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A data modulating device includes: an LDPC encoding unit configured to execute LDPC encoding; and a balance encoding unit configured to input a data string subjected to encoding by the LDPC encoding unit as data to be encoded, and convert k bits of this data to be encoded into balance code made up of m-bit block data; with the balance encoding unit executing balance encoding of said data to be encoded using a data conversion table subjected to mapping so that a set of the k-bit data patterns of which the Hamming distance is 1 corresponds to a set of block data of which the Hamming distance is 2.

A data modulating device includes: an LDPC encoding unit configured to execute LDPC encoding; and a balance encoding unit configured to input a data string subjected to encoding by the LDPC encoding unit as data to be encoded, and convert k bits of this data to be encoded into balance code made up of m-bit block data; with the balance encoding unit executing balance encoding of said data to be encoded using a data conversion table subjected to mapping so that a set of the k-bit data patterns of which the Hamming distance is 1 corresponds to a set of block data of which the Hamming distance is 2.

The invention discloses an air conditioner control method, belongs to the field of an anti-condensation control method of an air conditioning device and is designed for solving the problems of high cost, poor practicability and the like of the existing method. The air conditioner control method comprises the following steps: when judging that an air conditioner is in a refrigeration mode, substituting an inner pipe temperature value Tn detected by a first thermometer bulb of an indoor unit into a formula, namely a wet bulb temperature Ts=A* inner pipe temperature value Tn+B, so as to obtain the wet bulb temperature Ts, wherein A and B are constant numbers, the A belongs to [-10,10] and the B belongs to [-20,20]; obtaining a relative humidity value S by checking a psychrometric chart or checking a table composed of dry bulb temperatures Tg and wet bulb temperatures Ts in the psychrometric chart; and when the relative humidity value S is more than or equal to 60%, enabling the air conditioner to enter an anti-condensation operation mode. The air conditioner control method can be used for accurately judging according to an actual working environment of the air conditioner and has strong practicability and good anti-condensation effect.

A method for identifying header / footer content of a document, in order to sequence text fragments comprising recognizable text blocks as derived from the document. The textual variability of lines comprised of text blocks, including the different kinds of text blocks within the line is analyzed for assessment of textual variability. Header / footer zones are defined by textual content having a low textual variability. An alternative embodiment identifies pagination constructs by comparing selected text-boxes for similarity and proximity and clustering the text boxes satisfying a predetermined similarity value, wherein the clustered text boxes are deemed to comprise pagination constructs.

The present invention provides a method of electrochemically measuring a hematocrit (Hct) value using a sensor, capable of achieving excellent measurement accuracy and reliability and also provides a sensor used in the method. The method of electrochemically measuring a hematocrit (Hct) value of blood include: providing an electrode system having a working electrode (11) and a counter electrode (12), in which a redox substance is provided on the counter electrode (12) but not on the working electrode (11); supplying blood to the electrode system; applying a voltage to the electrode system in this state to cause an oxidation current or a reduction current to flow between the working electrode (11) and the counter electrode (12); detecting the oxidation current or the reduction current; and determining a Hct value based on a value of the detected current.

The invention relates to a device (40) for standard uptake value, SUV, determination during an emission tomography imaging procedure of a patient. The device receives SUV-related data required for SUV determination, and event data relating to one or more events that may affect the SUV determination. The SUV-related data includes a time of administration of the radiotracer dose to the patient. The event data includes at least one of: a time at which an emission tomography imaging procedure of the patient is performed, patient motion data, patient position data, and patient vital signs data. An anomalous event determination unit (42) determines, based on the event data, anomalous event information indicative of one or more anomalous events that affect the SUV determination. An SUV determination unit (43) determines the SUV based on said SUV-related data taking into account the anomalous event information.

A method and apparatus for estimating the time varying mechanical properties of a cement including propagating acoustic waves through a cement sample, measuring signals corresponding to the acoustic waves after they propagate in the sample, comparing attributes from the measured signals with corresponding attributes provided by a model accounting for at least initially estimated acoustic properties of the cement, using the differences between the measured and calculated signals to update the initially estimated acoustic properties of the material in the calculating model, using the differences between the measured and calculated signals, updating the initial acoustic properties in the model, processing N iterations of the comparison and updating either until the differences between measured and calculated signals are within a given tolerance factor or when the number i reaches a prescribed maximum and calculating the time varying mechanical properties of the cement from the final iterated acoustic properties.

