Abstract: A synergistic microbicidal composition comprising: (a) at least one microbicide selected from the group consisting of a monosubstituted phenol and an isopropyl methyl phenol; and (b) at least one microbicide selected from the group consisting of substituted cyclohexyl propyl-1,3-diols, propen-2yl-methyl cyclohexanols and menthadiene alcohols.

Abstract: An instrument-panel assembly includes an instrument panel, an airbag housing supported by the instrument panel, an airbag supported by the airbag housing, and a rotatable connection rotatably supporting the airbag housing on the instrument panel. The instrument panel extends along a longitudinal axis. The rotatable connection is rotatable about a rotational axis transverse to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: The attenuation and other optical properties of a medium are exploited to measure a thickness of the medium between a sensor and a target surface. Disclosed herein are various mediums, arrangements of hardware, and processing techniques that can be used to capture these thickness measurements and obtain three-dimensional images of the target surface in a variety of imaging contexts. This includes general techniques for imaging interior/concave surfaces as well as exterior/convex surfaces, as well as specific adaptations of these techniques to imaging ear canals, human dentition, and so forth.

Abstract: A method of producing an emissive toner composition including selecting a photoluminescent agent, a charge control agent, and one or more additives and combining the photoluminescent agent, charge control agent, and one or more additives to form an emissive toner composition that when printed to produce an image component on a substrate, the emission spectra of the image component for irradiation with a first excitation energy includes only dominant emission peaks corresponding to one or more dominant emission peaks of the photoluminescent agent. The photoluminescent agent is selected such that it emits light having one or more dominant emission peaks in a first emission spectral region when irradiated with the first excitation energy. The charge control agent and one or more additives are selected such that they do not emit light in the visible spectrum when irradiated with visible light and does not emit light in the first emission spectral region when irradiated with the first excitation energy.

Abstract: An Application Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) node comprising a processor configured to import a first set of network information from one or more software defined networking (SDN) nodes, aggregate the network information received from the SDN nodes, calculate a plurality of traffic optimization decisions based on the aggregated network information, and forward the traffic optimization decisions to the SDN nodes. Also disclosed is a method for optimizing traffic using a SDN node and an Application Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) node, the method comprising receiving a request for network resources from a node, obtaining a plurality of traffic optimization information from the ALTO node, negotiating one or more paths with a second SDN node using the traffic optimization information received from the ALTO node, constructing the paths, and sending a response to the node that indicates the node may forward packets via one of the paths.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus identify downhole equipment and correlate input data with the equipment to improve planning and/or inventory operations. For some embodiments, oilfield equipment or tubular goods such as drill pipe include a shaped recess along an outer circumference for receiving a tag cartridge by shrink fitting. Once tagged, detector system configurations at pipe yards may facilitate logging the presence and location of each drill pipe and correlating specific data, such as inspection data, to each drill pipe. Further, this correlation populates a database utilized to achieve other business functions such as forecasting number of additional drill pipe needed to purchase, invoicing customers according to actual tracked wear/use of the drill pipe being returned, and providing well or job specific drill string population using known history pipe joints.

Abstract: A printed circuit board antenna and a printed circuit board are disclosed. The printed circuit board antenna includes a feeding part having at least one first branch; a coupling interdigital part having at least one second branch, where a gap is formed between the first branch and the second branch; a grounding part, where a gap is formed between the grounding part and the feeding part, a gap is formed between the grounding part and the coupling interdigital part, an opening is provided on the grounding part, and a feeding point of the feeding part extends out from the opening. The embodiments of the present invention resolve a problem of relatively low efficiency when high-frequency bandwidth of an antenna is relatively wide, implementing that efficiency meets a product requirement in an entire range of bandwidth.

Abstract: Disclosed are method, device and system for processing a calling requires message of a mobile terminal, the method comprising: triggering a pre-embedded blocking program in the calling process; upon detecting a calling request message, the blocking program acquires an incoming call number in the calling request message; the blocking program determines whether the incoming call number is a call number defined by a preset rule, if the incoming call number is a call number defined by the preset rule, then delaying the ring of the phone number defined by the preset rule. The present invention protects a user from the harassment of a malicious harassing call, thus avoiding unnecessary financial loss.

Abstract: The invention disclosed a method of manufacturing the thin film, which belongs to the technological field of SOI wafer manufacture. By growing a layer of dielectric material (silicon oxide) on the provided high-resistivity silicon wafer, then to grow a layer of amorphous silicon on the dielectric material, to transfer a layer of silicon oxide to the amorphous silicon, to make the mono crystalline silicon exist on the oxidation layer, so that a SOI wafer with a layer of amorphous silicon is manufactured. The process above is completed in specific process conditions. The manufactured thin film, e.g. SOI wafer with amorphous silicon layer, is used main for RF apparatus.

