Abstract: A method for implementing autonomic detection and repair of broken links in Web environments includes receiving a request for additional Web content in a server in response to a link present in an originating Web content held on a host server; determining the present state of the received link; wherein the server performs in response to the received link: returns the requested additional Web content to a user; returns a Web content not found notification to a user; returns a Web content has moved notification with a valid link; wherein the notifications are digitally signed by the server; wherein in response to the returned notifications, the user's browser sends the notifications to the host server; and wherein in response to the reception of the notifications the host server notifies a content manager of the link state, stores the notification in a database, and repairs the link.

Abstract: A fast-steering, deformable mirror system is configured to manipulate a reflective surface in order to control the reflection of electromagnetic radiation off of the reflective surface. The system is configured to steer the reflective surface as a unit, and also to deform the reflective surface. The system is designed to reduce hysteresis in drive signals that control deformation of the reflective surface, to maintain an overall size and/or footprint of conventional fast-steering, non-deformable mirror systems, and/or provide other enhancements.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for the preparation of a silylchromate catalyst comprising the steps of: 1. depositing silylchromate on a support at a deposition temperature of at least 55° C. during a deposition time of less than 6 hours, 2. reducing the supported silylchromate by addition of a reducing agent at a reduction temperature of at least 15° C. during a reduction time of less than 1.5 hours; and 3. drying of the reduced silylchromate at a temperature of at least 25° C. during a drying time of less than 8 hours. The invention also relates to a process for the production of an ethylene homopolymer or an ethylene copolymer in the presence of the silylchromate catalyst obtained with the process according to the invention.

Abstract: A method for processing image data, the image data including a plurality of sub color data corresponding to a plurality of unit pixels in a row direction, wherein each unit pixel includes N sub color data having different colors, wherein N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2, includes; storing one sub color datum of the plurality of the sub color data corresponding to the unit pixels via dividing the plurality of the sub color data one by one into an individual sub color datum corresponding to a single pixel, and reading the stored sub color data, binding up the stored sub color data two by two, and storing two sub color data bound up with each other.

Abstract: A turbine includes a static member, a moveable member fluidly connected to the static member, and a flexible seal. The flexible seal includes a spring component having a base section mounted to one of the static member and the moveable member of the turbine and a plurality of biasing members. Each of the plurality of biasing members includes a first portion extending from the base section and a cantilevered portion. The flexible seal further includes a seal component provided on the cantilevered portion of each of the plurality of biasing members. The seal component is biased into contact with the other of the static member and the moveable member.

Abstract: A method (300) for fault detection in a system under control includes monitoring a command value and a wraparound signal (301) by a fault detection module (203); determining a standard deviation of the command value (302) by the fault detection module; determining a standard deviation of the wraparound signal (303) by the fault detection module; determining a ratio of the standard deviation of the command value to the standard deviation of the wraparound signal (304) by the fault detection module; and determining the presence or absence of a fault in the system under control by the fault detection module based on the ratio (305) by the fault detection module. A fault detection module (203) and a computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium containing computer code that, when executed by a computer, implements a method (300) for fault detection are also provided.

Abstract: A computing system for reducing logging code includes a virtual machine configured to control the flow of operations in the computing system and a compiler configured to receive bytecode instructions from the virtual machine and convert the bytecode instructions into machine instructions. The computing system also includes a compilation store configured to receive and store the machine instructions from the compiler and a recompilation store configured to receive and store recompiled machine instructions from the compiler. The system also includes a software transactional memory engine configured to receive instructions from the compilation store or, in the event that the recompilation store has recompiled machine instructions stored therein, from the recompilation store.

Abstract: A memory device comprising a plurality of tunnel junctions (TJs) includes a bottom wiring layer; a top wiring layer; a plurality of TJs contacting the bottom wiring layer and the top wiring layer; and a plurality of tunnel junction vias (TJVs) contacting the bottom wiring layer and the top wiring layer, wherein the plurality of TJVs each have a lower resistance the each of the plurality of TJs, wherein the plurality of TJVs comprise at least one concave surface, and wherein the at least one concave surface of the plurality of TJVs is configured to trap etched material during formation of the TJVs so as to reduce the resistance of the plurality of TJVs.

Abstract: An array built-in self test (ABIST) system includes a first latch having a first data input, a first scan input and first output and a second latch having a second data input, a second scan input and a second output. The system also includes a first ABIST logic block coupled to the first output that compares a first expected value with a first data value received at the first data input and provided to the first ABIST logic block after a first clock is applied to the first latch. The system also includes a second ABIST logic block coupled to the second output that compares a second expected value with a second data value received at the second data input and provided to the second ABIST logic block after a second clock is applied to the second latch.

Abstract: Virtual machine guest migration overcommit is supported by providing a virtual machine with an unschedulable resource that is not available for system scheduling. The unschedulable resource may, but need not, be provided in the form of a memory buffer, or one or more network resources, or one or more resources that are accessible from a network. The unschedulable resource is utilized in one or more domains to temporarily conceal one or more user environments that do not fit into a set of currently available resources, such that the one or more temporarily concealed user environments are not terminated or paged out.

