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The present invention comprises methods, system, and apparatuses for generating and delivering analytic results for any simple or highly complex problem for which data exists that software or similar automated means can analyze. The present invention thus contemplates methods, systems, apparatuses, software, software processes, computer-readable medium, and / or data structures to enable performance of these and other features. In one embodiment, a method of the present invention comprises extracting and converting data using a data management component into a form usable by a data mining component, performing data mining to develop a model in response to a question or problem posed by a user.

The system described herein enables clinicians and researchers to use aggregated genetic and phenotypic data from clinical trials and medical records to make the safest, most effective treatment decisions for each patient. This involves (i) the creation of a standardized ontology for genetic, phenotypic, clinical, pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic and other data sets, (ii) the creation of a translation engine to integrate heterogeneous data sets into a database using the standardized ontology, and (iii) the development of statistical methods to perform data validation and outcome prediction with the integrated data. The system is designed to interface with patient electronic medical records (EMRs) in hospitals and laboratories to extract a particular patient's relevant data. The system may also be used in the context of generating phenotypic predictions and enhanced medical laboratory reports for treating clinicians. The system may also be used in the context of leveraging the huge amount of data created in medical and pharmaceutical clinical trials. The ontology and validation rules are designed to be flexible so as to accommodate a disparate set of clients. The system is also designed to be flexible so that it can change to accommodate scientific progress and remain optimally configured.

Embodiments of systems and methods model and generate open reusable, business components for Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) from existing client / server applications. Applications are decomposed into business component frameworks with separate user interface, business logic, and event management layers to enable service-oriented development of new enterprise applications. Such layers are re-assembled through an open standards-based, Native Application Services (NAS) to render similar or near identical transactional functionality within a new application on an open platform, without breaking former production code, and without requiring a change in an end-user's business processes and / or user experience. In addition, the same separated layers may form re-usable business components at any desired level of granularity for re-use in external composite applications through industry-standard interfaces, regardless of usage, context, or complexity in the former Client / Server application.

A networked system and method for improving hygiene practices includes an interactive communication system of user devices and an information engine. Wired and wireless data transmission methods are provided.

A consumer pays their bills using a bill payment service that reports actual payment information to a consumer reporting agency repository. The consumer requests the bill payment service to send their payment information to the CRA repository each month on their behalf to show they pay their bills on time when applying for credit. The bill payment service reports actual bill payment to the CRA reports on behalf of its customers requesting the reporting service. All bill payment data maintained in the CRA repository is maintained securely and will not be released without the consent of the consumer. The bill payment data maintained in the repository is used to report a credit score in addition to the payment data being reported, which occurs only when the consumer authorizes the release of the data.

A backplane connector including a substrate and a backplane connector set attached to the substrate. The backplane connector set includes a plurality of interconnect elements each having a conductive trace, a first contact member, and a second contact members matched to the first contact member. The first and second contact members extend beyond perimeter edges of the substrate. A plurality of conductive tie bars retain the interconnect elements in a fixed relationship prior to attachment to the substrate. Additive printing processes can be used to form the conductive traces.

An information system is provided that enables stakeholders to define a secure data object that sets permissions, rules, and rights for an asset. The secure data object may be communicated to entities, such as computer hosts or hardware agents, and the entities are enable to act within the permissions, rules, and rights to conduct transactions and gather information as agents of the stakeholders. The secure data object may be received into a hardware agent attached to an asset, and the agent may have sufficient permission to monitor environmental conditions, adjust pricing, consummate a transaction, or communicate a report.

A creditor creates a lock box at a financial institution. The lock box includes an escrow provision. A consumer makes regularly scheduled payments to the financial institution and designates the payment either for the creditor's lock box or for the escrow account. The financial institution reports all payments and escrow events to the creditor and to the credit payment data repository. All credit payment data maintained in the credit data repository is maintained securely and will not be released without the consent of the consumer. The credit data maintained in the repository is used to report a credit score, which occurs only when the consumer authorizes the release of the data.

An office chair includes a base and a height adjustable seat mounted to the base and having a front end. The base includes a pair of centrally positioned, laterally spaced apart drive wheels that are manually operated by a user or which are motorized.

