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The invention is a method of facilitating shopping with a mobile device (12) to obtain a plurality of purchased goods and / or services from a group of vendors (14) located at a shopping location (16). The method of the invention includes communicating from the mobile device with at least one server a selection of the goods and / or services to be purchased by a user of the mobile device on or before the user shops at the shopping location; the at least one server, in response to information stored therein regarding vendors located at the shopping location and the goods or services offered by the vendors and the selection of the plurality of purchased goods and / or services to be purchased by the user, causes an identification of the vendors from which available selected goods or services may be purchased and the available selected goods or services to be transmitted to the mobile device; and the mobile device provides to the user an identification of the available selected goods and / or services to be purchased and an itinerary of the user setting forth at least a choice of an order in which the user visits the identified vendors to obtain the goods and / or services to be purchased which is a function of at least one profile of the user.

The present invention is dental prosthetics manufactured from polymers rather than ceramics. Various plastics are disclosed for use in making said prosthetics, as are techniques for improving plastic performance in the prosthetics. The prosthetics are first injection molded into pre-set blocks for use in milling machines that dentists use or custom fit prosthetics with less wait time and less cost. Alternatively, an electronic model may be produced using image scanners. The electronic model may then be downloaded into rapid prototyping machine and a prosthetic therein built. Use of these methods may create various monolithic prosthetics, including multi-tooth prosthetics and whole bridges.

Disclosed herein is a method and a lotto supply server of providing lotto using a bill or a receipt of a credit or debit card, and utilizing the front and the back side of a receipt or a lotto as an advertising space, in which, a financial VAN company accumulates and manages the paid back money for financial resources to purchase lotto, and a real lotto number printed on a bill or a receipt is provided to a user, thereby increasing sales of a member store due to customers who use credit or debit cards.

A method and apparatus is disclosed which allows the image in the screen of a small handheld device to be panned, or zoom-in or zoom-out, in response to moving the device. The handheld device containing an accelerometer is used to monitor the movements of the handheld device, and the acceleration is converted to moving (panning) the image in the screen or re-sizing (zooming) the image.

A conductor obtained by connecting a plurality of superconductors by normal conductivity or a conductor comprised of superconductors and normal conductors, said low resistance conductor using superconductors characterized in that an apparent specific resistance of said conductor at below a superconducting transition temperature of said superconductors is lower than the specific resistance of copper at that superconducting transition temperature.

In an exemplary embodiment in accordance with the present invention, a disposable dental appliance and method of use is provided. In particular, a cheek retraction apparatus is provided, which is formed from a lightweight yet durable biocompatible polymer. The apparatus is sufficiently durable to withstand recurrent use, however, the it is economically manufactured so as to be disposable. Moreover, the apparatus is pre-sterilized to alleviate the need for autoclaving and / or dry heat sterilization. A cheek retraction apparatus in accordance with the present invention also provides an indicia display medium that allows the dental practitioner to display patient information, whitening treatment measurements, or other indicia that might be useful to them during oral photography.

The present invention is intended to lighten the user load for the distribution of content in an album form. In order to look at / listen to album content, a user executes album content purchase operation. In response to a request for the distribution of a first item of content, a content server sends the requested content to a terminal. After the distribution, the terminal acquires the license of the first item of content. The content and its license are bound each other in the terminal. The license server executes, on a charging and settlement server, the processing necessary for the charging and settlement of the fee of the purchased album content. In response, the charging and settlement server executes the charging and settlement processing. The subject of charging is not only the first item of content, but also all items of content packaged as album content. Subsequently, all items of content in the album are downloaded.

The present invention provides techniques for managing access to storage resources according to an access time. Specific embodiments provide a variety of different kinds of time based access billing. For example, in specific embodiments, one or more of a time time-card storage access service mode, a time-lock storage access service mode, and a semi-timecard storage access service mode are provided.

The invention involves a double trim tab for watercraft in which connection the flow interceptor (1) is activated by an actuation cylinder (4) and the flow interceptor (1) activates the bottom tab (2). One of the tabs may have a course correction device (10) or a course correction fin (11). In addition, an electronic steering device (14) can likewise carry out a course correction in the event of a trim change in which connection the steering wheel (17) is kept neutral by means of an uncoupling device (18).

