Abstract: A method for creating and searching medical ontologies includes providing a semi-structured information source comprising a plurality of articles linked to each other, each article having one or more sections and each article is associated with a concept, creating a directed unlabeled graph representative of the information source, providing a plurality of labels, labeling a subset of edges, and assigning each unlabeled edge an equal probability of being assigned one of the labels. For each node, the probability of each outgoing edge is updated by smoothing each probability by an overall probability distribution of labels over all outgoing edges of each node, and the probability of each incoming edge is updated the same way. A label with a maximum probability is assigned to an edge if said maximum probability is greater than a predetermined threshold to create a labeled graph.

Abstract: Receive circuits and associated methods are provided for ultrasound imaging. Both subarray mixing and time division multiplexing are provided with a same circuit. Components of the receive circuit respond to either phasing or time slot information to implement subarray mixing or time division multiplexing. A network of switches allows combination of signals from different elements to form different sub-apertures. A controller minimizes power consumption while outputting the desired phase or time division multiplexed information by gating a clock to various registers. Each of the registers corresponds to different groups of transducer elements. For loading new phasing information, the clock is turned on to the desired register. Duration operation of the receive circuit, the clock is gated off. The register outputs the previously loaded values in a static state without clocking.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for detecting when a mobile communication device exits a defined geographical area wherein the defined geographical area includes one or more cells. A cell that the mobile communication device is in communication with is identified and it is determined if the identified cell is a boundary cell, wherein a boundary cell is a cell in which a boundary of the defined geographical area is within the cell. The location of the mobile communication device is determined if the identified cell is a boundary cell and the location of the mobile communication device is compared with the boundary of the defined geographical area to detect if the mobile communication device has exited the defined geographical area.

Abstract: At least one embodiment of the invention relates to an actuator including a mechanical display, wherein the actuator is provided for switching a switch unit, and the mechanical display includes a window and a display surface visible through the window. At least one embodiment of the invention is based on the insight that prior mechanical displays require a great deal of space within the command device, and are also prone to failure. The problem of space-saving integration is solved by a display surface formed on the spring bar mounted on the actuation part, and the display surface, together with at least a part of the spring bar, is intended to make a partial rotary motion about a rotary axis during the actuation motion. In addition to the space-saving integration, a greater displacement of the display surface is also thus achieved. At least one embodiment of the invention further relates to an electromechanical operating device having a switch unit that can be switched by such an actuator.

Abstract: User data is transmitted between an interconnected data transmission network and a data package transmission network. A receiver of an original signaling message generates a partner signaling message, which has been defined for a data package transmission and is suitable for transporting the original signaling message. The partner signaling message excludes a portion of the original signaling message.

Abstract: A method for correcting image artifacts during the acquisition of magnetic resonance imaging data includes the following steps. At least one part of the linear, location-dependent and spatially constant interference fields arising at the measurement location is determined in a time interval between an excitation point in time and a MR data acquisition point in time.

Abstract: An annular end piece for a cylindrical vacuum vessel, comprising a metal end piece (42); an outer decorative shell (44) spaced away from a surface of the metal end piece; and a layer of solid foam filling the space between the metal end piece and the outer decorative shell.

Abstract: A method generates at least one electrical connection from at least one electronic component, which is positioned on a substrate inside an encapsulation, to outside the encapsulation. The functional capability of the electrical connection is to be provided at ambient temperatures greater than 140° C. and in the event of large power losses and extreme environmental influences. A reactive nanofilm, having targeted reaction, which can be triggered exothermically by laser, is used to produce hermetically sealed electrical connections. Using the nanofilm, an output of an electrical connection and a contact of the electrical connection to at least one further electrical contact can be provided.

Abstract: In a method for planning of an angiography measurement of a body region in a magnetic resonance system, the body region being larger than the maximum field of view of the magnetic resonance system, and wherein the MR system has a control unit for controlling the workflow of the angiographic measurement, an upper boundary and a lower boundary of the body region are established. The control unit divides the body region into sub-measurement regions and sub-measurements dependent on the established boundaries. The sub-measurement regions and sub-measurements are measured in succession. The arrival of an injected test bolus of a contrast agent into the various sub-measurement regions is detected using MR measurements.

Abstract: In one aspect, a method for establishing communication in a packet-oriented communications network between a calling (EG1) and a called terminal is provided. In the method, before a call-accepted signal by the called terminal, triggered by a message within the framework of call set-up signaling, a direct, first payload connection is established and maintained between the calling and the called terminal. As a direct result of the call-accepted signal of the called terminal communication is triggered between the calling and called terminal by means of the established first payload connection.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a thermal insulating layer for a housing of a steam turbine in order to even out the deformation behavior of different components based on different heatings of the components.

