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A method for accurately positioning a patient for radiotherapy and/or radiosurgery, comprising the following steps: the patient is pre-positioned as accurately as possible with respect to a linear accelerator; at least two x-ray images of the patient and/or one of the parts of his body in the vicinity of the radiation target point are produced from different respective recording angles on a single image recorder; the x-ray image is spatially localized; at least one reconstructed image, corresponding to each x-ray image and deriving from a three-dimensional patient scan data set, is produced, the reconstructed images containing the desired image contents of the x-ray images when the patient is correctly positioned; and the real x-ray images are superimposed, and the positioning error is determined electronically and/or with computer guidance by way of particular landmarks and/or the intensity gradient or the contours in the two images; and the position of the patient is corrected by way of the determined positioning error.

Call center supervisors require information about the performance of call center agents in order to manage them appropriately. Previously this information has been provided in two general forms. Current information in the form of statistics such as queue lengths, numbers of active agents, etc. and historical information in the form of aggregate data such as the average waiting time over a 15 minute period. At present supervisors have no means of accessing information about the state of a call center at a particular past time instant. The present invention provides this information by using a pegging engine to extrapolate from statistics about behaviour of the call center at a past time instant to values of those statistics at a required past time instant. Information about events occurring in the call center is used in order to carry out this extrapolation.

A device comprises a cartridge (12) and a plurality of analyte detecting members (18) mounted on said cartridge. The cartridge may have a radial disc shape. The analyte detecting members may be a three-electrode system wherein only a working electrode is covered with a glucose oxidase. In one embodiment, the device may also include a fluid spreader (28) positioned over at least a portion of said analyte detecting member to urge fluid toward one of the detecting members. A plurality of analyte detecting members may be used. Each analyte detecting member may be a low volume device.

A method, system and computer readable medium for providing an editing mode for a graphical user interface (GUI) is described. A toggle widget is provided to a user of a GUI during execution of the application presenting the GUI. When the user presses the toggle widget, the GUI is placed in an editing mode, whereby the normal functions of all of the widgets of the GUI, except for the toggle widget, are suspended. While in editing mode, the user is allowed to modify the locations of all of the widgets of the GUI, except for the toggle widget. The user subsequently modifies the locations of widgets of the GUI. Then, the user presses the toggle widget again and the GUI is exited from editing mode. Once exited from editing mode, the normal functions of all of the widgets of the GUI are restored and the new locations of the widgets are fixed.

This invention relates to a method of adjusting the fixture color emitted by a first and a second lighting fixture to a target color, each lighting fixture comprising at least a first and a second light source emitting light having different source colors, and said fixture color is obtained as a combination of said source colors, and said fixture color can be varied by varying the intensity of each light source; where the adjusting of said fixture color to a target color is performed by varying the intensity of said light sources based on both a first color gamut and a second color gamut respectively described by said source colors from said first lighting fixture and said second lighting fixture. The invention further relates to a light adapter and light system for adjusting the fixture color emitted by a first and a second lighting fixture to a target color and to a computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions for causing a processing unit to execute said method.

A disease management system, methods, and devices are shown and described. In one embodiment, the system includes an infusion pump and a remote controller with the ability to be paired to each other and to confirm the authenticity of instructions sent to the infusion device from the remote controller. A method to verify a wireless connection between an infusion pump and a remote controller is shown and described herein. In addition, a method of operating a diabetes management system is provided in which the system includes an infusion pump and at least a remote controller.

A process for synthesizing a single isomer of a naphthacene compound comprises the steps of: (a) reacting a symmetrically substituted 1,1-diarylpropargyl alcohol compound with a reagent capable of forming a leaving group to form a reaction mixture containing a intermediate; and then (b) heating the intermediate in the presence of a solvent and in the absence of any oxidizing agent to form a single naphthacene compound.

The invention provides a multi-agent robot cooperative control method based on an artificial physics method. The method is implemented in a distributed manner based on multi-agent robots. Each agent robot is provided with one or more sensors, is used for acquiring and fusing distributed data and is driven by the information processing results. The method comprises the following steps: (1) setting up vector force fields interacting among the agent robots based on the artificial physics method; (2) determining the movement velocity and directions of the agent robots by solving the resultant force of the agent robots and suppressing the transient state of mode conversion by a four-point smoothing method; and (3) realizing obstacle avoidance of the agent robots based on a fuzzy controlled wall-following tracking method.

A protective covering device for the bottom of an athletic shoe having cleats, spikes, studs, or other traction and stability-enhancing protrusions is disclosed. The covering protects against damage—to both cleats and hard surfaces underfoot—while at the same time being aesthetically pleasing and durable, fitting the profile of the shoe, and being easy to use. The protective covering also helps to avoid grass, dirt, mud and other foreign objects becoming stuck in the cleats. The protective covering may attach to the shoe in a variety of manners, including by cage or teeth-like gripping mechanisms, by side grips, by elastic band, by drawstring, adhesion, vacuum, or another mechanism.

A stent assembly (2) includes a stent capable of assuming a contracted and an expanded configuration. A membrane of a biocompatible material impermeable to molecular transport across the membrane is wrapped around the stent more than one full turn. There is also disclosed a device for performing anastomosis, including a stent assembly (2) in a contracted state and a holding and gripping device (12). The handle has a handle portion (14) and a support structure (16, 18) for accommodating the stent assembly. There is a locking loop (20) that can be tightened around the stent assembly when it is positioned on the support structure, and released to allow the stent assembly to expand to a nominal size.

