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A single dielectric barrier aerodynamic plasma actuator apparatus based on the dielectric barrier discharge phenomenon is disclosed and suggested for application to aerodynamic uses for drag reduction, stall elimination and airfoil efficiency improvement. In the plasma actuator apparatus non-uniform in time and space, partially ionized gasses are generated by one or more electrode pairs each having one electrically encapsulated electrode and one air stream exposed electrode and energization by a high-voltage alternating current waveform. The influence of electrical waveform variation, electrode polarity, electrode size and electrode shape on the achieved plasma are considered along with theoretical verification of achieved results. Light output, generated thrust, ionizing current waveform and magnitude and other variables are considered. Misconceptions prevailing in the present day plasma generation art are addressed and are believed-to-be corrected. The influence of electrostatic shielding effects of the developed plasma on the applied electric field are also considered.

A system and method may model physical geological structures. Seismic and geologic data may be accepted. A three-dimensional (3D) transformation may be generated between a 3D present day model having points representing present locations of the physical geological structures and a 3D past depositional model having points representing locations where the physical geological structures were originally deposited. An indication may be accepted to locally change the 3D transformation for a subset of sampling points in a first model of the models. The 3D transformation may be locally changed to fit the updated subset of sampling points. A locally altered or updated version of the first model and, e.g., second model, may be displayed where local changes to the first model are defined by the locally changed 3D transformation. The transformation may also be used to extract geobodies in the past depositional model.

A method for producing a substantially calibrated numerical model, which can be used for calculating a stress on any point in a formation, accounts for a formation's geologic history using at least one virtual formation condition to effectively “create” the present-day, virgin stress distribution that correlates, within acceptable deviation limits, to actual field stress measurement data obtained for the formation. A virtual formation condition may describe an elastic rock property (e.g., Poisson ratio, Young's modulus), a plastic rock property (e.g., friction angle, cohesion) and/or a geologic process (e.g., tectonics, erosion) considered pertinent to developing a stratigraphic model suitable for performing the desired stress analysis of the formation.

Various aspects of the present invention are described herein for providing multi-homing capability to networks, subnetworks, and/or hosts through the use of a multiplicity of topologically correct IP addresses. For example, according to various embodiments of the present invention, extensions to Mobile IP (MIP) technology may be used as an alternative solution to the present-day problems associated with IP address multi-homing of a particular host, network, and/or subnet. According to one implementation, Specialized Home Agents may be deployed in a data network and configured to have the ability to register and manage multiple Care-of-Addresses (CoAs) for one or more multi-homed hosts (MHHs) to achieve ends similar to traditional “multi-homing” of hosts implemented via conventional routing protocols.

A new type of multi-focal lens that has a free-form progressive multifocal front surface consisting of a 16th order polynomial superimposed on a standard conic base surface is described. The center region of the lens is optimized for distance vision, while simultaneously optimizing the rest of the lens for near vision. The resulting free-form even asphere polynomial surface is smooth, unlike present day diffractive multifocal designs. Additionally, this lens design is suitable for both refractive and cataract surgeries.

Present-day single or multiple fractional phase-locked loop frequency synthesizers are not phase coherent for they use a digital accumulator modulo a number P with a variable increment K, whose state is a function of the history of the change in values that have been imposed on the increment. This lack of phase coherence rules out the use of these synthesizers in certain fields such as that of Doppler radars. A novel type of single or multiple fractional phase-locked loop frequency synthesizer that is coherent in phase is proposed herein. This type of synthesizer comprises one or more counters with an increment of one, having their rate set by the reference oscillator of the synthesizer and being used in phase memories to enable changes in the increment or increments following a change in the fractional division ratio at instants that are synchronous with the reference oscillator.

To permit a person to take a power-striding most effective to be healthy the quantity of exercising is managed by using, in combination, bioelectrical impedance measuring means 110; personal data inputting means 120; body fat rate calculating means 130 for determining the body fat rate on the basis of the personal data and the value of bioelectrical impedance; target body fat rate setting means 140; target calorie consumption calculator means 150 for calculating the calorie consumption required to attain the target body fat rate; management period setting means 160 for setting a length of period required to attain the target body fat rate; healthful calorie consumption calculator means 170 for calculating the calorie consumption per day within the management period; walking calorie per minute calculating means 180 for calculating caloric quantity consumed by walking per minute in consideration of the individual basal metastasis; healthful exercise quantity calculating means 190 for calculating the healthful exercise quantity per day required to consume the healthful calorie per day; exercise quantity measuring means 200; calorie consumption per day calculating means 210 for determining the calorie consumption on the basis of the so measured exercise quantity; and healthful exercise quantity correcting means 220 for comparing the calorie consumption per day of the previous day with the target value of the present day and for converting any difference therebetween in terms of exercise quantity, thereby renewing the healthful exercise quantity of the present day.

