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A self contained, compact, long term, ambulatory physiological recorder is designed for mounting directly to the body of a patient, immediately adjacent to the organ or system that is to be monitored, and is adhesively and covertly held there in place and comfortably under clothing by the very transducer, skin electrodes that detect the physiological information to be recorded, and thereby increasing continuity and decreasing artifact by obviating the need for numerous and cumbersome, hanging electrode leads as well as unsightly and cumbersome recorder pouches suspended from shoulder straps or belts.

A system for extracting a bodily fluid sample (e.g., an interstitial fluid [ISF] sample) and monitoring an analyte therein includes a disposable cartridge and a local controller module. The disposable cartridge includes a sampling module adapted to extract a bodily fluid sample and an analysis module adapted to measure an analyte (e.g., glucose) in the bodily fluid sample. The local controller module is in electronic communication with the disposable cartridge and is adapted to receive and store measurement data from the analysis module. An ISF extraction device includes a penetration member configured for penetrating and residing in a target site of a user's skin layer and, subsequently, extracting an ISF sample therefrom. The device also includes a pressure ring(s) adapted for applying pressure to the user's skin layer in the vicinity of the target site. The device is configured such that the pressure ring(s) is capable of applying pressure in an oscillating manner whereby an ISF glucose lag of the ISF sample extracted by the penetration member is mitigated. A method for extracting ISF includes providing an ISF fluid extraction device with a penetration member and a pressure ring(s). Next, a user's skin layer is contacted by the pressure ring(s) and penetrated by the penetration member. An ISF sample is then extracted from the user's skin layer while pressure is being applied in an oscillating manner by the pressure ring(s). The oscillating pressure mitigates an ISF glucose lag of the extracted ISF sample extracted.

An interstitial fluid (ISF) extraction device includes a penetration member configured for penetrating a target site of a user's skin layer and, subsequently, residing in the user's skin layer and extracting an ISF sample therefrom and at least three concentrically-arranged pressure rings, each adapted for applying pressure to the user's skin layer in the vicinity of the target site while the penetration member is residing in the user's skin layer. In addition, the ISF extraction device is configured such that (i) the pressure rings apply pressure in an oscillating manner with asymmetric deployment and retraction cycles and (ii) only one of the at least three concentrically-arranged pressure rings is deployed at a time, thereby mitigating an ISF glucose lag of the ISF sample extracted by the penetration member.

Systems and methods are provided for extracting a bodily fluid sample (e.g., an interstitial fluid sample) and monitoring an analyte therein. Certain of the systems include a a penetration member configured for penetrating and residing in a target site of a user's skin layer and, subsequently, extracting a fluid sample therefrom. The system also includes a pressure ring(s) adapted for applying pressure to the user's skin layer in the vicinity of the target site. The system is configured such that the pressure ring(s) is capable of applying pressure in an oscillating manner. Certain methods include penetrating the skin and applying pressure to the skin in an oscillating manner.

The invention provides a multi-scale feature fusion ultrasonic image semantic segmentation method based on adversarial learning, and the method comprises the following steps: building a multi-scale feature fusion semantic segmentation network model, building an adversarial discrimination network model, carrying out the adversarial training and model parameter learning, and carrying out the automatic segmentation of a breast lesion. The method provided by the invention achieves the prediction of a pixel class through the multi-scale features of input images with different resolutions, improvesthe pixel class label prediction accuracy, employs expanding convolution for replacing partial pooling so as to improve the resolution of a segmented image, enables the segmented image generated by asegmentation network guided by an adversarial discrimination network not to be distinguished from a segmentation label, guarantees the good appearance and spatial continuity of the segmented image, and obtains a more precise high-resolution ultrasonic breast lesion segmented image.

The present disclosure relates to novel sustained-release intraocular drug delivery systems and improvements in the treatment of retinopathies. In particular, fibronectin scaffold domain proteins that selectively inhibit VEGFR-2 are contemplated.

