Abstract: A method of playing a modified chess game wherein the general rules of play are the same as standard chess with the addition of a new rule providing a board which can shift horizontally and/or vertically, adding new possibilities and strategies to the orthodox game of chess.

Abstract: A method for printing and aftertreating a print includes producing at least one print on a printing material with an ink curable by radiation, and curing the print by the radiation. A level of gloss of the print is set by applying to the print particles matting the surface of the ink. The print is polymerized at depth by at least one radiation source.

Abstract: An essentially iron-free linear motor for a sewing device or sewing machine produces and controls the pressure on the material being sewn by means of a drive rod, with a tubular housing, with at least two annular permanent magnets located therein. Each of the magnets has a north pole and a south pole and is magnetized radially, each in a different magnetization direction, and with a coil divided into at least two partial coils wound in opposite directions and each associated with a permanent magnet, whereby the partial coils and the permanent magnets are mutually displace, involving drive rod, in a magnetic lock that is effected by the housing, by a core in the form of center piece, and an air gap with the coil. The partial coils are located inside housing and the permanent magnets are located between said coils and the center piece.

Abstract: A display and/or operating device for controlling machines includes a projection device for projecting an image onto a projection area, an acquisition device for scanning the same projection area, and a control computer for controlling the projection device and the acquisition device. The present invention is distinguished by the fact that, by the acquisition device and the control computer, an analysis of the same projection surface can be carried out, and that the content of the image to be projected can be controlled by the control computer as a function of the result of the analysis of the same projection area.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system is described for reducing a dark period between successive data acquisition periods associated with the detection of one or more target molecules hybridized to at least one of a plurality of probes disposed upon a biological probe array. The system comprises a switch that alternately directs an analog signal between a first circuit and a second circuit, where a period of time is required to alternate between the first and second circuits; an integrator associated with the first circuit that integrates the analog signal to generate a first integrated value; a second integrator associated with the second circuit that integrates the analog signal to generate a second integrated value; and an analog/digital converter that produces a digital value for each of the first integrated value and the second integrated values.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel cleavage agents for the cleavage and modification of nucleic acid. The cleavage agents find use, for example, for the detection and characterization of nucleic acid sequences and variations in nucleic acid sequences. In some embodiments, an endonuclease activity is used to cleave a target-dependent cleavage structure, thereby indicating the presence of specific nucleic acid sequences or specific variations thereof.

Abstract: This is a novel two-player board game which uses addition and subtraction to initiate the movement of a player's pieces. The game is comprised of two sections; each section consists of a plurality of spaces containing integers. The interior section is comprised of opposite sides separated by zeros, one side containing negative integers and the other positive. Pieces are provided to each player for separate use in the exterior and interior sections. Movement is initiated by positioning pieces in the exterior section on spaces whose integers produce a difference of two integers found in the interior section, thus enabling pieces to move from one space to another. The object of this game is to be the first player with all his/her pieces positioned within the interior section on spaces whose integers when added together equal zero.

Abstract: A method for generating digital imaging data for an imaging unit, in which digital imaging data are defined from a signature of input image data, in that a section of the signature corresponding to the imaging format of the imaging unit is processed (24) into a raster image by a raster image processor, the section being defined on the basis of geometric parameters of an image area of the input image data. A raster image processor for implementing the method includes a raster-image-processor program having at least one section, in which geometric parameters for defining the section to be processed, are assigned (16) to input variables for the rasterization.

Abstract: A method for digital imaging of a printing form (10) through application of energy is described, in which a burn-off area (66) is detachably fixed by supporting points (68, 84), supporting points (68, 84) being left in place on the printing form (10) through non-imaging of image spots (112) and in which the burn-off from the burn-off area (66) is detached from the printing form (10) in a cleaning step. A supporting point (68, 84) at a reference point is left in place precisely if the number of image spots (110) to be imaged in a surrounding area (18) of the reference point (12) exceeds a limit value and a boundary area (20) in the surrounding area (18) around the reference point (12) contains only image spots (110) to be imaged.

Abstract: An essentially iron-free linear motor for a sewing device or sewing machine produces and controls the pressure on the material being sewn by means of a drive rod, with a tubular housing, with at least two annular permanent magnets located therein. Each of the magnets has a north pole and a south pole and is magnetized radially, each in a different magnetization direction, and with a coil divided into at least two partial coils wound in opposite directions and each associated with a permanent magnet, whereby the partial coils and the permanent magnets are mutually displaceable, involving drive rod, in a magnetic lock that is effected by the housing, by a core in the form of center piece, and an air gap with the coil. The partial coils are located inside housing and the permanent magnets are located between said coils and the center piece.

