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This relates to a device for treating lung disease, and more particularly, relates to a device for exchanging energy with airway tissue such as that found in the airways of human lungs. The exchange of energy with this airway tissue in the airways reduces the ability of the airways to constrict and/or reduces the resistance within the airway to the flow of air through the airway.

A method of reducing an immune response to a transplant in a recipient by treating said recipient with an amount of mesenchymal stem cells effective to reduce or inhibit host rejection of the transplant. The mesenchymal stem cells can be administered before, at the same time as, or after the transplant. Also disclosed is a method of inducing a reduced immune response against a host by foreign tissue, i.e., graft versus host disease, by treatment with mesenchymal stem cells.

A distributed processing network system (10), an integrated response system (50) comprising multiple distributed processing network systems and related methods providing situational awareness information for emergency responses. In one embodiment there is disclosed a response system (50) comprising first and second server based systems (10, 11) each providing real time awareness of personnel (18, 19) for different organizations, the first system receiving information for a first organization and the second system receiving information for a second organization, the first system coupled to the second system to communicate information generated in the first system to personnel in the second organization via the second system to facilitate timely and appropriate response by personnel in the second organization to an emergency situation in the first organization.

A memory module includes a memory hub that monitors utilization of the memory module and directs devices of the memory module to a reduced power state when the module is not being used at a desired level. System utilization of the memory module is monitored by tracking system usage, manifested by read and write commands issued to the memory module, or by measuring temperature changes indicating a level of device activity beyond normal refresh activity. Alternatively, measured activity levels can be transmitted over a system bus to a centralized power management controller which, responsive to the activity level packets transmitted by remote memory modules, direct devices of those remote memory modules to a reduced power state. The centralized power management controller could be disposed on a master memory module or in a memory or system controller.

The invention includes liquid formulations of botulinum toxin that are stable to storage in liquid form at standard refrigerator temperatures for at least 1–2 years and to storage at higher temperatures for at least 6 months. The invention also includes methods of treatment using such formulations for various therapeutic and cosmetic purposes.

A semiconductor device includes a first insulating layer over a substrate, a first metal oxide layer over the first insulating layer, an oxide semiconductor layer over the first metal oxide layer, a second metal oxide layer over the oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer over the second metal oxide layer, a second insulating layer over the second metal oxide layer, and a gate electrode layer over the gate insulating layer. The gate insulating layer includes a region in contact with a side surface of the gate electrode layer. The second insulating layer includes a region in contact with the gate insulating layer. The oxide semiconductor layer includes first to third regions. The first region includes a region overlapping with the gate electrode layer. The second region, which is between the first and third regions, includes a region overlapping with the gate insulating layer or the second insulating layer. The second and third regions each include a region containing an element N (N is phosphorus, argon, or xenon).

A semiconductor device includes a first oxide insulating layer over a first insulating layer, an oxide semiconductor layer over the first oxide insulating layer, a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer over the oxide semiconductor layer, a second insulating layer over the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer, a second oxide insulating layer over the oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer over the second oxide insulating layer, a gate electrode layer over the gate insulating layer, and a third insulating layer over the second insulating layer, the second oxide insulating layer, the gate insulating layer, and the gate electrode layer. A side surface portion of the second insulating layer is in contact with the second oxide insulating layer. The gate electrode layer includes a first region and a second region. The first region has a width larger than that of the second region.

The invention discloses a method for interval and paging query of a time-intensive B/S (Browser/Server) with large data size. The method comprises the steps as follows: inputting an initial query condition by a user through the browser end to request one page or one interval; querying the interval for the first time, obtaining all time points of the interval at the server end, obtaining the total pages of the interval according to the number of the time points and sequentially writing start time and end time of each page into a cache file in an appending way, obtaining data of the page according to the start time and the end time of the first page, and returning the total pages of the interval and the data of the first page to a front desk; for the queried interval, only reading out the start time and the end time of the page to be queried from the cache file, querying the data of the page from a database according to the time condition and returning; and querying the database by dividing a table and combining by the time points to obtain a final result. According to the method, the result sets in each query are reduced, the response time for database query is shortened, and little memory space of a client and an application server is occupied.

