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A method of analyzing and presenting a series of risk factors associated with the operation of a business, such as a bank. Quantifiable risk factors are identified. Ranges of acceptable and unacceptable values for the factors are selected and arranged to each factor. Each risk factor has an immediacy value, or risk tolerance, assigned to it. A business is evaluated by measuring the actual values for each factor found in the business, comparing the actual values to the user-defined acceptable value ranges for each factor and creating a report identifying unacceptable valued risk factors and their immediacy value to the business. The measuring, evaluating and reporting may be automated using a computer, or portions can be done manually.

A patient monitoring system can display one or more configurable health monitors on a configurable user interface. The health indicators are configured to display a physiological signal from a patient. The patient monitoring system can calculate ranges of values for the health indicator that correspond to a status of the patient. The health indicators can display different outputs based on the value of the physiological signal.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a currency processing device for receiving and processing a stack of currency bills is disclosed. The currency processing device comprises an input receptacle for receiving a stack of bills to be processed, a plurality of output receptacles for receiving bills after the bills have been processed, a transport mechanism for transporting the bills from the input receptacle to the output receptacles, and a discriminating unit for examining the bills. The output receptacles are arranged such that a center of at least one output receptacle is laterally offset from a center of the input receptacle. The discriminating unit includes a detector positioned between the input receptacle and the output receptacles and is adapted to determine the denomination of bills.

A system and method provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for users to monitor and manage sensitive information within an enterprise network. The GUI can provide users with information, such as the presence of input/output devices (I/O device), the location of documents containing sensitive information (sensitive documents), and the status of local security policy. The GUI can also provide users with real-time information, such as the occurrence of local security policy violations, the life-cycle of sensitive documents, and the sensitive information dynamic flow within the enterprise network.

A system and associated processes which permit organizations to objectively evaluate compliance levels for data integration implementations and other application development platforms. An implementation scorecard analytics feature is provided to the user to permit analysis and computation of a score representing a level of maturity and/or compliance of the code being analyzed. Also disclosed are a system and process for evaluating mapping complexity in a data integration implementation and a transformation, session, and workflow attribute configuration management system, which provides a more granular level reporting for transformation, session, and workflow attributes to diagnose variations in implementations.

The present invention comprises a user interface for systems and methods for sedation and analgesia delivery. The user interface receives input from a user of a sedation and analgesia delivery system and relays information regarding the system, the administration of sedation and analgesia, physiological conditions to the user in a context sensitive manner. The information relayed may be displayed to the user on a touch sensitive screen or multi-layer display device. The display may be segregated geographically or may be color coded on the display device where the geographic location and/or color of the displayed information relates further information to the user.

The invention provides advanced software architected to leverage the operational data volumes from information technology (IT), intelligent devices and machines supported and maintained by IT or end users for use by business groups or individuals in order to create low Total Cost of Operation (TCO) processes that enable data sources to be transferred, modified, and computations performed based on the needs of the end users operating independently or within the enterprise data assets to cost-effectively capture any data source and place that within the enterprise's standard data structures and processes. The invention provides the end user options with capability to re-structure, copy, and re-position data for ongoing corporate applications via a selection of options methodology that is supported by usage of the end user's versions of spreadsheet software.

A method for simulating aerial images is provided where the integrand of a transmission cross-coefficient (TCC) integral is formed from defocused paraxial pupil transfer functions, and contour integration is performed over the boundary of the intersection of the offset pupil functions and the source function. Preferably, the paraxial pupil functions are approximated by a second order Taylor series expansion. The integrand is preferably parameterized in terms of the angles subtending the arcs of the boundary of the integration region, and the integrand is further approximated by an expansion of analytically integrable terms having an error term that substantially monotically decreases as the number of expansion terms increases. Additional factors such as aberrations and amplitude variations can be included by using functions that are simply multipied with the defocused paraxial pupil functions in the integrand. The integrands provide fast computations of TCC integrals that are accurate to within a desired tolerance.

The present invention models dynamic behavior of flight vehicles for simulation, analysis, and design. The present invention allows a user to define the complexity of a flight vehicle model, and such models may be simple rigid body models, models of medium complexity, or very complex models including high order dynamics comprising hundreds of structural flexibility modes and variables related to aero-elasticity, fuel sloshing, various types of effectors, tail-wags-dog dynamics, complex actuator models, load-torque feedback, wind gusts, and other parameters impacting flight vehicles. The present invention accommodates and analyzes multiple vehicle and actuator concepts and configurations as defined in flight vehicle input data, which specifies flight vehicle parameters at a steady-state condition for modeling flight vehicle response to dynamic forces and flight control commands with respect to steady state operation.

Some embodiments provide a timeline search tool for searching and navigating a timeline. The timeline search tool includes a search field that allows a user to search for clips. In some embodiments, each clip in the list of clips is selectable such that a selection of the clip causes the timeline to navigate to the position of the clip in the timeline. In some embodiments, the timeline search tool allows a user to search for clips based on keywords or markers.