Abstract: A method for printing includes a plurality of process steps. According to an additional step, relevant data are stored in a central relational database. Both a printing press and a data processing unit processing prepress data are interconnected.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel cleavage agents and polymerases for the cleavage and modification of nucleic acid. The cleavage agents and polymerases find use, for example, for the detection and characterization of nucleic acid sequences and variations in nucleic acid sequences. In some embodiments, the 5′ nuclease activity of a variety of enzymes is used to cleave a target-dependent cleavage structure, thereby indicating the presence of specific nucleic acid sequences or specific variations thereof.

Abstract: A method of extending a cache of a processing unit in a multi-processor computer system, by expanding the prior-art MESI cache-coherency protocol to include an additional cache-entry state corresponding to a most recently accessed state. A value is loaded from system memory into one or more caches of adjacent processing units, and when a requesting processing unit issues an inquiry onto the system bus to read the value, the value is sourced from the cache of the adjacent processing unit containing a copy of the value that was most recently accessed. Each cache has at least one cache line with a block for storing the value, and an indication is provided that a cache line having a block which contains an instruction or data is in a “recently read” state. Each cache entry has three bits to indicate the current state of the cache entry (one of five possible states).

Abstract: The present invention provides novel cleavage agents and polymerases for the cleavage and modification of nucleic acid. The cleavage agents and polymerases find use, for example, for the detection and characterization of nucleic acid sequences and variations in nucleic acid sequences. In some embodiments, the 5′ nuclease activity of a variety of enzymes is used to cleave a target-dependent cleavage structure, thereby indicating the presence of specific nucleic acid sequences or specific variations thereof.

Abstract: A method of producing screen data for imaging units of a printing machine includes the steps of breaking down raw image data into a plurality of partial images, respectively, corresponding to one printing ink; outputting the partial images to a plurality of screen processors, respectively, corresponding to the number of colors to the printed; and processing the partial images simultaneously for forming screen data by the screen processors for output to a respective one of the imaging units; and a system for performing the method.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel cleavage agents and polymerases for the cleavage and modification of nucleic acid. The cleavage agents and polymerases find use, for example, for the detection and characterization of nucleic acid sequences and variations in nucleic acid sequences. In some embodiments, the 5′ nuclease activity of a variety of enzymes is used to cleave a target-dependent cleavage structure, thereby indicating the presence of specific nucleic acid sequences or specific variations thereof.

Abstract: The invention applies to a process and rotary point crush truer device to dress grinding wheels with profiled working surfaces with a rotary truer where the grinding wheel and rotary truer to whose surfaces are applied a material of greater hardness than the grinding wheel to be dressed, allowing the grinding wheel and rotary truer to run with the same circumferential speed and, at the same time, the grinding wheel and the rotary point crush truer device to press together under high pressure. It is the task of the invention to create a possibility of a simple means to avoid the abrasion in the above mentioned process of crush dressing with different surface speeds between the grinding wheel and the rotary truer, and thus to achieve long tool life of the dressing tool.

Abstract: A method for printing includes a plurality of process steps. According to an additional step, relevant data are stored in a central relational database. Both a printing press and a data processing unit processing prepress data are interconnected.

Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for preventing the occurrence of deadlocks from the execution of multiply-initiated multiply-sourced variable delay system bus operations. In general, each snooper excepts a given operation at the same time according to an agreed upon condition. In other words, the snooper in a given cache can accept an operation and begin working on it even while retrying the operation. Furthermore, none of the active snoopers release an operation until all the active snoopers are done with the operation. In other words, execution of a given operation is started by the snoopers at the same time and finished by each of the snoopers at the same time. This prevents the ping-pong deadlock by keeping any one cache from finishing the operation before any of the others.

Abstract: A queued arbitration mechanism transfers all queued processor bus requests to a centralized system controller/arbiter in a descriptive and pipelined manner. Transferring these descriptive and pipelined bus requests to the system controller allows the system controller to optimize the system bus utilization via prioritization of all of the requested bus operations and pipelining appropriate bus grants. Intelligent bus request information is transferred to the system controller via encoding and serialization techniques.