The invention discloses a method for cooperatively promoting agglomeration growth of PM (particulate matter) 2.5 and treating desulfuration wastewater in an evaporation manner and a device of the method. The method particularly includes steps that agglomeration liquor prepared by desulfuration wastewater, high polymer adhesive and wetting agent is sprayed into an inlet flue of an electric precipitator and is evaporated by the aid of heat of flue gas, in an evaporation process, the wetting agent promotes dust to enter drops of the agglomeration liquor, the high polymer adhesive is connected with PM2.5 via a polymer chain with polar groups, the grain diameter of the PM2.5 is prompted to be enlarged, so that the PM2.5 can be gathered by the follow-up electric precipitator, the desulfuration wastewater is evaporated completely, suspended matters and dissolvable pollutants in the wastewater are converted into solid to be dissolved out, and the suspended matters and the dissolvable pollutants in the wastewater, together with dust in the flue gas, are gathered by the electric precipitator. The device consists of a boiler, an air preheater, the electric precipitator, a desulfurizing tower, a hydraulic cyclone, a desulfuration wastewater clarification tank and an agglomeration liquor preparation tank, and a double-fluid atomizing nozzle is arranged in the flue between the air preheater and the electric precipitator.

A top pull type front derailleur is designed to move or shift a chain between two or more sprockets for changing gears. The front derailleur basically has a bicycle frame clamping band, a linkage assembly and a chain guide. The linkage assembly includes a cable connection point and is arranged between the bicycle frame clamping band and the chain guide to move the chain guide laterally towards and away from the clamping band. The clamping band has a top pull cable guide surface that is configured and arranged relative to the clamping band to guide a cable from vertically above the clamping band to the cable connection point when the front bicycle derailleur is operatively mounted to a bicycle frame. Preferably, the top pull cable guide surface is formed on a peripheral surface of a roller that is rotatably mounted on the clamping band.

The invention discloses a modified chitosan material capable of absorbing heavy metal ions and a preparation method thereof. The modified chitosan material is prepared by a method comprising: dissolving the chitosan and sodium alga acid in water respectively to prepare chitosan solution at a concentration of 1.5 mass percent and sodium alga acid solution at a concentration of 2 mass percent; mixing the chitosan solution and sodium alga acid solution uniformly according to a mass ratio of the chitosan and the sodium alga acid of (8-10):1 under a room temperature condition, and dripping calcium chloride solution at a concentration of 1.5 mass percent according to a solid to liquid ratio of the sodium alga acid to the calcium chloride solution of 1:37 with stirring; fully stirring after dripping is finished; regulating the pH value of the solution to 7.2+-0.2 till solid floccules appear; standing till solid gel appears; and filtering, and drying the gel at 35 DEG C to obtain the modified chitosan material.

A system and method for datacenter power management is disclosed. In particular embodiments, the method includes receiving, with a processor, a request for execution of an application. The method also includes for each of a plurality of datacenters, determining an amount of electricity required to execute the application at the respective datacenter. The method also includes, for each of the plurality of datacenters, determining a cost associated with executing the application at the respective datacenter based, at least in part, on the amount of electricity required to execute the application at the respective datacenter. The method further includes selecting one of the plurality of datacenters to execute the application based, at least in part, on the cost associated with executing the application at the respective datacenter and executing the application at the selected datacenter.

A touch panel including a substrate, first electrodes and second electrodes is provided. The first electrodes and the second electrodes are electrically insulated from each other and are disposed on the substrate. Each first electrode includes first electrode pads and first connecting lines, and the first connecting lines connect adjacent two of the first electrode pads in series. Each second electrode includes second electrode pads and second connecting lines, and the second connecting lines connect adjacent two of the second electrode pads in series. An outer contour of each first electrode pad is defined by a first zigzag line, an outer contour of each second electrode pad is defined by a second zigzag line, and the first zigzag line and the second zigzag line located at a boundary between the first electrode and the second electrode are parallel or partially parallel to each other.

The invention discloses a graft modified polymer material, a polymer material adsorbing mercury ions prepared from the same and a preparation method thereof. The graft modified polymer material is prepared by grafting a polymer substrate P to a monomer A or monomer B, wherein the molecular structure of the monomer A comprises at least one C=C double bond and at least one epoxy group; and the molecular structure of the monomer B comprises at least one C=C double bond and at least one anhydride group. The epoxy group or anhydride group on the surface of the graft modified polymer material reacts with the terminal amino of a DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) single strand with an amino-modified terminal to obtain the polymer material adsorbing mercury ions. The preparation process of the invention is simple; the prepared material can adsorb mercury ions with high selectivity; the lower limit on concentration for removing mercury ions is extremely low; and the invention has good application prospects in terms of drinking water treatment, industrial wastewater advanced treatment, recycling of mercury ions, and the like.

