Lu, AU
David Lu, Riverwood AU
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| 20130071927 | MEDIA AND METHODS FOR CELL CULTURE - The present invention provides a cell passaging medium comprising at least one agent capable of detaching from a surface a cell that is culture in vitro on said surface, and a water-soluble polymer capable of protecting the detached cell. The present invention also provides a cell culturing medium comprising one or more cell culture protectants capable of protecting cells in culture. The present invention further relates to the use of said media in methods for culturing cells in vitro or for deriving monolayer cell cultures of mammalian stem cells. | 03-21-2013 |
Gaoqing Lu, Queensland AU
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| 20090108233 | PREPARATION OF SUSPENSIONS - A method for preparing a suspension of LDH particles comprises the steps of preparing LDH precipitates by coprecipitation to form a mixture of LDH precipitates and solution; separating the LDH precipitates from the solution; washing the LDH precipitates to remove residual ions; mixing the LDH precipitates with water; and subjecting the mixture of LDH particles and water from step (d) to a hydrothermal treatment step by heating to a temperature of from greater than 80° C. to 150° C. for a period of about 1 hour to about 144 hours to form a well dispersed suspension of LDH particles in water. | 04-30-2009 |
Gaoqing Lu, Mt. Ommaney Qld AU
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| 20100233286 | PREPARATIONS OF SUSPENSIONS - A method for preparing a suspension of LDH particles comprises the steps of preparing LDH precipitates by coprecipitation to form a mixture of LDH precipitates and solution; separating the LDH precipitates from the solution; washing the LDH precipitates to remove residual ions; mixing the LDH precipitates with water; and subjecting the mixture of LDH particles and water from step (d) to a hydrothermal treatment step by heating to a temperature of from greater than 80° C. to 150° C. for a period of about 1 hour to about 144 hours to form a well dispersed suspension of LDH particles in water. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20140127117 | PREPARATION OF SUSPENSIONS - A method for preparing a suspension of LDH particles comprises the steps of preparing LDH precipitates by coprecipitation to form a mixture of LDH precipitates and solution; separating the LDH precipitates from the solution; washing the LDH precipitates to remove residual ions; mixing the LDH precipitates with water; and subjecting the mixture of LDH particles and water from step (d) to a hydrothermal treatment step by heating to a temperature of from greater than 80° C. to 150° C. for a period of about 1 hour to about 48 hours to form a well dispersed suspension of LDH particles in water. | 05-08-2014 |
Gao Qing Lu, Mt. Ommaney AU
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| 20110189081 | CRYSTALLINE INORGANIC SPECIES HAVING OPTIMISED REACTIVITY - A method for synthesizing high quality crystalline anatase titanium dioxide having a substantial occurrence of (001) facets. Including the steps of combining a source of fluoride anions with a titanium precursor and subjecting the mixture to hydrolysis. A solvent can be combined with the source of fluoride anions and the titanium precursor prior to hydrolysis. The crystalline anatase titanium dioxide can be produced to have the highly reactive (001) facets predominant by area in a variety of crystal structures, such as nanosheets. | 08-04-2011 |
Gao Qing Lu, Queensland AU
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| 20110130272 | TITANATE PHOTOCATALYST - The invention relates to a titanate photocatalyst of formula (I): H | 06-02-2011 |
Gaoqing Max Lu, Brisbane AU
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| 20080210908 | Method For Producing A Hydrogen Enriched Fuel And Carbon Nanotubes Using Microwave Assisted Methane Decomposition On Catalyst - A method for producing a hydrogen enriched fuel and carbon nanotubes includes the steps of providing a flow of methane gas, and providing a catalyst mixture comprising a Fe based catalyst and carbon. The method also includes the steps of pretreating the catalyst mixture using microwave irradiation and exposure to CH | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090205254 | Method And System For Converting A Methane Gas To A Liquid Fuel - A method for converting a methane gas to liquid fuel forms a non-thermal plasma with radicals and directs the plasma over a catalyst to convert the radicals to higher hydrocarbons in liquid form. The method can be performed in a reactor such as a microwave plasma reactor, or a pulsed corona discharge plasma reactor. A system for performing the method includes a methane gas source, a reactant gas source, a reactor and a catalyst. | 08-20-2009 |
G.q. Lu, Queensland AU
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| 20120258037 | METAL SUPPORTED SILICA BASED CATALYTIC MEMBRANE REACTOR ASSEMBLY - A catalytic membrane reactor assembly for producing a hydrogen stream from a feed stream having liquid hydrocarbons, steam, and an oxygen source through the use of an autothermal reforming reaction, a water-gas-shift reaction, and a hydrogen permeable membrane. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120258857 | AUTO THERMAL REFORMING (ATR) CATALYTIC STRUCTURES - An autothermal reforming catalytic structure for generating hydrogen gas from liquid hydrocarbons, steam and an oxygen source. The autothermal reforming catalytic structure includes a support structure and nanosized mixed metal oxide, particles dispersed homogenously throughout the support structure. | 10-11-2012 |
