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A robotic surgical system for performing minimally invasive medical procedures includes a robot manipulator for robotically assisted handling of a laparoscopic instrument having a manipulator arm, a manipulator wrist supported by the arm and an effector unit supported by the wrist, wherein the manipulator arm provides three degrees-of-freedom by means of a first joint, a second joint and a third joint, each having an associated actuator, for robotically positioning the wrist, the wrist providing two degrees-of-freedom by means of a fourth joint and a fifth revolute joint having an associated actuator, for robotically setting the yaw angle and the pitch angle of the effector unit respectively; the effector unit includes a laparoscopic instrument actuator and provides one degree-of-freedom by means of a revolute sixth joint having an associated actuator for robotically setting the roll angle of the LIAs which includes a seat with an associated coupling mechanism for mounting an instrument stem adaptor to the effector unit, and an actuation mechanisms cooperating with the instrument stem adaptor for actuating a laparoscopic instrument connected to the adaptor. The effector unit is configured such that the rotation axis of the revolute sixth joint coincides with the longitudinal axis of a laparoscopic instrument mounted to the effector unit and the effector unit includes a sensor assembly having a 6 degree-of-freedom (DOF) force/torque sensor and a 6 DOF accelerometer. The sensor assembly connects the LIA to the sixth revolute joint.

The present invention features an intelligent in-store couponing system comprising an operating computer for controlling the functions of the intelligent in-store couponing system; a coupon database capable of storing coupons and coupon data or information; a coupon management module for managing the coupons and their delivery; and at least one coupon delivery system capable of delivering a coupon to a customer in a usable format at the point-of-sale and/or point-of-decision. The in-store couponing system is preferably computer network-based and controlled by personnel at an individual business location or business chain, or by an administrative body controlling one or more of the functions of a business location or chain. The in-store couponing system may further be interfaced or integrated with an in-store media broadcasting and/or customer entrance detection and tracking system to provide ad-driven in-store couponing.

Techniques for creating a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image within a consumer grade digital camera from a series of images of a scene captured at different exposure levels, and displaying the HDR image on the camera's built-in display are provided. The approach employs mixing images of the series to incorporate both scene shadow and highlight details, and the removing of “ghost” image artifacts appearing in the mixed HDR image resulting from movement in the scene over the time the series images are captured. The low computational resource utilization of the image mixing and ghost removal processing operations, along with the ability to commence image mixing and ghost removal prior to the acquisition of all series images, can significantly reduce the time required to generate and display a tone mapped HDR image.

Disclosed is a method for characterizing the content of a digital image. A component of the method is the homogeneity measure, which calculates a value or values based on the local similarity of portions of a sample area. A further component is a means of optimally adjusting the shape and offset of the local sample area to improve the resulting measure. The homogeneity measure may be applied at a higher level to segment an image, by grouping together larger portions of an image whose sub-components are locally similar. A strongly homogeneous region is a contiguous region composed of elements exhibiting local homogeneity better than that of surrounding elements, and may be applied to identify the scale and other characteristics of a portion of an image. This may be used to facilitate algorithms that separate lighting and texturing information, and in identifying the composition of an image.

An apparatus for the treatment of a liquid that includes a chamber having at least one inner surface, the chamber adapted for passage of a fluid therethrough. The chamber is at least 80 percent enclosed. The apparatus also includes an optional ultraviolet-transmissive tube disposed within the chamber and also adapted for the passage of the liquid therethrough. The apparatus further includes an ultraviolet lamp disposed within the chamber and, optionally, within the ultraviolet-transmissive tube. A reflective material is interposed between the chamber and the transmissive tube. The reflective material is adapted so as to reflect at least a portion of light emitted by the ultraviolet lamp, wherein the reflective material is at least 80 percent reflective.

