Abstract: Bone cements and methods provided include a bone cement composition having collective attributes and properties desirable for initial fixation as well as interventional applications. Compositions include an amount of Portland cement and an amount of calcium sulfate.

Abstract: An input shaft damper (ISD) of a transmission, may include an inertia body assembly relatively rotatably mounted on an input shaft of the transmission, and a planetary gear set mounted on the input shaft so as to receive and increase a rotational force of the input shaft and output an increased rotational force to the inertial body assembly.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a hollow composite structure by forming a prepreg product using a plurality of prepregs, forming a soft coating layer on an inner surface of the prepreg product, and compressing the prepreg product by applying pressurized air to the coating layer and, at the same time, applying heat to the prepregs.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure is configured such that not only can a pillar that is a vertical member of a vehicle body, for example, a bus, be joined to a rail that is a horizontal member without conducting a welding process, but also the strength of the vehicle body can be enhanced, thus preventing the generation of noise and vibrations, improving the durability of the vehicle body structure, and facilitating assembly work.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a recombinant Escherichia coli (E. coli) capable of producing D-xylonic acid from D-xylose and a method for producing D-xylonic acid using the same. The recombinant E. coli producing D-xylonic acid from D-xylose according to the present invention is a recombinant E. coli EWX4 (Microorganism deposition number KCTC11988BP) capable of producing D-xylonic acid from D-xylose. When utilizing the recombinant E. coli prepared by the method of the present invention, it is possible to produce D-xylonic acid from D-xylose with high yield while reducing production cost using sole carbon source.

Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing, in an automated fashion, updated information to a user regarding a topic indicated as being of interest to the user. At a first point in time, a first request for updated information on a first topic indicated as being of interest to a user can be received, such as from a website or service to which the user is connected. First updated information for the first topic can be requested from a data store that comprises updated information on one or more topics indicated as being of interest to the user. If the data store comprises the first updated information, the first updated information can be returned to the sender of the request, at the first point in time, such that the user may be presented with fresh content regarding a topic known to be of interest to the user.

Abstract: Techniques involving the creation of advertisements from electronic communications. In one embodiment, a determination is made that a received email includes advertisement information. Elements of the email that can be used in an electronic advertisement are identified, and the electronic advertisement is created using at least the identified elements of the email.

Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing a customized advertisement for a user. A request can be received from an advertising service, where the request comprises a user topic, such as a topic comprised in an advertisement intended to be customized for the user. One or more user aspects are identified for the user topic, and respective impact factors are determined for at least some of the one or more user aspects. The user aspects for the user topic can be ranked according to their corresponding impact factors, and the ranking can be returned to the advertising service in response to the request. The advertising service may use at least some of the ranking to customize the advertisement to be shown to the user (e.g., so that higher ranked aspects are emphasized more heavily in the advertisement than lower ranked aspects).

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for communicating advertisement preferences configured by users to a plurality of network domains that serve advertisements are provided. Users input their preferences with respect to advertisement targeting through a common interface and those preferences are communicated to a plurality of network domains in conjunction with requests for advertisements. In this way, users do not have to submit their preferences for advertisement targeting independently for each network domain that serves advertisements and advertisement-serving network domains have a decreased risk of having outdated or incomplete advertisement targeting information.

Abstract: Methods and systems for synchronizing communication of different versions of an advertisement to multiple, disparate devices associated with a user are provided. The advertisement is received on a first device associated with the user. Incident to receiving the advertisement, the first device establishes a communication path with a second device associated with the user. Utilizing the communication path, capabilities of the second device are determined. A version of the advertisement is rendered for the second device, where the version rendered is dependent upon the determined capabilities of the second device. And, utilizing the communication path, the rendered version of the advertisement is communicated to the second device.

Abstract: Methods and systems for enabling an advertiser to utilize device-to-device interactions to track word-of-mouth advertising and to take advantage of differentiated pricing schemes based on a quantity of an item are provided. An advertisement is received on a first device, and the first device identifies a second device that is receptive to interaction. The first device interacts with the second device. Concurrently with the interaction, an advertisement identifier associated with the advertisement is communicated from the first device to the second device. The advertisement identifier enables the second device to receive the advertisement.

