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20090188858 | Entrapping immobilization pellets for purifying breeding water, process and apparatus for purifying breeding water, and aquarium set - Entrapping immobilization pellets for purifying breeding water in an aquarium to breed aquatic animals, wherein the entrapping immobilization pellets have a phosphorus content of 0.05 mass % or less. | 07-30-2009 |
20090197328 | Process and apparatus for producing entrapping immobilization pellets - A large amount of entrapping immobilization pellets with highly stable quality are produced inexpensively by high-speed treatment. There is provided a process for producing entrapping immobilization pellets in which microorganisms are entrapped and immobilized in an immobilizing agent, the process comprising polymerizing a mixture containing the microorganisms and a solution of the immobilizing agent in a forming frame into a gel to prepare a pellet block. | 08-06-2009 |
20100038311 | Entrapping immobilization pellets, wastewater treatment system using the entrapping immobilization pellets and wastewater treatment method - The entrapping immobilization pellets satisfy conditions: (A) the deformation rate expressed by (H | 02-18-2010 |
20100136643 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING HYDROGEN AND MICROORGANISM-IMMOBILIZATION PELLETS USED IN THE SAME - The hydrogen-producing method of the an aspect of the present invention is a method for producing hydrogen in which hydrogen is produced from an organic matter using a microorganism, characterized by using pellets on which hydrogen-producing acid-resistant bacteria are entrapped and immobilized, producing hydrogen by bringing the pellets into contact and react with the organic matter in an environment of a pH of 4 to 6. The inventors of the present invention have obtained a finding that a hydrogen-producing bacteria are entrapped and immobilized, so that the optimum pH of the hydrogen-producing bacterium shifts to low range. The present invention is made based on the above finding and uses pellets on which the hydrogen-producing bacteria are entrapped and immobilized, so that the hydrogen-producing bacterium is activated at a low pH range of 4 to 6 to produce hydrogen. Therefore, the effects of contaminated bacteria that consume hydrogen are less, and the yield of hydrogen can be improved. | 06-03-2010 |
20100209989 | Entrapping immobilization pellets and process for producing the same - The present invention produces entrapping immobilization pellets which have high pellet strength and retain high and stable microbial activity (nitrification activity) even if a low concentration of a material involved in immobilization (such as an immobilizing material or polymerization initiator) used. The entrapping immobilization pellets in which microorganisms are entrapped and immobilized in an immobilizing material comprise a filler having a plate-like and/or needle-like crystal structure in the immobilizing material. | 08-19-2010 |
20110045567 | Method for producing entrapping immobilization pellets, apparatus for producing the same, and entrapping immobilization pellets - It is possible to eliminate fluctuation in the pellet strength of the entrapping immobilization pellets according to production lots, and constantly and stably produce the entrapping immobilization pellets having high pellet strength regardless of the production lots. An apparatus for producing entrapping immobilization pellets by polymerizing an immobilizing material into a gel in the presence of an activated sludge to entrap and immobilize microorganisms in the immobilizing material, the apparatus including: a line mixer which mixes an activated sludge with an immobilizing material to prepare a raw material solution, a temperature sensor which measures a temperature of the prepared raw material solution, an addition pump which adds a polymerization initiator to the prepared raw material solution, and a controller which controls the addition pump according to the measured temperature to control an additive rate of the polymerization initiator. | 02-24-2011 |
20120167569 | GAS TURBINE COMBUSTION BURNER - Provided is a gas turbine combustion burner capable of uniformly ejecting fuel from ejection holes for reduced NO | 07-05-2012 |
20140311151 | GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR - Provided is a gas turbine combustor having improved maintainability obtained by facilitating the mounting and removal of a base plate for supporting main burners and a pilot burner. A gas turbine combustor is provided with: a pilot burner disposed at the center of a combustor inner tube; main burners provided on the outside of the pilot burner in the radial direction so as to be arranged in the circumferential direction of the inner peripheral surface of the combustor inner tube; a circular disc-shaped base plate disposed within the combustor inner tube and supporting both the pilot burner and the main burners; and an engagement section protruding from the inner peripheral surface toward the inside thereof in the radial direction and engaging with the base plate. The base plate, and the engagement section or the inner peripheral surfaces are affixed by bolts. | 10-23-2014 |
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20080249844 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEQUENTIAL DECISION MAKING FOR CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT - A system and method for sequential decision-making for customer relationship management includes providing customer data including stimulus-response history data, and automatically generating actionable rules based on the customer data. Further, automatically generating actionable rules may include estimating a value function using reinforcement learning. | 10-09-2008 |
20080270088 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAUSAL MODELING AND OUTLIER DETECTION - A method (and system) for causal modeling includes modeling a data set using a reverse Bayesian forest. | 10-30-2008 |
20080275800 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEBT COLLECTION OPTIMIZATION - The present invention employs data processing systems to handle debt collection by formulation the collections process as a Markov Decision Process with constrained resources, thus making it possible automatically to generate an optimal collections policy with respect to maximizing long-term expected return throughout the course of a collections process, subject to constraints on the available resources possibly in multiple organizations. This is accomplished by coupling data modeling and resource optimization within the constrained Markov Decision Process formulation and generating optimized rules based on constrained reinforcement learning process comprising applied on the basis of past historical data. | 11-06-2008 |
