Abstract: A system and method for masking the complexity of developing software for a heterogeneous target execution environment may be established by configuring an integrated development environment to perform certain masking mechanisms. For example, the integrated development environment used to develop a background process may be used to create a background process-file on the target execution environment. The integrated development environment may further be configured to synchronously connect with an agent on the target execution environment, allowing the agent to initiate the background process using the integrated development environment user credentials. Additionally, the integrated development environment may be configured to monitor completion of the background process execution on the target execution environment, and to return the output from the background process after completion to the integrated development environment user.

Abstract: What is new about the BICYCLE READYLOCK is that it eliminates all of the problems associated with the other types of lock systems that are available. There is no need to “man-handle” the permanently coiled cables; unwrap chains, which can chip the paint of the bike; or even the various sized U-locks are difficult to remove from their carrying brackets, and then unlock and use them, only to have to do the process all over again when they are ready to ride again. The BICYCLE READYLOCK is the easiest system possible for securely locking your bike without hassle, making your riding experience a carefree, worriless fun adventure with no lagging doubts about whether you should take the time to lock your bicycle or not. The BICYCLE READYLOCK makes the decision and the procedure extremely trouble free, so you have one less headache to worry about.

Abstract: A method of anomaly detection applicable to telecommunications or retail fraud or software vulnerabilities uses inductive logic programming to develop anomaly characterisation rules from relevant background knowledge and a training data set, which includes positive anomaly samples of data covered by rules. Data samples include 1 or 0 indicating association or otherwise with anomalies. An anomaly is detected by a rule having condition set which the anomaly fu,lfils. Rules are developed by addition of conditions and unification of variables, and are filtered to remove duplicates, equivalents, symmetric rules and unnecessary conditions. Overfitting of noisy data is avoided by an encoding cost criterion. Termination of rule construction involves criteria of rule length, absence of negative examples, rule significance and accuracy, and absence of recent refinement.

Abstract: Apparatus for providing well-matched source and sink currents includes a number of parallel current paths, a first of which drives a first current mirror to mirror current to second and third of the current paths. The second current path provides well-matched source and sink currents as outputs, and the third current path is matched to the second. The fourth and fifth current paths each comprise a transistor of a current steering mechanism and a bias transistor. Using a reference voltage, and feedback from the circuit, the fourth and fifth current paths steer current between the first, second and third current paths. A second current mirror is driven by a bias current to mirror the bias current to each of the number of parallel current paths. Other methods and apparatus are also disclosed.

Abstract: A ball spinning device which has one or more balls, each ball having the surface appearance of a baseball. For an embodiment that has more than one ball, all balls are positioned in a straight line by connecting spindles. A power transferring spindle is sized and shaped so it can be connected to an electric motor which is capable of spinning the device at the same speeds as those of pitched baseballs. For each ball, its axis of rotation relative to its seam is determined by where spindles are joined to the ball with respect to its seam.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for monitoring a body having a reflective surface (1), a coating layer (2) of material transparent to visible light present on the surface (1) and producing a covert optical discontinuity in an imagewise distribution on the layer (2); the imagewise distribution is such that it is visible via polarized light (7) and viewing through a polarized filter (8).