Abstract: Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for distributing a resource (such as electricity) using a resource allocation system. One of the disclosed embodiments is a method for generating a bid value for purchasing electricity in a market-based resource allocation system. In this embodiment, a desired performance value indicative of a user's desired performance level for an electrical device is received. Price information from an electricity futures market is received. A bid value for purchasing electricity from a local resource allocation market sufficient to operate the electrical device at the desired performance level is computed. In this embodiment, the computing is performed based at least in part on the desired performance value and based at least in part on the price information from the electricity futures market.

Abstract: A personal electronic carrier device (PECD) comprising means for receiving PECD data; means for storing PECD data; means for transmitting PECD data directly or indirectly PECD; and operating software means to effect the receiving, storing and transmitting the PECD data. The PECD is part of a network having a plurality of data stations and preferably a main data base. The PECD data is selected from the group consisting of medical, educational and identification data. The networks provide for the efficacious and convenient handling of data.

Abstract: A personal electronic carrier device (PECD) comprising means for receiving PECD data; means for storing PECD data; means for transmitting PECD data directly or indirectly PECD; and operating software means to effect the receiving, storing and transmitting the PECD data. The PECD is part of a network having a plurality of data stations and preferably a main data base. The PECD data is selected from the group consisting of medical, educational and identification data. The networks provide for the efficacious and convenient handling of data.

Abstract: A method on a computer for providing critical chain-based project management across a plurality of projects is disclosed. The method includes generating a plurality of plans, each of the plurality of plans corresponding to one of the plurality of projects, wherein a project comprises at least one task. The method further includes generating buffers for each of the plurality of projects and reconciling project resources among the plurality of projects. The method further includes executing the plurality of project plans, including allowing a user to manage the buffers across the plurality of projects. The user is further provided with information associated with buffers for the plurality of projects, so as to evaluate the status of the plurality of projects. Additionally, the user is provided with task prioritization for any task of the plurality of projects, wherein task prioritization is calculated across the plurality of projects.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for distributing a resource (such as electricity) using a resource allocation system. One of the disclosed embodiments is a method for generating a bid value for purchasing electricity in a market-based resource allocation system. In this embodiment, a desired performance value indicative of a user's desired performance level for an electrical device is received. Price information from an electricity futures market is received. A bid value for purchasing electricity from a local resource allocation market sufficient to operate the electrical device at the desired performance level is computed. In this embodiment, the computing is performed based at least in part on the desired performance value and based at least in part on the price information from the electricity futures market.

Abstract: A personal electronic carrier device (PECD) comprising means for receiving PECD data; means for storing PECD data; means for transmitting PECD data directly or indirectly PECD; and operating software means to effect the receiving, storing and transmitting the PECD data. The PECD is part of a network having a plurality of data stations and preferably a main data base. The PECD data is selected from the group consisting of medical, educational and identification data. The networks provide for the efficacious and convenient handling of data.

Abstract: An adsorbent for removing impurities such as CO2, H2S and water vapors from a gaseous olefin stream of at least C2 to C4 olefins is disclosed. The adsorbent comprises of zeolite CaA molecular sieve modified with metal silicate.

Abstract: Polypeptides derived from Ophiophagus hannah (king cobra) are disclosed together with their use in the treatment of disease, disorder or pathological condition in a patient in need of treatment. The polypeptides disclosed are functionally characterised by their ability to reduce the mammalian heart rate and/or their ?-antagonist activity.

Abstract: A method on a computer for providing critical chain-based project management across a plurality of projects is disclosed. The method includes generating a plurality of plans, each of the plurality of plans corresponding to one of the plurality of projects, wherein a project comprises at least one task. The method further includes generating buffers for each of the plurality of projects and reconciling project resources among the plurality of projects. The method further includes executing the plurality of project plans, including allowing a user to manage the buffers across the plurality of projects. The user is further provided with information associated with buffers for the plurality of projects, so as to evaluate the status of the plurality of projects. Additionally, the user is provided with task prioritization for any task of the plurality of projects, wherein task prioritization is calculated across the plurality of projects.

Abstract: Water dispersible compressed tablets and a process for preparing the same. The tablet comprising about 0.1 to 50% w/w of lamotrigine or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates or polymorphs, about 5 to about 50% w/w of a water-soluble diluent(s), about 15 to about 70% w/w of a water swellable diluent(s), optionally one or more pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvants, wherein the ratio of water-soluble diluent(s) to water swellable diluents(s) is from about 0.6 to about 0.9 and said composition is essentially free of disintegrant, superdisintegrant and swellable clay.

