Abstract: A method and system for removing solids or displacing a fluid from a wellbore wherein a plurality of resilient rubber-like flexible reticulated open cell foam elements are dispersed in a fluid and pumped through drill pipe and into the annulus between the wellbore and the drill pipe. In the annulus, the foam elements impact and dislodge solids such as proppants, gravels, drilled cuttings and other solids or a fluid to be displaced and the proppants, etc. or the fluid are carried by the fluid containing the foam elements back to the surface or a different location in the wellbore. At the surface, the fluid containing the foam elements and the proppants, etc., is carried to a shale shaker where the solids and the foam elements are separated from the fluid. The separated solids and foam are collected for disposal and, after adding new foam elements, the fluid can be recirculated down hole.

Abstract: First subpixel group and second subpixel group are disposed alternately in a direction orthogonal to a gate bus line. A first subpixel and a second subpixel have shapes axially symmetric about a symmetry axis. Each of a plurality of first subpixels includes a plurality of first strip electrodes inclined by an angle of ? clockwise with respect to a rubbing direction. Each of a plurality of second subpixels includes a plurality of second strip electrodes inclined by an angle of ? counterclockwise with respect to a rubbing direction. Each of a plurality of source bus lines includes a first inclined part inclined by an angle of ? clockwise with respect to a rubbing direction and a second inclined part inclined by an angle of ? counterclockwise with respect to a rubbing direction. A rubbing direction is orthogonal to a gate bus line. Each of a plurality of spacers is disposed in a vicinity of a source bus line and also disposed linearly in parallel with a rubbing direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a stereoscopic display device that can reduce moiré that occurs due to light-shielding areas in the aperture of pixels. The stereoscopic display device includes a display panel and a parallax barrier. The display panel has a plurality of pixels and displays a stereoscopic image. In the parallax barrier, the direction in which transmissive and non-transmissive parts are alternately arranged is the first direction and the lengthwise direction of the non-transmissive parts is the second direction. There is a boundary that extends in the second direction between two pixels next to each other in the first direction. There are light-shielding areas in the aperture of each pixel. There is a space between the boundary and the light-shielding areas. Of two pixels next to each other in the second direction, the light-shielding areas in the aperture of one pixel are shifted in the first direction with respect to the light-shielding areas in the aperture of the other pixel.

Abstract: A portable neurofeedback device is described. The neurofeedback device includes a wearable fixture. One or more brainwave sensors are attached to the wearable fixture. A processing unit is attached to the wearable fixture. The processing unit receives brainwave signals captured by the one or more brainwave sensors. The processing unit computes one or more user-feedback values that represent current brain activity. A display module is attached to the wearable fixture that displays a visual representation of the one or more user-feedback values.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus capable of achieving the weight lightening, thinning and narrowing of the frame is provided. The liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel, an optical sheet, a backlight and a backlight housing body, which are sequentially laminated from a front side to a rear side. The liquid crystal display apparatus includes a frame body which sandwiches the liquid crystal panel, the optical sheet, the backlight and the backlight housing body, and the frame body has a U-shaped cross section opened inward.

Abstract: A method and engine for identifying events in a sensor signal using rate-dependent feature sets couples trial event identifications made using different rate-dependent feature sets with rate-dependent quality assessments to overcome the mutual dependency of event attributes and the rate of events. The quality assessments compare event identifications made at different rates against quality benchmarks for event identifications at those rates, such as event stability benchmarks, to determine which feature sets are producing reliable event identifications and which are not. The invention enables electronic monitoring devices to make improved event identifications by accepting identifications made by presently reliable rate-dependent feature sets and rejecting those made by presently unreliable rate-dependent feature sets. In one application of the invention, the method and engine enable a respiration monitoring device to make improved respiration segment identifications.

Abstract: A shift register is realized having a simple construction with which it is possible to switch the scanning order of gate bus lines and the occurrence of an erroneous operation caused by a threshold voltage drop can be prevented. Unit circuits that make up the shift register are configured of: a thin film transistor in which a third clock is supplied to the gate terminal, the drain terminal is connected to a first node, and a first input signal (output signal of prior stage) is supplied to the source terminal; a thin film transistor in which a second clock is supplied to the gate terminal, the drain terminal is connected to the first node, and a second input signal (output signal of subsequent stage) is supplied to the source terminal; and a thin film transistor in which the gate terminal is connected to the first node, a first clock is supplied to the drain terminal, and the source terminal is connected to an output terminal.

Abstract: This semiconductor device is provided with: a semiconductor film made of an oxide semiconductor film and having a channel region; a first insulating film that is formed on the semiconductor film in a form that covers the channel region; and a first electrode that is electrically connected to the semiconductor film via an opening formed in a location that does not overlap with the channel region in the first insulating film, and has an overlapping portion that overlaps with at least the semiconductor film on the first insulating film.

Abstract: A fluorescence detection device includes: a light source that emits excitation light in a first direction; a base unit (30) to which the light source is attached; an opening (30a) that is provided on a side in the first direction of the base unit (30) with respect to the light source; a cantilever (31) that is cantilevered to the base unit (30) to extend from an inner edge of the opening (30a) toward a center side of the opening (30a); an optical path conversion unit (20) that is fixed to a free end of the cantilever (31), converts a traveling direction of the excitation light emitted from the light source into a second direction different from the first direction, and irradiates a measurement object with the excitation light turned in the second direction; and a photodetection element that is disposed on a side of the opening (30a) opposite to the measurement object and detects fluorescence passing through the opening (30a) in fluorescence emitted from the measurement object irradiated with the excitation li

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a liquid crystal layer, a data signal line, a scan signal line, a transistor connected to the data signal line and the scan signal line, a pixel electrode connected to the data signal line via the transistor, a conductor and power supply wiring, the pixel electrode and the conductor forming a first capacitance and the conductor and the power supply wiring being connected to each other via a second capacitance. With this configuration, a residual image at the time of turning off of the power supply of the image display device is reduced.

