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An object of the invention is to calibrate an upper pyrometer for indirectly measuring a substrate temperature at the time of epitaxial growth in a comparatively short time and with accuracy to thereby improve the quality of an epitaxial substrate.After calibrating an upper pyrometer by a thermocouple mounted to a temperature calibrating susceptor, a measured value of a lower pyrometer is adjusted to a calibrated value of the upper pyrometer. Then, a correlation line between substrate temperature indirectly measured by the upper pyrometer at the time of epitaxial growth onto a sample substrate and haze of a sample substrate measured immediately after epitaxial growth is set to indirectly measure a substrate temperature by the upper pyrometer at the time of epitaxial growth onto a mass-production substrate. Moreover, substrate temperature at the time of epitaxial growth onto the mass-production substrate is estimated by applying the haze of the mass-production substrate measured immediately after epitaxial growth to the correlation line and then a measured temperature of the upper pyrometer is adjusted to the estimated temperature.

A method and apparatus is provided which uses activation members for incrementally stretching a web at a low strain rate. The activation members include an activation belt and a single activation member wherein the activation belt and single activation member comprise a plurality of teeth and grooves that complement and engage one another at a depth of engagement in a deformation zone. The depth of engagement can be controlled to increase linearly over at least a portion of the deformation zone such that a web interposed between the activation belt and the single activation member in the deformation zone is incrementally stretched at a low rate of strain.

To transmit data in a manner to mitigate the deleterious effects of delay spread, the expected coverage areas for multiple transmissions to be sent in multiple time slots are initially determined. Cyclic prefix lengths for these transmissions are selected based on the expected coverage areas. The cyclic prefix length for each transmission may be selected from among a set of allowed cyclic prefix lengths based on the expected coverage area for that transmission, the pilot staggering used for the transmission, and so on. For example, a shorter cyclic prefix length may be selected for each local transmission, and a longer cyclic prefix length may be selected for each wide-area transmission. The selected cyclic prefix lengths may be signaled to the terminals. The transmissions are processed (e.g., OFDM modulated) based on the selected cyclic prefix lengths. The cyclic prefix lengths may be selected periodically, e.g., in each super-frame.

The present invention relates to, in part, methods, reagents and apparatuses for the detection of agents. The present invention also relates, in part, to compositions including, but not limited to, flow cells, assay chambers, reagent reservoir delivery units and devices for holding an assay chamber. The present invention also provides various components and combinations of components for various detection apparatuses. The present invention also relates to a portable agent detection apparatus that can be used in the field or at a point of care and is not limited to specialized laboratories or limited to use by highly skilled users.

The specification describes an optical fiber device wherein a LOM is converted to an HOM prior to entering the gain section. The gain section is a few mode fiber that supports the HOM. The output from the gain section, i.e. the HOM, may be utilized as is, or converted back to the LOM. With suitable design of the few mode fiber in the gain section of the device, the effective area, Aeff, may be greater than 1600 μm2. The large mode separation in the gain section reduces mode coupling, allowing greater design freedom and reducing the bend sensitivity of the optical fiber.

In an edge network, message traffic between the edge network and a core network passes through the edge router. A port scanning attack directed to the network as a whole (core network) potentially emanates from within the LAN. The edge router includes a network throttling device which identifies and mitigates harmful transmissions such that they do not propagate to the core network. The network throttling device has a connection daemon to scan transactions and determine deviant or atypical connection attempts. A session database stores a transaction history representing a window of previous connection attempts. A pattern detector examines the history and looks for malicious behavior. Identified deviant patterns cause a throttler enforcer to limit the triggering user by restricting future connection attempts, thus mitigating harmful effects. Usage, therefore, is not prevented, but resilience to deviant practices is provided. Accordingly, virus propagation via port scanning is mitigated to a safe level and false alarms targeting legitimate activity are minimized.

A digital camera is adapted for being mounted to a bow for archery. The camera comprises a self-contained digital unit within a housing and is protected from vibrational disturbances caused by the release of the bowstring. A viscoelastic material is used to reduce vibrations. The housing is water resistant to protect the internal circuitry of the camera from environmental elements encountered during hunting. A secure digital slot is connected to the digital camera circuitry and can accept a SD flash memory card. The camera may also be connected for transmitting images to an external device for viewing.

Disclosed is a method and node apparatus for traffic protection of Optical Transport Network (OTN), including: setting a part of channels in one fiber as working channels used for carrying traffic in need of protection, and setting a part of channels in the other fiber with a reverse transmission direction as protection channels, the number of which is equal to that of the working channels, to form a one-to-one protection for the working channels; when a failure in an optical line of OTN is detected, determining a bridging node and a switching node in accordance with pre-designated protection strategy, bridging and switching the traffic to be transmitted through the failed optical line between the working channels and the protection channels at the determined bridging node and switching node. This invention can realize OTN protection based on two-fiber OMS shared protection ring, and improve the transmission reliability of optical networks.

