Abstract: In one embodiment, a patch application system 330 for a server farm 310 may be programmatically integrated with a monitoring service 340 to allow for prompt reaction to a patching error. The patch application system 330 may implement a patch application 500 to a server farm 310. The patch application system 330 may receive an error notice 600 describing a patching error from a monitoring service 340. The patch application system 330 may automatically execute a response action to the patching error.

Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic safety tire in which the durability is improved by improving the compression fatigue property of a carcass ply cord. The pneumatic safety tire includes, as a skeleton, a carcass 2, and a side reinforcing rubber 4 on a tire width direction inner side thereof in a side wall portion 12. In a cross section in a tire width direction, provided that the area of the side reinforcing rubber is S1, the area of the bead filler 5 is S2, and the area of a rubber chafer 6 arranged on a tire width direction outer side of the bead filler and the bead core is S3, the following expressions (1) and (2) are satisfied: 0.10?(S2+S3)/S1?2.50??(1) 0?S2/(S2+S3)?0.9??(2), and a reinforcing cord of a carcass ply is composed of a polyester fiber and/or an aramid fiber, and coated with an adhesive agent composition in which, on the basis of 100 parts by mass of solid content of a latex, 35 to 100 parts by mass of solid content of a thermosetting resin including a blocked isocyanate is formulated.

Abstract: An engine stopping section first selects, when an engine stop condition is satisfied, a power-generation braking mode in which a power-generation braking torque is applied to the engine by a power generation operation of the generator, to thereby apply the power-generation braking torque to the engine, and then selects a short-circuit braking mode in which a short-circuit braking torque is applied to the engine by short-circuiting each energization phase of an armature coil with a semiconductor switch and by causing a field current to flow through a field coil, to thereby apply the short-circuit braking torque to the engine.

Abstract: A communication method and system for a Machine-Type Communication (MTC) User Equipment (UE) are disclosed. The method includes that: at least one MTC UE in an MTC UE group receives, based on group paging information received, broadcast information carrying group trigger information from an MTC server, wherein the group trigger information is used for triggering the at least one MTC UE in the MTC UE group; and the at least one UE communicates with the MTC server based on the group trigger information. In the disclosure, the group trigger information is broadcast to the MTC UE group through the broadcast information, so that a plurality of MTC UE in one group is triggered simultaneously, thus optimizing group triggering process, and reducing network resources occupied in the group triggering process.

Abstract: Automation scripts may be examined and compared to a set of new or changed operating system messages to identify potential issues with the automation script that occur with updates to the operating system. When the issue is identified, the reference in the automation script may be updated to refer to the changed operating system message. Further, the reference in the automation script may be modified to address other changes in the system messages, such as changes in information and/or parameters reported in the message.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for sending packets using optimized PIO write sequences without sfences. Sequences of Programmed Input/Output (PIO) write instructions to write packet data to a PIO send memory are received at a processor supporting out of order execution. The PIO write instructions are received in an original order and executed out of order, with each PIO write instruction writing a store unit of data to a store buffer or a store block of data to the store buffer. Logic is provided for the store buffer to detect when store blocks are filled, resulting in the data in those store blocks being drained via PCIe posted writes that are written to send blocks in the PIO send memory at addresses defined by the PIO write instructions. Logic is employed for detecting the fill size of packets and when a packet's send blocks have been filled, enabling the packet data to be eligible for egress.

Abstract: A system including an electric motor and a control software operable to control the operation of a plurality of different types of electric motors. The control software is provided with or identifies a particular control algorithm from among a plurality of such algorithms and/or a particular set of operational parameters from among a plurality of such sets for the motor with which it is assembled. The sets of operational parameters are stored in one or more read-only memories, which may be electrically erasable programmable read-only memories. To identify the particular motor control algorithm and/or the particular set of operational parameters, the control software causes the motor to be energized, senses an actual operating parameter of the motor, and identifies the particular motor control algorithm and/or the particular set of operational parameters based on the sensed actual operating parameter.

Abstract: A hanger includes a connector assembly for coupling the hanger to a first annular duct, a bracket for coupling the hanger to a second annular duct concentrically disposed within the first annular duct, and a cable formed by a plurality of wires bound together that extend from the connector assembly to the bracket. A plurality of circumferentially-spaced hangers placed in tension support an exhaust duct liner relative to an exhaust duct. The hangers permit circumferential and axial displacement at each hanger of the exhaust duct liner relative to the exhaust duct. The displacement of the exhaust duct liner relative to the exhaust duct at each hanger is permitted in a first radial direction that decreases tension in the cable and is restrained in a second radial direction that increases tension in the cable.

