493 results about "Qualitative property" patented technology

Rights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may match, narrowcast, classify and/or select people and/or things, non-limiting examples of which include software objects. The Matching and Classification Utility system may use any pre-existing classification schemes, including at least some rights management information and/or other qualitative and/or parameter data indicating and/or defining classes, classification systems, class hierarchies, category schemes, class assignments, category assignments, and/or class membership. The Matching and Classification Utility may also use at least some rights management information together with any artificial intelligence, expert system, statistical, computational, manual, or any other means to define new classes, class hierarchies, classification systems, category schemes, and/or assign persons, things, and/or groups of persons and/or things to at least one class.

A process that arranges information warehoused at individual accounting and tax preparation firms at a central location for the purpose of marketing information. Data contained at these firms have qualitative and quantitative characteristics that are different from data archived at the Internal Revenue Service or other tax authorities. This fact makes the data valuable as data in two ways. First the data can be exchanged to provide new revenue streams. Secondly, these data, if grouped into data warehouses of other firms, has value as pure data, not just customer lists. These data may be sold or rented creating additional revenue streams for their originators. The purchasers of this bulk data are interested in using this data in the field of data mining. Data mining is a technique of analyzing vast amounts of information to uncover relationships to predict events and has wide application in many areas of the economy.

A method of providing a search engine for use on global computer networks which identifies and merges categories of information that reflect, influence and imitate intelligent choice by concurrently searching one or more of eight factors of consumer trust: books, experts, news and articles, associations, celebrities and pro choice, awards, web information and blogs and people's choice. The results from the search of these selected consumer trust factors are then combined to generate a final report.

A method and apparatus is provided for constructing a predictive model for a system based on a priori qualitative modeling of the system and on historical database collected from past activity of the system or past events in the system. An expert provides grouping of parameters and qualitative dependencies between parameters and attributes, wherein some of the attributes may be conceptual or virtual attributes. The present invention extends existing methods of `evolutionary algorithms` in order to build successive sets of quantitative predictive models for the system, wherein parts of each model are evolved by the evolutionary algorithm and parts of each model are derived using the historical database. According to the present invention a model constructed by this method can be incorporated as a predictive model into a diagnosis or control apparatus without the need for human inspection, as the model complies with the expert's knowledge about the system. The present invention also provides a method to update the constructed model when new data is delivered, thus adjusting the model to changes in the environment.

The present invention is applicable in the field of sales performance management coupled with corporate finance, corporate capital investments, economics, math, business risk analysis, simulation, decision analysis, qualitative risk analysis, risk management, quantitative risk analysis, and business statistics, and relates to the modeling and valuation of investment decisions and sales performance management and analysis under uncertainty and risk within all companies, allowing these firms to properly identify, assess, quantify, value, diversify, and hedge their corporate capital investment and sales management decisions and their associated risks. Specifically, the present invention looks at starting from comprehensive qualitative sales performance management and moving the analysis into the realms of quantitative risk-based sales performance modeling, simulation, and optimization.

In the automation of project risk identification, various qualitative and quantitative measures are combined to report a project's risk level, areas, and mitigation in an automatic and objective manner. The software package includes a risk assessment and report framework and a risk engine, a portfolio analysis, a project plan validator, an integrated project management office toolkit and process asset library, and an integrated skills tracking, locating and availability module with a skills engine.

Methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses are disclosed for identifying predictive key risk indicators (KRIs) for organizations and/or firms through the application of specific statistical and quantitative methods that are well integrated with qualitative adjustment. An indicator is a variable with the purpose of measuring change in a phenomena or process. A risk indicator is an indicator that estimates the potential for some form of resource degradation using mathematical formulas or models. Organization/enterprise key risk indicators are an essential arsenal in the risk management framework of any firm or organization and may be required by regulatory agencies.

The invention discloses a method for building a city gas pipe network vulnerability evaluation model. The method comprises the following steps that an evaluation model is built through fuzzy hierarchy comprehensive evaluation; a vulnerability evaluation index weight is determined; a city gas pipe network system fuzzy comprehensive evaluation basic model is built. As the system vulnerability evaluation and traditional risk evaluation are similar and both need to build evaluation index systems according to evaluation purposes, a proper evaluation method is selected to build an evaluation mathematical model, the model is utilized to conduct system vulnerability calculation and vulnerability grading, the quantitative and qualitative combined system vulnerability evaluation is achieved, and a research result of the city gas vulnerability can lay the foundation for improving the level of a Chinese gas pipeline management technology, prolonging the service life of a city gas pipeline and avoiding or reducing sudden invalidation accidents. With the deepening of the vulnerability research, the vulnerability evaluation is introduced in the filed of research of the science of disasters, the point of view of the safety evaluation is made to be wider, the content of the safety evaluation is made to be fuller, and the evaluation result has more practical value.

