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An implantable article and method are disclosed for treating pelvic floor disorders such as vaginal vault prolase. A surgical kit useful for performing a surgical procedure such as a sacral colpopexy is also described.

A stabilized UAV recovery system is disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment for UAV recovery over water, the system includes ship-based elements and UAV-based elements. The ship-based elements include a robot arm that holds a capture mechanism over the side of the ship while compensating for wave-induced ship motion. The UAV-based elements include a hook mounted to the top of the UAV fuselage. With the capture mechanism held stable from the perspective of a UAV approaching from behind or in front of the mechanism, the UAV is flown under it, snagging an arresting line with the hook. With continued forward motion of the UAV, the arresting line pulls out of a winch drum that is coupled to a brake, bringing the UAV to rest.

An implementation of SVM functionality improves efficiency, time consumption, and data security, reduces the parameter tuning challenges presented to the inexperienced user, and reduces the computational costs of building SVM models. A system for support vector machine processing comprises data stored in the system, a client application programming interface operable to provide an interface to client software, a build unit operable to build a support vector machine model on at least a portion of the data stored in the system, based on a plurality of model-building parameters, a parameter estimation unit operable to estimate values for at least some of the model-building parameters, and an apply unit operable to apply the support vector machine model using the data stored in the system.

Systems and methods for the dissemination of information from a controlled environment facility employ facility information management functionality managing resident information and facility information, and call manager functionality selectively providing at least a portion of the resident information and/or the facility information to an outside party in an automated manner. The invention may employ outgoing IVR functionality to provide select portions of the resident information in response to the call manager recognizing that a call is a first call by a resident, or a first call to a particular telephone number by a resident. The invention may manage information related to providers of services or goods for residents of a facility, provide an outside party this information, and notify a selected provider of selection of that provider by the outside party to provide goods or services for a resident.

A computer implemented method to provide allocation of one or more computing resources for a consumer computing component, each resource having a resource type and being provided by one or more resource providers, and the consumer having associated a quantity of tradeable value constraining an extent of resource consumption.

The present invention provides an improved and more efficient method for the purification of Beta glucan, mannan and manno-protein complexes or immuno-potentiating substances, directly from yeast. In addition, the present invention provides methods for the production of Beta glucan, mannan and manno-proteins for use in animal feed to (1) prepare and enhance the immune system to fight infections more effectively and efficiently, (2) increase resistance to and decrease duration of bacterial and viral infections, (3) allow producers to reduce or remove “growth promotion antibiotics” in feed systems, thus producing more naturally grown animals, (4) reduce or prevent the negative growth response normally associated with administration of live vaccines to animals and (4) other associated health benefits such as in the case of swine of increased piglet litter size and survivability for piglets after weaning when Sows fed this novel Beta glucan extract.

The present invention is directed to a pharmaceutical preserving composition comprising: (a) at least one chitosan or chitosan derivative and (b) at least one buffer solution, as well as methods of preserving contact lens solutions and disinfecting contact lens using such composition. The present invention is further directed to a method of preparing O-acetylated chitosan or chitosan derivatives comprising the steps of dissolving the chitosan or chitosan derivative into an aqueous acidic solution and reacting the chitosan or chitosan derivative with an acetylating agent in the presence of a phase transfer reagent.

An implementation of SVM functionality integrated into a relational database management system (RDBMS) improves efficiency, time consumption, and data security, reduces the parameter tuning challenges presented to the inexperienced user, and reduces the computational costs of building SVM models. A database management system comprises data stored in the database management system and a processing unit comprising a client application programming interface operable to provide an interface to client software, a build unit operable to build a support vector machine model on at least a portion of the data stored in the database management system, and an apply unit operable to apply the support vector machine model using the data stored in the database management system. The database management system may be a relational database management system.

An integrated circuit device (300) includes a functional integrated circuit (IC) die (310) having a top IC surface with IC non-contact regions (313) and a plurality of electrically conductive bump pads (311, 312, 313) at pad locations. In the IC (310), at least one of the bump pads (311, 312, 313) extends outward from beyond the IC non-contact regions (313). The integrated circuit device (300) can also include a workpiece (305) having a top workpiece surface comprising at least one die attach area (319) for attaching the IC die (310). The die attach area (319) can include non-contact regions (316) and a plurality of electrically conductive contact pads (317) recessed relative to the non-contact regions (316), where the contact pads (317) face the top IC surface and match the pad locations (312). In the die attach area (319), at least one of the contact pads (317) includes electrically conductive pedestal features (321) extending towards the top IC surface, where the extending bump pads (311) physically contact one of the pedestal features (321) and electrically connect the IC die (310) to the workpiece (305). In the integrated circuit device (300), the pedestal features (321) increase a gap between the IC (310) and the workpiece top surfaces to be filled with an underfill dielectric material (332).

The present invention enables snap-shot spectral imaging of a scene at high image generation rates. Light from the scene is processed through an optical system that comprises a coded-aperture. The optical system projects a plurality of images, each characterized by only one of a plurality of spectral components, onto a photodetector array. The plurality of images is interspersed on the photodetector array, but no photodetector receives light characterized by more than one of the plurality of spectral components. As a result, computation of the spatio-spectral datacube that describes the scene is simplified. The present invention, therefore, enables rapid spectral imaging of the scene.

