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20150161899 | METHODS FOR IMPROVING TEST EFFICIENCY AND ACCURACY IN A COMPUTER ADAPTIVE TEST (CAT) - A method for use of pretest items in a test to calculate interim scores is provided. The method includes, for example, a computer implemented test having a plurality of test items that include, for example, a plurality of operational items and one or more pretest items having one or more pretest item parameters. An interim latent construct estimate is calculated using both operational and pretest items. The error for the latent construct estimation is controlled by weighting the contribution of the one or more pretest items. | 06-11-2015 |
20150161900 | METHODS FOR IMPROVING TEST EFFICIENCY AND ACCURACY IN A COMPUTER ADAPTIVE TEST (CAT) - A method for use of pretest items in a test to calculate interim scores is provided. The method includes, for example, a computer implemented test having a plurality of test items that include, for example, a plurality of operational items and one or more pretest items having one or more pretest item parameters. An interim latent construct estimate is calculated using both operational and pretest items. The error for the latent construct estimation is controlled by weighting the contribution of the one or more pretest items. | 06-11-2015 |
20150161901 | METHODS FOR IMPROVING TEST EFFICIENCY AND ACCURACY IN A COMPUTER ADAPTIVE TEST (CAT) - A method for test item selection is provided that includes a computer implemented test battery having at least two or more sections with a plurality of test items. An ability estimate is calculated from an earlier section(s) of the at least two or more sections and an initial item and subsequent items for a subsequent section are selected from the plurality of test items based upon the ability estimate(s) from the earlier section(s). Use of a more informative initial ability estimate in the item selection process can improve interim ability estimation accuracy and item selection efficiency while keeping item exposure and item usage rates at acceptable levels. | 06-11-2015 |
20150161902 | METHODS FOR IMPROVING TEST EFFICIENCY AND ACCURACY IN A COMPUTER ADAPTIVE TEST (CAT) - A method for test item selection is provided that includes a computer implemented test battery having at least two or more sections with a plurality of test items. An ability estimate is calculated from an earlier section(s) of the at least two or more sections and an initial item and subsequent items for a subsequent section are selected from the plurality of test items based upon the ability estimate(s) from the earlier section(s). Use of a more informative initial ability estimate in the item selection process can improve interim ability estimation accuracy and item selection efficiency while keeping item exposure and item usage rates at acceptable levels. | 06-11-2015 |
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20100224556 | JET AERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - A jet aeration apparatus for aerating a membrane bioreactor has a jet aerator and an air supply pipe. The jet aerator is disposed in the membrane bioreactor and includes a water inlet, a pump disposed below a liquid surface of the membrane bioreactor, an air inlet pipe whose air inlet is disposed above the liquid surface of the membrane bioreactor, and a jet pipe having a jet nozzle. The air supply pipe includes a connector; and the connector of the air supply pipe is connected to the jet nozzle of the jet pipe of the jet aerator. A method of using the jet aeration apparatus is also provided. The jet aeration apparatus is easy to install, quiet in operation, and features a high degree of integration. | 09-09-2010 |
20100288696 | METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF SLUDGE - A method for treatment of sludge with a facultative-organism-adapted membrane bioreactor by providing a sludge treatment system comprising a facultative digestion tank, a membrane module, an aeration system, a sludge pump, and a drainage pump, pumping sludge into the facultative digestion tank via the sludge pump and allowing for digestion, synchronously aerating and scouring the membrane module by the aeration system, pumping the sludge by the drainage pump and filtrating by the membrane module so that sludge and water are separated, and draining the water via the drainage pump. The method can digest sludge completely in the digestion tank, and solves problems existing in conventional sludge treatment methods such as large investment and high transportation cost, even achieves a subject of zero discharge of sludge. | 11-18-2010 |
20100288697 | METHOD FOR FORMING FACULTATIVE-ORGANISM-ADAPTED MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR - A method for forming a facultative-organism-adapted membrane bioreactor by: providing a membrane bioreactor having a membrane module, aerating intensively the membrane module at a lower part thereof and maintaining the scouring against the membrane module so that an aerobic environment is formed at a middle and lower part of the membrane module, and controlling aeration intensity so that a facultative or anaerobic environment is formed around the membrane module excluding the middle and lower part thereof. The a facultative-organism-adapted membrane bioreactorformed by the method has low energy consumption, low sludge yield coefficient, and high efficiency of nitrogen and phosphorus removal. | 11-18-2010 |
20110062084 | METHOD FOR REMOVING PHOSPHORUS - A method for removing phosphorus includes at least the steps of: 1) placing lanthanum hydroxide (absorbent) into a device for removing phosphorus, and allowing sewage having a phosphorus content of less than 100 mg/L to flow through the device; 2) adding sodium hydroxide (regeneration solution of the absorbent) when the absorption capacity of the device is exhausted, and allowing the regeneration reaction to proceed for between 4 and 12 hours; and 3) collecting eluate from step 2) and recycling phosphorus. The method for removing phosphorus is highly efficient, employs absorbent material having a large absorption capacity and low production cost. The method is simple and convenient to practice, and low in cost. | 03-17-2011 |
