Abstract: A system and method for efficiently designing a through silicon via (TSV) macro blocks are described. In various implementations, the circuitry of a processor executes instructions of a place and route tool that provides automatic placement of macro blocks and standard cells on an integrated circuit die based on a copy of a netlist of the integrated circuit being designed and a copy of a standard cell library that includes a variety of standard cells and macro blocks. The processor places two functional macros in the floorplan with a channel between them. In the channel, the processor places a TSV macro that includes at least one boundary cell inside of the TSV macro. The processor prevents placement of a boundary cell adjacent to at least one side of the TSV macro despite empty space exists due to no standard cells or macros about the at least one side.

Abstract: A system for automatically processing and storing financial data using financial codes, product identifiers, point-of-sale and non-point-of-sale locations and devices, transaction cards and a financial processing and data management software program capable of processing the financial data that is associated with the financial codes into a financial report for the user of the financial processing and data management system.

Abstract: Molybdenum-DAD precursors are described. Methods for depositing molybdenum-containing films on a substrate are described. The substrate is exposed to a molybdenum-DAD precursor and a reactant to form the molybdenum-containing film (e.g., elemental molybdenum, molybdenum oxide, molybdenum carbide, molybdenum silicide, molybdenum nitride). The exposures can be sequential or simultaneous.

Abstract: Electronic gaming has a game state lock and preview of the game's result. A player's game state from a first played game is locked by the system operator. The game state and result of a game is displayed to the player once the game has completed its gameplay mechanic as a preview for deciding whether or not to exchange a credit amount for the result. The result displayed is from a ledger of results maintained by the system operator and determined by the system operator. Should a player decide to perform this exchange, the game is over. The next game is then available to be played on the game display having no relation to the previous game or result.

Abstract: A process for treating waste comprising Mixed Plastic Waste is disclosed. The process comprises includes feeding the waste to a pyrolysis reactor, pyrolysing the waste in the pyrolysis reactor to produce a fuel and using the fuel to run a generator to produce electricity.

Abstract: A process for treating waste comprising Mixed Plastic Waste is disclosed. The process includes feeding the waste to a pyrolysis reactor, pyrolysing the waste in the pyrolysis reactor to produce a fuel and using the fuel to run a generator to produce electricity.

Abstract: A system for improving and automatically processing financial information and the storing of data using financial codes, product identifiers, the point-of-sale and non-point-of-sale locations and functions, transaction cards and a financial and data management system capable of processing data that is identified or associated with the financial codes. With the point-of-sale and non-point-of-sale locations and functions used to process the identified data into transaction data, so that when the transaction card data is extracted by the point-of-sale or non-point-of-sale locations said transaction data and other data can be transmitted to the financial management system, so that the data inputted into the financial management system can be stored, parsed, and organized according to the financial codes identifying or associated with the data, so the financial management system can store the data or produce a financial report related to bookkeeping, accounting, budgeting, or tax preparation.

Abstract: A process for treating waste comprising Mixed Plastic Waste is disclosed. The process comprises includes feeding the waste to a pyrolysis reactor, pyrolysing the waste in the pyrolysis reactor to produce a fuel and using the fuel to run a generator to produce electricity.

Abstract: A process for treating waste comprising Mixed Plastic Waste is disclosed. The process comprises includes feeding the waste to a pyrolysis reactor, pyrolysing the waste in the pyrolysis reactor to produce a fuel and using the fuel to run a generator to produce electricity.

Abstract: A process for treating waste comprising Mixed Plastic Waste is disclosed. The process includes feeding the waste to a pyrolysis reactor, pyrolysing the waste in the pyrolysis reactor to produce a fuel and using the fuel to run a generator to produce electricity.

Abstract: A vehicle anchored accessory holder may include a base plate, a brace connected to and extending upwardly from the base plate and an angled support connected to the at least one brace. The vehicle anchored accessory holder may also include a female fitting connected to and extending upwardly from the base plate. The female fitting may also be connected to the angled support. The female fitting may have an open top to receive at least one of an extension arm stem and an accessory. A first tube and a second tube may be connected to an upper portion of the female fitting to receive a connector adapted to move the female fitting between an opened position and a closed position.

Abstract: A vehicle anchored accessory holder may include a base plate, a brace connected to and extending upwardly from the base plate and an angled support connected to the at least one brace. The vehicle anchored accessory holder may also include a female fitting connected to and extending upwardly from the base plate. The female fitting may also be connected to the angled support. The female fitting may have an open top to receive at least one of an extension arm stem and an accessory. A first tube and a second tube may be connected to an upper portion of the female fitting to receive a connector adapted to move the female fitting between an opened position and a closed position.

