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1. A compound represented by the following formula, or a salt thereof: wherein: A represents: OH, F, Cl, Br, or a (C when B is connected with an adjacent carbon through a single bond, B represents OH; when B is connected with an adjacent carbon through a double bond, B represents O or S; R R R n=0 or 1; m=1.
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1. An immunogenic epitope having no more than 20 amino acid residues and comprising GLFDEYLEMV (SEQ ID NO:1), wherein the immunogenic epitope binds to HLA-A2.
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1. An electrochromic display device, comprising: a first substrate; a first electrode provided on an upper surface of the first substrate; a second substrate provided to be opposed to the first substrate above the first substrate, the second substrate being formed of a transparent material; a second electrode provided ...
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1. A method for treating a hematopoietic cancer, comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of a compound of a structural formula: wherein R R R R R R R n is 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or hydrate thereof.
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1. A method of wireless communication, comprising: generating a frame comprising a physical layer preamble having a signal field, the signal field comprising: encoding the multiple fields comprising information associated with the frame type in the signal field of the frame, the information comprising: wherein the fram...
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1. A method for measuring portal venous blood pressure in a subject, the method comprising the steps of: a) applying a mechanical excitation to spleen of the subject; b) acquiring displacement data relating to tissue displacement in the spleen in response to this applied force with a medical imaging system; c) calculat...
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1. An engine method, comprising: draining condensate from a charge air cooler coupled to an engine in response to a compressor bypass valve event including, via an electronic controller:
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1. A plate-like particle of a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery, wherein the plate-like particle has a structure in which numerous primary particles are bound to one another, each primary particle having a layered rock salt structure, wherein the plate-like particle has a thickness of 5 μm or more...
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1. A process for preparing a recycled butyl ionomer material, the process comprising: a. providing a virgin uncured butyl ionomer material having a ultimate tensile strength at ambient temperature and having an initial Mooney visocosity ML (1+8) @ 125° C. of 25-35 Mooney units; b. heating the butyl ionomer to a tempera...
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1. A device ( 1 ) for filling at least one cell ( 2 ) of a rechargeable battery ( 3 ) with electrolyte liquid ( 30 ), comprising: a filling apparatus ( an evacuatable sealing container ( a feed means ( mechanical guide means (
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1. A method of operating a system for providing locations of collection, charging and distribution machines for collection, charging and distribution of portable electrical energy storage devices, the method comprising: receiving, by the system for providing locations of collection, charging and distribution machines, ...
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1. A method of coagulating tissue, comprising the steps of: supplying power to a tissue coagulation apparatus at a constant power rate; supplying fluid to the tissue coagulation apparatus at a fluid flow rate that is equal to a base fluid flow rate; measuring a temperature at the tissue coagulation apparatus; determini...
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1. A power management method for use in an electronic system, wherein the electronic system comprises a processor, and a power management unit, the power management method comprising: when the processor has entered a low power state and an awakening event of the processor occurs, calculating by the power management uni...
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1. A method of controlling a Multi-Terminal High Voltage Direct Current (MTDC) system with at least three terminals, each terminal including a Voltage Source Converter (VSC) controlled by a VSC controller, comprising: providing a converter schedule including at least one of a desired power flow value and a DC voltage; ...
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1. An agrochemical aqueous composition comprising a pesticide and a copolymer comprising a) at least 20 wt % vinylimidazol and/or a quaternized vinylimidazol, b) an acidic comonomer, and c) up to 30 wt % of a hydrophobic comonomer, which comprises C wherein the pesticide is at least 80% dispersed in the aqueous composi...
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1. A method for checking a blade contour of a turbomachine, comprising: registering an actual contour of a blade; scaling a setpoint contour of the blade, the scaling being a shape-invariant or geometrically similar change of the setpoint contour by enlargement or reduction of the setpoint contour as a whole, the setpo...
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1. A saddle-riding type vehicle comprising: a seat; a steering handle disposed forward of the seat; a fuel tank including a vent configured to discharge fuel vapor, the fuel tank being arranged such that at least a portion of the fuel tank is positioned below the seat; a canister connected to the vent of the fuel tank ...
