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The disclosure relates to a cassette, frame and mold for holding a tissue sample during an embedding and mircotoming process, and related methods. The cassette is sectionable in a microtome and includes a body with a bottom wall and a plurality of side walls. First and second side walls are generally V-shaped to present an apex of the “V” to the microtome blade. A lid of the cassette is stiffer than the bottom wall of the cassette to assist with positioning the tissue sample. The side walls of the cassette are perforated so as to significantly reduce the amount of cassette material that must be cut by the microtome blade. In one embodiment, to additionally reduce blade wear the ribs on one side wall are offset lengthwise relative to the ribs on an opposite side wall. An upper flange of the cassette includes depressions configured to register with detents in the frame.

The invention provides a method for actualizing a high-speed object recognition process in an object recognition which extracts feature vectors from an input image where an object is captured, the feature vectors representing the object with the large number of the feature vectors; and retrieves, among an image database, one or more images whose features are matched. The invention also provides a method for saving a memory capacity required for the image database.

Suggested are methods each of the methods being capable of reducing a processing time required to perform a task which recognizes the object described by a plurality of the feature vectors with use of an approximate nearest neighbor search technique. One of the suggested methods is actualized by excluding such feature vectors that a large number of feature vectors are present in the vicinity and a large number of distance calculations, therefore, are required. Another suggested method is actualized by only performs voting using a hash table without performing any distance calculation. Moreover, another suggested method is actualized by connecting recognizers in cascaded manner each of which uses the nearest neighbor search technique, varying a degree of approximation applied to the object recognition in accordance with the input image, thereby significantly increasing efficiency.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for determining and achieving a tax advantage through the specialized management of a plurality of charitable remainder trusts (CRTs). In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an input module configured to receive client input, a calculation module configured to determine the projected income distribution and a corresponding tax requirement for a plurality of CRTs, a comparison module configured to determine and compare after-tax income generated for each of the plurality of CRTs, and a recommendation module configured to provide a recommended allocation of trust assets to a plurality of CRTs. The apparatus, system, and method may facilitate determining a recommended allocation of assets that provides the greatest tax advantage for income distributions issuing from a plurality of CRTs. The apparatus, system, and method may also integrate the client input and risk tolerance into the determination for the recommended allocation of trust assets in certain embodiments.

The present invention is a combined image viewing, drawing, and reporting system, which provides: an easy way to access digital images while creating a digital drawing; and an automated method of creating medical reports by translating the drawing data into standard reports. The present invention system provides automated medical drawings and creates medical reports as a result of translating drawing results. The system provides invaluable tools for drawing, diagnosing and treating ophthalmic and/or other types of diseases by generating an automated translation report based on the physician drawing. Customized reports (e.g., a medical drawing report, a referral note, a medical letter, billing based information, a proofsheet for the patient chart, etc.) can be added by the user. A physician can design a format for a report via system utility tools. The present invention may be a stand-alone system, and/or connected to a network.

The present invention provides a rubber composition containing a reclaimed rubber and a method for producing the same. A rubber molded article having excellent rubber properties can be obtained and the recycling of a used rubber product can be promoted by the present invention.A rubber composition of the present invention is a blend comprising a claimed rubber obtained by applying a heat and a shear stress to a vulcanized rubber, a non-vulcanized virgin rubber or/and a thermoplastic resin, wherein the reclaimed rubber contains 40% by weight or more of a residual toluene-insoluble gel component and the network chain density of the rubber in the gel component is 1/20 to 1/4 based on the network chain density of the rubber of the vulcanized rubber.

A compression-encoding method allowing any discrepancy such as a delay caused by a change in frame rate to be avoided is disclosed. It is determined whether a predetermined number of frames required for forming a GOP have been inputted and, when the predetermined number of frames have not been all supplied, a dropped frame is compensated for by interpolation of a proceeding frame previous to the dropped frame to produce an interpolated group of pictures. Each frame of the interpolated GOP is compression-encoded to produce encoded moving picture data to be stored into a memory.

There is provided a method for producing colorants which can exhibit excellent color development even in a small amount and are low in thixotropy.

The constituent feature of the present invention comprises:

• • enhancing the molecular extinction coefficient of the coloring matter substance by ion exchanging method, to afford a room for increasing B (resin) of P/B;
  • then a composition is designed and employed to enhance the effect increasing the polar group concentration which is a role of resin and the quality of the effect;
  • it thus becomes possible to achieve the limit value of the molecular extinction coefficient as much as possible and to eliminate the factors adversely affecting the present process.

