Abstract: A method for producing chemicals from crude oil by double-tube parallel multi-zone catalytic conversion is provided. The method may include the following steps: feeding the crude oil directly or separating the crude oil into light and heavy components by flash evaporation or distillation after desalination and dehydration; strengthening the contact and reaction between oil gas and catalyst by using two parallel reaction tubes with novel structure, controlling the reaction by zones, carrying out optimal combination on feeding modes according to different properties of reaction materials, controlling suitable reaction conditions for different materials, and increasing the production of light olefins and aromatics.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an easy assembling and disassembling wheel component, including a wheel, a rotation shaft and an engaging member, wherein a mounting hole is disposed on a center of the wheel, an accommodating groove is disposed at one end of the rotation shaft, the engaging member is movably engaged in the accommodating groove and is swingable between a first position and a second position. When the engaging member is in the first position, the engaging member and the rotation shaft can pass through the mounting hole of the wheel; when the engaging member is in the second position, the rotation shaft is connected with and locked to the wheel. The easy assembling and disassembling wheel component according to the present disclosure has advantages of simple structure, quick and convenient assembling and disassembling. And, the present disclosure also provides five kinds of easy assembling and disassembling wheel components.

Abstract: The present invention discloses methods and apparatus for developing, analyzing, investigating, and advising healthcare and well-being related decisions. In particular, the present invention relates to the architecture of systems in either stand-alone or distributed/collaborative/pervasive settings, the components of the systems and their underlying processes and couplings, the computational techniques built into the methods, input data sources integrated into and output results produced and distributed by the systems, as well as the apparatus for carrying out the corresponding user interaction, data access and collection, data integration and processing, data-driven inferences and simulation, intelligent computations, decision analytics, and decision support to generating solutions to various healthcare analytics and decision-making problems. This invention also relates to two working illustrations of the methods and apparatus that present the embodiment illustrations of the present invention.

Abstract: A method for characterizing image contents automatically or semi-automatically using image acquisition parameters and metadata is presented. The method establishes probabilistic and deterministic relationships between different types of metadata and the semantic attributes and contents of images. It furnishes a mechanism that enables the automatic and semi-automatic classification, annotation, tagging, indexing, searching, identification or retrieval of images based on their contents, semantic properties and metadata characteristics. The method uses, but is not limited to, image capture metadata such as focal length, exposure time, relative aperture, flash information, ISO setting, angle of view, subject distance, timestamp, GPS information as well as other forms of metadata, including but not limited to, captions, keywords, headings, tags, comments, remarks, titles which may be automatically, semi-automatically, or manually generated.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for a search engine or part of a search engine which utilizes collective intelligence, evaluation, and judgment, including web intelligence, to create and adapt the content of a generalized index hierarchy for digital resources to be searched. Digital resources to be searched can be stored and managed as a localized or distributed repository of images, video, audio, graphical or other multimedia data objects, as well as structured composite items, services, programs, modules, files, documents, systems, applications, networked peers, and agents, which may be difficult or costly to be indexed. In particular embodiments the claimed invention focuses on the indexing of semantic contents and/or pragmatic characteristics of such digital resources. By tracking and analyzing the searching behavior of users, proxies, and/or meta-search-engines, a search index can be created, tuned, improved and optimized.

Abstract: A method for characterizing image contents automatically or semi-automatically using image acquisition parameters and metadata is presented. The method establishes probabilistic and deterministic relationships between different types of metadata and the semantic attributes and contents of images. It furnishes a mechanism that enables the automatic and semi-automatic classification, annotation, tagging, indexing, searching, identification or retrieval of images based on their contents, semantic properties and metadata characteristics. The method uses, but is not limited to, image capture metadata such as focal length, exposure time, relative aperture, flash information, ISO setting, angle of view, subject distance, timestamp, GPS information as well as other forms of metadata, including but not limited to, captions, keywords, headings, tags, comments, remarks, titles which may be automatically, semi-automatically, or manually generated.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for a search engine or part of a search engine which utilizes collective intelligence, evaluation, and judgment, including web intelligence, to create and adapt the content of a generalized index hierarchy for digital resources to be searched. Digital resources to be searched can be stored and managed as a localized or distributed repository of images, video, audio, graphical or other multimedia data objects, as well as structured composite items, services, programs, modules, files, documents, systems, applications, networked peers, and agents, which may be difficult or costly to be indexed. In particular embodiments the claimed invention focuses on the indexing of semantic contents and/or pragmatic characteristics of such digital resources. By tracking and analyzing the searching behavior of users, proxies, and/or meta-search-engines, a search index can be created, tuned, improved and optimized.