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An Integrated Routing / Mapping Information System (IRMIS) links desktop personal computer cartographic applications to one or more handheld organizer, personal digital assistant (PDA) or "palmtop" devices. Such devices may be optionally equipped with, or connected to, portable Global Positioning System (GPS) or equivalent position sensing device. Desktop application facilitates user selection of areas, starts, stops, destinations, maps and / or point and / or route information. It optionally includes supplemental online information, preferably for transfer to the PDA or equivalent device. Users' options include route information, area, and route maps. Maps and related route information are configured with differential detail and levels of magnitude. Used in the field, in conjunction with GPS receiver, the PDA device is configured to display directions, text and map formats, the user's current position, heading, speed, elevation, and so forth. Audible signals identifying the next turn along the user's planned route are also provided. The user can pan across maps and zoom between two or more map scales, levels of detail, or magnitudes. The IRMIS also provides for "automatic zooming," e.g., to show greater detail or closer detail as the user approaches a destination, or to larger scale and lower resolution to show the user's overall planned route between points of interest. The IRMIS also enables the user to mark or record specific locations and / or log actual travel routes, using GPS position information. These annotated location marks and / or "breadcrumb" or GPS log data can be saved, uploaded, displayed, or otherwise processed on the user's desktop geographic information or cartographic system. The IRMIS application and data may be distributed online and / or in tangible media in limited and advanced manipulation formats.

An Integrated Routing / Mapping Information System (IRMIS) links desktop personal computer cartographic applications to one or more handheld organizer, personal digital assistant (PDA) or "palmtop" devices. Such devices may be optionally equipped with, or connected to, portable Global Positioning System (GPS) or equivalent position sensing device. Desktop application facilitates user selection of areas, starts, stops, destinations, maps and / or point and / or route information. It optionally includes supplemental online information, preferably for transfer to the PDA or equivalent device. Users' options include route information, area, and route maps. Maps and related route information are configured with differential detail and levels of magnitude. Used in the field, in conjunction with GPS receiver, the PDA device is configured to display directions, text and map formats, the user's current position, heading, speed, elevation, and so forth. Audible signals identifying the next turn along the user's planned route are also provided. The user can pan across maps and zoom between two or more map scales, levels of detail, or magnitudes. The IRMIS also provides for "automatic zooming," e.g., to show greater detail or closer detail as the user approaches a destination, or to larger scale and lower resolution to show the user's overall planned route between points of interest. The IRMIS also enables the user to mark or record specific locations and / or log actual travel routes, using GPS position information. These annotated location marks and / or "breadcrumb" or GPS log data can be saved, uploaded, displayed, or otherwise processed on the user's desktop geographic information or cartographic system. The IRMIS application and data may be distributed online and / or in tangible media in limited and advanced manipulation formats.

A wearable modular interface strap device for supporting multiple module units comprising a flexible strap with a plurality of electrically connected nodes acting as docking points to serial bus interface and mechanically connect removable modules, with the strap being 10 mechanically lockable in a loop by a clasp containing hub and host circuitry to enable network communication between modules and to a universal connector plug for recharging and data-exchange. Said strap containing a plurality of electrical wires between control circuitry and nodes and arranged to be wearable as a wristband, alternatively as a wrist device that when opened forms a curved handset with audio input and outputs at alternate ends, or arranged in a necklace configuration. Said device capable of supporting interchangeable modules such as displays, control devices, rechargeable batteries, a module with removable earpiece units, and a plurality of functional modules suitable for communication, data storage, location and environment sensing.

This invention relates to providing a system for improved methods of promoting, forming and managing Internet-based communities on the Internet through and within standard web pages without requiring the installation of additional software on a user's computer or on web sites where the system is implemented by using the latest software tools, presentation techniques and Internet communication methods. Additionally, this invention provides real time monitoring of user counts to all visitors and web page owners when a page with the embedded URL is accessed. In particular, this invention permits web page visitors to initiate and participate in anonymous ad hoc chat sessions initiated from a selected web page. Additionally, this invention provides a web-based location which permits Internet users to join and participate in Internet-based communities and the related activities such as messaging other members, participating in member chat sessions and web resource sharing without the need to install software.

A multitasking method and apparatus of a user device is provided for intuitively and swiftly switching between background and foreground tasks running on the user device. The multitasking method includes receiving an interaction to request for task-switching in a state where an execution screen of a certain application is displayed, displaying a stack of tasks that are currently running, switching a task selected from the stack to a foreground task, and presenting an execution window of the foreground task.

