Abstract: The present invention includes systems, assemblies, and methodologies for inhibiting combustion within fluid containers, enhancing the safety of such containers. One aspect includes a novel fuel containers which take advantage of the inventive principles disclosed herein. In one embodiment a fuel drum includes a plurality of base assemblies arranged in a drum cluster, and disposed within the drum. In another embodiment, a portable fuel container includes a plurality of base assemblies arranged in a can cluster and disposed within the portable fuel container. In yet another embodiment, a plurality of base assemblies are arranged in a cell cluster and disposed within a lattice structure.

Abstract: The present invention includes systems, assemblies, and methodologies for inhibiting combustion within fluid containers, enhancing the safety of such containers. One aspect includes novel methods for assembling base modules by rolling sheets of expanded mesh into generally cylindrical shapes. Tension within the sheet of expanded mesh may be modulated during the rolling process in order to vary the density of the base module as desired. In further embodiments, the method includes arranging a plurality of base modules along a cylindrical axis to form an assembly. Assemblies may be utilized to fill containers that store fuel and other combustible fluids.

Abstract: The present invention includes systems, assemblies, and methodologies for inhibiting combustion within fluid containers, enhancing the safety of such containers. One aspect includes a novel apparatus for assembling a base module of the present invention. The apparatus may include an initial stage, and intermediate stage, and a rolling stage. The initial stage is operative to receive a spool of mesh material. The intermediate stage is operative to conduct the mesh material between the initial stage and the rolling stage, as well as carry out a number of other operations associated with the present invention. The rolling stage is operative to roll the unspooled mesh material into a base module in accordance with at last one embodiment of the present invention.

Abstract: The present invention includes systems, assemblies, and methodologies for inhibiting combustion within fluid containers, enhancing the safety of such containers. One aspect includes a novel base module from which assemblies of varying shape and size, suitable for disposing within a variety of different fluid containers, are created. In one embodiment, the base module is made from an expanded mesh which is rolled in a novel cylindrical configuration according to a novel methodology. In another embodiment, the base module may be combined with other base modules to form an assembly. The present invention is also directed to an apparatus and method for creating base modules which allows for varying density of the base modules and therefore varying flexural strength and rigidity of the assemblies. As such, the packing density of assemblies within containers may be optimized to produce the desired effect of inhibiting combustion within the container.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for a random access channel (RACH) procedure at a user equipment. For example, the method may select a two-step RACH procedure or a four-step RACH procedure at the UE based at least on RACH configuration information received from a base station or the RACH configuration information at the UE. The example method may further include transmitting, from the UE, one or more messages associated with the two-step RACH procedure or the four-step RACH procedure based on the selection.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for handover of a user equipment (UE) from a serving base station to a target base station. A target base station may use one or more directional beams to establish wireless communication links with UEs within a coverage area of the target base station. Directional beams may create a narrow-beam, high-bandwidth connection with a UE in a limited geographic area. Handover procedures include some latency between when a target base station dedicates resources to a UE and when the UE executes a communication via those dedicated resources. To compensate for latencies in a handover procedure and for the geographic limitations of directional beams, a target base station may assign multiple directional beams to the UE during a handover procedure. Each directional beam may be associated with access parameters used by the UE to generate messages (e.g., a RACH message) during the handover procedure.

Abstract: The present disclosure presents a method and an apparatus for managing performance of a user equipment (UE). For example, the disclosure presents a method for managing performance of a UE by computing, at a user equipment (UE), a first capacity estimate over a Wi-Fi interface in response to initiating of a new connection at the UE; detecting, at the UE, that the first capacity estimate is below an aggregation threshold; computing, at the UE, a second capacity estimate over a cellular interface in response to detecting that the first capacity estimate is below the aggregation threshold; and assigning the new connection initiated at the UE to the Wi-Fi interface or the cellular interface based at least on the first capacity estimate or the second capacity estimate. As such, performance of a UE may be managed.

Abstract: A method and system for remotely managing a scalable computer system is provided. Elements of an associated tool are embedded on a server and associated console. A service processor for each partition is provided, wherein the service processor supports communication between the server and the designated partition. An operator can discover and validate availability of elements in a computer system. In addition, the operator may leverage data received from the associated discovery and validation to configure or re-configure a partition in the system that support projected workload.

Abstract: The tuner comprises an RF input for receiving a high frequency signal, a downconverter including a mixer for downconverting the high frequency signal, an IF filter coupled to an output of the mixer, an SAW filter coupled to an output of the IF filter and a gain-controlled IF amplifier coupled to an output of the SAW filter for providing an amplified IF signal for a subsequent demodulator. The IF filter includes a controllable damping stage which is in particular usable for improving the noise performance of the tuner. The tuner is designed in a preferred embodiment for reception of analog and digital television signals and the controllable damping stage provides a damping in case of reception of an analog television signal for improving a signal/noise ratio of the analog television signal. The damping stage comprises for example a switching stage utilizing one or several varactor diodes as damping elements.

Abstract: Commands are processed by hardware within a virtual client computing environment, such as graphics-related commands processed by graphics hardware. A server computing device includes graphics hardware, a virtual client computing environment, and a server computing environment. The graphics hardware processes graphics-related commands into responses. The virtual client computing environment includes an encoding application that issues the commands. The server computing environment includes a decoding application. The encoding application includes a first thread that receives the commands and places them onto a first queue. The encoding application includes a second thread that receives the responses from a second queue and communicates the responses to a remote display device.

