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This invention generally relates to methods, apparatus and computer program code for improved OLED (organic light emitting diode) display drive systems, in particular to compensate for burn-in.A method of compensating an OLED display device for burn-in of pixels of the OLED display, the method comprising: measuring a first voltage drop across at least one test pixel of the display; measuring a second voltage drop across at least one other pixel of the display; determining, from said first and second voltages and a from value (V1) representing a drive voltage increase for a loss in efficiency of said display due to burn-in, an estimated reduction in efficiency of said display due to burn-in; and compensating a drive to said display using said estimated efficiency reduction.

A band gap engineered, charge trapping memory cell includes a charge trapping element that is separated from a metal or metal compound gate, such as a platinum gate, by a blocking layer of material having a high dielectric constant, such as aluminum oxide, and separated from the semiconductor body including the channel by an engineered tunneling dielectric. Fast program and erase speeds with memory window as great as 7 V are achieved.

A method and apparatus for boring a hole in the earth including a drill bit assembly including a fluid-powered impact engine contained within a drillpipe sub between an ordinary drillpipe and a modified conventional rotary drill bit. The impact engine is powered by pressurized drilling fluid delivered via the drillpipe which acts on a piston to charge an energy accumulator, preferably in the form of a spring. Periodically, the pressurized drilling fluid in the impact engine is vented, allowing the energy accumulator to rapidly transfer its stored energy to an impact bit which is slidingly housed in a rotary bit to strike and fracture the formation.

The present invention provides formulas for producing compositions for the structural / functional nutritional support for those who struggle with poor focus, concentration and / or memory. In addition, the present invention provides compositions comprising nutritional / botanical factors helpful to those who subjectively experience transient mental fatigue or poor cognitive function. The compositions of this invention consist primarily of the following ingredients B-complex vitamins, antioxidants, minerals, phosphatidyl serine (PS), choline, dimenthyl-aminoethanol (DMAE), docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), L-pyroglutamic acid, as well as herbal extracts from Bacopa monniera, Vinca minor, and Huperzia serrata. The present invention also relates to the administration of these compounds to alleviate mental fatigue or poor cognitive function.

The invention provides a room-temperature-cured-type clean solid propellant. The room-temperature-cured-type clean solid propellant is prepared from, by mass, 55%-70% of chlorine-free oxidizing agents, 5%-20% of metal fuels, 5%-15% of plasticizers, 5%-10% of amine-terminated polyether adhesives, 0.5%-1.0% of isocyanate curing agents and 0.01%-3% of function auxiliaries. According to the room-temperature-cured-type clean solid propellant, the detect that in the prior art, due to the fact that an oxidizing agent ammonium perchlorate is used in a compound solid propellant, a large amount of HCl gas is contained in a combustion product, and atomospheric pollution is serious is overcome; the amine-terminated polyether adhesives with the high reaction activity are introduced into a compound solid propellant system, and a cross-linking and curing reaction of terminal amino groups and the isocyanate curing agents is utilized, so that room-temperature curing of the amine-terminated polyether propellant is achieved; no HCl gas exists in the combustion product by adding the chlorine-free oxidizing agents.

An active tip clearance control (ATCC) system of a gas turbine engine includes an ejector to selectively drive an air flow passing through the ATCC system. A high pressure air flow as a motive flow of the ejector is controlled by a valve according to engine operation requirements.

A system and method for adding superheat to the hot process gas at the discharge of a compressor drive turbine of a high compression ratio gas turbine or aviation gas turbine. The superheat brings the temperature ratio (T2 / T1) of the power output turbine into equality with the pressure ratio (P2 / P1)(K−1) / K to effect a highly efficient and adiabatic isentropic expansion across the power output turbine. The added superheat contributes to the output power of the engine less any inefficiency of the output power turbine. All of the variables are brought together to develop the proper superheat levels for obtaining the greatest power output possible at minimum fuel consumption levels.

