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A BioNet method, system and personalized web content manager responsive to browser viewers' psychological preferences, behavioral responses and physiological stress indicators for an advertising measurement and recommendation system that correlates the physiologic parameter responses to impressions of (World Wide Web and multimedia Web television) advertisements with post-impression transactional activity, clickthroughs and sales, to measure the effectiveness of the advertisements and recommend preferred media choices and media themes to media providers.

Techniques for managing data in a non-volatile memory system (e.g., Flash Memory) are disclosed. A controller can use information relating to a host's file system, which is stored by the host on non-volatile memory, to determine if one or more clusters (or sectors with clusters) are currently allocated. The controller can use the information relating to the host's file system to identify when the host is sending data to the next free cluster and to store such data in a sequential format by copying data from other locations in the non-volatile memory.

Embodiments that dynamically manage core pools are disclosed. Various embodiments involve measuring the amount of a computational load on a computing device. One way of measuring the load may consist of executing a number of instructions, in a unit of time, with numerous cores of the computing device. These embodiments may compare the number of instructions executed with specific thresholds. Depending on whether the number of instructions is higher or lower than the thresholds, the computing devices may respond by activating and deactivating cores of the computing devices. By limiting execution of instructions of the computing device to a smaller number of cores and switching one or more cores to a lower power state, the devices may conserve power.

A variable displacement internal combustion engine having selectively disabled cylinders, the engine including two turbochargers each having a turbine and a compressor, an exhaust system connecting the turbines of both turbochargers to all the engine cylinders, and valving within the exhaust system for selectively directing exhaust gases to flow through one, the other or both turbocharger exhaust turbines, the valving being controlled in dependence upon the number of deactivated cylinders.

A method for reducing or substantially eliminating oxides of nitrogen from an effluent gas stream, that includes providing a source of ultraviolet radiation with a precise wavelength, adding ammonia or an ammonia based reagent to the effluent stream, upstream of the ultraviolet radiation source, controllably operating the ultraviolet radiation source to irradiate the effluent stream flowing in the duct and substantially reducing or eliminating oxides of nitrogen by promotion a reaction of ammonia with the oxides of nitrogen to produce N₂ and H₂O, and also thereby destroying any surplus ammonia. This process can also be modified to oxidize carbon monoxide and VOC's to CO₂ and H₂O.

A free piston engine has a pair of pistons opposing to each other and movable in a cylinder, to form a combustion chamber between the pistons. A mixed gas of air and fuel is supplied into the combustion chamber and the mixed gas is auto-ignited when it is compressed by the pistons. A temperature and/or an air-fuel ratio of the mixed gas, and/or a pressure in the combustion chamber is detected to control displacements of the pistons, so that the mixed gas is auto-ignited at an optimum timing to efficiently operate the free piston engine.

A broad power band transmitter utilizing a duty cycle modulator achieves 80dB of power range for 3G signals. The present invention greatly improves the efficiency of transmitters used in mobile phones, for example, by using the duty cycle modulator during medium and low power levels of the transmitting power amplifier. The power amplifier operates in three different modes based upon the amplifier power level selected. The power amplifier operates in an EER mode during high power levels, in a DCM ERR mode during medium power levels, and in a DCM mode during low power levels.

A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, etc. of determining response times for various computing segments is provided in accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention. Accordingly, the following segments in the execution of a computer program may be directly measured, computed, determined, or derived: total response time, client segment compute time, network segment trivial response time, network segment response time, server segment response time, and think time response time.

Exemplary embodiments of methods and apparatuses to manage a power of a data processing system are described. One or more constraint parameters of a system are monitored. The data processing system is forced into an idle state for a first portion of a time while allowed to operate for a second portion of the time based on the one or more constraint parameters, wherein the system is forced into the idle state in response to comparing a target idle time to an actual idle time. The target idle time of the system is determined, in one embodiment, based on the one or more constraint parameters. The actual idle time of the system may be monitored to take into account interrupts which disrupt an idle time and idle times resulting from no software instructions to execute. The system may be allowed to operate based on comparisons of the target idle time and the actual idle time.

