Abstract: This disclosure relates to a payee applications and payment applications installed on a mobile communication device. The device authenticates the payee application with a transaction server and sends transaction data to the transaction server. The device then receives from the transaction server a transaction identifier and sends the transaction identifier to a payment application installed on the mobile communication device to allow the payment application to access the transaction data from the transaction server. In response, the device receives from the payment application a payment confirmation associated with the transaction identifier and sends to the transaction server a request for payment status, the request comprising the transaction identifier. Finally, the device receives response data indicative of the payment status from the transaction server and determines a validity of the payment confirmation based on the response data from the transaction server.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, a method of patterning can include dividing an image into a set of frame sections; determining a tip pattern for a respective portion of an image to be patterned by each tip of the tip array in each frame section of the set of frame sections; disposing the tip array in a patterning position in a first location of the substrate corresponding to a location of the substrate in which the first frame section in the set of frame sections is to be patterned; projecting a first pattern of radiation onto the tip array to selectively irradiate one or more tips of the tip array and pattern the substrate, wherein the first pattern of radiation corresponds to a tip pattern for the first frame section; disposing the tip array in a patterning position in a second location of the substrate corresponding to a location of the substrate in which the second frame section in the set of frame sections is to be patterned; projecting a second pattern of radiation onto the tip array

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for providing small cell backhaul are disclosed. A network node that acts as a gateway for a local communication network to a main communication network through a bonded link with the main communication network also provides a wireless communication module with a backhaul communication link to the main communication network through its bonded link. A switch module in the network node switches communication traffic between the local communication network, the wireless communication module and the bonded link to the main communication network. The network node may power the wireless communication module utilizing remote power provided by the main communication network, the local communication network, and/or a local source of power. Apparatus and methods for providing a transparent bonded link through a network access multiplexer are also disclosed, including management of the bonded link and of nodes subtending from the bonded link.

Abstract: Rapid nucleic acid libraries, methods of generation, kits, and compositions relating to library synthesis, including reagents, intermediaries and final products are disclosed herein. The disclosure enables rapid synthesis of libraries that allow independent verification of sequence information and rapid identification of sequence information with template of origin.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to facilitating payment by a payer using a payee application installed on a mobile communication device. The device detects an interaction by the payer with respect to the payee application to initiate a payment. In response to detecting the interaction, the device selects one of multiple payment applications installed on the mobile communication device and activates the one of the multiple payment applications to allow the payer to interact with the one of the multiple payment applications using a graphical user interface provided by the one of the multiple payment applications. Finally, the device sends payment data associated with the payment from the payee application to the one of the multiple payment applications to facilitate the payment. The payer can interact with the trusted payment application, which is an advantage over other payment methods where the payer provides credit card numbers directly to the payee.

Abstract: A waterproof swivel electrical cable connector comprises a first housing including a first electrical connector being rotatably connected to a second housing including a second electrical connector. A first elastomeric washer is intermediate the first housing and the second housing and providing a watertight seal between the first housing and the second housing as the first housing and first electrical connector are rotated relative to the second housing and second electrical connector.

Abstract: Provided here are hard transparent polymer pen arrays, methods of printing indicia using the same, and methods of preparing the same.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method of inking a polymer pen lithography tip array (“PPL tip array”), including applying an ink composition to a PPL tip array using at least two spray applicators to deposit the ink as a non-uniform ink layer. The disclosure further provides a method of depositing at least two ink compositions on PPL tip array, including applying a first ink to a first defined area using a first spray applicator, and applying a second ink to a second defined area using a second spray applicator. The disclosure further provides a method of scaling a linear ink composition gradient provided by at least two spray applicators to a PPL tip array having a length, L, including positioning the spray applicators at a distance of about 5.0 L to about 8.0 L relative to the surface of the PPL tip array, positioning the spray applicators at a distance of about 0.5 L to about 3.0 L relative to each other, and applying an ink composition.

Abstract: A universal cooking assembly for rotating vertically disposed food over a horizontally disposed heat source, said cooking assembly comprising: a horizontally disposed rotisserie rod; a first skewer apparatus; a second skewer apparatus; and a handle mechanically connected to the rotisserie rod for rotating the same about its axis.

Abstract: An adjustable food holding apparatus, said apparatus comprising: at least one fork assembly selectively, releasably, and slidably disposed along a rotisserie rod.

