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The invention provides methods for visualizing renal tumors and for staging cysts during an operation by use of a fluorescent dye.

A method for storing data includes designating, in a memory array including cells configured for writing a first number of bits per cell, a group of the cells to which input data are to be written at a second number of bits per cell, smaller than the first number. Dummy data that are independent of the input data are stored in a first set of one or more bits of the cells in the group. The input data are written to a second set of at least one other bit of the cells in the group.

A three-dimensional measuring apparatus, method, and program for acquiring many pieces of information on a pattern of light by a single projection and highly accurate three-dimensional information at high speed. The three-dimensional measuring apparatus comprises a pattern projector serving as projecting means for projecting a pattern of light onto a measurement object, a camera serving as imaging means for capturing an image of the measurement object illuminated with the pattern of light, and a computer for processing data on the image captured by the camera. The computer computes the direction angle of each individual pattern of light which forms the projected pattern of light from the intensity value of the projected pattern of light detected from the captured image, divides the intensity distribution, and computes the depth distance from the phase value at each measuring point of the divided pattern. Thus, highly accurate three-dimensional information is acquired.

Oligonucleotide building processes are monitored by means of an oligonucleotide probe which in one embodiment is labelled at one end with a chemiluminescent label and at the other end with a quencher molecule. The conformation of the oligonucleotide probe changes according to whether the probe hybridises with a substantially complementary nucleic acid sequence. In the non-hybridised state the chemiluminescent label is sufficiently close proximity to the quencher that the chemiluminescent emission is substantially attenuated, but in the hybridised state the separation is such that there is little or no attenuation. Particular probes and emitter / quencher pairs are disclosed.

The invention provides methods for visualizing renal tumors and for staging cysts during an operation by use of a fluorescent dye.

A rotor for a line-start reluctance motor is provided to improve core area efficiency to make flux flow in one direction. The rotor for the line-start reluctance motor includes a core having an axis coupling hole in a coupling direction of a shaft, a plurality of bars formed in the periphery of the core, and a plurality of flux barriers, one and the other ends of the flux barriers approaching the bars formed in first and second areas facing each other at a predetermined angle on a central line of a first axis on a core plane vertical to the coupling direction, at least parts of the centers of the flux barriers passing through a third or fourth area between the first and second areas, surrounding the axis coupling hole at predetermined intervals.

An ultrasonic flow meter is disclosed, the ultrasonic flow meter including a flow tube with a flow channel for a fluid to be measured, and two ultrasound reflectors fixated inside the flow tube, a first ultrasound transducer, a second ultrasound transducer, and an electronic control arrangement for operating the ultrasonic flow meter. The ultrasound transducers and reflectors have relative positions and orientations forming an ultrasound path from the first ultrasound transducer to the at least two ultrasound reflectors, to the second ultrasound transducer, and vice versa. The ultrasonic flow meter measures absolute transit times of the ultrasound signal from the first ultrasound transducer to the second ultrasound transducer, and / or vice versa, and the ultrasound reflectors include at least 50% by weight of copper, and the ultrasound signal includes at least 8 pulses.