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In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention a retailer may receive a request from a group of customers for a reward the group desires to earn by making purchases at the retailer. In response to such a request the retailer determines purchasing conditions the group must satisfy in order to earn the reward. The purchasing conditions may be determined based on, for example, a value of the reward (e.g., a cost of the reward to the retailer), a number of customers in the group, and / or a time by which the group desires to earn the reward. The purchasing conditions may be determined such that the retailer realizes at least a predetermined profit after the cost of providing the reward is considered. The methods of the present invention may be implemented at an online and / or brick-and-mortar retailer.

A system and method for providing visual feedback to a user of an exercise machine for gauging fitness progress of the user. The system provides a user of an exercise machine with a virtual competition in which the user competes against virtual competitors based on past performances. The system may raise the level of performance required to win the virtual competition, and may also lower the level of performance required if the user is not performing well on a particular day. The system attempts to keep the user engaged and motivated to achieve desired fitness goals by providing real-time performance data and historical performance data displayed in a graphical manner coupled with the entertainment and excitement of a competition.

A process is disclosed to visually capture a person doing a set of steps for an exercise, and then to compare that person during exercise to those steps, measuring the results. Each exercise is tailored to the individual patient, rather than to an “ideal” or “generic” standard. This flexibility allows a physical therapist to optimize treatment for patients progressively, and / or to accommodate multiple physical problems in one patient. This invention can be used as a medical software product under the guidance of a physical therapist for rehabilitation exercises. It may alternatively be used as a fitness or sports training device under the guidance of a trainer or coach. By providing visual data and tracking results, it enhances communication between the physical therapist and the patient (or trainer and athlete), and optionally, the physician.

The invention relates to a microgrid multi-energy joint optimal scheduling method. The method includes: step 1, on the basis of force application conditions of energy supply equipment and operating states of energy storage equipment in different scenes, constructing a physical model of a multi-energy system; step 2, establishing unit mathematical models, including a wind power generator model, a photovoltaic power generation model, a micro-gas turbine model, a fuel cell model and an energy storage model, of the microgrid multi-energy system; step 3, in order to realize lowest comprehensive cost in system operation, constructing a microgrid multi-energy optimal scheduling model by taking DG operation constraints, system safety constraints and multi-energy coupling characteristics into comprehensive consideration; step 4, on the basis of reversed order dynamic planning, solving the microgrid multi-energy optimal scheduling model to obtain a microgrid multi-energy joint optimal operatingstrategy. By the microgrid multi-energy joint optimal scheduling method, operating demands in different scenes can be met, electricity-thermal coordinated optimal scheduling schemes are provided for operating of a comprehensive energy microgrid in different scenes, and high integral operating efficiency and high economic benefits are realized.

In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention a retailer may receive a request from a group of customers for a reward the group desires to earn by making purchases at the retailer. In response to such a request the retailer determines purchasing conditions the group must satisfy in order to earn the reward. The purchasing conditions may be determined based on, for example, a value of the reward (e.g., a cost of the reward to the retailer), a number of customers in the group, and / or a time by which the group desires to earn the reward. The purchasing conditions may be determined such that the retailer realizes at least a predetermined profit after the cost of providing the reward is considered. The methods of the present invention may be implemented at an online and / or brick-and-mortar retailer.

The subject disclosure relates to targeted polling and creating, responding, managing, publishing, socializing, and / or commercializing targeted polls using a variety of media such as mobile applications, the web, and / or other communication media. In one aspect, the disclosed subject matter facilitates allowing mobile users to respond to and / or promulgate polls. As further advantages, embodiments of the disclosed subject matter allow polls to be created, responded to, published, shared, managed, and / or analyzed within a social polling platform. Further non-limiting embodiments are provided that illustrate the advantages and flexibility of the disclosed subject matter.

A system and method for providing biosynchronized therapy to a patient that creates a therapeutic environment and therapeutic stimulations that are sensitive to psychological and sensory human issues, including those particular to the patient, and that reduce psychological stress experienced by the patient so that other forms of treatment provided to the patient are enhanced and benefited. In one embodiment, the environment and stimulations can be predetermined. The therapy is applied using an overhead system that includes a suspended, multi-function that performs predetermined tasks and a lighting system, both of which provide the room with natural ambient light, artificial ambient light and predetermined task lighting. An image display system is also included for applying preselected images to the canopy over a bed of the patient. The overhead system can be used in a variety of circumstances such as a home, commercial facilities and health care facilities.

