Abstract: Traffic information, including traffic flow information and traffic incident information, obtained through a traffic management system for providing and facilitating the exchange of traffic information between a remote location and a vehicle may be presented to a user on a user display in the vehicle. In one embodiment, traffic information provided to a vehicle navigation device is refined by comparing the average speed of the vehicle against the average speed of other vehicles traveling along the same road. In another embodiment, the operation of a traffic signal is controlled based, in part, on the current traffic flow and distance from the traffic signal to alleviate traffic congestion.

Abstract: The invention allows trading on an exchange of non-taxable insurance funds and other financial products for which ownership and/or trading rights are restricted. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to systems and methods for validating and routing orders for restricted financial products. Other embodiments relate to systems and methods for trading restricted financial products in segregated areas of an exchange.

Abstract: An improved system and procedure for using user IDs to enter a personalized communication profile into a communication user interface, and preferably a vehicle-based communication user interface. In one embodiment, the user IDs correspond to switches, which may comprises switches within the vehicle or on devices in wireless communication with the vehicle, such as a key fob. The key fob code can either constitute the user ID or can be user to retrieve it from either the vehicle's head unit or a communications server. The switch may be dedicated to inputting the user ID, or may comprise switches also serving other functions, such as seat adjustment of the vehicle. The user ID can also be loaded using a display associated with the user interface. Additionally, the user ID may also be retrieved using a voice recognition module, which allows for loading of the communication profile without the necessity of pressing switches.

Abstract: A blasting system facilitates the actuation of a plurality of programmable detonators according to a desired blasting pattern, to cause the discharge of a plurality of associated charges, by downloading to the detonators blasting information that can be automatically determined by a portable handheld unit that incorporates a positional detecting device, such as a GPS device. The blasting information for any given detonator can be determined by the handheld unit as a function of the distance and the direction of the movement of the unit to the detonator, and/or by the actual GPS location while at the site of the detonator. This automatic determination of blasting information, and particularly the delay times, based on the movement of the unit to the detonator, eliminates error prone human calculations of the delay times needed for multiple detonators at a blasting site. This simplifies the operations and procedures needed for achieving a desired blasting pattern, without sacrificing safety or quality.

Abstract: A method for the reliquefaction of the gas phase occurring in a storage tank includes the step of warming, compressing, cooling and expanding a reliquefying gas stream after its removal from the storage tank against itself for the purpose of reliquefaction, wherein only a partial flow of the gas stream removed from the storage tank is fed to a compressor.

Abstract: Described in this invention is a catalytic process for making amide acetals from nitrites and diethanolamines. Amide acetals can be further crosslinked by hydrolyzing the amide acetal groups, and subsequently reacting the hydroxyl groups and/or the amine functions that are formed, to crosslink the composition.

Abstract: Systems and techniques relating to a microscope including a cord retractor. A microscope includes a base, a support arm attached to and extending upwardly from the base and a head attached to the support arm. The head includes at least one lens, and an eyepiece is attached to the head and in optical communication with the lens. A stage is positioned between the head and the base. The microscope further includes at least one electrically-powered component, and an electrical cord electrically connected to the at least one electrically-powered component. A cord retractor is positioned within the base, the cord retractor configured to retract at least a portion of the electrical cord into the cord retractor.

Abstract: A conductive structure and method of manufacturing therefor includes a plurality of stacked metal laminates secured to one another via an intermetallic bond made from a metallic bonding agent.

Abstract: A refillable therapeutic pack is disclosed that is comprised of an outer bag having a generally rectangular shape having two sides, a closed end and an open end. Tie straps are secured on the outer bag near the closed end and the open end and extend from the ends. An inner bag is provided internally within the outer bag. The inner bag has two sides, a closed end attached to the closed end of the outer bag and an open end. The open end of the inner bag is of a smaller diameter than the closed end of the inner bag such that the open end of the inner bag contains a neck section. Ice or cooling material may be filled into the inner bag of the cold pack through the neck section of the open end of the inner bag. The cold pack additionally includes flexible opening aids contained within the neck section of the open end to aid in opening and holding open the open end of the inner bag during filling and emptying.

Abstract: A tree stand for holding a tree with a root ball in a container includes three elongated, tubular feet interconnected at one end and flaring outwardly at 120° to each other. The feet have open top ends and contain slides retained in the feet by stops at such top ends. Post assemblies including plates connected to the slides by bolts are mounted on the feet. The bolts can be loosened to permit longitudinal movement of the post assemblies on the feet and tightened to lock the post assemblies in any of a plurality of positions against the root ball container.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lyophilised pharmaceutical preparation comprising an antibody against the endothelial growth factor receptor (EGF receptor). The preparation has increased storage stability, even at elevated temperatures, and, after reconstitution, can be used parenterally for the treatment of tumours.