Ophthalmic lenses, such as corneal contact lenses, include a lens body made of a composition including a lens body made of a composition including a first crosslinked polymer material which is water swellable, and a second polymeric material, other than the first material, selected from water soluble polymeric materials, water swellable polymeric materials and mixtures thereof. The second material is physically immobilized by the first material. Such lenses provide increased water retention and / or increased water content and / or increased modulus and / or reduced friction which increases lens wearer comfort. Compositions and methods for providing such lenses and compositions are also provided.

The invention discloses a CRISPR-Cas9 system used for assembling DNA and a DNA assembly method. The CRISPR-Cas9 system includes the following parts: a plasmid used for expressing Cas9 gene, a first guide RNA, and / or a plasmid used for expressing the first guide RNA, wherein the first guide RNA has a CRISPR site. The CRISPR site is combined with a first reporter gene carried by a semisynthetic chromosome used for assembling according to base complementation pairing rule. The CRISPR-Cas9 system has advantages of high replacement success rate of homologous recombination, less species of guide RNA which needs to design and use, less harmful effect subjected by the genomic sequence, and low off-target rate.

Systems and methods for detecting presence of a thing, the thing treated with a descenter, one method including in an area in which it is possible that a thing treated with a descenter is present, using a detector to detect a descenter level in the area, producing a detected descenter level, comparing the detected descenter level to a normal descenter level for the area, determining that the detected descenter level is different from the normal descenter level, said determining indicating the possible presence of a thing treated with a descenter; and using a trained service animal to facilitate such a method.

A digital camera is adapted for being mounted to a bow for archery. The camera comprises a self-contained digital unit within a housing and is protected from vibrational disturbances caused by the release of the bowstring. A viscoelastic material is used to reduce vibrations. The housing is water resistant to protect the internal circuitry of the camera from environmental elements encountered during hunting. A secure digital slot is connected to the digital camera circuitry and can accept a SD flash memory card. The camera may also be connected for transmitting images to an external device for viewing.

An electrostatic lens comprising a first conductive plate with a first aperture, a second conductive plate with a second aperture, the second aperture being substantially aligned with the first aperture, a voltage supply for supplying a first voltage to the first conductive plate and a second voltage to the second conductive plate, the first voltage being lower than the second voltage, and an insulating structure for separating the first conductive plate from the second conductive plate. The insulating structure comprises a first portion in contact with the first conductive plate and a second portion in contact with the second conductive plate, the first portion having an overhanging portion and the second portion having an indented portion at an edge of the insulating structure, so that a gap is formed between the overhanging portion and the second conductive plate.

Ophthalmic lenses, such as corneal contact lenses, include a lens body made of a composition including a lens body made of a composition including a first crosslinked polymer material which is water swellable, and a second polymeric material, other than the first material, selected from water soluble polymeric materials, water swellable polymeric materials and mixtures thereof. The second material is physically immobilized by the first material. Such lenses provide increased water retention and / or increased water content and / or increased modulus and / or reduced friction which increases lens wearer comfort. Compositions and methods for providing such lenses and compositions are also provided.

A photovoltaic element (110) is proposed for conversion of electromagnetic radiation to electrical energy and has a tandem-cell design. The tandem-cell design comprises the following: a dye solar cell (126) with a first electrode (118), an n-semiconductive metal oxide (120), a dye (122) which absorbs electromagnetic radiation in a first spectral range and a solid p-semiconductor (124); and an organic solar cell (130) with an acceptor material (132) and a donor material (134), with the acceptor material (132) and / or the donor material (134) comprising an organic material, with the organic solar cell (130) also comprising a second electrode (138) on a side opposite the dye solar cell (126), with the organic solar cell being designed to absorb electromagnetic radiation in a second spectral range, which is at least partially different from the first spectral range, with the first electrode (118) and / or the second electrode (138) being at least partially transparent for the electromagnetic radiation.

The invention relates to a method for quickly producing metal mould with laser sintering, which comprises: first, using at least two kinds of different metal powders with different diameters, to be mixed with different mass percentages; using physical or chemical modification to treat the surface of metal powder; then mixing the modified metal powders, the adhesive formed by organic resin and inorganic with different fusion points, and the lubricant uniformly to obtain the metal molding powder; then designing the three-dimension CAD mode of mould, to slice the mode, and laser sintering the metal molding powder; the laser sintered element is baked at 300-800Deg. C; using vacuum pressure penetration to penetrate the metal, to obtain the high-accuracy metal mould.

Provided is a method for forming a resist lower layer material for use in a multilayer resist process, especially two-layer resist process or three-layer resist process, having a function of neutralizing an amine contaminant from a substrate, thereby reducing a harmful effect such as trailing skirts of a resist pattern of an upper layer resist. Specifically, there is provided a material for forming a lower layer of a chemically amplified photoresist layer comprising a crosslinkable polymer and a thermal acid generator that can generate an acid by heating at 100° C. or greater and is represented by the general formula (1a):R1CF2SO3−(R2)4N+,   (1a)as well as a resist lower layer substrate comprising a resist lower layer formed using said material.

