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Systems and methods are provided for matching a first user in a first geographic location with a second user in a second geographic location, and enabling the first user to find the second user in the second geographic location. The first geographic location can be the same as the second geographic location. The first user and second user can be matched based on user-specific matching criteria, including a first user profile of the first user and a second user profile of the second user. The first user can communicate with the second user.

There is provided herein a sensor / monitor combination designed to reduce the risk of pressure ulcer occurrence in immobile patients, wherein the level of patient activity is tracked to determine whether or not that patient has exhibited sufficient activity to merit eliminating a scheduled assisted relocation to a new position. The instant device senses the time since a patient last relocated into a different sitting or lying position. If the patient has not moved during some predetermined time period, the nursing staff will be notified by the invention that it is time to manually reposition the patient. If the patient has significantly changed position during the predetermined time period and, thus, allowed previously compressed tissues to reoxygenate, the invention will not signal that a move is necessary, thereby eliminating the need in some cases to rouse the patient from an otherwise healing sleep.

A headphone is disclosed herein. The headphone includes a wireless transceiver, a wired communication module, a power storage device, a speaker, and control circuitry. The wireless transceiver and the wired communication module and the wireless transceiver are connected to the speaker via the control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to determine whether to control the speaker according to data received via the wired communication module and the wireless transceiver and to seamlessly transition control of the speaker from data received from one of the wired communication module and the wireless transceiver to the other of the wired communication module and the wireless transceiver.

A method of operating a fuel injector including a piezoelectric actuator having a stack of piezoelectric elements, and wherein in use the injector communicates with a fuel rail, the method comprises: applying a discharge current to the actuator for a discharge period so as to discharge the stack from a first differential voltage level across the stack to a second differential voltage level across the stack; maintaining the second differential voltage level for a period of time; and applying a charge current to the actuator for a charge period so as to charge the stack from the second differential voltage level to a third differential voltage level; wherein the third differential voltage level is selected in dependence on at least two engine parameters, the at least two engine parameters selected from: rail pressure; the electric pulse time; and the piezoelectric stack temperature.

A rapid charging power supply system comprises: a stationary rapid charger (11) for controlling power supplied from a power supply (1) to be a DC power optimum for rapidly charging an on-vehicle electric storage means (85c) equipped in a second electric moving body (53); a power supply switching means (11m) for switching and supplying the DC power from the stationary rapid charger (11) to either a first charging circuit (20A) for supplying the DC power to a first electric moving vehicle (50) or a second charging circuit (20B) for supplying the DC power to the second electric moving body (53); an stationary electric storage means (15) capable of storing DC power charged by the DC power supplied to the side of the first charging circuit (20A) from the stationary rapid charger (11) via the power supply switching means (11m) and used for being directly supplied to at least the first electric moving body (50); and a power feeding control means (12) for stopping power supply to the stationary electric storage means (15) from the stationary rapid charger (11) when charging an on-vehicle electric storage means (85) of the first electric moving body (50) by the DC power output from the stationary electric storage means (15).

An erosion control system and method wherein a fabric filter bag is embedded with and / or filled with a flocculating polymer and is positioned on a sloping soil surface to dam and pond water flowing thereacross for settling of the particles in the water, and as the ponding water seeps into the bag the colloidal particles will be filtered or agglomerated for settling. The water then passes through and out of the bag and is further subjected to agglomeration and filtering by a skirt of filter material also impregnated with flocculating polymer, said skirt being anchored to the bag or stacked to maintain the position adjacent and downslope from the bag.

The present invention relates to a timing device for cooking, namely grilling, baking, convection, and other methods known to one skill in the art. Specifically, the present invention relates to a timing device that, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, provides the amount of time food has been cooking and the amount of time since the last time the food was checked. Specifically, the present invention preferably resets a timer when a cooking device, such as a grill or an oven, is opened and / or closed. More specifically, the present invention provides one timer that resets when a cooking device is opened and / or closed and optionally at least one other timer that remains running. The timers can be stopped, started, turned on and off, and reset manually.

An erosion control system and method wherein a fabric filter bag is embedded with and / or filled with a flocculating polymer and is positioned on a sloping soil surface to dam and pond water flowing thereacross for settling of the particles in the water, and as the ponding water seeps into the bag the colloidal particles will be filtered or agglomerated for settling. The water then passes through and out of the bag and is further subjected to agglomeration and filtering by a skirt of filter material also impregnated with flocculating polymer, said skirt being anchored to the bag or stacked to maintain the position adjacent and downslope from the bag.

Disclosed is a hybrid work vehicle capable of smooth work travel using a work device with a low output internal combustion engine, while avoiding battery exhaustion. The vehicle includes an internal combustion engine that supplies drive power to a travel device and a work device via power transmission means, a motor generator that is driven by a battery, a load information generation part that generates load information representing a sudden increase in rotational load, an assist characteristic determination part that determines motor assist characteristics defining an assist amount and an assist time period of assist control based on load information, and a motor control unit that controls the motor generator based on the motor assist characteristics.

