Abstract: A system and method of playing of a game of simultaneous move chess involve receiving intended move commands from at least two players, determining the results of the intended move commands after intended move commands are received for all players in the game. The determination includes interpreting intended moves that result in a player's piece landing in square occupied by another of that player's pieces as a guard move. If an attacking player's intended move is to an attacked square occupied by a defending player's piece and the defending player's intended move is a guard move to the same square, the attacking player's piece in the attacking player's intended move is eliminated, the defending player's piece in the attacked square is eliminated and the defending player's piece making the intended guard move is moved to the attacked square.

Abstract: Compounds of Formula I, and their N-oxides and agriculturally suitable salts, are disclosed which are useful for controlling undesired vegetation and R1a, R1b, R1c, R2a, R2b, R3, R4, R5, T, U, W, Y and Z are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula I and a method for controlling undesired vegetation which involves contacting the vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound of Formula I. Also disclosed are mixtures and compositions comprising a herbicidally effective amount of a compound of Formula Iz wherein J, R1a, R1b, R1c, R2a, R2b, R3, R4, R5, T, U, W, Y and Z are as defined in the disclosure; and an effective amount of another herbicide or herbicide safener. Also disclosed is a method for selectively controlling undesired vegetation in a crop that involves contacting the locus of a crop with an effective amount of a compound of Formula Iz and a effective amount of a safener.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for smooth transitions of background noise as a mobile communication unit roams from a first communication system having a first speech encoder (310) to a second communication system having a second speech encoder (330). As the mobile communication unit roams into the second communication system, the first communication system will transfer the communication signal to the second communication system. Background noise from the first communication system is sampled (320), and as the communication signal is transferred, the noise signal sampled in the first communication system is mixed in a mixer of the second communication system with background noise sampled (340) from the second communication system. As the change in noise progresses, the noise from the first communication system will gradually be decreased and faded out while the noise from the second communication system will be gradually increased to a high power level.

Abstract: An analyzer for maintaining and analyzing source code is disclosed. The analyzer includes a software translator for converting conventional source code into an intermediate language, slicing capability based upon weakest precondition determination, dual direction flow analysis and incorporation of a computational model to facilitate iterative code.

Abstract: A process and tool for scalable, almost automatic, modification of interacting computer program units comprising the identification of variables affected by seed variables of known with attributes in equivalence classes and the modification of those variables identified with the target attributes.