Abstract: A method of allocating resources to cells of a cellular communication system comprising the steps of determining a load in at least one of the cells; selecting a resource reuse pattern from a set of resource reuse patterns based on the determined load; allocating resources in accordance with the selected resource reuse pattern.

Abstract: A device for gripping a load structure includes a first jaw member having a proximate end and a distal end, a second jaw member slidably mounted to the first jaw member and having a proximate end and a distal end. Each of the two jaw members is provided with a gripper. The device further includes a fulcrum member mounted to the first jaw member near the proximate end thereof and a flexible element secured to the second jaw member near the distal end thereof operatively coupled to the fulcrum member for causing an externally applied pulling force on the flexible element to move the distal end of the first jaw member towards the distal end of the second jaw member so as to yield a first inward force between the first and second grippers.

Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment, a semiconductor structure including: a SOI substrate having of a top silicon layer overlying an insulation layer, the insulation layer overlies a bottom silicon layer; a capacitor disposed at least partially in the insulation layer; a device disposed at least partially on the top silicon layer, where the device is coupled to a doped portion of the top silicon layer; a backside strap of first epitaxially-deposited material, at least a first portion of the backside strap underlies the doped portion of the top silicon layer, the backside strap is coupled to the doped portion of the top silicon layer at a first end of the backside strap and to the capacitor at a second end of the backside strap; and second epitaxially-deposited material that at least partially overlies the doped portion of the top silicon layer, the second epitaxially-deposited material further at least partially overlies the first portion.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of providing an apparatus, the apparatus including: a loudspeaker configured to convert an electrical input signal into an acoustic output signal; and carbon nanohorn material wherein the carbon nanohorn material is positioned so as to be exposed to the acoustic output signal.

Abstract: Providing access for a mobile node to a communication network comprising multiple access networks operating according to different access technologies, wherein said communication network is configured to communicate by means of different access technologies with said mobile node, comprising, upon an access request of the mobile node at a first access network, preparing the access networks, other than the first one, for providing access for the mobile node in case of a handover of the mobile node to one of these other access networks.

Abstract: An apparatus for the selective release of a bound species based on the presence of an analyte, the apparatus comprising: a first and second receptor species, the first receptor species linked with a bound species and configured to interact with an analyte to form a first intermediate complex, the bound species for causing increased porosity of a membrane of an in-contact analyte sensor apparatus to correspondingly increase exposure of a sensing element of the analyte sensor apparatus to allow for production of a detectable electrical signal which can be used to sense the presence of the analyte, the second receptor species for interacting with the first intermediate complex to form a second intermediate complex; and a cleaving species, the cleaving species configured to interact with the second intermediate complex to release the bound species for use in sensing the presence of the analyte.

Abstract: A method for evaluating a manufacturing process is described. The method includes generating an optical pump beam pulse and directing the optical pump beam pulse to a surface of a sample. A probe pulse is generated and directed the probe pulse to the surface of the sample. A probe pulse response signal is detected. A change in the probe pulse varying in response to the acoustic signal forms the probe pulse response signal. An evaluation of one or more manufacturing process steps used to create the sample is made based upon the probe pulse response signal. Additionally the method may be used for process control of a CMP process. Apparatus are also described.

Abstract: At least some exemplary embodiments of the invention enable a node to transmit synchronization information to other near-by nodes in a cognitive radio network during a transmission period. In one exemplary embodiment, an internal clock is compared to received synchronization information, a length of a next transmission period is set as a function of the comparing, and synchronization information is transmitted only once during the next transmission period.

Abstract: A method is provided to fabricate a semiconductor device, where the method includes providing a substrate comprised of crystalline silicon; implanting a ground plane in the crystalline silicon so as to be adjacent to a surface of the substrate, the ground plane being implanted to exhibit a desired super-steep retrograde well (SSRW) implant doping profile; annealing implant damage using a substantially diffusionless thermal annealing to maintain the desired super-steep retrograde well implant doping profile in the crystalline silicon and, prior to performing a shallow trench isolation process, depositing a silicon cap layer over the surface of the substrate. The substrate may be a bulk Si substrate or a Si-on-insulator substrate. The method accommodates the use of an oxynitride gate stack structure or a high dielectric constant oxide/metal (high-K/metal) gate stack structure.

Abstract: An electrical ground connector including a first frame member, a second frame member and a spring. The first frame member has a section with a general hook shape. The general hook shaped section forms a first conductor receiving area adapted to receive a first conductor. The second frame member is slidably connected to the first frame member. The spring biases the second frame member towards the general hook shaped section of the first frame member. The first and/or second frame members form at least one second conductor receiving area adapted to receive a second conductor and locate the second conductor directly against the first conductor in the first conductor receiving area.

Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new apparatus and method for designing and using display devices with integrated backlight layer structure utilizing separate color diffractive out-coupling (e.g., diffraction out-coupling). A lower substrate of the display can be used to integrate the backlight component (or the backlight layer structure), thus enabling a thin module with the integrated backlighting.

Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: providing a structure having a first layer overlying a substrate, where the first layer includes a dielectric material having a plurality of pores; applying a filling material to an exposed surface of the first layer; heating the structure to a first temperature to enable the filling material to homogeneously fill the plurality of pores; after filling the plurality of pores, performing at least one process on the structure; and after performing the at least one process, removing the filling material from the plurality of pores by heating the structure to a second temperature to decompose the filling material.

Abstract: A method as well as a system, a device, an encoding apparatus, a decoding apparatus, a module and a computer software product for image processing is disclosed. The image comprises a pixel matrix, in which the pixels comprise a first number of bits. The pixel matrix is divided to two or more blocks of pixels. The pixels are processed on a block-by-block basis to form encoded pixel values including a certain second number of bits. Bit strings are formed on the basis of the encoded pixels. When decoding the image the bit strings are examined to find out the encoding method used in encoding the pixel, and decoding is performed on a block-by-block basis to retrieve pixel values of the image.

Abstract: A battery cell including: an anode configured to operate as a source of cations during discharge of the battery cell; and an electrolyte configured to transport the cations from the anode to the a cathode during discharge of the battery cell, wherein the cathode includes material that is configured to enable the reversible insertion of transported cations during discharge of the battery cell and that has optical properties that are dependent upon cation insertion and that is viewable by a user.

Abstract: M physical resource blocks PRBs are allocated for localized resource allocation LRA and N?M PRBs are allocated for distributed resource allocation DRA. Each PRB has U subcarriers. Subcarriers of the N PRBs are permuted to result in N subchannels. Serially for each mth one of the M PRBs allocated for LRA, the subcarriers for an mth one of the M PRBs allocated for LRA are punctured from the permuted subchannels. After puncturing, subcarriers of one of the subchannels are filled with subcarriers of all other subchannels which were punctured in the mth one of the M PRBs. The result after puncturing and filling for all M PRBs allocated for LRA is N?M PRBs each having U subcarriers and M PRBs each having U subcarriers. Then there is a wireless communication using at least one of a LRA on the resulting M PRBs or a DRA on the resulting N?M PRBs.

Abstract: A method and a system opens a network connection using solicitation triggers. A terminal device that is connecting to a communication network sends a network connection request to a mobile network communication device and forms a connection between the terminal device and the mobile network communication device. The terminal device sends a network initialization signal in order to connect to the desired network. The mobile network communication device uses a pre-configured network connection for forwarding the network initialization signal to the desired network. The desired network will respond by returning necessary network information that is forwarded to the terminal device.

Abstract: An optical-acoustic transducer structure includes at least one metal or semiconducting film in which a part of a pump light pulse is absorbed to generate a sound pulse; and at least one dielectric film. The thicknesses and optical properties of the at least one metal or semiconducting film and the at least one dielectric film are selected so that a returning sound pulse results in a measurable change in the optical reflectivity and/or some other optical characteristic of the transducer structure. The transducer structure includes a resonant cavity, and an output surface that is shaped so as to provide no significant focusing of generated sound waves when the sound waves are launched towards a surface of the sample.

Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, apparatus comprising a waveguide and a spectral dispersion element, the apparatus being configured to be moveably attachable to a portable device, the portable device comprising a radiation sensing element and a radiation source, the apparatus being configured to be moveably attachable to the portable device to provide a first configuration in which the waveguide is positioned to transmit radiation from the radiation source towards an analyte region and/or from the analyte region towards the dispersion element; and such that the dispersion element is positioned to disperse radiation from the analyte region to form a spectrum which is provided towards the radiation sensing element for spectral analysis, and a second configuration in which the radiation sensing element and radiation source are able to capture and illuminate a scene for image capture.

Abstract: Apparatus, computer program products and methods operate an electronic device to determine an operating mode of a controlled electronic device operating in the wireless communications network; to generate a control signal in dependence on the operating mode of the controlled electronic device; to configure the control signal in a pre-determined manner in dependence on the operating mode of the controlled electronic device, wherein the pre-determined manner is known to both the electronic device and to the controlled electronic device; and to operate the radio apparatus to transmit the control signal to the controlled electronic device.

Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for configuring access to a memory device are disclosed. The configuration of the memory device may be carried out by creating a plurality of access profiles that are adapted to optimize access to the memory device in accordance with the type of access. Accordingly, when an application with specific memory access needs is initiated, the memory access profile that is most optimized for that particular access need is utilized to configure access to the memory device. The configuration may be effected for a portion of the memory device, a partition of the memory device, or even one single access location on the memory device.