Abstract: A capacitive in-cell touch panel, a display device and a driving method are provided. For the capacitive in-cell touch panel, at least one gate line (4) or at least one data line (5) is reused as a first touch sensing electrode, a plurality of mutually independent common electrodes (6) are disposed to intersect the first touch sensing electrode, and at least one common electrode (6) is reused as a second touch sensing electrode. The capacitive in-cell touch panel can reduce the number of masking in the manufacturing process, reduce the thickness of the touch panel and reduce the production cost. In the driving process of the touch panel, certain period is set aside of a frame of picture as touch period, that is, a time division driving mode is used for the touch time period and the display time period, it is also possible to avoid mutual interference between display signals and touch driving signals and in turn guarantee the quality of displayed picture and the touch accuracy.

Abstract: A method and system for increasing safety of cardiac ablation procedures comprises a computer based system that monitors the esophageal temperature, and a fluoroscopy (medical images) based cardiac mapping system for cryoballoon or radiofrequency (RF) ablations. The esophageal temperature is monitored utilizing an esophageal probe which may have any number of temperature sensing members. The esophageal probe may also have pre-formed shape. During atrial fibrillation ablations, based on a pre-determined increase in esophageal temperature (from any thermistor), the computer based system activates different levels of alarm(s), and/or initiates ablation energy interrupt based on pre-defined programmed values. The method and system is also used for guiding placement of cryoballoon and performing cryoablations. The placement of cryoballoon catheter or a circular catheter is based on superimposing a high resolution (dye injected) image and a live fluoroscopy image and adjusting transparency between the two images.

Abstract: A device is disclosed comprising: a first portion; a second portion; a hinge element between the first portion and the second portion; a magnetic sensor disposed on the first portion configured to measure an ambient magnetic field; a non-extensible element configured between the first portion and the second portion, and fixed with respect to the second portion; a magnetic element configured on a free end of the non-extensible element so that a rotation of the first portion with respect to the second portion causes relative motion between the magnetic element and the magnetic sensor, thereby causing a change in a magnetic field between the magnetic element and the magnetic sensor; wherein an angle of fold between the two portions is calculated based on the change in the magnetic field as determined by the magnetic sensor.

Abstract: The stereoscopic image display device which displays images corresponding to each of a plurality of viewpoints includes: a stereoscopic image display panel which includes a display panel in which a plurality of pixels are arranged and a light-ray separating module provided on the display panel for separating parallax images from each of the pixels towards a plurality of N-viewpoints (N is a natural number of 2 or larger) according to the layout direction of each of the pixels; an observer position measuring unit which measures an observing position of the observer who is facing the display surface; a relative position calculating unit which calculates a relative position of the observer with respect to the stereoscopic image display panel based on the measurement result; and an image generation processing unit which generates viewpoint image by corresponding to the relative position and outputs the image towards the stereoscopic image display panel.

Abstract: A data recovery method to improve storage consistency of a distributed storage system includes: receiving a recovery message from a storage node after a fault recovery of the faulty storage node; obtaining N lost erasure coding (EC) blocks of the faulty storage node through computation according to EC blocks stored by non-faulty storage nodes; sequentially sending N lost EC blocks to the faulty storage node for storage. In the process of sequentially sending the N lost EC blocks to the faulty storage node, when it is determined that for a first EC block that is to be stored by the faulty storage node, a second EC block having a same key value as the first EC block exists in the lost EC blocks, after the faulty storage node stores the second EC block, the first EC block is sent to the faulty storage node to store.

Abstract: Connection patterns for device packaging allow high density circuitry dies to be assembled into packages of manufacturable size. The connection patterns may be patterns for solder ball arrays or other types of connection mechanisms under a semiconductor package. Despite the increased density of the connection patterns, the connection patterns meet the demanding crosstalk specifications for high speed operation of the high density circuitry.

Abstract: In an example of the method disclosed herein, a precipitate is formed in an aqueous mixture by mixing an SiOx precursor and an acid. The precipitate and a carbon material are added to a base, and the precipitate dissolves to form a solution having the carbon material therein. Hydrothermal synthesis is performed using the solution, and precursor nanostructures are grown on the carbon material. The precursor nanostructures on the carbon material are annealed so that the carbon material is removed and porous, one-dimensional SiOx (0<x?2) nanorods are formed.

Abstract: A method, server, user terminal, and system are disclosed for sending notification messages in the Internet communication filed. In the method: when detecting it needs to send a message to a target terminal, an application server detects a state of the signaling channel. When the signaling channel is in connected state, the application server sends a notification message to the target terminal through this signaling channel. When the signaling channel is in a disconnected state, the application server generates a notification request to a corresponding account of the target terminal and sends the notification request to the notification server so that the notification server pushes a notification message to the target terminal according to the notification request.

Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens, wherein at least one lens among the first to the fifth lenses has positive refractive force, the fifth lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point, and wherein the lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the fifth lens, whereby the optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.

Abstract: A virtual reality goggle includes a goggle shaped body having multiple cameras mounted thereon. A display is supported by the goggle shaped body. A support extends between sides of the goggle shaped body and includes multiple cameras. Circuitry is coupled to receive video from the multiple cameras, the video comprising a composite field of view of approximately 360 degrees about the goggle, the circuitry to couple to a wireless communication device to transmit the received video to networked processing services, and to receive stitched stereoscopic three dimensional virtual reality video from the networked processing services, the circuitry further coupled to provide the received stitched stereoscopic three dimensional virtual reality video for display.