Abstract: Method and devices for emitting electromagnetic radiation at high power using nonpolar or semipolar gallium containing substrates such as GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, are provided. The laser devices include multiple laser emitters integrated onto a substrate (in a module), which emit green or blue laser radiation.

Abstract: A system and method for optimizing an optical RF photonic link system is presented. The system comprises a modulator subsystem in which nonlinear response is compensated by an envelope precompensation method and employs an optical filter to suppress optical carriers and extract modulated sidebands, an optical amplifier, and an array of photodetectors, each having a plurality of pairs of diodes. The modulator subsystem performs optical filtering on the signal, the signal is amplified by the optical amplifier and sent to the array of photodetectors. The optical amplifier can be an erbium doped fiber amplifier, or a phase sensitive amplifier. The optical power can be delivered to each diode of the array of photodetectors via a photonic integrated circuit.

Abstract: Biometric authentication technology, in which biometric data is maintained for a group of people. The biometric data includes sorted similarity scores, where each of the sorted similarity scores is computed to represent similarity between a corresponding biometric image and a reference image. A biometric verification system accesses a biometric image of at least a portion of a person, accesses the reference image, and computes a similarity score that represents similarity between the accessed biometric image and the reference image. The biometric verification system searches the sorted similarity scores included in the biometric data using the computed similarity score and outputs a result based on the searching.

Abstract: A radiation curable composition comprising 15 to 85 wt % of at least one solvent comprising ?20 wt % of water; 5 to 50 wt % of at least one radiation curable material having a Mn in the range of from 50 to 10,000 g/mol; and 10 to 70 wt % of at least one polyurethane having a Mw in the range of from 4,000 to 70,000 g/mol, the polyurethane having 0 to 5 wt % of isocyanate-reactive component(s) bearing ionic or potentially ionic water-dispersing groups and a free isocyanate group content ?0.5 wt %.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for N+1 packet level mesh protection. An error correction encoder is provided for encoding message symbols, m0 through mN?1, to generate a codeword that includes the message symbols, m0 through mN?1, and one or more check symbols. The error correction encoder comprises a linear feedback shift register having one or more flip-flops to generate the check symbols after shifting the message symbols, m0 through mN?1, through the linear feedback shift register. An error correction decoder is also provided for decoding a codeword that includes message symbols, m0 through mN?1, and one or more check symbols. The error correction decoder comprises a linear feedback shift register having one or more flip-flops to generate an error symbol based on a remainder after shifting the message symbols, m0 through mN?1, and the one or more check symbols through the linear feedback shift register.

Abstract: An optical amplifier includes at least one pump source and an optical fibre cable which includes an amplifying optical fibre and a pump optical fibre that are defined by respective lengths. The amplifying optical fibre and the pump optical fibre are coated with a common coating along a portion of their respective lengths, and the fibres are in optical contact with each other along a coating length within the common coating. The common coating has a refractive index which is lower than a refractive index of a cladding material of the pump optical fibre. The fibres are made substantially from glass. The amplifying optical fibre includes a core and a cladding, and is doped with a rare earth dopant. The pump optical fibre is defined by a first end and a second end, the first end of the pump optical fibre being connected to the pump source.

Abstract: A data distribution system for a vehicle includes a data distributor module that is communicatively coupled with a data acquisition module that obtains values of available data parameters related to operation of the vehicle, a service module that provides functions for the vehicle based on the values, and a memory. The data distributor module receives a request list from the service module that includes one or more requested data parameters of the available data parameters. The data acquisition module stores the values of the requested data parameters in the memory. The data distributor module retrieves the values of one or more of the requested data parameters from the memory and communicates the values that are retrieved to the service module for the service module to use the values that are retrieved to provide the functions for the vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis, and determination of treatment regimens in subjects suffering from or suspected of having a renal injury. In particular, the invention relates to using assays that detect one or more biomarkers selected from the group consisting of Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 10B, Cadherin-16, Caspase-9, Bcl2 antagonist of cell death, Caspase-1, Cadherin-1, Poly [ADP-ribose] polymerase 1, Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1, Cadherin-5, Myoglobin, Apolipoprotein A-II, Mucin-16, Carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 5, and Cellular tumor antigen p53 as diagnostic and prognostic biomarker assays in renal injuries.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and computer program products are provided for facilitating interaction via motion gestures. A method may include receiving an indication of at least one motion gesture made with a device. The method may further include determining a contextual state of a device. The method may additionally include determining, by a processor, a relationship between the at least one motion gesture and each of a plurality of predefined motion gestures and causing, based at least in part on the determined relationship, the device to perform an action associated with a respective predefined gesture. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.

Abstract: A power steering gear assembly 10 which is used to turn steerable vehicle wheels 50, 52 includes a piston 20 disposed in a motor cylinder 16. A series 44 of rack teeth are connected with the piston 20. A first tooth space 94 is formed between first and second teeth 80, 76 in the series 44 of rack teeth. The first tooth space 94 has a root portion 126 which includes first and second fillets 132, 136. The first fillet 132 has a larger radius of curvature 130 than the second fillet 136. The first and second fillets 132, 136 have centers of curvature which are both disposed between a central axis 104 of the first tooth space 94 and the second rack tooth 76. The center pinion gear tooth 190 has side surfaces 200 and 202 with intermediate portions 216 and 230 which are offset from continuously curving spatial envelopes 212 and 228 containing tip end portions 208 and 222 and root end portions 210 and 224 of the center pinion gear tooth.