Aqueous bleach solutions can be made by directing a spray of water onto a bulk or shaped solid (brick, tablet, block, etc.) comprising a continuous solid phase of an encapsulated source of an active halogen bleach or a solid comprising a source of an oxidizing active halogen bleach, and an encapsulated oxidizing halogen bleach source. Such shaped solids can be used to dispense uniform quantities of an aqueous bleach concentrate to bleaching locus such as a washing machine. The tablets can be made from the encapsulated bleach or from a powder mixture of a particulate, granulated or powdered unencapsulated source of active oxidizing bleach and an encapsulated source of active oxidizing bleach by forming the powder mixture into a desired shape. Such a shaped solid bleach can be packaged in a container and can then be contacted with an aqueous spray in a dispenser to create a solution of active bleach for cleaning bleaching processes. The presence of the encapsulate in the solid with the powder reduces the tendency of the solid to absorb water which can be wicked through the solid to pass water through the solid into adjacent solids. Substantial proportions of absorbed water can cause the tablets to crack, crumble and to periodically dispense uneven, substantially large and undesirable concentrations of active bleach into a wash or bleach cycle. Such large amounts of halogen can cause corrosion of metal machine or dispenser parts, clothing damage, can cause pinholing or other fabric damage, can result in color loss or change, or can result in other undesirable effects in either the dispenser, washing machine or the cleaned item.

The invention relates to a multielement rare-earth silver solder which contains elements, such as manganese, indium, tin and the like. The multielement rare-earth silver solder is suitable for soldering metallic materials, such as red copper, brass, carbon steel, hard alloy, stainless steel and the like. The multielement rare-earth silver solder consists of the following components in percentage by weight: 23-29 wt% of Ag, 32-42 wt% of Cu, 0.5-2 wt% of Sn, 0.5-2.0 wt% of In, 0.5-2.2 wt% of Mn, 0.01-0.1 wt% of mischmetal, 0.01-0.1 wt% of Si, 0.01-0.1 wt% of Ni, 0.01-0.1 wt% of Li, 0.01-0.1 wt% of Ga and the balance of Zn. The multielement rare-earth silver solder has the advantages of high cost performance, capability of replacing BAg50CuZnSnNi and BAg50CuZnCd, exclusion of cadmium (Cd), lower melting temperature and good soldering property.

A cultivation system moves containers between a growing area and a monitoring area. The containers hold cultivation beds for cultivating plants, and the cultivation system includes: a grow light emitting unit emitting grow light for growing the cultivated plants in the containers located in the growing area; an imaging unit capturing the cultivated plants in the containers located in the monitoring area; and a control unit causing the grow light emitting unit to stop emitting the grow light when the imaging unit captures the plants.

The invention relates to an apparatus for generating heterodyned seismic signals as well as methods of using the heterodyned signals and a system for generating the heterodyned seismic signals. The heterodyned signals can be used near sensitive marine animals because the source frequencies are ultrasonic and the heterodyned seismic signal is generated in a narrow beam.

In a refrigeration system having a pressurizer, a condenser, an expansion device and an evaporator, with the evaporator having an inlet header, an outlet header, and a plurality of channels therebetween, the outlet header has a liquid outlet and a vapor outlet and provision is made for separation of refrigerant liquid from refrigerant vapor. The liquid refrigerant is passed through a superheating heat exchanger to obtain complete evaporation and superheating prior to passing to the pressurizer. Various other features are provided to enhance the system operation.

A nutritional composition and method of use that improves the net balance in skeletal muscle by targeting both the synthetic and breakdown processes. The disclosed composition provides for improved protein intake to increase skeletal muscle protein accretion in stressed patients who are at risk for the development of renal insufficiency by stimulating protein synthesis.

The invention relates to an air-permeability aluminum foil and a preparation method thereof, wherein the aluminum foil is mainly suitable for air-permeability packaging in requirements of agricultural production and daily life. The aluminum foil is characterized by being made of 3003 alloy, the thickness of the aluminum foil is 0.03-0.05 mm, pinholes which can reach more than 10,000 every square meter are densely distributed on the surface of the aluminum foil, and the maximum diameter of each pinhole is not more than 0.05 mm. The preparation method comprises the following process steps: batching, smelting, cast-rolling, cold-rolling, interannealing, cold-rolling, and foil-rolling to reach the finished thickness, slitting into a finished specification, and finished annealing. The invention has the advantages of good air permeability, strong corrosion resistance and strong oxidation resistance.

The present disclosure is directed to drug dosage forms that release an agent that raises the pH of a patient's gastrointestinal tract, followed by a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. The dosage form is designed so that the NSAID is not released until the intragastric pH has been raised to a safe level. The disclosure also encompasses methods of treating patients by administering this coordinated release, gastroprotective, antiarthritic / analgesic combination unit dosage form to achieve pain and symptom relief with a reduced risk of developing gastrointestinal damage such as ulcers, erosions and hemorrhages.

A mobile communication terminal having an antenna and method of using the same is disclosed in which the angle of the antenna is adjusted according to a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) value of the mobile communication terminal and a user is notified when the SAR value exceeds a predetermined value. The method stores a plurality of SAR values each corresponding to a transmission power of the mobile communication terminal in a memory and determines a current transmission power of the mobile communication terminal in a call state. The method then reads a SAR value which corresponds to the current transmission power from the memory. The angle of the antenna is then adjusted according to the SAR value.