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20120222436 | Air Cooled Refrigerator, Method And System Of Controlling The Same - A system and method of controlling an air-cooled refrigerator. The air-cooled refrigerator includes a refrigerating compartment, a refrigerating evaporator, and a refrigerating fan for circulating an air between the refrigerating evaporator and the refrigerating compartment. The method may include steps of: detecting a temperature T | 09-06-2012 |
20120227433 | REFRIGERATOR - A refrigerator includes a cabinet defining a refrigerating chamber and a freezing chamber, an ice making device and an ice making water supply device. A variable temperature drawer is disposed in lower part of the refrigerating chamber. The ice making water supply device includes a water tank disposed above the variable temperature drawer, a water pump connected with the water tank, and a water pipe connected with the water tank and the ice making device for introducing the water in the water tank into the ice making device. With the refrigerator according to embodiments, the water quality is ensured and the preservation effect is improved. Because the temperature of the variable temperature drawer is generally in the range of −3° C. to 8° C., the water in the water tank is not easy to be frozen, and can be supplied to the ice making device continuously. | 09-13-2012 |
20120230015 | LIGHTING DEVICE FOR DRAWER TYPE REFRIGERATOR - A lighting device for a drawer type refrigerator is provided. The drawer type refrigerator comprises at least one drawer having a drawer door, and an upper rotary door or an upper drawer door disposed above the drawer door. The lighting device comprises: a lamp assembly comprising a lamp and a lamp shade of a light-transmission material and disposed in a groove formed in a lower portion of the upper rotary door or the upper drawer door; a switch assembly configured to control the lamp assembly based upon whether the drawer is pulled out; a power supply assembly configured to supply power to the switch assembly; and a connection assembly connected between the lamp assembly and the switch assembly to supply power to the lamp assembly. | 09-13-2012 |
20140013791 | MANUAL ICE MAKER AND REFRIGERATOR COMPRISING WITH THE SAME - A manual ice maker and a refrigerator comprising the same are provided. The manual ice maker comprises: an ice making body being a frame formed with an opening, and provided with a first positioning hole in a front wall thereof, a second positioning hole in a rear wall thereof and a first limiting protrusion on an inner surface of the rear wall thereof; an ice making tray provided with a first shaft at a front end thereof and a second shaft at a rear end thereof, the first shaft rotatably supported in and extended out of the first positioning hole, the second shaft rotatably supported in the second positioning hole; and an ice removing assembly. The ice removing assembly comprises: a twisting member provided with a gear; and a press member movable between a first position and a second position in a vertical direction to drive the gear to rotate. | 01-16-2014 |
20140020422 | ICE TRAY FOR ICE MAKER, ICE MAKER AND REFRIGERATOR COMPRISING THE SAME - An ice making tray for an ice maker, an ice maker and a refrigerator comprising the same are provided. The ice maker is disposed on a door of a refrigerator. The ice making tray comprises: a tray body provided with a plurality of ice forming chambers being downwardly concave, in which an opening for water flowing is formed between adjacent ice forming chambers; a water storage trough disposed on a front side of the tray body, and being higher than the plurality of ice forming chambers, in which the water storage trough is communicated with the plurality of ice forming chambers via at least one water returning mouth; and an enclosure wall, disposed around an upper end of the tray body. | 01-23-2014 |
20140216084 | REFRIGERATOR - A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator comprises: a main body; at least one freezing chamber disposed in the main body and comprising at least one quick-freezing chamber; a freezing evaporator disposed in the main body and behind the at least one freezing chamber, and spaced apart from the at least one freezing chamber via a freezing air duct cover plate; a freezing fan corresponding to the at least one freezing chamber and a quick-freezing fan corresponding to the at least one quick-freezing chamber, being disposed above the freezing evaporator respectively and configured to blow cold air generated by the freezing evaporator into the at least one freezing chamber and the at least one quick-freezing chamber respectively; and a controller configured to control the freezing fan and the quick-freezing fan, wherein the controller controls the quick-freezing fan to quick-freeze the at least one quick-freezing chamber when needed. | 08-07-2014 |
20150102718 | SHELF ASSEMBLY AND REFRIGERATOR COMPRISING THE SAME - A shelf assembly and a refrigerator including the same. The shelf assembly includes: a shelf plate having first to fourth mounting members, and first to fourth brackets each having a fitting slot, in which the first and second brackets are disposed at a left and right side of the shelf plate respectively. The fitting slot of each of the first and second brackets includes a first sliding groove and a plurality of first receiving grooves. The first and second mounting members are slidable within the first sliding groove of the first and second brackets along the vertical direction so as to selectively fit within one of the plurality of the first receiving grooves. The third and fourth mounting members are fitted within the fitting slot of the third and fourth brackets and a position of the third and fourth mounting members are adjustable along the vertical direction. | 04-16-2015 |
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20100231587 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A VIRTUAL CURVE IN AN OBJECT MODEL - A method for a CAD system, a CAD system, and instructions for a CAD system. A method includes loading an object model, the object model including a blend face. The method also includes finding underfaces of the blend face and constructing an intersection curve according to the underfaces. The method also includes trimming the intersection curve according to the blend face to produce a virtual blend curve, and storing the virtual blend curve. | 09-16-2010 |
