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The present invention is directed to a process for the production of ethanol and energy. The process includes the steps of fermenting a corn mash in an aqueous medium to produce a beer. Next, the beer is distilled to produce ethanol and a whole stillage. The whole stillage is anaerobically digested to produce a biogas and a residue. The biogas is combusted to produce electricity and steam. The electricity and steam are used during the fermentation and distillation process. The residue may further be separated into a liquid fertilizer and top soil residue.

A system, software and related methods of enhanced pharmaceutical operations in long term care facilities are provided. An embodiment of a system includes a long-term care facility pharmacy group management server, long-term care facility pharmacy management software associated with the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server to manage pharmacological operations in a plurality of long-term care facilities, a plurality of pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts each positioned in a long-term care facility remote from the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server and in communication therewith, a remote pharmacy group server in communication with the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server, and a plurality of pharmaceutical prescription document processors each positioned in a long-term care facility and in communication with the remote pharmacy group server or the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server.

Methods and arrangements are provided that allow for an Internet gateway to directly request or otherwise access routing and / or location information within a home location register (HLR) within a mobile communications network. This allows for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications to be conducted without requiring excessive signaling and / or processing within the mobile communications network. The methods and arrangements can be provided in the form of a standalone node or incorporated into existing nodes, such as, for example, a gateway node within the Internet or a similar network. Verification and / or policing functions are also provided to limit access to the routing and / or location information.

In a plastic tube (1) for the production of gas filled bodies, with two superimposed sheets, connected in a gas tight manner to each other along a first longitudinal edge thereof, the upper sheet (2) and the lower sheet (3) are welded together in the transverse direction along gas tight welded seams (5a,5b), arranged in pairs at a separation from each other, in order to form inflatable pockets (7), which seams extend from the first longitudinal edge (4) to a point at a predetermined separation from the opposing second longitudinal edge (6). The pockets each present, between the upper sheet and the lower sheet, a gas filling opening (8) which is accessible from the second longitudinal edge. Also proposed are a method for the production of gas filled bodies using such plastic tubes and a device for carrying out said method.

Calibration and reference samples with reduced cross-sectional areas encased within imaging tables or couch pads have low attenuation properties and provide patient comfort. The samples are stable and provide reproducible images without artifacts. The torso-length samples avoid positioning errors and misalignment. Sample density or mass calibration materials include calcium compounds representative of bone and calcifications, iodine compounds for contrast angiography, gadolinium compounds for MRI, and fat and tissue equivalent materials. Density corrections for variable patient scatter and imperfect image reconstructions improve quantitative measurement. Automated computer methods detect the samples and record readings on all images over the extent of the scans without operator interaction. Spatial references function as location references and enable spatial correction of device imperfections such as point spread function (PSF) or motion for improved images. Comparative analysis of backward and forward projections corrects images based on simultaneous imaging of the references of known properties.

The present invention is directed to a process for the production of ethanol and energy. The process includes the steps of fermenting a corn mash in an aqueous medium to produce a beer. Next, the beer is distilled to produce ethanol and a whole stillage. The whole stillage is anaerobically digested to produce a biogas and a residue. The biogas is combusted to produce electricity and steam. The electricity and steam are used during the fermentation and distillation process. The residue may further be separated into a liquid fertilizer and top soil residue.

A light shielding film capable of shielding against light entering an active layer of a TFT and electroconductive is formed on the lower layer side of the active layer. Electrical stress is applied by causing a current in an insulating film between source and drain electrodes and the light shielding film to introduce a trap level at a density at least about 5×1012 / cm2 into a source region and a drain region in a surface portion of the active layer on the light shielding film side.

A fabricating method of a unit structure for accomplishing an electrode assembly formed by a stacking method, and an electrochemical cell including the same are disclosed. The fabricating method of the electrode assembly is characterized with fabricating the unit structure by conducting a first process of laminating and forming a bicell having a first electrode / separator / second electrode / separator / first electrode structure, and conducting a second process of laminating first separator / second electrode / second separator one by one on one of the first electrode among two of the first electrodes.

