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A molded plant growing container system is easily stacked in a vertical array providing a self-supporting apparatus for intense horticulture. This apparatus increases crop yields over conventional growing methods. The containers nest within each other for ease of transport, are quickly and easily assembled, provide efficiency in installation and use of growing medium, increased numbers of plants in a given space, and are adaptable to a variety of irrigation methods.

A system for managing AC energy harvested from a harvesting device (1) including a coil (4) including switching circuitry (S1-S4) coupled between first (7A) and second (7B) terminals of the coil. The switching circuitry includes first (S1), second (S2), third (S1), and fourth (S4) switches. A switch controller (17) closes the second and fourth switches to allow build-up of current (I_Lh) in the coil, opens one of the second and fourth switches, and closes a corresponding one of the third and first switches in response to the built-up inductor current reaching a predetermined threshold value (I_hrv) to steer the built-up inductor current through the corresponding one of the third and first switches to a current-receiving device (24 and/or R_L,C_L).

Described herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses for aggregating microorganism in an aqueous suspension. In particular, are systems, methods, and apparatuses that apply an electrical field and/or acoustic energy to an aqueous suspension comprising microorganisms as the aqueous suspension follows a flow path to cause aggregation of the microorganisms. The electrical field may be continuous or pulsed. In some embodiments, the flow path for the aqueous suspension may vary.

Patient medical information is processed for storage and retrieval subject to anonymity constraints. The patient medical information is divided into a first information portion including information identifying a patient and information identifying a physician of the patient, and a second information portion including clinical and demographic information for the patient and the information identifying the physician. A unique code associated with the patient, but which does not identify the patient, is obtained when the first and second information portions are processed. The unique code is appended to the first and second information portions. The first information portion is then stored in a first information storage facility with other first information portions for other patients, and the second information portion is stored in a second information storage facility, separate from the first information storage facility, with second information portions for other patients. The anonymity constraints include the ability to mine the second information storage facility for clinical and demographic information useful for evaluating protocols for clinical trials and assembling candidate groups for the clinical trials without revealing the identities of the patients. Search results are made available to physicians who are identified in the results. Those physicians may then recruit their patients for participation in clinical trials.

A biomass harvesting system for harvesting agricultural plant growth from agricultural fields comprises a power source for providing mechanical and electric power to the system, a biomass accumulator for producing discrete units of accumulated biomass, a windrower for feeding biomass to the accumulator, a biomass quality analyzer for sensing and transmitting a set of quality characteristics of the biomass, a ground cover residue monitor for sensing and transmitting an optimal quantity of biomass residue to remain on the field, an active tracking system for identifying individual ones of the discrete units of accumulated biomass, and a central processing unit including a memory module storing an executable instruction set therein. The central processing unit executes the instruction set and integrates the sensed biomass quality characteristics and the sensed optimal quantity of biomass residue to remain on the field to determine a biomass quality index of the discrete units of accumulated biomass.

A method of using a bagged power generation system comprising windbags and water-bags for harnessing wind and water power to produce electricity to meet the escalating energy needs of mankind. Windbags integrated with aerodynamically shaped inflatable bodies filled with lighter-than-air gas: HAV, UAV, airplanes; enabling the apparatus to attain high altitude to capture and entrap high velocity wind. Water-bags integrated with hydrodynamic shaped bodies HUV, UUV, Submarine-boats; enabling the apparatus to dive, capture and entrap swift moving tidal-currents. Attached tether-lines pulling on the rotating reel-drums and generators to produce electricity. Active control surfaces, turbo-fans, propellers provide precision control of the apparatus. A system configured to maximize fluids capture, retention and optimized extraction of its kinetic energy. An extremely scalable and environmentally friendly method, system, apparatus, equipment and techniques configured to produce renewable green energy with high productivity and efficiency.

Using a bended puncturing needle, a through hole from the greater trochanter of a long tubular bone to the bone marrow cavity is formed, the catheter 61a, 61b is passed into the through hole, a physiological salt solution is injected from one of the catheter 61b, and the physiological salt solution and the bone marrow is stirred by the stirring wire 68, the obtained mixed liquid is aspirated and harvested by another catheter 61a, thereby a large amount of the bone marrow is harvested. A method enabling easy and a large amount harvesting of the bone marrow from long tubular bones such as femurs, in which a multi-lumen catheter can also be used as a catheter.

The published genomic sequence of Chlamydia trachomatis reveals over 1000 putative encoded proteins but does not itself indicate which of these might be useful antigens for immunisation and vaccination or for diagnosis. This difficulty is addressed by the invention, which provides a number of C.trachomatis protein sequences suitable for vaccine production and development and/or for diagnosis purposes.

