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Systems and methods are provided for collecting, preparing, and/or analyzing a biological sample. A sample collection site may be utilized with one or more sample processing device. The sample processing device may be configured to accept a sample from a subject. The sample processing device may perform one or more sample preparation step and/or chemical reaction involving the sample. Data related to the sample may be sent from the device to a laboratory. The laboratory may be a certified laboratory that may generate a report that is transmitted to a health care professional. The health care professional may rely on the report for diagnosing, treating, and/or preventing a disease in the subject.

The invention comprises a robotic microscope system and methods that allow high through-put analysis biological materials, particularly living cells, and allows precise return to and re-imaging of the same field (e.g., the same cell) that has been imaged earlier. This capability enables experiments and testing hypotheses that deal with causality over time intervals which are not possible with conventional microscopy methods.

Systems and methods are provided for collecting, preparing, and/or analyzing a biological sample. A sample collection site may be utilized with one or more sample processing device. The sample processing device may be configured to accept a sample from a subject. The sample processing device may perform one or more sample preparation step and/or chemical reaction involving the sample. Data related to the sample may be sent from the device to a laboratory. The laboratory may be a certified laboratory that may generate a report that is transmitted to a health care professional. The health care professional may rely on the report for diagnosing, treating, and/or preventing a disease in the subject.

Systems and methods are provided for collecting, preparing, and/or analyzing a biological sample. A sample collection site may be utilized with one or more sample processing device. The sample processing device may be configured to accept a sample from a subject. The sample processing device may perform one or more sample preparation step and/or chemical reaction involving the sample. Data related to the sample may be sent from the device to a laboratory. The laboratory may be a certified laboratory that may generate a report that is transmitted to a health care professional. The health care professional may rely on the report for diagnosing, treating, and/or preventing a disease in the subject.

A client device presents streaming media and includes a stream manager, a request accelerator, and a source component coupled to the stream manager and the request accelerator for determining which requests to make. A rate selection process can make rate decisions so that the buffer is filled when it is low, avoiding erratically changing rates and can choose the correct steady rate quickly. Multimedia download strategies can be used for HTTP that allow for accurate rate estimations, achieving link capacity even if network delays and packet loss rates are high, achieving timely delivery of the stream, and achieving relatively steady download rates with little short term variability. A receiver might use multiple HTTP connections, decompose media requests into smaller chunk requests, synchronize the connections using TCP flow control mechanisms, and request data in bursts. In addition, the receiver might use an HTTP pipelining process to keep the connections busy.

A microbolometer IR FPA is provided with in-situ vacuum sensing capability by realizing that the IR sensor microbolometer pixel element itself may be used as a vacuum sensor. The application of an electrical signal to the resistive element heats the bolometer material thereby producing a variable resistance related to vacuum level. The degree of variability for a given material depends on the efficiency of heat transfer from the material to the surrounding environment. In a good vacuum, heat transfer is poor, and thus heat will be retained in the material to produce a relatively large temperature increase and the resistance variability will be large. In a poor vacuum, heat is readily transferred to the environment and the temperature rise will be relatively small and thus resistance variability will be small. Consequently, the variable resistance magnitude can be readout to determine the vacuum level.

An improved profileometry data collection and analysis system employing software that performs clustering analysis on library data stored in memory that represent semiconductor chip wafer profiles, for use in matching real-time data signals from data collected by profileometry instruments. To better perform a match in real-time between the incoming real-time data signals and the profile library data, cluster analysis is performed on the library data to partition the library data into clusters, and to extract representative cluster data points of the clusters. The representatives of the clusters are stored in primary memory (e.g., RAM), while the data forming the clusters are stored in secondary memory (e.g., a hard drive). A real-time data signal is then first compared to the representative cluster data points, and when a match is made with a particular representative cluster data point, the cluster associated with the representative cluster data point is loaded from secondary memory into primary memory. Next a further search is made with the incoming real-time data signal to find the closest match to the data in the cluster. In this way the entire library data does not have to be searched sequentially, and the entire library does not have to reside in primary memory in order to be quickly searched, which both conserves time and primary memory.

A label inspection system fixture (1) has a scanner and housing (10) for performing full inline or offline inspection within a printer (20). The fixture (1) comprises a control circuit (5) with a processor within a curved guide plate (6). The scanner (10) communicates with the circuit (5), which in turn communicates with a host computer (VPU). The VPU identifies regions in a scanned label and applies to each region an inspection tool associated with that region. At least some of said tools include a stored training image and associated test data defining said regions and inspection criteria for the regions.

