Abstract: A method for diagnosis of diseases adopted on an electronic stethoscope which includes at least two sound receiving portions, a noise control portion, a processing portion, a data portion and an output portion. The method includes: first, the sound receiving portions receive sound signals issued from a patient's lungs included external noises; next, the sound signals are sent to the noise control portion which eliminates the external noise, and the processing portion to be overlapped and intensified; then characteristic values are retrieved from the sound signals to be compared with disease sound signal data in the data portion; finally the output portion outputs a diseases judgment result. Thus the electronic stethoscope can perform automatic interpretation of diseases to reduce human erroneous diagnostic judgment. Users also can get preliminary understanding of their body conditions when doctors are absent.

Abstract: In order to solve the problem of the detection of the arrival of duplicate data packets in an interconnected, multinode data processing system, each data packet is provided with a field of r bits that are randomly generated for each data packet. However, one of the packets is provided with a field that is computed from the other randomly generated field entries in a checksum computation which yields a selected nonzero checksum value. A running checksum at the receiver is used to determine whether or not, after the receipt of the specified number, k, of data packets, a duplicate packet has been received.

Abstract: In a multinode data processing system in which the nodes communicate with one another through communication adapters coupled to a switch or network, a method is provided for using the Internet Protocol (IP) for transmitting large broadcast data packets without incurring the overhead normally associated with packet fragmentation. By adding an Internet Protocol (IP) header as the first header in every packet fragment in the fragmentation process, fragmented packets are able to be assembled in the IP layer without intervention at the adapter interface layer.

Abstract: In remote direct memory access transfers in a multinode data processing system in which the nodes communicate with one another through communication adapters coupled to a switch or network, failures in the nodes or in the communication adapters can produce the phenomenon known as trickle traffic, which is data that has been received from the switch or from the network that is stale but which may have all the signatures of a valid packet data. The present invention addresses the trickle traffic problem in two situations: node failure and adapter failure. In the node failure situation randomly generated keys are used to reestablish connections to the adapter while providing a mechanism for the recognition of stale packets. In the adapter failure situation, a round robin context allocation approach is used with adapter state contexts being provided with state information which helps to identify stale packets.

Abstract: In a multinode data processing system in which nodes exchange information over a network or through a switch, a structure and mechanism is provided within the realm of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) operations in which DMA operations are present on one side of the transfer but not the other. On the side in which the transfer is not carried out in DMA fashion, transfer processing is carried out under program control; this is in contrast to the transfer on the DMA side which is characteristically carried out in hardware. Usage of these combination processes is useful in programming situations where RDMA is carried out to or from contiguous locations in memory on one side and where memory locations on the other side is noncontiguous. This split mode of transfer is provided both for read and for write operations.

Abstract: A new method of forming a robust titanium nitride barrier layer by PVD is described. Semiconductor device structures are provided in and on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structures are covered with an insulating layer. A via is opened through the insulating layer to one of the underlying semiconductor device structures. A titanium nitride barrier layer having a discontinuous grain structure is deposited within the via wherein the titanium nitride barrier layer comprises alternating layers of titanium nitride and titanium containing a trace of nitrogen. A metal layer is deposited overlying the titanium nitride barrier layer wherein the discontinuous grain structure of the titanium nitride barrier layer prevents diffusion from the metal layer into the insulating layer to complete formation of a robust titanium nitride barrier layer in the fabrication of an integrated circuit device.

Abstract: A fountain water lamp combines a hallucinating water lamp and a landscape fountain. The fountain water lamp consists of a transparent unit, a base, a driving unit, a color disk, a light source unit, a circuit board, a water pump and an air pump. The light source unit generates light to project on the transparent films of the color disk for forming colored light to impart into the transparent unit. The air pump delivers air into the transparent unit to generate air bubbles which are bobbing and scattering in the fluid contained in the transparent unit thereby to produce a hallucinating effect under the projection of the light.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of detecting a differentially expressed gene in a first sample of nucleic acids representing a first population of RNA transcripts and a second sample of nucleic acids representing a second population of RNA transcripts. The nucleic acids in the samples are labled with a member of specific binding pair, and the labeled nucleic acids in each sample are then hybridized to an excess of copies of a gene-specific sequence. The hybridized nucleic acids in each sample are further labeled by binding a second member of the specific binding pair to the first member, in which the second member has an activity to convert a chromogenic substrate into a chromogen. As a result of contacting the second member with the chromogenic substrate, the chromogenic substrate is converted into the chromogen. A difference in the amounts of chromogen produced from assaying the two samples indicate that the gene-specific sequence is differentially expressed in the samples.