Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to a monitoring unit and method which counts a number of qualified clusters of a selected event type based on a size threshold, granularity threshold, and distance threshold time. In one embodiment, a qualified cluster is a cluster which meets both the size threshold and granularity threshold. In one embodiment, a qualified cluster is detected ...

The invention is directed to a new material useful in oral care products such as dental floss or as a toothbrush bristle. The material is a silicon-modified polyamide blended with a different polyamide material. The preferred different polyamide material is the conventional material used to make bristles of toothbrushes. The different polyamide material is preferably a nylon material.

The invention relates to a class of soft or semi-soft CpG immunostimulatory oligonucleotides that are useful for stimulating an immune response.

An apparatus for generating a data stream having a series of segments using data organized in subsequent data frames, a data frame having more important and less important data. It comprises a packetiser for packetising data from a data frame into the series of segments having a first segment and a second segment, where the packetiser is operative to packetise the data of the frame so that a start...

A shared signaling channel can be used in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication system to provide signaling, acknowledgement, and power control messages to access terminals within the system. The shared signaling channel may comprise reserved logical resources that can be assigned to subcarriers, OFDM symbols, or combinations thereof.

A spark ignition engine capable of operating even with a leaner air-fuel mixture to achieve stable ignition and combustion performance. An ignition plug (7) is fitted to a cylinder head (1) through a sleeve (6), and the ignition electrode (7a) of the ignition plug (7) is disposed in a cylinder (2), facing a single chamber type combustion chamber (5). The sleeve (6) is formed in a blind cylindrical...

A process for the production of alkylbenzene includes introducing benzene and an olefin feed into a first alkylation reaction zone in the presence of a first alkylation catalyst under first alkylation reaction conditions to produce a first alkylation effluent containing alkylbenzene and a first alkylation overhead stream. The first alkylation overhead stream is separated into a liquid portion cont...

A system and method are presented for minimizing loss of voice packet during a wireless communications device Candidate Frequency Search (CFS). The method includes monitoring frames in a predetermined sample frame sequence and identifying frames having minimal user information. That is, frames with lower frame rates. The method further includes, in a wireless communications device, performing a CF...

PROBLEMS: To easily and efficiently obtain a high quality (meth) acrylate-based polymer containing small residual amount of metal components (an aluminum component, an alkali metal component and other metal components) and having high purity and excellent properties such as heat resistance, transparency and others. MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS: The present invention provides a method of obtaini...

An object of the present invention is to provide an inorganic phosphor having fluorescence properties emitting an orange or red light which has a longer wavelength as compared with the cases of conventional sialon phosphors activated with a rare earth. The invention relates to a design of white light-emitting diode rich in a red component and having good color-rendering properties by employing a ...

In a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having phosphate-based coatings, which contain no chromium and which impart a tension, on the surfaces of a steel sheet with ceramic underlying films therebetween, the coating amount of oxygen in the underlying film is specified to be 2.0 g/m 2 or more, and 3.5 g/m 2 or less relative to both surfaces of the steel sheet. Consequently, a grain-oriented el...

There is provided a valve holding member for holding a valve of a pipe coupling. The valve holding member includes a hub part 33 having a guide hole 34 for a valve stem, two arm parts 32 diametrically opposing each other on the peripheral edge of the hub part, and spring holding parts 31 formed at the peripheral edge.

A leather-like sheet material comprising a sheet material composed of a fiber aggregate and a elastic polymer, the sheet material containing a fluorine-containing side-chain-modified urethane compound which satisfies the following requirements (i) to (iii), (i) said urethane compound containing a urethane-bond-containing compound having a molecular weight of 500 to 5,000 and fluorine-containing s...

A spheriodal cast alloy for producing cast iron products with great mechanical strength, high-wear resistance and a high degree of ductility. The alloy comprises the following as non-iron components: between 2.5 and 2.8 wt. % C, between 2.4 and 3.4 wt. % Si, between 0.02 and 0.08 wt. % P, between 0.02 and 0.06 wt. % Mg, between 0.01 and 0.05 wt. % Cr, between 0.002 and 0.02 wt. % Al, between 0.000...

This invention relates to control or removal of amounts of dissolved iron that may be present in liquid process streams in the manufacture of aromatic acids. The present invention further relates to the control or removal of dissolved iron contaminants present in liquid streams during the manufacture of a crude aromatic acid. The present invention also further relates to the control or removal of ...

A receiver according to one embodiment includes a frequency control unit configured to receive a stream of samples including a plurality of received instances of a transmitted signal. The frequency control unit is configured to output a first correction signal (e.g. indicating a rotation) that is based on more than one of the received instances and a second correction signal (e.g. to control an os...

A system and method for classifying the user's morphology, and using that classification to control the UE in order to provide more efficient operation of the UE. The classification may be used to assist the user in determining its location more efficiently, without needless interruption or unnecessary use of system resources. The morphology classifier may classify the user's morphology into at le...

Techniques to enhance the performance in a wireless communication system using segments called subbands and using precoding are shown. According to one aspect, the bandwidth for transmission to an access terminal is constrained to a preferred bandwidth which is less than the bandwidth available for transmission to an access terminal and precoding information related to the subcarriers within the c...

There is provided a fastener bag capable of improving working efficiency for the filling of inner content and surely forming a bag cut-starting portion. The faster bag 1 is formed as gusset-type packaging bag, to which a fastener 10 for freely opening or closing the packaging bag is attached. The fastener 10 is composed of a male portion 11 to which a projected thread 11b is formed and a female po...