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A method and apparatus for determining predicted failure rates for computational resources provided by a system comprising multiple components. The method comprises storing failure rate information about individual components and determining a current configuration of components within the system. The method further comprises identifying from the current configuration dependencies between components within the system. The stored failure rate information and the identified current configuration dependencies can then be used to generate predicted failure rates for the computational resources in the current configuration of the system.

Devices and methods are provided for the ablation of regions of the digestive tract to achieve hemostasis and to eradicate chronically bleeding lesions as occur with gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE), portal hypertensive gastropathy (PHG), radiation proctopathy and colopathy, arteriovenous malformations, and angiodysplasia. Ablation is typically provided in a wide-field manner, and in conjunction with sufficient pressure to achieve coaptive coagulation. Ablation, as provided the invention, starts at the mucosa and penetrates deeper into the gastrointestinal wall in a controlled manner. Ablation control may be exerted by way of electrode design and size, energy density, power density, number of applications, pattern of applications, and pressure. Control may also be provided by a fractional ablation that ablates some tissue within a target region and leaves a portion substantially unaffected. Embodiments of the device include an ablational electrode array that spans 360 degrees and an array that spans an arc of less than 360 degrees.

A method for facilitating integration of multiple computer data systems may include source-target mapping between first and second data sources of the computer data systems. The method includes mapping, by a user, data fields from the first computer data source of the first computer data system to system-neutral business terms of an object-oriented abstraction layer; mapping, by a user, data fields from the second computer data source of the second computer data system to system-neutral business terms of the object-oriented abstraction layer; and saving the mappings in a computer-readable medium; wherein the object-oriented abstraction layer further comprises business documents, each business document comprising one or more of the business terms of the object-oriented abstraction layer.

In a logic circuit where clock gating is performed, the standby power is reduced or malfunction is suppressed. The logic circuit includes a transistor which is in an off state where a potential difference exists between a source terminal and a drain terminal over a period during which a clock signal is not supplied. A channel formation region of the transistor is formed using an oxide semiconductor in which the hydrogen concentration is reduced. Specifically, the hydrogen concentration of the oxide semiconductor is 5x10¹⁹ (atoms/cm³) or lower. Thus, leakage current of the transistor can be reduced. As a result, in the logic circuit, reduction in standby power and suppression of malfunction can be achieved.

Alloy products are produced with a waxless casting process. A model of a ceramic casting vessel (34) defining a desired product shape is digitally divided into sections (10, 40, 42). Each section is translated into a soft alloy mater tool (14) including precision inserts (20) where needed for fine detail. A flexible mold (24) is cast from each master tool, and a section of the ceramic casting vessel is cast from the respective flexible mold. The vessel sections are assembled by aligning cooperating precision features (58, 60) cast directly into each section and the alloy part is cast therein. No wax or wax pattern tooling is needed to produce the cast alloy product. Engineered surface features (54) may be included on both the interior and exterior surfaces of the shell sections.

A computer-implemented method of tracking patient data in a clinical trial is provided. The clinical trial has one or more investigative sites which perform patient screening and enrollment for the clinical trial, one or more diagnostic sites which perform analysis on one or more patient diagnostic tests ordered by an investigative site and generate analysis results, and a centralized data center in electronic communication with the one or more investigative sites and the one or more diagnostic sites. Each investigative site is provided with a user interface display screen for allowing a user at the investigative site to enter data regarding patients who have been screened for the clinical trial and patients who have been enrolled in the clinical trial. The data from each of the investigative sites is electronically communicated to the centralized data center. Also, the analysis results from each of the diagnostic sites are electronically communicated to the centralized data center. The centralized data center consolidates the data and analysis results from each of the sites and provides one or more status reports regarding the patients for whom data and analysis results were received from the one or more investigative sites and the one or more diagnostic sites.

An exemplary CAD design flow modifies an existing large scale chip layout to reinforce the redundant via design rules to improve the yield and reliability. The flow operates on each metal-via pair from bottom up to locate and correct isolated via rule violations by adding metal features and vias in a respective patch cell associated with each cluster cell. A large complex design is thus divided into cells so that multiple processes can work concurrently as if every process were working on the top level of the design layout.

