Abstract: An apparatus and method provide for automated converting of a web of a thin patterned catalyst-coated membrane to separate membrane sheets for fuel cell assembly. The membrane typically has a thickness of about one thousandth of an inch. Automated web converting involves transporting, with use of a movable vacuum, an end portion of the membrane web from a first location to a second location. With use of respective first and second vacuums at the first and second locations, and after removal of the movable vacuum, the end portion of the membrane web is releasably secured at the first and second locations. The membrane web is cut within a gap defined between a single catalyst pattern of the membrane web end portion and an adjacent catalyst pattern to produce a membrane sheet. The membrane sheet is precisely positioned to a desired orientation to facilitate subsequent processing of the membrane sheet.

Abstract: A computer system has physical pages of memory subject to access by input/output (“I/O”) devices, and a certain table with entries associating the physical pages with the I/O devices. Responsive to a request for data be moved from a first physical page to a second physical page, an entry is selected for the first physical page in the table. The selected entry indicates an association of the first physical page and one of the I/O devices. Arbitration is temporarily disabled for the selected I/O device so that I/O operations for the I/O device are temporarily disabled. Once arbitration is disabled for the device the data is moved from the first physical page to a second one of the physical pages and the entry is updated in the table to reflect a new association between the I/O device and the second physical page.

Abstract: A method for diagnosis of a mood disorder or predisposition therefor in a test subject is disclosed. The method includes the steps of determining an interhemispheric switch rate of the test subject, and comparing the switch rate with a corresponding reference switch rate to diagnose presence or absence of the mood disorder or predisposition therefor. In a preferred embodiment, the interhemispheric switch rate is determined by measuring the rate of binocular rivalry in the test subject. Also disclosed is an apparatus for diagnosis of a mood disorder or predisposition therefor, use of the diagnostic method in genetic linkage studies for the identification of the molecular defect(s) underlying these disorders, and for the identification of compounds which may alleviate such disorders.

Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for preventing input/output (I/O) adapters used by an operating system (OS) image, in a logically partitioned system, from accessing data from a memory location allocated to another OS image is provided. The system includes logical partitions, operating systems (OSs), memory locations, I/O adapters (IOAs), and a hypervisor. Each operating system image is assigned memory locations and input/output adapter is assigned to a logical partition. Each of the input/output adapters is assigned a range of I/O bus DMA addresses by the hypervisor. When a DMA operation request is received from an OS image, the hypervisor checks that the memory address range and the I/O adapter are allocated to the requesting OS image and that the I/O bus DMA range is within the that allocated to the I/O adapter. If these checks are passed, the hypervisor performs the requested mapping; otherwise the request is rejected.

Abstract: A constant velocity joint assembly comprises outer and inner joint members having engaging contact surfaces which support the joint for articulation about a common center point. The joint members have ball grooves which diverge inwardly of the joint and whose inner and outer ball groove surfaces are axially offset with respect to the center point for urging the balls axially inwardly. A ball retainer is provided within the outer joint member. The ball retainer is spring-biased into engagement with an end of the inner joint member and pivots about the center point of the joint to engage and hold the balls within the ball grooves, maintaining them in a common plane.

Abstract: A constant velocity joint includes a rotatable wheel hub for mounting a wheel of a vehicle which serves as the outer race of the joint. The hub is formed with a through bore that includes a part spherical surface at an inboard end of the hub. An inner joint is installed through the open outboard end and is formed with a plurality of ball grooves whose centers are offset with respect to the center of the joint, forcing balls within the grooves toward the installation end of the hub. A ball retainer device is disposed in the wheel hub bore to retain the balls and seal the joint.

Abstract: A compact constant velocity joint includes outer and inner joint members having surfaces to provide articulation of the joint. The surfaces are formed with aligned grooves to receive torque-transmitting balls. A ball retainer is provided axially adjacent the balls, adjacent an open end of the outer joint member to retain the balls in the grooves during operation. The ball retainer articulates on the same center point as that of the outer and inner joint members.

Abstract: Biological and chemical systems are represented as a symbolic model. Minimal sets of elements of the system are identified from the model, for example, by automatic inference. The model can be constructed from Boolean propositions that are mapped to a binary decision diagram. The model can also be probed using a branch and bound algorithm.

Abstract: A constant velocity joint has outer and inner joint members formed with aligned ball grooves. A torque-transmitting ball is contained in each set of grooves and is captured within windows of a cage disposed between the joint members. The radial groove profile provides a large operating joint angle but with a relatively low Rx ratio. At zero joint angle the balls are positioned in a ball center plane and define a ball center radius (BCR) in the ball center plane. As the joint angulates, the balls roll on the grooves and, while maintained in a ball plane, are displaced radially relative to the ball center radius (BCR). Rx=BCR/x, which is the ball displacement. The groove profile includes a straight section coupled with a double arc or polynomial curved section which attains high joint angle at a relatively low Rx ratio.

Abstract: A compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: 1

Abstract: Novel sulphonamide derivatives having CNS activity, processes for their preparation and their use as medicaments are disclosed.

