Abstract: A laser device includes a laser configured to generate laser light and a laser control module configured to receive at least a portion of the laser light generated by the laser, to generate a control signal and to feed the control signal back to the laser for stabilizing the frequency, wherein the laser control module includes a tunable frequency discriminating element which is preferably continuously frequency tunable, and where the laser control module is placed outside the laser cavity.

Abstract: A wind farm/park having a plurality of spatially distributed wind turbines, including at least one upstream wind turbine and at least one downstream wind turbine. Each wind turbine includes a rotor with at least two blades. At least one downstream wind turbine is affected under certain wind conditions by a wake region generated by the upstream wind turbine and containing helical vortex structures formed at the tip of the blades of the upstream wind turbine. A geometry or configuration of one or more of the rotor blades of the upstream wind turbine is different from a geometry or configuration of the other blade(s) of the upstream wind turbine thereby creating a fixed asymmetry in the blade configuration so as to accelerate destruction of vortices in the wake of the rotor of the upstream wind turbine by exciting a natural instability of the blade tip vortices.

Abstract: Techniques are described for calibrating sensors for use in systems in the presence of offset. Sensors may be used to generate sense signals which represent true signals that are part of a system. When the sensors are not calibrated, inefficiency due to offset can be introduced into a system that incorporates the generated sense signal. Flipping techniques may be used to mitigate offset. Applicant has appreciated that when the sensor gains are mismatched, the offset calibration associated with a sensor is not independent from the offset calibration associated with the other sensors. Some of the flipping techniques described herein account for gain mismatch by flipping the polarity of each sensor in a one-at-a-time fashion, and by combining the results in a common system of equations to determine the gain mismatch and the offset of each sensor.

Abstract: Techniques are described for calibrating sensors for use in systems in the presence of offset. Sensors may be used to generate sense signals which represent true signals that are part of a system. When the sensors are not calibrated, inefficiency due to offset can be introduced into a system that incorporates the generated sense signal. Flipping techniques may be used to mitigate offset. Applicant has appreciated that when the sensor gains are mismatched, the offset calibration associated with a sensor is not independent from the offset calibration associated with the other sensors. Some of the flipping techniques described herein account for gain mismatch by flipping the polarity of each sensor in a one-at-a-time fashion, and by combining the results in a common system of equations to determine the gain mismatch and the offset of each sensor.

Abstract: A method and a system for modelling a human heart based on a plurality of emission tomography images representing concentrations of a tracer that has been injected at a specific time is presented. The method comprising: extracting time activity curves of a tracer that has been injected for a plurality of pixels and/or voxels; identifying first-pass peaks of the time activity curves corresponding to an arrival time of the injected tracer at the corresponding pixel/voxel; defining a model comprising at least two portions of the heart; and arranging the at least two portions in relation to each other by comparing the arrival times of the first-pass peaks. The method and model may be used to obtain an estimate of the volume of the left or right atrium of the human heart.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for modelling a human heart and/or chambers and cavities therein, such as the left and right atrium, based on a plurality of emission tomography images, such as positron emission images, of said human heart, wherein each image represents concentrations of a tracer that has been injected at a specific time, the overall method comprising the steps of: A: extracting time activity curves of a tracer that has been injected for a plurality of pixels and/or voxels; B: identifying first-pass peaks of the time activity curves, each peak corresponding to an arrival time of the injected tracer at the corresponding pixel/voxel; C: defining a model comprising at least two portions of the heart, wherein the at least two portions are isolated by selecting pixels and/or voxels based on comparisons of the first-pass peaks against a threshold; and D: arranging the at least two portions in relation to each other by comparing the arrival times of the first-pass peaks of the

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for interfacing with dynamic web forms may include (1) identifying a web page, (2) parsing the web page in order to identify an attribute of at least one interactive element that indicates that the interactive element may be used to create at least one input field on the web page, (3) in response to identifying the attribute, monitoring the interactive element in order to detect a user interaction with the interactive element, (4) in response to detecting the user interaction with the interactive element, identifying at least one new input field on the web page, and (5) performing an automated task on the new input field in response to the input field being newly identified. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods of using optimal PET tracers for diagnosing head and neck cancer. Non-invasive methods for assessing tumor perfusion and oxidative metabolism for in vivo imaging with PET tracers that are suitable for uses in radiation therapy (RT) in head and neck cancer and evaluation of salivary gland function are provided. A pharmaceutical comprising the PET tracer and a kit for the preparation of the pharmaceutical are provided as well.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods of using optimal PET tracers for diagnosing head and neck cancer. Methods for in vivo imaging uses of the PET tracers that are suitable for uses in radiation therapy (RT) in head and neck cancer and evaluation of salivary gland function are also provided. A pharmaceutical comprising the PET tracer and a kit for the preparation of the pharmaceutical are provided as well.

Abstract: Methods suitable for use in diagnostic imaging or to generate a central circulatory turnover (CCT) index for an evaluation of cardiac function of a patient are provided. The resultant CCT index will allow the clinician to integrate information reflecting the diastolic function of the heart. A computer software and kit for the evaluation of cardiac function in a patient as well as the use of a CCT index for an evaluation of cardiac function of a patient are also provided.