20130055196 | GENERATING PLC CODE FROM CAD MODELS - Product data management systems, methods, and mediums. A method includes receiving a functional model, and identifying a plurality of elements of the functional model. Each element corresponds to one or more machine operations. The method includes identifying concurrencies between elements to determine at least one set of elements. The method includes creating an execution thread for each of the sets of elements. The method can include generating a rule-based programmable logic controller (PLC) program corresponding to the functional model, based on the execution threads. | 02-28-2013 |
20130317797 | DIRECT ATTACHMENTS TO PROXY BODIES - Methods for part model generation and simulation and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving a part model and creating at least one rigid body corresponding to the part model. The method includes creating at least one proxy body corresponding to the part model, including directly attaching at least one proxy body to at least one rigid body, wherein the proxy body represents a rigid body that is not part of the part model. The method includes simulating the part model by the data processing system according to the corresponding rigid bodies and proxy bodies. | 11-28-2013 |
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20140146025 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SIGNAL VALUE ON GATE LINE, GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The disclosure relates to a method for controlling signal values on gate lines, a gate driving circuit and a display device. The method comprises: for each of gate lines in the valid display area, in a first frame in any two adjacent frames of image, connecting a gate connecting line in a first layer to a gate line by a first strobe unit and applying a first signal value to the gate line; in a second frame, connecting a gate connecting line in a second layer to the gate line by a second strobe unit and applying a second signal value to the gate line. It may address the issue of H-line Mura due to different impedances of wires in the gate layer and the S/D layer. | 05-29-2014 |
20150235414 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE INTO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - The present disclosure provides a method for converting a Two-Dimensional image into a Three-Dimensional image, comprising: obtaining high-frequency components and low-frequency component of the current frame, and high-frequency components of the reference frame; establishing triangular geometric models in the three directions of horizontal, vertical and diagonal, respectively; performing a motion search on the high-frequency components of the reference frame in the three directions of horizontal, vertical and diagonal, respectively, so as to obtain motion vectors in the corresponding directions, and calculating depth variations of the corresponding directions according to the motion vectors in the corresponding directions; performing an interpolating operation on the triangular geometric models in the three directions of horizontal, vertical and diagonal, respectively, according to the depth variations in the corresponding directions, so as to obtain high-frequency depth graphs in the corresponding directions; and completing a filtering reconstruction by performing an inversion wavelet transform on the high-frequency depth graphs in the three directions of horizontal, vertical and diagonal and the low-frequency component of the current frame, respectively, so as to construct a three-dimensional video image. With the present disclosure, a conversion to the 3D image from the 2D image may be realized. | 08-20-2015 |
20150237687 | LIGHT-EMITTING COMPONENT FOR BACKLIGHT MODULE, BACKLIGHT MODULE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a light-emitting component for a backlight module, which comprises a first positive input end, a first negative input end and a plurality of branches connected in parallel therebetween, each of the plurality of the branches comprising a plurality of LEDs connected in series, wherein, in the case that the numbers of LEDs in the respective branches are not exactly the same, a voltage divider is connected in series in at least one of the branches so that currents flowing through respective branches are the same. Correspondingly, the present invention further provides a backlight module and a liquid crystal display device. In the present invention, any number of LEDs can be provided in each of the branches in the light-emitting component, which expands the irradiation scope of light, guarantees the safe distance between adjacent LEDs, and further improves product quality. | 08-20-2015 |
20150253604 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure discloses a liquid crystal panel, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device. The liquid crystal panel includes an array substrate, a color filter substrate oppositely arranged to the array substrate, liquid crystal arranged between the array substrate and the color filter substrate, and a solar battery arranged at a position corresponding to a non-pixel region of the array substrate or the color filter substrate. Two ends of the solar battery contact with the array substrate and the color filter substrate, respectively. By disposing the solar battery at the position corresponding to the non-pixel region of the array substrate or the color filter substrate and making the two ends of the solar battery contact with the array substrate and the color filter substrate, respectively, the solar battery can not only play a supporting function, but also play a shielding function between adjacent pixels. | 09-10-2015 |
20160049110 | DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY PANEL - The present invention provides a display method and a display panel. The display panel comprises a plurality of rows of sub-pixels, the adjacent sub-pixels in the column direction having different colors and being staggered from each other by ½ of the sub-pixel in the row direction. The display method comprises: S | 02-18-2016 |