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An information-processing apparatus, an information-processing method and a data recording medium which allow a display to be presented to the user. The apparatus, method, and medium allow the display of a cyclical time concept which includes nature, creatures and integration of pictures and comments and is based on a predetermined cycle typically including a sequence of transitions among the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, or of a day consisting of morning, afternoon, and night, or a cycle can also be a temperature or humidity cycle.

The present invention is a sorbent-based portable peritoneal dialysis system that uses 2.5 liters of tap water per day. The system comprises a control unit, a sterilized disposable cassette, a sterilized disposable glucose solution cartridge and a sterilized sorbent cartridge, and a three liter removable fluid storage container. A supply of concentrated electrolytes solution and a venting sterilizing dialysate filter are contained in the cassette. The glucose and sorbent cartridges snap into the cassette, which snaps onto the control unit. The cartridges are replaced daily, and the cassette is replaced weekly. During use (typically while the patient sleeps at night), the system removes all spent dialysate from the patient every two hours. The system then returns two liters of regenerated, sterilized dialysate to the patient. The patient discards the spent dialysate in the morning.

The present invention is a sorbent-based portable peritoneal dialysis system that uses 2.5 liters of tap water per day. The system comprises a control unit, a sterilized disposable cassette, a sterilized disposable glucose solution cartridge and a sterilized sorbent cartridge, and a three liter fluid storage container. A supply of concentrated electrolytes solution and a venting sterilizing dialysate filter are contained in the cassette. The glucose and sorbent cartridges snap into the cassette, which snaps onto the control unit. The cartridges are replaced daily, and the cassette is replaced weekly. During use (typically while the patient sleeps at night), the system removes all spent dialysate from the patient every two hours. The system then returns two liters of regenerated, sterilized dialysate to the patient. The patient discards the spent dialysate in the morning.

An energy-reducing method and apparatus for retrofitting a constant volume HVAC system, with or without an economizer, that provides heating, cooling, and ventilation to occupants within a building space. The present invention includes the introduction of a programmable logic controller and variable frequency drive (VFD) that takes control of the existing fan, heating, cooling, and optional economizer operation. The controller is programmed for the reduction of fan speed in the heating and cooling modes. The reduction of the fan speed in the ventilation mode when the 100% operation is not needed saves significant energy of the existing constant volume HVAC system where the fan motor is designed to run 100% of the time. The fan speed may be further reduced upon a reduction in sensed occupancy levels of the space, such as with a CO₂ sensor. Additionally, the fan speed may be reduced in the heating and/or cooling mode to further reduce energy consumption. The controller may also be programmed and equipped with sensors to allow simultaneous mechanical compressor cooling and economizer free cooling operation, for the operation of the economizer in response to the monitoring of outside air and return air to determine the preferred source for cooling operations, to keep the outside air damper closed during the unoccupied heating modes such as morning warm-up, and/or to provide fault detection. The retrofit method and apparatus may be employed in a stand-alone or networked version.

Methods and apparatus for dynamically adjusting a power level of an electronic device (100) are disclosed. In an embodiment, an electronic device (100) receives a usage pattern of the electronic device (100) (e.g., typically used 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on weekdays). The electronic device (100) then dynamically adjusts a wake up timer (204) associated with the electronic device (100) based on the usage pattern (e.g., expire at 8:50 am the next morning, which is 10 minutes before usage typically resumes for that day). In response to an expiration of the dynamically adjusted wake up timer (204), the electronic device (100) increases the power level of the electronic device (100) (e.g., transition from hibernate mode to standby mode, possibly via other intervening power modes, for faster startup in anticipation of resumed usage).

