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Context sensitive drag-and-drop systems, methods and user interfaces are provided in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) computing environment. Icons representing various tasks may be interactively drag-and-dropped to an adjoining graphically-based workspace in a context-based task-drop location to simply and intuitively construct a graphically-based workflow solution. A collapsible error handling failure branch may be constructed concurrently with the main branch of the workflow process. A loopback path to a higher branch may optionally be constructed for the failure branch. The workflow solution may be applied in a document printing environment for document production, a document copying environment, or an accounting environment, for example, for clear and efficient generation of workflows.

A static inverter for a battery of elementary, current sources or cells electrically in series and a number N of intermediate voltage taps along the chain of elementary DC current sources, wherein the number of elementary cells comprised between an intermediate tap and another intermediate tap adjacent to it or an end terminal of said chain is proportionate to the amplitude in the respective phase interval of a number N of discretization phases of the waveform of the AC voltage to be output in a quadrant; is implemented by arranging for: a number N of power switches each connecting a respective intermediate tap and a first end terminal of a first polarity of said chain of elementary cells in series to a common circuit node of said first polarity; an output bridge stage constituted by at least four power switches controlled in pairs for switching the current paths through the bridge stage, having a first pair of nodes coupled to said common circuit node of said first plurality and to the other end terminal of polarity opposite to said first polarity of said chain of elementary cells, respectively, and a second pair of nodes constituting an AC output; and a control circuit sequentially and cyclically turning on, in a continuous manner, one switch at the time of said N switches; each for a phase interval of 1 / (4N) times the period of said AC output, and alternately tuning on by pairs said four power switches of said output bridge stage at every half a period.

A speaker array and microphone arrays positioned on both sides of the speaker array are provided. A plurality of focal points each serving as a position of a talker are set in front of the microphone arrays respectively symmetrically with respect to a centerline of the speaker array, and a bundle of sound collecting beams is output toward the focal points. Difference values between sound collecting beams directed toward the focal points that are symmetrical with respect to the centerline are calculated to cancel sound components that detour from the speaker array to microphones. Then, it is estimated based on totals of squares of peak values of the difference values for a particular time period that the position of the talker is close to which one of the focal points, and the position of the talker is decided by comparing the totals of the squares of the peak values of the sound collecting beams directed to the focal points that are symmetrical mutually.

An application framework may include a cloud-independent application manager, a cloud-independent content services manager, and cloud-independent content services servers. The framework may dynamically install and manage scalable, multi-tenant applications in a cloud, and may scale the applications, as needed. The application manager may receive and handle requests to install application domains and configurations thereof, and may receive and respond to requests for information about servers on which installed methods are available. The content services servers may execute installed methods, using underlying resources of the cloud, through a cloud-specific SPI. The content services manager and application manager may work together using shared cloud storage to provide scalable content services at a very large scale. In the context of the framework described herein, an “application” may be defined by methods bundled into configurations, and by various cost-based and / or performance-based rules that specify how server instances providing those methods are to be managed.

Computational puzzles are parameterized by a difficulty variable which may be assigned based on at least one component from the group of components: time component, location component, reputation component, usage component, content component, and social networking component. For example, in one embodiment, the proof-of-work puzzle comprises a location component directed by the geographic location of the client that can be applied to any web transaction or application. One such application involves online ticket sales including those that employ purchasing robots. Another application involves accessing and using webmail.

A system for gathering date in a space includes a data server, a first wireless module operably connected to the data server, a first plurality of wireless sensor modules, and at least one other wireless sensor module. The first plurality of wireless sensors module are operable to generate sensor data relating to the control and operation of an HVAC system. The first plurality of wireless sensor modules are also operable to communicate the first sensor data to the first wireless module. The at least one other wireless sensor module is operable to generate second sensor data relating to at least one of the group consisting of light fixtures, architectural fixtures and plumbing fixtures, office equipment, and vending machines and furniture. The at least one other wireless sensor module is also operable to communicate the second sensor data to the first wireless module.

A method of constructing data classifiers in cases where the number of features is much larger than the number of training examples and it is critical to avoid overtraining, is particularly useful in recognizing computer objects containing or likely to contain a computer virus. The method provides a novel way of tolerating imperfectly classifiable data, of learning in time polynomial in the size of the input data, and of avoiding overtraining. Training is performed by constructing and solving a linear program (LP) or integer program (IP).

