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20110256513 | SPEECH COMPREHENSION TRAINING SYSTEM, METHODS OF PRODUCTION AND USES THEREOF - Auditory training systems are disclosed and include at least one speech perception activity, and at least one audio signal, at least one video signal or a combination thereof, wherein the system is user interactive, performance adaptive or a combination thereof. Methods of training and improving auditory skills, cognitive skills or a combination thereof includes providing a computer, internet-based system, server-based system or another hardware device, providing an executable software system that provides at least one speech perception activity, providing at least one audio signal, at least one video signal or a combination thereof, wherein the system is user interactive, performance adaptive or a combination thereof and wherein the computer, Internet-based system, server-based system or another hardware device executes the software system to initiate and run the auditory training system; and utilizing the computer, internet-based system, server-based system or another hardware device to execute the executable software system that provides at least one speech perception activity in combination with the at least one audio signal, at least one video signal or a combination thereof. | 10-20-2011 |
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20110044426 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR X-RAY FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS OF A MINERAL SAMPLE - An apparatus and a method for X-ray fluorescence analysis of a mineral sample is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an X-ray source ( | 02-24-2011 |
20130003925 | DETECTION OF AN ANOMALY IN A BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL - A method for detecting an anomaly in a biological material is disclosed, including the steps of: irradiating the biological material with electromagnetic radiation of at least two different energy levels; measuring the amount of radiation transmitted through the biological material; and determining, for each energy level, a transmission value. Before or after irradiation of the biological material, a reference material of a predetermined thickness is irradiated and the amount of radiation transmitted is determined. For each energy level, a transmission calibration reference value is determined and a calibrated transmission value is determined for the biological material and the calibration reference. A material value based on a relationship between the calibrated transmission value and the presence of an anomaly in the biological material is determined by comparing the determined and expected material values for the biological material. A corresponding apparatus is also disclosed. | 01-03-2013 |
20130195243 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING THE ASH CONTENT OF A BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL - A method for measuring ash content in a biological material in an automated or semi-automated procedure is disclosed. The method includes the steps of scanning the biological material with electromagnetic radiation of at least two different energy levels, determining the amount of radiation transmitted through the sample of the biological material at the energy levels and estimating the moisture content in the biological material based on a relationship between the determined amount of radiation transmitted through the biological material. Thereafter, the ash content in the biological material is estimated, based on the estimated moisture content in the biological material, and average attenuation coefficients for the biological material without moisture, attenuation coefficients for a combustible part of the biological material and attenuation coefficients for ash of the biological material at the energy levels. A corresponding apparatus is also disclosed. | 08-01-2013 |
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20130303667 | CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF LIGNIN AND LIGNIN DERIVATIVES - In one example implementation, a trans-esterified APL can include an APL and a polyester including polyester chains. The polyester may be an aliphatic polyester, a semi-aromatic polyester, or an aromatic polyester. In other examples, an acetate ester of the APL can be used to swap carboxylic acid groups with the alcohol oligomer units in the polyester chains. | 11-14-2013 |
20130303711 | CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF LIGNIN AND LIGNIN DERIVATIVES - A method for producing a trans-esterified hydroxypropyl lignin (HPL) is provided in one example embodiment and includes precipitating a lignin, dissolving the precipitated lignin in a solution, adding a reagent to the solution, adjusting the pH of the solution, allowing reactions in the solution to occur for a predetermined amount of time, precipitating the solution to produce a precipitate, and washing, filtering, and drying the precipitate to produce the trans-esterified HPL. | 11-14-2013 |
20130303738 | CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF LIGNIN AND LIGNIN DERIVATIVES - A method for producing an APL is provided in one example embodiment and includes mixing a solvent, a catalyst, a reagent, and a HPL to create a solution, raising the temperature of the solution to a first reaction temperature, raising the temperature of the solution to a second reaction temperature, allowing reactions in the solution to occur for a predetermined amount of time, precipitating the solution to produce a precipitate, and washing, filtering, and drying the precipitate to produce the APL. | 11-14-2013 |