A probe cover dispenser comprises a main body, an elastic component, and a separation board. The main body has a receiving groove therein. A groove is disposed at the top end of the main body. The elastic component is disposed in the receiving groove. One end of the elastic component is fixed at the bottom of the receiving groove, and the other end thereof is connected with a separation sheet. A plurality of probe covers are stacked in the receiving grooves above the separation sheet. The separation board is disposed in the groove at the top end of the main body. One end of the separation board is pivotally connected with the top end of the main body so that the separation board can be screwed into the groove at the top end of the main body to separate the first probe cover from the second probe cover.

This invention relates to a formulation with the addition of low density additives of volcanic ash, hollow ceramic microspheres or a combination of microspheres and volcanic ash or other low density additives into cementitious cellulose fiber reinforced building materials. This formulation is advantageously lightweight or low density compared as compared to current fiber cement products without the increased moisture expansion and freeze-thaw degradation usually associated with the addition of lightweight inorganic materials to fiber cement mixes. The low density additives also give the material improved thermal dimensional stability.

A method for making an amorphous soft magnetic core using Fe-based amorphous metal powders is provided. The amorphous soft magnetic powders are obtained by crushing amorphous ribbons produced using a rapid solidification process (RSP). The magnetic core is obtained by performing a preliminary thermal treatment of amorphous metal ribbons made of Fe-based amorphous metal alloy using RSP, crushing the amorphous metal ribbons to thereby obtain amorphous metal powders, classifying the amorphous metal powders to then be mixed into a distribution of powder particles having an optimal uniform composition, mixing the mixed amorphous metal powders with a binder, forming a core, and annealing the formed core to then coat the core with an insulating resin.

An image capturing apparatus for capturing the image of the physical object and displaying the captured image is provided for combining and displaying in real time the shape-distorted graded scale with the captured image, the apparatus comprising a graded scale generating part for generating the graded scale to be used for indicating the dimension of the physical object in the captured image; a data storing part for storing the data for correction to be used in order to correct the graded scale shape by adding the distortion to the generated graded scale in the similar degree to the distortion caused by the distortion aberration; a graded scale shape correcting part for generating the shape-distorted graded scale by correcting the graded scale shape according to the data for correction; and an image combining part for combining the generated shape-distorted graded scale with the captured image, and displays the captured image combined with the shape-distorted graded scale.

The present invention provides a method and system that uses serial, writable, nonvolatile memory (serial memory) in a portable radio telephone. According to an object of the present invention, the serial memory may be integral to a cell phone or attached to a cell phone via an add-on card or the like. According to another object, the serial memory may be embedded in a cell phone accessory or attached to an accessory via an add-on card or the like. In both objects, once the portable radio telephone is powered on, data stored in serial memory is transferred into onboard random access memory (RAM), which in turn is utilized by the CPU and / or other cell phone systems. Serial memory includes, but is not limited to, NAND-type flash memory, as well as, flash and EEPROM memories that utilize the following interface architectures: the mircowire bus, the I2C bus, the SPI bus and / or the MPS bus. Among other things, serial memory may store the operating system, applications, and radio calibration parameters.

The present invention provides a positive electrode active material for a secondary battery and a secondary battery including the same, which includes a core; a shell located to surround the core; and a buffer layer located between the core and the shell, and including a three-dimensional network structure connecting the core and the shell and a pore, in which the core, the shell, and the three-dimensional network structure in the buffer layer each independently include a lithium nickel-manganese-cobalt-based composite metal oxide, and the positive electrode active material has a BET specific surface area of 0.2 m2 / g to 0.5 m2 / g, a porosity of 30 vol % or less, and an average particle size (D50) of 8 μm to 15 μm. The decomposition of the active material may be minimized by a rolling process in the manufacture of an electrode by controlling the specific surface area, average particle diameter and porosity of the active material particles as well as the specific structure, the reactivity with an electrolyte solution may be maximized, and the output and lifespan characteristics of the secondary battery may be improved since the particles forming the shell have crystal structure with orientation which facilitates intercalation and deintercalation of lithium ions.

