1614 results about "Environment of Albania" patented technology

The solar energy and solar farms are used to generate energy and reduce dependence on oil (or for environmental purposes). The maintenance and repairs in big farms become very difficult, expensive, and inefficient, using human technicians. Thus, here, we teach using the robots with various functions and components, in various settings, for various purposes, to improve operations in big (or hard-to-access) farms, to automate, save money, reduce human mistakes, increase efficiency, or scale the solutions to very large scales or areas.

Systems and methods are provided for directly linking a harvest environment using precision farming techniques to the marketplace. It is a feature of this invention that properties of crops are evaluated "on-the-move," during the harvest thereof, and are made known to users in the harvest environment to enable the real-time transaction for the sale of these crops. In a preferred embodiment, crops are harvested from an agricultural field in the harvest environment with a combine having an auger section thereon. A plurality of properties of the crops are evaluated on-the-move by flowing the harvested crops through the auger section and over an optical device. The optical device utilizes light reflected from the crops to determine the properties. Thereafter, the marketplace is searched with a computing configuration aboard the combine for a market seeking the crop properties. If a market is found, a wireless communication link between the harvest environment and the market is used to transact for a sale of the crops. The properties of the crops are correlated to a location in the agricultural field to expand the knowledge base about the field to enhance future precision farming operations.

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for modeling and managing heterogeneous applications. Application intent can be described in a relatively straight forward manner that abstracts underlying implementation details. Thus, application developers can develop applications without necessarily having to know extensive details of an underlying implementation environment. In any event, an application can be executed in different implementation environments without requiring changes to the corresponding model.

A method is described for aligning video streams and positioning camera in a collaboration event to create a blended space. A local physical environment of one set of attendees is combined with respective apparent spaces of other sets of attendees that are transmitted from two or more remote environments. A geometrically consistent shared space is created that maintains natural collaboration cues of eye contact and directional awareness. The remote environments in the local physical environment are represented in a fashion that is geometrically consistent with the local physical environment. The local physical environment extends naturally and consistently with the way the remote environments may be similarly extended with their own blended spaces. Therefore, an apparent shared space that is sufficiently similar for all sets of attendees is presented in both the local and remote physical environments.

A hydraulic-permeation type environmental water-runoff filtration-system applicable to street curb-inlet type drainage-chambers, which generally cooperatively interconnect with street and parking-lot drains. The BLUEBAY-BMP(TM) pollution-trap provides advantage of community-tailored filtering stages, the preferred embodiment seting forth a convenient user-friendly prefabricated-kit assembly employing a basic build-in-place containment-housing which can be readily adapted to the studied needs of a given community,-without incuring alteration of existing sewer-stormdrains. The uniquely adaptative capability of the containment-housing enables selectively structuring multi-stages of filtration, which progressions address a variety of ecosystem-contaminants, ranging from basic street-refuse and floatable objects, to coarse sediment, finer silt, and comparatively minute albeit environmentally-hazardous petrochemicals, heavy-metals, phosphates, and nitrates;-all of which are readily retrieved from the apparatus confines via periodic maintenance for transfer to appropriate collection handling facilities.

A portable, stylish, comprehensively stocked emergency escape and survival package gives the user ability to successfully confront diverse emergency and disaster conditions most likely encountered in the urban or suburban environment. The package is a system of a backpack carrying case and numerous components stored within the case. Each component is a tool, supply or other article selected for use in a particular aspect of an emergency or survival situation. Additionally, the package includes separate stowage capacity for routine business tools, such as files, computer, calculator and the like. Components of the system include, among others, a radiation sensor, a ballistic resistant panel, solar charging station for an included rechargeable battery, and cables and adapters for supplying power to diverse portable electronic devices.

Methods and systems are described that allow coordinated users to employ avatars to observe and control a plurality of buildings—their building support systems and functions from a virtual world environment. Embodiments coordinate building supervisory personnel (specialists), building monitoring and control equipment, and repair (worker) personnel in a virtual world that is controlled by specialist avatars. Operations personnel perform building operation decisions in response to current situations in a virtual world using their specialist avatars.

The invention relates to a method for calculating the tracing contribution of a sudden accidental water pollution source at a point source, which is effective in rapid tracing of a river basin and environmental management and protection of the river basin. The method includes: according to the natural geographical features of the river basin, determining the control area corresponding to the control section of the river basin; using the monitoring data of the pollution source and the statistical data of the pollution source to budget regarding the pollution source in the river basin; using a one-dimensional unsteady water quality model to establish the relationship between pollution source and water quality of the section; using the relationship between pollution source and water quality of the section to calculate the contribution coefficient of the pollution source within the river basin and characterizing the contribution of pollution sources. The method is novel and unique, easy tooperate and use, accurate in calculation, and high in efficiency, makes full use of the basic information of the existing pollution source, quickly feeds back the state of the pollution source in theriver control section in a short time, locks the pollution source which has relatively greater contribution to the river water quality in the river basin, provides the support for the pollution tracing of the river basin, and is effectively used for the environmental protection and treatment of the river.

