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1. A lift adjuster for adjusting seating furniture and/or reclining furniture, comprising: a housing, an adjustment bracket, and a clamping slide slidably supported on the adjustment bracket by a first connection in an open state, wherein in the open state the clamping slide is released from fixed connection by a separ...
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1. A method for determining when a user enters a predetermined region, where the user's present location is represented by a first circle having a first center and a first radius, where said first radius is indicative of the accuracy of said present location and the predetermined region is represented by a second circl...
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1. An organic electrolyte solution comprising: a lithium salt; an organic solvent; and a silane compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by Formula 1 and 2: wherein:
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1. A dual fuel system for an internal combustion engine comprising: a gaseous fuel subsystem including a gaseous fuel supply, a gaseous fuel manifold fluidly connected to the gaseous fuel supply, and a gaseous fuel pressure control mechanism configured to supply gaseous fuel from the gaseous fuel supply to the gaseous ...
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1. A cable gland assembly, comprising: a mounting member being a tubular member, said mounting member comprising a first outer thread; at least one connection member, each said connection comprising a second outer thread, a first axial hole, a second axial hole in communication and axial alignment with said first axial...
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1. An apparatus of an evolved Node B (eNB) operable to reconfigure a time division duplex (TDD) uplink and downlink (UL/DL) configuration for a user equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising one or more processors and memory configured to: determine a set of configuration indication fields numbered 1 to N, included in a...
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1. An electric vehicle management device, comprising: a communication unit configured to a vehicle state information database configured to store a reference value for determining whether or not to create the vehicle management message according to the vehicle state information; an electric vehicle information database...
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1. A method of presenting advertising content to a user at a social networking site with recommender system running on a computing system comprising: (a) collecting and processing ratings data provided explicitly by a first member of a social network with the computing system within an electronic interface at the socia...
4,168
8,715,374
1. A jet aviation fuel composition comprising C8 NON-FAME ALKANE, C9 FAME, C9 NON-FAME ALKANE, C10 FAME, C10 NON-FAME ALKANE, C11 FAME, C11 NON-FAME ALKANE, and C12 FAME wherein the jet aviation fuel composition has a freeze point of −54° C. and a flash point of 51° C.
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1. A composite material in a structural window, comprising: an optically transparent polymeric matrix; a plurality of optically clear elements defining at least one transparent region positioned in a center of the window, the plurality of optically clear elements embedded in and surrounded by said polymeric matrix, the...
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1. An apparatus for controlling peak demand of a resource within a facility, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of devices, disposed within the facility, each consuming a portion of the resource when turned on, and said each capable of performing a corresponding function within an acceptable operational margin by cy...
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8,470,485
1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell; a fuel supply flow path for supplying a fuel gas, which is supplied from a fuel supply source, to the fuel cell; an on-off valve which adjusts the condition of a gas on an upstream side of the fuel supply flow path and supplies the gas to a downstream side; a pressure sens...
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1. A composition comprising a compound according to Formula I: wherein, R1 is H or alkyl; R2 is H, OH, O-alkyl, amino, O-heterocyc, O-aryl, O—Ac, O—PO3, O—SO3, OSO2NH2 or O-substituted alkyl wherein said substitution is halo, aryl, or heteroaryl; R3 is OH, O—CH2Aryl, O—CH2heteroaryl, O-alkylaryl, or O-acyl; R4 is H, Al...
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1. A method comprising: providing, by a data server system to a spreadsheet server system, access to data stored in a data store; populating, at the spreadsheet server system, a spreadsheet document based on the data; providing, by the data server system to a browser on a client computing system, a time stamp associate...
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1. A current imbalance determination device of a second side of a DC-DC converter that determines a second side current imbalance of the DC-DC converter, wherein the second side is a center tap, comprising: a voltage measuring portion that measures a voltage drop of each connecting portion of the DC-DC converter by sup...
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1. An agglomerate comprising a first phase change material (PCM) and a constituent having a density greater than 800 kg/m 3 and forming the core of said agglomerate, wherein the core comprises only the constituent.
