Abstract: An interface for facilitating facsimile transmission via a wireless communications device operatively connected to a wireless communications network, including: a modem suitable for being communicatively coupled to a facsimile machine; a controller coupled to the modem; and, a memory operatively coupled to the controller. The interface includes code to cause the modem to transmit a retrain request to the facsimile machine upon expiration of a given temporal period. The interface includes a circuit for selectively generating a ring signal corresponding to a plain old telephone service ring signal. The interface includes a circuit for selectively generating a hold signal corresponding to a plain old telephone service hold signal. And, the circuit includes code to cause the modem to transmit data indicative of white lines to the facsimile machine upon expiration of a given temporal period.

Abstract: A file protection method. At least one file attached to an e-mail is retrieved. An executable file including the attached file is automatically generated. The file attached to the e-mail is automatically replaced by the executable file. The e-mail is transmitted to a destination terminal. When executed, the executable file determines whether to display the attached file based on transmission of the destination terminal identification to a predetermined server.

Abstract: An interface for facilitating facsimile transmission via a wireless communications device operatively connected to a wireless communications network, including: a modem suitable for being communicatively coupled to a facsimile machine; a controller coupled to the modem; and, a memory operatively coupled to the controller. The interface includes code to cause the modem to transmit a retrain request to the facsimile machine upon expiration of a given temporal period. The interface includes a circuit for selectively generating a ring signal corresponding to a plain old telephone service ring signal. The interface includes a circuit for selectively generating a hold signal corresponding to a plain old telephone service hold signal. And, the circuit includes code to cause the modem to transmit data indicative of white lines to the facsimile machine upon expiration of a given temporal period.

Abstract: The present invention provides an active catalytic converter, which includes primarily catalytic carriers, an isolation supporter, a heat insulator, and a conducting wire, wherein the catalytic carriers are self heating electrothermal catalytic carriers isolated and supported by layers of plates installed on the isolation supporter, so as to allow hazardous gases to flow through the catalytic carriers to perform a catalysis reaction. The heat insulator is used to hold the catalytic carriers and the isolation supporter, and the conducting wire is used to connect with the catalytic carriers and a power supply. The catalytic carriers are quickly heated up to a catalysis temperature at the same time of activating the power supply.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a multi-stage cable equalizer, comprising a fixed gain device and an adjustable gain device. The fixed gain device compensates the loss caused by the cable at a major band, and the adjustable gain device further compensates the loss at adjusted bands. The multi-stage cable equalizer of the present invention exhibits advantages in design flexibility and reduced cost.

Abstract: A method and a device for equalizing mode selection are disclosed. The method comprises steps of: providing first sampling pulses in response to an equalized signal; providing second sampling pulses lagging behind the first sampling pulses for a pre-determined phase shift for sampling the equalized signal; establishing a first observing window and a second observing window according to the first sampling pulses and the second sampling pulses, so as to determine whether each of a plurality of equalizing modes is good or bad; and selecting one equalizing mode among the plurality of equalizing modes.

Abstract: A novel process for the remediation of nitrogenous energetic materials such as 1,3,5,-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) which can be used in situ on contaminated media is provided. The process comprises the bioremediation by one or more miccroorganisms capable of metabolizing the energetic materials. Examples of such microorganisms include Rhizobium rhizogenes, Burkholderia sp., and Cladosporium cladosporioides (ATCC 66669). Strains of these microorganisms have been deposited. The strain designated A1 has been deposited as Rhizobium rhizogenes BL (ATCC PTA-4110) and the strain designated C8 has been deposited as Burkholderia sp. (ATCC PTA-4111) Additionally, with the addition of a carbon source, such as a sugar, the process can totally degrade the energetic materials in two to three days.

Abstract: An interface for facilitating facsimile transmission via a wireless communications device operatively connected to a wireless communications network, including: a modem suitable for being communicatively coupled to a facsimile machine; a controller coupled to the modem; and, a memory operatively coupled to the controller. The interface includes code to cause the modem to transmit a retrain request to the facsimile machine upon expiration of a given temporal period. The interface includes a circuit for selectively generating a ring signal corresponding to a plain old telephone service ring signal. The interface includes a circuit for selectively generating a hold signal corresponding to a plain old telephone service hold signal. And, the circuit includes code to cause the modem to transmit data indicative of white lines to the facsimile machine upon expiration of a given temporal period.

Abstract: A liquid actuated lighting liquid container includes a container having a cup body defining a liquid cavity for containing a liquid therein, a cup base, having a storage cavity, extended from the cup body, and two sealing slots communicating the liquid cavity with the storage cavity. A liquid actuated lighting arrangement includes two terminals sealedly disposed in the two sealing slots respectively in a watertight manner, and an illumination unit, which is received in the storage cavity of the cup base, including a circuit electrically connected with the terminals and at least an illuminator electrically mounted on the circuit. Therefore, when the liquid is filled within the liquid cavity of the cup body, the two terminals are electrically connected via the liquid as a conductive media so as to actuate the illuminator to provide a lighting effect on the container.

