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A method of manufacturing an article of footwear, comprising: forming an upper portion; forming a sole structure including: a midsole impact force attenuation system formed in a rapid manufacturing additive fabrication technique, wherein the midsole impact force attenuation system is contained in a housing and wherein the midsole impact force attenuation system includes a plurality of interlocking links; and engaging the sole structure with the upper portion such that the housing is positioned to support a foot of a wearer of the article of footwear. forming an upper portion; forming a sole structure including: a midsole impact force attenuation system formed in a rapid manufacturing additive fabrication technique, wherein the midsole impact force attenuation system is contained in a housing and wherein the midsole impact force attenuation system includes a plurality of interlocking links; and a midsole impact force attenuation system formed in a rapid manufacturing additive fabrication technique, wherein the midsole impact force attenuation system is contained in a housing and wherein the midsole impact force attenuation system includes a plurality of interlocking links; and engaging the sole structure with the upper portion such that the housing is positioned to support a foot of a wearer of the article of footwear.
An image processing method for converting an input image to a transformed output image consisting of multiple pixels, characterized by comprising: segmenting the transformed output image into multiple blocks each having multiple pixels including multiple vertex pixels; determining a coordinate value in the input image corresponding to one of the multiple vertex pixels of a focused block of the multiple blocks by reference to a vertex data memory, which stores at least one coordinate value in the output image for each of the multiple vertexpixels of each of the multiple blocks and in which two or more coordinate values are stored for at least one of the multiple vertex pixels of at least one of the multiple blocks, wherein when two or more coordinate values are stored for the one of the vertex pixels, one of the multiple coordinate values is selected; repeating the coordinate value determining step for all of the multiple blocks to determine coordinate values in the input image corresponding to the multiple vertex pixels of the multiple blocks of the transformed output image; and determining coordinate values in the input image for all of the multiple pixels of the multiple blocks by performing an interpolation processing using the coordinate values for all of the multiple vertex pixels of the multiple blocks. segmenting the transformed output image into multiple blocks each having multiple pixels including multiple vertex pixels; determining a coordinate value in the input image corresponding to one of the multiple vertex pixels of a focused block of the multiple blocks by reference to a vertex data memory, which stores at least one coordinate value in the output image for each of the multiple vertexpixels of each of the multiple blocks and in which two or more coordinate values are stored for at least one of the multiple vertex pixels of at least one of the multiple blocks, wherein when two or more coordinate values are stored for the one of the vertex pixels, one of the multiple coordinate values is selected; repeating the coordinate value determining step for all of the multiple blocks to determine coordinate values in the input image corresponding to the multiple vertex pixels of the multiple blocks of the transformed output image; and determining coordinate values in the input image for all of the multiple pixels of the multiple blocks by performing an interpolation processing using the coordinate values for all of the multiple vertex pixels of the multiple blocks.
A physical article of manufacture including one or more tangible computer-readable storage media, encoding computer-executable instructions for executing on a computer system a computer process to provide personalized threat protection to users of a computer application (124, 126, 128), the computer process comprising: determining a plurality of functionalities of the computer application; analyzing usage patterns of the plurality of functionalities of the computer application by users at a client organization (110, 112, 114) including analyzing how often a given functionality of the application is used by users of the client organization; identifying a plurality of security threats to one or more of the plurality of computer application functionalities used by the client organization; and modifying the configuration settings of the computer application for the client organization based on the usage patterns of the plurality of functionalities and the plurality of security threats to the plurality of functionalities. determining a plurality of functionalities of the computer application; analyzing usage patterns of the plurality of functionalities of the computer application by users at a client organization (110, 112, 114) including analyzing how often a given functionality of the application is used by users of the client organization; identifying a plurality of security threats to one or more of the plurality of computer application functionalities used by the client organization; and modifying the configuration settings of the computer application for the client organization based on the usage patterns of the plurality of functionalities and the plurality of security threats to the plurality of functionalities.
Method for preparing a gel block comprising the following steps: - providing an alginate and calcium carbonate preparation, - providing a buffer solution, - mixing the alginate and calcium carbonate preparation with the buffer solution using a mixing tee comprising an outlet duct, and subsequently - gelling in a gelator formed by the outlet duct and/or a duct connected to the outlet duct, to form a gel block. - providing an alginate and calcium carbonate preparation, - providing a buffer solution, - mixing the alginate and calcium carbonate preparation with the buffer solution using a mixing tee comprising an outlet duct, and subsequently - gelling in a gelator formed by the outlet duct and/or a duct connected to the outlet duct, to form a gel block.