Abstract: “The invention relates to a method of rendering at least one element E in a client browser CB at a client CL, where the element E is defined at an intermediate web server IWS by element representative data ERD and where the element is obtained from at least one data source DS, the method including the steps of performing an analytical rendering AR having a transformation of the element representative data ERD into analytically expressed element defining data AEEDD including unknown quantities UQ, performing a visual rendering where the unknown quantities UQ are substituted with client specific factors CSF.

Abstract: A system for remotely logging into a personal computer includes a controller coupled to the personal computer. The controller causes a login password for the personal computer to be memorized in a memory of the personal computer. The controller responds to a login signal from a remote control device by causing the memorized login password to be used to log into the personal computer. When the personal computer is located in an automobile that includes apparatus for adjusting at least one component of the automobile to provide a plurality of arrangements of the at least one component, the controller controls the adjusting apparatus and causes at least a first component arrangement associated with the personal computer to be memorized; and the controller responds to a first component arrangement signal received from a location remote from the controller by controlling the adjusting apparatus to provide the memorized first component arrangement.

Abstract: A system for remotely logging into a personal computer includes a controller coupled to the personal computer and a remote control device. The controller memorizes a login password for the personal computer. The remote control device transmits a login signal to which the controller responds by sending the memorized login password to the personal computer. When the personal computer is located in an automobile that includes apparatus for adjusting at least one component of the automobile to provide a plurality of arrangements of the at least one component, the controller controls the adjusting apparatus and memorizes at least a first component arrangement associated with the personal computer; and the controller responds to a first component arrangement signal received from a location remote from the controller by controlling the adjusting apparatus to provide the memorized first component arrangement.

Abstract: During injection molding of a plastic product having a base wall and a sidewall, fluid plastic material is injected into a base-wall section of a mold cavity. The base-wall section of the mold cavity includes at least one flow guide that is defined by a first mold part, a second mold part, and a third mold part that is movable relative to the first and second mold parts to either decrease or increase the conduction of injected plastic material through the at least one flow guide. Conduction within the at-least-one flow guide is adjusted dynamically while the injected plastic material is being conducted into the sidewall section of the mold cavity by moving the movable third mold part in response to sensed variations in injection pressures in different portions of the sidewall section of the mold cavity.

Abstract: Various methods of managing ideas include different combinations of the following acts: (a) maintaining a computer database for accumulating ideas for prospectively patentable inventions, where the ideas include needs and requirements of the inventions; (b) establishing contractual obligations by contributors of the ideas to the database to transfer property rights to inventions derived at least in part from the accumulated ideas, where the transfer is for contingent economic gain; (c) providing contingent contractual rights to at least some inventions derived at least in part from the accumulated ideas; (d) enabling receipt of contributions of the ideas for prospective entry into the database; (e) establishing contractual obligations by contributors of the ideas to the database to transfer property rights to inventions derived at least in part from the accumulated ideas to transferees other than contributors of ideas from which the invention was at least in part derived.

Abstract: A system for remotely logging into a personal computer includes a controller coupled to the personal computer and a remote control device. The controller memorizes a login password for the personal computer. The remote control device transmits a login signal to which the controller responds by causing the personal computer to be turned on and by sending the memorized login password to the personal computer. When the personal computer is located in an automobile that includes apparatus for adjusting at least one component of the automobile to provide a plurality of arrangements of the at least one component, the controller controls the adjusting apparatus and memorizes at least a first component arrangement associated with the personal computer; and the controller responds to a first component arrangement signal received from a location remote from the controller by controlling the adjusting apparatus to provide the memorized first component arrangement.

Abstract: A wall section of a coherent product, such as a container, comprises a first plastic wall component that is injection molded and includes two or more ribs and a web therebetween; and an opposing second plastic wall component that may include two or more ribs and a web therebetween. At least a portion of the ribs of one wall component directly or indirectly contact the other wall component, and at least a portion of the web of the one wall component is apart from the web of the other wall component. The stiffness-to-weight ratio of a wall section having a given thickness is thereby enhanced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a variant xylanase polypeptide, or fragment thereof having xylanse activity, comprising one or more amino acid modifications such that the polypeptide or fragment thereof has an altered sensitivity to a xylanase inhibitor as compared with parent enzyme.

Abstract: A control system causes arrangements of automobile components, such as the driver's seat, the steering wheel and one or more mirrors, to be adjusted to a plurality of different memorized preferred component arrangements in response to unique component-arrangement signals respectively received from a plurality of remote control devices. The unique component-arrangement signals are transmitted by the remote control devices together with an unlock-request signal that causes a keyless-entry system to unlock one or more doors of the automobile. The control system responds to a lock-request signal that causes the keyless-entry system to lock the doors by causing the driver's seat to be adjusted to a locked position that cannot be utilized for driving the automobile. A distance measuring system separately measures the distance over which the automobile is driven while respectively in at least some of the plurality of preferred component arrangements.