The subject disclosure relates to targeted polling and creating, responding, managing, publishing, socializing, and / or commercializing targeted polls using a variety of media such as mobile applications, the web, and / or other communication media. In one aspect, the disclosed subject matter facilitates adding community answers to a poll and / or rating community answers for polling a community of respondents. In addition, embodiments of the disclosed subject matter allow polls to be created, responded to, published, shared, managed, unpublished, deleted, and / or analyzed, etc., within a social polling platform. Further non-limiting embodiments are provided that illustrate the advantages and flexibility of the disclosed subject matter.

Time attendance tracking methods and systems are described in which a hand-held device is set as a primary device or a secondary device based on an inherent mobile identity of the hand-held device and operable in either a first mode or a second mode. The first mode permits the user to clock-in or clock-out for attendance recording for the user tied account while the second mode restricts the user to clock-in or clock-out for attendance recording for the user tied account.

A device to detect defects of magnetic conducting structures based on magnetoconstriction torsional waves belongs to an ultrasonic nondestructive detector, which overcomes shortcomings of high guide wave attenuation of vertical mode and remarkable frequency dispersion effect. During detection, it is unnecessary to process surfaces of the structure. The present invention comprises a pulse signal generator, a power amplifier, a magnetoconstriction torsional wave sensor, a signal preprocessor, an A / D converter and a computer. Wherein, the magnetoconstriction torsional wave sensor is composed of an excitation unit and a receiving unit. The computer controls generation of pulse signals. The pulse signal is amplified by the power amplifier and then generates torsional waves in the structure through the excitation unit. The receiving unit receives the torsional wave from the structure, which is processed by the signal preprocessor and then converted into digital signals by the A / D converter. The computer obtains defect information of the structure. The present invention can conveniently excite and receive torsional waves, detect defects along axis of the structure and adapt to long-distance detection of clad pipes and cables with PE jacket.

The invention provides a knowledge database based question and answer generating method and apparatus. The method comprises: obtaining triple data set from the knowledge database, wherein the triple data set comprises such three elements as an entity, an attribute and attribute values; a relationship between the elements is: an attribute value element is a corresponding value of an attribute element of an entity element; and using any one of the elements in the triple data set as a correct answer, and generating a corresponding question of the correct answer according to a template of language idomatic expression. The above method and apparatus of the invention can use one element of the triple data set as the correct answer, and the other two elements are transformed into the trunk of the corresponding question; data conversion efficiency from mass structured knowledge data to question and answer is significantly improved according to language idiomatic expression.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional elliptical ultrasonic vibration cutting device adopting a longitudinal bending composite mode. The three-dimensional elliptical ultrasonic vibration cuttingdevice is composed of a pre-tightening bolt, a rear cover plate, a first excitation source, a second excitation source, a middle cover plate, a third excitation source and a flange front cover plate.The three-way excitation sources are driven by input signals with the same frequency, wherein the phase angles of the input signal are different in pairs. By adjusting the voltage and phase difference of driving signals of the three-way excitation sources, a tool nose point of a tool mounted at the output end of the three-dimensional elliptical ultrasonic vibration cutting device obtains spatialelliptic vibration trajectories with different vibration amplitudes and phase differences. According to the three-dimensional elliptical ultrasonic vibration cutting device, the assembly link is less,and mounting and dismounting of a blade are convenient; a flange structure is adopted, and the system stiffness is good; and the effect on the aspect of cutting machining of parts with hard machiningmaterials, weak stiffness and free curved surfaces is remarkable, cutting force and the cutting temperature can be significantly decreased, tool abrasion and machining deformation of the workpiece materials can be significantly reduced, the surface quality and form and position accuracy of the parts are improved, the subsequent machining process is reduced, and then the machining efficiency and economical efficiency are improved.

The invention discloses a magnetic vortex array imaging detection method and a magnetic vortex array imaging detection device for detecting the defect of a steel plate, wherein the method comprises the following steps: acquiring a characteristic parameter and determining an optimal excitation frequency; exciting a sinusoidal alternating current magnetic field and inducing an alternating vortex current; acquiring an induction alternating magnetic signal near a detected area of the detected steel plate; processing the induction alternating magnetic signal and conducting the first differential transformation operation to obtain a transformed differential signal; judging whether the differential signal is less than the preset threshold, if so, judging that no defect exists, otherwise, judging that the defect exists, and extracting an area signal; inputting the area signal into a constructed neural network model to implement defect reverse inversion to obtain a defect profile parameter; and drawing a defect profile according to the defect profile parameter to realize imaging. The method uses a concentric ring type magnetic vortex array detection array to detect the defect, so that the defect of the steel plate is detected at the high accuracy, the detection accuracy is improved, and the defect imaging effect is improved.

