摘要:
A portable content-playing device which automatically constructs a virtual channel of content consistent with the tastes of the user of the device, where the content originates from one or more satellites. The portable device contains software for computing similarity values between a local taste profile (representative of the tastes of the user of the device) and taste profiles downloaded from one or more of the satellites, and this information is used in choosing the content of the virtual channel.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method of regulating quorum sensing in bacteria by modulating the activation of LuxR or a homologue thereof. Such modulation generally occurs when the bacteria are in the pre-quorate or quorate stage and may be achieved by targeting antibodies to LuxR or a homologue thereof.
摘要:
The method relates to a method of modulating quorum sensing in bacteria. Quorum sensing is inhibited using peptide hydrolases. This inhibition is used to prevent biofilm formation or to break down established biofilms and may also be used to downregulate the production of virulence determinants by pathogenic bacteria. The invention also relates to the use of peptide hydrolase inhibitors for the upregulation of quorum sensing in bacteria, resulting in the overproduction of proteins and the use of this system as an expression system.
摘要:
A technique for navigating an index to access a subject multi-dimensional database stored on a data store connected to the computer. Initially, a deviations spreadsheet comprising cells is displayed. Then, upon user selection of a cell in the deviations spreadsheet, the selected cell is displayed in the subject multi-dimensional database.
摘要:
A cleaning machine with a sound suppression system may include a waste recovery tank and a centrifugal-bypass vacuum motor assembly. The vacuum motor assembly may include a working-air flow path and a separate motor-ventilating-air flow path, with the working-air flow path including a working-air inlet and a working-air outlet. The working-air inlet may be fluidly connectable to the waste recovery tank, whereby the vacuum motor assembly may enable a soil-containing fluid to be vacuumed into the waste recovery tank. The cleaning machine also may include a sound-suppression hood that covers at least a part of the vacuum motor assembly. Alternatively, or in addition to the sound-suppression hood, the cleaning machine may include a first muffler assembly and a second muffler assembly. The first muffler assembly may be fluidly connected to the working-air outlet; and the second muffler assembly may be fluidly connected to the first muffler assembly. In this fashion, sound produced by the vacuum motor assembly may be suppressed.
摘要:
The computer associated with each of a potentially large number of end users is harnessed to provide a massively-distributed mechanism for finding the nearest neighbors of each user, according to tastes and/or interests. Once these nearest neighbors are determined, there taste or and/or interest profiles are leveraged for highly accurate recommendations, and their online addresses are leveraged for community purposes.
摘要:
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for improved performance of table insertion by using multiple tables or multiple threads. A command is executed in a computer to perform a database operation on a relational database stored on a data store connected to the computer. A multi-dimensional database is represented as a relational schema in the relational database, wherein the relational schema includes one or more base tables, related dimension tables, and a key table. Each of the base tables and the key table is accessed concurrently to perform the database operation.
摘要:
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for using a relational database management system to support on-line analytical processing (OLAP) systems. A multi-dimensional database is defined having a set of multi-dimensional data blocks and a set of identifiers comprising selected dimensions of multi-dimensional data for identifying particular ones of the multi-dimensional data blocks. The set of identifiers provides an ordering of the multi-dimensional data blocks using multi-dimensional member identifiers and holds usage information and age information about the multi-dimensional data blocks. The data in the set of multi-dimensional data blocks is stored in a relational database that represents the multi-dimensional database. Then, a set of rows representing a multi-dimensional data block is accessed from the relational database.CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
摘要:
In various embodiments, methods define an analysis window for a dimensional model in accordance with a window template and a starting point. One or more aggregate definitions are produced based on the analysis window. In another embodiment, the dimensional model comprises a time dimension, and the window template is associated with the time dimension. In yet another embodiment, the starting point is changed to a new starting point, and a new analysis window is defined using the new starting point.
摘要:
A system for determining high quality musical recordings comprises a server computer which communicates with a plurality of client devices configured to execute internet radio client software which plays musical recordings. The server computer includes a registration unit for registering users; an input unit for registering, for each user, and for each musical recording of a selected group of musical recordings, a user's opinion of the musical recording. It also includes a combining unit configured to combine a user's registered opinion of each of the musical recordings with the registered opinions of other users, an input valuation unit configured to assign a valuation to the registered opinions on the basis of data from the combining unit, and a reward unit for providing a reward to one or more users on the basis of a valuation provided by the input valuation unit.