A creditor creates a lock box at a financial institution. The lock box includes an escrow provision. A consumer makes regularly scheduled payments to the financial institution and designates the payment either for the creditor's lock box or for the escrow account. The financial institution reports all payments and escrow events to the creditor and to credit payment data repository. All credit payment data maintained in the credit data repository is maintained securely and will not be released without the consent of the consumer. The credit data maintained in the repository is used to report a credit score, which occurs only when the consumer authorizes the release of the data.

A primitives library facilitates compiling, linking, and execution of programs that use specialized processors to perform primitive tasks. Data associated with a primitive may be accessed by a specialized-processor-based storage node manager independently of any other processing device.

An apparatus includes an imaging probe and is configured for dynamically arranging presentation of visual feedback (144) for guiding manual adjustment, via the probe, of a location, and orientation, associated with the probe. The arranging is selectively based on comparisons (321) between fields of view of the probe and respective results of segmenting image data acquired via the probe. In an embodiment, the feedback does not include (175) a grayscale depiction of the image data. Coordinate system trans formations corresponding to respective comparisons may be computed. The selecting may be based upon and dynamically responsive to content of imaging being dynamically acquired via the probe.

Controlling a multimedia software application using high-level metadata features and symbolic object labels derived from an audio source, wherein a first-pass of low-level signal analysis is performed, followed by a stage of statistical and perceptual processing, followed by a symbolic machine-learning or data-mining processing component is disclosed. This multi-stage analysis system delivers high-level metadata features, sound object identifiers, stream labels or other symbolic metadata to the application scripts or programs, which use the data to configure processing chains, or map it to other media. Embodiments of the invention can be incorporated into multimedia content players, musical instruments, recording studio equipment, installed and live sound equipment, broadcast equipment, metadata-generation applications, software-as-a-service applications, search engines, and mobile devices.

An InGaAs / InAlAs-based avalanche photodetector provides high gain and high bandwidth over a range of operating biases. A graded transition region alleviates the barrier to electron transport from the absorption region to the multiplication region when an operating bias is applied. The graded transition region is a graded bandgap material with a relatively wide bandwidth in the region closer to the multiplication region and a relatively narrow bandgap in the region closer to the absorption region. In another embodiment, a p-type dopant profile is introduced within the absorption layer to produce an electrostatic field which accelerates electrons towards the multiplication region. In another embodiment, a bi-level multiplication region with a wide bandgap ternary layer and a narrower bandgap quarternary layer is provided at an increased thickness to improve gain per unit length.

The computerized method creates, maintains and displays realtime indexes and a trading database for diamonds or other commodities. The method maintains, on a periodic trading basis, and displays upon command, a computerized database representing diamonds available for sale. Data is processed from the database for a plurality of predetermined stone profiles grouped into statistically significant segments. The stone profiles are statistically relevant to the corresponding segment and to the entire market represented by the commodity database. Sub-indexes or segments are displayed in addition to constituent stone profiles. Trend indicators, historical data and buyer and seller data is also displayed. A member database shows all contact data for each buyer and seller and the system may include a communications routine to facilitate sales.

A protected transition metal hexacyanoferrate (TMHCF) battery cathode is presented, made from AxMyFez(CN)n.mH2O particles, where the A cations are either alkali or alkaline-earth cations, and M is a transition metal. In one aspect the cathode passivation layer may be materials such as oxides, simple salts, carbonaceous materials, or polymers that form a film overlying the AxMyFez(CN)n.mH2O particles. In another aspect, the cathode passivation layer is a material such as oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, fluorine, chlorine, or iodine that interacts with the AxMyFez(CN)n.mH2O particles, to cure defects in the AxMyFez(CN)n.mH2O crystal lattice structure. Also presented are TMHCF battery synthesis methods.

Limited-number-of-use neuromodulator apparatuses that may be comfortably worn on the skin of a user to non-invasively apply transdermal electrical stimulation (TES). The apparatuses described herein may be include a flexible / bendable substrate and an elastomeric cover (e.g., formed of an elastomeric fabric). These apparatuses may be simplified, to run autonomously. These apparatuses may also include improved power management features.

