An LED lighting system may include one or more light-emitting diodes and one or more power management modules. The apparatus comprises an imaging system having a focal plane passing through a focal point of the imaging system, wherein the focal plane of the imaging system is tilted at an oblique angle with respect to the object plane such that only a small portion of the object is in focus. Once the event thread as been instantiated, managing the event thread by a generic thread manager block that provides a plurality of multithread management functions for the shell event handler. The axial bearing comprises two axial effective roller bearings which lie on opposed sides of a projection of the gear. The inheritance repository is generated concurrently with instrumentation placement at application load-time or run-time and persists between application runs to enable dedicated adaptation runs to create the repository.