Abstract: The apparatus is configured for applying chest compressions to a patient to apply CPR. The apparatus includes a housing configured to mount the apparatus to the patient, a unidirectional motor, and a plunger connected to the unidirectional motor, the plunger configured to apply the chest compressions to the patient when the motor is operated. The apparatus may include a device configured to control a compression distance of compressions. The apparatus is simpler, lighter and eliminates complicated motor control required in prior devices.

Abstract: A method for managing a dialog box. The method includes: displaying, on a display screen, the dialog box including a transparency GUI widget; obtaining a transparency setting specified by a user of the application, where the user interacts with the transparency GUI widget to specify the transparency setting; and adjusting the transparency of the dialog box on the display screen based on the transparency setting.

Abstract: Methods of the present disclosure utilize alcohol (e.g., ethanol) as an active ingredient or agent for disinfecting, washing, and/or treating infection in the upper and/or lower airways. Methods include aerosol inhalation, lung spraying, and/or lung lavage using ethanol-containing solutions. Such methods can be applied to complicated pneumonia and respiratory pandemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

Abstract: A display method includes reading from a memory a language setting representing an original language and a first target language; detecting a first set of one or more characters input in the original language; recognizing the first set of one or more characters as first text; translating the first text from the original language to the first target language; displaying the translated first text on one or more display areas; translating the translated first text back to the original language; and displaying the first text translated back to the original language on the one or more display areas.

Abstract: A method for managing a dialog box. The method includes: displaying, on a display screen, the dialog box including a transparency GUI widget; obtaining a transparency setting specified by a user of the application, where the user interacts with the transparency GUI widget to specify the transparency setting; and adjusting the transparency of the dialog box on the display screen based on the transparency setting.

Abstract: The apparatus is configured for applying chest compressions to a patient to apply CPR. The apparatus includes a housing configured to mount the apparatus to the patient, a unidirectional motor, and a plunger connected to the unidirectional motor, the plunger configured to apply the chest compressions to the patient when the motor is operated. The apparatus may include a device configured to control a compression distance of compressions, The apparatus is simpler, lighter and eliminates complicated motor control required in prior devices.

Abstract: A display method includes reading from a memory a language setting representing an original language and a first target language; detecting a first set of one or more characters input in the original language; recognizing the first set of one or more characters as first text; translating the first text from the original language to the first target language; displaying the translated first text on one or more display areas; translating the translated first text back to the original language; and displaying the first text translated back to the original language on the one or more display areas.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for enabling existing or legacy network devices to handle packets defined in accordance with future-defined standards, without having to be re-configured to be compatible with these standards. A transmitting network device may generate packets, and may set in the packets indication fields (e.g., tag header type fields) to indicate when particular fields (e.g., tag header fields) are inserted into the packets, including unknown or newly-defined fields. The indication fields may enable a receiving device to handle the packets by skipping, when necessary, over these fields (e.g., including the unknown or newly-defined fields). The indication fields may, for example, identify for each packet a remaining portion to jump to without reading the inserted fields.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for enabling existing or legacy network devices to recognize and parse packets defined in accordance with future-defined standards, without having to be re-configured to be compatible with such standards. A transmitting network device may generate packets such that to enable receiving network devices to bypass, when processing the packets, unknown or newly-inserted fields, such as tag headers, in the packets, and to continue processing the remainder of the packet. This may be achieved by, for example, incorporating in the packets, when such unknown or newly-inserted are included in the packets, corresponding indication fields (e.g., tag header type fields) which may indicated that the unknown or newly-inserted are inserted. Further, indication fields may enable a receiving device to skip over these unknown or newly-inserted. For example, each tag header type filed may be associated with a particular tag header length of the corresponding tag header.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for enabling existing or legacy network devices to recognize and parse packets defined in accordance with future-defined standards, without having to be re-configured to be compatible with such standards. A transmitting network device may generate packets such that to enable receiving network devices to bypass, when processing the packets, unknown or newly-inserted fields, such as tag headers, in the packets, and to continue processing the remainder of the packet. This may be achieved by, for example, incorporating in the packets, when such unknown or newly-inserted are included in the packets, corresponding indication fields (e.g., tag header type fields) which may indicated that the unknown or newly-inserted are inserted. Further, indication fields may enable a receiving device to skip over these unknown or newly-inserted. For example, each tag header type filed may be associated with a particular tag header length of the corresponding tag header.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method allowing an existing or legacy network device to recognize and parse packets defined in accordance with future-defined standards without having to be re-configured to be compatible with such standards. In particular, the device can skip past unknown or newly-inserted fields, such as tag headers in a tagged packet, to parse and process the remainder of the packet. By skipping those added fields such as a tag header, the device can accommodate various future-defined standards without incurring additional engineering or design costs or compromising packet processing efficiency.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method allowing an existing or legacy network device to recognize and parse packets defined in accordance with future-defined standards without having to be re-configured to be compatible with such standards. In particular, the device can skip past unknown or newly-inserted fields, such as tag headers in a tagged packet, to parse and process the remainder of the packet. By skipping those added fields such as a tag header, the device can accommodate various future-defined standards without incurring additional engineering or design costs or compromising packet processing efficiency.

