Abstract: An Average Weekly Wage calculator application is provided to implement rules-based technology to assist with the adjudication of Workers' Compensation (WC) claims. The AWW calculator application can be included as part of various embodiments of a method for processing a workers' compensation claim, a system for processing a workers' compensation claim, and a non-transitory, tangible computer-readable storage medium bearing instructions for processing a workers' compensation claim. The AWW calculator can be tailored to include jurisdictionally-specific logic to define the required Payment Periods and calculate the Average Weekly Wage in a particular jurisdiction.

Abstract: An optical waveguide structure including a III-V semiconductor substrate, a III-V semiconductor top layer, and an etch stop layer sandwiched therebetween, the etch stop layer containing aluminium and phosphorous, the top layer including first and second spaced apart recesses extending through the top layer to the etch stop layer and defining an optical waveguide therebetween. Also a method of manufacture of an optical waveguide structure including the steps of: providing a multilayer semiconductor wafer including a III-V semiconductor substrate, a III-V semiconductor top layer and an etch stop layer sandwiched therebetween, the etch stop layer including aluminium and phosphorous; and etching through the top layer to the etch stop layer by use of a dry etch containing chlorine to provide two spaced apart recesses defining the optical waveguide therebetween.

Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) lighting roadway lighting fixture and housing is provided. The lighting fixture comprises a center section enclosing a power supply for the LEDs. Two LED sections are positioned on either side of the center section and angled towards the center of the lighting fixture and the plane to be illuminated. LED engines are mounted on the LED sections to illuminate the plane.

Abstract: A reflecting light emitting structure includes a substrate having a plurality of grooves formed in a first face of the substrate is disclosed. The first face is in a first crystallographic plane. Each of the plurality of grooves includes a first sidewall that is coplanar with a second crystallographic plane and a second sidewall that is coplanar with a third crystallographic plane. A buffer layer is provided on the substrate to reduce mechanical strain between the substrate and a light emitting diode (LED) fabricated on the buffer layer.

Abstract: A 1/16 DIN power controller configuration is provided that includes a housing, a circuit board carrier disposed within the housing and capable of engaging at least three circuit boards within the housing, a power supply circuit board disposed within the housing and engaged by the circuit board carrier, and a communications circuit board disposed adjacent the power supply circuit board within the housing and engaged by the circuit board carrier. The communications circuit board includes Ethernet/IP and/or Modbus TCP protocols, and in alternate forms includes RS-232 and RS-485 with Modbus RTU protocol, DeviceNet, Profibus DP, CanOpen, and/or EtherCat.

Abstract: A light emitting structure having reverse voltage protection (RVP) is provided along with disclosure of a method for fabricating the light emitting structure. The light emitting structure includes a substrate having a first face, a second face, and a p-n junction formed within the substrate between a p-type layer and an n-type layer, wherein the p-type layer and the n-type layer are adapted as a RVP diode. A buffer layer is provided on the substrate, and a light emitting diode (LED) is fabricated on the buffer layer. The LED is then electrically coupled to the RVP diode in an anti-parallel diode pair (APDP) configuration.

Abstract: A III-V field effect transistor comprising a semiconductor channel layer having an electrically conducting channel; an ohmic contact layer on the semiconductor channel layer, the ohmic contact layer having a recess structure disposed therethrough to the semiconductor channel layer; the bottom of the ohmic contact layer comprising an etch stop layer comprising Aluminium and Phosphorous and defining the shape of the recess at its junction with the semiconductor channel layer.

Abstract: Systems, methods and media for encrypting and decrypting content files are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for adding an additional level of indirection to a title key encryption scheme are disclosed. Embodiments may include generating by a cryptographic system a binding key based on binding information. Embodiments may also include encrypting by the cryptographic system a secret key with the binding key and generating a title key associated with at least one content file. Embodiments may also include encrypting by the cryptographic system the title key with the secret key and the at least one content file with the title key. Further embodiments may include receiving an indication that the binding information has changed, generating a new binding key based on the new changed binding information, and re-encrypting the secret key with the new binding key.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for protecting content in a broadcast-encryption-based system, where the devices in the system receive a recording key table. Each device generates a set of recording keys from the recording key table using a media key variant calculated from the broadcast encryption system's media key block. The digital content is encrypted in a title key picked by the recorder. The selected title key is also encrypted in each one of the recorder's generated recording keys. To play back the content, a player uses one of its generated recording keys to decrypt the title key and the decrypt the content. The recording key table is designed so that any two devices are guaranteed to have at least one key in common during normal operation, although during a forensic situation, this rule can be abandoned.

