An imaging system for use in medical intervention procedure planning includes a medical scanner system for generating a volume of cardiac image data, a data acquisition system for acquiring the volume of cardiac image data, an image generation system for generating a viewable image from the volume of cardiac image data, a database for storing information from the data acquisition and image generat...

The present invention extends to efficient and flexible business modeli ng based upon structured business capabilities. A computer system receives a plurality of business modeling attributes representing different layers of a business. Th e computer system extracts business capability attributes from among the received plurality of business modeling attributes. The computer system accessing a stru...

Provided are a method and a system for playing a game helping get a job and a method and a system for playing a game helping entering into a university or a school of higher grade. The present invention, through the game, provides an advantage of enabling a job applicant to get a basic understanding of a culture of a company which he/her actually wants to enter into and to get in advance familiar ...

Provided are a method and a system for playing a game helping get a job and a method and a system for playing a game helping entering into a university or a school of higher grade. The present invention, through the game, provides an advantage of enabling a job applicant to get a basic understanding of a culture of a company which he/her actually wants to enter into and to get in advance familiar ...

A capacitor insulating film (21) is composed of a ferroelectric film formed on a substrate and containing an element functioning as a crystal nucleus which allows the growth of a crystal in a random crystal orientation. A capacitor element (23), e.g. in a FeRAM device, comprising this capacitor insulating film (21) keeps a very good polarisation property upon miniaturisation.

A composition and method for promoting neutrophil survival and activation such as the treatment of neutropenia arising as an undesirable side effect of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. A composition containing medium-chain fatty acids, such as Capri acid or caprylic acid, or salts or triglycerides thereof, or mono- or diglycerides or other analogues thereof or medium-chain triglycerides (MCT) i...

A method for generating a higher rate channel using a set of N lower rate channels, the method comprises generating a set of N sinusoids having a corresponding set of N phase offsets with predetermined phase rotations; upconverting said set of N lower rate channels using said set of N sinusoids and phase offsets yielding a set of upconverted signals; summing said set of upconverted signals yieldin...

A hair clipper assembly configured for attachment to a user's clothing, including a battery pack having a housing at least one battery, a belt clip, and a holst er recess; a holster having a holster belt clip; a hair clipper configured to slidably fit within the holster; and a cord connecting the clipper to the battery pack.

A delivery device including a) a housing, b) a container for a fluid arranged in the housing, the container having an opening, c) a delivery conduit connected in fluid communication with the opening, the conduit having a front end in flow respect distal from the container and a rear end in flow respect proximal to the container, the front end and the rear end defining an axis therebetween and a fo...

The invention concerns the use of organic fibers having a melting point lower than 300° C., an average length l more than 1 mm and a diameter Ø not more than 200 mum, in ultra high performance concrete for improving the concrete fire resistance, the amount of organic fibers being such that their volume ranges between 0.1 and 3% of the concrete volume after setting and the concrete having a compres...

The invention relates to a safety needle assembly for injecting a fluid into a human body comprising a cylindrical housing (1,40,103+104) with a bottom surface (9,50) supporting a needle cannula (30,130) and a shield telescopically (2,43,102) movable relative to the housing. A spring (25,125) located within the housing urges the shield in a distal needle covering direction and a locking member als...

Peptides of formula (I) Xaa1-Xaa2-Xaa3-Xaa4-Xaa5-Xaa6-Xaa7-Xaa8-Xaa9-Xaa10-Xaa11 (I), are useful for inhibiting angiogenesis. Also disclosed are angiogenesis-inhibiting compositions and methods of inhibiting angiogenesis in a mammal.

A fingerprint code structure and a collusion customer identifying method using the same are disclosed. The collusion customer identifying method includes the steps of: inserting a fingerprint code including a contents code and a customer code in a contents; extracting the fingerprint code; determining whether there is an collusion attack on the contents by using the extracted fingerprint code; and...

A package structure comprises a substrate having conductive lines, solder bumps (A13), a patterned first elastic dielectric layer, a conductive layer to form a zigzag conductive layer pattern, and a second elastic dielectric layer having openings including solder bumps. A package structure comprises: (1) a substrate having conductive lines; (2) solder bumps electrically coupling with the conductiv...

There is provided a flat type piezoelectric ultrasonic motor for generating a rotation force to a rotor by ultrasonic vibrations. In the piezoelectric ultrasonic motor, a vibrator is formed of elastic material at a given size, a plurality of piezoelectric plates are attached on the vibrator, a rotor is drivingly connected to the vibrator thereby to be rotated, and a power source unit applies drivi...

In textile-making process a staple fibre and aggregated random fibres form a consolidated fleece in which the random fibres are positioned principally on one side. The fleece face in contact with the base layer, is the obverse of the main random fibre face. Fleece is sewn to the base layer and forms the top layer. The top staple fibre layer is polypropylene, polyester, polyamide or viscous fibre. ...

La presente invencion se relaciona con los nuevos compuestos de la Formula (I) los cuales actuan como moduladores del receptor 5HT 2c. Estos compuestos son utiles en composiciones famrceuticas cuyo uso incluye el tratamiento de la obesidad.

Se proporciona un metodo para inducir la anticoncepcion, que incluye suministrar un compuesto y un modulador de receptor del estrogeno selectivo.; The present invention provides methods of inducing contraception which includes delivering to a female a composition containing a compound of formula I, or tautomers thereof, in a regimen which involves delivering one or more of a selective estrogen rec...

S e relaciona con el aislamiento , la clonacion, y la identificacion de las regiones de control de la expresion del gen de corina en mamiferos, incluyendo el promotor y otros elementos reguladores, y el uso de esta region de control de la expresion especifica del corazoon para indentificar nuevos agentes que modulan la expresion de gen de corina y para tratar enfermedades cardiacas.; This inventio...

Se refiere a procedimientos microbiologicos para preparar 11a-hidroxiesteroides 7a-sustituidos, a 11B -halogenesteroides 7a, 17a-sustituidos que se pueden obtener de aquellos, a procedimientos para la preparacion de estos ultimos compuestos y a su uso, asi como a preparaciones farmaceuticas que contienen estos compuestos.