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A method, system, and apparatus are provided for creating a knowledge interchange (“KI”) profile for a user that identifies the interests of the user, the individuals with which the user has communicated, and the topics on which the communication with the user was made. In order to create the KI profile, items of interest are gathered at the client computer by monitoring the interaction between a user and programs executing on the client computer. Once the items of interest have been identified, the KI profile is created by performing a social network analysis, an interest analysis, and a noun phrase analysis. Once the KI profile has been created, it may be uploaded to a server computer where it is aggregated with KI profiles created for other users.

A method and system for automatic data categorization in response to a user query. A document set is retrieved in response to the user query. A semantic parser parses the document set and produces semantic term-groups by parsing a semantic network of nodes. A seed ranker produces a plurality of advantageously spaced semantic seeds based on the semantic term-groups. A category accumulator stores the advantageously spaced semantic seeds. The semantic network of nodes is augmented with the advantageously spaced semantic seeds.

A method, system, and program storage device for implementing the method of retrieving relevant unstructured data based on a result of a relational query on a structured database, wherein the method comprises retrieving a context from the structured database by the relational query; analyzing the retrieved context from the structured database; identifying an additional relevant term for a query on an unstructured database according to a result of the analyzing; and retrieving a desired data from the unstructured database according to a search with the additional relevant term.

The invention discloses a Chinese herbal livestock feed additive and the application thereof, belonging to the technical field of preparation of livestock farming feed. The Chinese herbal livestock feed additive is powder prepared from hawthorn, medicated leaven, fried malt, yam, barley, licorice, Chinese angelica, astragalus, Codonopsis, lily, Ophiopogon, Atractylodes lancea, bighead atractylodes rhizome, betel nut, Cyrtomium fortunei, Agrimonia pilosa, cortex acanthopanacis, Curculigo, Citrus aurantium, basil, mugwort, garlic powder, onion powder, Elsholtzia grass, semen cassiae, mustard Seed, Ligustrum lucidum, rangooncreeper Fruit, radish seed, psoralen, dodder and other Chinese herbs according to the conventional preparation technology. Compared with the prior art, the Chinese herbal livestock feed additive has prominent substantive features and significant advantages of capability of improving disease resistance and disease prevention, no hormone, no toxic side effect, and delicious, safe, reliable, healthy and green livestock meat.

A vacuum cleaner power head (40) for vacuum cleaning and having two counter rotating agitators 52 and 54. Motor (60) rotates agitators (52) and (54) through transmission (70), and also rotates suction fan (65) to provide suction air to the rotary brush agitators. Exterior housing 48 and inner housing (49) provide air suction passageways to direct suction air through fan (65) and out of the housing to a dirt collection bag (34). Self-propelled function is provided by using user force on handle (32) to create differential contact friction between the two counter-rotating rotary brush agitators so that a net traction force is generated that propels power head (40) in the direction the user is pushing.

The invention provides a multidimensional resource scheduling system and method for a cloud environment data center, belonging to the field of cloud computing. The system provided by the invention comprises a user application request submitting module, a resource status acquiring module, a resource scheduling module, an application request priority queuing module and a virtualized physical resource pool. The method provided by the invention comprises the following steps of: firstly detecting the status information of multidimensional resources in the virtualized physical resource pool and a current application request set in the user application request submitting module, which are acquired by the resource status acquiring module; then defining an application request priority queue which is suitable for the status balanced consumption of the current multidimensional resources in the virtualized physical resource pool by using a multiple-attribute-decision-making application priority scheduling algorithm; and finally submitting the application request which has the highest priority and meets resource constraints to the cloud environment data center for execution.

The invention belongs to the technical field of defect detection, and discloses a defect target detection method based on an attention mechanism, which comprises the following steps: marking various defects of all pictures in an original data set to obtain a standard training data set with marks; Obtaining a training label according to the standard training data set, determining a loss function, obtaining a network model, and performing training by using a reverse conduction method to obtain a defect regression detection network model based on an attention mechanism and having enhanced defectpart weight; Performing classification prediction and regression prediction on the to-be-detected picture by utilizing the defect regression detection network model; Carrying out non-maximum suppression processing on the predicted defect bounding box and filtering the defect bounding box to obtain an output result; According to the method provided by the invention, the weight of the defect area isimproved through an attention mechanism, so that the defect detection precision is improved; The industrial product surface defect classification and regression detection method can be applied to other types of surface defect detection frameworks to improve the detection precision, and is high in universality.

The ends of carbon plates reinforcing supporting elements, such as concrete beams, are divided into at least two splines having approximately the same thickness and are glued in the appropriate retaining slots of a terminal element. The splines form an angle in relation to each other. This assembly is then glued to the traction side of the supporting element, whereby the carbon plates are directly prestressed by the terminal elements in relation to the supporting element. The terminal element can be inserted into an appropriate groove in the supporting element or glued directly on the surface of the supporting element and/or doweled, optionally by using a transverse tensioning device.