Abstract: A low voltage differential swing (LVDS) signal driver having substantially constant output differential voltage (Vod) and substantially constant output offset voltage (Vos) irrespective of variations in circuit fabrication processes, power supply voltages and operating temperatures (PVT), as well as circuit load conditions. A driver replica circuit which replicates a portion of the actual LVDS driver circuit conducts a driver replica operating current that is a scaled replica of the LVDS driver operating current. Operating voltages within the LVDS driver and driver replica circuits are monitored and controlled by bias voltages provided by the driver replica circuit. The desired scaling factor for the operating currents is ensured by appropriate scaling of the sizes of the circuit devices within the LVDS driver and driver replica circuits.

Abstract: An injection device houses a syringe and contains a drive spring, to urge the syringe forwards to project its needle and then eject the dose, and a return spring, to push the syringe back into the housing and retract the needle. A trigger is operated in one way to release the drive spring and in another way to release the return spring, these operations being mutually exclusive and there being parts for ensuring they are performed in the correct order.

Abstract: A caller, using a data communications enabled telephone device, establishes a data connection with a computer network and initiates data communications with a server database telephone switch, whereby the caller submits a caller identification code and a call recipient's telephone number. After the caller disconnects from the computer network, the server database telephone switch initiates a voice communications connection with the caller's telephone device over a telephone network by dialing the telephone number of the caller's telephone device which is associated with the caller identification code. Next, the server database telephone switch initiates a voice communications connection with the call recipient's telephone device over the telephone network by dialing the call recipient's telephone number. When the call recipient answers the call, voice communications are established between the caller's telephone device and the call recipient's telephone device over the telephone network.

Abstract: A PCI host bridge and an associated method of use are disclosed. The PCI host bridge includes a host bus interface, an I/O bus interface, and a PCI operation detection circuit. The host bus interface is suitable for communicating with a host bus of a data processing system and the I/O bus interface is suitable for communicating with a primary PCI bus operating in PCI-X mode. The PCI operation detection circuit is adapted to detect a PCI-X operation from the primary PCI bus that may have issued from a PCI mode adapter coupled to a secondary PCI bus. The detection circuit is further adapted to generate a modified operation for forwarding to the host bus in response to determining that the PCI-X operation may have originated from a PCI. mode adapter.

Abstract: Fluoroionophores of formula (I) wherein R06 is H or substituted or unsubstituted C1-C20alkyl, R6 is H or substituted or unsubstituted C1-C30alkyl or C1-C30alkoxy, R1 is a bridging group, and F is a residue of a fluorophore. The fluoroionophores may be covalently bound to support materials and may be used as active components in polymer membranes of optical sensors for the detection of ions. The sensors are distinguished by short response times, a high degree of sensitivity and a long usable life.

Abstract: A method includes passing a request for data received by a first server process executing in a first server to a detection process that includes packing a subset of the data into an analysis format and passing the subset to an analysis process.

Abstract: Imaging devices and methods of operating imaging devices that facilitate reducing nonvolatile storage needs of the imaging devices. The imaging devices are adapted to request control programs from external devices without the need to maintain a nonvolatile image of a control program within the imaging device. Control programs are received on a communication input of the imaging device and stored on a volatile storage media for use by a processor of the imaging device. The embodiments can also facilitate more reliable updating within a networked system in that updating an image of a control program on one network device can automatically lead to updating of multiple imaging devices, thus eliminating a need to individually update each imaging device.

Abstract: A variable road feedback device (20) for a steer-by-wire system (50) comprises a housing (31) that contains a magnetorheological fluid (32), a magnetic field generator (34) for generating a variable magnetic field within the housing (31) in order to vary the viscous resistance of the magnetorheological fluid (32) therein, and a rotor (24) rotatably mounted within the housing (31) that rotates through the magnetorheological fluid (32) and is responsive to the variable viscous resistance thereof.

Abstract: The present invention therefore provides, in a first aspect, a compound of formula (I) or a salt thereof: in which the group D is selected from a group of formula (A), (B) or (C) below: in which P is a monocyclic, bicyclic or tricyclic alicyclic ring containing up to 20 carbon atoms in the ring(s); A is a single bond, a C1-6alkylene or a C2-6alkenylene group; R1 is halogen, C1-6alkyl optionally substituted by one or more fluorine atoms, C3-6cycloalkyl, C1-6alkoxy, OCF3, hydroxy, hydroxyC1-6alkyl, hydroxyC1-6alkoxy, C1-6alkoxyC1-6alkoxy, C1-6alkanoyl, amino, alkylamino or dialkylamino, SR11 where R11 is hydrogen or C1-6alkyl or R1 is aryl, arylC1-6alkyl, a bicyclic heterocyclic ring or is a 5 to 7-membered heterocyclic ring each containing 1 to 4 heteroatoms selected from oxygen, nitrogen or sulfur; n is 0, 1, 2 or 3; and R2 is hydrogen, C1-6alkyl, aryl, arylC1-6alkyl or C3-6cycloalkyl; or in which Ra is an alkyl group containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms o