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The present invention is an improvement of methods and systems using mobile and distributed data stream mining algorithms for mining continuously generated data from different components of a vehicle. The system is designed for both on-board and remote mining and management of the data in order to (1) detect the effect of various engine parameters on fuel consumption behavior, (2) predictive classification of driving patterns and associative indexing of driver performance matrix, (3) resource-constrained anomaly detection for onboard health monitoring, (4) vehicle-to-vehicle social networking and distributed data mining, (5) adaptive placement of advertisements based on vehicle performance profile and (6) onboard emissions analytics computation for wireless emissions monitoring and smog test.

An apparatus and methods for the real-time inspection for defects in and on transparent sheets, such as a sheet of glass, are described. A sensor detects a transparent light reflective coating on a transparent sheet and defines a sample profile. An optical inspection system utilizes an illumination source and an imaging device to obtain images of the transparent sheets. An image processing system analyzes for defects in the transparent sheets, including coating defects and defects in edge deleted perimeters. Inspection variables which correspond to the sample profile are used by the optical inspection system and image processing system for real-time inspection.

The invention relates to a system for controlling a device (3) implanted in a human or animal body on the basis of voluntary commands issued by a user without the use of any external peripheral. The user issues a voluntary command to the implanted device by applying a specific and predetermined code, consisting of at least one mechanical action and of at least one additional piece of information. Each mechanical action and each additional piece of information are measured by at least one sensor. The output signal(s) of the sensor(s) are processed and used to validate the predetermined code by means of the identification of at least one mechanical action executed by the user and combined with at least one piece of additional information, and the comparison thereof with a corresponding reference model. The invention further relates to a method for detecting an actuation control of an implantable device.

A method and apparatus for treating malignant ventricular arrhythmias is provided. The apparatus includes a lead system that is placed subcutaneously in a patient and a pulse generator connected to lead system by lead. The lead system includes a plurality of energy delivery electrodes for delivering energy stimulation to a patient's heart and a plurality of monitoring electrodes for monitoring the occurrence of or sensing an arrhythmia. The lead system is encapsulated in a sheath of biocompatible material to prevent electrodes from contacting each other and shorting out or shorting together.

A low-illumination image processing method and device address the problem of noise amplification in existing contrast enhancement techniques when applied to original low-illumination image. A noise suppression filter is additionally arranged before an operation of contrast enhancement, and smoothing processing is performed on an inverse color image of a low-illumination image by adopting a first filtering coefficient and a second filtering coefficient, so that image contrast is enhanced while random noise is suppressed. Texture and noise level parameter of an image are calculated according to a local characteristic inside block of the image. Weighted averaging is performed on a first smoothing image and a second smoothing image after smoothing processing according to the texture and noise level parameters. The texture image is obtained by performing texture structure extraction on a gradient image of an inverse color image, and the texture image is combined with a weighted image to sharpen the weighted image, to have an effect of enhancing image details. Therefore, the contrast of low-illumination image can be effectively enhanced, various types of noise can be filtered, and the image color and details can be retained at the same time to obtain a clear and vivid restored image.

An RFID cargo / storage container tamper seal consisting of a main insulating body, a locking rod and a circuit module is disclosed. The main insulating body has a helix-shaped antenna and a ring-shaped metal ring, wherein the inner surface of the metal ring has a C-shaped ring inlaid therein, and the antenna has an antenna probe extending and protruding from the metal ring. A first portion of the locking rod is cone-shaped and encapsulated by an insulating material, and a second portion thereof exposed from the insulating material has a ring-shaped groove disposed around its peripheral surfaces. The circuit module has an RFID chip embedded therein and is packaged inside the rod portion, thereby allowing an RFID reader to read electromagnetic waves / signals containing identification codes transmitted from the RFID chip of the RFID tamper seal via the antenna.

The invention discloses a method for sending multimedia broadcast / multicast service (MBMS), which includes: a1. Network informs UE about the single-distributed carrier information of MBMS. a2. Network determines the carrier style of the current MBMS when it receives the instruction for starting the conversation. a3. Network sends controlling information and instruction to UE, and establishes the carriers according to the determined style, then transmits the current MBMS service to UE via carrier of MBMS.

A plastic film that includes one or more plastic layers and one or more types of primary additives. The types of primary additive can include a liquid absorbing material, a gas absorbing material, a biocide, a heat generating material, and / or a foaming agent.

The authentication processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: an authentication unit having a circuit that performs authentication phases included in processing for authenticating an external device; a command holding unit which holds a first command that indicates whether or not to perform each of the authentication phases; and an authentication control unit which causes the authentication unit to perform an authentication phase that is indicated by the first command as an authentication phase which is to be performed.

In between network devices interconnected by plural optical channels, logical paths are defined according to upper traffic and also priority of the traffic. The network device includes: a frame forming section for reading user packets out of a buffer section composed of plural buffers defined for the respective paths on transfer schedule, and forming path frames having a specified frame length and individual ordinal numbers with respect to each path; a switch for selecting output channels to equally distribute the path frames by round robin scheduling; and data transmitting part for transmitting data on the logical paths. Thus, it is made possible to realize a frame transfer system capable of performing data transmission, which satisfies QOS (Quality Of Service) required for user traffic, on the WDM networks connected by plural OCHs.

