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A business form particularly adapted for use in a medical or hospital environment includes in a first embodiment a wristband assembly that is readily separable from a carrier comprised of a layer of face stock and a laminate, with the wristband including a printable face stock region die cut into the face stock and a strap portion, a laminating portion, and a cinch die cut into the laminate layer. The laminating portion includes two halves which fold together about a fold line to enclose the face stock, with the strap portion extending from one of said halves. The cinch may be located in one of two locations, either in an extension from the other side of the face stock or intermediate the face stock and the strap portion. In either case the cinch comprises a slot through which the strap portion is inserted and then adhered to itself after its length has been adjusted by the medical professional. If an extension is provided, it may be folded over to adhere to the strap portion and clamp it in place there as well as being adhered at its end back onto itself, as described. An extender is also described which includes a clamshell joinder and a tail portion. The clamshell portion may be applied to the strap portion anywhere along its length to extend the effective length of the strap portion. Any of the wristband constructions may be provided on a page sized sheet along with a plurality of self adhering labels, in any of a number of configurations, to suit any particular application, as desired by a user.

Methods and devices are provided for high-throughput printing of semiconductor precursor layer from microflake particles. In one embodiment, a solar cell is provided that comprises of a substrate, a back electrode formed over the substrate, a p-type semiconductor thin film formed over the back electrode, an n-type semiconductor thin film formed so as to constitute a pn junction with the p-type semiconductor thin film, and a transparent electrode formed over the n-type semiconductor thin film. The p-type semiconductor thin film results by processing a dense film formed from a plurality of microflakes having a material composition containing at least one element from Groups IB, IIIA, and / or VIA, wherein the dense film has a void volume of about 26% or less. The dense film may be a substantially void free film.

Methods and devices are provided for high-throughput printing of semiconductor precursor layer from microflake particles. In one embodiment, the method comprises of transforming non-planar or planar precursor materials in an appropriate vehicle under the appropriate conditions to create dispersions of planar particles with stoichiometric ratios of elements equal to that of the feedstock or precursor materials, even after settling. In particular, planar particles disperse more easily, form much denser coatings (or form coatings with more interparticle contact area), and anneal into fused, dense films at a lower temperature and / or time than their counterparts made from spherical nanoparticles. These planar particles may be microflakes that have a high aspect ratio. The resulting dense film formed from microflakes are particularly useful in forming photovoltaic devices. In one embodiment, at least one set of the particles in the ink may be inter-metallic flake particles (microflake or nanoflake) containing at least one group IB-IIIA inter-metallic alloy phase.

A miniature hydro-power generation system may produce electric power from a flow of liquid. The miniature hydro-power generation system may include a housing that includes a plurality of paddles positioned to extend outwardly from an outer surface of the housing. The system may also include a nozzle and a centering rod extending through the housing. The housing may rotate around the centering rod when a stream of liquid from the nozzle is directed at the paddles. A generator that includes a rotor and a stator may be positioned within a cavity of the housing. The rotor may be coupled with the housing and the stator may be coupled with the centering rod. The rotor may rotate around the stator at high RPM to generate electric power when the housing rotates. The electric power may supply a load and / or may be stored in an energy storage device.

Microwave generating and detection portions of a electronic circuit is improved in efficiency and reduced in size. A microwave generating element A comprises a lower electrode 1, a layer 3 formed on the lower electrode 1 in an island shape, forming a magnetoresistance element, an insulator 7 formed on the lower electrode 1 in such a manner as to surround the layer 3 forming the magnetoresistance element, and an upper electrode 5 formed on the insulator 7 and the layer 3 forming the magnetoresistance element. The layer 3 forming the magnetoresistance element includes, in order from the side of the lower electrode 1, a magnetization fixed layer 3a, an intermediate layer 3b, and a magnetization free layer 3c. The magnetization free layer 3c, which is required to produce resonance oscillation based on a current, preferably is dimensioned to be equal to or smaller than 200 nm square in a cross-sectional area and on the order of 1 to 5 nm in film thickness, for example. The magnetization fixed layer 3a, when made of a single material, is required to have a thickness 10 times or more of the thickness of the magnetization free layer 3c. The magnetization fixed layer 3a may be comprised of a magnetic metal multilayer film that utilizes antiferromagnetic coupling.