Disclosed are a method and a system for providing a public facility rental service using a biometric identity card. According to the present invention, an on-site reservation request or an Internet reservation request for a public facility rental service is inputted via an on-site reservation device or via the Internet, an on-site reservation process or an Internet reservation process for the public facility rental service is performed, a request for user identification is inputted, user identification is performed, on-site-reserved or Internet-reserved public facilities are rented out to the authenticated user, and processes for public facility rental fee-charging, returning, theft counteraction, fault counteraction, storage, home delivery and the like are performed through user identification using a biometric identity and a public certificate. Thus, the public facility rental service is provided in a convenient and safe manner through user authentication using a biometric identity.

Disclosed is a tubing system for transporting a gas-liquid flow from a well to a production platform or processing facility. It includes a dual pathway section between the well and the production point having a first tubing portion and a second tubing portion. The second tubing portion includes a plurality of parallel channels so as to divide the multi-phase flow into a plurality of flows through individual channels. This is done to reduce flow slippage of the lower viscosity portion of the flow, which may lead to inefficiencies in flow characteristics, and often, undesirable cyclical variations in pressure and fluid volume. This is especially useful in inclined portions of the petroleum flow pipe system and along hilly terrain. The first round tubing portion is used for transporting the gas-liquid flow as well as for maintenance purposes, such as for pigging, fishing or coiled tubing operations.

Most part of an amount of uranium contained in the spent nuclear fuel is removed by making fluorine or a fluorochemical act on the spent nuclear fuel to convert the uranium into UF6, and the uranium is purified through a simple method of distilling the UF6 together with a absorbent. After removing the most part of the amount of uranium, the remaining nuclear fuel material is dissolved and then transferred to an extraction process to recover plutonium. By doing so, a small sized dry process can be employed as a uranium purification process. Since the nuclear fuel material is dissolved and extracted after removing most part of an amount of uranium, a volume of processing solution can be reduced and the machine installation scale can be made small. Accordingly, the reprocessing facility can be extremely downsized.

The invention provides a three-step chromatography process for small and large-scale purification of proteins, specifically monoclonal antibodies, using only four buffer solutions made from a mother solution.

The present invention provides a method of treating wastewater containing phosphorus and / or nitrogen for removing phosphorus and / or nitrogen from the wastewater, including following steps of: (a) introducing wastewater containing phosphorus and / or nitrogen into a an anaerobic reactor, treating the introduced wastewater with anaerobic microorganisms, to produce biogas from organic matters in the wastewater, and then discharging the treated wastewater saturated with carbon dioxide under carbon dioxide partial pressure of 0.2 to 0.5 atm; and (b) injecting the treated wastewater of step (a) into a carbon dioxide stripping apparatus wherein the wastewater is free-fallen to expose the wastewater to ambient condition with carbon dioxide partial pressure of less than 0.001 atm so that carbon dioxide stripping takes place and increase in pH occurs without addition of alkaline substance, and then providing proper pH of 8.4 to 9.6 to form struvite.

This invention provides a positive displacement gas operated pump and pumping system for pumping fluids such as hydrocarbons / oil as well as solids that may be suspended in such fluids. More specifically, the invention relates to a method and apparatus for the recovery of hydrocarbons / oil from underground water tables and / or where water flooding has previously been used to further extract hydrocarbons / oil from underground areas, but economics prevent further recovery from such areas and / or wells.

When a plurality of sets of molds, spaced a predetermined distance along a circumferential direction of a rotary platen, are attached through predetermined clamp portions to a mold attachment surface of the rotary platen supported by a movable platen included in a mold clamping device and a mold attachment surface of a fixed platen opposite this mold attachment surface, at least a mold clamping force, when the mold is attached, is previously limited to a limited mold clamping force lower than a mold clamping force at the time of molding. A mold attaching mode is set that has an interlock function of preventing the limitation from being cancelled until a condition under which all the clamp portions are turned on is satisfied. The selected mold attaching mode is performed when the molds are attached and the plurality of sets of molds are sequentially attached set by set.