A method for automatically determining the resistance of the respiratory system of a spontaneously breathing intubated patient. The method includes measuring flow (V′) and airway pressure (Paw) as a function of time; determining the airway pressure at the end of the occlusion period as end of occlusion airway pressure Paw(tc)=Poccl; analyzing a time dependence of the flow starting at the end of the occlusion period to determine a transition time td at which the slope of the flow changes from a first high value to a second lower value, and / or analyzing a time dependence of the airway pressure starting at the end of the occlusion period to determine a transition time td at which the slope at the airway pressure changes from a first high value to a second lower value, or by detecting an increase of the airway pressure over a predetermined threshold value to determine the transition time td; determining the flow at the transition time as transition time flow V′(td)=V′peak and determining the airway pressure at the transition time as transition time pressure Paw(td); and calculating the resistance on the basis of the ratio of an estimated driving pressure at the transition time Pdrv(td) and the transition time flow V′peak, wherein the value of the transition time driving pressure Pdrv(td) is calculated as sum of the transition time airway pressure Paw(td) and the muscular effort Pmus(td) at the transition time, which muscular effort Pmus(td) is extrapolated based on a predetermined time dependence of Pmus(t) during the occlusion period and based on value of the end of occlusion airway pressure Poccl.

A method of determining an analyte in a sample utilizing a redox reaction is provided, by which a highly reliable determined value can be obtained. In this method, a tetrazolium compound is added to a sample in the presence of a surfactant prior to a redox reaction so as to eliminate an effect of hemoglobin and a hemoglobin degradation product as reducing substances in the sample. Thereafter, a reducing or oxidizing substance derived from an analyte is produced and the amount thereof is determined by the redox reaction. Then, the amount of the analyte in the sample is determined based on the amount of the reducing or oxidizing substance thus determined. According to this method, cloudiness due to the coexistence with the hemoglobin can be prevented by the surfactant and thus an increase in the absorbance due to the cloudiness can be inhibited as shown in FIG. 1. As the surfactant, polyoxyethylene ether and the like can be used.

Provided is an apparatus for generating a digital value that may generate a random digital value, and guarantee time invariance of the generated digital value. The apparatus may include a digital value generator to generate a random digital value using semiconductor process variation, and a digital value freezing unit that may be connected to the digital value generator and fixed to one of a first state and a second state based on the generated digital value, to freeze the digital value.

A method for functional diagnosis of a separator for separating oil present in a blow-by has from a crankcase in a combustion engine is provided. The crankcase includes a crankcase pressure sensor, and is in fluid communication with the separator. The method includes the steps of detecting a first output signal of the crankcase pressure sensor at a first operational point or interval, and comparing the first output signal of the crankcase pressure sensor with at least one reference value or signal, wherein the comparison between said first output signal of the crankcase pressure sensor and the at least one reference value or signal provides the functional diagnosis of the separator. A method can perform a functional diagnosis without the use of additional sensors or complex algorithms and as a consequence manufacturing costs can be held at a minimum.

Provided is a laser blood flow imaging apparatus whose configuration is simple and which has functions of arithmetically and concurrently processing blood flows of all points of measurement. The laser blood flow imaging apparatus includes: a laser light irradiating unit for irradiating laser light of a predetermined wavelength to a blood flow within a vital tissue; an image capturing unit for capturing scattered light from the blood flow irradiated with the laser light; an image processing unit for processing an image of the captured blood flow per pixel; a value-of-blood flow calculating unit for calculating a value of blood flow based on data per the pixel and for processing as a color discernible image corresponding to the calculated value; and a display unit for displaying the image of the blood flows processed by the value-of-blood flow calculating unit as a two-dimensional color image.

Provided is a high-accuracy signal judgment method for noise or vibrations of a living environment. Provided is a signal judgment method associated with noise or vibrations of a living environment. The signal judgment method includes: inputting, into a model equation of a to-be-measured / analyzed target, unknown data; and obtaining an output value as a probability value of whether the unknown data is a to-be-measured / analyzed target. The model equation of the to-be-measured / analyzed target is created with the use of measured already-known data. The model equation is created by prediction model equation calculation means. Incidentally, a logistic regression equation can be used as the prediction model equation.

A counter device includes: a rewritable counter having a non-volatile memory which requires sector erasure to once turn all data in a sector into high data, prior to changing low data into high data in respective bits; and a control section updating a counter value of the rewritable count by writing in and reading out the data with respect to the rewritable counter using a complement of 1, and thereby controlling writing in and reading out the data of the rewritable counter.

