1000 results about "Stress level" patented technology

A mechanism to monitor an individual's level of stress in his or her home or workplace is provided. Unobtrusive physiologic stress senses are used in combination with a wireless link and a personal computer or other intelligent device to monitor the user's stress level. Based on a user profile and the user's baseline stress indicators, one or more stress-reducing activities are presented to the user. Additionally, if a user is in a stress-sensitive population, for example, persons with a pre-existing hypertension, the user may selectively enable additional alerts.

An efficient, objective, flexible and easily deployable system for conducting evaluations of mental and physiological state and recommending individualized treatment to improve said state is described. The method and system are based on commensurate measurement of mental functions, levels of stress and anxiety, and / or biologically active molecules such as neurotransmitters, immune markers including cytokines and hormones. The method and system are designed to assess an individual's cognitive function and the underlying physiology in order to delineate various disease processes, injuries, drug states, training stages, fatigue levels, stress levels, aging processes, predict susceptibility to stress and / or sleep deprivation, identify aptitude for training and / or characterize effects of any experimental conditions. The system and method may be used in recommending individualized treatment protocols, as well as to guide the treatment process by assessing the efficacy of such therapies in the clinical trials process.

A system and method for measuring biologically and behaviorally based responses to social media, locations, or experiences and providing instant and continuous feedback in response thereto. The system and method of the invention is capable of monitoring stress levels and well-being and may be implemented using a cloud-based infrastructure for remote monitoring.

A computational technique to construct a 3-D valve leaflet geometry. The invention pertains to methodology to construct a 3-D heart valve leaflet geometry using finite element analysis (FEA) to simulate the manual assembly process or, in other words, provide a virtual assembly process as an input to a subsequent simulated valve testing step. The simulated valves may be subjected to simulated cyclic valve opening and closings and the stress levels induced therein monitored. Simulated valve designs with lower principal stresses can then be selected for prototyping. Proposed valves can be subjected to cyclic fatigue stress testing under simulated physiologic conditions to study valve durability.

A framework for adaptively managing the life of components. A sensor provides non-destructive test data obtained from inspecting a component. The inspection data may be filtered using reference signatures and by subtracting a baseline. The filtered inspection data and other inspection data for the component is analyzed to locate flaws and estimate the current condition of the component. The current condition may then be used to predict the component's condition at a future time or to predict a future time at which the component's condition will have deteriorated to a certain level. A current condition may be input to a precomputed database to look up the future condition or time. The future condition or time is described by a probability distribution which may be used to assess the risk of component failure. The assessed risk may be used to determine whether the part should continue in service, be replaced or repaired. A hyperlattice database is used with a rapid searching method to estimate at least one material condition and one usage parameter, such as stress level for the component. The hyperlattice is also used to rapidly predict future condition, associated uncertainty and risk of failure.

Methods of programming NEW data into unprogrammed bits of a group of memory cells is provided. The method applies an interactive programming algorithm that individually verifies and programs the NEW data, reference (REF) data, and existing or OLD data. OLD data is separately verified to a compensated program verify level from that of the NEW data to improve memory reliability and insure minimal uniform stress levels to the array. The improved programming algorithm prevents older data from being needlessly refreshed, thus mitigating stress to the cells that eventually causes the data areas to decay at different rates and become prematurely unreliable.

Methods and apparatus for service-level based and / or skills-based assignment of a work item to one (or more) of a plurality of resources based on fitness, for example, of skills required by the former to those provided by the latter. Assignment takes into account the level of stress on the work item and / or resources, such that the number of resources fit for assignment varies as the level of stress varies. Systems according to the invention can be used, by way of example, to route a call or other request made by a customer to a service center. The requirements for processing the call (determined, for example, by an incoming call operator) are matched against the skill sets of available customer service agents, taking call and / or resource stress levels into account. For example, some implementations may match an incoming call having a low stress factor (e.g., a newly received call from a standard customer) to a smaller pool of agents with both required and desired skills, while assigning a call with a higher stress factor to a larger pool of agents with at least required skills. Other embodiments may match an incoming call having a low stress factor to the larger pool of agents having at least the required skills, while assigning a call with a higher stress factor (e.g., a call from a priority customer) to an agent from the smaller pool of agents who have both required and desired skills.

