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Aspects of the invention present a system and methods to analyze textual communications, which include cognitive as well as emotive content. Generally accepted communication models and principles are used to create communication unique response templates which responders can use to complete a comprehensive, thoughtful, emotively validating response message. An embodiment is comprised of parsing and tokenizing the textual communication into the parts of speech, selecting subject matter from the tokenized parts of speech, fetching starter sentence string fragments from pre-stored data structures, concatenating the fragment strings with selected subject matter or emotive content into grammatical response sentence fragment strings, opening a response file or output device into which synthesized starter response sentence string fragments are written, such that the application systematically processes the complete textual communication and synthesizes communication unique response templates populated with response sentence string fragments in accordance with effective communication principles.

A method for receiving, processing, and responding to requests relating to educational degree, enrollment, transcript, and loan information via secured and non-secured channels. In a disclosed embodiment, a requestor submits an order to verify degree or enrollment information consisting of a student's first name, last name, and / or social security number. A computer at a Clearinghouse matches the order with data compiled from participating educational institutions and generates a response. Enrollment information can include both current attendance and historical information. Optionally, degree information can be maintained in a separate database. Requestors can also order up-to-date student transcripts via the Clearinghouse.

An autonomous vehicle is equipped with a beacon, preferably including a transmitter and receiver, or a transceiver, for bi-directional communication, which is programmed to interact with other beacons for the exchange of contextual travel information to assist in autonomous operation of the vehicle. Beacons may be stationary and positioned along a roadway such that a signal transmitted by such a stationary beacon can be received by a passing beacon-equipped vehicle, the operation of which can be adjusted depending on instructions received from the stationary beacon. The vehicle can also transmit information to the stationary beacon, which information can be used to assess traffic conditions to thereafter adjust information and alerts sent to other beacon-equipped vehicles. Beacons located within multiple vehicles may also interact to share information that may be used by individual vehicles to adjust or maintain the autonomous operation of the vehicle.

Virtual clusters are based upon virtual operating systems. The physical cluster includes a plurality of physical server nodes. Each physical server node includes a plurality of physical resources and a virtualizing subsystem. The virtualizing subsystem is capable of creating separate environments that logically isolate applications from each other. The separate environments are virtual operating systems. A virtual operating system is configured on each physical server node by defining properties of the virtual operating system. A virtual cluster is composed of a plurality of virtual operating systems that are on a plurality of physical server nodes. A cluster application runs on the virtual cluster. The virtual cluster presents the plurality of virtual operating systems that compose the virtual cluster to the cluster application such that the cluster application is isolated from any other virtual operating systems that compose other virtual clusters on the plurality of physical server nodes.

A system and method for signaling low-to-high layer switching points in a file format level to enable efficient scalable stream switching in streaming servers and local file playback. The present invention also provides for a system and method for signaling low-to-high layer switching points in video bit stream, e.g., to enable intelligent forwarding of scalability layers in media-aware network elements or computationally scalable decoding in stream recipients.

The present invention is a method for effecting rapid improvement in cognition in subjects suffering from conditions or diseases related to the Aβ peptide, including Alzheimer's disease, Down's syndrome, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, mild cognitive impairment, and the like. The method comprises administering anti-Aβ antibodies to the subject, especially antibodies having a high affinity for soluble forms of Aβ. X-15240

The failure knowledge storage 5 stores failure knowledge information describing countermeasure command selection information, of which a diversion to a failure other than failures described in a failure countermeasure rule in the rule storage 2 can be surmised. When the failure occurring in the service executor 11 matches the failure described in the failure countermeasure rule, the countermeasure retriever 3 executes the countermeasure command in the failure countermeasure rule on the service executor 11. It is decided whether or not a failure other than the failures described in the failure countermeasure rule matches a failure described in the failure knowledge information in the failure knowledge storage 5. When there is a match, the countermeasure command is read out of the rule storage 2 based on the selection information of the matched failure knowledge information and is executed on the service executor 11.