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1. An electric wheel hub drive for a vehicle, comprising: a hub housing pivot-mounted about an axis; a brushless electric motor coaxially arranged to said axis and including a rotor and a stator for driving the hub housing, wherein the stator includes a hollow-cylindrical stator winding, and wherein the rotor includes ...
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1. A method for analyzing a nucleic acid template in a biological sample, the method comprising the steps of: forming a plurality of microdroplets, each comprising a nucleic acid template and a plurality of sets of primer pairs, each set of primer pairs being specific for a different target site on a different nucleic ...
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1. A method for producing a liquid-ejection head including: a substrate on or above which a plurality of actuators are formed, the plurality of actuators generating energy for ejecting a liquid; and a flow-passage-forming member on or above the substrate, the flow-passage-forming member defining ejection ports through ...
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1. A zoom digital camera comprising: a) a Wide imaging section that includes a fixed focal length Wide lens with a Wide field of view (FOV), a Wide sensor and a Wide image signal processor (ISP), the Wide imaging section operative to provide Wide image data of an object or scene; b) a Tele imaging section that includes...
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1. A computer-implemented method for a metadata service to accumulate and organize data relating to videos, the method comprising a metadata service performing the steps of: receiving social data relating to videos from members of at least two Internet-based social network services (SNS), the social data associated wit...
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1. A method of providing binaural hearing assistance to a user, comprising: capturing audio signals at a right ear unit which is worn at the right side of a user's head and which comprises means for stimulating a user's right ear; simultaneously capturing audio signals at a left ear unit which is worn at the left side ...
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1. A proton conductor comprising an ionic liquid having a zwitterion wherein an anion moiety and a cation moiety coexist in one molecule, and a proton donor, wherein the cation moiety of the zwitterion is an onium cation represented by the following structural formula 1: (wherein R is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group ...
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1. An aircraft storage bin comprising: an upper housing that includes first and second side panels, a bucket that cooperates with the upper housing to define a bin interior, wherein the bucket includes a bottom and opposing first and second sidewalls extending upwardly from the bottom, a first pivot mechanism operative...
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1. A hybrid vehicle comprising: an engine having a starter and a turbocharger; a motor; a clutch operatively connecting the motor to the engine; a transmission connected to the motor; and a controller that actuates the starter when the engine is stopped and a barometric pressure signal is below a calibrated threshold, ...
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1. A solar cell comprising: a substrate; an anti-reflection layer on the substrate; a first electrode on the anti-reflection layer; a photo-electro conversion layer on the first electrode; and a second electrode on the photo-electro conversion layer, wherein: the anti-reflection layer comprises a nanopattern and a nano...
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1. A handheld electronic device comprising: a housing having a top side, a bottom side, a left side and a right side, wherein each of the sides lies in a unique plane such that no two sides lie in a common plane; a first antenna mounted at a first position of the housing on a first side; a second antenna mounted at a s...
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1. An alternating current (AC) module assembly comprising: a first string, a second string, and a third string of AC modules, each string comprising a plurality of AC modules connected by at least one wiring harness to provide a first phase power output and a second phase power output, each AC module comprising a photo...
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1. A handheld device comprising: a user interface; a communications interface; and a central processing unit associated with the user interface and the communications interface and adapted to send to at least one lighting fixture an instruction assigning an address that is used by other lighting fixtures in a lighting ...
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1. A program binding method for an integrated circuit, the method implemented using one or more processors, the integrated circuit having a plurality of cluster zones, each cluster zone of the plurality of cluster zones having a plurality of computational elements having a plurality of types and having an interconnect ...
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1. A method of combusting a fuel in a gasifier comprising: providing a fuel to the gasifier; recovering first fines and a first slag from the gasifier in a water-filled trough coupled in flow communication with the gasifier, wherein combustion of the fuel and the first fines would generate a sludge having a first visco...
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1. A robotic butterfly, comprising: one or more bio sensors configured to sense indicators of an emotional state of a user; mechanical wings configured to react based on the emotional state of the user; and a microcontroller configured to cause the mechanical wings to move in a first way if a first emotional state of t...
