In a network environment, multimedia content is streamed from a server computer to a client computer via the network. A user of the client computer can alter the speed at which the multimedia content is played; either speeding up or slowing down the playback. The client seamlessly switches between the different playback speeds, reducing breaks and/or delays between the time the user selects the ne...

The invention relates to a device and a method for correcting a flexible material web (1) which is guided to a processing machine, the lower side of the material web incorrectly facing upwards. Said error is the result of a twist or two ends of a material web which are incorrectly connected. In orde r to correct the error, the material web (1) is rotated at least once about it s longitudinal axis,...

The present invention relates to a method for generating a user profile for indexing/browsing of multimedia data and a multimedia browsing method using the same. The multimedia data browsing method involves (a) constructing a user profile by incorporating a user-preferred application description scheme indicating a user-preferred multimedia browsing method or browsing criterion, wherein the browsi...

A method of connection with a bucklingly deformable synthetic resin member comprising a cylindrical body having a flange part at its end part to be connected and a lagging tube part fitted onto the flange part, comprising th e steps of fitting the lagging tube part of the synthetic resin member onto th e flange part of the cylindrical body, bucklingly deforming the tip of the lagging tube part to ...

In a vehicle tire air pressure detection system, a charging electromagnetic wave is transmitted for a predetermined period from a vehicle chassis side and stored as a charge voltage in a transmitter unit attached to a tire wheel. When the charge voltage reaches a predetermined level, a sensor in the transmitter unit detects a tire air pressure and a transmitter/receiver of the transmitter unit tra...

An implantable stent having surface features adapted to promote an organized growth pattern of infiltrating cells when implanted in a tubular organ is provided. The surface features comprise depressions, pores, projections, pleats, channels or grooves in the stent body and are designed to increase turbulence or stagnation in the flow of a liquid, such as blood through the stent, and/or to promote ...

A hydrotreating catalyst that contains at least one element of group VIB and/or group VIII of the periodic table and optionally phosphorus and/or silicon, with an organic compound as an additive that contains at least one nitrogen atom, is used for the transformation of hydrocarbon-containing fractions, in particular the hydrodesulfurization, the hydrodenitrification, the hydrodemetallization, the...

A surface acoustic wave filter capable of obtaining a low insertion loss and wide bandwidth characteristic is provided. The surface acoustic wave filter includes a piezoelectric substrate; a pair of reflective electrodes formed on the piezoelectric substrate; and a plurality of comb electrodes formed between the pair of reflective electrodes on the piezoelectric substrate, wherein, in regard to th...

A device and a method for measuring body fluid-related metrics using spectrophotometry to facilitate therapeutic interventions aimed at restoring body fluid balance. The specific body fluid-related metrics include the absolute volume fraction of water in the extravascular and intravascular tissue compartments, as well as the shifts of water between these two compartments. The absolute volume fract...

An object-based event communications system supplies an event distribution object having an outgoing-from-publisher event interface and associated with unique identifiers defined for a publisher that is programmed to fire events by calling a method on the event distribution object's outgoing-from-publisher event interface. The event communications system stores subscriptions of subscriber objects ...

Ce récipient (1) est en particulier un récipient en matériau composite desti né à contenir un fluide sous pression, et présentant une paroi latérale cylindrique (1a) et des extrémités arrondies (1b), couramment dénommées "dômes". Le dispositif (2) comprend: une coque (10) en matériau résistant au poinçonnement, conformée pour envelopper au moins l'ensemble d'un dôme (1b) du récipient (1), en délim...

A system for manufacturing an optical lens that is configured to correct optical aberrations, including, e.g., high order aberrations such as described by Zernike polynomials. The system can include a measurement system configured to measure optical aberrations in a patient's eye and to create measured optical aberration data. A calculation system is configured to receive the measured optical aber...

An absorbent article contains a hydrophilic fiber processed by a water-soluble deodorant containing a graft polymer having a deodorant functional group. This constitution ensures to have large deodorizing function per unit weight, compared to a particulate deodorant. Consequently, the constitution allows to decrease a weight of the deodorant and to excel in deodorizing function. Moreover, it is un...

The invention relates to an absorbent article, such as a diaper, an incontinence guard, a sanitary napkin or the like, including a liquid-permeable upper surface and an absorbent structure exhibiting a planar extension. The absorbent structure includes an acquisition layer and at least one storage layer. The acquisition layer has a plurality of fragments of a liquid-absorbing, open-celled, polyacr...

A multiple-step reset process and circuit for resetting a voltage stored on a photodiode of an imaging device. A first stage of the reset occurs while a source and a drain of a pixel source-follower transistor are held at ground potential and the photodiode and a gate of the pixel source-follower transistor are charged to an initial reset voltage having potential less that of a supply voltage. A s...

The present invention is a method and an apparatus for end-to-end travel time estimation using dynamic traffic data. In one embodiment, a method for estimating a fastest route between a first point in a transportation network and a second point in the transportation network includes receiving static data relating to static characteristics of a first zone and a second zone in the transportation net...

The subject invention provides a method of producing enzymatically active CPB which comprises treating a recombinant cell containing DNA encoding ProCPB, so that the DNA directs expression of the ProCPB, recovering from the cell the ProCPB so expressed, treating the recovered ProCPB under conditions permitting folding of the ProCPB, subjecting the folded ProCPB to enzymatic cleavage to produce enz...

The present invention is directed to a composition comprising polystyrene with at least 0.1% (w/w) of an additive, the article of manufacture comprised thereof, such as a mold for making contact lenses and the mold assembly containing said mold, and the use of such mold so to facilitate demolding from a two mold assembly in the process of making contact lens.

The method includes: (a) automatically generating a cnc machine code data set for machining a contact lens mold insert to define a complex optical surface thereon; (b) machining a plurality of the contact lens mold inserts with the cnc data set with a single diamond point lathe, the lathe having sub-micron precision and repeatability; (c) simultaneously molding a first plurality of contact lens mo...

Surfaces of diamond crystals are examined by coating the surfaces with thin metal films, launching laser beams to the diamond surfaces in a slanting angle, detecting defects and particles on the diamond surfaces by the scattering of beams and counting th e defects and particles by a laser scanning surface defect detection apparatus. Diamond SA W devices should be made on the diamond films or bulks...