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The Cybrinth Continuous Learning Information Feedback (CCLIF) Process and the corresponding assessment approach, the CCLIF Process Assessment Method (CLIFAM), comprise a new and unique process for formally generating and defining the principles of electronic security (e-security) and evaluating an organization's e-security practices. The CCLIF Process describes the essential characteristics of an organization's e-security processes that must exist to ensure compliance with e-security basic principles and best practices.The assessment method supports continuous improvement and can be customized through the application of the process questions according to an organization's size, mission, and functions.

An inhaler for use by an individual to inhale a particulate medicament from a reservoir comprises a chamber having a first end connectable to the reservoir to be in air flow communication therewith, a second end for delivering the medicament to the individual upon inhalation and a conduit defining an air flow path extending between the first end and the second end; and, an orifice in the chamber between the first end and the second end, the orifice utilizing the Coanda Effect when the reservoir is in air flow communication with the chamber and upon inhalation by the individual to draw medicament from the reservoir into the air flow path.

A clip applier for applying a surgical clip in a patient comprising a disposable cartridge and a reusable actuating mechanism. The cartridge includes an elongate tube having a proximal end and a distal end, a pair of opposing jaw members extending outwardly from the distal end of the elongate tube, and a one-way ratchet mechanism providing a full actuating stroke. The actuating mechanism is coupled to the proximal end of the elongate tube to move the jaw members between an open position and a closed position. The ratchet mechanism may be formed from injection molded plastic. The cartridge further comprises a push member for advancing the clip into the jaw members, a biasing spring for maintaining the push member against the clip, and a drive coupling operatively connected to a sliding ratchet pawl for engaging with mating teeth formed on an inner surface of the elongate tube, wherein the ratchet pawl includes a cantilever arm that engages with the mating teeth, and wherein the drive coupling provides a central connection of the ratchet pawl allowing pivoting and improved seating of the mating teeth. A method of applying a surgical clip to an object in a patient using the clip applier of the invention includes the steps of positioning the clip applier within the patient such that the jaw members are adjacent to the object to be clipped, closing the jaw members and the clip over the object, and removing the clip applier from the patient. The method may further comprise the steps of orienting the clip applier such that the jaw members pass over the object, manipulating the jaw members to move the object to a compressed state within the jaw members, advancing the clip over the object to maintain the object in the compressed state, and retracting a feeder to allow the next clip to be fed into the jaw members.

A semiconductor device includes first and second transistor devices. The first device includes a first substrate region, a first gate electrode, and a first gate dielectric. The first gate dielectric is located between the first substrate region and the first gate electrode. The second device includes a second substrate region, a second gate electrode, and a second gate dielectric. The second gate dielectric is located between the second substrate region and the second gate electrode. The first gate dielectric includes a first high-k layer having a dielectric constant of 8 or more. Likewise, the second gate dielectric includes a second high-k layer having a dielectric constant of 8 or more. The second high-k layer has a different material composition than the first high-k layer.

Floor panels (1, 1′) are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system comprising tongue and grooves provided with protrusions and cavities which are displaceable in relation to each other.

A low friction top coat over a multilayer metal / ceramic bondcoat provides a conductive substrate, such as a rotary tool, with wear resistance and corrosion resistance. The top coat further provides low friction and anti-stickiness as well as high compressive stress. The high compressive stress provided by the top coat protects against degradation of the tool due to abrasion and torsional and cyclic fatigue. Substrate temperature is strictly controlled during the coating process to preserve the bulk properties of the substrate and the coating. The described coating process is particularly useful when applied to shape memory alloys.

Methods and apparatus for compensating the effects of display signal propagation delay in a display panel are disclosed. The apparatus comprises circuitry in addition to conventional display driver circuitry for delaying display line timing signals by an amount approximating the delay found in corresponding display lines. By delaying display line timing signals, for example in a column driver, by an time approximately equal the delay experienced in a corresponding row enable signal line, capacitors associated with the display pixels charge more fully resulting in a more vivid display image. Methods for compensating the effects of display signal propagation delay involve generating a plurality of delayed display timing signals and activating display lines in response to those delayed timing signals.

