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A cardiac ablation apparatus for producing a circumferential ablation that electrically isolates a heart chamber wall portion from vessel such as a pulmonary vein extending into said wall portion comprises (a) an elongate centering catheter having a distal end portion; (b) an expandable centering element connected to said centering catheter distal end portion and configured for positioning within said vessel when in a retracted configuration, and for securing said elongate centering catheter in a substantially axially aligned position with respect to said vessel when said centering element is in an expanded configuration; (c) an ablation catheter slidably connected to said centering catheter said ablation element having a distal end portion, and (d) an expandable ablation element connected to said ablation catheter distal end portion. The ablation element is configured to form a circumferential ablation on the wall around the elongate centering catheter when the centering catheter is axially aligned with respect to the vessel. In a further embodiment, a non-expandable, compliant centering element is employed, such as an elastic finger. Systems incorporating such an apparatus and methods of use thereof are also disclosed.

Because of the composition represented by General Formula: Li1+x+alphaNi(1-x-y+delta)/2Mn(1-x-y-delta)/2MyO2 (where 0<=x<=0.05, -0.05<=x+alpha<=0.05, 0<=y<=0.4; -0.1<=delta<=0.1 (when 0<=y<=0.2) or -0.24<=delta<=0.24 (when 0.2<=y<=0.4); and M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Fe, Co, Cu, Zn, Al, Ge and Sn), a high-density lithium-containing complex oxide with high stability of a layered crystal structure and excellent reversibility of charging/discharging can be provided, and a high-capacity non-aqueous secondary battery excellent in durability is realized by using such an oxide for a positive electrode.

This invention relates to methods and devices that improve cell culture efficiency. They include the use of gas permeable culture compartments that reduce the use of space while maintaining uniform culture conditions, and are more suitable for automated liquid handling. They include the integration of gas permeable materials into the traditional multiple shelf format to resolve the problem of non-uniform culture conditions. They include culture devices that use surfaces comprised of gas permeable, plasma charged silicone and can integrate traditional attachment surfaces, such as those comprised of traditional tissue culture treated polystyrene. They include culture devices that integrate gas permeable, liquid permeable membranes. A variety of benefits accrue, including more optimal culture conditions during scale up and more efficient use of inventory space, incubator space, and disposal space. Furthermore, labor and contamination risk are reduced.

This invention discloses a semiconductor power device. The trenched semiconductor power device includes a trenched gate, opened from a top surface of a semiconductor substrate, surrounded by a source region encompassed in a body region near the top surface above a drain region disposed on a bottom surface of a substrate. The semiconductor power device further includes an implanting-ion block disposed above the top surface on a mesa area next to the body region having a thickness substantially larger than 0.3 micron for blocking body implanting ions and source ions from entering into the substrate under the mesa area whereby masks for manufacturing the semiconductor power device can be reduced.

A system that enables axis-to-axis targeting of an instrument placed within a drill bushing includes a computer, a probe, and a pair of sensor planes mounted to a drill bushing so the planes are perpendicular to one another. The probe has two drive coils that may be mounted near its distal end. The two coils are placed close to one another and are oriented so that when they are selectively coupled to an alternating current source they generate magnetic fields that are orthogonal to one another. The computer receives electrical signals from the sensors in the sensor planes and computes target position, bushing alignment, and bushing orientation values. These values may be presented on a display associated with the computer or used to illuminate directional arrows associated with the drill bushing.

The invention provides a vector calculating device comprises a memory cell, a register unit and a vector operation unit. Vectors are stored in the memory cell, addresses stored by the vectors are stored in the register unit, and the vector operation unit obtains a vector address in the register unit in dependence on a vector operation instruction, and then obtains a corresponding vector in the memory cell in dependence on the vector address, and carries out vector operation in dependence on the obtained vector to obtain a vector operation result. According to the invention, vector data participating in calculation is temporarily stored in a scratchpad memory, data in different widths can be supported flexibly and effectively during the vector operation process, and the execution performance of tasks including a lot of vector calculations is improved.

A user interface for an electronic trading exchange is provided which allows a remote trader to view in real time bid orders, offer orders, and trades for an item, and optionally one or more sources of contextual data. Individual traders place orders on remote client terminals, and this information is routed to a transaction server. The transaction server receives order information from the remote terminals, matches a bid for an item to an offer for an item responsive to the bid corresponding with the offer, and communicates outstanding bid and offer information, and additional information (such as trades and contextual data) back to the client terminals. Each client terminal displays all of the outstanding bids and offers for an item, allowing the trader to view trends in orders for an item. A priority view is provided in which orders are displayed as tokens at locations corresponding to the values of the orders. The size of the tokens reflects the quantity of the orders. An alternate view positions order icons at a location which reflects the value and quantity of the order. Additionally, contextual data for the item is also displayed to allow the trader to consider as much information as possible while making transaction decisions. A pit panel view is also provided in which traders connected to the pit are represented by icons, and are displayed corresponding to an activity level of the trader.

The invention discloses a database auditing monitoring system and a database auditing monitoring method. The database auditing monitoring system comprises a hardware part and a module part, wherein the hardware part comprises a switchboard, a local area network and a database auditing server, the switchboard is respectively connected into the local area network at the two ends through a duplicated port, and is connected with the database auditing server through a mirror port, the local area network at the two ends is respectively communicated with a database accessing client and a database server, and the module part comprises a WEB management module, a local database module, a data collecting module and a data analysis and processing module. The database auditing monitoring system and the database auditing monitoring method have the advantages that various kinds of operation behaviors on the database server are monitored and recorded through a monitoring module arranged in the data analysis and processing module, through the analysis on network data, various kinds of operation and hostile attack event information on the database server can be analyzed intelligently in real time and is recorded into an auditing database so that inquiry and analysis can be realized in future, and the monitoring and the auditing on the operation of a target database system are realized.

