A sheet guide apparatus includes a transfer cylinder, delivery chains, and sheet guide structure. The transfer cylinder holds a sheet. The delivery chains hold the sheet received from the transfer cylinder and conveys the sheet along a first convey path which is at least substantially arcuate. The sheet guide structure guides the sheet conveyed by the delivery chains. The sheet guide structure inc...

This invention relates to tools for preparing vertebral bodies in the spine for the implantation of an artificial vertebral disk replacement and related method. A first tool is disclosed that prepares the vertebral bodies for implantation by cutting offset channels in the vertebral bodies. The second tool holds two plates of the implant during the implantation process. This invention also relates ...

A modular knee prosthesis includes a femoral stem having a proximal end portion. A femoral component includes a first engagement portion defined thereon wherein the femoral stem is selectively attachable to the first engagement portion of the femoral component. A connecting member includes a first end selectively attachable to the first engagement portion of the femoral component and includes a se...

The invention relates to an element for incorporation into a prosthetic implant so as to form a bone-contacting portion thereof, the element comprising a rear face, a front face, and a body extending between the rear face and the front face, wherein the front face comprises a basal surface and at least one upstanding portion projecting above the basal surface and having a transverse hole extending...

A combination includes a composition providing corrosion resistance for application to a post-construction material, and a post-construction material, wherein the composition is applied to at least one surface of the post-construction material after the post-construction material has hardened. The composition may include an effective amount of a thinning agent, e.g., isopropyl alcohol, ethanol, xy...

A print patterned mask is formed a digital lithographic process on the surface of a photoresist or similar material layer. The print patterned mask is then used as a development or etching mask, and the underlying layer overdeveloped or overetched to undercut the print patterned mask. The mask may be removed and the underlying structure used an etch mask or as a final structure. Fine feature width...

Cosmetic or pharmaceutical preparations which are distinguished by an effective content of one or more monomeric or homo- or heterodimer or homo- or heterotrimeric or homo- or heterotetrameric oligopeptides, where these oligopeptides are based on a structure Val-Val-Arg-Pro SEQ ID NO:1 as homo- or heteromonomer.

The present invention provides a peptide sequence, a phage, an artificial protein or a chimeric molecule having a binding ability to titanium, silver, silicon, necessary to confer higher capacity of titanium, silver, silicon material with the use of soft matters, or to provide a complex of a peptide, a phage, an artificial protein or a chimeric molecule, and titanium, having the peptide sequence a...

The present invention includes compositions and methods for the characterization and use of novel peptide from Brevibacillus sp., and peptides related thereto, including an isolated and purified, heat stable, amino terminus-methylated, carboxy-terminus reduced peptide that have two or more D-amino acids used as, e.g., an antimicrobial or even a feed additive.

The present invention relates to a photomultiplier having a structure for performing a high gain and achieving a higher productivity in a state keeping or improving an excellent high-speed response. In the photomultiplier, an electron-multiplying unit accommodated in a sealed container has a structure that enables an integrated assembly of a focusing electrode, an accelerating electrode, a dynode ...

A method for driving a plasma display panel including first display electrodes, second display electrodes interleaved with the first display electrodes, an address electrode crossing over the first display electrodes and the second display electrode. The first display electrodes are sorted by the order into the even group and the odd group of the first display electrodes. A first sustain pulse pai...

A haptic input device comprises a hexapod or pentapod parallel linkage mechanism with force feedback effected by proportional control of magneto-restrictive fluid brakes constraining the measurement of the struts of the mechanism, through their base nodes. In the pentapod version of the haptic data input device, a haptic stylus is employed which includes an annular compliant feature that can be sq...

A circuit for correcting distortion produced by the lens of a digital camera when generating an image, which includes pixels. The correction circuit includes an address generation circuit for generating horizontal and vertical addresses for each pixel. A coefficient storage circuit stores a pitch correction coefficient associated with the horizontal or vertical address of each pixel. A storage cir...

A method and apparatus for updating databases are disclosed. In response to a flashback request, a database object is restored to a state as of a specified flashback time. The changes introduced into the database object are reversed in a sequence starting with a change introduced into the database object immediately before issuance of the flashback request and ending with a change introduced into ...

Methods and systems for sharing memory pages in virtual machines are described. Guest memory pages are identified as candidate memory pages. The candidate memory pages are hashed and the hash results of the candidate memory pages are compared. A determination is made on whether a hash match exists between a first candidate memory page and a second candidate memory page. If it is determined that a ...

A system and method for cache management in a data processing system having a memory hierarchy of upper memory and lower memory cache. A lower memory cache controller accesses a coherency state table to determine replacement policies of coherency states for cache lines present in the lower memory cache when receiving a cast-in request from one of the upper memory caches. The coherency state table ...

The present disclosure describes systems and methods for allocating memory in a multiprocessor computer system such as a non-uniform memory access (NUMA) machine having distribute shared memory. The systems and methods include allocating memory to input-output devices (I/O devices) based at least in part on which memory resource is physically closest to a particular I/O device. Through these syste...

A block-alterable memory, e.g., a flash memory, having substantially zero erase time is coupled to host. The block-alterable memory includes a controller that reads block information from the memory on power up to determine if a block of the memory is usable. The controller updates block map latches only if the block is usable. The controller also updates block status latches according to the bloc...

A new zSeries floating-point unit has a fused multiply-add dataflow capable of supporting two architectures and fused MULTIPLY and ADD and Multiply and SUBTRACT in both RRF and RXF formats for the fused functions. Both binary and hexadecimal floating-point instructions are supported for a total of 6 formats. The floating-point unit is capable of performing a multiply-add instruction for hexadecima...

Methods and apparatus are provided for enhanced instruction handling in processing environments. If branch misprediction occurs during instruction processing, a branch history table may be updated based upon the number of instructions to be fetched. The branch history table may be updated in accordance with a first mode if at least two instructions are available, and may be updated in accordance w...