An electric-pulse-induced-resistance change device (EPIR device) is provided which is a resistance switching device. It has a buffer layer inserted between a first active resistance switching layer and a second active resistance switching layer, with both active switching layers connected to electrode layers directly or through additional buffer layers between the active resistance switching layers and the electrodes. This device in its simplest form has the structure: electrode-active layer-buffer layer-active layer-electrode. The second active resistance switching layer may, in the alternative, be an ion donating layer, such that the structure becomes: electrode-active layer-buffer layer-ion donating layer-electrode. The EPIR device is constructed to mitigate the retention challenge.

A semiconductor device assembly (200) includes a workpiece (205) having a surface including a die attach region corresponding to regions under an integrated circuit (IC) die 210. The die attach region of workpiece (205) includes non-noble metal surfaces (215) and a plurality of flip chip (FC) pads at pad locations (214). A solder mask layer (207) is on a surface of the workpiece (205) outside the die attach region. The non-noble metal surfaces (215) in the die attach region include an adhesion promoter layer (221), wherein the adhesion promoter layer (207) is absent from the plurality of FC pads (214). An integrated circuit (IC) die (210) having a plurality of bumps (211) bonded in a flip chip arrangement to the workpiece (205). An underfill material (232) fills a space between the bumped IC die (210) and the workpiece (205).

The present solution provides a centralized configuration of a Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) site hierarchy that may be batched across a plurality of appliances in a multi-site deployment. A single GSLB site hierarchy configuration may be distributed and operated on each appliance at each site. This reduces the configuration maintained for the multi-site deployment. Furthermore, in this manner, each appliance across multiple sites has an understanding of the entire topology of the multi-site deployment. Responsive to this configuration and understanding, each appliance may perform and optimize operations according to the site topology. For example, the appliances may selectively determine which sites to establish connections with in order to share metrics. In another example, appliances may select which remote sites to monitor services according to the topology.

A permutated ring network includes a plurality of bi-directional source-synchronous ring networks, each having a plurality of data transport stations, and a plurality of communication nodes. Each of the communication nodes is coupled to one of the data transport stations in each of the plurality of bi-directional source-synchronous ring networks.

A method of training a classifier for computer aided detection of digitized medical images, includes providing a plurality of bags, each bag containing a plurality of feature samples of a single region-of-interest in a medical image, wherein said features include texture, shape, intensity, and contrast of said region-of-interest, wherein each region-of-interest has been labeled as either malignant or healthy, and training a classifier on said plurality of bags of feature samples, subject to the constraint that at least one point in a convex hull of each bag, corresponding to a feature sample, is correctly classified according to the labeled of the associated region-of-interest.

The cart to lift barrels is a new way of lifting barrels. It has an improve lift handle with an upper angular shape grip that finds the center of gravity of the barrels when lifting the barrel. It also has a new style rounded support or curve shape on the bottom of the cart that helps the barrel to be locked in place and helps the barrel not to slip to a side when carried. The cart to lift barrels in addition has a hook on the top that will fasten the barrel from the top in place with different positions that will aloud fasten different size barrels.

A document management facility may process volumes of physical documents for digital imaging. The document management facility may utilize robotic apparatus to perform the various functions for processing the documents, which may include document intake, document storage, document digitization, and/or document removal. Digital versions of the documents may be accessed with a document management system.

According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for controlling flow of data cells within a digital subscriber line access multiplexer is provided. The method includes providing a flow control package for a cell delineation module of the digital subscriber line access multiplexer. The method also includes receiving, at the flow control package, at least one signal indicating that one or more buffers within the digital subscriber line access multiplexer have reached a predetermined data storage capacity. The method also includes directing, from the flow control package, at least one device that is operable to transmit the data to the one or more buffers to halt transmission of the data to the one or more buffers in response to receiving the signal.

The present invention relates to the use of Argonaute systems in plants for genome engineering, and compositions used in such methods.

A system for prioritizing meeting attendees based on a scheduling user's perspective in an event scheduling system. The system provides a user interface for a scheduling user that enables them to prioritize individual prospective attendees, or groups of prospective attendees, in a way allows for easier evaluation by the scheduling user of a greater number of potential event times for a desired event, in situations where it may not be possible to establish an acceptable event time across all prospective attendees. The scheduling user can indicate a number N of priority levels, and the disclosed system operates to supply prospective event times relevant to each priority. Accordingly, where a scheduling user has assigned prospective attendees to priorities 1 through N, where priority 1 is the highest, the disclosed system would respond by simultaneously presenting to the scheduling user with N sets of prospective event times corresponding to the assigned priorities. Specifically, a first set of prospective event times would be presented that satisfy the availability constraints of all prospective attendees of priority 1, a second set of prospective event times would be presented that satisfy the availability constraints of all attendees of priorities 1 and 2, a third set of prospective event times would be presented that satisfy the availability constraints of all prospective attendees of priorities 1, 2 and 3, and so on through a set of prospective event times that satisfy the availability constraints of all prospective attendees of priorities 1 through N.