A time attendance tracking method is provided by which a hand-held device is set as a primary device and / or a secondary device based on inherent mobile identity of the hand-held device and operable in either a first mode and / or a second mode. The first mode permits the user to clock-in and / or clock-out for attendance recording for the user tied account while the second mode restricts the user to clock-in and / or clock-out for attendance recording for the user tied account.

The invention relates to a self-cleaning goat feeding trough. The self-cleaning goat feeding trough comprises fixed supports, a cleaning device, a conveying device, a feeding trough body and a garbage collection bag; the fixed supports are arranged at the two ends of the feeding trough body, the cleaning device comprises a fixed rod and a scraping plate, and the scraping plate is rotatably connected with the lower end of the fixed rod; the conveying device comprises a driving wheel, a driven wheel, a belt and a motor, the motor is connected with the driving wheel, the belt is installed on the driving wheel and the driven wheel in a sleeving mode, and the upper end of the fixed rod is fixedly connected with the outer side of the belt; the driving wheel and the driven wheel are fixedly connected with the fixed supports, the feeding trough body is connected with the fixed supports through hooks, the side walls of the two ends of the feeding trough body are each provided with a through hole, and the garbage collection bag is connected with the through holes. By means of the self-cleaning goat feeding trough, automatic cleaning of the goat feeding trough can be achieved, manual intervention is not needed, large-scale goat captivity is facilitated, and the goat breeding benefit is increased.

The invention discloses a threat information exchange sharing method based on a block chain, and the method comprises the steps: 1),a threat information block chain system is set with the system comprising comprises a threat information block chain, a synchronization node, and a plurality of maintenance nodes; a user registers as a threat information block chain user, and obtains a corresponding public key and a corresponding private key; 2) a threat information producer sets intelligent contract content on the system, signs the intelligent contract content with a private key and then issues the intelligent contract content to a threat information block chain; 3) the intelligent contract content signed issued by the information consumer synchronously is threatened, a private key used to sign and the content is broadcast through the system; 4) a maintenance node analyzes the content in the smart contract and packages the content into a new threat information block A; 5) a block A is broadcasted to the system, the maintenance node adds the block A to the threat information block chain after consensus of the block A is achieved, and 6) the maintenance node achieves consensus after confirming the effectiveness of the smart contract, creates a new block B and broadcasts a new block B through the system.

The invention relates to the field of pollination of crops, in particular to an effective method for increasing the flower visiting rate of bees. The flower visiting frequency and the number of flowers visited by the bees are increased by combining bee colony control and spraying of an attractant on plants. The method comprises steps as follows: a hybrid soybean field adopting bee pollination is selected; the structure of a bee colony is adjusted; the bee colony for pollination is transported to the soybean field, and the selected bee colony for pollination is transported to the hybrid soybean seed production field in the early stage of flowering of the soybeans; the attractant to be sprayed to the plants is prepared from linalool, benzyl alcohol, ocimene, geraniol, nerol, mushroom alcohol and 2-heptanone. The bee colony is released in the pollination field after being prepared, and the attractant is sprayed on flowers of crops in the flowering period of the crops to attract the bees to visit the flowers. The biological characteristic that pollen and smell are taken as one of approaches to food-source orientation of bee larva is utilized, a large quantity of bees are attracted, the number of the flowers visited by the bees and the natural pollination rate are increased, the yield of the crops is increased, and the method has the characteristics that the method is scientific, simple, convenient and easy to operate, low in cost and remarkable in effect and materials are low in price and easy to obtain.

The invention discloses a lignin-degrading enzyme regulator and an application thereof. The lignin-degrading enzyme regulator is added by two steps in an aerobic composting process. The lignin-degrading enzyme regulator comprises a manganese peroxidase and lignin peroxidase regulator and a laccase regulator, wherein the manganese peroxidase and lignin peroxidase regulator comprises mixed liquid A of Tween 80, hydrogen peroxide and trace stimulation elements; the laccase regulator comprises mixed liquid B of Tween 80, 1,2-dimethoxybenzene and trace stimulation elements. The lignin-degrading enzyme regulator can be used for regulating secretion of lignin-degrading enzyme in fungi and has the advantages of good promotion effect, simple, economic and practical technology and the like.

