / or treating neurodegenerative diseases, and application of the polysaccharide in preparation of medicines or health care products for inhibiting Abeta42 and in preparation of medicines or health care products for preventing and treating Alzheimer's disease. Specifically, the invention relates to arabinogalactan extracted from the fructus lycii. The preparation method comprises the following steps: extracting crude polysaccharides in the fructus lycii by combining cellulase, amylase and papain with water of 55 DEG C, and performing alcohol precipitation; and identifying by combining multiple column chromatography purification methods with spectrum analysis, thereby obtaining the arabinogalactan. In vitro experiments prove that the polysaccharide is capable of inhibiting production of the Abeta42 in CHO / APPBACE1 cells for stable transfection of APP and BACE1 in a dosage dependent manner. Therefore, the polysaccharide has a potential effect of treating the Alzheimer's disease, and is expected to be developed into a carbohydrate drug for treating the Alzheimer's disease.