Abstract: Ambulatory patient monitoring apparatus including a portable housing including at least one physiological data input device operative to gather physiological data of the patient, location determination circuitry, and communications circuitry for communicating the physiological data and the geographic location information to a central health monitoring station wirelessly and over a data network, and control circuitry operative to simultaneously store a first portion of such physiological data in a memory in FIFO fashion and a second portion of such physiological data in such memory that is write-protected with respect to said first portion.

Abstract: In a communications system having a modem pool including native modems operating at steady state, a method is provided for modem wake-up at steady-state including measuring modem performance, activating a foreign modem at substantially the foreign modem's maximum data rate and at a power level that is below the foreign modem's normal operational power level, allocating a NEXT cancellation filter as a probe filter, iteratively, until the foreign modem is operating at its normal operational power level, or the modem performance of any of the native modems has degraded subsequent to activating the foreign modem, canceling, using the probe filter, NEXT caused to a native modem by the foreign modem, measuring modem performance, and, if the modem performance of any of the native modems has not degraded, increasing the foreign modem's power level, and, if the modem performance of any of the native modems has degraded, deactivating the foreign modem.

Abstract: The invention provides novel methods for treating disease based upon the medicinal use of lipids and phospholipids covalently bound to physiologically acceptable monomers or polymers. Phosphatidylethanolamine moieties conjugated to physiologically acceptable monomers and polymers (PE conjugates) manifest an unexpectedly wide range of pharmacological effects, including stabilizing cell membranes; limiting oxidative damage to cell and blood components; limiting cell proliferation, cell extravasation and (tumor) cell migratory behavior; suppressing immune responses; and attenuating physiological reactions to stress, as expressed in elevated chemokine levels.

Abstract: An application environment including a hosting application, and an application component operative to execute a plurality of ordered processing operations, where the hosting application is operative to effect a first call to the component, thereby invoking operation of the component, the component is operative to execute any of the ordered processing operations in response to the first call until a suspense condition is met, whereupon the component is operative to suspend its operation, maintain execution state information, and return execution control to the hosting application, the hosting application is operative to resolve the suspense condition and effect a second call to the component, and the component is operative to determine whether the suspense condition is resolved and, if so, resume execution of the ordered processing operations from the point of suspension in response to the second call.

Abstract: In a rotating electric machine using permanent magnets and a field control coil, to allow the properties of the rotating electric machine to be readily changed and the rotating electric machine to be adapted to various applications even when it is made of common component parts, the field control coil is adapted to superimpose magnetic flux components of different intensities onto magnetic flux components that are supplied by the magnet poles and iron poles to the teeth, respectively. The magnetic flux components may be differentiated by placing each permanent magnet in a recess defined in an inner circumferential surface of the yoke, and defining each iron pole by a part of the yoke located between an adjacent pair of the permanent magnets in such a manner that the inner circumferential surface of each permanent magnet is lower than the said part of the yoke.

Abstract: A method for generating a printer-ready representation of pages having regions described by page assembly instructions is provided. The method includes analyzing the page assembly instructions to identify a complex page having one or more complex regions and assembling at least one complex region to generate at least a partial printer-ready representation of the complex page. The method also includes updating the page assembly instructions associated with the complex page to refer to the partial printer-ready representation.

Abstract: A scanning optical system for delivering electromagnetic radiation onto tissue to be treated is cooperative with a lightguide or optical fiber. Radiation to be delivered is provided by a source thereof via the optical fiber. The optical system includes an optical projection arrangement comprising a plurality of lenses cooperatively arranged with the lightguide. A first of the lenses is arranged to receive radiation emerging from the lightguide. The beam of radiation is passed through the projection arrangement to form a treatment spot the radiation on the tissue. Scanning is effected by causing relative motion between the exit-end of said lightguide and at least the first lens, transverse to the optical axis of the projection arrangement. The treatment spot undergoes a related transverse motion over the tissue. In one example scanning is effected by moving the first lens with the lightguide fixed. The first lens is moved using an arrangement of piezo-electric actuators.

Abstract: A power delivery system and a method for setting the parameters of the power delivery system. The effective resistance of the capacitors for each stage may be set to be substantially equal to the effective resistance of the previous stage, and the time capacitive constant of the capacitors may be set to be substantially equal to the effective inductive time constant of the previous stage.

