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An evidence evaluation method and system based on question answering converts a report of analyzed information and / or a model of information into a collection of questions, determines answers for the collection of questions. A fact in the report is marked as being supported if one or more of the answers for the collection of questions support the fact. A fact in the report of analyzed facts is marked as being refuted if one or more of the answers for the collection of questions refute the fact. The method and system also may collect the answers as evidence and add the evidence to the model of information to create an updated model of information. The steps may be repeated using the updated report and updated model.

A method for regulating the asking and motivating the answering of questions via a computer network. The number and complexity of questions asked is controlled by a question regulation method, and the number and quality of answers provided is controlled by an answer evaluation method. The question regulation method permits users to post more numerous or more complex questions based on factors such as viewing of advertising, or provision of marketing information. The answer measurement method may be used to reward those who supply numerous or high-quality answers with premiums, public recognition, or employment opportunities.

A method and system are disclosed for transforming accessing of a displayed content by at least one person into an overall billed value. An exemplary embodiment comprises providing a display device that displays content, tracking the respective gazes of people near and in front of the displayed content, determining if, when and how long each person views, i.e., acquires, the display, transforming the acquisition data into a billing value by, e.g., determining a billing value for each acquisition based on the numbers of acquisitions and length of each acquisition, summing the billing values for all the respective viewings, and billing the client for the summed billing values.

A method determines insurability of drivers. The method includes simulating a driving experience for a driver in an interactive driving simulator. Performance of the driver in the simulated driving experience is evaluated to generate a driving proficiency score for the driver. The method also includes evaluating insurability of the driver based on the driving proficiency score. A system also determines insurability of drivers.

The present invention generally relates to methods and systems for (i) skin assessment based on the utilization of bioimpedance and fractional calculus and implementation of methods for skin hydration assessment based on the utilization of bioimpedance and fractional calculus and systems thereof, (ii) an Opto-Magnetic method based on RGB and gray images data as “cone-rods” principles with enhanced qualitative and quantitative parameters for analyzing water based on Opto-Magnetic properties of light-matter interaction and systems thereof, and (iii) imaging and analyzing skin based on the interaction between matter and electromagnetic radiation and implementation of an Opto-Magnetic method with enhanced qualitative and quantitative parameters for imaging and analyzing skin based on Opto-Magnetic properties of light-matter interaction and systems thereof.

A method and system for determining fractional flow reserve (FFR) for a coronary artery stenosis of a patient is disclosed. In one embodiment, medical image data of the patient including the stenosis is received, a set of features for the stenosis is extracted from the medical image data of the patient, and an FFR value for the stenosis is determined based on the extracted set of features using a trained machine-learning based mapping. In another embodiment, a medical image of the patient including the stenosis of interest is received, image patches corresponding to the stenosis of interest and a coronary tree of the patient are detected, an FFR value for the stenosis of interest is determined using a trained deep neural network regressor applied directly to the detected image patches.

Described herein are methods and systems useful for characterizing clinical outcomes of a subject. Provided herein includes computer-assessed methods, medical information systems, and computer-readable instructions that can aid an end-user in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of a clinical outcome.

The disclosed teachings provide methods and systems for efficient evaluation of XPath queries. In particular, the disclosed evaluation methods require only polynomial time with respect to the total size of an input XPath query and an input XML document. Crucial for the new methods is the notion of “context-value tables”. This idea can be further refined for queries in Core XPath and XSLT Patterns so as to yield even a linear time evaluation method. Moreover, the disclosed methods can be used for improving existing methods and systems for processing XPath expressions so to guarantee polynomial worst-case complexity.

Methods and apparatus for three-dimensional gaming are disclosed. A three-dimensional casino game includes additional display layers, additional game options, and additional game evaluation methods over a traditional two-dimensional casino game. The three-dimensional casino game allows a player to select one or more three-dimensional game options such as how many layers to include in the game and which game positions are “staked.” For example, in a video slot machine, the player may select three layers of reels and place a transparent stake indicator over the center reel position. The player's selections may determine one or more game evaluation methods and display modes. After one or more random numbers are generated, the outcome of the game is displayed three-dimensionally to the player based on the selected game evaluation methods and display modes. Many different game evaluation methods and payouts are possible in a three-dimensional casino game.