A system and method that standardizes, automates, and facilitates the process of identifying, evaluating, selecting, and managing product and service resources for both individual and business resource users within specific industries. In one embodiment, this resource management system includes a web-based or other computer server with at least one database containing data related to product and service resources within a specific industry that can be searched and queried by the user, and at least one resource management system application that contains business rules and industry-specific or user-based criteria, qualitative and/or quantitative resource evaluation standards, and/or other guidelines or reference points, that, when applied to the product and service resource data, generates a resource-related selection, recommendation, rating, ranking, descriptive result, or other action or result that helps the user understand the resource options and the relative merits of the resource options for the user's particular needs, based in large part upon resource criteria chosen by the user, so that the user can make intelligent, informed, efficient, and timely decisions in sourcing, selecting, and managing these product and service resources. In this embodiment, the combination of unbiased industry-specific database information, unbiased industry-specific criteria and/or evaluation standards, and industry-specific search and querying capabilities, accessible on demand by the user, provides the user with a more accurate, precise, higher quality result that is reliable, immediately actionable, and can save the user time, money, and undesirable product or service performance results and/or customer service experiences. In another embodiment, this resource management system may further include software components that provide interactive communication and/or transactional capabilities for users and/or providers of the product and service resources, thus further facilitating the resource management process for both resource users and resource providers in a specific industry.

Provided are an excavating device and an excavating method of binary system program loopholes. The excavating device is provided with a static analysis module, a debugger module, a genetic algorithm module, a test input generation module and an abnormal monitoring module which are sequentially connected and a dynamic pollution tracking module located between the debugger module and the genetic algorithm module. The excavating device is guided to generate a test case by aid of a fitness function of the genetic algorithm, the multi-objective fitness function is designed, and the test case is evaluated in view of quantification. Dynamic pollution tracking is used for identifying key bytes in input files to narrow search space of the genetic algorithm. The excavating device combines advantages of the genetic algorithm and the dynamic pollution tracking and is guided to generate the test case, so that the generated test case is strong in pertinence, generated test data are high in accuracy and efficiency, further qualitative analysis and quantitative calculation are combined, and therefore path explosion in binary system program testing based on the symbolic execution and constraint solving technology is avoided.

A barcode includes sensors or actuators in selected modules whereby its code changes to indicate exposure to, or change in, one or more properties of interest. Prior to exposure, the barcode displays a first code. After exposure, the barcode displays a different code. The displayed code conveys qualitative or quantitative information about one or more chosen properties of interest. This dynamic barcode can be configured as a standalone device or as a label that can be affixed to an object. Data coded by the dynamic barcode is machine-readable or visible to the naked eye, and can be autonomously conveyed to a database to facilitate analysis or prognostics.

The invention relates to a qualitative and quantitative analysis method for polyoses, which comprises the following steps: (1) the zymohydrolysis and the verification of the polyoses: measuring the content of a polyoses water solution by a colorimetric method; (2) comparing the change of a polyoses mapping before and after zymohydrolysis by HPSEC-ELSD analysis; (3) saccharide ingredient direct HPLC analysis of a polyoses zymohydrolysis solution or HPLC analysis after pre-column derivatization: identifying polyoses mapping and chromatogram peaks by taking a standard monosaccharose, a uronic acid, a disaccharide, and the like as contrasts and taking a chromatogram peak mass-to-charge ratio as reference, and using stable characteristic sections as a quantitative analysis index; and (4) realizing the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the polyoses by establishing polyoses zymohydrolysis responding characteristics and polyoses zymohydrolysis mapping which are based on structural information through the independent or combining application of the steps. The qualitative and quantitative analysis method can be used for the identification and quantitative measurement of the polyoses of traditional Chinese medicine, such as panax, panax pseudoginseng, gen-seng, aweto, cordyceps, ganoderma lucidum, fomes japonica, milk veteh, angelica, and the like and provides an effective method for controlling the quality of the polyoses and the products thereof.

