Abstract: A computer-implemented method of normalizing abbreviated text to substantially unabbreviated text, performed on at least one computer system comprising at least one processor, includes generating, based at least partially on data in at least one data resource comprising abbreviated text associated with unabbreviated text, a plurality of transformation functions in at least one order; transforming at least one string with at least one of the transformation functions, wherein the at least one string at least partially comprises abbreviated text; and determining if at least a portion of the at least one string has been at least partially transformed to substantially unabbreviated text. A system and a computer program product for implementing the aforementioned method includes appropriately communicatively connected hardware components.

Abstract: A hydro-magnetic door hold open device. A piston on a piston rod is slideably mounted in a cylinder that is mounted eccentrically inside a housing. The piston rod extends out of the housing and connects to a hingedly mounted door so that opening or closing of the door effects reciprocation of the piston within the cylinder. Both the housing and the cylinder within it are filled with hydraulic fluid. A ball valve positioned forwardly of the piston is confined within a valve chamber that has three seats; the inner cylinder is provided with apertures on the rearward side of the piston and forwardly of the valve chamber so that the ball valve is carried by the fluid into either of two of the seats attendant piston advancement or retraction and maintained in such seat by a pressure differential established in the fluid by the travel of the piston.