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An apparatus and method of reserving conveyance, such as taxis and limousines, in which the pickup locations, times, and contract are established and logged electronically. The system is configured to increase the assurance that the conveyance will arrive properly on time and on location, and that the patron will also keep their end of the agreement. The system preferably configured for disincentives for either party to not follow in accord with the contract.

Detection of insurance premium fraud is provided by a predictive model, which uses derived variables to assess the likelihood of fraud for each policy. The predictive model produces a score, which is a measure of the likelihood of premium fraud or abuse. The predictive model is included in a system that accepts policies to be considered for scoring, selects which policies are appropriate for scoring, stores data about the policies in a database, uses the data to derive variables for the model, and processes and outputs the model scores and related information. A rule-based analysis, which detects specific inconsistencies in the data that are indicative of premium fraud, may also be part of the system. The model scores and red-flag indicators from the rule-based analysis may be further processed to provide customized output for users.

Disclosed herein are synthetic anatomical models that are designed to enable simulated use testing by medical device compam'es, medical device designers, individual inventors, or any other entity interested in the performance of medical devices. These models are unique in possessing a level of complexity that allows them to be substituted for either a live animal, an animal cadaver, or a human cadaver in the testing of these devices. These models are further characterized by a similarity of geometry, individual component physical properties, and component-to-component interfacial properties with the appropriate target tissue and anatomy.

The present invention provides novel genes and proteins for diagnosing pancreatic cancer and / or a likelihood for survival e.g., following surgical resection, wherein the expression of the genes and proteins is up-regulated or down-regulated. The pancreatic cancer-associated genes and proteins of the invention are specifically exemplified by the genes and proteins set forth in Tables 3 to 25 and the Sequence Listing.

An apparatus connectable to a robotic arm for selecting, positioning, and loading a pallet for use in manufacturing and warehouses. The apparatus being made of a frame with opposing pallet gripping arms with hooks to engage and transport a pallet. The frame also having a suction assembly, which can select and transport a top loading sheet for placement on top of a pallet. The frame further comprising a carriage sub-assembly which aligns, stabilizes, and secures articles, including different sized and amorphous bagged materials. The frame further comprising opposing bag gripping arms, which lift and carry the articles to the pre-positioned pallet and stack them.

A smart grid network is provided including one or more transformer monitoring devices configured to collect metering data from one or more metering devices in the smart grid network. The smart grid network further includes a cloud-based data processing and storage system with one or more cloud data processors configured to receive data from the one or more transformer monitoring devices and process the received data into categories including at least a first category of data comprising the collected metering data. The cloud-based data processing and storage system further includes at least one data store to store data of at least the first category of data, an analytics platform configured to analyze the received and categorized data and a graphics server configured to format the analyzed data for display on a user device of the smart grid network.

The invention relates to a security marking whose level of proof against forgery is greater than that of known security markings, comprising liquid-crystalline material with chiral phase, wherein the security marking is imperceptible to the eye and the properties of the liquid-crystalline material with chiral phase can be detected with the aid of detection systems.

A radar level gauge and a method for measurement of a distance to a surface of a product in a tank are disclosed. The radar level gauge comprises transceiver circuitry configured to transmit and receive electromagnetic signals, the transceiver circuitry comprises a frequency stabilizing feedback loop configured to generate the electromagnetic transmit signal in the form of a frequency sweep. The frequency stabilizing feedback loop is configured to generate an oscillation, forming a sinusoidal modulation of the frequency sweep. The radar level gauge further comprises a second mixer configured to mix an intermediate frequency signal and an integer multiple of the frequency of the sinusoidal modulation to provide an adjusted intermediate frequency signal, and processing circuitry configured to determine the distance based on the adjusted intermediate frequency signal.By providing a frequency sweep comprising a sinusoidal modulation, an improved sensitivity is achieved by the radar level gauge and method.

Disclosed herein are joint replica models that are designed to enable simulated use testing by medical device companies, medical device designers, individual inventors, or any other entity interested in the performance of medical devices. These models are unique in possessing a level of complexity that allows them to be substituted for either a live animal, an animal cadaver, or a human cadaver in the testing of these devices. These models are further characterized by a similarity of geometry, individual component physical properties, and component-to-component interfacial properties with the appropriate target tissue and anatomy.

