46 results about "Subject group" patented technology

A community media playlist sharing system is disclosed, wherein system users can upload media playlists which are automatically converted to a standardized format, media playlists can be shared with other users of the community media playlist sharing system, users can link to other playlists and obtain media from playlists automatically from third party points of purchase, users can provide recommendations, ratings and rankings relative to other playlists by system users and receive recommendations from other users and an editorial staff, participate in social networking functions including forums, discussions, weblogs, playlist topic groups and inter-user communications based on affinity for similar playlists, create playlists manually, automatically, or in real time, and wherein system users can obtain points for participation and popularity in the system and obtain profit by meta-affiliate sharing of profit for purchases of music made through playlists submitted by that user as well as through playlist toolbars distributed to third party websites.

A method of lipid therapy, comprising providing a subject group having a baseline triglyceride level of 200 to 499 mg/dl and being at or near its low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) level goal, and reducing the triglyceride level and the non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C) level of the subject group as compared to treatment with a 3-hydroxy-3-methyl glutaryl coenzyme A (HMG CoA) inhibitor alone, by administering to the subject group an effective amount of an HMG CoA inhibitor and a composition comprising omega-3 fatty acids.

The present technique provides a system and method for efficiently customizing an imaging system, such as a medical diagnostic imaging system. Based on images typically produced by one or more imaging systems, the present technique forms a plurality of image subject matter groups each having a plurality of related image types/views and one representative image type/view. Each customer is then provided with a plurality of predefined image style options for each of the plurality of representative image types/views. The predefined image style selected for each of the plurality of representative image types/views is then applied to each of the plurality of related image types/views in the respective image subject matter group. The imaging system is then automatically customized based on the foregoing predefined image style selections.

A setup-screen display controlling apparatus includes a sample image display controlling unit that displays a sample image in which a plurality of subject groups set for every color to be corrected are arranged on the setup screen for confirmation of a correction effect involved in adjustment of an amount of color correction; a setting-input-filed display controlling unit that displays a setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image; and a correspondence indicating unit that explicitly indicates the correspondence between each subject group and the corresponding setting input field for the amount of color correction in the sample image.

A method of lipid therapy, comprising providing a subject group having a baseline triglyceride level of 200 to 499 mg/dl and being at or near its low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) level goal, and reducing the triglyceride level and the non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C) level of the subject group as compared to treatment with a 3-hydroxy-3-methyl glutaryl coenzyme A (HMG CoA) inhibitor alone, by administering to the subject group an effective amount of an HMG CoA inhibitor and a composition comprising omega-3 fatty acids.

A method for generating a continuous mathematical model of a feature common to subjects in a subject group includes selecting a sample data set from each subject in the subject group, selecting a set of expansion functions to be used in the representation of the sample data set, mathematically expanding each member of the sample data set in the form of a summation of results of multiplying each the expansion function in the set of expansion functions by a different mathematical parameter wherein the expanding determines a value for each of the different mathematical parameters, deriving a corresponding distribution function for each of the mathematical parameters, and generating the continuous mathematical model of the feature from the derived distribution functions and the expansion functions. In this way, the model is continuous in time, incorporates dependencies between various parameters, and allows for creation of simulated subjects having pertinent features occurring in real subjects.

The present invention relates to genetic analysis and evaluation utilizing copy-number variants or polymorphisms. The methods utilize array comparative genomic hybridization and PCR assays to identify the significance of copy number variations in a human, non-human animal, and plant subject or subject group.

A method and a server for extracting a topic and evaluating suitability of the extracted topic are disclosed. The topic extraction server includes a text preprocessing unit configured to extract noun from a document group and remove stopword from the extracted noun, a keyword extraction unit configured to calculate a weight of a noun and extracting a keyword representing the document group, a seed selection unit configured to calculate a weight of the extracted keyword and select a seed, an initial clustering unit configured to generate one cluster including the selected seed and a keyword shown by several times in a sentence including the selected seed, and a cluster combination unit configured to extract a topic group.

The invention provides, in one aspect, a method for visualizing relationships among triples of an RDF data set. The method, which can be used with a data set already in RDF form or converted thereto (e.g., from relational, hierarchical or other form), includes the steps of grouping subjects of at least selected ones of the triples based on commonality of at least portions of the identifiers of those subjects. It further includes grouping, for at least a selected subject groups, objects based on commonality of at least portions of identifiers of the predicates of those triples. Icons representing the subject and object groups can be displayed, e.g., on a computer monitor, or otherwise. A related aspect of the invention provides the additional step of displaying icons, e.g., directed arrows, indicating relationships among icons that represent subject group and icons that represent object groups. A display so generated is reminiscent of a directed graph—albeit a novel such graph that represents relationships among groups of subjects and objects, rather than directly between individual subjects and objects.

The invention provides methods and systems for assessing the efficacy of a pharmaceutical which is putatively disease modifying of a cognitive disorder, for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of that cognitive disorder, the method comprising the steps of: (1) stratifying a subject group into at least 2 sub-groups according to a baseline indicator of likely disease progression, (2) treating members of each subject group with the pharmaceutical for a treatment time frame, (3) deriving psychometric and optionally physiological outcome measures for each treated patient group, (4) comparing the outcomes at (3) with a comparator arm of said sub-groups which is optionally a placebo or minimal efficacy comparator arm, (5) using the comparison in (4) to derive an efficacy measure for the pharmaceutical. The methods and systems of the invention address problems such as low rate of decline over the treatment time-frame of patients who have mild-disease severity at baseline and biased withdrawal, particularly in the placebo/comparator treatment arm.