A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a feedback signal in a cellular mobile communication system is provided. The method of transmitting feedback in a Cooperative Multi-Point (CoMP) system, includes receiving feedback set information including allocation information of a Channel Status Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) transmitted for estimating a channel of a User Equipment (UE), receiving IDentification (ID) information for identifying a CoMP set including CSI-RS allocation information from a cell operating in a CoMP mode, extracting the CoMP set using the ID information and a feedback set, detecting a first feedback mode and first feedback timing with a first CSI-RS not included in the CoMP set among CSI-RSs included in the feedback set, and generating and transmitting feedback with respect to the first CSI-RS according to the detected first feedback mode and the first feedback timing.

Cell re-selection in a device configured to operate according to multiple cellular communication protocols. The device may operate according to a first cellular communication protocol at a first time, which may include attaching to a first cell. The device may operate according to a second cellular communication protocol at a second time. Operations according to the first cellular communication protocol may be suspended while operating according to the second cellular communication protocol. The device may attempt to resume operating according to the first cellular communication protocol at a third time. This may include measuring one or more of signal strength or signal quality of the first cell. The wireless device may select a cell to which to attach at the third time based at least in part on the measured signal strength and signal quality of the first cell.

<heading lvl="0">Abstract of Disclosure</heading> A seismic system, Seismic Mobile Information & Control System (Seis-MICS) comprising field resources, satellite resources, and office resources. The field resources include various personnel, equipment, and vehicles located in the general vicinity of the seismic project. The field resources include transceivers permitting various of the field resources to communicate directly, or indirectly, to the office resources via one or more satellites. The office resources include satellite earth hubs/stations, a server-side hardware, software, and data store, and user workstations. The seismic system advantageously facilitates real or near real time transmission of data between the field and office environment, thereby providing an efficient seismic operation.

A self-contained re-humidification mask (1) having locating means (6) to enable the mask to be supported in an operative position on a user (4) is provided. The mask has a wall (2) shaped as a moulded domed mask configured to cover the face of a user from the nose to the chin. An endless peripheral edge is shaped and configured to generally anatomically follow the contours of a face of a user to define, with the face of a user, an air pocket (24). The mask has a single inlet-outlet aperture (8) located generally opposite a position occupied in use by a mouth of a user, and at least one re-humidification assembly (9) located in the inlet-outlet aperture such that it substantially fills the aperture. The re-humidification assembly includes a coil (17) of corrugated hygroscopic paper having an axis of the coil extending in the direction of fluid flow through the inlet-outlet aperture. The re-humidification mask preferably has a wall formed from a non-woven synthetic fibre sheet that is press moulded and heat set to the domed shape thereof.

A method for controlling one or more computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units for energy efficient operation, in which, the temperature of the air returned (Trat) into the one or more CRAC units and the temperature of the air supplied (Tsat) by the one or more CRAC units is detected. The caloric heat transfer level (Q) is calculated based upon the Trat and the Tsat and it is determined whether the Q is within a predetermined setpoint caloric heat transfer range. In addition, at least one operation of the one or more CRAC units is reduced in response to the Q being within the predetermined setpoint caloric heat transfer range to thereby increase the efficiencies of the one or more CRAC units.

A computer-readable recording medium stores therein a system managing program for assisting in constructing an environment for efficiently operating a system depending on the access to data from an application. An application information collecting unit acquires management information representing access to data from an application function which is realized when a server of a network system executes an application program, and registers the acquired management information in a system management table. A system information collecting unit acquires resource management information owned by an operating system of the server, and registers the acquired resource management information in the system management table. An information analyzing unit refers to the system management table and determines whether the management of resources depending on the access to the data from the application function is adequate or not.

The synchronous motor driving apparatus including position sensors provided in the synchronous motor, a current polarity detection circuit for detecting the polarities of the currents in the respective phase windings of the synchronous motor, an inverter driving the synchronous motor, a motor speed calculation unit calculating the rotational speed of the synchronous motor depending on the output signals from the position sensors, a speed control unit outputting a first voltage adjusting component (q-axis current command value Iq*) to cause the rotational speed of the synchronous motor to approach a speed command value and a phase control unit outputting a second voltage adjusting component (d-axis current command value Id*) to cause the phase differences between the phases of the position sensor signals and of the currents in the respective phase windings of the synchronous motor to become a predetermined value.