An active matrix driven electro-optical device, such as a liquid crystal device, is provided which is able to add sufficient storage capacitance to pixel electrodes and to decrease the diameter of contact holes connecting with pixel electrodes, even when a fine pixel pitch is employed. The liquid crystal device has TFTs, data lines, scanning lines, storage capacitor lines, and pixel electrodes provided on a TFT array substrate. Each of the pixel electrodes is electrically connected to one of the TFTs by two contact holes through a barrier layer. A part of a semiconductor layer and each of the capacitor lines sandwich a first dielectric film and constitute a first storage capacitor, while a part of the barrier layer and each of the capacitor lines sandwich a second dielectric film and constitute a second storage capacitor.

The invention increases performance of HTTP over long-latency links by pre-fetching objects concurrently via aggregated and flow-controlled channels. An agent and gateway together assist a Web browser in fetching HTTP contents faster from Internet Web sites over long-latency data links. The gateway and the agent coordinate the fetching of selective embedded objects in such a way that an object is ready and available on a host platform before the resident browser requires it. The seemingly instantaneous availability of objects to a browser enables it to complete processing the object to request the next object without much wait. Without this instantaneous availability of an embedded object, a browser waits for its request and the corresponding response to traverse a long delay link.

The invention discloses a multi-vehicle coordinating lane changing control system and a multi-vehicle coordinating lane changing control method based on vehicle-vehicle communication, and belongs to the field of control over vehicles. The system comprises a sensing unit, a communication unit, a control unit and a human-computer interaction unit. The sensing unit is used for acquiring information of an own vehicle in real time, the communication unit is used for performing real-time interaction of information among vehicles, and the communication unit is used for making a decision of the coordinating lane changing feasibility and acquiring expected control quantities of the own vehicle and coordinating vehicles and realizing control over the vehicles. The method is based on the system, through collecting information of vehicles, i.e. the own vehicle, a front vehicle on an original lane, a front vehicle on a target lane and a behind vehicle on the target lane, motion statuses of the four vehicles having mutual effects are planned in a centralized manner in the lane changing process, and the own vehicle changes the lane smoothly through active coordinating among the four vehicles. By applying the multi-vehicle coordinating lane changing control system and the multi-vehicle coordinating lane changing control method based on the vehicle-vehicle communication, safety spaces among the vehicles can be fully used, the feasible lane changing chance is effectively increased, the lane changing safety is guaranteed, the driving comfort in the lane changing process is improved, and negative influences of lane changing behaviors on the upstream vehicles on the target lane are decreased.

The present invention restores the normal low-dose flushing of the lower airways with air from the upper airways, containing nitric oxide (NO) and possible other biologically active agents by aspiration of air from the upper airways and introducing said air in the inspiratory airflow of a ventilator. The inventive apparatus and method is free from the risks associated with traditional administration of exogenous NO.

A drive for transferring sideward motion from a first or driving elongate sickle knife to a second or driven elongate sickle knife longitudinally aligned with the first sickle knife. A double rack and pinion arrangement is used including at least one pinion mounted at a fixed location, a first sidewardly extending rack is connected to the first sickle knife for sideward movement therewith and a second sidewardly extending rack is connected to the second sickle knife for sideward movement therewith, the racks both being enmeshed with the pinion such that sideward movement of the driving knife causes corresponding opposite sideward movement of the longitudinally aligned driven knife.

An intracorporeal device, such as an endovascular graft, having a tubular section with circumferential or helical radial support members. The radial support members may be inflatable channels which support the tubular structure of the graft and which are appropriately sized and longitudinally spaced to prevent or reduce kinking of the tubular structure upon bending of the tubular structure.

A multi-ported CAM cell in which the negative effects of increased travel distance have been substantially reduced is provided. The multi-ported CAM cell is achieved in the present invention by utilizing three-dimensional integration in which multiple active circuit layers are vertically stack and vertically aligned interconnects are employed to connect a device from one of the stacked layers to another device in another stack layer. By vertically stacking multiple active circuit layers with vertically aligned interconnects, each compare port of the multi-port CAM can be implemented on a separate layer above or below the primary data storage cell. This allows the multi-port CAM structure to be implemented within the same area footprint as a standard Random Access Memory (RAM) cell, minimizing data access and match compare delays. Each compare match line and data bit line has the length associated with a simple two-dimensional Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell array.

The invention relates to the use of angiotensin II receptor antagonists for treating people in whom type 2 diabetes mellitus has been diagnosed or who are suspected of prediabetes, for preventing diabetes or for treating metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance in patients with normal blood pressure.