A method and apparatus is provided for detecting and recording a specific type of electric pulse induced in metal electrodes by the living tissue of humans, other animals or plants, and by certain organic and inorganic models of such living tissue. The purely passive system detects the electric energy produced by the living source as it interacts with the crystalline lattice of conductive metal electrodes to produce a train of oscillating pulses, the amplitude of whose envelope decays as a linear function of log-time. Specific aspects of these pulses can be used to study the state of the living, or non-living, source and to detect changes in this state over time. The results of such studies of living sources can be interpreted, respectively, in terms of the state of health, or disease, of the source and of changes in the state of health, or disease, of the source, and can thus be used to recognize, characterize and evaluate conditions of the living organism and to quantify the effects of therapies and putative therapies.

Various aspects and embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to compositions that can be used to increase physical and mental energy, reduce the sensation of hunger. At least some of the composition disclosed herein can be used to obviate or moderate some of the discomfort which may be associated with initiating or maintaining reduced calorie and / or ketogenic diets.

Methods, systems and device are provided for improving the range and accuracy of proximity measurement such as in ultrasonic sensing systems. In particular, the blind zone caused by reverberation signals can be reduced or eliminated by attenuating signals received during the time period corresponding to the blind zone without. In an implementation, an attenuator circuit is selected by a switch to process received signals during the blind zone time period and deselected by the switch after the time zone time period. Additionally, the accuracy and range of the measurement can be improved by varying the gain provided to the received signals based on the varying measuring distance. In an implementation, a gain-adjustable amplifier is controlled by a gain control signal to provide incremental gain as time increases.

Disclosed is an electronic timer device that provides the user with audible, visible or sensory signals indicating when to inhale, when to exhale and when to hold breath during breathing exercises. The length of each inhalation, exhalation and holding of breath can be modified and the ratio between inhaling, exhaling and holding breath can be modified to provide breathing exercises with various different physiological benefits.

An audio signal processing apparatus includes a tapping detection unit to which an audio signal picked up by a microphone is input and that detects a tapping input operation on the basis of an energy increase / decrease determination process for making a determination as to whether an increase and a decrease of an energy level of low-frequency components of the audio signal occur within a first time period; and a control unit that performs a certain control process that is set for a tapping input operation in response to a tapping input operation being detected by the tapping detection unit.

A method of operating a gas turbine power plant including an auxiliary power output for reducing power plant emissions. A heat recovery steam generator receives an expanded working medium from a gas turbine and removes heat from the expanded working medium to form a reduced temperature exhaust gas and to generate steam from the heat removed from the expanded working medium. A steam turbine and generator assembly operates on the steam to produce an auxiliary plant output. A selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system is provided for receiving the reduced temperature exhaust gas; and an auxiliary fan is powered by the auxiliary plant output to supply dilution air for further reducing the temperature of the exhaust gas to prior to passing the exhaust gas through the SCR system.

A razor which includes at least one razor blade, a container for a shaving composition and an electrically powered actuating mechanism, for causing shaving composition from the container to be discharged from the shaving head.

An audio signal processing apparatus includes a tapping detection unit to which an audio signal picked up by a microphone is input and that detects a tapping input operation on the basis of an energy increase / decrease determination process for making a determination as to whether an increase and a decrease of an energy level of low-frequency components of the audio signal occur within a first time period; and a control unit that performs a certain control process that is set for a tapping input operation in response to a tapping input operation being detected by the tapping detection unit.

There is provided a semiconductor laser element, which has a small capacitance outside a ridge portion and high response speed and is able to effect pulse oscillation with a satisfactory pulse waveform. On a GaAs substrate 101, there are provided an n-type buffer layer 102, an n-type first clad layer 103, an MQW active layer 104, a p-type second clad layer 105, a p-type etching stop layer 106 that has an energy bandgap smaller than that of this second clad layer 105, a p-type third clad layer 107 that constitutes a ridge portion and a p-type protective layer 108. On both sides in the widthwise direction of the ridge portion are laminated a p-type spacer layer 109, an n-type current light confining layer 110, an n-type current confining layer 111 and a p-type flattening layer 112. On these layers is laminated a p-type contact layer 113. A depletion layer spreads into the spacer layer 109 when a bias voltage is applied. Therefore, a capacitance between the spacer layer 109 and the current light confining layer 110 is reduced, and a response speed during the pulse oscillation of the semiconductor laser element becomes fast.

