[WAGNER, Norman, John, KALER, Eric, W., NETTESHEIM, Florian, HELGESON, Matthew, E., LIBERATORE, Matthew, W., ANANTHAPADMANABHAN, Kavssery, Parameswaran, VETHAMUTHU, Martin, Swanson, LIPS, Alexander] Unilever House 100 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0DY;Weena 455 NL-3013 AL Rotterdam;Hindustan Lever House 165/166 Backbay Reclamation Maharashtra Mumbai 400 020;210 Hullihen Hall Newark, Delaware 19716;58 Darien Road Newark, Delaware 19711;120 Mt. Gray Road Setauket, New York 11733;1610 Riverview Avenue Wilmington, Delaware 19806;805 North Silversmith Lane Newark, Delaware 19702;1613 Illinois Street 435 Alderson Hall Golden, Colorado 80401;Unilever Home & Personal Care USA 40 Merritt Boulevard Trumbull, Connecticut 06611;Unilever Home & Personal Care USA 40 Merritt Boulevard Trumbull, Connecticut 06611;Unilever R & D Port Sunlight Quarry Road East Bebington Wirral Merseyside CH63 3JW The invention comprises a method of enhancing viscosity and/or viscoelasticity of surfactant solution using nanoparticles. The particle allow a formulatorto tailor-make a solution of defined rheology (viscosity and/or viscoelasticity) using nanoparticles to control these properties. Further, the particles allow independent control of each of the variable and further allow the variable to be controlled without use of additional surfactants, polymer and other components traditionally used for this end.The invention also comprises compositions thereof.

[Sameh Asaad, Ralph E. Bellofatto, Michael A. Blocksome, Matthias A. Blumrich, Peter Boyle, Jose R. Brunheroto, Dong Chen, Chen-Yong Cher, George L. Chiu, Norman Christ, Paul W. Coteus, Kristan D. Davis, Gabor J. Dozsa, Alexandre E. Eichenberger, Noel A. Eisley, Matthew R. Ellavsky, Kahn C. Evans, Bruce M. Fleischer, Thomas W. Fox, Alan Gara, Mark E. Giampapa, Thomas M. Gooding, Michael K. Gschwind, John A. Gunnels, Shawn A. Hall, Rudolf A. Haring, Philip Heidelberger, Todd A. Inglett, Brant L. Knudson, Gerard V. Kopcsay, Sameer Kumar, Amith R. Mamidala, James A. Marcella, Mark G. Megerian, Douglas R. Miller, Samuel J. Miller, Adam J. Muff, Michael B. Mundy, John K. O'Brien, Kathryn M. O'Brien, Martin Ohmacht, Jeffrey J. Parker, Ruth J. Poole, Joseph D. Ratterman, Valentina Salapura, David L. Satterfield, Robert M. Senger, Brian Smith, Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow, William M. Stockdell, Craig B. Stunkel, Krishnan Sugavanam, Yutaka Sugawara, Todd E. Takken, Barry M. Trager, James L. Van Oosten, Charles D. Wait, Robert E. Walkup, Alfred T. Watson, Robert W. Wisniewski, Peng Wu] US NY Yorktown Heights A Multi-Petascale Highly Efficient Parallel Supercomputer of 100 petaOPS-scale computing, at decreased cost, power and footprint, and that allows for a maximum packaging density of processing nodes from an interconnect point of view. The Supercomputer exploits technological advances in VLSI that enables a computing model where many processors can be integrated into a single Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Each ASIC computing node comprises a system-on-chip ASIC utilizing four or more processors integrated into one die, with each having full access to all system resources and enabling adaptive partitioning of the processors to functions such as compute or messaging I/O on an application by application basis, and preferably, enable adaptive partitioning of functions in accordance with various algorithmic phases within an application, or if I/O or other processors are underutilized, then can participate in computation or communication nodes are interconnected by a five dimensional torus network with DMA that optimally maximize the throughput of packet communications between nodes and minimize latency.

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[PARKHE, Vijay, D., LEOPOLD, Matthew, RONAN, Timothy, MARTIN, Todd, W., NG, Edward, KHURANA, Nitin, SUH, Song-Moon, FAY, Richard, HAGERTY, Christopher, RICE, Michael, ANGELO, Darryl, AHMAN, Kurt, J., TSAI, Matthew, C., SANSONI, Steve] 4054 Bouquet Park Lane San Jose, CA 95135;427 Cayuga Street No. 6 Ithaca, NY 14850;1442 Luning Drive San Jose, CA 95118;1568 Thomas Ct. Mountain View, CA 94040;1682 Vintner Way San Jose, CA 95124;568 Glasgow Court Milpitas, CA 95053;371 Azara Place Sunnyvale, CA 94086;341 Surber Drive San Jose, CA 95123;260 Lore Way Aptos, CA 95003;1025 Via Di Salerno Pleasanton, CA 94566;1127 Reinclaud Court Sunnyvale, CA 94087;162 West Rosemary Street San Jose, CA 95110;22332 Bahl Street Cupertino, ca 95014;189 Ponte Court Livermore, CA 94550 A substrate support has a support structure and a coating on the support structure having a carbon-hydrogen network. The coating has a contact surface having a coefficient of friction of less than about 0.3 and a hardness of at least about 8 GPa. The contact surface of the coating is capable of reducing abrasion and contamination of a substrate that contacts the contact surface. In one version, the support structure has a dielectric covering an electrode. A plurality of mesas on the dielectric have a coating with the contact surface thereon. In another version, contamination of substrate is reduced by providing a substrate lifting assembly having a pair of arcuate fins with raised protrusions to support the substrates.