The disclosure provides fusion implants, instruments and methods for insertion of the implants between opposing vertebral bodies to facilitate stabilization or arthrodesis of an intervertebral joint. A cross section through the longitudinal dimension of the implant is substantially configured in an “I” shape. In addition to other features, the implants of the invention provide a reduced contact surface area with the interior surface of a bore formed for receiving the implant.

A system and method for providing virtual spaces, where a character associated with a user can be manifested within instances of a plurality of the different virtual spaces. Since a single character can be manifested within instances of different virtual spaces, the character can be transferred by the corresponding user between instances of different virtual spaces and controlled by the user to interact with the different virtual spaces. When the user transfers the character between instances of different virtual spaces (and / or different types of virtual spaces), various aspects of the character may persist between the different virtual spaces (and / or the different types of virtual spaces). This may provide an enhanced continuity to the character between the different virtual spaces.

A system for guided geospatial image capture, registration and 2D or 3D mosaicking, that employs automated imagery processing and cutting-edge airborne image mapping technologies for generation of geo-referenced Orthomosaics and Digital Elevation Models from aerial images obtained by UAVs and / or manned aircraft.

An opposed terminal structure including a supporting substrate, a first terminal, a nitride semiconductor with a light-emitting layer, and a second terminal. The second terminal forms an opposed terminal structure with the first terminal, which can be formed in a variety of patterns.

The audio-video synchronization process ensures continuity of displayed AV data. To initialize the process, a transport processor determines whether an occupancy criterion of a buffer storing received audio and video frames has been met. If the criterion is met, the transport processor obtains an initial time stamp value from an initial frame, and a subsequent time stamp value from a subsequent frame. Initial and subsequent parameters are computed from these respective time stamp values, and are compared against each other. If the parameters coincide, the frame is valid, and corresponding audio or video frames may be decoded and displayed. If the parameters do not coincide, a recovery process is initiated. In either event, the invention makes it possible to achieve audio-video synchronization for both live and playback modes of a digital video recorder (DVR).

The invention relates to an umbrella-shaped electrostatic spinning sprayer and an electrostatic spinning method. The sprayer comprises an umbrella-shaped spinning nozzle, a numerical control type infusion device and a solution collecting groove, wherein the numerical control type infusion device mainly comprises a solution propeller and a controller; the middle of the umbrella-shaped spinning nozzle is provided with a cylindrical hollow portion, and an output end of the solution propeller is placed into the cylindrical hollow portion of the umbrella-shaped spinning nozzle; the controller controls flow velocity and flow of spinning solutions; and the solution collecting groove is placed in the bottom of the umbrella-shaped spinning nozzle. The electrostatic spinning method comprises that a binding post on the umbrella-shaped spinning nozzle is connected with a high-voltage positive electrode, conducting polymer solutions are continuously added to the umbrella-shaped spinning nozzle which is horizontally placed through the numerical control type infusion device, electrostatic spinning is started, collection is achieved through a collecting device, and nano-fibers are formed. The sprayer avoids blocking phenomena, and is easy to clean and good in stability; and the electrostatic spinning method improves production efficiency and the yield of electrostatic spinning.

Techniques are disclosed for creating digital assets that can be used to personalize themed products. For example, a workflow and pipeline used to generate a 3D model from digital images of a person's face and to manufacture a personalized, physical figurine customized with the 3D model are disclosed. The 3D model of the person's face may be simplified to match a topology of a desired figurine. While the topology is deformed to match that of the figurine, the 3D model retains the geometry of the child's face. Simplifying the topology of the 3D model in this manner allows the mesh to be integrated with or attached to a mesh representing desired figurine.