Abstract: Substituted cyclopropyl piperidinyl compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are disclosed as useful for treating or preventing type 2 diabetes and similar conditions. The compounds are useful as agonists of the G-protein coupled receptor GPR-119. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment are also included.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to 4?-substituted nucleoside derivatives of Formula I and their use in the inhibition of HIV reverse transcriptase, the prophylaxis of infection by HIV, the treatment of infection by HIV, and the prophylaxis, treatment, and delay in the onset or progression of AIDS and/or ARC.

Abstract: Provided are a backlight device and a liquid-crystal display device whereby, while carrying out a radiation countermeasure of a light source, uniformity of temperature of a back face chassis is effected. The backlight device comprises: a light-guide plate (12) which emits toward the front face side light which enters from an end face; a light source (14a) which projects light toward the end face; a back face chassis (9) which is disposed on the back face side of the light-guide plate; and a heat radiation member (8a) which is disposed on the back face side of the back face chassis, and which dissipates heat from the light source. The heat radiation member further comprises chassis contact portions (38a-38c) which make partial contact with the back face of the back face chassis at multiple sites.

Abstract: An semiconductor structure comprises a first quantum well having a first state (E3) with an energy that is greater than an energy of a lower state (E1) by a first energy difference, a quantum well structure (100) adjacent to the first quantum well and having at least a second state (E4) having an energy level which is resonant with the first state (E3) of the first quantum well, a second quantum well having at least a third state (E2) to collect electrons from the second state (E4) of the quantum well structure through a non-radiative mechanism and a fourth state (E5). An energy of the fourth state of the second quantum well is greater than an energy of the third state (E2) by a second energy difference. The structure can absorb two photons, one in the first quantum well by excitation of a carrier from the lower energy state (E1) to the first state (E3) and another in the second quantum well by excitation of a carrier from the third state (E2) to the fourth state (E5).

Abstract: Compounds of Formula (I) are disclosed, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R18 are defined herein. The compounds encompassed by Formula (I) include compounds which are HCV NS5B inhibitors and other compounds which can be metabolized in vivo to HCV NS5B inhibitors. The compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts are useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of infection by HCV and the prophylaxis, treatment, or delay in the onset of disease caused by HCV. The compounds and their salts can be employed as ingredients in pharmaceutical compositions, optionally in combination with other antivirals, immunomodulators, antibiotics or vaccines.

Abstract: A controllable device for phase modulation of coherent light comprises a modulator matrix having a plurality of liquid crystal modulator cells each being adapted to modulate a phase value of light passing through a liquid crystal modulator cell depending on a voltage, which is applied to the liquid crystal modulator cell; at least one polarity area of said modulator matrix including at least one liquid crystal modulator cell; at least one storage unit for storing at least one pair of voltage values of which one has a positive and the other has a negative polarity for the liquid crystal modulator cells, whereby the pair of voltage values corresponds to a predetermined phase value; and a control unit for selectively applying one pair of voltage values to one liquid crystal modulator cell.

Abstract: Provided is a shift register with which an increase in power consumption can be inhibited, and with which malfunctions due to electric potential Modification Example between gate terminals of output transistors can be inhibited, while inhibiting an increase in circuit size. A bistable circuit of a shift register is provided with first to fourth transistors. In the third transistor, a gate terminal thereof is connected to second conduction terminals of the first and second transistors, a first conduction terminal thereof is connected to a second input terminal, and a second conduction terminal thereof is connected to an output terminal. In the fourth transistor, a gate terminal thereof is connected to the second input terminal, and a second conduction terminal thereof is connected to the gate terminal of the third transistor and the output terminal.

Abstract: It is enabled to prevent packing of toner and supply toner stably. A toner supplying device has a toner cartridge attached to an upper part thereof a storage tank in which toner supplied from the toner cartridge is stored temporarily and discharges the toner from a toner discharge port provided in a lower end of the storage tank. A conveyance screw for discharging the toner from the toner discharge port is provided inside the storage tank and the storage tank has a shaft support hole for supporting a shaft of the conveyance screw that coincides with a rotational center axis of the conveyance screw. The shaft support hole is formed as along hole in which the shaft is able to be displaced in one direction or a direction opposite to the one direction.

Abstract: There has been a problem that when transmit power control is performed so as to compensate for a certain pathloss regardless of a type of a transmit signal, reception is not performed at a receiving end with an appropriate receive power in a case where a destination differs depending on a type of a transmit power. A terminal device includes a transmit power control unit that determines a transmit power. The transmit power control unit includes at least two types of transmit power equations which are used in determining the transmit power, determines the transmit power based on one of the equations when a scheduling request is transmitted to one of the multiple base stations, and determines the transmit power based on the other equation that is different from the one equation when information is transmitted to an another one of the base stations. The terminal device includes a transmission unit that transmits data based on the determined transmit power.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound represented by formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are disclosed as useful for treating or preventing diabetes, hyperlipidemia, obesity, inflammation related disorders, and related diseases and conditions. The compounds are useful as agonists of the G-protein coupled receptor GPR120. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment are also included.