Electronic simulated smoking devices, commonly known as e-cigarettes or e-cigs, came into being in the early 1960's. An electronic cigarette is smoked by heating the liquid nicotine to create a tobacco-flavored aerosol or the real tobacco to volatilize tobacco flavors. These simulated smoking devices have grown in acceptance and popularity because it is believed that they are less toxic to the user than the conventional method of inhaling a desired active ingredient through burning a source of that ingredient and inhaling the products of that combustion, including carcinogens. Without the toxic products of combustion being present, there is a greatly reduced concern about "secondhand smoke," as well. They have also grown in popularity due to people's fascination with gadgetry.
Patents are a good information resource for obtaining IoT (Internet of Things) technology development status. IOT big data analytics is becoming important to process unimaginably large amounts of information and data that are obtained by the sensor embedded interconnected IoT devices. The typical IoT big data analytics is Hadoop, an open-source software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications, and the running of applications on large clusters of commodity hardware. Hadoop, that is based on the architectural framework MapReduce, collects both structured data and unstructured data, processes the collected data set in a distributed network cluster in parallel, and extracts valuable information from the processed data set within a short time. Followings illustrate some examples of patents that provide current status of the IoT big data analytics technology development.
1) First grade students began learning about story planning and text manipulation by creating their own shelf markers using different sizes, colors, and shapes of their names.
2) They then applied these skills to create PowerPoint presentations about themselves, learning how to insert pictures and use transitions and text formatting tools.
3) The students explored different story planning and presentation tools as they shared details about themselves like their names, favorite stories, and parts of stories.
Many healthcare, medical devices, consumer electronics, and IT business leaders are now competing in the IoT (Internet of Things) connected health market by providing and developing innovative products/services. For example, Philips announced a partnership with Amazon to provide a new platform for the IoT connected healthcare application. Philips connected healthcare platform is based on its cloud-based HealthSuite platform and Amazon AWS IoT platform. Samsung’s SleepSense can connect to the user's smartphone and provide daily sleep monitoring reports. Patent information can provide insights regarding the state of the art of the IoT innovations for the connected health applications such as Fitness Management System, Health Management System (home healthcare system), Medication Management System, Physical Activity Monitoring System, Physiological Monitoring System (e.g., blood glucose level monitoring), Sleep Monitoring System, Smart Cloth, and Telemedicine System and Health ICT System (e.g., body sensor networks, health information management system). Thus, one can identify the potential further innovation R&D areas (“white space”) that can lead to new connected health products/services development through the patent analysis.
Well tailored value creation methodology combined with patent prosecution strategy can develop new patent portfolios for maximum ROI from existing patents. Many patent applications and newly issued patents can be further developed for creating new values by amending and creating claims and generating family patents to encompass emerging technology and products/services trends, market demands, and strategic exploitation goals (e.g., cross-licensing, monetization etc.).
The Aiguille du Midi is a 3,842m mountain in the French Alps. An aerial cable car, built in 1955, transports visitors from Chamonix at 1,035m to the summit at 3,842m in 20 minutes, making it the highest vertical ascent cable car in the world. The summit offers panoramic views, a cafe, and shop, and is the starting point for hiking routes and ski runs in the Mont Blanc Massif.
This document summarizes a guide for finance directors on pensions. It discusses how defined benefit pension schemes are an increasingly important issue for companies. It looks at essentials of defined benefit schemes, current issues facing finance directors like the impact of Brexit and changes to the Pension Protection Fund levy, and results of a survey of pension managers. Key findings of the survey were that 18% of defined benefit scheme members changed retirement strategies, 73% can now take auxiliary pension pots as lump sums, and around 1/3 of schemes have seen increased requests for pension transfer valuations.
This document provides an overview of how to create your own cloud using Apache CloudStack. It discusses the key characteristics of clouds, different cloud service and deployment models supported by CloudStack, and the core components that make up a CloudStack deployment including zones, pods, clusters, primary and secondary storage, virtual routers, hypervisors, and the management server. The document also touches on CloudStack's networking, security, high availability, resource allocation, and usage accounting features.
