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Effective advertisements are provided to users of a network. On a terminal of a user B, user names of users whom the user B registered in advance as friends are displayed. On the terminal, information indicating whether respective friend users are online or offline, is also displayed. Icons representing video games, etc., played by the friend users are also displayed on the terminal. When the user B clicks the icon of the Game C associated with the user A, the terminal executes advertisement information display processing. By this processing, an advertisement information screen is displayed on the terminal. On the advertisement information screen, an advertisement relating to the status of the user A registered as the friend is displayed.

The present disclosure relates to techniques accessing and displaying information pertaining to past times and future times. In some embodiments, a device displays a first current-time indicator and a user interface object configured to display information corresponding to a first information source and to the current time. In some embodiments, in response to and in accordance with detecting a rotation of a rotatable input mechanism, the device displays a non-current-time indicator indicating a non-current time, and updates the first user interface object to display information corresponding to the first information source and the non-current time. In some embodiments, the device continues to display an indication of the current time.

A background-sound control apparatus, a background-sound control method, readable recording medium containing a background-sound control program, and a video game apparatus improve effectiveness of background-sound data within the predetermined number of channels. When background sounds are produced through a speaker, sound-level control means in sound control means controls output ratios for sound levels defined in background-sound data on a channel basis and uses a sound-level control function to perform crossfading sound-level control.

An adaptive entropy coding / decoding method includes scanning quantized DCT coefficient in current conversion block for forming digit pair at time of coding , carrying out entropy coding to each digit pair in digit pair series along inverse direction of scanning , utilizing value of digit pair being finished with coding in coded block to structure context statistic model dynamically and adaptively at time of coding , using obtained mode to drive entropy coding ; using inverse of coding method as adaptive entropy decoding method based on context .

A nutraceutical composition and method of use thereof includes core ingredients, huperzine A, dimethylaminoethanol (DMAE), thiamin, niacin, and pantothenic acid. The core ingredients provide a synergistic effect to improve and support cognitive function, such as learning, thinking, and judging and to promote alertness, awareness, attention and mental clarity. Combinations of additional ingredients, such as vinpocetine, acetyl-L-carnitine, L-pyroglutamic acid, pyridoxine, folic acid, vitamin B₁₂, phosphatidylserine, L-theanine, and rhodiola rosea can be added to the core ingredients to enhance the beneficial and synergistic effects of the composition.

The present invention discloses the use of generalized queries, referred to as query templates, obtained by generalizing individual user queries, as the semantic basis for low overhead, high benefit directory caches for handling declarative queries. Caching effectiveness can be improved by maintaining a set of generalizations of queries and admitting such generalizations into the cache when their estimated benefits are sufficiently high. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the admission of query templates into the cache can be done in what is referred to by the inventors as a “revolutionary” fashion—followed by stable periods where cache admission and replacement can be done incrementally in an evolutionary fashion. The present invention can lead to considerably higher hit rates and lower server-side execution and communication costs than conventional caching of directory queries—while keeping the clientside computational overheads comparable to query caching.

An inverter fluid that intermixes with a non-aqueous (e.g., oil) external/aqueous internal fluid to cause external/internal inversion is designed. This includes testing a selected inverter fluid with a test fluid having a composition nominally equivalent to the composition of the non-aqueous external/aqueous internal fluid. A quantity of the designed inverter fluid is made and placed in the annulus of a well, such as an oil or gas well, to remove the non-aqueous external/aqueous internal fluid on at least a portion of one or more surfaces of the annulus. This can include pumping the inverter fluid along with a stream of cement. The inverter fluid displaces at least part of the non-aqueous external/aqueous internal fluid in the annular region and inverts the coating of non-aqueous external/aqueous internal fluid sufficient to remove the coating ahead of the cement. Determining a suitable inverter fluid comprises: measuring a parameter related to electrical conductivity of an initial mixture including (1) a test fluid having a composition nominally equivalent to the non-aqueous external/aqueous internal fluid and (2) part of a selected inverter fluid; and adding a further part of the selected inverter fluid to the initial mixture until the measured parameter indicates the external/internal phases of the test fluid have inverted.

A recombinant fungal host cell producing recombinant glucocerebrosidase is provided. A functional recombinant glucocerebrosidase produced in recombinant fungal host cells is also provided. Methods for producing and isolating functional recombinant glucocerebrosidase from fungal hosts are also provided.