Methods, systems, and devices for marking the location of a biopsy are disclosed, including loading a navigation plan into a navigation system with the navigation plan including a CT volume generated from a plurality of CT images, inserting a probe into a patient's airways with the probe including a location sensor in operative communication with the navigation system, registering a sensed location of the probe with the CT volume of the navigation plan, selecting a target in the navigation plan, navigating the probe and location sensor to the target, storing a position of the location sensor in the navigation system as a biopsy location, and performing a biopsy at the stored biopsy location.

The present invention relates to a device and method to control suction in a patient environment. The device comprises a body portion having an interior chamber adapted for coupling to a source of the vacuum; a valve comprising a shaft rotatably coupled to the body portion; and an actuator coupled to the shaft of the valve. In operation the valve is rotatable between i) a first position in which the vacuum is provided to the interior chamber via the valve at a first predetermined level and ii) a second position in which the vacuum is interrupted to the interior chamber. The actuator is adapted to move between a first position and a second position which increases the vacuum in the interior chamber to a second predetermined level for clearing occluded suction lines in the patient circuit.

A system designs a thin and relatively flat microwave focusing lens that can produce multiple simultaneous beams, using readily-available isotropic dielectric materials, and having a gradient-index (GRIN) profile. The design optimizes the lens to achieve beam scanning and/or multiple beams over a wide field of regard (FOR) with broad bandwidth and a very short focal length compared with conventional lenses. The lens can be used individually or as an element in a more complex antenna having multiple lenses in various orientations that are independently switched, selected and/or excited simultaneously as elements in a phased array. The antenna terminal incorporates such lens into an array of lenses along with one or more feeds to produce single or multiple beams covering a broad field of regard for such applications as satellite communications on-the-move, cellular, broadband point-point or point-multipoint and other terrestrial or satellite communications systems. The lens and array design support multiple simultaneous independently steerable beams as well as null placement for interference cancellation.

Systems and methods for rapidly analyzing cell containing samples, for example to identify morphology or to localize and quantitate biomarkers are disclosed.

A hand-held digital camera for obtaining images of a portion of a patient's body and having a hand-held housing, a visible light source located within the housing for providing light along an illumination path from the housing aperture to the patient's body, an image sensor located within the housing that detects light returning from the patient's body along an imaging path that passes into the housing aperture, an optical system located within the housing with separate illumination and imaging paths, an external optical aperture common to the illumination and imaging systems, wherein the illumination and imaging sub-apertures are wholly contained within the common external aperture, are longitudinally coincident, and are laterally separated and non-overlapping, a digital memory device for storing captured images, an output display carried by the housing, and the ability to electronically transmit stored images. The camera can be used for retinal imaging and for otoscopy.

A financial simulation computer program product and method to create a project preparation, negotiating, and testing environment using standard project finance tools. A computer usable medium having computer-readable program code is embodied in a medium for generating financial statements, financial data, charts, graphs and reports using the standard project finance tools. The product and method allow automatically generated or manual entry of and editing of capital expenditure time series for multiple contracts in multiple capital expenditure categories. Limited recourse including debt service reserve accounts, stand-by loans and risk-sharing with suppliers and off-takers is taken into account. A desired financing time horizon is selected for each loan. For each loan the user can either manually enter disbursements or select a capital expenditure category and finance a percentage of the category. A loan disbursement time series is automatically generated. A loan disbursement times series is optionally generated independently of changes in capital expenditures and exchange rates based upon an earlier automatically generated loan disbursement time series.

A method, system, apparatus and device for the monitoring, diagnosis and evaluation of the state of a dynamic system is disclosed. This method and system provides the processing means for receiving sensed and/or simulated data, converting such data into a displayable object format and displaying such objects in a manner such that the interrelationships between the respective variables can be correlated and identified by a user. This invention provides for the rapid cognitive grasp of the overall state of a critical function with respect to a dynamic system. The system provides for displayed objects, which change in real-time to show the changes of the functions of the system. It is a highly flexible system which works with a wide variety of applications, including biological systems, environmental systems, engineering systems, economic systems, mechanical systems, chemical systems and the like. The device of this invention is adapted specifically to providing objects within a frame associated with other objects in a reference grid to provide a graphical representation of cardiovascular function.

PCT No. PCT/JP98/02567 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 13, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 13, 1999 PCT Filed Jun. 10, 1998 PCT Pub. No. WO98/57146 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 17, 1998Measurement light, which has been emitted from a Xe light source (20) and then linearly polarized by a polarizer (21), is made to be incident at a tilt angle on a region in a silicon substrate (11) with crystallinity disordered by the implantation of dopant ions. And the spectra of cos DELTA and tan psi are measured with a variation of the measurement light, where DELTA is a phase difference between respective components in p and s directions as to the light reflected as an elliptically-polarized ray, and psi is a ratio between the amplitudes of these components. By correlating in advance the spectral patterns of cos DELTA and so on with the thickness of an amorphous region through a destructive test or the like, or by paying special attention to characteristic parts of the patterns of cos DELTA and so on, the thickness or the degree of disordered crystallinity of the amorphous region is estimated. Also, since a variation in the thickness of the amorphous region can be identified based on a variation of cos DELTA before and after a heat treatment, a temperature of the heat treatment can be sensed based on the variation of the thickness. Thus, an evaluation method allowing for nondestructive estimation of the thickness and the degree of disorder of a region, having crystallinity disordered by implanting dopant ions into a semiconductor region at a high level, can be provided.