Abstract: A network device receives, from a first video camera system, position information for a first video camera at a first site and sends, to a second video camera system, position instructions for a second video camera at a second site. The position instructions are configured to locate the second video camera within the second site to correspond to a relative position of the first camera in the first site. The network device receives, from the first video camera system, a first video feed including images of the first site and receives, from the second video camera system, a second video feed including images of a subject of the second site. The network device combines the first video feed and the second video feed to generate a synchronized combined video feed that overlays the images of the subject of the second video feed in images of the first site.

Abstract: In various embodiments, apparatus and methods of operating the apparatus are provided to determine existence and location of parasitic stress threes on a rod portion, the rod portion made of a magnetostrictive material and having a hollow tube. The apparatus may include a device comprising an envelope made of a non-magnetic material, a magnetic field source disposed inside the envelope, a motor to set the magnetic field source in rotational motion on the inside of the envelope, and a sensor to measure a value of the magnetic field and to deliver a signal representative of the value of the magnetic field. Operation of the apparatus may include penetration of the envelope into a portion of the hollow tube of the rod portion and translation of the envelope along the portion of the hollow tube. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.

Abstract: A method for preparing R5X4 alloy materials where R is a rare earth element selected from one or more of La, Ce, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Lu, Sc, and Y and X represents a non-rare earth alloying element such as silicon, germanium, tin, lead, gallium, indium and mixtures thereof. The method involves carbothermically reducing amounts of a rare earth element-containing oxide, an alloying element-containing oxide and/or alloying element in elemental or alloy form, and carbon at elevated temperature to form an R5X4 alloy material, which is melted, solidified, and optionally heat treated. Such a method provides an economical and efficient technique of configuring magnetic refrigerant, magnetostrictive and magnetoresistive alloys and products.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of Cucumis melo, in particular to a new variety of Cucumis melo reticulatus, NUN 01307 ME, plants and melon fruits; a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB ______.

Abstract: A toy doll is provided having a torso defined by a front surface and a back surface. The doll may additionally include legs extending from a lower portion of the torso, an image sensor located on the back surface of the torso, and an image display located on the front surface of the torso. The doll may additionally include a control panel integrated into the pelvic region of the torso, operatively interconnected with the image sensor and the image display, so that that the image sensor and the image display are controllable by using the control panel. The doll may further include fabric clothing covering the image display, permitting a user to create the appearance of personalized graphic clothing for the doll.

Abstract: A signal processing system for processing satellite positioning signals is described. The system comprises at least one processor and a signal processor operating under a number of operational modes. The signal processor includes at least one of a signal processing subsystem, a fast Fourier transform (FFT) subsystem, and a memory subsystem that are each dynamically and independently configurable in response to the operational modes. Further, the system includes a controller that couples to control transfer of data among the signal processing subsystem and the FFT subsystem via the memory subsystem. Configurability of the memory subsystem includes configuring the memory subsystem into regions according to the operational modes where each region is accessible in one of a number of manners according to the operational modes.

Abstract: Methods and Systems for reminding about print history use an approach in which one or more conditions, such as print job name and/or file size, of a subsequently submitted print job are monitored to determine if the one or more conditions of the subsequent print job is substantially similar to a corresponding one or more conditions of a previous print job. A reminder message is displayed on a user interface if such a similarity so determined, and in response, a user can enter a selection of an option in the reminder message to handle the reminder message and/or control print processing of the subsequent and/or previous print job. The reminder messaging can be pre-configured and turned off, as required.

Abstract: A semiconductor chip comprises: a semiconductor structure having a single crystal substrate having a non-cubic crystallographic structure and epitaxial layers disposed on the substrate wherein adjacent sides of the semiconductor structure are at oblique angles. A method for separating a plurality of integrated circuit chips. The method includes: providing a semiconductor wafer having single crystal substrate, such substrate having a non-cubic crystallographic structure with an epitaxial layer disposed on the substrate; forming scribe lines at oblique angles to one another in the epitaxial layer; and cutting or cleaving through the substrate along the scribe lines to separate the chips.

Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, an electrochemical cell includes a negative electrode including a form of lithium, a positive electrode spaced apart from the negative electrode and including an electron conducting matrix and a lithium insertion material which exhibits a volume change when lithium is inserted, a separator positioned between the negative electrode and the positive electrode; and an electrolyte including a salt, wherein Li2O2 or Li2O is formed as a discharge product.

Abstract: An integrated cooling, sealing and structural battery tray for a vehicle includes a generally planar base member having a support surface and a cooling system formed by the planar base member. A seal is formed between the battery tray and the support structure for the vehicle. The integrated cooling, sealing and structural battery tray may also include a plurality of fins are disposed on the support surface, wherein the fins are adjacent each other, and a plurality of routing apertures extending through the base member and having a plurality of cooling lines disposed therein.