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A database of objects is distributed between a server computer and multiple client computers as an object oriented virtual world environment (VWE) with multimedia presentation features. A primary database is maintained on the server and includes at least one entry for each object disposed within the VWE. In one implementation a presentation virtual world environment has a multi-user virtual presentation room object (ShowRoom) in which presentation or information element objects (ShowItems) are presented from a server to multiple viewers at multiple client computers. The presentation room object and presentation element objects are global objects in that they are provided from server to client computers as part of a presentation VWE. The presentation element objects provide a model representing a presentation in the presentation VWE. Interface objects at the client computers provide a view of the presentation, with user interface and control elements, which view is separate from the model provided by the presentation element objects.

An androgynous mating system for mating two exoatmospheric space modules comprising a first mating assembly capable of mating with a second mating assembly; a second mating assembly structurally identical to said first mating assembly, said first mating assembly comprising; a load ring; a plurality of load cell subassemblies; a plurality of actuators; a base ring; a tunnel; a closed loop control system; one or more electromagnets; and one or more striker plates, wherein said one or more electomagnets on said second mating assembly are capable of mating with said one or more striker plates on said first mating assembly, and wherein said one or more striker plates is comprised of a plate of predetermined shape and a 5-DOF mechanism capable of maintaining predetermined contact requirements during said mating of said one or more electromagnets and said one or more striker plates.

The present invention provides a topical drug delivery system which comprises: a therapeutically effective amount of an antifungal agent; at least one dermal penetration enhancer, which is a safe skin-tolerant ester sunscreen ester; and a volatile liquid. The invention also provides a method for administering at least one systemic acting antifungal agent to an animal which comprises applying an effective amount of the antifungal agent in the form of the drug delivery system of the present invention.

An outdoor umbrella includes a supporting frame, an awning frame and an audio system. The awning frame includes a functional umbrella hub suspendedly supported by the supporting frame, a plurality of awning frames radially and outwardly extended from the functional umbrella hub, and an awning supported by the awning arms to define a shading area under the awning, wherein the functional umbrella hub has a speaker compartment and an audio outlet. The audio system, as a built-in sound system includes a control panel supported at the supporting frame for inputting an audio signal, and a speaker unit. The speaker unit is supported within the speaker compartment of the functional umbrella hub to align with the audio outlet, wherein when the audio signal is input at the control panel, the audio signal is transmitted to the speaker unit for generating an audio sound as an additional function for the outdoor umbrella.

Mesenchymal precursors cells have been isolated from perivascular niches from a range of tissues utilizing a perivascular marker. A new mesenchymal precursor cell phenotype is described characterized by the presence of the perivascular marker 3G5, and preferably also alpha smooth muscle actin together with early developmental markers such as STRO-1 and CD146/MUC18. The perivascular mesenchymal precursor cell is shown to induce neovascularisation and improvement in cardiac function. Suitable administration of preparations of the mesenchymal precursor cells are useful for treatment of cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular diseases and peripheral vascular diseases.

A phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit includes an input for receiving a timing reference signal, a phase detector circuit coupled to receive the timing reference signal, a controllable oscillator circuit controlled according to an output of the phase detector circuit, and a feedback divider circuit having an output coupled to the phase detector and an input coupled to the controllable oscillator circuit. The phase-locked loop circuit is coupled to output one of a plurality of output signals having an arbitrary frequency relationship to each other according to a frequency selection mechanism, the frequency selection mechanism including one or more input terminals coupled to control a divide ratio of the feedback divider circuit. The frequency selection mechanism selects one of a plurality of stored values. The selected stored value controls, at least in part, a divide ratio of the feedback divider circuit, thereby providing a pin programmable device capable of selecting among output frequencies having an arbitrary relationship to each other.

A medical testing system and method is disclosed in which an Internet device is used to obtain test data from a patient automatically via sensor devices. The test program in the Internet device is downloaded from a web site via the Internet. After the test program has obtained the test data, the test data is uploaded to the web site server. At the server, the data is processed and the processed data is downloaded via the Internet to the patient's Internet device and/or to other Internet devices.

