Abstract: A superconducting article and method of fabrication are provided. The superconducting article includes a superconducting structure, which includes a superconducting conductor and multiple discrete overlay regions of higher heat capacity than the superconducting conductor. The multiple discrete overlay regions are disposed along a length of the superconducting conductor, in thermal contact with the superconducting conductor, and positioned to define a heat modulation pattern along the length of the superconducting structure. The multiple discrete overlay regions create a temperature distribution favorable to transition of the superconducting structure under load from a normal resistive state to a superconductive state by facilitating formation of a continuous superconducting path along the length of the superconducting structure.

Abstract: Connector for medical use comprising: a body joined to a line or adapted to be connected at one of its ends to a tubing in which a fluid flows, and a male luer lock connection comprising a base mounted rotatingly on the body and cooperating by friction with it, without any possible translational movement. The base is joined to a hollow tubular body, having a threaded inner surface and a male central luer cone. The outer surface of the body and the inner surface of the base of the connection, cooperating by friction, have a spherical then cylindrical shape.

Abstract: Method for early differential diagnosis and detection, prognosis and assessment of the severity and therapy-accompanying assessment of the course of sepsis and sepsis-like systemic infections, in which, preferably with determination of at least one further parameter suitable for sepsis diagnosis, the amount of CA 19-9 in a biological fluid of a patient who is suffering from sepsis or is suspected of having sepsis is determined and conclusions are drawn from the determined amount of CA 19-9 with regard to the presence, the expected course, the severity and/or the success of initiated measures for the treatment of the sepsis.

Abstract: A service element is defined and represented by a data structure. It includes one or more components and/or one or more other service elements. A service element providing a complete function is a service offering. Management of service elements and/or service offerings is facilitated by a Service Development Tool. In different aspects, the management includes various tasks associated with creating, modifying and deleting service elements, establishing relationships, error checking and optimization. In a further aspect, service elements are packaged and distributed to enable customers to deliver the service elements. Additionally, the hosting of software packages is facilitated.

Abstract: A method for recovery in a two-node data processing system is provided wherein each node is a primary server for a first nonvolatile storage device and for which there is provided shared access to a second nonvolatile storage device for which the other node is a primary server and wherein each node also includes a direct connection to the shared nonvolatile storage device for which the other node is the primary server. Upon notification of failure, the method operates by first confirming continued access by each node to the nonvolatile storage device for which it is the primary server and then by attempting to access the shared nonvolatile storage device via the direct connection and by waiting for a time sufficient for the same process to be carried out by the other node. If access to the shared nonvolatile storage device is successful, the node takes control of both nonvolatile storage devices. If the access is not successful a comparison of node numbers is carried out to decide the issue of control.

Abstract: State information is shared across domains. The state information is placed in one or more cookies that are shared across disjoint domains. An intermediary application is used, as one example, to enable the sharing of the state information (e.g., the cookies) across the different domains. The intermediary application is used to add state information to requests received from a client and to responses going to the client. Further, an intermediary application is used to cause a client to save state information for any range of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), and to cause the client to send any previously stored state information to the intermediary application. Additionally, the intermediary application is used to cause state information previously saved by the client for one range of URLs to be subsequently saved by the client for one or more other range of URLs.

Abstract: Debugging of a transaction across multiple processors is facilitated by having debug information follow the transaction from processor to processor. The transaction can be debugged across processors without predefining the transaction path, and without performing a debug registration process between the client controlling the debugging and each processor of the multiple processors.

Abstract: A physical clock is expanded to enhance its precision. Existing instructions are capable of using the enhanced physical clock. Execution of an instruction begins, which places a value of the expanded physical clock in a physical clock field of a clock representation. The physical clock field is, however, unable to accommodate the value provided by the expanded physical clock. Thus, that value encroaches upon another predefined field of the clock representation. Completion of the instruction is therefore delayed such that the value provided by the expanded physical clock can be accommodated in the clock representation and a correct value for the another predefined field can be provided.