A method including receiving, from a participant, a request for starting an event including at least one second participant and a topic is provided. The method includes providing to one second participant an invitation to join the event, receiving, from any one of the participants, a document, and providing the document to all participants for view and/or editing, and providing the document to all participants upon request within a time period. The method includes granting access to the event to a participant, permitting the participant to access and modify the document in the event, and receiving a request from one of the participants to switch one of the first client device or a second client device used by a participant to continue to participate in the event. A system to perform the above method is also provided.

An ejection-period setting method for sub-nozzles (21) in an air jet loom is provided. The sub-nozzles (21) are divided into groups (1G to 13G) of sub-nozzles (21) that are connected to a common electromagnetic on-off valve (36). The groups (1G to 13G) are divided into downstream and upstream group sets (GU1 and GU3) which each include two or more groups and an intermediate group set (GU2) including the remaining groups. Ejection-amount reducing patterns (patterns hereinafter) are determined and stored in advance in an arbitrarily selectable state, each pattern being determined by setting an ejection-period reducing mode for each of subject group sets in units of predetermined periods so that each pattern includes the ejection-period reducing modes for all of the subject group sets, the subject group sets including the intermediate and upstream group sets (GU2 and GU3). In a process of setting the ejection periods of the sub-nozzles (21), ejection end times of the ejection periods are corrected when a pattern is selected by an operator.

The invention provides a high-molecular polymer with a self restoration function. The high-molecular polymer is prepared from the following raw materials of 0.2 to 2 weight parts of subject molecules,0.3 to 3 weight parts of object molecules, 0.25 to 3 weight parts of linear polymer molecules, 250 to 300 volume parts of base body materials and 0.1 to 1 volume part of crosslinking agents and 0.2 to 8 weight parts of initiators. By using polyacrylate copolymer elastomers as substrate materials, subject group cyclodextrin and object group adamantane are introduced into a copolymer system; the cyclodextrin groups and the adamantane groups are combined through the supermolecule action force of the subject and object recognition; a crosslinking structure is formed; when the material is sufferedfrom the damage such as aging, the free cyclodextrin in the damage cross section position has the trends to be combined with adamantane groups again in the normal temperature environment; the crosslinking points are generated again; the damage can be automatically restored through the re-generation of the crosslinking points; the restoration can be performed for many times; the external conditionstimulation is not needed.

An electronic device has an input image acquisition section which acquires a plurality of input images obtained by shooting a subject group from mutually different viewpoints and an output image generation section which generates an output image based on the plurality of input images. The output image generation section eliminates the image of an unnecessary subject within an input image among the plurality of input images by use of another input image among the plurality of input images, and generates, as the output image, an image from which the unnecessary subject has been eliminated.

Provided are methods for enhancing hippocampal plasticity and hippocampal-mediated learning and memory, and/or enhancing the synaptic maturation of neurons, and/or optimizing or enhancing neuronal synaptic transmission, and/or enhancing intracellular oxygen delivery or utilization, and/or enhancing ATP synthesis, comprising administration, to a subject in need thereof of a sufficient amount over a sufficient time, of an ionic aqueous solution of charge-stabilized oxygen-containing nanostructures (e.g., nanobubbles) having an average diameter of less than 100 nm (e.g., in at least one subject group selected from but not limited to normal subjects, subjects recovering from neurological trauma (e.g., accidents or injury to the brain, stroke, oxygen deprivation, drowning, and asphyxia), and subjects with learning disorders (e.g., dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyspraxia (sensory integration disorder), dysphasia/aphasia, auditory processing disorder, non-verbal learning disorder, visual processing disorder, and attention deficit disorder (ADD)).

The invention discloses an automatic clinical service database building method based on Excel import, and the method comprises the steps: automatically creating a clinical trial research service and automatically importing clinical data of a subject according to the contents and format of a large amount of Excel clinical stock data, including: creating subject group information, creating a clinical screening stage and clinical data collection stage, designing an electronic CRF that is matched with the Excel data format at each stage, automatically importing the clinical data of the Excel subject into the established clinical trial research service, realizing the automatic creating of the clinical service based on Excel import, and achieving the collection of new subject data based on the clinical trial research created based on the Excel import. By adopting the technical scheme of the invention, the design process conforming to the clinical trial specification can save the time of clinical design, shorten the cycle of clinical research, improve the efficiency of clinical trial research design and clinical data collection, and facilitate the management and analysis of Excel stock data by clinical researchers.

The invention provides a method and device for customizing a desktop theme. The method comprises the steps that picture data in a mobile terminal is scanned and read; an operating instruction executed on the mobile terminal is responded, and specified picture data is selected from the picture data to form a desktop theme group; incidence relations between all desktop themes in the desktop theme group and geographical positions are built; the desktop theme related to the geographical position is applied to the mobile terminal according to the current geographical position where the mobile terminal is located. According to the method and device for customizing the desktop theme, a personalized desktop theme service can be supplied to a user.