A method and apparatus for heat treating of hazardous waste by heating the waste in a pyrolyzing chamber and forming an off-gas, heating the off-gas for a sufficient time to destroy dioxins and furans, then reducing and cooling the off-gas in a secondary treating chamber having a graphite stack and recovering metallics by distillation.

A device or system of devices which a person can use to easily remember the location of a vehicle in a parking garage, parking lot, street or other such area used for parking or storing vehicles. The device or system of devices can also be used by a destination-operator to notify a person of the business at that destination, sales, services, etc. in order to attract a prospective destination-utilizer to that destination. The device or system of devices may provide coupons or other transaction-inducing indicators for use at one or more destinations. The device or system of devices may include a paper scroll which extrudes from the device or system of devices, which paper scroll may describe the location of a vehicle, the best exit path to reach the vehicle from one or more parking-utilizing destinations, and an advertisement and/or coupon and map for one or more parking-utilizing destinations. The device or system of devices may also utilize basic technologies such as paper, paper-rolls, printers and the like to perform its functions. The device or system of devices may utilize any of the following technologies to perform it's functions, including but not limited to electronics, radio-frequency identification tags, radio-wave, laser, micro-wave, infra-red data transfer, or any other technology that may be useful. The device may also be used to keep track of the location of goods which have been placed in an indoor or outdoor storage facility. The device may also be used to help patrons of events such as indoor or outdoor concerts, athletic events, rallies and the like keep track of their seat location and retrieve instructions for returning to the seat after leaving the seat to purchase food, drinks, use the bathrooms, or engage in other such activities. While patrons at these events have tickets with seat numbers, the tickets often do not have maps and it is easy to get lost in a crowded facility where many areas look the same. The device provides information to the immediate user, and also a space for advertising or promotions for businesses.

A deflectable sheath with increased range of curvature for human use is provided. The improvement focuses on the use of different durometer polymers that compose the lumen in the portion of deflection. The use of differing durometer polymers allow the deflectable sheath to be bent in a multitude of asymmetric curvature radii therefore providing the physician with a sheath that can traverse different regions of the body than with previous sheaths.

A multifunctional operation type underwater robot comprises a picking device, driving devices, camera shooting and illumination devices, floating devices, a walking device and a shell. The picking device is arranged on the top of the shell. The four corners and the tail of the shell are provided with the driving devices. The floating devices are distributed at the four corners and the two sides of the shell. The camera shooting and illumination devices are fixed to the picking device and the shell. The walking device is arranged at the lower portion of the shell. The underwater robot has the function of accurate seabed positioning, has the advantages of facilitating fishing and being large in range, meanwhile, can dynamically adjust buoyancy and is strong in cross-country capacity.

The invention discloses a refrigerator. The refrigerator comprises a box body, a door body and an embedded hinge device, wherein a guide piece which is connected with the embedded hinge device is arranged on the box body, the embedded hinge device and the door body do a rectilinear motion together relative to the box body by virtue of the guide piece, and a limiting pin shaft which can be connected with or disconnected from the embedded hinge device is arranged on the guide piece; when the limiting pin shaft is connected with the embedded hinge device, the embedded hinge device is limited to drive the door body to rotate; when the limiting pin shaft is disconnected from the embedded hinge device, the embedded hinge device is permitted to drive the door body to rotate; and when the door body is converted from the closed state to the open state, firstly, the embedded hinge device and door body do a rectilinear motion for a certain distance together to the direction far from the box bodyunder the guide of the guide piece and the limitation of the limiting pin shaft until the limiting pin shaft is disconnected from the embedded hinge device, and then the embedded hinge device is permitted to drive to the door body to rotate.

The invention relates to a testing method for working performance of concrete and an apparatus implementing the same. The testing apparatus comprises a concrete slump tester, a cement mortar fluidity testing jumping table and a circular extending table. In similar testing of the slump of concrete disposed on a large table-board, the jumping table vibrates preset times according to certain frequency and certain vibration amplitude after a slump cylinder is hoisted, which enables the slump and flowing of the concrete to be improved and the concrete to form a circular truncated cone shape with a larger area; the slump H after vibration, the mobile extended diameter D of the concrete, center thickness h1 and edge thickness h2 after vibration are measured, the inclination angle theta of a frustum after slump of the concrete is calculated through conversion, bleeding and the segregation degree of the concrete are observed, and thus, working performance of the concrete can be comprehensively estimated. Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages: working performance of fresh concrete can be conveniently and quickly tested and distinguished, and the method and the apparatus are applicable to a wide variety of concrete.

