Abstract: Various embodiments pertain to techniques for proactively delivering navigation options to a user via a mobile device. In various embodiments, one or more navigation options can be determined for the user and delivered to the user's mobile device at a relevant time. Navigation options can be selected based on the user's current location, the user's future plans, the time, and other locally relevant information, such as friends nearby or a nearby favorite location of the user. The navigation options can be delivered to the user's mobile device at a time that the navigation options are relevant.

Abstract: Moldable material comprising at least 5% by weight of polymeric regrind material recovered from Automotive Shredder Residue (ASR) and method of manufacturing the same are provided. The method comprises the steps of providing a polymer material sorted from ASR; grinding the polymer material sorted from ASR to form a regrind material; depositing the regrind material into a liquid solution having a specific gravity and performing a liquid density separation; removing a plurality of pieces of regrind material having a specific gravity of less than the liquid solution specific gravity from a surface of the liquid; conditioning the removed pieces of regrind material; blending the respective pieces of regrind material with a primary polymer to create a polymeric blend; compounding the polymeric blend via the addition of at least one additive thereby creating a plastics compound; and supplying the resultant plastics compound to an extrusion machine to produce the moldable material.

Abstract: An electrical connector is disclosed. The electrical connector has a first body and a second body. The second body is mechanically coupled to the first body in a coupling state and enters the coupling state through a lateral side of the first body.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems, methods and apparatuses for removing precipitation from an exterior of a building in an expedited and automated fashion. The precipitation removal system includes one or more sweeper assemblies and one or more hoisting assemblies. The sweeper assemblies are suspended from the roof, ledge or other portion of a building. The hoisting assemblies assist the sweeper assemblies with vertically traversing the exterior of the building. As a sweeper assembly vertically traverses the side of the building, precipitation that accumulates on the exterior of the building is removed. The sweeper assemblies can remove precipitation from connecting structures on the exterior of the building which are used by building maintenance personnel to perform maintenance operations on the exterior of the building.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems, methods and apparatuses for removing precipitation from an exterior of a building in an expedited and automated fashion. The precipitation removal system includes one or more sweeper assemblies and one or more hoisting assemblies. The sweeper assemblies are suspended from the roof, ledge or other portion of a building. The hoisting assemblies assist the sweeper assemblies with vertically traversing the exterior of the building. As a sweeper assembly vertically traverses the side of the building, precipitation that accumulates on the exterior of the building is removed. The sweeper assemblies can remove precipitation from connecting structures on the exterior of the building which are used by building maintenance personnel to perform maintenance operations on the exterior of the building.

Abstract: An electrical connector is disclosed. The electrical connector has a first body and a second body. The second body is mechanically coupled to the first body in a coupling state and enters the coupling state through a lateral side of the first body.

Abstract: There are disclosed embodiments of screws for use in orthopedic surgery, particularly in pediatric patients. In some embodiments, inner and outer implantable members are provided, with the outer implantable member threadable on the inner implantable member to provide compression on two or more bone parts. In some embodiments, screw members are provided with a threaded shaft, and the thread continues into the head of the screw member to enable the thread to remain in pediatric bone.

Abstract: There are disclosed embodiments of screws for use in orthopedic surgery, particularly in pediatric patients. In some embodiments, inner and outer implantable members are provided, with the outer implantable member threadable on the inner implantable member to provide compression on two or more bone parts. In some embodiments, screw members are provided with a threaded shaft, and the thread continues into the head of the screw member to enable the thread to remain in pediatric bone.

Abstract: There are disclosed embodiments of screws for use in orthopedic surgery, particularly in pediatric patients. In some embodiments, inner and outer implantable members are provided, with the outer implantable member threadable on the inner implantable member to provide compression on two or more bone parts. In some embodiments, screw members are provided with a threaded shaft, and the thread continues into the head of the screw member to enable the thread to remain in pediatric bone.

Abstract: There are disclosed embodiments of screws for use in orthopedic surgery, particularly in pediatric patients. In some embodiments, inner and outer implantable members are provided, with the outer implantable member threadable on the inner implantable member to provide compression on two or more bone parts. In some embodiments, screw members are provided with a threaded shaft, and the thread continues into the head of the screw member to enable the thread to remain in pediatric bone.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprising a connector body defining a socket for receiving an electrical conductor, a fastener mounted within the socket and engaged with a thread of an internal surface of the connector body so that rotation of the fastener relative to the connector body along a longitudinal axis of the socket causes movement of the fastener between a first position in which the socket is able to receive the electrical conductor and a second position in which the fastener fastens the electrical conductor within the socket, and a drive component rotatably mounted to the connector body and configured to engage the fastener such that rotation of the drive component with respect to the connector body causes rotation movement of the fastener between the first position and the second position is disclosed.

