University of Cincinnati's Software Available for Licensing

108060 - Arlitt Instructional Media

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The University of Cincinnati's Arlitt Center has collaborated with Tom Purdy to create educational videos for the best practices in early childhood care and education.

The current titles in the series are:

Mathematics in Early Childhood Education
Science in Early Childhood Education
Social Studies in Early Childhood Education
Language Arts in Early Childhood Education

109017 - Mobilap: The Mobile Academic Platform

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This software consists of a database backend system that catalogs and manages sessions for a conference. It includes interfaces for managing conference schedules, attendees and sessions. Sessions can have additional information including presentors, links, response questions and discussion. The frontend piece is written in the PHP and includes code to connect to a MySQL database system (not included).
System Requirements:

A HTTP web server. (only tested with Apache)
PHP 5.x
Access to a MySQL 5.x Database

094045 - UC SDRL Research Software

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

UC-SDRL Research Software currently includes the X-Modal II modal parameter estimation package, the MRIT-VXI and MIMO-VXI data acquisition package and the X-Utilities Library.

X-Modal II
X-Modal II is an experimental modal analysis software package developed at the University of Cincinnati, Structural Dynamics Research Lab (UC-SDRL) in conjunction with The Boeing Company. The primary function of this software package is to provide a flexible environment for analyzing data acquired for the purpose of experimentally determining the modal parameters of a structure. The flexible environment involves a unique data management structure as well as a user programming capability based upon MATLAB®. X-Modal II does not acquire frequency response function (FRF) data (see a related software project, X-ACQuisition, under the UC-SDRL Consortium) but utilizes FRF data acquired from any data acquisition system as long as the data can be provided in Universal File format (UFF). X-Modal II provides a graphical user interface (GUI) in parallel with a command driven interface to provide users with any type of programmatic interaction desired. X-Modal utilizes MATLAB® to provide user programmability as well as to implement all the major modal parameter estimation algorithms documented in the literature.

104041 - Management of the Newborn Experience

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The University of Cincinnati, lead by Ms. Barbara Gilman RN, MSN, Ms. Shirley J. Adams, RN, MSN, Ms. Elizabeth E. Weiner RN, PhD, and Jeffery Q. Adams, MSCE, has developed a two hour interactive comprehensive program for educating nurses about the newborn experience.

The program is divided into four different modules, with a number of different sections:

Immediate Care of the Newborn
1. APGAR
2. Check for Anomalies
General Assessment: Appearance, Vital Signs & Measurements
1. Determine Heart Rate
2. Cord Care
Complete Assessment: Skin, Head, Chest & Abdomen
1. Identification of Fontanels
2. Abdominal Palpation
Complete Assessment: Genitalia, Extemities, Reflexes and Gestational Age
1. A circumcision
2. Ballard chart

108104 - Drug/Food Self-Administration v.2.23

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

This software and accompanying bioassay measure the pharmacodynamic (“PD”) and pharmacokinetics (“PK”) properties of a psychotropic compounds. Three properties of the compound can be measured: bioavailability, potency, and half-life. The compound’s potential for abuse/addiction can also be quantified.

Conventional analytical methods for measuring PD and PK properties are time-consuming and cumbersome. In order to measure these properties by conventional means, blood must be sampled numerous times and then later analyzed by chemists using expensive machines and complex techniques. Using conventional methods screening large numbers of compounds is expensive—approximately $100k-$500k per compound.

Conversely the bioassay and accompanying software drug compounds can be quickly, more precisely and cost-effectively analyzed. Using this system, researchers can identify compounds with the longest half-life, the greatest bioavailabilty, those that cross the blood-brain barrier, and those that are the least likely to be habit-forming. The cost of testing a single compound using this bioassay is estimated at $10k-$50k per compound.

This system relies on the pharmacological theory that competitive antagonists increase the concentration of agonist required to produce a response. The response used in this method is the satiety threshold. Increases in the satiety threshold reflect the PD potency of the antagonist in vivo. The time course of the effect reflects the antagonist PK. And the area under the time-concentration curve (AUC) following different routes of administration (e.g., i.v., subcutaneous, or intraperitoneal) measures the bioavailability of antagonists.

For the bioassay, rats are trained to self-administer indirect or direct agonists such as cocaine apomorphine. Once a baseline satiety threshold is established the rats are given doses of the compound to be evaluated. Changes in the frequency of the rats’ self-administration and satiety threshold are measured and from the changes the PK and PD of the compound are be calculated.

The sensitivity of this system is approximately 50-100 fold greater than conventional methods. Conventional methods have a typical limit of detection (LOD) of GC/MS is 1,540 nmol/kg i.v. dose, assuming a volume of distribution of 10 L/kg. This system works optimally at 20 nmol/kg i.v. dose.

