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A surface relief structure consisting of a random distribution of surface features with varying feature profile and depth, is described. The texture serves to suppress the reflection of electromagnetic waves in the optical region of the spectrum without dispersing any portion of the spectrum by diffraction. Processes for fabricating the random distribution anti-reflecting textures in common materials are also described. The disclosed textures are particularly useful as anti-reflecting covers for displays, and as directly molded anti-reflecting surfaces in eyeglass lenses. Other applications such as covers for artwork, and improved solar cells are made practical by the invention.

A translation enhancer-driven positive feedback vector system is disclosed which is designed to facilitate identification of a Translational Enhancer Element (TEE) and to provide a means for overexpression of gene products. The system exploits both transcriptional and translational approaches to control the expression levels of genes and / or gene products. Methods are also disclosed for screening libraries of random nucleotide sequences to identify translational elements and for overproduction of proteins, which have uses in both research and industrial environments.

The present invention relates to a resource allocation method, network controller device and a switching control device allocating resources to a subscriber of a communication network, wherein at least one allowed codec type is selected for the subscriber based on a relative priority information received from the communication network, e.g., from the switching control device (40). The selected at least one allowed codec type is signaled towards a terminal device (10) of the subscriber. Thereby, priority-based user differentiation can be introduced to provide different quality of service based on the allocated relative priority. This allows maintaining high quality services even in high load or low signal strength environments.

The inventions disclosed herein relate to genuses of non-naturally occurring small molecule compounds which comprise two or optionally three organic moieties of limited size “linked” by certain structurally related “linker” functional groups. Suitable linker groups include ester, amine, ether, keto, imino, thioamide, thioether, sulfonamide, sulfonate ester, sulfone, guanidine, and thiourea groups. The compounds are capable, when contacted with comestible food or drinks or pharmaceutical compositions, at concentrations preferably on the order of about 100 ppm or lower, of serving as savory (“umami”) or sweet taste modifiers, savory or sweet flavoring agents and savory or sweet flavor enhancers, for use in foods, beverages, and other comestible or orally administered medicinal products or compositions, optionally in the presence of or in mixtures with conventional flavoring agents such as monosodium glutamate or known natural or artificial sweeteners.

An electric arc welder and a method for performing a pulse welding process producing reduced spatter. The welder produces a current between an advancing electrode and a workpiece. The welder includes a short-detecting capability for detecting a short condition upon occurrence of a short circuit between the advancing electrode and the workpiece. The welder may also include a switching module in the welding circuit path of the welder having an electrical switch and a resistive path. Times of occurrence of short intervals can be tracked and a blanking signal can be generated based on the tracked short intervals to anticipate a next short interval in a next pulse period of the pulsed welding process. The blanking signal can be used to reduce a welding current in the welding circuit path by introducing additional resistance into the welding circuit path via the switching module, for example.

A tissue product having a combination of substantially equal tensile energy absorbed (TEA) in the machine direction and the cross-machine direction of the tissue sheet and a significant level of stretch in both directions provides improved perception of strength and resistance to “poke through” in use.

The building material, in one embodiment, has a jointing system that is uniquely configured to cover the frame of a structure. This building material, in one embodiment, is a building board with a conforming flange that is embossed onto the board and adapted to engage or mate with an end of an adjacent board. In another embodiment, the building material is an engineered panel joint comprised of a building board and a flexible or hinged article attached to the back surface of the building board. The article is preferably attached to the building board by an adhesive and extends beyond the edge and away from the building board for receiving a fastener to fix the building board to the structure. The fastener is preferably a nail. Components of the building material are preferably attached to the frame of the structure through the use of a single row of nails while maintaining or enhancing the shear strength performance of the building board system.

The present invention relates to a selectable multi-performance configuration. Instead of the traditional methods of producing separate high-end and low-end graphics chips, the present invention produces processing systems in a single unit. The single unit is readily and functionally partitionable. Each partition is capable of independent operation. By using all of the partitions a high-end graphics processing system may be simulated and tested. By using a subset of the partitions, a low-end graphics processing system may be simulated on the same system without the added cost of re-design of either hardware or software.

The present invention generally relates to the field of cell growth and tissue engineering, in particular, tissue engineered compositions comprising a nanotextured substrate which is structurally configured for growth of cells in an anatomically correct adult phenotype in vitro. In particular, described herein are nanotextured substrates which are structurally configured for the anisotropic organization, maturation, and growth of in vitro-differentiated muscle cells, such as cardiomyocytes, and methods for the production and use thereof in varying sizes, nanotextures and substrate rigidities. In vitro-differentiated cardiomyocytes grown on the nanotextured substrates described herein are better-differentiated and more closely mimic adult cardiac tissue than the same cells grown on a non-textured substrate of the same composition. The nanotextured substrate / cell constructs provide a platform for screening to predict the effect of test agents or drugs on, for example, human cardiac tissue, including patient-derived tissue, or for the identification of agents that effect various cardiac functional parameters.