Abstract: A shearable fastener has a threaded shank adapted for engagement with a threaded bore and a head portion formed for engagement with a drive tool, the shank being formed with a series of axially separated weakenings defining a series of shear planes. The weakenings are formed such that the applied torque necessary to cause the shank to shear increases progressively from the shear plane furthest from the head portion to the shear plane nearest the head portion. The weakenings are holes, grooves or slits formed in the shank and the radius at the bottom of the holes, grooves or slits is varied to produce or contribute to the increase in shear torque.

Abstract: According to the invention, systems, and methods are disclosed for testing of a first program is provided. First, an input file containing a location of a first program, identifiers of other programs to be invoked by the first program, and arguments to be passed to the other programs is read. Next, the first program is executed including invoking the other programs and passing to those programs the arguments specified. Finally, log files are generated based on results of execution of the first program and the other programs.

Abstract: A shearable fastener has a threaded shank adapted for engagement with a threaded bore and a head portion formed for engagement with a drive tool, the shank being formed with a series of axially separated weakenings defining a series of shear planes. The weakenings are formed such that the applied torque necessary to cause the shank to shear increases progressively from the shear plane furthest from the head portion to the shear plane nearest the head portion. The weakenings are holes, grooves or slits formed in the shank and the radius at the bottom of the holes, grooves or slits is varied to produce or contribute to the increase in shear torque.

Abstract: A modular long bone prosthesis is provided having a proximal component and a retroversion component. The proximal component is configured at a proximal end to receive a head forming a portion of a joint and is formed at a distal end to mate with additional prosthesis components. The proximal component is formed to simulate an angle inherent in the proximal end of the bone to be replaced and includes an indicator adjacent the distal end to facilitate rotational alignment of the proximal component and additional prosthesis components. The retroversion component includes a proximal end configured to mate with the distal end of the proximal component. The proximal end includes alignment indicia for positioning relative to the indicator on the proximal component.

Abstract: A method of facilitating an outbound customer interaction involves monitoring user access activity, and automatically accumulating access data concerning such user access activity, with respect to a resource retrieved from one or more network locations (e.g., identified by URLs). The user access to the one or more network locations typically occurs via a user device coupled to a network to facilitate the access to the network locations. A trigger event is then detected based on the user access activity as reflected by the accumulated access data.

Abstract: Insulation-piercing fasteners are provided having a generally cylindrical shank, externally threaded along at least part of its length. The end portion of the shank is configure to engage an insulated electrical conductor and is formed with a hollowed end portion. The hollowed end portion has a generally cylindrical recess having a diameter less than the diameter of the shank. The wall of the hollowed end portion has at least one interruption. The width of the interruption is less than the maximum internal width of the hollowed end portion.

Abstract: A business method is chartered by a defined group of competing independent buyer/obligor companies (102), to acquire or finance receivables (106) of the buyer/obligor companies (102). In cooperative consultation between the buyer/obligor companies (102) and the business entity (100), terms of receivables (106) of the buyer/obligor companies (102) are defined, to improve efficiency of financing the receivables. The buyer/obligor companies (102) agree to preferentially disclose credit information on themselves to the business entity (100). Obligee companies (104) agree to accept book entries on a computer system operated by the business entity (100) as the controlling form of financial obligations arising out of sale of goods or services (108) sold by to buyer/obligor companies. The business entity accepts custody of a majority of a class of receivables of buyer/obligor companies to creditor companies.

Abstract: An electrical connector has a connector body including a socket for an electrical conductor, the connector body having an electrically insulating shroud and having a threaded bore in which a connecting bolt is threadedly engaged. The connecting bolt is capable of actuation into engagement with a conductor inserted into the socket by providing a drive member engaged with the connecting bolt and extending through an opening in the insulating shroud to a rotatable, electrically insulating cap. The connecting bolt is slidably mounted on the drive member, the drive member being adapted to shear at a position between the opening in the insulating shroud and the point of engagement of the drive member with the connecting bolt when a predetermined torue is applied to the drive member, such that the cap and a residual portion of the drive member attached thereto can be withdrawn from the opening in the insulating shroud.

Abstract: A composition for removing a layer of tin, lead or tin/lead alloy from a copper substrate such as a printed circuit board comprises an aqueous solution of nitric acid and ferric acid and also contains anthranilic acid to inhibit the degree of attack on the copper substrate. A surfactant, such as a mixture of cocoamine and an ethoxylated fatty alcohol or a mixture of a phosphate ester and an ethylene oxide/propylene oxide copolymer, may also be present to improve the brightness of the remaining copper.