Abstract: An assessment tool that utilizes a psychometric test that can predict more accurately human personality by combining personality types derived from the 5 dimensions of a personality profile thereby providing a psychometric instrument, in the form of a 5-dimensional model organized into a symbol known as a “Spider Web”.

Abstract: An automatic document validation system that can be trained to extract domain-specific entities and their linguistically-associated physical, abstract or relational properties, as described within an electronic document. Training of the system can be achieved through the provision of a set of example documents representative of the domain and that have been manually tagged by a domain expert in such a way as to identify the various types of entities and their associated set of recordable properties. Together with a domain-specific vocabulary (e.g.. a dictionary), the trained system is then able to automatically process new documents belonging to the same domain and to test the extracted information on any number of content-conditional rules that have been specified by the domain expert as necessary to confirm the completeness and validity of the new documents.

Abstract: A method and system for gathering, organizing, analyzing, tracking, and publishing of information through person-alizable information portfolios, the personalized information management system comprising an information gathering module for retrieving relevant information from internet and/or intranet sources, a personalized content management module for manipulating and annotating portfolio, a content mining module for analyzing portfolio, a content publishing module for publishing and sharing of portfolio, a user interface module for supporting the various modules, and an account management module for managing user access and directory maintenance.

Abstract: A drinking-fluid dispenser includes an uprightly oriented bottle having an open end and a close end. Mounted inside the bottle adjacent the open end is a valve connected to a float by an actuating arm. There is also a pressure-vent unit insertably disposed near the open end of the bottle for maintaining atmospheric pressure above the fluid inside the bottle. During normal use, fluid extracted out of the bottle is replendished by an external fluid source which is in fluid communication with the bottle through the valve. The valve in turn is controlled by the float which buoyantly floats on the fluid, closes and opens the valve, respectively, when the fluid rises and falls inside the bottle.