Abstract: An air treatment system includes a recirculation line (24) through which air from the enclosed space can be recirculated, and a contaminant adsorption assembly (36) is provided in an auxiliary supply conduit (31). In the event that contaminants are detected in atmospheric air, air from the enclosed space can be recirculated for conditioning and then readmitted to the enclosed space. Oxygen that is breathed by occupants of the enclosed space can be replenished by admitting air from atmosphere, which is treated using the adsorption assembly and then mixed with air that is in the enclosed space or being recirculated for admission to the enclosed space.

Abstract: An apparatus for transporting flat work pieces has a first conveyor and a second conveyor. An inlet mouth is formed from the first conveyor and the second conveyor. The apparatus is distinguished by a geometry of the inlet mouth which can be optimized with regard to different, jointly assumed pivoting positions of the conveyors.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for throttling event messages to be sent to a network management system (NMS), so as to avoid overflow of element management system (EMS) buffers. Three states are defined for buffers within a proxy: low, high, and full. Changes between states occur as the fill-level of the buffers crosses thresholds. When the proxy buffers are in the low state, the event logger of an EMS forwards all event messages to the proxy, which are then forwarded to the NMS. When the proxy buffers are in the high state, the EMS only forwards high priority messages to the proxy. Low priority messages are stored within the EMS. When the proxy buffers are in a full state, the EMS does not forward any messages to the proxy. In this way, event messages are throttled, thereby reducing the frequency of network reconciliation, in a way which does not further burden the Qs channel process.

Abstract: This invention provides methods for obtaining molecules that can modulate an immune response, and immunomodulatory molecules obtained using the methods. The molecules find use, for example, in the tailoring of an immune response induced by a genetic vaccine for a desired purpose.

Abstract: The container 10 of the preferred embodiment comprises an outer shell 12 and an inner membrane 14 which cooperatively define a first compartment 16 and a second compartment 18. The first compartment 16 defines a first opening 20, through which the first compartment 16 receives a consumable liquid. The second compartment 18 defines a second opening 22, through which the second compartment 18 receives a second liquid. The first compartment 16 and the second compartment 18 are shaped and arranged such that greater than 50% of the surface area of the second compartment 18 is located adjacent to the first compartment 16. Alternatively, the first compartment 16 and the second compartment 18 may be shaped and arranged such that the first compartment 16 substantially surrounds at least a portion of the second compartment 18.

Abstract: A method of exchanging information by the Internet protocol in the form of datagrams each including a TOS field normally dedicated to receiving routing parameters, the method comprising the steps of: configuring network equipment to define an identification zone in the TOS field; associating equipment of a first type with identifiers that can be encoded in said identification zone; and on a piece of equipment of the first type sending a datagram to a piece of equipment of the second type, encoding the identifier of the piece of equipment of the first type in question in the identification zone, and on the datagram being received by the equipment of the second type, checking that the identifier appears in a table of authorized identifiers prior to accepting the datagram.

Abstract: A method and system of constructing equivalent integral covered blading for a turbine having multiple blades supported by a stator include multiple blade foils; multiple respective cover portions defining a first surface configured to span tips of multiple adjacent blades between tip locations of adjacent blades thereby to form the cover portion portions for adjacent blades and wherein the cover portions associated with each respective adjacent blades include facing sides for adjacent cover portions of adjacent blades; and an overcover coupled to a second surface opposite the first surface of the respective cover portions, the overcover configured to at least one of stiffen deterministic constraints of the tips and seal against leakage through the facing sides for adjacent cover portions.

Abstract: A filter structure, comprising a first signal line, a second signal line, a third signal line and a fourth signal line, said first and third signal lines defining an input port and said second and fourth signal lines defining an output port of a section of said filter structure, said section being defined by a first bulk acoustic wave resonator (A) which is connected between said first signal line and said second signal line, a second bulk acoustic wave resonator (G) which is connected between said third signal line and said fourth signal line, a third bulk acoustic wave resonator (C) which is connected between said first signal line and said fourth signal line, and a fourth bulk acoustic wave resonator (E) which is connected between said second signal line and said third signal line; is characterized in that a frequency pulling factor defined d of at least one of said acoustic wave resonators is non-zero, said frequency pulling factor d being defined by for first and second bulk acoustic wave resonators havi

Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for configuring programmatic objects for cache co-location. The method can include the steps of counting a frequency of access for individual fields in the object in a static analysis, rearranging the fields in the object based upon the counted frequency in the static analysis, and executing the object. Subsequently, a frequency of access for the individual fields in the object further can be counted in a dynamic analysis. Consequently, the fields in the object can be further rearranged based upon the counted frequency in the dynamic analysis to produce an optimal grouping for placement in cache memory. In a preferred aspect of the invention, access types for the individual fields can be identified. Subsequently, the rearranging step and the further rearranging step can be performed based both upon the counted frequency and also upon the access types.