Methods to reduce film cracking in a dielectric layer are described. The methods may include the steps of depositing a first dielectric film on a substrate and removing a top portion of the first dielectric film by performing an etch on the film. The methods may also include depositing a second dielectric film over the etched first film, and removing a top portion of the second dielectric film. In addition, the methods may include annealing the first and second dielectric films to form the dielectric layer, where the removal of the top portions from the first and the second dielectric films reduces a stress level in the dielectric layer.

A riser monitoring assembly is provided to monitor and manage a riser extending between subsea well equipment and a floating vessel. A riser measurement instrument module is connected adjacent a selected portion of the riser provides dynamic orientation data for the selected portion of the riser. A computer having a memory associated therewith and riser system analyzing management software stored thereon is in communication with the riser measurement module to process data received therefrom. The riser monitoring assembly can utilize real-time orientation data for the selected portion of the riser to analyze the riser dynamic behavior, to determine a model of the real-time structure of the riser, to determine and manage the existence of vortex induced vibration, to determine and manage riser stress levels, to manage riser inspection and riser maintenance, and to supplement determination and management of the position of the vessel.

The invention relates to a micro material mechanical performance testing platform under stretching-bending-twisting multi-loads, and belongs to the field of electromechanics. The micro material mechanical performance testing platform comprises a tension and compression module, a bending module, a twisting module, a detection control module and a test-piece clamping module, wherein the testing platform takes the tension and compression module as a basic function module; the twisting module is arranged at one end of the tension and compression module; the test-piece clamping module is arranged on the tension and compression module; the bending module is independently arranged at one side of a portal frame. The micro material mechanical performance testing platform can be taken as a material mechanical performance test device with an independent stretching / compressing mode or an independent bending mode or independent twisting mode, namely a single load testing mode, and can be applied to a material mechanical performance test of a twisting load under the given stretching / compressing stress level or a material mechanical performance test of a bending load under the given stretching / compressing stress level, namely a composite load testing mode. The stress strain process of a material under the effect of a composite load can be detected by the collection of a load / displacement signal by using the detection control module.

A framework for adaptively managing the life of components. A sensor provides non-destructive test data obtained from inspecting a component. The inspection data may be filtered using reference signatures and by subtracting a baseline. The filtered inspection data and other inspection data for the component is analyzed to locate flaws and estimate the current condition of the component. The current condition may then be used to predict the component's condition at a future time or to predict a future time at which the component's condition will have deteriorated to a certain level. A current condition may be input to a precomputed database to look up the future condition or time. The future condition or time is described by a probability distribution which may be used to assess the risk of component failure. The assessed risk may be used to determine whether the part should continue in service, be replaced or repaired. A hyperlattice database is used with a rapid searching method to estimate at least one material condition and one usage parameter, such as stress level for the component. The hyperlattice is also used to rapidly predict future condition, associated uncertainty and risk of failure.

Methods and apparatus for modifying a user interface as a function of the detected emotional state of a system user are described. In one embodiment, stress analysis is performed on received speech to generate an emotional state indicator value, e.g., a stress level indicator value. The stress level indicator value is compared to one or more thresholds. If a first threshold is exceeded the user interface is modified, e.g., the presentation rate of speech is slowed. If a second threshold is not exceeded, another modification to the user interface is made, e.g., the speech presentation rate is accelerated. If the stress level indicator value is between first and second thresholds, user interface operation continues unchanged. The user interface modification techniques of the present invention may be used in combination with known knowledge or expertise based user interface adaptation features.

A system, process and software arrangement are provided to determining data associated with at least one structural change of tissue. In particular, a first optical coherence tomography (“OCT”) signal which contains first information regarding the tissue at a first stress level, and a second OCT signal which contains second information regarding the tissue at a second stress level are received. The first and second information are compared to produce comparison information. The data associated with the at least one structural change is determined as a function of the comparison information and further information associated with (i) at least one known characteristics of the tissue and / or (ii) characteristics of an OCT system. Further, at least one optical coherence tomography (“OCT”) signal which contains information regarding the tissue can be received, and the modulus of the tissue may be determined as a function of the received at least one OCT signal.

