Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for reporting, organizing and notifying interested parties of injuries to athletes, students or other minors. Injury reports may be generated by multiple different parties using a variety of reporting platforms, such as desktop computers and smartphones, and with a variety of modalities, such as software, web-based applications, text message or e-mail. The injury reports are organized to generate a single injury event, and a notification of the injury is then automatically sent to one or more interested or authorized parties, such as a parent, guardian, coach, teacher, trainer, doctor or school administrator. Parties may submit revisions to the injury event if information changes or as the injured party's condition changes, and additional notifications will be generated for each revision. The notifications may include treatment information and may indicate if the injured party no longer suffers from the injury.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of increasing the efficiency of exothermic CO2 capture processes. The method relates to withdrawing heat generated during the exothermic capture of CO2 with various sorbents via heat exchange with a working fluid. The working fluid is provided at a temperature and pressure such that it is in the liquid state, and has a vaporization temperature in a range such that the heat arising from the reaction of the CO2 and the sorbent causes a phase change from liquid to vapor state in whole or in part and transfers heat from to the working fluid. The resulting heated working fluid may subsequently be used to generate power.

Abstract: The invention relates to therapy and methods of applying the therapy to cancer patients. The invention includes introducing intratumorally cytotoxic T lymphocyte and/or NKT cells, and prior to, coincident with, or following introducing intratumorally the cytotoxic T lymphocyte and/or NKT cells, introducing intratumorally anti-TNF and/or anti-IL-10 to the patient. The cytotoxic T lymphocyte and/or NKT cells can be induced by the intratumoral introduction of immature dendritic cells to the patient This therapy of the invention can be effective to regress, reduce or eliminate tumor cells in tumor tissue of the patients in the absence of radiation therapy.

Abstract: A yarn is provided with a hollow fiber including a plurality of filaments and one or more longitudinal voids between the filaments; and a heat retention fiber being a fiber for emitting infrared light, the heat retention fiber including a plurality of filaments each being capable of retaining heat, the filaments having nanoscale powder capable of emitting near and far infrared light uniformly formed therein. The hollow fiber and the heat retention fiber are twisted together to form a yarn having heat retention capability.

Abstract: An improved handheld electronic device and associated method enable the phonetic inputting of text using a reduced keyboard and transformation algorithm. The handheld electronic device and method advantageously enable the inputting of languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and the like without limitation. The transformation algorithm subjects each of a number of linguistic element permutations to an algorithm such as the Maximum Matching Algorithm or other algorithm to generate a string of words and selects one string of words as a default textual output. The character interpretation and variations thereof are output in a lookup component along with a pin and variants thereof to enable the user to select among various character interpretations of an input as well as various alternative pins that correspond with the input.

Abstract: The present invention relates to soluble and stable anti-VEGF immunobinders comprising CDRs from rabbit monoclonal antibodies. Said antibodies are designed for the diagnosis and/or treatment of VEGF-mediated disorders. The hybridomas, nucleic acids, vectors and host cells for expression of the recombinant antibodies of the invention, methods for isolating them and the use of said antibodies in medicine are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method reduces the computational complexity for determining optimal run-curves for a specific travel time Iola vehicle along a route between two locations, when travel time and speed limit requirements are subject to change. The determination is partitioned into preprocessing and real-time steps. A set of weights are generated, and run-curves for the weights are obtained and stored during the preprocessingA state transition matrix is generated in the preprocessing step and updated partially in the real-time step only for a subspace of velocities and locations constrained by speed limits. The optimal weight for solving an objective function to obtain an optimal run-curve can be obtained by searching with an initial estimation of multiple weights, and interpolating from the relation between the travel time and the initial weights to obtain the optimal weight.

Abstract: In order to select a conference processing device to host a video conference between conference participation devices, a video conference system selects conference processing devices that are positioned most adjacent to each of conference participation devices that participate in the video conference as candidates for a conference processing device. The video conference system forms network topology based on candidate conference processing devices and conference participation devices, and aligns candidate conference processing devices based on preset alignment reference information. The video conference system selects one of the aligned candidate conference processing devices as an optimal conference processing device to host the video conference.

Abstract: In a scheduling apparatus, a packet start time with respect to an input packet is calculated, and a slot corresponding to the packet start time is selected from a scheduler including a plurality of slots. Whether to store the packet in the selected slot in consideration of the number of packets stored in the selected slot and the number of packets corresponding to virtual ports corresponding to the input packet is determined, and here, the virtual port is an output port of a switch device which is connected to the outside and does not have a scheduling function.

Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention provides for a compound of Formula I in which in Formula I, the variables X1, X2a, X2b, X2c, R1, B, L, E, A and the subscript n are as defined herein. In another aspect, the present invention provides for pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I as well as methods for using compounds of Formula I for the treatment of diseases and conditions (e.g., cancer, thrombocythemia, etc) characterized by the expression or over-expression of Bcl-2 anti-apoptotic proteins, e.g., of anti-apoptotic Bcl-xL proteins.

