Abstract: A testing device for testing a circuit board including a first connector includes a connecting circuit board including a second connector, a mounting board, a fixing board, and multiple fastening members. The mounting board includes multiple mounting holes. The fixing board includes a base and a cover. The base includes multiple stepped holes corresponding to the mounting holes. The connecting circuit board is fixed in the fixing board. Each of the fastening members includes a sleeve, a receiving fastener, and a threaded fastener. Each of the sleeves is mounted in a corresponding stepped hole, and an outer diameter of the sleeve is less than a least inner diameter of the stepped hole. The sleeve is longer than a depth of a least hole of the stepped hole. Movement of the connecting circuit board relative to the mounting board allows movement of the second connector relative to the first connector.

Abstract: Rare earth element(s) doped alumina nanowires are formed by a thermal evaporation method in which vapor from aluminum powder and vapor from a rare earth element compound (such as an halide) are reacted in an oxygen-containing inert gas stream to form alumina which deposits as alumina nanowires and as a rare earth element and oxygen-containing material that deposits with and/or on the alumina nanowires. Where the RE-doped alumina nanowires are to be used as catalyst supports, a catalyst material, such as platinum, may be deposited as small particles on the nanowires.

Abstract: An SRAM and a forming method and a controlling method thereof are provided. The above-mentioned SRAM includes a tracking column, a normal column, a cell voltage control circuit and a cell voltage pull-down circuit. Each of the tracking column and the normal column includes a plurality of memory cells. The cell voltage control circuit is coupled to the tracking column and the normal column for connecting an operation voltage to the two columns before a write operation of the SRAM starts and for disconnecting the operation voltage from the two columns after the write operation starts. The cell voltage pull-down circuit is coupled to the two columns for pulling down the cell voltages of the two columns after the write operation starts and for ceasing pulling down the cell voltage of the normal column when the cell voltage of the tracking column drops down to a predetermined voltage.

Abstract: Machine-readable media, methods, and apparatus are described for a media playing tool with a multiple media playing model. In some embodiments, the multiple media playing model may decoding a first media stream into a plurality of first frames and decode a second media stream into a plurality of second frames. Further, the multiple media playing model may adjust a first frame of the plurality of first frames and a second frame of the plurality of second frames into a third frame with a predetermined layout.

Abstract: A power adapter includes an insulation casing. A plug module has at least one plug pin which defines a plug end protruding out of the insulation casing and an inserting end opposite to the plug end received in the insulation casing. The insulation casing receives a printed circuit board, at least one connecting member and conductive member therein. The conductive member is fixed on the printed circuit board and defines a receiving space. The connecting member has a contact portion received in the receiving space of the conductive member for electrical connection therebetween and a retaining portion connecting with the inserting end of the plug module. The assembly structure of the power adapter is simplification.

Abstract: Polymers that enable the use of high work-function metals as a cathode in optoelectronic devices and optoelectronic devices incorporating the polymers as an electron transport layer.

Abstract: A method for implementing a virtual Network Element (NE), including: constructing type definition information of a virtual NE and a virtual board, which has all type parameters of an actual NE and board of the same type; obtaining the type definition information to construct a virtual NE entity and a virtual board entity which has property information of an actual NE; configuring service and protection information for the constructed virtual NE entity. A network management system for implementing a virtual NE is also disclosed. It is possible to construct and maintain a virtual NE which can simulate actual NE devices completely in accordance with the present invention.

Abstract: Methods of enhancing cellular responses to interferons are disclosed. These methods comprise administering to a subject a vector comprising a Stat1-CC transgene, such as an AAV5 vector comprising a reporter operably linked to a nucleic acid sequence encoding a Stat1-CC polypeptide. The methods can be used in the treatment of diseases that involve interferon responses, such as multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and lupus; viral infections such as infection by hepatitis C virus, influenza A virus, cowpox virus, Sendai virus or Encephalomyocarditis virus; respiratory disorders; and cancers.

Abstract: A method of controlling a power factor correction (PFC) converter that has a discontinuous input current includes sensing the input current, sensing an output voltage and controlling a duty cycle of at least one switch in the converter in response to the sensed input current and output voltage using a control equation for controlling the duty cycle of the switch such that an average input current to the converter is sinusoidal. Example circuits capable of performing the method are also disclosed.

