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A secure appliance for use within a multi-tenant cloud computing environment which comprises: a) a policy enforcement point (PEP); b) a hardened Operating System (OS) capable of deploying applications; and c) at least one application capable of hosting services and application program interfaces (APIs).

A cooling system for cooling components of a computer is provided. The cooling system includes a DC fan which operates at a speed which is substantially proportional to the voltage that is applied to the fan. A zener diode voltage divider is connected in series between a voltage source and a first input of the fan. The second input of the fan is connected to a reference voltage source. A switch is also connected in series between the voltage source and the first voltage input of the fan so as to be connected in parallel with the zener diode voltage divider. When the switch is in a first position, the voltage produced by the voltage source is applied directly to the fan allowing the fan to operate at a first speed. When the switch is in a second position, the voltage from the voltage source is applied to the first input of the fan through the zener diode such that the first input of the fan receives a second voltage that is less than the first voltage thereby causing the fan to operate at a second speed. The zener diode voltage divider is substantially current independent such that the voltage drop across the zener diode is substantially independent of the current that is drawn by the fan.

Provided is a positive electrode film of a lithium battery, comprising: (i) a positive electrode material of a lithium intercalated transition metallic oxide; (ii) a lithium ion replenisher; and (iii) a conductive agent and an adhesive. The lithium ion replenisher in the positive electrode film decomposes during initial charging and then releases lithium ions, so as to make up for a loss of lithium ions forming an SEI film on a negative electrode surface, thereby improving the reversible charging and discharging capacity of the lithium ion battery. In the prepared positive electrode film, the lithium ion replenisher can be mixed in the positive electrode material or the conductive agent in advance, and can be coated on the surface of the positive electrode of the lithium ion battery as well.

A light is provided having a base unit, an arm extending from the base unit, and a lamp head coupled to the arm. The lamp head includes an LED configured to provide light based on an input drive current, an optical mixing element configured to collect the light produced by the LED and a zoom lens configured to adjust an output size of a spot generated by the light collected in the mixing element. A controller receives DC power from the base unit through the arm. The controller is configured to set the input drive current for the LED to control an output light density of the spot in response to an operator selected input and configured to adjust the output light density of the spot in response to a change in the size of the spot.

The exemplary embodiments described herein relate to the field of electronic registration (ER) of purchased products and, more particularly, to an improved electronic registration system that enables unique item-level tracking from an initial point-of-sale (POS) transaction involving a post-paid service / subscription and related device or product, to any cancellations in service and returns to the store or service provider. Certain exemplary embodiments thus advantageously “close the gap” between retailers and service providers, e.g., in connection with subscriptions / post-paid service agreements and related devices or products. In certain exemplary embodiments, an “interest” may be taken and charged in the event that the customer does not return the device when or after an associated service has been cancelled.

Apparatus for use in controlling the temperature of the water in a kitchen sink (including a bathtub and / or other type of sink) for a reasonably extended period of time, without the necessity of adding additional hot water to the basin of the sink itself, to offset the loss of heat in the water as it naturally cools down over time. The invention also applies to the ability to maintain the water in a sink at a cool temperature, as opposed to a warm temperature. The preferred form of the invention provides a temperature controlling apparatus for a kitchen sink that can be integrally incorporated into the design of newly manufactured sink(s), and when activated by the user, automatically maintains the temperature of the water in the basin of a sink at an temperature level determined by the user.

A method and apparatus for generating plasma in a fluid. The fluid (3) is placed in a bath (2) having a pair of spaced electrodes (4, 6) forming a cathode and an anode. A stream of bubbles is introduced or generated within the fluid adjacent to the cathode. A potential difference is applied across the cathode and anode such that a glow discharge is formed in the bubble region and a plasma of ionised gas molecules is formed within the bubbles. The plasma may then be used in electrolysis, gas production, effluent treatment or sterilisation, mineral extraction, production of nanoparticles or material enhancement. The method can be carried out at atmospheric pressure and room temperature. The electrodes may carry means to trap the bubbles in close proximity. Partitions may be present between the electrodes.

The invention relates to a swelling type micro-capsule / cement-based self-repair system. Calcium alginate is used as capsule walls, epoxy resin is used as capsule cores, accordingly, swelling type micro-capsules can be prepared, and the particle sizes of the micro-capsules range from 300 micrometers to 2.5 mm; basic components in a self-repair cement-based materials include cement, sand, the micro-capsules, water and epoxy resin curing agents, and the adding quantity of the micro-capsules is 0.5-10 wt% of the cement. The cement, the sand and the micro-capsules are uniformly stirred and dispersed, the water and the epoxy resin curing agents are poured into mixtures with the cement, the sand and the micro-capsules, and pouring forming, form stripping and curing are carried out after the water, the epoxy resin curing agents and the mixtures are uniformly stirred, so that the swelling type micro-capsule / cement-based self-repair system can be formed. The swelling type micro-capsule / cement-based self-repair system has the advantages that the micro-capsules have water absorption and swelling characteristics, accordingly, water can be compensated in cement hydration procedures, and the swelling type micro-capsule / cement-based self-repair system has an internal curing function; processes for synthesizing the swelling type micro-capsule / cement-based self-repair system are simple, the swelling type micro-capsule / cement-based self-repair system is good in mechanical property, is difficult to break in cement mixture stirring procedures and can be uniformly dispersed in the cement-based materials, and accordingly cracks can be self-repaired.

The invention discloses a semantic segmentation method based on a residual pyramid pooling neural network. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, constructing a convolutional neural network, wherein a hidden layer of the convolutional neural network comprises 10 residual neural network blocks, 4 Residual ASPP blocks and 5 Basic blocks; inputting the original indoor scene image into a convolutional neural network for training to obtain a corresponding semantic segmentation prediction graph; calculating a loss function value between a set formed by semantic segmentation prediction images corresponding to the original indoor scene images and a set formed by 40 single-heat coded images processed by corresponding real semantic segmentation images to obtain an optimal weight vector and a bias term of a convolutional neural network classification training model; and in a test stage, inputting an indoor scene image to be semantically segmented into the convolutional neural networkclassification training model to obtain a semantic segmentation prediction graph. According to the invention, the semantic segmentation efficiency and accuracy of the indoor scene image are improved.

The invention relates to a parking brake for a vehicle, preferably for a commercial vehicle, including at least a spring energy-storage brake cylinder (3), an electrical controlling first valve gear (4), which is designed according to an electrical control signal, a venting and / or ventilation of the at least one spring energy-storage brake cylinder (3). The parking brake also includes a switchable second valve gear (5), a pneumatic control input (7) and an electric control input (8), which is executed, a venting of the at least one spring energy-storage brake cylinder (3) to take when the pneumatic control input (7), a pneumatic pressure above the predetermined threshold is smaller than one, and if the electric control input (8) no electricity is available.

Certain exemplary embodiments described herein relate to the field of electronic registration (ER) of purchased products and, more particularly, to improved electronic registration techniques purchase-side and / or return-side handling of recalled items. Certain exemplary embodiments on the purchase-side may help to filter-out products that have recalled been before they are purchased. Certain exemplary embodiments on the return-side may help enable recall return overrides, thus facilitating the acceptance of recalled products even though they might not qualify under an original return / warranty policy. Advantageously, more and more recalled products may be filtered out of circulation through the use of purchase-side and / or return-side recall watch list checking techniques of certain exemplary embodiments. Such purchase-side and / or return-side recall watch list checking may be performed together with or separate from electronic registration techniques in different exemplary embodiments.

The present invention discloses a fragrance slow-release cooling unit, which comprises: a cooling unit main body (41) having a porous structure, wherein the surface and interior of which have a fragrance component; and an airflow channel (42) axially penetrates through the cooling unit main body (41). Due to the porous characteristic of the cooling unit body (41), the cooling unit body (41) can effectively adsorb spice, aroma components are promoted to be released through heat when smoke flows through the cooling unit body (41), and aroma losses caused when the temperature of the smoke is reduced by the cooling unit can be compensated. The invention further discloses a heating type aerosol generating appliance, an aerosol generating material unit (3), a cooling unit (4) and a filter tip unit (6) are positioned in an outer tube (1) and are sequentially arranged; and the cooling unit (4) can prevent the aerosol source material from falling into other units, is prepared from a porous inorganic material and a porous natural wood material, is non-toxic and harmless after being heated, and is high in safety.

A solid state light source comprising a light pump outputting light energy; a waveguide optically coupled to the light pump source for receiving the light energy; and a down-converter for converting the light energy from the waveguide to a lesser light energy.

A process for preparing high quality diesel oil from poor-qualiry fraction oil includes such steps as hydrorefining, hydro-pour-depressing and arylhydrocarbon saturation. Its advantages are high hexadecame value, low pour point, and low contents of S and arylhydrocarbon.