An elastomeric article having reducing microbe affinity and transmission and methods for applying and immobilizing antimicrobial compounds to the elastomeric substrate surface are disclosed. The elastomeric article has a body formed of a natural or synthetic polymer latex having an outer surface and an inner surface. The body has a coating of an antimicrobial agent over at least a portion of said outer surface. The treatment involves applying according to either a spraying or dipping process an antimicrobial polymer or composition to a surface of the elastomeric substrate; binding the antimicrobial composition to the surface in a manner such that said treat antimicrobial coating passes either one or another or both versions of a zone of inhibition test, such test including: a) a dry-leaching or agar-plate-based contact test, according to AATCC 147 protocol, or b) a wet-leaching or dynamic shake flask test according to ASTM E-2149-01 protocol. The substrate is further subject to a rapid germicidal contact-transfer test of relatively short duration. The antimicrobial polymer can include an organosilane quaternary ammonium or a biguanide compound which can disrupt the ionic charges of microbial cellular membranes.

A method of producing a laminate material includes the steps of providing a first flexible sheet material; providing a second flexible sheet material having a first surface and a second surface, and also having a first width of 1X; stretching the second flexible sheet material in a cross-machine direction to a second width of between about 1.2X and 3 X when in a flattened state; necking the second flexible sheet material to produce an accordion shape, thereby reducing the second width of the sheet material to a third width, less than the width of the first width, such that the third width is between 0.65 X to 0.975 X when in an accordion shape; applying adhesive to the first surface of the second flexible sheet material with a slot coat adhesive process; and joining the first flexible sheet material to the first surface of the second flexible sheet material.

A tissue product having a combination of substantially equal tensile energy absorbed (TEA) in the machine direction and the cross-machine direction of the tissue sheet and a significant level of stretch in both directions provides improved perception of strength and resistance to “poke through” in use.

A two-way visual communication system using multiple imaging devices, and a method for operating such a device is described. An embodiment of the present invention may use an image processor to analyze and modify image data from one or more imaging devices, and from the far-end party, in order to improve the perceived level of eye contact experienced by the users. The output signals from the imaging devices may be individually selected for transmission to the far end party, or may be used in combination in the synthesis of a composite image, using information derived from the imaging devices and / or from the image of the far-end party.

A CAD system enables a designer to freely modify a model of a design without regenerating a history of the model, as in traditional parametric feature based modeling. The CAD system automatically determines whether the modifications to the model invalidate current features associated with the model and whether the modifications create new features that should be added to the model. Such a CAD system enables a designer to quickly edit designs and simultaneously preserve design intent without requiring the significant computational resources of historical based approaches that regenerate a geometry upon every edit made by a designer.

Described herein are prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) binding conjugates that are useful for delivering therapeutic, diagnostic and imaging agents. Also described herein are pharmaceutical compositions containing them and methods of using the conjugates and compositions. Also described are processes for manufacture of the conjugates and the compositions containing them.

A composition comprising an isolated fowl adenovirus (FAdV), wherein the FAdV is a strain selected from FAdV-2, FAdV-7, FAdv-8a, FAdV-8b, FAdV-8a / 8b or FAdV-11 serotype strains; and a suitable carrier and methods for inducing protective immunity in a subject and / or its progeny.

A method and system enables data redundancy across servers, networks, and controllers by using standard redundant files as underlying storage for RAID subsystem configurations. A redundant array of independent disk (RAID) subsystem includes a front-end interface configured to process non-redundant requests received from a primary file system communicating with an application program. A back-end interface of the RAID subsystem is configured to process redundant requests corresponding to the non-redundant requests. The redundant requests to be issued to a secondary file system communicates with a block mode device including multiple physical storage devices.

A method of searching an inventory of satellite remote sensing data for data granules, scenes, or images that cover a specified area of interest whereby each data granule is indexed to the relevant ascending equatorial crossing of the satellite. Representative points in the area of interest are traced backwards along the orbital track to determine where the satellite must have crossed the equator on the ascending pass in order for the sensor to have seen the area of interest. Spatial search of the data is thereby reduced to a simple search on a range of crossing longitudes.

An improved system and method for providing information concerning the level of focus of objects appearing on a viewfinder for a digital camera system. The present invention analyzes a plurality of objects or regions of an image that is being shown to a user through a viewfinder of an electronic device. The system creates an overview map that matches the objects within the image, and colors are applied to objects within the overview map, representing the focus quality levels of the respective objects. The overview map is superimposed over the image, providing the user with information concerning the relative focus quality of the respective objects.

A Computerized storage system management methods and system configurations. In some embodiments the invention comprises a computer storage data access structure, a DS management and a storage system solution related to methods and a system geared for implementing a scale-out NAS that can effectively utilize client side Flashes while the Flash utilization solution is based on pNFS, the pNFS is comprised of a meta-data server (MDS) and data servers (DSs). There are at least one client and two Data servers, wherein at least one of them is a Direct Attached (Tier0), client level DS. Tier0 DS is a client-side resident low latency memory selected from a group of solid state memories, defined as Storage Class Memories, such as a Flash memory, serving as an integral lowest level of a storage system with a shared storage hierarchy of levels (Tier 0, 1, 2 and so on) and the unified name space.

