Abstract: Systems and methods of assessing climate transition risk. A computing system receives a user indication of a selected climate change scenario from a remote client device. The system identifies one or more energy factors from among energy sources. The system retrieves historical financial information directed to one or more securities from remote financial data sources. The system predicts one or more future returns for the securities, by applying the historical financial data and the energy factors to at least one hierarchical linear model. The system adjusts the predicted future returns based on a first climate scenario and the selected climate scenario, to form respective first and second adjusted returns. The system generates a climate transition risk for the securities based on a spread between the first adjusted returns and the second adjusted returns. The system provides a data set representing the climate transition risk to the remote client device.

Abstract: Systems and methods of assessing climate transition risk. A computing system receives a user indication of a selected climate change scenario from a remote client device. The system identifies one or more energy factors from among energy sources. The system retrieves historical financial information directed to one or more securities from remote financial data sources. The system predicts one or more future returns for the securities, by applying the historical financial data and the energy factors to at least one hierarchical linear model. The system adjusts the predicted future returns based on a first climate scenario and the selected climate scenario, to form respective first and second adjusted returns. The system generates a climate transition risk for the securities based on a spread between the first adjusted returns and the second adjusted returns. The system provides a data set representing the climate transition risk to the remote client device.

Abstract: Systems and methods of assessing climate transition risk. A computing system receives a user indication of a selected climate change scenario from a remote client device. The system identifies one or more energy factors from among energy sources. The system retrieves historical financial information directed to one or more securities from remote financial data sources. The system predicts one or more future returns for the securities, by applying the historical financial data and the energy factors to at least one hierarchical linear model. The system adjusts the predicted future returns based on a first climate scenario and the selected climate scenario, to form respective first and second adjusted returns. The system generates a climate transition risk for the securities based on a spread between the first adjusted returns and the second adjusted returns. The system provides a data set representing the climate transition risk to the remote client device.

Abstract: A drinking container is provided that can include a lid member and a cup member. The lid member can include a base member and a spout extending up from the base member. The spout can provide a fluid passageway from outside the drinking container to the volume of the cup member so that a child may drink liquid contained within the cup member. When the lid member is removably coupled to the cup member, two or more seals are created around the circumference of the drinking container between the lid member and the cup member to decrease the likelihood of leakage from between the cup member and the lid member when the lid is coupled to the cup member.

Abstract: A logo-enabled interactive map integrating social networking applications is provided. The interactive map may be configured to help end users discover and share information (e.g., events, deals, news occurrences, etc.) associated with a plurality of venues.

Abstract: A drinking container is provided that can include a lid member and a cup member. The lid member can include a base member and a spout extending up from the base member. The spout can provide a fluid passageway from outside the drinking container to the volume of the cup member so that a child may drink liquid contained within the cup member. When the lid member is removably coupled to the cup member, two or more seals are created around the circumference of the drinking container between the lid member and the cup member to decrease the likelihood of leakage from between the cup member and the lid member when the lid is coupled to the cup member.

Abstract: A plunger with evaporative base is disclosed where the evaporative base has a standoff joined to a drainage bottom and a stump and stump channel arrangement for keeping the plunger suspended slightly above the drainage bottom. A plunger is disclosed that mates with the evaporative base and has a plunger bell standoff that mates with the evaporative base standoff to further keep the plunger suspended slightly above the drainage bottom. The outer perimeter of the bell of the plunger is slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the evaporative base body to allow for air circulation between the plunger bell and the evaporative base. Good air circulation and drying promotes cleanliness and reduces the incidence of mold, mildew and bacteria on the plunger and base.

Abstract: A logo-enabled interactive map integrating social networking applications is provided. The interactive map may be configured to help end users discover and share information (e.g., events, deals, news occurrences, etc.) associated with a plurality of venues.

Abstract: A logo-enabled interactive map integrating social networking applications is provided. The interactive map may be configured to help end users discover and share information (e.g., events, deals, news occurrences, etc.) associated with a plurality of venues.

Abstract: A logo-enabled interactive map integrating social networking applications is provided. The interactive map may be configured to help end users discover and share information (e.g., events, deals, news occurrences, etc.) associated with a plurality of venues.

Abstract: A logo-enabled interactive map integrating social networking applications is provided. The interactive map may be configured to help end users discover and share information (e.g., events, deals, news occurrences, etc.) associated with a plurality of venues.

Abstract: A logo-enabled interactive map integrating social networking applications is provided. The interactive map may be configured to help end users discover and share information (e.g., events, deals, news occurrences, etc.) associated with a plurality of venues.

Abstract: A logo-enabled interactive map integrating social networking applications is provided. The interactive map may be configured to help end users discover and share information (e.g., events, deals, news occurrences, etc.) associated with a plurality of venues.

Abstract: A device and method of providing vascular intervention is provided. The method involves the steps of inserting a guidewire having a flexible tip into an iliac artery and into an aorta, inserting a sheath having an introducer therethrough, the introducer having an angulated flexible tip, into the iliac artery over the guidewire, wherein the angulated tip of the introducer is also inserted into the aorta, and pulling back the guidewire from the introducer so that the angulated flexible tip of the introducer falls over an aortic bifurcation into a contralateral iliac artery. A kit is also provided, the kit having a sheath, an introducer running through the sheath and extending past a distal end of the sheath, and a guidewire running through the sheath and introducer; the guidewire having a flexible tip at a distal end and a stiff portion proximal to the flexible tip.

Abstract: A method for travel planning employing a computerized database query system, the method including user designation of at least one desired travel destination and system presentation to user of at least one proposed hotel, based on the user designation, the at least one proposed hotel in geographical proximity to or otherwise convenient to said travel destination.

Abstract: A method for travel planning employing a computerized database query system, the method including user designation of at least one desired travel parameter and system presentation to user of at least one proposed travel region, based on the user designation, the at least one proposed travel region having geographical boundaries which are generally independent of political boundaries.

Abstract: A method for executing instructions in a data processor and improvements to data processor design, which combine the advantages of regular processor architecture and Very Long Instruction Word architecture to increase execution speed and ease of programming, while reducing power consumption. Instructions each consisting of a number of operations to be performed in parallel are defined by the programmer, and their corresponding execution unit controls are generated at compile time and loaded prior to program execution into a dedicated array in processor memory. Subsequently, the programmer invokes reference instructions to call these defined instructions, and passes parameters from regular instructions in program memory. As the regular instructions propogate down the processor's pipeline, they are replaced by the appropriate controls fetched from the dedicated array in processor memory, which then go directly to the execution unit for execution.

Abstract: The present invention deals with compositions utilized to demulsify wash liquors, tramp oils or coolants. The compositions of the present invention are useful per se as cleaning compositions. The ability to rapidly demulsify from a waste liquor solution allows rapid recovery of fats, organic components, paint residues, greases and oils and rapid passage of the effluent to a sewage treatment facility.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for prechecking (probing) the validity of an access request for writing result data to an external system prior to executing the instruction that generates the result is provided. This allows instruction execution to continue uninterrupted in the event that the write is allowed. The microprocessor's Address Unit issues a "probe" request to the Memory Management Unit (MMU) via an internal bus while saving the instruction's virtual address in a virtual address buffer local to the Address Unit. The MMU checks the validity of the "probe" request without converting the virtual address to a physical address and issues an access grant signal which is saved by the microprocessor's Execution Unit for subsequent use. The Execution Unit processes the data in parallel to the MMU checking the validity of the probe request.