Abstract: An apparatus can include a display, a facial interface, and a connection between the display and facial interface. The display can at least translate or rotate relative to the facial interface via the connection.

Abstract: A device may receive, from one or more electrodes, information identifying brain activity for a first time period. The device may predict, based on the information identifying the brain activity for the first time period, predicted brain activity for a second time period that is to occur after the first time period. The device may determine, based on the predicted brain activity for the second time period, a brain stimulus for the second time period, wherein the brain stimulus is associated with a frequency and a phase determined based on the predicted brain activity for the second time period. The device may cause the brain stimulus to be applied in accordance with the frequency and the phase during the second time period.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for securing a theft-susceptible movable object at a selected location. A security system is positioned at a selected location for protection of a theft-susceptible movable object. The security system includes a magnetic field source adapted to generate a magnetic field that is positionally-associated with a movable object. A monitoring device includes a magnetic sensor and is adapted for placement proximate to the selected location. The monitoring device is adapted to take one or more measurements of the magnetic field and to detect alteration in the measurements caused by movement of the magnetic field source relative to the monitoring device when the movable object is moved from the selected location. Upon detecting the alteration in the measurements of the magnetic field, the monitoring device is adapted to output an electronic warning signal indicating that the movable object has moved from the selected location.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for securing a theft-susceptible movable object at a selected location. A security system is positioned at a selected location for protection of a theft-susceptible movable object. The security system includes a magnetic field source adapted to generate a magnetic field that is positionally-associated with a movable object. A monitoring device includes a magnetic sensor and is adapted for placement proximate to the selected location. The monitoring device is adapted to take one or more measurements of the magnetic field and to detect alteration in the measurements caused by movement of the magnetic field source relative to the monitoring device when the movable object is moved from the selected location. Upon detecting the alteration in the measurements of the magnetic field, the monitoring device is adapted to output an electronic warning signal indicating that the movable object has moved from the selected location.

Abstract: A report generation system is provided. The system comprises at least one data generator that generates data, a data store that comprises the data, a computer system, and a reporting engine. The reporting engine receives a request to generate a report from a client device, applies a first pre-established filter to the data based on credentials associated with a user of the client device to isolate a subset of the data, and applies a second pre-established filter to the subset of the data based on the credentials associated with the user of the client device to isolate a report generation set of data. The reporting engine further generates the report using the report generation set of data from the data store based on user-defined criteria and pre-established default criteria and outputs the report to the client device.

Abstract: A computer implemented method for project management is provided. A project manager creates sub-project data for a sub-project based on project data for a project. The project manager also modifies the project data. A sub-project manager modifies the sub-project data, wherein modification of the sub-project data enables modification of the project data. The project data and the sub-project data are displayed.

Abstract: A system for identifying a discrepancy between a quantity of equipment ordered for a project and a quantity of equipment used for the project is provided. The system includes a procurement module, an engineering planning module, and a comparison module, each stored on one or more computer readable media and executed on one or more processors. The procurement module promotes identifying equipment estimated to be needed for the project and creation of a first list of the identified equipment. The engineering planning module promotes creation of a detailed project design for the project and creation of a second list of equipment deployed for the project. The comparison module provides an integration of the procurement module with the engineering planning module and compares the first list with the second list, and creates a report that promotes identifying discrepancies between the first list and the second list.

Abstract: A system is provided comprising a processor, database, memory, and application that builds a frequently asked question facility for a web site supported by a frequently asked question portion of the database. The facility provides an interface for adding questions, answers, answer references, and defining subordination among entries. The system builds a trouble reporting facility supported by a trouble reporting portion of the database, wherein the facility provides an interface for adding trouble descriptions, identifying an individual assigned to fix the trouble, and adding comments. The system builds an enhancement tracking facility for the site supported by an enhancement portion of the database and coupled to the trouble reporting facility. An enhancement entry in the enhancement portion of the database is created by converting a trouble ticket entry in the trouble ticket portion of the database. The system builds a documentation facility supported by a documentation portion of the database.

Abstract: A computer implemented method for creating architectural blueprints is provided. The method includes selecting a project, defining the project requirements, and selecting one or more parameters to be used to analyze the project. The method further includes importing the selected parameters, selecting proposed hardware and software combinations capable of meeting the project requirements, and displaying the ramifications of the selected hardware and software. The method also provides for generating architectural blueprints.