The present invention provides a parametric speech synthesis method and a parametric speech synthesis system. The method comprises sequentially processing each frame of speech of each phone in a phone sequence of an input text as follows: for a current phone, extracting a corresponding statistic model from a statistic model library and using model parameters of the statistic model that correspond to the current frame of the current phone as rough values of currently predicted speech parameters; according to the rough values and information about a predetermined number of speech frames occurring before the current time point, obtaining smoothed values of the currently predicted speech parameters; according to global mean values and global standard deviation ratios of the speech parameters obtained through statistics, performing global optimization on the smoothed values of the speech parameters to generate necessary speech parameters; and synthesizing the generated speech parameters to obtain a frame of speech synthesized for the current frame of the current phone. With this solution, the capacity of an RAM needed by speech synthesis will not increase with the length of the synthesized speech, and the time length of the synthesized speech is no longer limited by the RAM.

A method and system for ranking pages using valuations from readers is disclosed. A reader's time spent on a page is tracked, normalized on the length of the document, capped to limit the effect of one individual, and a reader valuation score of the page comprising the time is updated. Higher value of reader valuation score of a page represents longer time reader(s) spent on the page and therefore higher value to the reader(s). Pages containing relevant keywords can then be sorted by reader valuation scores. Reader valuation scores of pages can be maintained in a private account to help a reader more effectively organize his or her reading history, or be maintained for public to represent general readers' valuations on pages, or be maintained in groups of readers with attributes such as profession, educational level, age, sex to represent special group of readers' valuations on pages.

The invention concerns a method for operating a wind power plant (WEA), preferably before or during the performance of maintenance work on the wind power plant (WEA), wherein —at least one physical condition of the surroundings outside the wind power plant (WEA) induced by wind movement outside the wind power plant (WEA) is detected as an external physical condition, and / or at least one physical condition of a component of the wind power plant (WEA) influenced by wind movement outside the wind power plant (WEA) is detected as an internal physical condition; —the at least one external physical condition and / or at least one internal physical condition are evaluated; —the at least one external physical condition is compared with a predetermined reference value for the external physical condition, and / or the at least one internal physical condition is compared with a predetermined reference value for the internal physical condition; —depending on the comparison at least one warning message is generated, in particular a maintenance warning message.

This disclosure relates to aligning semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) uplink and downlink communications. In one embodiment, a cellular base station may select SPS parameters for a wireless device. The SPS parameters may include a subframe offset, a downlink SPS interval, and an uplink SPS interval. The subframe offset may indicate a subframe at which both an initial downlink subframe and an initial uplink subframe are scheduled. An indication of the SPS parameters may be transmitted to the UE. The wireless device and the cellular base station may perform uplink and downlink communication according to the SPS parameters.

Example embodiments of rapid charging power supply systems are disclosed herein. One example rapid charging power supply system comprises: a stationary rapid charger (11); a power supply switch (11m) for switching and supplying DC power from the stationary rapid charger (11) to either a first charging circuit (20A) for supplying the DC power to a first electric moving vehicle (50) or a second charging circuit (20B) for supplying the DC power to a second electric moving body (53); a stationary electric storage unit (15) capable of storing DC power from the first charging circuit (20A) and used for being directly supplied to at least the first electric moving body (50); and a power feeding controller (12) for stopping power supply to the stationary electric storage unit (15) when charging an on-vehicle electric storage unit (85) of the first electric moving body (50).

A method of operating a fuel injector including a piezoelectric actuator having a stack of piezoelectric elements, and wherein in use the injector communicates with a fuel rail, the method comprises: applying a discharge current to the actuator for a discharge period so as to discharge the stack from a first differential voltage level across the stack to a second differential voltage level across the stack; maintaining the second differential voltage level for a period of time; and applying a charge current to the actuator for a charge period so as to charge the stack from the second differential voltage level to a third differential voltage level; wherein the third differential voltage level is selected in dependence on at least two engine parameters, the at least two engine parameters selected from: rail pressure; the electric pulse time; and the piezoelectric stack temperature.

A multilayer wiring board having a plurality of wiring layers is proposed, which is prepared by a process having the steps of: forming, on one insulating sheet, wiring patterns for all the wiring layers, which patterns are arranged at predetermined positions; and folding the insulating sheet having formed the wiring patterns in the predetermined order and stacking the folded sheet while positioning, and then heating the resultant sheet in a vacuum under a pressure to form a three-dimensional electric wiring.

