Abstract: A method and system are provided. The method includes generating a set of workplace predictors of risk relating to accidents, injury, and industrial hygiene, based on at least one employee state that includes at least one of a physical state, a cognitive state, and an emotional state. The method further includes collecting data for an elevated risk of a workplace accident at a work location responsive to the set of workplace predictors. The data includes employee data for employees involved in the elevated risk and workplace machinery data for workplace machinery involved in the elevated risk. The method also includes automatically dispatching the data to first responders using one or more hardware-based information dispatching devices.

Abstract: An apparatus is for use by a user having a hand in connection with a fire source. The apparatus includes a handle portion configured to be grasped by the hand of the user. A panel portion extends from the handle portion. The panel portion is configured to be positioned proximate to the fire source by the user. A heat shield portion is configured to be supported by any one of the panel portion and the handle portion. The heat shield portion is positioned relative to the handle portion. This is done in such a way that the heat shield portion, in use, shields, at least in part, the hand of the user.

Abstract: A single use rigid package containing pharmaceutical compositions which protects tablets, capsules, soft shell pills against hard transporting conditions and undesired rupture. The package comprises at least four sections made from a single sheet foldable into a folded configuration. At least two sections are carrier sections pivotally connected to each other and each comprising cavities for housing pharmaceutical compositions. Two sections are end sections not comprising cavities, the end sections being foldable to adjacent and at least partly covering the carrier sections when the sheet is folded so as to protect the carrier sections. The package allows for personal transportation, e.g. in a pocket, and it is easy and convenient to open for people of all levels of ability and dexterity. Its design allows for transport as standard mail withstanding temperature fluctuation, vibrations and shocks, mechanical pressure and variation in atmospheric pressure which may occur during transport.

Abstract: A shared resource system, a method of managing resources on the system and computer program products therefor. A resource consolidation unit causes identification of identical memory segments on host computers. The resource consolidation unit may be in one or more host computers. Each identical memory segment is associated with multiple instances of resources provisioned on at least two host computers. The resource consolidation unit causes provisioned resources to be migrated for at least one instance from one of the two hosts to another. On the other host computer the migrated resources share respective identical memory segments with resources already provisioned on the other host.

Abstract: A method for dynamically altering computer input device parameters based on a contextualized user model, including measuring environmental factors that effect a user's input device, monitoring a user's historical use of a computing device to determine the user's input device parameters, using environmental factors and user's input device parameters to parameterize a cognitive model for the user and expected state transitions, using the cognitive model to predict optimal settings of the user input devices, and comparing the predicted optimal settings to desired user interface modifications, and adjusting the input device to generate these modifications.

Abstract: The invention describes a method of ozone titration sensing which utilizes an ozone addition to a target solution, detection of ozone using an Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP) electrode or an Ultraviolet (UV) absorption photodiode or other means to detect ozone and the determination of the relative concentration of organics or pathogens subject to ozone oxidation which are present in the target solution. The inventive sensing method can be usefully employed to determine the relative concentration of pathogens such as viruses, bacteria and/or parasites that are readily oxidizable by ozone in aqueous solutions. The inventive sensing method may be used to control an ozone (or other oxidizing or disinfecting) compound dispensing system to optimize the dosage of ozone (or other disinfecting compound) necessary to produce a desired kill ratio or to generate a desired residual of ozone concentration in an aqueous solution after pathogen disinfection.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a medical package for enclosing pharmaceutical composition or medical devices, with at least three degrees of child protection means. The package cannot be crushed or perforated by a child, and is provided with opening means which physically hinder children from opening the package. The opening means are counter-intuitive, so that reading instructions is necessary in order to open the package.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide methods in which a metal matrix composite (MMC) material is incorporated into a metallic structure during a one-step near-net-shape structural forming process. Various embodiments provide in-situ selective reinforcement processes in which the MMC may be pre-placed on a forming tool in locations that correspond to specific regions in the metallic structure. Various embodiment near-net-shape structural forming processes may then be executed and result in various embodiment metallic structural components with selectively-reinforced regions that provide enhanced mechanical properties in key locations.

Abstract: Methods and systems for improving burner, particularly ribbon burner performance, involving admixing a portion of the combustion products from the flue gas resulting from the burner to at least one of a primary and a secondary oxidizer supply to the burner. Admixing a portion of a carbon dioxide-containing flue gas combustion product formed upon combustion of a fuel gas by a ribbon burner significantly reduces NOx emissions resulting from operation of the burner.

Abstract: A shared resource system, a method of managing resources on the system and computer program products therefor. A resource consolidation unit causes identification of identical memory segments on host computers. The resource consolidation unit may be in one or more host computers. Each identical memory segment is associated with multiple instances of resources provisioned on at least two host computers. The resource consolidation unit causes provisioned resources to be migrated for at least one instance from one of the two hosts to another. On the other host computer the migrated resources share respective identical memory segments with resources already provisioned on the other host.