The present Invention (the “Invention”) relates to an apparatus to detect, assess and end occurrences of snoring, sleep apnea events and hypopnea episodes, in a manner that will decrease or eliminate hypoxia, hypercapnia and the disturbance of cardiac and pulmonary hemodynamics, and give users of the apparatus a report of their critical sleep data each morning

The inventive device is embodied in the form of a chamber-oven for diffusing vapour and saturated hot air which circulate in a closed circuit by natural convection. Said device is embodied in the form of a domestic-use solar energy collecting device provided with a greenhouse whose surface is equal to 1 m² and produces from 50 to 100 litres/day of distilled water. The device comprises a distillation unit arranged between two furnaces (59′, 79′) in a temperature-controlled container (48′). Said distillation unit comprises 100 flat thin hollow plates having a surface of 20 dm² by face and an active volume of 200 dm³. The fine and tensioned walls (54) of said plates are provided with a hydrophilic coating (60′) and internal (56′) and inter-plate (58′) spaces. The lower chimney (59′) comprises a greenhouse (118′, 119′) whose bottom is embodied in the form of an impermeable black layer provided with a thin hydrophilic carpet on the rear part thereof. Saturated hot air at a temperature of 80° C. enters inside (56′) hollow plates from bellow and exits from the top at a temperature of 50° C. A high chimney (79′) is provided with a monoblock heat exchanger (84′) which is transversed by a non-potable water to be distilled which, afterwards is spread warm (40° C.) over the hydrophilic coating (60′). During passage through the heat exchanger (84) the air is cooled to 30° C. and moved down by gravity to the inter-plate spaces (58′) and exits therefrom at a temperature of 78° C. The distilled water condensed in the plates and by the heat exchanger is collected and removed. Brine is received in the bottom of the inter-plate space and distributed along the thin hydrophilic carpet of the bottom (122′) of the greenhouse. An air current passes along said hot carpet is heated and saturated and enters the plates. The brine liquor finally flows in an air-preheating tank (63′) which is emptied each morning. The greenhouse can be substituted by a heating tube transversed by a heating fluid or associated with another steam-jet tube. The more powerful chamber-ovens can produce at least 200 m³/day of distilled water for collective consumption. Said invention can be used for salt removal from seawater, co-generating electricity and potable water and for producing food concentrates.

A method for programming and a user interface for a programmable environmental control wherein a user assigns names (e.g. "Morning", or "Unoccupied", or "Evening") to sets of parameters such as, for example, pairs of temperature set-points. When establishing the programming schedule, the user picks the name associated with the sets of parameters (e.g. a pair of set-points, one for heating and another for cooling) to be assigned to a given time period.

The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions which can achieve good state of glycemic control and correct postprandial hyperglycemia and early morning fasting hyperglycemia. The present pharmaceutical composition is for administration before meal to control blood glucose, which comprises 5 to 45 mg, as a single dose, of mitiglinide or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a hydrate thereof (for example, mitiglinide calcium salt hydrate). And said compositions are extremely useful for prevention or treatment of, for example, type II diabetes, because the frequency of adverse drug reactions such as hypoglycemic symptoms and gastrointestinal disorders is low.

The invention relates to a control method for operation modes of an inverter air conditioner, which is characterized in that the operation stages of the inverter air conditioner are divided according to time segments every day. The operation stages comprise a normal mode stage for running in a normal mode, a sleep mode stage for running in a sleep mode and a night silence mode stage for running in a night silence mode. When a user switches on the inverter air conditioner, and the current time in startup belongs to a time segment T1, the inverter air conditioner constantly runs at the normal mode stage. When the inverter air conditioner runs on the hour 24 o'clock at night, the inverter air conditioner automatically enters and runs at the night silence mode stage and automatically shuts down after 8 h. When a user just switches on the inverter air conditioner, the current time in startup does not belong to the time segment T1, the inverter air conditioner runs at the normal mode stage for 1h, automatically enters and runs at the night silence mode stage and automatically shuts down after 8h, wherein the time segment T1is from 4 o'clock in the morning to 23 o'clock at night. The invention has the advantages of flexible operation and low operation noise.

A processing method of honeysuckle tea has a technical scheme that the method comprises the following steps of picking at regular time, bud grading, enzyme deactivation by steam, hot air drying, natural cooling, packaging and warehousing; the beneficial effect is that: honeysuckle buds are picked at 8:30-11:00 in the morning everyday, which can ensure that fresh flowers contain the most beneficial components and dew is prevented; grading of the buds can ensure uniform processing; enzyme deactivation by steam can rapidly inhibit the activity of polyphenol oxidase, and effectively prevent the decomposition of honeysuckle chlorogenic acid; direct hot air drying is performed after enzyme deactivation without cooling or cold air dehumidification, which can rapidly remove residual water contained in fresh flowers, destroys the activity of polyphenol oxidase, and allows the honeysuckle tea to be maintained to be undeteriorated for a long time; the honeysuckle tea processed by the method has a jade green color, and a lifelike shape; nutrient components can be maintained to be less lost; the infused tea has a bright and clear soup color, and a complete flower shape; the invention can greatly increase the drinking value and appearance quality of honeysuckle tea.

