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A canola cultivar designated NQC02CNX13 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of canola cultivar NQC02CNX13, to the plants of canola NQC02CNX13, to plant parts of canola cultivar NQC02CNX13 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing canola cultivar NQC02CNX13 with itself or with another canola line. The invention also relates to methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic canola plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to canola cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from canola cultivar NQC02CNX13, to methods for producing other canola cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from canola cultivar NQC02CNX13 and to the canola plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid canola seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the canola cultivar NQC02CNX13 with another canola cultivar.

The present invention relates to new pneumococcal vaccines. The invention also relates to vaccination of subjects, in particular immunocompromised subjects, against pneumococcal infections using said novel pneumococcal vaccines.

The present invention provides an inflatable kayak having a first set of inflatable tubes defining a bottom portion for contracting a body of water. The bottom portion of the present invention is attached to one or more side walls defining the sides of the kayak. The kayak of the present invention is equipped with a first area sized to receive a surfboard and a zipper or other sealing system to secure the surfboard within the first area. The surfboard providing additional rigidity and stability to the kayak of the present invention.

An automatic cooking medium level control system for a cooking apparatus, e.g., a fryer, may include a cooking vessel having a first temperature sensor at a first level of the cooking vessel and a second temperature sensor at a second level of the cooking vessel. A reservoir holding a cooking medium, such as cooking oil, may be in fluid communication with the cooking vessel. A controller may monitor temperature data from the first and second temperature sensors to determine whether the level of cooking oil in the cooking vessel has lowered. Upon determining that the cooking oil level has lowered, the controller may actuate a supply mechanism, such as a pump, which may be disposed on a fluid communication path between the reservoir and cooking vessel, which may enable the introduction of cooking medium from the reservoir to the to the cooking vessel.

A stator for an electric rotating machine is equipped with a stator winding made up of a plurality of conductor segments. Each of the conductor segments has a head and two legs. The legs are inserted through their respective slots formed in a stator core, so that each of the conductor segments has leg ends protruding from either one of opposed end surfaces of the stator core and the head thereof protruding from the other end surface. Radially adjacent two of the leg ends are provided as a coil end pair to be welded. At least one of the heads is interposed between adjacent two of the coil end pairs, thereby ensuring a distance between the two adjacent coil end pairs which is great enough to provide a required degree of electric insulation between the coil end pairs when the leg ends of the conductor segments are welded electrically.

The below-deck space of an aircraft may be selectively configured as a freight hold or alternatively as a passenger sleeping cabin space by arranging a sleeping cabin container therein. An air conditioning system for this below-deck space provides air in a supply air main line (31), which branches off to at least one supply air delivery line (19). A first flange (23) is provided at the end of the supply air delivery line (19), and a seal collar (25) seals the end relative to the freight hold wall (29). When a sleeping cabin container is to be arranged in the below-deck space, a flap door (24) is pivoted into an open position, and the flange (28) at the end of a ventilation duct (27) of the sleeping cabin is connected directly to the flange (23). When the sleeping cabin container is removed from the freight hold, the flap door (24) is pivoted into a closed position, in which it covers the mouth opening of the flange (23), and allows an air flow into the freight hold only through the smaller restricted cross-section of an air throughflow opening (26) in the flap door (24). The air supply arrangement can be easily adjusted to meet the different air flow requirements of the sleeping cabin configuration and the freight hold configuration without requiring any recalibration of the air-conditioning system itself.

A canola line designated SCV328921 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of canola line SCV328921, to the plants of canola SCV328921, to plant parts of canola line SCV328921 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing canola line SCV328921 with itself or with another canola line. The invention also relates to methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic canola plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to canola lines or breeding lines and plant parts derived from canola line SCV328921, to methods for producing other canola lines, lines or plant parts derived from canola line SCV328921 and to the canola plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid canola seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the line SCV328921 with another canola line.