An angularly adjustable coupling includes two coupling members pivotally mounted to each other about a pivot axis. One coupling member includes a locking rib of circular configuration coaxial with the pivot axis, and the other coupling member includes a pair of pivotal arms having locking surfaces normally engageable with the locking rib to lock the two coupling members against pivotal movement, but manually moveable to release the locking rib and to permit one coupling member to be pivoted with respect to the other to any desired angular position.

The invention relates to a water ride with adjustable nozzles for adjusting the speed and depth of the flow of water emanating from the nozzles and onto the ride surface. The nozzles have a bladder that can be used to adjust the height of the opening and therefore the depth of the water flow. More than one adjustable nozzle can be used to vary the flow effects across the width of the ride surface. Additional adjustment bladders can be provided underneath the inclined portion of the ride surface, wherein by adjusting each bladder independently, the tilt of the ride surface transverse to the direction of flow can be adjusted.

A voice message is processed in a distributed system by storing voice message data indicative of a plurality of voice messages on a distributed data store. A distributed data processor accesses the voice messages and extracts desired information from the voice messages. The data processor then augments the data stored in the voice message data store with the extracted information. The user interface component provides user access to the voice messages with the augmented data.

In a video coding apparatus, coding/decoding circuitry provides motion-compensated inter-frame prediction coding on input frames by using reference frames so that the input frames are coded into an intra-frame coded picture, a predictive coded picture or a bi-directionally predictive coded picture and decoding the coded frames to produce reference frames. Decision circuitry determines the magnitude of motion of the input frames relative to the reference frames, determines the interval between successive frames of the predictive coded picture according to the determined magnitude of motion and reorders the input frames according to the determined interval.

The invention relates to a preparation method for a glass micro-bead sedimentation type light-reflective membrane. The preparation method comprises a first step of making a light-reflective mask layer and a second step of making a light-reflective layer. The second step is of mixing the glass micro-bead and the acrylic acid polymerized modified focusing layer resin in certain proportion and stirring evenly with high speed, coating the mixed resin material on the light-reflective mask layer, and the thickness is greater than the diameter of the glass micro-bead, then roasting and drying at the temperature between 50 DEG C and 130 DEG C inside a drying tunnel. The third step is the vacuum evaporation of a metal reflecting layer and compositing with a stained paper layer which is coated with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The preparation method for the glass micro-bead sedimentation type light-reflective membrane has the advantages of being simple and practical in technology, capable of reducing the production cost and improving the production efficiency and the rate of the end product..

A Bezier curve constituting outline font data represents a curve by four coordinate values of a start point, an end point, and two control points. The curve is represented by two coordinates of the start point and the end point in collinear approximation, and by three coordinates of the start point, an intersecting point of two lines, and the end point in bi-linear approximation. In curve pattern approximation, when 32 curve patterns are prepared, the curve is represented by 5-bit data of two coordinates of the start point and the end point, and a pattern number. By effectively employing these three kinds of processes, it is possible to represent a Bezier curve constituting the outline font data with a reduced data volume.