The invention provides an illumination device (1) comprising (a) a waveguide element (20) comprising a first face (21), a second face (22), and a waveguide edge (23), and (b) a LED light source (10), arranged to generate light source light (17), with optional collimating optics (11). The LED light source (10) with optional collimating optics (11) is arranged to couple at least part of the light source light (17) into the waveguide element (20) via the waveguide edge (23) of the waveguide element (20). The first face (21) comprises structures (51) arranged to couple at least part of the light out of the waveguide element (20) via the second face (22) to provide second face light (37). The illumination device (1) further comprises a cavity (80), arranged to allow light to escape from the waveguide element (20) into the cavity (80), and a reflector (81), arranged to reflect at least part of the light in the cavity (80) in a direction away from the second face (22) to provide first face light (47). Such an illumination device may allow lighting a room, for instance via the ceiling with uplight, and lighting a specific area in the room with downlight. Further, a relatively thin illumination device may be provided, which may for instance suspend from a ceiling.

A strip line integrated microwave generating element and a microwave detecting element comprises a signal electrode and a ground electrode. The element has a magnetic tunnel junction structure which includes a magnetization fixed layer, a MgO tunnel barrier layer, and a magnetization free layer. The magnetization free layer is 200 nm square or smaller in a cross-sectional area. The magnetization fixed layer is in contact with either one of the signal electrode and the ground electrode while the magnetization free layer of the element being in contact with the other. The element is smaller than the electrodes and mounted on a part of the signal electrode or the ground electrode. A MR ratio of the element is of 100% or more. A resistance value of the element is from 50Ω to 300Ω. The resistance of the element is matched with an impedance of the microwave transmission line.

Disclosed is a video transcoding apparatus converting a specific bit rate of an MPEG (moving pictures experts group) bit stream into a different rate thereof for transportation. The present invention includes a video pre-processing unit having a predetermined matrix structure and down-sampling a macro block decoded by the video decoder by transforming the macro block into a corresponding picture structure to the compressed video bit stream, a transcoding parameter control unit detecting information about a picture from a previous bit stream variable-length-decoded by the video decoder and setting up an encoding mode for a transcoding in accordance with the detected information, etc. Therefore, the present invention does not need the motion estimation unit of encoder and reduce the complexity of the bit allocation unit. When changing HD-rated MPEG sequence over 10 Mbps into NTSC-rated MPEG sequence below 6 Mbps, the present invention reduces calculation time and complexity of hardware.

The present invention discloses a DC bus voltage following control circuit suitable for multi-path parallel LEDs, which comprises a DC output power source, a DC output voltage control circuit and a load, wherein the output end of the DC output voltage power source is connected with the multi-path load formed by connecting control circuits and LED lamps in series. The present invention is characterized in that one path of highest voltage in the multi-path load is detected out by the DC output voltage control circuit, and a voltage signal which is detected out is converted into a constant circuit signal; the constant circuit signal and a voltage drop voltage signal of a LED are in a special proportion character, and then, a reference signal Vor of output circuit voltage is generated by resistance voltage dividing; the reference signal Vor is sent to the positive input end of a voltage ring as a reference signal; the reference signal is compared with an output voltage sampling signal Vosof another output end of the voltage ring, and a control signal is output to the DC output voltage source to output voltage Vo. The present invention has simple structure, and is suitable for variousconstant control circuits.

The present invention relates to a light source-guide structure having an LED as a light source and a backlight apparatus having the same. The light source-guide structure includes a light guide plate with grooves formed in a peripheral side thereof and a light source having a transparent package fitted into the groove of the light guide plate with an LED chip inside the transparent package. The structure also includes a wiring substrate for seating the LED chip and reflecting the light from the LED chip to the light guide plate and a reflection layer attached on upper surfaces of the light source and the light guide plate. With the light source inserted into the light guide plate, the loss of light is minimized while the horizontal beam angle of light from the LED is increased, minimizing the peripheral area.