A vanadium resistant coating system resistant to high temperature vanadium attack. The system comprises a high temperature superalloy substrate. A bond coat overlies the superalloy substrate. The bond coat may be applied in multiple layers. A ceramic coating overlies the bond coat. The ceramic coating further comprises a zirconium oxide stabilized by at least one cation selected from the group consisting of Yb3+, Lu3+, Sc3+ and Ce4+, in the amounts of about 5-10 weight percent. An overcoat may overlie the ceramic coating. The overcoat may be a sacrificial layer of YSZ infiltrated with cations having an atomic radius larger than Y3+. Alternatively, the overcoat may comprise zirconium oxide stabilized by Ce4+.

In a method of producing a casting, molding or pressing tool (1) or tool insert (2) with at least one material layer (3, 5, 7) and with temperature control medium channels (6) arranged in the at least one material layer (3, 5, 7), the temperature control medium channels (6) are introduced into the at least one material layer (3, 5, 7) using a thermal spray process (2).

An apparatus and method for depositing a particulate containing composition onto mammalian skin such that when the particles contact the mammalian skin they have a momentum defined by ρvr, which is within the range of about 0.1 kg / ms≦ρvr≦about 12.0 kg / ms. The particles can be in the range of from about 10 nanometers to about 10 micrometers, in size. And the particles may be selected from the group consisting of titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, iron oxide, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polycarbonate, polyvinyl chloride, glass, silica and mixtures thereof. The particles are imbedded below the first layer of dead skin cells in the stratum corneum but they do not pass all the way through the stratum corneum into the living cells of the epidermis or dermis layers of the skin.

The invention discloses an efficient sewage treatment device, which comprises a device body and a motor, wherein a filter plate is fixedly welded in the device body, an opening in the lower end of thefilter plate is in seamless butt joint with an opening in the upper end of a sewage draining port, the sewage draining port is fixedly formed in the lower end of the device body, water outlets are symmetrically formed in the left end and the right end of the device body, a filter cylinder is fixedly welded to the upper end in the device body, a bottom cover is arranged at the lower end of the filter cylinder and installed at the lower end of a rotating shaft through a bearing, two sets of rotating plates are symmetrically welded to the rotating shaft, and bristles are fixedly installed at theends, away from the rotating shaft, of the rotating plates. According to the sewage treatment device, impurities with large sizes in sewage are preliminarily filtered by arranging the filter cylinder, and the sewage accumulated in the filter cylinder can be driven to rotate by the rotating plates through the rotation of the rotating plates, so that the speed of the sewage passing through the filter cylinder is increased by centrifugal force during rotation so as to enhance the preliminary filtering effect of the sewage.

A condom assembly includes a plug and a condom. The condom has an elongated shape with an inner and an outer surface is provided. A barrier or strut is formed on the condom which prevents any liquid exchange between the inner and outer surfaces during the use of the condom. The plug is disk shaped and has a circumferential groove receiving the bead of the condom. A sealing member is provided that forms a seal in the groove between the plug and the bead of the condom. A cover may be provided to fit over the plug. Alternatively, an assembly is provided with a condom and a cover, the plug being omitted.

A supercharging system includes a waste gate valve and an ECU. The ECU is configured to: calculate a first parameter and a second parameter, each of which has a positive correlation with an intake air amount; obtain a first difference by subtracting a first boost pressure from a second boost pressure; obtain a second difference by subtracting the first parameter from the second parameter; obtain a quotient by dividing the first difference by the second difference; and determine that a malfunction occurs in the waste gate valve when the quotient is larger than a threshold value.

The present invention relates to an image-based computer-aided prognosis (CAP) system and method that seeks to replicate the prognostic power of molecular assays in histopathology and pathological processes, including but not limited to cancer. Using only a tissue slide samples, a mechanism for digital slide scanning, and a computer, the present invention relates to an image-based CAP system and method which aims to overcome many of the drawbacks associated with prognostic molecular assays (e.g. Oncotype DX) including the high cost associated with the assay, limited laboratory facilities with specialized equipment, and length of time between biopsy and prognostic prediction.

A method for manufacturing a pair of complementary masks for use in an electron projection lithographic (EPL) technique uses an algorithm for distributing the design data to a pair of EPL masks. The algorithm allocates a positive sign or negative sign to each of the pattern data, summation of the areas of the pattern data having positive signs while subtracting the areas of the pattern data having negative signs, for obtaining a minimum of the sum. One or more of initial combination of the signs is prepared and the vicinity of the initial combination is calculated therefrom for obtaining an optimum combination.

The aspect of this invention is to provide a freshness maintaining apparatus designed to keep various items fresh for a lengthy period of time. The apparatus includes a water storage unit (10). A support unit (11) is installed in the water storage unit (10), and cooling water is contained in the water storage unit under the support unit. A filtering unit (30) is connected to the water storage unit (10) via a drain line (20) to remove impurities from water flowing to the filtering unit. A cooling unit (40) is connected to an end of a water supply branching pipe (32) of the filtering unit (30) to cool the filtered water fed from the filtering unit to a predetermined temperature. A humidifying unit (50) is connected to another end of the water supply branching pipe (32) to atomize the filtered water fed from the filtering unit (30).