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Multi-lumen catheters with improved tip configurations, including a triple-lumen catheter which may be useful for apheresis. In one variation, the catheter has three lumens with distal openings angularly spaced apart and staggered axially with respect to one another. In another variation, the catheter has two lumens exiting distally and one centrally positioned lumen exiting proximally. A third variation is a catheter with a single distal opening and two proximal openings. The staggered lumen openings along the axial length of the catheter may decrease recirculation while maximizing flow rates.

A method for implementing an activity based resource assignment medium access control (MAC) protocol to allocate resources to subscribers in an interactive, multimedia, broadband satellite communications system. A plurality of channels is provided with at least one of said plurality of channels being assigned to each of a plurality of terminals. Utilization of the channel resources by the plurality of terminals is monitored and an evaluation is conducted of system needs based on the levels of activity and utilization of channel resources by the terminals. Requests for system resources by the terminals are communicated to a resource controller which calculates the system needs. The resource controller is utilized to adjust the channel resources based on the levels of activity and utilization of resources by the terminals. The adjustment provides active terminals as much resources as required during duration of their activity, subject to resource availability.

A method and apparatus for determining an ACK frame appropriate for a wireless local area network (LAN) environment where high throughput stations and legacy stations with different data transmission capabilities coexist to acknowledge the receipt of a transmission frame. The method and apparatus enable each station to access a medium normally in the wireless LAN environment and complement a carrier sensing method. The method includes determining types of stations on a wireless local area network, determining the ACK frame for acknowledging the receipt of the transmission frame on the wireless local area network according to the result of determination, and notifying a corresponding station on the wireless local area network of the determined ACK frame.

Multi-lumen catheters with improved tip configurations, including a triple-lumen catheter which may be useful for apheresis. In one variation, the catheter has three lumens with distal openings angularly spaced apart and staggered axially with respect to one another. In another variation, the catheter has two lumens exiting distally and one centrally positioned lumen exiting proximally. A third variation is a catheter with a single distal opening and two proximal openings. The staggered lumen openings along the axial length of the catheter may decrease recirculation while maximizing flow rates.

A processor reduces wasted cycle time resulting from stalling and idling, and increases the proportion of execution time, by supporting and implementing both vertical multithreading and horizontal multithreading. Vertical multithreading permits overlapping or “hiding” of cache miss wait times. In vertical multithreading, multiple hardware threads share the same processor pipeline. A hardware thread is typically a process, a lightweight process, a native thread, or the like in an operating system that supports multithreading. Horizontal multithreading increases parallelism within the processor circuit structure, for example within a single integrated circuit die that makes up a single-chip processor. To further increase system parallelism in some processor embodiments, multiple processor cores are formed in a single die. Advances in on-chip multiprocessor horizontal threading are gained as processor core sizes are reduced through technological advancements.

An architecture for streaming data from a sending endpoint to a receiving endpoint which are connected to each other by multiple networks is provided. Each of the sending endpoint and the receiving endpoint has multiple physical interfaces each for interfacing to a respective one of the multiple networks. The architecture is implemented on both of the endpoints. The architecture includes a traffic monitor for gathering performance characteristics of each of the multiple physical interfaces, and a software library for controlling sending and receiving of the data stream between the endpoints. The traffic monitor and the software library communicate information to each other. The software library instantiates a plurality of bondable virtual interfaces for splitting the data stream into multiple data sub-streams and for combining the multiple data sub-streams into the data stream, and a data organizer for designating one of the plurality of bondable virtual interfaces.

Devices and methods for performing extracellular recording of cells, such as excitable cells, cardiomyocytes, and cardiomyocyte precursor cells is provided. An exemplary device includes a nonconductive substrate forming or provided as a base of one or more wells; a recording electrode positioned on the substrate within the well, wherein the recording electrode is accessible to cells when a cell sample is added to the device; and a reference electrode positioned within the well in a cell-free zone, the cell-free zone characterized as free from contact with cells when the cell sample is added to the device, thereby preventing contact between cells and the reference electrode.