The present invention provides molecular methods for efficiently transforming the genome of common disease-transmitting parasites, such as Plasmodium falciparum. The transformation efficiencies are improved up to 100 times over those conventionally known. The methods provide high saturation of the target parasite genome, of 50% or greater, and target non-specifically TTAA-rich sites in the parasite genome. The invention also discloses a model that may be used to functionally annotate the genome of the Plasmodium falciparum, thus permitting the design and screening of compounds that may be useful in the control and inhibiting of diseases caused and transmitted by these parasites, including malaria. Highly efficient and multi-site integrating transposons, particularly piggyBac transposons, which provide for random and multi-site integration into parasite genomes in the presence of a helper plasmid, are also presented.

A drive device in which a driving force transfer mechanism is accommodated in a case that includes a main body portion having an opening portion and a cover portion attached to the opening portion, and the cover portion is provided with an oil pump. The drive device is configured with a pump cover attached to a case inner surface of the cover portion, which forms an inner surface of the case, such that the pump cover is accommodated in a case internal space surrounded by the main body portion and the cover portion. A pump chamber of the oil pump is formed by a recess that is formed in at least one of a mating surface of the cover portion and a mating surface of the pump cover in a bonding portion between the cover portion and the pump cover.

A detachable fastener includes a screw element and a securing ring. The screw element and the securing ring each include cooperating wedge-shaped surface tooth arrangements and two different pairs of stop surfaces. The wedge-shaped surface tooth arrangements face one another and form sliding surfaces sliding upon one another in a loosening direction of rotation resulting in an increase of the axial force. The first pair of stop surfaces transmits torque in a tightening direction of rotation. The second pair of stop surfaces transmits torque in a loosening direction of rotation. The stop surfaces are arranged with a clearance existing between one another such that the wedge-shaped surface tooth arrangements can slide upon one another without skipping.

An apparatus includes a substrate having a strained channel region, a dielectric layer over the channel region, first and second conductive layers over the dielectric layer having a characteristic with a first value, and a strain-inducing conductive layer between the conductive layers having the characteristic with a second value different from the first value. A different aspect involves an apparatus that includes a substrate, first and second projections extending from the substrate, the first projection having a tensile-strained first channel region and the second projection having a compression-strained second channel region, and first and second gate structures engaging the first and second projections, respectively. The first gate structure includes a dielectric layer, first and second conductive layers over the dielectric layer, and a strain-inducing conductive layer between the conductive layers. The second gate structure includes a high-k dielectric layer adjacent the second channel region, and a metal layer.

Some embodiments provide a method for a first device to join a group of related devices. The method receives input of a password for an account with a centralized entity and a code generated by a second device in the group. When the second device determines that the code input on the first device matches the generated code, the method receives an authentication code from the second device for authorizing the first device with the entity as a valid device for the account. The method uses the password and information regarding the first device to generate an application to the group. After sending the application to the second device, the method receives information from the second device that enables the first device to add itself to the group. The second device verifies the generated application, and the method uses the information received from the second device to join the group.

The invention relates to a centrifugal separator having a separation space with a set of separation plates, an inlet configured to feed a fluid product to be separated into the separation space, the inlet and the separation space being connected in a pressure mediating manner, a first and a second outlet extending from the separation space for discharge of a two phases of the product. A discharge control system is configured to trigger the opening of the second outlet upon a trigger condition, wherein the discharge control system comprises a sensor arranged to determine the inlet pressure and / or the inlet flow of fluid product, and the trigger condtion is associated with a decrease in inlet flow in relation to inlet pressure, indicating an increasing flow resistance downstream of the inlet. The invention further relates to a discharge control system and a method of controlling the intermittent discharge of a centrifugal separator.

The present invention provides a transmissibility shaping control for active suspension systems. The T-shaping control is a combination of several sub-strategies using the dynamic information in the frequency domain. Each strategy works dominantly in a certain frequency range to achieve a desirable transmissibility for better suspension performance in the corresponding frequency range. Different sub-strategies for different frequency ranges include stiffness control, skyhook control, groundhook control, and various damping levels. In addition, an embodiment is provided utilizing tunable compressible fluid struts in an active vehicle suspension.

The present invention provides a method, apparatus and system for a protocol and line-rate transparent WDM passive optical network architecture that scales in terms of bandwidth and number of ONUs. Both an included optical line terminal and each of a plurality of ONUs use substantially the same reflective modulators to modulate respective wavelength channels to impart data thereto. In various embodiments of the present invention, the reflective modulators are composed of a SOA having on one facet a pigtailed fiber and the other facet coated with a highly reflective coating. In the WDM passive optical network of the present invention, the ONUs each comprises a separate wavelength for communication in the upstream and the downstream directions. The present invention allows for all-passive components to be placed in the field, thus, requiring no power between a central office and a user or subscriber's premises.