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A system for repositioning teeth comprises a plurality of individual appliances. The appliances are configured to be placed successively on the patient's teeth and to incrementally reposition the teeth from an initial tooth arrangement, through a plurality of intermediate tooth arrangements, and to a final tooth arrangement. The system of appliances is usually configured at the outset of treatment so that the patient may progress through treatment without the need to have the treating professional perform each successive step in the procedure.

The invention relates to a software update method and a software update system. The method comprises the following steps: a client sends upgrading inquiring information to a server, and the upgrading inquiring information comprises client version information; the client receives update information returned by the server when the server judges that update is needed according to the client version information and server upgrading target version information, and the update information comprises increment update pack information; the client sends download requesting information to the server, and the download requesting information comprises the increment update pack information; and the client receives an increment update pack sent by the server and corresponding to the increment update pack information, and updates according to the increment update pack. The system is upgraded through the scheme, does not need to download all complete installation packs from the server, and greatly reduces the downloading data volume in upgrading, therefore, the band width occupied in downloading is less, the band width is saved, the downloading success rate is improved, and time consumed in upgrading and updating is reduced.

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for constructing a diagnostic network model in a more efficient and timely manner and with improved consistency. A structured electronic representation of a document is automatically reviewed to identify the symptoms experienced by the complex system, the plurality of components of the complex system and the causal relationships between a failure of the respective components and the occurrence of the various symptoms. Respective probabilities can be associated with the causal relationships between the symptoms and the failure of the various components. A network model, such as a Bayesian network model, may then be automatically constructed to represent the symptoms, the components, the causal relationships between failure of the components and exhibition of the symptoms, and the probabilities of the respective causal relationships.

A system for repositioning teeth comprises a plurality of individual appliances used with braces. The appliances are configured to be placed successively on the patient's teeth and to incrementally reposition the teeth from an initial tooth arrangement, through a plurality of intermediate tooth arrangements, and to a final tooth arrangement. The appliances may be substituted with braces as appropriate to optimize the treatment of the teeth.

In one embodiment, a method and apparatus for reducing time expended on non-value added tasks during assembly of an aircraft is provided. A RFID tag reading function of a RFID tag reader integrated into user apparel is enabled. The RFID tag reader comprises a set of touch activation components integrated into the user apparel. A touch activation component in the set of touch activation components is pressed against a surface in proximity of a RFID tag associated with an aircraft component. The RFID tag reader transmits an interrogate signal to an RFID tag associated with the aircraft component. The user observes a display device coupled to the RFID tag reader integrated into the user apparel, wherein the display device displays RFID tag information received from the RFID tag in response to the interrogate signal. The RFID tag information comprises data describing the aircraft component. The user receives the RFID tag information without interrupting an assembly task.

A system for repositioning teeth comprises a plurality of individual appliances that are treated with a lubricious composition. The appliances are configured to be placed successively on the patient's teeth and to incrementally reposition the teeth from an initial tooth arrangement, through a plurality of intermediate tooth arrangements, and to a final tooth arrangement. The system of appliances is usually configured at the outset of treatment so that the patient may progress through treatment without the need to have the treating professional perform each successive step in the procedure.

A system for repositioning teeth comprises a plurality of individual appliances. The appliances are configured to be placed successively on the patient's teeth and to incrementally reposition the teeth from an initial tooth arrangement, through a plurality of intermediate tooth arrangements, and to a final tooth arrangement. The system of appliances is usually configured at the outset of treatment so that the patient may progress through treatment without the need to have the treating professional perform each successive step in the procedure.

The invention discloses a temporary parking space renting system and a temporary parking space renting method. The renting system comprises a system server, a database server, a short message sending server, call center voice response equipment, a fixed parking space owner client for entrusting a third party to manage, a third party client for management, a temporary parking main client and a background management client, wherein the database server, the short message sending server and the call center voice response equipment are connected with the system server respectively. The renting method comprises renting entrustment, renting transaction, temporary renting and renting management. The attached equipment is simple; the operation can be mastered once learning; and the system and the method are easily popularized at property management places or parking lots of all fixed parking spaces, and are particularly suitable to be widely applied in large and medium cities lacking the parking spaces in a short term so as to propel sharing of social idle parking space resources, increase the usage frequency and efficiency of the parking spaces, reduce the time for seeking the parking spaces for temporary parking owners, effectively solve the parking problem of going to work and handling affairs and basically solve the dispute problems of the fixed parking owners and the temporary parking owners due to parking time conflicts.

