Abstract: An office chair including a linking mechanism between a movable chair seat and a pivotable chair back. The mounting arrangement between the chair back and the chair seat includes swing arm assembly that is pivotally connected to the chair seat. When the chair seat moves forward, the swing arm assembly moves with the chair seat and causes the chair back to pivot and move relative to a stationary support arm. The stationary support arm includes a curved support face that moves within a movement slot formed on the swing arm assembly. The movement slot includes a roller that helps guide relative movement between the two components. The chair seat includes a thigh support portion that allows the user to adjust the seat depth as desired.

Abstract: An interior volume of a bridge deck is probed using a transportable sensor system that produces deck data useful for assessing internal degradation of the bridge deck. Geographic position data of sensor system positioning is produced as the sensor system traverses the deck. The deck data is associated with the one or more deck locations using the geographic positioning data, and adjusted deck data is generated using adjustment data indicative of external factors that influence the deck data but are unrelated to a failure mechanism impacting the bridge deck interior. An output may be generated comprising at least the adjusted deck data.

Abstract: The present invention provides a computer-implemented limited right-to-use business method. In response to a command to change the right-to-use status of at least a first component, the right-to-use status of said processor is changed in a direction either from reserved to available or from available to reserved. Then, the power state of the component can be changed as a function of that direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of Collismycin and derivatives thereof as inhibitors of oxidative stress in cells and their use for the preparation of medicaments for the treatment of oxidative stress-induced diseases or conditions, especially neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a cluster system comprises a plurality of cluster nodes for executing a plurality of applications, and a management process for controlling the plurality of cluster nodes, wherein the management process is operable to identify a first application that is not meeting a service level objective (SLO), to select a cluster node that is not currently executing the first application, to progressively decrease routing of transactions to the selected cluster node for a second application, and to progressively increase routing of transactions to the selected cluster node for the first application.

Abstract: The use of a bacterial secondary metabolite, thaxtomin is described as an effective herbicide on broadleaved, sedge and grass weeds, e.g., in rice fields with no phytotoxicity to rice as well as on aquatic based weeds.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of computing containers having processing resources for executing software workloads, a plurality of management processes for controlling access to the processing resources according to workload policy definitions, a data container for storing a plurality of workload policy definitions and associations between the plurality of workload policy definitions and the plurality of computing containers, and a configuration process for communicating workload policy definitions from the data container to the plurality of management processes.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a computing system comprises a plurality of resources, a first manager process for allocating the plurality of resources on a dynamic basis according to service level parameters, and a plurality of computing domains, wherein at least one application, a respective second manager process, and a respective performance monitor process are executed within each computing domain, and wherein the performance monitor generates performance data related to the execution of the at least one application and the second manager process requests additional resources from the first manager process in response to analysis of performance data in view of at least one service level parameter.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of Collismycin and derivatives thereof as inhibitors of oxidative stress in cells and their use for the preparation of medicaments for the treatment and/or prevention of oxidative stress-induced diseases or conditions, especially neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of Collismycin and derivatives thereof as inhibitors of oxidative stress in cells and their use for the preparation of medicaments for the treatment and/or prevention of oxidative stress-induced diseases or conditions, especially neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease.

Abstract: Compounds of general formula (1) wherein R1, R2, R3 are as defined and R4 groups are each independently selected from NR2, O and S; are of use in treatment of cancers.

Abstract: A computer-automated system manages license agreements in a server that is partitioned into multiple partitions including physical partitions and/or virtual partitions operative in separate operating environments executing independent operating system and applications with resources dynamically allocated among the multiple partitions. A licensed software element is executed on the dynamically-allocated resources and charges are assessed based on execution of the licensed software element on the dynamically-allocated resources.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method is disclosed for changing the resource availability of a particular user in a manner calculated to add the least cost to the user. A cluster of partition servers are arranges, in one embodiment, with a master controller for keeping track at any point in time as to the different licensing costs involved with different methods of adding resource capacity. When a user requires additional capacity the system calculates which of several possible resource enhancements to initiate based upon a least cost analysis.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method groups two or more servers in a share group. The method then tracks how many rights to use a particular hardware module type are owned and in use by each of the servers. If a first one of the servers needs to activate an inactive one of the particular hardware module type, but does not own an unused right to use the particular hardware module type, the method then i) requests a second one of the servers to inactivate one of its hardware modules, thereby freeing a right to use the particular hardware module type, and ii) claims the freed right of the second server for use by the first server. Other embodiments are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a computer-implemented limited right-to-use business method. In response to a command to change the right-to-use status of at least a first component, the right-to-use status of said processor is changed in a direction either from reserved to available or from available to reserved. Then, the power state of the component can be changed as a function of that direction.

Abstract: Compounds of general formula (1) wherein R1, R2, R3 are as defined and R4 groups are each independently selected from NR2, O and S; are of use in treatment of cancers.