Abstract: Information technology (IT) spending by a subject entity is assessed against an industry-wide optimal value of an IT benchmark and a result of that assessment displayed. Importantly, the IT benchmark developed by the present inventor accounts for the subject entity's IT spending as a percentage of the entity's revenue and the entity's IT spending as a percentage of the entity's operating expenses. For the industry as a whole, the optimal value of the IT benchmark is determined on the basis of profitability measures for individual companies within the industry. This process may be performed as part of a larger analysis concerning the subject entity's operations to provide an overall assessment of the entity's financial performance, health, etc.

Abstract: Use of a compound formula I wherein A represents O or NRN, wherein RN is hydrogen or lower alkyl, R is hydrogen or lower alkyl, R? is methyl, methoxy, ethoxy, amino, methylamino, dimethylamino, aminomethyl or methylthio, and Z is O or a bond, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, alone or in combination with at least one compound selected from the group consisting of somatostatin or a synthetic derivative thereof, interferon, 5-fluorouracil, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, streptozotocin and a standard anti-diarrheal, for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of carcinoid syndrome or at least one neuroendocrine tumor; a method of treating a warm-blooded animal, having carcinoid syndrome and/or at least one neuroendocrine tumor; a combination comprising a compound formula I as defined above and at least one compound selected from the group provided above; and to a commercial package comprising said combination.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide for a wrapping apparatus and associated methods and a cassette device for holding utensils. The wrapping apparatus may include a first holder for holding first items to be wrapped. The wrap is placed on a rotating table when the rotating table is rotated into a first position. One of the first items to be wrapped is moved from the first holder onto the wrap on the rotating table when the rotating table is rotated to a second position. A wrapping mechanism then wraps the first item in the wrap.

Abstract: IT spending by a subject entity is assessed against an industry-wide optimal value of an IT benchmark and a result of that assessment displayed. Importantly, the IT benchmark developed by the present inventor accounts for the subject entity's IT spending as a percentage of the entity's revenue and the entity's IT spending as a percentage of the entity's operating expenses. For the industry as a whole, the optimal value of the IT benchmark is determined on the basis of profitability measures for individual companies within the industry. This process may be performed as part of a larger analysis concerning the subject entity's operations to provide an overall assessment of the entity's financial performance, health, etc.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of playing a game of chance. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of hoppers where each hopper of the plurality of hoppers contains a plurality of randomly selected equally weighted symbolic elements, providing a two-dimensional matrix having a plurality of spaces that corresponds to the plurality of hoppers and where each space of the plurality of spaces of the matrix is associated with a respective hopper of the plurality of hoppers, receiving a bet from a player that defines a physical relationship of predefined winning combinations with symbolic elements within the matrix, randomly selecting a symbolic element from each of the plurality of hoppers and displaying the randomly selected symbolic element in the associated space of the matrix and paying the player for each occurrence where the defined relationship of the bet matches the displayed elements in the two-dimensional matrix.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide for a wrapping apparatus and associated methods. The wrapping apparatus may include a first holder for holding first items to be wrapped. The wrap is placed on a rotating table when the rotating table is rotated into a first position. One of the first items to be wrapped is moved from the first holder onto the wrap on the rotating table when the rotating table is rotated to a second position. A wrapping mechanism then wraps the first item in the wrap.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide for a wrapping apparatus and associated methods. The wrapping apparatus may include a first holder for holding first items to be wrapped. The wrap is placed on a rotating table when the rotating table is rotated into a first position. One of the first items to be wrapped is moved from the first holder onto the wrap on the rotating table when the rotating table is rotated to a second position. A wrapping mechanism then wraps the first item in the wrap.

Abstract: A medication dosage inhaler system with a main body having a round hollow cylindrical inward portion and a plurality of apertures and a round hollow cylindrical inward portion with a radially displaced round cylindrical hollow medication passageway, a T-shaped adaptor having a stepped gas connector forming an open pathway for the deliverance of a medical gas, an end cap having a one way valve for a one way flow of gas there through and a plurality of apertures, a medication dosage delivery container having a projecting medication delivering tube, a mouthpiece, and an oxygen source to mate with the stepped gas connector of the T-shaped adaptor.