Abstract: This invention covers injection stretch blow moulded articles prepared from polyethylene resin having a bimodal molecular weight distribution (MWD), defined by the ratio of the weight average molecular weight (Mw) to the number average molecular weight (Mn), of from 2 to 20, comprising two polyethylene fractions A and B, fraction A being substantially free of comonomer and having a lower weight average molecular weight and a higher density than fraction B, each fraction prepared in different reactors of two reactors connected in series in the presence of a metallocene-containing catalyst system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to broadcast communication and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for enabling a terminal capable of receiving mobile broadcast, such as DMB, to additionally receive a broadcast program provided by cable/IPTV/satellite broadcast. A broadcast receiver detects an idle band using a CR method, sends at least one of information about a broadcast channel and information about the idle band to a terminal, receives information that requests to provide a specific broadcast channel of one or more broadcast channels, included in information about a broadcast channel, from the terminal, receives the one or more broadcast channels from a broadcast station, selects the specific broadcast channel from the broadcast channels based on the information requesting to provide the specific broadcast channel, transfers the selected broadcast channel to a mobile broadcast delivery unit, and delivers mobile broadcast for the specific broadcast channel on the idle band.

Abstract: Methods and devices for reconstructing coefficient levels from a bitstream of encoded video data for a coefficient group in a transform unit. Parity hiding is used to signal the parity of the upper left coefficient of the coefficient group. Based on the parity, either the significant coefficient flag or the greater-than-one flag is encoded/decoded for that coefficient, but not both. The greater-than-one flag is encoded/decoded irrespective of whether a maximum number of greater-than-one flags have been encoded/decoded with respect to the other coefficients in the coefficient group.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for mitigating interference between wireless access points (APs). A user equipment (UE) device uses a first set of radio resources to wirelessly communicate with a first AP and a second set of radio resources to wirelessly communicate with a second AP. The UE device then uses the first and second radio resources to communicate cooperation data between the first and second access points to mitigate interference thereinbetween.

Abstract: The present invention relates to method and apparatus for temporally-consistent depth estimation. Such a depth estimation preserve both object boundary as well as temporal consistency using techniques of segmentation and pixel trajectory.

Abstract: A system and method for estimating location and motion of an object. An image of a ground surface is obtained and a first set of features is extracted from the image. A map database is searched for a second set of features that match the first set of features and a geo-location is retrieved from the map database, wherein the geo-location is associated with the second set of features. The location is estimated based on the retrieved geo-location. The motion of the object, such as distance travelled, path travelled and/or speed may be estimated in a similar manner by comparing the location of extracted features that are present in two or more images over a selected time period.

Abstract: This invention provides an extremely accurate way to characterize the Young's modulus of thin film materials with thicknesses in the nanometer range. It takes advantage of a recently developed high Q silicon Young's modulus resonator (YMR), which has a record high quality factor of about fifty million in operation at temperatures below 10 degrees Kelvin (10K). Because of the high Q of the YMR, the temperature stability of the YMR's resonance frequency below 1K, and the extremely high degree of vibration isolation inherent in the inventive design, the relative resolution of the resonant frequency is typically in 2×10?7. This is enough to resolve a resonant frequency shift after a deposition of a thin film onto the sensitive part of the resonator, and to compute the Young's modulus of thin film materials of even a few monolayers thickness.

Abstract: A method and a program for predicting a processing shape by a plasma process, the method including: a conditions-setting step (STEP 11) for setting conditions relevant to an object to be processed, process conditions including a cycle number provided that an etching process and a deposition process are taken as one cycle, and conditions relevant to simulation; an etching process surface transition amount calculating step (STEP 12) for calculating a surface transition amount by plasma etching based on etching process conditions; and a deposition process surface transition amount calculating step (STEP 13) for calculating a surface transition amount by plasma deposition based on deposition process conditions, wherein the etching process surface transition amount calculating step (STEP 12) and the deposition process surface transition amount calculating step (STEP 13) are repeated for the cycle number set in the conditions-setting step (STEP 11), thereby obtaining a processing shape by the the Bosch process.

Abstract: A depth map image, unlike a texture view, has smooth regions without complex texture and abrupt changes of pixel value at the object edges. While conventional Inter-prediction skip mode is very efficient for coding texture views, it does not include any Intra-prediction capability, which can be very efficient for coding smooth regions. The hybrid prediction skip mode according to the presently claimed invention includes an Inter-prediction Skip mode coupled with various Intra-prediction modes. The selection of the prediction mode is made by computing a Side Match Distortion (SMD) for the prediction modes. Because no additional overhead indicator bit is required and that the bitstream syntax is not altered, high coding efficiency is maintained and the coding scheme for coding depth maps in accordance to the presently disclosed invention can be implemented easily as an extension to existing standards.

Abstract: A method, including receiving an input of a character from a virtual keyboard displayed on a display; generating at least two sets of predicted input characters based on the input character; displaying at least two of the generated sets of predicted input characters at an input field, wherein each displayed set is displayed at a position in a defined arrangement; and selecting one of the displayed sets of predicted input characters in accordance with a gesture received at a partition of the virtual keyboard is disclosed. An electronic device and a non-transitory computer-readable medium to perform the method are also disclosed.