A method for reducing magnetic resonance temperature measurement errors, which is used for the high-intensity focused ultrasound device for monitoring magnetic resonance imaging includes obtaining a magnetic resonance phase diagram as a reference image before the high-intensity focused ultrasound device heats the heating area; obtaining another magnetic resonance phase diagram as a heating image during or after the heating process of the high intensity focused ultrasound device; calculating the temperature changes in the heating area according to said heating image and reference image. The method further includes measuring the magnetic field changes caused by the position changes of the ultrasonic transducer of said high-intensity focused ultrasound device, and then compensating for the temperature changes according to said magnetic field changes. The present invention can significantly reduce the temperature errors caused by the position changes of the ultrasonic transducer.

The invention relates to a bending device (2) for bending a rod-like or tubular workpiece (4), comprising a bending machine (6), which has a bending head (8), which is designed for bending the workpiece (4) in a forming process, and a control means (24), which controls the operation of the bending machine (6), a robot (10), which comprises a multi-joint arm (11) which can be adjusted by motors, having a gripper end (12), which is designed for gripping and holding the workpiece (4), and a control unit (22), which is designed to control the operation of the robot (10), wherein the control means (24) is designed to control the bending machine (6) and the robot (10) during the bending process. The control unit (22) of the robot (10) is switched, at least during the bending process, to a slave mode in which it receives control commands from the control means (24) of the bending machine (6), and the control means (24) of the bending machine (6), during the bending process, continuously issues setting specifications for the motor-adjustable multi-joint arm (11) and the gripper end (12) to the control unit (22) of the robot (10) which has been switched to slave mode and thereby controls the robot (10) to introduce the workpiece (4) into the bending head (8), to stabilize the workpiece during the forming process and to remove the workpiece from the bending head (8) after the forming process.

A method of providing and distributing personal video content that displays personal digital photographs as still images moving in three dimensional space is disclosed. Personal digital photographs are downloaded to a server. A user identifies a level of editing complexity from a plurality of levels of editing complexity. The user selects a three dimensional effect desired for a personal video from a plurality of preprogrammed templates stored at the server. The personal video is created that displays the digital personal photograph as a still image moving in three dimensional space according to the selected three dimensional effect. The user receives a link to a website hosting the personal video that can be shared with desired viewers.

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for estimating channel information. A terminal estimates a channel coefficient for each of subcarriers included in each symbol of the received signals, calculates power of the received signal matched to each of the subcarriers, calculates an interference estimation parameter for each of the subcarriers based on the power of the received signal matched to each of the subcarriers and based on power of a channel coefficient for a subcarrier on which the received signal has maximum power among the subcarriers, and calculates a non-Gaussian characteristic parameter of an interference signal related to the received signals based on the interference estimation parameters calculated for the subcarriers of all the symbols of the received signals.

A method for dealing with the effects of inertia in a radiotherapy apparatus is disclosed. The method may include catering for inertia in advance by incorporating inertia factors into an output from a delivery control system which adapts the treatment plan by incorporating the inertia factors, or by including the inertia factors as a constraint in the treatment planning process. The instructions delivered to the geometry items may reflect their inertia behavior and can therefore be followed very closely. This may indicate that a departure from that plan will be correspondingly more likely to indicate an error by the geometry item. When a geometry item needs to accelerate or decelerate, less error may arise and thus the error-checking regime may not necessarily make allowances for such departures from the intended path, thereby tightening the error tolerances. Error-checking may be safely carried out locally for each component.

A method for reducing magnetic resonance temperature measurement errors, which is used for the high-intensity focused ultrasound device for monitoring magnetic resonance imaging includes obtaining a magnetic resonance phase diagram as a reference image before the high-intensity focused ultrasound device heats the heating area; obtaining another magnetic resonance phase diagram as a heating image during or after the heating process of the high intensity focused ultrasound device; calculating the temperature changes in the heating area according to said heating image and reference image. The method further includes measuring the magnetic field changes caused by the position changes of the ultrasonic transducer of said high-intensity focused ultrasound device, and then compensating for the temperature changes according to said magnetic field changes. The present invention can significantly reduce the temperature errors caused by the position changes of the ultrasonic transducer.