An ink handling unit comprising an ink reservoir with an integrated heat exchange channel configured for pre-heating or pre-cooling an ink feed flow entering the ink reservoir via the heat exchange channel, characterized in that the heat exchange channel is in direct thermal contact with an interior space of the ink reservoir, wherein the ink handling unit comprises an insert element configured for being arranged inside the interior space of the ink reservoir, and wherein a first part of the integrated heat exchange channel is arranged in a first wall of the ink reservoir as a first trench and a first side of a wall of the insert element is arranged such that in an assembled state the first side of the wall of the insert element faces the first wall of the ink reservoir forming a lid on top of the first trench and hence forming the integrated heat exchange channel.
Disposal apparatus for disposing of food leftovers, comprising at least one comminuter, wherein the comminuter has at least one grinding chamber and at least one collecting chamber, wherein the grinding chamber is connected to the collecting chamber via one or more openings, wherein at least one comminuting device having at least one impact tool for comminuting the food leftovers is arranged in the grinding chamber, wherein, in addition, at least one mixing device for generating a movement in the food leftovers is arranged in the grinding chamber.
An electric shaver comprising a housing and a shaving head which comprises at least one cutting system, and which is pivotably connected to the housing, and further comprises means for locking this pivoting motion at several predetermined positions, whereby the shaving head comprises a multitude of notches, characterized in that the housing provides a switch element which is connected to at least one engaging element that is adapted for being coupled with at least one of the notches.
A device for generating a precoding matrix, the device comprising: a parameter calculator, a counter and an element generator; wherein, the parameter calculator is arranged to calculate, according to a first Precoding Matrix Identifier, PMI, and a second PMI, a first parameter and a second parameter for determining the precoding matrix, and send the first parameter and the second parameter to the element generator; the counter is arranged to control a row number of an element in the precoding matrix that is to be generated by the element generator; the element generator is arranged to generate the element corresponding to the row number in the precoding matrix according to the received first parameter and second parameter and the row number; the element generator comprises: a first lookup table unit, a second lookup table unit, a first lookup table address unit, and an element output control unit; the first lookup table unit is arranged to store values of elements from a zeroth row to a third row in the precoding matrix calculated in advance, to store corresponding relationships between the values of the elements and the first parameter established in advance, and to obtain, according to a base address input by the first lookup table address unit, a value of the corresponding element and output the value of the corresponding element; the second lookup table unit is arranged to store values of an operator influencing elements from a fourth row to a seventh row in the precoding matrix calculated in advance, to store corresponding relationships between the values of the operator and the second parameter established in advance, to inquire a value of the operator according to the second parameter, calculate product of the value of the element output by the first lookup table unit and the value of the operator, and send the product to the element output control unit as the value of the corresponding element from the fourth row to the seventh row in the precoding matrix; the first lookup table address unit is arranged to generate the base address of the first lookup table unit according to the first parameter and the row number, and send the base address to the first lookup table unit; and the element output control unit is arranged to receive inputs of the first lookup table unit and the second lookup table unit, and output, according to the row number input by the counter, the element of the precoding matrix corresponding to the row number.
A method of making a cladded article comprising: disposing over a surface of a metallic substrate a sheet comprising organic binder and powder nickel-based alloy having a solidus temperature at least about 100 °C less than the metallic substrate; the metallic substrate selected from the group consisting of steels, iron-based alloys, nickel-based alloys and cobalt-based alloys, and sintering the powder nickel-based alloy to provide a fully dense sintered nickel-based alloy cladding metallurgically bonded to the metallic substrate, the sintered nickel-based alloy comprising 8-25 wt.% chromium, 5-20% wt.% molybdenum, 0-6 wt.% tungsten, 0-5 wt.% total of niobium and tantalum, 0-4 wt.% cobalt, 0-30 wt.% iron, 0-1 wt.% manganese, 0.1-5 wt.% boron and the balance nickel. disposing over a surface of a metallic substrate a sheet comprising organic binder and powder nickel-based alloy having a solidus temperature at least about 100 °C less than the metallic substrate; the metallic substrate selected from the group consisting of steels, iron-based alloys, nickel-based alloys and cobalt-based alloys, and sintering the powder nickel-based alloy to provide a fully dense sintered nickel-based alloy cladding metallurgically bonded to the metallic substrate, the sintered nickel-based alloy comprising 8-25 wt.% chromium, 5-20% wt.% molybdenum, 0-6 wt.% tungsten, 0-5 wt.% total of niobium and tantalum, 0-4 wt.% cobalt, 0-30 wt.% iron, 0-1 wt.% manganese, 0.1-5 wt.% boron and the balance nickel.