Methods and apparatus for modifying a user interface as a function of the detected emotional state of a system user are described. In one embodiment, stress analysis is performed on received speech to generate an emotional state indicator value, e.g., a stress level indicator value. The stress level indicator value is compared to one or more thresholds. If a first threshold is exceeded the user interface is modified, e.g., the presentation rate of speech is slowed. If a second threshold is not exceeded, another modification to the user interface is made, e.g., the speech presentation rate is accelerated. If the stress level indicator value is between first and second thresholds, user interface operation continues unchanged. The user interface modification techniques of the present invention may be used in combination with known knowledge or expertise based user interface adaptation features.

An ultrasound system and method for calculation and display of tissue deformation parameters are disclosed. A method to estimate a strain rate in any direction, not necessarily along the ultrasound beam, based on tissue velocity data from a small region of interest around a sample volume is disclosed. Quantitative tissue deformation parameters, such as tissue velocity, tissue velocity integrals, strain rate and / or strain, may be presented as functions of time and / or spatial position for applications such as stress echo. For example, strain rate or strain values for three different stress levels may be plotted together with respect to time over a cardiac cycle.

The invention discloses a method for predicting service life of a product by an accelerated degradation testing based on degradation distribution non-stationary time series analysis. The method comprises the following steps of: 1, acquisition and preprocessing of test data; 2, parameter estimation of degradation distribution; 3, time series modeling of degradation distribution parameters; 4, accelerated degradation modeling based on the degradation distribution; and 5, service life prediction based on degradation distribution. The method can macroscopically describe degradation statistical regulation of all samples under accelerated stress, overall analyze the time series of the degradation distribution in an accelerated degradation process, can extrapolate the degradation distribution under the accelerated stress to normal stress to obtain product reliability reflecting the product accelerated degradation random process volatility regulation and service life relationship prediction, improve the credibility on estimation result of service life prediction and reliability, and save more time and is more efficient compared with performance degradation prediction under normal stress level.

The invention relates to a method for predicting the life of a solid tantalum electrolytic capacitor, which comprises the following steps of: 1, collecting current degradation data; 2, determining a degradation track model and a degradation accelerating model; 3, extrapolating the degradation track model to obtain the pseudo-failure life of each sample; 4, performing hypothesis test of pseudo-life distribution and the estimation of unknown parameters; 5, determining the relation of population parameters of the pseudo-life distribution and a stress level; 6 estimating the population parameters of the life distribution of a tantalum capacitor under the normal stress by extrapolating; and 7, determining the average life and reliability curve of the tantalum capacitor. The method has novel concept and simple programs and does not need life tests, the test time can be shorted, the test cost can be saved, and the problem of disharmony between the prediction of the conventional life and engineering is solved, so the method has wide application prospect in the technical field of life prediction.

Emergency situation detection apparatus comprising: a stress input unit for receiving body stress information from a subject, a physical input unit for receiving body physical reaction data from said subject, a comparator unit, associated with said stress input unit and said physical input unit, for comparing stress level information and physical reaction data, to detect substantially simultaneous stress level change and a physical reaction in said subject, said apparatus being operable to threshold said simultaneous detection to infer the presence of an emergency situation and to enter an alarm state.

A monitoring device configured to be attached to a body of a subject includes a sensor configured to detect and / or measure physiological information from the subject, and a processor coupled to the sensor that is configured to receive and analyze signals produced by the sensor. The processor is configured to change signal analysis frequency and / or sensor interrogation power in response to detecting a change in subject activity, a change in subject stress level, a change in environmental conditions, a change in time, and / or a change in location of the subject.

A piezo-TFT cantilever microelectromechanical system (MEMS) and associated fabrication processes are provided. The method comprises: providing a substrate, such as glass for example; forming thin-films overlying the substrate; forming a thin-film cantilever beam; and simultaneously forming a TFT within the cantilever beam. The TFT is can be formed least partially overlying a cantilever beam top surface, at least partially overlying a cantilever beam bottom surface, or embedded within the cantilever beam. In one example, forming thin-films on the substrate includes: selectively forming a first layer with a first stress level; selectively forming a first active Si region overlying the first layer; and selectively forming a second layer overlying the first layer with a second stress level. The thin-film cantilever beam is formed from the first and second layers, while the TFT source / drain (S / D) and channel regions are formed from the first active Si region.

