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Dynamically filtering and classifying messages, as good messages, bulk periodicals, or spam. A regular expression recognizer, and pre-trained neural networks. The neural networks distinguish “likely good” from “likely spam,” and also operate at a more discriminating level to distinguish among the three categories above. A dynamic whitelist and blacklist; sending addresses are collected when the number of their messages indicates the sender is good or a spammer. A dynamically selected set of regular expressions input to the neural networks.

Dynamically filtering and classifying messages, as good messages, bulk periodicals, or spam. A regular expression recognizer, and pre-trained neural networks. The neural networks distinguish “likely good” from “likely spam,” and also operate at a more discriminating level to distinguish among the three categories above. A dynamic whitelist and blacklist; sending addresses are collected when the number of their messages indicates the sender is good or a spammer. A dynamically selected set of regular expressions input to the neural networks.

A camera head of a dental camera for detecting caries in an interdental space has an illuminating device for illuminating a tooth adjacent to the interdental space, which includes an infrared light source. The camera head further includes optics which have an image plane and an object plane, wherein an image sensor is located in the image plane, and the object plane divides the space into two half spaces, wherein a first half space contains the optics and is located in front of the object plane, and a second half space is located behind the object plane, both as seen from the optics. The illuminating device and the optics are designed and arranged with respect to one another in such a way that the illuminating device is arranged in the first half space and infrared light exiting the illuminating device is aimed in the direction of the second half space.

A method enabling easy generation of a template handling pattern deformation due to optical conditions or process conditions and suitably detecting pattern position is disclosed. A first method extracts a feature component, that is, symmetry, not affected by optical conditions etc. from the pattern image information and uses it as a template. At the time of pattern detection, image information is projected into a symmetry feature space and matching performed in the feature space to detect a pattern. Suitable template matching can be performed with being affected by pattern deformation. A second method generates a model of a pattern from input pattern data, calculates a plurality of pattern images (virtual models) obtained by imaging of the model for each imaging condition using an image deformation simulator, and determines a template considering their average or correlation.

A radio-frequency device includes a PAA processing portion configured to control a directivity of reception of a receiver antenna device, a received-signal-strength detecting portion configured to detect a strength of the received signal received by the receiver antenna device, and a direction detecting portion configured to detect the direction toward the communication object, on the basis of a direction in which a higher one of two strength values of the received signal respectively detected in first and second maximum-reception-directivity directions of a predetermined angular difference established by the PAA processing portion is minimal. The direction detecting portion is operated based on a fact that the received signal strength is minimal at the bottom of a gain existing in an area of overlapping of two main lobes extending in the respective two directivity directions of the predetermined angular difference, so that the resolution of detection can be made higher than in the case based on the main lobe direction in which the sensitivity of communication with the radio-frequency tag is maximum. Accordingly, the direction toward the radio-frequency tag can be suitably detected.

Apparatus and methods are described for use with a digital camera that is configured to acquire images of a bodily sample. Two or more stains are configured to stain the bodily sample. A computer processor drives the digital camera to acquire, for each of a plurality of imaging fields of the bodily sample, two or more digital images, at least one of the images being acquired under brightfield lighting conditions, and at least one of the images being acquired under fluorescent lighting conditions. The computer processor performs image processing on the digital images, by extracting visual classification features from the digital images and analyzing the extracted visual classification features. The computer processor outputs a result of the image processing that includes an indication of one or more entities that are contained within the sample. Other applications are also described.

The present invention relates to a substrate polishing apparatus and a substrate polishing method for polishing a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer to a flat finish. The substrate polishing apparatus includes a polishing table (100) having a polishing surface (101), a substrate holder (1) for holding and pressing a substrate (W) against the polishing surface (101) of the polishing table (100), and a film thickness measuring device (200) for measuring a thickness of a film on the substrate (W). The substrate holder (1) has a plurality of pressure adjustable chambers (22 to 25), and pressures in the respective chambers (22 to 25) are adjusted based on the film thickness measured by the film thickness measuring device (200).