The present invention describes a unique liquid impermeable elastic laminate comprised of elastic films and elastic-nonwovens that is rendered breathable during manufacture by creating rings of porosity surrounding the weld points used to bond the laminate during its manufacture.

A canola line designated SCV354718 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of canola line SCV354718, to the plants of canola SCV354718, to plant parts of canola line SCV354718 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing canola line SCV354718 with itself or with another canola line. The invention also relates to methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic canola plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to canola lines or breeding lines and plant parts derived from canola line SCV354718, to methods for producing other canola lines, lines or plant parts derived from canola line SCV354718 and to the canola plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid canola seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the line SCV354718 with another canola line.

The present invention relates to biocompatible oligomer-polymer compositions for the in situ formation of implants, wherein the implants release a bioactive agent, a metabolite, or a prodrug thereof, at a controlled rate. The sustained release delivery system includes a flowable composition containing a bioactive agent, a metabolite, or a prodrug thereof, and an implant containing a bioactive agent, a metabolite, or a prodrug thereof. The flowable composition may be injected into tissue whereupon it coagulates to become the solid or gel, monolithic implant. The flowable composition includes a biodegradable, thermoplastic polymer, a biocompatible end-capped oligomeric liquid, and a bioactive agent, a metabolite, or a prodrug thereof.

A radiation shielding structure includes a first adhesive layer, a resin layer, and a metal foil laminated sequentially on a release layer of a plastic film. A metal layer pattern is formed from the metal foil. The first adhesive layer, the resin layer, and the metal layer pattern are formed sequentially from the bottom on a transparent substrate by separating the release layer from the first adhesive layer along an interface and then adhering the first adhesive layer to the transparent substrate.

The method of forming a radiation shielding structure includes a first adhesive layer, a resin layer, and a metal foil laminated sequentially on a release layer of a plastic film. A metal layer pattern is formed from the metal foil. The first adhesive layer, the resin layer, and the metal layer pattern are formed sequentially from the bottom on a transparent substrate by separating the release layer from the first adhesive layer along an interface and then adhering the first adhesive layer to the transparent substrate.

An automatic cooking medium level control system for a cooking apparatus, e.g., a fryer, may include a cooking vessel having a first temperature sensor at a first level of the cooking vessel and a second temperature sensor at a second level of the cooking vessel. A reservoir holding a cooking medium, such as cooking oil, may be in fluid communication with the cooking vessel. A controller may monitor temperature data from the first and second temperature sensors to determine whether the level of cooking oil in the cooking vessel has lowered. Upon determining that the cooking oil level has lowered, the controller may actuate a supply mechanism, such as a pump, which may be disposed on a fluid communication path between the reservoir and cooking vessel, which may enable the introduction of cooking medium from the reservoir to the to the cooking vessel.

Disclosed is a multilayer compensator polymeric film for a LC cell including two or more first type layers having an out-of-plane birefringence not more negative than −0.005 and one or more second type layers having an out-of-plane birefringence more negative than −0.005, wherein the second type layers are amorphous and including selected polymeric materials having sufficient thickness so that the overall in-plane retardation (Re) of the compensator is from 0 to 300 nm and the out-of-plane retardation (Rth) of at least one of the one or more second type layers is more negative than −20 nm wherein: (a) a first type layer is present that is contiguous to a second layer and is between all of the second type layers and all of the other first type layers; (b) at least one of the second type layers or one of the other first type layers is a layer coated from an organic solvent; and (c) the contiguous first type layer contains a polymer that is water soluble or water dispersible in an amount sufficient to impede the diffusion of the organic solvent between the other first type layers and the second type layers.

A data processing system 2 incorporating an instruction pipeline 14 and a prefetch unit 16 is provided with a branch prediction mechanism using both a branch prediction memory 20 storing 1-bit values indicating strongly taken or strongly not taken together with a branch prediction cache indicating for certain selected branch history values either weakly taken or weakly not taken predictions. When a conditional branch instruction is encountered, then the preceding branch prediction history is used to access a first prediction within the branch prediction memory 20 and is looked up to check for a hit within the branch prediction cache 22. If a hit occurs, then a second prediction within the branch prediction cache 22 is used in preference to the first prediction, otherwise the first prediction is used. The misprediction by a first prediction value stored within the branch prediction memory 20 triggers a second prediction to be cached within the branch prediction cache 22 corresponding to that mispredicted history value.