Abstract: An advertisement engine, a computer-implemented method, and computer-readable media to select advertisements are provided. The advertisement engine is connected to an advertisement database and user database. The advertisement engine selects advertisements from the advertisement database based on user engagement data associated with a user. The user engagement data is stored in the user database. The user engagement data includes the length of time a user focused on content displayed by a client device.

Abstract: A target web page may embed resources hosted by a source server. However, this embedding may result in compatibility and/or security issues; e.g., the dimensions of the embedded resource may skew the layout of the target web page. Instead, a source web page may be rendered separately from a target web page, and a source region of the source web page (e.g., a region defined by a set of coordinates) may be extracted from the source web page and may be presented in a target region of the target web page. The elements of the source region may be displayed and executed in isolation within the source web page, and may operate within a source domain (e.g., communicating with the source server and accessing cookies stored by the source server), yet may not interact with the elements of the target web page, thereby alleviating many compatibility and security problems.

Abstract: A method, computer readable media, and computer system for generating advertisement messages are provided. The computer system includes an advertisement engine and an advanced interactive platform that receive user events. The advanced interactive platform selects response templates associated with user events received from a user. In turn, the advanced interactive platform transmits the response templates to the advertisement engine. The advertisement engine processes the response template and populates the response template with advertising hints to dynamically generate advertisement messages. The advertisement engine may include indicators that solicit user feedback in the advertisement message. The user feedback received by the advanced interactive platform triggers additional user events that are used to generate additional advertisements and to discover interests of the user.

Abstract: A computer system, a computer-implemented method, and computer readable media configured to target advertisements based on emotional states are provided. Advertisers specify desired emotional states of users they intend to target with advertisements. Advertisers also provide emotional tags having the desired emotional state of users that should see the advertisements linked to the emotional tags. Online activities for users are obtained and processed to assign emotional states to the users. An advertisement engine selects advertisements that are emotionally compatible based on the assigned emotional states and the desired emotional states provided by the advertisers.

Abstract: Described herein are technologies related to charging advertisers for advertisements presented to a user in an interactive advertising session. An advanced interactive system captures gestures, spoken words, facial expressions, and the like, and advertisements are presented to a user based upon such captured gestures, spoken words, facial expressions and the like. User interactions with respect to these advertisements are then captured, and advertisers are charged fees per captured interactions between the user and the advertisements.

Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing a rich email experience for an email with an attachment. Intention metadata that is associated with an attachment to an email is identified, where the intention metadata indicates a sender intention for the attachment. The intention metadata may be identified prior to sending the email and included with the email, or identified after receipt of the email. Further, the intention metadata is applied to the attachment so that the attachment is presented in a rich format to the recipient that reflects the sender intention for the attachment, such as highlighting portions, and/or presenting images, for example, in a desired sequence.

Abstract: Queries applied to content sets (e.g., files in a filesystem) often produce search results including many content items having identifiers that match the keywords of the query. However, many search techniques do not account for the relevance of the matching, e.g., whether the match is predictably relevant to the user, or whether the content item only tangentially matches the query. The techniques presented herein involve indexing the content items in a content index according to various identifiers having an identifier weight indicating the predicted relevance if a token of a query matches the identifier. Candidate content items may then be presented as search results sorted by the aggregated identifier weights of the matching identifiers, thereby promoting highly relevant content items and demoting incidentally matching content items. Additional adjustments may be made (e.g., promoting content items that match a particularly infrequent token or that match a phrase in the query).

Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for rendering online ads on a webpage. A first inter-frame communication channel is created, which comprises a first communication channel between a first cross-domain frame and a host page, such as the webpage. The first cross-domain frame comprises content from a domain that is different than that of the host page domain. A second inter-frame communication channel is created comprising a second communication channel between the first cross-domain frame and a second cross-domain frame in the host page.

Abstract: The obstacle detecting system includes a first image acquiring unit which acquires first image information by selectively receiving a laser beam emitted from at least one laser source toward a road surface at a target distance; a second image acquiring unit which acquires an image of actual surroundings as second image information; an image recognizing unit which recognizes an image of an obstacle by performing 3-D image recognition signal processing on line information of the laser beam using the first image information, and recognizes a pattern of the obstacle by performing pattern recognition signal processing on the second image information; and a risk determining unit which determines a possibility of collision due to presence of the obstacle within the target distance by classifying the recognized obstacles according to whether or not the image-recognized obstacle is matched with the pattern-recognized obstacle.