A remote diagnostic unit (12) for connection between a local computer and at least one input device and comprising a modem for connecting to a remote computer via a data link, the unit being operable to substitute input from the at least one input device with input from a remote computer connected via said link, thereby to remotely control the local computer.; A remote diagnostic unit for connecti...

A data system capable of selecting whether to utilize address prediction based on the state of an address prediction enable signal. When employing address prediction, the outcome of branch instructions are presumed prior to the resolution of the instruction. When not using address prediction, the system waits until a branch instruction is resolved before fetching the next address to be executed. A...

The invention concerns an electrically erasable and programmable memory (MEM3) comprising at least a non-erasable secure zone. The invention is characterised in that the memory comprises means (ECCT1, ACC, MUX1, MUX2) for detecting and/or correcting reading errors in the secure zone, designed to record in the memory redundant bits and deliver an error signal (ERR) and/or to deliver a majority valu...

Cache line optimization involves computing where cache misses are in a control flow and assigning probabilities to cache misses. Cache lines may be scheduled on the assigned probabilities and where the cache misses are in the control flow. Cache line probabilities may be calculated based on the relationship of the cache line and where the cache misses are in the control flow. A control flow may be...

A method and system for enabling channel set up and antenna control in a television signal receiver provides an efficient way in which to optimize channel tuning. According to an examplary embodiment, a television signal receiver such as a digital television (DTV) receiver includes a memory for receiving and storing data provided from a storage medium. The data includes a channel list having one o...

In a power supply structure in a sliding structure, the one end of a wire harness 3 is secured to either one of a sliding structure 1 and a body 5. The other end of the wire harness 3 is hung over the other of them. An elastic member 4 is arranged along the wire harness in the longitudinal direction from the one end of the wire harness so that the wire harness is supported by the elastic member. T...

Method and apparatus are contemplated for electrical-to-optical conversion coupled to an electrical switching fabric, wherein the number of lasers supplying optical carrier beams in electrical-to-optical conversion is less than the number of optical modulators. Cost savings for a reduced number of lasers may be considerable. Further, the shared laser bank supplying optical carrier beams may compri...

A multipurpose cement dispersing, shrinkage compensating and anticorrosive polymer and an admixture comprising said polymer, which improve the workability and the early strength development of fresh concrete, are described. Said polymer is an ester- and amid group-modified acrylic polymer, obtainable by aqueous solution radical copolymerization of (1) acrylic or methacrylic acid with (2) an acryli...

An injection device for injecting set doses from an ampoule (2) mounted in the device, which doses are set by operation of a dose setting button (7) by which operation elastic torsion rods (14) positioned parallel with the longitudinal axis of the device are twisted. By the dose setting a torque is transmitted from the dose setting button (7) to the rods (14) through gear transmissions comprising ...

A dose display for a medicine administration device in which rotation of a dose setting actuator (22) is transmitted to a display means comprises a flexible disc (23) carrying numbers in a band along its perimeter, which numbers are in accordance with the set dose presented in a window in a wall of the device to show said dose. During its rotation the disc (23) is deflected to follow an inner cont...

A holder is provided which couples to the spine. In an embodiment, the holder has two conduits into which sleeves may be inserted during a spinal fusion procedure. The holder may have a distractor extending from the bottom of the holder. The distractor secures the holder to the spine and maintains a proper separation distance between adjacent vertebrae. The sides of the distractor may be serrated ...

Methods, instrumentation and devices for humeral implant positioning, including an improved trialing system utilizing an adjustment instrument and orientation indicia.

A strong, porous article useful as a bone substitute material. The article comprises a continuous strong framework structure having struts defining interstices which interconnect throughout the bulk volume, and may have ceramic or osteoconductive material occupying at least a portion of the same bulk volume as the framework structure. Either as a coating on the strong framework struts or between t...

A method for downloading and managing a test tool of a test system is proposed, which is applied to the test system having a test service server and a tested machine. A test tool required for performing a test for the tested machine is available as being downloaded from the test service server through a network, which connects the tested machine and the test service server, so as to examine if the...

A data processing system, circuit arrangement, integrated circuit device, program product, and method selectively prefetch a non-cached target memory address for a branch instruction when the target memory address is in a predetermined portion of a memory address space, e.g., within a predetermined number of cache lines from a branch instruction being processed. By prefetching the non-cached targe...

An instruction buffer of the present invention includes a sequence of instructions arranged in an order determined beforehand, and a buffer including entries arranged in a preselected order for storing the sequence of instructions. Any one of the instructions stored in any one of the entries designated by a low entry number is prior, in order, to another instruction stored in another entry designa...

A method for managing a computer system includes initiating a reset of the computer system from a remote location. Diagnostic software on the computer system is downloaded from the remote location.

Accordingly, the present invention is a substituted tetra- or pentapeptide compound of Formula I, wherein n is independently 1 or 2; A is Cbz or BnNHCO; R is independently H or Me; Y is independently H or Me; Z is independently H or Me; R4 is, wherein R4 is H or Me; R5 is wherein R5' is H, OH, -O-C1-6alkyl, -C1-6alkyl, CO-aryl, -(CH2)m-aryl, -O-(CH2)m- C3-10cycloalkyl, -O(CH2)m-aryl, -O(CH2...

A joint implant is presented having an elongated cylindrical member with an annular spacer which accommodates the diameter of the cylindrical member by fitting loosely over the cylindrical member. The ends of the elongated cylindrical member are designed for insertion into the intramedullary canals of adjacent bones while the annular spacer is designed to cushion the joint and maintain proper spac...

Fuel pellets for use as targets in a device employing thermonuclear fusion by inertial confinement (Laser fusion) are manufactured from high polymer hydrocarbons in which bound hydrogen has been replaced with tritium. The required polymer is prepared by polymerizing monomer(s) which contain carbon and tritium. The hollow pellets are filled with thermonuclear fuel, e.g., a mixture of deuterium-trit...