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Athletic performance monitoring and tracking may provide multiple ways in which to track athletic movement and activity. Workouts may also be tagged with various parameters including mood, weather, terrain, athletic equipment, friends used and the like. Workout information may be shared to social messaging and networking outlets. Workout information shared may include map information including images of maps, interactive maps, links to maps, route information and the like and/or combinations thereof. Additionally or alternatively, an application may be configured to execute within a context of a social networking system to facilitate athletic activity data transfer and generation of workout entries in the social networking site.

The present invention is an improved computational method and system of empirical induction that can be used to arrive at generalized conclusions and make predictions involving longitudinal associations between and among variables and events. Empirical induction is used to gain scientific knowledge, to develop and evaluate treatments and other interventions, and to help make predictions and decisions. The invention, which is distinct from and often complementary to the statistical method, is applied to repeated measures and multiple time-series data and can be used to quantify, discover, analyze, and describe longitudinal associations for individual real and conceptual entities. Major improvements include provisions to define Boolean independent events and Boolean dependent events and to apply analysis parameters such as episode length and episode criterion for both independent and dependent variables, persistence after independent events, and delay and persistence after Boolean independent events. These improvements are in addition to levels of independent and dependent variables, delay after independent events, and provision to quantify benefit and harm across two or more dependent variables. Additional improvements include provisions to quantify longitudinal associations as functions of period or time and to compute values of predictive indices when there are two or more independent variables. Major applications and uses of the invention include data mining, the conduct of clinical trials of treatments for the management or control of chronic disorders, health-effect monitoring, the quantification and analysis internal control in adaptive systems, analyses of serial functional images, analyses of behavior and behavior modification, and use to create computerized devices and systems whose behavior can be modified by experience. The present invention is best implemented on the Internet.

Novel methods and compositions for DNA sequencing are provided. The methods described herein are useful for sequencing homopolymeric regions of DNA. The methods also prevent the accumulation of mistakes and inefficiencies in the sequencing reaction.

A monitoring device (20) and method (200) for monitoring the health of a user is disclosed herein. The monitoring device (20) is preferably a watch (25), an optical sensor (30) disposed on a band of the watch (25), a circuitry assembly (35) embedded within a main body of the watch (25), a display member (40) disposed on an exterior surface of the main of the watch, and a control component (43). The monitoring device (20) preferably displays the following information about the user: pulse rate; blood oxygenation levels; calories expended by the user of a pre-set time period; target zones of activity; time; distance traveled; and dynamic blood pressure. The watch (25) also displays the time of day on the display member (40).

A database of personal information is built and controlled by the individual users creating it. This database can then be used to enhance the functionality and user experience associated with multi-participant online communities. By collecting information from users themselves, and by allowing users to maintain such data, the data can have significant added value both to the users and to any commercial services that wish to use it. Appropriate precautions are taken to ensure that users maintain control over the data they choose to share. Data is owned by the user that provided it, and any application or release of such data is only performed at user direction and under user control. The users are also given incentives to provide such data, in the form of promised rewards. These mechanisms improve the amount and quality of collected data, so that comprehensive databases describing users can be built more easily and effectively.

The coverage characteristics or loading effect of an oxide film can be improved without having to increase the supply amount or time of an oxidant. There is provided method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method comprises loading at least one substrate to a processing chamber; forming an oxide film on the substrate by alternately supplying a first reaction material and a second reaction material containing oxygen atoms to the processing chamber while heating the substrate; and unloading the substrate from the processing chamber, wherein the forming of the oxide film is performed by keeping the substrate at a temperature equal to or lower than a self-decomposition temperature of the first reaction material and irradiating ultraviolet light to the second reaction material.

Methods and systems disclosed herein relate to keyword discovery tools for populating a private keyword database. Keyword discovery relates to continuously and automatically in incrementing a working keyword data set for new periods of time based on retrieval of at least one of new traffic-generating keywords and new suggested keywords. Related user interfaces, applications, and computer program products are disclosed.

A large-scale content delivery system may be achieved, which may send a large amount of contents without intensive management of the contents in the server. In a service providing system where a client, a service gateway, and a server are connected to each other through a network, the client sends a first message to the server by way of the service gateway. The service gateway inquires a processing method of the first message from the client of the server by using a second message that includes a part of the first message content. The server replies to the inquiry of the processing method from the service gateway with a program that describes the processing method, and the service gateway processes the first message from the client on the basis of the received processing method.

An energy management system and method providing a holistic premise energy optimization and energy efficiency reclamation system comprised of an interconnected system of software, analytics and automated process that optimizes the energy generation and storage technologies, energy consumption, energy demand and energy utilization of energy consuming assets within a premise.