The invention provides a zero-discharge treatment method of salt-containing organic wastewater. The method comprises the following steps that biochemical treatment and filtering treatment are performed on wastewater; then, membrane concentration is performed; pure-water-producing high-organic-matter-content membrane concentration concentrated water and optional low-organic-matter-content membrane concentration concentrated water are obtained; the high-organic-matter-content membrane concentration concentrated water is used for high-grade oxidation treatment; high-grade oxidation produced water is used for regulation treatment to obtain high-grade oxidation outlet water; the obtained high-grade oxidation outlet water is subjected to evaporation treatment; or the obtained high-grade oxidation outlet water and the low-organic-matter-content membrane concentration concentrated water are mixed under the condition that the low-organic-matter-content membrane concentration concentrated water exists in the step, and then, the evaporation treatment is carried out; external discharge concentration liquid of an evaporator and / or high-salt-content high-organic-matter-content wastewater discharged during the tank brushing of the evaporator are conveyed back into a high-grade oxidation treatment unit; after the liquid is mixed with the high-organic-matter-content membrane concentration concentrated water, the high-grade oxidation treatment is carried out. The wastewater treatment method is stable and reliable; the long-period and stable operation of an evaporation system can be ensured; the zero discharge of the industrial wastewater is realized.

A network node (10) controls resources (22) in a network. The node (10) includes processing units (12) and assigns, for each set of resources (22), to a unit (12) a master role consisting in reserving and releasing resources (22) and to two processing units (12), named controllers, the role of controlling resources (22). A controller (12c) operates in a first mode when a master role is assigned to a processing unit (12m) and the unit (12m) is available to reserve and release resources (22). A controller (12c) operates in a second mode when no master role is assigned or when a master role is assigned to a unit (12m) which is not available to reserve and release resources (22). In the second mode, a controller (12c) maintains a list (14) of resources (22) to be released and selects a resource (22) from the list (14) to reserve a resource (22).

The invention discloses a system and a method for performing indoor and outdoor 3D (Three-Dimensional) seamless positioning and gesture measuring on a fire man. The system comprises a main control circuit board based on an STM32 (Scanning Tunneling Microscope 32) singlechip, a GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) data transmission module based on Sim-900, a GPS (Global Positioning System) module, a remote monitoring client side, an inertial navigation module I and an inertial navigation module II, wherein the main control circuit board is respectively connected with the GPRS data transmission module, the GPS module, the inertial navigation module I and the inertial navigation module II by virtue of serial ports; and the GPRS data transmission module communicates with the bound remote monitoring client side by utilizing a GPRS network. The system and the method can be used for realizing the indoor and outdoor 3D (Three-Dimensional) seamless positioning and gesture measuring for the fire man, accurately recognizing and judging the motion state of the fire man and meanwhile realizing the indoor and outdoor 3D seamless positioning for the fire man; aiming at the application occasion of the fire man, the system can be expanded to be provided with a poisonous gas sensor, a smoke sensor, a temperature sensor and the like, and has great significance in guaranteeing the life safety of the fire man working under a complex fire scene environment.

The invention relates to a method and device for tracking a video target. The method comprises the steps of: acquiring video stream, identifying a face region according to a face detection algorithm, and obtaining a first to-be-tracked target corresponding to a first video frame; carrying out extraction on the first to-be-tracked target by face features based on a deep neural network to obtain a first face feature, and adding the first face feature into a feature library; identifying a face region in a current video frame according to the face detection algorithm, obtaining a current to-be-tracked target corresponding to the current video frame, carrying out extraction on the current to-be-tracked target by the face features based on the deep neural network to obtain a second face feature, carrying out feature matching on the current to-be-tracked target and the first to-be-tracked target according to the second face feature and the feature library so as to track the first to-be-tracked target from the first video frame, and in the tracking process, updating the feature library according to extracted updated face features. The continuity and robustness of tracking are improved.

