Abstract: The present discloses an ion sensor and its readout circuit. The sensor includes potentiometric, amperometric ion sensors or dual mode electrochemical sensor. The dual mode electrochemical sensors can be measured by the same measurement circuit system. The dual mode sensors are extended gate ion sensitive field effect transistors and amperometric biosensors. The measurement circuit system is adaptable to the different mode sensors.

Abstract: In this invention, an extended gate FET with a tin dioxide membrane is applied to fabricate a berberine sensor. There are two methods for fabricating the berberine sensor. First, it is mixed by the macromolecule polymer and electrocatalytic activities. The membrane is adsorbed on the SnO2/ITO glass and the berberine sensor is completed. Second, a polymer is used to immobilize enzyme on the substrate and detect the berberine. In this invention, the extended gate field effect transistor of the SnO2/ITO glass is applied to fabricate a durable berberine detection electrode. One of the berberine sensors that is macromolecule polymer, the optimal measurement environment is in distilled water and the best response curve can be realized, the detection rang is from 1×10?3M to 5×10?7M and the linear range is about 121.47 mV/pC. The berberine sensor based on the enzyme that optimal measurement environment is in 0.1M phosphate buffer solution at pH7.4 and better response curves can be obtained.

Abstract: A stacked semiconductor chip package comprising a first semiconductor chip having an upper surface, a lower surface opposed to said upper surface, and a plurality of conductive metal lines formed on said upper surface of said first semiconductor chip; a plurality of metal elements each having a first arm portion located on said upper surface of said first semiconductor chip and connected electrically to a corresponding one of said metal lines, a second arm portion located on said lower surface of said first semiconductor chip; and a second semiconductor chip having a lower surface and a plurality of conductive bumps provided on said lower surface, and mounted on said upper surface of said first semiconductor chip in such a manner that said solder bumps of said second semiconductor chip is electrically connected to said corresponding conductive metal lines on said upper surface of said first semiconductor chip.

Abstract: Impacts with a vehicle body panel are detected by sensing airflow inboard of the vehicle body panel. The airflow can be measured by heated element sensor, a Pitot tube sensor, a venturi sensor or other airflow-responsive sensor. For side impact detection, the sensor is located in a door or pillar on the side of the vehicle; for frontal impact detection, the sensor may be located behind the front bumper. Multiple sensors mounted in distributed locations can be used to determine the location and extent of an impact.

Abstract: A replaceable annular electrode for transgenic includes a hand-held electrode seat having multiple metal rods downward extending from the hand-held seat. An electrode ring is secured on a free end of each of the multiple metal rods. A first electrode rod centrally downward extends from the hand-held seat and a sleeve is sleeved on the first electrode rod. The sleeve is secured on the first electrode rod by bolts. The sleeve has a second electrode rod centrally downward extending therefrom and the second electrode rod is electrically connected to the first electrode rod when the sleeve is secured on the first electrode rod such that the second electrode rod can be replaced to have various lengths and diameters such that annular electrode can use different distances between the second electrode rod and the electrode ring to make different obvious electric shock effects.

Abstract: An artifact removal and quality assurance method and system for digital images, wherein a document comprising at least one printed page is scanned or the original image data are otherwise input. The input digital image data are segmented into components as to content type. The components are classified as either information or noise components. An information component image defined by the information components and a noise component image defined by the noise components are generated and displayed to the user. The user inputs quality assurance input data to indicate zero or more improperly classified components and any improperly classified component is reclassified. The component images are then regenerated and displayed to account for the reclassified component(s). The reclassified component is moved as a unit in real time as viewed by the user from an original location in one of the component images to a corresponding location in the other of the component images.

Abstract: A satellite module mounted near the periphery of a vehicle inboard of a body panel such as a bumper or side door panel includes both primary and secondary (safing) sensors. Response time is enhanced by co-locating the sensors in a satellite module, and reliability is enhanced by utilizing different sensing technologies for the co-located sensors. In a preferred embodiment, either the primary or secondary sensor is responsive to airflow inboard of the body panel due to a crash event.

Abstract: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a protein involved in phenylpropanoid metabolism. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the protein involved in phenylpropanoid metabolism, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the protein involved in phenylpropanoid metabolism in a transformed host cell.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a fermenting production process of Hirsutella hepiali Chen & Shen for industrial purpose. It contains steps: a. Isolating new stain from original source; b. identifying whether the stain can grow stroma or not; c. culturing the strain in solid medium for rejuvenescence purpose; d. Secondly culturing the strain in liquid culture medium; e. fermenting. Said method provides a fermenting production process, which can continually identify whether the anamorphic fungi related to Chinese Cordyceps sinensis change or not, whether it retains the property of original strain or not. It also can be modified continually. According to these processes, the quality of the obtained product will be stable and the property will be retained stable for quite a long time. Therefore this method overcome the problems exist in the art that change of the strain, instability of quality of the product and so on.

Abstract: Disclosed is a solid particulate antiperspirant salt comprising a mixture (or complex) of an enhanced efficacy aluminum-zirconium chlorohydrex-amino acid and a neutralizing salt. The particulate antiperspirant salt, when measured as an aqueous solution at a concentration of 15% by weight at 25° C., has a pH greater than 4.5, preferably about 4.6 to about 5.3. Also disclosed is a topical antiperspirant composition comprising the aforementioned particulate antiperspirant salt and a method of reducing perspiration from human skin by applying the aforementioned antiperspirant composition. In addition, there is disclosed a method of preparing the aforementioned particulate antiperspirant salt.

