Abstract:
Disclosed are compounds, compositions and methods for treating various diseases, syndromes, conditions and disorders, including pain. Such compounds are represented by Formula (I) as follows: wherein Y, Z, R1, and s are defined herein.
Abstract:
Disclosed are compounds, compositions and methods for treating various diseases, syndromes, conditions and disorders, including pain. Such compounds are represented by Formula (I) as follows: wherein Y, Z, R1, and s are defined herein.
Abstract:
Disclosed are compounds, compositions and methods for treating various diseases, syndromes, conditions and disorders, including pain. Such compounds are represented by Formula (I) as follows: wherein Q and Z are defined herein.
Abstract:
A radio frequency (RF) switch device has at least two RF switch units, each RF switch unit having an output terminal and at least two input terminals. The RF switch units select one channel of RF signals from several channels of the RF signals that are supplied as inputs to their input terminals for emission as an output from their output terminals. A magnetic resonance imaging system and an RF signal transmission method employ such an RF switch device. The use of such an RF switch device reduces the number of channels of the RF signals that need to be further transmitted, which in turn reduces the number of the corresponding long RF cable channels and the number of channels of the subsequent devices, thereby preventing waste and reducing the cost of the system. Moreover, if the subsequent devices include a receiver coil channel selector, then the complexity of the receiver coil channel selector will also be reduced as the number of RF signal channels is decreased.
Abstract:
A system for facilitating online shopping that includes one or more content providers of a first domain, one or more online merchants of a second domain, and a framework. Web pages may be aggregated from the content providers. Descriptions of products for sale may be aggregated from the online merchants. The products for sale may be matched with the web pages based on relevancy. A list of descriptions of products that are relevant to each web page may be provided. A shopping cart list may be maintained by the framework. The shopping cart list may facilitate payment for the products for sale selected from different web pages.
Abstract:
Systems and methods providing ciphertext switching for syntax compliant encryption are described. In one aspect, intermediate ciphertext is generated from syntax compliant plaintext. Post-processing is applied to the intermediate ciphertext to determine if there are any illegal symbols in the intermediate ciphertext. If an illegal symbol is located, the illegal symbol in the intermediate ciphertext is switched with a corresponding plaintext symbol. One or more iterations of the post-processing and switching operations result in syntax compliant ciphertext.
Abstract:
In a peer-to-peer environment, copyrights and users' privacies can be protected by a tracking mechanism. In described implementations, tracking mechanisms can use certificates that are produced using random numbers to protect the privacy of users and/or certificates that are produced responsive to at least one hardware identifier to enable uploader to be identified to protect copyrights.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to novel macrolide antibacterial agents and processes for preparing them. The present invention is further directed to pharmaceutical compositions containing the novel macrolide antibacterial agents disclosed herein and their use in the treatment and prevention of bacterial infections.
Abstract:
A public licensing infrastructure (PLI) for a digital rights management (DRM) system is described. In an implementation, a method includes generating a formal license for content. The formal license includes a decryption key for decrypting the content and access rules for accessing the content. A plurality of license authorities is configured to provide a plurality of partial licenses. The plurality of partial licenses is combinable to form the formal license. Each license authority provides a respective partial license.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for the scene-based watermarking of video data is disclosed. In one embodiment, each of a number of frames of a scene of video host data undergoes a temporal wavelet transform, from which blocks are extracted. The blocks undergo perceptual masking in the frequency domain, such that a watermark is embedded therein. Once the watermark block is taken out of the frequency domain, a spatial mask of the original block is weighted to the watermark block, and added to the original block to obtain the watermarked block.