Abstract: A method of joining a first device and a second device with a network, the method comprising: joining a first device with the network and subsequently joining a second device with the network, where a priority level for joining with the network associated with the first device is higher than the priority level for joining with the network associated with the second device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for the optical control of qubits and other quantum particles with spatial light modulators (SLM) for quantum computing and quantum simulation are disclosed herein. The system may include a particle system configured to provide an ordered array comprising a multiplicity of quantum particles or a multiplicity of qubits, an optical source, a SLM configured to project a structured illumination pattern capable of individually addressing one or more quantum particles or qubits of the ordered array, and a SLM controller.

Abstract: Systems and methods for the optical control of qubits and other quantum particles with spatial light modulators (SLM) for quantum computing and quantum simulation are disclosed herein. The system may include a particle system configured to provide an ordered array comprising a multiplicity of quantum particles or a multiplicity of qubits, an optical source, a SLM configured to project a structured illumination pattern capable of individually addressing one or more quantum particles or qubits of the ordered array, and a SLM controller.

Abstract: An ultra-wideband antenna is provided. The antenna includes a cone shaped ground element and a radiating element. The cone shaped ground element has a first vertex region and an aperture formed through the first vertex region. The cone shaped ground element is configured to form an electrical ground. The radiating element includes a cone shaped radiator and a spherical shaped radiator. The cone shaped radiator has a second vertex region that is electrically connectable to a feed element mounted through the aperture of the cone shaped ground element. The spherical shaped radiator is mounted to the cone shaped radiator opposite the second vertex region.

Abstract: The handhold of an exercise handgrip turns freely while seated between the open ends of the upwardly extending prongs. It can be easily removed by moving the specially formed end part of the handhold into an access opening wide enough to slip the end part through. In positioning the handhold's end part for this removal, it must be forcibly snapped through a narrow opening. By reversing the procedure, the handhold can easily be returned to its place of rotation. The specially formed end part of the handhold must, therefore, have a narrow neck-like portion to fit through the narrow opening but the end part must also be enlarged to keep it in place for rotation. Preferably, there is also a stem and ball unit in one of the prongs which swings into place to trap exercise sheeting, cord or other media within an opening at the handgrip's bottom portion.

Abstract: The equipment is considered in paired aspect, one construction for each of the exerciser's hands. In one arrangement, a strapping loop for each is respectively run through both of two tunneled components—a handhold and tethering anchor. To use it, the anchor is positioned on the opposing side at the top of a closed door so as to become trapped in place against the door and its frame. The exerciser grabs the handhold and performs chin-ups or other body suspension exercises by pulling upward along the door's face. A hand bracing assembly is optionally included to cushion the hands from excessive pressure against the door. If desired, the operator may also temporarily adapt the assembly to pull-type exercises.

Abstract: The operator exercises by gripping a palm bar in each hand. Each end of a static or non-stretchable line or cord is run through a tunnel within a respective palm bar and secured therein, usually with a knot. A pivoting impinger is installed within the palm bar so that its head swings into the bottom of the tunnel against the static line to keep it from slipping out of place. Each end of a different cord, a stretchable one, is anchored within the ends of the palm bar with its mid-portion, usually padded, arranged to snugly encircle the back of the operator's respective hand for support. The mid-portion of the static line runs through a pulley system which has an impingement strap connected to it for anchoring to a wall or door in any one of several ways.

Abstract: Three types of exercise grips provide for pivot-anchoring of an impinging body within them so that the impinger heads engage stretchable or non-stretchable exercise media extending upward through their tunnels. The first is a handgrip, the second, an exercise spool used in the manner of cross-country skiing or vigorous walking and the third, an ankle crescent-shaped grip for lateral repetition exercises of the legs. An impinger is caused to swing down to press against exercise media emerging from the grip's tunnel to provide a reliable of connection. Proper anchoring of the impinger within the grip assures its continuing presence to make adjustments and avoids its loss or misplacement. The handgrip permits of anchoring either within the body's interior or at its exterior, in which case, the impinger stem is caused to extend through a window cut therein.

Abstract: The invention is a process for the purification of ethanol. In one embodiment the process comprises boiling a degassed beer feed (106) in a pre-boiler (110) to provide a vapor by-pass fraction (112) that by-passes the conventional beer column and is fed into the rectifier column (124). The process allows free capacity in the rectifier column of new or established plants to be filled by ethanol-water vapor and/or condensate streams that do not originate from the beer column.

Abstract: A handgrip is modified to have a tethering window cut through one of its upright prongs so that the stem of an impinger can be extended through it to anchor the impinger at the outside portion of the handgrip. Anchoring is accomplished either by the extension of the impinger's tether pegs into sockets or apertures or by trapping the tether within a channel formed there. Once anchored, the impinger's head is positioned within the handgrip's cord tunnel where it becomes forced against stretchable or non-stretchable exercise media including stretchable exercise sheet.

