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A system and method of providing video drive-by data is provided to enable a street level view of a neighborhood surrounding a selected geographic location. The system includes a video and data server farm incorporation at least one video storage server that stores video image files containing video drive-by data that corresponds to a geographic location, a database server that processes a data query received from a user over the Internet that corresponds to a geographic location of interest, and an image processing server. In operation, the database server identifies video image files stored in the video storage server that correspond to the geographic location of interest contained in the data query, and transfers the video image files over a pre-processing network to the image processing server. The image processing server converts the video drive-by data to post processed video data corresponding to a desired image format, and transfers the post processed video data via post-processing network to the Internet response to the query.

An NMR spectrometer comprising a magnet coil system disposed in the helium tank (8) of a cryostat and an NMR probe head (4) which is disposed in a room temperature bore of the cryostat and contains a cooled RF resonator (13) for receiving NMR signals from a sample to be examined, wherein the helium tank (8) and the NMR probe head (4) are cooled by a common, multi-stage, compressor-operated refrigerator, is characterized in that the common refrigerator comprises a cold head (6) and several heat exchangers (21, 24, 25, 28, 31, 33, 34) at different temperature levels, wherein the refrigerator is disposed at a spatial separation from the cryostat in a separate, evacuated and thermally insulated housing (5), and several cooling circuits (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b) having thermally insulated transfer lines (14a, 14b, 15) are provided between the housing (5) containing the heat exchangers (21, 24, 25, 28, 31, 33, 34) and the cryostat, and also between the housing (5) and the NMR probe head (4). The probe head and magnet cryostat of the inventive NMR spectrometer can thereby be cooled by a common refrigerator, wherein the cooling resources of the used refrigerator are optimally utilized.

A spinal fixation device includes a fixation rod including a body having an aperture formed therethrough. First and second vertebral fasteners are secured to the body and are adapted to be secured to respective vertebrae. A third vertebral fastener extends through the aperture in the body of the fixation rod and adapted to be secured to a vertebra.

An engine structure and mechanism that operates on various combustion processes in a two-stroke-cycle without supplemental cooling or lubrication comprises an axial assembly of cylindrical modules and twin, double-harmonic cams that operate with opposed pistons in each cylinder through fully captured rolling contact bearings. The opposed pistons are double-acting, performing a two-stroke engine power cycle on facing ends and induction and scavenge air compression on their outside ends, all within the same cylinder bore. The engine includes a novel compressor arrangement having an intake valve comprising a V-shaped double reed valve with an apex pointing toward the intake port and an exhaust valve having a V-shaped double reed valve with an apex pointing away from the exhaust port. The compressor arrangement may further include rectangular intake and exhaust ports, a rectangular piston rod and rectangular crosshead bearings.

An object of the present invention is to provide a turbine generation system in which a starting inverter circuit for starting a turbine generator is additionally employed so that the system comprises a high-power generation inverter and the starting inverter with low-power, thereby utilizing the inverter for multiple purposes. To this end, the present invention comprises an inverter control circuit for deactivating a pulse-width modulation inverter for generation connected to a turbine generator, and first switching means for connecting an internal power supply to the turbine generator, wherein the inverter control circuit controls the starting inverter to supply the turbine generator with power to drive it up to a purge speed and accelerate it to a predetermined starting speed.

Methods and kits for efficient amplification of nucleic acids are provided. The disclosure generally relates to methods and kits for nucleic acid amplification of target nucleic acids of interest. The methods described herein promote the synthesis of the target nucleic acid (i.e., template nucleic acid) by reducing the production of undesirable primer-dimer structures and chimeric nucleic acid products during the amplification process by using novel modified primers.

The invention relates to a hybrid biological and chemical method for decontaminating sludge containing heavy metals and pathogenic microorganisms, consisting of the following steps: the sludge is mixed with an acidic leaching solution in order to acidify the sludge with a pH which is low enough to solubilize the majority of the heavy metals and to destroy most of the pathogenic microorganisms but which is also high enough to minimize the solubilization of fertilizing elements; oxidation-reduction of more than +400 mv is maintained, liquid-solid separation occurs in order to obtain a solid fraction comprising decontaminated acidic sludge and a liquid fraction comprising heavy metals which are dissolved in a leaching solution; the sludge is neutralized: and neturalized decontaminated sludge is recovered, whereby the fertilizing elements contained therein, i.e. carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, remain substantially unchanged in relation to the initially contaminated sludge.

