Abstract: A Data Management System has a plurality of data managers and is provided with a plurality of data managers in one or more layers of a layered architecture The system performs with a data manager and with a user input via an API a plurality of processs on data residing in heterogeneous data repositories of the computer system including promotion, check-in, check-out, locking, library searching, setting and viewing process results, tracking aggregations, and managing parts, releases and problem fix data under management control of a virtual control reposisitory having one or more physical heterogeneous repositories. The system provides for storing, accessing, tracking data residing in the one or more data repositories managed by the virtual control repository. User Interfaces provide a combination of command line, scripts, GUI, Menu, WebBrowser maps of the user's view to a PFVL paradigm.

Abstract: A design control system suitable for use in connection with the design of integrated circuits and other elements of manufacture having many parts which need to be developed in a concurrent engineering environment with inputs provided by users and or systems which may be located anywhere in the world providing a set of control information for coordinating movement of the design information through development and to release while providing dynamic tracking of the status of elements of the bills of materials in an integrated and coordinated activity control system utilizing a repository which can be implemented in the form of a database (relational, object oriented, etc.) or using a flat file system. Once a model is created and/or identified by control information design libraries hold the actual pieces of the design under control of the system without limit to the number of libraries, and providing for tracking and hierarchical designs which are allowed to traverse through multiple libraries.

Abstract: The device assists those who are visually handicapped and, in particular, warns blind or visually impaired travellers that they have entered a potentially dangerous area proximal to the edge of boarding platforms of the type typically found in public railway transit systems. An InfraRed Integrated Information System consists of an array of infrared transmitters and a portable detector/warning device to be held by the blind traveller. The transmitters create a beam of infrared light which bathes the section of the platform proximal to the platform edge. As the traveller moves into the region of the platform covered by the emission, the sensors in the warning device are activated and by audio, tactile or other stimuli alert the traveller of entry into the danger zone.

Abstract: A contaminant detection system includes a transmitter for transmitting a guided wave through the skin at particular resonances, wherein each resonance point utilized will have propagation characteristics sensitive to a condition of interest. A contaminant may then be classified by transmitting several resonances and then carrying out appropriate feature extraction and pattern recognition techniques utilizing a host processor.

Abstract: A design control system suitable for use in connection with the design of integrated circuits and other elements of manufacture having many parts which need to be developed in a concurrent engineering environment with inputs provided by users and or systems which may be located anywhere in the world providing a set of control information for coordinating movement of the design information through development and to release while providing dynamic tracking of the status of elements of the bills of materials in an integrated and coordinated activity control system utilizing a repository which can be implemented in the form of a database (relational, object oriented, etc.) or using a flat file system. Once a model is created and/or identified by control information design libraries hold the actual pieces of the design under control of the system without limit to the number of libraries, and providing for tracking and hierarchical designs which are allowed to traverse through multiple libraries.

Abstract: A data management system for file and database management including a design control system suitable for use in connection with the design of integrated circuits and other elements of manufacture having many parts which need to be developed in a concurrent engineering environment with inputs provided by users and or systems which may be located anywhere in the world providing a set of control information for coordinating movement of the design information through development and to release while providing dynamic tracking of the status of elements of the bills of materials in an integrated and coordinated activity control system utilizing a control repository which can be implemented in the form of a database (relational, object oriented, etc.) or using a flat file system.

Abstract: A design control system suitable for use in connection with the design of integrated circuits and other elements of manufacture having many parts which need to be developed in a concurrent engineering environment with inputs provided by users and or systems which may be located anywhere in the world provides a set of control information for coordinating movement of the design information through development and to release while providing dynamic tracking of the status of elements of the bills of materials in an integrated and coordinated activity control system utilizing a repository which can be implemented in the form of a database (relational, object oriented, etc.) or using a flat file system. Once a model is created and/or identified by control information design libraries hold the actual pieces of the design under control of the system without limit to the number of libraries, and providing for tracking and hierarchical designs which are allowed to traverse through multiple libraries.

Abstract: A design control system suitable for use in connection with the design of integrated circuits and other elements of manufacture having many parts which need to be developed in a concurrent engineering environment with inputs provides by users and or systems which may be located anywhere in the world provides a set of control information for coordinating movement of the design information through development and to release while providing dynamic tracking of the status of elements of the bills of materials in an integrated and coordinated activity control system utilizing a repository which can be implemented in the form of a database (relational, object oriented, etc.) or using a flat file system. Once a model is created and/or identified by control information design libraries hold the actual pieces of the design under control of the system without limit to the number of libraries, and providing for tracking and hierarchical designs which are allowed to traverse through multiple libraries.

