Abstract: A foot orthotic device has an insole. A strap is removably coupled to a bottom surface of the insole in a midfoot area of the insole.

Abstract: An ankle and foot orthodic device has an insole. An ankle support is positioned under the insole and extending up above a foot and proximate an ankle of a user.

Abstract: A footwear structure comprising a shoe having sidewalls and including gaps provided in the sidewalls extending from the sole and positioned on either side of the footwear in alignment with the medial and lateral malleoli; closure systems are provided to partially close the gaps for applying a selected force to the wearer's foot through internal pads bridging the respective gap and contacting the wearer's foot.

Abstract: A shoe insert for heeled shoe has a rigid plate member. A cut is formed across at least a portion of a width of the rigid plate member to allow the rigid plate member to bend to conform to a shoe having a heel.

Abstract: A computer software architecture to automatically optimize the throughput of the data extraction/transformation/loading (ETL) process in data warehousing applications. This architecture has a componentized aspect and a pipeline-based aspect. The componentized aspect refers to the fact that every transformation used in this architecture is built up with transformation components selected from an extensible set of transformation components. Besides simplifying source code maintenance and adjustment for the data warehouse users, these transformation components also provide these users the building blocks to effectively construct pertinent and functionally sophisticated transformations in a pipelined manner. Within a pipeline, each transformation component automatically stages or streams its data to optimize ETL throughput. Furthermore, each transformation either pushes data to another transformation component, pulls data from another transformation component, or performs a push/pull operation on the data.