The invention provides a kind of broiler feed, comprising corn, bean pulp, stone powder, calcium hydrophosphate, salt, vitamin complex and complex trace elements; the invention also comprises animal oil, vegetable oil and emulsifier. The feed comprises 42-80 parts of corn, 5-40 parts of bean pulp, 0.2-5.0 parts of animal oil, 0.2-5.0 parts of vegetable oil, 0.2-2.0 parts of stone powder, 0.5-3.0 parts of calcium hydrophosphate, 0.2-0.4 parts of salt, 0.1-1.0 parts of vitamin complex, 0.1-1.0 parts of complex trace elements and 0.05-1.0 parts of emulsifier by weight. The invention has a reasonable proportion of oil contents in the feed, adds the emulsifier into the feed, so as to promote the fat absorption effeciency of broiler and the chicken performance.

Techniques for pacing the heart of a patient as a function of a pressure value make use of a pressure monitor that receives a signal from a pressure sensor in the heart. The pressure monitor measures a pressure value. The pressure monitor may, for example, estimate the pulmonary artery diastolic pressure if the pressure sensor is located in the right ventricle, or calculate the mean central venous pressure if pressure sensor is located in the right atrium. The energy level of the pacing pulses delivered to the patient's heart by a pacemaker is modulated as a function of the pressure value. Modulating the energy level of the pacing pulses modulates the cardiac output of the patient's heart.

A method for operating an electrically operated or also electrically operable motor vehicle provided with a rechargeable electric energy storage device associated with the drive motor of the motor vehicle. A target charging state is determined for the energy storage device and an operating strategy is determined for a route that is calculated, entered or predicted for the next trip, by which recuperative deceleration is enabled with a specifiable minimum amount for deceleration processes occurring along the route. A total mass of the motor vehicle, including optionally a trailer connected to the motor vehicle, deviating from an input normal value and an air resistance of the motor vehicle deviating from a predetermined normal value are taken into account.

The invention relates to feed, in particular to a milk replacer for anthony pigs. The milk replacer is also called as creep feed and comprises, by weight, from 20 to 30 parts of northeast corn, from 20 to 30 parts of expanded corn, from 10 to 20 parts of dehulled soybean meal, from 10 to 20 parts of fermented soybean meal, from 1 to 5 parts of soybean oil, 0.5 part of compound multiple vitamins and 0.5 part of compound multiple mineral substances. Nutritional substance digestion utilization rate is increased by expanding and fermenting main raw materials including the corn, the soybean meals and the like, stimulation to intestinal tracts of piglets due to antinutritional factors is reduced while high energy needs of the piglet are met, and piglet feed intake is improved.

The invention provides a compound feed for juvenile perches. The compound feed is characterized by being composed of following components in parts by weight: 350 to 430 of steam fish meal, 25 to 35 parts of spray blood-cell powder, 30 to 40 parts of euphausia superba powder, 30 to 50 parts of beer yeast, 150 to 200 parts of peeled soybean meal, 30 to 50 parts of corn protein powder, and 220 to 250 parts of strong flour. According to the nutrition needs, and physiological and biological characteristics of juvenile perches, aiming for improving immunity and growth speed of juvenile perches, the method adopts high quality raw materials, optimizes the feed formula, and adds a high-effective green immunity growth-promoting addictive so as to develop a compound feed for juvenile perches and achieve the goal of industrialization, thus the feeding cost and diseases are reduced, and the pollution to water body is also reduced.

A system for retaining memberships at a health club utilizes attendance data of club members at the health club. The club members are categorized into one of a plurality of member segments based on their level of attendance. A computer electronically transmits text messages to the club members in each of the plurality of member segments. The messages are customized to respective member segments such that non-users and low users of the club are encouraged to increase their attendance level, while regular users are encouraged to maintain their attendance level.