A sample sequence ΔS similar to a first or last sample sequence of the current frame is extracted from its samples SFC and concatenated, as an alternative sample sequence AS, to each of the front and back of the current frame, and the current frame with the alternative sample sequence concatenated thereto is subjected to filtering or prediction coding to obtain processing result SOU of the current frame. In the case of prediction coding, auxiliary information, which indicates which part of the current frame was used as the alternative sample sequence, is also output. By this, filtering, autoregressive prediction coding and decoding, which require processing extending over preceding and succeeding frames as in an interpolation filter, can be concluded in the current frame with substantially no degradation of the continuity and coding efficient of the reconstructed signal.

The present disclosure relates to novel vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR)-binding polypeptides and methods for using these polypeptides to inhibit biological activities mediated by vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs). The present disclosure also provides various improvements relating to single domain binding polypeptides.

The invention discloses an integrated multi-channel synchronous vibration data acquisition, monitoring and analysis diagnosis device. The data acquisition unit comprises a signal conditioning circuit, an anti-aliasing filtering circuit, a multi-channel synchronous sampling chip, a system control logic unit, a pulse-shaping circuit (16), a phaselocking frequency multiplication chip and a microprocessor CPU, wherein the system control logic unit comprises a channel configuration logic unit, a clock generation logic unit, a rotating speed measurement logic unit, a sampling control logic unit and a frequency divider, and the data acquisition unit (1) is directly connected with a plurality of eddy current vibration displacement sensors, ICP type piezoelectric vibration acceleration sensors or magnetoelectric vibration speed sensors, and has an interface of a single-channel direct-connected eddy-current, photoelectric or magnetoelectric key phase / revolution speed sensor and so on. The CPU core board is connected with a computer or a palm computer through a network and a USB or a serial interface and finishes the data acquisition for monitoring and analysis diagnosis.

The invention discloses a vehicle tracking method and a vehicle tracking system. The method comprises the following steps: selecting a target suitable for being tracked as a new tracking target from a vehicle detection result, and initializing historical characteristic information of the tracking target; predicating the track position and scope of the tracking target in a current frame according to the known motion information of the tracking target; using a scanning window with a set size to scan within the predication scope of the tracking target and reserving corresponding areas of the scanning window, meeting a code word matching condition, as candidate frames; evaluating the confidence coefficient of each candidate frame as a final tracking result and taking the candidate frame with the highest confidence coefficient as the tracking result of the tracking target in the current frame; correcting the tracking result; if continuing to track the tracking target, then updating the historical characteristic information of the tracking target according to the information of the tracking result of the current frame and then turning to the step of predicating motion, otherwise, stopping tracking. The vehicle tracking method provided by the invention is low in calculation amount and is higher in accuracy and continuity.

A carbon supplementing apparatus for supplying carbon dioxide efficiently in micro-algae culturing tank, its usage and use are disclosed. A vertical baffle plate is installed above in the container with 10-50 cm gap, gas distributor is arrange at bottom of tank, the apparatus is built-in the bottom of tank, whose upper edge is aligned with the tank bottom, baffler plate is above culturing level of tank so as to pass culturing fluid to the apparatus with agitator driven. It has longer vapor-liquid contact time, more vapor-liquid contact area and higher carbon dioxide efficiency.

The invention discloses environmentally-friendly acrylic ester coating printing adhesive emulsion and a preparation method. An emulsion polymerization process is adopted. The emulsion comprises the following raw materials in part by weight: 50 to 90 parts of soft monomer, 10 to 20 parts of hard monomer, 2 to 10 parts of functional monomer, 2 to 5 parts of emulsifying agent, 0.2 to 0.5 part of initiator, 0.2 to 0.5 part of pH buffer, 80 to 120 parts of deionized water and a proper amount of pH adjustor, wherein the total amount of the soft monomer, the hard monomer and the functional monomer is 100 parts by weight. The three monomers are cooperatively used as functional monomers for generating carboxyl crosslinking, hydroxy crosslinking, epoxy crosslinking and the like so that the obtained printing adhesive emulsion has excellent water tolerance and mechanical property. The crosslinking monomers and the emulsifying agent do not contain the components such as N-methylol acrylamide, APEO and the like, so the emulsion does not release formaldehyde during baking and using and is suitable for high-grade environmentally-friendly printing adhesive.