Software Requirements:
MS Windows XP
MS Access
MED-PC (Software for testing and collecting data from medical devices)
MPC2XL (For transferring the contents of MED-PC® data files to Excel spreadsheets, Access databases, etc.
Sigma plot (Graphing software)

101002 - State Based Propositional Satisfiability Solver

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

In many computer related fields, such as the design of Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits, computer programs are used to solve crucial problems such as determining whether a given circuit design meets precise specifications. Since the magnitude of such problems is increasing at an enormous rate, current software is rapidly becoming incapable of meeting industrial needs. More alarming, future software will be inadequate without breakthroughs in the design of algorithms for certain computationally intensive problems.
One of those problems, called CSP, is to determine whether some set of input values to a collection of Boolean functions will cause those functions to evaluate to a particular given set of output values. Current methods for solving such problems are either based on Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) or search-based Solvers (SAT). Both methods have advantages and drawbacks. BDDs can be combined easily and eliminate duplicate and redundant substructures but must be completely constructed before results can be obtained and their ultimate size may be impractical to achieve. SAT search structures may be much smaller than BDD structures and only need to be partially built in many cases but the building process is much slower, typically, than for BDDs.
The subject matter of the proposed patent is a methodology for solving CSP problems using a combination of BDD and SAT techniques. The methodology constructs a state-based structure, obtained by considering every BDD for every Boolean function, assigns values to the states of the structure during an extensive precomputation phase, and uses this information to guide a SAT search.
The key benefit of the discovery is to retain the advantages of SAT search techniques but drastically speed up and make more effective the building process.
Advantages
1. Some problems, currently requiring days or weeks to solve using conventional methods, will be solved in a reasonable amount of time using the discovery. This will allow faster turn-around in the design and verification of integrated circuits. The result is a reduction in design costs.
2. An emerging class of problems which admits amortization of pre-processing costs over many runs with different input will be effectively solved by the new methodology.

107025 - Interactive Slide Show-Text Wiki

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Software includes a text wiki. The wiki allows students to simultaneously edit documents in group activities. It includes:

on and offline editing using shared objects

password system that can be set by the instructor using an excel spreadsheet

text-chat communication

people list

optional audio communication package
Runs using the Flash communications server
Runs on Windows, Mac or Linux
Text wiki can also work in a lobby-multiroom programming environment

109010 - Professional Assessment and Learning Database

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The University of Cincinnati Division of Professional Practice has developed a computer program and associated database to track and evaluate students’ experience during their cooperative education. The University of Cincinnati introduced the first program of cooperative education in 1906. Initiated by Dean Herman Schneider in UC’s College of Engineering, cooperative education was a new teaching methodology, which has withstood the test of time.

UC’s evaluation system relies on: a) the faculty evaluating the students; b) the employers evaluating the students; and c) the students evaluating employers and the employment opportunity The computer program is web-enabled so that the students, employers and faculty can access it from anywhere. The computer program has three separate interfaces which allow for easy access to the students, faculty and employers, while also limiting what information each user can review – the student interface, the employer interface, and the faculty interface.

The Student Interface
Here the students enter registration, placement and job evaluation data. This interface allows students to view both their personal evaluations of employers and positions as well as their complete evaluation history of employer assessment data on performance.

The Employer Interface
The Employer Interface has two sections, one for the student's supervisor and one for the human resources officer responsible for the cooperative education program at the company. The faculty advisor and the co-op student both have access to the evaluation submitted by the company supervisor. The human resources officer has access to the placement history of all students working in their company and can review individual reports submitted by their supervisors and add additional comments.

The Faculty Interface
The Faculty Interface allows faculty advisors to both review individual student evaluations. At present development is underway to improve the interface to achieve aggregated reports of student performance. This feature will enable co-op faculty and/or other faculty to review aggregated student learning reports. Many of these reports are currently being customized by hand to provide faculty members answers to questions posed regarding student learning outcomes.

107094 - MedOneStop

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The University of Cincinnati's College of Medicine has developed a computer system to centralize the needs of a modern college of medicine. The package has different modules including Admissions, Financial Aid, Student Support and Administrative Support.

087018 - Item Number 96 - Body Balance Tester

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Body Balance Software (BBS) is written in ASYST language to allow collection of electrical signals from the force platform and storage in a Zenith AT hard-disk, mass storage computer during a postural sway test. The BBS is a menu-driven, user-friendly and interactive software which also facilitates quick and accurate force platform computer calibration once a manual and lengthy calibration has been performed by the operator. After the data are collected and stored in the computer, the BBS allows the operator to choose any segment of the data for future processing. The remaining segments of the software utilizes special mathematical equations derived in Dr. Bhattacharya's latest paper for the quantification and graphical representation of center of pressure movement pattern of the test subject during a postural sway test (Bhattacharya, et al., 1987).