A system, method and apparatus where one party's item or plurality of items can be electronically exchanged for currency, goods and services or plurality of currency, goods and services of another party using a public network such as the internet. Users of the invention can create offers and make payment using currency, goods, services or a combination of currency, goods and services. A computer will store in a central database a list of items that are searchable to users of the system and items which are available for exchange. Users can store in a central database, items and services associated with the said user, to be available as a resource for an electronic exchange. The invention will provide the system, rules and processes in beginning, negotiating and completing an exchange. Invention will provide user interfaces, database search capabilities, user rating features and account management features to facilitate electronic exchanges.

An imaging steering apparatus includes sensors and an imaging processor configured for: acquiring, via multiple ones of the sensors and from a current position (322), and current orientation (324), an image of an object of interest; based on a model, segmenting the acquired image; and determining, based on a result of the segmenting, a target position (318), and target orientation (320), with the target position and / or target orientation differing correspondingly from the current position and / or current orientation. An electronic steering parameter effective toward improving the current field of view may be computed, and a user may be provided instructional feedback (144) in navigating an imaging probe toward the improving. A robot can be configured for, automatically and without need for user intervention, imparting force (142) to the probe to move it responsive to the determination.

The invention discloses an LED epitaxial wafer with a quantum well barrier layer, a growing method and an LED structure. The LED epitaxial wafer with the quantum well barrier layer structurally comprises a substrate, a GaN buffer layer, an undoped GaN layer, an n-type GaN layer, a light-emitting layer MQW, a P-type AlGaN layer and a P-type GaN layer sequentially from bottom to top. The light-emitting layer MQW comprises a combination of an InxGa(1-x)N / InyGa(1-y)N quantum well layer and an InmGa(1-m)N / AlnGa(1-n)N quantum well layer, wherein x ranges from 0.15 to 0.25, y ranges from 0.05 to 0.10, m ranges from 0.15 to 0.25 and n ranges from 0.10 to 0.15. The number of electrons overflowing out of a quantum well is decreased, hole injection to the quantum well is improved, concentration of the electrons and holes in the quantum well is improved, device luminous efficiency is improved, and light output is improved by about 8%.

A flexible organic electroluminescent device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The device comprises a substrate (101), an anode layer (103), a hole-injecting layer (104), a hole-transporting layer (105), a light-emitting layer (106), an electron-transporting layer (107), an electron-injecting layer (108), and a cathode layer (109), which are stacked in order. The device further comprises a buffer layer (102) between the substrate (101) and the anode layer (103). The anode layer (103) is a multilayer composite structure, which comprises ZnS / Ag / MoO3. The bonding force between the anode layer (103) and the substrate (101) is enhanced by inserting buffer layer (102). The device has a good bending endurance performance, a stable luminous property and a high light emitting efficiency.

The present disclosure provides an apparatus and system that may allow a user to facilitate the flow of traffic over contained environments or otherwise. This apparatus and system may improve management for the flow of traffic by providing a lower barrier for entry for municipalities and other entities to collaborate on traffic management. In some embodiments, those in control may create a tiered system for a series of lights within a connected block. In some implementations, those in control may create a tiered system over a larger grid system, such as an entire neighborhood, district, city, or state. In some aspects, the apparatus and system may allow those in control to set priorities for how to handle developing traffic conditions.

An image considering the visual field of a visual disorder person is reproduced with high fidelity, and an image matching the visual field of a visual disorder person is corrected to display a clear image, respectively by using visual information conversion correction coefficients. Barriers of visual disorder persons can be reduced. An input image for vision reproduction is corrected by converting values of the XYZ chromaticity coordinates in accordance with the vision characteristics data of the XYZ chromaticity coordinates for a simulated person. A reproduced image with the visual situation of the simulated person is output in accordance with the corrected input image.

Disclosed is an automated recruitment game for identifying candidates having desired traits. The game can include some or all of the following computer implemented steps: creating a user identity for each candidate, associating the user identity with a specific electronic device, creating a game tailored to identify a plurality of desired traits in candidates, presenting the tailored game to the candidate on the specific electronic device associated with the candidate's user identity, wherein the manner in which the tailored game is presented is selected based on a degree of desired authentication of the candidate, scoring the candidates game play of the tailored game and comparing the score to a set of limits, and automatically informing the candidate of at least one next step in a recruitment process based on the comparison of the candidates score to the set of limits.