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An integrated system for the monitoring and treating diabetes is provided, including an integrated receiver / hand-held medicament injection pen, including electronics, for use with a continuous glucose sensor. In some embodiments, the receiver is configured to receive continuous glucose sensor data, to calculate a medicament therapy (e.g., via the integrated system electronics) and to automatically set a bolus dose of the integrated hand-held medicament injection pen, whereby the user can manually inject the bolus dose of medicament into the host. In some embodiments, the integrated receiver and hand-held medicament injection pen are integrally formed, while in other embodiments they are detachably connected and communicated via mutually engaging electrical contacts and / or via wireless communication.

Dynamic task management processes and systems are provided, whereby tasks are assigned to workers discretely, in response to worker-originated requests, on a real-time basis. Tasks are extracted from an aggregate thereof, scheduled into one or more queues, then “pulled” by workers for execution. Comprehensive data for performing each task are monitored, as are worker skills and availability. Each task is matched to an appropriate worker, the assignment being adjusted or modified automatically, to the extent required, to satisfy certain predefined temporal and / or spatial criteria. When a worker signals completion of an assigned task, the next discrete task in the queue matching the worker's skills and / or availability is pulled from the queue and assigned. The invention is useful for managing warehouse and inventory operations, and specifically, the scheduling and assignment of pick tasks among warehouse pickers, for example, in connection with e-commerce order fulfillment.

The present invention provides a server load balancing apparatus using MPLS session labels. The server load balancing apparatus includes a packet analyzing unit, a load balancing processing unit, a session label switching unit, a session managing unit, and a session label managing unit. The packet analyzing unit inspects whether a session label has been attached to a received packet, analyzes header information of the received packet to learn session information, and attaches a session label to a header of the received packet. The load balancing processing unit assigns a server to a session of the received packet without the session label attached. The session label switching unit hardware-switches the received packet with the session label attached using only the session label information. The session managing unit manages and maintains relevant information and states of sessions. The session label managing unit manages the session label.

A method of making imaged elements such as lithographic printing plates is achieved by imagewise exposing an infrared radiation-sensitive positive-working imageable element to provide exposed and non-exposed regions. The imaged element is developed using a single processing solution having a pH of from about 9 to about 11.5 and containing carbonate ion and at least 1 weight % of one or more anionic surfactants, to remove predominantly only the exposed regions to provide an image and to provide a protective coating on the imaged surface. The imageable element comprises a substrate and a radiation absorbing compound, and has an imageable layer on the substrate that comprises a developability-enhancing compound and a poly(vinyl acetal) in which at least 25 mol % of its recurring units comprise pendant nitro-substituted phenolic groups.

A composition for a polarization film including a polyolefin component including polypropylene and a polyethylene-polypropylene copolymer; and a dichroic dye.

A branding framework for use in efficiently locating branding resources and applying them throughout a software product. Centrally stored resource files contain branding resources and have namespaces assigned to them. A branding engine of the framework calls a group of resource files as a function of a selected namespace and searches the called group for branding resources to be installed in the software product. In one embodiment, the branding engine searches the called resource files based on the metadata embedded in the resource files.

The present invention provides a novel photolithography processes using photoresist pattern having at least two areas which has different thickness from each other for a fabrication method for a liquid crystal display device having reversed staggered and channel-etched type thin film transistors, reduce a number of photolithography processes required for whole of the fabrication process of the liquid crystal display device, and improve brightness of the liquid crystal display device.

A privacy management system (PMS) is disclosed for a Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) or other user to use in monitoring and / or controlling in realtime the flow of data (e.g., outflow) about the user and his / her online experience. The PMS may provide a dashboard displaying a whitelist and / or blacklist indicating what destinations / sources are blocked or allowed. The PMS includes browser-client scripting code and may also include a PMS-certified verification icon for display on webpages being monitored / controlled in realtime by the PMS.

An iterative low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding system comprises a first shift register for storing bit estimates, a plurality of parity-check processing node banks configured for processing the bit estimates for generating messages, combiners configured for combining the messages with the bit estimates for generating updated bit estimates, and fixed permuters for permuting the updated bit estimates to facilitate storage and access of the bit estimates. A second shift register is provided for storing the messages, and a subtraction module subtracts messages generated a predetermined number of cycles earlier from the updated bit estimates.

The present invention provides a process for fabricating a field emitter electrode, comprising dispersing carbon nanotubes and a conductive polymer in DI (deionized) water to prepare a carbon nanotube mixture having a viscosity of 50 to 100 cps; applying the carbon nanotube mixture to a substrate; and heat treating the carbon nanotube mixture to form a conductive polymer layer including carbon nanotubes.

