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A stacker, wherein the stacker is removably mountable in a processing apparatus, and is configured to be disposed at an ejection opening of the processing apparatus and to cause media ejected through the ejection opening to be stacked and placed on a stacking surface, wherein the stacker includes a support member that is movable toward an upstream side and a downstream side in an ejecting direction, that is configured to receive each of the media ejected through the ejection opening, and that is configured to support the medium in such an orientation that the medium is inclined with an end edge of the medium on the downstream side in the ejecting direction positioned above an end edge of the medium on the upstream side in the ejecting direction and that the end edge of the medium on the upstream side in the ejecting direction abuts the stacking surface, a receding mechanism configured to cause the support member to recede toward the downstream side, and a position maintaining mechanism configured to maintain a position of the support member having been moved by the receding mechanism, characterized by a transport roller configured to receive the medium ejected through the ejection opening and to transport the medium toward the downstream side, and a power transmission unit configured to drive the transport roller by transmitting motive power from an ejection roller with which the processing apparatus ejects the medium to the transport roller. wherein the stacker is removably mountable in a processing apparatus, and is configured to be disposed at an ejection opening of the processing apparatus and to cause media ejected through the ejection opening to be stacked and placed on a stacking surface, wherein the stacker includes a support member that is movable toward an upstream side and a downstream side in an ejecting direction, that is configured to receive each of the media ejected through the ejection opening, and that is configured to support the medium in such an orientation that the medium is inclined with an end edge of the medium on the downstream side in the ejecting direction positioned above an end edge of the medium on the upstream side in the ejecting direction and that the end edge of the medium on the upstream side in the ejecting direction abuts the stacking surface, a receding mechanism configured to cause the support member to recede toward the downstream side, and a position maintaining mechanism configured to maintain a position of the support member having been moved by the receding mechanism, characterized by a transport roller configured to receive the medium ejected through the ejection opening and to transport the medium toward the downstream side, and a power transmission unit configured to drive the transport roller by transmitting motive power from an ejection roller with which the processing apparatus ejects the medium to the transport roller.
Method for making a micro-electronic device, comprising the following steps: a) forming, on a first substrate, at least a first semi-conductor zone (A, A 1) made of a first semi-conductor crystalline material, and forming at least a second semi-conductor zone (B, B1) from a second semi-conductor crystalline material different from said first semi-conductor material and/or with different crystalline orientation from the first semi-conductor crystalline material and/or different strains from that of said first semi-conductor crystalline material, a lateral insulation zone being formed between the two semi-conductor zones, b) covering said first semi-conductor zone and said second semi-conductor zone with an insulating layer, c) assembling a second substrate on said insulating layer, d) eliminating said first substrate. a) forming, on a first substrate, at least a first semi-conductor zone (A, A 1) made of a first semi-conductor crystalline material, and forming at least a second semi-conductor zone (B, B1) from a second semi-conductor crystalline material different from said first semi-conductor material and/or with different crystalline orientation from the first semi-conductor crystalline material and/or different strains from that of said first semi-conductor crystalline material, a lateral insulation zone being formed between the two semi-conductor zones, b) covering said first semi-conductor zone and said second semi-conductor zone with an insulating layer, c) assembling a second substrate on said insulating layer, d) eliminating said first substrate.
An aerosol-generating article comprising an aerosol-forming substrate for generating an inhalable aerosol when heated using an aerosol-generating device, the aerosol-generating article comprising a plurality of components including the aerosol-forming substrate assembled within a wrapper to form a rod having a mouth end and a distal end upstream from the mouth end, the aerosol-generating article defining a first air-flow path in which air drawn into the aerosol-generating article through the mouth end passes through the aerosol-forming substrate, and a second air-flow path in which air drawn into the aerosol-generating article through the mouth end does not pass through the aerosol-forming substrate, the resistance to draw of the second air-flow path being lower than the resistance to draw of the first air-flow path; the resistance to draw of the second air-flow path is no more than 0.5 times the resistance to draw of the first air-flow path; the aerosol-forming substrate comprises an aerosol former, in which the aerosol former content of the aerosol-forming substrate is between 5% and 30% on a dry weight basis; the plurality of components further comprises a support element and a mouthpiece, the support element located upstream of the mouthpiece and immediately downstream of the aerosol-forming substrate, the support element comprising a hollow tubular element. the resistance to draw of the second air-flow path is no more than 0.5 times the resistance to draw of the first air-flow path; the aerosol-forming substrate comprises an aerosol former, in which the aerosol former content of the aerosol-forming substrate is between 5% and 30% on a dry weight basis; the plurality of components further comprises a support element and a mouthpiece, the support element located upstream of the mouthpiece and immediately downstream of the aerosol-forming substrate, the support element comprising a hollow tubular element.