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate with circuit elements and electrode pads formed on one surface. This surface is covered by a dielectric layer with openings above the electrode pads. A metal layer is deposited on the dielectric layer and patterned to form a conductive pattern with traces leading to the electrode pads. A protective layer having openings exposing part of the conductive pattern is formed. Each opening is covered by an electrode such as a solder bump, which is electrically connected through the conductive pattern to one of the electrode pads. This structure enables the thickness of the protective layer, which may function as a package of the semiconductor device, to be reduced. The protective layer may be formed from a photosensitive material, simplifying the formation of the openings for the electrodes.

Pultruded composites of longitudinally oriented reinforcing fibers in a matrix of a thermoplastic resin are shaped in-line during the pultrusion process to provide a variety of non-linear or variable cross-section articles.

A semiconductor device structure and a method for fabricating the same. A method for fabricating semiconductor device structure includes forming gate lines on a semiconductor substrate; forming gate sidewall spacers surrounding the gate lines; forming respective source/drain regions in the semiconductor substrate and on either side of the respective gate lines; forming conductive sidewall spacers surrounding the gate sidewall spacers; and cutting off the gate lines, the gate sidewall spacers and the conductive sidewall spacers at predetermined positions, in which the cut gate lines are electrically isolated gates, and the cut conductive sidewall spacers are electrically isolated lower contacts. The method is applicable to the manufacture of contacts in integrated circuits.

A femoral prosthesis has a stem part and a head part, in which the stem part has a body section for location in the femur of a patient and a neck section including a trunion or spigot. The head part has a bearing surface formed as part of a sphere and a reverse side. The bearing surface has a polar axis extending through a center of the sphere formed thereby. A bore is provided in the reverse side adapted to receive the spigot wherein the bore comprise a bore axis, and in which the bore axis is oblique to the polar axis.

Devices and methods are described for homogenization, processing, detection, and analysis of biological samples such as insects, fungi, bacteria, and plant and animal tissues. Multiple chambers in these devices permit different processing functions to be carried out at each stage, such that the resulting homogenized product can be further processed, purified, analyzed, and/or biomolecules such as metabolites, proteins and nucleic acids, or pharmaceutical products can be detected. The device can be used in a hydrostatic pressure apparatus, in which different activities, i.e. incubations, addition or renewal of reagent, and generation and detection of signal can be carried out in the appropriate chamber. The method improves the preservation of biomolecules from chemical and enzymatic degradation relative to conventional means. Additionally, this method enables automated sample preparation and analytical processes.

An interconnect structure is provided that includes at least one patterned and cured low-k material located on a surface of a patterned graded cap layer. The at least one cured and patterned low-k material and the patterned graded cap layer each have conductively filled regions embedded therein. The patterned and cured low-k material is a cured product of a functionalized polymer, copolymer, or a blend including at least two of any combination of polymers and/or copolymers having one or more acid-sensitive imageable groups, and the graded cap layer includes a lower region that functions as a barrier region and an upper region that has antireflective properties of a permanent antireflective coating.

The invention discloses a negotiation method, device and network switching device of TCP option. The method comprises the following steps: a TCP handshake message is created and sent to a network device on the opposite terminal, wherein the TCP AD option of the message contains a first Flag field and a negotiation option parameter value and/or optimized capability option parameter value supportedby a local network device; the TCP handshake response message sent by the network device on the opposite terminal is received; according to the value of a second Flag field in the AD option of the message and a negotiation option parameter value and/or optimized capability option parameter value supported by the network device on the opposite terminal, the negotiation option and optimized capability option supported by the network device on the opposite terminal are obtained; and the intersection operation of the obtained optimized capability option and the optimized capability option supported by the local network device is performed, and the optimization to be performed is determined. The method of the invention solves the problem that the existing network device is difficult to performoptimized capability negotiation when the TCP handshake message contains a private option.

The invention provides a method for predicting the velocity of a longitudinal wave of a rock system in a heterogeneous reservoir. The method for predicting the velocity of the longitudinal wave of the rock system in the heterogeneous reservoir comprises the steps of (1) obtaining the permeability, the porosity, the shale content, mineral constituents, mineral volume rates and pore fluid data, (2) building a rock bare-skeleton model and an embedded body fluid model, (3) calculating the velocity of fluid inside an embedded body according to the embedded body fluid model, (4) calculating the kinetic energy function and the dissipative energy function of a double-pore medium according to the velocity of the fluid inside the embedded body, (5) using the kinetic energy function and the dissipative energy function of the double-pore medium to export an improved Biot-Rayleigh equation set according to the Hamilton principle and the Lagrange equation, and (6) predicting the velocity of the longitudinal wave of rock in the heterogeneous reservoir through plane wave analysis and the improved Biot-Rayleigh equation set. The method for predicting the velocity of the longitudinal wave of the rock system in the heterogeneous reservoir takes full consideration of anisotropism of the rock system and fluid kinetic energy caused by a fluid velocity field inside the embedded body and dissipative energy caused by the fluid velocity field inside the embedded body, can predict the velocity of the longitudinal wave of the oil-in-water double-pore rock system, overcome the defects of an original Biot-Rayleigh equation set, and retain the advantage, of the original Biot-Rayleigh equation set, of being simple in format.