A server receiving instruction of data analysis processing executes the analysis processing, generates a report using the processing result, and then converts the report document into a PDF file and copies the file into a predetermined folder of a PC of the processing instruction source. When an operator instructs print out with a PC at hand, a report of a PDF format is printed out by a function of a printer driver installed in the PC. Thus, the server does not participate in print out processing at all, load is not imposed on the server, and also there is no need for the server to have a printer driver for a printer connected to each of the PCs.

An advertisement data server includes: an URL database storing URLs different for different products and information on whether each product has been sold or not; a URL comparing unit, when accessed by a terminal, for making reference to the URL database for determining whether the corresponding product has been sold or not; an image data transmitting unit for transmitting an advertisement image to the terminal for display if the product has been sold; a time calculating unit for calculating the time period in which the advertisement image is displayed on the terminal; and a refund amount calculating unit for calculating, based on the product, the time of display of the advertisement image and on the information stored in the URL database, an amount to be returned to the owner of the terminal on behalf of viewing the advertisement image.

A high-throughput molecular docking facility is presented for screening combinatorial libraries to identify binding ligands and ultimately pharmaceutical compounds. The facility employs a pre-docking conformational search to generate multiple solution conformations of a ligand. The molecular docking facility includes: generating a binding site image of the protein, the binding site image having multiple hot spots; matching hot spots of the binding site image to atoms in at least one solution conformation of the multiple solution conformations of the ligand to obtain at least one ligand position relative to the protein in a ligand-protein complex formation; and optimizing the at least one ligand position while allowing translation, orientation and rotatable bonds of the ligand to vary, and while holding the protein fixed.

The present disclosure relates to systems for providing information in an automated or semi-automated manner, through use of one or more autonomous virtual analysts. In one embodiment, the autonomous virtual analysts may perform many of the same functions as a human analyst, and provide business intelligence relating to revenue, income, profit, loss, expenses, historical data, projections, trends, comparative analysis, etc. In embodiments, the autonomous virtual analyst may be employed through use of natural language dialog with a user, and further configured to capture and appropriately respond to the context of the dialog by supplying a user with information pertinent to the request. According to varying embodiments, a variety of decision trees comprising a plurality of nodes is disclosed. In varying embodiments, the system may comprise one or more distinct modules, including a driver graph module. Methods of automatically and near-instantaneously providing information in response to a user inquiry are also disclosed.

Aspects are provided allowing for selective monitoring of uplink cancellation indication (ULCI) occasions by UEs and allowing UEs to determine from ULCI whether canceled uplink transmission are carried on non-supplementary uplink (NUL) carriers or supplementary uplink (SUL) carriers. A UE may determine not to monitor a ULCI occasion if it does not have an uplink transmission which can be punctured by higher priority data. When the uplink transmission is dynamically scheduled, the UE may determine to monitor a ULCI occasion if the UE receives the uplink grant a certain number of symbols earlier than the ULCI occasion. The base station may configure blocks in downlink control information to indicate the UE should apply ULCI to SUL and / or NUL. The base station may configure the UE to perform different behaviors after receiving a ULCI depending on whether the portion of the uplink transmission to be canceled is on SUL or NUL.

When a combining instruction for combining first image data with second image data being stored in a print apparatus is accepted, a processing parameter that has been set for the second image data to be combined with the first image data is obtained, and a determination is made of whether or not an image area of the first image data and an image area of the second image data match if the first image data and the second image data are overlaid, based on the processing parameter, and when determined that the image area of the first image data and the image area of the second image data do not match, the first image data is modified, and that modified first image data is transmitted to the print apparatus.

Electronic apparatus, such as a personal computer, is described comprising main operative functionality and a power provisioning system for powering the apparatus from an external power source, the power provisioning system comprising:—a main power supply output for energising the main operative functionality of the apparatus when said power provisioning system is connected to said external power source, and a standby power source for energising a subset of the components of the apparatus when said main power supply output is not energised, the apparatus further comprising a self contained subsystem including a memory for storing at least one parameter reflecting an internal state of the apparatus, said self contained subsystem being powered by said standby power source and including an encoder for encoding the parameters in an output signal and a transducer for generating a wireless transmission from the output signal, which transmission can be detected in the vicinity of the apparatus, so as to enable the parameter to be received and decoded.