Abstract: Methods and reagents are disclosed for enhancing the bioavailability of a hydrophobic drug, and in some embodiments for determining a hydrophobic drug, in a sample suspected of containing a hydrophobic drug. A combination is formed in a medium where the combination comprises the sample, a hemolytic agent where a determination of the hydrophobic drug is conducted, and a bioavailability agent for the hydrophobic drug. The bioavailability agent comprises an ionic detergent comprising a chain of at least 10 carbon atoms or a non-ionic detergent comprising a chain of at least 15 repeating ethylene oxide units or propylene oxide units or a combination of ethylene oxide units and propylene oxide units. The concentration of the bioavailability agent in the medium is sufficient to enhance the bioavailability of the hydrophobic drug.

Abstract: A thermionic emission device, in particular for use in an x-ray tube, has an indirectly heated primary emitter that is fashioned as a flat emitter with an unstructured primary emission surface, and a heating emitter that is fashioned as a flat emitter with a structured heat emission surface. The primary emitter and the heating emitter each has at least two terminal lugs, and the primary emission surface and the heat emission surface are aligned essentially parallel to one another. The emission device provides an optimally high quality of the focal spot with a simple design and, given high thermal load, an unwanted widening or defocusing of the electron beam is avoided by the terminal lugs of the primary emitter being aligned essentially perpendicular to the primary emission surface and not protruding beyond the primary emission surface in the lateral direction.

Abstract: Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, a method may include sending, by a base station in a wireless network, a paging message to a mobile station, the paging message identifying the mobile station. The method may also include receiving, at an offset time after the sending the paging message, a ranging request message from the mobile station, the offset time being based at least in part on an identifier of the mobile station.

Abstract: A method and a system for the propagation of a message in a radio-operated communication network having a base unit and a plurality of members, wherein the base unit and the members each includes a transmitter and a receiver, the receiver being activated at cyclical switch-on times for a certain respective receiving period. A message to be sent from a member to the base unit is transmitted by the member to at least one adjacent member as a function of at least one rule, and the message is transmitted by the at least one adjacent member, according to the at least one rule, to at least one member adjacent thereto, in the direction of the base unit. The process is repeated such that the message is transmitted from at least one adjacent member receiving the message according to the at least one rule to at least one member adjacent thereto, in the direction of the base unit. The message is transmitted from the at least one member that is adjacent to the base unit to at least the base unit.

Abstract: A radio communication system, for example a TDMA/CDMA radio communication system, has at least one base station recurringly offering frequency channels for a random access for mobile stations in an upstream direction. The mobile station that requests a connection setup measures a reception power of a signal sent in a downstream direction by the base station and sets a transmission power for sending an access radio block to the base station dependent on the measured reception power. A variable transmission power control can thus be implemented at the mobile station side with the assistance of the measured reception power of the signal transmitted on the part of the base station, being also capable of being implemented for random access of the mobile stations, this having previously always occurred with maximum transmission power.

Abstract: A CIC hearing instrument and appertaining method are provided that improve feedback stability. Accordingly, the microphone inlet is located on the faceplate of the instrument at a position of least vibration. Furthermore, the receiver is located in the device such that its vibrating membrane is parallel to a plane calculated to include a line of minimal vibration on the faceplate and a center of gravity for the instrument.

Abstract: A method and a system for analyzing temporal flow characteristics by which processing times for module labels of program modules can be graphically represented in a display to provide a user of an industrial controller with an enhanced way to analyze a distribution of the computing times of each individual program module.

Abstract: A track-bound vehicle has a first and a second car coupled to one another and at least one sensor device for monitoring a region between the two coupled cars. In order to allow particularly reliable monitoring of the region between the two coupled cars, the at least one sensor device is an optical sensor system having at least one optical transmitter on the side of the first car directed at the region to be monitored and at least one optical receiver on the side of the second car. The sensor is implemented for outputting a detection signal if the light path between the at least one optical transmitter and the at least one optical receiver is interrupted.

Abstract: A method is provided for transmitting notification messages for submission of multimedia messages to telecommunications devices embodied as multimedia message sinks, wherein to reduce the effort involved in transmitting notification messages and the associated administration effort in an entity sending the notification message on submission of multimedia messages to telecommunications devices embodied as multimedia message sinks independently of their multimedia capabilities, a service center responsible for sending the notification messages transmits on submission of multimedia messages in a notification message a first notification information which is preferably binary coded, and a second notification information which is preferably embodied as text information, uniformly to different variants of telecommunications devices as regards their multimedia capabilities.