356 results about "Rapid assessment" patented technology

The invention relates generally to systems, devices and methods for global disaster response, more particularly to the rapid detection, qualified assessment and monitoring of disasters and electronic triage of victims, communication, alert and evacuation systems, provision of suitable modular sensing or medical aid solutions, and their rapid deployment via delivery platforms such as disaster messaging formats and resources on client mobile phone applications or physically via remote operated vehicles (unmanned aerial sea or land systems) or targeted air delivery.

A cost estimation tool, preferably a handheld computer, prices and evaluates the financial impact of new residents' prior to admission. Immediate access to this information and built-in therapeutic substitution and clinical advisories provides the opportunity to optimize pharmaceutical regimens prior to admission. In addition, an abbreviated Resource Utilization Group (RUG) evaluation function provides a rapid assessment tool to project reimbursement under the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS). A user may enter a complete drug regimen and estimate the costs for the regimen. Similarly, managed care reimbursement from managed care organizations (MCOs) to be analyzed. Also, drug cost may be estimated through a MEDICAID Preferred Drug List database that identifies potential Non-Preferred drugs that may be non-compensable. The present invention further transmits results wirelessly to health care providers.

The invention discloses a friction and abrasion testing method and equipment of cylinder piston ring element in the friction and abrasion testing technique domain, which is characterized by the following: adapting mechanic radial loading construction method and equipment to test the cylinder and piston ring element; adding liquid through heating the cylinder cavity to keep thermal; fixing the friction force sensor on the test machine rack directly; eliminating the measuring result influence of friction force by inertia force of moving component to gain more precise friction force; segregating the friction force sensor and cylinder through thermal-insulation material; setting the cooler to prevent the rack temperature from elevating and the temperature of friction force sensor from exceeding the highest working temperature. The invention is used as the rapid assessment method in the lab developing procedure of cylinder piston ring.

Genomic sequence matching and alignment techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, an index of a reference sequence is constructed that represents all transitions from a single l-mer prefix to multiple m-mer suffixes. This index data structure may take a variety of forms, including an array or a tree. The base position of each transition from l-prefix to m-suffix is recorded in k-bit masked form. The positions data structure may take a variety of forms as well, including an array or a tree. The l-prefix, m-suffix and k-position index is used for rapid assessment of similarity between a query and a reference genomic sequence by means of a table of local hits.

This invention provides a novel, rapid method and device for determining the relative phase retardation of a multi-layered specimen, which is related to the thicknesses of its layers and walls, and the orientations of its optical axes. An intact wood pulp fibre is a typical multi-layered birefringent specimen. This new method is based on the change of polarization of polarized light that passes through a specimen composed of birefringent layers with different optical axis orientations, such as directions of cellulosic microfibrils oriented differently in various layers of wood fibres. In particular, a novel solution is found to relate the emerging light intensity from an intact wood fibre to the incident light intensity, the wavelength of the light, and the relative phase retardations of various layers and orientations of their cellulosic microfibrils, such as fibril angle, in a circular polarized light system. This new method evaluates the transmitted light intensities of multiple predetermined wavelengths simultaneously to determine the optical and physical properties of a multi-layered specimen being measured. A device for determining the relative phase retardation (retardance) of fibre walls and the fibril angle of intact wood fibres in accordance with the presented invention comprises a light source with well defined multi-wavelengths, an achromatic circular polarized light system, appropriate imaging optics, a multi-channel camera such as a digital color camera that has two or more wavelength (color) detection channels, and an image processing and data analysis system. The measurements take advantage of the birefringence of cellulosic microfibrils, and thus require neither sample preparation nor high resolution optics. Specimen alignment is not required as specimens such as wood fibres are evaluated under circular polarized light. Compared with other methods, this invention is more rapid, accurate, and robust. This method can be automated, and implemented in a fibre flow-through system, thus allowing a rapid assessment of wood pulp fibre properties (on-line in real time).

This invention provides principles, methods and compositions for ascertaining the mechanism of action of pharmacologically important compounds in the context of network biology, across the entire scope of the complex pathways of living cells. Importantly, the principles, methods and compositions provided allow a rapid assessment of the on-pathway and off-pathway effects of lead compounds and drug candidates in living cells, and comparisons of lead compounds with well-characterized drugs and toxicants to identify patterns associated with efficacy and toxicity. The invention will be useful in improving the drug discovery process, in particular by identifying drug leads with desired safety and efficacy and in effecting early attrition of compounds with potential adverse effects in man.