This document describes a proposal for GlucoCenterTM, a "one-stop-shop" chronic disease management center for diabetes and lifestyle management in Brazil. It would provide education, products, services, and support to help patients manage their condition. The concept offers a comprehensive solution not currently available in Brazil and would take advantage of the growing diabetes problem and market potential in the country. A management team with extensive experience in Brazil and the diabetes field would lead the new business.
El documento describe una herramienta multimedia de estimulación sensoriomotriz creada por Sandra Paterna Villena. La herramienta usa imágenes para estimular los sentidos y el movimiento.
Electronic simulated smoking devices, commonly known as e-cigarettes or e-cigs, came into being in the early 1960's. An electronic cigarette is smoked by heating the liquid nicotine to create a tobacco-flavored aerosol or the real tobacco to volatilize tobacco flavors. These simulated smoking devices have grown in acceptance and popularity because it is believed that they are less toxic to the user than the conventional method of inhaling a desired active ingredient through burning a source of that ingredient and inhaling the products of that combustion, including carcinogens. Without the toxic products of combustion being present, there is a greatly reduced concern about "secondhand smoke," as well. They have also grown in popularity due to people's fascination with gadgetry.
Patents are a good information resource for obtaining IoT (Internet of Things) technology development status. IOT big data analytics is becoming important to process unimaginably large amounts of information and data that are obtained by the sensor embedded interconnected IoT devices. The typical IoT big data analytics is Hadoop, an open-source software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications, and the running of applications on large clusters of commodity hardware. Hadoop, that is based on the architectural framework MapReduce, collects both structured data and unstructured data, processes the collected data set in a distributed network cluster in parallel, and extracts valuable information from the processed data set within a short time. Followings illustrate some examples of patents that provide current status of the IoT big data analytics technology development.
1) First grade students began learning about story planning and text manipulation by creating their own shelf markers using different sizes, colors, and shapes of their names.
2) They then applied these skills to create PowerPoint presentations about themselves, learning how to insert pictures and use transitions and text formatting tools.
3) The students explored different story planning and presentation tools as they shared details about themselves like their names, favorite stories, and parts of stories.
Many healthcare, medical devices, consumer electronics, and IT business leaders are now competing in the IoT (Internet of Things) connected health market by providing and developing innovative products/services. For example, Philips announced a partnership with Amazon to provide a new platform for the IoT connected healthcare application. Philips connected healthcare platform is based on its cloud-based HealthSuite platform and Amazon AWS IoT platform. Samsung’s SleepSense can connect to the user's smartphone and provide daily sleep monitoring reports. Patent information can provide insights regarding the state of the art of the IoT innovations for the connected health applications such as Fitness Management System, Health Management System (home healthcare system), Medication Management System, Physical Activity Monitoring System, Physiological Monitoring System (e.g., blood glucose level monitoring), Sleep Monitoring System, Smart Cloth, and Telemedicine System and Health ICT System (e.g., body sensor networks, health information management system). Thus, one can identify the potential further innovation R&D areas (“white space”) that can lead to new connected health products/services development through the patent analysis.
Well tailored value creation methodology combined with patent prosecution strategy can develop new patent portfolios for maximum ROI from existing patents. Many patent applications and newly issued patents can be further developed for creating new values by amending and creating claims and generating family patents to encompass emerging technology and products/services trends, market demands, and strategic exploitation goals (e.g., cross-licensing, monetization etc.).
The Aiguille du Midi is a 3,842m mountain in the French Alps. An aerial cable car, built in 1955, transports visitors from Chamonix at 1,035m to the summit at 3,842m in 20 minutes, making it the highest vertical ascent cable car in the world. The summit offers panoramic views, a cafe, and shop, and is the starting point for hiking routes and ski runs in the Mont Blanc Massif.