Jun Wei Lu, Calamvale Queensland AU
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| 20110291792 | HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSFORMERS - High frequency, high power density coaxial, planar and three-phase transformers for converters and inverters are disclosed. One of the coaxial transformers comprises at least one primary winding and at least one secondary winding associated with at least one magnetic core, at least one coaxial Faraday shield between and substantially coaxial with the at least one primary winding and the at least one secondary winding and a substantially planar Faraday shield at one or more ends of the at least one magnetic core. | 12-01-2011 |
Liming Lu, Chapel Hill AU
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| 20090297394 | ALUMINIUM CASTING ALLOY - A method of forming a hypoeutectic aluminium silicon alloy including the steps of: forming an aluminium melt including greater than zero and less than about 12 wt % silicon, adding 20-3000 ppm of a eutectic modifying element selected from the group consisting of strontium, sodium, antimony, barium, calcium, yttrium, lithium, potassium, ytterbium, europium and mischmetal; and either adding nucleant particles and/or causing nucleant particles to be formed in the melt, the nucleant particles being selected from the group of TiSix, MnCx, AlP, AlBx and CrBx wherein x is an integer of 1 or 2. | 12-03-2009 |
Pei Hsuan Lu, Rockdale AU
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| 20140020746 | METAL CONTACT SCHEME FOR SOLAR CELLS - A method of forming point metal electrical contacts to a semiconductor surface of a semiconductor device is provided. In a first step a first metal layer is formed over the semiconductor surface. The first metal layer is then anodised to create a porous metal-oxide layer formed over the semiconductor surface. The pores in the porous metal-oxide layer will thus form an array of openings in the porous metal-oxide layer. A contact metal layer is then formed over the porous metal-oxide layer such that parts of the contact metal layer extend into openings of the array of openings. The contact metal layer electrically contacts the semiconductor surface through the array of openings in the porous metal-oxide layer. A dielectric layer may optionally be formed over the semiconductor surface and the porous metal-oxide layer the formed over the dielectric layer and the contact metal then contacts the semiconductor surface through the dielectric layer. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20150017793 | FORMATION OF LOCALISED MOLTEN REGIONS IN SILICON CONTAINING MULTIPLE IMPURITY TYPES - A method for creating an inwardly extending impurity distribution profile in a substrate comprising crystalline silicon material having a background doping of a first impurity type, comprising: a) providing one or more additional impurity sources with at least two different types of impurity atoms within the substrate or in proximity to the surface of the substrate, with each of these impurity atoms having different diffusion coefficients or segregation coefficients; b) locally melting a point on the surface of the substrate with a laser, whereby the at least two different types of impurity atoms are incorporated into the melted silicon material; c) removing the laser to allow the silicon material to recrystallise; d) controlling a rate of application and/or removal of the laser to control the creation of the impurity distribution profile, with different distribution profiles for each of the at least two types of impurity atoms in the recrystallised material. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150111333 | ADVANCED HYDROGENATION OF SILICON SOLAR CELLS - A method of hydrogenation of a silicon photovoltaic junction device is provided, the silicon photovoltaic junction device comprising p-type silicon semiconductor material and n-type silicon semiconductor material forming at least one p-n junction. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150132881 | ADVANCED HYDROGENATION OF SILICON SOLAR CELLS - A method of hydrogenation of a silicon photovoltaic junction device is provided, the silicon photovoltaic junction device comprising p-type silicon semiconductor material and n-type silicon semiconductor material forming at least one p-n junction. | 05-14-2015 |
Pei Hsuan Lu, Marsfield AU
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| 20140199806 | DIELECTRIC STRUCTURES IN SOLAR CELLS - A dielectric, structure and a method of forming a dielectric structure for a rear surface of a silicon solar cell are provided. The method comprises forming a first dielectric layer over the rear surface of the silicon solar cell, and then depositing a layer of metal such as aluminum over the first dielectric layer. The metal layer is then anodized to form a porous layer and a material layer is deposited over a surface of the porous layer such that the material deposits on the surface of the porous layer without contacting the silicon surface. | 07-17-2014 |
Ruopeng Lu, Calamvale AU