Abstract: A portable Static Electro Magnetic Field (SEMF) generating device and method for the therapeutic treatment of inflammatory and painful disorders of the human limbs including fingers, hands, wrists, forearms, elbows, toes, feet and ankles preferably includes a wearable, portable battery powered solenoid or coil. The coil is configured to focus a substantially time invariant magnetic flux field onto a selected part of the body. The SEMF generating device's coil, when energized, works by slightly changing the charges associated with voltage-dependant ion channels in the cell membranes of the human body, thereby stabilizing abnormal fluid transport into the cells through aquaporin channels and the sodium ions relating to them, treating inflammation and altering the flow of calcium, chloride and potassium ions through their respective neuronal ion channels and treating pain.

Abstract: An exercise bar cord impingement assembly permits exercise in two modes, defined in terms of how cord anchoring is arranged. There is a tunnel or, alternatively, a nest at each end of the bar where snug connection—a direct one—with a conventionally stoppered cord end is made. Handgrips may be employed with the assembly instead, in which case, each cord end is impinged not within the bar's body but within the grips—an indirect connection. A tunnel may have shared emplacement wells within it, preferably situated concentrically, one for the impinged cord, the other for an emplaced handgrip connection block. A handgrip's connecting block may be shaped in any of several ways for rotational positioning advantages. Cord emplacement slots are preferably present in both the bar and the block. In models having nests instead of tunnels, a cord emplacement channel is necessarily provided to get the impinged cord seated into place.

Abstract: An exercise bar and cord assembly having a cavity or nest at each end of the bar for connection with a snugly fitting cord emplacement block. The exercise cord, stoppered with a plug in conventional manner, is connected to the block, extending through a tunnel within it. The block may be shaped in any of several ways and a strapped handgrip connection block will serve the purpose. Emplacement channels or slots are optionally present in both the bar and the block. If the block has an axially symmetrical neck, it may be rotated so that the channels are misaligned for improved cord retention. Two modes of exercise are defined in terms of the cord's anchoring means—that is, whether its ends or a mid-portion of it.

Abstract: A pair of cam-buckles properly disposed in a back-to-back manner may be slid along an anchoring strap passed through it and yet reliably kept in place to accommodate loads depending from it regardless of the direction the load is tethered from without danger of slippage along the strap. While this arrangement may be used in a general way for various tasks, it has particularly beneficial application for tethered physical exercise activities. With it, the anchoring strap may be vertically secured around a door and the paired buckles may be moved to any point-high or low-upon the strap, thereby providing variation in tethering direction.

Abstract: An anchor block having within it one or more tunnels through which exercise cords are run and an equal number of slots connected to the tunnels, each slot extending from either the face or the backside of the block. In certain cases, some of the slots may extend from the face while others do so from the backside. In other cases, to enhance strength, all of the slots extend solely from the face or from the backside. This slotted arrangement is useful for a solid handgrip, strapped handgrip assembly, ankle exercise cuff assembly or anchoring door impingement assembly so that stoppered elastic exercise cords may be quickly and easily interchanged. The slot may be shaped in any of several ways including straight, zig-zag or curved.

Abstract: An intermediate section is inserted into the mid-portion of an exercise bar's body to increase its effectual length. The section is locked in place at each end thereof by the protrusion of a separation release button in one of the connecting members through a button opening in the member it is joined to. The button is retained in place either by a grasshopper leg spring supported upon a spring seat or a plastic memory resilient integral finger as snap-fit connection means.

Abstract: An elastic exercising wand which can be squeezed, bent, twisted or pulled to benefit certain muscles; and having an elastic band snugly encircling its length under which the exercising operator may repetitively flex the hand or fingers in expansion exercises against its elastic resistance. A tension adjusting ring and attached anchoring hook are optionally present to control the band's resistance and provide tethering means, respectively.

Abstract: A strapped exercise assembly comprising an impinger which seats in a channel nest, part of a channel within a connection bar so that the operator can quickly adjust the length of an elastic cord, strap or sheet used for the exercise or substitute one such member for another. The impinger is shaped to fit snugly within the channel to hold the elastic cord or other member in place. The connection bar has two strap channels to form the hand held part of the handgrip but no securing channels for the cord or other elastic member, simplifying the structure from that of another assembly which otherwise has many similar features.

Abstract: The invention provides Defl polypeptides and DNA (RNA) encoding Defl polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques. Also provided are methods for utilizing Defl polypeptides to screen for antibacterial compounds.

Abstract: A wheel and axle exercising assembly with which the operator is positioned horizontally, either face up or face down and moves the assembly forward and backward either feet first, having the feet at the assembly, by thrusting the legs forward and then retracting them; or hands first, having the hands at the assembly, by thrusting the arms forward and then retracting them. Adjustment means are present to position the foot emplacement assemblies either closer to or farther from the wheel.