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A method for producing a chewing gum with a controlled release active agent, as well as the chewing gum so produced, is obtained by physically modifying the release properties of the active agent, such as a nutraceutical or nutritional supplement, by coating and drying. The active agent is coated by encapsulation, partially coated by agglomeration, entrapped by absorption, or treated by multiple steps of encapsulation, agglomeration, and absorption. The coated active agent is preferably then co-dried and particle sized to produce a release-modified active agent for use in chewing gum. The active agent may also be used in a coating on a chewing gum product, as part of a rolling compound applied to the chewing gum product, or as a part of the liquid in a liquid-center chewing gum product.

Compounds and methods are provided for treating patients suffering from any of hypercholesterolemia, vascular oxidative stress and endothelial dysfunction.

The invention relates to a compound sealing method for glass plates, which is characterized by realizing the air-tight joint between compounded glass plates in a preset position by using a metal brazing technology. The invention provides a brand new technological method for the compound sealing between glass plates. The method has the advantages of firm connection in sealing positions, high air tightness, favorable thermal shock resistance and the like, and the annealing of toughened glass are avoided because of a lower brazing temperature used, thereby providing convenience to the processing of toughened vacuum glass, toughened insulated glass and other toughened compound glass products

Improved graphical user interfaces suitable for restricting the availability of media items and / or podcasts are also disclosed. The graphical user interfaces are particularly useful for a system that provides purchase and distribution of media in a client-server environment.

The invention is directed to processes for treating biosolids that result in high-value, nitrogen-containing, slow-release, organically-augmented inorganic fertilizer that are competitive with less valuable or more costly conventional commercially manufactured fertilizers. The process involves conditioning traditional waste-water biosolids and processing the conditioned biosolids continuously in a high throughput manufacturing facility. The exothermic design and closed loop control of the primary reaction vessel decreases significantly the amount of power necessary to run a manufacturing facility. The process utilizes green technologies to facilitate decreased waste and enhanced air quality standards over traditional processing plants. The fertilizer produced from recovered biosolid waste is safe and meets or exceeds the United States Environment Protection Agency (USEPA) Class A and Exceptional Quality standards and is not subject to restrictions or regulations.

An encircling device for promoting arthrodesis of a cervical, thoracic and / or lumbar facet joint. The fusion can occur through the device as well as around and / or through the facet joint. The top cap may include a container where bone promoting substances are placed. A top cap may be placed within, around or over the top of the encircling device and affixed thereto using a variety of different fixation devices. In addition, the encircling device and / or top cap may be secured using a fastener or anchor such as a screw or other member to a interspinous process spacer, pedicle, pars interarticularis, spinous process, sacral ala, lamina, facet articular process, transverse process or other spinal bony anatomy.

A browser-based development tool is presented. The tool comprises an interactive user interface running in a browser resident on a client. The tool is programmed to enable a user to select a source of data from a server in communication with the client using the user interface and retrieve a limited data set from the selected data source. The data content of the limited data set is limited to that which is needed to populate a series of independent cells visible in a browser field. The tool is further programmed to display the retrieved data in the series of independent cells visible in the browser field and seamlessly scroll through the data displayed in the series of independent cells as requested by the user. Additionally, a browser-based application can be developed locally on the client using the tool, saved on the server and deployed to others through the server.

Dynamic television audience measurement systems (AMS) and methods are disclosed. The system comprises a central level AMS sub-system, a local node level AMS sub-system, a plurality of client level AMS sub-systems, and a plurality of display devices, each monitored by a client level AMS sub-system. The central level AMS sub-system receives panel definitions from panel requestors and transmits the panel definitions to and receives a merged viewership report from the local node level AMS sub-system. The local node level AMS sub-system receives panel definitions from and transmits the merged viewership report to the central level AMS sub-system, transmits the panel definitions to and receives viewership reports from the plurality of client level AMS sub-systems, and merges the viewership reports into the merged viewership report. Each client level AMS sub-systems receives panel definitions from and transmits the viewership report to the local node level AMS sub-system and compiles the viewership report.

A grouting method for anchoring with polymer is provided, wherein the method includes steps of: a) rod body processing; b) tying up a geotextile bag and grouting tubes on the anchoring rod body; c) hole drilling; d) polymer grouting: I. hole sealing grouting; II. anchoring grouting. The present invention has advantages of a sufficient adaptability, non-water reaction, convenient and fast construction, being economic, a high strength and a high durability. An expansive polymer material has an obvious compacting effect on soil, and is capable of increasing a friction force between a grout and a base; the water-proofing polymer material is an impermeable material for a steel rod body, and is of benefit to anti-corrosion and durability of the rod body; a solidifying time of the polymer material is short and no maintenance is needed in such a manner that construction periods are shortened.

