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A computer implemented method to estimate a respondent's or a set of respondents' rank order with respect to a number of attribute options (i.e. alternative prices, features, benefits, ways of expressing benefits, brand names, slogans, logos, graphic treatments such as package design elements and any other stimuli that the researcher believes may influence the individual's opinion such as a statement, graphic or brief audio). The method can be used when the number of stimuli to be presented exceeds the number that can be presented at one time to a respondent, most typically, exceeding the number that can be legibly displayed on one computer screen for rank ordering by a respondent. The estimated rank order is highly accurate, especially for the highest ranked stimuli, but requires only a small fraction of the respondent input that would be needed to capture a complete rank order from that respondent. This abstract is provided as an aid for finding relevant disclosures and not as a limitation on the scope of the claims.

The invention includes a method for harvesting a polypeptide produced by a host cell, wherein the polypeptide has not undergone intracellular posttranslational modification, such as dehydration of a serine or a threonine, and / or thioether bridge formation. The invention also includes a method for producing thioether-containing peptides and dehydroalanine / dehydrobutyrine-containing.peptides, wherein thioether rings may be formed extracellularly.

An image-based measurement technique that directly measures the orientation of fibers in a moving web that comprises nonwoven material measures the orientation angles of the individual fibers so that a more robust estimate of the statistical distribution of fibers is obtained. The technique includes the steps of: (a) illuminating an area on at least one side of the web with radiation; (b) obtaining at least one digital image of the illuminated area; and (c) calculating the fiber orientation of the web by processing the at least one digital image with a gradient operator thereby analyzing the distribution of observed fiber orientation angles within the image. The gradient operator is preferably of a non-integer order between ⅓ and ⅔ and particularly between ¼ and ¾. The use of fractional-gradient operators yields more reliable results than when integer order gradients are employed.

A high-pass two-dimensional ladder network has been described for high-field MRI and credential applications. The next-to-highest eigenvalue of the network corresponds to a normal mode giving rise to B1 fields with good spatial homogeneity above the resonator plane. Other eigenvalues may also be used for specific imaging applications. In its most basic form, the ladder network is a collection of inductively coupled resonators where each element of the array is represented by at least one conducting strip having a self-inductance L, joined by a capacitor C at one or more points along each resonator. In the strong coupling limit of the inductively coupled high-pass two-dimensional ladder network resonator array, the array produces a high-frequency resonant mode that can be used to generate the traditional quadrature B1 field used in magnetic resonance imaging, and in the limit of weak or zero coupling reduces to a phased array suitable for parallel imaging applications.

An adaptive saddle and support assembly for use with handicapped, disabled, or injured riders includes a saddle body having a front attachment point and a rear attachment point. The attachment points each can releasably receive a support assembly therein including a vertical support member to which can be attached a torso pad, a pair of forearm pads and a pair of handgrips depending on the needs of the rider.

An image-based measurement technique that directly measures the crepe pattern on a moving sheet employs a suitable arrangement of illumination, optical elements, and an imaging device to obtain digital images of the sheet surface. The image resolution is sufficient to represent tissue crepe folds at the scale of the crepe. A spectral analysis of some or of all the images reveals the crepe folding pitch. Further analysis of the image optionally reveals other crepe structural parameters, such as the distribution of crepe fold orientation angles and distribution of linear fold lengths. Corrective actions can be implemented in response to changes in the crepe structure. The pitch of creping is the primary parameter for describing the crepe pattern; in addition, analyzing the images with a gradient operator can yield information regarding the orientation of the crepe folds and distribution of angles of the crepe furrows on the hood side or equivalently of the crepe seams on the cylinder side.

A system and method for measuring the cross sectional diameter of a body lumen are disclosed. A catheter tube having a proximal end, a distal end, and two or more strips formed from equal length parallel slits in the body, the strips normally parallel when the catheter tube is not stressed, the strips bowing outwardly from the tube when the distal end of the tube is stressed in a direction toward the proximal end of the catheter tube is inserted through an opening in a body, means such as a central tube or wire are pulled in a proximal direction to stress the catheter tube and thereby bow the strips outwardly in order to measure an opening such as a hiatal hernia.

A single-chip Z-axis linear magnetoresistive sensor is provided. The sensor comprises a substrate, magnetoresistive sensing elements, and flux guides, wherein the magnetoresistive sensing elements are mutually electrically connected to form push arms and pull arms of a bridge; the push arms and the pull arms are alternately arranged, and the magnetoresistive sensing elements on the push arms and the pull arms are respectively located at two sides beneath the flux guides; the magnetization direction of a pinning layer of each magnetoresistive sensing element is the same and is in an X-axis direction. An external magnetic field in a Z-axis direction is converted into a magnetic field with components in an X-axis direction by the flux guides, and thus the magnetoresistive sensing elements beneath the flux guides can detect this component. The sensor has the advantages of the small size, simple manufacturing, simple packaging, high sensitivity, good linearity, wide operating range, low offset, good temperature compensation, and capability to measure high magnetic fields, etc.

