Abstract: An exposure apparatus for a paraspinal muscle clearance approach with a posterior spinal small incision includes a spinous process side vertebral plate retractor and a cooperating vertebral arch outer side retractor is provided. The apparatus can be used to separate a clearance between a multifidus muscle and a longissimus muscle under direct view, easily and atraumatically reach a screw fixation position on a vertebral arch pedicle, expose a facet joint, bluntly separate the multifidus muscle from the vertebral arch, accurately place the retractors, and thereafter locally form a surgical operation tunnel space that externally extends 10 degrees to 15 degrees. A design of angles and structures of retractors effectively protects local soft tissues and prevents a tissue damage while executing traction on local muscles and ensuring an adequate surgical space.

Abstract: A guiding apparatus for x-ray-free screw placement by a spinal posterior approach, comprising an interspinous spacer, a slide scale (1), and an angle-changing rod. The apparatus is simple to operate, easy to grasp, and well accepted by physicians. A reliable effect is provided in screw placement. Significantly reduced X-ray exposure is allowed for patients and medical staff. In a small-incision minimally invasive screw placement operation, even without exposing the spinal ligament, a small spike-like protrusion of a base (2) of the interspinous spacer can ensure accurate interspinous positioning across the skin. This is applicable for both minimally invasive and incision surgeries and has a wide range of uses.

Abstract: A capacity-increasing device for a four-way valve, the four-way valve has a first port, a second port, a third port and a fourth port, wherein first port is connected with an output end of a compressor via a first line, second port is connected with an input end of the compressor via a second line, third port is connected with a first heat exchanger via a third line, and fourth port is connected with a second heat exchanger via a fourth line, the capacity-increasing device includes a first bypass line and a first valve, the first bypass line connected between third line and second line, the first valve in the first bypass line, a second bypass line and a second valve, the second bypass line connected between fourth line and second line, the second valve in the second bypass line.

Abstract: A system and method can implement compliance tests with annotation based standards using a model library. The model library encapsulates expectation computation logic described in one or more annotation based assertions. A compliance test can obtain an actual value for one or more software properties based on evaluating a source file that contains one or more annotations that is defined by the one or more annotation based assertions, and can determine an expected value for the one or more software properties using the model library. Then, the compliance test can compare the actual value for the one or more software properties with the expected value for the one or more software properties.

Abstract: A system and method can support compliance tests with annotation based standards using an expectation library. The expectation library can convert one or more descriptive assertions into a structured data model, wherein the one or more descriptive assertions describe one or more annotations. Furthermore, the expectation library can parse a source file that contains the one or more annotations based on the structured data model. Additionally, the expectation library can obtain information related to the one or more annotations of the source file from the structured data model.

Abstract: A system and method can implement compliance tests with annotation based standards using a model library. The model library encapsulates expectation computation logic described in one or more annotation based assertions. A compliance test can obtain an actual value for one or more software properties based on evaluating a source file that contains one or more annotations that is defined by the one or more annotation based assertions, and can determine an expected value for the one or more software properties using the model library. Then, the compliance test can compare the actual value for the one or more software properties with the expected value for the one or more software properties.

Abstract: A system and method can support compliance tests with annotation based standards using an expectation library. The expectation library can convert one or more descriptive assertions into a structured data model, wherein the one or more descriptive assertions describe one or more annotations. Furthermore, the expectation library can parse a source file that contains the one or more annotations based on the structured data model. Additionally, the expectation library can obtain information related to the one or more annotations of the source file from the structured data model.

Abstract: A system and method can support an object-oriented scripting tool. The system can comprise a parser that operates to parse a document that specifies a software class in a scripting language using one or more tags that are defined in a markup language environment. Furthermore, the system can include a type definition table that includes a plurality of type definitions, wherein this type definition table operates to use a tag name of a said tag as a key that is associated with a type definition. Additionally, the system can include an instance pool that operates to store one or more instances of the software class for the object-oriented scripting tool.

Abstract: An object-oriented scripting tool uses a XML file for software development and domain management. The XML file includes at least a first tag that defines a scripting class in an object-oriented scripting language. The scripting class includes at least one method, which is defined in a second tag in the XML file. A generic software development and domain management script can be encapsulated into a general scripting class, which can be extended into individual scripting class for specific software development and domain management task.

Abstract: An object-oriented scripting tool uses a XML file for software development and domain management. The XML file includes at least a first tag that defines a scripting class in an object-oriented scripting language. The scripting class includes at least one method, which is defined in a second tag in the XML file. A generic software development and domain management script can be encapsulated into a general scripting class, which can be extended into individual scripting class for specific software development and domain management task.

Abstract: A heat pump system operable in a cooling mode, a heating mode and a defrost mode includes a refrigerant compressor (20), a reversing valve (30), a first heat exchanger (40) and a second heat exchanger (50) disposed in a refrigerant circuit, and a primary expansion valve (45) disposed in the refrigerant circuit between said first heat exchanger (40) and said second heat exchanger (50); said reversing valve (30) is positionable in a first position for operation of said heat pump system in the cooling mode or defrost mode and is positionable in a second position for operation of said heat pump system in the heating mode; a refrigerant bypass circuit establishes a refrigerant flow path from the refrigerant circuit at a first location upstream of said primary expansion valve (45) and downstream of said first heat exchanger (40) with respect to refrigerant flow in the defrost mode to a liquid reservoir (70) disposed in the refrigerant circuit at a second location downstream of said primary expansion valve (45) with

Abstract: A computer-implemented system that can support executing a third party module with Web Servers comprises one or more web server instances, a third party module that interacts with the one or more web server instances, and an execution environment that contains a web server wrapper instance that can encapsulate a web server instance of the one or more web server instances. The web server wrapper instance is associated with a web server configuration tool that can configure the one or more web server instances based on the third party module.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and system for dynamically generating and distributing rebates to a credit cardholder in response to credit card payment transactions initiated by the credit cardholder. The method comprises the steps of processing a credit card transaction initiated by a credit cardholder, storing transaction data corresponding to the credit card transaction in a transaction database, accessing the transaction data stored on the transaction database on a periodic basis to produce a billing statement listing a debt incurred by the credit cardholder, generating a dynamic rebate amount for effecting a discount of the incurred debt for the cardholder, and updating the billing statement to reflect the discount provided by the dynamic rebate amount.