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A scalable system and method for locating a closest server in response to a client request via an interactive distribution network, such as the Internet, are provided. A closest content server is defined as having the least round trip time for responding to a client request. The system including a plurality of content servers; and a local server in communication with a plurality of clients, the local server acting as a proxy for communicating client requests from clients to a redirection server. Client network distance and load information is periodically collected at each content server in the network from clients communicating with each of the respective content servers. The redirection server periodically aggregates the network distance and load information from each content server to create client clusters from both current and previously aggregated network distance and load information. Each client cluster represents a division or partition of the total IP address space. Each client cluster is then mapped (paired) to one or more content servers in the network. The mapping or pairing is then utilized to respond to client DN requests received from any client in the network. Another aspect of the invention involves considering the respective capacities of the content servers in the network. A selection probability is assigned to each content server/domain index pair to prevent the repeated selection of the content server having lowest round trip time thereby overloading that server's service capacity. The selection probabilities assigned to each content server effect a load balancing to prevent overloading. Another aspect of the invention involves collecting the distance and load information without incurring any overhead cost by passively collecting TCP information as it is transmitted from clients in communication with content servers in the course of normal communications.

A device for converting solar radiation into electric power, constituted by a substantially vertically elongated body from which multiple supporting arms for one or more modules constituted by multiple photovoltaic cells protrude in an upward region. The body is hollow and contains an inverter suitable for the conversion of electric power.

Computer system, method and article of manufacture for garbage collection in computer systems that combines individual objects into linearized trees called multiobjects and thereafter utilizes multiobjects to implement most memory management operations such as detection of dead objects and compaction without the need to inspect individual objects, thereby improving performance and reducing power consumption.

Method (300) for registration of two or more of frames of three dimensional (3D) point cloud data (200-i, 200-j). A density image for each of the first frame (frame i) and the second frame (frame j) is used to obtain the translation between the images and thus image-to-image point correspondence. Correspondence for each adjacent frame is determined using correlation of the ‘filtered density’ images. The translation vector or vectors are used to perform a coarse registration of the 3D point cloud data in one or more of the XY plane and the Z direction. The method also includes a fine registration process applied to the 3D point cloud data (200-i, 200-j). Corresponding transformations between frames (not just adjacent frames) are accumulated and used in a ‘global’ optimization routine that seeks to find the best translation, rotation, and scale parameters that satisfy all frame displacements.

The invention discloses a method of implementing an automatic control and storage device used for collection of natural rainwater or rainfall runoff, relating to the fields of environmental protection and water supply and drainage work. According to the invention, by a single-chip microcomputer control device, parameters such as rainfall, rainfall time or flow are taken as trigger conditions, rainwater of different characteristic stages in a rainwater collector can be stored into different independent sampling bottles by automatic control. The rainwater collector is connected with a submersible pump to collect the rainfall runoff, and also connected with a rainwater receiving funnel to collect the natural rainwater. A distributor on the rainwater collector can automatically fill the rainwater in the rainwater collector. The device has the characteristics that firstly, the device is suitable for the fields and occasions without an alternating current power source, remote transmission of data can be automatically controlled, and a possibility of unattended automatic collection of rainwater sample in the fields at night can be achieved; secondly, the rainwater of different stages can be automatically collected according to the given rainfall or time, and the device is suitable for monitoring the change of water quality of the rainwater along with factors such as rainfall and time; thirdly, rainwater under various conditions such as natural rainwater and rainfall runoff at different catchment areas can be collected.

A method of analysing electromagnetic survey data from an area of seafloor (6) that is thought or known to contain a conductive or resistive body, such as a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir (12), is described. The method includes providing electric field data and magnetic field data, for example magnetic flux density, obtained by at least one receiver (25) from a horizontal electric dipole (HED) transmitter (22) and determining a vertical gradient in the electric field data. The vertical gradient in the electric field data and the magnetic field data are then combined to generate combined response data. The combined response data is compared with background data specific to the area being surveyed to obtain difference data sensitive to the presence of a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir. Because the combined response data are relatively insensitive to the transverse electric (TE) mode component of the transmitted signal, the method allows hydrocarbon reservoirs to be detected in shallow water where the TE mode component interacting with the air would otherwise dominate. Furthermore, because there is no mixing between the TE and transverse magnetic (TM) modes in the combined response data, data from all possible transmitter and receiver orientations may be used. The background data may be provided by magneto-telluric surveying, controlled source electromagnetic surveying or from direct geophysical measurement.