This document summarizes a guide for finance directors on pensions. It discusses how defined benefit pension schemes are an increasingly important issue for companies. It looks at essentials of defined benefit schemes, current issues facing finance directors like the impact of Brexit and changes to the Pension Protection Fund levy, and results of a survey of pension managers. Key findings of the survey were that 18% of defined benefit scheme members changed retirement strategies, 73% can now take auxiliary pension pots as lump sums, and around 1/3 of schemes have seen increased requests for pension transfer valuations.
This document provides an overview of how to create your own cloud using Apache CloudStack. It discusses the key characteristics of clouds, different cloud service and deployment models supported by CloudStack, and the core components that make up a CloudStack deployment including zones, pods, clusters, primary and secondary storage, virtual routers, hypervisors, and the management server. The document also touches on CloudStack's networking, security, high availability, resource allocation, and usage accounting features.
This document describes a proposal for GlucoCenterTM, a "one-stop-shop" chronic disease management center for diabetes and lifestyle management in Brazil. It would provide education, products, services, and support to help patients manage their condition. The concept offers a comprehensive solution not currently available in Brazil and would take advantage of the growing diabetes problem and market potential in the country. A management team with extensive experience in Brazil and the diabetes field would lead the new business.
El documento describe una herramienta multimedia de estimulación sensoriomotriz creada por Sandra Paterna Villena. La herramienta usa imágenes para estimular los sentidos y el movimiento.
This document discusses predicting antitrust enforcement against Google's Android licensing practices in the US and EU based on past cases. It argues the EU will likely find the free Android licensing anti-competitive and Google's bundling of services an abuse of dominance. The US FTC will weigh Android's benefits and may require measures to ensure fair competition. The document analyzes differences in US and EU antitrust law and enforcement through cases on Google search and Microsoft Windows.
The document discusses the use of cognitive radios for LTE and TV white space (TVWS). It describes how cognitive radios allow femtocells to search radio channels to identify free resources and avoid interference. Cognitive radios also enable self-organizing networks (SON) in LTE by allowing femtocells to be aware of neighboring cells' power and spectrum allocation. The document further discusses how cognitive radios act as an enabler for using whitespace in the TV spectrum by finding available spectrum in the TV band. As of September 2010, there were 701 issued patents and pending applications related to cognitive radio for TVWS, with Samsung, Motorola, and Qualcomm leading in innovations.
El documento contiene una serie de fotos de la familia de María Isabel Burguillos López, incluyendo fotos de su madre, padre, hermano/a, y de ella misma. También incluye fotos de tres profesionales de su centro. El documento finaliza indicando el fin de la sesión de imágenes.
The document appears to be performance results of a trading system using a 12-week moving average strategy on the Shanghai Stock Index from 1995 to 2009. It includes annual returns, maximum drawdowns, number of trades and other metrics for each year. The overall performance was positive with average annual returns of around 20% and maximum drawdowns generally below 25% except for a few years.
This activity statement from Interactive Brokers covers the period from December 31, 2008 to May 22, 2009. It provides a summary of the client's equity holdings and cash balances over time. It also includes a breakdown of the mark-to-market performance of each stock held, showing quantities, prices, and the profits or losses from transactions, corporate actions, commissions, and dividends for each holding. Overall, the client's total equity increased from around $123,000 to over $212,000 during the period.
This document is an activity statement for a brokerage account from January 10, 2008 to December 31, 2008. It provides summaries of the equity positions and values over time in the account, including cash, stock, and interest accruals. It also includes a mark-to-market performance summary showing the quantity, prices, and profit/loss for each stock transaction during the period.
The document summarizes a study that investigates the risk and return of using a simple moving average (SMA) timing model across various markets compared to a buy-and-hold strategy. The study tested different SMA periods from 4 to 52 weeks on developed markets, emerging markets, and both combined. It found that an 8-week SMA period performed best overall based on annualized return, drawdown, and Sharpe ratio. However, 3 developed markets (Switzerland, US, UK) underperformed this model but performed best with longer 52-week SMA periods. The 8-week model outperformed buy-and-hold on average due to higher average profits compared to losses and lower drawdowns.