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Electronic content is filtered to identify spam using image and linguistic processing. A plurality of information type gatherers assimilate and output different message attributes relating to message content associated with an information type. A categorizer may have a plurality of decision makers for providing as output a message class for classifying the message data. A history processor records the message attributes and the class decision as part of the prior history information and/or modifies the prior history information to reflect changes to fixed data and/or probability data. A categorizer coalescer assesses the message class output by the set of decision makers together with optional user input for producing a class decision identifying whether the message data is spam.

A method for motivating a user including the steps of providing a device with an image capturing feature; capturing an image of the user with the image capturing feature; transmitting the captured image to an identity verification device; comparing biometric data from the image to a biometric profile provided by the user; generating a motivational image of the user with a processing device, the motivational image being produced from an acquired image of the user, the acquired image depicting at least one feature of the user; and displaying the motivational image from the processing device in substantially real time to the user; wherein the motivational image exclusively depicts a real image of the user having enhanced dimensions for the at least one feature.

Various types of food preparation pans such as but not limited to food preparation pans used for baking, steaming, chilling, freezing and molding various foods and food combinations intended for consumption are disclosed. The pan includes a plurality of thermal conveyance depressions protruding in a vertically oriented disposition relative to a horizontal inner pan bottom surface; and upwardly projected depressions in an outer pan bottom surface of the thermal conveyance depressions to form hollow depressions spaced in between by bridging portions.

A system for bar code error detection in large volume mailings against a print run which prints the bar code on a mail piece. The system checks the print quality of the bar code and compares it with pre-selected standards. The bar code is then decoded, and compared to a database in the computer to confirm that the bar code is valid. The system then prints out a report to certify the sampling, comparisons and error rate for all verification tests. The report may be used by the United States Post Office to expedite bulk mailing by a direct mailer.

The invention providing methods of loading and unloading particulate from microchannels in apparatus that contains multiple microchannels, typically apparatus that is designed to operate with hundreds or thousands of particulate-containing microchannels. Aligning a sonicating head at one end of a set of microchannels provides a particularly effective mode for densifying particulate in microchannels.

A compact self-ballasted fluorescent lamp includes a double-spiral arc tube and a holder. The holder has a tubular protrusion which is surrounded by the arc tube, at a center of its main surface. A closed end of the protrusion and a part of the arc tube facing the end of the protrusion are bonded together using a silicone adhesive. A part of a vertical printed circuit board that is used as a lighting circuit is housed within the protrusion.

The present invention relates to an intermediate hard disk drive adapter for a computer system and, in particular, to an inexpensive high performance, high reliability intermediate hard disk drive adapter for a computer system that allows periodic multiple data archiving.

A printer including a transport system for a recording medium, a printhead containing a plurality of print units each of which being capable of printing a pixel line when the printhead is scanned over the recording medium, and a failure compensation unit for controlling the print operation such that a failure of a print unit is compensated, wherein a segmentation unit is provided for dividing an image to be printed into segments containing different types of image information, and wherein the failure compensation unit includes a memory for storing a plurality of compensation strategies and a controller for selecting one of said compensation strategies in accordance with the segment to be printed.

Method of fixing marking particles to sheets having different basis weights in a continuous stream of receiver sheets, includes: providing two fixing members which engage each other to form a nip, at least one of the members being heated; and adjusting at least one parameter including temperature, speed, or pressure in the fixing nip, which will provide a predetermined gloss upon the sheet(s). The method further includes feeding the sheets of the higher basis weight through the nip so that the higher basis weight sheet(s) is fed more times through the nip than the other sheet(s); and applying marking particles to the prepared heavier basis weight sheets and passing them through the nip so that the gloss formed by the marking particles is substantially the same for heavier basis weight sheets as for lighter basis weight sheets.

An ion implantation system includes a beamline configured to direct an ion beam toward an end station configured to hold or support a workpiece, and a scanning system. The scanning system is configured to scan the end station past the ion beam in a two-dimensional fashion comprising a first scan axis along a first direction and a second scan axis along a second direction that is different than the first direction. The system further includes a supplemental scanning component operably associated with the scanning system, and configured to effectuate a scanning of the ion beam with respect to the end station along a third scan axis having a third direction that is different than the first direction.

