Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a method is provided including: decoding, at a base station of a wireless system, one or more bits of an uplink transmission from a user equipment, wherein the one or more bits are indicative of a channel quality; calculating a confidence metric corresponding to a reliability of the decoding; and causing a channel quality report to be generated based at least on the calculated confidence metric and a value for each system configuration parameter in a limited set of one or more system configuration parameters associated with the base station.

Abstract: A phantom powered preamp for use with a microphone cartridge having a unique mechanical interface. The unique mechanical interface allows the phantom powered preamp to function with both ¼ and ½ inch microphone cartridges. The phantom powered preamp including a housing base having a PC board assembly and a connector, the PC board assembly being electrically coupled to the connector; a preamp tip having an adapter and a guard tube, the PC board assembly extending from the housing base to the preamp tip and being electrically coupled to the adapter and the guard tube, the adapter being configured to be electrically coupled to the microphone cartridge, the guard tube being configured to surround a portion of the PC board assembly within the preamp tip; and a first converter being configured to releasably engage the preamp tip or the housing base to reduce edge diffraction.

Abstract: A phantom powered preamp for use with a microphone cartridge having a unique mechanical interface. The unique mechanical interface allows the phantom powered preamp to function with both ¼ and ½ inch microphone cartridges. The phantom powered preamp including a housing base having a PC board assembly and a connector, the PC board assembly being electrically coupled to the connector; a preamp tip having an adapter and a guard tube, the PC board assembly extending from the housing base to the preamp tip and being electrically coupled to the adapter and the guard tube, the adapter being configured to be electrically coupled to the microphone cartridge, the guard tube being configured to surround a portion of the PC board assembly within the preamp tip; and a first converter being configured to releasably engage the preamp tip or the housing base to reduce edge diffraction.

Abstract: Methods of incorporating unnatural amino acids into proteins in eukaryotic cells using an orthogonal aminoacyl synthetase and an orthogonal tRNA derived from Lactococcus lactis.

Abstract: The present invention discloses methods of determining highly precise interactions between the HERG ion channel and various compounds. The methods of the present invention utilize modified HERG ion channels combined with heterologous in vivo expression in Xenopus oocytes and mammalian cells.

Abstract: The present invention discloses methods of determining highly precise interactions between the HERG ion channel and various compounds. The methods of the present invention utilize the nonsense codon suppression methods combined with heterologous in vivo expression in Xenopus oocytes.