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World Gas Model
Published Thursday, January 7, 2010The World Gas Model, developed at the University of Maryland, offers an in-depth, interactive model of global natural gas markets unmatched in scope and depth of information. Features of the software include- coverage of 95% of worldwide natural gas production- inclusion of 73 production and 75 consumption countries- use of...
Categories: Software + Algorithm
Keyword(s): model, gas, natural gas, energy, market, game theory
Docket: IS-2009-045
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VOLT: Virtual Occupational Language Training
Published Monday, September 18, 2017Currently, there is a need for effective guided immersive learning to supplement a classroom environment, particularly in immersive language learning. Virtual reality (VR) 3D systems offer a flexible and viable solution to this problem.Researchers at the University of Maryland have created VOLT (Virtual Occupational Language Training),...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Education/Training/Multimedia
Keyword(s): virtual reality, language learning
Docket: IS-2017-047
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University of Maryland, School of Dentistry OSCE Exam
Published Thursday, May 29, 2014Objective Structures Clinical Exams (OSCEs) are used in the assessment of health sciences professionals (e.g. orthoptics, optometry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy) to test clinical performance and competence in skills such as communication, clinical examination, medical procedures, prescription writing, radiographic...
Investigator(s): Judith A Porter, Doug Brotherton, Shabrez Ahmed, Karen Faraone, Edward G Grace, Cynthia L Idzik-Starr, Andrea M Morgan, Harlan Shiau
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Education/Training/Multimedia
Keyword(s): dental, clinical, exams
Docket: JP-2012-099
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The Cyclone Timing Technology
Published Monday, July 27, 2009The IEEE 1588 standard defines a protocol for clock synchronization in measurement and control systems communicating by local area networks including but not limited to Ethernet. The protocol enables heterogeneous systems that include clocks of various inherent precision, resolution and stability to synchronize. The IEEE 1588 protocol takes a...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Information Technology
Keyword(s): clock synchronization, IEEE 1588, PTP, Precision time protocol
Docket: IS-2006-096
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Techniques for Implementing a Virtual Patient
Published Thursday, May 29, 2014Medical care delivery is a major industry in the United States. An important component of medical care delivery is a cadre of trained medical care professionals who can diagnose patient conditions and prescribe treatment protocols using cognitive skills. The fewer errors made by this cadre, the better the overall quality of medical care is...
Investigator(s): Bruce Jarrell, Sergei Nirenburg, Joan Marjorie McShane, Stephen Beale
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Education/Training/Multimedia
Keyword(s): training, virtual, patient
Docket: BJ-2006-061
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Techniques for Converting Analog Medical Video to Digital Objects
Published Thursday, May 29, 2014The present invention relates to converting analog medical video data to a digital object that associates descriptive data with the video, and in particular, to forming digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) objects from analog medical video data in a legacy data collection system.
Investigator(s): Paul Nagy
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Healthcare
Keyword(s): medical, video, digital
Docket: PN-2006-047
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System Level Synchronization in Communication Systems
Published Monday, July 27, 2009Cyclone technology, developed by Professor Ashok Agrawala et. al, of the University of Maryland at College Park, is a revolutionary approach based on end-to-end protocols to maximize computer-network performance with high stability and efficiency. Utilizing the concept of temporal operations to carry out an end-to-end resource-time allocation,...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Information Technology
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: IS-2005-064
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Surrogate-Based Prediction Model for Real-Time Tumor Monitoring during Radiotherapy
Published Friday, March 31, 2017To ensure tumor-targeting accuracy over the course of radiation treatment while minimizing the dosimetric impact to healthy tissue, respiratory surrogate models are utilized to monitor tumor position while compensating for tumor motion. These models are developed from a training dataset of concurrent tumor positions and...
Investigator(s): Warren D’Souza PhD
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Healthcare, Methods of Treatment
Keyword(s): radiology; medical imaging; image-guided radiation therapy
Docket: WD-2010-069
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Speaker Independent Speech Inversion System
Published Thursday, October 17, 2019BackgroundSpeech inversion is the process of mapping acoustic signals into articulatory parameters. This is a well-known ill-posed problem and the addition of individual speaker differences make it even harder to solve. Normalizing the speaker differences is essential to effectively using multi-speaker articulatory data for training a...
Categories: Software + Algorithm
Docket: IS-2019-031
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SoundsRight CAPTCHA
Published Wednesday, July 31, 2019Executive SummaryAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 61 million adult Americans live with a disability. Of those people, 4.6 percent (approximately 2.8 million) people are visually disabled. These vision impairments, including blindness, lead to difficulty when using computers. One common difficulty is the...
Categories: Software + Algorithm
Keyword(s): CAPTCHA, accessibility
Docket: IS-2019-074