Abstract: A communication apparatus that forms, in a train in which fixed formations are coupled, a backbone network relaying signals between branch networks formed in the fixed formations with another communication apparatus that is made redundant, includes: a VRRP functional unit that, when operating as a master, periodically transmits an alive monitoring frame to another communication apparatus operating as a backup via the branch network, and, when operating as a backup, receives an alive monitoring frame transmitted from another communication apparatus operating as a master via the branch network; a port-malfunction detection unit detecting malfunction of the port to which the branch network is connected; and an alive determination unit that, when operating as a backup, detects whether another communication apparatus operating as a master has malfunctioned based on an alive-monitoring-frame reception result from the VRRP functional unit and a malfunction detection result from the port-malfunction detection unit.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a magnetic recording medium, which comprises a nonmagnetic layer comprising nonmagnetic powder and binder on a nonmagnetic support, and a magnetic layer comprising ferromagnetic powder and binder on the nonmagnetic layer, wherein the magnetic layer further comprises carbon black, and a state in which the carbon black is present, as observed in a reflection electron image of a surface of the magnetic layer obtained by a scanning electron microscope, satisfies condition 1 and condition 2 below: condition 1: a number of carbon black particles with a particle size of greater than or equal to 140 nm is greater than or equal to 30 per 1,000 ?m2 of area; and condition 2: a number of carbon black particles with a particle size of greater than or equal to 220 nm is less than or equal to 10 per 1,000 ?m2 of area.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to improve reliability and/or performance of partially written memory blocks in flash memory systems are described. In some embodiments, a storage device stores information corresponding to a partial write operation performed on a partially programmed memory block of a non-volatile memory. Memory controller logic then cause application of a reduced voltage level and/or an offset value to portion(s) of the non-volatile memory during a read or write operation to the non-volatile memory based at least in part on the stored information. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that enable a computer system comprising networked computers to self-heal from a boot failure of one of the computers. In some embodiments, upon detecting a first computer failing to successfully load a first boot image, a second computer configures the first computer to boot a second boot image. Upon power cycling, the first computer loads the second boot image.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a multimedia playing control method and apparatus and system. The multimedia playing control method includes: obtaining first multimedia content data according to source information of multimedia content data; and transmitting the source information of multimedia content data and all or part of the first multimedia content data. With the embodiments of the present disclosure, multimedia content data that has been buffered to the local is transmitted while transmitting multimedia source information, thereby reducing amount of data needing to be buffered again and the time of waiting for the buffering.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of fins and a plurality of tubes passing a fluid therethrough, extending through the plurality of fins and radially expanded into an interference fit therewith. At least one tube of the plurality of tubes includes an outer diameter, an inner diameter, and a plurality of ridges extending from the inner diameter inwardly into an interior of the tube. A tube internal surface area per unit of length of the tube multiplied by the ratio of the outer diameter and tube wall thickness is equal to or greater than about 30.0.

Abstract: The present invention provides an anticancer adjuvant containing pentoxifylline. Pentoxifylline inhibits a collagen synthesis in tumors and consequently increases the distribution of an anticancer drug or sensitivity of cancer cells, which thus provides an improved anticancer treatment effect.

Abstract: A mass spectrometer (1) is provided with: an ionization chamber (10) for ionizing a sample (S) on its surface at an analysis point through irradiation by a laser beam; an analysis chamber (23) having a mass spectroscope (24) for detecting ions; a middle vacuum chamber (21, 22) arranged between the ionization chamber (10) and the analysis chamber (23); and an introduction pipe (12) or an introduction hole for allowing the inside of the housing (11) of the ionization chamber (10) to communicate with the inside of the middle vacuum chamber (21), wherein ions and fine particles, which have not been drawn into the introduction pipe (12) or introduction hole, can be prevented from spreading inside of the chamber.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a control device design method for a control device that determines a manipulation amount of a control object having a dead time by feedback control so as to bring a control amount of the control object closer to a target value. The method according to the present invention includes a step of designing a feedback loop that computes a correction amount for the manipulation amount using a plurality of controllers including a prediction model of the control object, a step of deriving the same number of delay elements as the plurality of controllers from a dead time element of the prediction model, and a step of allocating the plurality of controllers associated with the delay elements to a plurality of arithmetic units so that the computation of the feedback loop is performed by parallel computation by the plurality of arithmetic units that operate in parallel.

Abstract: Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses and spectrally complementary filters disposed on the curved surface lenses configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. The spectrally complementary filters include guard bands to prevent crosstalk between spectrally complementary portions of a 3D image viewed through the shaped glasses. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters are disposed on the curved lenses with increasing layer thickness towards edges of the lenses. The projected complementary images may also be pre-shifted to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts occurring while viewing the images.

Abstract: A backlight unit including a light-emitting element and a member that selectively reduces an amount of emitted light, and wherein the light-emitting element includes a light source and a wavelength conversion member, and the wavelength conversion member includes at least one fluorescent material, the light-emitting element has a property of emitting blue light, green light, and red light, and the blue light has an emission intensity peak with an emission center wavelength falling within a wavelength range of 430 nm to 480 nm, the green light has an emission intensity peak with an emission center wavelength falling within a wavelength range of 520 nm to 560 nm and a half width exceeding 50 nm, and the red light has an emission intensity peak with an emission center wavelength falling within a wavelength range of 600 nm to 680 nm and a half width exceeding 50 nm.

Abstract: A spectrum management system includes circuitry that determines available spectrum for a secondary communication system. The available spectrum is determined based on a disturbance tolerance of a primary communication system that is managed by the spectrum management system and a disturbance tolerance of another primary communication system that is managed by another spectrum management system. The circuitry then causes the setting of a spectrum for the secondary communication system based on the available spectrum and whether or not a spectrum request is received from the secondary communication system.