Abstract: A method for testing an electronic device is implemented with a host computer. The host computer detects a test status of the electronic device. The host computer stores a test order table that indicates the test status and test order corresponding to the test status. The host computer transmits a test order based on the test status and the test order table to the electronic device. The electronic device executes a self-test based on the test order.

Abstract: A page flipping method for an electronic device is provided. An exemplary method includes the following steps: displaying an interface comprising a page preview region and a page flipping region; displaying a page on the page flipping region, and displaying an icon group comprising a plurality of icons on the page preview region; determining whether a flipping gesture is applied on the page flipping region; determining the type of the flipping gesture; determining a page flipping manner according to the determined result of the gesture and a function table, and retrieving a corresponding target page according to the determined page flipping manner; creating a new icon group according to the retrieved target page; and displaying the target page on the page flipping region, and displaying the created new icon group on the page preview region. An electronic device using the page processing method is also provided.

Abstract: An electronic device with multi-window displaying function includes an input unit, a storage unit, a display unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit includes an input responding module, a multi-window controlling module, and a display driving module. In a multi-window reading mode, the input responding module responds to a multi-window displaying command from the input unit; the multi-window controlling module controls the display unit to display multi sub-windows in a size corresponding to the number of windows to be displayed in each multi-window mode, and drives the display unit to display a first file on a first sub-window, the display driving module drives the display unit to display another file on other sub-windows according to user input.

Abstract: A charging management system applied in a public facility includes a communicating unit communicating with a server with an online payment system, a charge interface, a power converting unit, a billing unit, and a control unit. The power converting unit converts power provided by a power supply to charge an electronic device connected to the charge interface. The control unit generates an electronic bill according to a charging cost computed by the billing unit, sends the electronic bill to the server, and communicates with the online payment system of the server to pay for the electronic bills. A related method is also provided.

Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.

Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.

Abstract: A method for displaying a contact list of a mobile terminal in order of priority levels is provided. The method includes steps: receiving an incoming call or message; obtaining an incoming phone number of the received call or message; finding out a calling contact associated with the incoming phone number on a contact list of the mobile terminal; obtaining remaining phone numbers associated with the calling contact; setting priority levels for all the phone numbers associated with the calling contact; and displaying all the phone numbers associated with the calling contact in an order of decreasing priority levels from high to low on a display screen of the mobile terminal A related mobile terminal is also provided.

Abstract: A page processing method for an electronic device with a touch screen is provided. The method includes the following steps: displaying a page of content on the touch screen, the displayed page consisting of a number of regions comprising a center region and a plurality of peripheral regions surrounding the center region; detecting a touch operation on the displayed page and generating a signal associated therewith; determining the touched region where the touch operation occurs; determining whether the touch operation is a mode switching operation according to the signal; and controlling the electronic device to switch between a browsing mode and a zooming mode according to the signal and the location of the touched region on the displayed page, if the touch operation is a mode switching operation. An electronic device using the page processing method is also provided.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a storage unit, a touch display unit and a central processing unit. The central processing unit includes a control module, a searching module, and a spit-screen module. The control module generates a first window on the touch display unit to display a text document when the text document is opened, and determines a selected text of the displayed text document by a user according to touch positions when the touch display unit is touched. The searching module searches occurrences of the selected text in the text document, and the control module stores the searched text in the storage unit. The spit-screen module displays each occurrence of the selected text on a second window produced thereby with a size thereof smaller than that of the first window. A related method is also provided.

Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Coleoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a communication unit communicate with a network, a processing unit, and a storage unit. The processing unit controls the communication unit to transmit keywords to the network in response to user input, and controls the communication unit to transmit a download request of addresses of searched content of the network to target mobile terminal(s) selected from at least one mobile terminal communicating with the communication unit. The download request searches the network for content associated with the download addresses, the searched content are downloaded to the target mobile terminal(s).

Abstract: A data transmitting device communicating with a data receiving device includes a touch display unit displaying a plurality of icons and a control unit. The controlling module determines a first starting position, a touch path, and a first end position of a touch of a user, and a selected icon according to the first starting position, and calculates a transmission progress of data transmission. When the first end position is located on the predetermined position, the data corresponding to the selected icon and position information associated with the first starting position, the touch path, and the first end position are transmitted to the data receiving device. The selected icon is moved from the first starting position to the first end position along the touch path according to the transmission progress. A data transmitting device and a data transmitting media are also provided.

Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Coleoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a stylus, a touch screen, and a processing unit. The touch screen includes a plurality of touch spots arranged in a matrix. The stylus includes a flexible and conductive nib including a plurality of flexible sub-nibs, and a body for receiving the nib and sub-nibs. The sub-nibs touching the touch screen causes changes in the charges of the touch spots actually touched. The processing unit determines the number of the touch spots which have been touched according to changes in the charges of the touch spots, and controls the weight or lightness of the corresponding stroke displayed on the touch screen according to the determined number of the touched touch spots.

Abstract: A method for preventing fake charging of an electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes: providing a power management table for setting function units for each power range; activating a fake charging preventing function according to a predetermined condition or an activating operation of users; detecting power of the electronic apparatus every a first predetermined time interval; determining a current power range the detected power falls into; determining whether the current power range is changed; beginning to time when the current power range is changed; activating function units which are disabled and whose power range is the current power range when the timing reaches a second predetermined time interval and the detected power is still in the current power range.

Abstract: In a memory testing method for testing a memory module of a computing device, an operating voltage of the memory module is adjusted to a first voltage or a second voltage. A predetermined data set is written into the memory module after the operating voltage of the memory module is adjusted, and the written data set is read out from the memory module, to accomplish a data writing and reading process of the memory module. A register value that presents how many memory errors have occurred during the data writing and reading process is acquired from an ECC register of the memory module, to determine whether the memory module is stable during the adjusting of the operating voltage according to the register value.

Abstract: In a method of burning a firmware to an embedded device, a booting file is firstly created and saved in the firmware. The booting file includes a boot loader, a first kernel, a second kernel, a first initrd, a second initrd of a firmware, a rootfs, and an application program. The method burns the boot loader, the first kernel, the second kernel, the first initrd, and the second initrd in a flash memory of the embedded device. When the rootfs and the application program are recorded in a storage system of the embedded device, the method downloads the rootfs and the application program from a storage system of the embedded device, and burns the rootfs and the application program to a register of the flash memory.

Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.

Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.

Abstract: A computer and method executes an operation when a user places an object between a projector and a projection screen, wherein the computer is connected to the projector. The computer captures an image of the projection screen. Furthermore, the computer obtains coordinates of each pixel of an shape of a shadow of an object and calculates average coordinates of the shape of the shadow of the object, in response to a determination that the shape of the shadow of the object matches the predetermined shape. The computer executes an operation on the average coordinates of the shape of the shadow of the object.