An insulating end cap for a cylindrical electrolysis cell the type comprising at least two tubular electrodes with a cylindrical membrane arranged co-axially between them, comprises a first annular section with first and second axial ends, having at its first axial end a circular seating or one end of an outer cylindrical electrode and at its second end a circular aperture, of smaller diameter than the circular seating and co-axial therewith, to accommodate one end of the membrane. A second annular section of the end cap is detachably secured to the first and has a central circular aperture of smaller diameter than the central aperture of the first section and co-axial therewith, to accommodate one end of the inner cylindrical electrode. The two part construction of the end cap facilitates the assembly of the cell, and reduces the likelihood of breakage of the fragile ceramic membrane.

Disclosed are tissue graft compositions made of particles having different densities, methods of making these compositions, and methods of using these compositions for promoting tissue restoration in a patient.

Embodiments of the invention provide increased user-to-user interaction and increase the sphere of influence event attendees have on one another by sharing what event functions and other features are being attended by persons having similar interests. Embodiments of the present invention may provide a new and enhanced end-user interface to social networking users, especially individual and business attendees of large events. Embodiments of the invention expand social networking principles to allow event attendees to influence and rely on one another in selecting courses and sessions. This may be accomplished by allowing a particular attendee to view the chosen schedules of other attendees while the particular attendee is selecting an attendance schedule before and throughout a conference or other similar event by searching for and matching user characteristics in social-networking fashion and displaying event functions selected by matching users.

An implantable sensor for monitoring the condition of an organ, such as the bladder, of a recipients' body. The sensor (100) comprises a carrier (102), such as a tubular housing that is attachable to the outer surface of the organ. An impedance-varying means (104), such as a saline solution, is carried by the carrier (102). The impedance-varying means (104) within the carrier varies as the condition of the organ changes to cause in output state of the sensor (100). The sensor (1000) can be used for the purposes of monitoring the filling of the bladder, making bladder volume information to the recipient or another person, and causing an alarm signal to be generated when a preset bladder volume is reached.

The present invention relates to a “drilling-flushing-slotting” coupled pressure relief and permeability increasing method for a high gas outburst coal seam, which is more particularly suitable for the pressure relief and permeability increasing when gas of a roadway band of the high gas outburst coal seam is pre-extracted through crossing boreholes. On the basis of the crossing borehole pre-extraction measures for the coal seam gas, the hydraulic flushing and the hydraulic slotting are reasonably combined, and a “drilling-flushing-slotting” dedicated device is utilized to implement the coupled operation of “low pressure drilling-medium pressure flushing-high pressure slotting” in a borehole, so that the coal in the pre-extraction area is deformed and moved to form network cracks, passages are provided to the desorption flow of the gas, and the gas is easier to extract. The method can enlarge the single-hole pressure relief influence range, increase the gas permeability of the coal seam, improve the gas extraction efficiency, reduce the number of pre-extraction boreholes, shorten the pre-extraction time and have good applicability to the coal seams in different occurrence states. The present invention can reduce the number of the crossing boreholes by 32.5% and can reduce the length of each crossing borehole by 42.9%, is remarkable in coal roadway regional outburst eliminating effect, and obviously increases the tunneling speed.

A variable stator of a turbomachine with a profile skeleton line extending along a meridional flow line, with the stator being radially divided into at least three zones (Z0, Z1, Z2) and with the respective radial inner and the radial outer profile skeleton line of each zone (Z0, Z1, Z2) being designed such that it satisfies the following equations: ${\alpha }^{*}=\frac{{\alpha }_1-{\alpha }_P}{{\alpha }_1-{\alpha }_2}$$S^{*}=\frac{S_P}{S}$

where: P is any point of the profile skeleton line,

• • α₁ is the angle of inclination at the stator leading edge,
  • α₂ is the angle of inclination at the stator trailing edge, α* is the dimensionless, specific angle of the total curvature, S* is the dimensionless, specific extension,
  • α_p is the angle of the tangent at any point P of the profile skeleton line to the central meridional flow line,
  • s_p is the extension of the profile skeleton line at any point P, and S is the total extension of the profile skeleton line.