In a method of processing woven / knitted fabric composed of thermal fusion bonding yarns, woven fabric, knitted fabric, or a braid, which is obtained by weaving or knitting thermal fusion bonding textile yarns such as thermal fusion bonding polyester and the like, is molded by being subjected to heat-processing. The molded product can be remolded by being subjected to heat-processing again. The woven fabric or the knitted fabric is a flat sheet or a three-dimensional woven / knitted fabric. It is also possible to partly overlapping the woven fabric or the knitted fabric on ordinary woven fabric or ordinary knitted fabric and to heat-molding them integrally with each other.

An RFID cargo / storage container tamper seal consisting of a main insulating body, a locking rod and a circuit module is disclosed. The main insulating body has a helix-shaped antenna and a ring-shaped metal ring, wherein the inner surface of the metal ring has a C-shaped ring inlaid therein, and the antenna has an antenna probe extending and protruding from the metal ring. A first portion of the locking rod is cone-shaped and encapsulated by an insulating material, and a second portion thereof exposed from the insulating material has a ring-shaped groove disposed around its peripheral surfaces. The circuit module has an RFID chip embedded therein and is packaged inside the rod portion, thereby allowing an RFID reader to read electromagnetic waves / signals containing identification codes transmitted from the RFID chip of the RFID tamper seal via the antenna.

Systems and methods are provided for any party in a cloud ecosystem (cloud providers of such resources, the intermediate management software for such resources, and the end user of such resources) to detect and resolve faulty resources synchronously or asynchronously, before said faults adversely affect the users' workloads. The system requests a service or set of one or more resources within a cloud, automatically checking the infrastructure for various faults that would cause it to be non-functional, including pre-defined and user-defined checks, and resolving them before including the infrastructure in the working service cluster of resources. The system presents an API to the user that returns only functional, production-quality resources that are not in a faulty state. An API that tests and resolves bad infrastructure can be registered during the request or a preceding / subsequent API call, removing the need for the end-user to deal with various types of infrastructure faults.

The invention discloses a cloud platform-based urban internet-of-things management system. According to the urban internet-of-things management system, a dynamic telescopic cloud computing platform built by Xen and Hadoop frameworks serves as a cloud service center. The cloud computing platform comprises an IaaS platform-based infrastructure layer, a PaaS-based middleware layer and an SaaS-based application layer, wherein a service provider platform layer and a user layer are divided in the application layer and unified in the same access control model through a loose coupling relationship; a multi-user database and an extensible user database are included in each access control model; the user layer or the service provider platform layer indirectly accesses the data in the multi-user database by virtue of a data access agent layer. According to the internet-of-things management system, changes of a single-user system can be reduced, different system accesses can be met, the transfer difficulty is reduced, and the data safety of each user is guaranteed.

A peristaltic pump, for propelling liquid through a flexible pump tube, includes an outer casing having a guiding channel wherein an operating portion of the pump tube extends along the guiding channel. The peristaltic pump further includes at least two pressuring rollers supported at the outer casing in a radially movable manner which can move outwardly to press against the operating portion of the pump tube. A center driving mechanism is supported at a center portion of the outer casing to radially push the pressure rollers and to drive the pressuring rollers to concurrently rotate such that the pressuring rollers roll against the operating portion of the pump tube for continuously propelling the fluid in the pump tube in the direction of rotation.

A method and an apparatus of integrative network management, which provide connection between private networks and real-time connection according to various policies depending on security or a quality of service (QoS), manages information required to provide the connection, and controls connection by using the managed information in order to defend and cope with various types of cyber attacks and fundamentally invalidate a cyber attack.

This invention is concerned with biocompatible magnetic nanocrystals highly soluble and dispersible in a physiological buffer, powder of biocompatible magnetic nanocrystals and nanocrystals bearing surface reactive N-hydroxysuccinimide ester moiety, and preparations thereof. The magnetic nanocrystals in powder form are highly soluble in a physiological buffer. The resultant aqueous colloidal solution presents long term stability in ambient conditions. Moreover, the carboxyl group on the surface of the magnetic nanocrystals can be converted to N-hydroxysuccinimide ester moiety in an organic solvent. The resultant powder of the magnetic nanocrystals carrying surface N-hydroxysuccinimide ester moiety is soluble and dispersible in an aqueous solution. Different types of biomolecules bearing amino group can covalently be attached to the magnetic nanocrystal simply by mixing them in aqueous solutions. Moreover, the powder of the magnetic nanocrystals bearing surface N-hydroxysuccinimide ester moiety retain reaction activity with biomolecule after long-term storage.