The invention discloses a large-size wafer level nano-patterned sapphire substrate imprinting device and method. The method is characterized by (1) depositing a hard mask layer and spin-coating a resist for nanoimprint on the sapphire substrate; (2) adopting a roll-to-flat nanoimprint process and device to pattern the resist; (3) transferring the patterns on the resist to the hard mask layer and the sapphire substrate; and (4) removing the resist and the hard mask layer and washing the patterned sapphire substrate. The device and the method can be used for patterned manufacturing of the substrates made of silicon carbide, silicon, gallium arsenide, gallium nitride and other materials and manufacturing of such micro-nano structures as solar cells, fuel cell bipolar plates, micro-optical lenses, micro-fluidic devices and the like. The device has the characteristics of simple structure, low cost, high productivity, large imprint area and suitability for scale manufacturing.

The invention provides a structural laminwood and a preparation method thereof. The laminwood is stacked and glued by 2-7 layers of veneers, wherein the grade of the external layer veneer of the laminwood is equal to the grade of the adjacent internal layer veneer or higher than the adjacent internal layer veneer by one grade; the veneer grade is determined by the average value of flexural elastic modulus of the target grades of all veneers; and compared with the veneers with lower grades, the veneers with higher grades have greater average value of the flexural elastic modulus of the target grades. The method lengthens the stock lumbers of short dimensions by mechanical stress grading and uses the lengthened stock lumbers as the veneers, then configures the veneer structures according to a grade configuration principle and coldly presses and glues the veneers to prepare the structural laminwood. The laminwood has excellent structural performance and can be used for the components such as beams, columns, and the like in wood structure buildings or other buildings.

The invention discloses a glue laminated wood member with controllable dimensional stability and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the field of glue laminated wood preparation. The glue laminated wood member with controllable dimensional stability is composed of laminated sheets and adhesive layers through pressed superimposition, wherein each laminated sheet is an indentation laminated sheet which is processed by using solid-wood dimension stocks through transverse widening and longitudinal lengthening, the indentation laminated sheet is provided with continuous or discontinuous indentations along the texture direction, the adhesive layers adhered to the surfaces of the indentation laminated sheets are arranged between adjacent indentation laminated sheets, and adhesives are filled in the indentations. The glue laminated wood member with controllable dimensional stability is prepared through the steps of processing indentations, controlling the moisture content and the like, and the prepared glue laminated wood member with controllable dimensional stability solves the problems that the durability of common glue laminated wood members is poor caused by that middle-layer plates of the common glue laminated wood members are delaminated or subjected to shear failure or the stress between laminated sheets is concentrated due to environment temperature changes, or the quality of members prepared by using fast-growing wood is uncontrollable, the strength of the members is degraded caused by traditional wood removal through slotting, and the like.

The piezoelectric vibrating piece (20) comprises a base portion (29) having an adhesive area on a first surface of electrically conductive adhesive 31 for mounting, a pair of vibrating arms (21) extending in a first direction from one edge of the base portion, base electrodes (23a, 25a) arranged in the base portion, an exciting electrode (23c, 25c) extending in a first direction and connecting the base electrode to excite a pair of vibrating arms. The area where the base electrodes (23a, 25a) conduct the electrically conductive adhesive (31) is smaller than the adhesive area (33).

The invention discloses a test method for measuring maximum dry density of soil and stone mixture of a road subgrade. The test method comprises the following steps of loading samples into a test die by two times, fixing onto a vibration compaction test instrument, and performing vibration compaction for two times, wherein the vibration compaction time is 50s each time, the parameter setting of the compaction test instrument is as follows: the vibration frequency is 25Hz, the excitation vibration force is 5.5kN, the nominal vibration amplitude is 1.4mm, the loading mass is 110+/-2kg, the unloading mass is 170+/-2kg, the eccentric block included angle is 0 degree, and the pressure of the static surface is 109kPa; testing the water content of each sample, and calculating the dry density of each sample; repeating the compaction test for five times, and drawing the dry density-water content relationship curve, wherein the transverse coordinate is the water content, and the longitudinal coordinate is the dry density; the dry density corresponding to the curve peak is the maximum dry density roudmax, and the corresponding water content is optimum water content omega0. The test method has the advantages that the operation is simple and convenient, the results are reliable, the variance is small, and the destroy to the raw materials is small.

A multilayer body which includes a low-resistance metal layer having a low electrical resistance, excellent thermal resistance and low surface irregularity is provided. The multilayer body includes a substrate, and a low-resistance metal layer which is formed on the substrate and has a single-layer structure or a multilayer structure of two or more sublayers. The low-resistance metal layer includes a gold-containing layer or sublayer composed of gold and another metal.