Ultra fine and nanometer powders and a method of producing same are provided, preferably refractory metal and ceramic nanopowders. When certain precursors are injected into the plasma flame in a reactor chamber, the materials are heated, melted and vaporized and the chemical reaction is induced in the vapor phase. The vapor phase is quenched rapidly to solid phase to yield the ultra pure, ultra fine and nano product. With this technique, powders have been made 20 nanometers in size in a system capable of a bulk production rate of more than 10 lbs / hr. The process is particularly applicable to tungsten, molybdenum, rhenium, tungsten carbide, molybdenum carbide and other related materials.

A liquid crystal display device and a fabricating method thereof for simplifying a process and improving an aperture ration are disclosed, including forming a first mask pattern group including a gate line, a gate electrode and a common line; forming a second mask pattern group including a semiconductor pattern and a source / drain pattern having a data line, a source electrode and a drain electrode overlapped thereon on the gate insulating film using a second mask; and forming a third mask pattern group including and a pixel electrode making an interface with the protective film in the pixel hole to be connected to the drain electrode, thereby forming a horizontal electric field with the common electrode, using a third mask.

Disclosed is a structure of a touch screen which is integrally implemented with a liquid crystal panel. In the structure, a touch sensor module is integrally implemented with the liquid crystal panel, a substrate of the liquid crystal panel is formed of two side strengthened glass, and the touch sensor module is integrally implemented on the two strengthened glass, thereby being capable of improving strength of the whole touch sensor module and simplifying a process.

A card registry system is configured to automatically identify financial card information in one or more credit files associated with a consumer and populate a card registry account of the consumer with the identified financial card information. Once the financial card information has been obtained from the credit file(s), the card registry system may transmit cancellation and / or reissuance requests to the respective card issuers in the instance that one or more cards are compromised, so that the financial cards may be easily and efficiently cancelled and / or reissued at the request of the consumer.

An organic light-emitting display device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The organic light-emitting display device includes a touch sensor having a plurality of touch electrodes on an encapsulation stack covering a light-emitting element. The touch electrodes are formed at a low temperature and are crystallized through an annealing process, whereby it is possible to prevent damage to an organic light-emitting layer at the time of forming the touch electrodes. Thus the touch electrodes can be formed on the encapsulation stack without an additional bonding process to bond the touch sensor to the organic light-emitting display device.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that supports vector operations on a multi-threaded microprocessor. During operation, the system detects a vector instruction in a program. The system maps this vector instruction onto the thread contexts of the multi-threaded microprocessor. As part of the mapping process, the system splits the vector instruction across a set of threads that execute in parallel and generates a set of instructions for the set of threads. This mapping process allows the vector instruction to be executed efficiently across multiple threads.

An electromagnetic wave absorber is formed by injection-molding a thermoplastic resin blended with approximately 20-60% by volume of soft magnetic material powder, and blended with a molding assistant and a kneading assistant. The electromagnetic wave absorber includes a unit cell having a bore extending from a top face to a bottom face. A portion of the bore located more adjacently to the bottom face than to the top face has a smaller cross-sectional area than the bore at the top face, and a height of the unit cell from the bottom face to the top face is approximately at least 1.2 times and approximately at most 10 times as large as the maximum width of the bore at the top face of the unit cell.

A magnesium fastener manufacturing method includes the steps of: using a magnesium or a magnesium alloy to form a magnesium wire or a magnesium rod; processing cold forging, warm forging or hot forging the magnesium wire or the magnesium rod to form a magnesium fastener member. When processing warm or hot forging, a directly heating treatment, a thermal isolating and directly heating treatment, or a directly heating and thermal isolating treatment is selectively applied to heat the magnesium wire or a magnesium rod to a predetermined temperature.

A horizontal electric field applying type thin film transistor substrate of a LCD device having an increased aperture ratio as well as a simplified manufacturing process. The device includes a gate line having a double layered structure including a transparent first conductive layer and an opaque second conductive layer, a data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel area; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a common line having first and second conductive layers and substantially parallel to the gate line; a common electrode extended from the first conductive layer of the common line in the pixel area; and a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor to form a horizontal electric field with the common electrode in the pixel area.

A conductive film for use in a touch panel is provided. The conductive film includes a base member including a sensor area and a wire area, a sensor electrode located on the base member in the sensor area and a wire electrode located on the base member in the wire area, the wire electrode being connected to the sensor electrode. At least one of the sensor electrode and the wire electrode includes a nano material conductor having a network shape.

First processing circuitry processes at least part of a stream of program instructions. The first processing circuitry has registers for storing data and register renaming circuitry for mapping architectural register specifiers to physical register specifiers. A renaming data store stores renaming entries for identifying a register mapping between the architectural and physical register specifiers. At least some renaming entries have a count value indicating a number of speculation points occurring between generation of a previous count value and generation of the count value. The speculation points may for example be branch operation or load / store operations.