A method of calculating pose comprising: receiving, at a processor, at least one image where the image is either: of an object and captured by a fixed camera, or of a scene captured by a mobile camera in the scene; using the processor to push image elements selected at random from the at least one image through a trained machine learning system, comprising one or more decision trees each having a root node, a plurality of split nodes and a plurality of leaf nodes, each selected image element being pushed from the root node to a leaf node in a process whereby a decision is made at each split node according to characteristics of the selected image element and characteristics of test image elements of the image displaced from the selected image element by spatial offsets specified by parameters at the split node, to obtain, from the leaf nodes reached by the selected image elements, a plurality of associations between the selected image elements and points in either entity coordinates or scene coordinates, where entity coordinates are object coordinates or mobile camera coordinates, the machine learning system having been trained using images with individual image elements labelled either with a point expressed in scene coordinates or a point expressed in object coordinates; and calculating the pose of the object or of the mobile camera from the associations by optimizing an energy function using an iterative process to search amongst possible camera pose candidates, where a camera pose candidate is computed from at least two of the associations. receiving, at a processor, at least one image where the image is either: of an object and captured by a fixed camera, or of a scene captured by a mobile camera in the scene; using the processor to push image elements selected at random from the at least one image through a trained machine learning system, comprising one or more decision trees each having a root node, a plurality of split nodes and a plurality of leaf nodes, each selected image element being pushed from the root node to a leaf node in a process whereby a decision is made at each split node according to characteristics of the selected image element and characteristics of test image elements of the image displaced from the selected image element by spatial offsets specified by parameters at the split node, to obtain, from the leaf nodes reached by the selected image elements, a plurality of associations between the selected image elements and points in either entity coordinates or scene coordinates, where entity coordinates are object coordinates or mobile camera coordinates, the machine learning system having been trained using images with individual image elements labelled either with a point expressed in scene coordinates or a point expressed in object coordinates; and calculating the pose of the object or of the mobile camera from the associations by optimizing an energy function using an iterative process to search amongst possible camera pose candidates, where a camera pose candidate is computed from at least two of the associations.
Body monitoring device, comprising at least one needle configured to come into contact with interstitial fluid, the needle being configured to sample or measure a physical quantity of the interstitial fluid, characterised in that the device comprises electrophoresis electrodes (41, 42) configured to be in contact with the skin and cause electrophoresis under the skin without the interstitial liquid passing through the skin when they are supplied with a current of less than 300 μA, preferably between 10 μA and 300 μA, and in that that the at least one needle is positioned in the vicinity of at least one of the electrodes, so that electrophoresis causes an accumulation of interstitial liquid at said at least one of the electrodes in contact with the skin and at the needle without it passing through the skin. the device comprises electrophoresis electrodes (41, 42) configured to be in contact with the skin and cause electrophoresis under the skin without the interstitial liquid passing through the skin when they are supplied with a current of less than 300 μA, preferably between 10 μA and 300 μA, and in that that the at least one needle is positioned in the vicinity of at least one of the electrodes, so that electrophoresis causes an accumulation of interstitial liquid at said at least one of the electrodes in contact with the skin and at the needle without it passing through the skin.
A hydraulic pump assembly comprising: a low-pressure hydraulic pump, and a high-pressure hydraulic pump, characterised by a drive shaft assembly that passes along an axis of the pump assembly; wherein both hydraulic pumps are arranged to be rotated simultaneously by the drive shaft assembly; and wherein the pump assembly is formed as a single unit arranged to fit into a pump chamber.
A powder-free, antimicrobial elastomeric article comprising: an elastomeric layer having an interior surface and an exterior surface; an antimicrobial gel coating comprising one or more antimicrobial agents disposed on the interior surface of the elastomeric layer; and an anti-blocking film coating disposed on the antimicrobial gel coating. an elastomeric layer having an interior surface and an exterior surface; an antimicrobial gel coating comprising one or more antimicrobial agents disposed on the interior surface of the elastomeric layer; and an anti-blocking film coating disposed on the antimicrobial gel coating.