Abstract: A method for generating an index of the text of a video image sequence is provided. The method includes the steps of determining the image text objects in each of a plurality of frames of the video image sequence; comparing the image text objects in each of the plurality of frames of the video image sequence to obtain a record of frame sequences having matching image text objects; extracting the content for each of the similar image text objects in text string format; and storing the text string for each image text object as a video text object in a retrievable medium.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for presenting content within a three-dimensional environment. A data container containing a parameter representing at least a portion of the content is rendered within the environment and a two dimensional prospective view from a view point is produced. The view point is moved along a predefined path and the container's parameter is updated in relation to the position of the view point.

Abstract: A system and method for allowing simultaneous access to different sections of a memory utilizes a memory including a number of memory banks which may be divided among several partitions. Control circuitry allows simultaneous access to memory banks from each partition.

Abstract: A bobbin for hybrid coils in planar magnetic components including an outer bobbin component configured to hold planar magnetic circuits and an inner bobbin component configured to hold a conventional winding of a multitude of substantially round-section insulated conductor wires.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds having scavenging and anti-ROS properties and pharmaceutical composition comprising these compounds for treatment of conditions associated with oxidative stress or free radical injury. The compounds of the invention are of general formula (I).

Abstract: This invention provides: 1) a method of treating androgen-deprivation induced osteoporosis and/or bone fractures and/or loss of Bone Mineral Density (BMD) in a male subject suffering from prostate cancer; 2) a method of preventing androgen-deprivation induced osteoporosis and/or bone fractures and/or loss of Bone Mineral Density (BMD) in a male subject suffering from prostate cancer; 3) a method of suppressing or inhibiting androgen-deprivation induced osteoporosis and/or bone fractures and/or loss of BMD in a male subject suffering from prostate cancer; and 4) a method of reducing the risk of developing androgen-deprivation induced osteoporosis and/or bone fractures and/or loss of BMD in a male subject suffering from prostate cancer, by administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising an anti-estrogen agent and/or its analog, derivative, isomer, metabolite, pharmaceutically acceptable salt, pharmaceutical product, hydrate, N-oxide, or any combination thereof as described herein.

Abstract: A configuration detects optical signals in at least one optical channel in a planar light circuit. The planar light circuit contains a trench that respectively interrupts or terminates one optical channel. The trench respectively contains a detection unit detecting the optical signals in the respective optical channel. An attenuator apparatus includes an attenuator unit, a multiplicity of optical principal channels, and a configuration described above for detecting the optical signals in said monitor channels. A method for manufacturing the configuration includes the following steps: providing a support submount; mounting a detection unit on the support submount; providing a planar light circuit with an optical channel; interrupting the optical channel by forming a trench in the planar light circuit; disposing the support submount on the planar light circuit using flip-chip mounting; and inserting a detection unit into the trench.

Abstract: Briefly, a reduced substrate Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) device, for example, a low-loss Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators (FBAR) filter or a low-loss FBAR Radio Frequency filter, and a process and a system to produce the same. A reduced substrate MEMS device in accordance with embodiments of the present invention may include a membrane bonded between packaging parts. A process in accordance with embodiments of the present invention may include bonding a first packaging part to a MEMS device including a support substrate, removing the support substrate, and bonding a second packaging part to the MEMS device.

Abstract: An optical threshold device including an input, an output, first and second radiation guiding branches, each branch having first and second terminals, at least one of the first and second branches having a non-linear optical element, first and second optical couplers, at least one of the first and second optical couplers having an asymmetric optical coupler, the first optical coupler configured to split an input signal of radiation from the input into a first radiation portion propagating through the first branch and a second radiation portion propagating through the second branch, the second optical coupler configured to combine the first and second radiation portions from the second terminals of the first and second branches, respectively, into an output signal at the output, wherein the non-linear optical element produces a phase shift between the first and second radiation portions and wherein the first and second radiation portions interfere at the second coupler in response to the phase shift.

Abstract: A method for erasing a bit of a memory cell in a non-volatile memory cell array, the method comprising applying an erase pulse to at least one bit of at least one memory cell of the array, waiting a delay period wherein a threshold voltage of the at least one memory cell drifts to a different magnitude than at the start of the delay period, and after the delay period, erase verifying the at least one bit to determine if the at least one bit is less than a reference voltage level.

Abstract: A NOR array includes a first plurality of word lines, a second plurality of bit lines and a third plurality of common lines. Each word line connects to the gates of a row of nitride read only memory (NROM) cells. Each bit line connects to one diffusion area of each NROM cell in a column of the NROM cells and each common line connects to the other diffusion areas of each NROM cell in a row of the NROM cells.