Abstract: The invention provides a method for identifying one or more materials in a scene by determining a set of spectral vectors, called endmembers, from a data set comprised of spectra from the image data, and matching the set of endmembers to predefined library materials. The image data of the scene is captured with a sensor, and comprises a plurality of spectra. The method applies an iterative mathematical criterion, termed residual minimization, to find the endmembers. The first endmember may be selected based on the largest mean square value or the largest mean magnitude value. Subsequent endmembers are determined by calculating weighting factors, such that the weighting factors are non-negative and the calculated vector differences, or residuals, generate the smallest error metric. The error metric is dependent upon the vector difference between two spectra in the image data set, and may be the mean squared vector difference between two spectra.

Abstract: A capacitor bank status monitoring, control and reporting system for use with a capacitor bank with “wye”-connected capacitors having a common neutral confluence and that can be switched in and out of a multi-phase high-voltage power distribution system. There is a first sensing device that detects the current flowing between the common neutral confluence of the capacitors and a common neutral wire of the distribution system and a second sensing device that detects the voltage of at least one sensed phase of the distribution system. There is an electrical device that controls the switched state of at least one of the capacitors. There is a controller, responsive to the first and second sensing devices, for providing reporting information concerning the status of the capacitor bank and concerning the determined voltage. A wireless communications system transmits the reporting information to a remote location, and receives information from the remote location and provides it to the controller.

Abstract: An ultra wideband loop antenna having a planar antenna element defining an at least semi-elliptical perimeter having a major axis, a minor axis and a center. There is also an elongated, contiguous discontinuity in the antenna element that is symmetric about the antenna element minor axis, entirely located within the antenna element, and defining a discontinuity feed end located on the minor axis and spaced from one side of the antenna element perimeter by an element feed width, and further defining an opposed discontinuity ground end located on the minor axis and spaced from the opposing side of the antenna element perimeter by an element ground width, to define an antenna element ground portion, wherein the feed width is greater than the ground width. The antenna also has a feed region connecting the feed end of the discontinuity to the perimeter, to define antenna element feed ends that are adjacent to the feed region.

Abstract: A mobile flat panel monitor and computer cart. The cart has a wheeled base, a support structure coupled to and extending above the base, a shelf coupled to the support structure above the base for supporting a computer, and a bracket coupled to the support structure above the shelf and that is adapted to have mounted to it a flat-panel monitor.

Abstract: A laptop computer stand, for holding a laptop computer having a keyboard portion and a display portion that is pivotable relative to the keyboard portion. The stand has a base adapted to either sit on a surface or be coupled to a structure, and a support member coupled to the base, wherein the laptop keyboard portion sits on the support member. The support member has a retaining structure that overlies at least part of the laptop keyboard portion, to retain the keyboard portion on the support member. The stand also has a locking mechanism coupled to the base or the support member, and selectively fixable to the laptop computer.

Abstract: An assembly for extracting heat from a housing for electronic equipment, the housing having a front, a back, two sides and a top. The assembly is defined by a back for the housing that defines an open area proximate the top, and an air passageway in fluid communication with the open area in the back, to conduct heated air exiting the housing through the open area away from the housing.

Abstract: A system and method for ETF investing that provides a primary exchange traded fund (PETF) that comprises a plurality of shares, wherein the primary exchange traded fund comprises investments in a plurality of secondary exchange traded funds (SETF). The system and method enable intraday, or other periodic, trading of a variable number and type of ETFs through a single ETF, based on one or more categories and factors including, but not limited to, real-time NAVs.

Abstract: A radiative transport band model method for prediction and analysis of high spectral resolution radiometric measurements. Atomic and molecular line center absorption is determined from finite spectral bin equivalent widths. A mathematically exact expansion for finite bin equivalent widths provides high accuracy at any desired spectral resolution. The temperature and pressure dependent Voigt line tail spectral absorption contributing to each spectral bin is pre-computed and fit to Padé approximants for rapid and accurate accounting of neighboring-to-distant lines. A specific embodiment has been incorporated into the MODTRAN™ radiation transport model.

Abstract: Resin infusion medium and reinforcing composite lamina textile constituted by a warp knit open work structure produced in the form of polygons of which at least some of the edges are defined by knops such as to give prominence to the design to provide for fluidic channels, the knops being knitted to be sufficiently non-compressible in order to resist collapse of the fluid channels during compression of the composite preform under vacuum induced process pressure.

Abstract: A reclosable wound dressing system, comprising a base portion having a circumference and lower and upper sides, the lower side carrying an adhesive that adheres to the skin, the upper side defining a first part of a two-part mechanical fastener system, the base portion defining an open area within the circumference, and a covering portion having a lower side that defines the second part of the two-part mechanical fastener system, the covering portion overlying at least part of and engaging with the upper side of the base portion, the covering portion fully covering the open area of the base portion, to cover a wound located in the open area.