Abstract: A manufacturing execution system for manufacturing a product is provided. The manufacturing execution system includes a manufacturing execution plan having a set of manufacturing steps to be executed for manufacturing the product, a planning component for determining a data collection plan of data to be collected during the execution of one of the manufacturing steps, a service interface for providing the data collection plan in response to a service request, and a database for storing data that has been collected in accordance with the determined data collection plan.

Abstract: The invention relates to a manufacturing execution system comprising: a manufacturing execution plan being indicative of a set of manufacturing steps to be executed for manufacturing a product, a planning component for determining a context-specific data collection plan of data to be collected during execution of one of the manufacturing steps, a service interface for providing the data collection plan in response to a service request, a database for storing data that has been collected in accordance with a context-specific data collection plan

Abstract: In one aspect, the process includes providing a precursor medium comprising a liquid vehicle and a precursor to a component, and flame spraying the precursor medium under conditions effective to form a population of nanoparticles, wherein the nanoparticles include the component. The population of nanoparticles, as formed, comprises less than about 5 percent by volume particles having a particle size greater than 1.0 ?m. A size distribution of the population of nanoparticles may have a d50 value less than about 500 nm, and it may be unimodal. The size distribution may have a geometric standard deviation of less than about 2. The process may occur continuously for at least four hours or more. Greater than about 90 percent by weight of the precursor to the component in the precursor medium may be converted to the component in the nanoparticles. The process typically occurs in an enclosed flame spray reactor.

Abstract: In a first aspect, the process includes utilizing a precursor medium comprising particles and a nongaseous precursor to form product nanoparticles having a core/shell structure. In another aspect, the process includes utilizing an emulsion precursor medium comprising a nongaseous precursor and two liquid vehicles, wherein one of the liquid vehicles provides desirable thermal effects upon combustion. In another aspect the flame spray process includes modifying solid particles in a flame spray process to change the phase thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for decreasing flame temperature in a flame spray reaction system, the process comprising the steps of providing a precursor medium comprising a precursor to a component; flame spraying the precursor medium under conditions effective to form a population of product particles; and decreasing the flame temperature by contacting the flame with a cooling medium. The process of the present invention allows for the control of the size, composition and morphology of the nanoparticles made using the process. The invention also relates to a nozzle assembly that comprises a substantially longitudinally extending atomizing feed nozzle that comprises an atomizing medium conduit and one or more substantially longitudinally extending precursor medium feed conduits. The nozzle assembly of the present invention is used in a flame spray system to produce nanoparticles using the processes described herein.

Abstract: An adsorbent for selective adsorption of unsaturated hydrocarbons from its mixture with saturated hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, permanent gases or mixture thereof. The adsorbent includes a silver or copper compound in an amount of 1 to 70 wt % and a substrate in 30 to 99% wt %. Also a method for the manufacture of an adsorbent, which includes impregnating or dispersing a silver (I) or copper (I) compound on a mesoporous substrate or support to form a composite material and subjecting the composite material to heat treatment. Also, a process for separating ethylene and/or propylene from gas mixtures containing them by passing a stream of the gas mixture through a mass of the adsorbent at a temperature from 0° C. to 170° C. and a pressure from 0.1 to 100 atmospheres and releasing the adsorbed ethylene and/or propylene by lowering pressure and/or increasing temperature.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an adsorbent for selective adsorption of unsaturated hydrocarbons from its mixture with saturated hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, permanent gases or mixture thereof comprising of silver or copper compound 1 to 70 wt % and substrate 30 to 99%. The invention also discloses a method for the manufacture of an adsorbent for use in selective adsorption of unsaturated hydrocarbons or mixtures thereof from a mixed gas, which comprises impregnating or dispersing a silver (I) or copper (I) compound on a mesoporous substrate or support to form a composite material and subjecting said composite material to heat treatment. In another important aspect, the present invention also relates to a process for separating ethylene and/or propylene from gas mixtures containing them by passing a stream of said gas mixture through a mass of said adsorbent at a temperature from 0° C. to 170° C. and a pressure from 0.

Abstract: A group of solid adsorbents in the form of powder, granules or pellets having improved adsorptive capacity and selectivity for ethylene and/or propylene is disclosed. These adsorbents comprise (a) a silver compound and (b) a bentonite clay support bulk of which comprises SiO2 and Al2O3 and the rest being oxides of Fe, Ca, Mg, Na and K and having sufficiently high surface area on which the silver compound is dispersed or impregnated. The support may be pretreated by polymer solutions to impart sufficient mechanical strength as measured by attrition loss. Mechanical strength may also be improved by pre-heating the support. These adsorbents are highly stable and are capable of reversibly adsorbing substantial quantity of ethylene and/or propylene at room temperature. The rates of adsorption of ethylene and/or propylene are also very high in these adsorbents, which is believed to be due to the synergistic interaction between the components of the novel composition of the present invention.