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A pressure activated two-way slit valve assembly is designed to be used in combination with, but not limited to, a high flow rate catheter to prevent accidental ingestion of air or loss of blood if the closure cap comes off during non-use of the catheter. In addition, the potential for occlusion of the catheter due to blood clots in the catheter and catheter related infection is substantially reduced. The pressure activated two-way slit valve assembly includes a first end, a second end, a wall defining a dumbbell shaped channel, and a flexible, thin disk having a slit and positioned within the pressure activated two-way slit valve assembly to reside within the dumbbell shaped channel. The slit and the dumbbell shaped channel are sized to enable the slit to deform in response to a predetermined pressure differential across the slit to allow fluid to pass therethrough.

Systems and methods are provided for the mixing of materials to form a homogenous mixture and for delivering the mixture to a target site. In one embodiment a vial containing a liquid monomer is detachably engaged with a mixing chamber. The liquid monomer flows into the mixing chamber and combines with a powder to form a flowable composition such as bone cement. The bone cement may then be injected from the device to a target location.

Feedback systems and methods enhance obstructive and other obesity treatments by presenting feedback regarding patients' actual eating and/or exercise habits. An ingestion restricting implant body can be deployed along the gastrointestinal tract. In some embodiments, ingestion alters the implant body, which, in turn, generates signals. The generated signals can be used to inhibit unhealthy ingestion by the patient. In other embodiments, the implant body can be altered by signals so as to selectable change the restriction imposed on the gastrointestinal tract, optionally in response to ingestion events, an eating schedule, or the like. The implant body may comprise a gastric band or an intragastric balloon. Sensor signals may be processed to identify ingestion and/or characterize ingestion of a solid or a liquid, and the results may be displayed on a screen for a patient or coach to view.

A pharmaceutical composition with improved safety includes a selected amount of a vomit-inducing agent, wherein the selected amount is less than an amount needed to induce vomit in a user; and a therapeutic agent. The therapeutic agent may be selected from a sleeping pill, an anxiolytic, a hypnotic, a contraceptive agent. The therapeutic agent may also be selected from diazepam, flunitrazepam, alprazolam, triazolam, fludiazepam, midazolam, estazolam, zopiclone, and a combination thereof. The vomit-inducing agent may be selected from emetine, cephaeline, and a combination thereof.

A wet road surface detection system is provided for a vehicle driving on a road. The wet road surface detection system includes a sound sensing device coupled to the vehicle for capturing noise of the vehicle tires as the vehicle drives on a road surface. A processor processes sounds captured by the audible sensing device. The processor quantifies a variable sound level of the captured noise between a first frequency and a second frequency. The processor determines whether each quantified sound level between the first frequency and the second frequency is above a predetermined sound level threshold below the sound level at the first frequency. The processor determines that the vehicle is driving on a wet road surface in response to each quantified sound level between the first frequency and the second frequency being above a predetermined sound level threshold below the sound level at the first frequency.

The invention relates to a preservation solution for organs, tissues or cells of human bodies or animals. The organ preservation solution comprises sodium citrate, potassium citrate, magnesium sulfate, sodium dihydrogen phosphate, sodium hydroxide, adenosine, arginine, tryptophan, mannitol, tetramethylpyrazine hydrochloride and other components. The organ preservation solution can be used for cooling, lavaging and preserving the organs of the human bodies or the animals, can effectively preserve human in vitro kidneys for 48 hours and animal in vitro kidneys for 72 hours, can prevent ischemia-reperfusion injury, and has great value for clinical application.

The invention covers a novel treatment strategy that considerably improves conventional probiotic treatments of inflammatory bowel diseases, irritable bowel syndrome and other gastrointestinal disorders. Both probiotic microorganisms and the carrier of the probiotic microorganisms in form of a fermented cereal gruel are used as treatment effectors. Phospholipids may also be an effecter. The novel treatment strategy is capable of removing the symptoms of inflammatory bowel diseases regardless of a mild, moderate or severe stage of the disease.

