Abstract: A method for a purchasing interface is described. In one embodiment, the method includes initiating an order for a prescription, prompting a user to capture a photo of the prescription, and fulfilling the order for the prescription upon receiving input based on capturing the photo of the prescription. The order for the prescription is initiated from an application executing on a computing device and the photo of the prescription is captured using a camera connected to the computing device.

Abstract: A message processing system is disclosed herein. A client computing device may receive an electronic message from a server via a network and via a forwarding operation on a condition that the electronic message is approved to be forwarded to a recipient. The client computing device may then receive from the server a message that the electronic message is unapproved, wherein the message includes a URL to view the unapproved electronic message and the electronic message is stored on the server with an indication that the electronic message is unapproved. The client computing device may then receive a list of unapproved electronic messages to display, wherein associated with the list are selectable options including to send the unapproved electronic message, to add a sender of the unapproved electronic message to an approved sender list, and to delete the unapproved electronic message.

Abstract: A forensic feature for a secure document comprises a base document layer and a covert material applied to the base document layer. The covert material includes a carrier and forensic material within the carrier. The forensic material includes a ratio of salts or oxides of metals, such as rare earth metals. The ratio is selected to correspond with a source of the document. The forensic material may be mixed into a coating or ink that is applied at predetermined locations on a secure document. The ratio is then measurable from metal ion signals of the salts or oxides. This ratio, or some metric derived from it, may be linked with information embedded elsewhere in the document to enable verification of the document. Another forensic document feature has a forensic metric that is measurable from a covert material in the document, and this forensic metric corresponds to a source of the document.

Abstract: A video encoder (70) for coding moving pictures comprising a buffer (16c) with a plurality of memory areas capable of storing frames composed of top fields and bottom fields, a motion estimation unit (19) operable to code, field by field, inputted pictures performing moving estimation and moving compensation by referring, field by field, to the picture data stored in a memory area, a motion compensation unit (16d), a subtractor (11), a transformation unit (13) and a quantization unit (14), a memory management unit (71) operable to manage, frame by frame, a plurality of memory areas, an inverse quantization unit (16a) and inverse discrete cosine transform unit (16b) operable to decode picture data in coded fields and store the picture data in the decoded field in any of the plurality of memory areas under the management by the memory management unit (71).

Abstract: Integrated circuit comprising a sensing unit that includes a sensing circuit, two conductors and a magnetic storage element. The sensing circuit monitors a voltage drop across the element when a current is passed between the conductors with the element in between. The voltage drop is pre-calibrated to indicate a change in conductivity in the element that is caused by an external magnetic field. Advantageously, this indication is usable particularly for assessing a possible data corruption in a magnetic memory circuit in the integrated circuit, due to stray and external magnetic fields. Methods of using the sensing unit are also proposed.

Abstract: A method for treating a substrate with a volatile liquid, crop-preservative formulation includes transporting a predetermined quantity of the formulation from a reservoir to an injection device and applying the predetermined quantity to the substrate. The substrate may thereafter be in proximity to a crop to be treated by the vapor from the formulation. The substrate is most conveniently a portion of a container in which the crop is stored or shipped.

Abstract: A video encoder (70) for coding moving pictures comprising a buffer (16c) with a plurality of memory areas capable of storing frames composed of top fields and bottom fields, a motion estimation unit (19) operable to code, field by field, inputted pictures performing moving estimation and moving compensation by referring, field by field, to the picture data stored in a memory area, a motion compensation unit (16d), a subtractor (11), a transformation unit (13) and a quantization unit (14), a memory management unit (71) operable to manage, frame by frame, a plurality of memory areas, an inverse quantization unit (16a) and inverse discrete cosine transform unit (16b) operable to decode picture data in coded fields and store the picture data in the decoded field in any of the plurality of memory areas under the management by the memory management unit (71).

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical pumping device comprising: a fibre light source emitting controlled radiation having a very high transverse modal quality, with a wavelength shorter than 1000 nm; at least one element consisting of an amplifying material doped with a rare earth dopant; means for introducing a pumping light into said doped amplifying material element; and means for cooling said amplifying material. Said optical pumping device is characterised in that the pumping light is emitted by the fibre light source with an average power of higher than 2W and a modal quality characterised by an M2<5 factor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for selecting a competent oocyte or a competent embryo.