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1. A method for crossing a plant having at least one polymorphism or mutation in the coding region of a plant glycoalkaloid gene selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 2, 4, 19 and 21, comprising: (i) isolating a nucleic acid from a tomato or potato plant, wherein said nucleic acid is a genomic DNA containin...
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1. A touch sensor detector system comprising: (a) touch sensor array (TSA); (b) array column driver (ACD); (c) column switching register (CSR); (d) column driving source (CDS); (e) array row sensor (ARS); (f) row switching register (RSR); (g) analog to digital converter (ADC); and (h) computing control device (CCD); wh...
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1. A micrometer-scale spherical aggregate comprising: a plurality of one-dimensional nanostructures comprising titanium and oxygen, wherein the one-dimensional nanostructures radiate from a hollow central core thereby forming a spherical aggregate.
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1. A computer-readable storage medium that stores computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a mobile device, cause the mobile device to perform operations comprising: presenting, on a display of the mobile device, a graphical user interface of a message content filtering application, wherei...
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1. A riding lawn mower comprising: a front frame portion; a rear frame portion; an articulated joint operably coupling the front frame portion to the rear frame portion, wherein the rear frame portion is pivotable relative to the front frame portion about a vertical axis defined by the articulated joint; a front wheel ...
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1. A method, comprising: providing, by a broadband gateway enabling communication with a plurality of devices, at least a first content from a first source and a second content from a second source for selection via a user interface to produce a combined content, the first content and the second content received throug...
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1. Closure for a container, comprising: a lid for closing an opening of a container; and a sealing foil having a layer of plastic on one side of the sealing foil for fixation of the foil directly to an interior portion of the lid, and a layer of plastic on the other side of the foil for fixation of the foil to a fringe...
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1. A product comprising: a truck body comprising: a center aisle, a first wheelhouse, a second wheelhouse, and at least one cargo pod lift system integrated into a passenger side or a driver side of a perimeter of the truck body; wherein the center aisle and the at least one cargo pod lift system is constructed and arr...
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1. A stretchable display, comprising: a stretchable substrate including a flat part and a plurality of protrusions protruding above the flat part; a plurality of fixed light emitting devices, each fixed light emitting device being attached to an upper surface of a corresponding protrusion of the plurality of protrusion...
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1. A device that is configured to wrap around a stomach of a patient and preventing overexpansion thereof in a radial direction as well as limiting axial lengthening thereof in an axial direction, the device comprising; a body comprising an inner surface and an outer surface, and a compressible pliant material being lo...
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1. A metallocene-catalyzed polymer comprising (i) a higher molecular weight component and (ii) a lower molecular weight component wherein the polymer has a polydispersity index of from about 10 to about 26; a zero shear viscosity of from about 5×10 5 Pa·s to about 2×10 14 Pa·s and a smooth-to-matte transition critical ...
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1. A method of forming a semiconductor device, the method comprising: forming a conformal liner layer within an opening provided within a dielectric material and on a horizontal upper surface of the dielectric material; removing the conformal liner layer from a bottom of the opening and from the horizontal upper surfac...
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1. Label transfer device ( 10 ) for an IML process for transporting and inserting a label ( 8 ) into an annular gap-shaped mold cavity ( 9 ) of a multi-part injection mold ( 1 ) for manufacturing of parallel-walled objects, in particular containers comprising a shell region, having a substantially constant, i.e. with a...
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1. A method of recovering a rare earth element from an oxidized scrap of a permanent magnet, the method comprising: leaching the oxidized scrap of the permanent magnet containing neodymium and dysprosium from a sulfuric acid solution; adjusting a weight ratio (Dy/Dy+Nd) of the leached neodymium and dysprosium existing ...
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1. An article, comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode; and a photoactive material between the first and second electrodes, the photoactive material comprising a polymer including first, second, and third comonomer repeat units, the first comonomer repeat unit comprising a silacyclopentadithiophene moiety, th...
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1. A composite photocatalyst, comprising: platinum nanocrystals; and photocatalyst nanocrystals, wherein the photocatalyst nanocrystal includes a compound of chemical formula (1): wherein A
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1. A method in a first communication device for receiving control information and data over a radio channel from a second communication device the method comprising the steps of: receiving at least part of a subframe over the radio channel; detecting that the subframe is a subframe having at least one downlink assignme...