A power transmission system (10) for a hybrid vehicle, the power transmission system (10) includes a transmission (TM, 20), a clutch (18), a motor (MG), an engine (14), a first oil pump (44), a second oil pump (68), a first hydraulic circuit in which the first oil pump (44) is provided, and a second hydraulic circuit in which the second oil pump (68) is provided. The motor (MG) is connected to a driving wheel (26) through the transmission (TM, 20). The engine (14) is connected to the motor (MG) through the clutch (28). The first oil pump (44) supplies oil to the transmission (20). The second oil pump (68) supplies oil to the motor (MG) and the clutch (28). The second hydraulic circuit is independent from the first hydraulic circuit. Selected drawing.

A mobile terminal and a decoding method thereof are disclosed. The decoding method comprises: capturing an image of a target barcode; invoking built-in decoding software to decode the target barcode; determining whether the decoding is successful, wherein if the decoding is successful, then barcode information of the target barcode is displayed and the process ends; and otherwise, if the decoding is unsuccessful, then the target barcode is sent to a decoding server; receiving barcode information obtained by the decoding server through decoding the target barcode; and displaying the barcode information of the target barcode. In this way, the present disclosure can decode various types of barcodes quickly and effectively so that the user can be informed of the barcode information of the various types of barcodes quickly and accurately.

The invention relates to the technical field of civil engineering foundation reinforcing of industrial and civil construction projects, in particular to a pile foundation underpinning method for a building foundation adjacent to a deep foundation pit. The method includes the steps of firstly, investigating and designing, to be more specific, investigating the existing building, selecting foundation underpinning pile types according to building foundation size, buried depth, distance between the building foundation and the deep foundation pit and the depth of the deep foundation pit, calculating to determine the required length and number of foundation underpinning piles according to bearing capacity, allowing the foundation underpinning piles to exceed the depth of the bottom of the deep foundation pit, and completing ring beam design; secondly, pressing the piles at the edges of the building foundation; thirdly, performing pile foundation underpinning on the building foundation. The method has the advantages that the building foundation satisfies the requirements of bending resistance, punching resistance and shearing resistance by the aid of pile foundation underpinning, natural foundation bearing of the building foundation is changed into pile foundation bearing, additional load of the building foundation to the deep foundation pit is lowered greatly, sedimentation and horizontal displacement of the building foundation adjacent to the deep foundation pit are solved, and factory building safety is guaranteed.

Cabinets adapted for non-level garage floors and out-of-plumb garage walls with leveling controls operated from inside each cabinet. The cabinets have in common that they are attachable to a garage wall and each has at least one adjustment panel forming a part of the back of the cabinet. Each adjustment panel has a hand screw for extending behind the cabinet to engage the wall to provide back-to-front leveling and to prevent installation of fasteners, such as screws, from pulling the cabinet closer to the wall during installation. Each adjustment panel also has horizontal slots in a staggered arrangement in two horizontal rows for receiving fasteners. Floor-standing cabinets have feet that are adjustable from inside the cabinet. Wall-hanging cabinets have a top bracket that provides side-to-side leveling form inside. Floor-standing cabinets are modular and stackable, using an included adapter and door-handle coupler to enable stacked cabinet doors to open as one.

The invention relates to a mixed type cable-supported bridge. A main tower adopts a main tower form of a suspension bridge and a cable-stayed bridge; a main beam in a main midspan sling area adopts a steel box beam; a main beam in a stay cable area adopts a steel box beam, a steel-concrete combined beam or a concrete beam; and anchor spans at the two ends adopt pre-stress concrete main beams or other types of main beams. The main tower utilizes the main tower form of the suspension bridge or the cable-stayed bridge or the combination of the suspension bridge and the cable-stayed bridge according to needs of stress and landscape; a steel-concrete combined section is arranged between the steel box beam and the concrete beam; the steel box beam and the concrete beam are connected by steel strands, shear nails and the like to guarantee reliable and smooth force transmission; and the number of auxiliary piers in the edge span stay cable area can be changed according to the requirements of structural stress and rigidity. According to the mixed type cable-supported bridge, a self-anchored suspension bridge is combined with the cable-stayed bridge to take the advantages of the two types of bridges; the span of the formed bridge can reach 2500m; in addition, the mixed type bridge is large in spanning capability and does not need a large-scale concrete anchor, so that the bridge can be built in deep seas and other complicated environments; and the mixed type cable-supported bridge also can be applied to bridges with the span of hundreds of meters.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for treating sludge comprising electrodes including at least one anode and at least one cathode. The electrodes define therebetween a space adapted to receive the sludge so as to submit the sludge disposed within the space to an electric current, thereby dehydrating the sludge and generating an effluent. The apparatus also comprises an inlet for receiving the sludge and an outlet for evacuating the treated sludge. The inlet and the outlet are in communication with the space. The apparatus also comprises compression means for compacting the sludge so as to permit a contact substantially constant between the electrodes and the sludge when the sludge is submitted to the electric current and rotated around a rotation axis. The invention also relates to a process for treating sludge. The invention is useful for treating various types of sludge in order to dehydrate and decontaminate the sludge.