Abstract: An entertainment system often contains a number of entertainment devices, such as a television, VCR, DVD player, CD player, Cable-TV box, and other devices each of which has a remote controller associated with the device. This often results in a confusing welter of remote controllers to operate the system as a whole. A system and method for displaying control function icons on a television display is presented here. The control function icons are displayed in large font, hi-intensity icons as an overlay on a television screen. There are a number of the graphic icon sets that may be mapped, one to each device in the system that has a remote controller. The user may then select the set of icons for the device to be controlled, select the function desired, and the control function code is sent to the infrared receiver of the device to be controlled.

Abstract: A class of compounds having Formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are useful as therapeutic compounds, particularly in the treatment of hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, dyslipidemia, and other lipid disorders, and in delaying the onset of or reducing the risk of developing conditions and sequelae that are associated with these diseases, such as atherosclerosis.

Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, carrier media, and systems for selecting polarization settings for an inspection system for inspection of a layer of a wafer are provided. One method includes detecting a population of defects on the layer of the wafer using results of each of two or more scans of the wafer performed with different combinations of polarization settings of the inspection system for illumination and collection of light scattered from the wafer. The method also includes identifying a subpopulation of the defects for each of the different combinations, each of which includes the defects that are common to at least two of the different combinations, and determining a characteristic of a measure of signal-to-noise for each of the subpopulations. The method further includes selecting the polarization settings for the illumination and the collection to be used for the inspection corresponding to the subpopulation having the best value for the characteristic.

Abstract: A system for a package pre-fetching for a remote program installation. The system includes a cache and a service program unit. The service program unit receives a request for a package required for an installation of an operating system and at least one peripheral application thereof from a computing node. The service program unit determines a package request sequence by which the computer node issues one or more package requests according to a type of the computing node, so as to pre-read a subsequent package from an external storage device into the cache before the computing node issues a request for the subsequent package.

Abstract: A class of benzodihydrofuran compounds having the structure of formula (I) below and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are useful as therapeutic compounds, particularly in the treatment of hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, dyslipidemia, and other lipid disorders, and in delaying the onset of or reducing the risk of conditions and sequelae that are associated with these diseases, such as atherosclerosis.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of patterning, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a porous film; and (b) adding at least one structure to the porous film. The present invention also provides a patterned film prepared according to the method of the invention. The present invention also provides a method of preparing a porous film, and a porous film prepared according to the method of the invention.

Abstract: A technique for controlling instrumentation in an automatic test system includes providing a group of hardware resources that can be configured in a variety of ways to realize different instrument configurations, which generally correspond to different traditional instrument types. An instrument driver is provided for each of the different instrument configurations, and calls to each instrument driver may be inserted into a test program for controlling the respective instrument configuration. The instrument drivers direct control of the hardware resources via a support driver. The support driver thus provides a central location through which control of the various hardware configurations is processed. From the user's point of view, the instrumentation is programmed as if it consists of a collection of traditional instrument types. But at the hardware level the instrumentation is highly integrated and efficiently realized.

Abstract: A control system for industrial water systems that utilizes multiple measurements of information and models to decide optimal control actions to maximize corrosion/scaling/fouling inhibition and particulate dispersancy performance and minimize cost of water and treatment chemicals. This system is capable of automatic operation for a wide range of process conditions, ensures multiple performance objectives, achieves robust operation under a variety or un-measurable disturbances and achieves the least costly solution delivery.

Abstract: Various methods, carrier media, and systems for monitoring a characteristic of a specimen are provided. One computer-implemented method for monitoring a characteristic of a specimen includes determining a property of individual pixels on the specimen using output generated by inspecting the specimen with an inspection system. The method also includes determining a characteristic of individual regions on the specimen using the properties of the individual pixels in the individual regions. The method further includes monitoring the characteristic of the specimen based on the characteristics of the individual regions.

Abstract: An encoder encodes each of a plurality of data fragments into an encoded packet comprising a plurality of codewords, each codeword comprising a set of data bytes from the data fragment and at least one error-correction byte derived from the set of data bytes. A plurality of cross-interleavers each receive as input one of the plurality of codewords of the encoded packet, after which a concatenator concatenates a plurality of interleaved codewords output by the plurality of cross-interleavers into an interleaved packet to be sent over a network.