Abstract: A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and system are provided for detecting hardware faults on a multi-core integrated circuit device by executing runtime software-based self-test code concurrently on multiple processor cores to generate a first set of self-test results from a first processor core and a second set of self-test results from a second processor core; performing mutual inter-core checking of the self-test results by using the first processor core to check the second set of self-test results from the second processor core while simultaneously using the second processor core to check the first set of self-test results from the first processor core; and then using the second processor core to immediately execute a recovery mechanism for the first processor core if comparison of the first set of self-test results against reference test results indicates there is a hardware failure at the first processor core.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and system are provided for detecting hardware faults on a multi-core integrated circuit device by executing runtime software-based self-test code concurrently on multiple processor cores to generate a first set of self-test results from a first processor core and a second set of self-test results from a second processor core; performing mutual inter-core checking of the self-test results by using the first processor core to check the second set of self-test results from the second processor core while simultaneously using the second processor core to check the first set of self-test results from the first processor core; and then using the second processor core to immediately execute a recovery mechanism for the first processor core if comparison of the first set of self-test results against reference test results indicates there is a hardware failure at the first processor core.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel plants, in particular to melon plants capable of producing fruits with a new pleasant taste and to seeds thereof. The present invention further relates to fruits of melon plants of the present invention, wherein such fruits have organic acid content, low pH and high sugar contents. The present invention further relates to methods of making and using plants and fruits disclosed herein.

Abstract: An improved process for the production of linear alternating polymers of carbon monoxide and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon employs a novel catalyst composition formed from a compound of palladium, the anion of a strong non-hydrohalogenic acid and a bidentate ligand of phosphorus wherein the divalent group bridging the two phosphorus atoms is 2-hydroxy-2-alkyl-1,3-propylene.

Abstract: An improved process for the production of linear block copolymers of vinylaromatic hydrocarbon and conjugated alkadiene comprises the coupling of living polymer chains containing at least one block of polymerized vinylaromatic hydrocarbon and at least one block of polymerized conjugated alkadiene wherein the coupling agent is an aromatic phosphonite.

Abstract: An improved process for the production of linear alternating polymers of carbon monoxide and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon employs a novel catalyst composition formed from a compound of palladium, the anion of a strong non-hydrohalogenic acid and a bidentate ligand of phosphorus wherein the divalent group bridging the two phosphorus atoms is 2-hydroxy-2-alkyl-1,3-propylene.

Abstract: Polymers of carbon monoxide with one or more olefinically unsaturated compounds are prepared by contacting the monomers with a palladium phosphorus bidentate catalyst in which at least one of the phosphorus atoms of the bidentate forms part of a 9-phosphabicyclononyl structure.

Abstract: A novel catalyst composition containing a Group VIII metal and a phosphorus bidentate ligand wherein each phosphorus atom forms part of a phosphacyclohexyl structure.

Abstract: Regio-regular copolymers of carbon monoxide and an ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon are produced by contacting the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon under polymerization conditions in the presence of a more active catalyst composition formed from a palladium compound, the anion of a strong nonhydrohalogenic acid, and a tetraalkyl diphosphine ligand.

Abstract: An improved process for the production of linear alternating polymers of carbon monoxide and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon comprises contacting the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon under polymerization conditions in the presence of a catalyst composition formed from a palladium compound, an anion of a strong non-hydrohalogenic acid and an aryl phosphine sulfide having at least 2 phosphorus atoms.

Abstract: Alkali metal di(2-alkoxyphenyl)phosphide is produced in good yield by reaction of alkali metal and the corresponding tri(2-alkoxyphenyl)-phosphine in liquid ammonia.

Abstract: When a linear alternating polymer of carbon monoxide and a cyclopentene compound is produced in the presence of a catalyst composition comprising a compound of palladium, and anion of a non-hydrohalogenic acid having a pKa below 2 and a bidentate ligand, an improved process results when an aromatic meta-dinitro compound is provided to the catalyst composition mixture.

Abstract: Regio-regular copolymers of carbon monoxide and an ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon are produced by contacting the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon under polymerization conditions in the presence of a more active catalyst composition formed from a palladium compound, the anion of a strong non-hydrohalogenic acid and a tetraalkyl diphosphine ligand.

Abstract: An improved process for the production of linear alternating polymers of carbon monoxide and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon comprises contacting the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon under polymerization conditions in the presence of a catalyst composition formed from a palladium compound, an anion of a strong non-hydrohalogenic acid and an aryl phosphine sulfide having at least 2 phosphorus atoms.

Abstract: In the process of producing a linear alternating polymer of carbon monoxide and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon in the presence of a palladium salt, the anion of a strong non-hydrohalogenic acid, and a phosphine ligand, improved polymerization rates are obtained when employing a novel catalyst composition formed from a novel 1,3-bis(phosphino)-2-silapropane, which can be produced with high yield, wherein the 2-silapropane moiety is additionally substituted at the silicon atom with two hydrocarbyl substituents.

Abstract: A process for the production of linear alternating polymers of carbon monoxide and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon employs a novel catalyst composition form from a palladium compound, the anion of certain string acids and a bidentate ligand of sulfur. The copolymer of carbon monoxide and a styrene monomer by such process is regioregular but not stereoregular.

Abstract: Diphosphines having at least one heterocyclic substituent that includes at least one oxygen, sulphur, or nitrogen atom in a five or six membered ring are useful components in palladium catalyst compositions which have been used to polymerize carbon monoxide and olefinically unsaturated compounds. Remaining substituents, if any, are carbocyclic hydrocarbon groups such as phenyls which are preferably substituted with polar groups in a ring position ortho to the phosphorus. The phosphorus atoms in the diphosphine are connected by a bridging group that contains at least one carbon atom.

Abstract: Linear alternating polymers of carbon monoxide and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon are produced in the presence of novel catalyst compositions formed from a palladium salt, the anion of a non-hydrohalogenic acid having a pKa less than 2 and a bidentate ligand having one atom of phosphorous and one atom of sulfur or selenium.

Abstract: An improved process for the production of linear alternating polymers of carbon monoxide and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon employs a catalyst composition formed from a palladium salt and a phosphino-substituted sulfonic acid.

Abstract: In the process of producing a linear alternating polymer of carbon monoxide and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon in the presence of a palladium salt, the anion of a strong non-hydrohalogenic acid, and a phosphine ligand, improved polymerization rates are obtained when employing a novel catalyst composition formed from a novel 1,3-bis(phosphino)-2-silapropane, which can be produced with high yield, wherein the 2-silapropane moiety is additionally substituted at the silicon atom with two hydrocarbyl substituents.