A monolithic semiconductor solar cell including a semiconductor layer including a plurality of pores, wherein walls of the pores are doped, forming vertical junctions between the walls of the pores and a bulk of the semiconductor, the pores each contain a conductor which is in electrical contact with the walls of the pores, and the conductors of the pores are electrically interconnected to provide an output voltage of the solar cell. A monolithic semiconductor solar cell including a semiconductor layer including a plurality of trenches, wherein walls of the trenches are doped, forming vertical junctions between the walls of the trenches and a bulk of the semiconductor, the trenches each contain a conductor which is in electrical contact with the walls of the trenches, and the conductors of the trenches are electrically interconnected to provide an output voltage of the solar cell. Related apparatus and methods are also described.

A gas separation apparatus combines the technologies of electrostatic precipitators and centrifugal particle separators into a single unit. At an inlet into the gas separation apparatus, a water spray is introduced into the gas stream. The water spray may include various chemical additives, typically selected to react with or neutralize the particulates as they are mixed with the water or for other benefit. The resulting water and particulate mixture, which is much more dense than air, is centrifugally separated and collected through a drain tube outlet. In addition to the centrifugal forces applied to the gas and water stream, an electrical field of magnitude sufficient to produce coronal discharge is also applied to a central electrode. The electric field is generated between the cylinder wall and the central electrode, to assist the centrifugal forces and thereby remove additional particulate beyond that ordinarily removed by a standard centrifugal separator. A vortex finder surrounds the central electrode and protects the electrode from undesirable exposure to water splashes or the like, while assisting with the centrifugal separation. The novel separation apparatus and technique offer particular synergy when applied to the effluent stream from a fossil-fuel electric power plant or other similar gas streams.

The present invention provides a kind of high voltage direct current broadband domain corona current measurement system, including the sampling resistance sensor, the UHV local end measurement unit, the optical fiber transmission unit, the safe location measurement unit and the upper monitor; The sampling resistance sensor samples the corona current signal of the HVDC line, and converts the corona current signal to the voltage signal, the UHV local end measurement unit collects the voltage signal, and obtains the optical signal by photoelectric conversion, the optical signal transforms to the safe location measurement unit by the optical fiber transmission unit, the safe location measurement unit converts the optical signal to the voltage signal, the host computer performs processing, storing and displaying with the voltage signal. The present invention has a wide range of measuring frequency, strong ability of anti-electromagnetic interference and other advantages, also can running in long-term stable status under the condition of the UHV DC and all kinds of bad natures, this provides effective technological means for further research on the character of the UHVDC corona.

An apparatus for addressing an occlusion in a vascular environment is provided that includes a wire and a tip coupled to the wire and operable to burrow into an occlusion in a vascular environment. The apparatus also includes a coil section disposed between the wire and the tip and operable to collect debris generated by burrowing of the tip.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a relief sculpture three-dimensional artistic print, which mainly comprises the steps of material selecting and plate making, layout treatment, pattern affiliation, pattern carving, watercolor painting, coloring and protective layer coating, etc. The print manufactured in the method of the invention has the advantages that the picture has outstanding three-dimensional and layering sensation and excellent appreciation effect, can be easily kept and stored, is uneasily faded due to being affected with damp or damaged due to the wood-consuming of the insect, has long storage years, etc., and simultaneously solves the problems of uneasy storage, easy wetting and fading or damage due to the wood-consuming of the insect, quite limited keeping and storage years, flat painting without three-dimensional impression and bad appreciation effect existing in the existing art painting. According to requirements, the prints with various dimensions and specifications can be conveniently made to meet the requirements for the appreciation and collection by the people, various painters and collectors in the method of the invention.

A method for filtering power frequency digit by frequency-tracking includes switching power frequency reference signal into signal input end of phase locked loop, outputting eight frequency multiplier signal of power frequency by said loop when eight frequency division signal of power frequency outputted by central processor is switched into comparison input end of said loop, using said frequency multiplier signal as sampling signal sequence, using comb filtering algorithm to realize trop of power frequency and its frequency multiplier, finally controlling and outputting filtered signal by central processor.

The present invention employs data processing systems to handle debt collection by formulation the collections process as a Markov Decision Process with constrained resources, thus making it possible automatically to generate an optimal collections policy with respect to maximizing long-term expected return throughout the course of a collections process, subject to constraints on the available resources possibly in multiple organizations. This is accomplished by coupling data modeling and resource optimization within the constrained Markov Decision Process formulation and generating optimized rules based on constrained reinforcement learning process comprising applied on the basis of past historical data.