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for driving a drawer of a refrigerator. In a system and method for driving a drawer of a refrigerator according to present embodiments, in a state where a storage box is withdrawn and stops, the storage box is inserted or further withdrawn in accordance with a user's intention or action to reduce cool air loss.

Disclosed are a method for performing uplink transmission or reception in a wireless communication system and a device therefor. Specifically, a method for performing uplink transmission by a terminal in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a configuration relating to a beam association between a resource in a first frequency band and a resource in a second frequency band; allocating, by the base station, the resource in the first frequency band to the terminal, wherein the first frequency band does not overlap with the second frequency band; switching the first frequency band to the second frequency band; allocating, by the base station, the resource in the second frequency band to the terminal; and on the basis of the configuration relating to the beam association, performing the uplink transmission on the resource in the second frequency band.

The invention discloses a smart energy network system and a control method thereof. The system comprises one or more regional energy network units. The regional energy network unit comprises an energy generation subsystem, an energy storage subsystem, an energy application subsystem and an energy regeneration subsystem, and further comprises a subsystem energy efficiency controller and an energy efficiency matching station, wherein the subsystem energy efficiency controller is connected with the energy generation subsystem, the energy storage subsystem, the energy application subsystem and the energy regeneration subsystem respectively; and the energy efficiency matching station is connected with the energy generation subsystem, the energy storage subsystem, the energy application subsystem and the energy regeneration subsystem by an energy network and an information network, and is used for acquiring the energy information of the regional energy network units by the information network, and scheduling the energy production, transfer, storage and conversion in the regional energy network units according to the energy information by the subsystem energy efficiency controller.

The invention discloses a distributed global optimum energy management system based on an alternating direction method of multipliers. The distributed global optimum energy management system is a system taking a plurality of energy storage devices as units under a single microgrid, the microgrid comprises different nodes, each node is connected with a corresponding energy storage module, an energy management module, a dynamic load and a renewable energy power generator, different nodes are connected with one another through a topological graph mode, information can be exchanged between adjacent nodes, the energy management parameter of each node is synchronously updated through information exchange, so that the total energy consumption of the whole microgrid is adjusted to global minimum in real time. By tracking a charge status of the energy storage module and simultaneously considering factors such as the energy supply and demand balance condition of the microgrid, the loss of a transmission line, the discontinuity of the renewable energy power generator, the dynamic change of a load and the charging / discharging efficiency of the energy storage system, the power flow on a power line is dynamically minimized, and the purpose of reducing power loss is achieved.

The present invention is directed to a novel integrated process for the recovery of sulphate of potash (SOP) from sulphate rich bittern. The process requires bittern and lime as raw materials. Kainite type mixed salt is obtained by fractional crystallization of the bittern, and is converted to schoenite which is subsequently reacted with muriate of potash (MOP) for its conversion to SOP. End liquor from kainite to schoenite conversion (SEL) is desulphated and supplemented with MgCl2 using end bittern generated in the process of making carnallite. Decomposed carnallite liquor produced is reacted with hydrated lime for preparing CaCl2 solution and high purity Mg(OH)2 having low boron content. It is shown that the liquid streams containing potash are recycled in the process, and the recovery of potash in the form of SOP is quantitative.

The present invention relates to a method of extracting lithium with high purity from a lithium bearing solution by electrolysis. More specifically, the present invention provides a method of economical extraction of lithium from the lithium bearing solution by adding a phosphorous supplying material to the solution to prepare a lithium phosphate aqueous solution subject to electrolysis.

The present invention relates to a fusion protein or peptide, the in vivo half-life of which is increased by maintaining in vivo sustained release, and to a method for increasing in vivo half-life using same. A fusion protein or peptide according to the present invention has excellent in vivo stability by binding a physiologically active protein or physiologically active peptide to an alpha-1 antitrypsin or alpha-1 antitrypsin mutant with one or more amino acids mutated to maintain the in vivo sustained release and to significantly increase the half-life thereof in blood (T1 / 2) compared to an inherent physiologically active protein or physiologically active peptide. Thus, a fusion protein or peptide according to the present invention can be useful in developing a sustained-release preparation of a protein or peptide drug.