The invention relates to a wearable flexible stress sensor and a preparation method and application thereof. Firstly, functional ink suitable for screen printing is prepared, and is printed on a wearable substrate through a screen printing method, and the stress sensor of a desired specification is produced. The stress sensor is used for monitoring physical deformation of stretching, bending, touching and the like from small ranges to large ranges, and has multiple application in the electronic skin fields and the biomedical application fields of human skins, expressions, pulses, heartbeats and the like, the human-computer interaction fields and the fields of virtual reality, entertainment technology and the like. The flexible stress sensor of the invention has the following advantages that the sensor has excellent stretching elasticity, and stretching strain can reach 100%; sensitivity is extremely high, and a sensitivity parameter (Gauge Factor) can be up to 8000 or more; linear relationships of working curves are excellent, stretching repeatability is good, and a stretching cycle lag is small; and a preparation process is simple, costs are low, massive integrated-device preparation is suitable, and application prospects are wide.

Methods and tools for identifying agents and conditions that modulate neurogenesis are disclosed. The disclosure also relates to methods and tools for identifying populations of neural stem cells suitable for transplantation.

The present invention relates to a kind of miniature needle array for medicine transmission, and features that the miniature needle in the array is non-planar solid miniature needle comprising a needle tip for piercing live animal skin, a needle body for increasing the pierced depth, and a base for stabilizing the array and preventing breaking and residue in the skin of miniature needle. The miniature needle array is changeable in the base number, the miniature needle number, the 3D structure of the needles, needle tip interval, needle tip height and the needle tip inclination for practical requirement. The miniature needle array is made through MEMS and polymer-MEMS combining process, in which only one mask is used for twice photo etching to form the needle tips and the needle bodies of the miniature needles. The present invention is used for vaccine and medicine transmission through micropores formed with the solidified hydrogel.

An LDPC unit decoder included in a signal decoding device is provided with a parity checking unit that is a multiplier for performing multiplication of a check matrix (parity check matrix) and temporary estimated values of an encoded signal, computed by a temporary estimated value computation unit. A check matrix (parity check matrix) holding unit holds the check matrix (parity check matrix). If s and t are natural numbers, s≧t≧2, among s columns extracted from this check matrix (parity check matrix), t columns or less have a linearly independent relationship. These s columns are multiplied at locations where error occurrence frequency is relatively high, with regard to the temporary estimated values. According to this mode, the matrix is composed to include t columns that are linearly independent, that is, t columns that are not linearly dependent. In this way, in a decoded signal series, when errors occur at t locations, since it is possible to avoid multiplying all the linear dependent columns at locations where errors occur, errors with a relatively high frequency of occurrence can be preferably detected.

The present invention discloses an affinity-binding assay comprising a particle having at least four copies of a target molecule and at least two binding molecules specific for the target molecule, wherein a first of the binding molecules is associated with a first label and a second of the binding molecules is associated with a second label, wherein a particle having the first label and a particle having the second label are distinguishable from a particle having both the first and second labels, wherein the first and second binding molecules each comprise at least two binding regions specific for the target molecule. The present invention also discloses a composition comprising a first binding molecule associated with a first label and a second binding molecule associated with a second label, wherein the signal obtained from the first and second labels is distinguishable from the combined signal of the first and second labels, characterized in that the first and second binding molecules each comprise at least two binding regions specific for essentially the same target molecule, preferably for essentially the same epitope on the target molecule and a method for selecting a synthetic antigen from a collection of at least three antigens comprising using the disclosed composition and method. The invention further discloses an antigen obtainable by the above-described method and capable of inducing an early immune response, a kit of parts to perform the method, the use of antigens selected by the methods for use as a vaccine, and the use of antibodies and antigens as a medicament.

In an exhaust purification system having a urea addition device adding a urea aqueous solution to an NOx catalyst of selective reduction type provided in an exhaust passage in an internal combustion engine, a sensor detecting an ammonia concentration is provided at the downstream side of the NOx catalyst. During fuel cut, a predetermined amount of urea aqueous solution is added. Then, based on a sensor output obtained at this time, an abnormality in at least one of the urea addition device and the urea aqueous solution is detected. The addition of the urea aqueous solution during the fuel cut prevents reactive consumption between urea and NOx. The sensor output corresponding to the amount of the urea aqueous solution is obtained. This output condition is compared with a normal one to allow determination of whether or not an appropriate amount of urea aqueous solution of appropriate quality has been added.

