Abstract: An article of footwear including a sole including a midsole and an outsole attached to the midsole, where the sole includes a medial side and a lateral side and a support member positioned between the midsole and the outsole. The support member includes a body having a medial side and a lateral side, where the medial side and the lateral side of the body each include a pair of arms respectively extending toward the medial side and the lateral side of the sole.

Abstract: An article of footwear comprising a sole including a midsole and an outsole attached to the midsole, and a support member positioned on a bottom surface of the midsole, where the support member has a curved surface that extends from a rear end to a front end of the support member.

Abstract: An article of footwear including an upper, a sole attached to the upper, where the sole has a medial side and a lateral side, and a through-hole extending between the medial side and the lateral side, and a plurality of support members in the through-hole, where at least two of support members are a different size.

Abstract: An article of footwear is provided and includes an upper and a sole attached to the upper, where the sole has a medial side and a lateral side, and a through-hole extending between the medial side and the lateral side. A support member is positioned in the through-hole of the sole, where the support member includes an upper support and a lower support and where the upper support is spaced from the lower support.

Abstract: An article of footwear including a sole including a lateral support member, a medial support member and a front support member that are independent from each other and form a triangular contact region on a bottom surface of the sole.

Abstract: An article of footwear is provided and includes an upper and a sole attached to the upper, where the sole has a medial side and a lateral side, and a through-hole extending between the medial side and the lateral side. A support member is positioned in the through-hole of the sole, where the support member includes an upper support and a lower support and where the upper support is spaced from the lower support.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wear plate assembly for NDT/NDI probes which provides sufficient protection for the probe being wrung against test objects, desirable acoustic performance meeting the requirements for versatile ultrasonic inspections while providing a mechanism that allows the transducer to be put into or taken out conveniently. The wear plate protects probes from being pieced, worn or structurally deformed albeit being thinner than a wavelength of the acoustic echoes.

Abstract: A system and method suitable for producing user designated views of non-destructive inspection target with adjustable color, opacity and/or fill-patterns in coordination of the display of inspection scan images. The geometric definition of the inspection target and the inspection scan area are both prepared by independent processes under which vertices and respective primitives are established. The inspection target primitives are given an alpha texture that includes color, opacity and/or fill-pattern designated by the user. The scan area primitives are mapped by a color and/or opacity texture representing inspection signal information such as amplitude. An efficient commercially available graphics accelerator is used to render both of the images of inspection target's chosen view and that of scanned area. The method allows implementation in real-time and on hand-held devices.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wear plate assembly for NDT/NDI probes which provides sufficient protection for the probe being wrung against test objects, desirable acoustic performance meeting the requirements for versatile ultrasonic inspections while providing a mechanism that allows the transducer to be put into or taken out conveniently. The wear plate protects probes from being pieced, worn or structurally deformed albeit being thinner than a wavelength of the acoustic echoes.

Abstract: A system is provided for placing debt with a debt collector from a plurality of debt portfolios. Each of the debt portfolios includes a plurality of individual debt accounts. The system includes a collections module for maintaining collector data for a plurality of debt collectors. The system includes a placement module for matching individual debt accounts from the plurality of debt portfolios with selected debt collectors from the plurality of debt collectors. The match is made to assign debt accounts with the collector best suited to collect on the debt. The match can be determined based on historical performance of the collectors and based on the characteristics of the debt account.

Abstract: A system and method for transferring credit accounts over a network include steps and means for receiving search criteria from a user, searching a credit account database for available credit accounts based on the search criteria, providing results of the searching to the user, the results including a summary of available credit accounts and a purchase price for each available credit account, receiving a selection of at least one of the available credit accounts from the user, calculating a total purchase price for the selected at least one of the available credit accounts, receiving a purchase request from the user corresponding to the selected at least one of the available credit accounts, providing an invoice to the user for the total purchase price, receiving a payment from the user in response to the invoice; and in response to the received payment, removing the selected credit accounts from the credit account database.

Abstract: A system is provided for comprehensive debt management. Debt is typically acquired in the form of portfolios from the issuers of debit (e.g., creditors, such as credit card banks), which are referenced herein as “primary issuers” of debt. The custodian of the present invention is the acquiring party and is referenced as the “secondary issuer” of debt. Such portfolios are normally expansive and may cover a very large geographically region, such as the state of Texas. The system can parse the debt and assign any portion thereof to collection agencies or even directly to individual collectors.