A golf ball which produces high spin rate and accordingly readily stops even when being shot from a rough or in the rain is provided. Such a golf ball is constituted of a core and a cover and the cover has a loss tangent of 0.15 to 0.70 at -10° C. in a temperature distribution curve for dynamic viscoelasticity measured in a tensile mode under conditions of temperature increasing rate of 4° C./min, frequency of 10 Hz and initial strain of 1.0 mm.

The invention discloses a method for sharing resources, a server and a terminal device. The method comprises steps of receiving a resource sharing request transmitted by a first terminal device, wherein the resource sharing request includes a user identifier and resource sharing parameters, updating user account information identified by the user identifier according to the received resource sharing request, distributing the resource corresponding to the resource sharing parameter information, and generating a resource network link corresponding to the resource sharing parameter information for sharing, transmitting the network link to the first terminal device, wherein the resource for sharing is pre-purchasing lottery, and the resource sharing parameter information comprises the number of the lottery or the donated lottery money amount. By utilizing the embodiment of the invention, the resource sharing is not to transmit the resource to an appointed user and the corresponding resource can be shared between users, which expand the resource sharing range and influence and improve the efficiency of sharing resources.

An X-ray CT imaging apparatus includes an X-ray generating section, an X-ray image capturing section, a supporting section, a holding section, a rotation driving section, and an X-ray controlling section, wherein the X-ray generating section generates an X-ray cone beam, the X-ray image capturing section detects the X-ray cone beam having passed through an object, the supporting section supports the X-ray generating section and the X-ray image capturing section with the object positioned therebetween, the holding section holds the object, the rotation driving section rotates the supporting section relatively to the object, and the X-ray controlling section alleviates an influence of a high X-ray absorption region, present inside the object, in the X-ray image capturing section by means of a control model formed based upon information on the high X-ray absorption region.

The invention provides a text emotion analysis method based on a dual-channel model aiming at the problem that the single-channel neural network model has a single structure and can not fully extractthe text information. Includes such steps as training word vector by Word2Vec, representing text as word vector matrix, Then, using and sending the word vector matrix as input data to convolution neural network (CNN) and long-short-term memory (LSTM) network for feature extraction. After that, attention model is introduced to extract the important feature information of the text. Finally, the textfeatures extracted from the two channels are merged, and emotion classification is carried out by using the classification layer. The method provided by the invention has feasibility and superiority,and the performance of the method is obviously superior to other single-channel neural network models.

A method of adding a chemical additive to a fiber web of nonwoven material including cellulose pulp fibers and synthetic fibers and/or filaments. A hydrojet liquid including the chemical additive is used in at least one hydrojet treatment step, which includes at least one vacuum collecting box. The hydrojet liquid is applied to the fiber web for penetrating the fiber web at a pressure of at least 5 bar but not more than 100 bar, in such a manner so that the chemical additive is penetrated into the fiber to fiber intersections of the nonwoven material.

The invention discloses a network-based intelligent restaurant system. The network-based intelligent restaurant system comprises a catering website server, at least one restaurant management server and a plurality of restaurant customer service terminals which are managed by the restaurant management server, wherein the restaurant customer service terminals acquire terminal operating data, dish data and dining customer data and transmit the data to the restaurant management server; the restaurant management server determines restaurant operation condition information and customer service information according to the three pieces of data; the restaurant management server transmits the customer service information to the restaurant customer service terminals and controls the restaurant customer service terminals to provide immediate service for customers; and the restaurant management server transmits the restaurant operation condition information or the customer service information to the catering website server for browsing. By implementation of the embodiment of the invention, an automated management platform which integrates customer ordering, restaurant internal advertising and network advertising is established, so that the quality of service is improved, enterprise influence is increased, and the cost of human resources is saved.

The invention relates to novel methods for engineering protein sequences using structural and homology information.