An earnings volatility reduction procedure includes determining a first sensitivity value of a portfolio to underlying market conditions, trading in an immunizing instrument having a second sensitivity value substantially equal in magnitude and opposite in value of the first sensitivity value, and trading in a qualifying instrument having a third sensitivity value substantially equal to the first sensitivity value. A derivative portfolio (in particular, one that includes a financial instrument for which changes in value are characterized as earnings pursuant to FAS 133) is structured by determining a sensitivity of the derivative portfolio with respect to financial conditions in a trading market, executing an immunizing purchase of a second trading instrument in an amount equal to the magnitude of the current sensitivity and opposite in value, and executing a qualifying sale of a third trading instrument in an amount equal to amount of the current sensitivity.

The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus of the invention evaluates a shape or qualitative property of an organism's arterial wall tissue and includes: a delay control section 3 for controlling delays for ultrasonic vibrators 1 in an ultrasonic probe 2; a transmitting section 5 for driving the probe under the control of the control section 3 such that the probe 2 transmits a first ultrasonic beam toward different locations within a scan region, defined along the axis of the artery, every predetermined frame period; a receiving section 6 for receiving ultrasonic echoes, generated by getting the first beam reflected by the wall, at the probe every set of frame periods, thereby outputting a first group of ultrasonic echo signals; and a signal processing section 13 for calculating a thickness variation, or elasticity, of the tissue between measuring points on the tissue in response to the first group of echo signals. The section 13 selects one of the echo signals of the first group every frame period according to an axial velocity of the tissue to make calculations at each measuring point.

Systems, apparatus, and methods for correlating two items of interest, based on a plurality of data items and characteristics. The data items may include objective and quantitative data, as well as subjective and qualitative data. In one implementation, the relationship of an individual to a metric is determined. The system, apparatus, and methods may store characteristics describing individuals generally, along with metrics relevant to an organization; receive a plurality of data items; extract information associated with the individual from the data items; determine a number of relationships between the data items, individuals, metric, and characteristics; and use the relationships to determine an overall relationship between the individual and the metric, based on the data and characteristics. In addition, related groups of characteristics may be identified. Similarly, the relationships between any individual, metric, sub-metric, group of characteristics, data item, data source, characteristic, or groups thereof may also be determined.

The invention discloses a qualitative analysis method for improving an identification result on the basis of the near-infrared mode. The qualitative analysis method comprises the steps of (1) acquiring near-infrared spectral data of a sample and determining a modeling set and testing sets; (2) carrying out pretreatment, partial-least-square feature extraction and orthogonal-linear-identification feature extraction on the modeling set and the testing sets in sequence; (3) calculating a spectral transformation matrix between the modeling set and the testing sets by adopting a direct model transferring method, and correcting the remaining testing sets; (4) establishing a quantitative analysis model; and (5) carrying out quantitative identification on the remaining testing sets by utilizing the established quantitative analysis model. The qualitative analysis method disclosed by the invention is established on the basis of near-infrared quantitative analysis, and the orthogonal-linear-identification method which is used in multi-classification and two-classification problems is used in the feature extraction step; in addition, the testing sets can be corrected by the direct model transferring method, so that the model applicability caused by long-time spectral shift of the same instrument can be realized and the result of quantitative identification is improved.

The invention discloses a method that analyzes shale content in petroleum drilling wells by utilizing X ray fluorescence. The method adopts a chromatic energy dispersion typed X ray fluorescence analyzer for implementing continuous analysis of chemical elements in rock cores and rock debris corresponding with the depth of the drilling wells in a petroleum drilling spot and obtaining X ray fluorescence analyzing data corresponding with the depth change, the linear regression method is adopted for implementing correlation analysis and statistics of the X ray fluorescence analyzing data, computing the correlation coefficient between different elements, computing an average correlation coefficient between one element and other 11 elements, and choosing an element that has the largest average correlation coefficient; the shale content is computed; and a shale content curve corresponding to the depth change of the drilling wells is plotted. The method of the invention can be used for implementing timely and accurate shale content analysis of lithologic characters of drilled stratum, implementing qualitative and quantitative lithologic characters and storage capability evaluation according to shale content analyzing data, and forming an drilled geology interpreting and evaluating method that realizes the analysis according to the X ray fluorescence in drilling spot, and can correctly and efficiently instruct the exploration, exploitation and drilling production of petroleum and natural gas.