Abstract: A vehicle security system for use in a predefined area such as a car park includes an array of sensors (9) for receiving a vehicle alarm signal transmitted by radio frequency from a system-subscribing vehicle fitted with a transceiver (22) in the event of attempted vehicle tampering or removal. A control centre (12) receives alarm signals and communicates them to a user as an alarm message. Detection of radio frequency signal jamming or attempted jamming is achieved in one embodiment with noise detectors (39, 139) actively detecting jamming noise or alternatively an arrangement of transmitters and receivers using test transmissions therebetween, whereby transmission failure indicates jamming.

Abstract: The present invention provides a general approach for G protein coupled receptors that may be used to define agonists and antagonists, and the specificity of receptor coupling to G protein subunits. Methods of the present invention use small volumes (microliters) and are compatible with high throughput flow cytometry. When assays of the present invention are multiplexed, the specificity of the interactions of a receptor with many G proteins may be determined simultaneously.