Abstract: A dual backset latch assembly includes a housing, a latch, a casing, a transmission member, an auxiliary plate, and a retractor. The retractor and the auxiliary plate are jointly movable for selective engagement with one of first and second mounting positions in a slot of the casing corresponding to shorter and longer backset lengths. When the retractor is in the first mounting position, a first mounting hole and a second mounting hole of the casing are respectively aligned with a first through-hole and a second through-hole of the auxiliary plate and respectively extended through by two mounting posts. When the retractor is in the second mounting position, a third mounting hole of the casing is aligned with the first through-hole of the auxiliary plate and extended through by one of the mounting posts, with the other mounting post extending through the second through-hole of the auxiliary plate.

Abstract: An electrical system including a signal line and a driver. The signal line is terminated via a passive component. The driver is configured to receive an input signal and provide an output signal via the signal line. The driver is configured to provide an output logic level in the output signal at a first drive strength and to switch and provide the output logic level in the output signal at a second drive strength. The first drive strength is greater than the second drive strength.

Abstract: The present invention is a photosensitized electrode which absorbs sunlight to obtain electron-hole pair. The photosensitized electrode is fabricated with simple procedure and has low cost. The electrode has excellent chemical resist to be applied in a solar cell device with enhanced sun-light absorbing ability. The present invention can be applied in an optoelectronic device or a hydrogen generator device too.

Abstract: A method for reducing line edge roughness (LER) in a layer of photoresist is provided. In accordance with the method, a layer of photoresist is applied to a substrate. The layer of photoresist is then patterned and annealed in an atmosphere comprising at least one gas selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, nitrogen and fluorine-containing materials. Preferably, the anneal is performed after patterning the photoresist, but either immediately after, or subsequent to, the trim.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for reducing the emetogenic effects of PDE inhibitors, and more particularly is directed to compounds having PDE4 inhibition activity with little or no emetogenic side-effects, and chemical methods including benzylation for preparing such compounds. A benzyl group may be attached to either a carbon or nitrogen atom of a PDE4 inhibitor. Suitable benzylation chemistry is to extract a hydrogen from a PDE4 inhibitor, preferably with a base, and then react the resulting nucleophilic PDE4 inhibitor with a benzylating agent, e.g., benzyl bromide or a derivative thereof.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a video coding method and a video decoding method which allow enhancement of coding efficiency and improvement in video quality. A video coding apparatus (100) includes: a mode determination unit (111) which determines a notification method for notifying a transform block size to be used in orthogonal transform of a current block to be either the implicit mode or the explicit mode, and outputs the ABT mode indicating the determined notification method; an orthogonal transformation unit (104) which transforms the difference values between the input image and predicted image into frequency coefficients based on the transform block size determined in accordance with the determined notification method; a quantization unit (105) which quantizes the frequency coefficients and output the quantized values; and a variable length coding unit (110) which performs variable length coding on the quantized values, the ABT mode, and the like, so as to output a coded stream.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for performing a comparative search. In one example, the comparative search is performed over a network, such as the web, or a database. In one exemplary implementation, a user transmits a plurality of queries which represent the topics that a user wants to compare, and a computing system can automatically retrieve and rank web pages or documents based on both their relevance to queries and the comparative contents they contain. In one such example, the comparative pages are displayed in a pair or other form of a grouping. In another example, comparative results having similar contents may be clustered into meaningful themes.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light emitting diode structure including a Constructive Oxide Contact Structure contact layer. The light emitting diode structure comprises a substrate, a buffer layer formed on the substrate, a lower confinement layer formed on the buffer layer, a light emitting layer formed on the lower confinement layer, an upper confinement layer formed on the light emitting layer, a Constructive Oxide Contact Structure contact layer formed on the upper confinement layer whose conducting type can be P-type, N-type, or I-type, a first electrode, and a second electrode (transparent electrode). The transparent electrode is formed on the Constructive Oxide Contact Structure contact layer as an anode of the light emitting diode. The first electrode is formed on the lower confinement layer and is spaced apart from the light emitting layer, the upper confinement layer, the contact layer, and the transparent electrode. The first electrode is used as a cathode of the light emitting diode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel geldanamycin derivatives which have antitumor and antiparasitic properties. The geldanamycin derivatives disclosed herein have antitumor properties in humans due to their interaction with human heat shock protein 90 (hsp90). The human parasites Plasmodium falciparum, Trypanosoma Cruzi, and Leishmania donovani are lethally susceptible to exposure to geldanamycin via complexation of geldanamycin with their homologs (Pfhsp90, hsp83, and hsp90, respectively) of the human hsp90. The geldanamycin derivatives disclosed herein also interact with these parasitic hsp90 homologs so as to have antiparasitic properties.