The invention discloses a multimedia resource processing method based on speech recognition and an online teaching system thereof. The method comprises the steps: audio and video frequencies are collected simultaneously and data are processed to process audio documents into a speech recognizable format; the audio documents are imposed with the speech recognition to generate script documents and with automatic generation and synchronization of Chinese captions with the video documents; and a content retrieval is imposed on the video documents, an automatic story segmentation based on the content is imposed on the script documents of the audio documents which are stored into the video database after being matched and labeled. The multimedia resource processing method based on the speech recognition and the online teaching system thereof are applied with the automatic processing technology of the multimedia resources, greatly increase the processing speed of such information as captions and the like by the use of high-performance computation of the computer, and reduce the participation degree of manual processing, thus accelerating the video manufacturing process and improving the work efficiency.

A construction method for a speech recognition model, in which a computer system includes; a step of acquiring alignment between speech of each of a plurality of speakers and a transcript of the speaker; a step of joining transcripts of the respective ones of the plurality of speakers along a time axis, creating a transcript of speech of mixed speakers obtained from synthesized speech of the speakers, and replacing predetermined transcribed portions of the plurality of speakers overlapping on the time axis with a unit which represents a simultaneous speech segment; and a step of constructing at least one of an acoustic model and a language model which make up a speech recognition model, based on the transcript of the speech of the mixed speakers.

A method and apparatus for clustering data, particularly regarding an image, that constructs a graph in which each node of the graph represents a pixel of the image, and every two nodes represent neighboring pixels associated by a coupling factor. Block pixels are selected with unselected neighboring pixels coupled with a selected block to form aggregates. The graph is coarsened recursively by performing iterated weighted aggregation to form larger blocks (aggregates) and obtain hierarchical decomposition of the image while forming a pyramid structure over the image. Saliency of segments is detected in the pyramid, and by computing recursively, a degree of attachment of every pixel to each of the blocks in the pyramid. The pyramid is scanned from coarse to fine starting at the level a segment is detected, to lower levels and rebuilding the pyramid before continuing to the next higher level. Relaxation sweeps sharpen the boundaries of a segment.

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for constructing a diagnostic network model in a more efficient and timely manner and with improved consistency. A structured electronic representation of a document is automatically reviewed to identify the symptoms experienced by the complex system, the plurality of components of the complex system and the causal relationships between a failure of the respective components and the occurrence of the various symptoms. Respective probabilities can be associated with the causal relationships between the symptoms and the failure of the various components. A network model, such as a Bayesian network model, may then be automatically constructed to represent the symptoms, the components, the causal relationships between failure of the components and exhibition of the symptoms, and the probabilities of the respective causal relationships.

Specially configured synthetic boards are provided for use with conventional carpentry tools and techniques to form flat, water-tight surfaces such as decks, roofs, walls, boat decks, hulls, and the like. The boards are formed to their desired shape and scale by extruding mixtures of wood particles and thermoplastic materials through appropriate converging dies. In one configuration, the edges of the boards have complementary configured outwardly facing recesses that permit them to be joined to form the watertight surfaces, and in another configuration the boards have features that interact with separate plastic structures to provide water tightness.

A web-based hosted solution through which application developers create, manage and monitor application usage analytics in an online manner. Preferably, an application under test is one of: application software, a script-enabled web application, or a rich Internet application (RIA). During the development process, a usage monitoring API is integrated into the application and the application is deployed. As users interact with the application, a log file is generated, typically in one of two ways. If the application is able to write to a local file system (in the user's machine), usage information is gathered in a log file local to the deployed application and then dispatched to an upload server for processing in a batch manner. If the application is not able to write to the user machine's local file system, the usage information is sent to a remote logging server, preferably on a just-in-time basis, and then the log file is generated on the logging server. In either case, preferably the usage information that is tracked comprises “features,”“faults” and “failures” of the application, independent of platform, location, and number of deployed application instances.

The invention discloses a method for establishing a high-throughput sequencing library and an application thereof. The method for establishing the high-throughput sequencing library comprises the following steps of: conducting DNA (Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid) fragmentation on a genome; conducting end repairing on DNA fragments; adding a basic group A to a 3' end of the DNA ends subjected to end repairing; connecting the DNA fragments with sticky ends A with methylated joints; conducting hybridization capture on the connection products by using a specific probe so as to obtain target fragments; conducting bisulfite treatment on the target fragments so as to convert non-methylated cytosine in the target fragments into uracil; conducting PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) amplification on the converted target fragments; separating and purifying the amplification products; and establishing the high-throughput sequencing library by using the amplification products. By utilizing the method for establishing the high-throughput sequencing library and the application thereof, the high-throughput sequencing library of a specific genome area of a sample can be conveniently and effectively established.