A swimming pool chlorinator that utilizes a cylindrical housing that has an internal chamber. Within the internal chamber is concentrically mounted in a close fitting manner a valve member. The sidewall of the housing has a series of elongated slits and also the valve member has a series of similar elongated slits. The housing has mounted thereon at least one suction cup with the suction cup to be securable to a swimming pool wall surface or other surfaces associated with a swimming pool and beneath the surface of the water in the pool. Within the internal chamber of the housing is located one or more chlorine tablets. The valve member is to be adjusted relative to the housing so that the slits of the housing are unrestricted permitting free flow of water through the housing or the slits are restricted partially thereby limiting the amount of flow of water through the internal chamber. As the water is conducted through the internal chamber, the chlorine tablet is dissolved within the water which chlorinates the water of the swimming pool when this water is conducted exteriorly of the housing.

A method for making a nano-scale amorphous soft magnetic powders obtained by thermally processing and crystallizing amorphous ribbons produced using a rapid solidification process (RSP) and crushing the same. The amorphous soft magnetic core having an excellent high-frequency characteristic is obtained by performing a preliminary thermal treatment of Fe-based amorphous metal ribbons produced by using RSP to then be converted into nano-scale grain metal ribbons, crushing the metal ribbons to thereby obtain nano-scale grain metal powders, classifying the nano-scale grain metal powders to then be mixed into a distribution of powder particles having an optimal uniform composition, mixing the mixed powder with a binder, and then forming a core, and annealing the formed core to then coat the core with an insulating resin.

The invention discloses a manufacture method of a Z-shaped steel sheet pile through continuous cold roll forming by continuously rolling and forming with a cold bending unit and distributing preliminary shafts at both sides of a central shaft. Web plates are continuous so as to greatly improve the modulus and the flexible rigidity of a cross section and fully exert the mechanical characteristic of the cross section. The manufacture process takes great effects in aspects, such as controlling the quality of the cold-bent Z-shaped steel sheet pile, improving the matched accuracy and the connection strength of the preliminary shafts of the steel sheet pile, and the like. The invention controls the product size and overcomes the defects generated in the processing process by performing the preliminary shafts of the cold-bent Z-shaped steel sheet pile and wholly forming the Z-shaped steel sheet pile.

The present invention aims at implementing acceleration of the hop-by-hop transfer without using a high-speed processor. In the present invention, a transfer destination searching circuit (12) constituted by hardware is provided in addition to a processor (11). In the transfer destination searching circuit (12), after header information has been extracted from received IP packet data, a content addressable memory (21) is first searched by using the header information as a key. If corresponding forwarding information cannot be obtained from the searching of the content addressable memory (21), HASH function searching is executed by employing an HASH searching pointer table (22). If the forwarding information is obtained from a forwarding table (23) as a result of these searching operations, the hop-by-hop transfer of the IP packet data is executed in accordance with the forwarding information.

A system is provided with which a user of an information processing apparatus is requested to pay only the license charges of the necessary functions of the pre-installed software and an information processing apparatus vendor or the like is also not requested to pay unwanted license fees to the licensors. An information processing apparatus, which has pre-installed at least one software providing a plurality of functions to which each license fee is charged respectively and enables selection of use or no use of the relevant functions, comprises a software storage unit for storing the pre-installed software, a function selection processing unit for executing only the function selected from the stored software, and a network communication unit for transmitting, via the network, the selected function information including the information indicating correspondence between the software name and selected function.

The object is to provide a data output control apparatus which allows detailed information on a network to be readily obtained, which is advantageous with respect to cost, and which is suitable for specifically notifying the user of the service charge.A data output control terminal 300 is communicatively connected via the Internet 400 to a portable terminal 100 carried by a user, printing apparatuses PR1 to PRn provided at various locations, and WWW servers DS1 to DSm. The data output control terminal 300 obtains from a WWW server DS data associated with a data print request from the portable terminal 100, selects one of the plurality of printing apparatuses PR, and outputs the obtained data to the selected printing apparatus. Billing is executed in accordance with the result of use by the portable terminal 100 of the print service provided by the data output control terminal 300. The billing is executed by summing the service charge and the call charge of the portable terminal 100.