This invention utilizes two sensing technologies in combination with or in isolation of an automated inspection vehicle to conduct inspections of internal rail flaws in steel railroad track. A vehicle equipped with X-radiation sensing is used as a secondary method to assess the deviations in magnetic fields that are sensed by a primary sensor consisting of a single or multiple magnetometers. The magnetometers sense changes in magnetic field that are correlated to the flaws inside the steel rail. The combination of technologies improves the probability to detect railroad flaws and offers the ability to accurately track and monitor flaws.

A distributed processing RAID data storage system utilizing optimized methods of data communication between elements. In a preferred embodiment, such a data storage system will utilize efficient component utilization strategies at every level. Additionally, component interconnect bandwidth will be effectively and efficiently used; systems power will be rationed; systems component utilization will be rationed; enhance data-integrity and data-availability techniques will be employed; physical component packaging will be organized to maximize volumetric efficiency; and control logic of the implemented that maximally exploits the massively parallel nature of the component architecture.

A safety syringe is formed of an inner sleeve receiving a cartridge with liquid, an outer sleeve through which said inner sleeve is telescopically reciprocated, and a plunger assembly that is attached to the inner sleeve and used to eject the liquid. The needle is mounted on a front end of the inner sleeve and in a retracted position is wholly contained within the outer sleeve while in a protracted position the needle is exposed so that it can be used for an injection. Advantageously, in one embodiment, the inner sleeves can rotate with respect to each other causing the needle to rotate both when the needle is extended and when is retracted into the outer sleeve. Another feature of the invention is that in one embodiment the inner sleeve has an internal puncture member for puncturing the cartridge. Therefore, instead of a dental needle with two sharp tips, a standard needle with a single tip and a Luer connection may be used.

The invention discloses a method for recovering copper ions in copper-plating cleaning solution. The method comprises the following steps of filtration pretreatment, first-stage cyclic separation, second-stage cyclic separation and chemical concentration. The method which adopts a membrane cyclic separation technique plus a chemical concentration method realizes the decomposition, concentration and complete on-line recycling of electroplating waste liquid, realizes real zero emission, is very simple and economical, and solves the problem of the industrialization of an electroplating waste liquid treatment zero-emission technique from research experiments to practical application.

The invention relates to a diesel, in particular to an explosion-proof diesel, which is applicable to anti-explosion power devices on various fixed and mobile equipment underground coal mine, solving the problems that no explosion-proof diesel product exists in domestic market, while the imported explosion-proof diesel has complicated structure, high price, long lead time of components and parts, untimely service, high maintenance costs and the like. The invention comprises a diesel body, a cooling system, a fuel supply system, an exhaust system and an air intake system, wherein, the cooling system, the fuel supply system, the exhaust system and the air intake system are connected with the diesel body assortatively; an exhaust manifold and an exhaust pipe in the exhaust system are all provided with water jackets; an outlet of the exhaust pipe is connected with a waste gas processing box; the air intake pipeline of the air intake system is provided with an air intake barrier; the invention is further provided with an air starter and protection system. The invention solves the problems of difficult assortment, difficult maintenance and long period of vulnerable components of imported machine types; the air starter and protection system adopts a compressed air starter to start and has the advantages of safety and reliability, convenient maintenance under the mine; the air exhaust is safer and the discharging is effectively reduced.

Maintenance schedules and costs for a network of self-service terminals are generated based upon usage data for respective peripheral devices at each of the self-service terminals.