The invention discloses an interactive automated testing system and a method of the interactive automated testing system. The interactive automated testing system comprises a test master control end which is respectively connected with an automatic use-case editor and a plurality of agent actuating ends. The automatic use-case editor is connected with an interface record module through a recorded control library file. The automatic use-case editor and the test master control end are provided with a similar natural language manager. The interactive automated testing system and the method of the interactive automated testing system firstly solves the problem how to achieve generation and usage of temporary storage data variable, and how the interactive automated testing system achieves unified management of life cycles of the data variable when a traditional mode that a programming script drives an automated testing is abandoned so as to achieve high-speed generation of an automated testing use-case, and secondly solves the problems that how to automatically and accurately marking positions of occurrences of issues on a picture after the automated testing carries out an automatic screenshot, and how to accurately and detailedly scripting the problems, and meanwhile a issue script is printed on the picture and is used as issue remark of the picture.

The invention relates to a soil pressure balance type tunnel shield analog experiment system, a rectangular soil coelom with the upper part provided with an opening is internally provided with a shield machine model and filled with a simulated soil body, the axle wire of the shield machine model is overlapped with that of the soil coelom; the upper surface of the simulated soil body is covered with a layer of concrete cushion the upper surface of which is connected with a horizontal loading beam by more than two soil pressure jacks, the horizontal loading beam is connected with the bottom of the soil coelom by an anchor rope; and the simulated soil body is also internally embedded with a soil pressure box, a grating fiber optical sensor and a displacement meter, wherein, the soil pressure box, the grating fiber optical sensor and the displacement meter are all electrically connected with a data acquisition and processing device. The system can simulate the influence of shield tunnel construction between subways of cities on the stratum and surrounding environment more conveniently, actually and effectively, and provide more actual and accurate experimental data for tunnel construction and design so as to guarantee the high-efficiency and safety of the shield tunnel construction of cities.

An application framework may include a cloud-independent application manager, a cloud-independent content services manager, and cloud-independent content services servers. The framework may dynamically install and manage scalable, multi-tenant applications in a cloud, and may scale the applications, as needed. The application manager may receive and handle requests to install application domains and configurations thereof, and may receive and respond to requests for information about servers on which installed methods are available. The content services servers may execute installed methods, using underlying resources of the cloud, through a cloud-specific SPI. The content services manager and application manager may work together using shared cloud storage to provide scalable content services at a very large scale. In the context of the framework described herein, an “application” may be defined by methods bundled into configurations, and by various cost-based and / or performance-based rules that specify how server instances providing those methods are to be managed.

Hierarchical data in which image data that represents an image at different resolutions is arranged according to the resolution comprises three types of data including a header, index blocks, and tile images. The header defines a plurality of areas produced by dividing the pyramidal hierarchical structure in the virtual space in which the hierarchical data is generated. A pointer pointing to one of the index blocks is set in each area. The index blocks are generated for the respective areas in the structure defined by the header. A pointer pointing to one of the tile images is defined for a position in the images in a plurality of layers belonging to each area. The images are image data actually used to render an image.

System and apparatus for using block-level sampling for histograms construction as well as distinct-value estimations. For histogram construction, the system implements a two-phase adaptive method in which the sample size required to reach a desired accuracy is decided based on a first phase sample. This method is significantly faster than previous iterative block-level sampling methods proposed for the same problem. For distinct-value estimation, it is shown that existing estimators designed for uniform-random samples may perform very poorly with block-level samples. An exemplary system computes an appropriate subset of a block-level sample that is suitable for use with most existing estimators.

A web-based hosted solution through which application developers create, manage and monitor application usage analytics in an online manner. Preferably, an application under test is one of: application software, a script-enabled web application, or a rich Internet application (RIA). During the development process, a usage monitoring API is integrated into the application and the application is deployed. As users interact with the application, a log file is generated, typically in one of two ways. If the application is able to write to a local file system (in the user's machine), usage information is gathered in a log file local to the deployed application and then dispatched to an upload server for processing in a batch manner. If the application is not able to write to the user machine's local file system, the usage information is sent to a remote logging server, preferably on a just-in-time basis, and then the log file is generated on the logging server. In either case, preferably the usage information that is tracked comprises “features,”“faults” and “failures” of the application, independent of platform, location, and number of deployed application instances.

