31 results about "Alternative strategy" patented technology

Accelerated heating of automotive exhaust system components is effected by controlling the application of supplemental electrical loads to the vehicle electrical system thereby increasing engine load and increasing exhaust heat. Alternative strategies are disclosed for implementing the invention through control of electrical and engine management system parameters.

Methods for scheduling a transportation operation such as the operation of an airline. The method desirably selects a demand (100) for transportation specifying an origin, destination, and time of arrival or departure, and selects resources from a database of available resources such as aircraft (508), crew, and departure gates. The resource selection desirably is conducted so as to optimize a result function such as contribution to margin or other financial result from the particular operation specified in the demand. Upon developing a schedule fragment (108), the specified resources are committed, and the database of available resources is modified (110) to indicate that the resources are no longer available at the relevant times. The system then treats another demand and repeats the process so as to develop a full schedule. The system can develop a feasible schedule, even for a complex transportation operation in a brief time, typically in minutes or less. Schedules can be developed using alternative strategies and assumptions, and tested against one another.

The present invention offers an alternative strategy for the correlation of interference information to chemical and / or physical properties of a sample. This strategy can be implemented in a method and a system, which offer substantial technical and commercial advantages over state of the art techniques based on interference spectroscopy. The method comprises the steps of: a. obtaining an interferogram and / or at least one interferogram element corresponding to a modulation of electromagnetic signal emitted from, transmitted onto or through, or having interacted with at least a part of the sample, b. performing i. at least one transformation of the interferogram and / or a segment of the interferogram and / or an interferogram element with at least one function, ii. optionally repeating i) for another segment of the interferogram and / or interferogram element, wherein the transformation does not comprise a Fourier Transformation if i) is conducted only once, thereby obtaining at least one score, c. correlating said at least one score to the at least one chemical or physical property.

This disclosure relates generally to the facile and selective mono-perfluoro and -polyfluoroarylation of Meldrum's acid to generate a versatile synthon for highly fluorinated alpha-phenyl acetic acid derivatives which provide straightforward access to fluorinated building blocks. The reaction takes place quickly and all products were isolated without the need for chromatography. An embodiment provides an alternative strategy to access alpha-arylated Meldrum's acids which avoids the need for aryl-Pb(IV) salts or diaryliodonium salts and provides access to the tertiary product which was not previously synthetically accessible. The synthetic versatility and utility of the Meldrum's acid products is demonstrated by subjecting the products to several derivatizations of the Meldrum's acid products as well as photocatalytic hydrodefluorination which provide access to difficult but valuable synthetic targets such as multifluorinated aromatics.

A family of hedge funds, serving as “feeder funds” into underlying single-manager hedge funds, formed to provide smaller investors with the ability to allocate and reallocate assets among alternative strategies, and this basic structure combining interrelated systems and methods for offering, redeeming, exchanging, valuing, reporting and servicing the same is a new approach. The system and methods described herein provide investors having less than ultra-high net worth portfolios with access to hedge funds and the potential valuable diversification to an overall portfolio, and the ability to customize their portfolio of hedge funds to their individual needs and adjust such portfolio over time as seen fit in light of changing financial needs and market conditions. This invention gives a wide range of investors access to hedge funds, creating economic value using a new source of stable investor capital for hedge fund managers, a value shared with investors through reduced costs.

A family of hedge funds, serving as “feeder funds”into underlying single-manager hedge funds, formed to provide smaller investors with the ability to allocate and reallocate assets among alternative strategies, and this basic structure combining interrelated systems and methods for offering, redeeming, exchanging, valuing, reporting and servicing the same is a new approach. The system and methods described herein provide investors having less than ultra-high net worth portfolios with access to hedge funds and the potential valuable diversification to an overall portfolio, and the ability to customize their portfolio of hedge funds to their individual needs and adjust such portfolio over time as seen fit in light of changing financial needs and market conditions. This invention gives a wide range of investors access to hedge funds, creating economic value using a new source of stable investor capital for hedge fund managers, a value shared with investors through reduced costs.

The invention relates to the communication field and provides a method and system for broadcasting buffered advertisements in rotation in a network live broadcast environment. The method includes the following steps: A. The server generates a play index file according to the personalized data reported by the client, the client downloads the creative material file and the play index file from the server, and the play index file includes the corresponding relationship between the buffer advertisement and the channel and Buffering the playback attributes of advertisements; B. The client generates an advertisement playback queue for each channel according to the playback index file; C. The client determines the playback strategy to determine the playback starting point and playback order of the advertisement playback queue, and according to the The playing strategy rotates the buffered advertisements in the advertisement playing queue within the buffering time. The present invention generates a playing index file in the server according to the personalized data reported by the client, and determines multiple optional playing strategies in the client, thereby improving the flexibility of the buffer advertisement playing process.

The present invention provides a monitoring and management method and system based on a monitoring system. The method includes the following steps: monitor each monitoring device that is abnormal in the central server, and determine the strategy according to the preset alternative priority, and obtain the corresponding After monitoring the alternative priorities corresponding to the monitoring devices, the monitoring devices send broadcast messages to each other, wherein the broadcast messages carry the alternative priorities; each monitoring device that monitors that the central server is abnormal receives the broadcast After the message, compare the alternative priority determined by itself with the alternative priority carried in the received broadcast message, and determine that the monitoring device corresponding to the highest alternative priority is the target monitoring device; the target monitoring device follows the preset monitoring strategy, Control and monitor other monitoring equipment that is abnormal in the central server, and build a system with self-construction capabilities, which can greatly improve the safety factor of security, and will not cause the system as a whole to fail due to damage to some links.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for determining the likelihood that a subject suffering from a cancer will benefit from treatment with a MEK inhibitor. It also relates to methods of treatment based on such determination. The invention is based, at least in part, on the discoveries that DDX43 mRNA and protein are expressed at high levels in biopsies from "non-responder" UM patients and that selumetinib-resistant cell lines showed high DDX43 expression which correlated with increased expression and activity of RAS. It was found that KRAS and HRAS but not NRAS, mediated expression of pERK and pAKT, bypassing oncogenic GNAQ. The invention is further based on the discovery that selumetinib-resistant cells became sensitive to AKT inhibition, suggesting alternative strategies for the treatment of cancer patients with acquired resistance to MEK inhibitors.

The mobile VOD business system with super performance based on GPRS mobile network comprises: besides traditional net element, a CCCP server on boundary of GGSN and PDN to release load for SCS and reduce bandwidth consumption between GGSN and SGS, a UECP server arranged in BSS that is between BSC and BTS to self-adaptive improve buffer hit rate based on buffer alternative strategy and ensure fast response to most user request, and a high-speed IP DL between CCP and UECP to transmit flow media content and construct two-stage buffer device with two proxy servers to bypass great media and reduce data flux and load for other link and eliminate the effect of VOD to network performance.

The invention discloses a microgrid-based dynamic strategy simulation and optimization method. The microgrid-based dynamic strategy simulation and optimization method comprises the steps of building amicrogrid running strategy library to store and manage control strategies of a microgrid in different running environments; dividing control time frames during the running process of a microgrid system, and timely selecting an alternative strategy set for running at a next time frame from the strategy library according to states of each power supply and a load in the microgrid; issuing the selected strategy set to a microgrid simulation model built on the basis of MATLAB, performing simulation calculation on the running state of the microgrid, and selecting the optimal running strategy as therunning strategy of the next time frame by comparing and analyzing a result of the simulation system under each alternative strategy; and comparing and analyzing the strategy running result and the simulation calculation result, improving and optimizing the employed strategy by a genetic algorithm, and favorably achieving the optimal effect during application after iteration.