Abstract: Described are a system and a method for airport noise monitoring. The system may include (a) a data receiving arrangement receiving, from a data source, information corresponding to an airport; (b) a data comparing arrangement comparing the received information to noise rules; and (c) an alert generating arrangement generating a noise alert based on the comparison of the received information to the noise rules.

Abstract: A cutting insert incorporates a pre-formed discrete cutting tip which wraps around a curved cutting corner of the insert. The cutting tip includes a top layer and a bottom layer made of a relatively harder material than the top layer. In one embodiment, the bottom layer is made of polycrystalline diamond (PCD) or a polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (CBN) material and the top layer is made of cemented carbide. The cutting insert may further incorporate a chip control structure formed in the cutting tip including a plurality of facets formed on each side of a centerline for providing chip control during a cutting operation. The chip control structure can be formed in a two-step process to expose a portion of the bottom layer. The discrete cutting tip can be brazed to the cutting insert prior to forming the chip control structure.

Abstract: A system and method of provisioning virtualized computational resources in a networked computer architecture includes a client device to run a client application, a server device, and a resource controller. The server device includes one or more processors having a local memory, and provides a virtual resource layer through which one or more virtual processing resources can be defined and through which one or more physical processors of said server device can be assigned to one or more of said virtual processing resources. The physical processors process at least a part of a data processing workload from said one or more client applications, each workload including input data having a static data part and a dynamic data part. The resource controller assigns a virtual processing resource to a plurality of client applications, where the input data for the workload of each client application has the same static data part.

Abstract: An apparatus for endpoint detection during removal of material from an electronic component includes a mounting plate operable to provide physical and electrical attachment for a device-under-test (DUT), a spindle operable to hold a tip for removing material from the DUT, a signal generator operable to provide an input signal to a first electrode, and a microprocessor connected to use an output signal from a second electrode to terminate the removal of material when an endpoint is reached, the first electrode being one of the tip and the DUT and the second electrode being the opposite one of the tip and the DUT.

Abstract: A method of making a cutter structure comprising super-hard material defining a rake face topology is provided.

Abstract: A method of making a cutter structure (1) comprises placing a pre-formed body (4) of hard material having a surface topography in a canister, placing an aggregated mass of grains of superhard material (2) over said surface topography, placing a punch (10) in contact with the superhard material (2), the punch (10) having a surface with a surface topography inverse to that of the hard material body to imprint a pattern in the superhard material (2) complementary to the surface topography of the punch (10). The surface of the punch (10) contacting the superhard material (2) being formed of a ceramic material that does not react chemically with the superhard material (12) and/or a sinter catalyst for the superhard material (2).

Abstract: A method for detecting an endpoint during removal of material from an electronic device includes while removing material from an electronic device-under-test (DUT) using a tip driven by a spindle, applying an input signal to the DUT via the tip and using an output signal received from one of the DUT and a mounting plate to which the DUT is attached to determine an endpoint for removal of material.

Abstract: A computer implemented method of generating a digital collage layout for a group of digital images is disclosed. A group of digital images is retrieved from a computer accessible memory. A determination is made whether to select the digital collage layout from a stored collection of digital collage layouts or to generate a new set of digital collage layouts and select the digital collage layout from the new set. Based on determination, the digital collage layout is provided from the stored collection or from the new set.

Abstract: A method of making a construction comprising a polycrystalline super-hard structure joined to a side surface of an elongate substrate. The method includes: providing a vessel configured for an ultra-high pressure, high temperature furnace, the vessel having an elongate cavity for containing a pre-sinter assembly and defining a longitudinal axis, the cavity having opposite ends connected by a cavity wall. The pre-sinter assembly comprises the substrate, an aggregation comprising a plurality of super-hard grains arranged over at least a part of the side surface of the substrate, and a spacer structure configured for spacing the substrate apart from the cavity wall. The spacer structure comprises material having a Young's modulus of at least 300 GPa.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of monitoring operation of programmable logic for a streaming processor, the method comprising: generating a graph representing the programmable logic to be implemented in hardware, the graph comprising nodes and edges connecting nodes in the graph; inserting, on each edge, monitoring hardware to monitor flow of data along the edge. Also disclosed is a method of monitoring operation of programmable logic for a streaming processor, the method comprising: generating a graph representing the programmable logic to be implemented in hardware, the graph comprising nodes and edges connecting the nodes in the graph; inserting, on at least one edge, data-generating hardware arranged to receive data from an upstream node and generate data at known values having the same flow control pattern as the received data for onward transmission to a connected node.

Abstract: Processes for the preparation of the compound of formula (II) and intermediate compounds for use in the processes.

Abstract: A system and method for facilitating collaborative decision making at an airport. The system and method receive data relating to an airport from a plurality of data feed arrangements, aggregate the data, format the aggregated data for display to users and transmit the formatted aggregated data to the users for display.

Abstract: A method of making a cutter structure comprising super-hard material defining a rake face topology is provided.

Abstract: A modified medical device for delivery of a pharmaceutically active material is described. The present inventors have found that many conventional medical devices contain a metallic or polymeric component that comes into contact with a pharmaceutically active material during use, and that the contact substantially reduce the pharmaceutical effectiveness of the pharmaceutically active material. The invention described herein concerns various modifications to the metallic or polymeric component that are effective to diminish such a substantial reduction in pharmaceutical effectiveness.

Abstract: A tip for twist drill, comprising a super-hard structure joined to a substrate at an interface boundary coterminous with an end of the substrate, the super-hard structure comprising sintered polycrystalline material comprising super-hard grains, the super-hard structure defining a super-hard end surface opposite the interface boundary and a plurality of cutting edges configured for boring into a body in use; the super-hard end surface including a centre point or chisel edge, and comprising a plurality of surface regions configured such that respective planes tangential to each of the surface regions are disposed at substantially different angles from the axis of rotation of the tip in use. Precursor constructions for use in manufacturing the tips as well as methods for making the precursor constructions and the tips are disclosed.

Abstract: A bit for a rotary drill, the bit including a cylindrical body having at least two flutes provided therein, the cylindrical body terminating in a cutting end; and a cylindrical land defined by a peripheral face of the cylindrical body between adjacent flutes, the cylindrical land including a margin that is radially elevated relative to a remainder of the cylindrical land; the margin having a width that varies along the length of the cylindrical land.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a bit for a rotary drill, the bit including a drill tip (30), the method including providing a precursor structure (10) comprising substrate body (14) and a super-hard structure (12) joined to an upper surface of the substrate body; cutting a plurality of conformal inserts (20) from the precursor structure (10), each insert (20) comprising a part of the super-hard structure; providing a drill tip (30) configured for receiving the insert (20); and joining the insert to the drill tip (30).