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An instructional gaming apparatus and method implements adaptive instructional gaming from a start point along a trajectory to a final goal. The system comprises a receiver for electronically receiving data from a user. The system further includes an electronic subject matter database with a clearly defined set of discrete heuristics combined with an electronic processor for the creation of an electronic instructional gaming curriculum unique to the individual user and their goals to enable proficiency in the given subject matter. Performance is periodically tested. And electronic means allows the information from the user performance database to be incorporated into the discrete heuristic utilized by the electronic processor for the creation of future electronic instructional gaming curriculums and / or individual instructional gaming lessons for the specific user in the given subject.

One embodiment of the invention disclosed herein provides techniques for controlling a movement training environment. A movement training system retrieves a movement object from a set of movement objects. The movement training system attains first motion capture data associated with a first user performing a movement based on the movement object. The movement training system generates a first articulable representation based on the first motion capture data. The movement training system compares at least one first joint position related to the first articulable representation with at least one second joint position related to a second articulable representation associated with the movement object. The movement training system calculates a first similarity score based on a difference between the at least one first joint position and the at least one second joint position.

The invention discloses a hepatic tumor comprehensive surgical planning analogy method and a system thereof based on three-dimensional multimode images. The method comprises the steps that firstly, a data base containing the data of an object is constructed; secondly, three-dimensional registration and fusion are conducted on the medical images, having different modes or single mode and different periods, of the object; thirdly, a specific tissue is divided by the automatic and semi-automatic modes, and the three-dimensional modeling of important tissues in and around the liver is realized by the three-dimensional reconstruction technology so as to reconstruct an abdominal three-dimensional model having the immersion and interaction features; fourthly, before-simulation comprehensive risk analysis is conducted based on the modeling result, referred to the practice guidelines and combined with the object information; and finally, all kinds of simulation surgical plans are designed according to the result of the comprehensive risk analysis, surgical simulation with strong sense of reality is conducted, a surgical route is planned, and risk and prognosis analysis is conducted on the planning simulation result. Through repeated surgical simulations, the surgical skills and the mastery of a user can be improved, and medical teaching can be conducted through the method and the system.

A turbocharger turbine housing with at least two volutes utilizing multiple nozzle rings to optimize the turbocharger's proficiency per application, and a valve to control the exhaust flow to selected volutes in the turbine housing.

A tissue retractor system includes first and second arms extending from a support assembly, and third and fourth arms extending from a support mechanism. Each arm includes a proximal span, a distal span, and a blade support between the proximal span and distal span. The retractor system features retractor units that can be used independently or in a nested arrangement. The system also includes instruments for inserting a spinal rod. A method for implanting a spinal rod through an incision includes the steps of inserting the spinal rod through a dividable tube, turning the rod subcutaneously toward a rod receiving anchor and advancing the rod subcutaneously toward the rod receiving anchor.

A method and system of generating personalized annotated text of a core-text, the method and system directed for acquiring a personal data comprising data indicative of the reader's proficiency level for understanding text; and providing at least a gloss to accompany the requested text based on core-text and the reader's proficiency level.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional kidney neoplasm surgery simulation method and a platform based on a computed tomography (CT) film. The method includes that firstly, a data base including object resources is built, multiple manners including CT film scanning are inputted into a CT faultage image, a sequence image is registered according to the sequence based on an outline gradient principle, a registered CT image is utilized to reconstruct segmentation tissue of an arterial phase, a venous phase and a lag phase by adopting of a three-dimensional reconstruction technology, and the segmentation tissue of the arterial phase, the venous phase and the lag phase are effectively fused in the same coordinate space. According to an imaging staging criteria and a treatment guideline of kidney neoplasm, and based on modeling results, various peration plan designing, operation stimulation, surgical risk analysis and response, and prognostic analysis are carried out, a personalized and benefit maximization treatment plan can be provided for an object, and skills and degree of proficiency of an operation can be improved, and the three-dimensional kidney neoplasm surgery simulation method can be used in medical teaching.

Devices and methods are provided for combining the handle of a surgical instrument with a force feedback generator, able to create resistance to motion similar to that encountered in a real operating environment. The working end of the surgical instrument is recreated in a virtual environment and manipulated by the modified handle through the force feedback generator. Actions of the instrument handle modify a model and display of the virtual environment and transmit a haptic response back to the handle. The devices and methods provide a means for repeatedly performing maneuvers that accurately simulate the actual instrument, but in the virtual environment. The virtual environment is modeled to accurately simulate the use of the instrument including manipulation of and collisions with other virtual objects, such as surgical thread or internal tissues. Training and assessment tools are also provided that coach or assess a user's proficiency with the instrument.

