Abstract: Diagnostic data, such as a time increment corresponding to how long a thread waits to access a shared resource, is stored within a predetermined location in a data structure, such as a hash bucket in a hash table. The location is preferably correlated to the resource such that a display of the diagnostic data may be tailored to reflect a user-specified relationship between the data and resource.

Abstract: A method for determining the concentration of a dihydric phenol in the presence of a monohydric phenol uses spectroscopic detection at at least two wavelengths. Because the method does not require a chemical separation of the dihydric phenol and monohydric phenol, it is very rapid and particularly suitable for the analysis of large numbers of samples, such as those derived from combinatorial libraries.

Abstract: A compound comprises a blocked halogenated hydroxydiphenyl ether of the formula: where X1 is a halogen, X2 is chlorine or bromine, X3 is hydrogen, chlorine or bromine, X4 is chlorine, bromine, alkyl having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, —CHO, —CN or —NH2, X5 is chlorine, bromine, methyl, trichloromethyl, —CHO, —CN or —NH2, n is 1 or 2, and R is an ether linkage inhibiting group.

Abstract: Computerized systems and methods for planning, preparing, tracking, and analyzing a plurality of chemical reactions including a planner for planning how much of each of a plurality of materials is to be delivered to each of a plurality of reaction vessels; a delivery device for delivering a predetermined amount of each of the plurality of materials to each of the plurality of reaction vessels; a reaction device for reacting the plurality of materials disposed within each of the plurality of reaction vessels; a measuring device for testing and measuring the reacted contents of each of the plurality of reaction vessels; and an analyzer for analyzing the reacted contents of each of the plurality of reaction vessels to determine the amount of at least one component present in the reacted contents and to determine the relative performance of the materials disposed within each of the plurality of reaction vessels.

Abstract: A method for determining the concentration of a dihydric phenol in the presence of a monohydric phenol uses spectroscopic detection at at least two wavelengths. Because the method does not require a chemical separation of the dihydric phenol and monohydric phenol, it is very rapid and particularly suitable for the analysis of large numbers of samples, such as those derived from combinatorial libraries.

Abstract: A method for determining the concentration of a dihydric phenol in the presence of a monohydric phenol uses spectroscopic detection at at least two wavelengths. Because the method does not require a chemical separation of the dihydric phenol and monohydric phenol, it is very rapid and particularly suitable for the analysis of large numbers of samples, such as those derived from combinatorial libraries.

Abstract: Improvements in aids to bad check control; use of a copying machine to print driver's licenses, state identification cards, social security cards or the like on the backside of a check when it is written; personalizing and identifying checks by copying identification cards on the backside of the check when the check is accepted; improvements in processes of check identification marking in aid of collection of bad checks.

Abstract: Movie-Cubes is a system by which all the surfaces of a group of three-dimensional cubes are patterned in a way that when the cubes are arranged and moved correctly, they create a continuous picture or pattern that changes and eventually returns to itself. The pattern is laid out on a 45.degree. zig-zag graph before it is applied to the cubes. When this group of patterned cubes is arranged, so that the picture or pattern matches from cube to cube, and alternating rows of matched cubes are moved correctly, they create a picture or pattern that not only changes, but eventually returns to where it started. This system operates on the principle of geometric progression whereby, once the group of cubes is matched correctly, they are moved and rotated in alternating rows from one side of the group of cubes to the opposite side. With each rotation and movement of a row of matched cubes, a new part of the picture or pattern is exposed until the picture or pattern eventually returns to its starting point.