Abstract:
An implantable electrode array includes an elongated carrier (20) and a plurality of electrodes mounted within the carrier. A actuator adjusts the curvature of the carrier and can be controlled by varying an electric potential applied to the actuator. The actuator is based on an electrochemical cells and may be a conducting polymer based actuator.
Abstract:
A method for estimating one or more parameters of a ultra wideband signal and a receiver system for receiving ultra wideband signals is provided. The method for estimating one or more parameters of a signal in an ultra wide band system including estimating the parameter(s) for a first signal element in a received signal then removing this signal element from the signal to obtain a modified signal. The parameter(s) for a number of further signal elements are then estimated and these elements are removed from the modified signal to form a refined signal. The parameter(s) for the first signal element are re-estimated to re-define the first signal element based on the refined signal minus the signal element having the greatest amplitude. The parameter(s) for the signal element having the greatest amplitude are re-estimated to re-define this signal element. The steps are repeated to generate a refined estimate of the parameter(s) for the first signal element. There is also disclosed a receiver for performing the above steps.
Abstract:
A composition for reducing dentinal hypersensitivity and remineralizing exposed dentinal surface and open dentinal tubules, comprising a non-aqueous carrier and a desensitizing amount of a desensitizing/remineralizing agent which consists essentially of a water soluble calcium salt and an incompatible ingredient which would otherwise react with the calcium salt. Upon contact with saliva when applied to an oral cavity, the desensitizing/remineralizing is then formed in situ by the reaction between the calcium salt and the incompatible ingredient, thereby remineralizing exposed dentinal surface and open dentinal tubules.
Abstract:
A compiler with power and/or energy optimization, a complementary runtime manager, and system having the compiler and/or the runtime manager are described herein.
Abstract:
There is provided a system for predicting the characteristic frequency of each electrode of an implanted cochlear electrode array from electrode position data contained in an image of the implanted cochlea. There is also provided a system for setting the frequency range to electrode map of a cochlear prosthesis.
Abstract:
A golf launching monitoring arrangement allows equipment to be placed at a position behind the player (i.e., behind the golf ball), to measure both club and ball movement. A 3D scan of the club head before the play serves two purposes: 1) 3D registration that enables accurate measurement of the club head position and orientation for the camera system measuring the club movement from the back; 2) for reconstruction of the launching scene. With a 3D model of the club head, a simple 3D model of the golf ball and accurate measurement of their movement during the play, a full 3D golf launching scene can be reconstructed authentically. With this reconstruction, the movement of both the club head and the resulting ball movement can be replayed at any viewing angle, with any frame rate and at whatever resolution for the players or the coaches to view and analyze.
Abstract:
A bending-resistant large core diameter high numerical aperture multimode fiber includes a core and a cladding surrounding the core. The core has a radius R1 in a range of 28 to 50 microns, a refractive index profile of a parabola shape with α being in a range of 1.9 to 2.2, and a maximum relative refractive index difference Δ1% max being in a range of 1.9% to 2.5%. The cladding includes an inner cladding and/or a trench cladding, and an outer cladding disposed from the inner to the outer in sequence. The radius R2 of the inner cladding is in a range of 28 to 55 microns, and the relative refractive index difference Δ2% is −0.1% to 0.1%. The radius R3 of the trench cladding is in a range of 28 to 60 microns, and the relative refractive index difference Δ3% is in a range of −0.15% to −0.8%.
Abstract:
A method and a base station for determining a size of transmission blocks in a sub-frame. The method comprises: acquiring a physical resource block allocation number N′PRB and a transmission block size index I′TBS; determining a conversion relationship, and converting N′PRB and I′TBS, according to a conversion relationship, respectively into NPRB and ITBS used in existing calculation for the size of a transmission blocks; and according to NPRB and ITBS, calculating the size of the transmission blocks.
Abstract:
A multipurpose sensor fixing device includes a radial positioning mechanism, a supporting mechanism, a base, a mounting mechanism, and a parallelism adjusting member. The supporting mechanism comprises a main supporting arm and an auxiliary supporting arm, with one end of the auxiliary supporting arm connected to the main supporting arm and the other end comprising kink shaft members. The main supporting arm is connected to an end of the radial positioning mechanism to locate the auxiliary supporting arm at the inner side of the main supporting arm. The kink shaft member of the auxiliary supporting arm is inserted into a plughole of the base to form a revolute pair with the auxiliary supporting arm. The mounting mechanism is mounted at the base. The parallelism adjusting member is mounted on the main supporting arm.
Abstract:
An encoding method, encoding device, decoding method and decoding device for low density generator matrix codes (LDGC) are disclosed. Wherein, the encoding method comprises: construct an LDGC mother code set using P LDGC with code rate R0 and different code lengths, wherein the LDGC mother code set has a uniform basic matrix Gbuniform wherein, R 0 = k b n b , kb denotes the number of rows and nb denotes the number of columns in the basic matrix; obtain length L of an intermediate variant according to length K of an information bit sequence to be encoded in the LDGC mother code set; modify and expand the basic matrix to obtain a generator matrix Gldgc using the length L of the intermediate variant and the number kb of rows in the basic matrix; and encode the information bit sequence to be encoded using a matrix Gldgc (1:L,1:N+L−K) composed of L rows and the front N+L−K columns of the generator matrix, wherein N denotes the length of the encoded information.