The invention provides a detection method of lithium ion battery performance. Under different temperatures, charge and discharge processing is carried out on a lithium ion battery with different charge and discharge rates, lithium detection is carried out on the battery after 3-20 times of circulation, the service lifetime of the battery and the charge safety under different temperatures are estimated and predicted according to whether lithium precipitates out on the surface of a cathode in the battery, and the lithium precipitation degree is used to judge the impedance in the battery, so that the risk is rapidly estimated, the time of battery comprehensive performance estimation is shortened, the estimation efficiency is improved, and the cost of battery performance estimation is lowered, the identification and prevention capability of the battery safety risk is improved, and the testing number is only 10-20 pcs.

Wherein, it relates to a GIS platform, a database, and remote data exchange software. The system can query data, display result, maintains and converts between data and image; it can automatic evaluate loss according to damage sample data, and outputs evaluation report.

The invention belongs to the field of computer figures, and provides a modeling structure of a GPU texture mapping non-blocking memory Cache. The modeling structure comprises a texture Cache storage status and control unit (1), a missing information status handling register memory cell (MSHR) (2), a multi-request combination and collision detection unit (3), and a texture memory Cache core unit (4). Hardware modeling with accurate periods is conducted on a texture memory Cache access process, parallel processing of texture access request data is realized through a multi-process mode including input request collision detection, request combination and division, multiple ports, multiple Banks and non-blocking flowing, and large-scale parallelism and high throughput demands of texture access data are met effectively. Moreover, the modeling structure effectively avoids configuration of complex circuit signal design and rapid assessment large-scale hardware system, is suitable for system level design and development of circuits in an early age, and provides effective reference for products and functions of the same kind.

The invention relates to a transient voltage stable on-line assessment method based on a WAMS (Wide Area Measurement System) and an EMS, comprising: obtaining WAMS real-time power grid measurement information to determine whether a power grid is disturbed; obtaining the topological structure, parameters and power flow operation information of a current power grid from an EMS when the power grid is disturbed so as to calculate a full admittance matrix concerning load equivalent admittance; according to the WAMS measurement information, running statistics on nodes having a voltage dip exceeding a preset threshold value, obtaining Thevenin equivalent parameters of statistic nodes based on full admittance matrix inversion to be used as an initial value to track Thevenin equivalent parameter identification of the WAMS measurement information and static state voltage stable margin index calculation, and calculating a transient voltage dip acceptability area index; and running statistics on nodes having a power grid node voltage dip exceeding a preset threshold value and having a dip duration greater than a preset threshold value, and determining the occupancy of power grid disturbance transient voltage instability nodes. The method can rapidly and effectively realize the stable and rapid assessment of a transient voltage.

The present invention discloses a method for rapid assessment of lung cancer therapy efficacy in a few days instead of weeks by conventional imaging methods. This method can also be used to detect relapse of the cancer and to improve the current TNM cancer staging method for more accurate prognosis. The rapid assessment of therapy efficacy is based on detecting circulating cancer cells in body fluid with high positive detection rate. The high positive detection rate is achieved by using PCR amplification of multiple marker genes identified by in silico search of DNA sequence database. This invention also discloses a scoring method to calculate the cancer cell load based on PCR results to correlate the amount of circulating cancer cells in lung cancer patients with their treatment outcomes.

A method and system for organizing and displaying information about Internet Web pages on Web maps are disclosed. Web maps display a summary of the information that a Web page provides access to, in a format that facilitates a rapid assessment of what may be accessed through a Web site's home page, or through any Web page on the Web site. Preferably, Web maps are displayed on a Web page, or within a frame of a Web page, by an Internet browser application. A set of Web maps may be automatically generated by a search engine or directory in response to a user's search request. Alternatively, a user may request that a Web map be produced for a particular Web page of interest. The Web maps are preferably generated by a Web server, or by an application running in the background of a user's computer, so that the user may perform other tasks on the user's computer while the Web maps are being generated.

This invention provides principles, methods and compositions for ascertaining the mechanism of action of pharmacologically important compounds in the context of network biology, across the entire scope of the complex pathways of living cells. Importantly, the principles, methods and compositions provided allow a rapid assessment of the on-pathway and off-pathway effects of lead compounds and drug candidates in living cells, and comparisons of lead compounds with well-characterized drugs and toxicants to identify patterns associated with efficacy and toxicity. The invention will be useful in improving the drug discovery process, in particular by identifying drug leads with desired safety and efficacy and in effecting early attrition of compounds with potential adverse effects in man.

Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage medium are provided for managing patient alerts using a mobile device. A mobile device associated with a patient caregiver receives a critical alert related to the patient, and the alert is presented on the mobile device. The alert includes important contextual information that enables the caregiver to make a quick assessment of how to effectively address the alert. The alert includes options for accepting the alert or rejecting the alert. Acceptance of the alert enables the caregiver to communicate the alert to selected caregivers that can assist in managing the alert. Rejecting the alert causes the alert to be automatically communicated to additional caregivers associated with patient.