The cultivation of terrestrial plants in brackish water or seawater is carried out with this invention. A light-weight, floating growth medium package (FGMP) or, alternatively, a sheet of suitable material is used to support the growth of terrestrial plants floating on water bodies of various salinity, including 100% seawater in marine environments. The FGMP units can be linked together and confined in a floating, rigid or flexible framework to form a floating seawater cultivation platform (FSCP). Using the method, plants were able to grow and thrive on the FSCP floating on 100% seawater in a sustainable manner. Halophytic akulikuli (Sesuvium portulacastrum L.) can regenerate its shoot and root in seawater. Thus, the discovery will enable us to practice marine agriculture, or agriculture on the sea. The FSCP can be used for wide range of purposes, from environmental protection to landscaping to crop production.

Systems and methods for extending a visualization platform are disclosed. A user may create a visualization project created. One or more properties for a non-native widget established by a developer of the non-native widget may be received from the project. Such properties may designate a name or a type of data that the non-native widget is capable of processing. Responsive to an instruction received from the user of the visualization authoring environment, a source of data to be processed by the non-native widget or a destination of data produced by the non-native widget to be processed by other widgets may be established. The appearance or behavior of the non-native widget may be rendered based at least in part on a value available from the source of the data or the appearance or behavior of one or more other widgets may be rendered based at least in part on data produced by the non-native widget.

Detecting whether a resource is available and facilitating the selection of a resource from a set of resources, some of which may be available or unavailable at any given time can be a challenge. One such resource is a suitable place to park a vehicle including automobile, motorcycle, and bicycle. Finding parking can be a significant challenge in population dense environments. Certain embodiments of the present invention are configured to assist users with quickly and efficiently finding a parking slot near his or her location or destination. The system may be configured to generate parking slot suggestions based on one or more of a wide range of individual or group preference criteria. Advantageously, facilitating quick and efficient parking reduces traffic congestion and pollution.

A method and apparatus for reliable wireless voice, data and location communication for deployment in underground, industrial and other hazardous environments using a wireless mesh network. The network includes protocol for dispatch operation, emergency operation, remote supervision, remote status, asset control, machine state of health and operational management. The architecture is based on localized clusters of autonomous nodes capable of ad hoc interconnection with nearby nodes and connection to gateway nodes. The resulting network is an ad hoc mesh topology comprised of fixed mesh nodes with approximately 50% coverage overlap between nodes. This provides a reliable communication network for mobile nodes carried by personnel and sensor nodes that are fixed or mobile that supports voice, data and tracking / situation awareness. Each cluster of nodes transfers digital voice and data to gateway nodes either directly or through multi-hop transactions.

The invention provides a method for assimilating remote sensing data of soil humidity in a watershed scale. The method comprises the following steps of: improving a watershed runoff producing calculation module and developing a distributed hydrological model which is suitable for assimilating remote sensing soil humidity information and describes a soil hydrodynamic process; introducing a particle filtering sequence data assimilation method of information science, and continuously merging and assimilating new remote sensing observation data in a dynamic operation process of distributed hydrological process numerical simulation so as to acquire updated watershed soil humidity assimilated data during sequential assimilation; feeding the updated watershed soil humidity assimilated data back to a distributed hydrological model platform; and gradually estimating the time and space distribution pattern of watershed soil moisture content. Practices prove that by the method, not only high-precision and physically consistent watershed soil humidity data can be provided for research on hydrology, zoology, environment and agriculture, but also the foundation is laid for performing four-dimensional data assimilation processing on soil humidity data of an upper soil layer acquired by using remote sensing retrieval, and improving the precision of the model.

A scan avoidance monitoring system detects instances in which a respective customer in a retail environment fails to properly scan or tally one or more retail items for purchase. To avoid generating false positives, such as flagging of events as scan avoidances when they really are not or likely are not scan avoidances, the scan avoidance system can be configured to require a level of confirmation by one or more other analyzers to flag a particular circumstance as a scan avoidance.