A spectrometer device, comprising: - an optical element designed for receiving incident light from an object and transferring the incident light to a length variable filter, wherein the optical element comprises an optical concentrator device, wherein the optical concentrator device is operated in reverse direction, wherein the optical concentrator device is adapted for reflecting incident light; - the length variable filter which is designated for separating the incident light into a spectrum of constituent wavelength signals, wherein the length variable filter is an optical filter comprising a plurality of interference filters provided in a continuous arrangement; and - a detector array comprising a plurality of pixelated sensors, wherein each of the pixelated sensors is adapted to receive at least a portion of one of the constituent wavelength signals, wherein each of the constituent wavelength signals is related to an intensity of each constituent wavelength, characterized in that the optical concentrator device has a single sidewall, wherein the single sidewall is designed as a rounded sidewall with a shape which is devoid of any corners wherein the single rounded sidewall constitutes a shell surface which is adapted to connect an entrance aperture at the entrance pupil and an exit aperture at the exit pupil as the optically guiding structure. - an optical element designed for receiving incident light from an object and transferring the incident light to a length variable filter, wherein the optical element comprises an optical concentrator device, wherein the optical concentrator device is operated in reverse direction, wherein the optical concentrator device is adapted for reflecting incident light; - the length variable filter which is designated for separating the incident light into a spectrum of constituent wavelength signals, wherein the length variable filter is an optical filter comprising a plurality of interference filters provided in a continuous arrangement; and - a detector array comprising a plurality of pixelated sensors, wherein each of the pixelated sensors is adapted to receive at least a portion of one of the constituent wavelength signals, wherein each of the constituent wavelength signals is related to an intensity of each constituent wavelength,
A method, comprising: receiving a request to transition a computing system from a first state to a second state; compiling a respective manifest for each of a plurality of processors of the computing system, wherein each manifest comprises a transition identifier representing a command to transition from the first state to the second state and an action time for executing, by each of the plurality of processors, one or more operations associated with the transition identifier, wherein the action time is based on a respective manifest time received from each respective processor of the plurality of processors, wherein the manifest time corresponds to an advance time required by the plurality of processors before executing the one or more operations; dispatching the respective manifests to the plurality of processors; and receiving status reports from the plurality of processors regarding the transition from the first state to the second state. receiving a request to transition a computing system from a first state to a second state; compiling a respective manifest for each of a plurality of processors of the computing system, wherein each manifest comprises a transition identifier representing a command to transition from the first state to the second state and an action time for executing, by each of the plurality of processors, one or more operations associated with the transition identifier, wherein the action time is based on a respective manifest time received from each respective processor of the plurality of processors, wherein the manifest time corresponds to an advance time required by the plurality of processors before executing the one or more operations; dispatching the respective manifests to the plurality of processors; and receiving status reports from the plurality of processors regarding the transition from the first state to the second state.
A special-purpose hardware chip (300, 400) for training neural networks, the special-purpose hardware chip comprising: a scalar processor configured to control computational operation of the special-purpose hardware chip (300, 400); a vector processor configured to have a 2-dimensional array of vector processing units which all execute the same instruction in a single instruction, multiple-data manner and communicate directly with each other through load and store instructions of the vector processor; a matrix multiply unit (313, 448) that is coupled to the vector processor configured to multiply at least one two-dimensional matrix with a second one-dimensional vector or two-dimensional matrix in order to obtain a multiplication result; and a reduction and permutation unit coupled to the vector processor, configured to perform a reduction on numbers and to permute the numbers among different lanes of the vector array. a scalar processor configured to control computational operation of the special-purpose hardware chip (300, 400); a vector processor configured to have a 2-dimensional array of vector processing units which all execute the same instruction in a single instruction, multiple-data manner and communicate directly with each other through load and store instructions of the vector processor; a matrix multiply unit (313, 448) that is coupled to the vector processor configured to multiply at least one two-dimensional matrix with a second one-dimensional vector or two-dimensional matrix in order to obtain a multiplication result; and a reduction and permutation unit coupled to the vector processor, configured to perform a reduction on numbers and to permute the numbers among different lanes of the vector array.