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1. A compression unit comprising: a transform circuit configured to transform data according to one or more transformation algorithms, wherein a result of the one or more transformation algorithms is a set of coefficients; and a control circuit configured to scan the set of coefficients to locate subsets of coefficient...
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1. A method for playing an interactive computer game, comprising: moving a user-controlled play implement, wherein the user-controlled play implement models at least one of a motion of a virtual object in the computer game and a force applied to a virtual object in the computer game; transmitting a signal by the play i...
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1. An information provision apparatus for providing information for reaching a destination to a driver of a vehicle which includes a chargeable electricity storage unit and is driven by using electric energy supplied from the electricity storage unit, the information provision apparatus comprising: an arrival determina...
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1. An electronic device comprising: a housing; one or more acoustic transducers positioned within the housing, each operative to generate an electrical signal in response to detecting sound resulting from an impact with the housing; a microprocessor coupled to the one or more acoustic transducers and configured to rece...
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1. A computer implemented method, comprising: receiving a search query; identifying a plurality of search terms of the search query; determining a model term score for each of the identified search terms, the model term score for a given search term of the identified search terms being indicative of a probability of mi...
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1. A method of operating a gaming apparatus configured to provide player access to one or more gaming apparatus features, at least one of said gaming apparatus features comprising initiating play of a game using a plurality of game symbols and having a game outcome determined by said game symbols, the gaming apparatus ...
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1. Support structure comprising a combination of a first plate-shaped support element having a first circumference and a second plate-shaped support element having a second circumference, wherein circumferential parts of the first circumference and the second circumference, respectively, have corresponding shapes such ...
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1. A method comprising: creating an initial fragmentation of a mask data pattern, wherein the initial fragmentation comprises a plurality of fragments, and wherein each fragment in the plurality of fragments comprises a length and a position; calculating an objective function at a sample point in each fragment in the p...
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1. A fluid temperature control installation for an aircraft, the installation comprising at least one cooling system that requires cooling at least one member for cooling, and at least one temperature control system for controlling the temperature of the air of a cabin of the aircraft; the cooling system comprising a c...
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1. A lift-control device for a poppet valve of an internal-combustion engine comprising: a first valve-lift configured to define a first valve-lift law and operatively connected with a rocker that acts on a stem of said valve to move said stem of said valve according to the first valve-lift law; a second valve-lift con...
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1. An adjustable vehicle head restraint assembly comprising: at least one post adapted to be mounted in a vehicle proximate to a seat back; a transverse shaft mounted to the at least one post; a head restraint pivotally connected to the transverse shaft; a series of teeth provided on the head restraint; a locking mecha...
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1. A method for scanning spars of a hollow structure containing spars, each spar comprising first and second filleted join regions connected by a web, said method comprising: (a) moving a first sensor along the first filleted join region; (b) actuating the first sensor to transmit beams into the first filleted join reg...
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1. A system for converting a waste stream to energy comprising: a water purification device that outputs purified water and a waste stream, the waste stream including an electrolyte; a wind and electrolytic energy generation device that receives the waste stream from the water purification device, wherein the wind and ...
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1. An optical imaging system for generating an image of an object plane, the optical imaging system defining an optical axis and comprising: a lens system including a main objective and a reduction optical unit arranged between said main objective and the object plane; said lens system being aligned along the optical a...
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1. A fishing accessory comprising: a bottom end comprising a curved surface extending between a front end and a back end, said curved surface configured to seat against a fishing rod; and a top end coupled to the bottom end defining a cavity extending between the front end and the back end, said cavity having a first o...
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1. A customer premise equipment (CPE) device at a physical customer location, the CPE device comprising: a wireless interface to a wireless cellular network; a wired interface to a wired network; and processing circuitry to:
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1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a gate electrode arranged on a substrate; a semiconductor layer arranged above the gate electrode and including a source region, a drain region, and a channel region; a source electrode connected to the source region above the semiconductor layer; and a drain electrode connected t...