The invention discloses a method for measuring convective heat transfer coefficient of a water-rock interface during a seepage heat transfer process of a crack sample. Constant-temperature and constant-current water flow is injected to a convective heat transfer coefficient test system through a liquid constant-voltage constant-current high-precision injection system and a cold drive hot water flow constant temperature control system; a convective heat transfer coefficient h of the water-rock interface is measured through the convective heat transfer coefficient test system; during measurement, variables related to the convective heat transfer coefficient, such as flow rate, inlet water temperature, crack initial gap length b0 and crack gap length deformation delta b, all can be set according to requirements of an experimenter; the test measurement variables such as outlet water flow rate Q, crack outlet water temperature Tout, crack inner edge water temperature Ff and crack inner surface temperature Ti all can be accurately measured; finally, the convective heat transfer coefficient h is obtained by calculating. According to the method for measuring convective heat transfer coefficient of a water-rock interface during a seepage heat transfer process of a crack sample in the invention, the variables are controlled more accurately; the numerical value of the convective heat transfer coefficient h in a certain state can be obtained through an improved calculation method; and the quantitative relationship between h and different variables can be researched.

A method of medical treatment review. The method can include the steps of receiving patient data into a patient database in which the patient data at least includes a diagnosis of the patient and providing one or more treatment protocols for the patient for selection by a treating provider in which the treatment protocols are pre-approved for the patient diagnosis. The method can also include the steps of analyzing a selection of a treatment protocol by the treating provider and generating an authorization of the selected treatment protocol based on predefined criteria. Generating the authorization of the selected treatment protocol can include generating the authorization without any peer review if the selected protocol meets the predefined criteria or generating the authorization following peer review if the selected protocol does not meet the predefined criteria.

The invention provides a Y-contained high-abundance rare earth permanent magnet. The magnet comprises RealphaYbetaBgammaMxNyFe100-alpha-beta-gamma-x-y, wherein Re includes at least Nd and Ce; M is selected from Co and / or Cu; N is one or more elements selected from a group consisting of Nb, Ti, Zn, Ga, Al, Zr, Sn, Sb, Ta and W; alpha, beta, gamma, x and y are weight percentages of the respective elements, 23 <=alpha <=35, 0 < beta<=10, 0.95 <=gamma <=1.2, 0 <=x <=2, and 0 <=y <=2; the main phase grain of the Y-contained high-abundance rare earth permanent magnet is of a core-shell structure, element Y is more distributed at the core, Ce and Nd are more distributed in a shell layer, so that the loss of coercive force caused by the addition of Ce in Nd-Fe-B is compensated, and meanwhile temperature stability of use is improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of engineering machinery, and discloses a synchronous drive control system, which comprises a hydraulic pump, a change valve, and a first double rod cylinder and a second double rod cylinder which have the same capacity. The oil inlet of the hydraulic pump is communicated with an oil tank, while the oil outlet is communicated with the oil inlet of the change valve; the first oil outlet of the change valve is communicated with a left cavity of the first double rod cylinder; a right cavity of the first double rod cylinder is communicated with a left cavity of the second double rod cylinder; a right cavity of the second double rod cylinder is communicated with the second oil outlet of the change valve; and the return port of the change valve is communicated with the oil tank. The synchronous drive control system can realize synchronous action of two cylinders, and has the advantages of simple structure, small influence by external load and low cost. The invention also discloses engineering machinery provided with the synchronous drive control system.

The invention discloses a road scene semantic segmentation method based on a full-residual cavity convolutional neural network. The method comprises the steps: constructing the full-residual cavity convolutional neural network at a training stage, and enabling the full-residual cavity convolutional neural network to comprise an input layer, a hidden layer and an output layer, and enabling the hidden layer to comprise one transition convolution block, eight neural network blocks, seven deconvolution blocks and four fusion layers; inputting each original road scene image in the training set intoa full residual cavity convolutional neural network for training to obtain 12 semantic segmentation prediction images corresponding to each original road scene image; calculating a loss function value between a set formed by 12 semantic segmentation prediction images corresponding to each original road scene image and a set formed by 12 one-hot coded images processed by corresponding real semantic segmentation images to obtain a full residual cavity convolutional neural network training model; in the test stage, a full residual cavity convolutional neural network training model is used for prediction; the method has the advantages of high segmentation accuracy and strong robustness.