A pressure-detection method and detection device for electric pressure cooker is used for detecting continuously and accurately to control the pressure in the electric pressure cooker. The method comprises that a strainometer is provided on the periphery of a cooking pot of the electric pressure cooker, and a transmission arm is utilized to sense the expanding amount of the cooking pot and converts the expanding amount into a displacement, then makes the elastomer of the strainometer distorting; the distorting elastomer generates subsequently a controllable electric signal due to the electric characteristic of a sensitive foil, and the controllable electric signal is delivered to a central control unit, then control signals and display signals are outputted by the central control unit. The detection device comprises a strainometer, a transmission arm, a central control unit and the like. The strainometer is provided on the periphery of the cooking pot of the electric pressure cooker and is fixed by a proper way. The present invention can be used not only to detect and control the pressure of the electric pressure cooker and can be used for the household appliances also, such as electric iron, electric water heater and the like, the temperature and pressure of which need to be detected.

Pulsating light is used to penetrate a user's finger placed an input surface (which can be a fiber optic surface) of a video camera to avoid the effects of bloodflow from a normal human pulse on the quality of the image which would otherwise change the contrast of the image. The use of pulsating light of shorter durations than a typical human pulse provides an accurate image of a portion of a finger for identification. A retractable cover blocks the fiber optic input surface during a non-working mode, and allows access for identification during a working mode. A light source having a plurality of light emitting diodes provides light that diaphans a portion of the finger. Several successive frames of image signals allow for biometric detection and verification of a human pulse to ensure the finger is not a counterfeit.

Provided in the present invention is a positive electrode for use in an Electric Double Layer (EDL) Hybrid Electrochemical Capacitor (HEC). Embodiments of the invention can be further adapted produce an EDL HEC with a high specific energy value and a high maximum voltage value. Some aspects of an embodiment of the present invention, including the aforementioned positive electrode, also cooperate to provide an EDL HEC that has a relatively high cycleability.

The invention discloses a full-temperature-range pressure swing adsorption gas separation, refinement and purification method.By means of the difference of the temperatures and pressures of different raw material gases and the difference of the adsorption separation coefficients and physical chemistry properties of all components in the raw material gases in the temperature range of 80-200 DEG C and the pressure range of 0.03-4.0 MPa, the adsorption or desorption regeneration operation of the pressure swing adsorption circulation process is adjusted by coupling all separation methods, the adsorption theory that the pressure or temperature swing adsorption separation process is only limited to the adsorption and desorption regeneration circulation operation through pressure or temperature changes is expanded, and therefore all raw material gases are separated, refined and purified by achieving the energy gradient utilization in the gas separation, refinement and purification process and achieving the circulation operation, where adsorption, desorption and regeneration are easily matched and balanced, in the moderate to low cold and moderate to high temperature pressure swing adsorption separation process, and it is changed that a traditional adsorption method is only limited to the auxiliary effect of refinement and purification, and adsorption becomes the basic separation unit operation just as important as refinement, absorption and extraction separation.

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 protective material / structure is provided that reduces the risk of injury for a person after contact with said material / structure, and is based on a structure where an inner and outer shell can move relative to each other. The shells are separated by spikes or thin beams and the outer shell covers or envelops the spikes. The spikes or beams are constructed so that they permit displacement of the outer shell relative to the inner shell in the event of an oblique impact against the protective material / structure. The spikes or beams are designed to be thin / slim and can be made of flexible polymer materials such as plastics, rubber or fibers. This enables the spikes to give way after a tangential / rotational impact and thereby efficiently reduce the negative effects of such an impact on the brain. The material / structure can be used in e.g. helmets, vehicle interiors, vehicle exteriors, indoor house building material, boxing gloves and the like.

The frequency changes in a bang-bang PLL that are generated using a digital phase detector's up / down signal are initially set to produce a faster pull-in rate and then reduced to produce a slower pull-in rate. The faster pull-in involves relatively large frequency changes and the slower pull-in rate involves smaller frequency changes. The changes in frequency of a bang-bang PLL can be implemented using a step size controller that includes timing control logic and step size logic. The function of the timing control logic is to control the timing of step size changes. The function of the step size logic is to set the step size of the frequency changes that are made by the VCO in response to the pd_up / down signal that is delivered directly to the VCO from the digital phase detector.