Abstract: A portable technical support device includes a location-determining element configured to allow the portable technical support device to be location-aware, and a communicating element configured to allow the portable technical support device to access a network management system, the network management system having information relating to a communication device, wherein the portable technical support device obtains from the management system the information relating to the communication device by making the network management system aware of the location of the communication device using the portable technical support device as a location-determining element.

Abstract: A portable technical support device includes a location-determining element configured to allow the portable technical support device to be location-aware, and a communicating element configured to allow the portable technical support device to access a network management system, the network management system having information relating to a communication device, wherein the portable technical support device obtains from the management system the information relating to the communication device by making the network management system aware of the location of the communication device using the portable technical support device as a location-determining element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for annotating protein sequences consistently, using disparate secondary database protein family information. In the method, information relating to the family to which a protein belongs is derived from two or more secondary databases (2DBs), each 2DB being generated by a different modelling approach and wherein at least one 2DB provides no single alignment of protein sequences in each family. The method involves the steps of extracting protein family information from said at least two 2DBs; and incorporating this information into a single modelling infrastructure.

Abstract: A radial flow regenerative counter flow heat exchanger includes a) a shell; b) a plurality of large circular baffle plates aligned coaxially within the shell and extending to an inner wall of the shell, defining at least one circular hole therein; c) a plurality of small circular baffle plates aligned coaxially within the shell, and alternately spaced from and coaxially positioned relative to each of the large circular baffle plates; d) a plurality of symmetrically-arranged tubes positioned perpendicular to the small baffle plates and the large baffle plates forming at least one coaxial tube bundle extending through the small baffle plates and large baffle plates, wherein an inner radius of the innermost tube row of the tube bundle is larger than a radius of the circular hole in the large baffle plate and the outer radius of the outermost tube row is smaller than a radius of the small baffle plates, and wherein the small baffle plate defines at least one space outside the tube bundle, and e) a heat transfer c