A system for display management based on operator stress level employs a biosensor detecting stress level of an operator. A biomonitoring system receives input from the biosensor and provides an output responsive to a threshold of stress. An operational display control receives the output from the biomonitoring system and modifies an information display based on the stress threshold.

The invention discloses an accelerated degradation test prediction method based on fuzzy theory, which comprises the following steps: collecting test data; performing the analysis of regression aimingat performance degradation data under each stress level; extrapolating the performance degradation rate of the product under a normal stress level; estimating a diffusion coefficient sigma in an excursion Brownian motion with drift by adopting a maximum likelihood estimation method; establishing an accelerated degradation test life and reliability predication model based on the fussy theory; andpredicting the life and the reliability of the product by adopting the fussy life and reliability prediction model. The method firstly introduces the fussy concept into an accelerated degradation testto enable the prediction result of the accelerated degradation test to be more reasonable, avoids the condition of rash routine reliability estimation result through considering the fussiness fuzziness of the performance degradation threshold, solves the problem of failed performance degradation in the engineering reality, and is suitable for the accelerated degradation tests of step stress and progressive stress and unaccelerated performance degradation prediction for the problem of the performance degradation failure.

The invention discloses a prediction method for the q-precentile life of an intelligent meter and relates to the technical field of reliability estimation of accelerated degradation data. The method comprises the following steps: performing degradation path modeling according to test data, and obtaining the pseudo life estimation of the intelligent meter under all stress levels according to the failure threshold value of given parameters; building a Weibull distribution-based accelerated degradation model of three parameters, such as temperature, humidity and electrical stress according to the pseudo life estimation results of the intelligent meter under all stress levels of an accelerated degradation test, so as to obtain the point estimation and covariance estimation of the acceleration model; and obtaining the lower estimation of parameter service life of the intelligent meter under a given reliability degree and a given confidence degree in normal use conditions according to the point and covariance matrix of the parameters of the accelerated degradation model. Due to the adoption of the method, the test time is effectively shortened, the test expense is reduced, and the quick and accurate estimation of a stable period of an accelerometer is realized.

A method and a monitor for monitoring a driver of a vehicle, the monitor includes: multiple sensors coupled to at least one vehicle element or integrated with at least one vehicle element; a processor for: receiving physiological information relating to the driver from the multiple sensors; detecting, based on the physiological information, a health problem of the driver, an awareness level of the driver and a stress level of the driver; determining a selected action to be performed based on the detection, wherein the action is selected from a list consisting of: establishing a call to a remote assistance site, transmitting the physiological information to a remote assistance site, generating an audio alert, and generating a visual alert; and assisting in a completion of the selected action.

Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus for treating a chronic medical condition in a patient. A time of beat sequence of the patient's heart is determined. A regulatory system parameter is determined based on the time of beat sequence. The parameter is indicative of a stress level of the patient's regulatory adaptation systems. The determined regulatory system parameter is compared with a threshold regulatory system parameter value. An electrical signal is applied to a neural structure of the patient to treat the chronic medical condition if the determined regulatory system parameter exceeds the threshold regulatory system parameter value.

The invention discloses a method for intelligently designing the bolting of coal mine tunnels, which belongs to the method for designing the bolting of the coal mine tunnels. The design method comprises the following steps of: collecting the basic condition data of the tunnels, testing the physical and mechanical properties and ground stress level of surrounding rocks of the tunnels and establishing a bolting designing basic database; performing geomechanical estimation on the surrounding rocks by utilizing an intelligent expert system to obtain parameters required by the bolting design; establishing a bolting scheme and a parameter reasoning, computing and optimizing model by utilizing the intelligent expert system, and determining an initial design scheme; performing field construction and monitoring and feeding monitoring information back to the intelligent expert system; and judging the rationality of the initial design scheme by utilizing the intelligent expert system, performing necessary correction, and cyclically performing field construction, monitoring and verification on the corrected design until final design is formed. In the method, the problems of coal mine bolting material waste, poor tunnel safety and the like are solved, and orientation to the field engineering technical personnel can be achieved; and the method is widely practicable.