The present invention discloses a process for the polymerization of olefins in the presence of a catalyst comprising metal complexes of 2,6-diacetylpyridine bis-imines Preferably, the metal is a trivalent metal is selected from the group consisting of trivalent Fe, Ru, or Cr.

The embodiment of the invention provides a freight ordering method and system, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out the marking of the ordering priority of working platforms in advance; recognizing the working platform which carries out the ordering preferentially if the plurality of working platforms send ordering instructions in the same period; judging whether the carrying feature information of the working platform which carries out the ordering preferentially meets a preset condition of the preferential ordering or not: carrying out the preferential ordering of the working platform which carries out the ordering preferentially if the carrying feature information of the working platform meets the preset condition of the preferential ordering. The method achieves the markingof the ordering priority of the working platforms in advance, achieves the recognition of the working platform which carries out the ordering preferentially when the plurality of working platforms send ordering instructions in the same period, and judges whether the carrying feature information of the working platform which carries out the ordering preferentially meets the preset condition of thepreferential ordering or not, so as to determine whether to carry out the preferential ordering of the working platform which carries out the ordering preferentially. Therefore, the method can guarantee that the important working platform is always in a working state, prevents the important working platform from being in an idle state, avoids the capacity loss caused by an ordering platform, andimproves the production efficiency.

A method and system to treat headaches in a patient by performing surgery via at least one nostril. Data from a computer tomography scan of at least one nasal cavity and one sinus cavity of the patient and a completed headache questionnaire are matched to at least one nasal/sinus surgery plan to operate on at least one of; a nasal septum, at least one sinus cavity and at least one turbinate of the patient. The surgery plan is executed by installing a topical local anesthetic and decongestant onto the at least one turbinate forming an anesthetized decongested nasal cavity; infusing an anesthetic into the anesthetized decongested nasal cavity of the patient; dilating the at least one sinus ostium; incising at least one of: a first mucosal flap or a second mucosal Hap of the nasal septum of the anesthetized decongested nasal cavity to expose deviated septal cartilage and bone; removing deviated cartilage and/or bone of the nasal septum; fracturing the at least one turbinate laterally away from the nasal septum; inspecting between the first mucosal flap and the second mucosal flap for a residual broken hone, a residual segment of cartilage or combinations thereof, surgically closing the first mucosal flap and the second mucosal flap of the nasal septum; and suctioning unwanted matter from the anesthetized decongested nasal cavity. An interactive system guides the surgery and provides a record thereof.

A zoneless pick-to-light method and system initially inducts a group of totes into an initial picking station by scanning a tote identifier for each tote in the group. A product order is assigned to each tote in the inducted group of totes, such that matching a product in the picking station with the order causes a light to be illuminated adjacent to the corresponding product needed to fulfill the order. A user scans a personal identification and picks and places the desired quantity of the product to fulfill the product order for each tote at the station. The group of totes are moved in a flow direction to an adjacent picking station, where the user can elect to either follow the group of totes to the adjacent downstream picking station or abandon the group of totes, such that a different user may complete the product orders for the group of totes.

The present invention relates to the making of perfluoropolymer articles ink-printable, by incorporating into said fluoropolymer prior to printing, at least 10 wt % of inorganic particulate filler, and preferably an effective amount of hydrocarbon polymer to disperse the filler in the perfluoropolymer.

The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a panel. According to the method, employing an ink containing particles of metal or particles of metal oxide allows transparent electrodes to be formed with high dimensional accuracy and little loss of productivity. Specifically, the transparent electrodes are formed in a manner that an ink containing particles of metal or particles of metal oxide is printed by inkjet printing as a plurality of ink dots with different diameters onto the front substrate.

Herein is reported a method for determining methylation of a promoter nucleic acid operably linked to a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide and thereby determining the long-term productivity of a cell. Also an aspect is a method for selecting a cell for producing a polypeptide by determining the methylation of the promoter nucleic acid operably linked to the structural gene encoding the polypeptide.

A coating composition comprising (A) an organosiloxane obtained from hydrosilylation reaction of an organohydrogensiloxane having at least two hydrosilyl groups with an alkenyl-containing alkoxysilane, and (B) an organometallic catalyst is fast curable at low temperature. The cured coating is crack resistant.