A signal connector comprising a plurality of subcard connection units, wherein the subcard connection units comprise: • a first cavity, wherein two opposite side surfaces of the first cavity are respectively a third shielding piece and a fourth shielding piece, and at least one second protrusion is disposed on the third shielding piece and/or the fourth shielding piece in a direction opposite to the first cavity, to enable that when being disposed in parallel on a backplane connection part, the plurality of subcard connection units can be connected to adjacent subcard connection units through the at least one second protrusion; • at least one second signal terminal pair, wherein the second signal terminal pair is disposed in the first cavity and is basically parallel to the third shielding piece and/or the fourth shielding piece, and a first contact end of the second signal terminal pair extends outwards from a side surface of the first cavity; and • at least one second shielding piece, wherein the second shielding piece is disposed in parallel with the second signal terminal pair, and the second shielding piece is corresponding to a first shielding piece, wherein the third shielding piece and the fourth shielding piece and the plurality of subcard connection units are connected through the at least one second protrusion. • a first cavity, wherein two opposite side surfaces of the first cavity are respectively a third shielding piece and a fourth shielding piece, and at least one second protrusion is disposed on the third shielding piece and/or the fourth shielding piece in a direction opposite to the first cavity, to enable that when being disposed in parallel on a backplane connection part, the plurality of subcard connection units can be connected to adjacent subcard connection units through the at least one second protrusion; • at least one second signal terminal pair, wherein the second signal terminal pair is disposed in the first cavity and is basically parallel to the third shielding piece and/or the fourth shielding piece, and a first contact end of the second signal terminal pair extends outwards from a side surface of the first cavity; and • at least one second shielding piece, wherein the second shielding piece is disposed in parallel with the second signal terminal pair, and the second shielding piece is corresponding to a first shielding piece,
A method of quantitating the concentration of a molecule of interest comprising: establishing a plurality of test environments at a plurality of test sites, each of the plurality of test environments (i) including at least one capture molecule in common with each of the other plurality of test sites, and (ii) associated with one of a plurality of binding efficiency coefficient associated response curves, each of the plurality of response curves different from the other of the plurality of response curves; storing a combined response curve resulting from a summation of the plurality of response curves; exposing the plurality of test sites to a sample having a concentration of a molecule of interest such that each of the plurality of test sites is exposed to the same concentration of the molecule of interest; obtaining a plurality of quantitation signals, each of the plurality of quantitation signals associated with one of the plurality of test sites; associating a summation of the plurality of quantitation signals with the stored combined response curve; and determining the concentration of the molecule of interest based upon the association. establishing a plurality of test environments at a plurality of test sites, each of the plurality of test environments (i) including at least one capture molecule in common with each of the other plurality of test sites, and (ii) associated with one of a plurality of binding efficiency coefficient associated response curves, each of the plurality of response curves different from the other of the plurality of response curves; storing a combined response curve resulting from a summation of the plurality of response curves; exposing the plurality of test sites to a sample having a concentration of a molecule of interest such that each of the plurality of test sites is exposed to the same concentration of the molecule of interest; obtaining a plurality of quantitation signals, each of the plurality of quantitation signals associated with one of the plurality of test sites; associating a summation of the plurality of quantitation signals with the stored combined response curve; and determining the concentration of the molecule of interest based upon the association.
A system for locating a medical device in vivo, the system comprising: an ultrasound scanner having a scan head and being capable of operating in a 3D Doppler mode; a first medical device having a first distal end configured to be inserted in vivo; and a first vibratory element coupled to the first medical device to induce vibrations in the first distal end, wherein, when the scan head is positioned over the first distal end inserted in vivo to obtain scan data of a tissue volume, the ultrasound scanner is configured to generate 3D Doppler data in the form of a plurality of slices A-E from the scan data and to identify a location of the distal end within the slices based upon localized data within one of the slices A-E meeting predetermined criteria, characterised in that the first distal end comprises at least one cross-sectional segment having a different density as compared to that of adjacent cross-sectional segments of the first distal end. an ultrasound scanner having a scan head and being capable of operating in a 3D Doppler mode; a first medical device having a first distal end configured to be inserted in vivo; and a first vibratory element coupled to the first medical device to induce vibrations in the first distal end,