Abstract: A portable railroad spike remover comprises an extractor that is shaped to engage and secure a railroad spike previously installed into a rail tie. A drive shaft is connected to the extractor such that as the drive shaft is rotated, the extractor is vertically raised and lowered within a main column. The extractor may have an opening extending through at least one side to engage the railroad spike.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus (a) causes the image scanning device to scan an image of: (a1) the mobile terminal apparatus before model changing that displays the subscriber ID, (a2) the mobile terminal apparatus after model changing that displays the subscriber ID, and (a3) a fill-in form in which the authentication setting information was written on a platen glass as one-time scanning and generate a scanned image, (b) extracts the subscriber IDs of the mobile terminal apparatuses and the authentication setting information, (c) causes the wireless communication device to transmit the authentication setting information to the mobile terminal apparatus after model changing if the subscriber ID of the mobile terminal apparatus before model changing and the subscriber ID of the mobile terminal apparatus after model changing are same as each other.

Abstract: A storage container commonly referred to a “tackle box,” that detachably secures an elongate fishing lure, such as a tube fly or the like, within a chamber of a case using a mandrel for detachably engaging the lure and a mandrel anchor for detachably engaging the mandrel. In a disclosed embodiment, the mandrel anchor is formed of foam with slits received therein for receiving one or more mandrels. A distal end of each mandrel may include a clip for snugly engaging the lure to further hold the lure in place in the container.

Abstract: This document discloses a solution for detecting and mitigating anomalies such as signalling storms in a radio access network of a wireless communication system. According to an aspect, there is disclosed a method including receiving, in a first local traffic analysis module, configuration parameters from a second local traffic analysis module or from a central traffic analysis module connected to a plurality of local traffic analysis modules; monitoring, by a first traffic analysis module by using the received configuration parameters, traffic in a radio access network of a wireless communication system; detecting, in the monitored traffic on the basis of the configuration parameters, an anomaly causing a control plane signalling load; and in response to said detecting, taking an action to mitigate the anomaly and reporting information on the anomaly to the central traffic analysis module.

Abstract: A reading module of the present disclosure is provided with a light source, an optical system, and a sensor. The optical system images, as reading light, reflected light of light radiated from the light source to an illumination object. The sensor converts the reading light imaged by the optical system into an electric signal. The optical system is provided with a mirror array in which a plurality of reflection mirrors are disposed in an array in a prescribed direction and a plurality of aperture stop portions that adjust an amount of the reading light. Each of the reflection mirrors is disposed at a prescribed distance from an adjacent one of the reflection mirrors in a prescribed direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a Mangifera (Mango) Indica preparation as Sirtuin 1 activating agent for in vivo and in vitro applications. The preparation may be used to reduce the risk of developing obesity, type II diabetes, elevated blood lipid levels, artheriosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases, as well as a cell and DNA protector.

Abstract: To provide an image forming system by which a printed object can be obtained in a short time after a request for image formation is issued, an image forming system includes an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus via a network to form an image. The information processing apparatus includes a first determining unit, a second determining unit, a transmission control unit, and a transmitting unit. The first determining unit determines whether an electronic file is opened. In a case where the first determining unit determines that the electronic file is opened, the second determining unit determines whether a specific action related to image formation of the electronic file is detected.

Abstract: A genetic algorithm is described to determine a near-optimal schedule for assigning heterogeneous computations to resources in a heterogeneous computational environment. The genetic algorithm evolves a computation-to-compute resource mapping optimized with respect to a set of inter-dependent, and possibly conflicting objectives including cost of computation, data transfer cost, time to complete computation, profitability, etc. A set of scheduling plans are randomly created and then evaluated and assigned a fitness value based on the ability to meet a set of weighted objectives. Scheduling plans having desirable fitness values are selected as parents to procreate one or more new scheduling plans, each new plan inheriting resource mappings from at least two parents. This evolutionary process is repeated until the fitness values across scheduling plans converge or a time threshold is exceeded. At the end of evolution, a scheduling plan with the best assigned value is chosen for scheduling.

Abstract: The integrated process comprises a step a) of dehydrogenating propane providing a stream S1 comprising propane and propene; a step b) of separating stream S1 in at least one rectification column, providing an overhead product stream S2 comprising more than 99% by weight propene, a side stream S3 comprising from 90 to 98% by weight propene and a bottoms product stream S4 enriched in propane; a step c) of reacting propene with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of an epoxidation catalyst using propene in molar excess; and a step d) of separating non-reacted propene and propene oxide from the reaction mixture of step c) providing a propene oxide product and a stream S5 comprising propene and propane; wherein stream S3 is passed to step c), stream S5 is recycled to step b) and stream S4 is recycled to step a).

Abstract: A wearable camera includes a video recording device that records a captured video of a subject on the front side of a user on a recorder, a sensor that acquires information regarding motion of the user, a determiner that determines whether or not at least one default event has occurred on the basis of information regarding motion of the user acquired by the sensor during recording of the captured video of the subject, and a controller that generates event list information in which a detection time point of the default event is correlated with information regarding the default event according to determination that the at least one default event has occurred during recording of the captured video of the subject, and records the event list information on the recorder in correlation with the captured video of the subject.