A lighting device is formed using a light-emitting element by a more simplified method. The lighting device includes a light-emitting element including a light-emitting layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, a substrate provided with the light-emitting element and an uneven region around the periphery of the light-emitting element, a sealing substrate facing the substrate, connection electrodes connected to the first electrode and the second electrode and formed over the uneven region, and a sealant for bonding the substrate and the sealing substrate. The connection electrodes are each formed using a conductive paste, and the sealant is in contact with the connection electrodes and the uneven region provided around the periphery of the light-emitting element.

A cold processing shrink-wrapping machine for groups of items with extensible film, includes:elements (2) for feeding the group of items (4) to be packaged;at least one reel (6) of extensible film (7) for packaging the group of items (4) by wrapping the film around it;elements (10) for holding the group of items;elements (3) for unloading the packaged items, andelements that put the group of items (4) in rotation about a horizontal axis so as to drag the film (7) around it unrolling it from the reel (6) whose axis of rotation is fixed.

A method for forming a fin-shaped structure includes the following steps. A pad layer is formed on a substrate. A sacrificial pattern is formed on the pad layer. A spacer is formed on the pad layer beside the sacrificial pattern, wherein the ratio of the height of the spacer to the pad layer is larger than 5. The sacrificial pattern is removed. The layout of the spacer is transferred to the substrate to form at least a fin-shaped structure having a taper profile in the substrate.

Three positive-type photosensitive material layers which are photosensitive to light having the same wavelength range are provided on a substrate, and an intermediate layer contains a light-absorbing agent. The ultraviolet absorbing agent contains in the intermediate layer prevents the intermediate layer and lower layer from being exposed during the exposure of an upper layer. After the upper layer is exposed, the intermediate layer and lower layer are exposed with the light having the same wavelength range, which is used to expose the upper layer.

An outlet box assembly that simplifies the installation of an electrical box to a block wall. The assembly includes a box and a base plate. The box includes sidewalls, an open front with a planar front edge, and one or more side arms projecting from the sidewalls in a plane parallel to the planar front. The side arms include one or more apertures for receipt of fasteners. The base plate is substantially larger in area than the sidewalls of the box and includes an opening therein sized to accept the sidewalls of the box. The box is secured to a block wall by creating a hole in the wall at the desired location, positioning the base plate over the hole and against the wall, placing the box through the opening in the base plate until the back surface of the arms are flush with the base plate, and driving fasteners through one or more of the apertures in the side arms, through the base plate, and into the cement block.

A linker is usually used, in post processing of compiling high-level languages such as C into machine executable language, to bind separately compiled object files and resolve the addresses (142) of global variables (140) declared in the separate files. The invention proposes linking during compile time by using a special purpose hash table called global variables hash table (130) shared among the separate files. This results in a collection of processed object files that are coherent in terms of their addresses (142) for global variables (140) that could be further assembled correctly into machine executable code. This method is useful for compiling separate high level language source files to generate executable machine code employing a technique of address resolution across separate modules.

The present invention relates to a power generation system, which includes a source of a seed oil, a source of alcohol, and a reactor in communication with the source of seed oil and the source of alcohol. The reactor produces a biofuel product. The system has a power source that operates on a biofuel energy source to produce heated exhaust. The power source is in communication with the reactor to utilize a portion of the biofuel product as its biofuel energy source. The system has a heat transfer mechanism that transfers heat from the exhaust manifold to the reactor. The power source also converts mechanical power into electrical power. Also disclosed is a system that involves extraction of oil from an oilseed product. A method of extracting oil from an oilseed product, a method of making a transesterified seed oil, and a method of making a biofuel are also disclosed, as are products obtained thereby.

Provided is a display device that can determine an event in accordance with an input operation without using a complex circuit configuration for image processing by simplifying a difference image processing. The display device is provided with a driver circuit for outputting a first control signal, which indicates a first detection period including an ON period of a light source, and a second control signal, which indicates a second detection period not including the ON period of the light source, and performing reset and read-out operations for sensor pixel circuits. The display device is further provided with a difference circuit 21 for deriving pixel values that indicate differences between outputs from the sensor pixel circuits, which correspond to charges that have been accumulated in accordance with incident light during the first detection period, and outputs from the sensor pixel circuits, which correspond to charges that have been accumulated in accordance with incident light during the second detection period, a histogram creating unit 22 for extracting a histogram from the pixel values that have been derived by the difference circuit 21, and an operation determining unit 23 for determining an operation in accordance with an input through an optical sensor on the basis of the histogram.