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A stand-alone calculator enables multi energy electron beam treatments with standard single beam electron beam radiotherapy equipment thereby providing improved dose profiles. By employing user defined depth-dose profiles, the calculator may work with a wide variety of existing standard electron beam radiotherapy systems.

We describe the use of a flow directing apparatus for incorporation into a patient mask or adjacent to it and for use with a source of pressurized breathable gas such as electronically or electronically controlled fan blower or positive displacement ventilator to provide nasal or oro-nasally administered continuous positive airway pressure or bi level therapies. Such therapies are commonly used to treat sleep disordered breathing including sleep apnea and other syndromes, as well as ventilatory insufficiency. The valve apparatus includes means to direct expired air to atmosphere and inspired air from a pressure source to a user's airway. In this way advantage is provided compared to alternative means as described in the prior art which vent a user's expired gas to atmosphere through a fixed open vent.

An enhanced_low-bit rate parametric voice coder that groups a number of frames from an underlying frame-based vocoder, such as MELP, into a superframe structure. Parameters are extracted from the group of underlying frames and quantized into the superframe which allows the bit rate of the underlying coding to be reduced without increasing the distortion. The speech data coded in the superframe structure can then be directly synthesized to speech or may be transcoded to a format so that an underlying frame-based vocoder performs the synthesis. The superframe structure includes additional error detection and correction data to reduce the distortion caused by the communication of bit errors.

A guard for a rotary cutting tool allows for automatic adjustment of the guard relative to the cutting disc and to a workpiece. Such an automatic adjustment allows a user to cut around substantially the entire circumference of a rounded workpiece, such as a pipe, without requiring alteration of the angle at which the tool is held, repositioning by the user, or repositioning or removal of the guard. The guard includes a bracket for mounting the guard to the rotary cutting tool, a hood mounted to the bracket and enclosing a portion of the cutting disc, and a spring for biasing one end of the hood into substantially continuous contact with the workpiece during operation of the rotary cutting tool.

A treatment apparatus for operatively correcting myopia or hyperopia in an eye includes a laser device controlled by a control device and that separates the corneal tissue by applying a laser beam. The control device controls the laser device to emit the laser beam into the cornea such that a lenticule-shaped volume is isolated in the cornea. The control device, when controlling the laser device, predefines the lenticule-shaped volume such that the volume has a minimum thickness of between 5 and 50 μm. For myopia correction, the minimum thickness occurs on the edge of the volume, and for hyperopia correction the minimum thickness occurs in the region of the visual axis.

A system and method for configuring an event-based process are disclosed. A configuration module receives input describing an event-based process or modifications to an event-based process. For example, the configuration module receives as input a graphical depiction of one or more states and state transitions that comprise at least a portion of the event-based process. Using the received input description, the configuration module generates executable data, such as data formatted as an event processing language, corresponding to the input. The executable data is then communicated to an event engine which executes the executable data to implement the event-based process or modifications to an event-based process corresponding to the received input. One or more aspects of the execution of the event-based process may also be visualized, and graphically modified, though an event monitoring module.

The present invention relates to the expedient supply of differential gloss or other correlation mark text into a document image via a font definition, particularly as when desired in the employ of rendering variable data. A font character is selected and sub-sampled. The sub-sampled result is then scaled up into a full size result. A first halftone cell having a first anisotropic structure orientation is selected and applied to the full size scaled font result while a second halftone cell having a second anisotropic structure orientation is applied to the surrounding background around the full size scaled font result to create a gloss font or other correlation mark character. This full gloss font character or correlation mark character is then stored as a font representation as callable by the digital front end of a printing apparatus.

The efficiency and versatility for the implementation of formulas in an on-demand database is improved. Formulas are categorized. Based at least partly on the categorization, formulas are evaluated synchronously or asynchronously. An asynchronous evaluation may be performed if a certain set of criteria is not satisfied. Asynchronous evaluations may be performed using a queue. During an asynchronous update of an object, a counter field and/or an estimate field may be used respectively for indicating the consistency of values of the object and a time when the values were consistent. The versatility of formulas is enhanced by using a formula to create a default value for a custom field when it is created and to determine whether an action is to be performed, and is enhanced by having an action define when a formula is to be updated.

The present invention enhances the laser desorption of biological molecular ions from surfaces by creating a surface localized MALDI particle matrix by ion implantation of low energy ionized clusters (gold, aluminum, etc.) or chemically derivatized clusters into the near surface region of the sample. MALDI analysis of the intact biomolecules on the surface or within a narrow subsurface region defined by the implantation range of the ions can then be performed by laser desorption into a mass spectrometer or, in a preferred embodiment, into a combined ion mobility orthogonal time of flight mass spectrometer.

The invention provides a method for generating an output indicative of acoustical sound transmission in a room. By using e.g. a point cloud representation of an acoustic environment, it is possible to calculate its acoustics from the interior information obtained from the depth camera. This approach is suitable e.g. for run-time applications since it is not based on an audible excitation that can disturb running audio. Also, the point-cloud model can be updated in real time according to the scene changes detected by depth-camera. This allows efficient acoustical simulation of dynamic, interactive environments. Although only geometrical information of a room is provided, high amount of surface details leaves possibility for implementation of material recognition algorithms that involve semantic mapping. This can provide information of reflective properties of surfaces or objects at a point level. Also, a high amount of details allows a good approximation of complex geometries, e.g. porous materials, and rough surfaces, thus a more natural simulation of wave phenomena like diffraction and scattering is possible.