The present application discloses an electronic cigarette atomizer and an electronic cigarette using the electronic cigarette atomizer. The electronic cigarette atomizer comprises a plurality of atomizing assemblies, and each atomizing assembly includes at least one heating wire and defines a smoke channel configured to discharge smoke. The atomizing assemblies are all coaxial and thereby form a string, and the smoke channels of every two adjacent atomizing assemblies communicate with each other. The heating wires of all the atomizing assemblies are electrically connected successively, and the heating wire of each atomizing assembly is entirely or partially received in the smoke channel of the atomizing assembly. Pluralities of detachable connecting structure are mounted between every two adjacent atomizing assemblies to detachably connect every two adjacent atomizing assemblies with each other.

Antibody/signal-generating moiety conjugates are disclosed that include an antibody covalently linked to a signal-generating moiety through a heterobifunctional polyalkyleneglycol linker. The disclosed conjugates show exceptional signal-generation in immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization assays on tissue sections and cytology samples. In one embodiment, enzyme-metallographic detection of nucleic acid sequences with hapten-labeled probes can be accomplished using the disclosed conjugates as a primary antibody without amplification.

This invention refers to an electronic cigarette and an electronic cigarette device. The electronic cigarette includes an outer shell defining a display window, and a thermometer module disposed on the outer shell; the thermometer module comprises a measuring unit, a display unit located within the outer shell and a circuit processing unit; the measuring unit gets a temperature data of an object to be measured or medium and transmits the temperature data to the circuit processing unit, and finally the circuit processing unit controls the display unit to display the temperature data. The measuring unit comprises a temperature sensing component located at an outer wall of the outer shell of the electronic cigarette and pins electrically connected the temperature sensing component to the circuit processing unit. The electronic cigarette has a function of sensing and measuring body temperature, or temperature of other objects or medium, such as the ambient temperature.

Methods and systems for providing advertising content over the Internet through a hierarchical content-specific node structure and pricing advertising delivery over each node independently. Independent delivery and pricing allows an advertiser to pay more for advertisements delivered to a narrowly targeted audience likely to be interested in the goods or services offered by the advertising entity and to pay less for advertisements directed at a more general audience who may or may not have an interest in the goods or services offered. The less content specific the node is, the less targeted the advertisement will be, and therefore, the less valuable the advertisement will be to the advertising entity. Targeted advertising to multiple levels of content specific nodes is enabled.

The present invention relates to a vapor heating type cooking apparatus cooking food materials using high pressure vapor as a heat source. A vapor heating type cooking apparatus includes: a vapor supply section generating the high pressure vapor; a vapor supply pipe and a vapor discharge pipe for introducing and discharging the high pressure vapor; a body section including a vapor introduction opening connected to the vapor supply pipe, an interior space having a dual structure so as to circulate the high pressure vapor in the caldron in which food materials are accommodated, a vapor discharge opening provided between the interior space and the vapor discharge pipe; a cooling water supply pipe and a hot water discharge pipe; a lid section including a cooling water introduction opening connected to the cooling water supply pipe, a storage space having a dual structure, in which the cooling water is temporarily stored, and a hot water discharge opening provided between the storage space and the hot water discharge pipe; and a control section for controlling introduction and discharge of the high pressure vapor, the cooling water, and the hot water.

The present invention is directed to a 3DP(TM) material system ad method, and an article made therefrom. The method of the present invention includes building cross-sectional portions of a three-dimensional article, and assembling the individual cross-sectional areas in a layer-wise fashion to form a final article. The individual cross-sectional areas are built by using an ink-jet printhead to deliver an aqueous fluid to a particulate material that includes plaster.

The present invention provides a platform for mobile application developers to optimize their applications based on usage data and user feedback. It also allows advertisement providers to deliver targeted advertisements through applications, on the basis of application usage data. The platform further allows application developers to obtain advertisements that provide the best revenue and are optimized for the application type and bandwidth.

An integrated communications system for exchanging data messages on a data network suitably includes an interface configured to receive said data messages via the data network; a plurality of application servers configured to process data messages and to create output messages in response thereto; and a messenger service configured to route data and output messages between the application servers and users. A method for exchanging data messages on a data network suitably includes receiving data messages at an interface; routing data messages from the interface to an application server with a messaging service; processing the data messages at an appropriate application server to create output messages in response thereto; and providing output messages to a recipient via the messaging service. An exemplary client application suitably includes a network interface module configured to send and receive messages via a digital network; a file transfer module configured to transfer data files between a local storage medium and a remote storage medium via the network interface module; an instant messaging module configured to transfer instant messages between the user and another user via the network interface module; and a user interface module configured to display data files and instant messages for the user, and to accept inputs from the user.