Abstract: Techniques are provided for determining a circuit training path in a smart gym for an exerciser to perform an exercise program in order to minimize user contention for exercise equipment. The training path is defined by the exerciser visiting a number of exercise machines in the order specified by a system. The system determines a next exercise machine for the exerciser to visit which addresses the personal exercise program. In making this determination, the system communicates with all station agent nodes in the system to determine the set of station agent nodes that have an associated exercise machine which operate to address the personal exercise program. Out of that set of station agent nodes, the system reserves the next exercise machine associated with one of the set of station agent nodes that has a state value reflecting the least waiting time for the exerciser.

Abstract: As a user navigates through a sequence of screens by selecting certain “aid” keys, a graph will be built reflecting the navigation history of the user. When a user requests a certain screen by selecting a particular key, screen data is received from a host on a web server. The screen data for the requested screen is compared to the screen data for the screen(s) in the graph associated with the selected key. If a match is established, the user has visited this screen before and its data has already been converted (e.g., scraped). As such, the screen can be retrieved from storage and served to the user. If, however, a match cannot be established, the requested screen will be converted and stored, and the graph will be updated.

Abstract: An improved technique is provided for recognizing a character based user interface having several host component types and transforming the character based user interface to a web enabled user interface. Agents are deployed to consume a character stream which composes the character baded user interface. Each agent scans the character based user interface to determine which host component types exist in the character based user interface. Each agent is specifically designed to determine the existence of a different host component type from the other agents. When an agent fins a host component type, a match region is defined containing the characters of the found host component type. Each agent renders their associated match regions to compose the web enabled user interface.

Abstract: The use of <100>-oriented crystals as gain media in lasers and optical amplifiers is disclosed. In a laser, a substantially <100>-oriented crystal, such as <100> YAG can be disposed within an optical cavity as a gain medium. The crystal is orientated such that a <100> plane is substantially perpendicular to a direction of beam propagation within the crystal. A pump source provides pumping energy to a pumped region of the crystal. The use of a substantially <100>-oriented crystal can reduce depolarization loss and thermal lens effects if an absorbed power of the pumping energy is less than or equal to about 1000 watts of pumping radiation and/or a cross-sectional overlap between a beam of radiation propagating through the crystal and the pumped region is greater than about 20% of a cross-sectional area of the pumped region.

Abstract: A composite structure having first and second layers which are wrapped about one another to form a cylinder. The first layer is formed from an expandable film or foaming adhesive. The second layer is formed from a reinforcing member. The second layer is overlaid onto the first layer. The first and second layers are then rolled together in a jelly roll fashion. The roll is then cured to expand the film. The structure may thereafter be incorporated into a panel and drilled to receive a fastener. The composite structure is generally lightweight having a high compressive strength-to-density ratio. The physical properties of the composite structure may be tailored to a particular application. For example, the physical properties of the composite structure may be tailored to provide improved energy absorption or a reduced initial peak compressive strength. A method for forming a composite structure from an expandable film member and a reinforcing member is also provided.

Abstract: A composite structure having first and second layers which are wrapped about one another to form a cylinder. The first layer is formed from an expandable film or foaming adhesive. The second layer is formed from a reinforcing member. The second layer is overlaid onto the first layer. The first and second layers are then rolled together in a jelly roll fashion. The roll is then cured to expand the film. The structure may thereafter be incorporated into a panel and drilled to receive a fastener. The composite structure is generally lightweight having a high compressive strength-to-density ratio. The physical properties of the composite structure may be tailored to a particular application. For example, the physical properties of the composite structure may be tailored to provide improved energy absorption or a reduced initial peak compressive strength. A method for forming a composite structure from an expandable film member and a reinforcing member is also provided.

Abstract: A composite structure having first and second layers which are wrapped about one another to form a cylinder. The first layer is formed from an expandable film or foaming adhesive. The second layer is formed from a reinforcing member. The second layer is overlaid onto the first layer. The first and second layers are then rolled together in a jelly roll fashion. The roll is then cured to expand the film. The structure may thereafter be incorporated into a panel and drilled to receive a fastener. The composite structure is generally lightweight having a high compressive strength-to-density ratio. The physical properties of the composite structure may be tailored to a particular application. For example, the physical properties of the composite structure may be tailored to provide improved energy absorption with reduced initial peak compressive strength. A method for forming a composite structure from an expandable film member and a reinforcing member is also provided.

Abstract: A precision positioning mount for UV-cured adhesives that provides adhesive junctions between modular assembly mounts and structural elements. Contact edges are placed on a first fixating area of an adhesive junction. The contact edges are pronounced edges of faces that slide along a second fixating area during the adjustment process. Thus, the assembly modules and structural elements are precisely referenced before, during and after their positioning and orientating. First and second fixating areas form a cavity that provides a volume for the adhesive. The mounts and structural elements are preferably made of sapphire for increased thermal conductivity. The elements of the assembly mounts are modular and interchangeable and provide various positioning modes.

Abstract: Optical, opto-mechanical and electro-optical elements (OE) of a Laser resonance assembly (LRA) are positioned and fixated in close proximity on an assembly plate by clamping the OE in a vacuum chuck that holds the OE on a clamping portion on the very top of it. The OE is brought into the predetermined position while a lateral attaching surface of the OE is kept in a predetermined angle relative to the assembly plate. A side mount is placed between the mirror and the assembly plate after an UV-curing adhesive has been applied. The attaching surface s and the adhesive have a specific relation between areal extension, surface roughness, uncured viscosity and uncured cohesive force.

Abstract: A method of writing a pattern on a substrate by a deflectable electron beam, in particular a pattern containing very fine features such as nanostructures, is carried out by dividing the pattern into at least two fields of differing size (15, 17) which are arranged one inside the other and have a common center (18) arranged at the central axis of the beam at which the beam has an undeflected setting, with the finer or finest pattern features contained in the inner field (15). The pattern is written by keeping the substrate stationary and writing the two fields in succession with a change in writing resolution of the beam on transition from one field to the next such that a finer step size is used for an inner field than for an outer field.

Abstract: A wedge mirror is disclosed for suppressing the high gain wavelengths in a laser. The mirror is provided with a pair of opposed surfaces lying in nonparallel planes. Each of the surfaces is provided with a wavelength selective coating. The coating on the surface of the mirror facing the gain medium is highly reflective of the high gain wavelength and highly transmissive of the low gain wavelength. This surface is oriented so that the light from the high gain wavelength is reflected out of the cavity. The outer surface of the mirror is highly transmissive of the high gain wavelength and highly reflective of the low gain wavelength. The combination of the wavelength selective coatings and the wedge configuration allows the high gain wavelength to be suppressed while the low gain wavelength oscillates. The subject mirror is particularly suited for suppressing the 1.06 and 1.33 micron wavelengths in Nd:YAG while allowing the 1.44 micron wavelength to lase.