An enhanced PIN, password, passcode protection system and method using an input terminal interface displaying a sequence of random symbols and a set of software rules set in a lookup table also prepared by software means, and the software means is stored in hardware means and at least one of a plurality of transformations are selected by a user and are based on preselected rules arranged in the lookup table and preprogrammed into the software. A currently used PIN has one or more symbols transformed according to the preselected rules and the user's PIN, transformed into a modified PIN, is input into the input terminal interface.

The invention provides an image data processing method of an electronic document and a device thereof. The image data processing method includes the methods of storing, searching, modifying, canceling and adding image data and comprises the steps of: acquiring image information and the image data from images collected from the electronic document; allocating index number; writing the image data into a corresponding data area in an IFC (Image File Cluster) file; updating corresponding index information according to the image data; and replacing the description using the image in the electronic document by the quote and the index number of the corresponding image information. The methods of searching, modifying, canceling and adding image data are carried out on the image data in the IFC file by an index structure. The invention intensively stores the image data distributed in the electronic document in the IFC file and carries out significative segmentation on the image data according to difference segmentation policies so as to remarkably reduce the storage expense and improve the access efficiency.

A method for managing the assets of holders of portions of the rights in shares of a property is accomplished by steps of acquiring shares of ownership in a property or a security of a business enterprise. The fractional rights are acquired by an administrator of the fractional rights and of a market maintained for trading the fractional rights. The administrator divides the share of the property or security into portions, such as the right to receive a dividend and the right to receive capital appreciation. A limited duration of time may be established for the fractional right, after which the fractional right may revert to a holder of residual rights. In the market, the administrator may sell rights to investors and is willing to repurchase the rights from the investors.

A design tool for assembling component objects to form an object-based computer system application includes a declarative user input interface mechanism and a design engine. The declarative user input interface mechanism provides an input structure for the input of user declarations specifying operative interactions between component objects. The design engine automatically generates, in response to input user declarations, an application design definition modeling an application infrastructure for managing component object interactions. The design engine automatically generates, in response to input user declarations, a match between an application view field definition and a parameter of an associated component object operations. A runtime tool includes an application engine which is responsive to an application design definition and is operative at runtime automatically to create application view instances from respective application view definitions for managing runtime component object interactions for the applications.

The invention relates to the technology of information system safety engineering, in particular to an integral nonlinear mapping-based hash function constructing method. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) filling information; (2) setting a group of initial vectors and parameters; (3) performing non-linear segmental code word expansion of message packets; (4) using a coupling mapping system model to make the parallel mode blending iterative operation, and realizing the blending and dispersion of the expanded code words and the link variables; and (5) outputting a variable length hash. The hash function constructing method is mainly used in fields of digital certificates, electric signatures, password protection, digital integrity verification and the like, adopts the nonlinear segmental type code word expansion technology, speeds up the nonlinear dispersion degree of the code words, combines the integral nonlinear mapping and a logic function and has relative ideal blending and dispersing characteristics; the parallel iterative structure is used in the compression function of the method, so that the high-speed parallel realization of software and hardware can be realized conveniently; and the constructing method has high operating efficiency, and the hash function is easily modified, supplemented and maintained.

A computer-implemented system for process control has two operating modes: normal mode and active procedure mode, with automatic transition between them. In normal mode, the operating system, firewall and anti-virus are fully operational. When entering a time-critical phase of a process, a process control application signals the operating system and utilities, whereupon transition to active procedure mode automatically occurs, in which access by the system services and by other applications to the resources of the computer is selectively limited in favor of the process control application. Upon completion of the procedure, the system automatically returns to normal mode.

The invention relates to an identification method of handwritten Uyghur words. The identification method comprises the following steps: firstly, preprocessing a handwritten Uyghur word; then, independently extracting a stroke structure characteristic and a gradient characteristic of the Uyghur word, wherein the stroke structure characteristic is directly extracted on a time coordinate sequence, the gradient characteristic is extracted from a two-dimensional image which is mapped by the time coordinate sequence of the preprocessed handwritten Uyghur word; carrying out serial fusion on the stroke structure characteristic and the gradient characteristic; and finally, carrying out classification identification by an Euclidean distance classifier to obtain an identification result. Two Uyghur word characteristics are extracted and are subjected to serial fusion, and an identification rate is improved than a way that single characteristic is extracted. The algorithm has the advantages of being good in algorithm performance and high in instantaneity, reliability and identification rate, is mainly applied to a mobile terminal to realize the identification of the handwritten Uyghur words, provides a new method for the informative processing of the Uyghur and opens up a new application way.

There is provided a database server capable of easily adding various kinds of associated data without modifying the structure of the database. A heading node (T node) is correlated with an associated node (A node) and an association role R is defined between the T node and the A node associated with it. Furthermore, each of the T node and the A node is added with an identifier (ID), its attribute (node type), and a name (node name). The data having such a structure is stored in an association/role table (AR table) composed of an entry containing ID of the A node and T node associated with each other and the association role R defined between them and in an identifier table (ID table) containing the ID, attribute, and name of the A node and the T node, so that the data can be searched.