A method, apparatus, and computer for identifying selection of a bad victim during victim selection at a cache and recovering from such bad victim selection without causing the system to crash or suspend forward progress of the victim selection process. Among the bad victim selection addressed are recovery from selection of a deleted member and recovery from use of LRU state bits that do not map to a member within the congruence class. When LRU victim selection logic generates an output vector i...

A patient is restrained in a wheelchair or hospital bed by a jacket disposed around the upper torso of the patient so that it makes a snug fit around the shoulders and upper torso of the patient. The jacket includes sleeves for extending along the arms of the patient. Adjustable ties on both sides of the midriff region of the jacket are tied to adjust the size of the jacket midriff region to fit the size of the patient and for retaining the adjusted size of the jacket. Fasteners in the form of r...

A bistable nematic liquid crystal device cell is provided with a surface alignment grating on at least one cell wall and a surface treatment on the other wall. Such treatment may be a homeotropic alignment or a planar alignment with or without an alignment direction, and zero or a non zero pretilt. The surface profile on the monograting is asymmetric with its groove height to width selected to give approximately equal energy within the nematic material in its two allowed alignment arrangements. ...

A device for retaining a person on a support such as a bed, couch, stretcher, table and the like, comprising an inner bandage system attached to the body of the person and an outer bandage system attached to the support and mutually interconnected so that the body has a limited degree of freedom of movement.

A method and structure for replacing cache lines in a computer system having a set associative cache memory is disclosed. The method establishes ranking guidelines utilizing a writable cache replacement control array, wherein the guidelines can be dynamically changed by writing data to the cache replacement control array. The invention ranks states of different cache lines according to the ranking guidelines and replaces, upon a cache miss, a cache line having a highest rank of the rankings.

The invention refers to a flanged ball pin to be utilized in steering and suspension systems of automotive vehicles, and a method for manufacturing thereof. The ball pin includes two separate pieces: a single-piece ball rod having a spherical ball portion and a cylindrical shank member, and an annular flange member secured over the shank member. The method for manufacturing the ball pin is preformed in the following manner: first, the single-piece ball rod is formed, and the annular flange membe...

Shock absorbers for footwear are provided. The shock absorbers are units utilizing a shock absorbing spring system, and project like cleats from recesses in the soles of footwear. The shock absorbers serve to minimize impact shock in the normal use of footwear. The shock absorbers do this by compressing as weight is applied to the shoe, to the point that the shock absorbers may become flush with the bottom of the shoe's sole on normal impact if desired. When weight is released from the shoe (for...

A herbicidal composition comprising, in addition to conventional inert formulation adjuvants, the compound of formula I ##STR1## in admixture with a second component comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of ametryn, atrazine, hexazinone, asulam, diuron, 2,4-D, halosulfuron and butafenacil-allyl.

The present invention relates to a process for preparing lysophospholipid using enzyme, more specifically, a process for preparing lysophospholipid from glycerol-3-phosphate derivative using lipase based upon esterification or transesterification reaction.

An apparatus is adapted for charging and discharging a battery device having positive and negative terminals. The apparatus includes a power supplying unit operable so as to provide a direct current voltage output, a current control unit coupled to the power supplying unit so as to receive the direct current voltage output therefrom, and a control device coupled to the current control unit and adapted to be coupled to the battery device. The control device enables the current control unit when a...