Process for treatment of a hydrocarbon feedstock that comprises a hydrocarbon-containing liquid phase and hydrogen, in which the feedstock is separated under a pressure P1 into a liquid L1 and a gas G1, that is compressed and brought into contact with a portion of L1 under a pressure P2>2×P1 to recover a liquid L2 and a hydrogen-rich gas G2; L2 is fractionated to obtain a stabilized liquid L4a that is free of LPG and lighter products, a liquid stream of LPG, and a gas stream G4 that is recycled, and in which one of gas streams: recompressed G1 and G4 is in counter-current contact with an unstabilized liquid AL that is obtained from or extracted from L1 or L2, whereby this unstabilized liquid is supercooled by at least 10° C. below its bubble point at pressure P2.

The claimed subject matter relates to systems and / or methodologies that facilitate distributed storage of data. A distributed file system can be implemented on storage nodes such that the system places multiple copies of data (e.g., replicas) on a variety of disparate storage nodes to guarantee availability of the data and minimize loss of the data. Storage nodes are dynamically evaluated to identify respective characteristics. In one example, the characteristics can include availability of a storage node, capacity of a storage node, data storage cost associated with a storage node, data transfer costs associated with a storage node, locality of a storage node, network topology, or user preferences associated with a storage node. The characteristics can be employed to generate optimal placements decisions.

An antenna apparatus that can increase capacity in a cellular communication system. The antenna operates in conjunction with a mobile subscriber unit and provides a plurality of antenna elements, each coupled to a respective signal control component such as a phase shifter. The phase shift for each antenna element is programmed for optimum reception during, for example, an idle mode when a pilot signal is received. The antenna array creates a beam former for signals to be transmitted from the mobile subscriber unit, and a directional receiving array to more optimally detect and receive signals transmitted from the base station. By directionally receiving and transmitting signals, multipath fading is greatly reduced as well as intercell interference. The phase shifters are adjusted in a coarse and a fine mode. In the coarse mode all phase shifters are jointly incremented through several phase shift values until a signal quality metric is optimized. The coarse adjustment mode is followed by a fine adjustment mode during which the phase shifters are independently adjusted to further optimize the signal quality metric.

Input speech is coded in an encoder (11), the coded speech is decoded in a decoder (12), compensatory speech which compensates the speech of the current frame is generated in a compensatory speech generating part (20) by using past decoded speech, the quality of the compensatory speech is evaluated by using the input speech and the compensatory speech and a duplication level is generated the value of which increases incrementally with decreasing speech quality evaluation value in a speech quality evaluating part (40), and as many identical packets as the number specified by the duplication level is generated for the coded speech in a packet generating part (15), and the packets are transmitted, thereby reducing the possibility that packet loss will occur at the receiving end.

The present invention relates to a switch magnetic valve, which is taken as a pre-control valve to generate and control pressure in vehicle pneumatic braking system, wherein the switch magnetic valve comprises a first passage, used for introducing compressed-air into the switch magnetic valve or export compressed-air from the switch magnetic valve; a second passage, used for introducing compressed-air into the switch magnetic valve or export compressed-air from the switch magnetic valve; a valve chamber including a valve seat for selectively release and break off compressed-air stream; and a valve core, provided with an outer housing surface and a hole used let the compressed-air pass through. According to the invention, the valve chamber (32) is provided with a flow path (28); the flow path (28) neighbors with housing surface (70) of the valve core (24); the flow path (28) is formed by at least one gap on housing surface (70) of the valve core (24) in preference.

The invention relates to a method for implementing start-up protection on a mobile terminal, which comprises the following steps: receiving and storing a preset start-up password input by a user; when the mobile terminal enters a start-up interface, loading and executing a start-up protection program and verifying a start-up password input by the user; when the start-up password is inconsistent with the preset start-up password and continuous input times of the start-up password reach preset limited times, loading and executing an unlocking program and prompting the user to input an unlock code, and when continuous input times of the unlock code reach preset limited times, a system enters a permanent dormant state; updating an operating system and writing an awakening code of the permanent dormant state into the operating system. According to the invention, not only can the valid user still normally use the mobile terminal by inquiring and inputting the unlock code to carry out unlocking when forgetting the start-up password, but also the leakage of personal information of the user can be avoided and the loss of the user is minimized.