Abstract: Methods and compositions related to the use of Mobile Element Insertions and their adjacent genomic sequences. Methods using MEIs as markers for cellular proliferation, as targets for pharmaceuticals, as markers for tissue fingerprinting and in related methods and compositions are disclosed herein. Methods and compositions relate to the detection, treatment and ongoing monitoring of cell proliferation events, cancer, and deleterious effects of mobile elements in aging, and to the selection, use and monitoring of the success of treatment regimens to address these conditions.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods related to the elimination of molecules of a selected sequence from a nucleic acid sample or from an sequence dataset resulting from the sequencing of a sample, for example to exclude such molecules from downstream analysis or sequencing, or to exclude such sequences from a downstream data set.

Abstract: The invention provides barcode libraries and methods of making and using them including obtaining a plurality of nucleic acid constructs in which each construct comprises a unique N-mer and a functional N-mer and segregating the constructs into a fluid compartments such that each compartment contains one or more copies of a unique construct. The invention further provides methods for digital PCR and for use of barcode libraries in digital PCR.

Abstract: The invention provides barcode libraries and methods of making and using them including obtaining a plurality of nucleic acid constructs in which each construct comprises a unique N-mer and a functional N-mer and segregating the constructs into a fluid compartments such that each compartment contains one or more copies of a unique construct. The invention further provides methods for digital PCR and for use of barcode libraries in digital PCR.

Abstract: An antenna array (106) which in use emits radiation in two respectively orthogonally polarised directions, the array including a plurality of elements, the elements including at least one element of a first type and at least four elements of a second type wherein the element of the first type comprises part of two balanced feeds with two elements of the second type and the element of the first type is capacitively coupled to two further elements of the second type, wherein the elements used to produce radiation in a first direction lie in a first plane (104), the elements used to produce radiation in a second direction lie in a second plane (102), and the first and second planes are spaced apart, and the element of the first type includes two portions, one of which lies in the first plane and one of which lies in the second plane.

Abstract: A waterproof swivel electrical cable connector comprises a first housing including a first electrical connector being rotatably connected to a second housing including a second electrical connector. A first elastomeric washer is intermediate the first housing and the second housing and providing a watertight seal between the first housing and the second housing as the first housing and first electrical connector are rotated relative to the second housing and second electrical connector.

Abstract: A compressor may include a scroll member, a hub, a discharge valve and a bypass valve. An end plate of the scroll member includes a recess, a discharge passage in communication with the recess, and a bypass passage in communication with the recess and disposed radially outward relative to the discharge passage. The hub may be received in the recess and may include a central opening in communication with the discharge passage and the bypass passage. The discharge valve may be disposed between the hub and the end plate and may control fluid flow through the discharge passage. The bypass valve may be disposed between the hub and the end plate and may be movable between a first position restricting fluid flow through the bypass passage and a second position allowing fluid to flow through the bypass passage, around the discharge valve and through the central opening.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a cable grasping assembly and an associated waterproof lockable disengaging swiveling electrical cable connector housing structure. The assembly includes and end cap, a cable-holding sleeve and a housing. The end cap threads onto the housing in such a way that it causes fingers of the housing to compress the cable holding sleeve onto a cable which passes through the bores of all three. The structure includes a male housing partially inserted into the bore of a female housing. Each housing has a generally cylindrical body with a cable support structure located within its bore. The two housings are free to rotate about the cylindrical surfaces of each other when locked together via a locking sleeve. The structure also includes a sealing structure carried by one of the housings that establishes a watertight seal between the housings when the male is partially inserted into the female.

Abstract: A coat micro tip can include a tip having a base and an oppositely disposed tip end having a radius of curvature of less than 1 ?m and a graphene film conformally coated on the tip.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, a method of patterning can include dividing an image into a set of frame sections; determining a tip pattern for a respective portion of an image to be patterned by each tip of the tip array in each frame section of the set of frame sections; disposing the tip array in a patterning position in a first location of the substrate corresponding to a location of the substrate in which the first frame section in the set of frame sections is to be patterned; projecting a first pattern of radiation onto the tip array to selectively irradiate one or more tips of the tip array and pattern the substrate, wherein the first pattern of radiation corresponds to a tip pattern for the first frame section; disposing the tip array in a patterning position in a second location of the substrate corresponding to a location of the substrate in which the second frame section in the set of frame sections is to be patterned; projecting a second pattern of radiation onto the tip array