Abstract: An apparatus having a composite air-based structure with a first carbon nanotube infused material and a second carbon nanotube infused material. The first and second carbon nanotube infused materials each having a range of carbon nanotube loading selected to provide different functionalities.

Abstract: An apparatus having a composite sea-based structure with a first carbon nanotube infused material and a second carbon nanotube infused material. The first and second carbon nanotube infused materials each having a range of carbon nanotube loading selected to provide different functionalities.

Abstract: The subject invention relates to a system and methodology facilitating automated manufacturing processes in a regulated industrial controller environment, wherein a centralized signature component generates signature events to remote locations and validates signatures required to satisfy such events. A system for distributed signature processing is provided. The system includes a signature component to determine when to generate one or more electronic signature events and to validate electronic signatures that have been received from various local or remote locations. An application layer distributes interface components to the locations in order to facilitate generation of the electronic signature events and validation of the electronic signatures.

Abstract: Automated program validation components are provided to facilitate software program development for industrial control systems and processes. In one aspect, a simulation tool is provided for an industrial automation system. The simulation tool includes a transform component that receives one or more program chart components as input and outputs a subset of model components for simulation. A simulation component executes the subset of model components in order to validate the program chart components.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and methodology facilitating automated manufacturing processes in an industrial controller environment. An automation system is provided for automated industrial processing. The system includes an equipment phase object that is executed by a controller engine, wherein the equipment phase object can be accessible from internal instructions within the controller and/or from external instructions directed to the controller such as from a server or another controller across a network connection. A sequencing engine operates with the equipment phase object to facilitate automated industrial processing. The sequencing engine can be adapted to various industrial standards or in accordance with other state type models.

Abstract: A delivery and display system 10 prepares and delivers daily film rushes and/or film “cuts” (i.e., rough edits) in full motion video to users via the Internet in a collaborative application and display interface. The delivery and display system includes a system server 32, parsing and embedding software 34, an encryption system 36, and a collaborative display interface 70. The system server receives and stores digital media files 50 and AV log files 60. The parsing and embedding software 34 reads meta-data in an AV log file 60 and segments the digital media files 50, wherein the parsing and embedding software is capable of reading meta-data from both .FLX AV log files and .ALE AV log files. The parsing and embedding software 34 embeds meta-data from an AV log file 60 into the segmented digital media files 50. The encryption system 36 secures the digital media files 50, which have been embedded with meta-data from an AV log file 60, using digital rights management encryption.

Abstract: In order to facilitate automated operations with software, semantic meaning of data values is bound to the syntactic type of the data values. In a described implementation, a piece of software accepts inputs and produces outputs. The inputs have a specified syntactic type (e.g., runtime type) and an expected semantic meaning. The semantic meaning corresponds to a real-world description of relevant data for the input. Providing a data set that matches the specified syntactic type and the expected semantic meaning as input to the software enables a relevant operation with the software to be performed. An example automated operation is the testing of a piece of software. In another described implementation, a synmantic data object is created and/or utilized that includes a syntactic type attribute and a semantic meaning attribute for the contained data value(s). Other optional attributes include locale indication and a validity flag.

Abstract: The subject invention relates to a system and methodology facilitating automated manufacturing processes in an industrial controller environment, wherein a system is provided for automated industrial processing in one aspect. The system includes a processor that determines a plurality of attributes of a class-based recipe in order to facilitate various automated industrial control operations. A rules component resolves how the attributes are applied by the processor to the automated industrial control operations. The rules component can include a binding component that may also include a binding requirements component and a binding preferences component that are utilized to process the attributes.

Abstract: Automated program validation components are provided to facilitate software program development for industrial control systems and processes. In one aspect, a simulation tool is provided for an industrial automation system. The simulation tool includes a transform component that receives one or more program chart components as input and outputs a subset of model components for simulation. A simulation component executes the subset of model components in order to validate the program chart components.

Abstract: The subject invention relates to a system and methodology facilitating automated manufacturing processes in an industrial controller environment, wherein a system is provided for automated industrial processing in one aspect. The system includes a processor that determines a plurality of attributes of a class-based recipe in order to facilitate various automated industrial control operations. A rules component resolves how the attributes are applied by the processor to the automated industrial control operations. The rules component can include a binding component that may also include a binding requirements component and a binding preferences component that are utilized to process the attributes.

Abstract: A projectile formed from dissimilar materials. The projectile includes a metallurgical interlayer that joins the dissimilar materials together. The metallurgical interlayer also matches the shock impedance of the two materials to prevent delamination during launch and during impact.