A weather and corrosion-resistant reflector with high overall reflection in the visible and infrared wavelength ranges. The reflector contains a reflector body with a reflection surface of an aluminum or aluminum alloy or a reflector body with a reflection coating of an aluminum or aluminum alloy. The reflector also contains an outer, final transparent protective layer of a sol-gel coating which is thicker than 1 μm. The transparent sol-gel coating is a polymer of cross-linked inorganic siloxanes with alcohol groups that are bonded to the silicon with a carbon bond. The sol-gel coating is produced in a sol-gel process and, after having been applied to the reflector body, is dried and hardened using heat. The protective layer has excellent resistance to weather, corrosion and abrasion.

The invention relates to an optimized classification method and an optimized classification device based on a random forest algorithm. The optimized classification method comprises the following steps of a first step, dividing given sample data into k sub-training sets which are independent from one another, selecting different decision tress according to each training sub-set, selecting different decision attributes by the decision trees for forming base classifiers, and forming a random forest by the base classifiers; a second step, in each base classifier, distributing a preset weight to each set, then transmitting to-be-classified data into the random forest which is constructed in the step 1) for performing classification, and adjusting the weight according to a classification result and a predication result, if the classification predication result of the set does not accord with the actual result, increasing the weight of the set, and if the classification predication result accords with the actual result, reducing the weight of the set; and a third step, performing classification on the to-be-classified data according to the adjusted weight of each set until the classification result accords with the predication result.

A zinc amino acid chelate formulation is disclosed comprising zinc ions being chelated by an amino acid ligand mixture comprising glycine and a sulfur-containing amino acid wherein the ligand to zinc molar ratio is from about 1:1 to 2:1 and wherein the glycine to sulfur-containing amino acid molar ratio is between about 1:6 to 6:1.

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.

A method for automatically selecting and organizing a subset of photos from a set of photos provided by a user, who has an account on at least one social network providing some context, for creating a summarized photo album with a storytelling structure. The method comprises: arranging the set of photos into a three level hierarchy, acts, scenes and shots; checking whether photos are photos with people or not; obtaining an aesthetic measure of the photos; creating and ranking face clusters; selecting the most aesthetic photo of each face cluster; selecting photos with people until complete a predefined number of photos of the summarized album picking the ones which optimize the function:

O_f(C,C^*,S,C_SN)=α_fA_f(S)−γ_fd(H_Character(S)H_Character(C∪C_SN)−δ_fd(H_Act(S), H_Act(C^*));

and then selecting non-people photos which minimize the following function O_a:

O_a(C^*,S)=d(H_Act,(S),H_Act(C^*));

ordering all the selected photos in chronological order; and finally discarding all the photos which have not been selected.

Apparatus for correcting distortion on an optical transmission link carrying a multiplicity of optical transmission channels, the apparatus comprising: an adjustable optical equalizer, through which a plurality of said channels pass; a field sampler that samples signals passing through said equalizer, such that a plurality of channels passing through the adjustable equalizer are separately sampled; and a controller that receives the samples, determines control parameters for the equalizer therefrom and adjusts the equalizer, responsive to said determined control parameters.

A remotely operated vehicle or robot for picking up storage bins from a storage system includes a vehicle body, which includes a first section for storing vehicle driving means and a second section for receiving any storage bin stored in a storage column within the storage system, a vehicle lifting device in order to lift the storage bin into the second section, a first and a second set of vehicle rolling means allowing movement of the vehicle along a first and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, respectively, within the storage system. The second section includes a cavity arranged centrally within the vehicle body. This cavity has at least one bin receiving opening facing towards the underlying storage columns At least one of the two sets of vehicle rolling means is arranged fully within the vehicle body.

The invention provides compound probiotics fermented Chinese herbal medicine active health care liquid and a preparation method thereof. The health care liquid is prepared by the following raw materials: folium ginkgo, gingko pollen, fructus lycii, tea leaves, bacillus natto, saccharomyces cerevisiae, lactobacilli, acetobacter xylinum, bifidobactirium, white granulated sugar, brown sugar, defatted soy flour, honey, oligosaccharide, sodium chloride, deionized water and the like. The compound probiotics fermented Chinese herbal medicine active health care liquid integrates disease treatment and health care functions of several single products, contains Chinese herbal medicine active ingredients with the functions of preventing and treating hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia and hypertension, preventing tumors and cancers, enhancing memory, protecting livers, improving immunity, preventing and treating coronary heart diseases, and also contains probiotics groups and metabolic products of the probiotics groups which can regulate balance in the stomach and intestines, resist aging, prolong the life, facilitate digestion, expel toxin for beauty, and prevent and treat thrombi, constipation and diarrhea. The health care liquid integrates health care and treatment, is very wide in market prospect, and conforms to the existing medical viewpoint of people that the prevention, health care, treatment and recovery are combined.