Abstract: Disclosed is a roofing system including an anchored seam, the system including a roof deck, roof assembly components disposed upwardly adjacent of the roof deck, a first waterproofing membrane disposed upwardly adjacent of the roof assembly components, a second waterproofing membrane, a portion of which being disposed upwardly adjacent of the first waterproofing membrane, the portion of the second waterproofing membrane overlapping a portion of the first waterproofing to create a seam region between the first waterproofing membrane and the second waterproofing membrane, a termination bar including a convexity away from the roof deck disposed upwardly adjacent of the second waterproofing membrane in the seam region, and a mechanical fastener extending through the termination bar, the fastener being long enough to extend from the termination bar, wherein the mechanical fastener and the termination bar anchor the seam region to the roof deck.

Abstract: A method of automatically defining a new class in a class hierarchy includes creating a descendent class that descends from one or more specified ancestor classes; sequentially analyzing each class along each inheritance path from the specified ancestor classes to a specified similar class to identify each class item in each class that is not selected from the specified ancestor classes; storing a respective pointer for each class item identified in each class that is not inherited by the class referencing the class item and associated with the class; storing a respective pointer for each class item identified in each class that is inherited and redefined by the class referencing the class item and being associated with the class if a pointer referencing the class item is not already stored; and copying each class item referenced by a stored pointer to the descendent class.

Abstract: In various embodiments, a structural body of a vehicle comprises: a hollow metal component comprising walls that define a channel, wherein the metal vehicle component has a metal component length, and wherein the metal vehicle component is selected from the group consisting of beam, rail, pillar, chassis, floor rocker, and cross-bar, combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing; and a plastic reinforcement having a honeycomb structure, wherein the plastic reinforcement is located in the channel. The metal component can be a portion of the structural body of the vehicle.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided and includes a load, circuitry coupled to the load for turning the load on and off, a conduit box through which electricity is transmitted to the load to power the load when the load is turned on, the conduit box including a conduit box body formed to define an aperture and a cover, which closes the aperture when the cover is disposed at a predefined position relative to the conduit box body and a system by which the conduit box body and the cover are operably coupled to the circuitry to provide transmission of the electricity through the conduit box when the load is turned on only when the cover is disposed at the predefined position relative to the conduit box body.

Abstract: Encapsulated radio frequency identification (RFID) articles having enhanced break strength and/or temperature resistance and methods of making these articles. The RFID articles include an RFID tag embedded within a thermoplastic substrate to form the RFID article. In one embodiment, the RFID article includes an over-molded barrier material that enables the RFID article to have enhanced temperature resistance such that the articles are able to sustain repeated exposure to high temperatures and/or sterilization procedures, thereby enabling the RFID articles to be utilized in applications heretofore unavailable. In other embodiments, the RFID articles are made using an injection molding process that provides very thin encapsulated RFID tags that also exhibit an increased level of temperature resistance.

Abstract: A magnetic component may include a core including an upper collar, a lower collar, and a spool portion around which a lead wire is wound and external terminals which are directly disposed on the lower collar and to which both ends of the lead wire are connected. The external terminals may include a terminal end fixing portion. The terminal ends of the lead wire may be positioned by the terminal end fixing portions, and may be connected to the external terminals.

Abstract: A computer implemented method of optimizing sequential data fetches in a computer system is provided. The method includes fetching a data segment from a main memory, the data segment having a plurality of target data entries; extracting a first portion of the data segment and storing the first portion into a target data cache, the first portion having a first target data entry; and storing the data segment into an intermediate cache line buffer in communication with the target data cache to enable subsequent fetches to a number of target data entries in the data segment.

Abstract: An optoelectronic device including a first electrode, an active layer disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the active layer, and a self-assembled monolayer interposed between the first electrode and the active layer, interposed between the active layer and the second electrode, or disposed inside the active layer, wherein the self-assembled monolayer includes a first compound and a second compound having different functional groups from each other.

Abstract: An apparatus for estimating a property of an earth formation having: a plurality of receiver antennas to receive nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals from a plurality of angular segments in a region of investigation in response to an interaction between a static magnetic field and pulses of electromagnetic energy; and a processor configured to: receive the NMR signals from each receiver antenna, the NMR signals having first NMR signals received from each angular segment by only one receiver antenna and second NMR signals received from a same angular segment by at least two receiver antennas; associate the first NMR signals and the second NMR signals with the angular segment from which the first NMR signals and the second NMR signals were obtained; deconvolve the second NMR signals to produce deconvolved NMR signals; and estimate the property from the first NMR signals, the deconvolved NMR signals, and the associated angular segments.

Abstract: A power generation system is provided and includes a compressor to increase a pressure of inlet ambient air and a turbine downstream from the compressor having a first stage and additional stages downstream from the first stage, the first stage structurally incorporating a combustor in which the compressed ambient air is mixed with fuel and in which the mixture is combusted to generate high temperature exhaust gas from which mechanical energy is derived in the first and additional stages.