A local extremum of a function ƒ is determined by computing a Jacobian of ƒ at a test point x by adding an imaginary part to x and a Hessian of ƒ by adding two imaginary parts to a multicomplex copy of x and extracting a third imaginary part. Solving a system of equations defined by the Jacobian and Hessian yields a delta; the process is repeated until convergence. This method is used in each of a series of time intervals to compute an insulin-delivery amount for an insulin pump. ƒ is a model-predictive-control cost function; x is a set of successive candidate insulin delivery amounts beginning from a selected time interval. A system includes a glucose monitor and a controller using glucose measurement data therefrom to determine an insulin delivery amount for a time interval by minimizing ƒ; an insulin pump provides insulin corresponding to the delivery amount.

The invention provides compositions and methods for utilizing scaffolds in cancer vaccines.

A distributed processing network system (10), an integrated response system (50) comprising multiple distributed processing network systems and related methods providing situational awareness information for emergency responses. In one embodiment there is disclosed a response system (50) comprising first and second server based systems (10, 11) each providing real time awareness of personnel (18, 19) for different organizations, the first system receiving information for a first organization and the second system receiving information for a second organization, the first system coupled to the second system to communicate information generated in the first system to personnel in the second organization via the second system to facilitate timely and appropriate response by personnel in the second organization to an emergency situation in the first organization.

The invention relates to a resistance-type gas sensor based on a graphene, stannic oxide and zinc oxide composite, a preparation method and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of gas sensors. The gas sensor is composed of a monocrystalline silicon substrate, a silicon dioxide layer, a titanium adhesion layer, interdigital platinum electrodes and a gas sensitive film covering the silicon dioxide layer and the surfaces of the interdigital platinum electrodes in sequence; the structure of the titanium adhesion layer is the same as that of the interdigital platinum electrodes, and the gas sensitive film is the graphene, stannic oxide and zinc oxide ternary composite; the ternary composite is prepared by mixing graphene, stannic oxide and zinc oxide and is of a three-dimensional porous structure. Before and after the gas sensitive film makes contact with gas to be tested, the resistance of the gas sensitive film can change, and the sensitivity of the sensor can be obtained by measuring resistance changes between the interdigital platinum electrodes. The sensor has high response sensitivity, rapid response recovery rate and good response reversibility at room temperature, and the problem that the a stannic oxide and zinc oxide gas sensor can work only at high temperature is solved.

A semiconductor device is formed in such a manner that a first insulator, a first oxide semiconductor, and a first conductor are formed; the first conductor is processed to form a second conductor; the first oxide semiconductor is processed to form a second oxide semiconductor; a second insulator is formed over the second conductor; a third insulator is formed over the second insulator; a fourth insulator is formed over the third insulator; the fourth insulator, the third insulator, the second insulator, and the second conductor are selectively processed to partly expose the second oxide semiconductor; a fifth insulator is formed over the second oxide semiconductor and the fourth insulator; and a third conductor is formed over the fifth insulator and then chemical mechanical polishing treatment is performed to expose a top surface of the fourth insulator.

A current perpendicular to plane (CPP) GMR sensor having first and second outer pinned layers and a trilayer free layer therebetween. The free layer includes first and second outer magnetic layers, and a partially oxidized magnetic layer disposed there between. The middle partially oxidized layer is antiparallel coupled with the outer magnetic layers of the free layer by first and second coupling alyers which prevent oxygen migration from the central layer into the outer magnetic layers of the free layer. The partial oxidation of the middle layer provides a limited amount of electrical resistance at a desired location within the free layer to increase GMR.

The invention includes liquid formulations of botulinum toxin, including hydrogel formulations that are stable to storage in liquid form at standard refrigerator temperatures for at least 1-2 years and to storage at higher temperatures for at least 6 months. The invention also includes methods of treatment using such formulations for various therapeutic and cosmetic purposes.