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1. A process comprising: a) introducing in a reactor a stream (A) comprising ethanol, optionally water, and optionally an inert component, b) contacting said stream (A) with an acidic catalyst in said reactor at conditions effective to dehydrate at least a portion of the alcohol to make a corresponding olefin having th...
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1. A system for communicating during an instant messaging (“IM”) session, comprising: a computer comprising a processor; and instructions which are executable, using the processor, to implement functions comprising:
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1. A programmable logic switch comprising: a first path transistor having a first gate electrode; first and second word lines stacked immediately above the first path transistor; a first pillar passing through the first and second word lines and having a bottom end connected to the first gate electrode; a second pillar...
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1. A method for producing a secreted polypeptide having biological activity, comprising: (a) transforming a fungal host cell with a fusion protein construct encoding a fusion protein, wherein the fusion protein construct comprises: (i) a first polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a signal peptide; (...
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1. A solar collector system comprising: a frame comprising at least a pair of side members spaced apart from each other in a first direction, and a plurality of cross members connected to the pair of side members; a plurality of stantions extending from the frame in a second direction perpendicular to the first directi...
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1. A photoelectric conversion device comprising: a substrate containing single crystalline titanium dioxide; adhesion layers that are thin metal films formed on a surface of the substrate; metal structure bodies, each of which has a volume of 1,000 nm a container for containing an electrolyte solution in an arrangement...
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1. A system comprising: a hydraulic actuator coupled to a joint of a mobile robotic device; an electric actuator coupled to the joint of the mobile robotic device, wherein the electric actuator is configured for operation; and a controller configured to operate the hydraulic actuator and the electric actuator, wherein ...
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1. A liquid-metal cooled fast reactor core having a fuel reactor core comprising: a first nuclear fuel assembly in an inner reactor core region at a center of the fuel reactor core, a second nuclear fuel assembly in a middle reactor core region surrounding the first nuclear fuel assembly of the inner reactor core regio...
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1. A method of optimizing power management system characteristics for peak mitigation of a site, the method, implemented on a computer comprising: gathering a plurality of load samples from a site; classifying load samples as peak-range load samples for load samples exceeding a peak threshold level; determining charact...
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1. A method comprising: presenting a set location setting within a graphical user interface (GUI) of a mobile device; detecting a selection of the set-location setting; detecting on-site location information of the mobile device in response to the selection of the set location setting; detecting at least one on-site 80...
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1. A method for monitoring and controlling electrical power to an electrically-powered device, the method comprising: monitoring and measuring a power usage of an electrically powered device connected to an apparatus; transmitting the power usage of the electrically powered device to a remote controller; transmitting a...
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1. A gas-barrier film comprising at least one silicon hydronitride layer and at least one silicon nitride layer on a surface of a flexible supporting substrate; wherein the flexible supporting substrate is a plastic film; wherein the silicon hydronitride layer and the silicon nitride layer are in direct contact with ea...
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1. A method performed by a base station of reporting Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) counting results, comprising: receiving, by the base station, from a Multi-cell/Multicast Coordination Entity (MCE), a base station counting request, the base station counting request including an update time and an ident...
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1. A multi-cylinder internal combustion engine, comprising: an odd number n of cylinders (n≧3), arranged in line; an applied ignition system; a fuel system for delivering fuel to the cylinders; an exhaust gas recirculation system; and a controller having computer-readable instructions stored therein, the instructions e...
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1. A pressure regulator comprising: a regulator body having a source end, an application end and a main bore extending therebetween, a first portion at the source end and a second portion at the application end, wherein the source end is adapted to being placed in fluid communication with a source of pressurized gas; a...
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1. A method of establishing personalized limits on a search responsive to a key word query to an enterprise search system, including: receiving an object types access history for at least one particular user; wherein the object types access history includes records of object types selected by the particular user from s...
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1. A single crystal pulling apparatus, comprising: a chamber; a crucible disposed within the chamber for containing a melt; a water-cooling means within which a water channel is disposed, the water cooling means being disposed within the chamber in such a manner as surrounding a single crystal to be pulled up from the ...