A dietary supplement system includes a dietary supplement composition for oral administration by an individual in the morning, the composition, including (a) a telomere maintenance complex including: Purslane extract (aerial parts); Turmeric rhizome extract (95% curcuminoids); Quercetin dehydrate, Cayenne pepper fruit; Vanadium (as vanadyl sulfate); Fenugreek seed; Astragalus root extract, Omega fatty acid complex including linoleic acid; alpha-linolenic acid; oleic acid borage seed oil gamma-linolenic acid), evening primrose oil fish body oil (eicosapentaenoic acid; docosahexaenoic acid); (b) a calorie restriction mimetics and gene expression complex including Trans-resveratrol (from Polygonum cuspidatum root extract); Pterostilbene Fisetin 50% (Buxus microphlla Sieb (stem and leaf; Alpha lipoic acid, Coenzyme Q-10, Betaine HCl, Sulfur (from methylsulfonylmethane); L-Carnitine tartrate; L-Carnitine HCl, and (c) a free radical scavenger complex, including Green tea leaf extract catechin and polyphenols); Anthocyanins (from bilberry fruit and grape skin extracts).

The invention discloses a method for predicting traffic jam indexes for rush hours in the morning and evening. The method includes: a, dividing predication days into working days and rest days; b, utilizing a factor decomposition model to predict the traffic jam indexes for the rush hours in the morning and evening on working days in normal weather, in case of extreme weathers like rain, snow and fog, revising via a weather influence coefficient xi on the basis of the traffic jam indexes for the rush hours in the morning and evening on the normal working days; and c, utilizing a two-mode approaching model to predict the traffic jam indexes for the rush hours in the morning and evening on rest days in normal weather, and in case of extreme weathers like rain, snow and fog, revising via a weather influence coefficient xi on the basis of the traffic jam indexes for the rush hours in the morning and evening on the normal rest days. By the method for predicting the traffic jam indexes for the rush hours in the morning and evening, traffic conditions can be accurately predicted, and references are provided to future traffic management.

A composition comprising doxepin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or prodrug thereof, and a compound that enhances sleep onset, sleep maintenance or reduces early morning awakenings. These compositions are useful for treating multiple manifestations of insomnia.

A photocontrol controls the activation of lighting based on ambient light and the time of day using a radio-controlled timer. Radio signals from a particular source of correct time, such as the National Institute for Science and Technology's WWVB radio broadcast, carry encoded time information that can be decoded by the photocontrol to ascertain the current time on start up and periodically during operation. The correct date and time information is used to synchronize the photocontrol's internal clock so that it can turn the lighting load off or on at specific times of the day in accordance with the user's needs. Thus area, business signage, and security lighting, for example, can be turned off late at night and then back on early in the morning to reduce energy consumption by the lighting during those hours when the lighting is not needed.

The present invention describes mobile phone applications that include methods and systems which automatically schedule tasks from a dynamically-changing task list for efficient utilization of available time. Unlike the prior personal task scheduling systems, the proposed system uses optimization algorithms and computer programs when creating a time schedule of tasks. In order to schedule individual tasks, the system takes into account multiple constraints controllable by the user. Basic constraints include individual task's deadline, start-time, minimum and maximum time-chunks for task fragments, relative priority of tasks (in case of time-collision), etc. Further constraints may include user's general preferences regarding individual task or group of tasks. Specifically, preferences may include time-of-day (e.g., morning, evening), location (e.g., home, work, particular grocery store or chain, particular gym, park), etc. In order to schedule the tasks, the system considers the user's calendar information and regards scheduled time-slots in the calendar as unavailable time for task scheduling. The system also considers as unavailable user-defined time periods reserved for such activities as sleeping, eating, resting, etc., unless the task specifically involves such activities. Furthermore, the system is flexible in the sense that the user can choose not to follow the advised task schedule and reprioritize tasks at his/her will. The system contains other interactive features such as issuing various task alerts to the user, allows the user to decline/delegate tasks and visualization (e.g. based on color coding) of the task-list (based on the status of the tasks, for example, close to completion, cannot be delegated etc.). The allocation is adaptive, in that, the schedule is automatically updated as new tasks enter the system, after task completions, when task priorities are modified, and based on other user inputs such as task declining/delegation. Finally, the system can be operated in a networked mode in which joint tasks involving multiple users (and their calendars) can be scheduled. Since the system will store the calendared event times of each user in the server, a joint task among multiple users can be scheduled based on the superimposed calendars of the users while protecting privacy of individual user's calendars.