A method for placing a document into a document family, the method including the steps of: determining at least one score associated with one or more document families, each score indicating a level of similarity between the document and the associated document family; in response to identifying at least one threshold document family, the or each threshold document family corresponding to a document family with at least one associated score meeting a predefined threshold: placing the document into the, or one of the, threshold document families; in response to identifying that each score fails to meet a predefined threshold: creating a new document family; and placing the document into the new document family.

Disclosed is a method and device for storing information about Web documents such as pages or sites in a manner which may be used in conjunction with inverted term lists to facilitate the retrieval of documents of interest from the Web. The method involves constructing compressed surrogates for documents, such that various operations may be performed without the need to retrieve a copy of the document from the Web. The method permits the efficient updating of inverted term lists when documents on the Web have been modified or deleted, and also permits the efficient processing of search queries in a variety of circumstances.

A suspension for a seat that varies the preload, spring rate and damping rate of the suspension in direct proportion to the suspended weight of an occupant of the seat to provide the same effective vibration isolation for any occupant. The suspension includes an actuating mechanism engaged with a first spring and a pivotal transfer link that is engaged with a second spring and a non-adjustable rate damper that are each fixedly attached to the seat opposite the transfer link. The transfer link is engaged with a weight adjustment mechanism which operates to adjust the position of a pivot pin for the transfer link with respect to the transfer link, such that the preload, spring rate and damping rate of the suspension are adjusted in proportion to the weight of the occupant of the seat to provide similar ride dynamics to any occupant of the seat.

A method for controlling a robot having at least one visual sensor. A target for a motion of the robot is defined. A motion control signal adapted for the robot reaching the target is calculated. A collision avoidance control signal based on the closest points of segments of the robot and a virtual object between the visual sensing means and the target is calculated. The motion control signal and the collision avoidance control signal are weighted and combined. The weight of the motion control signal is higher when a calculated collision risk is lower. The motion of the robot is controlled according to the combined signal so that no segment of the robot enters the space defined by the virtual object.

A fluoride ion battery includes a substantially lithium-free anode and cathode. At least one of the anode or cathode contains fluorine, and a substantially lithium-free liquid electrolyte is used for charge transport. The electrolyte is liquid at temperatures below about 200 degrees Celsius, and can be formed from an organic-soluble fluoride salt dissolved in selected classes of solvents.

A method of aligning a pair of images with (101) a first image and a second image, wherein said images comprise a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points in a D-dimensional space includes identifying (102) feature points on both images using the same criteria, computing (103) a feature vector for each feature point, measuring a feature dissimilarity (104) for each pair of feature vectors, wherein a first feature vector of each pair is associated with a first feature point on the first image, and a second feature vector of each pair is associated with a second feature point on the second image. A correspondence mapping (105) for each pair of feature points is determined using the feature dissimilarity associated with each feature point pair, and an image transformation (106) is defined to align (108) the second image with the first image using one or more pairs of feature points that are least dissimilar.

The present invention relates to method and system for automatic control of image quality in imaging, of an object using, for example, an ultrasound system. The method comprises transmitting image generating signals into the object using selected system parameter sets of the imaging system. The imaging system has a number of different system parameter sets based on an image ranking measure reflecting a subjective expert opinion of a pre-defined set of images. The captured images are analyzed with respect to at least one image quality feature to determine an image quality metric for each image. The respective image quality metric for each image are analyzed to identify an image associated with a highest image quality metric and the system parameter set used for generating the image associated with the highest image quality metric can be selected as system parameter set for imaging of the object.

Systems for detecting and tracking of objects and co-registration are described which utilizes methods to create a linearized view of a lumen using multiple imaged frames. In reality a lumen has a trajectory in 3-D, but only a 2-D projected view is available for viewing. The linearized view unravels this 3-D trajectory thus creating a linearized map for every point on the lumen trajectory as seen on the 2-D display. In one mode of the invention, the trajectory is represented as a linearized display along 1 dimension. This linearized view is also combined with lumen measurement data and the result is displayed concurrently on a single image. In another mode of the invention, the position of a treatment device is displayed on the linearized map in real time. In a further extension of this mode, the profile of the lumen dimension is also displayed on this linearized map.

A dosing device (17) for the medical administration of powder (16) through the nose or mouth has a valve body (27) which is movable in a discharge channel (22) between two valve seats (25, 26). During suction, the spherical valve body (27) is raised from the lower, container-sealing valve seat (26) and moved by a flow drag to the upper valve seat (25), so that it closes the discharge channel (22) and terminates dosing. The formation of the air/powder dispersion can be assisted in that the air subsequently sucked into the container is directed onto or into a powder supply or to a powder receiver in a pre-chamber fillable by tilting the device for pre-dosing.