The invention provides a map matching method based on a road connection relationship. The method comprises the steps that S1, GPS positioning data is preprocessed; S2, road matching rules are established according to the distance factor and the direction factor, then a candidate matching road set is obtained, similarity between a GPS track and candidate matching roads is calculated based on road connection, and then the candidate matching road most similar to the GPS track is selected as the matching road of the GPS track; S3, the GPS track is subjected to coordinate correction. According to the method, corresponding detection and processing methods are proposed based on error data of different error types, and therefore high efficiency and accuracy of the map matching method are ensured; correlation between historical data is considered, and the influence of a certain point with a large error on direction calculation is lowered; constraint of historical matching information is also considered, so that the accuracy rate of the matching result is high; compared with a model in the prior art, the overall technical scheme is simpler, and continuity and the matching effect are better.

The invention relates to an insulation health state evaluation method of a dry type transformer for a coal mine underground power supply system. According to the method, evaluation is carried out based on monitoring quantity determining, feature quantity extraction, feature quantity processing, fault diagnosis, health state evaluation, database establishment and state early warning-based multi-information source fusion; the development degree of an insulation local defect is monitored through using the change laws of related feature quantities in a discharge evolution process of the insulation defect; and diagnosis of the risk of the insulation local defect is realized based on a particle swarm optimization algorithm-based support vector machine, so that a comprehensive evaluation result of the overall health state and insulation local deterioration degree of the dry type transformer can be obtained. According to the method of the invention, corresponding variable weight values are assigned for the feature quantities, and therefore, high applicability and high judgment accuracy can be realized, early, accurate and quick prediction of potential faults and identification of fault types can be benefitted, the operating state and possible defect development trend of the transformer can be comprehensively evaluated, and the reliability and continuity of the operation of the transformer can be improved.

Method of fabricating semiconductor devices such as thin-film transistors by annealing a substantially amorphous silicon film at a temperature either lower than normal crystallization temperature of amorphous silicon or lower than the glass transition point of the substrate so as to crystallize the silicon film. Islands, stripes, lines, or dots of nickel, iron, cobalt, or platinum, silicide, acetate, or nitrate of nickel, iron, cobalt, or platinum, film containing various salts, particles, or clusters containing at least one of nickel, iron, cobalt, and platinum are used as starting materials for crystallization. These materials are formed on or under the amorphous silicon film.

A communication apparatus has a plurality of interfaces serving a plurality of networks. The communication apparatus selects an interface according to electric wave reception intensity to reduce power consumption and contribute to the maintenance of reliability in communication. The communication apparatus (communication terminal apparatus, the other party's communication terminal apparatus) is used for communication in such a way that the communication apparatuses are connected to the plurality of networks wirelessly to carry out communication through each network. The communication apparatus has the plurality of interfaces (cellular interface CI, WLAN interface WI) responding to the networks. The communication apparatus also has controlling unit (power supply controlling unit) that connects any one of the interfaces to the power supply to actuate the connected interface, and that connects an interface on rest to the power supply in response to a communication state of an interface on communication to change communication connection from the interface on communication to the other interface on rest. The communication apparatus changes the interfaces while maintaining communication with the other party's communication apparatus.

Methods for media communication in a digital communication system. In one embodiment, the media comprises a plurality of media types (including for example audio, video, and / or data packets), and the system includes a processing apparatus for establishing communication between first and second callers over respective first and second communication mediums, which include one or more packet-switched communication channels. The method comprises using a connection routine of the processing apparatus to enable media type selections by the callers, and transmitting, via the processing apparatus, a plurality of media packets corresponding to each of the selected media types.