Specialization of the end(s) or host tissue contact points of biocompatible scaffolds brings a functionality to the scaffold that facilitates the dual function of inducing new tissue formation and facilitating attachment and site-specific tissue formation at the scaffolds' functionalized points of fixation.

A method and apparatus for facilitating communication between client computers is provided. The method provides for the use of ping probing by a server to determine the types of NAT devices and / or firewalls protecting the client computers. Once these are determined, the server can predict the response to communications from the client computers and instruct the client computers to contact each other. Once a session or tunnel is established it can be maintained through the use of a flag, even if contact with the server is lost.

Disclosed in a lecture method in which a presentation content of various inputs (cameras, notebook computer, motion pictures) is combined with a virtual lecture room using a Chromakey or TOF technique, so displaying a lecture and a presentation content on one screen with a beautiful background studio screen. The lecture method of the present invention comprises (1) a virtual lecture room editing and storing step in which a plurality of 3D background layers are provided, edited and designed, the lecturer and the presentation content are arranged in the virtual lecture room and are displayed on various screens, (2) a step in which the image of the lecture of the lecturer is taken using a single or a plurality of cameras, (3) a step in which the image of only a lecturer is extracted from the taken lecture images using a Chromakey technique in a form of a lecturer layer, (4) a step in which a lecture material layer and the lecturer layer are combined with the virtual lecture room graphic background layer, with the lecture material layer indicating at least one lecture material, and (5) a step in which the final image is combined and outputted to the display apparatus when the lecturer writes using the tablet.

A mobile device user interface method activates a camera module to support a video chat function and acquires an image of a target object using the camera module. In response to detecting a face in the captured image, the facial image data is analyzed to identify an emotional characteristic of the face by identifying a facial feature and comparing the identified feature with a predetermined feature associated with an emotion. The identified emotional characteristic is compared with a corresponding emotional characteristic of previously acquired facial image data of the target object. In response to the comparison, an emotion indicative image is generated and the generated emotion indicative image is transmitted to a destination terminal used in the video chat.

A capacitive stylus pen for a portable terminal includes a body portion formed of a synthetic resin material extending in a longitudinal direction; a sensing member provided in an inner side of the body portion to sense a current of a human's body; a transferring member formed of a conductive material and provided in an end of the body portion to be connected to the sensing member, and a manipulating member provided in an end of the transferring member, wherein the manipulating member is manufactured of conductive rubber and contacts a touch screen according to user's manipulation, and a Near Field Communication (NFC) is embedded in the body portion to perform wireless communication with the portable terminal, thereby configuring a wireless headset with the capacitive stylus pen.

A method for providing at least partial bypass of the heart to supplement the pumping function of the heart to thereby enable the surgeon to perform various surgical procedures thereon includes providing a circulatory assist system having a portable extracorporeal axial flow pump with a pump housing, a rotating pumping member disposed in the pump housing and inlet and outlet cannulated tubes respectively connected to inlet and outlet ports of the pump housing, accessing the patient's left atrium of the heart with the inlet cannulated tube, accessing the aorta with the outlet cannulated tube, actuating the rotating pumping member to draw oxygenated blood from the left atrium of the heart through the lumen of the inlet cannulated tube and into the inlet port of the pump housing whereby the pumping member imparts mechanical energy to the oxygenated blood passing through the pump housing and directs the oxygenated blood through the outlet port and through the lumen of the outlet cannulated tube to be transferred by the aorta to the systemic arteries and permitting the right side of the heart to function whereby oxygen-depleted blood returning through the systemic veins to the right atrium is directed through the right ventricle to the patient's lungs for oxygenation and subsequent pulmonary circulation.

The invention provides an ultra-scalable supercomputer based on MPU architecture in achieving the well-balanced performance of hundreds of TFLOPS or PFLOPS range in applications. The supercomputer system design includes the interconnect topology and its corresponding routing strategies, the communication subsystem design and implementation, the software and hardware schematic implementations. The supercomputer comprises a plurality of processing nodes powering the parallel processing and Axon nodes connecting computing nodes while implementing the external interconnections. The interconnect topology can be based on MPU architecture and the communication routing logic as required by switching logics is implemented in the FPGA chips while some modular designs for accelerating particular traffic patterns from applications and meliorating the communication overhead are able to be deployed as well.