The invention discloses a novel peptide-link base-oligonucleotide compound and a solid phase gradual synthesis method thereof. The peptide-link base-oligonucleotide compound provided by the invention has the structure of a general formula (VIII), wherein X is a polypeptide structure part, A is substituted and unsubstituted benzene ring or carbon atom, and n is 0,1,2,3,4 or 5. The peptide conjugating oligonucleotide compound of the invention has the characteristics of simple structure, convenient synthesis and the like, the product has membrane permeability, can serve as a molecular biology tool for researching antisense oligonucleotide and small-interference RNA (siRNA) and has potential drug development prospect. The solid phase gradual synthesis method of the invention avoids difficult synthesis of the current biomacromolecule conjugate, simplifies synthesis operation, and is convenient to prepare the decorated oligonucleotide compound with high flux and multiple target spots.

The Present invention relates to a method of recognizing the human iris corresponding to a field of a biometric technology, and more particularly to a method of recognizing human iris using Daubechies wavelet transform, wherein the dimensions of characteristic vectors are reduced by extracting iris features from inputted iris image signals through the Daubechies wavelet transform, binary characteristic vectors are generated by applying quantiztion functions to the extracted characteristic values so that utility of human iris recognition can be improved since storage capacity arid processing time thereof can be improved since storage capacity characteristic vectors, and a measurement process suitable for the low capacity characteristic vectors is employed when measuring vectors and previously registered characteristic vectors.

The present invention discloses a voice data classification method based on an improved capsule network. The method comprises the steps of: in a training phase, constructing a coder of a capsule network to perform coding of initial voice phoneme data to obtain a primary capsule; constructing a dynamic routing structure of the capsule network to transmit the information in the primary capsule to ahigh-class capsule; taking a softmax excitation value of the length of each high-class capsule to represent the probability of the initial voice phoneme data belonging to a corresponding type; constructing a decoder of the capsule network to perform decoding reconstruction of the high-class capsule corresponding to real phoneme symbols; performing optimization of parameters of the capsule networkbased on a total loss function; and in a test phase, inputting the initial voice phoneme data to the coder of the capsule network to determine the type of data to be tested. The voice data classification method based on the improved capsule network can perform accurate identification of the phoneme symbols corresponding to the time sequence signals of the voice phonemes so as to solve the technical problems that the directly extracted feature accuracy is low, the voice data classification effect is poor and the over-fitting is performed according to the theoretical knowledge.

The present invention relates to a method and device for detecting the toxic materials in water by using an electrochemically active microorganism. Described in details, the present invention comprises the steps of: determining the electrical signals, generated by the microbial fuel cell; introducing the sample into the above-mentioned fuel cell; and determining the degree of changes in the electrochemical signals, generated by the above-mentioned microbial fuel cell, in order to provide a method for detecting the toxic materials in water. Thus, according to the present invention, when toxic materials are present in the sample for determination, generation of electricity by the electrically active bacteria in the microbial fuel cell is decreased remarkably, maximizing the sensitivity in determining the toxic materials. The use of the microbial fuel cell minimizes the cost and the personnel for the management and the maintenance of the sensor part.

A radiation-sensitive patterning composition comprising:(1) at least one acid generating compound selected from the group of compounds of formulae (I) or (II): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6, are individually selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, nitro group, hydroxyl group, a carbonyl group, a halogen atom, a cyano group and an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted cycloalkyl group; an unsubstituted or substituted alkoxy group, or an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group;wherein X+ represents an onium ion selected from the group consisting of diazonium, iodonium, sulfonium, phosphonium, bromonium, chloronium, oxysulfoxonium, oxysulfonium, sulfoxonium, selenium, tellurium and arsenium; andwherein n is an integer from 4 to 100;(2) at least one cross-linking agent cross-linkable by an acid;(3) at least one polymer compound capable of reacting with the cross-linking agent; and(4) at least one infrared absorbing compound.