The invention provides a metal faced polyimide base plate manufacturing method capable of reducing the dimensional change dispersibility while heating the metal faced polyimide base plate, jointing stably under the endured heat quantity when used as COF and improving the qualification rate. The method comprises: a sputtering process for forming a metal coat on the polyimide sheet surface and an electroplating process for forming metallic conductor on the obtained metal coat by a continuous electroplating equipment. The invention is characterized in satisfying the (1) and (2) condition: (1) in the sputtering process, the surface resistivity of the formed metal coat is kept between 0.1/m2 and 1.0/m2; (2) in the electroplating process, the average cathode current density of all the electroplating bath is controlled between 1A/dm2 and 3A/dm2, and the ratio of the maximum of the cathode current density of all the electroplating bath to the minimum of that is controlled between 1 and 5, while the sheet conveying velocity is adjusted to 80-300m/h.

A network is protected against interruption of service while one or more faulty switches or optical fiber transmission lines are repaired or replaced, by an interconnecting configuration of small N×N optical input/output switches, where N is 2 or greater than 2. The switches are configured among protection and working transmission lines. The small number of fibers for each switch improves repair and installation connection reliability and permits configurations that flexibly meet differing requirements. Also the fault is monitored with a fault check signal.

The invention relates to a front opening unified pod with an elliptical latch structure. The front opening unified pod mainly comprises a unified pod body; a plurality of slots are arranged inside the unified pod body and used for accommodating a plurality of wafers; an opening is formed on one side surface of the unified pod body and used for input and output of the plurality of wafers; one edge of the opening is provided with a door body; the door body is provided with an external surface and an internal surface, and the internal surface is combined with the opening of the unified pod body for protecting the plurality of wafers placed inside the unified pod body; the front opening unified pod is characterized in that: at least one latch structure is configured inside the door body, wherein the latch structure comprises an elliptical cam, a pair of sliding devices and a guide structure; the elliptical cam is provided with a pair of V-shaped grooves; a sliding groove is positioned on the surface of the elliptical cam; each sliding device is provided with an embedded part; the guide structure is arranged on the sliding device; and the embedded parts are embedded in the sliding groove and used for respectively embedding the pair of sliding devices on the elliptical cam.

The invention discloses a plate rejecting and supplementing system used after zinc stripping, a zinc stripping washing system and a zinc stripping washing method. The zinc stripping washing system comprises a washing unit, at least one zinc stripping unit and the plate rejecting and supplementing system used after zinc stripping; the zinc stripping unit comprises a zinc stripping conveying line, a pre-stripping device, a zinc stripping machine, a receiving and stacking unit and a zinc stack combining device; the washing unit comprises a washing conveying line and a washing unit; and the zinc stripping conveying line is used for conveying negative plates obtained after zinc plate stripping to the washing conveying line, the negative plates are conveyed through the washing conveying line to the washing unit to be subject to washing work, and the washed negative plates are conveyed through the washing conveying line to a waiting position where the negative plates are hoisted to an electrolytic cell.

The invention provides an electric driving device having a current equalizing function, and electrical equipment. The electric driving device is arranged in the electrical equipment and is used for driving the electrical equipment. The electric driving device comprises a multiphase motor, a direct current (DC) power supply, a command sending part, a current sensor, an output sensor, a controller, a driver and a power converter, and is characterized in that a winding of the multiphase motor is provided with j multiphase winding units which are independent of one another; the power converter is provided with j power conversion units which are respectively connected with the j multiphase winding units in a way of one-to-one correspondence and are independent of one another; the controller comprises j control units which are used for outputting motor control signals and are independent of one another; the driver is provided with j driving units which are respectively connected with the j power conversion units and are independent of one another; j is a positive integer greater than 1.

In relation to a multilevel inverter of three levels or more, a decrease in safety due to breakdown is suppressed while avoiding destruction of switching elements. An inverter includes switching elements connected in series between a positive terminal and a negative terminal, reverse blocking switching elements connected one each between connection points of pairs of the switching elements and an intermediate terminal, alternating current output terminals, a control unit that generates control signals for switching between a turning on and turning off of the plurality of switching elements, a control signal interrupt circuit that, on an interrupt signal interrupting the output voltage of the alternating current output terminals being input, interrupts each of the control signals to the first switching elements and second switching elements, regardless of the state of the control signals, and a monitoring unit that diagnoses a breakdown of the control signal interrupt circuit.