The retrieval system includes a storage device for storing compressed image data of the image of interest and a retrieval device for retrieving the image while the compressed image data is in a compressed state, and preferably further includes a compression device for compressing image data of the image to produce the compressed image data. More preferably, the storage device stores the compressed image data of the image and information of the image under a correspondence therebetween. Further preferably, the information of a corresponding image is read from the data base in accordance with a result retrieved by the retrieval device. The image processing apparatus includes the retrieval system, a setting device for setting image processing in accordance with the information of the image and an image processing image device for performing the set image processing on the image or the image data thereof. The retrieving system is able to retrieve image-related information such as the information of the image data or the image processing from the data base and also the image processing apparatus is able to achieve a coincidence in color and density between the simultaneous print and the reprint by utilizing the retrieving system.

The invention discloses a goat TLR4 gene knock-out vector and a construction method thereof. The construction method comprises the following steps: firstly, designing an sgRNA fragment of the TLR4 gene by adopting a CRISPR/cas9 system, synthesizing an sgRNA nucleotide sequence, constructing and simultaneously expressing the sgRNA and plasmid PYSY-sgRNA of Cas9 D10A, connecting and transforming to an Escherichia coli DH5 alpha competent cell, and verifying the transformant; and judging and proving by enzyme digestion and sequencing that the TLR4 gene knock-out vector is constructed correctly. The invention adopts the CRISPR/cas9 for constructing the vector, and provides a theoretical basis for subsequently acquiring a goat TLR4 gene deletion type alveolar epithelial cell system, and studying the immune response molecular mechanism of mycoplasma pneumonia infection.

The invention provides an electromagnetic shielding yarn of metal filament-wrapped elastic filaments and production equipment as well as a production method thereof. The electromagnetic shielding yarn is characterized by comprising elastic filaments, wherein wrap yarn sections are wound outside the elastic filaments and comprise metal filaments and chopped fiber strands which wrap the metal filaments. The production equipment comprises a ring spinning frame, and is characterized by also comprising a tension pulley, a holding roller, a yarn guide hook and a bundler. In the invention, the composite yarn with high extensibility and elasticity and electromagnetic shielding function can be prepared. The obtained electromagnetic shielding yarn can be used for producing common clothes and household and industrial textile products.

A rotatable tool for chip removing machining includes a shaft and a cutting body connected detachably to the shaft by a drawbar. At its front end the drawbar has a locking device for effecting mechanical engagement with the cutting body. The drawbar is axially movable by an actuating element located at a distance from the locking device. Inside the cutting body there is a cavity, which communicates with an opening in a rear part of the cutting body. The opening has a smaller width than the cavity, and the locking device has a larger width than the opening in order to be able to be pressed against an interior rear surface of the cavity of the cutting body after the locking device is inserted into in the cavity.

Apparatus for the delivery of fluid products comprising a base, a base support associated thereof, a plurality of dispensing units to dispense the fluid products contained in containing receptacles. The dispensing units are disposed on a platform rotatable with respect to the base support so as to assume at least a first position in which the fluid products can be delivered from the receptacles toward a container. The apparatus also comprises sliding means which allow the rotation of the platform. Rapid connection means are provided so as to achieve the connection of the base support with the base and/or with the sliding means in order to achieve a selective stable coupling and to prevent a reciprocal vertical movement.

A tool for chip removing machining, including a basic body and a replaceable cutting insert that has a center axis and is detachably mounted in an insert seat formed in the basic body. The seat is delimited by a bottom surface and at least one side support surface. The cutting insert includes an out of round engagement surface that is pressed against an out of round shoulder surface to rotationally secure the cutting insert. The shoulder surface is included in a separate lock member that is partially inserted in a space formed in the basic body, the space opening towards the insert seat and located between the side support surface and the bottom surface of the insert seat such that the lock member rotationally secures a lower part of the cutting insert, while an upper part of the cutting insert is supported by the side support surface.

A method is provided for setting a timing of phase modulation by a target phase modulator within an optical transmitter which performs 2ⁿ order phase shift keying, n being a natural number equal to or more than two. The method is provided with: feeding a specific pattern to the optical transmitter to allow the xPSK transmitter to emit an optical carrier in accordance with the specific pattern; receiving the optical carrier by a delay interferometer; converting a pair of light signals emitted from constructive and destructive outputs of the delay interferometer into an electrical signal; detecting a peak to peak value of the electrical signal; and setting the timing of the phase modulation by the target phase modulator so as to minimize the peak to peak value of the electrical signal.

The invention belongs to the technical field of advanced nanocomposites, and particularly discloses a magnetic mesoporous silica microsphere material with a yolk structure and a preparing method thereof. The macromolecule sol-gel chemical synthesis method is adopted first, magnetic nanoparticles are coated with a polymer resin macromolecule shell, then a mesoporous silica shell is grown on the surface of the polymer resin shell in a non-contact mode by means of the water-oil two-phase method, a surface active agent and an organic solvent are removed through solvent washing and extraction, and finally the magnetic mesoporous silica composite microsphere material provided with ordered mesopore ducts, a large cavity and the yolk structure is obtained. The obtained composite microsphere has the large adjustable cavity, a high specific surface area, the mesoporous shell with a uniform and vertical interface, stable and high magnetic responsiveness, a quite uniform size and high dispersity and has broad application prospects in nanoreactors, catalysis, drug sustained release, large-volume bioseparation and adsorption. The method is simple, raw materials are easy to obtain, and enlarged production is facilitated.