A visual programming tool and execution environment, based on pre-developed object classes including an action class and an action list class, implemented on a computer having persistent storage, a display screen and one or more input devices which a user employs to command the said programming tool to develop software applications. The said pre-developed object classes which are used by the said programming tool support property-method-event model. In response to input from the user, the said programming tool creates object class instances from the said pre-developed object classes and graphically presents the said object class instances on the display screen; in response to input from the user, instances of object classes are manipulated graphically to form visual presentations of the software application; in response to input from the user, each property of each instance of object class is set; in response to input from the user, each event of each object class instance may be assigned an ordered action list as the event handler; each action in the said action list is formed by 1) an action performer which is an existing instance of object class; 2) an action method which is one of the single or plurality of methods of the said action performer; 3) action data if the action method requires it; in response to input from the user, each said action in the said action list is created by steps of 1) picking an instance of object class as the action performer from the existing instances of object classes presented to the user in an organized manner; 2) picking a method as the action method from the supported methods of the said picked instance of object class, the said methods are presented to the user on the display screen for the user to pick; 3) picking/specifying data for the said picked method via one or more dialog-boxes, if action data is required for the said picked action method. The said programming tool saves said object class instances and said action lists, together with the relationship between action lists and events of the said object class instances, to the computer persistent storage. What the said programming tool saves on the computer persistent storage form the software application developed by the user using the said programming tool. To execute the software application, the said programming tool reads back from the computer persistent storage the said saved object class instances, action lists and the relationship between action lists and events of the object class instances; creates and display the object class instances; responses to each event by sequentially executing each action in the said action list assigned to the said event; the said programming tool executes each action by the following steps 1) locating the object class instance which is assigned as the action performer for the action; 2) signaling to the said action performer which action method is specified for the action; 3) if the method data is specified for the said method of the said located object class instance, the method data is passed to the said object class instance as well; 4) the said located object class instance carries out the said action method.

A liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate having a thin film transistor, a pixel electrode and a storage electrode, a second substrate having a common electrode, an optically compensated bend (OCB) mode liquid crystal layer filled between the first and the second substrates, a switching portion connected to the common electrode, connected to a DC-DC converter that outputs a transition voltage during bend transition time, and connected to the storage electrode after the bend transition time and a timing controller for outputting a control signal to control operation of the switching portion.

A supply valve (40), a relief valve (42) and a microprocessor (46) control the supply of pressurized hydraulic fluid from a dedicated pressure source (12) to a brake boost piston (18, 60, 108) interposed between an operator brake pedal (22) input member (20, 106) and a master cylinder. Transducers (48, 50, 102) sense a current relationship between the input member (20, 106) and the boost piston (18, 60, 108) and supply the microprocessor (46) with a input to accordingly operate the supply valve (40) and relief valve (42). In one embodiment, a single transducer (102) senses relative motion between the input member and the piston while in a second embodiment, a single transducer (48) senses the force exerted on the piston by the input member and a third embodiment first and second transducers (48, 50) to sense relative motion between the input member and the piston.

The invention discloses a forest fire early-warning method. A large amount of forest fires happen every year in the world so that how to immediately discover fire danger is very necessary to reduction of property loss. According to the forest fire early-warning method disclosed by the invention, omnibearing and all-weather patrolling and monitoring on a forest are realized by combining satellite communication and wireless communication through an aerial photography function of a pilotless aircraft; a satellite communication device, an infrared video camera, a GPS (Global Position System) and the like are arranged on a small pilotless aircraft, and a corresponding wireless receiver is arranged on a firefighting center; and after a fire point of the forest is found out, the infrared video camera on the pilotless aircraft shoots the fire point, the GPS records geographic information of the fire point and transmits to the wireless receiver of the firefighting center through the satellite communication device, and the firefighting center quickly analyzes and judges fire situation or immediately calls up firefighters to carry out fire extinguishment rescue action after receiving early-warning information. The forest fire early-warning method disclosed by the invention has the advantages of low investment cost, wide cruising range and the like.

A multilayer annular clamp including a plurality of sealing rings radially spaced from one another, at least two of the sealing rings including L-shaped axial-plane cross-sections nested in one another, an innermost one of the sealing rings being operative to contact an outer contour of the pipe, two clamp members disposed around a portion of the sealing rings, and a fastener, including a shank, operative to fasten the clamp members towards each other in a direction along the shank so as to apply a radially-inward clamping force on the innermost sealing ring that contacts the pipe so that the multilayer annular clamp clamps the pipe.

The invention relates to a circuit of a digital storage oscillograph, which comprises a signal conditioning circuit, a trigger conditioning circuit, a self-correcting signal compensating module, an ADC collecting module, an FPGA storage module, an MCU control module, an LCD display module and an AC/DC switch power supply module which provides working voltage to the whole digital storage oscillograph, wherein the signal conditioning circuit is connected with the ADC collecting module, the ADC collecting module and the trigger conditioning circuit are connected with the FPGA storage module, the FPGA storage module is connected with the MCU control module, the MCU control module is connected with the LCD display module, a high-precision DAC converting module is connected between the self-correcting signal compensating module and the FPGA storage module, and the output of the self-correcting signal compensating module is connected with the signal conditioning circuit and the input of the trigger conditioning circuit. The circuit has good performance, high stability and reliability and low cost, and occupies small area of a PCB plate, and the whole oscillograph has small volume and is convenient to carry.