Devices, systems and methods for monitoring excitable cells, such as cardiomyocytes, on microelectrode arrays that couple the electro-stimulation of excitable cells to induce or regulate cardiomyocyte beating and the simultaneous measurement of impedance and extracellular recording to assess changes in cardiomyocyte beating, viability, morphology or electrophysical properties in response to a plurality of treatments.

A digital exposure apparatus for forming a pattern on a topside surface of a substrate has an alignment unit, which detects a position of the substrate from image data obtained through a camera from a reference mark provided on the topside surface of the substrate. The alignment unit further has a Z-direction sensor to measure a fluctuation amount Δ of the topside surface of the substrate from a predetermined focal plane of the camera. Depending upon the measured amount Δ, a set of distortion correction data is selected from or calculated on the basis of previously stored distortion correction data. The image data of the reference mark is corrected with the selected or calculated distortion correction data, so that errors induced by the fluctuation from the focal plane are corrected without adjusting the position of the substrate in the direction of an optical axis of the camera of the alignment unit.

An absorption spectroscopy apparatus including an elliptical mirror centered on the midpoint between a source / detector and a mirror. The cavity between the elliptical mirror and the source / bolometer and mirror defines an interior volume of a sample cell. Electromagnetic radiation from the source / detector travels along a multi-segment path starting from the source / bolometer toward the elliptical mirror, reflecting off of the elliptical mirror and traveling toward the mirror, reflecting off of the mirror and traveling back toward the elliptical mirror and finally reflecting off the elliptical mirror for a second time and returning toward the source / bolometer. The multiple reflections combined with the focusing effects of the elliptical mirrored surface result in an efficient sampling device. Among other aspects and advantages, the apparatus of the present disclosure is able to use incoherent, non-collimated light sources while maintaining high optical throughput efficiencies.

The invention discloses a mobile internet data storage system based on interlaced time partition and a method of the mobile internet data storage system based on the interlaced time partition, and relates to the data storage field of mobile internet volume services. The mobile internet data storage system based on the interlaced time partition comprises a partition management unit (100), a data writing unit (200), a data storage unit (300) and a data reading unit (400), wherein the partition management unit (100), the data writing unit (200) and the data reading unit (400) are respectively connected with the data storage unit (300), and therefore disk management, storage and read-write input / output (I / O) of mobile internet volume data are achieved. The mobile internet data storage system based on the interlaced time partition and the method of the mobile internet data storage system based on the interlaced time partition can solve the problem of low utilization rate of disk space in an existing telecom operator mobile internet volume data storage system, and provides a novel parallel read-write method, and therefore input / output capacity of the mobile internet data storage system is greatly improved. The mobile internet data storage system based on the interlaced time partition and the method of the mobile internet data storage system based on the interlaced time partition can act as an important method for telecom operators to improve the existing mobile internet data storage system.

An apparatus for transferring a solar wafer or cell is disclosed, which comprises: i) a rotary motor; ii) a gripper for holding the solar wafer or cell; and a rotary arm connected between the rotary motor and the gripper, the rotary arm being drivable by the rotary motor in a first rotary direction through a transfer angle for transferring the solar wafer or cell between different positions. In particular, the apparatus further comprises an angle-compensating device configured to drive the gripper through a same transfer angle as the rotary arm in a second rotary direction opposite to the first rotary direction, to ensure that an angular orientation of the solar wafer or cell remains constant during rotation of the rotary arm.

Regular data packets are scheduled for transmission from a sender to multiple receivers in a multicast ARQ system. In a joint scheduling and encoding procedure, a composite data packet is formed as a weighted linear combination of regular data packets. The corresponding coding weights are adapted based on feedback information from the receivers about received data packets such the composite packet represents a new linearly independent coding of regular data packets different from any multicast data packet previously received each receiver in a selected set of the receivers during the multicast session. In addition, using a weight vector with at least two different non-zero coding weights adds a further degree of freedom and guarantees the ability to always form a composite data packet that represents a new linearly independent coding for transmission. The ability to transmit linearly independent data packets in at least a majority of the transmission instances will significantly improve the throughput performance for reliable multicasting, especially when the number of users is large.