20130338347 | CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF LIGNIN AND LIGNIN DERIVATIVES - In one example implementation, a trans-esterified HPL can include a HPL and a polyester including polyester chains. The polyester may be an aliphatic polyester, a semi-aromatic polyester, or an aromatic polyester. | 12-19-2013 |
20140121307 | BLENDING LIGNIN WITH THERMOPLASTICS AND A COUPLING AGENT OR COMPATIBILIZER - A composition is provided in one example embodiment and includes a modified lignin, a thermoplastic, and a compatibilizer. The modified lignin may be between about 5% to about 50% by weight of the composition. Also, the modified lignin may be a Hydroxypropyl Lignin (HPL). In an example, the thermoplastic can include a High Density Polyethylene (HDPE). In another example, the thermoplastic can include a Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE). In yet another example, the thermoplastic can include a Linear Low Density Polyethylene (LLDPE). The compatibilizer may be a Maleic Anhydride grafted Polyethylene Blend (MAh-g-PE). | 05-01-2014 |
20140121360 | INJECTION OF A CHEMICAL REAGENT INTO A PROCESS STREAM THAT CONTAINS LIGNIN - One example embodiment includes inserting a chemical reagent into a process stream that contains one or more lignins to form one or more modified lignins. The formed one or more modified lignins are different than the one or more lignins in the process stream. The one or more modified lignins can be formed in the process stream before a precipitation stage and then separated from the process stream. Also, contaminates can be removed from the separated one or more modified lignins and the one or more modified lignins can be pressed and dried. | 05-01-2014 |
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20150126685 | CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF LIGNIN AND LIGNIN DERIVATIVES - A method for producing a trans-esterified hydroxypropyl lignin (HPL) is provided in one example embodiment and includes precipitating a lignin, dissolving the precipitated lignin in a solution, adding a reagent to the solution, adjusting the pH of the solution, allowing reactions in the solution to occur for a predetermined amount of time, precipitating the solution to produce a precipitate, and washing, filtering, and drying the precipitate to produce the trans-esterified HPL. In one example, a thermoplastic may be added to produce a trans-esterified HPL/thermoplastic blend. | 05-07-2015 |
20150126686 | CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF LIGNIN AND LIGNIN DERIVATIVES - A method for producing a trans-esterified hydroxypropyl lignin (HPL) is provided in one example embodiment and includes precipitating a lignin, dissolving the precipitated lignin in a solution, adding a reagent to the solution, adjusting the pH of the solution, allowing reactions in the solution to occur for a predetermined amount of time, precipitating the solution to produce a precipitate, and washing, filtering, and drying the precipitate to produce the trans-esterified HPL. In one example, a thermoplastic may be added to produce a trans-esterified HPL/thermoplastic blend. | 05-07-2015 |
20150126687 | CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF LIGNIN AND LIGNIN DERIVATIVES - A method for producing a trans-esterified hydroxypropyl lignin (HPL) is provided in one example embodiment and includes precipitating a lignin, dissolving the precipitated lignin in a solution, adding a reagent to the solution, adjusting the pH of the solution, allowing reactions in the solution to occur for a predetermined amount of time, precipitating the solution to produce a precipitate, and washing, filtering, and drying the precipitate to produce the trans-esterified HPL. In one example, a thermoplastic may be added to produce a trans-esterified HPL/thermoplastic blend. | 05-07-2015 |
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20110111197 | MULTILAYERED COATED CUTTING TOOL - A cutting tool includes a body of a hard alloy of cemented carbide, cermet, ceramics, cubic boron nitride based material or high speed steel and on which at least one of the functioning parts of the surface thereof, a hard and wear resistant coating is applied. The coating includes a polycrystalline laminar, multilayered structure of metal nitride compounds, in a repetitive form . . . MeN/(Ti | 05-12-2011 |
20120009402 | COATED CUTTING TOOL FOR METAL CUTTING APPLICATIONS GENERATING HIGH TEMPERATURES - A cutting tool insert includes a body of cemented carbide, cermet, ceramics, high speed steel (HSS), polycrystalline diamond (PCD) or polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (PCBN), a hard and wear resistant coating is applied, grown by physical vapour deposition (PVD) such as cathodic are evaporation or magnetron sputtering. The coating includes at least one layer of (Zr | 01-12-2012 |
20130287507 | COATED CUTTING TOOL INSERT - A cutting tool insert for machining by chip removal includes a body of a hard alloy of cemented carbide, cermet, ceramics, polycrystalline diamond or cubic boron nitride based materials onto which a hard and wear resistant coating is deposited by physical vapour deposition (PVD). The coating includes at least one layer of a NaCl-structured (Ti | 10-31-2013 |
20140004306 | MANUFACTURE OF STRUCTURES COMPRISING SILICON DIOXIDE ON A SURFACE | 01-02-2014 |
20140030180 | MANUFACTURE OF CRYSTALLITE PARTICLES - A method for the manufacture of crystallite particles, said method comprising the steps of: a) reacting a reaction solution comprising a silicate, a micelle forming agent, an alkane, a salt under stirring at pH 2 or lower, wherein the reaction solution comprises HCI in a concentration of at least 1.5 M, wherein the stirring is performed not more than 10 minutes, and b) treating the obtained material to remove the micelle forming agent with one method selected from i) heat treating the material above 300° C., ii) treating the material with at least one selected from H | 01-30-2014 |