A laser head of laser beam processing machine which comprises a housing, in the interior of which a beam compartment and at the end thereof a nozzle for the laser beam and a working gas to exit are disposed. A dome-shaped nozzle head is provided on the housing and has alternating nozzles disposed on the interior. These nozzles are held rotatable about an axis of rotation and can be introduced into the beam path of the laser beam. The axis of rotation is located on an eccentric disk so that a one-off adjustment can be carried out while the nozzle head is exchanged. The nozzles on the nozzle plate can be exchanged without additional adjustment and thus also automatically, thereby avoiding the need for a complicated adjustment and handling during exchange of the nozzle.

A protection suit, particularly a spacesuit, has an opening in a back portion of the spacesuit for entering and exiting the suit. The spacesuit is suspended on one side of a bulkhead (5') so that a hole in the bulkhead is aligned with the opening in the back portion of the suit. The opening is closeable by a backpack (3) which fits through the hole in the bulkhead into a decontamination chamber (7) on the opposite side of the bulkhead. Two sealing and interlocking systems are used. Each system has two subsystems to provide a total of four sealing and interlocking subsystems. A first subsystem (4) connects the spacesuit to the bulkhead that separates a living and working space from an airlock. A second subsystem (6) connects a backpack to the spacesuit (1). A third subsystem (9) connects the spacesuit, preferably through the backpack (3), to a decontamination chamber (7). A fourth subsystem (12) connects the decontamination chamber to the bulkhead (5'). Each subsystem (4, 6, 9, 12) is capable of hermetically sealing and interlocking the respective connection. The decontamination chamber is just large enough to accommodate the backpack.

A method of treating an instrument after contamination of a surface thereof includes the steps of covering the surface with a foam and maintaining the foam on the surface to keep the surface moist prior to cleaning the instrument to prevent foreign matter thereon from becoming dried on and more difficult to remove during cleaning. The foam includes hydrogen peroxide, dissolves blood and provides antimicrobial effect.

A noise-minimizing supply regulation architecture enabling high-performance integrated mixed-signal circuit systems is disclosed. The architecture identifies noise-generating and noise-sensitive sub-components of a PLL or other complex mixed-signal circuit and isolates the noise-sensitive sub-components from the noise-generating sub-components through the use of separate, wideband, high-PSRR voltage regulators for the two isolated supply domains. This isolation is further enhanced through techniques that separate or isolate the substrate regions occupied by the two types of sub-components. Further, internally generated noise is minimized by the allocation of available decoupling capacitance area in proportion to the noise generated within the domains. This supply isolation architecture achieves very low noise operation of the critical components of the mixed-signal integrated circuit system, thereby improving output quality.

A thermal working tool (1) is movable along a workpiece surface (7) and includes a torch head (2) which has exchangeably mounted thereon cutting or welding tools (3; 4; 5) extending between the torch head (2) and the workpiece surface (7). A distance control for setting a predetermined working distance (A) between the working tool (1) and the workpiece surface (7) is carried out by a magnetic system, an alternating magnetic field being produced in a sensor body with ferromagnetic properties above the workpiece surface (7). The torch head (2) and at least one of the cutting or welding tools (3; 4; 5) contain ferromagnetic material and form at least part of the sensor body (2; 3; 4; 5). The magnetic field produced is sensed by two measuring coils, and is used for controlling the working distance (A).

The invention relates to an apparatus for forming or working optical elements and / or optical forming elements (1) comprising a working apparatus (18) for forming surfaces of form parts by machining or an abrasive technique, wherein at least one measuring device (17) is provided for measuring changes in form and / or surface roughness of said surface when said surface is being worked and, on the basis thereof controlling said working apparatus (18).

The invention relates to inferring the state of a system of interest having a plurality of indicator values and possibly being heterogeneous in nature. A number of indicator values from a control state and from a comparison state are gathered. From these indicator values, classification power between the control and comparison states (measure of goodness) is computed. Difference values are computed for the indicator values from the system of interest based on the difference to the indicator values from control and comparison states. From a number of these indicators, composite indicators are formed, and composite measures of goodness and composite difference values are computed. A plurality of composite indicators may be formed at different levels. These indicators may be represented as a tree and grouped according to content, and at the same time they may be arranged according to the measure of goodness or some other value. The indicators, measures of goodness, and difference values may be visualized and shown to a user, who may use such a representation for inferring the state of the system.

An optical parameter measuring apparatus for measuring optical parameters of an object includes a light source, a polarizing module, a Stokes polarimeter and a calculating module. The light source emits a light which is polarized by the polarizing module and received by the Stokes polarimeter. According to the light information generated by the Stokes polarimeter, Mueller matrixes of linear birefringence, circular birefringence, linear dichroism, circular dichroism and linear / circular depolarization of the object, and Stokes vector established according to the Mueller matrixes, the calculating module calculates the optical parameters.

A manometer includes a pressure gauge, a cylinder having a larger cross-section and an outlet, and a tubular coupler fluidly communicated with the cylinder and having a source-side port. A piston is fitted in and fluid-tightly slidable relative to the cylinder to define a fluid subchamber in communication with the outlet. A piston rod having a smaller cross-section extends from the piston into the tubular coupler to terminate at a pressed end. The outlet and the source-side port are fluidly communicated with the pressure gauge and a pressure source to be measured so as to transform an internal pressure of the pressure source into a reduced or augmented fluid pressure to be detected by the pressure gauge.