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| 20110066456 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC PROCESS MODEL CONFIGURATION BASED ON PROCESS EXECUTION CONTEXT - Methods and systems to dynamically configure a process model based on process execution context are described. In one example embodiment, a system to dynamically configure a process model can include a context engine, a rules engine, and a business process engine. The context engine can maintain context information related to an executable business process model. The context information is dynamically extensible during execution of the executable business process model. The rules engine can obtain a relevant context form the context information. The relevant context can be associated with a step and a rule to control the step within the executable business process model. The business process engine can execute the executable business process model and can dynamically configure the executable business process model during execution based on application of the relevant context by the rules engine. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110246991 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO EFFECTUATE RECOVERY FOR DYNAMIC WORKFLOWS - A computer-implemented smart recovery system for dynamic workflows addresses a change to a data object during execution of an instance of a workflow by selectively re-executing workflow tasks that are affected by the change, without cancelling the instance and restarting a new instance of the workflow. A determination of whether a task is to be re-executed during the smart recovery process may include examining a re-evaluation label assigned to the task. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20120016833 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC PROCESS MODEL RECONFIGURATION BASED ON PROCESS EXECUTION CONTEXT - Methods and systems to dynamically reconfigure an instance of a process model based on process execution context are described. In one example, a system includes a context engine, a rules engine, and a business process engine. The context engine maintains context information related to a business process model. The context information is dynamically updated continuously. The rules engine produces decisions based on information from the context engine. The rules engine evaluates decision points within an instance of the business process model using a relevant context obtained from the context engine. The rule engine also receives changes in context dynamically from the context engine, and re-evaluates decision points based on the context changes. The business process engine executes the instance of the business process model and can dynamically alter the instance during execution based on decisions generated by the rules engine. | 01-19-2012 |
Ruopeng Lu, Taringa AU
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| 20090150900 | WORKFLOW TASK RE-EVALUATION - An occurrence of a workflow re-evaluation event during execution of tasks in a workflow is identified. In response to the workflow re-evaluation event, it is determined for each task previously executed in the workflow whether such task needs to be executed again. Those tasks in the workflow for which it was determined that the corresponding task needs to be executed again are executed again, while the tasks in the workflow that were previously executed and for which it was not determined that the corresponding task needs to be executed again are skipped. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090164996 | Weak Dependency - The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing a weak dependency linking two tasks of a workflow of task. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method receives, from a user interface, an indication representing a link between a first task and a second task. The link being a weak dependency linking the first and second task. The weak dependency representing that one or more tasks may be inserted between the first and second tasks. The first and second tasks including the link representing the weak dependency may be provided to the user interface. The link presented at the user interface to enable identification of the weak dependency. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090165001 | Timer Patterns For Process Models - The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing timers for tasks of process models. In one aspect, an input representative of a temporal constraint for a task of a graph-process model may be received. The temporal constraint defines at least one of a delay or a deadline. The task may be associated with the temporal constraint created based on the received input. The temporal constraint defined to have a placement at the graph-process model based on the type of temporal constraint. The task and the temporal constraint may be provided to configure the process model. Related systems, apparatus, methods, and/or articles are described. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090281777 | Workflow Modeling With Flexible Blocks - Disclosed is a method that includes providing tasks associated with a process, one or more of the tasks having a corresponding undetermined inter-dependency between the one or more of the tasks and other of the tasks, associating with the process one or more constraints specifying requirements regarding use of at least one of the tasks, the one or more constraints having corresponding graphical representations, and generating an instance of the process based on the one or more constraints to determine the corresponding undetermined inter-dependency between at least one of the one or more of the tasks and the other tasks. | 11-12-2009 |