Abstract: A capacitor and a method of fabricating thereof are provided. A structure of low pressure tetraethyl orthosilicate—low pressure silicon nitride—low pressure tetraethyl orthosilicate is used in the capacitor to replace the oxide-nitride-oxide structure of the existing capacitor; the capacitor has a relatively high unit capacitance value. Furthermore, the structure of low pressure tetraethyl orthosilicate—low pressure silicon nitride—low pressure tetraethyl orthosilicate is fabricaited by low pressure chemical vapor deposition method at relatively low temperature; thus the heat produced in the whole process is relatively low, which is insufficient to make the semiconductor device shift or make the gate metal layer or the metallized silicon layer peel off. Accordingly, the capacitor and the method of fabricating the capacitor of the present invention can be well applied in the process of the 0.5 ?m PIP capacitor or below 0.5 ?m.

Abstract: It is possible to improve the CQI reception performance even when a delay is caused in a propagation path, a transmission timing error is caused, or a residual interference is generated between cyclic shift amounts of different ZC sequences. For the second symbol and the sixth symbol of the ACK/NACK signal which are multiplexed by RS of CQI, (+, +) or (?, ?) is applied to a partial sequence of the Walsh sequence. For RS of CQI transmitted from a mobile station, + is added as an RS phase of the second symbol and ? is added as an RS phase of the sixth symbol. A base station (100) receives multiplexed signals of ACK/NACK signals and CQI signals transmitted from a plurality of mobile stations. An RS synthesis unit (119) performs synthesis by aligning the RS phase of CQI.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated bacterium from the genus Pseudoalteromonas for its use as a probiotic, the use of said strain as a preservative, cyclolipopeptides which may be obtained from this bacterium, a composition comprising at least such a cyclolipopeptide, as well as to their uses.

Abstract: Non aqueous solvents or mixtures for DNP NMR spectroscopy, method to prepare said solvents or mixtures and use of said solvents or mixtures The present invention concerns a method to determine the efficiency of a solvent to impregnate a sample material for use in a dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments, characterized in that the method comprising: —selecting a non-aqueous solvent, —providing a polarizing agent that is soluble in the non-aqueous solvent, —dissolving the polarizing agent in the non-aqueous solvent, —impregnating or dissolving the sample material with the non-aqueous solvent containing the polarizing agent, —performing a solid state DNP NMR experiment on the impregnated sample material, —determining a DNP enhancement factor of the DNP NMR experiment.

Abstract: A moving picture coding apparatus includes an inter-pixel filter having filters for filtering decoded image data so as to remove block distortion which is high frequency noise around block boundaries. The inter-pixel filter includes filters having different filtering strengths. The coding apparatus also includes a filter processing control unit for determining a filtering strength of the inter-pixel filter.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for a touch or pressure signal-based interface. In operation, a touch or pressure signal is received in association with a touch interface of a device. To this end, a user experience is altered utilizing the signal. A system, method, and computer program product are provided for modifying one or more objects in one or more memory devices. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided, comprising one or more memory devices including a non-volatile memory. Additionally, the apparatus comprises circuitry including a first communication path for communicating with the at least one processor, and a second communication path for communicating with at least one storage sub-system which operates slower than the one or more memory devices. Further, the circuitry is operable to modify one or more objects in the one or more memory devices.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to data storage and computer memory, and more particularly, to systems, integrated circuits and methods for accessing memory in multiple layers of memory implementing, for example, third dimension memory technology. In a specific embodiment, an integrated circuit is configured to implement write buffers to access multiple layers of memory. For example, the integrated circuit can include memory cells disposed in multiple layers of memory. In one embodiment, the memory cells can be third dimension memory cells. The integrated circuit can also include read buffers that can be sized differently than the write buffers. In at least one embodiment, write buffers can be sized as a function of a write cycle. Each layer of memory can include a plurality of two-terminal memory elements that retain stored data in the absence of power and store data as a plurality of conductivity profiles.

Abstract: Customer data is securely downloaded to a browser toolbar by performing a check to determine whether a request for customer data includes a request for personal identifiable information requiring encryption by a public encryption key generated by the browser toolbar. The customer is authenticated based on a set of a user credential and an account specific access credential. The account specific access credential is associated with the account of the customer. Requested personal identifiable information is encrypted using the public encryption key generated by the browser toolbar. Encrypted personal identifiable information is transmitted to the browser toolbar.

Abstract: A data processing system comprises a security control computer performing operations comprising: receiving, an advertising exchange network computer, advertising presentation data indicating presentations of advertisements to particular browsers that have browsed to particular websites; determining, based upon detection data, whether the particular websites are associated with network attacks or malware; in response, storing transit data specifying computers that have visited the particular web sites and using the transit data to determine a plurality of particular web pages to inspect for threats; based on a hierarchical structure of the particular web pages and without consideration of content of the particular web pages, identifying one or more features, of links in the particular web page or files referenced in the particular web pages, that indicate one or more security threats in the web pages; and determining remediation measures to remediate security threats that are identified in one of the particula