A Soller slit device is provided for collimation of high energy radiation, such as X-ray or EUV radiation, and has a low angle of divergence (less than 0.1°) and a high transmission efficiency (60 to 80% or greater). The Soller slit is made up of multiple, parallel blades of low-density material, such as glass, mica, or the like, which can be treated to reduce reflectivity. The Soller slit device of the invention advantageously provides an increased peak intensity and decreased peak width in diffraction patterns produced in high energy diffractometry applications, such as X-ray diffractometry.

The invention discloses an avoidance method for the conflict between instruction sets in RISC-CPU and an avoidance system thereof. The avoidance method comprises the following steps that step one: the conflict type is determined according to the data dependence relationship between different instruction sets in the RISC-CPU; step two: accessing to a "register file" or "memory" is judged by aiming at the current instruction, the step three is performed if the judgment result is yes, or analysis of the next instruction is continued; step three: a "coherent window" is defined by aiming at the current instruction, a "coherent instruction" is searched in the "coherent window" and existence of the "coherent instruction" is judged, the process enters the step four if the judgment result is yes, or the judgment result indicates no read-write conflict; and step four: the conflict method is selected according to the conflict type between different instruction sets, the data conflict is solved by using a concrete strategy and the assembly line throughput efficiency can also be guaranteed.

Disclosed is an optical probe for obtaining a micro spot light, comprising a rod-like glass body having a rectangular cross section as a core for propagating a light wave. The distal end portion of the glass body is gradually diminished toward the distal end so as to form a micro distal end face having a small diameter. The side surface of the distal end portion of the glass body in a direction perpendicular to the polarized direction of the light wave is coated with a light absorber formed of a metal film.

The invention provides methods of reducing fouling of ultrafiltration membranes in processes wherein virus particles are removed from aqueous solutions comprising virus particles and at least one protein by adding a surfactant or non-surfactant, non-ionic agent to the aqueous solution prior to filtration. The invention also provides methods to dissociate protein aggregates or to reduce the formation of protein aggregates by adding a surfactant or non-surfactant, non-ionic agent to the protein solution.

The invention discloses an SDIO-WIFI data transmission method and system with a buffer area. The method comprises a step of receiving data, packing the data into a data packet, and then writing the data packet into the buffer area of a first-in-first-out format, a step of reading the data packet from the buffer area, parsing the packet, getting the data, and then sending the data to an externaldevice from an SDIO interface. According to the method, the data sent by a WIFI driver to an SDIO driver is cached through the buffer area of the first-in-first-out format, the WIFI driver can process other data without waiting for the SDIO driver to send the data, the WIFI throughput efficiency is improved, the throughput jitter is small, the delay can be reduced at a terminal, and the communication efficiency is improved.

This disclosure relates to performing beam failure recovery using a contention based random access procedure in a cellular communication system. A wireless device and a cellular base station may establish a cellular link. Beam configuration information indicating an active beam for downlink communications may be provided. The wireless device may detect beam failure for the active beam. The wireless device may perform a contention based random access procedure based at least in part on detecting beam failure for the active beam. An indication of the detected beam failure may be provided to the cellular base station by the wireless device as part of the contention based random access procedure.

The objective of the invention is to provide a method and a device for writing in data in a distributed system. The method comprises steps of requesting for distribution of multiple slave node devices for writing in data for a master node device at a client node device end; then, simultaneously writing the current data in each currently distributed slave node device; acquiring a write-in result fed back by each currently distributed slave node device, and judging whether the current data has been totally written into each slave node device or not based on the write-in result; and if not, circularly executing above processes until the current data has been totally written into each currently distributed slave node device. Thus, communication frequency between devices when the data is written is effectively reduced. Meanwhile, by simultaneously writing data blocks in each currently distributed slave node device in an asynchronous request manner, the delay in writing in is greatly reduced, and the throughput efficiency of the distributed system is increased.

The invention provides a method for optimizing a disk storage strategy. Through storing media stream data in a partitioning manner, and generating an indexing file according to keyframes and storing the indexing file in an independent region, when data is played, the indexing file is loaded in internal storage, and specific media stream data block contents are played according to the indexing file, preventing large amount of disk random read operation when the data is read and improving disk throughput efficiency, so system fluidization and storage business are performed more smooth.