The invention discloses a seedling culturing method for polygonatum cyrtonema seeds. The method comprises the steps of using a sodium hydroxide aqueous solution for immersing the polygonatum cyrtonema seeds, then placing the polygonatum cyrtonema seeds in fine sand for being subjected to sand storage, wherein the fine sand is mixed and moistened with mixed liquor of ABT rooting powder, indolebutyric acid and a carbendazim aqueous solution, sowing and scattering the seeds and the fine sand obtained after sand storage together onto matrix soil in a vinyl house, wherein the matrix soil is formed by mixing wood chips, decoction dregs and pine bark, watering the seeds in the morning and in the evening everyday, and after a leaf grows out of each polygonatum cyrtonema seed, conducting periodic topdressing, weeding and pest and disease damage elimination. The method is simple, easy to do and low in cost, through the specific sand storage mode and the matrix soil seedling culturing mode, it only takes five to seven months for each polygonatum cyrtonema seed from sand storage to the state of growing out a leaf, the germination rate can reach over 80%, the germination rate of the polygonatum cyrtonema seeds is raised, germination time of the polygonatum cyrtonema seed is shortened, a large number of polygonatum cyrtonema seedlings can be obtained within a short time, requirements of planting polygonatum cyrtonema in a large area and on a large scale are satisfied, and double significance on production and economy is achieved.

Groceries ordered over the Internet by a particular time in the early evening may be delivered by the next morning to a location within a 5-6 hour delivery radius of a warehouse. The grocery order is filled at the warehouse, where the groceries are placed in a tote for delivery. If perishable groceries are to be delivered, a frozen insert is placed in the tote to maintain the groceries at a desired temperature. The filled tote is placed on a rack, which is removable with the tote on it. The racks have shelves that are pitched such that when a first tote is removed a second tote behind the first tote falls into the space previously occupied by the first tote. In the early evening, after the cutoff time for placing orders, the rack and totes on the rack are transferred to a first vehicle, typically a large trailer, that transports the rack and totes to a transfer point where the rack and the accompanying bill of lading are transferred to a second smaller vehicle, such as a van. The van delivers the totes to customers along a pre-established route. Upon reaching a delivery destination (usually a customer's home) by early the next morning, the van driver removes the tote for that customer from the van and secures it in a locked expandable bag, such as a mesh net or insulated bag, that may be locked in two places and that is itself secured to a grocery box. The grocery box, which is supplied to the customer by the business selling the groceries, is secured outside the delivery destination. The customer removes the tote from the bag, removes the groceries from the tote, and returns the used tote to the bas for later pickup by the van.

A relative radiation correction method of a staring satellite area array CCD camera is provided. The methods is characterized by, to begin with, establishing a radiation response model of detection elements of the area array CCD camera; then, utilizing the staring satellite area array CCD camera to carry out real-time and fixed-point observation on large-area deep sea far away from the land at the late night without moonlight, determining the amplitude of the noise through the remote sensing images obtained for many times, and carrying out denoising to obtain remote sensing image data without noise; then, in the morning and at dusk, utilizing the staring satellite area array CCD camera to carry out continuous imaging on the large-area deep sea far away from the land under the weak and uniformly-scattered skylight, and calculating relative radiation calibration coefficients through the remote sensing images which are obtained for many times and are denoised; and at last, obtaining a relative radiation correction image of the staring satellite area array CCD camera. The method helps to solve the technical problem of no relative radiation correction method is provided for the staring satellite area array CCD camera in in-orbit operation.