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1. An airplane, comprising: a turbojet; and means for taking at least a portion of a boundary layer of a flow of air over a surface of the airplane and for guiding the air that has been taken to an air inlet of the turbojet, wherein the means for taking and guiding air comprise a channel having an upstream end that ope...
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1. A lighting and communication system for use in a standardized fluorescent fixture, the lighting and communication system comprising: a light source adapter to produce a generally constant flux of light to at least partially satisfy a general lighting requirement in an area surrounding the system: a communication app...
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1. A method, comprising: in a device adapted to communicate using a Bluetooth low energy link layer, maintaining a protocol data unit (PDU) sequence number that has a size greater than one bit; initializing the PDU sequence number to zero if the device is a source device; incrementing the PDU sequence number by one whe...
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1. A battery, comprising: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a separator between said positive and negative electrode; and an electrolyte comprising an ionic liquid composition, the ionic liquid composition comprising: a phosphonium based cation of the formula: and; one or more anions comprised of any one or m...
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1. A control method for a vehicle, comprising: during a condition with an engine driving the vehicle, closing grill shutters located at a vehicle front end opening to reduce engine cooling when engine temperature is below a threshold temperature; and during a deceleration condition with the engine not driving the vehic...
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1. An integrated circuit product, comprising: an SOI structure comprising: a semiconductor bulk device comprising a first gate structure positioned on said bulk semiconductor substrate in said first region; and an SOI semiconductor device comprising a second gate structure positioned on said semiconductor layer in said...
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1. A surgical stapling apparatus, comprising: a cartridge assembly configured to house a plurality of surgical fasteners; a firing assembly coupled to the cartridge assembly and configured for actuation, the firing assembly being configured to move from a first position to a second position to at least partially eject ...
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1. A method of estimating a property of a hydrocarbon comprising the steps of: (a) preparing a liquid sample of said hydrocarbon, said hydrocarbon having asphaltenes that include different asphaltene fractions of different polarity, and selected from the group consisting of oil and asphalt; (b) intentionally precipitat...
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1. An antibacterial deodorant formed of inorganic particles comprising: a metal component having an antibacterial activity and odor-eliminating activity, said metal component being selected from the group consisting of silver, copper and zinc, and an inorganic oxide other than said metal component, wherein said inorgan...
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1. A phosphate ceramic spray composition comprising an atomized combination of: a first component comprising a high-solids content aqueous suspension of an acid-phosphate of chemical formula A a second component comprising shear-thinned, high solids content aqueous suspension of an alkaline oxide or alkaline hydroxide ...
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1. A method of controlling the condition of a suspension of solid mineral particles within a liquid by flocculation and/or coagulation, said method comprising contacting said solid mineral particles with a chemical additive consisting of a stimulus-sensitive polymer, the stimulus-sensitive polymer consisting of a polym...
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1. A method of forming an integrated circuit with a photovoltaic cell, comprising: forming PMOS and NMOS transistors in a front side of a semiconductor wafer; forming first and second contacts to the PMOS and NMOS transistors; forming first and second through-silicon vias (TSVs) into the semiconductor wafer; bonding th...
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1. A method for location distinction, comprising: determining a baseline temporal link signature of a channel between a transmitter located at a first location and a receiver at a second location, wherein said baseline temporal link signature is characteristic of a first impulse response of at least one transmitted sig...
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1. An enterprise-integrated system optimizer, comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer instructions encoded thereon, wherein the computer instructions comprise instructions for: transmitting a graphical representation of a well-posed optimization problem comprising an interconnected network ...
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1. An electronic device comprising: a solid shaped volume of a polymeric binder; suspended within the binder, a semiconductor die having a first face, a second face opposite the first face, and at least one sidewall spanning the first and second faces, the semiconductor die being a bare-die light-emitting element compr...
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1. A method for controlling a lamp based on a switching action, wherein if a switching-on action is detected, the lamp is switched on, and if a switching-off action is detected, the lamp is switched off; and wherein, another switching-on action performed within a period t0 after the switching-off action is detected is ...
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1. A computer-implemented method for managing localization workflow for video game development, wherein the method is implemented in a computer system comprising one or more processors, the method comprising: analyzing, by the one or more processors, an executable asset of a video game under development to determine wh...