A random access method, comprising: receiving, by an access network device, a message A sent by a terminal, wherein the message A comprises a random access preamble sequence and physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, data; and sending, by the access network device, a first response message or a second response message to the terminal when determining that the PUSCH data in the message A fails to be parsed, wherein the first response message is used to indicate the terminal to send a message 3 in a 4-step random access procedure, the second response message is used to indicate the terminal to send a retransmission message of the message A, and the retransmission message comprises at least the PUSCH data; characterised in that the method further comprises: determining, by the access network device, to send the first response message or send the second response message based on random access selection reference information, wherein the random access selection reference information comprises at least one of a user type, an intra-cell interference level, a latency between an expected reception time and an actual reception time of a measurement signal by the access network device. receiving, by an access network device, a message A sent by a terminal, wherein the message A comprises a random access preamble sequence and physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, data; and sending, by the access network device, a first response message or a second response message to the terminal when determining that the PUSCH data in the message A fails to be parsed, wherein the first response message is used to indicate the terminal to send a message 3 in a 4-step random access procedure, the second response message is used to indicate the terminal to send a retransmission message of the message A, and the retransmission message comprises at least the PUSCH data; characterised in that the method further comprises: determining, by the access network device, to send the first response message or send the second response message based on random access selection reference information, wherein the random access selection reference information comprises at least one of a user type, an intra-cell interference level, a latency between an expected reception time and an actual reception time of a measurement signal by the access network device.
A method for locating a fault in a network, in particular in a communication network, comprising: • receiving status information relating to at least an alarm, an event, a polled status or a test result in the network; • identifying a limited region of the network in which the fault has occurred based on the received status information; • constructing a probabilistic model relating possible faults and status information in the identified limited region; and • locating the fault based on the constructed probabilistic model and on the received status information, characterized in that identifying the limited region includes: • identifying an accountable network resource responsible for the management of the fault; • identifying at least one network resource physically or logically contiguous to the accountable network resource; • identifying at least one network resource physically or logically interconnecting the accountable network resource and the contiguous network resource; and in that constructing a probabilistic model includes: • constructing a partial probabilistic model relating to possible faults occurred in the accountable network resource, in the contiguous network resource and in the interconnection resource. • receiving status information relating to at least an alarm, an event, a polled status or a test result in the network; • identifying a limited region of the network in which the fault has occurred based on the received status information; • constructing a probabilistic model relating possible faults and status information in the identified limited region; and • locating the fault based on the constructed probabilistic model and on the received status information, characterized in that identifying the limited region includes: • identifying an accountable network resource responsible for the management of the fault; • identifying at least one network resource physically or logically contiguous to the accountable network resource; • identifying at least one network resource physically or logically interconnecting the accountable network resource and the contiguous network resource; • constructing a partial probabilistic model relating to possible faults occurred in the accountable network resource, in the contiguous network resource and in the interconnection resource.
A method for operating an underwater power station having a water turbine for absorbing kinetic energy from a surrounding current; and an electric generator directly coupled to the water turbine; characterised in that the power is regulated in a generator operation by controlling or regulating the load torque generated by the electric generator when the rotational speed of the water turbine can be adjusted freely, where in a first operating range the reference value of the load torque (Mson) can be defined by a status controller and/or another device to look for the power maximum with the present inflow speed, a maximum which represents simultaneously the maximum of the hydrodynamic torque; and in a second power-limited operating range the preset load torque is selected in such a way that there is a working point removed from the power maximum for the water turbine, a working point which is shifted towards higher rotational speeds with respect to the power maximum.