The invention provides a system and methods for the determination of the pharmacogenomic phenotype of any individual or group of individuals, ideally classified to a discrete, specific and defined pharmacogenomic population(s) using machine learning and population structure. Specifically, the invention provides a system that integrates several subsystems, including (1) a system to classify an individual as to pharmacogenomic cohort status using properties of underlying structural elements of the human population based on differences in the variations of specific genes that encode proteins and enzymes involved in the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME) of drugs and xenobiotics, (2) the use of a pre-trained learning machine for classification of a set of electronic health records (EHRs) as to pharmacogenomic phenotype in lieu of genotype data contained in the set of EHRs, (3) a system for prediction of pharmacological risk within an inpatient setting using the system of the invention, (4) a method of drug discovery and development using pattern-matching of previous drugs based on pharmacogenomic phenotype population clusters, and (5) a method to build an optimal pharmacogenomics knowledge base through derivatives of private databases contained in pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies and academic research centers without the risk of exposing raw data contained in such databases. Embodiments include pharmacogenomic decision support for an individual patient in an inpatient setting, and optimization of clinical cohorts based on pharmacogenomic phenotype for clinical trials in drug development.

The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for gravity-balanced apparatuses for training humans for space exploration and other applications. The embodiment of the simulation apparatus is less expensive to build and safe to operate and adaptable to numerous applications, including but not limited to theme parks, museums, training facilities, educational / research labs, and others, for people to experience walking and other perambulations in lower or zero gravity environments. The present invention is statically-balanced and comprises a spring apparatus that is easily adjusted. An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus and method for simulating walking in a zero-gravity or reduced-gravity environment.

An exercise system includes a simulation system simulating real-world terrain based on environmental and other real-world conditions. Using topographical or other data, an actual location can be simulated. The exercise system may include a speed, incline or other mechanisms that can be adjusted based on changes in simulated slope, and by amounts simulating actual air resistance due to movement, wind, or both. The simulated speed of the person, as well as speed and direction of simulated wind, are used to determine a simulated air speed. Based on the simulated air speed, the simulation system determines the simulated air resistance that would affect the person under real-world conditions, and changes reflective of the simulated air resistance are made to operating parameters of the exercise system. Simulation may occur by causing the user of the exercise system to expend about the same effort as if performing the exercise in the real-world conditions.

Embodiments of the invention provide a comprehensive, automated system and method for evaluating the performance of individuals or entities employed by an organization, particularly useful in peer-profiling physician performance in multi-facility environments. Embodiments of the invention can dynamically compose a virtual peer or group of peers and perform peer-profiling on each individual or group of individuals to be evaluated. For example, a composite physician may be generated from system-wide and / or state-wide healthcare data as a benchmark against which a particular physician is profiled according to industry-standard measurements. The composite physician would have equivalent or similar job function(s) as well as patient population. The composite physician enables a comprehensive “apple to apple” comparison with the particular physician, giving meaning to and facilitating the usefulness of performance evaluation results.

The solar energy and solar farms are used to generate energy and reduce dependence on oil (or for environmental purposes). The maintenance and repairs in big farms become very difficult, expensive, and inefficient, using human technicians. Thus, here, we teach using the robots with various functions and components, in various settings, for various purposes, to improve operations in big (or hard-to-access) farms, to automate, save money, reduce human mistakes, increase efficiency, or scale the solutions to very large scales or areas.

The present disclosure relates to protecting temporary virtual machine instances in a cloud computing platform from security risks. An example method generally includes monitoring a cloud platform for the assignment of a temporary virtual machine instance to a workload. A security system obtains information about a configuration of the temporary virtual machine instance and applications deployed on the temporary virtual machine instance. Based on the configuration of the temporary virtual machine instance and applications deployed on the temporary virtual machine instance, the security system generates a security policy to apply to the temporary virtual machine instance.

The invention relates to the public health technology field and discloses the prevention and control method of disease control and travel information interconnection. The method comprises the following steps of retrieving the historical data of local infected cases and the composition of environmental factors affecting the survival of a disease infection source, and fitting a grid risk map; determining a newly infected person as an infection source, and obtaining the travel information of the newly infected person in the period of time before attack; classifying and screening the travel information, excavating possible resident points, combining with spatial road network data and carrying out semantization on the possible resident points; comparing the possible resident points in step 3 with the risk map generated in step 1 to acquire a main suspicious point which is taken as a high probability occurrence point; adopting an association rule excavation algorithm or a string pattern excavation algorithm to excavate a motion pattern so as to predict a possible propagation trend; and according to the above result, intervening a high risk area. The trend of an infectious disease is predicted and prevention and control cost is reduced.

In mesic environments, erosion control measures usually employ the establishment of vegetative cover by vascular plants in order to hold the soil in place. The current art often includes the application of seeds, chemical fertilizers, tackifiers, and mulches to promote the growth of vascular plants. However, arid environments so not support dense vegetative cover, but are instead dominated by photosynthetic microorganisms, primarily cyanobacteria and lichens. The cyanobacteria not only hold the soil in place, but also are the primary source of fixed nitrogen in arid environments. Disclosed herein, is a description of an apparatus and methods for the production and preservation of a photobiofertilizer as a means for repairing disturbed arid soils.