The invention relates to a method for evaluating the security situation of a network and a system thereof. The system has a two-surface three-level framework and is provided with a public service surface and a service management surface for executing uniform coordinated management on each functional module of the system; according to a service logic processing flow, the system is divided into three levels: an acquisition level, an analysis level and an exhibition level for completing four evaluating operations of assets, frangibility, threat and security situation; the invention is based on the characteristic of service operation in the network, combines the prior risk evaluation method, the prior flow and the prior security detection tool and provides a set of a novel dynamic real-time evaluation method. The system can analyze the assets and service of the network and the risk of the whole network and carries out the evaluation of the security situation. The system can provide the security state of the whole network in macroscopy, can deepen to specific service and assets and know the specific security problem, thereby effectively helping network security personnel to analyze the root of the security problem and assisting to provide a security solution proposal and implement a defense measure.

The transmission of ATM, Internet, and satellite communications is unified through international standardized protocol embedment. Global and Local performance optimization are achieved through the combination of combinatorial, dynamic, and probabilistic programming. A simultaneous domino effect of bandwidth conservation, efficiency enhancement, reliability improvement, traffic congestion prevention, delay minimization, and speed multiplication are realized for any digital communication system, particular in Internet. With three levels of error coding in ATM cells, the loss cell recovery and bit integrity are preserved. From its mathematical roots, new combinatorial sets are systematically generated, and applications of the sets are identified. Among the applications, optimal sequences can be produced for multi-user and multi-function communication system designs. Optimality is in terms of maximum possible number of sequences with given sequence length and sequence characteristics. The results are unique and theoretically proven. By serial and parallel concatenation of error codecs, reliability of multimedia transmission can be satisfied to any desirable level. As a part of the unified transmission scheme, the acquisition and synchronization method of cascading sequences exhibits significant improvement in correlation properties and detection probabilities. A method of using block designs is demonstrated to derive, to generate, and to construct low-density parity check block codes and threshold decodable convolutional codes. An efficiency evaluation method is formulated for the combination operation of ATM, Internet, and satellites.

The present invention relates to methods for the diagnosis and evaluation of cardiovascular illness, particularly stroke, myocardial and other cardiovascular damage damage, hypertension treatment. In particular, patient test samples are analyzed for the presence and amount of members of a panel of markers comprising one or more specific markers for cardiovascular illness or hypertension treatment and one or more non-specific markers for cardiovascular illness or hypertension treatment. A variety of markers are disclosed for assembling a panel of markers for such diagnosis and evaluation. Algorithms for determining proper treatment are disclosed. A diagnostic kit for a panel of said markers is disclosed. In various aspects, the invention provides methods for the early detection and differentiation of cardiovascular illness or hypertension treatment. Invention methods provide rapid, sensitive and specific assays that can greatly increase the number of patients that can receive beneficial treatment and therapy, reduce the costs associated with incorrect diagnosis, and provide important information about the prognosis of the patient.

Methods, systems, and apparatus for assessing a state of a comorbidity associated with a primary disease are provided. The methods comprise receiving at least one autonomic index, neurologic index, stress marker index, psychiatric index, endocrine index, adverse effect of therapy index, physical fitness index, or quality of life index of a patient; comparing the at least one index to at least one reference value; and assessing a state of a body system of the patient that is a site of the comorbidity, based on the comparison. A computer readable program storage device encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform the method described above is also provided. A medical device system capable of implementing the method described above is also provided.

An efficient system for implementing an electronic market. The system includes a first mechanism for defining a set of attributes and associated descriptor variables involved in market transactions. Importance values are assigned to the descriptor variables by the first mechanism. A second mechanism computes match scores for the market transactions based on the importance values. A third mechanism employs the match scores to clear the electronic market. In the specific embodiment, the first mechanism includes an administrator interface, which allows an administrator to define the descriptor variables. A configurator communicates with the administrator interface and allows the administrator to assign a first set importance values to corresponding descriptor variables. The first set importance values includes default importance values or importance values assigned to the descriptor variables by a seller seeking to transact with a buyer via the electronic market. The administrator interface allows an administrator to configure a user interface of the market to allow market participants to assign a second set of importance values to different descriptor variables. The second set of importance values includes buyer and seller importance values. The descriptor variables and associated descriptor importance values may be continuous or discrete. A matching engine computes the match scores for market transactions based on a predetermined evaluation method specified via the administrator interface and based on a unique match score computation method.

