Abstract: The system and method described herein may identify one or more virtual desktop extensions available in a cloud computing environment and launch virtual machine instances to host the available virtual desktop extensions in the cloud. For example, a virtual desktop extension manager may receive a virtual desktop extension request from a client desktop and determine whether authentication credentials for the client desktop indicate that the client desktop has access to the requested virtual desktop extension. In response to authenticating the client desktop, the virtual desktop extension manager may then launch a virtual machine instance to host the virtual desktop extension in the cloud and provide the client desktop with information for locally controlling the virtual desktop extension remotely hosted in the cloud.

Abstract: The system and method for determining fuzzy cause and effect relationships in an intelligent workload management system described herein may combine potential causes and effects captured from various different sources associated with an information technology infrastructure with substantially instantaneous feedback mechanisms and other knowledge sources. As such, fuzzy correlation logic may then be applied to the combined information to determine potential cause and effect relationships and thereby diagnose problems and otherwise manage interactions that occur in the infrastructure. For example, information describing potential causes and potential effects associated with an operational state of the infrastructure may be captured and combined, and any patterns among the information that describes the multiple potential causes and effects may then be identified.

Abstract: The system and method described herein may identify one or more virtual desktop extensions available in a cloud computing environment and launch virtual machine instances to host the available virtual desktop extensions in the cloud. For example, a virtual desktop extension manager may receive a virtual desktop extension request from a client desktop and determine whether authentication credentials for the client desktop indicate that the client desktop has access to the requested virtual desktop extension. In response to authenticating the client desktop, the virtual desktop extension manager may then launch a virtual machine instance to host the virtual desktop extension in the cloud and provide the client desktop with information for locally controlling the virtual desktop extension remotely hosted in the cloud.

Abstract: The system and method described herein may identify one or more virtual desktop extensions available in a cloud computing environment and launch virtual machine instances to host the available virtual desktop extensions in the cloud. For example, a virtual desktop extension manager may receive a virtual desktop extension request from a client desktop and determine whether authentication credentials for the client desktop indicate that the client desktop has access to the requested virtual desktop extension. In response to authenticating the client desktop, the virtual desktop extension manager may then launch a virtual machine instance to host the virtual desktop extension in the cloud and provide the client desktop with information for locally controlling the virtual desktop extension remotely hosted in the cloud.

Abstract: A system and method for a BP monitoring cuff that has an integrated acoustic sensor used to acquire Korotkoff sounds during partial occlusion of the arterial vessel.

Abstract: The system and method for determining fuzzy cause and effect relationships in an intelligent workload management system described herein may combine potential causes and effects captured from various different sources associated with an information technology infrastructure with substantially instantaneous feedback mechanisms and other knowledge sources. As such, fuzzy correlation logic may then be applied to the combined information to determine potential cause and effect relationships and thereby diagnose problems and otherwise manage interactions that occur in the infrastructure. For example, information describing potential causes and potential effects associated with an operational state of the infrastructure may be captured and combined, and any patterns among the information that describes the multiple potential causes and effects may then be identified.

Abstract: The system and method described herein may identify one or more virtual desktop extensions available in a cloud computing environment and launch virtual machine instances to host the available virtual desktop extensions in the cloud. For example, a virtual desktop extension manager may receive a virtual desktop extension request from a client desktop and determine whether authentication credentials for the client desktop indicate that the client desktop has access to the requested virtual desktop extension. In response to authenticating the client desktop, the virtual desktop extension manager may then launch a virtual machine instance to host the virtual desktop extension in the cloud and provide the client desktop with information for locally controlling the virtual desktop extension remotely hosted in the cloud.