System and method for providing a fuel injection system having a nozzle (2) with an inlet and a needle (15). A control piston (16) forms a control chamber (17) and abuts the needle such that a higher pressure in the control chamber urges the piston to close the nozzle. A cam-driven plunger (5) forms a plunger chamber (7) connected to the inlet of the nozzle. The system also has a common rail (11) for fuel, a feed line (13) and an electrically operated valve (9). The valve isolates the chamber from the common rail and connects to the line while in a third position, isolates it from both the line and the common rail in a second position, and isolates it from the line and connects it to the common rail in a first position. There are also arrangements (12) for pressurizing the feed line with a relatively low fuel feed pressure and a fuel tank (20). The control chamber is connected to the common rail.

In a laser diode arrangement for generating single mode tunable laser radiation wherein the laser diode forms a first resonator and has rear and front facets and a second external resonator is coupled to the first resonator, and an optical transmission component and a wavelength selective optical reflection element are arranged in the laser light path from the laser diode for directing part of the laser light into the external resonator and coupling it back into the first resonator, means are provided for changing the coupling quality of the first resonator to the external, second resonator.

A method to wash varying clothes load sizes with the same level of water is provided for a washer having a controller. A clothes load size setting signal is received in the controller. A mechanical duty cycle is set through the controller as a function of the clothes load size setting signal. A high-concentration wash step may be performed where a wash basket of the washer is spun at certain speeds while a highly concentrated wash bath solution is sprayed, extracted, and re-sprayed over the clothes load. On the completion of this high-concentration wash step, the washer is filled to a common water level regardless of the clothes load size setting signal. The clothes load is then processed through a wash cycle until completed.

A proppant container facilitates the transportation of wet sand for use in a hydraulic fracturing operation. The proppant container is provided with a system for dislodging the wet sand for subsequent use. This may be done by use of a vibrator or an umbrella valve. In another aspect, the proppant container may be used in combination with a rack having a wash system that slurries the proppant for delivery to a blender tub without necessarily resorting to use of a conveyor belt.

A combination of a muscarinic cholinergic receptor agonist with a non-anticholinergic antiemetic agent, and the optional addition of an acetyl choline esterase inhibitor, for the treatment of hypocholinergic disorder of the central nervous system.

A pressing iron having a heating soleplate topped by a body and a handle forming a protuberance on the body of the iron, the body enclosing a reservoir. The handle presents an upper surface forming a bearing surface for the palm of the hand presenting, at least locally, a width greater than or equal to 4 cm and lateral walls extending from the upper surface of the handle to the body of the iron intended to receive the fingertips and the handle integrates a filling orifice for the reservoir opening at a surface of the handle.

An escrow system that comprises correlating confidential data defining a fixed condition or set of conditions for a release of escrow with data presented in an indefinite series of confidential presentations seeking to satisfy that condition or set of conditions. The system involves a process whereby the conditions for a release of the escrow are fixed (i.e. reduced to writing and not subject to change for a specified period of time) but are not fully disclosed to a party seeking a release of the escrow. Instead, a party seeking a release of the escrow is permitted to submit an indefinite number of confidential presentations seeking to satisfy all of those fixed conditions, both disclosed and undisclosed. The fact and contents of each such presentation are treated as confidential unless the presentation results in a determination by the System that all of the fixed conditions have been satisfied.

A method for measuring a flow rate of a medium through a measuring tube which is penetrated by a constant magnetic field orthogonal to a flow direction and in which an electrical voltage building up in the medium is sensed by electrodes, insulted with respect to the medium and located on an outer wall of the measuring tube in a plane orthogonal to the flow direction of the medium, in which the capacitance of at least one capacitive unit is formed by the electrodes, and a measuring tube interior area and a charge change brought about by a change to the at least one capacitive is determined, and from this a voltage is established which is determinative of the flow rate of the medium through the measuring tube.

The present invention relates to a decorticated finger mille (Eleusine coracana) and a process for preparing the decorticated finger millet.

A web unit for planet gear sets for the mounting of planet gears including a first web element and a second web element, which are tightly connected and can be tensioned in axial direction by transmission or connecting elements progressing in axial direction and describing a theoretical connecting axis. Each transmission or connecting element has regions of differing radial dimensions, the front faces of the regions, thus formed and facing the individual web elements, form a first and a second contact surface, resting either directly or through an intermediate element against the contact surfaces in contact regions, formed by the front faces of the web elements facing each other. At least one element forming a contact surface of a contact region includes a profile. The profile is characterized in the radially external region by at least one region of greater axial extension in the direction of the theoretical connecting axis.