The invention discloses an intelligent finance and tax service platform based on a SaaS platform. The intelligent finance and tax service platform comprises a basic support layer, a data resource layer, a support layer, an application layer and a presentation layer, wherein the basic support layer comprises a basic library and a service library; the support layer comprises a plurality of modules; the application layer comprises a plurality of modules; the presentation layer is a comprehensive portal unified management platform and comprises a plurality of modules. The intelligent finance and tax service platform has the advantages that the platform can provide comprehensive accounting services such as financial accounting, tax planning, tax declaration, internal audit, finance and tax consulting and headhunting, and industry development balance is promoted; by the intelligent finance and tax service platform, original accounting of enterprises is electronized, the enterprises can clearly learn about accounting progress and real-time data in an accounting work cycle, accounting efficiency is increased, and the original 8-hour accounting is changed into 24-hour accounting without location limitation.

A practice drumming provides generally quieter, silent drumming practice for a drummer in combination with a realistic drumkit depiction for better visual cuing and development of muscle memory. The drum pad is constructed of shock absorbing material to dampen the impact of drumsticks and reduce the corresponding noise generated thereby. The drum pad has a non-skid bottom in order to hold it in place on any generally available surface. A realistic depiction of a drumkit or the like is provided on the top of the drum pad. This realistic depiction allows the student to concentrate on playing different drums thereby developing the thought processes necessary for dynamic drumming as well as the muscle memory involved for such dynamic drumming. A pair of drumsticks may accompany the drum pad of the present invention. Additionally, recording media such as an audio CD can provide melodic or rhythmic "grooves" that may be practiced by the student in order to achieve drumming facility. In an alternative embodiment, the drum pad of the present invention may be circular so that it may be placed, with its realistic depiction of a drumkit, upon a single snare drum. This alternative embodiment dampens the impact of drumsticks while allowing the student to practice upon a real drum. In a second alternative embodiment, a snare drum adapter may be used in conjunction with a square or rectangular drum pad to achieve generally the same effect.

The invention provides a dual-machine loading-and-walking type hydraulic numerical control deck erection gantry, which comprises two sets of loading-and-walking type hydraulic numerical control deck erection gantries and a control system, wherein each set of the loading-and-walking type hydraulic numerical control deck erection gantries comprises the following four parts: a transverse truss girder, two sets of walking type loading-and-walking devices arranged at two ends of the transverse truss girder, a hydraulic lifting device and a carrying pole of a hanger; each set of the walking type loading-and-walking devices consists of a guideway, a walking mechanism steel framework, m traction jacks, 4n load conversion jacks, a supporting pull rod, a walking roller bracket and P guideway walking jacks; all the components are connected with one another by pin shafts; and the control system of the deck erection gantry is a distributed computer network control system which consists of a main control station, Y field controllers, Y pump stations, Y pump station starting boxes, a data acquisition system, and a plurality of data wires and communication wires. The deck erection gantry has the advantages of great lifting force and high work efficiency and stability; and when the deck erection gantry walks with load, the control system of the deck erection gantry can effectively and synchronously control every jack.

A non-flying land based training or testing vehicle with helicopter style main controls and capable of transporting at least one human operator. A preferred embodiment includes a chassis; ground contacting wheels supporting the chassis; a power-plant for driving a wheel and propelling the vehicle; at least one seat for the operator. The controls simulating helicopter controls are within reach of the operator and operatively connected with a computer and electric / hydraulic mechanisms (for example only) to provide similar effects as helicopter controls when manipulated. Such controls include a hand manipulable cyclic (joystick) providing an X-axis output for steering vehicle heading and a Y-axis output for determining forward or reverse travel; a lever style hand operated collective applying various loads to the power-plant to simulate changes in main-rotor blade pitch; and a grip for power-plant RPM manual manipulation by the operator for learning or practicing the maintenance of RPM under changing loads associated with various positions of the collective. Also included is a pair of foot pedals for making the rear wheels steer more than or less than the front wheels in a four wheel steering embodiment, and for simulating tail-rotor blade pitch or anti-torque control of a helicopter.

The invention discloses a remotely-controlled waterborne rescue device which is composed of a rescue device and a remote controller, wherein the rescue device is provided with a life buoy capable of being inflated quickly; a pump-jet propulsor of the rescue device is positioned at the rear part in a shell, and a tail pipe passes through a round hole in the rear end wall of the shell to extend to the outside; the pump-jet propulsor is connected with an accumulator through an electronic speed regulator so as to supply power, and the electronic speed regulator receives a control signal of a signal receiver to regulate the speed of the pump-jet propulsor so as to control the navigational speed; a steering engine is connected with the signal receiver to receive a control instruction sent by the remote controller to change the direction of the tail pipe of the pump-jet propulsor so as to control the navigational direction of the waterborne rescue device; and the remote controller is provided with a navigational direction and navigational speed control rocker for transmitting navigational direction and navigational speed control instructions, and target feedback information is searched through a camera at the front end of the rescue device. The rescue device is simple in structure and large in operation range; the remote controller is flexible in operation and controllable in recovery; and when the rescue device sails to a target falling into water, a trigger switch is controlled by the remote controller to inflate the life buoy so as to rescue people falling into water.