Abstract: A method of providing a machine readable marking on a substrate being a part of an actuator is described, in which the marking includes at least first and second marks, and the method including repeatedly firing a laser device so that at each of a plurality of row positions of a first area of the substrate, substrate material is heated and displaced thus to provide a depression in the surface of the substrate at least partially surrounded by displaced material, the method including providing a plurality of rows of such depressions in the first area to form the first mark, repeatedly firing a laser device so that at each of a plurality of row positions of a second area of the substrate, substrate material is heated and displaced thus to provide a depression in the surface of the substrate at least partially surrounded by displaced material, the method including providing a plurality of rows of such depressions in the second area to form the second mark, and wherein each depression of the rows of depressions of

Abstract: A mutant virus for use as a vaccine for prophylaxis or therapy, wherein the genome of the virus is defective in respect of a gene essential for the production of infectious virus. In one aspect the mutant virus, e.g. a herpesvirus, e.g HSV-1 or HSV-2, is capable of protecting a susceptible species immunised therewith against infection by the corresponding wild-type virus. In another aspect, the mutant virus acts as a vector for an immunogenic protein derived from a pathogen, encoded by foreign DNA incorporated in the mutant virus. The mutant virus can be produced by a recombinant host cell which expresses a gene complementing the defect. The mutant virus can be infectious for the host to be protected, and the genetic defect can allow expression in the infected host of at least some of the viral genes, which can provoke a cell-mediated immune response. The defect can be in a glycoprotein gene such as gH.

Abstract: A process of treating a human or non-human animal cell to introduce heterologous genetic material into said cell and express said material in said cell, comprises (a) providing a recombinant herpesviral vector which is an attenuated or replication-defective and non-transforming mutant herpesvirus, and which carries heterologous genetic material, and (b) transducing human or non-human animal cells selected from: hemopoietic cells, malignant cells related to blood cells, and malignant or non-malignant CD34 + cells; by contacting said cells with said virus vector to transduce said cells and express said genetic material. Among applications of the technique is modification of hemopoietic cells by transfer of genes, e.g. to generate tumor immunogens from malignant cells.

Abstract: A mutant virus for use as a vaccine, wherein the genome of the virus is defective in respect of a gene essential for the production of infectious virus. In one aspect the mutant virus is capable of protecting a susceptible species immunized therewith against infection by the corresponding wild-type virus. In another aspect, the mutant virus acts as a vector for an immunogenic protein derived from a pathogen and which is encoded by foreign DNA incorporated in the mutant virus. The mutant virus can be produced in a recombinant host cell which expresses a gene complementing the defect. The mutant virus is preferably infectious for the host to be protected, but the defective gene allows expression in the infected host of at least some of the viral genes, which can provoke a cell-mediated immune response.

Abstract: A process of treating a human or non-human animal cell to introduce heterologous genetic material into said cell and express said material in said cell, comprises (a) providing a recombinant herpesviral vector which is an attenuated or replication-defective and non-transforming mutant herpesvirus, and which carries heterologous genetic material, and (b) transducing human or non-human animal cells selected from: hemopoietic cells, malignant cells related to blood cells, and malignant or non-malignant CD34+cells; by contacting said cells with said virus vector to transduce said cells and express said genetic material. Among applications of the technique is modification of hemopoietic cells by transfer of genes, e.g. to generate tumor immunogens from malignant cells.

Abstract: A probe tip locator for use in determining the x-axis location and y-axis location of a probe tip of a microscope relative to the locator, the locator comprising a plurality of first reference lines parallel in a first direction, each of the first reference lines representing a predetermined x-axis location of the probe tip; a plurality of sets of parallel encoded bit fields, each one of the sets corresponding to one of the first reference lines; and a plurality of second reference lines parallel in a second direction, each one of the second reference lines intersecting at least one of the first reference lines at an acute angle, such that a scan of a portion of the locator is used to determine the x-axis location and y-axis location of the probe tip relative to the probe tip locator by movement of the probe tip relative to the probe tip locator.

Abstract: To accommodate the fact that, not only may a window require a number of user-determined colors to display, for example, an image, the window may also need to display widgets forming a user interface within the window in distinctive user-defined colors, while still causing the minimum disturbance to other displayed windows in windowing display systems of the type having storage locations for storing a colormap which determines the colors displayed in the system corresponding to particular pixel values, and which generate a shared colormap by assigning screen colors to pixel values dynamically as the screen colors are required by tasks using the system, and allow at least some of the windows to have a private colormap which can be copied into the storage locations when the corresponding window is activated, a method of generating a private colormap for a window is disclosed characterised by: overwriting a first selected portion of the private colormap for the window with a user-determined colormap to leave a re