Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor processing chamber faceplates may include a body having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The body may define a plurality of apertures that extend through one or both of the first surface and the second surface. The faceplates may include a heater disposed within an interior of the body. The faceplates may include a first RF mesh disposed between the heater and the first surface. The faceplates may include a second RF mesh disposed between the heater and the second surface. The first RF mesh and the second RF mesh may be coupled together and form a Faraday cage about the heater.

Abstract: A method to clean an article or an object wherein the surface of the article or object to be cleaned (i) is in contact with one or more liquids having a dielectric constant of from 1 to 200, and is (ii) placed in an electric field in the range of 103 V/m to a value limited by the stability of the liquid in the field generated using an alternating voltage/current source.

Abstract: The invention relates to controlling the participation and performance management of a distributed set of resources in a grid environment. The control is achieved by forecasting the behavior of a group of shared resources, their availability and quality of their performance in the presence of external policies governing their usage, and deciding the suitability of their participation in a grid computation. The system also provides services to grid clients with certain minimum levels of service guarantees using resources with uncertainties in their service potentials.

Abstract: A non-shrinking, melt cast solid cleansing composition free of soap is provided comprising i. 15-50% by weight of fatty acid selected from myristic acid, stearic acid, palmitic acid, hydroxy stearic acid, and mixtures thereof; ii. 2-40% by weight non soap detergent active iii. 30-60% water iv. optionally other ingredients such as functional actives and wherein the said composition is free of pure lyotropic liquid crystalline phase in the temperature range 20-100° C. and forms an isotropic liquid phase or a dispersion of lyotropic liquid crystalline phase in the continuum of isotropic liquid in the temperature range 40-100° C.

Abstract: Techniques for selectively off-loading workload across multiple data centers are disclosed. For example, a technique for processing a user request in accordance with a multiple data center environment comprises the following steps/operations. A user request is obtained at a first data center. The user request is classified based on one or more classification criterion. At least a portion of a workload associated with the classified user request is off-loaded to at least a second data center to be processed, wherein the off-loading step/operation is at least based on one or more administrative policies associated with at least one of the first data center and the second data center. The workload is processed such that the user request is at least substantially satisfied in accordance with a service level agreement for the requesting user.

Abstract: A liquid-in-stem thermometer comprising a stem and/or an envelope having a capillary bore extending along the length of the stem/envelopes, a bulb disposed at one end of the stem/envelope and in fluid communication with the said bore, a junction region between the capillary and the bulb adapted for maximum registration action, a thermometric liquid provided in the bulb, the said thermometric liquid being an aqueous solution of one or more solutes and substantially free of dissolved gases, at least the inner surface of the capillary bore of said stem/envelope having low surface energy characteristics, wherein the surface tension of the thermometric liquid is greater than the surface energy of the said low surface energy material by a factor of at least two.

Abstract: The invention introduces new software components into a host-agent interactive workstation such as a personal computer. The new software components, in combination, monitor and model the interactive usage of the aforementioned interactive workstation. A first software component communicates with a second software component which is a policy-based decision-making component which runs on a guest operating system that resides in a virtual machine, and together they implement policies that concern the behavior of grid computations in the presence of the interactive usage of the workstation.

Abstract: This invention provides systems, apparatus and methods for object management, employing agents for all personal computer objects. Personal objects survive in direct proportion to the degree to which they possess attributes that give them a competitive advantage in the use of the computing systems storage and name spaces. It employs an important competitive attribute of future utility. Since it is not always possible to accurately predict future utility, assessment of competitive advantage is based on secondary attributes that can be computed and that correlate with future utility, to a greater or lesser degree. It uses a ‘coordinating mechanic’ that monitors and controls relationships between personal objects and their agents.

Abstract: A continuous process for casting comprising the steps of i. filling a continuous tube of flexible material with a melt of the castable composition, where the tube acts as a sleeve to the composition, such that a desired cross section area of the filled sleeve is obtained that is independent of its perimeter ii. solidifying and simultaneously shaping the said melt by cooling the said filled sleeve in or on a suitable mould.

Abstract: A checkpoint of a process is taken in order to provide a consistent state of the process in the event the process is to be restarted. When the process is restarted, the process is placed in the state it was in when the checkpoint was taken. However, there are times when certain information has changed since the last checkpoint and it should not be restored. For example, if a process is restarted on a computing unit different from the one in which the checkpoint is taken, then various attributes associated with external data referenced by the process (e.g., an address to an external function/variable) might be different than at the time of the checkpoint. Similarly, even on the same computing unit, if the functions and/or variables are reloaded, the attributes may be different. Since these new attribute values are needed for the restarted process, they should not be restored. In order to prevent restoration of the attributes, only part of the Data Section is restored.