Abstract: A content management system provides a mechanism for multi-file check-in features useful for content management. The content management system provides a way for users to check in multiple files in a single action. The system allows users to either select assets (e.g., files) or drag and drop multiple assets to be checked in. The assets being checked in are automatically matched with checked out assets, and once matched, unlocked.

Abstract: A system provides a mechanism for providing a multi-brand experience. The system provides a way implement a multi-brand experience by adding a layer of information that can be helpful when differentiating among consumers in order to accomplish market segmentation. The multi-brand experience enables each group of users to be presented with a different look and feel of the same application.

Abstract: A content management system provides a mechanism for representing a particular piece of metadata in multiple languages. The multilingual metadata system provides a user with an ability to visualize a single translation in a language of the user's preference or based on the user's locale. The system receives an indication that at least one metadata field associated with a managed object contains multilingual metadata. A locale metadata table and a new metadata table for the managed object are created using information from an original metadata table for the managed object. Two or more metadata field values representing at least two languages are received by the system. The metadata fields are tagged with locale information and stored in the locale metadata table in association with the at least one metadata field in the new metadata table.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to implementing rate controls to limit faults detected by timeout and to learning and adjusting an optimal timeout value. In one scenario, a computer system identifies cloud components that have the potential to fail within a time frame that is specified by a timeout value. The computer system establishes a number of components that are allowed to fail during the time frame specified by the timeout value and further determines that the number of component failures within the time frame specified by the timeout value has exceeded the established number of components that are allowed to fail. In response, the computer system increases the timeout value by a specified amount of time to ensure that fewer than or equal to the established number of components fail within the time frame specified by the timeout value.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to establishing a model for testing cloud components and to preventing cascading failures in cloud components. In one scenario, a computer system models identified cloud components (including cloud hardware components and/or cloud software components) as health entities. Each health entity is configured to provide state information about the cloud component. The computer system establishes declarative safety conditions which declaratively describe cloud computing conditions that are to be maintained at the identified cloud components. The computer system then tests against the declarative safety conditions to determine which cloud components are or are becoming problematic. Upon determining that an error has occurred, the computer system notifies users of the error and the component at which the error occurred. Guarded interfaces are established to ensure that actions taken to fix the error do not cause further failures.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to isolating a cloud computing node using network- or some other type of isolation. In one scenario, a computer system determines that a cloud computing node is no longer responding to monitoring requests. The computer system isolates the determined cloud computing node to ensure that software programs running on the determined cloud computing node are no longer effectual (either the programs no longer produce outputs, or those outputs are not allowed to be transmitted). The computer system also notifies various entities that the determined cloud computing node has been isolated. The node may be isolated by powering the node down, by preventing the node from transmitting and/or receiving data, and by manually isolating the node. In some cases, isolating the node by preventing the node from transmitting and/or receiving data includes deactivating network switch ports used by the determined cloud computing node for data communication.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to establishing a model for testing cloud components and to preventing cascading failures in cloud components. In one scenario, a computer system models identified cloud components (including cloud hardware components and/or cloud software components) as health entities. Each health entity is configured to provide state information about the cloud component. The computer system establishes declarative safety conditions which declaratively describe cloud computing conditions that are to be maintained at the identified cloud components. The computer system then tests against the declarative safety conditions to determine which cloud components are or are becoming problematic. Upon determining that an error has occurred, the computer system notifies users of the error and the component at which the error occurred. Guarded interfaces are established to ensure that actions taken to fix the error do not cause further failures.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to implementing rate controls to limit faults detected by timeout and to learning and adjusting an optimal timeout value. In one scenario, a computer system identifies cloud components that have the potential to fail within a time frame that is specified by a timeout value. The computer system establishes a number of components that are allowed to fail during the time frame specified by the timeout value and further determines that the number of component failures within the time frame specified by the timeout value has exceeded the established number of components that are allowed to fail. In response, the computer system increases the timeout value by a specified amount of time to ensure that fewer than or equal to the established number of components fail within the time frame specified by the timeout value.

Abstract: A method for forming devices in an oxide layer over a substrate, wherein a metal containing layer forms at least either an etch stop layer below the oxide layer or a patterned mask above the oxide layer, wherein a patterned organic mask is above the oxide layer is provided. The substrate is placed in a plasma processing chamber. The oxide layer is etched through the patterned organic mask, wherein metal residue from the metal containing layer forms metal residue on sidewalls of the oxide layer. The patterned organic mask is stripped. The metal residue is cleaned by the steps comprising providing a cleaning gas comprising BCl3 and forming a plasma from the cleaning gas. The substrate is removed from the plasma processing chamber.

Abstract: A method for etching a dielectric layer disposed below a patterned organic mask with features, with hardmasks at bottoms of some of the organic mask features is provided. An etch gas is provided. The etch gas is formed into a plasma. A bias RF with a frequency between 2 and 60 MHz is provided that provides pulsed bias with a pulse frequency between 10 Hz and 1 kHz wherein the pulsed bias selectively deposits on top of the organic mask with respect to the dielectric layer.

