Abstract: A system and method for providing a connection platform between a supporter device and a participant device are provided.

Abstract: A wheel stud installing and removing system includes a C-frame; a forcing screw configured to communicate with the C-frame to move laterally through the C-frame; a swivel mounted on an end on the forcing screw; an adapter receiver mounted on an opposite end of the C-frame from the forcing screw, and configured to receive at least one of either a stud installing adapter and a stud removing adapter. A method of moving a stud includes: inserting one of either an installing adapter or a removing adapter into an adapter receiver on a C-frame; aligning a longitudinal axis of the adapter with a longitudinal axis of the stud; aligning the longitudinal axis of the stud with a longitudinal axis of a forcing screw; and turning the forcing screw.

Abstract: A process for the removal of an amine capturable gas from a feed gas stream using an amine solvent, the process comprises (a) contacting the feed gas stream with a lean amine solvent to form a rich amine solvent, wherein heat stable salts are present in the rich amine solvent; (b) stripping amine capturable gas from the rich amine solvent to form the lean amine solvent and an overhead reflux stream; (c) periodically contacting at least a portion of one or both of the lean amine solvent and the rich amine solvent with an anion exchange resin to form a first heat stable salt lean amine solvent; (d) periodically regenerating the anion exchange resin, wherein during the regeneration of the anion exchange resin, at least a portion of the reflux stream is used to wash the amine solvent from the anion exchange resin to produce a second heat stable salt lean amine solvent; and, (e) recycling at least a portion of the first and the second heat stable salt lean amine solvent for use in capturing the amine capturable ga

Abstract: A composition, device, and method for treating sexual dysfunction via inhalation is provided which comprises inhaling a dose of a powder composition, the powder composition comprising apomorphine or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Preferably, the powder composition further includes a carrier material, the carrier material has an average particle size of from about 40 to about 70 microns, and at least 90 percent of said apomorphine has a particle size of 5 microns or less.

Abstract: A cyclic process for the removal of NOx from a NOx containing feed gas, and optionally removal mercury vapour and/or sulfur dioxide is provided. A process is also provided by which an iron chelate absorbent may be thermally regenerated.

Abstract: One aspect of this disclosure relates to a method for recovering the three-dimensional (3D) point geometry of an object from images acquired with a single camera. The present subject matter uses single-camera images, models generalized camera lines-of-sight outside the camera, and uses linkage distances between markers on an object and the modeled lines-of-sight to recover the 3D positions of markers on the object. The linkage distances are used to recover information about the third dimension that would otherwise be lost in single-camera two-dimensional images. Benefits include low-cost, simplicity, and ease of calibration and implementation, and further include the ability to estimate 3D distances and positions as accurately as with a commercially available multi-camera 3D system. Other aspects and embodiments are provided herein.

Abstract: End-to-end transaction processing systems and methods provide for calculating an amount of a transaction, capturing a presentation instrument information from a customer presentation instrument with a portable POS device, transmitting the presentation instrument information to a PC-based POS system, and transmitting the presentation instrument information, a sales information, and an authorization request to an acquirer, transmitting the presentation information, the sales information, and the authorization request to an issuer, processing the presentation information, the sales information, and the authorization request to determine an approval or a denial, transmitting the approval or the denial to the acquirer; and transmitting the approval or the denial to the PC-based POS system.

Abstract: Sulphur dioxide is removed from gas streams by contacting the gas stream with an absorbing medium containing an amine capable of forming an amine salt, heat stable salt and sulfite. The level of heat stable salt is selected such that during the regeneration process of the sulphur dioxide rich amine, the pH of the absorbing medium is at a selected level or below when the level of sulfite in the absorbing medium has been reduced to a specified value. The amine that absorbs the sulphur dioxide has a pKa less than that of sulfite. If the absorbent includes a diamine, then the spent absorbing medium is regenerated under conditions such that at least one amine group remains in salt form.

Abstract: One aspect of this disclosure relates to a method for recovering the three-dimensional (3D) point geometry of an object from images acquired with a single camera. The present subject matter uses single-camera images, models generalized camera lines-of-sight outside the camera, and uses linkage distances between markers on an object and the modeled lines-of-sight to recover the 3D positions of markers on the object. The linkage distances are used to recover information about the third dimension that would otherwise be lost in single-camera two-dimensional images. Benefits include low-cost, simplicity, and ease of calibration and implementation, and further include the ability to estimate 3D distances and positions as accurately as with a commercially available multi-camera 3D system. Other aspects and embodiments are provided herein.

Abstract: The use of a detergent-containing fuel additive in a diesel fuel composition, for the purpose of reducing engine power loss and/or reversing a previously incurred power loss, and optionally also for reducing smoke and/or particulate emissions. Also provided is a method for assessing the performance of a candidate diesel fuel composition based on its ability to reduce or reverse power loss, and a diesel fuel composition containing a detergent at an active matter concentration of between 100 and 500 ppmw.