106013 - Software for the Resolution of Sequence Information from Affymetrix Gene Chip

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

What the invention does is to confer the ability to read sequence data from Affymetrix custom or standard re-sequencing chips. It increases the efficiency from about 95% efficiency up to above 99% efficiency, so this software and this algorithm represents a method to have much higher confidence and more useful data than could be generated from these single chip assays to be used for individual patient analysis. The algorithm represents a very valuable advancement to the use of the sequencing chips, and therefore, constitutes an important invention for improved use of this technology. The ability to use these chips in a clinical situation is thus greatly improved by the use of this new algorithm that we have developed in the Division of Biomedical Informatics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. The new algorithm and program can work itself or it can be incorporated into the existing Affymetrix software.

100054 - Travel Time Prediction System (TIPS)

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Travel Time Prediction System consisting of several hardware components and the TIPS software, is a portable automated system for predicting and displaying travel time for motorists in advance of and through freeway work zones, on a real-time basis. Several vehicle sensors are placed at selected locations along the freeway for monitoring real-time traffic flow conditions. Each sensor is interfaced with a radio for transmitting the traffic data at 30-sec intervals to a remote personal computer. The TIPS software processes the data, estimates travel times between different points on the freeway, and transmits the information to changeable message signs (CMSs) that are placed at selected locations along the freeway. TIPS also allows the user to display specific messages such as "Accident Ahead" so that motorists can be quickly informed of any unexpected or abnormal conditions on the freeway.

102031 - OS and User Environments

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An operating system for user-created environments enables computer users to easily manage all available content and information resources. In addition, the system provides users with the ability to create intuitive interfaces which integrate with the same resources. The new system provides users the means to effectively address the common problems of information overload due to universal information content resources such as the Web and other large and loosely-structured databases. A major advantage of the system is the incorporation and application of relevancy- ranking algorithms in visualizations and data views. Another advantage is the incorporation and application of user profiles, including semantics and user access patterns. Sophisticated logic is applied to such user profiles to enhance user environment-workspaces for information retrieval, including, for example, guided or focused search processes, user enabled, hierarchical content storage and caching, and facilitated uncovering of new and useful information resources. Automatic machine learning and personally selected strategies are used to improve and scale the system over time. Another advantage is the facilitation of integrated collaborative tools, sharing among environments, and the development of distributed operating systems for larger-scale information systems.

101038 - Point of Care Testing Training Program

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Point of Care Testing programs require a substantial amount of record keeping in order to comply with regulatory agency requirements. Practitioners need to demonstrate familiarity with the program, competency and proficiency. They must also have access to related information for Continuing Education. A key feature of our program is a custom web-based educational and delivery methodology designed to facilitate program use and compliance adherence by health care providers. The program is useful to other healthcare organizations needing to institute similar programs. Each user can access his/her respective requirements on line, receive instruction or education and document participatory activity.
Specifically, our software application provides a real time access to the following:

Program Orientation
Training/Retraining Certification
Testing For Competency
Proficiency Testing
Protocol Description
Quality Control Forms
Records Maintenance

A compelling argument to use this software program is to enable the user to achieve greater efficiency and reduce crosstraining cost.
The on-line program addresses a simple mechanism of information distribution and availability. Additionally, the program is flexible enough to expand and incorporate new developments including up-to-date methodologies for interactive learning.

097020 - Kinelysis for Windows

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Kinelysis for Windows is a cross platform program for analyzing Kinetic force platform data to calculate the center of pressure and related parameters. The software can accept the forces and moments data from a number of commercial and noncommercial systems' files to process the data. These include (i) Peak Performance System's Analysis Sampling Module (copyright Peak Performance, Inc., Englewood, CO.), Sway Win Program (copyright AMTI, Watertown, MA), and Posture (copyright University of Cincinnati).
The program offers a broad variety of options including the choice of force plates, type of experiments (gait or static balance), and many other related options. The variables to be calculated and the output format can be interactively determined. The program also offers plotting and printing of the parameters. Sway area and sway length, critical to determination of postural stability, are calculated based on the publications by Dr. A. Bhattacharya, Director, Biomechanics-Ergonomics Research Laboratory, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati.

090044 - CUFS - Computerized Term Contract Buying

pinskig@uc.edu (Geoffrey Pinski) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The best buying tool available for any large comprehensive institution is the Annual Term Contract. In return for the pooled buying power for a commodity or service, the bidding vendors promise a fixed price and discount to the institution, most often for the entire year. Purchase discounts average thirty percent. As important as fixed prices are in an inflationary economy, and volume discounts are in any economy, convenience is the value added with these computerized programs of term contract buying .

They limit contact with Central Purchasing Buyers to those non-repetitive needs that cannot be predicted.
They require vendors to carry stock for all users - thereby reducing internal inventories.
They assist in standardization of products.
They abolish about half the purchase orders that would otherwise be necessary.
They assist user department with budgeting supply funds for the year.
They abolish individual bidding requisitions and purchase lead-time delays.
They permit an authorized user (operating department) to issue their own release order in a matter of seconds.

108011 - Marrow Manager