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1. A bilayer tablet comprising: (1) a first layer wherein the first layer is a metformin extended release formulation comprising about 50-87% metformin hydrochloride (HCl) in an amount of 1000 mg, about 1-10% sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, about 10-40% hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, about 0.1-75% magnesium stearate, a...
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9,586,712
1. A method of producing a label for a prescription pharmaceutical storage container for holding and dispensing a pharmaceutical for a patient, the method including the steps of: providing a supply of prescription pharmaceutical storage containers, the supply including a first container and a second container, the firs...
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1. A method of dispensing fuel into an internal combustion engine through dispensing equipment having an elastomeric seal, the method comprising: (A) introducing into the engine a distillate fuel comprising a mixture of an aromatic-lean component and an aromatic-rich component wherein the distillate fuel is prepared by...
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1. An octave/register key for affixing to a musical wind instrument in which an air column is formed, the octave/register key comprising: a core having a core aperture therein, wherein the core is reversibly moveable from a first position in which the core aperture is in fluid communication with the air column toward a...
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1. A touch display apparatus, comprising: a display panel, comprising: a touch device layer, disposed on an outer surface of the active device array substrate; at least one first flexible circuit board, disposed on the outer surface and an edge of the active device array substrate, and electrically connected to the tou...
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1. A method in a communication system comprising a plurality of interconnected communication units, including one or more radio base stations and one or more user equipments, the method comprising: introducing a set of rules commonly known to the radio base stations and user equipments in order to independently initiat...
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1. A method of making a printed circuit board, the method comprising: forming a plurality of dielectric core layers comprising at least a top dielectric core layer and a bottom dielectric core layer; embedding a thermally-conductive coin in at least one of the dielectric core layers; and forming a high frequency materi...
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1. A method of producing an electrical heating device for a motor vehicle, the electrical heating device including: a housing enclosing a circulation chamber through which a medium can flow, heating ribs protruding in the circulation chamber, the heating ribs being in thermally conducting contact with at least one Posi...
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9,383,867
1. A display apparatus furnished with a touch sensor, comprising: a display module having a touch sensor comprising: a display panel; a plurality of sensor electrodes formed in a region where they overlap the display panel, and each having an electrostatic capacitance that changes according to a state of being touched ...
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1. A pediatric headrest for skull stabilization during pediatric neurosurgical and orthopedic procedures, the pediatric headrest comprising: a body; a horseshoe shaped head support having first and second wings coupled to the body, the horseshoe shaped head support adapted to be positioned subjacent to and to provide s...
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1. A method of fabricating an interdigitated back contact solar cell, the method comprising: diffusing a first dopant into first and second substrate regions through a planar rear surface of a semiconductor substrate such that the first dopant forms first and second spaced-apart diffusion regions in said first and seco...
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1. A printed circuit board assembly comprising: a substrate; and two or more electronic components which are categorized, wherein each electronic component is secured to the substrate by a securing means having a predetermined thermal-release temperature and/or adhesive properties, depending on which category said comp...
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1. A fuel injector comprising: an injector body defining a first nozzle outlet set, a first fuel inlet, a second nozzle outlet set, a second fuel inlet, and a drain outlet and having disposed therein a first nozzle chamber fluidly connected to the first fuel inlet, a second nozzle chamber fluidly connected to the secon...
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1. A method executed by a computer system, comprising: displaying, by the computer system and at an internet location, an advertisement to purchase a feature length movie (FLM) before the FLM is publicly available to view in movie theaters and before the FLM is publicly available to buy on digital video disks (DVDs); d...
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1. An organic photoelectric conversion element comprising a bulk hetero unction layer containing a mixture of an n-type semiconductor material and a p-type semiconductor material, wherein the n-type semiconductor material is a polymer represented by Formula (1) and the p-type semiconductor material is a tetrabenzoporph...
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1. A composition for delivery of mRNA for protein expression in a target cell, comprising at least one mRNA molecule comprising a sequence encoding a protein of interest and a 5′ untranslated region (UTR) comprising SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein SEQ ID NO: 1 enhances the expression of the protein of interest.