The present invention overcomes the deficiencies and limitations of the prior art by providing a direct tracking module for keywords. In one embodiment, the system comprises a direct tracking module, a bid management system, a web analytics tool and a search engine. The direct tracking module interfaces with the bid management system to provide user interfaces for reviewing data about specific keyword and ads/text pairs. The direct tracking module uses unique codes to provide specific information about which combination of keyword and text generated specific Web traffic, such as traffic that generated a sale. This is particularly advantageous because the keyword/text pairs that generate a large number of sales can be reused to generate future traffic. Similarly, keyword/text pairs that do not generate Web traffic can be eliminated from the words that are purchased by the advertiser. Thus, the present invention greatly reduces the uncertainty presently provided by keyword purchasing schemes offered by present-day search engines. The present invention also includes a novel method for the direct tracking of keywords to ads/text.

A configuration method and apparatus for a complex product or service that uses a reduced form of a prime rule indicative of valid and invalid configurations. The configurator applies user inputs parameters to an execution module that is constructed using directed acyclic graph, e.g., a zero-suppressed binary decision diagram, indicative of the valid or invalid product/service configurations. The results of execution may include conflict and selection advice to help guide the user to achieve a proper configuration. Elective events, such as but not limited to the display of messages or the performance of calculations, may optionally be packaged along with the prime rule or components thereof, and presented during execution to help guide the end user when choosing among possible configuration parameters. The apparatus and corresponding method automate determination of a complex configuration rule having a combinatorial exploded number of rule components, or a combinatorial number of possible outcomes, exceeding computational capacity of present day computing systems.

A method of load forecasting for a present day includes obtaining past observed load values of at least three earlier days and identifying a relationship between the present day's load forecast and the past observed load values including unknown weights associated with the past observed load values. The values of unknown weights are determined by comparing at least one previous day's load forecast with the observed load value of the at least one previous day. The determined weight values are then used in the relationship between the present day's load forecast and the past observed load values to forecast the present day's load.

A method and system for computing and visualizing sedimentary attributes may include receiving, by a processor, paleo-geographic coordinates representing predicted approximate positions of particles of sediment deposited at a time period when a layer was originally formed. The processor may numerically compute or determine a sedimentation rate that varies laterally along the layer. The processor may determine a sedimentary attribute based on the lateral variation of the sedimentation rate along the layer with respect to the paleo-geographic coordinates. A monitor or display may display the sedimentary attribute of the layer in the present-day geological space.

Present day intrusion detection systems frequently cause false alarms by mistaking occupants as intruders, and it is desirable to reduce such false alarms. This invention comprises a processor that employs various software algorithms. The processor receives signals over temporal periods and software algorithms statistically discern various activities, thereby reducing false alarms and detection failures. The software algorithms are adaptive to the level of detected activity such that a rate of false alarms may be predetermined. As such, the processor and software algorithms comprise an artificial intelligence system. This artificial intelligence system may be employed in intruder and vehicle alarm systems composed of a multiplicity of detectors and within such detectors. A second aspect of this invention is an improved infrasound detection method that may be employed in such artificial intelligence.

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for monitoring the anesthetic state of a subject. Physiological signal data including EEG and possibly also EMG signal components is acquired from a subject and supplied to a monitoring process configured to derive, based on the said data, a state index indicative of the anesthetic state of the subject. In order to extend the applicability of present-day monitoring processes, the operation of the monitoring process is controlled according to whether at least one drug inducing high frequency EEG signal components is administered to the subject. The presence of the high frequency EEG signal components in the physiological signal data may be detected automatically.

With consumers becoming authors, i.e. “consumers==authors” model, the new web is growing at an ever faster pace, making the job of a search engine more complex than most present day search engines were designed for. In this new generation of web, information and content is “Multi-media” and/or “Mobile” friendly, and created by either “Professional authors, or Consumers or Applications” and is available as “Traditional web” or “Dynamic web” or on demand “Web service”. The new method introduces a paradigm shift from present day search engines to the new “Information Engine” that models this author and consumer set of actions to create, acquire, communicate and consume information across various sources, with information prioritization, computed as “Global Popularity Index”, and presentation for global, multimedia, and mobile Internet.