A plurality of variables representing the characteristics of a knock is obtained from an output signal of a sensor. The variables include a peak value of the knock frequency component in the output signal of the sensor and a waveform correlation coefficient representing the correlation between the waveform of the output signal and an ideal knock waveform, which is the waveform specific to a knock. The peak value and the waveform correlation coefficient are normalized, and a detection distribution is created using the obtained normalized data values. A correlation coefficient for knock determination representing the correlation between the detection distribution and an ideal knock distribution is calculated. The correlation coefficient for knock determination is compared with a predetermined knock determination threshold value, and the knock determination threshold value is corrected in accordance with the comparison result. As a result, the accuracy and the reliability of knock determination are improved.

A packaging system, packaging method and method of depositing a thin layer of material at a desired location upon a substrate, and in particular a layer of thermally-conductive phase change material at the interface between a heat-dissipating component and heat sink coupled therewith. The packaging comprises a thin layer of material sandwiched between a first base liner and a second top liner. A segment of tape is adhesively bound to the top liner and preferably includes a graspable portion, such as a tab, to enable the same to pull the top liner away from the material to thus leave the layer of material deposited upon the substrate.

System and method for analog signal generation and manipulation in an ultra-wideband (UWB) transmitter. A preferred embodiment comprises a digital portion 305 of an UWB transmitter (for example, transmitter 300), which is responsible for encoding a data stream to be transmitted, and an analog portion 330. The analog portion 330 creates a stream of short duration pulses from the encoded data stream and then filters the stream of short duration pulses. To simplify the generation of the short duration pulses, a quantized representation of the short duration pulse is used. The quantized representation is created via the use of control signals that by coupling differential amplifiers together (such as amplifier 611), generate a voltage drop across a resistor (such as resistor 619) and hence, a current.

A lighting system includes a remotely controllable step dimmer for controlling one or more fluorescent light fixtures with a fixed or transportable light controller with a wireless signal transmitter and at least a first control input or switch configured for manual actuation by a lighting system user. The light controller transmitter is configured to wirelessly transmit one of a plurality of uniquely encoded or modulated lighting control signals to at least a first light fixture's wireless receiver.

The present invention provides a gate driver basing on IGZO process, comprising: GOAs in cascade connection comprising a N^th-stage GOA, wherein the N^th-stage GOA further comprising: a pull-up control part 100, a pull-up part 200, a transfer part 300, a pull-down part 400, a pull-down holding part 500, a boost part 600, a first negative supply VSS1, a second negative supply VSS2, a third negative supply VSS3, which are three gradually decreasing negative supplies and pull down an output terminal G(N), a first node Q(N), a second node P(N), and a driving single ST(N) to prevent the electrical leakage of TFTs effectively. And channels of the TFT switches of the gate driver basing on the IGZO process are oxide semiconductor channels.

A warm bath apparatus for safely and comfortably warming a part of a user's body such as feet and hands by use of a previously prepared mixture of air and heated liquid particles such as steam is provided. This apparatus comprises a housing having a warm bath room, a tank for storing a liquid, a heater for heating the liquid to provide heated liquid particles, a mixing room separately formed from the warm bath room in the housing to mix the heated liquid particles with air; and a supply port for supplying a resultant mixture of the heated liquid particle and the air provided from the mixing room into the warm bath room According to this apparatus, it is possible to provide a warm bath therapy effect to the user suffering from sensitivity to cold with a high degree of satisfaction.

The invention provides an assembly type hydraulic box culvert template and a construction method of a prefabricated assembly type box culvert of the assembly type hydraulic box culvert template, and belongs to the field of highway engineering construction. The assembly type hydraulic box culvert template comprises a template, a hydraulic power system and an adjusting support. The construction method comprises the steps that the assembly type hydraulic box culvert template is installed; the template is used; steel bars are machined and installed; a steel bar framework is hoisted put into the template; an internal mold is installed; the template is installed while concrete is poured; the concrete is poured; the concrete is cured; and the template is removed, and finally the prefabricated assembly type box culvert is prepared. The box culvert can be prefabricated in a centralized mode, and is installed on site, so that a lot of concrete is saved, the construction progress is accelerated,construction cost is reduced, damage and pollution to underground water and soil are greatly reduced, and the box culvert is especially prominent in green and environment-protecting aspects; and the entity quality of culverts is effectively improved, the yield of the appearance and a protection layer is greatly improved, and good economic and social benefits are obtained.

A method of creating a lookup table which describes a correspondence relationship between an input value to a printing apparatus for performing printing by ejecting ink onto a printing medium, and output values of a special gloss ink and a color ink of the printing apparatus, includes: a first process of determining the output value of the special gloss ink to be relatively low at a lattice point where an index value relating to color intensity is dark to be equal to or lower than a predetermined value, with regard to each lattice point of the lookup table; and a second process of determining the output value of the color ink at each lattice point by increasing an ink duty limit value which is the upper limit of the sum of the color ink that can be ejected onto a unit area of the printing medium, according to the determined output value of the special gloss ink.