The electrical load driving apparatus includes means for alternately lowering the gate voltages of two current supply transistors connected in parallel to each other at regular time intervals, a current being supplied to an electrical load through drain-source paths of both the current supply transistors, and means for detecting wire breakage in two current supply wires in which the current supply transistors are interposed respectively at portions opposite the electrical load with respect to the current supply transistors based on the drain-source voltages of the current supply transistors.

To provide an antibody against FGF23 and a pharmaceutical composition such as a preventive or therapeutic agent which can prevent or treat by suppressing an action of FGF23 by using the antibody. An antibody or its functional fragment against human FGF23 produced by hybridoma C10 (Accession No. FERM BP-10772).

The failure knowledge storage 5 stores failure knowledge information describing countermeasure command selection information, of which a diversion to a failure other than failures described in a failure countermeasure rule in the rule storage 2 can be surmised. When the failure occurring in the service executor 11 matches the failure described in the failure countermeasure rule, the countermeasure retriever 3 executes the countermeasure command in the failure countermeasure rule on the service executor 11. It is decided whether or not a failure other than the failures described in the failure countermeasure rule matches a failure described in the failure knowledge information in the failure knowledge storage 5. When there is a match, the countermeasure command is read out of the rule storage 2 based on the selection information of the matched failure knowledge information and is executed on the service executor 11.

To provide an antibody against FGF23 and a pharmaceutical composition such as a preventive or therapeutic agent which can prevent or treat by suppressing an action of FGF23 by using the antibody. An antibody or its functional fragment against human FGF23 produced by hybridoma C10 (Accession No. FERM BP-10772).

A sensing encoder fitted to a jog dial senses a rotation direction and a rotation amount of a dial and supplies the sensed result to a controller as operation information. A pointer moving unit, when receives the operation information, decides a position of the pointer based on the operation information and sends a moving instruction to a display device. At the same time, the pointer moving unit reads a value of the data pointed by the moved pointer from a hard disk, and then supplies this value to a vibration controlling unit. The vibration controlling unit controls a vibration generated by a vibration generating actuator in response to the value of the data that are received from the pointer moving unit.

The invention is to provide a technique for improving the usage efficiency of user licenses in an environment in which the simultaneous connection number of users is limited. This invention comprises: determining a predetermined allowable time based on a task selected by a user and an attribute of the user; and forcibly making the user log off in a case where it is detected that data relating to the selected task is not inputted or received for a time exceeding the predetermined allowable time. Thus, the time until the logoff is forcibly performed is automatically and suitably set according to, for example, the task conducted by the user or a department to which the user belongs.

Aspects of the invention include methods for visualizing lymphatic tissue in an ocular region, e.g., the cornea, of a living subject, such as a mouse or human. In certain embodiments, the methods include contacting the region with a fluorescently-labeled lymphatic tissue-specific dye, e.g., FITC or rhodamine labeled dextran, and detecting the labeled dye to visualize lymphatic tissue in the region, where the visualization may vary, from an image obtained at a single time to a video over a period of time. The invention finds use in a variety of different applications, including research and therapeutic applications.

An object of the present invention is to provide a network measurement configuration apparatus which selects an IP meter for measurement traffic of a network, and sets a measurement rule in the IP meter. In order to achieve the above object, there is provided a network measurement configuration apparatus connected to a network having a plurality of measurement devices arranged therein, which measures traffic data of the network based on a measurement rule, comprising, a receiving means which receives a user request including path information and a measurement type, a measurement device selecting means which selects a measurement device responsible for a measurement based on the user request, and a measurement rule setting means which sets a measurement rule in the measurement device thus selected.