The invention belongs to the technical field of network security and discloses an automatic penetration testing method for information system security. A penetration testing platform is built to automatically scan the mainframe state of an information system and the security loopholes of a topological structure and the information system, to analyze the loophole information, to automatically transfer a verification script in a loophole verification base for attacking a target system, to obtain and improve the target control authority and to remove the access trace after finishing the penetration attack. Finally, the whole penetration testing process and result are recorded and analyzed to generate a testing report. According to the method, the penetration testing flow is comprehensively considered and the existing security analyzing tools are fully utilized to design various tools for packing an automatic penetration testing module, so that the automatic transfer and execution of the tools are achieved, and the completeness of the penetration testing process is improved. Through the exchange utilization of data among different modules and the automatic analysis and arrangement of the result output of the security analyzing tools, the efficiency and automatic degree of the penetration testing are improved.

A method and system for analysis of genetic information. Preferably, such analysis enables genetic counseling to be provided to a patient and / or relative, in which such counseling includes conveying at least one aspect of the analysis in lay terms.

A stent made of a self-expandable or balloon-expandable metal mesh fabric that can be widened to a diameter larger than that of the descending aorta. The stent has a flexible lining of vessel-replacing material, wherein the lining covers it at least partly in longitudinal direction and forms a tubular segment which projects beyond the end of the stent at least at one end and which functions as the vascular prosthesis. Such implantable arrangements (1) make it possible to achieve short surgical times, especially during the treatment of aortic arch aneurysms involving the cephalic arteries.

A device for emergency transport of pediatric patients that safely and efficiently transports a pediatric patient to a medical facility. To confine the patient to the device frame, it includes a child restraint in the form of a restraining belt assembly. The device accommodates children of varying size using the restraining belt assembly. The device also includes a hinge assembly that controls the relative rotation of portions of the frame. A clamp that can releasably attach to an object with a rail, such as a medical transport device is also described. To increase efficiency, the clamp includes a width accommodation feature and a universality feature. These features enable it to secure the device to objects of varying shapes and widths.

A network intrusion detection system combines the normally sequential steps of protocol analysis, normalization, and signature matching through the use of a regular expression to speed the monitoring of network data. The regular expression also allows the creation of a superset matcher, permitting multiple stages of matching of increased accuracy to produce additional throughput gains.

This invention relates to dynamic intelligent guidance method, which comprises the following steps: terminal sending guidance requirement to monitor center and sending car aim information to monitor center; monitor center requires car current position as start place and to combine real time traffic database and aim place information; monitor center according to start place and aim place and shield place information plane sends the information to terminal to re-establish monitor center plan path; at same time monitor center monitors real time traffic information database and when there are changes then repeating above steps for updating.

A game system and game device are disclosed which shorten the time needed until a game is selected when a player is selecting a game with an operation accepting unit. When play history of players associated with player-specifying information (player ID) is stored in an identifier storage unit, and the input accepting unit accepts the player ID prior to acceptance by an operation accepting unit of game selection operation, an assist display image based on the play history associated with the accepted player ID is displayed prior to acceptance of game selection operation by the operation accepting unit. In this way, the player can check his / her own play history and the time a player takes to decide which game to play can be shortened.

The invention provides an event publishing network system based on a social mechanism and a geographical position. The system comprises a registration module, a login module, an event module and a geographical position module. The geographical position module provides a GIS information service interface and carries out data butt jointing with an electronic map provider so that a user registration address and an event generation address correspond with the real geographical position. The event module comprises an event publishing module, an event positioning module, an event participation module and an event interaction module. The event publishing network system based on the social mechanism and the geographical position of the invention is the network system used to construct a virtual self-living environment for everyone. Therefore, a user can feel rich and colorful social networking experience and the social networking can be merged into life and work. The life experience of the user can be improved and working efficiency can be increased.