A method (and structure) of capturing dialog on a computer network includes, based on an initial access request to a first network node, establishing contact with an intermediary node so that a subsequent dialog is directed through the intermediary node. A request inbound to the first network node is directed to the intermediary node. A response outbound from the first network node that responds to the inbound request is also directed to the intermediary node.

A digital filter with equalizers and a corresponding method for optimizing a linear equalizer of an RF transceiver determining filter characteristics of the specified analog filter, determining total signal filtering of the RF transceiver based upon a discrete time model of the specified analog filter and upon characteristics of the digital filter, determining an inverse of the determined total signal filtering; multiplying the inverse of the determined total signal filtering with the determined total signal filtering and optimally matching the desired equalizer filtering characteristic with an IIR magnitude equalizer to determine an optimal approximation of a magnitude response of the discrete time model of the specified analog filter. Thereafter, the method includes adding an inverse of the optimal approximation of the magnitude response and optimally matching the pre-distorting group delay response of the filter to obtain an optimal approximation to the pre-distorting group delay response of the filter.

Disclosed herein is an isomer, enantiomer, diastereoisomer or tautomer of a compound represented by Formula I:

or a prodrug, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or labeled with a detectable label or an affinity tag thereof; wherein R¹, R^1a, R¹⁰⁰, R^100a, R², R²⁰⁰, W, B, and W¹ are defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using compounds of Formula I to treat proliferative disorders such as cancer.

An isolated switched mode power supply (SMPS) is disclosed. The SMPS comprises a switching controller to generate start-up and operational switching control signals. The SMPS further includes a transformer, having a primary winding, and a full-bridge drive circuit to drive the primary winding. The full-bridge drive circuit comprises a first switching element, a boot-strap dnving circuit, and a second switching element. The switching controller is further used to start up isolated SMPS by determining a duty cycle for operational control signals and generating the start-up switching control signals.

Various different delivery devices for use in ultrasound based treatments are disclosed. Additionally, methods of using the delivery devices are also disclosed.

Described herein is an embodiment for administering two or more funds or one or more funds and one or more separate account portfolios, where each fund or portfolio is managed using a common investment process. The funds may have different management and distribution fees and may have different investor eligibility requirements. The fee structure may be accomplished through a fund of funds or holding company structure. Also described is an embodiment for investment management wherein funds and separate account portfolios using a common investment process exchange their shares or units and baskets of their securities to accommodate entry and exit of investors while protecting ongoing investors from the cost of such entries and exits and to accommodate investors paying different fees and expenses.

The invention discloses a municipal drainage pipe network design system based on GIS (Geographic Information System) technology, comprising a pipe network element drawing module, a sewage quantity predicting module, a pipe network optimization design module and other modules. The invention also provides a GIS technology based running method of a municipal drainage pipe network design system, according to the method, under a condition that the charting edition, the data management, storage and the like of a geographic information system are fully utilized, the distribution of the pipeline can be drawn and adjusted, the corresponding hydraulic calculation and the pipe diameter optimization can be conducted on the pipeline in the design scheme, the drainage pipe network planning scheme can be designed scientifically and reasonably.

The invention discloses a method for determining the influence range of an urban road traffic accident based on a fixed detector, which relates to a method for determining the influence range of a traffic accident after the traffic accident happens on an urban road network completely consisting of signal-controlled crossings. The method specifically comprises the following steps: calculating the arrival rate of vehicles on an approach of a crossing; detecting the departure rate of the vehicles on the crossing; calculating the queue length based on the fixed detector; analyzing the diffusion process of congestion caused by the traffic accident; and finally determining the influence range of the traffic accident. By the invention, the real-time and accurate prediction on the influence range of the traffic accident can be achieved, thereby achieving the purpose of improving the implementary efficiency of measures for rapidly disposing the traffic accident. The method is simple and practical and has higher real-time property and accuracy.