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1. A system for preventing at least one of ice and frost for positioning in an airflow tunnel having an air inlet, the system comprising: a plurality of waveguide passages positioned in the airflow tunnel; an air filter positioned in each waveguide passage; a microwave energy source coupled to each waveguide passage; a...
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8,569,026
1. A method of producing a compound, wherein the compound has one or more characteristics selected from the group consisting of (a) a Henry's law coefficient of less than 250 M/atm and (b) a solubility in water of less than 100 g/L, the method comprising: a) culturing cells comprising one or more nucleic acids encoding...
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1. A storage system comprising: a storage system having an inner rod, an outer body and a lower foot; said inner rod selectively attaches to said lower foot; said outer body comprising two or more storage segments; said inner rod comprising a substantially cylindrical shape, being aligned with a central vertical axis; ...
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1. A trailing boom system for aerial refueling, the system comprising: a parent pod capable of being connected to a wing or a body of a tanker aircraft; and a detachable pod releasable from the parent pod, the detachable pod comprising an extendible boom for refueling a receiver aircraft in flight, the extendible boom ...
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1. An anti-reflection glass by one or both faces, in partial or total form, of a smooth and smooth tact, with an aspect that does not reflect the light and pleasant at sight characterized by: a roughness Ra of 0.47 μm up to 0.77 μm and one roughness Rz of 2.6 μm up to 4.7 μm and —a (%) of Transmittance, (%) Absorbance ...
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1. A vehicle ( 1 ) with electric propulsion, which presents a longitudinal direction (L), which is parallel to the direction of the rectilinear motion, and a transverse direction (T), which is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction (L), comprises: a motor propulsion system ( a system ( a support panel ( a support ...
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1. A method of detoxifying a harmful compound in vitro, comprising: contacting a harmful compound with (1) at least one selected from the group consisting of a methyl radical and a carboxymethyl radical and (2) a cobalt complex so as to detoxify the harmful compound, wherein the harmful compound comprises at least one ...
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1. A display panel, comprising: a first substrate; a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines disposed on the first substrate, wherein the scan lines and the data lines are crossed to define pixel areas on the first substrate; a plurality of active devices located on the first substrate and electrically co...
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1. A triglyceride oil produced by cultivating heterotrophically in the dark a genetically engineered Chlorella protothecoides cell comprising an exogenous gene encoding a sucrose invertase, wherein the exogenous gene is codon optimized for expression in the Chlorella protothecoides cell; wherein the cell is cultured on...
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1. A method for soft-decision sphere decoding for use in a MIMO OFDM receiver having two receive antennas, comprising the steps of: receiving a channel matrix H and a received signal vector y; decomposing the channel matrix H into an orthogonal rotation matrix Q and an upper triangular matrix R, such that H=Q·R; perfor...
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1. A compound described by formula (Ib): wherein, R R X X X X each X X a is an integer from 1 to 2; b is an integer from 0 to 3; c is an integer from 1 to 2; d is an integer from 0 to 3; n is an integer from 1 to 5; m is an integer from 1 to 5; p is an integer from 1 to 5; r is an integer from 1 to 5; q is an integer f...
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1. A method comprising: instantiating, in an application server of a computer system, associating, in the computer system, the first and second UI connections with an application messaging channel (AMC), the AMC comprising an interface for communicating between the first UI session and the second UI session, wherein as...
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1. A process for using multiple waste streams to manufacture synthetic lightweight aggregate comprising: providing multiple waste streams consisting essentially of aggregate wash from sand washing plants and waste lube oil; mixing the aggregate wash and waste lube oil to form a mixture having at least about 50% aggrega...
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9,478,771
1. An organic light-emitting display (OLED) device comprising: a substrate of which a pixel region and a circuit region are defined; a buffer layer including a light-condensing means on the pixel region of the substrate and a first buffer film pattern on the circuit region of the substrate; an active layer on the first...
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1. A card reader, comprising: a body including a slot that is configured to receive a swipe of a card along a first axis with an edge of the card abutting a bottom surface of the slot, the slot including at least one region recessed relative to a bottom surface of the slot that is configured to increase frictional drag...