An air data probe includes a probe head defining a longitudinal axis between a forward tip and aft base. The probe includes a thermocouple having a sense end in the forward tip to measure the temperature in the forward tip. The probe includes a port opening defined in a side of the probe head and opening at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis. The probe includes a bulkhead within the probe head. The bulkhead has a chamber in fluid communication with the port opening. The chamber includes a single chamber inlet having an elongated cross-sectional shape. The single elongated chamber inlet is in fluid communication with two downstream pressure conduits to provide redundancy in case one of the two pressure conduits is blocked.

An apparatus and method for collecting a biological fluid specimen. The apparatus includes a holder article for a specimen container, wherein the holder article contains a ring which is removably engagable with a specimen container, a connector continuous with the ring, and a grasping portion continuous with the connector, the grasping portion having opposed lateral side portions which are continuous and contiguous along their entire length with one another. The grasping portion is movable along a longitudinal axis such that the lateral side portions are approachable one to another, with each side portion on an opposed side of a plane coaxial with the longitudinal axis. The connector includes a specimen collection area.

A hydraulic system with an adjustable hydrostatic machine is provided that includes an adjustment mechanism. The adjustment mechanism interacts with an actuating device which has at least one actuating piston delimiting an actuating pressure space. The system has a regulating valve with which, for the displacement of the actuating piston and therefore for the actuation of the adjustment device, the supply and removal of pressure medium into and from the actuating pressure chamber can be controlled, wherein the regulating valve has a valve piston which is subjected to a force of a feedback spring, which force is dependent on the position of the adjustment mechanism. The valve piston is additionally subjected to a counterforce acting counter to the force of the feedback spring, and an actuating component is provided, with which the valve piston can be subjected to a control force acting in the same direction as the counterforce or to a control force acting counter to the counterforce.

The present invention relates to methods and devices for air ingestion prevention. The invention provides a stopper or plug with one or more conduits and a recess that prevents air ingestion during outlet of a liquid from a liquid container covered with the stopper.

Rechargeable containers and dispensers, in particular a product dispenser, including at least one compartment for storing separately one or more products. Preferably, a container having multiple compartments for storing separately one or more products including a seal for sealing the multiple compartments and a lid connected to the container which can be removed.

A voice coil motor type focusing actuator, which includes a fixed unit, the fixed unit comprises a receiving chamber, a slide fitting channel, a first coil, and a magnet. A movable unit, the movable unit is received inside the receiving chamber of the fixed unit, having a first magnetic conducting flange being affected by the first coil and magnet of the fixed unit, a lens receiving means, a slide fitting rail, the movable unit is movable relative to the fixed unit to define an axial line.

A jet engine bird and debris shield device is disclosed that is designed as a deflector to deflect large birds, such as geese weighing in excess of eight pounds, and keep from entering the turbine blades of a jet engine. The shield device is aerodynamically shaped in the form of a frustro-conical cylinder aligned to the direction of flight and attaches to the air intake portion of the jet engine. The shield is formed with a series of openings or slots that allow sufficient air to be entrained into the jet engine intake. The orientation and shape of the slots direct the air directly to the turbine blades of the engine.

The invention relates to broiler feed with effects of promoting digestion and enhancing immunity. The broiler feed contains main ingredients of the feed and a traditional Chinese medicine additive, wherein the main ingredients of the feed comprise the following raw material components in parts by weight: 40-45 parts of corn, 5-10 parts of sorghum, 10-15 parts of wheat bran, 4-5 parts of bean flour, 15-20 parts of bean cake, 2-4 parts of fish meal, 3-5 parts of bone meal, 0.2-0.3 part of salt and 1.2-1.8 parts of mountain flour; the part by weight of the traditional Chinese medicine additive is 4-6. According to the broiler feed provided in the invention, on the basis that good growth of livestock is guaranteed, aiming at the characteristic that the broiler easily suffers from epidemic infectious diseases, the proportion of all feed raw material components is reasonable, multiple traditional Chinese medicine components are added to serve as additives, and occurrence and transmission of the infectious diseases which easily occur in the broiler can be effectively inhibited. Meanwhile, the feed has the effects of helping digestion and removing deposition, reinforcing qi and nourishing blood, expelling parasites, inhibiting bacteria, resisting diseases and enhancing the body disease resistance, intake of synthetic auxins and antibiotics is avoided, and the feed is low in toxicity and small in side effects.