Abstract: The subject invention relates to probabilistic models that are trained from transitions among various topics of pages visited by a sample population of search users. In one aspect, probabilistic models of topic transitions are learned for individual users and groups of users. Topic transitions for individuals versus larger groups are analyzed, wherein the relative accuracies of personal models of topic dynamics with models constructed from sets of pages drawn from similar groups and from a larger population of users are compared. To exploit temporal dynamics, the accuracy of these models are tested for predicting transitions in topics of visits at increasingly more distant times in the future. The models can be applied to search topic dynamics of tagged pages, and then utilized to predict topics of subsequent pages visited by users.

Abstract: Field effect transistor integrated circuits include field effect transistors in an integrated circuit substrate, such as a semiconductor substrate. A first one of the field effect transistors has a body effect that is substantially lower than that of a second one of the field effect transistors during operation of the first and second field effect transistors. The field effect transistors may be interconnected to form a circuit, and the body effect of the first field effect transistor is substantially lower than that of the second field effect transistor during operation of the circuit.

Abstract: A lighting device includes a light-guiding rod and a light-emitting unit. The light-guiding rod includes a transparent hollow housing, the housing has two open ends and two insulating plugs for closing corresponding said two open ends. The light-emitting unit includes a transparent light-guiding plate, at least one light-emitting diode, a mounting substrate, and a plurality of conductive bumps. The transparent light-guiding plate is disposed in said housing. At least one light-emitting diode has a light-emitting surface; the surface is attached to a lower surface of said light-guiding plate. The mounting substrate has a wiring surface and a plurality of electric traces. A plurality of conductive bumps for connecting electrically said electric contacts of said at least one light-emitting diode to corresponding said electric traces in such a manner that said at least one light-emitting diode is mounted on said wiring surface of said mounting substrate.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes managing user-level threads on a first instruction sequencer in response to executing user-level instructions on a second instruction sequencer that is under control of an application level program. A first user-level thread is run on the second instruction sequencer and contains one or more user level instructions. A first user level instruction has at least 1) a field that makes reference to one or more instruction sequencers or 2) implicitly references with a pointer to code that specifically addresses one or more instruction sequencers when the code is executed.

Abstract: LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) coded modulation symbol decoding. Symbol decoding is supported by appropriately modifying an LDPC tripartite graph to eliminate the bit nodes thereby generating an LDPC bipartite graph (such that symbol nodes are appropriately mapped directly to check nodes thereby obviating the bit nodes). The edges that communicatively couple the symbol nodes to the check nodes are labeled appropriately to support symbol decoding of the LDPC coded modulation signal. The iterative decoding processing may involve updating the check nodes as well as estimating the symbol sequence and updating the symbol nodes. In some embodiments, an alternative hybrid decoding approach may be performed such that a combination of bit level and symbol level decoding is performed. This LDPC symbol decoding out-performs bit decoding only. In addition, it provides comparable or better performance of bit decoding involving iterative updating of the associated metrics.

Abstract: An cellular phone holder includes a holder apparatus, a fixed apparatus, and an operating apparatus. The holder apparatus includes a main body. The fixed apparatus includes a fixed plate longitudinally disposed thereon. A teeth-formed end composed of a plurality of protruding teeth is formed on one side of the fixed plate, and the protruding teeth are upwardly inclined. The operating apparatus includes an operating element transversely disposed on the main body, and a plurality of propping teeth corresponding to the teeth-formed end are formed on the operating element, and the propping teeth are downwardly inclined, which has the stable and accurate effective, thereby accurately fastening without the shaking phenomenon.

Abstract: The preparation and use of nucleic acid fragments useful in altering the oil phenotype in plants are disclosed. Chimeric construct incorporating such nucleic acid fragments and suitable regulatory sequences can be used to create transgenic plants having altered lipid profiles. Methods for altering the oil phenotype in plants using such nucleic acid fragments also are disclosed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for parallel decoding of turbo encoded data. The method includes multiple Soft In Soft Out (SISO) modules arranged in parallel such that each module supplies an input to one SISO and takes an input from another SISO data encoded for multiple parallel SISOs is received by a receiver and decoded in the abovementioned parallel configuration.

Abstract: A processor is connected to a storage device storing an incoming e-mail, a dependency database, and code for a calendar application. The dependency database can be built from an e-mail corpus containing a plurality of natural language e-mails containing scheduling information. The incoming e-mail is parsed by the processor to build a dependency tree containing word pairs from the e-mail that are found in the dependency tree. The word pairs are stored as dependency pairs in a tree structure in the dependency tree. A probability sum for the dependency tree is calculated to determine if the e-mail contains scheduling information. If the probability sum exceeds a predetermined value, the e-mail is assumed to contain scheduling information and the scheduling information is extracted from the dependency tree and exported to the calendar application.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a thin film germanium photodetector includes preparing a silicon substrate; fabricating a CMOS device on the silicon substrate; preparing a germanium substrate; preparing surfaces of each substrate for bonding; bonding the germanium substrate to the CMOS-bearing silicon substrate to form a bonded structure; removing a portion of the germanium substrate from the bonded structure; forming a PIN diode in the germanium substrate; removing a portion of the germanium layer by etching; and completing the germanium photo detector.