Abstract: A method for reusing certified capabilities for the implementation of a function on board an aircraft is disclosed. The certified capability can include a historical hardware platform associated with a historical software application. In one aspect, the method includes replacing the historical hardware platform with an updated hardware platform and associating the updated hardware platform with a software layer emulating the historical hardware platform, and instituting a functional interface between the historical software application and the updated hardware platform.

Abstract: A high speed knitting machine and method, in which yarn is fed to the needles of the knitting machine by fluid under pressure in a feed conduit, in such a way that it is directed into the hooks of the needles tangentially to the stems of the needles.

Abstract: A portable monitor unit for knitting machines and particularly suitable for circular knitting machines including a yarn speed sensor pulsing a numeral display counter via a gate, a needle detector controlling the gate via a settable counter, a frequency meter, and a switch for selectively engaging the signals of the yarn sensor, needle detector and frequency meter to display yarn length per needle stitch, yarn length per unit time, and rpm of the knitting machine.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Viburnum plant named ‘Le Bois Marquis’, characterized by its compact, upright and outwardly spreading plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; developing leaves that are bronze in color; glossy dark green-colored leaves that become reddish in color during the autumn; and good garden performance.