A clean power supply unit with a high fuel utilization rate using a fuel cell is provided. The power supply unit of the present invention comprises a fuel cell using methanol as fuel; a secondary battery for supplying power to a load; a fuel cell control part for controlling the amount of fuel and/or air supplied to the above-mentioned fuel cell; and a power converter for converting the power output from the above-mentioned fuel cell to a predetermined voltage or current, supplying power to the load and/or the above-mentioned secondary battery and controlling the supplied power so as to fall within a predetermined range including the value at which the amount of methanol discharged from the above-mentioned fuel cell becomes minimized.

A temperature adjustable seat is disclosed. The temperature adjustable seat comprises a seat and air being blown into an inside thereof a thermoelectric device for heating and cooling the air, an air-blower for blowing either heated air or cooled air by the thermoelectric device through the inside of the seat, and control device for controlling the thermoelectric device. The control device calculates a required heat quantity, the required heat quantity being a sum of a first heat quantity required for a seat surface temperature of the seat reaching to a target seat temperature and a second heat quantity that is given and received between the seat and an ambient environment and the control device controls a temperature of the thermoelectric device so as to supply the required heat quantity to the seat.

First inner gas holes 134a and first outer gas holes 144a of a gas sensor are formed so that the following conditions are satisfied: a first-inner-hole count Nin≧3, 0<an inner/outer hole count ratio Nr≦0.5, and 0<an inner/outer hole-area ratio Ar≦0.25, where the first-inner-hole count Nin represents the number of first inner gas holes 134a, a first-inner-hole average area Ain [mm²] represents (the total opening area of the first inner gas holes 134a)/(the first-inner-hole count Nin), a first-outer-hole count Nout represents the number of the first outer gas holes 144a, a first-outer-hole average area Aout represents (the total opening area of the first outer gas holes 144a)/(the first-outer-hole count Nout), the inner/outer hole count ratio Nr represents the first-inner-hole count Nin/the first-outer-hole count Nout, and the inner/outer hole-area ratio Ar represents the first-inner-hole average area Ain/the first-outer-hole average area Aout.

A semiconductor device with reduced parasitic capacitance is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulating layer; a first oxide layer over the first insulating layer; a semiconductor layer over the first oxide layer; a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer over the semiconductor layer; a second insulating layer over the first insulating layer; a third insulating layer over the second insulating layer, the source electrode layer, and the drain electrode layer; a second oxide layer over the semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer over the second oxide layer; a gate electrode layer over the gate insulating layer; and a fourth insulating layer over the third insulating layer, the second oxide layer, the gate insulating layer, and the gate electrode layer.

Disclosed is a method of inducing a reduced immune response to a transplant in a recipient by treating said recipient with an amount of fibroblasts or a supernatant from a fibroblast culture effective to reduce or inhibit host rejection of the transplant. The fibroblasts or a supernatant from a fibroblast culture can be administered before, at the same time as, or after the transplant. This method is effective in reducing an immune response to a transplant without compromising the immune response to other foreign antigens. Also disclosed is a method of inducing a reduced immune response against a host by foreign tissue, i.e., graft versus host disease.

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system that couples the speed and responsiveness of a shoulder-launched rocket with the stable, slow-moving aerial platform of a parafoil is disclosed. The unique use of an over-damped rocket automatically positions the parafoil upwind of its target and overcomes the inherent inability of the parafoil to make headway in adverse wind conditions. This marriage of a rocket and a parafoil creates a valuable new synergy that allows the rocket to very quickly position a payload at altitude and defeat any adverse winds, while the parafoil provides an inexpensive and easy-to-fly vehicle for reconnaissance or accurately placing a payload on a target. The system is suitable for aerial videography, thermal imagery, target designation, sensor placement or precision munitions delivery; and can perform these functions at a small fraction of the cost of any other UAV. Unlike other UAV's, no flying skills are required of the operator. The system is so simple to use that no special training is required even for flying at night, and the intrinsic stability of the parafoil eliminates the need for avionic control systems.