Abstract: A computer implemented method for an environment-neutral application build is provided. The method includes installing an application build in a target environment of a set of target environments, wherein the application build includes a variable corresponding to each environment configuration parameter. The method also includes installing a configuration file of a set of configuration files in the target environment, wherein the configuration file includes an environment configuration value corresponding to each variable. Each configuration file of the set of configuration files corresponds to at least one target environment of the set of target environments. Furthermore, the method includes reading each environment configuration value from the configuration file. Additionally, the method includes writing each environment configuration value to the corresponding variable in the application build.

Abstract: Polynorbornene has been found to be an excellent binder for the preparation of solid fuel materials and solid propellants. Mixtures of polynorbornene with liquid fuel materials such as kerosene, gasoline, or the advanced missile and aircraft liquid fuels such as JP-4, JP-5, JP-9, JP-10, RJ-4, and RJ-5, for example, can contain 80% or more of the liquid fuel material and still exist in the form of a tough rubbery polymer which has excellent burning characteristics as a solid fuel for a ramjet. Many of these materials can be tailored to have heats of combustion higher than the state-of-the-art solid ramjet fuel formulations.

Abstract: Polynorbornene has been found to be an excellent binder for the preparation of solid fuel materials and solid propellants. Mixtures of polynorbornene with liquid fuel materials such as kerosene, gasoline, or the advanced missile and aircraft liquid fuels such as JP-4, JP-5, JP-9, JP-10, RJ-4, and RJ-5, for example, can contain 80% or more of the liquid fuel material and still exist in the form of a tough rubbery polymer which has excellent burning characteristics as a solid fuel for a ramjet. Many of these materials can be tailored to have heats of combustion higher than the state-of-the-art solid ramjet fuel formulations.

Abstract: A solid rocket propellant composition comprising a major amount of ammonium perchlorate, a minor amount of aluminum powder, a minor amount of a binder, and an effective, burn rate modifying amount of Guignet's green pigment or oxidized Guignet's green. Guignet's green pigment increases the burn rate of the propellant without unacceptably increasing the pressure dependence of the burn rate.

Abstract: Contaminant metal ions of the transition elements such as copper and iron for example may give rise to serious problems in the curing of polymeric binders for conventional rubber-based solid propellants. These metal ions may accelerate the curing action to such a degree that the potlife of the freshly mixed polymer is reduced. Also, the metal ions may promote oxidative degradation of cured and uncured polymeric systems. These undesirable effects can be prevented by adding to the uncured polymer certain polymer-soluble agents which are capable of forming stable complexes with the undesirable metal ions in which the valence of the metal ion is fixed. These agents are selected from a large group of compounds and compositions comprising certain hydroxy substituted aromatic compositions. The preferred embodiments are pyrogallol, propyl gallate, octyl gallate, decyl gallate, purpurogallin and alizarin.

Abstract: It has been found that the following materials act as catalysts for the conversion of PETC to PETA by the ammonolysis of PETC in methanolic ammonia: (a) amine acid addition salts and quaternary ammonium halides and hydroxides, (b) tertiary amines, (c) olefin epoxides, (d) 8-hydroxyquinolines, (e) amine phenoxides, (f) quaternary hydroxyalkyl ammonium hydroxides, and (g) glycidyl halides and ethers. The preferred catalysts, according to this invention, include tetramethyl ammonium chloride, benzyl dimethylamine, dodecyl dimethylamine and 1,2-epoxy decane.

Abstract: Lead paint can be extremely hazardous when ingested as a result of ionic lead, produced by the action of stomach acids, being subsequently absorbed into the blood stream. According to this invention, it has been found that certain metal salts of the dithiocarbamates of multifunctional amines are effective precipitants for lead ions. When ingested simultaneously with lead paint they precipitate the lead ion in a substantially insoluble and indigestible form and thereby prevent absorption of lead into the blood stream. The preferred compounds are: zinc pentaerythrityl tetrakis (dithiocarbamate), tetrasodium pentaerythrityl tetrakis (dithiocarbamate), disodium ethylene bis(dithiocarbamate), and zinc ethylene bis(dithiocarbamate). These materials can be included in a digestible coating which can be applied over lead based paints to effectively detoxify the lead paint.

Abstract: Certain two-block copolymers have been found to be highly effective viscosity index improving additives for mineral oils and are especially effective at elevated temperatures.

Abstract: Treating cured silicone rubber with bromine water etches the normally low energy surface of the silicone rubber to produce a high energy surface to which various curable polymeric systems may be directly bonded.