Particular aspects of the present invention provide a method for quantification of two different variations of a DNA sequence. Particularly, the invention relates to a quantification of methylated DNA, and for this purpose, the test DNA is converted so that cytosine is converted to uracil, while 5-methylcytosine remains unchanged. The converted DNA is amplified by means of a real-time PCR, wherein two labeled real-time probe types are utilized: one specific for methylated DNA; and one for unmethylated DNA. Preferably, the degree of methylation of the test DNA is calculated from the ratio of the signal intensities of the probes or from the Ct values. The inventive methods have substantial utility for diagnosis and prognosis of cancer and other disorders associated with altered or characteristic DNA methylation status, as well as having substantial utility for analysis of SNPs, allelic expression, and prediction of drug response, drug interactions, among other uses.

Method for determining a blood pressure value including the steps of: providing a pulsatility signal, determining a time-related feature and a normalized amplitude-related feature on the basis of the pulsatility signal; and calculating a blood pressure value on the basis of a blood pressure function depending on the time-related feature, the normalized amplitude-related feature and function parameters.

An integrated circuit includes a plurality of processing stages each including processing logic 1014, a non-delayed signal-capture element 1016, a delayed signal-capture element 1018 and a comparator 1024. The non-delayed signal-capture element 1016 captures an output from the processing logic 1014 at a non-delayed capture time. At a later delayed capture time, the delayed signal-capture element 1018 also captures a value from the processing logic 1014. An error detection circuit 1026 and error correction circuit 1028 detect and correct random errors in the delayed value and supplies an error-checked delayed value to the comparator 1024. The comparator 1024 compares the error-checked delayed value and the non-delayed value and if they are not equal this indicates that the non-delayed value was captured too soon and should be replaced by the error-checked delayed value. The non-delayed value is passed to the subsequent processing stage immediately following its capture and accordingly error recovery mechanisms are used to suppress the erroneous processing which has occurred by the subsequent processing stages, such as gating the clock and allowing the correct signal values to propagate through the subsequent processing logic before restarting the clock. The operating parameters of the integrated circuit, such as the clock frequency, the operating voltage, the body biased voltage, temperature and the like are adjusted so as to maintain a finite non-zero error rate in a manner that increases overall performance.

An apparatus evaluates a substrate mounting device adapted to hold a target substrate placed on a mounting surface and to control a temperature of the target substrate. The apparatus includes an evacuatable airtightly sealed chamber accommodating therein the substrate mounting device, a heat source, arranged in a facing relationship with the mounting surface, for irradiating infrared light. The apparatus further includes an evaluation-purpose substrate adapted to be mounted on the mounting surface in place of the target substrate, the evaluation-purpose substrate being made of an infrared light absorbing material, and having a unit for measuring temperatures at plural sites on a surface and / or inside of the substrate.

Methods are provided of operating first and second wind turbines in a situation wherein presence of the first wind turbine affects the wind so that a wake is generated that affects the second wind turbine. These methods include determining parameters of the wind at first wind turbine and at second wind turbine. These methods further include determining a value of a parameter of a previously determined wake model to determine a current wake model. This value is determined based on the parameters of the wind at first wind turbine and at second wind turbine. These methods still further include optimizing the operation of the first and second wind turbines based on the current wake model. Control systems are also provided which are suitable for performing any of the methods of operating wind turbines. Wind farms are also provided including any of the control systems.

Provided is a frame synchronization method for synchronizing frames with pilot blocks added thereto based on differential correlation information in a satellite communication system. The method can acquire a highly reliable frame synchronization estimation value by achieving a multi-step threshold value test using pilot blocks after a correlation analysis and a threshold test based on a sync signal in order to resolve the problem of a low signal-to-noise ratio and a large frequency error and acquire highly reliable frame synchronization performance, and can overcome distortion of a correlation analysis value caused by the frequency error by analyzing correlation based on differential information. The method includes the steps of: a) performing correlation analysis and a threshold test by using a sync word; and b) performing a multi-step correlation value test by using the pilot blocks added to the frames prior to the sync word.

Method for evaluating the fatigue strength of welded joints produced by melting an alloy using a specified welding technique, which method comprises the following steps:a statistically significant number N of specimens are produced with a welded joint using said welding technique;each of the specimens is subjected to cyclic fatigue tests, with an alternating stress a, until failure;the size of the relevant defect appearing in the fracture plane of the specimens is measured by fractography;a range of defect dimensions for which the probability of measuring by fractography a defect outside the range is less than a predetermined level of probability t is determined from the measured sizes; andthe lowest stress σmin liable to cause the specimen to fail with a level of probability t is determined from this range.