The invention discloses a resource state information-based grid task scheduling processor. The resource state information-based grid task scheduling processor comprises a plurality of distributed grid scheduling nodes, wherein each grid scheduling node is connected with the other grid scheduling nodes through an allocation mode; each grid scheduling node has a two-layer structure; and the top layer is provided with a virtual scheduling manager and the bottom layer is provided with a plurality of parallel scheduling executors. The invention also provides a grid task scheduling processing method. In the resource state information-based grid task scheduling processor and the grid task scheduling processing method, a distributed grid resource scheduling system is established; management and coordination on local scheduling executors are unified by a second-level scheduling node management method, so that the failure of a certain scheduling executor is avoided and at the same time, the over-long time waiting of the scheduling task on a certain scheduling executor is avoided; and local resource state feedback is acquired by a resource node property-based analysis and evaluation method, so that the delay caused by acquiring the resource state through a network can be reduced and the grid calculation task scheduling efficiency is further improved.

A method and device in which only a single symbol is required for synchronization, and which permits the detection of appreciable deviations from the normal receiver oscillator frequency or of a deviation of the transmitter frequency from the given frequency pattern, and the correction of the oscillator frequency. The invention further includes an evaluation method for the signal which contains a multiplicity of modulated carriers. In a decoder, additional sequences are evaluated after demodulation and differential reconversion by means of a correlation.

Wavefront aberration of a projection optical system is measured and information on the wavefront aberration is obtained (step 102). Furthermore, a pattern of a reticle is transferred onto a wafer via a projection optical system (steps 104 to 108). Then, the waver on which the pattern is transferred is developed, and line width measurement is performed on the resist image formed on the wafer and line width difference of images of a first line pattern extending in a predetermined direction and a second line pattern that is orthogonal to the first line pattern is measured (steps 112 to 118). And, according to a value of the 12th term of the Zernike polynomial, which is an expansion of the wavefront aberration, and the line width difference, the projection optical system is adjusted so that magnitude of the 9th term (a low order spherical aberration term) is controlled (steps 120 to 124).

The embodiment of the application discloses an image-based vehicle loss assessment method, device, and system, and an electronic device. The method includes steps of: acquiring an image to be processed and recognizing a first vehicle part in the image to be processed; matching a local image having a unrecognized vehicle part in the image to be processed with a part image having a recognized vehicle part in order to determine a second vehicle part to which the local image belongs; detecting the image to be processed and recognizing a damaged position and a damage type in the image to be processed; based on the recognized first vehicle part, the second vehicle part, the damaged position and the damage type, determining a damaged part in the image to be processed and the damaged position and the damage type corresponding to the damaged part. The embodiments of the present application can detect the specific information about the damaged position and degree of the vehicle part quickly, accurately and reliably so that a loss assessment result is accurate and user service experience is improved.

An evaluation of heart failure status is provided based on a disordered breathing index. Patient respiration is sensed and a respiration signal is generated. Disordered breathing episodes are detected based on the respiration signal. A disordered breathing index is determined based on the disordered breathing episodes. The disordered breathing index is trended and used to evaluate heart failure status. The disordered breathing index may be combined with additional information and / or may take into account patient activity, posture, sleep stage, or other patient information.

The technique of the invention converts an object RGB image into an image in a YIQ color space, calculates a luminance variation at each target pixel from Y channel values of the target pixel and an adjacent pixel adjoining to the target pixel, and computes a smoothness degree of luminance variation at the target pixel as summation of absolute values of differences between luminance variations at the target pixel and adjacent pixels. A block noise evaluation value B is obtained as a ratio of an average smoothness degree ave(psx), ave(psy) of luminance variation for boundary pixels located on each block boundary to an average smoothness degree ave(nsx), ave(nsy) of luminance variation for inner pixels not located on the block boundary. The block noise evaluation value B closer to 1 gives an evaluation result of a lower level of block noise, whereas the block noise evaluation value B closer to 10 gives an evaluation result of a higher level of block noise.

Automated image quality assessment methods, which include locating a region of interest, region assessment, contrast assessment, blur assessment, and contaminant detection, on video data and high-resolution imagery. Where the blur assessment is performed without a reference image by dividing the region into non-overlapping block, measuring the wavenumber frequency of the blocks and calculating the ratio of the low frequency to high frequency areas.