The invention discloses a micro disperse pump which comprises a pump chamber, a one-way valve, a pump inlet, a pump outlet and a driving device inside the pump chamber; wherein, the one-way valve is between the pump chamber and the pump inlet, and between the pump chamber and the pump outlet; the one-way valve is a wedge disperse tube with different positive and passive fluxes; the fluid of pump chamber can be expanded and contracted to generate pressure difference, and according to the different pressures of positive and passive fluxes in the wedge disperse tube, to generate one-way continuous fluid transmission. The inventive micro disperse pump can drive fluid via adsorbing fluid or directly drive fluid. The production is based on silicon micro-mechanical processing technique and micro-mould technique, with simple process, lower cost, high reliability and the application for integrating other micro-fluid systems. It has wider application in the micro-fluid control analysis chip.

This invention discloses a kind of immunity chromatography test paper and its preparation method which can diagnose the type-C hepatitis virus fast, the said test paper includes the sampling tray, the gold size tray has labeled HCV mix antigen which links one end of the sampling tray closely, the pyroxylin film which links the other end of the gold size tray closely, and the suction sampling tray which links the other end of the pyroxylin film closely, the film encrusts the test (T) line and the quality control (C) line which are separate with each other, the sampling tray, the gold size tray, the film and the suction sampling tray are affixed in the plastic shoe plate to form the test paper, the said T line is the HCV mix antigen which is entrusted in the NC film, the said gold size tray has HCV recombination mix antigen, the said C line is the antibody of the HCV mix antigen entrusted in the film, it is used to test or clinical diagnosis of the HVC antigen, has the merits that the sensitive is high, the specificity is good, the operation is simple, the reaction is fast, it is fit to test in local and it is economical and useful.

In an interferometer system, a revolving antenna array is used to sufficiently resolve all ambiguities in determination of frequency and direction of arrival of a wave-front. The frequency and direction of arrival are determined by matching predicted phase difference codes with an actual code measured at the antenna array, utilizing a cross-correlation technique. The number of parameters that can be simultaneously uniquely determined by the system depends on if the antenna array is rotated in planar or conical surfaces, and if the cross-correlation is uni- or multi-dimensional. The antenna array may include more than one baselines to enhance the system sensitivity and finding capacity.

The invention discloses a stress sensor with a self-repairing ability and a preparation method thereof. according to the preparation method, a one-dimensional metal nanowire, a two-dimensional inorganic nanosheet, hydrogel functional polymers, an additive and the like are compounded to prepare a nanocomposite colloidal printing ink with rheological characteristics, and the colloidal printing ink is printed on a wearable substrate through screen printing to prepare the repairable stress sensor having a shell-like bionic structure, wherein the one-dimensional metal nanowire provides a conductivenetwork structure for reducing resistance of the sensor; the two-dimensional inorganic nanosheet forms a layered strcture for improving sensitivity of the sensor; and a reversible dynamic cross-linking point is formed among the repairable hydrogel functional polymers, the two-dimensional inorganic nanosheet and the additive, so that the device has repairable performance. The prepared stress sensor has the advantages of large operating strain range, high sensitivity, repairable property after overload damage and the like, and has great application prospects in the fields of artificial electronic skin and biomimetic robots.

Proposed is an illumination system (100) comprising a plurality of light sources (10) provided with encoders (20) arranged to enable light emitted from the light sources to comprise light source identification codes. In order to enable light effect commissioning, i.e. correlating the light sources (10) with their illumination footprints (11), the system further comprises a camera (40) arranged to register images of illumination spots (11), and a signal processor (111) arranged to derive the light source identification codes from registered images. Arranging the encoders (20) to modulate the light emitted at a frequency above a predefined high level to comprise fast codes (12) and at a frequency below a predefined low level to comprise slow codes (13), beneficially allows for the use of simple low cost camera systems.