The present invention is a new liner assembly for use in pipes constructed from a flexible liner formed from a resin absorbent material. A compressible material, such as stitch-bond or foam, is attached to one or more sides of the liner for forming a taper along the compressible material when the liner is cured in place in the pipe using a curable resin and an expandable bladder to shape the liner to match the inside shape of the pipe. A taper is formed along the compressible material from the inside of the liner down to the inside of the pipe in which the liner is placed. As a result, a taper prevents accumulation of solid materials at the location of the pipe repair and thus prevents future clogging of the pipe at the repair.

A method and system parses natural language in a unique way, grouping words commonly used together in a text corpus relating to one or more forms associated with document preparation, and eliminating less important words determined by frequency of usage and other techniques. Remaining word groups are then refined using several unique tests and recombinations, resulting in a final word group set that may be used to determine functions associated with form fields on a tax form, for example.

An improved interface between a paint or other viscous fluid container and its paint dispensing device that enables the store-bought architectural containers to be used as part of a mobile fluid dispensing system, thereby eliminating the need for paint transfer and saving the cost of special fluid dispensing containers generally required in mobile fluid dispensing systems.

The present disclosure relates to a motion retargeting method and apparatus for character animation, and the method may include generating an intermediate object including at least one of a skeleton and a mesh based on a source motion and a target character, extracting keyframes of the intermediate object, constituting target rig parameters based on the extracted keyframes, and performing spacetime optimization on the target rig parameters to minimize a pose error between the intermediate object and the target character.

The present invention is a new liner assembly for use in pipes constructed from a flexible liner formed from a resin absorbent material. A compressible material, such as stitch-bond or foam, is attached to one or more sides of the liner for forming a taper along the compressible material when the liner is cured in place in the pipe using a curable resin and an expandable bladder to shape the liner to match the inside shape of the pipe. A taper is formed along the compressible material from the inside of the liner down to the inside of the pipe in which the liner is placed. As a result, a taper prevents accumulation of solid materials at the location of the pipe repair and thus prevents future clogging of the pipe at the repair.

The present invention provides a lanthanide-doped fluoride nanocomposite, which comprises: a core layer, is consisting of a first compound, wherein the first compound has a sodium fluoride compound with a base material, a first lanthanide metal and a second lanthanide metal; a middle layer covering the core layer, is consisting of a second compound, wherein the second compound has a sodium fluoride compound with the base material and the first lanthanide metal; and an outer shell layer covering the middle layer, is consisting of a third compound, wherein the third compound has a sodium fluoride compound with the base material and the first lanthanide metal or a third lanthanide metal.

The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors which contain constitutive promoters of plants and to the use of said expression cassettes or vectors for transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences, preferably selection markers, in organisms, preferably in plants. The invention further relates to transgenic plants which have been transformed with said expression cassettes or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation material derived therefrom and also to the use of same for the production of food- and feedstuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals.

The invention relates to an ophthalmoscope for examining the fundus of an eye of a patient, which comprises at least one illuminating device producing at least one illuminating beam, in addition to an imaging lens system which can be associated with the illuminating device and which images the illuminating beam onto the fundus of the eye of a patient; also comprising an observation device, wherein the imaging lens system images an observation beam onto the fundus of the eye, said observation beam being produced by reflecting the illuminating beam; also comprising a diaphragm arrangement introduced into the illuminating beam and the observation beam, whereby the gap of said diaphragm can be variably modified and synchronized. The invention is characterized in that the imaging lens system is formed in such a manner that an intermediate focal plane is created along the illuminating beam and the observation beam, wherein the fundus of the eye and the illuminating device are imaged, so that the intermediate focal plane is imaged infinitively, and so that the infinitively formed intermediate focal plane is imaged on an image plane of the observing beam, wherein the observation device is arranged.

A system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media includes a computer system configured to receive a selected product to be located in a retail store of a retailer inputted by a user into a mobile computer application running on a mobile computing device, to perform a search for the selected product on a plurality of products records corresponding to a plurality of products offered by the retailer, to identify one or more of the product records relevant to the selected product, to transmit the one or more product records identified as one or more search results, to provide the one or more search results to the mobile computer application running on the mobile computing device, each of the one or more search results being associated with a product offered by the retailer, and to suggest at least one related product to the selected product, and to receive at least one product or at least one related product from the search results selected by the user using the mobile computer application running on the mobile computing device to be shipped to an address of the retail store or another address inputted by the user.