The rotary bolt (100) of the present invention has a cylindrical-shaped bolt assembly, which rotates about a central shaft 130. About the circumference of the bolt (100) are a number of chambers (110), each of which can accept a single projectile (112) as it passes through a feed aperture (107). As the bolt (100) rotates, it transports the projectiles (112) from the feed aperture (107) to the breech (104) from where the projectile (112) can be launched from the barrel (106) of the launching device (102).

A compact dynamoelectric machine having a rotor with a length which is less than the length of a corresponding stator core. The rotor is rotatable on a shaft supported by bearings, with at least one of the bearings being positioned longitudinally within the stator core. Two endshields define opposite ends of the machine. One of the endshields is configured for holding electronic components in arrangement integrated with the machine.

Means for supplying raw material in additional charging or recharging of solid granular raw material into molten material in the crucible, comprises a raw material supply tube to be filled with said material, a metallic support member which runs through the inside of the tube, connects with the bottom lid, and serves for descending the lid and for ascending the tube and the lid, and a configuration avoiding metallic contamination, whereby the lower-end aperture of the tube is opened for charging said material therein into the crucible in uniform circumferential distribution and in large quantity, thus achieving efficient supply operation to be widely applied for growing silicon single crystals.

A plasma generator for forming a thin film comprises a cathode (4) for supplying constituent particles of an arc plasma and a trigger-and-anode (6) for starting and sustaining the arc plasma. The cathode surface (4a) of the cathode (4) is flat or finely irregular, and the anode surface (6c) of the trigger-and-anode (6) brought into contact with the cathode surface (4a) is flat. The anode surface (6c) is so arranged as to be brought into contact with the whole cathode surface (4a) when plasma is started. The contact point between a fine projection end (4b) of the cathode surface (4a) and the anode surface (6c) is made a plasma emission point. When the projection is consumed by plasma emission, another projection end which can be brought into contact with the anode surface (6c) is used as another plasma emission point, thus enabling intermittent operation of persistently repeating the sequence operation.

An object is to allocate a storage area to a business application by taking a security evaluation of the storage area and a security evaluation value of the business application into consideration. A management server includes a business management table to store a calculated security evaluation value of a business application to be executed in a host in association with information concerning the business application, and a management table to store a calculated encryption level of a virtual pool in a storage device in association with information concerning the virtual pool. The management server retrieves a virtual pool having an encryption level which is the same in value as the evaluation value, and allocates the retrieved virtual pool to the business application.

When a standard specimen including a given reference component is analyzed after a separation condition is changed, a data processing section (31) acquires an actual measurement value of a peak of a reference component that appears in a chromatogram obtained by the analysis, and estimates a deviation of the retention time of a peak of an intended component on the basis of the actual measurement value and information on the retention time of the reference component before the separation condition stored in an analysis condition information storing section (34) is changed, to correct a measurement time range of the respective ion sets of an SIM measurement parameter which is stored in an analysis condition information storing section (34). An SIM measurement is conducted according to the parameter that is corrected when analyzing the intended specimen, to thereby make it possible to conduct a desired measurement by an operator.

This invention aims to present a smart and dynamic power amplifier module that features both power combining and power sharing capabilities. The proposed flexible power amplifier (PA) module consists of a pre-processor, N PAs, and a post-processor. The pre-processor is an M-to-N wavefront (WF) multiplexer (muxer), while the post processor is a N-to-M WF de-multiplexer (demuxer), where N≧M≧2. Multiple independent signals can be concurrently amplified by a proposed multi-channel PA module with a fixed total power output, while individual signal channel outputs feature different power intensities with no signal couplings among the individual signals. In addition to basic configurations, some modules can be configured to feature both functions of parallel power amplifiers and also as M-to-M switches. Other programmable features include configurations of power combining and power redistribution functions with a prescribed amplitude and phase distributions, as well as high power PA with a linearizer.

A shipping management system manages trailers and shipments across supply chains, provides universal dashboards for shipment and trailer management and for monitoring meaningful statistics, and provides universal analysis and optimization techniques for shipment and trailer visit management and for analyzing and optimizing meaningful statistics.