Abstract: Presented here are methods and systems for enabling multiple consumers to view an ordered data stream at the same time. An embodiment of the invention follows a client-server model, in which there is one server that is the source of the data and multiple clients that are the consumers of the data. Additionally, this invention can also be embodied by a number of other models, including but not limited to: 1) multiple servers or server clusters acting as data sources, and multiple clients acting as consumers, 2) pure peer-to-peer, where each peer can be both a source and/or a consumer of data, 3) a server-assisted peer-to-peer model, where peers may be both a source and/or a consumer of data and a set of one or more servers act as source and back-up and provide meta-information about the peers, such as which data is available from which peer.

Abstract: A medical imaging device includes: a left eye imaging element including a left eye light receiving surface configured to receive left eye observation light from an observed region of a subject; and a right eye imaging element including a right eye light receiving surface configured to receive right eye observation light being an observation light from the observed region and having a parallax from the left eye observation light. The left eye imaging element and the right eye imaging element are arranged such that: short sides of the left eye light receiving surface and the right eye light receiving surface are along a direction in which an optical axes of the left eye observation light and the right eye observation light are juxtaposed with each other; and long sides of the left eye light receiving surface and long sides of the right eye light receiving surface oppose each other.

Abstract: A planning system for an autonomous work vehicle system includes a controller configured to determine a plan for the autonomous work vehicle system by reducing a cost function, and to output one or more signals indicative of the plan and/or instructions to execute the plan. The plan includes a route of the autonomous work vehicle system through a field, and the cost function includes multiple costs associated with operation of the autonomous work vehicle system.

Abstract: A fuel supply system for a gas burner assembly includes an eductor for providing a mixed flow of fuel into a fuel chamber of the gas burner assembly. The eductor includes a suction chamber defining a suction inlet, a motive nozzle positioned within the suction chamber, and an eductor outlet positioned proximate an inlet to the fuel chamber. A fuel supply provides a first flow of fuel through a first fuel supply conduit to the suction inlet and a second flow of fuel through a second fuel supply conduit to the motive nozzle. A fuel pump is operably coupled to the second fuel supply conduit for increasing a pressure of the second flow of fuel such that the second flow generates a negative pressure within the suction chamber to increase the first flow of fuel.

Abstract: Downhole completion system (100) arranged in a borehole, comprising a production casing (2) having an axial extension with an opening (4) for providing fluid communication between the borehole and the inside of the casing, a sleeve (5) arranged at least partly movably along or rotatably around the axial extension for opening, choking or closing the fluid communication and a sleeve control (7) for moving the sleeve (5) to open, choke or close the opening (4), wherein the sleeve control comprises a first part having at least one member (9) engaging the profile, a second part having a fixation unit (11) fixating the sleeve control in the casing, an actuator (12) for moving the first part in relation to the second part, a power supply (14), such as a battery, supplying power to the actuator (12), and a first communication module (15) for receiving control signals from surface.

Abstract: A heart rate monitor provides a pulse or heartbeat, but without the on-going or continuous phase signal of ECG and/or with a delay relative to the actual heartbeat. For phase determination in echocardiography, the heartbeat from the heart rate monitor is used to assist in identification of phase from acquired ultrasound data. Rather than relying on just ECG or just image processing, the worn or handheld heart rate monitor is used to simplify the image process-based identification of phase.

Abstract: A radial compressor (10), with a compressor rotor having moving blades and with a compressor housing (11) accommodating an insert piece (12) and a diffuser (13), in which the insert piece (12) delimits a flow duct leading to the moving blades of the rotor and the diffuser (13) a flow duct leading away from the moving blades of the rotor at least in sections, and in which the diffuser (13) is designed as bladeless diffuser and as an integral part of the insert piece (12).

Abstract: Anatomical healing abutments, kits and methods for promoting healing of gingival tissue around a subgingival void of a given tooth position. The abutment includes a cuff body having an anatomical subgingival portion extending from an implant end to the gingival margin of the patient, and an emergent crown portion extending occlusally from the subgingival portion beyond the gingival margin. A directional alignment body may be disposed on the cuff body and configured to extend bucally beyond an outer perimeter of the cuff body when the cuff body is anatomically aligned relative to the void. The subgingival portion has an asymmetric cross-section and is occlusally flared to anatomically fill the void and support gingival tissue around the void to minimize slump of tissue into the void. The crown portion has a mesial-distal width that spans a width of the gingival margin and an occlusal height to extend beyond the gingival margin.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a casing, a fixing member, a pressuring member, a pressure adjusting part and a correction biasing part. The fixing member heats a toner image on a medium while rotating inside the casing. The pressuring member forms a pressuring area with the fixing member while rotating inside the casing to pressure a toner on the medium passing through the pressuring area. The pressure adjusting part presses one of the fixing member and the pressuring member to the other to pressurize the pressuring area, and releases pressing of the one to depressurize the pressuring area. The correction biasing part, in a case where a supporting shaft part supporting the other by the casing penetrates the casing, biases both sides in an axial direction of the supporting shaft part extended to the outside of the casing in a similar direction to a pressurizing direction of the pressure adjusting part.