A multi-pedestrian online tracking method based on spatio-temporal attention mechanism comprises the steps of pedestrian detection, pedestrian tracking and data association. The invention provides a multi-pedestrian online tracking method based on a spatio-temporal attention mechanism: Aiming at the problem of imbalance between positive and negative samples in the existing online tracking algorithm, a tracking objective function is proposed, which fuses the adaptive sample weight terms and reallocates the sample weights according to the sample loss values calculated in the training process, which improves the effectiveness of the tracking model updating; Aiming at the problem that the data association is easily disturbed by the noise samples which are occluded or shifted, In this paper, adeep neural network matching model based on temporal and spatial attention mechanism is proposed, which focuses on the correlation region and ignores the non-correlation region in the spatial domain,and focuses on the positive samples in the historical trajectory and ignores the noise samples in the temporal domain, so as to improve the accuracy of multi-pedestrian tracking.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method for averaging the abrasion of a hard disk, a device of the method and a system thereof; wherein, the method for averaging the abrasion of the hard disk comprises: the threshold values of service life and write operation times of a memory system are obtained; the service life value of the hard disk where a data unit is arranged and the write operation times of the data unit are obtained; the data unit is moved onto the hard disk which is related to a first comparative result according to the first comparative result between the service life value and the threshold value of service life of the hard disk where the data unit is arranged and a second comparative result between the write operation times and the threshold value of write operation times of the data unit. The technical proposal of the embodiment of the invention realizes average abrasion among a plurality of solid state hard disks and avoids the situation that one hard disk is broken down earlier than other hard disks caused by excessive erasing aiming at the storage system.

The invention discloses a method, a system and a device for finding a user in a social network. The method comprises the following steps: when monitoring that any client enables the user X to send a finding instruction, obtaining the own geographic position information, enabling a finding request to carry the obtained geographic position information and a user identifier of the user X and sending the find request to a server; storing the received finding request and the receiving time by the server, determining whether a request among previously stored requests meets the requirement; and if so, returning the relative information of the user corresponding to the request meeting the requirement to the client, wherein the met requirement is as follows: the interval duration between the receiving time and the receiving time of the request corresponding to the user X is less than a preset first threshold value. The efficiency of the search result can be improved by using the scheme of the invention.

The invention discloses halophilic and alkalophilic microorganism solid bacterial fertilizer of saline-alkaline habitat of desert and a preparation method and application thereof. The bacterial fertilizer comprises 100 weight parts of fermentation material, 1-3 weight parts of sulphur powder, 0.5-1.5 weight parts of zinc sulfate, and 0.5-1.5 weight parts of magnesium sulfate of which the water content is less than or equal to 20%, wherein the fermentation material is prepared by the following steps of: uniformly mixing and stacking 2-5% of drought desert halophilic and alkalophilic microorganism agent, 10-15% of water and 85-80% of organic material for fermentation, fermenting for 7-14 days when the fermentation temperature is 50-65 DEG C, and keeping for 10-20 days when the temperature of the fermentation stack is reduced to 45-55 DEG C. The halophilic and alkalophilic microorganism solid bacterial fertilizer of saline-alkaline habitat of desert disclosed by the invention can dissolve phosphate and nitrate in soil and release a great quantity of fixed phosphorus, potassium and trace elements stored in soil to improve the effectiveness of soil nutrients, and realizes nutrition supply and effective soil for permanent survival of the plant in the saline-alkaline habitat of desert.

A method and apparatus for combining pressure information from pressure sensors, motion information from dead reckoning or other motion sensors, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, and geomagnetic sensors, and temperature information from temperature sensors, to separate a change in altitude from a change in environmental pressure or temperature. A change in measured pressure without any motion or change in temperature must be a weather-related barometric pressure change. If there is an associated temperature change, but no motion, and the rate of change is too fast for a normal weather change, the measured change represents a change in sensitivity of the pressure sensor with temperature, and the sensor calibration can be adjusted. A rapid change in pressure, associated with horizontal motion, but no measurable vertical motion represents a movement into a different pressure environment. Only changes in pressure that are associated with measurable vertical motion are true changes in altitude.

This invention improves the operability of an apparatus when the user focuses on the target object to obtain an image with an appropriate image quality. An image capturing apparatus includes an object detection unit, which detects an object from an image based on a signal output from an image sensor, a display unit which displays a marker corresponding to the position of the object detected by the object detection unit, and a change unit which changes the position of the marker displayed on the display unit. The change unit moves the marker to the position of an object detected by the object detection unit, that is different from the current position of the marker displayed on the display unit.