The invention relates to a formula of a heat stress resistant feed for meat rabbits and application thereof. The heat stress resistant feed comprises the following components in parts by weight: 26-30 parts of alfalfa meal, 22-26 parts of corns, 4-6 parts of bean pulp, 3-5 parts of double-low rapeseed meal, 13-17 parts of wheat bran, 8-12 parts of extruded rice bran, 4-6 parts of extruded soybean, 4-6 parts of a mixture of rice chaff and husk, 1.0-2.0 parts of soybean oil, 0.25-0.35 part of salt, 1 part of a premix, 0.4-0.8 part of calcium hydrophosphate, 0.5-0.9 part of calcium carbonate, 0.3-0.4 part of lysine, 0.15-0.25 part of methionine, 0.1-0.15 part of threonine, 0.01-0.03 part of tryptophan and 0.15-0.25 part of sodium bicarbonate. The heat stress resistant feed has the nutritive characteristics of low crude protein content, balanced amino acid proportioning, high energy level, proper crude fiber content, good palatability and high true nutritive value; in a high-temperature and high-humidity season, if meat rabbits are fed by the heat stress resistant feed, the food consumption of the meat rabbits can be remarkably increased, the daily gain is increased, the diseases of digestive tracts are reduced, the time to market is shortened by about two weeks, the nitrogen and phosphorus emission is reduced, and the economic and ecological benefits are remarkable.

A detector using scintillating crystals is provided. The scintillating crystal is based on cerium doped lutetium yttrium orthosilicate (Ce:LYSO). With calcium (Ca) doped into Ce:LYSO, the electrovalence of Ce is further uniformly distributed. The scintillating crystal obtains high stability with 2 to 10 times greater electrical degree than that of a general scintillating crystal. Thus, radiative induction to cancer cells is improved and distribution of the cancer cells is easily figured out.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a graphene nano-composite energetic material through an atomic-layer deposition technology. The method includes the steps that graphene loaded nanometer metal compound powder is prepared through an ultrasonic-assisted solution mixing and in-situ reduction method, so that even scattering of nanometer metal on the surface of graphene is achieved; and then, the gas-phase atomic-layer deposition technology is adopted, two different precursors pass through a reaction cavity alternately, the precursors make contact with the surface of the graphene / nanometer metal compound powder fully, a chemical reaction is set off, and oxides are generated. By means of the method, the oxides wrap the graphene surface and the nanometer metal surface evenly. According to the graphene nano-composite energetic material prepared through the method, the affinity between the oxides and the nanometer metal surface is increased, and spatial arrangement is improved. Due to the addition of the graphene, the scattering situation of the nanometer metal is improved, and the energy release rate of the energetic material is increased. The method is high in automation degree and good in safety, the material can be directly used without after-treatment, and mass production of the graphene nano-composite energetic material is achieved easily.

The invention discloses a benzoate-based burning rate catalyst containing a dinuclear ferrocene group and a preparation method of the benzoate-based burning rate catalyst. A structural formula of theburning rate catalyst is as shown in the specification. The burning rate catalyst provided by the invention is unlikely to migrate or volatilize under natural conditions, is good in thermal stability,and has relatively high formation heat and combustion heat due to the introduction of a nitrogen-rich group; the energy level of a solid propellant is increased when the burning rate catalyst is usedin the solid propellant during combustion; and the burning rate catalyst has a relatively good combustion catalysis effect on main components of the solid propellant, namely ammonium perchlorate andcyclonite. The burning rate catalyst provided by the invention has the advantages that the preparation method is simple to operate, the synthesis cost is low, and the defects of complicated synthesisprocess, high price, high cost and the like of the existing ferrocene and derivatives thereof are overcome.

The invention provides a compound feed of pelteobagrus fulvidraco juvenile fish and a preparation method thereof. The compound feed comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 25-45% of fish meal, 4-8% of meat and bone meal, 15-20% of flour, 4-10% of corn, 10-20% of soy bean meal, 4-8% of rapeseed meal, 1-4% of fish oil, 10-20% of corn gluten meal, 1.0% of multivitamins, 1.0% of multiminerals, 0.1% of immunopotentiator, 0.2% of liver protecting agent, 0.2-0.4% of choline and 1-2% of calcium biphosphate. The compound feed has high quality grinding particle size, mixing uniformity, feed shaping property, water resistance and other characteristics. The pelteobagrus fulvidraco juvenile fish fed with the compound feed has body color close to the natural body color, and the compound feed can improve the anti-virus capability of the pelteobagrus fulvidraco juvenile fish, shorten the breeding cycle, reduce the breeding cost, reduce the sources of the diseases and water body pollution and has obvious economic and environmental benefits.