Systems, apparatus, and methods for implementing enterprise level social and business information networking are provided. Users can receive relevant information about a database system and its users at an appropriate time. Users can then use this relevant information to reduce errors and limit redundant efforts. For example, an update of a record in the database can be identified, and a story created automatically about the update and sent to the users that are following the record. Other events besides updating of records can also be tracked. A variety of enhanced features and functions are also presented in the context of an enterprise level social and business information networking environment.

The invention provides a water quality model based regional environment risk assessment method. The water quality model based regional environment risk assessment method includes five steps of establishing a regional environment risk source information database, and utilizing a Monte Carlo algorithm to simulate discharge of risk source pollutants; selecting a water quality model, and constructing a water quality model which meets characteristics of an assessment region source intensity water quality response relationship; calculating vulnerability indexes of risk receptors by using a fuzzy integral method with the risk assessment goal of influence on water ecology, human health and social economy; utilizing the water quality model to predict the distribution of regional pollutant concentration under all possible source intensity situations, and analyzing dangerousness of risk sources; characterizing regional environment risks with a risk curve under the synthesis of dangerousness of the risk sources and vulnerability indexes of the receptors. According to the risk curve, regional environment risk assessment can be performed, high-risk regions, and key risk sources and vulnerary receptors are identified, so that a reference is provided for planning a targeted region risk prevention and control scheme.

A synthetic underwater visualization system (SUVS) comprising a real-time graphics software engine, a sophisticated underwater environmental sensor, a fixed-base database, and a retrieval system designed to accept and assimilate into a common database bathymetric and environmental information acquired from around the world by components of other deployed SUVS sensing systems. SUVS is capable of sensing, modeling, and realistically displaying underwater environments in real-time, and will foster widespread utilization in the areas of homeland security, commercial and recreational maritime navigation, bathymetric data collection, and environmental analysis. The technology will also be readily adaptable and highly desirable in non-marine applications.

A secure tag generation service is associated with a cloud infrastructure. This service establishes a security context for a particular cloud tenant based on a tenant's security requirements, one or more cloud resource attributes, and the like. The security content is encoded into a data structure, such as a tag that uniquely identifies that security context. The tag is then encrypted. The encrypted tag is then propagated to one or more cloud management services, such as a logging service. When one or more cloud resources are then used, such use is associated with the encrypted security context tag. In this manner, the encrypted tag is used to monitor activities that are required to meet the security context. When it comes time to perform a security or compliance management task, any cloud system logs that reference the encrypted security context tag are correlated to generate a report for the security context.

A greenhouse growing environment has a distributed control system for selecting, monitoring, and administering hydroponic nutrient solution mixtures that are tailored to crop varieties of the greenhouse. The crop varieties are preselected based on location characteristics of the greenhouse and analysis results of source water. The analysis results indicate a nutrient composition of the source water. A predefined nutrient formulation is then automatically combined with the source water by a nutrient dispensing subsystem, to achieve a desired nutrient solution mixture that is applied to a hydroponic bay. A computational system automatically monitors the state of a hydroponic environment and directs input modules as programmed, in order to increase plant growth, plant quality, and volume of plant yield.

The invention discloses an ecological restoration and purification method for landscape water environment which is characterized by comprising the following steps of (1) performing bottom mud sterilization and activation treatment; (2) splashing a microbial flora compound preparation; (3) reconstructing a submerged communities; (4) repairing an aquatic ecosystem food chain; and (5) performing aquatic ecosystem conservation management. According to the ecological restoration and purification method for the landscape water environment, a biological integrated control technology is applied, and the water purification effect is achieved by use of submerged plants; furthermore, decomposers, namely microorganisms in an ecosystem are fully utilized, and multiple types of aquatic animals are put in the aquatic ecosystem, so that the ecosystem food chain is perfected, various aquatic species promote and restrict one another, the whole riverway, lake, pond and wetland system is kept in dynamic balance for a long time, the original self-purification capability of the aquatic ecosystem is restored, and a long-term stable effect is achieved.

A system including a controlled agriculture environment containing one or more growing rooms, each containing one or more growing units is described. Each growing room is managed by an HVAC system under the control of an environmental control unit. Each growing room may have a specific temperature and humidity optimized for the type of plant or plants being room. The growing room may have a positive air pressure when compared to areas connected to it to ensure that no insects or contaminants can enter the growing room. The growing room may provide water feed, compressed air, CO2, and electricity to each of the growing units. The growing units are also connected wirelessly to an environmental control unit.