In one embodiment, a method and apparatus for reducing time expended on non-value added tasks during assembly of an aircraft is provided. A RFID tag reading function of a RFID tag reader integrated into user apparel is enabled. The RFID tag reader comprises a set of touch activation components integrated into the user apparel. A touch activation component in the set of touch activation components is pressed against a surface in proximity of a RFID tag associated with an aircraft component. The RFID tag reader transmits an interrogate signal to an RFID tag associated with the aircraft component. The user observes a display device coupled to the RFID tag reader integrated into the user apparel, wherein the display device displays RFID tag information received from the RFID tag in response to the interrogate signal. The RFID tag information comprises data describing the aircraft component. The user receives the RFID tag information without interrupting an assembly task.

The invention discloses an improved LS channel estimating method used in OFDM system, and relates to the communication technical field with the purpose of overcoming the deficiencies of high computation complexity and poor error performance of the prior art in low SNR situation. By adopting the method, the shock responses of channels can be more accurately estimated in low SNR situations, and the computational complexity is not high. The realization process of the method uses the LS algorithm to estimate the frequency domain responses of the channels, which then are converted to time domain; the limitation of channel pulse responses in the time domain is used for getting rid of part of noise interference; and new channel pulse responses are acquired, which are converted again to the frequency domain to replace the channel frequency domain responses estimated with LS algorithm, to channel-equalizing received data, and coherent-demodulate the equalized data. The invention is applicable to OFDM modulating burst-mode wireless communication systems.

The invention relates to a method for pretreating a cotton fabric at low temperature by using biological enzymes and hydrogen peroxide through one bath process. The method adopts N-[4-(trialkyl ammonium methylene)benzoyl] lactam chloride activator, hydrogen peroxide, a desizing enzyme, a scouring enzyme and supporting aids and has the characteristics of low temperature of 25-60 DEG C in the whole course, nearly neutral reaction condition (with pH value being 6.5-7.5) and low fiber damage. The cotton fabric treated by the adopting the method has no residual sizing agent and cottonseed hull, is equivalent to the cotton fabric treated by adopting the conventional method in whiteness and moisture absorption and is superior to the cotton fabric treated by adopting the conventional method in strength and handfeel. The process of the method is shortened greatly, the energy is saved, and the sewage treatment burden is lightened.

The invention provides a component different-surface-parallel-hole form and position deviation visual measuring method and device. The method comprises the following steps which are carried out in sequence: [1] binocular camera parameter calibration; [2] different-surface-parallel-hole feature analysis and treatment of a component entity image; [3] different-surface-parallel-hole match feature point extraction of the component entity image; [4] component different-surface-parallel-hole three-dimension information reconstruction, and analysis and calculation of form and position deviation parameters such as diameter, circular degree, hole pitch and depth distribution of holes. According to the invention, measurement of the component feature hole form and position deviation can be completed rapidly and effectively, precision requirements of high-precision measurement can be met, and advantages of simple measurement operation, low equipment maintenance cost and the like can be achieved.

A system for repositioning teeth comprises a plurality of individual appliances used with braces. The appliances are configured to be placed successively on the patient's teeth and to incrementally reposition the teeth from an initial tooth arrangement, through a plurality of intermediate tooth arrangements, and to a final tooth arrangement. The appliances may be substituted with braces as appropriate to optimize the treatment of the teeth.

The invention relates to an access prediction-based data cache strategy for a P2P Video-on-Demand (VoD) system server. The strategy comprises a data access classification and prediction strategy, a data prefetching strategy and a cache queue maintenance strategy, wherein the data access classification and prediction strategy is in charge of classifying data requests of the server, performing access prediction on different types of requests by different methods according to the application characteristics of the VoD, and predicting data access targets of nodes, which perform the data requests, in the future; a cache queue maintenance sub-strategy is in charge of maintaining a fixed-length cache queue and performing inserting, deleting and replacing operation of the cache queue by a future access frequency-based cache replacement algorithm; and the calculation of the future access frequency synthesizes the probability of the cache item accessed sequentially and randomly in the future and takes consideration on the influence factors of data access stability such as on-off line of the nodes in the P2P VoD system, server replacement and the like.

In a particular embodiment, a method includes scanning, by a mobile device, for a first wireless communication channel that is reserved for device authentication and association. The mobile device sends an authentication request to an access point via the first wireless communication channel. The method further includes receiving a reply to the authentication request from the access point.