Machine learning (46) is used (26) to assess data for a patient in an emergency, providing (28) rapid diagnosis based on a large amount of information. Assistance in triage (30) may be provided. Giventhe large variety of patients and conditions that may occur, the machine learning (46) may rely on synthetically generated (42) images for more accurate prediction. The machine learning (46) may accurately predict (28) even with missing information and may be used to determine (34) what missing information for a given patient is more or less important to obtain.

The invention discloses a rapid online assessment method for wide area measurement power big data quality, and belongs to the field of power system big data application, and the method comprises the following steps: obtaining the real-time power big data of a wide area measurement system in a given time period; performing fast preprocessing with improved MapReduce parallel K-means clustering algorithm ; carrying out correctness evaluation by adopting a KNN-based fast density peak abnormal value detection algorithm; carrying out integrity, uniqueness, accuracy, consistency and effectiveness evaluation, and designing an evaluation rule Rr (r = 1, 2, 3... n) corresponding to each index according to the evaluation index Ii; determining a weight coefficient Ww of each evaluation index by utilizing an analytic hierarchy process; and counting the data number percentage Ss meeting the evaluation rule Rr (Ii), and calculating a comprehensive evaluation value X of the power big data quality according to the obtained weight coefficient Ww and the detection result Ss. According to the method, the problem of rapid assessment of the quality of the power big data is solved, and the method is basic work of power grid online application based on the WAMS.

The invention relates to an indoor simulation/rapid assessment device for comprehensive atmospheric environment corrosion, and belongs to the technical field of indoor simulation/rapid assessment devices for the corrosion of materials. The device comprises a control panel, a main work box, an ultraviolet lamp tube, a lifting mechanism, a temperature control and feedback system, a humidity control and feedback system and a hot and cold air system. The temperature control and feedback system, the humidity control and feedback system, the ultraviolet lamp tube and the hot and cold air system are controlled by the control panel to carry out environmental simulation on a test sample in the main work box. The device is simple in structure, low in manufacturing cost, high in work stability and accurate in test parameter control, not only can simulate the corrosion process of a material component under single conditions, such as constant temperature and constant humidity, alternation of wetting and drying and ultraviolet irradiation, but also can simulate the corrosion behaviors and processes of the material component under the synergistic action of multiple factors, and is particularly applicable to the indoor simulation and rapid assessment of the corrosion under the comprehensive action of the multiple factors in an atmospheric environment.

Concrete can be one of the most durable building materials where consumption is projected to reach approximately 40 billion tons in 2017 alone. Despite this the testing of concrete at all stages of its life cycle is still in its infancy although testing for corrosion is well established. Further many of the tests today are time consuming, expensive, and provide results only after it has been poured and set. Accordingly, by exploiting self-contained wireless sensor devices, which are deployed with the wet concrete, the in-situ curing and maturity measurement data can be established and employed together with batch specific concrete data to provide rapid initial tests and evolving performance data regarding the concrete cure, performance, corrosion of concrete at different points in its life cycle. Such sensors remove subjectivity, allow for rapid assessment, are integrable to the construction process, and provided full life cycle assessment.

The invention provides a circuit tidal current index for resolving the problems such as that the high circuit tidal current causes the voltage decrease at the bus of the receiving end and the failure about the real solution of the circuit tidal current equation. The circuit tidal current index is applied for real-time voltage stabilization detection to provide a voltage stability real-time evaluation method, based on the circuit tidal current index. The method can simply and quickly evaluate the voltage stability of a power network and can scan and calculate the circuit tidal current index of a full network line to fine the line of low voltage stability in the power network. Applied for the voltage stability real-time detection, the method can provide the change tread of the voltage stability of each line, to determine the initial point of the voltage stability problem.

The invention discloses an AC/DC large power grid transient voltage stability evaluation method and system. The method comprises the following steps of constructing a training sample set based on thehistorical power flow data; taking an expected output vector of the training sample set as a transient voltage stability index; constructing a converter bus transient voltage stability rapid evaluation model based on the transient voltage stability index; training the converter bus transient voltage stability rapid evaluation model by using the training sample set; and identifying a high-risk operation scene influencing the AC/DC large power grid transient voltage stability on line by using the trained converter bus transient voltage stability rapid evaluation model. According to the method, the minimum value of the secondary drop of the converter bus voltage after the fault is used as the output, the converter bus transient voltage stability rapid evaluation model is established, and theload active and reactive power, the generator active and reactive output and the key power transmission line power flow data obtained by rolling are input into the model to evaluate the stability ofthe power grid transient voltage in real time.