Abstract: Methods are provided for the alleviation, prevention and treatment of negative effects of overexposure to metal contaminants. Subjects exposed to a metal contaminant can be treated using trientine and/or penicillamine or salts, esters, solvates thereof. In addition, communities can protect its members by securing sufficient quantities of such countermeasures.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program instructions for enabling users of pervasive devices to remotely access and manipulate information in ways that might otherwise be impossible or impractical because of inherent limitations of the device. The disclosed techniques enable a wide variety of data manipulation operations to be performed on behalf of the pervasive device, for a wide variety of content types. In preferred embodiments, no modifications or add-ons are required to the pervasive device.