Abstract: An integrated engine guard oil cooler is mounted to a motorcycle. The cooler is a hollow tube having an inlet, an outlet, a plurality of cross-sectional restrictions in its interior, and a plurality of radial cooling fins on its exterior. The tube has a shape such that, when the inlet and the outlet are mounted on opposite sides of the lower frame of a motorcycle, the tube extends outwardly from each side of the frame, then extends upwardly, and then extends inwardly to join and form an enclosed passageway. When the inlet and the outlet communicate with the oil reservoir of the engine, oil flows through the tube with successive pressure increases and pressure decreases as it passes the cross-sectional restrictions and heat from the oil is transferred to the ambient air through the radial cooling fins.

Abstract: A sliding door assembly includes a barrier plate extending across the lower portion of the doorway to prevent the intrusion of water during severe weather conditions. A notch within the barrier plate, enlarging the passageway opened by the sliding door to form an obstruction-free passageway, is sealed by compressing a gasket between the barrier plate and a compression plate mounted to move with the sliding door. An actuator, mounted along the floor adjacent the compression plate with the sliding door closed, moves the compression plate toward the barrier plate, compressing the gasket, in response to operation of a latch lever.

Abstract: Automated testing of web services includes automatically generating a test script. Test data is supplied to the test script from a test data file. The web service is tested using the test script and the test data. The web service then produces a result from the test data. The result of the test is automatically verified.

Abstract: Nucleic acid probes and primers are described for detecting fungi that cause disease in humans and animals, as well as spoilage of food and beverages. These probes can detect rRNA, rDNA or polymerase chain reaction products from a majority of fungi in clinical, environmental or food samples. Nucleic acid hybridization assay probes specific for Acremonium sp., Aspergillus clavatus, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus glaucus, Aspergillus nidulans, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus ochraceus, Aspergillus terreus, Aspergillus unguis, Aspergillus ustus, Beauveria sp., Bipolaris sp., Blastoschizomyces sp., Blastomyces dermatitidis, Candida albicans, Candida glabrata, Candida guilliermondii, Candida kefyr, Candida krusei, Candida lusitaniae, Candida parapsilosis, Candida tropicalis, Chrysosporium sp., Cladosporium sp., Coccidioides immitis, Cryptococcus neoformans var gattii serotype B, Cryptococcus neoformans serotype A, Cryptococcus laurentii, Cryptococcus terreus, Curvularia sp., Fusarium sp.

Abstract: Nucleic acid probes and primers are described for detecting fungi that cause disease in humans and animals, as well as spoilage of food and beverages. These probes can detect rRNA, rDNA or polymerase chain reaction products from a majority of fungi in clinical, environmental or food samples. Nucleic acid hybridization assay probes specific for Acremonium sp., Aspergillus clavatus, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus glaucus, Aspergillus nidulans, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus ochraceus, Aspergillus terreus, Aspergillus unguis, Aspergillus ustus, Beauveria sp., Bipolaris sp., Blastoschizomyces sp., Blastomyces dermatitidis, Candida albicans, Candida glabrata, Candida guilliermondii, Candida kefyr, Candida krusei, Candida lusitaniae, Candida parapsilosis, Candida tropicalis, Chrysosporium sp., Cladosporium sp., Coccidioides immitis, Cryptococcus neoformans var gattii serotype B, Cryptococcus neoformans serotype A, Cryptococcus laurentii, Cryptococcus terreus, Curvularia sp., Fusarium sp.

Abstract: A method for selectively detecting M. tuberculosis is provided employing restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of an enzymatic digest of the M. tuberculosis katG gene.

Abstract: Nucleic acid probes and primers are described for detecting fungi that cause disease in humans and animals, as well as spoilage of food and beverages. These probes can detect rRNA, rDNA or polymerase chain reaction products from a majority of fungi in clinical, environmental or food samples. Nucleic acid hybridization assay probes specific for Aspergillus fumigatus, Blastomyces dermatitidis, Candida albicans, Coccidioides immitis, Cryptococcus neoformans, Histoplasma capsulatum, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus glaucus, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus terreus, Candida glabrata, Candida guilliermondii, Candida kefyr, Candida krusei, Candida lusitaniae, Candida parapsilosis, Candida tropicalis, Pseudallescheria boydii, and Sporothrix schenckii are also described.

Abstract: The detection of the IS6110 insertion element in a clinical specimen is a rapid way of diagnosing infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A reliable diagnostic test for tuberculosis based on the IS6110 DNA is described in this disclosure. A "Universal" specimen preparation protocol that eliminates live organisms and purifies nucleic acids from all types of clinical specimens is described. Two nucleic acid primers designed to amplify IS6110 DNA with high specificity in a polymerase chain reaction are also described. The amplified IS6110 DNA is identified by a restriction endonuclease and electrophoresis based assay. The identification process also renders the DNA unamplifiable in a subsequent PCR, thereby reducing the possibility of contaminating other specimens. Time, labor and cost is minimized, while user safety and test reliability are maximized.