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1. A herpes virus which lacks a functional ICP34.5 encoding gene and which comprises: (i) a heterologous gene encoding a prodrug converting enzyme; and (ii) a heterologous gene encoding a protein capable of causing cell to cell fusion.
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1. A product display system, comprising: a product display assembly comprising a power supply configured to produce a first electrical current, the power supply including a wireless power transmitter configured to receive the first electrical current; and a product positioned in proximity to the product display assembl...
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1. A system for processing sludge from a fume scrubbing system that scrubs fumes from a steelmaking converter, wherein the sludge includes metallic iron microspheres and non-metallic-iron material, the system comprising: separating equipment designed and configured to process the sludge so as to isolate substantially o...
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1. A plant lighting device, constructed at an indoor planting system planted with a plurality of plants, comprising: an illumination module, comprising an assembly seat, and an illumination unit comprising a plurality of light emitting elements that emit light toward at least one of the plurality of plants when powered...
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1. A method for assigning and utilizing an Ethernet physical data port in an Ethernet Link Aggregation Group (LAG) in a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, the method comprising the steps of: selecting, by a first MPLS/LAG switch, from a plurality of physical data ports in said first MPLS/LAG switch, a singl...
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1. An organic thin-film solar cell module comprising: a plurality of solar cell panels, each panel comprising a substrate with first and second main surfaces, a first electrode facing the first main surface, a second electrode interposed between the substrate and the first electrode, and a photoelectric conversion laye...
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1. A method for managing energy usage of a building, the method comprising: obtaining at least one energy usage value from a metering device, the at least one energy usage value based on an amount of energy used by one or more devices of the building corresponding to an operational condition based on an unoccupied sche...
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1. An exhaust gas recirculation device of an engine, comprising: a first exhaust gas recirculation passage for connecting an exhaust passage and an intake passage to each other and introducing into said intake passage an exhaust gas discharged from a combustion chamber to said exhaust passage; a second exhaust gas reci...
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1. A method for reducing growth inhibition by carbon monoxide (CO) of microbes in fermentation, comprising: a) providing syngas to a first fermentation zone; b) fermenting the syngas; and c) determining the CO concentration in the fermentation medium in the first fermentation zone, wherein if the CO concentration in th...
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1. An extraction method for metals, the method comprising subjecting an acid solution containing one or more metals selected from precious metals and rhenium to solvent extraction with a metal extraction agent to extract the one or more metals selected from the precious metals and the rhenium from the acid solution, wh...
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1. A panel for attenuating noise, comprising: a first skin; a second skin; and a cellular core connected to and forming a plurality of cavities between the first skin and the second skin, the cellular core including a wall and a septum, the cavities including a first cavity and a second cavity, and the septum fluidly d...
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1. An apparatus for threading a material layer through a machine path, the apparatus comprising a forwarding series of blowing air mechanisms aimed at said material layer in a machine direction to guide said material layer in said machine direction forwards through said machine path until an acceptable material state i...
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1. A method of delivering an antimicrobial composition into the proximal end of a transdermal catheter, the method comprising: a) providing a transdermal catheter implanted within a patient, the transdermal catheter having a proximal end located outside of the patient and a distal end located at least partially within ...
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1. A system for washing electrodes, each of the electrodes including first and second sides and peripheral edges, the system comprising: a) a conveyor for conveying the electrodes edgewise along a path; and b) a plurality of wash nozzles positioned adjacent to the path on opposing sides thereof, the wash nozzles direct...
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1. An automotive vehicle drive unit, comprising: a fuel cell comprising a flat non-linear control whose control input Pfc* is a setpoint of the electrical power to be delivered by the fuel cell; a reversible electrical energy storage system; an electric motor configured to propel the wheels of a vehicle; an electrical ...
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1. A fixing device comprising: a fixing member; a heating member configured to approach and withdraw from the fixing member; an endless fixing belt, wound around the fixing member and the heating member, configured to be driven to rotate; a nip forming member to form a nip while contacting the fixing belt at a position...
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