Utilizing In-Vehicle Computing Devices to Exchange Information During a Traffic Stop

This publication describes techniques directed at utilizing in-vehicle computing devices to facilitate an electronic traffic stop process that enables the electronic exchange of information between a police officer and a vehicle operator. This electronic exchange of information facilitates safer and less-stressful interactions during traffic stops. The information exchanged through this process includes, but is not limited to, copies of the operator’s driver’s license, vehicle registration, and proof of insurance. By exchanging the information electronically, a police officer can perform their initial investigation without approaching the vehicle on foot

Building strategy to penetrate deeper into the stagnant and unattractive contact lens market

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-76).This thesis builds up important strategic elements to penetrate deeper into the stagnant and mature contact lens market by focusing on adolescents. First, contact lens adoption is studied to strategically generate awareness and build community effect for increasing purchase. Second, the competition is analyzed broadly at an industry level to favorably position a manufacturer against rivals to gain market share.by Tajinder Toor.M.B.A

PANIC WORD

A computing device (e.g., a mobile phone, camera, tablet computer, etc.) may include an integrated display device (e.g., a presence-sensitive screen) at which a user interface is presented. Additionally, a computing device may include a microphone that generates audio data and the capability to process the audio data. For instance, the computing device may process the audio data to identify one or more commands or requests spoken by a user of the computing device, and perform various actions associated with those commands or requests. In some situations, a user may desire for the computing device to perform one or more actions that would typically be performed via interacting with the displayed user interface without having to touch the phone. For instance, in an emergency situation, it may be desirable for the user to cause the computing device to contact emergency services (e.g., call 911 or a local variant of such number) without having to physically interact with the device. The user may utter a specific word or group of words which the computing device recognizes to cause the computing device to contact emergency services

Partial Address Field Architectures For Energy Efficient Caches in Embedded Systems - A Review

Most of the embedded processors utilize cache memory in order to minimize the performance gap between memory systems and processor. In embedded systems caches are normally implemented along with processors in one IC. The power consumed by the cache system constitutes the major fraction of the power dissipated by the embedded processors. With increasing computational demands on embedded processors, set-associative caches are being used. In larger caches the major portion of power consumption occurs in address decoding including tag comparisons. Set-associative caches consume larger energy as compared to the direct mapped caches as i) set-associative caches have greater tag bits, ii) they have parallel organization of tag arrays, and hence parallel tag comparison dissipates more energy. It is further analyzed that not all the tag bits are necessary for a cache configuration to achieve a normal performance in terms of hit rate. Hence, architecture with reduced but optimum number of tag bits is possible, which would consume lesser energy. Currently lot of research is going on to find newer architectures for Cache designs so as to give better energy savings. In this paper it has been shown that there are various considerations while designing the cache architecture and a review work done is shown on existing power reduction and performance enhancement schemes in cache architecture design

COLLECTIVE CONSUMER INCENTIVE SYSTEM

A system and process for creating a network of businesses to collectively grant and manage consumer incentives are disclosed. The system allows collaboration and management of joint promotion campaigns between business entities through the Web and mobile technology platforms. The system manages incentives for businesses, their networks and customers. It allows customers to search, find businesses and network with other customers. The customers can view and use incentives that are available to them. The system combines a social network concept for business with customer deals and incentives. It has the advantage of increased customer outreach through cross traffic and referrals between businesses in a network and increased efficiency with lowered cost in launching and managing a promotional campaign

Study of efficacy and adverse effect of fluticasone and formoterol combination in bronchial asthma

Background: Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways associated with airway hyperresponsiveness that leads to recurrent episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness and coughing particularly at night or in the early morning.Methods: This study has recruited 25 newly (male/female) cases of Bronchial Asthma diagnosed on the basis of spirometry in the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Era’s Lucknow Medical College & Hospital (ELMC&H). Patients were received Fluticasone/Formoterol (200/10 μg OD). The drugs were administered through metered-dose inhaler (MDI).Results: The mean forced expiratory volume recorded before treatment 54.92±4.47 in a group who were treated with formoterol/fluticasone combination changed to 75.48±5.03 after the treatment. No significant adverse effect of this regimens was observed.Conclusions: The results of this study revealed this regimen showed a significant improvement in lung functions without any significant adverse event

Crowdsourced Categorization of Environmental Noise Data by Wireless-Communication Devices

Exposure to noise pollution has been shown to contribute to cardiovascular effects in humans, can cause permanent hearing loss, and can interfere with the enjoyment of indoor and outdoor activities. As a result, there is a great need to aggregate and categorize environmental noise data to help the world both understand noise pollution as well as how to alleviate it. This publication describes techniques for wireless-communication devices, such as smartphones, to categorize measured environmental noise data to generate location noise level information. For example, a wireless-communication device can categorize measured environmental noise data into a number of different categories utilizing an on-device machine-learned model to generate location noise level information. The location noise level information can then be utilized to build location area maps of the noise level which can, in turn, be utilized to aid in the global reduction of exposure to noise pollution