Abstract: A system and a method for a secure trading mechanism combining wireless communication and wired communication are proposed, which, in the condition of two-way trading constructed based on network connection of a wireless communication device functioning in two-way transmission to a trading server and a trading host of a wired communication devices, allow the trading to be performed in real time and the correctness to be determined for data transmitted between different levels of the network according to a secure communication protocol defined in each communication device, so as to assure the security of trading data in transmission, and prevent the trading data from being acquired or changed without authorization.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating quadrature phase signals in a half-rate data recovery circuit, which is adapted to generate a first and a second clock signals having the same frequency and being 90 degrees out of phase with each other. The apparatus for generating quadrature phase signals mainly comprises a base selector, a first phase interpolator and a second phase interpolator. The base selector generates, based on a region control signal, a pair of phase region boundaries for the first clock signal as well as a pair of phase region boundaries for the second clock signal by using a plurality of reference clock signals. The first and second phase interpolators perform, based on a position control signal, weighted average processes for the two pairs of phase region boundaries, respectively, to thereby obtain the first and the second clock signals.

Abstract: System and method for controlling the use of control wafers in a semiconductor fabrication line with load balancing and resource minimization. A preferred embodiment comprises a control wafer manager (for example, control wafer manager 605) and an inventory manager (for example, inventory manager 630). The control wafer manager uses a fabrication process dependency graph (for example, fabrication process dependency graph 407) to help determine where a control wafer may be able to go after it has completed its current process step. The inventory manager uses available inventory at each process step to assist in the decision process. Finally, a check-in process is used to ensure accurate inventory control.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating quadrature phase signals in a half-rate data recovery circuit, which is adapted to generate a first and a second clock signals having the same frequency and being 90 degrees out of phase with each other. The apparatus for generating quadrature phase signals mainly comprises a base selector, a first phase interpolator and a second phase interpolator. The base selector generates, based on a region control signal, a pair of phase region boundaries for the first clock signal as well as a pair of phase region boundaries for the second clock signal by using a plurality of reference clock signals. The first and second phase interpolators perform, based on a position control signal, weighted average processes for the two pairs of phase region boundaries, respectively, to thereby obtain the first and the second clock signals.

Abstract: A system and a method for a secure trading mechanism combining wireless communication and wired communication are proposed, which, in the condition of two-way trading constructed based on network connection of a wireless communication device functioning in two-way transmission to a trading server and a trading host of a wired communication devices, allow the trading to be performed in real time and the correctness to be determined for data transmitted between different levels of the network according to a secure communication protocol defined in each communication device, so as to assure the security of trading data in transmission, and prevent the trading data from being acquired or changed without authorization.

Abstract: A computationally time and space efficient data structure and method and system for using the same for surface rendering. The basis for the new data structure lies in organizing a volume data set for surface rendering into a new format where the cells needed for the surface rendering can be searched and displayed more efficiently. Given a threshold t specified by the user, the present data structure is able to efficiently identify all surface cells saving valuable processing time by providing three unique beneficial characteristics. First, given a threshold t, it can directly provide all S-cells without having to check most of the 1-cells and 0-cells such that no time is wasted on visiting the intermediate nodes. Second, it facilitates significant savings in memory space where the data structure only requires N.sup.3 pointers for data storage saving memory space for all intermediate nodes, i.e. O(N.sup.3) pairs of (Min, Max).

Abstract: Apparatus for converting input voltage to output current is disclosed herein. The apparatus mentioned above includes an input stage and a tuning stage. The input stage is used to generate a gate voltage corresponding to the input voltage, which is electrically coupled to the power source and ground. The input stage includes buffering means, a transistor, a resistor, and a first current repeating means. The first current repeating means generates the operational current responding to the current repeating transistor, and the input voltage is electrically coupled to the resistor by two input terminals of the buffering means. The gate of the transistor is connected to the output terminal of the buffering means, and the drain of the transistor is connected to the resistor and one of the two input terminals of the buffering means.

Abstract: The present invention utilize the systems described blow to carry out the real time broadcasting on an Internet. Data-collection processing system for collecting and processing the original packages sent by all data-sources connected to the data-collection processor system. Receiving system is used for sending out user's information utilized in the authentication about a user. In addition, the receiving system receives packages of selected kinds of data-source and examines which packages are missing. Also, the receiving system sends out the number representing data-sources of a missing package. Besides, the authentication system is included for examining whether the user is registered, and transmitting the number representing data-source requested by the receiving system to the multi transmitting system. Another function is to assign a source of the most light loading to provide data for the user and sending address of the source to the receiving system.

Abstract: A new design of therapeutic traction modality with closed loop traction force control based on EMG signals from selected muscle is developed for rehabilitation. This modality includes main traction controller, a high signal-to-noise ratio EMG scanning and processing units, A/D and D/A computer interface hardware, on-line self-adjusted traction force actuating unit, biofeedback control software, and audio/visual alarms. This new traction modality provide a breakthrough milestone for the open loop control architecture of conventional motorized traction machine. The kernel of this invented modality is to adaptively adjusting traction force based on real time detected EMG signals to ensure the safety, comfort, and effectiveness of traction therapy.