The present invention is a detailed instructional method for mind, body, and spiritual integration. The instant invention is based on a concerted series of sessions that combine the components of yogic focusing, physical exercise, and inspirational music. The physical exercise component may be obtained via indoor cycling using a stationary cycling machine. Other exercise machines and meditation practices may be equivalently substituted.

The present invention provides a system, computer program product and a computer implemented method for prioritizing code fragments based on the use of a software oracle and on a correlation between the executed code fragments and the output they produce. Also described is a computer-implemented method generates additional user inputs based on execution information associated with path constraints and based on information from the oracle. Advantageously, the embodiment is useful in a test generation tool that generated many similar inputs when a failure-inducing input is found, in order to enhance fault localization. Further, described is a computer-implemented flow for extending the existing idea of concolic testing to applications that interact with persistent state.

The present application discloses an article generation method and apparatus based on artificial intelligence. The specific embodiment of the method comprises: obtaining predetermined structure data for generating an article; generating the predetermined structure data into candidate sentences through a sentence generation model; selecting candidate sentences to form a chapter according to a probability of occurrence of a sentence containing a preset information point, wherein when each candidate sentence is selected, candidate sentences associated with the selected candidate sentences are removed according to a preset removal rule; and generating the article based on the chapters formed by splicing in response to that there is no available candidate sentence. The embodiment can improve the effectiveness of article generation.

The invention discloses an IED visualization method of an intelligent transformer substation SCD file. The method has the following steps that firstly, the SCD file is read and analyzed and needed contents in the SCD file are introduced into a program memory; a SCD analysis module parses a complete 61850 model framework out of a read-in SCL type; secondly, classification processing is performed on an IED type, and a classification method is characterized by searching an LD type in parsed IED information; carrying out determination according to an inst attribute; thirdly, overall hierarchical processing is performed on IED; finally, hierarchical visualization processing is performed on IED individual device, through the IED individual device hierarchical visualization processing, on a structural aspect, according to a station control layer, an interval layer and a process layer, graphical display is performed on logic device LD contained by each IED physical device based on the layer that the logic device LD belongs to. By using the method in the invention, good and practical visualization training can be provided for an intelligent transformer substation maintenance debugging and operation staff so that on-site training effectiveness is effectively increased.

The method comprises: installing a software program used for selecting ad term, receiving the releasing and counting the effect into the network terminal; setting up management software program on the network server; returning the rewarding form for user's watching and the recommended action to the user terminal. The invention can raise the activeness of users to watch the advertisement.

The Body Cavity Cancer Treatment System achieves extremely uniform temperatures inside the tissue of the body cavity thereby realizing optimal efficacy in enhancing operation of the chemotherapy agent while avoiding harm or pain to the patient. This is accomplished by the inclusion of “target particles”, such as nano-particles, into the body cavity along with the chemotherapy agent to enable the use of an externally generated energy field to cause heating of the chemotherapy agent and the surrounding tissue of the body cavity by the activation of the nano-particles. The proper selection of the applied energy field enables precise control of the heat generated by the movement of the nano-particles.

The invention relates to a cyclic nucleoside phosphate compound in a structure shown as a formula I described in the specification and a preparation method and an application thereof. The cyclic nucleoside phosphate compound in the structure shown as the formula I is a precursor drug with an antivirus effect, wherein X is selected from any one of hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine, Y is selected from any one of oxygen and sulfur, and Z is arycyclo or arycyclo with 1-3 substituents; the arycyclo is selected from any one of phenyl, 2-pyridyl, 3-pyridyl, 4-pyridyl, 2-furyl, 3-furyl, 2-thienyl and 3-thienyl, the substituent on the arycyclo is selected from any one of fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, trifluoromethyl, C1-3 alkyl and -OR, and R is selected from any one of trifluoromethyl and C1-3 alkyl.

A computer peripheral that operates either as a computer mouse or as a scanner. The peripheral includes navigation sensors that generate information on motion of the device and an image array that captures successive image frames of an object being scanned. In a mouse mode, the peripheral periodically transfers readings from the navigation sensors to a computing device so that the computing device can track a position of the device. In a scanner mode, in addition to obtaining navigation information from the navigation sensors, the peripheral also captures image frames as it is moved across the object. Operation of the navigation sensors and image array may be synchronized such that an association between the image data and the navigation information may be generated and maintained as image frames are transferred to the computing device, even if some of the frames are dropped in transmission between the scanner-mouse and a computer.