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An adjustable radial and ulnar vascular compression wristband assists in achieving partial or full occlusion of a blood vessel when applied to a patient's wrist during or following a medical procedure. At least two adjustably inflatable non-adjacent balloons on the wristband apply preferential compression to portions of the circumference of the wrist, including in particular those portions overlying the ulnar and radial arteries.

An antireflection film comprising a support and a layer formed by coating a composition containing at least one salt formed from an organic base whose conjugate acid has a pKa of from 5.0 to 10.5 and an acid, wherein the antireflection film has a haze value due to surface scattering of 1% or more and less than 10%, or an antireflection film comprising a support and a layer formed by coating a composition containing at least one salt formed from a nitrogen-containing organic base having a boiling point of from 35° C. to 85° C. and an acid, wherein the antireflection film has a haze value due to surface scattering of 1% or more and less than 10%.

A method of ion implantation comprising: providing a plasma within a plasma region of a chamber; positively biasing a first grid plate, wherein the first grid plate comprises a plurality of apertures; negatively biasing a second grid plate, wherein the second grid plate comprises a plurality of apertures; flowing ions from the plasma in the plasma region through the apertures in the positively-biased first grid plate; flowing at least a portion of the ions that flowed through the apertures in the positively-biased first grid plate through the apertures in the negatively-biased second grid plate; and implanting a substrate with at least a portion of the ions that flowed through the apertures in the negatively-biased second grid plate.

The present invention generally relates to a self-centering energy dissipative brace apparatus. A bracing system is often needed to stabilize, strengthen or stiffen structures such as buildings which are subjected to severe or extreme conditions. The brace apparatus may be installed in a structure to dissipate input energy and minimize residual deformations related to exceptional loading imposed on the structure by winds, earthquakes, impacts or explosions. The apparatus integrates self-centering properties and energy, dissipative capacities which help minimize structural damage.

A cold-weather apparel item configured to promote breathability, provide warmth, and minimize distractions is provided herein. The cold-weather apparel item is formed from a composite fabric that is breathable and repels water. The cold-weather apparel item further comprises at least a hood lock cord system that maintains the hood of the apparel item in a secure position while not being used, inflow air ducts and outflow air ducts to provide ventilation, and a layered thumbhole assembly with overlapping panels that fits snugly around a wearer's thumbs when used.

This invention describes novel methods and devices for stabilizing and retracting tissue during surgery, in particular internal tissue. Patches of material, preferably biodegradable, are adhered to tissue surfaces. By manipulation of the patches, for example directly with forceps, or via sutures attached to the patches, tissues can be retracted or otherwise manipulated with minimal trauma to the tissues. The method is especially useful in minimally-invasive surgery.

A weight of an inertial sensor if formed from a plurality of divided weights, and the divided weights are connected to each other by elastically deformable beams. A movable range and a mass of each of the divided weights and a rigidity of each of the beams are adjusted and a plurality of deformation modes having different sensitivity ranges with respect to the acceleration are used in combination. By this means, it is possible to improve a detecting sensitivity of an acceleration and widen an acceleration response range.

The present invention relates to a system and method for helping people abstain from addictive behaviors by utilizing an Internet-based software program to build a users' motivation to abstain, develop coping strategies for dealing with urges and cravings, learn how to analyze their behavior in terms of established goals and solve problems that impede their progress, to set goals and develop healthy, pro-social activities, and to develop a specific plan to change their behaviors. An automated but personalized email system encourages their persistence in continuing with their recovery plan, reminds them of their identified triggers, strategies they've chosen to deal with them, and reminders to engage in the pro-social activities they've chosen. A smartphone application, in addition to the features of the email method, includes a personalized text messaging feature for reaching out to others for social support.

A method to perform the insertion, deletion and updating of data in table-format data quickly and appropriately. A CPU 12 accepts a record number as a subscript, generates a subscript conversion array for giving an offset value corresponding to the range of the subscript in question, identifies the insertion position which indicates the position of the field value to be inserted, and, in the subscript conversion array, gives an offset value that defines the range of the corresponding subscript and also identifies the end of the array, and in the subscript conversion array, gives an offset value that increments the corresponding range of subscripts and also decrements the accepted subscript, and places the field value to be inserted at the stipulated end position, such that an offset value according to the range of subscripts within the subscript conversion array is given as the subscript.

The invention relates to a method for recognizing minority clothing images, belonging to the field of computer vision, pattern recognition and image application. Firstly, the clothing images of minority nationalities to be recognized are inputted, and the images to be recognized and the training images in the clothing image database of minority nationalities are detected to obtain the images to berecognized and the training images respectively. Secondly, the color histogram, HOG, LBP, SIFT and edge of the detected image and training image are extracted to obtain the feature extracted image and training image. Then, the semantic attributes of minority clothing are defined, and the multi-task model is used to learn the different styles of minority clothing and to train the classifier model.Finally, through the trained classifier, the recognition of minority clothing images is realized and the recognition results are output. The identification method of the invention has high accuracy and efficiency.