The invention belongs to the technical field of gene engineering, and concretely relates to a CRISPR / Cpf1 plant genome directional modification function unit, a carrier comprising the function unit, and application thereof. The invention aims to build an effective plant genome CRISPR / Cpf1 directional modification framework carrier according to an action principle of a CRISPR / Cpf1 system and a vegetable cell gene expression characteristic, and realize high-efficient application thereof in plant genome directional modification. The technical scheme provided by the invention is characterized by building the CRISPR / Cpf1 plant genome directional modification framework carrier formed by lachnospiraceae bacterium Cpf1 nuclease protein (LbCpf1) expression unit and a guiding crRNA transcription expression unit. The invention also provides a method for designing specificity-guided crRNA and building a CRISPR / Cpf1 recombinant expression vector aiming at rice genome target loci by adopting the CRISPR / Cpf1 plant genome directional modification framework carrier. The invention provides the high-efficient CRISPR / Cpf1 plant directional modification framework carrier, which can effectively realize simple, fast and high-efficient directional modification based on the CRISPR / Cpf1 system aiming at a plant genome target sequence.

To facilitate construction of an hydraulic dam, a water fillable barrier has a tubular water fillable portion with a tongue projecting from one end. The tongued end of the barrier may abut the tubular sidewall of a second such water fillable barrier with the tongue wrapped around the second barrier and lashed to the first barrier. This arrangement allows the effective construction of a corner in an hydraulic dam. To extend the length of the dam, opposed ends of each of two end-to-end water fillable barriers may be overlapped within a sleeve. When the barriers are then filled with water, they foreshorten. This pulls the overlapping portions back in order to form a high pressure end-to-end abutment between the barriers.

A fire-control riser system that provides a multi-function unitary valve system including providing pressure test, pressure relief, and drain / test fluid flow capability for fire-control sprinkler systems. Furthermore, the fire-control riser system comprises an enclosure that provides for easier installation, pre-assembled components and protects such riser systems from damage during the construction process. Additionally, the fire-control riser system may be substantially comprised of plastic material. The system utilizes an improved flow switch coupling-attachment system that includes no-thread attachment or threaded attachment. The system also provides for multi-function components as well as reduced ports for component installation thereby reducing potential leak areas.

The invention provides a construction method and application of a genome-wide methylation high-throughput sequencing library. The construction method of the genome-wide methylation high-throughput sequencing library comprises steps of: conducting digestion on a genome DNA with Msp I and a second restriction endonuclease; conducting end repair on DNA fragments; adding a basic group A on a 3'terminal of the DNA fragment subjected to end repair; connecting a DNA fragment with a cohesive end A to a methylation joint; conducting fragment selection on the connect products with the methylation joint, in order to obtain a target fragment; subjecting the target fragment to a bisulfite treatment, in order to convert unmethylated cytosine in the target fragment to uracil; subjecting the converted target fragment to PCR amplification; and separating and purifying the amplification products, wherein the amplification products form the genome-wide methylation high-throughput sequencing library. The construction method and application of the genome-wide methylation high-throughput sequencing library provided by the invention can conveniently and effectively construct the genome-wide methylation high-throughput sequencing library of the genome DNA sample.

An affordable, sustainable building, comprising substantially entirely mass-produced, prefabricated constituent parts manufactured off-site, the prefabricated constituent parts comprising a foundation, a frame module comprising a plurality of frames, wherein the frame module is secured to the foundation, a reversible connector to connect the plurality of frames to form the frame module, a wall panel configured to be mounted onto the frame module, a floor panel configured to be mounted onto the frame module, and a ceiling panel configured to be mounted on to the frame module. Each constituent part forms part of a library of parts from which the constituent parts are selected. The constituent parts are preferably made in standardized sizes to facilitate efficient mass production. The constituent parts are predominantly made of recyclable material so as to be environmentally friendly. Computer software may be developed to facilitate design and construction of the affordable, sustainable building and to calculate proper attachment points for lifting and moving frame modules.

A tufting machine capable of producing individual articles of athletic turf bearing precise graphic patterns is disclosed. The machine includes a support frame to which a backing material is statically held, a tufting frame that spans above and below the backing and is computer-controlled to travel along the support frame, a yarn-inserting needle carriage disposed above the backing along the tufting frame and a yarn-catching looper carriage disposed below the backing along the tufting frame. The carriages are computer-controlled to asynchronously shift relative to each other as may be necessary for their individual yarn-inserting components and yarn-catching components to cooperate.