Abstract: The present invention provides compositions suitable for use as biomarkers of vulnerable plaques as well as methods for the use of such compositions. In preferred embodiments, specific molecular imaging agents are provided that permit the selective identification of vulnerable plaques in coronary and other arteries using non-invasive imaging methods. Such specific molecular imaging agents comprise a binding partner linked to a detectable label that can be used in vivo to visualize vulnerable plaques. In certain preferred embodiments, the binding partner is a peptide that binds selectively to a component of a vulnerable plaque. In other preferred embodiments, the binding partner is an antibody that binds selectively to a component of a vulnerable plaque. In other preferred embodiments, the binding partner is a portion of a polypeptide displayed by a bacteriophage that binds selectively to a component of a vulnerable plaque.

Abstract: A system and method for separating bias instability of MEMS inertial instruments such as gyroscopes or accelerometers from the instrument signal, in which the inertial measurement instrument has an input axis and an output signal, and the bias instability has a frequency. The instrument is oscillated about an oscillation axis that is orthogonal to the input axis, at a frequency that is greater than the bias instability frequency. The instrument output signal is detected, and demodulated with a phase-sensitive detection method referenced to the instrument rotation.

Abstract: A method and associated equipment for replacing existing overhead transmission line conductors with new ones while the transmission line remains in service and carrying power. The invention uses the old conductor to pull the new conductor through a series of sheaves installed at the bottom of each tower insulator. Conventional tension-stringing principles are used to assure that both the old and new conductors maintain a safe distance from ground. To achieve this, both the pulling and tensioning (braking) equipment, as well as supply and take-up reels or drums may be elevated to power line voltage and the current is transferred between new conductor and old, while in transit to the line, by means of a brush system and a conducting wheel which may or may not be integral with pulling and tensioning equipment.

Abstract: A separable electrical connector for electrically interconnecting an electrical device to a substrate. In one embodiment, the connector includes an adapter board electrically connected to the substrate, the adapter board having electrical contacts on both sides, and a layer of ACE between the electrical device and the adapter board. A mechanical structure is used to apply a compressive force on the ACE through the adapter board and the electrical device. In another embodiment, the connector includes a translator board having electrical contacts on both sides and electrical circuits within to expand the footprint of the fine pitch electrical device to the coarser pitch of the substrate. The connector further includes a layer of ACE between the translator board and the substrate. In a further embodiment, the separable electrical conductor includes a layer of ACE coupled to a frame and an adaptor board that includes a channel sized and shaped to engage the frame, thereby reducing the profile of the connector.

Abstract: A pivoting keyboard and mouse tray for attachment to a support structure such as a mobile computer cart. The device includes a keyboard tray adapted to hold a keyboard, a mechanical structure for coupling the keyboard tray to the support structure, one or more hinges between the keyboard tray and the mechanical structure to allow the keyboard tray to be pivoted relative to the support structure and maintain the keyboard tray in the pivoted position, and one or more mouse trays integral with or coupled to the keyboard tray.

Abstract: An adjustable-height workstation that can hold a laptop or tablet computer. The workstation includes a base section, an intermediate section having an upwardly-extending lower support structure, an upper support structure, and a pair of parallel side links connected there between, to accomplish a double-crank parallelogram four-bar linkage, with the upper support structure defining the coupler of the linkage. The workstation also has an upper working section supported by the intermediate section and having at least a first essentially horizontal shelf, to provide an adjustable-height workspace.

Abstract: The needle assembly tray of the invention generally comprises a base tray having an upper portion, a lower portion, and a groove, that enables the base tray to be bent, a plurality of needle channels in the lower portion, substantially conical shaped openings leading into the needle channels, and a security strip for maintaining needles securely in the needle channels when the base tray is bent, and a lid for the base tray. The tray is adapted to lay flat during shipping but, in use, the upper half of the tray is bent away from the upper half of the assembly to expose the assembly and create a stand on which to prop the tray.

Abstract: Systems and methods for calculating and predicting performance characteristics, incremental heat rate, capacity, incremental costs, production cost and emissions, for electric power generation plants, and in particular, those that use steam and gas-turbine prime movers. The system includes models and modules for calculating current unit performance and predicting unit performance, including the incremental heat rate and maximum capacity, using unit operating parameters, unit configuration data, and fuel constituency data. The system further includes a module for forecasting or predicting unit performance and cost information, by allowing the user to alter unit configuration and fuel constituency data to model planned maintenance and projected fuel changes, and to account for anticipated atmospheric conditions.