The invention discloses a mixed rice cooking method for a cooking utensil, belonging to the technical field of kitchen household appliances. According to the mixed rice cooking method, the problems that the requirement on the heating temperature of mixed rice cannot be met when the mixed rice is produced by virtue of an existing electric cooker, and the like are solved. The mixed rice cooking method comprises a cover-closing cooking stage and a cover-opening cooking stage, wherein the cover-closing cooking stage comprises a preheating stage and a thermal insulation stage; and the cooking utensil enters the cover-opening cooking stage after the thermal insulation stage ends and a pot cover in an opening state, and a heating device heats the food in a cooking cavity in a high power so as torealize fragrance enhancement. By setting the cover-opening cooking stage, the rice cooker controls the heating device to increase the power so as to supply sufficient heat to food materials during the rice mixing, so that fragrance components in the food materials (mainly rice) are well extracted, meanwhile, the loss of heat during the cover opening and stirring can be compensated, the continuousheating and fragrance enhancement of the food materials are guaranteed, and the taste and fragrance of the mixed rice are improved.

Electronic and optical (or photonic) devices with variable or switchable properties and methods used to form these devices, are disclosed. More specifically, the present invention involves forming layers of conductive material and dielectric material or materials with varying conductivity and indexes of refraction to form various electronic and optical devices. One such layer of adjustable material is formed by depositing epitaxial or reduced grain boundary barium strontium titanate on the C-plane of sapphire.

A system and method for quickly cooling and de-pressurizing a boiler arrangement in the event of a plant power loss, a.k.a. a black plant condition. A steam discharge system injects steam from the steam / water circuit into the furnace, thereby both cooling components of the boiler arrangement and reducing pressure in the steam / water circuit. This reduces or eliminates the additional cost associated with providing extra capacity in a steam drum and / or an independently powered boiler water pump. The system and method is particularly useful for quickly cooling the U-beams of a circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler during a black plant condition. In application to boiler arrangements with a selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) system employing steam as a carrier for a NOx reducing agent, the steam discharge system advantageously uses the discharge nozzles of the SNCR system to inject the steam into the furnace.

The invention relates to an aircraft steering system using an aircraft ground taxi drive system whereby electrical power generated by a first motor-generator of a landing gear wheel drive system in a regenerative braking mode is supplied to a second motor-generator of a landing gear wheel drive system in a motorized driving mode.

The present invention discloses a series-connected type fan. It at least includes a first fan, a second fan and a flow-guiding structure. Said first fan and second fan are series-connected, and the flow-guiding structure is placed between first fan and second fan. Said flow-guiding structure can be used for guiding the air flow flowed out from said first fan and making said air flow be fed into second fan so as to raise air volume and air pressure of said series-connected type fan.

A method of medical treatment review. The method can include the steps of receiving patient data into a patient database in which the patient data at least includes a diagnosis of the patient and providing one or more treatment protocols for the patient for selection by a treating provider in which the treatment protocols are pre-approved for the patient diagnosis. The method can also include the steps of analyzing a selection of a treatment protocol by the treating provider and generating an authorization of the selected treatment protocol based on predefined criteria. Generating the authorization of the selected treatment protocol can include generating the authorization without any peer review if the selected protocol meets the predefined criteria or generating the authorization following peer review if the selected protocol does not meet the predefined criteria.

An increased resilience seal utilizing a sealed gas filled inner chamber in a bellows spring that functions as both a mechanical spring and a gas spring to provide a more constant level of separation force between two face plates to provide a seal between two mechanical components such as those found in an aircraft jet engine. The bellows spring is made of a plurality of walls that are joined together in a pressurized chamber that is filled with a gas, such as an inert gas. In alternative embodiments, the bellows spring is made of walls that are shaped and oriented to optimize the operating characteristics of the bellows spring when the pressure is increased in a sealed inner chamber in response to elevated temperature. In one embodiment, the walls forming a portion of the chamber overlap to optimize the geometry of the bellows spring.

An aircraft including a wing, the end of the wing having a wing tip device, wherein the wing tip device includes a moveable region that is rotatable, about an axis of rotation extending out of the plane of the wing tip device, between: (i) a high-altitude cruise configuration in which the moveable region extends downwardly below the wing; and (ii) a ground-operating configuration in which the moveable region extends rearwardly behind the wing such that the ground clearance of the wing tip device is increased.

An aircraft including a wing, the end of the wing having a wing tip device, wherein the wing tip device includes a moveable region that is rotatable, about an axis of rotation extending out of the plane of the wing tip device, between: (i) a high-altitude cruise configuration in which the moveable region extends downwardly below the wing; and (ii) a ground-operating configuration in which the moveable region extends rearwardly behind the wing such that the ground clearance of the wing tip device is increased.