The invention relates to one-dimensional organic semiconductor spiral nano-wires with ultra-sensitive fluorescence response upon organic amine gases, and a preparation method and an application thereof. According to the invention, perylene imide derivatives comprising perylene and with asymmetric amphiphilic substituents on two ends are adopted as construction units; in a mixed liquid of a good solvent and a poor solvent, through pi-pi interactions between perylenes of a plurality of perylene imide derivatives comprising perylene and with asymmetric amphiphilic substituents on two ends, the one-dimensional organic semiconductor spiral nano-wires are obtained through self-assembly. The one-dimensional organic semiconductor spiral nano-wires have two significant advantages of a nano-grade spiral structure and good fluorescence quantum yield (up to 25%), such that the nano-wires are suitable to be used in fluorescence detection of organic amine in air. When a network-structured porous membrane woven by using the one-dimensional organic semiconductor spiral nano-wires contacts trace amine vapour (with a concentration of ppb-ppm level), the fluorescence is quenched.

The invention relates to the field of fluorescence immunochromatography technique in medical immunology, specifically to a procalcitonin detection kit and a procalcitonin detection method. The detection kit is provided with a test cassette and is characterized in that the test cassette is successively provided with, from bottom to top, a PVC plate, a sample pad, a combination pad, a cellulose nitrate film and a water-absorbing pad, wherein a procalcitonin monoclonal antibody labeled by a rare earth fluorescent microsphere is adsorbed on the combination pad, the rare earth fluorescent microsphere has a diameter of 60 to 120 nm, is doped by rare earth lanthanide, is stable in a ground state and emits fluorescent light with a wavelength in a range of 540 to 600 nm under the action of an excitation light source in a wavelength range of 340 to 380 nm, and the monoclonal antibody is a purified mixed monoclonal antibody and is originated from monoclonal antibody cell strains directed at 2 to 6 different procalcitonin antigen epitopes. The procalcitonin detection kit has the advantages of simple operation, rapid reaction, high sensitivity, strong specificity, etc.

An LDPC unit decoder included in a signal decoding device is provided with a parity checking unit that is a multiplier for performing multiplication of a check matrix (parity check matrix) and temporary estimated values of an encoded signal, computed by a temporary estimated value computation unit. A check matrix holding unit holds the check matrix. If s and t are natural numbers, s≧t≧2, among s columns extracted from this check matrix, t columns or less have a linearly independent relationship. These s columns are multiplied at locations where error occurrence frequency is relatively high, with regard to the temporary estimated values. According to this mode, the matrix is composed to include t columns that are linearly independent, that is, t columns that are not linearly dependent.

A method, system, and computer program product for detecting hidden files and folders that may be installed by or as part of a rootkit provides the capability to identify the method that is used to hide the files and folders, will continue working even if the operating system is modified, and is suitable for real-time detection of hidden files and folders. A method for detecting a rootkit comprises the steps of generating a plurality of query input / output request packets, each query input / output request packet requesting information relating to a file system directory folder, transmitting a generated query input / output request packet to each file system driver object, receiving a result including the requested information relating to a file system directory folder from each file system driver object, and determining differences among each result, to determine information relating to a file system directory folder that is removed by at least one file system driver object.

The present invention relates to a method for detecting one or more nascent RNAs in a tissue sample using FISH. In the method, a plurality of probes (8 to 82) may be used to detect a single species of nascent RNA. Further, a plurality of nascent RNA species may be detected simultaneously using between 8 and 82 probes for each nascent RNA. The invention comprises, in addition, methods of preparing a sample for nascent RNA detection by reducing autofluorescence of the tissue sample. These techniques may be synergistically combined to achieve significantly improved results.

An photodetector includes: a first light receiving element that receives light including ambient light; a second light receiving element that receives light including the ambient light; and a red color filter disposed on an optical path through which the ambient light is incident on the second light receiving element.

A computer-readable recording medium recording a worm detection parameter setting program for setting an appropriate worm detection parameter for target environments. When a log reader loads a communication log created within a prescribed time period, a log classifier classifies the entries of the communication log into categories based on communication contents. A frequency distribution creator analyzes the entries of a category, counts the number of appearance of each worm detection parameter value for each object of a preset network unit, and creates frequency distribution information. A threshold derivation unit analyzes the frequency distribution information and derives a threshold value that is used for determining whether a worm is propagating. An output unit outputs to an output device the threshold value for the worm detection parameter for the category, together with the frequency distribution information created by the frequency distribution creator, thereby providing a user with the information.