An instructional gaming apparatus and method implements adaptive instructional gaming from a start point along a trajectory to a final goal. The system comprises a receiver for electronically receiving data from a user. The system further includes an electronic subject matter database with a clearly defined set of discrete heuristics combined with an electronic processor for the creation of an electronic instructional gaming curriculum unique to the individual user and their goals to enable proficiency in the given subject matter. Performance is periodically tested. And electronic means allows the information from the user performance database to be incorporated into the discrete heuristic utilized by the electronic processor for the creation of future electronic instructional gaming curriculums and / or individual instructional gaming lessons for the specific user in the given subject.

The invention discloses a method for erecting a girder of a suspension bridge by a double-hoisting hydraulic NC (numerical control) cable crane. The invention is characterized in that: two sets of loaded-walking hydraulic NC cable cranes and a control system are used in a combined manner to sequentially hoist a section of girder of the suspension bridge at the same time so as to erect the girder of the suspension bridge; the two sets of loaded-walking hydraulic NC cable cranes are loaded to carry the girder to complete the erection when the girder of the suspension bridge is erected from the tower end to the downslope part at the midspan; the cable cranes are loaded to carry the girder to complete the erection of a gentle section when the section of the girder is erected from the midspan to the two banks; and the two loaded-walking hydraulic NC cable cranes automatically swing to carry the girder to complete the erection when the cable crane walks to the upslope sidespan with high gradient. The method for erecting the girder of the suspension bridge by the double-hoisting hydraulic NC cable crane is applicable to mountainous areas, shoals and other places where the bridge erecting construction requirement for horizontally carrying the girder of the suspension bridge to the designated erecting position cannot be met.

The invention relates to the field of medical models of human bodies, in particular to a tumor-reductive surgery exercise model and a manufacturing method thereof. The tumor-reductive surgery exercise model comprises a surgical organ thin wall model and a three-dimensional tumor model, wherein a connection piece is connected between the surgical organ thin wall model and the three-dimensional tumor model; a transparent colloid body is arranged in the surgical organ thin wall model. The manufacturing method of the tumor-reductive surgery exercise model comprises the following steps of: 1, acquiring a CT image or an MR image of a patient, and performing three-dimensional reconstruction; 2, obtaining the surgical organ three-dimensional model; 3, hollowing the surgical organ three-dimensional model; 4, obtaining the three-dimensional tumor model in a surgical organ; 5, constructing a surgical organ exercise model; 6, printing the surgical organ exercise model in a 3D form; and 7, manufacturing the surgical organ exercise model. The manufacturing method disclosed by the invention can be used for manufacturing the model capable of really simulating a surgical organ tumor of the patient, and the model is convenient to teach, operate and exercise.

The invention relates to a control device of a sewing machine, which performs sewing operation at high speed and high efficiency and improves the proficiency and sewing speed of the operator not familiar to the sewing machine operation. The control device includes a recording mode control portion which respectively correlates acceleration change rate and deceleration change rate in an acceleration instruction region of an operative position signal in a recording mode with a corresponding acceleration beginning needle number and a deceleration beginning needle number in the acceleration instruction region and stores; and an auxiliary control portion which corrects the operative position signal of the acceleration instruction part output in the correction executing mode, to make the acceleration change rate correspond to the acceleration beginning needle number of a counting value closest to the acceleration beginning position and make the acceleration change rate close to that stored in the recording mode, and corrects the operative position signal of the deceleration instruction part to make the deceleration change rate correlate with the deceleration beginning needle number of the counting value closest to the deceleration beginning position and make the deceleration change rate close to that stored in the recording mode.

The practitioner career assessment is a method and device for providing career development and advancement management within hiring organizations. The method includes the steps of consolidating all of a user's career experiences, knowledge, skills and abilities, and automating career guidance and a career pathway roadmap of the user's career development and advancement. As a result, the assessment is operated by a hiring organization, under the complete control of the user, and conducted in a confidential manner, free of any judgment prejudice, and devoid of known and unknown biases associated with human factor or supervisory factors to provide guidance and create a career pathway roadmap to goals and advancement. The device includes a number of modules including a system access, user homepage, user profile or census, core and optional goal assessments, assessment generation, guidance, outreach, reporting, and requirements traceability matrix (RTM) modules.