Abstract: A method for etching with CD reduction, an etch layer disposed below a silicon containing mask layer under a patterned organic mask with features with a first CD. Features are opened in the silicon containing mask layer using the patterned organic mask, comprising providing an opening gas with an etchant component and polymerizing component, forming the opening gas into a plasma, and providing a pulsed bias with a pulse frequency between 10 Hz and 1 kHz, which etches features through the silicon containing mask layer with a second CD, which is less than half the first CD, forming a pattern in the silicon containing mask layer. The pattern of the silicon containing mask layer is transferred to the etch layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) microarrays on porous substrates for structural or functional analyses of GPCRs, and methods of preparing porous substrate surfaces for receiving membranes that comprise GPCRs. In one embodiment, a GPCR microarray of the invention comprises a membrane adhered to an upper surface of a porous substrate, the membrane spanning across a plurality of pores on the porous substrate to form a plurality of cavities having sufficient geometry to permit entry of assay reagents into each cavity, thereby allowing access of assay reagents to both sides of GPCR in the membrane.

Abstract: The invention relates to G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) microarrays on porous substrates for structural or functional analyses of GPCRs, and methods of preparing porous substrate surfaces for receiving membranes that comprise GPCRs. In one embodiment, a GPCR microarray of the invention comprises a membrane adhered to an upper surface of a porous substrate, the membrane spanning across a plurality of pores on the porous substrate to form a plurality of cavities having sufficient geometry to permit entry of assay reagents into each cavity, thereby allowing access of assay reagents to both sides of GPCR in the membrane.

Abstract: An optical fiber system comprising: (i) a dispersion pre-compensator including dispersion compensating fiber DCF characterized by the overall dispersion value DDCF at the operating wavelength ?; and (ii) a passive optical network (PON) including a plurality of transmission paths provided by a plurality of optical fibers, said plurality of transmission paths having a minimum and maximum dispersion value DMIN and DMAX; wherein the dispersion pre-compensator includes an output port operatively coupled to an input port of the a passive optical network and ?DMAX<DDCF<?DMIN.

Abstract: The invention relates to G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) microarrays on porous substrates for structural or functional analyses of GPCRs, and methods of preparing porous substrate surfaces for receiving membranes that comprise GPCRs. In one embodiment, a GPCR microarray of the invention comprises a membrane adhered to an upper surface of a porous substrate, the membrane spanning across a plurality of pores on the porous substrate to form a plurality of cavities having sufficient geometry to permit entry of assay reagents into each cavity, thereby allowing access of assay reagents to both sides of GPCR in the membrane.

Abstract: An optical fiber system comprising: (i) a dispersion pre-compensator including dispersion compensating fiber DCF characterized by the overall dispersion value DDCF at the operating wavelength ?; and (ii) a passive optical network (PON) including a plurality of transmission paths provided by a plurality of optical fibers, said plurality of transmission paths having a minimum and maximum dispersion value DMIN and DMAX; wherein the dispersion pre-compensator includes an output port operatively coupled to an input port of the a passive optical network and ?DMAX<DDCF<?DMIN.

Abstract: An optical transmitter (8) having enhanced stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold power (PSBS) capability is disclosed. The transmitter includes a light source (12) adapted to emit a continuous-wave (CW) light beam (16). A phase modulator (20) is optically coupled to the light source and to a plurality n of radio-frequency (RF) signal drivers (22) adapted to generate a corresponding plurality of sinusoidal RF drive signals having respective modulation amplitudes An, modulation frequencies fn, and modulation phases ?n. The phase modulator phase modulates the light beam based on the plurality of sinusoidal RF drive signals to form a phase-modulated carrier light beam (16?). The modulation phases ?n are chosen to increase the SBS threshold power relative to a baseline threshold power when the phase-modulated carrier light beam travels over an optical fiber (50). Modulation frequencies fn are also chosen to suppress combined second-order (CSO) distortion.

Abstract: The invention relates to G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) microarrays on porous substrates for structural or functional analyses of GPCRs, and methods of preparing porous substrate surfaces for receiving membranes that comprise GPCRs. In one embodiment, a GPCR microarray of the invention comprises a membrane adhered to an upper surface of a porous substrate, the membrane spanning across a plurality of pores on the porous substrate to form a plurality of cavities having sufficient geometry to permit entry of assay reagents into each cavity, thereby allowing access of assay reagents to both sides of GPCR in the membrane.

Abstract: A conversion method for converting a unipolar voltage data stream into a carrier-suppressed return-to-zero (CSRZ) optical data stream includes modulating a continuous optical wave with an encoded nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) voltage data stream for providing a CSRZ optical data stream of full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) pulse width less than one-half of the transition time of the encoded nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) voltage data stream between logical states for a reduced pulse width. The modulating circuit is either a duobinary modulator driven with a swing of ±2V? or an optical time domain multiplexed plurality of nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) modulators with phase shifting and differential encoding.

Abstract: A conversion method for converting a unipolar voltage data stream into a carrier-suppressed return-to-zero (CSRZ) optical data stream includes modulating a continuous optical wave with an encoded nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) voltage data stream for providing a CSRZ optical data stream of full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) pulse width less than one-half of the transition time of the encoded nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) voltage data stream between logical states for a reduced pulse-width. The modulating circuit is either a duobinary modulator driven with a swing of ±2V&pgr; or an optical time domain multiplexed plurality of nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) modulators with phase shifting and differential encoding.