The invention features a system for treating liquid including a liquid treatment device comprising adsorbent media for removing a substance from liquid and a pH adjuster device located upstream of the liquid treatment device relative to a direction of flow of the liquid. The pH adjuster device contains particulate or solid state pH adjuster material capable of releasing H or OH groups into the liquid or consuming H or OH groups from the liquid effective to raise or lower the pH of the liquid while it passes through the media. The pH adjuster may include acidifier or basifier material. Also featured is a method of using the device to remove a substance from liquid by adsorption and/or ion exchange.

The invention relates to a laying hen feed for enhancing immunity, and the laying hen feed is composed of a main feed material and traditional Chinese medicine additives, wherein the main feed material is composed of the following raw material components in parts by weight: 40-45 parts of corn, 5-10 parts of sorghum, 10-15 parts of wheat bran, 4-5 parts of bean flour, 15-20 parts of bean cakes, 2-4 parts of fish meal, 3-5 parts of bone meal, 0.2-0.3 part of table salt and 1.2-1.8 parts of limestone powder; on the basis of ensuring the good growth of livestock, aiming at the feature that laying hens are prone to epidemics in the growing period, the proportion of the raw material components of the laying hen feed provided by the invention is rationalized, a variety of traditional Chinese medicine components are added to serve as additives to effectively inhibit the occurrence and the spread of the most susceptible epidemics of the laying hens. Meanwhile, the feed has the advantages of promoting digestion, relieving stasis, enhancing qi, nourishing blood, expelling parasites, inhibiting bacteria, resisting diseases, enhancing body resistance to diseases, meanwhile greatly increasing the incubation, enhancing the immunity of chicks and avoiding the intake of artificial hormones and antibiotics, and is low in toxicity and few in side effects.

The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition based on an active ingredient that is enclosed in liposomes for topical, transdermal application. The interior of said liposomes comprises an acidic, aqueous medium containing at least one cholinesterase inhibitor, preferably from the group containing donepezil, rivastigmine, galantamine, physostigmine, heptylphysostigmine, phenserine, tolserine, cymserine, thiatolserine, thiacymserine, neostigmine, huperzine, tacrine, metrifonate and dichlorvos, or an enantiomer or derivative of at least one of said compounds. In addition, the invention relates to a method for producing said composition, optionally in a sterile form and also to the use of the liposomes charged with the active ingredient in various galenic formulations for topical, transdermal application with a depot effect in the epidermis, for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of cutaneous neuropathic pain or the loss of cutaneous sensory function as a result of neuropathy.

The invention provides a rubber composite for wear-resistant tire treads. The rubber composite is prepared from, by weight, 4-30 parts of natural rubber, 4-40 parts of butadiene rubber, 4-40 parts of styrene butadiene rubber, 35-75 parts of high-dispersion white carbon black, 3-10 parts of white mineral oil, 1.0-2.5 parts of indirect zinc oxide, 1.0-2.0 parts of stearic acid, 1.0-2.0 parts of rubber protecting wax, 1.0-2.8 parts of silane coupling agent, 1.0-2.0 parts of anti-aging agent, 1.0-2.0 parts of tackifying resin, 1.0-2.0 parts of dispersing agent, 1.0-2.8 parts of common sulphur, 0.5-2.0 parts of accelerant CZ, 1.0-2.0 parts of accelerant DPG and 0.1-1.0 part of accelerant DM, by proportioning according to the formula prior to mixing via an internal mixer. The rubber composite is mixed via the internal mixer by means of blending the natural rubber and the synthetic rubber as main materials which are matched with the high-dispersion white carbon black as a reinforcing agent and through unique anti-aging system design, and accordingly tire treads produced by the rubber composite are excellent in wear-resisting property, good in tear resistance and high in tensile strength, and service lives of tires for taxies, family cars and the like can be prolonged.