Abstract: This invention includes a device which produces heat from calculating processors which may support a distributed trust protocol. The invention also includes business models which use the claimed device to provide heat, electronics, or processing power in various ways.

Abstract: Accelerated interleaved memory data transfers in microprocessor-based systems and related devices, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed. Embodiments disclosed in the detailed description include accelerated interleaved memory data transfers in processor-based systems. Related devices, methods, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. Embodiments disclosed include accelerated large and small memory data transfers. As a non-limiting example, a large data transfer is a data transfer size greater than the interleaved address block size provided in the interleaved memory. As another non-limiting example, a small data transfer is a data transfer size less than the interleaved address block size provided in the interleaved memory.

Abstract: A run-time delay of a memory is measured, a run-time duration of a routine is determined, and an optimal run-time preload distance for the routine is determined based on the measured run-time memory delay and the determined run-time duration of the routine. Optionally, the run-time duration of the routine can be determined by measuring a run-time duration, and optionally the run-time duration can be determined based on a database of run-time delay for operations of the routine. Optionally, the optimal run-time preload distance is used in performing a loop of the routines.

Abstract: A fishing lure comprises a hook structure including a hook portion for engaging the mouth flesh of a fish, a shank portion connected to the hook portion, and a line securing portion for securing a line to the hook structure. The line securing portion forms an unsecured loop so that a portion of fishing line is movable into the eye of the loop without threading. The lure also comprises a body structure mounted on the hook structure. The body structure has an anchor notch formed thereon and configured to receiving a portion of a looped fishing line.

Abstract: A fishing lure comprises a hook structure including a hook portion for engaging the mouth flesh of a fish, a shank portion connected to the hook portion, and a line securing portion for securing a line to the hook structure. The line securing portion forms an unsecured loop so that a portion of fishing line is movable into the eye of the loop without threading. The lure also comprises a body structure mounted on the hook structure. The body structure has an anchor notch formed thereon and configured to receiving a portion of a looped fishing line.

Abstract: A machine-controlled method of evaluating a video data stream having multiple broadcast channels can include selecting at least two video frames for a particular channel, extracting the selected video frames from the video data stream, decoding the extracted video frames, comparing at least one of the decoded video frames to the other decoded video frame(s) or a previously stored video frame, and preparing an evaluation of the video data stream based on the comparing.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the production of olefins by autothermal cracking of a paraffinic hydrocarbon-containing feedstock in the presence of a molecular oxygen-containing gas, wherein said process comprises (a) providing a pre-heated, mixed feedstream comprising said paraffinic hydrocarbon containing feedstock and said molecular oxygen-containing gas, (b) subsequently mixing said pre-heated, mixed feedstream with a diluent, said diluent being pre-heated to a temperature of at least 400° C., to produce a diluted mixed feedstream comprising at least 10% by volume of diluent, and (c) contacting said diluted mixed feedstream with a catalyst capable of supporting combustion beyond the normal fuel rich limit of flammability, to provide a hydrocarbon product stream comprising olefins.

Abstract: A catalyst capable of supporting combustion beyond the fuel rich limit of flammability comprising a catalytic component and a metallic support wherein the support is a metallic structured packing comprising a multiplicity of open-ended channels and which has been loaded with a non metallic coating, and a process for the production of an olefin, said process comprising passing a mixture of a hydrocarbon and an oxygen-containing gas over said catalyst to produce an olefin.

Abstract: The present invention provides a support grid having the form of a web of vertically disposed plates said web of plates comprising (a) a network of strands of plate segments connected by junctions, the said strands terminating only at the periphery of the grid, and (b) one or more internal plate branches, each plate segment being joined at one end to a junction with at least two other plate segments and at the other end either being joined to a junction with at least two other plate segments or terminating at or near C the periphery of the grid, said internal branch comprising a plate having a free end within the grid and being joined at one end thereof to a segment or to another branch, characterised in that in horizontal cross-section through the grid each segment has at least two angular and/or curved portions which alternate in direction.

Abstract: A process for the production of a diesel fuel includes contacting a feedstock comprising cracked stocks in the presence of hydrogen under conditions of elevated temperature and pressure with a first catalyst comprising a Group VI hydrogenation metal component and a Group VIII hydrogenation metal component on a substantially non-acidic carrier, and then contacting at least a portion of the effluent from the first catalyst with a second catalyst comprising a Group VI hydrogenation metal component and a Group VIII hydrogenation metal component on an acidic carrier. This process can produce diesel fuels having an improved cetane index and API gravity. The effluent from the second catalyst bed may be contacted with a third catalyst bed which contains a catalyst comprising a Group VI hydrogenation metal component and a Group VIII hydrogenation metal component on a substantially non-acidic carrier.

Abstract: Apparatus for signalling the position of a point on a surface divided into a plurality of identical subsidiary areas includes primary transducer means operable to identify uniquely the subsidiary area in which the point is located, and secondary transducer means representing the sub-divisions of a single subsidiary area. The primary and secondary transducer means may each be represented by a rectangular matrix of light-emitting devices which may be scanned sequentially by scanning means.