Abstract: The apparatus comprises an air duct with a first opening and a second opening. In the air duct, a main cooler and a first block of exchangers with at least one first sorption exchanger with an integrated heating and/or an upstream device for heating the incoming air, are positioned. The first block of exchangers is connected to the first opening. It comprises a suction unit for drawing air into the air duct and an element for collecting condensed water. The suction unit is adapted to switch between two different suction directions. The apparatus also comprises a second block of exchangers with at least one second sorption exchanger positioned in the air duct and air-interconnected to the second opening. A main cooler is positioned in the air flow path between the first block of exchangers and the second block of exchangers. The second sorption exchangers comprise integrated heating and/or are preceded upstream by at least one device for heating the entering air.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a first air duct with a first opening and a second opening, in the first air duct are: a cooler, a first suction device and at least part of a sorption heat exchanger having an integrated heating and/or an upstream device for preheating the incoming air. An element for collecting condensed water is also included. The apparatus also comprises a recuperative heat exchanger, which is positioned in the first air duct between the cooler and the sorption exchanger and simultaneously also between the cooler and the second opening. The recuperative heat exchanger has at least two internal conduits connected in such manner, that the first of these internal conduits air-interconnects the sorption exchanger and the cooler and that the second of these internal conduits air-interconnects the cooler and the second opening. The first and second internal conduits of the recuperative heat exchanger are in mutual thermal contact. The sorption exchanger is also air-interconnected to the first opening.

Abstract: A method for device-to-device communication comprises providing a first communication device, a second communication device, and a plurality of base stations, measuring a first set of base station channel gains from the first communication device, measuring a second element of data from the second communication device, providing the first set of base station channel gains and the second element of data as inputs to an algorithm, calculating a D2D channel gain from the first set of base station channel gains and the second element of data with the machine learning algorithm, and adjusting at least one parameter based on the calculated D2D channel. A system for controlling device-to-device communication and a method of training a machine learning algorithm are also described.

Abstract: A resource scheduling method of a wireless communication system is provided. The resource scheduling method includes the following steps. Each of the user equipment (UEs) is classified by a centralized scheduler as a cell-edge UE or a non cell-edge UE. A first scheduling is performed by the centralized scheduler by allocating a first resource for the cell-edge UEs, a second resource for the non cell-edge UEs, and a third resource for retransmission of at least one of the cell-edge UEs. A second scheduling is performed by a distributed scheduler by allocating a first part of the second resource for at least one of the non cell-edge UEs.

Abstract: A resource scheduling method includes determining, by a centralized scheduler, a classification threshold, classifying, by the centralized scheduler, each of a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) as a Cell Edge (CE) UE or a Non-Cell Edge (nCE) UE according to the classification threshold, and performing, by the centralized scheduler, a resource scheduling for the at least one CE UE and the at least one nCE UE.

Abstract: A resource scheduling method of a wireless communication system is provided. The resource scheduling method includes the following steps. Each of the user equipment (UEs) is classified by a centralized scheduler as a cell-edge UE or a non cell-edge UE. A first scheduling is performed by the centralized scheduler by allocating a first resource for the cell-edge UEs, a second resource for the non cell-edge UEs, and a third resource for retransmission of at least one of the cell-edge UEs. A second scheduling is performed by a distributed scheduler by allocating a first part of the second resource for at least one of the non cell-edge UEs.

Abstract: A heat exchanger control and diagnostic apparatus includes a heat exchanger having a primary inlet of a primary heat-transport liquid mounted with a first temperature sensor and a primary outlet of the primary heat-transport liquid mounted with a second temperature sensor, wherein the primary outlet is piped to a pump, the pump comprising a pump impeller connected to a motor, the primary heat-transport liquid being piped by plumbing from the pump impeller to a heat source and from the heat source back to the primary inlet, and a control unit connected to the heat exchanger and the pump and comprising a motor control unit bi-directionally connected to the motor.

Abstract: An apparatus for an accurate automated non-invasive measurement of blood pressure waveform using brachial (occlusion) cuff pressurized above systolic pressure and using differential pressure sensor. The methodology involves measurement in suprasystolic mode and in utilization and construction of the device followed by algorithms for processing and analysis of measured blood pressure pulse waves and assessment of hemodynamic parameters of human cardiovascular system. The device includes an electro-pump connected to the collar device, a differential pressure sensor, pressure senor A, pressure sensor B, valve, closing a valve and the air reservoir. The cuff is wrapped around a person's arm. The values of the instantaneous pressure in the pneumatic portion of the device are converted into an electric signal by the pressure sensor A, pressure sensor B and the differential pressure sensor.

Abstract: A layer protecting the surface of zirconium alloys used as materials for nuclear reactors is formed by a homogenous polycrystalline diamond layer prepared by chemical vapor deposition method. This diamond layer is 100 nm to 50 ?m thick and the size of the crystalline cores in the layer ranges from 10 nm to 500 nm. Maximum content of non-diamond carbon is 25 mol %, total content of non-carbon impurities is maximum up to 0.5 mol %, RMS surface roughness of the polycrystalline diamond layer has a value less than 40 nm and thermal conductivity of the layer ranges from 1000 to 1900 W?m?1?K?1. Coating of the zirconium alloys surface with the described polycrystalline diamond layer serves as a zirconium alloys surface protection against undesirable changes and processes in the nuclear reactor environment.