An actuation method for generating a physical effect, at least one attribute of which corresponds to at least one characteristic of a digital input signal sampled periodically in accordance with a clock, the method comprising: providing at least one array (2500; 2700; 2740) of moving elements (10; 2510; 2750) each constrained to travel alternately back and forth along a respective axis in response to an electromagnetic force operative upon said array when said array is in the presence of an alternating, magnetic field; initially bringing said array (2500; 2700; 2740) of moving elements into at least one latching position and subsequently reducing the magnitude of said electromagnetic force; selectively latching at least one subset of said moving elements in at least one latching position thereby to prevent individual moving elements (10; 2510;2750) from responding to said electromagnetic force; receiving the clock and, accordingly, controlling application of said electromagnetic force to said array of moving elements; and receiving said digital input signal and controlling said latching accordingly. providing at least one array (2500; 2700; 2740) of moving elements (10; 2510; 2750) each constrained to travel alternately back and forth along a respective axis in response to an electromagnetic force operative upon said array when said array is in the presence of an alternating, magnetic field; initially bringing said array (2500; 2700; 2740) of moving elements into at least one latching position and subsequently reducing the magnitude of said electromagnetic force; selectively latching at least one subset of said moving elements in at least one latching position thereby to prevent individual moving elements (10; 2510;2750) from responding to said electromagnetic force; receiving the clock and, accordingly, controlling application of said electromagnetic force to said array of moving elements; and receiving said digital input signal and controlling said latching accordingly.
A personal propulsion device, comprising: a platform configured to support a passenger's body, wherein the platform includes at least two segments (22a, 22b) that are independently pivotable with respect to each other, wherein each segment (22a, 22b) is configured to support a leg of the passenger's body; and at least one fluid discharge nozzle (24a, 24b, 24c, 24d) coupled to the platform; wherein the personal propulsion device, is configured to receive pressurized fluid from a remote pressurized fluid source, and wherein the personal propulsion device is configured to achieve flight.
A light mixing module suitable for receiving light from a first set of light sources and a second set of light sources, said light mixing module comprising: - an annular light guiding element, said annular light guiding element having an inner edge, a peripheral edge, a first intermediate surface extending between said inner and peripheral edges and arranged to face said second set of light sources, and a second intermediate surface extending between said inner and peripheral edges opposite said first intermediate surface, wherein said inner edge defines a cavity with an opening arranged to face said first set of light sources, wherein said opening is arranged to receive light from said first set of light sources and said first intermediate surface is arranged to receive light from said second set of light sources; and - a first reflective surface arranged to close said cavity in an end opposite said opening so as to form a first mixing chamber, wherein said annular light guiding element and said first reflective surface are arranged in such a way that light entering via said opening is mixed in said first mixing chamber, coupled into said annular light guiding element through said inner edge, guided through the annular light guiding element in a radial direction by means of total internal reflection and coupled out through the peripheral edge, and light received by said first intermediate surface is guided through said light guiding element by means of total internal reflection and out-coupled through said second intermediate surface, and wherein an area of the inner edge of the annular light guiding element is at least as large as an area of the first reflective surface. - an annular light guiding element, said annular light guiding element having an inner edge, a peripheral edge, a first intermediate surface extending between said inner and peripheral edges and arranged to face said second set of light sources, and a second intermediate surface extending between said inner and peripheral edges opposite said first intermediate surface, wherein said inner edge defines a cavity with an opening arranged to face said first set of light sources, wherein said opening is arranged to receive light from said first set of light sources and said first intermediate surface is arranged to receive light from said second set of light sources; and - a first reflective surface arranged to close said cavity in an end opposite said opening so as to form a first mixing chamber,
An elevator method, comprising: receiving a description of a passenger trip for a passenger, the passenger trip comprising an elevator portion and an additional portion, the description comprising a destination and a requested arrival time at the destination after completion of the additional portion and the elevator portion; and scheduling, for an elevator installation, an elevator call for the elevator portion of the passenger trip based on the destination and the requested arrival time. receiving a description of a passenger trip for a passenger, the passenger trip comprising an elevator portion and an additional portion, the description comprising a destination and a requested arrival time at the destination after completion of the additional portion and the elevator portion; and scheduling, for an elevator installation, an elevator call for the elevator portion of the passenger trip based on the destination and the requested arrival time.