Abstract: A method of doing business in which a Service Provider grants to organizations rights to waypoints to which users may travel and view the organizations' messages. The method may include the steps of granting to the organization the right to the waypoint, receiving from the organization a message to be associated with the waypoint, storing the waypoint and the message in a database, allowing for bi-directional data communication with a mobile device which is able to determine its own location, receiving from the device an indication that the device is at or near the waypoint, and automatically causing the device to display the message when the device is at or near the waypoint.

Abstract: The invention is directed to liquid crystal compositions for use in bistable liquid crystal devices and to bistable liquid crystal devices containing said liquid crystal compositions. The liquid crystal composition comprises a component (?) said component (?) containing one or more compounds having a phenyl ring of formula A Whereby XA is F, CI, SF5, NCS or a C1 to C8 alkanyl, alkenyl or alkoxy radical substituted with at least one F atom; and LA is H or F.

Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal (LC) material that aligns homeotropically on substrates with high or low surface energy.

Abstract: Systems and methods for delivering Web content are provided. The systems and methods include a mechanism for providing interest data that may be applied to filter Web content at the provider side. A hierarchical data set of user-identified interests in received from the user's Web client. The hierarchical data set is parsed, and responsive thereto, one or more keyword attribute values are extracted from the hierarchical data set. The extracted keyword values are applied to filter content for delivery to a requesting Web client.

Abstract: A system for treating a linear wound on a patient has a closing dressing bolster for placing on the patient's epidermis over the linear wound, a sealing subsystem for providing a seal over the closing dressing bolster and the patient, and a reduced-pressure subsystem for delivering reduced pressure to the sealing subsystem. The sealing subsystem and reduced pressure subsystem are operable to deliver reduced pressure to the closing dressing bolster. The closing dressing bolster is operable under reduced pressure to develop a inward closing. The closing dressing bolster may include one or more closing members on each side of a center wound area to create the inward closing when under reduced pressure. A compressive force may also be developed. Other systems and methods are presented.

Abstract: A system for providing reduced-pressure treatment to a moveable tissue site, such as a joint, includes a flexible dressing bolster. The flexible dressing bolster has a first side and a second, inward-facing side, and a plurality of flexion joints formed on the flexible dressing bolster. The system further includes a sealing subsystem for providing a fluid seal over the flexible dressing bolster and the patient's epidermis and a reduced-pressure subsystem for delivering a reduced pressure to the sealing subsystem. The sealing subsystem and reduced-pressure subsystem are operable to deliver a reduced pressure to the moveable tissue site. The flexible dressing bolster is operable to allow articulation or movement of the moveable tissue site. The sealing subsystem may include a drape with folds. Other systems, apparatuses, and methods are presented.

Abstract: A see-through dressing assembly is presented for use with a reduced-pressure system for treating a wound on a patient using reduced pressure that allows visual observation of the wound during treatment. The dressing assembly includes a bolster for providing a directed force when under reduced pressure, a sealing member for covering the bolster and providing a seal over the bolster and a patient's epidermis, and wherein the bolster and sealing member are formed from see-through materials sufficient to allow perception of color from a point external to the system. Other systems, dressings, and methods are presented.

Abstract: A reduced-pressure system for treating tissue, such as damaged subcutaneous tissue, includes a shaped dressing bolster for placing on the patient's epidermis and substantially sized to overlay the damaged subcutaneous tissue. The system further includes a sealing subsystem for providing a fluid seal over the shaped dressing bolster and a portion of the patient's epidermis, and a reduced-pressure subsystem for delivering a reduced pressure to the sealing subsystem. The reduced-pressure system may develop a force, which may include a vertical force that is realized at tissue site deeper than the epidermis or a closing force directed towards the incision. The shaped dressing bolster is shaped to evenly distribute the force. Other methods and systems are included.

Abstract: A III-V field effect transistor comprising a semiconductor channel layer having an electrically conducting channel; an ohmic contact layer on the semiconductor channel layer, the ohmic contact layer having a recess structure disposed therethrough to the semiconductor channel layer; the bottom of the ohmic contact layer comprising an etch stop layer comprising Aluminium and Phosphorous and defining the shape of the recess at its junction with the semiconductor channel layer.