Abstract: The system and method for controlling cloud and virtualized data centers described herein may include a computing environment having a model-driven, service-oriented architecture for creating collaborative threads to manage workloads, and further to creating cloud images having embedded management agents and identity services for validating the cloud images prior to deployment into the cloud and virtualized data centers and controlling, monitoring, and auditing activity associated with the cloud images following deployment into the cloud and virtualized data centers.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lipid of the formula (I) R3R4N—[Y]q—(CpH2p)—X-Linker-NR1R2 (I) wherein R3 and R4 are independently selected from H and hydrocarbyl groups; q is an integer selected from 1 to 10; Y represents a group (CnH2n)NR5, wherein (i) when q is 1, n is 2, or (ii) when q is greater than 1, each Y may be the same or different and each n is an integer independently selected from 1 to 10, with the proviso that for at least one unit Y, n is 2, and (iii) each R5 is independently selected from H and hydrocarbyl groups; p is an integer selected from 1 to 10; X is an optional group selected from —NR7—, —C(?O)—NR8—, —NR9—C(?O)—, —C(?O)—, —O—, and NR10—C(=0)0-, wherein each R7, R8, R9 and R10 is independently selected from H and hydrocarbyl groups, Linker is an optional group selected from amino acid residues, peptide residues and groups of the formula —(OCH2CH2)1-10, —NR6-(CvH2v)—C(?O)—, wherein R6 is H or a hydrocarbyl group and v is an integer selected from 1 to 11, and —C(=0)-(CH2)0-10—CH2—C(=0)

Abstract: Ultra low frequency transmissions can be used to penetrate obstructions to areas where other operation of other communication devices may be limited, such as in a mine, tunnel, or other underground location. A portable device that includes a supercapacitor, a transmitter, and an antenna can be used to communicate using ultra low frequency transmissions. In one aspect, a communication device comprises a supercapacitor; a transmitter powered by the supercapacitor; and an antenna connected to the transmitter for sending messages. In another aspect, a method for communicating comprises the steps of receiving a message to be transmitted, powering a transmitter from a charged supercapacitor, and transmitting the message via an antenna.

Abstract: An ultra low frequency transmission system can provide communications, for example, messages, to an individual or a group in areas of a building where conventional transmission reception is limited. A communication system for a structure includes a transmitter and an antenna network extending substantially throughout the structure. The antenna network includes a first portion and a second portion. At least one location in the structure can receive a transmission from the first portion and the second portion of the antenna network. The antenna network is configured to receive the transmission from the transmitter and to communicate the transmission throughout the antenna network to at least one receiver configured to receive the transmission from the transmitter via the antenna network. The antenna network transmits the transmission using an ultra low frequency to the at least one receiver.

Abstract: A method for securely executing a charge transaction establishes an encrypted communication link between the mobile telecommunication device and a host by utilizing executable program code in the mobile telecommunication device. The method transmits data related to a charge transaction request from the host to the mobile telecommunication device via the encrypted communication link, and further transmits a second of at least two in combination unique data sets from the mobile telecommunication device to the host via the encrypted communication link as authorization for the charge transaction to be executed, and even further transmits from the host to a payment service provider, data related to the charge transaction request, the received second data set and a, in combination with the received second data set unique first data set stored at the host. The method completes the charge transaction if the first and second data sets in combination authorize the charge transaction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-viral delivery vector comprising a liposome, wherein one or more lipids of the liposome are coupled, reversibly or irreversibly, to one or more polymers, and wherein the liposome comprises siRNA.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lipid compound comprising at least one non-polar moiety and a polar moiety, wherein each or at least one non-polar moiety is of the formula X—Y-Z-, wherein X is a hydrocarbyl chain, Y is selected from at least one of S, Se, SO2, SO, and O, and Z is an optional hydrocarbyl group, wherein the polar moiety is of the formula —[C(O)]mPHG, wherein PHG is a polar head group, and wherein m is the number of non-polar moieties.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing a modified lipid of the formula comprising reacting (I) a compound of the formula; and (ii) a compound of the formula wherein component (ii) is formulated as a liposome; wherein B is a lipid; wherein A is a moiety of interest (MOI) and is a hydrocarbyl group; wherein X is an optional linker group; wherein R1 is H or a hydrocarbyl group; and wherein R2 is a lone pair, H or a hydrocarbyl group. The moiety of interest A may be selected from a carbohydrate moiety, a polymer, a peptide, a glycoprotein, a small biomolecule (such as a folic acid derivative) and a bioconjugate linker.

Abstract: The present invention provides a delivery vehicle for a therapeutic agent comprising a modified lipid and a therapeutic agent; wherein the modified lipid comprises a lipid and a delivery, targeting or stabilising moiety (DTS moiety); wherein the lipid is linked to the DTS moiety via a linker which is stable in biological fluid and which is unstable in defined conditions; and wherein the DTS moiety is linked to the lipid alter formation of a complex of lipid and therapeutic agent.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of the formula 1