20100042561 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COST-SENSITIVE BOOSTING - Multi-class cost-sensitive boosting based on gradient boosting with “p-norm” cost functionals” uses iterative example weighting schemes derived with respect to cost functionals, and a binary classification algorithm. Weighted sampling is iteratively applied from an expanded data set obtained by enhancing each example in the original data set with as many data points as there are possible labels for any single instance, and where each non-optimally labeled example is given the weight equaling a half times the original misclassification cost for the labeled example times the p−1 norm of the average prediction of the current hypotheses. Each optimally labeled example is given the weight equaling the sum of the weights for all the non-optimally labeled examples for the same instance. Component classification algorithm is executed on a modified binary classification problem. A classifier hypothesis is output, which is the average of all the hypotheses output in the respective iterations. | 02-18-2010 |
20120116850 | CAUSAL MODELING OF MULTI-DIMENSIONAL HIERACHICAL METRIC CUBES - A computing system initializes a first frontier to be a root of a multi-dimensional hierarchical data structure representing an entity. The system acquires first data corresponding to the first frontier. The system performs modeling on the first data to obtain a first model and a corresponding first statistic. The system expands a dimension of the first frontier. The system gathers second data corresponding to the expanded frontier. The system applies the data modeling on the second data to obtain a second model and a corresponding second statistic. The system compares the first statistic of the first model and the second statistic of the second model. The system sets the second model to be the first model in response to determining that the second model statistic is better than the first model statistic. The system outputs the first model. | 05-10-2012 |
20130103490 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MARKETING MIX OPTIMIZATION FOR BRAND EQUITY MANAGEMENT - A method of marketing optimization with respect to brand lifetime management formulates a problem of brand equity maximization utilizing Markov Decision Process (MDP) thereby casting brand equity management as a long term regard optimization problem in MDP, The marketing mix is optimized by formulating the mix as actions in MDP and, utilizing historical marketing and transaction data, aspects of the MDP are estimated. | 04-25-2013 |
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20080266634 | Light Scanning Device and Image Forming Apparatus - A light scanning device is provided. The light scanning device includes: an oscillating mirror which oscillates rotationally and reflects a light beam to be scanned over a scanning range, the scanning range including a first scanning range and a second scanning range set across a center of the scanning range; a detection unit including a light receiving face, on which the light beam is incident, to detect the light beam; and first and second stationary mirrors which reflect the light beam reflected by the oscillating mirror to the first scanning range and the second scanning range, respectively, to be incident on the light receiving face, wherein an incident pattern of the light beam reflected by the first stationary mirror incident on the light receiving face is different from an incident pattern of the light beam reflected by the second stationary mirror incident on the light receiving face. | 10-30-2008 |
20080278784 | Optical Scanning Device and Printing Apparatus - An optical scanning device comprises: an oscillating mirror which has a pair of electrodes and a mirror oscillator; a driving unit which applies a wave-like driving signal to the electrodes so as to oscillate the mirror oscillator correspondingly to the driving signal; a detecting unit which detects an oscillation amplitude of the oscillating mirror; an adjusting unit which changes a value of at least one of a duty ratio, a driving frequency, an amplitude, and a bias voltage of the driving signal as a parameter so as to adjust the oscillation amplitude detected by the detecting unit to a target value; and a storing unit which stores the value of the parameter changed by the adjusting unit as a reference value, wherein when the oscillating mirror is activated, the adjusting unit starts the adjusting of the oscillation amplitude with using the driving signal based on the reference value. | 11-13-2008 |
20090074429 | Image Forming Apparatus - In an image forming apparatus, an image forming portion forms an image on a rotator. A storage portion stores change characteristics information relevant to correction parameters corresponding to phase points of the rotator. A designating portion sequentially designates the correction parameters based on the change characteristics information. A correcting portion corrects an image forming position on the rotator based on the correction parameter designated by the designating portion. When it is determined, based on a detecting phase point of the rotator detected by a detecting portion, that the current phase of the rotator corresponds to a gradual phase point at which the correction parameter changes at a rate equal to or lower than a predetermined value, the designation by said designating portion is shifted to the correction parameter corresponding to the gradual phase point. | 03-19-2009 |
20090245830 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus is provided. A second photoconductor is disposed at a downstream side of a first photoconductor in a moving direction of a medium. First and second exposure units form first and second electrostatic latent images on the first and second photoconductors line by line at first and second exposure timing intervals in first and second exposure enabling time periods based on successive lines of first and second image data, respectively. A correction unit corrects at least one of the first and second exposure timing intervals. A change unit changes the second exposure enabling time period so as to suppress a difference between the number of the successive lines of the first image data and the number of the successive lines of the second image data. | 10-01-2009 |
20090295903 | Image Forming Apparatus, Manufacturing Method Thereof, and Exposing Device - A method and apparatus usable in an image forming apparatus, comprising a photoreceptor, and a plurality of exposing devices having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged therein for exposing the photoreceptor, wherein the plurality of exposing devices include at least two exposing devices having a distribution tendency similar to the plurality of light emitting elements. | 12-03-2009 |
20120163836 | Image-Forming Apparatus - An image-forming apparatus for forming an image using toner contained in a toner cartridge, genuineness of the toner cartridge with or without a memory device is verified. A counter counts a value concerning image formation. A cartridge detector determines the presence or absence of the toner cartridge. A reader is configured to retrieve data from a memory device if any provided in the toner cartridge. A controller is configured to exercise two types of control. If the cartridge detector determines that the toner cartridge is present, the value counted by the counter is greater than a predetermined value, and the reader has failed retrieval of predetermined data, then a first type of control conformable to a toner cartridge other than a genuine toner cartridge is exercised. Otherwise, a second type of control conformable to the genuine toner cartridge is exercised. | 06-28-2012 |