A system and method for computer based assessment in which at least one question prompt is displayed and means for a user to enter at least one search query is provided. Potential answers that are deemed relevant to entered search queries are displayed to the user and may be selected to form all or part of the user's answer. Because users select pre-determined potential answers, rather than construct answers, appropriate feedback and a mark score can be determined simply and unambiguously. Because potential answers are only displayed in response to a relevant search query being entered, users cannot simply recognize a potential answer as being correct without first having actively searched for it, and the set of potential answers for a question can be relatively large as only the subset that are relevant to a search query are displayed for selection at any one time.

Described embodiments provide systems and methods for using unencrypted communication tunnels. A first device intermediary between a client and a server may maintain an encrypted tunnel and an unencrypted tunnel with a second device intermediary between the client and the server. The first device may communicate, with the second device, at least one network address translation (NAT) rule via the encrypted tunnel. The first device may translate address information of a first packet, using the at least one NAT rule. The first device may send the first packet with the translated address information via the unencrypted tunnel, to the second device to reverse the translation of the address information using the at least one NAT rule.

An image information processing apparatus generating three-dimensional volume data corresponding to a sample on the basis of two-dimensional projection data of the sample from a full circumferential direction acquired by an image capturing apparatus comprising an irradiation unit irradiating transmittable energy onto the sample; a photo detector receiving the energy through the sample; and a rotator rotating the sample is provided. The apparatus includes correcting means correcting pixels of said projection image data depending on an inclination angle of the rotator determined on the basis of a rotation axis of the rotator and an irradiation axis of the irradiation unit; filtering means giving a prescribed filtering processing to projection image data pixels having been corrected by the correcting means; and voxel calculating means calculating voxels of the volume data using the projection image data pixels having been given the filtering processing and depending on the inclination angle of the rotator.

A communication equipment, method and storage device cooperate to assist in connecting a storage device between different devices. The equipment includes an interface configured to be electrically connected to information terminal equipment. It also includes a communication mechanism that performs communication with storage equipment that has a region assigned to the communication equipment. It further includes a controller that transmits device class information indicating that the communication equipment is of a mass storage class to information terminal equipment in response to the communication equipment being connected to the information terminal equipment via the interface. The controller transfers an accepted inquiry command relating to a memory region to the storage equipment, and the controller receives memory region information relating to the assigned region from the storage equipment by the communication mechanism and transfers the received memory region information to the information terminal equipment.

Electronic apparatus, such as a personal computer, is described comprising main operative functionality and a power provisioning system for powering the apparatus from an external power source, the power provisioning system comprising:—a main power supply output for energizing the main operative functionality of the apparatus when said power provisioning system is connected to said external power source, and a standby power source for energizing a subset of the components of the apparatus when said main power supply output is not energized, the apparatus further comprising a self contained subsystem including a memory for storing at least one parameter reflecting an internal state of the apparatus, said self contained subsystem being powered by said standby power source and including an encoder for encoding the parameters in an output signal and a transducer for generating a wireless transmission from the output signal, which transmission can be detected in the vicinity of the apparatus, so as to enable the parameter to be received and decoded.

A lighting elevating apparatus includes: a reel coupled to a motor and rotated around an axis of a surface in a short direction of the reel including a reel wire reeling face and being arranged such that its longitudinal direction is in a vertical state; a reel wire to be reeled on the reel wire reeling face; a reeling guide including a reel wire touching part facing the reel wire reeling face and being arranged in parallel to the reel, wherein a distance between the reel wire reeling face and the reel wire touching part is equal or less than a diameter of the reel wire; and a connector attached to an end of the reel wire to connect an object, wherein the reeling guide counter-rotates, and the reel wire passes between the reel wire reeling face and the reel wire touching part.

The invention is to provide a technique for improving the usage efficiency of user licenses in an environment in which the simultaneous connection number of users is limited. This invention comprises: determining a predetermined allowable time based on a task selected by a user and an attribute of the user; and forcibly making the user log off in a case where it is detected that data relating to the selected task is not inputted or received for a time exceeding the predetermined allowable time. Thus, the time until the logoff is forcibly performed is automatically and suitably set according to, for example, the task conducted by the user or a department to which the user belongs.