A power system for powering a vehicle having an airflow or waterflow channeling device mounted on the vehicle, a laterally mounted fan unit, and an electric alternator connected to the fan unit, in which airflow or waterflow spins the laterally mounted fan thus generating electricity via the electric alternator to power the vehicle.

The invention relates to a beneficiation method for copper sulfide ore containing easily-sliming gangue minerals. According to the method, lime is adopted as pH regulator and pyrite depressant of flotation pulp of the copper sulfide ore containing the easily-sliming gangue minerals; sodium sulfide serves as activator of a small number of copper oxide minerals in the ore; sodium hexametaphosphate, sodium silicate or ethylenediamine serves as gangue slurry dispersant; a combination of butyl xanthate and other collectors serves as a collector of copper sulfide minerals; terpernic oil serves as foaming agent. The ore is subjected to primary grinding, primary roughing, primary scavenging and three-time concentration; the ore pulp is subjected to strong stirring and pulp mixing before starting to be subjected to primary roughing, primary scavenging and primary concentration, so that copper contained in the ore is efficiently recovered. According to the method, through reasonable combination and addition of chemicals, the ore grinding and pulp mixing process is strengthened, the adverse influence of gangue slurry on copper sulfide mineral floatation is eliminated, the surface characteristics of copper sulfide minerals are improved, the preferential adsorption of the collector on the surfaces of the copper sulfide minerals is enhanced, and accordingly, compared with a conventional method, the copper grade and the copper recovery rate of copper concentrate are substantially increased.

The invention discloses a portable fruit picking device, comprising a telescopic rod, a handle part, a traction component, a shearing component and a collecting part. The telescopic rod is a support rod capable of freely telescoping, is used for adjusting the length of the device to adapt to fruits at different heights, and is made of a hollow metal rod. The handle part is a power source to the traction component and may adjust the length of a steel wire according to the length of the telescopic rod. The traction component is used for dragging a moving blade to move and is composed of the steel wire and four fixed pulleys. The shearing component is used for shearing pedicels, is composed of blades and a blade rail and shears a pedicel by meshing of the blades. The collecting part is used for receiving fruits having the pedicels sheared, is mounted below the shearing component and is composed of a steel ring, a mesh passage and a collecting box. After pedicels of fruits are sheared off,the fruits fall into the steel ring and enter the collecting box along the mesh passage. The portable fruit picking device according to the scheme is suitable for picking a lot of fruits at a time, is simple to operate and good in collection convenience and has reliable properties.

The invention provides proteins from gonococcus (Neisseria gonorrhoeae), including amino acid sequences, the corresponding nucleotide sequences, expression data, and serological data. The proteins are useful antigens for vaccines, immunogenic compositions, and/or diagnostics. They are also useful for distinguishing between gonococcus and meningococcus and, in particular, between gonococcus and serogroup B meningococcus.

ADP-ribosylating toxins from Neisseria meningitidis, Streptomyces coelicolor, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Salmonella typhimurium Salmonella paratyphi, and Streptococcus pyogenes are disclosed, together with mutant toxins and uses therefor. There is only a low level of sequence identity between these toxins and toxins such as cholera toxin and E. coli heat labile toxin.

The invention relates to a self-propelled multifunctional straw harvesting grinder. The grinder comprises a frame, wherein the frame is arranged on a front drive axle and a rear drive axle, the front end of the frame is provided with a driving cab, and one side of the driving cab is provided with an elevator; the front end of the elevator is provided with a header in a connecting way, and the rear end of the elevator is connected with a grinder body; the lower part of a connectionjunction between the elevator and the grinder is provided with a secondary recovery device, the lower part of the frame is provided with a stubble cleaner, and the frame at the upper part of the rear drive axle is provided with a hopper box. The self-propelled multifunctional straw harvesting grinder provided by the invention has the beneficial effects that vertical, inclined and lodging straws can be effectively harvested; furthermore, the harvested straws can be prevented from being mixed up with soil and impurities, and the sanitation of the ground straws can be ensured; meanwhile, the ground and leaked straws can be uniformly fed into the hopper box; in addition, the roots of the straws can be ground and returned to field when the straws are harvested; finally, the harvesting grinder is compact in structure, high in efficiency, convenient to harvest and transport and comfortable to operate, labor saving can be realized, and the great convenience can be provided for the harvesting and reusing of the crop straws.