The invention provides a floor slab bridge structure capable of enhancing that strength, with which bridge girders and concrete bridge piers are rigidly joined, effectively suppressing expansion and contraction, deflection, and distortion of the bridge girders, and synergistically enhancing the strength of connection concrete itself against the expansion and contraction, distortion, etc., and being very effective as measures for prevention of collapse of bridge against a large earthquake. Slab concrete is hammer-set between sides of respective bridge girders, which are aligned in a bridge width direction, in a length direction of the bridge girders and connection concrete, in which bridge girder portions supported on bridge bottom surfaces of concrete bridge piers supporting the bridge girders are embedded, is additionally deposited on the bridge bottom surfaces to form a floor slab bridge structure being a rigid joining structure, in which the slab concrete and the concrete bridge piers are concrete-joined together through the connection concrete.

A protection suit, particularly a spacesuit, has an opening in a back portion of the spacesuit for entering and exiting the suit. The spacesuit is suspended on one side of a bulkhead (5′) so that a hole in the bulkhead is aligned with the opening in the back portion of the suit. The opening is closeable by a backpack (3) which fits through the hole in the bulkhead into a decontamination chamber (7) on the opposite side of the bulkhead. Two sealing and interlocking systems are used. Each system has two subsystems to provide a total of four sealing and interlocking subsystems. A first subsystem (4) connects the spacesuit to the bulkhead that separates a living and working space from an airlock. A second subsystem (6) connects a backpack to the spacesuit (1). A third subsystem (9) connects the spacesuit, preferably through the backpack (3), to a decontamination chamber (7). A fourth subsystem (12) connects the decontamination chamber to the bulkhead (5′). Each subsystem (4, 6, 9, 12) is capable of hermetically sealing and interlocking the respective connection. The decontamination chamber is just large enough to accommodate the backpack.

A system having multiple on-chip logic analyzers (OCLA), each on-chip logic analyzer includes one or more word recognizers. The word recognizer includes a great deal of flexibility for the user, while being capable of implementation with very few gates. The word recognizer includes a Boolean logic portion in which a plurality of conditions can be dynamically segregated into a mutually exclusive set of groups. The conditions in each group are combined by means of a single Boolean function that is programmable. The resultant term (or product) from each group is combined with those of the other groups by a fixed selection of Boolean functions. The output of the Boolean logic section is provided to a counter / timer.

A light sampling measurement apparatus comprising a nonlinear optical element supplied with a light to be measured and a sampling light and a light receiving element for receiving a light outputted from the nonlinear optical element, includes: a storage unit for previously storing noise generated in the light receiving element; a calculating unit for obtaining a subtracted noise by subtracting the noise stored in the storage unit, from a measured noise, to calculate a Q value of the light to be measured.

A system and method of treating an instrument after contamination of a surface thereof includes a dispenser for dispensing a pre-treatment foam, the dispenser having a first compartment having therein a first foamable solution of hydrogen peroxide and a second compartment having therein a second foamable solution of acetic acid and a dispensing head for dispensing the pre-treatment foam formed of the first foamable solution and of the second foamable solution.

The present invention relates to an arrangement for affixing an expandable packer 22, 32 in a hole 30, wherein the arrangement includes a piston-and-cylinder device 11, 12 with which the piston can be caused to move in the cylinder with the aid of a pressurized medium. Expansion of the packer is effected with the aid of the movement of the piston 11, by transferring the force generated by piston movement to an expandable part 24, 34 of the packer 22, 32 so that said part will expand. Expansion of the packer results in the packer being firmly affixed in the hole by means of friction. The arrangement also includes an elongate main body 1 that has a through-penetrating aperture extending in the longitudinal direction of the body. The main body 1 has a front end 3, which faces inwardly of the hole when fastening the packer and towards the packer. The body includes a rear end 4 which carries means 9 for connection to a filler supply means, wherewith filler is delivered to the hole via the through-penetrating aperture 2 and via the packer 22, 32 subsequent to having affixed the packer in the hole. At least a part of the main body 1 is formed as a piston rod 16 on which and along which the piston 11 can move. The arrangement also includes pressure connection means 10 for connection to said pressurized medium, and a connection 19 between said pressure connection means and the piston 11.

For an in-line gasifier having a liquid cooled cooling jacket it is proposed to lead the inlet connectors and the outlet connectors for the cooling liquid through the side of the cylindrical pressure vessel, below the mounting flange for the vessel cover. This achieves a simplification in the mounting of the pressure vessel cover. Particular embodiments concern the bringing together of the upper ends and of the lower ends of several pipe runs coiled in parallel, in each case into a collector pipe which has a connector bush for cooling water.

A method of treating an instrument after contamination of a surface thereof includes the steps of covering the surface with a foam and maintaining the foam on the surface to keep the surface moist prior to cleaning the instrument to prevent foreign matter thereon from becoming dried on and more difficult to remove during cleaning. The foam includes hydrogen peroxide, dissolves blood and provides antimicrobial effect.