The invention discloses a channel anomaly detection method and device based on flow index monitoring, electronic equipment and a computer readable medium. The channel anomaly detection method comprises the following steps: receiving data streams from a plurality of channels, wherein the data streams comprise user data of a user corresponding to the channels; based on the data flow of each channel,counting a plurality of flow indexes of the channel, wherein a plurality of flow indexes form a vector space; determining a first reference traffic index vector based on the traffic index vectors ofall channels, determining a second reference traffic index vector based on the traffic index vector of the predetermined reference channel, and determining a third reference flow index vector based onthe flow index vector of the predetermined similar channel with the same type as the to-be-monitored channel, and comparing the flow index vector of the to-be-monitored channel with the first, secondand third reference flow index vectors to determine whether the to-be-monitored channel is abnormal or not. The channel anomaly detection method can detect whether each client channel is abnormal ornot and whether a cheating phenomenon exists or not.

What is described is a motor vehicle ignition key and a method including a movement sensor for detecting the movement of the motor vehicle ignition key, a motor vehicle navigation device, and a method including a calculator for calculating a driving route in dependence of movement data, and a motor vehicle system and a method including a motor vehicle ignition key and a motor vehicle controller.

The invention relates to a digital differential micro-accelerometer chip which comprises a silicon substrate and two quartz double-end fixing tuning forks, wherein the silicon substrate has the functions of a mass block and a spring; the silicon substrate is composed of the mass block and two cantilever beams for supporting the mass block; a mass block-spring system composed of the mass block and the cantilever beams means the cantilever beams have elasticity along a sensitive direction of the micro-accelerometer chip and the cantilever beams are arranged along one diagonal direction of the mass block; the quartz double-end fixing tuning forks are arranged along the other diagonal direction of the mass block; and the two quartz double-end fixing tuning forks with same structures are arranged in a differential form. The digital differential micro-accelerometer chip can eliminate the influence of temperature on a sensor, can increase the degree of nonlinearity of the sensor and has the advantages of high response speed and high precision.

The invention provides a multi-agent based ordered charging method of an electric automobile. The method is characterized in that a home agent and a transformer substation agent coordinately work to service a power grid agent to handle with a large amount of complex charging requests in a distribution manner; and the charging behavior of the electric automobile is scheduled through a real-time greedy algorithm. According to the method, the current real-time energy demand information and the charging time arrangement of the electric automobile, rather than the information of the electric automobile to be connected to a power grid in future and a complex prediction method and the optimizing technology, are needed, so that the expansion is high; and the method is applied to the high permeability condition of the electric automobile. The charging process of the electric automobile is a constant-power continuous charging process through which a battery of the electric automobile is prevented from being frequently switched among the charging modes, and the influence of the charging schedule on the service life of the battery of the electric automobile can be reduced to the maximum. With the adoption of the method, the real-time charging optimizing effect of the electric automobile is effectively improved; the peak shaving and load shifting can be performed well while the user demand is met and the user charging cost is decreased, and the power grid stability is ensured.

The invention discloses a double electron beam electron gun and a gyrotron. The double electron beam electron gun can produce two beams of electron beams and comprises a first anode, a first cathode and a second cathode, wherein the first cathode is under the action of a voltage between the first cathode and the first anode and generates a first electron beam, and the second cathode is under the action of a voltage between the second cathode and the first anode and generates a second electron beam. The electron gun with double cathodes not only can be applied in the field of gyrotron, but also can be applied in other fields of the microwave industry.

There is disclosed a computer implemented method of determining athletic aptitude, The method may comprise: (a) determining a plurality of metrics in relation to a sportsperson; (b) entering the plurality of metrics into a database; (c) forming a profile of the sportsperson comprising the plurality of metrics; and, (d) comparing the sportsperson profile with a reference profile to provide a sportsperson comparison output, wherein the sportsperson comparison output is depicted on a graphic user interface interconnected to the database.