Abstract: A computer arrangement for providing services to clients over a network includes: at least two servers, each server hosting at least one application, an automated administrator configured to automatically provision the servers to provide the services, and at least one network load balancer connected to the clients and the servers. The network load balancer is responsible for at least one of the services and is configured to gather state information on the state of the servers and/or the applications hosted on the servers and is operable to route incoming requests of clients to at least one of the servers. The network load balancer provides the automated administrator with the state information. The automated administrator provides the network load balancer with provisioning information regarding which servers are provisioned to provide the at least one service for which the network load balancer is responsible.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for adaptive beam-steering are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing adaptive beam steering using multiple transmit and receive antennas, including iteratively performing a pair of training sequences, wherein the pair of training sequences includes estimating a transmitter antenna-array weight vector and a receiver antenna-array weight vector.

Abstract: The present invention proposes a novel cache residence prediction mechanism that predicts whether requested data of a cache miss can be found in another cache. The memory controller can use the prediction result to determine if it should immediately initiate a memory access, or initiate no memory access until a cache snoop response shows that the requested data cannot be supplied by a cache. The cache residence prediction mechanism can be implemented at the cache side, the memory side, or both. A cache-side prediction mechanism can predict that data requested by a cache miss can be found in another cache if the cache miss address matches an address tag of a cache line in the requesting cache and the cache line is in an invalid state. A memory-side prediction mechanism can make effective prediction based on observed memory and cache operations that are recorded in a prediction table.

Abstract: A method for hand-off of a data session in a server. Data is received from a data source. At least a portion of the data is transmitted to an electronic device located in a first location. Notification is received that the electronic device is moving toward a second location. A first message is transmitted to a second server notifying the second server that the electronic device is moving toward the second location, wherein the second server is located proximate to the second location. A second message is received from the second server that the second server is prepared to communicate with the electronic device. The server then stops transmission of the data.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a light emitting diode (LED) is provided. Successively forming a first type doped semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer and a second type doped semiconductor layer on an epitaxy substrate; forming a bonding layer thereon; bonding a transferring substrate with the bonding layer; removing the epitaxy substrate; removing a part of the first type doped semiconductor layer, the light emitting layer and the second type doped semiconductor layer for exposing a part of the bonding layer; patterning the bonding layer to form a first and a second bonding portion isolated from each other, wherein the first type doped semiconductor layer, the light emitting layer and the second type doped semiconductor layer are disposed on the first bonding portion; forming a pad on the first type doped semiconductor layer; and forming a conducting wire for electrically connecting the pad and the second bonding portion.

Abstract: Materials that are useful for absorption enhanced reforming (AER) of a fuel, including absorbent materials and catalyst materials and methods for using the materials. The materials can be fabricated by spray processing. The use of the materials in AER can produce a H2 product gas having a high H2 content and a low level of carbon oxides.

Abstract: Described herein are data transmission systems and methods that employ flexible memory usage techniques. The techniques allocate memory to include a plurality of block pools, where each block pool includes a set of blocks having a memory size common to the block pool. The number of block pools and common memory size for each may be determined according to the current transmission demands for the bit streams and channels being serviced. A processor for the network device then allocates data from multiple bit streams into a block in one of the block pools based on the memory requirements for the incoming data. The number of blocks may also be varied based on changing transmission demands.

Abstract: This invention relates to a catalyst which comprises palladium metal as the main catalyst, tin metal or a mixture of tin and additional metals as the promoter, in combination with an alkali or alkaline earth metal compound, supported on the outer surface of a porous carrier. The catalyst is used in the process for producing allyl acetate through the oxacylation of propylene, acetic acid and oxygen in a vapor phase. The catalyst of the present invention exhibits high catalytic activity, high catalytic selectivity and high catalytic life, which greatly increases the economic utility of the oxacylation process.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an apparatus comprising a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit. The first circuit may be configured to read a data signal in response to a read enable signal. The second circuit may be configured to generate the read enable signal. The third circuit may be configured to present the data signal in response to a first state of the read enable signal and present a predetermined value in response to a second state of the read enable signal.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a silicon-on-glass layer via layer transfer includes depositing a layer of SiGe on a silicon substrate; relaxing the SiGe layer; depositing a layer of silicon on the relaxed SiGe layer; implanting hydrogen ions in a second hydrogen implantation step to facilitate splitting of the wafer; bonding a glass substrate to the strained silicon layer to form a composite wafer; splitting the composite wafer to provide a split wafer; and processing the split wafer to prepare it for subsequent device fabrication.

Abstract: Methods for forming anisotropic features for high aspect ratio application in etch process are provided in the present invention. The methods described herein advantageously facilitates profile and dimension control of features with high aspect ratios through a sidewall passivation management scheme. In one embodiment, sidewall passivations are managed by selectively forming an oxidation passivation layer on the sidewall and/or bottom of etched layers. In another embodiment, sidewall passivation is managed by periodically clearing the overburden redeposition layer to preserve an even and uniform passivation layer thereon. The even and uniform passivation allows the features with high aspect ratios to be incrementally etched in a manner that pertains a desired depth and vertical profile of critical dimension in both high and low feature density regions on the substrate without generating defects and/or overetching the underneath layers.