Disclosed is an optical probe for obtaining a micro spot light, comprising a rod-like glass body having a rectangular cross section as a core for propagating an light wave. The distal end portion of the glass body is gradually diminished toward the distal end so as to form a micro distal end face having a small diameter. The side surface of the distal end portion of the glass body in a direction perpendicular to the polarized direction of the light wave is coated with a light absorber formed of a metal film.

A Soller slit device is provided for collimation of high energy radiation, such as X-ray or EUV radiation, and has a low angle of divergence (less than 0.1°) and a high transmission efficiency (60 to 80% or greater). The Soller slit is made up of multiple blades of low-density material, such as glass, mica, or the like, which are treated to reduce reflectivity. The Soller slit device of the invention advantageously provides an increased peak intensity and decreased peak width in diffraction patterns produced in high energy diffractometry applications, such as X-ray diffractometry.

The embodiment of the invention relates to the distributed data processing technical field, and discloses a cluster computing method and device and a computer-readable storage medium. The cluster computing method comprises the following steps of: monitoring the running status of computing tasks on the cluster; determining whether the running state satisfies the condition of parallelism degree update; if the condition of parallelism degree update is satisfied, calculating the new parallelism degree according to the running state of the monitored computing task on the cluster; computing tasks onthe cluster with the new degree of parallelism. The embodiment of the invention improves the overall computing efficiency of the cluster by dynamically adjusting the parallelism degree.

A CQI acquiring method and a CQI acquiring device are provided. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring the current moving speed of a mobile terminal; when the moving speed is lower than a preset speed, calculating the mean mutual information corresponding to multiple consecutive sub-frames before a current sub-frame; acquiring the change trend of the mean mutual information corresponding to the multiple consecutive sub-frames before the current sub-frame, and correcting the mean mutual information corresponding to the current sub-frame according to the preset corresponding relationship between change trend and corrected value to get corrected mean mutual information; and acquiring a CQI corresponding to the corrected mean mutual information, and sending the CQI to a network side. By using the method and the device, a reported CQI can match a channel environment after delay, and the system throughput can be improved.

Apparatus for modifying bitumen. The apparatus includes a multi-section loop tube reactor A circulation pump (11) circulates bitumen in the reactor (10) and air is introduced at air injection point (13). Bitumen is introduced into the reactor (10) at inlet (14) by variable speed pump P1. A plurality of mixers (15) are located between the air injection point (13) and a head section (24) beyond which is an outlet (27) where modified bitumen is drawn off by variable speed pump P2.

A conductive antenna structure and method for making the same, wherein the method includes the following steps: (a) providing a plastic film substrate: (b) performing a rinsing coating material printing process to let the rinsing coating material position on the plastic film substrate and appear a predetermined antenna pattern; (c) performing an evaporating process for the plastic film substrate to provide a conductive layer thereon; (d) performing a rinsing process for the plastic film substrate to separate the rinsing coating material from the plastic film substrate and let the conductive layer position on the antenna pattern. Therefore, the conductive antenna structure made by the use of the above-mentioned method includes a plastic film substrate made of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) as well as a conductive antenna that is made of conductive material and is connected to the surface of the plastic film substrate, and has a predetermined first thickness.

The invention discloses an express checking system and a method thereof and relates to the field of cargo movement. The express checking system comprises a detection module, a sorting and conveying module, a label module and a software module, wherein the sorting and conveying module is used for conveying a target into the detection module and sorting the target to a manual region after the detection process is completed; the label module is arranged on the target before the target is conveyed into the detection module and until the target arrives in the manual region; the manual region is divided into a releasing region, a checking region and a withholding region; the software module is capable of matching the detection result with the declaratory content of the target and displaying on the same screen, and transmitting the checking result to the sorting and conveying module. The express checking system and the method thereof have the advantages that the throughput efficiency of express checking can be improved on one hand, and on the other hand, the accuracy of checking is also improved.