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1. A method for forming bundles inside a bundle former having a holding space, comprising: depositing at least one layer, composed of at least one printed product of a bundle, onto a lift; subsequently compressing a respective one of the layers; determining a thickness of the respective layers, wherein the determining ...
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1. A method for reducing a time delay for an output of an occupancy sensor comprising the steps of: receiving a first setting for a reduction timer; detecting, with the occupancy sensor, each occupancy condition within a space; initiating the reduction timer and an internal timer for the occupancy sensor based on the d...
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1. A host computing device comprising: a controller configured to be connected to a data storage device separate from the host computing device and to:
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1. An electrode in an energy storage device, comprising: at least one activated carbon, comprising:
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1. A method of transferring a dye to a composite material, the method comprising: applying the dye to a transfer media to create a colored transfer media; placing the colored transfer media into contact with the composite material; and applying, using an autoclave, at least one of heat, external pressure, vacuum pressu...
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1. An optical-semiconductor device comprising: an optical-semiconductor element; a first electrically conductive member to which the optical-semiconductor element is electrically connected, said first electrically conductive member having a bottom surface that constitutes an external surface of the optical-semiconducto...
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1. An isolated or purified sophorolipid-producing cell transformed with a nucleic acid encoding an E 5 polypeptide; wherein the E wherein said cell may optionally contain a nucleic acid encoding at least one E E E E E (i) 17-L-[(2′-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-β-D-glucopyranosyl)oxy]-Z-9-octadecenoic acid 1′,4″-lactone and ace...
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1. A heat exchanger comprising: at least two plates placed in a pack and brazed together so that separate channels for a first medium and a second medium are formed between alternate pairs of plates; two pairs of connections for inlet and outlet of the first medium and inlet and outlet for the second medium, respective...
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1. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising: a receiver configured to receive, at a first access point, radio frequency signals transmitted by at least one other access point; a processing system configured to determine, based on the received signals at the first access point, an indication of loading at eac...
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1. A merchandise storage container comprising: a container body defining a merchandise storage area; the container body having a front wall, a rear wall, and first and second sidewalls; the first sidewall extending between the front wall and the rear wall at a first side of the container body; the second sidewall exten...
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1. An agent for lightening keratinic fibers, comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable carrier: (i) at least one acyl pyridinium derivative of formula (I), in which R1 denotes a C R2, R3 and R4 each independently of one another denote hydrogen, a C X (ii) at least one cationic polysaccharide, and (iii) at least hydrogen...
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1. A method of operation of a storage control system comprising: initiating a hardening process beginning at a power-down signal, wherein host data and meta data are stored in a first portion of non-volatile memory of the storage control system during the hardening process; tracking time information beginning at the po...
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1. An isolated antibody, or fragment thereof, that binds to β-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) comprising (a) an HVR-H1 comprising the amino acid sequence GFTFX (b) an HVR-H2 comprising the amino acid sequence of GWISPAGGSTDYADSVKG (SEQ ID NO:24), (c) an HVR-H3 comprising the amino acid sequence...
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1. A process for converting a feed gas stream comprising feed gas components of CO, CO 2 , and H 2 into a liquid product by contact with an aqueous fermentation liquid wherein the liquid product reduces the surface tension of the fermentation liquid, said process comprising: a) retaining a portion of the aqueous fermen...
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1. A method of navigating to a target comprising: providing a location of a target to an object being navigated; creating at least three marks by deploying a plurality of markers from at least one aerial vehicle, wherein each of said plurality of markers comprises: a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag, a bright ...
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1. A load cell arrangement comprising: a longitudinal body that extends along a longitudinal axis and that comprises a force input element, a force output element, and a bending beam, wherein said bending beam is arranged axially between and connected to said force input element and said force output element, wherein s...
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1. An aircraft window comprising: a first glass layer extending across the aircraft window, the first glass layer being water white glass; a second glass layer extending across the aircraft window, the second glass layer overlapping the first glass layer, the second glass layer being a glass that is different from wate...
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1. A method for generating complex event processing rules in a controlled natural language, wherein the method comprises steps of: obtaining one or more controlled natural language vocabularies that encompass a set of one or more noun and verb concepts, wherein the one or more noun concepts comprise one or more sub-typ...
