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| 20090022341 | Extreme Low Frequency Acoustic Measurement System - The present invention is an extremely low frequency (ELF) microphone and acoustic measurement system capable of infrasound detection in a portable and easily deployable form factor. In one embodiment of the invention, an extremely low frequency electret microphone comprises a membrane, a backplate, and a backchamber. The backchamber is sealed to allow substantially no air exchange between the backchamber and outside the microphone. Compliance of the membrane may be less than ambient air compliance. The backplate may define a plurality of holes and a slot may be defined between an outer diameter of the backplate and an inner wall of the microphone. The locations and sizes of the holes, the size of the slot, and the volume of the backchamber may be selected such that membrane motion is substantially critically damped. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090277789 | Wireless Chemical Sensor and Sensing Method for Use Therewith - A wireless chemical sensor includes an electrical conductor and a dielectric material on the conductor. The conductor is electrically unconnected and is shaped for storage of an electric field and a magnetic field. In the presence of a time-varying magnetic field, the conductor resonates to generate harmonic electric and magnetic field responses, each of which has a frequency associated therewith. The dielectric material is selected such that it experiences changes in dielectric attributes thereof in the presence of a chemical-of-interest. Shifts from the sensor's baseline frequency response indicate that the dielectric material has been exposed to the chemical-of-interest. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090308971 | Airfoil System for Cruising Flight - An airfoil system includes an airfoil body and at least one flexible strip. The airfoil body has a top surface and a bottom surface, a chord length, a span, and a maximum thickness. Each flexible strip is attached along at least one edge thereof to either the top or bottom surface of the airfoil body. The flexible strip has a spanwise length that is a function of the airfoil body's span, a chordwise width that is a function of the airfoil body's chord length, and a thickness that is a function of the airfoil body's maximum thickness. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100118405 | TELESCOPING CYLINDRICAL PIEZOELECTRIC FIBER COMPOSITE ACTUATOR ASSEMBLIES - Actuator assemblies are formed by at least one cylinder where each cylinder is formed by at least one piezoelectric fiber composite actuator adapted to have actuation energy applied thereto. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20110132095 | Sub-Surface Windscreen for Outdoor Measurement of Infrasound - A windscreen is configured for measuring outdoor infrasonic sound. The windscreen includes a container and a microphone. The container defines a chamber. The microphone is disposed in the chamber and can be operatively supported by the floor. The microphone is configured for detecting infrasonic sound. The container is advantageously formed from material that exhibits an acoustic impedance of between 0 and approximately 3150 times the acoustic impedance of air. A reflector plate may be disposed in the container. The reflector plate operatively can support the microphone and provides a doubling effect of infrasonic pressure at the microphone. | 06-09-2011 |
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| 20090125248 | System, Method and computer program product for integrated analysis and visualization of genomic data - Described is a system for analysis and visualization of genomic data. The system allows a user to select at least one individual sample. The sample has chromosomal data representing a genome with a chromosome and also includes chromosomal measurements of at least one event at a particular location on the chromosome. A frequency of event is generated based on the selected sample. The frequency of event is a frequency of occurrence of the event in the selected sample. At least one annotation can be selected that includes chromosomal region specific information as related to the chromosome. Finally, the chromosomal data, the annotation, and the frequency of event on a display can all be simultaneously displayed, thereby allowing a user to view chromosomal region specific information with respect to a particular chromosomal event. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090204339 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for determining confidence measures and combined confidence measures for assessing the quality of proteomic and genomic data - An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided for determining a confidence measure for the output of a process for assessing proteomic and genomic information samples. Typically, data is received as the results from a microarryi experiment. The confidence measure is intended to determine whether the results of the experiment have been degraded due to experimental error. Several criteria are used by which quality is determined. The criteria are preferably combined into a combined quality measure in order to account for several possible sources of error. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090299646 | System and method for biological pathway perturbation analysis - The invention provides system and methods for analyzing the perturbation of one or more biological pathways. In one embodiment, expression values for each of a plurality of genes for one or more experimental conditions may be received. Gene differential regulation values may then be calculated for each of the plurality of genes across each of the one or more experimental conditions. The gene differential regulation values may then be grouped by the biological pathway and experimental condition from which each gene differential regulation value originated yielding one or more pathway-condition data sets. Pathway perturbation values may then for each of the one or more pathway-condition data sets using the gene differential regulation values. These pathway perturbation values may be clustered, used to identify biological pathways or experimental conditions for further analysis, and/or utilized to build a classifier for classifying additional experimental data. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100191473 | Apparatus, method, and computer program product for determining gene function and functional groups using chromosomal distribution patterns - A method, apparatus, and computer program product for analyzing gene expressions is presented. An operation is performed for determining a gene expression pattern for a condition, wherein the gene expression pattern comprises a gene expression. Next, a spatial-expression pattern is formed by selecting a chromosomal region having an exon; and associating the gene expression within the gene expression pattern with its corresponding exon. A further operation may be performed, where in the forming of the spatial-expression pattern, a spatial-expression pattern signal is created as a representation of the spatial-expression pattern. The magnitude of the spatial-expression pattern signal at any point is determined by an expression level of the corresponding exon. Spatial patterns may be identified in the signal by means of various signal processing techniques such as Fourier or Wavelet transforms. Also, multiple regions and/or conditions may be tested and their reaction patterns compared to determine related genetic regions. | 07-29-2010 |