Abstract: A design control system suitable for use in connection with the design of integrated circuits and other elements of manufacture having many parts which need to be developed in a concurrent engineering environment with inputs provided by users and or systems which may be located anywhere in the world providing a set of control information for coordinating movement of the design information through development and to release while providing dynamic tracking of the status of elements of the bills of materials in an integrated and coordinated activity control system utilizing a repository which can be implemented in the form of a database (relational, object oriented, etc.) or using a flat file system. Once a model is created and/or identified by control information design libraries hold the actual pieces of the design under control of the system without limit to the number of libraries, and providing for tracking and hierarchical designs which are allowed to traverse through multiple libraries.

Abstract: A design control system suitable for use in connection with the design of integrated circuits and other elements of manufacture having many parts which need to be developed in a concurrent engineering environment with inputs provided by users and or systems which may be located anywhere in the world providing a set of control information for coordinating movement of the design information through development and to release while providing dynamic tracking of the status of elements of the bills of materials in an integrated and coordinated activity control system utilizing a repository which can be implemented in the form of a database (relational, object oriented, etc.) or using a flat file system. Once a model is created and/or identified by control information design libraries hold the actual pieces of the design under control of the system without limit to the number of libraries, and providing for tracking and hierarchical designs which are allowed to traverse through multiple libraries.

Abstract: A speech recognition method and apparatus which has a first stage to provide keyword hypotheses and a second stage to provide testing of those hypotheses by utterance verification. The utterance verification used has three separate models for each word: one keyword verification model, one misrecognition verification model, and one non-keyword verification model. Further, all three are developed independently of the recognizer keyword models. Because of this independence, the three verification models can be iteratively trained using existing speech data bases to jointly provide a minimum amount of verification errors.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for starting internal combustion engines having one to three cylinders by first activating a reverse direction motor to drive the power system of the engine in reverse to its normal operating direction until it is positioned at or near the backside of a prior compression stroke and then activating a starter motor, preferably at initial high torque, and continuing operation until the engine is started. The apparatus and process achieves a significant decrease in the size and power requirements for starters.

Abstract: The ability to control butterfly valves is greatly enhanced with a geared hand wheel having concentrically contained therein a pair of flat spur gears with at least one tooth difference and a pinion gear meshing with both of these gears with the pinion carried by the hand wheel in a planetary manner about these gears whereby a mechanical advantage is achieved as the spur gears are caused to rotate relative to one another by rotation of the hand wheel to control the valve shaft of the butterfly valve.

Abstract: A method of adjusting the donor concentration in a body of mercury cadmium telluride, or in regions of a body, comprising the steps of contacting the donor material region with a donor material of either aluminum or silicon and heating the body at a temperature of at least 550.degree. C for sufficient time to diffuse the donor material into the body. In a preferred embodiment, the heating is done in the presence of a source of mercury vapor pressure other than the body of semiconductor.

Abstract: Preparation of polythioethers by the polycondensation of thiodiethanol in the presence of an acid-acting carbon.

Abstract: Mercury cadmium telluride is disclosed having a quantity of a halogen donor material preferably selected from the group consisting of bromine and iodine dispersed therein in an amount sufficient to measurably increase the donor concentration. Also disclosed are PN junctions formed using this donor material. A method of introducing the donor material is additionally disclosed.

Abstract: Carbon particulates comprising carbon black spheres and a carbon binder having large pores as well as desirable pore size distributions are disclosed which are useful as selective adsorbants. A method of preparation and various uses are also disclosed.

Abstract: Reductive deposition of a platinum metal on a preformed porous carbon support provides increased intensity ratios of support/platinum metal as the average pore radius of the carbon support increases.

Abstract: A hydrodesulfurization catalyst consisting essentially of a carbon support carrying thereon at least 10 and up to 20 weight percent of a first metal selected from tungsten and molybdenum and from about 2 to 10 weight percent of a second metal selected from cobalt and nickel, said metals being in the form of their sulfides and said catalyst having an average pore radius of at least 25 angstrom units and a compacted bulk density of about 0.3-0.8 gram per cc. provide advantages in the hydrodesulfurization of petroleum residuum.

Abstract: Carbon particulates comprising carbon black spheres and a carbon binder having large pores as well as desirable pore size distribution are disclosed which serve as catalyst supports. The support carrying an effective amount of an activator is an active catalyst composition for a variety of reactions including reduction reactions.