The present invention discloses a method for debugging the average optical power and extinction ratio parameter of optical transmitter. The optical transmitter is set to an automatic power control mode. The modulation signal coupling mode of the laser driving chip of light transmitter and the laser is set to a direct-current coupling mode. A microcomputer tests the luminous efficiency and threshold current of laser of the optical transmitter. The microcomputer debugs the average optical power of optical transmitter to a preset average optical power area. The microcomputer debugs the present extinction ratio of optical transmitter to a preset extinction range. The technical scheme according to the invention can greatly reduce the investment of product line on the device and has the advantages of automatic debugging realization, reduced production cost and increased production efficiency.

The invention provides a picture processing method and apparatus. The method comprises the steps: acquiring a target decorative sticker, selected by a user, for a target picture; according to the type information of the target decorative sticker, determining the target human body region type corresponding to the target decorative sticker; identifying the displayed figure and the target human body region corresponding to the target human body region type in the target picture; according to the identified target human body region and the type information of the target decorative sticker, calculating the size information to be used and the region to be added in the target picture for the target decorative sticker; and according to the size information to be used, adjusting the target decorative sticker, and adding the adjusted target decorative sticker to the region to be added in the target picture. Therefore, the picture processing method and apparatus can automatically determine the size information to be used and the region to be added for adding the target decorative sticker, and can automatically add the target decorative sticker in the target picture without the demand for manual operation of the user, thus being simple and convenient in operation and reducing the consumed time.

The invention discloses a calculating method of mirror field optical efficiency of a tower type solar thermoelectric system. The method includes the following implementation steps: 1) generating a mirror filed and determining incident light; 2) determining a scattering range according to the mirror field, the incident light and the coordinate of a heliostat; 3) randomly scattering light spots in a heliostat field in the scattering range; 4) utilizing a compute unified device architecture (CUDA) computing platform and adopting multiple threads to conduct light tracing and computing shadow shielding efficiency and overflowing efficiency of the mirror field through the light tracing method; 5) computing cosine efficiency and 6) operating the shadow shielding efficiency, the overflowing efficiency and the cosine efficiency to obtain and output mirror field optical efficiency. The method can utilize high speed operating capability of the CUDA computing platform to achieve graphic processing unit (GPU) high performance parallel operation, enables the multiple threads to conduct computing and judgment simultaneously, and has the advantages of being high in computing efficiency and speed and wide in mirror field application range due to the fact that the whole program costs less time to compute the mirror field efficiency, and optimization and design of the mirror field are benefited.

A device for emergency transport of pediatric patients that safely and efficiently transports a pediatric patient to a medical facility is described. The device enables the transport of pediatric trauma patients on a conventional stretcher while still enabling a backboard to be used therewith to immobilize a critically-injured patient. Additionally, the device provides for more comfortable and sanitary transport of a pediatric patient by adding a disposable padded cushion, which is placed on the device prior to placing the child in the device for emergency transport.

The invention relates to a MR brain tumor image segmentation method based on an improved full-convolution neural network algorithm. The method comprises the following steps: step 1, image preprocessing; step 2, improved FCNN coarse segmentation algorithm, including based on a FCNN, adding a batch regularization layer after each convolution layer to speed up training of the network and improve precision of a model, and performing features fusion on pooled brain tumors features for three times, to obtain more refined brain tumors features, and establishing an improved FCNN, called a FCNN-4s network; step 3, FCNN-4s and CRF resegmentation fusion algorithm, including initializing an energy function in a CRF model according to a FCNN-4s coarse segmentation result in the second step, to obtain aprobability value of pixel original home label, and then calculating the CRF model by the following steps, continuously iterating and correcting two kinds of probability maps of FCNN-4s prediction, to obtain a CRF resegmentation fusion result.

An electronic medical record system and method are disclosed, the system comprising a medical query generated based on a medical or disability rules collection and based on an individual's medical or disability claim; an electronic medical record containing data responsive to said query; a viewing module for displaying at least a portion of said medical query and portion of said electronic medical record; and a linking module for linking at least a portion of said medical query to at least one section of said responsive data in said electronic medical record. In certain embodiments, the electronic medical record system further comprises a retrieval module configured for retrieving said linked responsive data in said electronic medical record to said linked query in response to a retrieval request by a user of the viewer. In other embodiments, the system further comprises a highlighting module configured to highlight the at least one section of said responsive data in said electronic medical record.