The present invention discloses a joint non-coherent integral vector tracking method based on a spatial domain, which is used for further improving the performance of a vector tracking GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver. In a new vector tracking strategy design, a phase discriminator / a frequency discriminator in a traditional vector tracking loop is discarded, and baseband signals of visible satellites in each channel are taken as an observation value after performing non-coherent integration, and EKE (abbreviation of Extended Kalman Filter) is used to estimate directly and to solve the position, the velocity, a clock error, etc. of the GPS receiver. Because of the existence of non-coherent integral calculation, when GPS satellite signals are relatively weak, a carrier to noise ratio of an observation value may be effectively improved, and the tracking sensitivity is improved.

The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors, which contain vegetable constitutive promoters and to the use of these expression cassettes or vectors for the transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences preferably selection markers in organisms, preferably in plants. The invention also relates to transgenic plants that have been transformed using these expression cassettes or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation products derived from these plants, and to the use of these plants for producing food and animal feed agents, seeds, pharmaceuticals, or fine chemicals.

Provided are a method for splitting longitudinally an end part of a metal plate or a metal rod having a rectangular, polygonal, or elliptical shape, in which the length of incision in the split portion can be freely adjusted and smooth split face can be formed; a metal part manufactured by such method; and a method for bonding such metal part. The present invention is characterized by the process comprising the steps of securing a metal plate by pinching both sides thereof with a clamping device, or securing a metal rod by pinching at least two opposite-facing portions on the periphery thereof with a clamping device; splitting longitudinally by slitting or cleaving the metal plate, or the metal rod, by pressing a slitting punch or a cleaving punch against the face of one end of the metal plate, or the metal rod; and advancing the splitting further by repeating the same operation of pressing the same punch stated above against the cleft of the splitting; and is characterized further in that, in each time of the press-splitting operation, the position of the clamping device on at least one side is moved in advance of the next pressing by a stroke corresponding to the distance from one end of the metal plate, or the metal rod, to the distal end of a split-desired portion.

A quality control system and method are provided for troubleshooting and performance testing of detectors in a Gamma camera that includes a field programmable gate array for forming digital words to be converted to a pulse, a test pattern generator for storing the digital words, a digital analog converter for converting the digital words into an analog voltage, an amplifier for amplifying and applying the analog voltage, and an analog multiplexor for accepting the analog voltage. The Gamma camera comprises a collimator, a scintillation crystal, a light guide, a photomultiplier tube, and an electronic circuit.

A multipath signal evaluation method includes, carrying out a correlation calculation on a received signal from a positioning satellite to obtain a peak correlation value, and determining reliability for a received multipath signal by using the peak correlation value and a correlation value at a phase delayed from a peak phase in which the peak correlation is obtained.

Expression of esterase genes in plant cells results in the production of enzymatically active esterases that effectively resists the otherwise growth inhibitory and / or lethal effects of nonionic, fatty acid ester detergents such as Tween 20 or Span 20. Specifically, expression of a variety of esterases, including pregastric esterase, carboxyesterase, lipase and acyloxyacyl hydrolase from a wide variety of sources in plant cells is disclosed as an excellent method to protect the cells from the effects of these detergents, allowing the exposed plant cells to regenerate into whole plants in the presence of nonionic, fatty acid ester detergents, thereby providing a practical and safe method for plant transformation.

A method of manufacturing the backrest, seat-cushion and armrest of sofa using bow-shaped springs, includes such steps as continuously curving the steel wire to become S-shaped bands, curved top in the middle, and both sides with V-shaped surface and Z-shaped surface separately; parallel arranging the bow-shaped springs, fixing the both ends respectively in the both sides of the back or armrest of sofa, connecting them to the quadrangular steel wire frames, using straight wire to get the bow-shaped springs and quadrangular steel wire frames together in the middle, filling the bow-shaped springs with filler, and covering sofa with surficial fabrics.

A dynamic television audience measurement system (AMS) and method are disclosed. The system comprises a central level AMS sub-system, a local node level AMS subsystem in communication with the central level AMS sub-system, a plurality of client level AMS sub-systems in communication with the local node level AMS sub-system, and a plurality of display devices, wherein each display device is monitored by a client level AMS sub-system. The central level AMS sub-system receives panel definitions from panel requestors, transmits the panel definitions to the local node level AMS subsystem, and receives a merged viewership report from the local node level AMS subsystem. The local node level AMS sub-system receives panel definitions from the central level AMS sub-system, transmits the panel definitions to the plurality of client level AMS sub-systems, receives viewership reports from each client level AMS sub-systems, and transmits a merged viewership report to the central level AMS sub-system.