The present invention discloses an unmanned plane autonomous landing guidance method combining monocular vision and laser ranging, and aims at solving the technical problem of poor accuracy of the unmanned plane autonomous landing guidance method existing. The unmanned plane autonomous landing guidance method is as follows: information of distance from an unmanned plane to a landing site can be obtained in real time by use of a laser rangefinder, and object identification is performed by the use of monocular vision; first, by use of a horizontal platform deck adjusting camera with independently-adjustable three-dimensional degree, front and back pitching angle and right and left tilting angel can be adjusted to horizontal zero degree state, geometry translation relationship between actual position information and pixel coordinates can be determined according to a target image, and finally three-dimensional coordinates of the unmanned plane in a given coordinate system can be calculated so as to achieve unmanned plane autonomous landing guidance. The unmanned plane autonomous landing guidance method combines the monocular vision and the laser rangefinder, so that accuracy is high, range is wide and performance is stable. After testing, the precision of the unmanned plane autonomous landing guidance method can be reduced from 5 meters within 200 meters of the background technology to 0.5 meter within 200 meters.

Thermoset/supramolecular hybrid composites and resins, resulting from bringing at least one thermosetting resin precursor, this thermosetting resin precursor comprising hydroxyl functions and/or epoxy groups, and optionally ester functions, into contact with at least one hardener chosen from carboxylic acids and acid anhydrides, and with at least one compound comprising, on the one hand, at least one associative group, and on the other hand at least one function enabling the grafting thereof to the thermosetting resin precursor, to the hardener or to the product resulting from the reaction of the thermosetting resin precursor and the hardener, in the presence of at least one transesterification catalyst. Process for manufacturing these materials, process for transforming and process for recycling these materials. Novel solid forms of hybrid composites and resins which can be used in the implementation of these processes.

An uninterruptable power supply (UPS) designed to switch power inputs between an alternating current mode and a battery mode by adjusting the amplitude and/or frequency windows of the input voltage so that the uninterruptible power supply accepts the unstable voltage and/or frequency. This prevents the uninterruptible power supply to switch back to the battery mode during a transfer time between the battery mode and the AC mode. The uninterruptable power supply includes a control circuit. The control circuit modifies the monitored value and/or actual amplitude and/or the frequency window when unstable amplitude and/or an unstable frequency are detected at the input terminal of the input voltage.

The invention relates to a big-data analysis system. According to the system, various data collection manners can be utilized to collect data; an encrypted data signal is formed by the collected datathrough encryption processing; the encrypted data signal is transmitted to a data storage module through a data transmission module; the encrypted data signal is transmitted to a data analysis serverby the data storage module; and in the data analysis server, firstly, the encrypted data signal is decrypted through a data decryption module, detection, marking, classification and analysis are sequentially carried out on a decrypted data signal through a data detection module, a data marking module, a data classification module and a data analysis module, then a data analysis result is obtained,the data analysis result obtained by the data analysis module is evaluated through an evaluation module, and finally, deviation correction is carried out on an unqualified data analysis result through a correction module. Accuracy of the big-data analysis system is improved.

The present invention is directed to methods of manufacturing Anti-ballistic Shelters such as tents and other frame structures, doors, room dividers, furniture, cots, pads and umbrellas using soft armor fabric or hard armor materials. Soft armor consists of flexible high-strength layered anti-ballistic material attached to a frame and layered in at least two directions. Soft armor requires an area of flexibility/expansion to work effectively when struck by a projectile along with a very secure attachment. Attachment means for attaching the anti-ballistic material to the frame members include: (1) a wrapping and clamping method; (2) an inverted “T” construction and stitching method, using an optional calculated stretch material, breakaway stitch and holding stitch; and (3) an envelope method, also using a breakaway stitch and a holding stitch. This and further reinforcement as necessary allows the flexibility/expansion required for maximum anti-ballistic protection within the shelter.