The invention discloses a nonionic water base amphiphilic engine cleansing agent, comprising the following components by weight percent: 10-15% of washing foaming agent, 18-22% of ether-type nonionic surfactant, 4-6% of colloid, 0.1-0.5% of demulsifier, 0.05-0.10% of engine abstergent, 4-6% of activating agent and the balance of water. The nonionic water base amphiphilic engine cleansing agent provided by the invention belongs to a special engine washing additive of a vegetable biological preparation, and has the properties of biodegradation, low toxicity and extremely less pollution to environment; the engine can be washed more thoroughly and cleanly by utilizing the engine cleansing agent, the rust corrosion drawback can not be caused, and the engine oil cost and the fuel cost are saved compared with those of the existing methods; and the vehicle power is preferably utilized, thus achieving the effects of emission reduction ( the emissions of waste lubricating oil, a flammable liquid and waste gas are reduced), energy conservation (the lubricating oil, the flammable liquid and power fuels are saved), environment friendliness ( the production, transportation, storage and use processes conform to a safety environment conservation standard) and the like.

The invention discloses a silicon micro-resonance pressure sensor based on electrostatic excitation piezoresistive detection. The sensor adopts a secondary sensitive structure compounded by a pressure sensitive film and a resonator, and the resonator is in-plane parallel reverse vibration. The resonator is connected with the pressure sensitive film through an anchor point, when external pressure acts on the pressure sensitive film and enables the pressure sensitive film to deform, the deformation is transmitted to the resonator through a silicon island on the pressure sensitive film and the anchor point, the internal stress of a resonant beam on the resonator is changed, and therefore the natural resonant frequency of the resonator is changed. A piezoresistor is arranged on the vibration pickup beam and used for completing pickup of resonant frequency, and then piezoresistive signal output is achieved through a first snakelike beam connected with the coupling beam.

The invention provides a controller of a lighting device. The controller is characterized by comprising a driving unit, an operation panel, a signal processing unit and a control unit, the driving unit is connected with a light source and used for driving the light source and adjusting the brightness, the color temperature and the color deviation of the light source, the operation panel is provided with a plurality of functional keys and used for obtaining user operation intentions, the signal processing unit is connected with the operation panel and the control unit and used for converting operation signals of the operation panel into control signals which can be identified by the control unit, and the control unit is connected with the driving unit and used for controlling the driving unit according to the control signals or preset parameters. Meanwhile, the invention further provides the lighting device with the controller, the free and diversified lighting dimming solutions convenient to use can be provided for home or office occasions, and the requirement of a user for the lighting effects on different occasions can be met.

A system and method for providing biosynchronized therapy to a patient that creates a therapeutic environment and therapeutic stimulations that are sensitive to psychological and sensory human issues, including those particular to the patient, and that reduce psychological stress experienced by the patient so that other forms of treatment provided to the patient are enhanced and benefited. In one embodiment, the environment and stimulations can be predetermined. The therapy is applied using an overhead system that includes a suspended, multi-function that performs predetermined tasks and a lighting system, both of which provide the room with natural ambient light, artificial ambient light and predetermined task lighting. An image display system is also included for applying preselected images to the canopy over a bed of the patient. The overhead system can be used in a variety of circumstances such as a home, commercial facilities and health care facilities.

The invention discloses an aerospace vehicle star sensor installation error online calibration method. The method comprises the following steps: S1, establishing a dynamic calibration star sensor installation error angle model; S2, deriving a star sensor installation error calibration method; and S3, verifying the effectiveness of the star sensor installation error calibration method, and correcting the star sensor installation error. Simulation results show that the designed dynamic identification method can be used for accurately and rapidly carrying out online calibration and compensation correction on the star sensor installation error angle, and the precision of an inertia / astronomical integrated navigation system is effectively improved.

The invention discloses an authentication excitation method and system based on a block chain. The authentication excitation system comprises a task publishing module configured to obtain a to-be-processed task provided by a task publisher and publish the to-be-processed task through a block chain system so that a task processor can know the to-be-processed task, wherein the to-be-processed task carries product description information and authentication prompt information of a specified product; a task processing module configured to obtain an authentication result which is published by a taskprocessor through the block chain system and corresponds to the to-be-processed task; a verification processing module configured to obtain verification information sent by each verification node ofthe block chain system for the authentication result; an accuracy determination module configured to determine whether the authentication result is accurate or not according to each piece of verification information, wherein if so, the excitation processing module is triggered; and an excitation processing module configured to excite the task processor under the triggering of the accuracy determination module.