A biologically engineered construct comprising of a polymeric biomatrix, designed with a nanophase texture, and a therapeutic agent for the purpose of tissue regeneration and / or controlled delivery of regenerative factors and therapeutic substances after it is implanted into tissues, vessels, or luminal structures within the body. The therapeutic agent may be a therapeutic substance or a biological agent, such as antibodies, ligands, or living cells. The nanophase construct is designed to maximize lumen size, promote tissue remodeling, and ultimately make the implant more biologically compatible. The nano-textured polymeric biomatrix may comprise one or more layers containing therapeutic substances and / or beneficial biological agents for the purpose of controlled, differential substance / drug delivery into the luminal and abluminal surfaces of the vessel or lumen, and the attraction of target molecules / cells that will regenerate functional tissue. The topographic and biocompatible features of this layered biological construct provides an optimal environment for tissue regeneration along with a programmed-release, drug delivery system to improve physiological tolerance of the implant, and to maximize the cellular survival, migration, and integration within the implanted tissues.

The present invention provides heteropolymer compositions and peptide compositions, and methods of making and using therapeutic compositions comprising amino acid heteropolymers for treatment of a subject for an autoimmune or an inflammatory disease, the heteropolymer compositions made by solid state synthesis. The invention also provides kits for assaying binding of a composition to a water-soluble MHC protein.

The present invention discloses novel mechanisms in the aging process and describes novel methods for high-throughput screening to identify, detect, and purify agents to be used for improving mitochondrial function, maintaining the cell cycle-arrested state in senescent and post mitotic cells, and thus preventing or treating age-related diseases or disorders associated with accelerated mitochondrial function loss, telomere dysfunction, and / or deterioration of the growth-arrested state. The present invention also discloses a number of compounds or compositions identified from this method. The present invention further provides the use of low doses of rapamycin or its analogs as a mimic of caloric restriction in preventing age-related diseases or disorders.

The invention discloses a thick electrode with a good electrochemical performance. The electrode comprises a current collector and an electrode membrane containing active substances and conductive substances. With a thickness greater than 300 micrometers, the electrode membrane includes an internal membrane layer close to the current collector and an external membrane layer far from the current collector. The conductivity of the electrode membrane decreases from the internal membrane layer to the external membrane layer, while the porosity of the electrode membrane increases from the internal membrane layer to the external membrane layer. The internal membrane layer has great conductivity which can make electrons at the current collector entering or separating from the internal membrane layer rapidly. With great porosity, the external membrane layer can adsorb a lot of electrolyte, thus solving the problem of poor electrolyte wettability of thick electrodes. In addition, the invention also discloses a preparation method of a thick electrode with a good electrochemical performance.

A biologically engineered construct comprising of a polymeric biomatrix, designed with a nanophase texture, and a therapeutic agent for the purpose of tissue regeneration and / or controlled delivery of regenerative factors and therapeutic substances after it is implanted into tissues, vessels, or luminal structures within the body. The therapeutic agent may be a therapeutic substance or a biological agent, such as antibodies, ligands, or living cells. The nanophase construct is designed to maximize lumen size, promote tissue remodeling, and ultimately make the implant more biologically compatible. The nano-textured polymeric biomatrix may comprise one or more layers containing therapeutic substances and / or beneficial biological agents for the purpose of controlled, physiological, differential substance / drug delivery into the luminal and abluminal surfaces of the vessel or lumen, and the attraction of target molecules / cells that will regenerate functional tissue. The topographic and biocompatible features of this layered biological construct provides an optimal environment for tissue regeneration along with a programmed-release, drug delivery system to improve physiological tolerance of the implant, and to maximize the cellular survival, migration, and integration within the implanted tissues.

A service marketplace system is disclosed for searching and finding service orders and offers, governing the negotiations and conclusions of service agreements between a number of service providers and service users, and which includes an after sale support web service interface to promote to sale of goods in remote online shops by offering related services.An after sale support web service interface allows a remote online shop's proprietor to incorporate an online search for product-related services available at customers' locations offered on the independent service marketplace. The search results may be displayed on the remote online shop's website along with the product offers the services relate to.Product-related services are mainly assembly, installation, maintenance and repair services for certain products.