20150030406 | BODY WITH A METAL BASED NITRIDE LAYER AND A METHOD FOR COATING THE BODY - A hard and wear resistant coating for a body includes at least one metal based nitride layer having improved high temperature performance. The layer is (Zr1-x-zSixMez)Ny with 001-29-2015 | |
20150275348 | COATED CUTTING TOOL AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a coated cutting tool with a coating comprising a multilayer structure consisting of alternating layers A and B forming the sequence A/B/A/B/A . . . or alternating layers A and B and an intermediate layer C between the alternating layers A and B forming the sequence A/C/B/C/A/C/B . . . . Layer A consists of ZrAlN and layer B consists of TiN. Layer C comprises one or more metal elements from each of layers A and B and is of different composition and structure than layers A and B. A method for forming the coated cutting tool is also provided. The method comprises heat treatment of the coated cutting tool prior to use. | 10-01-2015 |
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20090157377 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTIPROCESSOR EMULATION ON A MULTIPROCESSOR HOST SYSTEM - A method (and system) for executing a multiprocessor program written for a target instruction set architecture on a host computing system having a plurality of processors designed to process instructions of a second instruction set architecture, includes representing each portion of the program designed to run on a processor of the target computing system as one or more program threads to be executed on the host computing system. | 06-18-2009 |
20110191095 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT EMULATION OF MULTIPROCESSOR ADDRESS TRANSLATION ON A MULTIPROCESSOR - A method (and structure) of mapping a memory addressing of a multiprocessing system when it is emulated using a virtual memory addressing of another multiprocessing system includes accessing a local lookaside table (LLT) on a target processor with a target virtual memory address. Whether there is a “miss” in the LLT is determined and, with the miss determined in the LLT, a lock for a global page table is obtained. | 08-04-2011 |
20120089820 | HYBRID MECHANISM FOR MORE EFFICIENT EMULATION AND METHOD THEREFOR - In a host system, a method for using instruction scheduling to efficiently emulate the operation of a target computing syste includes preparing, on the host system, an instruction sequence to interpret an instruction written for execution on the target computing system. An instruction scheduling on the instruction sequence is performed, to achieve an efficient instruction level parallelism, for the host system. A separate and independent instruction sequence is inserted, which, when executed simultaneously with the instruction sequence, performs to copy to a separate location a minimum instruction sequence necessary to execute an intent of an interpreted target instruction, the interpreted target instruction being a translation; and modifies the interpreter code such that a next interpretation of the target instruction results in execution of the translated version, thereby removing execution of interpreter overhead. | 04-12-2012 |
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20120283602 | WIRELESS ELECTRONIC PEGBOARD SETUP FOR QUANTIFICATION OF DEXTERITY - An electronic pegboard setup is provided for assessing patient dexterity. In certain embodiments, the pegboard setup may be wireless and may employ pegs equipped with sensors that that allow tracking of the motion of the peg in three-dimensions and over time. In one such embodiment, a visual output of the motion path may be provided to the clinician. In such an embodiment, the device may provide quantitative data regarding motion path to assess patient dexterity. | 11-08-2012 |
20120289866 | DEVICE FOR COLLECTION OF GAIT ANALYSIS DATA FOR UPPER AND LOWER EXTREMITIES - The present disclosure relates to a system for collecting gait analysis data for analysis. The system may utilize force plate or balance boards as well as strain gauge force measurements to improve physical therapy and gait analysis for patients that use physical supports to walk or stand. The device measures force applied to the floor and to handrails to provide data on the patient's use of aid, e.g., the handrail, while standing or walking For physical therapy implementations, the system may also be combined with a game or other visual interface that provides feedback to the patient and/or to the caregiver. | 11-15-2012 |
20140303568 | Intravenous Tubing Set Modified for In-Line Catheter Flushing - An intravenous tubing set is provided having a coupling component for accessing a source of flush solution; a flush chamber; a first IV tubing for delivering saline solution from the source of flush solution to the flush chamber; a first flow control device disposed in the tubing between the source of flush solution and the flush chamber to control the flow of flush solution into the flush chamber; a second IV tubing for delivering flush solution to a patient catheter; and a second flow control device disposed in the second tubing between the flush chamber and the patient catheter. | 10-09-2014 |
20150025349 | PAD FOR MEASURING BLOOD LOSS - A pad is disclosed having a grid of absorbent structures (e.g., squares) formed on the pad. The pad may be used to quantify or otherwise assess blood loss by a patient. For example, blood lost by the patient and absorbed by the pad may be quantified by counting the number of saturated squares on the pad and taking into account the known absorbance of each square. | 01-22-2015 |