There is disclosed a wafer flatness evaluation method includes measuring front and rear surface shapes of a wafer. The wafer front surface measured is divided into sites. Then, a flatness calculating method is selected according to a position of the site to be evaluated and flatness in the wafer surface is acquired.

Methods and apparatus for non-invasively assessing physiological hard of soft tissue of human and other species are described. In a preferred embodiment, tissue is vibrationally stimulated in vivo through a frequency spectrum. The tissue reacts against the stimulus and the reaction is preferably measured and recorded. Based on analytical algorithms or comparisons with previously taken measurements, changes within the tissue can be detected and used for diagnostic purposes. Further embodiments describe the usage of the device and methods for in vivo intra-operative and post-operative implant evaluations and as a therapeutic tool.

The invention relates to the technical field of running state monitoring of wind generating sets, in particular to a system and a method for evaluating the running state of a wind generating set. The evaluating system mainly comprises a monitoring module, a quantifying module, a weight confirmation module and an evaluating module; data monitored in real time by a wind generating set control system are utilized as the input of the evaluating system of the real-time running state; then the data are quantified to obtain a real time deterioration degree of each evaluating index; finally, when the deterioration degree of a single item evaluating index and a permissible value have greater deviation, the serious evaluating result is directly given, otherwise, the weight module and the evaluating module are used for calculating an evaluating result of the running state of the generating set, and the evaluating result is used as the output of the system. The invention provides scientific basis for state maintenance of the wind generating set, and provides technological supports for ensuring high-efficient, reliable and safe running of the wind generating set, evaluating and forecasting the operational reliability of an electric power system of a windy electric field, and has important engineering application value.

Method and system for combining a 2D image with a 3D point cloud for improved visualization of a common scene as well as interpretation of the success of the registration process. The resulting fused data contains the combined information from the original 3D point cloud and the information from the 2D image. The original 3D point cloud data is color coded in accordance with a color map tagging process. By fusing data from different sensors, the resulting scene has several useful attributes relating to battle space awareness, target identification, change detection within a rendered scene, and determination of registration success.

The invention relates to an evaluation system of transformer state based on multisource information integration and an evaluation method thereof, wherein, the evaluation system in the invention is composed of an oil chromatographic analysis subsystem, a partial discharge ultrahigh frequency signal detection subsystem, a winding deformation vibration signal detection subsystem, a current transformer detection subsystem and a computer; the technical point of the evaluation method in the invention lies in evaluating the running state of a detected transformer by fusing the detection results obtained by the detection methods utilized by the four detection subsystems by utilizing a D-S evidence theory fusion evaluation algorithm. The beneficial effects of the invention lie in being capable of timely discovering and accurately judging the malfunction of transformer and comprehensively reflecting the running state of a transformer.

Pre-defined descriptor or measurement questions or items are presented to a user or operator using a computer with a storage and a display for use in systematic observation and assessment. Measurement items that are used in the course of observation and assessment are automatically correlated with address data that is associated with a track of simultaneous digital recording so as to automatically generate meaningful indexes for the recorded material. Based upon the contents of the measurement questions or items, including any qualitative or quantitative descriptions or numerical rating results from use of the descriptors or measurement items, the indexes can readily be further processed, providing the capacity for improvements in efficiency, consistency, and accuracy in retrieving and utilizing the recorded material. The method is particularly useful for processes relating to systematic interview or assessment methods, including the training and monitoring of interviewers or assessors and the storage, retrieval, analysis, and other manipulation of recordings.

The invention relates to an assessment method of efficient operation of an intelligent power distribution network. The assessment method comprises the steps of: (1) determining boundary conditions; (2) determining service objects; (3) building an assessment index system which includes a power distribution network safety index, a power distribution network reliability index, a power distribution network economical efficiency index, a power distribution network high operation quality index and a power distribution network intelligence index; (4) determining assessment index numerical values of single items; (5) scoring for single items of assessment indexes; (6) performing comprehensive scoring of the assessment index system; and (7) judging whether efficient operation of the power distribution network is achieved according to a comprehensive score of the assessment index system in Step (6). The assessment method for efficient operation of the intelligent power distribution network in the invention has a relatively wide range of application, can comprehensively assess the operating state of the intelligent power distribution network, and an assessment result provides an importance basis for decision-making work of power grid dispatching, planning and operation management personnel.