The invention relates to the production of ovoproducts containing bioactive peptides from the egg white subjected to enzymatic treatment. Said peptides have an inhibiting activity of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE inhibiting activity) in vitro and / or anti-hypertensive activity in rats and / or antioxidant activity. Said ovoproducts, complete hydrolizates, the fractions thereof with low molecular weight or their constituent peptides could be used as therapeutic substances with ACE inhibiting activity and / or anti-hypertensive activity and / or anti-oxidant activity, either as functional food products, food additives or ingredients or pharmaceutical products for the treatment and / or prevention of hypertension in all its forms in humans or animals and for the treatment and / or prevention of any disorder associated with hypertension in humans or animals.

The invention belongs to the technical field of heat treatment of materials, and particularly relates to a heat treatment process for 980 MPa grade automotive steel with a high product of strength and elongation. The heat treatment process disclosed by the invention comprises the following steps: carrying out heat preservation on a TRIP780 cold-rolled steel plate subjected to pretreatment for 2-5 min at a temperature of 820-840 DEG C; then, after the heat preservation is completed, rapidly cooling the steel plate to 230-250 DEG C, and carrying out heat preservation on the steel plate for 5-10 s; and after the steel plate is quenched, rapidly heating the steel plate, controlling the partitioning temperature at 400-420 DEG C and controlling the partitioning time at 30-60 s; and finally, carrying out water quenching on the steel plate so as to obtain 980 MPa grade automotive steel with a product of strength and elongation of 26300-26800 MPa % and a percentage elongation of 23.8-24.2%. According to the technical scheme of the invention, through the reasonable mutual cooperation of austenitizing, quenching and partitioning systems, automotive steel with a higher product of strength and elongation is produced.

A of calibrating a sensor, comprising: −determining a position of the sensor; —providing sensor data comprising identification data and the position of the sensor to a calibration data provider; —obtaining calibration data from the calibration data provider; and —calibrating the sensor in accordance with the calibration data.

The invention discloses an evaluation method of composition segregation of low-carbon high-manganese steel continuous casting small square billet and belongs to the technical field of continuous casting billet detection. Segregation characteristics are analyzed by utilizing the characteristic that an Mn element in the low-carbon high-manganese steel continuous casting small square billet is easy to form interdendritic enrichment and segregation, and the composition segregation of the continuous casting billet is quantitatively evaluated by utilizing an electron probe. The evaluation method comprises the specific steps of: determining the Mn element as an analysis object, scanning a casting billet sample by utilizing the electron probe to obtain a composition distribution diagram of the Mn element, carrying out line scanning on the composition diagram to extract Mn content data, carrying out deviation analysis on the obtained Mn content data, and comparing and evaluating the segregation degree of the continuous casting small square billet by calculating the size of standard deviation. The evaluation method can be used for expressing the composition segregation of the casting billet by using a curve and quantitatively evaluating the composition segregation by using the standard deviation, and has the advantages that the sample preparation is easy, the results are accurate, and the detection time and cost are reduced.

A blood pressure information display device for calculating a blood pressure value based on a pulse wave amplitude through the oscillometric method and the like, and displaying the calculated blood pressure value as blood pressure information performs a process of changing a magnitude of a specified pulse wave amplitude of a plurality of extracted pulse wave amplitudes according to the operation by a user (medical staff) when a predetermined instruction is input. A predetermined algorithm is applied to the plurality of pulse wave amplitudes reflecting the change to calculate a reference blood pressure value, and the calculated reference blood pressure value is displayed as the blood pressure information.

The invention relates to a method and a device for determining a maximum leakage current in unearthed power supply networks with a plurality of conductors. The method comprises the steps of: feeding of a measurement signal UP with a measurement frequency fPuls into a conductor arrangement, setting the measurement frequency fPuls, measuring a line-to-line voltage UL-E for each conductor, determining a maximum occurring line-to-line voltage UL-Emax from the measured line-to-line voltages UL-E, determining a voltage UZe across a measurement resistance RM for calculating a leakage impedance ZE, calculating the leakage impedance ZE, and calculating a maximum leakage current THC. The device comprises a signal generator for feeding in the UP with the fPuls, a network coupling circuit between the signal generator and the conductor arrangement, a voltage measuring circuit for measuring the UL-E, and an impedance measuring circuit for determining the Ze by means of the determining of the UZe.