It is possible to provide a semiconductor test program debug device capable of reducing the unnecessary facilities when using a semiconductor test device or a semiconductor test program of different specification. The semiconductor test program debug device 300 includes a virtual device 80 for simulating operation of the device under test, a dedicated test bench processing section 60 and a general-purpose test bench processing section 70 for generating a pseudo test signal and a response signal inputted / outputted between to / from the virtual device 80, conversion source program storage sections 10-14 for storing a plurality of semiconductor test programs of different specifications, dedicated conversion rule storage sections 30, 32 and general-purpose conversion rule storage sections 40, 42 for storing conversion rules corresponding to the respective specifications, and conversion processing sections 20-26 for generating the dedicated and the general-purpose bench processing sections 60, 70 by using the semiconductor test programs stored in the conversion source program storage sections 10-14.

A data-processing system is described comprising: A plurality of data-processing devices (11, 12, 13, 14) A data-handling facility (20) shared by the data-processing devices, An aggregation facility (30) for receiving signals (R1, R2, R3, R4) indicative for individual requirements from the data-processing devices for a performance of the shared data-handling facility and for providing a control signal (RA) indicative for a required activity level to meet the aggregated requirements, a control device (40) for controlling an activity level of the data-handling facility depending on the control signal (RA). Additionally a data-processing method is described.

A sludge dehydration method includes a recovery process of recovering specific material as a dewatering aid from sludge generated in a sewage treatment process and a dewatering process of performing solid-liquid separation on sludge in which the dewatering aid recovered in the recovery process and dewatering target sludge are mixed.

Provided is a heat exchanger in which heat exchange between a low-temperature cooling medium and brine and heat exchange between brine and hydrogen gas can be efficiently performed and downsizing of cooling facilities or reduction in facility cost can be attained. The heat exchanger comprises: a vacuum insulated container 12 which is filled with brine, a lid 13 closing an upper portion opening of the container, a rotation axis 14 arranged in the axis direction of the container, a propeller 15 provided on the rotation axis, a helical hydrogen gas cooling tube 16, 17 provided in a vertically two-stage structure around the rotation axis and the propeller, and a cooling medium tube 18 for cooling brine which is arranged around the hydrogen gas cooling tubes.

A system for testing a camera for vision system for a vehicle includes providing a camera having a field of view and providing and disposing a test structure in the field of view of the camera and between the camera and a target. The test structure includes at least one optic and is capable of directing a principal axis of the at least one optic toward multiple respective regions of the target. The camera views the target via the at least one optic. Image data is captured with the camera. The captured image data is representative of images of the target including the multiple regions of the target as captured when the at least one optic has its principal axis directed toward the respective regions of the target. The image data captured by the camera is processed to determine the focus at each of the multiple regions of the target.

Provided are: a modified polylactic acid that is environmentally friendly, potentially usable as a battery material of a secondary battery or the like, and obtained by chemically derivatizing polylactic acid having an L-lactide structure generated or obtained in the manufacture of polylactic acid; a polymerized modified polylactic acid obtained by further polymerizing this modified polylactic acid; and methods and apparatuses for manufacturing the modified polylactic acid and the polymerized modified polylactic acid. The present invention uses: a modified polylactic acid including a structure represented by general formula (1) below (in formula (1), R1 and R2 are structures containing a metal element and can be the same or different, AA and BB are CC or structures containing a metal element in R3 and R4 and can be the same or different, and R5 is a structure containing a metal element); a polymerized modified polylactic acid; and methods and apparatuses for manufacturing the modified polylactic acid and the polymerized modified polylactic acid.