Abstract: The invention regards Multifunction Biotelemetry Support System for Psychophysiology Monitoring measuring physiological values which are further evaluated, characterized by containing at least one translation unit for WiFi access points and one control unit. Each sensory unit includes an EKG sensor, GSR sensor, RR and BPM sensor, body temperature sensor, room temperature sensor, actigraph activity sensor, HRV measurement and evaluation sensor, signal LED and a push button.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pixel detector (10), comprising a semiconductor sensor layer (12), in which charges can be generated upon interaction with particles to be detected. The semiconductor layer defines an X-Y-plane and has a thickness extending in Z-direction. The detector further comprises a read-out electronics layer (14) connected to said semiconductor layer (12), said read-out electronics layer (14) comprising an array of read-out circuits (20) for detecting signals indicative of charges generated in a corresponding volume of said semiconductor sensor layer (12). The neighboring read-out circuits (20) are connected by a relative timing circuit configured to determine time difference information between signals detected at said neighboring read-out circuits (20).

Abstract: Systems and methods provide a security function for a device or applications running on a device. A lock tap sequence is entered by a user when the device is to be locked. When the user desires to unlock the device, the user enters a unlock tap sequence. If the lock tap sequence matches the unlock tap sequence, the device is unlocked.

Abstract: The new cement composite has a matrix made of silicate cement, which is filled with natural crushed aggregate of arbitrary mineralogical composition and/or with artificial aggregate based on expanded clays. The composite further contains mixing water and plasticizers, while their amount is given by the required workability and the rate of the cement composite placement into formwork. The silicate cement has a dosage from 300 to 620 kg/m3 of composite and the aggregate is an aggregate with fraction 0-8 and dosage from 150 to 350 kg/m3 of composite. The composite further contains roughly crushed fragments of natural and/or synthetic textile and/or filling material such as foam plastic with the dosage from 80 to 150 kg/m3 of composite. These crushed fragments have arbitrary shape and their minimum dimension is in units of mm and the maximum dimension is up to tens of mm.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pixel detector (10), comprising a semiconductor sensor layer (12), in which charges can be generated upon interaction with particles to be detected. The semiconductor layer defines an X-Y-plane and has a thickness extending in Z-direction. The detector further comprises a read-out electronics layer (14) connected to said semiconductor layer (12), said read-out electronics layer (14) comprising an array of read-out circuits (20) for detecting signals indicative of charges generated in a corresponding volume of said semiconductor sensor layer (12). The neighbouring read-out circuits (20) are connected by a relative timing circuit configured to determine time difference information between signals detected at said neighbouring read-out circuits (20).

Abstract: Methods and systems for egomotion estimation (e.g. of a vehicle) from visual inputs of a stereo pair of video cameras are described. 3D egomotion estimation is a six degrees of freedom problem in general. In embodiments of the present invention, this is simplified to four dimensions and further decomposed to two two-dimensional sub-solutions. The decomposition allows use of a voting strategy that identifies the most probable solution. An input is a set of image correspondences between two temporally consecutive stereo pairs, i.e. feature points do not need to be tracked over time. The experiments show that even if a trajectory is put together as a simple concatenation of frame-to-frame increments, the results are reliable and precise.

Abstract: A fluid turbine includes stator fitted with fluid inlet and outlet, and a rolling rotor installed inside the confusor part of the stator at one end of a shaft, with the other end fixed in a clamp of a clamping mechanism on the stator. The shaft of the rolling rotor is fixed in the clamp of the clamping mechanism non-rotationally with the possibility of angular deflection in all directions. A generator is connected to the shaft.

Abstract: A system and method for planning/replanning collision free flight plans in real-time (or accelerated-time) including planning individual flight plans for each flying asset, executing (or simulating) the planned individual flight plans, detecting violations of safety zones of each of the flying assets by negotiation and by other assets monitoring (radar sensing), and repairing the individual flight plans by real-time replanning.

Abstract: Approaches for optimizing computation of minimum cut or maximum flow on graphs comprising a plurality of nodes and edges with grid-like topologies are disclosed. Embodiments exploit the regular structure of input graphs to reduce the memory bandwidth—a main bottleneck of popular max-flow/min-cut algorithms based on finding augmenting paths on a residual graph (such as Ford-Fulkerson [1956] or Boykov-Kolmogorov [2004]). Disclosed embodiments allow more than 200% speed-up without sacrificing optimality of the final solution, which is crucial for many computer vision and graphics applications. Method and system embodiments replace standard linked list representation of general graphs with a set of compact data structures with blocked memory layout that enables fixed ordering of edges and implicit branchless addressing of nodes.

Abstract: Approaches for optimizing computation of minimum cut or maximum flow on graphs comprising a plurality of nodes and edges with grid-like topologies are disclosed. Embodiments exploit the regular structure of input graphs to reduce the memory bandwidth—a main bottleneck of popular max-flow/min-cut algorithms based on finding augmenting paths on a residual graph (such as Ford-Fulkerson [1956] or Boykov-Kolmogorov [2004]). Disclosed embodiments allow more than 200% speed-up without sacrificing optimality of the final solution, which is crucial for many computer vision and graphics applications. Method and system embodiments replace standard linked list representation of general graphs with a set of compact data structures with blocked memory layout that enables fixed ordering of edges and implicit branchless addressing of nodes.

Abstract: An image search method that is robust and fast (with computational complexity of logarithmic order relative to the number of models). The image search includes extracting a plurality of regions from one or more model images and normalizing the regions as standard regions; setting a specific region in each normalized standard region and classifying the plurality of standard regions under two or more subsets on the basis of a feature of the specific region; iteratively performing an operation of setting another specific region at a location different from that of the aforementioned specific region in each standard region classified in each subset and classifying the plurality of standard regions under still more subsets on the basis of a feature of the other specific region; and outputting the locations of the specific regions in the standard regions in the respective classifications and the features of the specific regions in the classifications.