The invention discloses a polyacrylamide composite flocculant and a preparation method thereof. The polyacrylamide composite flocculant is synthesized in situ by the following steps: carrying out inorganic high polymer flocculant surface treatment on acrylamide, an inorganic high polymer flocculant, an initiator, acryloyloxyethyldimethyl long-chain alkyl ammonium bromide and an olefinic-bond-containing silane coupling agent, preparing the polyacrylamide in-situ composite flocculant, and the like. The acrylamide molecule is introduced to the cationic flexible long branched chain structure, so that the physical entanglement network structure can better display the bridge mesh function. By compounding the inorganic high polymer flocculant with the cationic polyacrylamide, the reactive coupling agent is adopted to modify the inorganic high polymer flocculant surface, and the coupling agent molecule participates in the acrylamide polymerization reaction to graft the inorganic high polymer flocculant molecule onto the polyacrylamide molecule, thereby enhancing the interface action between the inorganic high polymer flocculant and polyacrylamide molecule and the adsorption, neutralization, sweep mesh actions on pollutants in sewage.

The invention discloses an antibacterial warming anti-electromagnetic radiation textile fabric and a preparation method thereof and belongs to the technical field of multifunctional fabrics. The preparation method mainly comprises multifunctional impregnation liquid preparation and fabric impregnation. The impregnation liquid mainly comprises deionized water, nanometer titanium dioxide, nanometer cerium oxide, nanometer silicon carbide, metal-loaded carbon nanotubes and nanometer titanium carbide. Through a vacuum-high pressure repeated impregnation technology, effective components in the impregnation liquid can be fast bonded to a textile fabric and the textile fabric subjected to impregnation has washing resistance and retains effective functions. The textile fabric functionalization method is simple and is free of repeated impregnation treatment in impregnation liquids with different functions. The preparation method reduces a production cost and is environmentally friendly.

A wire feeding control mechanism and method to obtain a certain stick-out of welding wire from a tip of a welding gun.

Surfaces useful for cell culture comprise a support to which is bound a CAR material, and, bound to the CAR material, an ECM protein, or a biologically active fragment or variant thereof such as elastin, fibronectin, vitronectin, laminin, collagen I, collagen III, collagen IV, and collagen VI. Also, optionally present on the surface is an active factor, preferably a polycationic polymer or a biologically active fragment or variant thereof, such as polyethyleneimine (PEI), poly-D-lysine (PDL), poly-L-lysine (PLL), poly-D-ornithine (PDO) or poly-L-ornithine (PLO). This surface is used in cell culture to promote cell attachment, survival, and / or proliferation of primary liver cells. The invention also relates to methods utilizing this surface, such as methods for attachment, survival, and / or proliferation of cells. Further disclosed is the use of the surface in cell culture with serum-free medium. Methods of screening using the surface of the invention are also disclosed.

Orally administrable cosmetic / nutritional / pharmaceutical compositions suited for stimulating the sebaceous function of the skin, and / or for treating / preventing dry skin and / or skin aging, contain a thus effective amount of an extract of decaffeinated coffee beans, formulated into an orally administrable, physiologically acceptable medium therefor.

This invention provides an isolated electrophysiologically immature cell or its derivative that has been modified to provide a mature electrophysiological phenotype and populations of these cells. Compositions containing these cells and populations of cells are also provided by this invention. These cells and compositions have therapeutic and diagnostic uses. Non-limiting therapeutic uses include regenerating cardiac tissue, improving cardiac function, restoring action potential of cardiac tissue; and treating or preventing cardiac malfunction. The cells and population of cells also can be used diagnostically to screen drug or other therapeutic candidate.

The invention discloses SCR (selective catalytic reduction) denitration catalyst regenerated liquid and preparation and regeneration methods thereof. The regenerated liquid comprises a cleaning component and an activity recovery component, wherein the cleaning component comprises a heterogeneous C13 fatty alcohol-polyoxyethylene ether emulsifier and HF (hydrogen fluoride), and the activity recovery component comprises vanadium oxalate and ammonium metatungstate. According to the invention, the cleaning component and the activity recovery component are respectively prepared, and catalysts are respectively cleaned and then subjected to activated regeneration. According to the invention, a dead catalyst is regenerated by using the SCR denitration catalyst regenerated liquid with double functions of cleaning and activity recovery and the regeneration method thereof; and researches prove that a regenerated catalyst is high in efficiency and low in toxicity and has good environmental friendliness, and the mechanical properties of the catalysts are not destroyed.

A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell (1); a cooling water tank (7) and a cooling water circulation passage (32); a hot water tank (10) and a hot water circulation passage (31); a heat exchanger (9); drain valves (25) to (27); temperature sensors (17), (18), (20); and a controller (41), wherein the controller selects circulation of at least either cooling water in the cooling water circulation passage or hot water in the hot water circulation passage, or alternatively selects water discharge by opening the drain valves, based on the water temperatures detected by the temperature sensors during suspension of the power generation of the fuel cell.