A forging apparatus carries out a method of manufacturing a gear having external teeth on an outer circumferential wall surface thereof and internal teeth on an inner circumferential wall surface thereof. First, an internal tooth forming die is inserted through a through hole defined in a workpiece. Next, a pressing die is caused to abut against the workpiece, and an external tooth machining die finishes the external teeth while preventing a support die from being lowered under action of damping mechanisms. Thereafter, a pressing die presses the workpiece to apply a load in excess of a preset load for the damping mechanisms. The support die is then lowered to lower the workpiece along the internal tooth forming die. At this time, the internal teeth are formed on the inner circumferential wall surface of the workpiece.

A fabricating method of a unit structure for accomplishing an electrode assembly formed by a stacking method, and an electrochemical cell including the same are disclosed. The fabricating method of the electrode assembly is characterized with fabricating the unit structure by conducting a first process of laminating and forming a bicell having a first electrode / separator / second electrode / separator / first electrode structure, and conducting a second process of laminating first separator / second electrode / second separator one by one on one of the first electrode among two of the first electrodes.

Methods and apparatus for decontaminating disposable protective products prepared from polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), used in a nuclear power plant, to less than minimum detectable activity (MDA) are disclosed. In the disclosed methods and apparatus, solid protective products made of PVA, generated from a nuclear power plant, are dissolved into a liquid, and then are decontaminated to less than MDA. The PVA solution decontaminated in this way is concentrated to an appropriate concentration or dried, and finally is subjected to self-disposal. This can fundamentally block the generation amount of combustible waste amounting to 50% or more of low and intermediate level waste of nuclear power plants, thereby considerably contributing to a reduction of the operating expenses of the nuclear power plants. The present invention further relates to methods and apparatus for self-disposing disposable protective products manufactured by conventional polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) through pyrolysis / catalytic oxidation of a PVA solution generated by concentration, and treating the decontaminated PVA solution within a plant. The PVA protective products are dissolved / concentrated / oxidized in water to remove firstly organic matter, and then PVA materials in the PVA solution are completely oxidized into CO2 and H2O by using a small-sized pyrolysis / catalytic oxidation reactor.

The present invention provides a method of treating wastewater containing phosphorus and / or nitrogen for removing phosphorus and / or nitrogen from the wastewater, including following steps of: (a) introducing wastewater containing phosphorus and / or nitrogen into a an anaerobic reactor, treating the introduced wastewater with anaerobic microorganisms, to produce biogas from organic matters in the wastewater, and then discharging the treated wastewater saturated with carbon dioxide under carbon dioxide partial pressure of 0.2 to 0.5 atm; and (b) injecting the treated wastewater of step (a) into a carbon dioxide stripping apparatus wherein the wastewater is free-fallen to expose the wastewater to ambient condition with carbon dioxide partial pressure of less than 0.001 atm so that carbon dioxide stripping takes place and increase in pH occurs without addition of alkaline substance, and then providing proper pH of 8.4 to 9.6 to form struvite.

Water purification particles have porous particles and photocatalyst particles formed of titanium-based compound particles that are supported on the porous particles, have absorption at a wavelength of 500 nm in a visible absorption spectrum, and have an absorption peak at 2,700 cm−1 to 3,000 cm−1 in an infrared absorption spectrum, and a metal compound having a metal atom and a hydrocarbon group is bonded to the surface of each of the titanium-based compound particles through an oxygen atom.

The present invention concerns a method for inducing an increase in the intraocular pressure in an animal, said method comprising ocular administration of a solution comprising benzalkonium chloride (BAK). The present invention further relates to an animal having ocular hypertension, said animal being obtained by the method according to the invention. Said animal provides a convenient animal model for better understanding of the patho-physiological mechanisms involved in ocular hypertension and glaucoma. The present invention also relates to the use of said animal for screening a compound for therapeutic use against ocular hypertension or glaucoma, and / or for assessing potential side-effects of treatment of ocular hypertension and glaucoma.