Abstract:
A system, a computer readable storage medium including instructions, and method for generating genre models used to identify genres of a document. For each document image in a set of document images that are associated with one or more genres, the document image is segmented into a plurality of tiles, wherein the tiles in the plurality of tiles are sized so that document page features are identifiable, and features of the document image and the plurality of tiles are computed. At least one genre classifier is trained to classify document images as being associated with one or more genres based on the features of the document images in the set of document images, the features of the plurality of tiles of the set of documents images, and the one or more genres associated with each document image in the set of documents images.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of detecting the presence of an oligomer analyte in a liquid sample, the method comprising the steps of: (a) contacting a sample comprising the oligomer or aggregate with an oscillating sensor surface, which surface may optionally be coated with a receptor that binds directly or indirectly to at least one component of the oligomer or aggregate, so as to cause direct or indirect binding of the oligomer or aggregate to the surface; (b) using a detection circuit to measure or calculate at least two of the following parameters: series resonance frequency (f0), and hence the series resonance frequency shift (ΔF); motional resistance (RM), and hence the motional resistance shift ΔR; motional inductance (LM); motional capacitance (CM); parallel capacitance (C0); frequency half-band half-width (Γ); Q-factor (=f/(2Γ); dissipative factor (1/Q); impedance or admittance phase (φ) and hence phase shift (Δφ); and impedance or admittance amplitude (Z, or Y) and hence amplitude change (ΔZ, or ΔY); (c) and analysing the calculated values to derive data which vary according to the presence and/or amount of oligomer in the sample; (d) and, optionally, repeating the measurements continuously or intermittently to derive data which vary according to the presence and/or amount of oligomer or aggregate in the sample to be calculated as a function of elapsed time.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of attaching, indirectly, a member of a specific binding pair (or sbp) to a surface, the method comprising the steps of: (a) contacting the surface with a solution, preferably an aqueous solution, of a polymer, having side chains according to the formula X-Y-Z-R, wherein X is a spacer group; Y is a sulphur, selenium or tellurium atom; Z is a sulphur, selenium or tellurium atom, any of which may be bonded to one or two oxygen atoms; and wherein R is any suitable moiety such that -Z-R constitutes a leaving group; such that at least some of the -Z-R groups are displaced and the polymer becomes bound to the surface by X-Y groups; and (b) contacting a polymer-coated surface resulting from step (a) with a solution, preferably an aqueous solution, comprising an sbp member, so as to cause the polymer to react with the sbp member, so as to attach the sbp member, indirectly, to the surface.
Abstract:
A system and method for identifying query-related keywords in documents found in a search using latent semantic analysis. The documents are represented as a document term matrix M containing one or more document term-weight vectors d, which may be term-frequency (tf) vectors or term-frequency inverse-document-frequency (tf-idf) vectors. This matrix is subjected to a truncated singular value decomposition. The resulting transform matrix U can be used to project a query term-weight vector q into the reduced N-dimensional space, followed by its expansion back into the full vector space using the inverse of U.To perform a search, the similarity of qexpanded is measured relative to each candidate document vector in this space. Exemplary similarity functions are dot product and cosine similarity. Keywords are selected with the highest values in qexpanded that are also comprised in at least one document. Matching keywords from the query may be highlighted in the search results.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a polymer comprising covalently bound side chains of the formula —X—Y—Z—R wherein X is a spacer group; is a sulphur, selenium or tellurium atom; Z is a sulphur, selenium or tellurium atom any of which may be bonded to one or two oxygen atoms; and wherein R is any suitable moiety such that —Z—R constitutes a leaving group.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a nucleotide array containing polynucleotide probes complementary to, or fragments of, Cynomolgus monkey genes, and the use of such a nucleotide array to characterize the biological effects, including the actions, targets, and toxicities, of therapeutic agents in primates, e.g., a human, a Cynomolgus monkey, or a Rhesus monkey, in particular a nucleotide array to be used in identifying the toxicities of therapeutic agents administered to a non-human primate, e.g., a Cynomolgus monkey or a Rhesus monkey.
Abstract:
A method for navigating instructional video presentations is disclosed. The method includes determining a pause mode of a video presentation, and playing the video presentation on a display device. The video presentation has one or more predetermined pause positions. The method also includes, while playing the video presentation, determining that the video presentation has reached one of the one or more pause positions. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination that the video presentation is in a first pause mode, pausing the video presentation at the one of the one or more pause positions and maintaining a display of a paused frame of the video presentation, and, in accordance with a determination that the video presentation is in a second pause mode distinct from the first pause mode, continuing to play the video presentation through the one of the one or more pause positions.
Abstract:
A dynamic load balancing system is described that determines the load of resources in a hosted environment dynamically by monitoring the usage of resources by each customer and determines the number of customers hosted by a server based on the actual resources used. The system receives a performance threshold that indicates when a server is too heavily loaded and monitors the resource usage by each customer. When the load of an overloaded server in the hosted environment exceeds the received performance threshold, the system selects a source customer currently hosted by the overloaded server to move to another server.
Abstract:
Using Near Field Communications (NFC) to provision a User Equipment (UE) with Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) data for accessing a wireless services provider's network. An NFC gesture initiates an NFC link between an NFC device and a UE containing NFC circuitry. The NFC link is used to transmit SIM data stored in a memory of the NFC device to the UE. The SIM data is received by the UE and stored in a memory of a SIM module in the UE. Thereafter, the SIM data is used to access the wireless network and obtain communication services therefrom.