The invention relates to a rotor blade of a wind turbine, having a rotor blade nose, a rotor blade rear edge, a rotor blade root region for the attachment of the rotor blade to a hub of the wind turbine, a rotor blade tip, wherein the rotor blade extends from the rotor blade root region along a longitudinal direction to the rotor blade tip and the rotor blade internally comprises at least a first cavity facing the rotor blade nose and a second cavity facing the rotor blade rear edge, and the first cavity is heated by a first, and the second cavity is heated by a second heating means, in order to heat the rotor blade nose or the rotor blade rear edge respectively. In addition, it is suggested that the rotor blade have a rear edge segment disposed in the region of the rotor blade rear edge up to the root region, wherein the rear edge segment is designed having several parts having at least two segment sections.

The invention discloses a direct torque control system and method of a six-phase motor. The direct torque control system is connected with a six-arm inverter and a six-phase double-Y-winding motor, middle points of six arms of the six-arm inverter are connected with six phases of winding terminals of the six-phase double-Y-winding motor correspondingly, each inverter arm of the six-arm inverter isformed by connecting two power switch tubes in series, a connecting point of the two power switch tubes in each inverter arm is the middle point of the corresponding arm, the two ends of the serial-connected power tubes are connected with anode and cathode of a DC power supply respectively, the former three inverter arms in the six-arm inverter form a first inverter, the latter three in the sameform a second inverter, and the direct torque control system obtains switch triggering signals of the first and second inverters to realize direct torque control for the six-phase double-Y-winding motor. According to the control system and method, calculation steps are simplified, the calculation difficulty is reduced, and control of high precision and rapid response is realized.

An arteriosclerosis diagnostic device according to various embodiments is a simple device, resistant to an external factor, such as an error resulting from a skin surface, and capable of measuring the degree of hardness of an artery. The arteriosclerosis diagnostic device detects a heart sound and a pulse wave at least one location of a living body, the pulse wave propagating through an artery in relation to the heart sound, converts detected signals thereof into respective frequency signals, specifies the peak frequency of each of the frequency signals, and determines the degree of arteriosclerosis on the basis of the difference between the peak frequency of the heart sound and the peak frequency of the pulse wave. Accordingly, the degree of arteriosclerosis can be determined by comparison between the frequency signals.

The present invention includes various devices for improved nasogastric intubation to ensure proper placement of the device within the body cavity as well as minimize trauma and achieve patient comfort both during and after an intubation procedure.

The invention discloses a gravity irrigation multi-layer track type seedling car which comprises a car head, a car body and a car tail. The car head, the car body and the car tail are each provided with a seedling carriage. Each seedling carriage is provided with at least two layers of seedling spaces. The bottom of each seedling space is sequentially provided with a water storage plate, a slide wheel and guide rail set, a water partition plate and a seedling tray from bottom to top. Slide wheels matched with the corresponding slide wheel and guide rail set are arranged below each seedling tray. A water guide medium is connected between each water storage plate and the corresponding seedling tray. A liquid storage tank is arranged on the top of the first seedling carriage and connected with the water storage plate of the first seedling carriage through a pipeline. The water storage plate of the first seedling carriage is connected with the water storage plates of the other seedling carriages on the same layer in a waterproof mode. A connecting position for the seedling trays to enter and leave the tail seedling carriage is arranged on the tail seedling carriage. The seedling car has the advantages of being natural in liquid supply, capable of saving energy and easy to install and use.

The invention discloses an injection moulding machine control system based on function adapter line boxes with CPUs (central processing units). The control system comprises the plurality of function adapter line boxes with the CPUs, wherein the adapter line boxes are mounted in different places far away from a central main controller of an injection moulding machine and form the injection moulding machine control system together with the central main controller; and the function adapter line boxes with the CPUs comprise an analog signal collection adapter line box, an analog signal output adapter line box, a temperature signal collection adapter line box, a heating output adapter line box and a digital signal input and output adapter line box. According to the control system, different signals are regionally and intensively collected and output, so that the quantity of cables connected among sensors, actuators and the main controller can be greatly reduced. Meanwhile, as the adapter line boxes communicate with the main controller by adopting a serial bus, the IO (input output) expansion is easy.

A method of printing an image by a printer having an asymmetric printer resolution includes multi-level halftoning the image by assigning a level out of a number of levels to each pixel of the image. The method further includes determining the number of levels on the basis of the asymmetric printer resolution, selecting for each level a collection of at least one binary pattern, each binary pattern consisting of a plurality of sub-pixels the number of which is determined by the number of levels, selecting for each pixel of the halftoned image a binary pattern from the collection selected for the level assigned to the pixel, transforming each pixel of the halftoned image into the selected binary pattern, and printing the binary patterns of the transformed pixels using the asymmetric printer resolution. A printer is configured to perform the method.