Ruopeng Lu, Calamvale Qld AU
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| 20110029983 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA AWARE WORKFLOW CHANGE MANAGEMENT - A method includes providing a baseline workflow as an electronic representation of an actual workflow, the baseline workflow including baseline tasks, data items, and baseline data scopes, and providing a fragment workflow as an electronic representation of an actual fragment workflow, the fragment workflow including at least one fragment task, and at least one fragment data scope. A baseline data scope is identified as an affected data scope based on a structural change operation, the baseline workflow and the fragment workflow, and the affected data scope is compared to the at least one fragment data scope to identify at least one change operation. The fragment and baseline workflows are integrated based on the structural change operation to provide an integrated workflow, and the at least one data scope change operation is executed to provide at least one integrated data scope in the integrated workflow. | 02-03-2011 |
Shiyang Lu, Marsfield AU
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| 20150235360 | Sparse Appearance Learning-based Segmentation - The coronary sinus or other vessel is segmented by finding a centerline and then using the centerline to locate the boundary of the vessel. For finding the centerline, a refinement process uses multi-scale sparse appearance learning. For locating the boundary, the lumen is segmented as a graph cut problem. | 08-20-2015 |
Shiyang Lu, Strathfield AU
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| 20140075393 | Gesture-Based Search Queries - An image-based text extraction and searching system extracts an image be selected by gesture input by a user and the associated image data and proximate textual data in response to the image selection. Extracted image data and textual data can be utilized to perform or enhance a computerized search. The system can determine one or more database search terms based on the textual data and generate at least a first search query proposal related to the image data and the textual data. | 03-13-2014 |
Wenliang Lu, New South Wales AU
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| 20110213614 | METHOD OF ANALYSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A method of analysing an audio signal is disclosed. A digital representation of an audio signal is received and a first output function is generated based on a response of a physiological model to the digital representation. At least one property of the first output function may be determined. One or more values are determined for use in analysing the audio signal, based on the determined property of the first output function. | 09-01-2011 |
Wen Tao Lu, Macquarie Park AU
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| 20130251256 | IMAGE COMPRESSION - Disclosed is a method of compressing an image to be stored in a memory to satisfy a memory requirement. A size of a region having a uniform colour in the image is determined. The determined size of the region is compared with the candidate values of the region size threshold. A value is selected from the candidate values as the region size threshold based on the comparison between the estimated data amounts to satisfy the region size threshold and the memory requirement. The edges constituting the region which satisfy the selected value of the region size threshold are compressed losslessly. | 09-26-2013 |
Yiqing Lu, New South Wales AU
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| 20150144806 | TWO-DIRECTIONAL SCANNING FOR LUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY - In one form, a two-directional scanning method for luminescence microscopy is disclosed. A series of continuous scans are performed by an interrogation wide-field relative to a first direction and a target is identified. A precise position of the target is determined in the first direction. At least one scan by the interrogation wide-field is performed relative to a second direction at or near the precise position of the target in the first direction. The two-directional scanning method produces “on-the-fly” (i.e. ex tempore or impromptu) precise localization of targets. Embodiments open up new applications for background-free or background-reduced luminescence microscopy, for example time-gated or time-resolved luminescence microscopy, in a relatively fast, higher speed or more efficient manner. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150185149 | MULTIPLEX SUSPENSION ASSAY/ARRAY USING LIFETIME CODING - A system, device and/or method for multiplex assays. In a particular, but non-limiting, example there is provided a multiplex array, such as a suspension array. Luminescence decay lifetimes are utilised for probes in a suspension array, and coding/decoding the codes from time-resolved spectra. Lifetime populations can be generated at distinct colour bands. A novel temporal technique or dimension is applied over conventional spectral and intensity combinations, thereby expanding the multiplexing capacity of a suspension array. In one example form, the multiplexing capacity of a suspension array can be expanded to the order of about 5 | 07-02-2015 |