A hinge for doors of appliances includes a movable arm connected to a door of the appliance, pivoted on a frame to rotate about an axis to make the door movable relative to the frame between closed and open positions. A control shaft extends longitudinally parallel to the axis and is connected to the frame. A sleeve attached to the movable arm extends parallel to the axis. An elastic element is contained inside the sleeve to generate an elastic force for closing the door. A mechanism drives the elastic element to determine the deformation and transmit to the movable arm the closing force. The mechanism includes two cylindrical cam operating units housed inside the sleeve, having first and second cylindrical cams operatively facing one another such that rotation of one about the axis determines translation of the other along the same axis and vice versa,

The present invention provides a method for the treatment of mercury present in exhaust gas wherein, after a chlorinating agent is added to exhaust gas containing nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and mercury, the exhaust gas is subjected to a reductive denitration treatment in the presence of a solid catalyst and then to wet desulfurization using an alkaline absorbing fluid, the method being characterized by measuring the mercury concentration in the exhaust gas after the wet desulfurization; calculating a predicted value of the inlet mercury concentration before the reductive denitration treatment on the basis of the measured mercury concentration; and controlling the feed rate of the chlorinating agent added prior to the reductive denitration treatment, according to the deviation of the predicted value from a reference inlet mercury concentration, as well as a system for the treatment of exhaust gas. Thus, the present invention provides an exhaust gas treatment process permitting the removal of mercury, and this process makes it possible to achieve efficient operation of the system and maintain the performance thereof without exerting any adverse influence the units within the system.

Embodiments of the present invention provide RFID systems having battery-assisted, Semi-Passive RFID tags that operate with sensitive transistor based square law tag receivers utilizing a plurality of tag receiver dynamic range states. Embodiments of the present invention are also enhanced with receiver training and synchronizing methods suited to the high tag sensitivity and need for dynamic range state switching. These enhancements may employ pseudo-random sequence based receiver training, activation signaling, and frame synchronizing. Further enhancement is achieved via design of system command sets and tag state machine behavior that control system interference and allow maximum usage of high sensitivity. Command set design also allows for convenient expansion to active transmitters and receivers in tags operating within the same system. Additional enhancement attained via power leveling methods that optimize the amount of transmitted power and interference from a reader in relation to the sensitivity of the RFID tags, their ranges from the reader, and the unique physics of the backscatter RFID radio link.

A combination of Peltier and Seebeck effect provides effective way to convert thermal energy to cooling. The common electrodes are electrically in contact with both devices cells, the cell generating electricity and the cell converting electricity to cooling. Additional factors providing for superior performance are the diced Peltier elements, and possibility of utilizing different material thermoelectric elements to generate electricity. Relatively low operating temperature of Bismuth Telluride may be increased by selecting materials such as CuAgSe, Si—Ge, BiSbTe and other. These materials may operate at temperatures of 1,000° C. or higher. That may prove advantageous in automobile application where the temperature of exhaust pipe gases is high.

Synchronization of metadata structures in a multi-threaded system includes receiving, by a first thread of a processing device, a request for a metadata structure located in a first cache associated with an object, obtaining, by the first thread of the processing device, a synchronization mechanism associated with the first cache, holding, by the first thread of the processing device, the metadata structure associated with the object, receiving, by a second thread of the processing device, a request for the metadata structure in a second cache associated with the object, obtaining, by the second thread of the processing device, a synchronization mechanism associated with the second cache and informing the second thread of the processing device that the metadata structure associated with the object is not available.

A method of operating a drill, or like cutting tool, facilitates efficient operation when drilling structural steel components, or like workpieces, which typically exhibit dimensional variations. Instead of controlling drill operations by the specific degree of advancement of the drill, the present invention contemplates that the drill is initially operated, while disengaged from the workpiece, to establish a no-load value of operation. Thereafter, the drill is advanced into the workpiece while it is operating to engage and penetrate the workpiece, while the load on the electric motor operating the drill is monitored. Advancement of the drill is discontinued, and the drill withdrawn, when the load on the drill drops to a value which is no more than the no-load value, plus a predetermined percentage thereof. Efficient operation is desirably promoted, since the drill can be efficiently repositioned when hole formation is complete.