The present invention can simplify the driving system of the harvesting device, and can reliably drive the harvesting device without special maintenance work. The intermediate shaft (65) is equipped with a rotation conversion mechanism (70) that converts the rotation of the intermediate shaft (65) around the lateral axis into reciprocating rotation around the axis in the front and rear directions, and transmits the converted reciprocating rotation power. The transmission shaft (74) extends forward, and the front end of the transmission shaft (74) is linked to the harvesting device (12).

A forage chopper header is provided for use with a forage harvester having a mechanism for chopping crop material and conveying the chopped crop material into a transport vehicle. The header includes a plurality of rotary cutters arranged side-by-side across a front side of a platform, a first auger arranged for conveying crop material cut by the rotary cutters from an outer portion of the header toward the center portion thereof, and a roller supported at a front side of the header and extending across a width of the header for engaging and bending standing crop material as the crop material enters the header. A crop gathering arm assembly can be positioned in front of the roller to help guide standing crop material into the header. A second auger can be arranged in front of the first auger to prevent bunching of crop material in front of the rotary cutters.

The invention discloses a cutting table of a high-stalk crop harvesting machine. The technical scheme includes that the cutting table comprises a mounting plate, a cutting knife, standing grain pulling devices and conveying devices; the standing grain pulling devices comprise bases, standing grain pulling rods and driven chain wheels, first rotary shafts and second rotary shafts are hinged onto the bases, cranks and rockers are arranged between the standing grain pulling rods and the bases, one end of each crank is hinged to the middle of the corresponding standing grain pulling rod, the otherend of each crank is fixedly connected with the corresponding first rotary shaft, two ends of each rocker are hinged to the rear end of the corresponding standing grain pulling rod and the corresponding second rotary shaft, the driven chain wheels are arranged on the first rotary shafts, the conveying devices comprise mounting columns, conveying wheels and conveying belts, the conveying wheels are arranged on the mounting columns, the conveying belts are arranged between the conveying wheels, and standing grain pulling fingers are arranged on the conveying belts. The cutting table has the advantages that stalk gathering actions during manual harvesting can be simulated by the standing grain pulling devices, stalks on two sides of the cutting table can be gathered and pulled towards the middle of the cutting table, and accordingly crops can be pulled, cut and conveyed by the cutting table; only the front ends of the standing grain pulling rods can extend out of the front of the cuttingtable, and accordingly the integral cutting table is small in occupied space.

The invention discloses a combined collector for direct flotation of diasporic bauxite and a using method thereof. The combined collector mainly contains vegetable oil acid, naphthenic acid and a saponified product of dodecyl ether phosphate. The proportion of the vegetable oil acid to the naphthenic acid to the saponified product of the dodecyl ether phosphate is 1:1:0.5. The using method is that a bauxite grinding product with the alumina-silica ratio 3-5 and the particle size -0.074mm accounts for 80-90% when the direct flotation of the bauxite is performed, a potential of hydrogen (pH) value of a flotation system is controlled to be 9-11, the using amount of sodium silicate or sodium hexametaphosphate serving as an inhibitor is 60-80g/t, and the using amount of the combined collector serving as a collector is 800-1200g/t. The selectivity and collecting capacity on the diasporic bauxite during the direct flotation of the bauxite can be enhanced, the dispersing and dissolving capacity of the combined collector in ore pulp is enhanced, and the bauxite direct flotation effect is improved.

A piezoelectric transducer for harvesting ambient vibration energy is made up of two elastic beams poled for series operation, a center flextensional component and two proof masses. The center flextensional component serves as the energy harvesting part as well as vibration harvesting inertial mass. The energy harvester is capable of harvesting multi-directional low-frequency vibration energy efficiently. It can be applied in implantable devices, wearable electronics and wireless sensor networks.

A wind harvesting assembly for a wind turbine, having: a Venturi tube having a hollow interior having a first air pressure; an open top end having a first diameter; an open bottom end having the first diameter; a tube length spanning between the open top end and the open bottom end; and a constricted section located above the bottom end, the constricted section adapted to increase a velocity of air passing through by having a second diameter smaller than the first diameter; a plurality of vertical wind turbine blades arranged around the Venturi tube, wherein each vertical blade of the plurality of vertical wind turbine blades is associated with permanent magnets.

An electrical energy harvesting device for harvesting electrical energy from a pulsed impact loading event. The device including: a piezoelectric element configured to be loaded and unloaded to a first load level by the pulsed impact loading event; and a first inductor coupled to the piezoelectric element configured to be loaded and unloaded to a second load level by the pulsed impact loading event, wherein the piezoelectric element and the first inductor together operate as a first inductor/capacitor (LC) resonant circuit having a first resonance frequency and wherein the loading of the first inductor lags in time the loading of the piezoelectric element.