Abstract: A remote control is suggested, which comprises an electric signal transmitter being supplied with energy from an electrical energy storage device. The remote control comprises a generator for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy to be stored in the electrical energy storage device. The remote control is provided with a display indicating an empty electrical energy storage device. The display informs the user immediately and unambiguously about the situation that he has to recharge the energy storage of the remote control before he tries to send out a command in vain.

Abstract: The present invention provides for improved brain imaging and decoding methods that test subjects under authentic, natural conditions that allow for regular patterns of free-flowing thought and perception, as they occur in everyday life, while taking into account brain activities that were measured over spatially diverse regions of the whole-brain (whole-brain connectivity signatures). From such whole-brain connectivity signatures, specific cognitive traits and states are decoded and classified in a whole-brain connectivity analysis which takes into account the full pattern of brain activity. Such methods find applications in clinical diagnosis and monitoring of neuropsychiatric diseases and in nonclinical areas such as neuromarketing and neuroeconomics.

Abstract: The tuner comprises an RF input for receiving a high frequency signal, a downconverter including a mixer for downconverting the high frequency signal, an IF filter coupled to an output of the mixer, an SAW filter coupled to an output of the IF filter and a gain-controlled IF amplifier coupled to an output of the SAW filter for providing an amplified IF signal for a subsequent demodulator. The IF filter includes a controllable damping stage which is in particular usable for improving the noise performance of the tuner. The tuner is designed in a preferred embodiment for reception of analog and digital television signals and the controllable damping stage provides a damping in case of reception of an analog television signal for improving a signal/noise ratio of the analog television signal. The damping stage comprises for example a switching stage utilizing one or several varactor diodes as damping elements.

Abstract: A remote control is suggested, which comprises an electric signal transmitter being supplied with energy from an electrical energy storage device. The remote control comprises a generator for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy to be stored in the electrical energy storage device. The remote control is provided with a display indicating an empty electrical energy storage device. The display informs the user immediately and unambiguously about the situation that he has to recharge the energy storage of the remote control before he tries to send out a command in vain.

Abstract: An unipolar organic injection laser in which electrically-stimulated intraband transitions result in lasing. An active region includes at least one organic injector layer and at least one organic emitter layer. Each organic emitter layer has a first energy level and a second energy level on a same side of an energy gap defined by a conduction band and a valance band. Charge carriers are injected through the organic injector layer into the first energy level of the organic emitter layer when a voltage is applied across active region. The difference in energy between the first and second energy levels produces radiative emissions when charge carriers transition from the first energy level to the second energy level. Population inversion is maintained between the first and second energy levels, producing stimulated emission and lasing.

Abstract: Commands are processed by hardware within a virtual client computing environment, such as graphics-related commands processed by graphics hardware. A server computing device includes graphics hardware, a virtual client computing environment, and a server computing environment. The graphics hardware processes graphics-related commands into responses. The virtual client computing environment includes an encoding application that issues the commands. The server computing environment includes a decoding application. The encoding application includes a first thread that receives the commands and places them onto a first queue. The encoding application includes a second thread that receives the responses from a second queue and communicates the responses to a remote display device.

Abstract: An asymmetric twin waveguide (ATG) structure with quantum-well intermixing in the taper region of the active waveguide is disclosed. The structure comprises a first waveguide, a second waveguide, and a taper formed in the second waveguide. The taper has an intermixed area formed therein comprising a plurality of quantum wells intermixed with a plurality of barriers. The quantum wells and barriers may be intermixed using plasma-enhanced intermixing such as, for example, Argon plasma enhanced intermixing. Quantum-well intermixing reduces absorption loss normally encountered in the movement of light between waveguides.

Abstract: A conductive adhesive composition is provided and articles that include the adhesive composition as a component thereof. The conductive adhesive composition comprises: (a) pressure sensitive adhesive; (b) electrolyte comprising water soluble or water dispersible organic chloride; and (c) humectant. In some embodiments, the conductive adhesive composition is a bicontinuous composition comprising an aqueous phase and an oil phase, and the bicontinuous composition may be derived from a polymerizable microemulsion composition, the microemulsion composition comprising: an aqueous phase comprising one or more hydrophilic monomers or oligomers and/or one or more amphiphilic monomers or oligomers in water, the water-soluble or water-dispersible organic chloride, surfactant and humectant; and an oil phase comprising one or more hydrophobic monomers or oligomers. Biomedical articles such as biomedical electrodes, may incorporate the foregoing adhesive as a component.

Abstract: An unipolar organic injection laser in which electrically-stimulated intraband transitions result in lasing. An active region includes at least one organic injector layer and at least one organic emitter layer. Each organic emitter layer has a first energy level and a second energy level on a same side of an energy gap defined by a conduction band and a valance band. Charge carriers are injected through the organic injector layer into the first energy level of the organic emitter layer when a voltage is applied across active region. The difference in energy between the first and second energy levels produces radiative emissions when charge carriers transition from the first energy level to the second energy level. Population inversion is maintained between the first and second energy levels, producing stimulated emission and lasing.

Abstract: A process is provided for preparing a pressure sensitive adhesive hydrogel, comprising: (A) providing an oligomeric precursor, the oligomeric precursor comprising a polyether moiety endcapped with ethylenic unsaturation, the oligomeric precursor being associated with methacrylic acid; (B) providing an ethylenically unsaturated crosslinking agent selected from the group consisting of difunctional ethylenically unsaturated monomer, trifunctional ethylenically unsaturated monomer and combinations of the foregoing; (C) free radically curing the oligomeric precursor and the ethylenically unsaturated crosslinking agent in water at a pH between about 3.5 and about 9 to provide the pressure sensitive adhesive hydrogel.