A controller (50) controls the supply of oil pressure to a primary pulley (41) and a secondary pulley (42) of a belt-drive continuously variable transmission (1) in accordance with the depression amount of an accelerator pedal (81) of a vehicle. When slippage is detected in a V-belt (43) that is wrapped around the primary pulley (41) and secondary pulley (42), the controller (50) reduces the output torque of an engine (70) of the vehicle to stop the V-belt (43) from slipping. Meanwhile, damage to the V-belt (43) caused by slippage is prevented by reducing the oil pressure supply to the secondary pulley (42).

The present invention relates to modified release pharmaceutical compositions for oral administration and more particularly to modified release pharmaceutical compositions of a form of at least one selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor selected from the group consisting of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, racemic mixtures thereof, enantiomers thereof, pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof and combinations thereof.

The Adjustable Archery Arrow Insert is a three-piece arrow tip attached to an arrow shaft and includes an arrow tip insert, an arrow tip collar, and an arrow tip. The arrow tip insert is threadably received by the arrow tip collar and is attached to the arrow shaft, where the arrow tip is inserted within, and the arrow tip collar overlaps, the arrow shaft. The arrow by is inserted through the arrow tip collar and attached directly to the arrow tip insert without protruding into the arrow shaft. Sections of the arrow tip insert may be removed to adjust the overall weight of the arrow. The Adjustable Archery Arrow Insert transfers the impact forces of the arrow tip to the arrow tip insert and arrow tip collar, where the forces are transferred over a larger area thereby minimizing the forces on front edge of the arrow shaft.

In a deep-ultraviolet tight source includes sapphire substrate, a wide band gap semiconductor layer having a wavelength smaller than 300 nm, formed on the sapphire substrate, and en electron beam source for irradiating the wide band gap semiconductor layer with an electron beam. The wide band gap semiconductor layer is configured to be irradiated with the electron beam to emit deep-ultraviolet light through the sapphire substrate. A thickness t1 of the sapphire substrate satisfies: t1≧α·E3 is an energy of the electron beam (keV); and α is 1 μm / (keV)3.

In a first aspect, the invention features a method. A method of simplifying object interaction comprises defining objects whose public interface contains only properties; creating structured data objects; locating references to objects in the structured data object; associating said structured data object with at least one thread; locating said references; initializing said objects; accessing said objects; wherein said objects are persist-able; wherein said properties contain values or locators containing a reference to values.

A strain sensor is provided which includes a strain sensor, a first housing, a second housing joined to the first housing, and a pressure measuring mechanism firmly retained between the first housing and the second housing. The pressure measuring mechanism is gripped between a first face of the first housing and a second face of the second housing to measure compressive stress exerted by a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine on the first housing and the second housing. This structure improves the reliability of mechanical strength of the housings and the pressure measuring mechanism and provides flexibility in selecting the type of the pressure measuring mechanism.

A data processing system 2 incorporating an instruction pipeline 14 and a prefetch unit 16 is provided with a branch prediction mechanism using both a branch prediction memory 20 storing 1-bit values indicating strongly taken or strongly not taken together with a branch prediction cache indicating for certain selected branch history values either weakly taken or weakly not taken predictions. When a conditional branch instruction is encountered, then the preceding branch prediction history is used to access a first prediction within the branch prediction memory 20 and is looked up to check for a hit within the branch prediction cache 22. If a hit occurs, then a second prediction within the branch prediction cache 22 is used in preference to the first prediction, otherwise the first prediction is used. The misprediction by a first prediction value stored within the branch prediction memory 20 triggers a second prediction to be cached within the branch prediction cache 22 corresponding to that mispredicted history value.