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[Alan D. Kersey, Mark R. Fernald, Timothy J. Bailey, Michael A. Davis, Thomas W. Engel, Robert N. Brucato, Richard T. Jones, Trevor W. MacDougall, Matthew B. Miller, Paul E. Sanders, James S. Sirkis, James M. Sullivan, Martin A. Putnam] US CT Glastonbury A tunable optical filter has a large diameter cane waveguide with “side-holes” in the cane cross-section that reduce the force required to compress the large diameter optical waveguide without overly compromising the buckling strength thereof. The large diameter optical waveguide has a cross-section of at least about 0.3 millimeters, including at least one inner core, a Bragg grating arranged therein, a cladding surrounding the inner core, and a structural configuration for providing a reduced bulk modulus of compressibility and maintaining the anti-buckling strength of the large diameter optical waveguide. The structural configuration reduces the cross-sectional area of the large diameter optical waveguide. These side holes reduce the amount of glass that needs to be compressed, but retains the large diameter.

[BOWERS, Simeon, GAROFALO, Albert, W., HOM, Roy, K., KONRADI, Andrei, W., MATTSON, Matthew, N., NEITZEL, Martin, L., SEMKO, Christopher, M., TRUONG, Anh, P., WU, Jing, XU, Ying-zi] 800 Gateway Blvd. South San Francisco, CA 94080;501 Wesley Avenue #3 Oakland, XX 94606;128 Adrian Avenue South San Francisco, CA 94080;201 Laguna Street, #14 San Francisco, CA 94102;30 Victoria Road Burlingame, CA 94010;3665 Benton Street, Apt. 84 Santa Clara, CA 95051;316 Seaside Drive Pacifica, CA 94044;4993 Norris Road Fremont, CA 94536;1106 Laguna Avenue, Apt. 4 Burlingame, CA 94010;524 Shorebird Circle, Unit 15204 Redwood City, CA 94065;793 Cereza Drive Palo Alto, CA 94306 The invention provides N-cyclic sulfonamido compounds and salts of Formula (I): wherein A is as described in the specification and R1 and R2 combine to form a [3.3.1] or a [3.2.1] ring system, where the nitrogen is attached to the two bridgehead carbons, and the [3.3.1] or [3.2.1] ring systems are optionally fused with an heteroaryl or heterocycloalkyl ring. Compounds of Formula (I) are useful in treating or preventing cognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer's Disease. The invention also encompasses pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I, methods of treating cognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, and the intermediates useful in preparing the compounds of Formula (I).

[Luther W. Martin, Terence Spies, Matthew J. Pauker] US CA San Jose Format preserving encryption (FPE) cryptographic engines are provided for performing encryption and decryption on strings. A plaintext string may be converted to ciphertext by repeated application of a format preserving encryption cryptographic algorithm. Following each application of the format preserving cryptographic algorithm, the resulting version of the string may be analyzed to determine whether desired string constraints have been satisfied. If the string constraints have not been satisfied, further applications of the format preserving cryptographic algorithm may be performed. If the string constraints have been satisfied, the current version of the string may be used as an output for the cryptographic engine.

[Douglas Martin Linn, Robert O. Ambrose, Myron A. Diftler, Scott R. Askew, Robert Platt, Joshua S. Mehling, Nicolaus A. Radford, Phillip A. Strawser, Lyndon Bridgwater, Charles W. Wampler, II, Muhammad E. Abdallah, Chris A. Ihrke, Matthew J. Reiland, Adam M. Sanders, David M. Reich, Brian Hargrave, Adam H. Parsons, Frank Noble Permenter, Donald R. Davis] US MI White Lake A humanoid robot includes a torso, a pair of arms, two hands, a neck, and a head. The torso extends along a primary axis and presents a pair of shoulders. The pair of arms movably extend from a respective one of the pair of shoulders. Each of the arms has a plurality of arm joints. The neck movably extends from the torso along the primary axis. The neck has at least one neck joint. The head movably extends from the neck along the primary axis. The head has at least one head joint. The shoulders are canted toward one another at a shrug angle that is defined between each of the shoulders such that a workspace is defined between the shoulders.

[CEE, Victor, J., DEAK, Holly, L., GEUNS-MEYER, Stephanie, D., DU, Bingfan, HODOUS, Brian, L., MARTIN, Matthew, W., NGUYEN, Hanh, Nho, OLIVIERI, Philip, R., PANTER, Kathleen, ROMERO, Karina, SCHENKEL, Laurie, WHITE, Ryan] One Amgen Center Dr. Patent Operations M/S 28-2-C Thousand Oaks, California 93012;41 N. Main Street, #2 Mansfield, Massachusetts 02048;124 Park Street, Apt. 3 Brookline, Massachusetts 02446;54 Whitney Road Medford, Massachusetts 02155;18 Springfield Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139;163 Allston Street, #3 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139;98 Forest Street Arlington, Massachusetts 02474;185 Brattle Street Arlington, Massachusetts 02474;320 Salem Street, Apt. 35 Medford, Massachusetts 02155;38 Prince Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139;11 Cogswell Ave., Apt. 9 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140;4 Longfellow Place Apt. 3106 Boston, Massachusetts 02114;34 Willow Avenue, Unit 1 Somerville, Massachusetts 02144 The present invention relates to chemical compounds having a general formula (I), wherein A1-8, D,, L1, L2, R1, R6-8 and n are defined herein, and synthetic intermediates, which are capable of modulating various protein kinase receptor enzymes and, thereby, influencing various disease states and conditions related to the activities of such kinases. For example, the compounds are capable of modulating Aurora kinase thereby influencing the process of cell cycle and cell proliferation to treat cancer and cancer-related diseases. The invention also includes pharmaceutical compositions, including the compounds, and methods of treating disease states related to the activity of Aurora kinase.