Abstract: A shared resource system, a method of managing resources on the system and computer program products therefor. A resource consolidation unit causes identification of identical memory segments on host computers. The resource consolidation unit may be in one or more host computers. Each identical memory segment is associated with multiple instances of resources provisioned on at least two host computers. The resource consolidation unit causes provisioned resources to be migrated for at least one instance from one of the two hosts to another. On the other host computer the migrated resources share respective identical memory segments with resources already provisioned on the other host.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for coating an end of a stoppered beverage bottle in wax are provided. A cap assembly is positioned over a mouth of the bottle prior to coating the end of the bottle in wax. The cap assembly may facilitate removal of a portion of the wax from the bottle to allow removal of the stopper and dispensing of the beverage. In an implementation, the cap assembly includes a cap portion sized to be received over at least a portion of a bottle mouth and the stopper. A spike protrudes downwardly from the cap portion, and is configured to at least partially pierce a bottle stopper. A tear ring is frangibly attached to the cap portion by one or more regions of mechanical weakening. A pull tab extends outwardly from the tear ring to facilitate frangible separation of the tear ring from the cap portion.

Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for the control of radiator cooling fans. In one example, among others, a method includes determining heat input to a cooling system and a ram air flow velocity through a radiator of the cooling system, selecting one or more radiator cooling fans, and adjusting operation of the fans in response to the selection. The selection of the fans can be based at least in part upon the heat input from the heat source and the ram air flow velocity. In another example, a system includes a plurality of cooling fans distributed across a cooling surface of a radiator of a cooling system and a radiator fan control system. The radiator fan control system can determine the heat input to the cooling system and a ram air flow velocity through the radiator, select one or more fans, and adjust operation of the selected fans.

Abstract: People associate with and respond positively to those they perceive to share similar physical appearances. Accordingly, an advertisement for a product or service is selected for rendering on a display based upon a human model having a resemblance to a human viewer. An advertisement may be created with several different models having varying physical characteristics. Physical characteristics of the viewer are compared with each model and the advertisement chosen based upon the model that more closely resembles the viewer. Furthermore, physical characteristics of a model may be augmented to more closely resemble physical characteristics of the viewer. Augmentation includes modifying physical characteristic color, morphing physical characteristics, and enhancing attractiveness of morphed physical characteristics.

Abstract: A shared resource system, a method of managing resources on the system and computer program products therefor. A resource consolidation unit causes identification of identical memory segments on host computers. The resource consolidation unit may be in one or more host computers. Each identical memory segment is associated with multiple instances of resources provisioned on at least two host computers. The resource consolidation unit causes provisioned resources to be migrated for at least one instance from one of the two hosts to another. On the other host computer the migrated resources share respective identical memory segments with resources already provisioned on the other host.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for opening a medical blister package which is easy and convenient to open for people of all level of ability and dexterity. Its design allows for selective access to the blisters by following a predetermined opening sequence, therefore minimizing involuntary wrong up taking of medicine due to patient errors as wrong sequential opening is not achievable by involuntary mistakes.

Abstract: A reusable coating for a nanopore structure is disclosed herein. A nanopore structure includes a substrate comprising a nanochannel and a monolayer of a chemical compound disposed onto at least a portion of a surface of the nanochannel. The chemical compound forms a reversible bond with at least one analyte binding compound introduced into the nanochannel. Methods for making and using the reusable coating are also disclosed.

Abstract: A reusable coating for a nanopore structure is disclosed herein. A nanopore structure includes a substrate comprising a nanochannel and a monolayer of a chemical compound disposed onto at least a portion of a surface of the nanochannel. The chemical compound forms a reversible bond with at least one analyte binding compound introduced into the nanochannel. Methods for making and using the reusable coating are also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for opening a medical blister package which is easy and convenient to open for people of all level of ability and dexterity. Its design allows for selective access to the blisters by following a predetermined opening sequence, therefore minimizing involuntary wrong up taking of medicine due to patient errors as wrong sequential opening is not achievable by involuntary mistakes.

Abstract: Disclosed is a novel system and method to develop computational models of membrane conductances through training a multi-layer perceptron to predict a channel's responses (conductances) to different conditions (voltage histories). Initially, at each time step of the dAPC protocol the current generated across the TCL1 cell membrane is determined by the history of voltages calculated in the model compartment. These data collected from dAPC are then used to train a perceptron, whose inputs are select time points in this history, and whose output predicts the channel conductances measured by the dAPC apparatus. The trained perceptron then becomes a model of the channel, comprising a specific set of historical voltage data points from compartment models provided as inputs to a specific combination of hidden units to produce an output that predicts channel conductance given a particular voltage history.