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1. An ignition timing control device comprising: a knocking detection device that detects knocking of an internal combustion engine; and an ignition timing adjustment device that adjusts an ignition timing of the internal combustion engine on the basis of a knocking signal indicating a knocking state which is obtained ...
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1. A golf training apparatus comprising: a wrist strap having a first end and a second end removably coupled to each other when the wrist strap is wrapped around the wrist of a golfer; a club attachment strap having a first end joined to a section of the wrist strap and a second end; a club securing strap joined to the...
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1. A method for reducing power consumption in a device, said device comprising circuitry for transmitting and receiving packets, and a processing unit, said method comprising: receiving a packet from a second device; parsing said packet, using said processing unit, as said packet is received; disabling said circuitry u...
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1. A stage apparatus, comprising: a motor comprising a planar stator and a moving-coil mover, the stator being a checkerboard magnet array that extends in an x-y plane and produces a periodic magnetic field having a magnetic-field period of 2π in a u-v coordinate system that is rotated 45° from an x-y coordinate system...
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1. A tape drive that receives a tape cartridge having a tape, the tape drive comprising: a tape head that transfers data between the tape drive and the tape; and a control system that utilizes linear parameterization to control the position of the tape head relative to the tape, the control system including a compensat...
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1. A control system comprising: a clock gating module configured to generate a gating signal based on an enable signal, a given period, and a base clock signal having a given frequency; and a clock comparison module configured to generate a gated clock signal based on the base clock signal and the gating signal.
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1. A differential amplifier comprising: a first amplifier with a signal input and a signal output that is fed back to a first feedback input of the first amplifier and is connected to a first output of the differential amplifier; a buffer circuit that is connected to the first output; and a nonlinear resistor circuit t...
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1. A system, comprising: an exhaust aftertreatment system configured to treat emissions from a combustion engine, wherein the exhaust aftertreatment system comprises:
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: ascertaining that a restart timer for initiating an update and restart operation for a device is expired; responsive to said ascertaining, determining whether state information for the computing device may be lost if the update and restart operation is initiated; responsive...
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1. A method implemented in a computer for compression of data in a database, the method comprising: checking whether at least one predetermined condition is satisfied; in an event that said at least one predetermined condition is satisfied, decompressing first compressed data from a block comprising said first compress...
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1. A switching power supply apparatus comprising: a second switching element to which an input voltage is supplied; an output terminal connected to a load device; an input/output conversion circuit that converts the input voltage switched by the second switching element into an output voltage, and outputs the converted...
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1. A non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium storing computer-executable code executable by a replaceable item to perform a method comprising: in response to receiving a request for an identity of the replaceable item from a host device to which the replaceable item has been connected, selecting the identi...
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1. A medical device comprising: a substrate comprising a graft polymer, wherein the main chain of the graft polymer is non-bioabsorbable and is selected from the group consisting of polyethylene terephthalate, polypropylene, polytetrafluoroethylene, a nylon, a polyurethane, a silicone, an ultra-high molecular weight po...
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1. A computer system comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a computer readable storage device coupled to the processor, said storage device containing program code configured to be executed by the processor via the memory to implement a method for determining earned values (EVs) of progress of ...
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1. A tab status indicator system including: a generally planar body portion; a tab coupled to said body portion and protruding generally outwardly therefrom; and an indicator movable between a deployed position, in which the indicator generally overlaps with said tab in a direction generally perpendicular to a plane of...
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1. A process for preparing a catalyst support which process comprises a) mixing pentasil zeolite having a bulk silica to alumina molar ratio in the range of from 20 to 150 with water, a silica source and an alkali metal salt, b) extruding the mixture obtained in step (a), c) drying and calcining the extrudates obtained...
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1. A method for manufacturing a light-absorbing substrate having a surface with depressions and projections, the method comprising: a first step of irradiating a substrate with a laser light so as to form a plurality of modified regions arranged two-dimensionally along a surface of the substrate within the substrate an...
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1. A system, comprising: a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express controller coupled to a device through a nontransparent bridge and operable to direct input/output operations to the device on behalf of a host system, wherein the device comprises a solid state drive or a hard disk drive; and a Peripheral Component I...
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