The invention discloses a cable fault analogue simulation system, and relates to the technical field of devices for teaching or training in an electric power system. The system includes a cable, a test end of the cable includes two paths, the first path of the cable test end is connected with a first main terminal of a single-pole three-throw switch K1, the main terminal of the single-pole three-throw switch includes three paths, the first path is connected to the ground after passing through a high-resistance fault setting module, the second path is connected to the ground after passing through a flashover fault setting switch, and the third path is connected to the ground after passing through a low-resistance fault setting switch; the second path of the cable test end is connected with a main terminal of a single-pole double-throw switch K2, the main terminal of the single-pole double-throw switch K2 includes two paths, the first path is connected to the ground after passing through a disconnection fault setting switch, and the second path is connected with the tail end of the cable. The system can simulate various cable faults, thereby reducing training time of employees, improving work efficiency, and the system has the characteristics of being simple in structure, being convenient to use and being low in manufacturing cost.

The invention discloses a device for improving ultrasonic puncture accuracy training, which comprises a tray, a console, a main control circuit, a plurality of puncture needle contacts, a simulated human tissue, an ultrasonic instrument and a power supply, and is characterized in that the tray is provided with a fixing mechanism for fixing the simulated human tissue on the tray; the puncture needle contacts are respectively connected to different branches of the main control circuit; the console is provided with an indicating device and a puncture needle, and the indicating device and the puncture needle are both connected with the main control circuit; the puncture needle needs to penetrate through the simulated human tissue and then make contact with the puncture needle contacts during puncture, and when the puncture needle makes contact with the puncture needle contacts, an electric signal is sent to control the indicating device to display a puncture result through the main controlcircuit. The ultrasonic instrument is used for detecting the position of a puncture needle contact in simulated human tissue through ultrasonic waves in the puncture process so as to guide the puncture process, the training frequency of medical staff can be increased through puncture training guided by the ultrasonic waves, and secondary damage to a patient in clinical operation is reduced.

The invention relates to a radial artery puncture model with artificial pulse, and belongs to the technical field of medical appliances. The model comprises a simulated arm model and an artificial blood vessel; the artificial blood vessel is placed in a radial artery conduit in the simulated arm model, and further comprises a pulse generation mechanism, the pulse generation mechanism comprises a piston mechanism and a pulse source motor module; one side of the piston mechanism is provided with an output end, the output end is communicated with one end of the artificial blood vessel; the pulse source motor module is used for driving the piston of the piston mechanism to reciprocate so as to provide pressure for the artificial blood vessel. The model can be used for vividly simulating the pulse of the human body so that the medical worker can improve the puncture training effect using the model, promote the operation proficiency degree to relieve the pain of the patient; the model can be reused without additionally feeding liquid, the parts cost and the training cost are saved, and the operation step is simple.

The invention discloses novel tapered roller bearing play regulating equipment and a regulating method of the novel tapered roller bearing play regulating equipment and belongs to the technical field of engineering mechanical gearboxes. The novel cone tapered roller bearing play regulating equipment comprises a pressure regulating system, a measuring system and a correction table dial. A pneumatic hydraulic pump in the pressure regulating system is connected with a manual reversing valve through an oil pipeline. The manual reversing valve is respectively connected with a first pressure relieving valve and a second pressure relieving valve through oil piplines. The first pressure relieving valve and the second pressure relieving valve are respectively connected with a shuttle valve through oil pipelines. A pressure gauge is arranged on the shuttle valve. An oil cylinder in the measuring system is connected with the shuttle valve through the oil pipeline and acts on a pressure cover. Dial indicators are installed in preserved holes of an end cover of a bearing. A to-be-regulated device is regulated through a high-pressure oil line of the pressure regulating system and read through a low-pressure oil line to obtain dial indicator values. An average of the values measured by the two dial indicators is worked out so that a final bearing play value which is needed can be ensured by regulating thickness of a cushion piece. The novel tapered roller bearing play regulating equipment is mainly used for regulating a tapered roller bearing play.

A method and apparatus for identifying hazardous material or potential dangers. The method and apparatus is directed to a non-destructive, non-intrusive scanning system that uses a dual energy x-ray scanning apparatus to transmit and display data within a computer system. The software within the computer system provides for scan data transfer, a cataloging of image data and real time analytics. The real time analytics will find data from a watch list and correlate the data to the scan; it will also compare the scan data to a reference library, and it will additionally perform advanced pattern correlations to look for unusual and or suspicious patterns.

There is provided a user interface which enables all users to input purpose of use of a chromatography data system, recognize a series of operation flow of the analysis of chromatograph data according to the input purpose, improve an operability and prevent an operation error regardless of the user's knowledge on analyzing the chromatograph data or the user's proficiency in the chromatography data system. In a chromatograph data processing, the present invention relates to recognizing chromatograph data analyzing means on a picture and displaying the chromatograph data analyzing means on the picture in accordance with purpose of use. According to the present invention, the chromatography data system can be easily operated regardless of the knowledge on the analysis of chromatograph data or proficiency in the chromatography data system.