The invention relates to a method for the determination of an analyte in a liquid sample, especially a body liquid sample, with the aid of an analytical apparatus in which a first measuring signal s i (i = 0, 1, ...) and a second measuring signal s j (j = 1, 2, ...; j > i) for a test system with several successively arranged measuring areas through which a liquid sample with an analyte can flow af...

A system may include computer code for analyzing an upgrade from a first version to a second version of a software program that has been customized without performing the upgrade. The system may provide default state information of default program objects. The default program objects would be included in a default installation of the second version of the software program. The computer cod e may r...

A video recording and playback equipment which plays video data of a program memorized in an MXF file without playback delay is provided. It has a receiver, an analyzer, a playback information table, a program data memory and a decoder. The receiver receives the MXF file which includes the video data and metadata including information about an identification tag to identify the video data and data...

A volatile material vaporizing apparatus features a heating element and heating element controls supported in separate housings to avoid exposur e of the controls to heat produced by the heating element. Another embodiment features an elongate heating element supported entirely within a housing having an op en end sized to fit over the bowl of an existing smoking device so that drawing air through...

A gas dryer having an inlet for receiving a wet gas; at least one vessel containing at least a desiccant for absorbing moisture from a wet gas passing through the desiccant in a first direction under pressure and for desorbing the desiccant by passing a second gas under a partial vacuum in a direction counter to the first direction during a warming and a cooling phase of regeneration; a means for ...

A hand-held reciprocating power saw (10) includes a reciprocation member (21) for reciprocatingly moving a working tool, a compensation mass (22), a motor-driven eccentric wheel (23) having a first eccentric (24) for reciprocatingly displacing the reciprocation member (21) and a second eccentric (25) for reciprocating the compensation mass (22) along an axis (A), with the outer surface (28) of the...

An integrated pumping module for use in a thermal management system, for example for a fuel cell. The integrated pumping module includes a diverting or mixing valve closely coupled to a pump element, such as the volute chamber o f a centrifugal pump. The valve chamber and the pump chamber are closely and directly coupled through a connecting passage so as to minimize pressure dro p as a liquid coo...

A combination shipping and dispensing carton contains a plurality of article s. The carton comprises a plurality of panels that extends at least partially around an interior of the carton. At least two end flaps are respectively foldably connected to respective panels of the plurality of panels and are overlapped with respect to one another to at least partially form a closed end of the carton. Th...

A control device that can be mounted against the face plate of a rocker swit ch automatically operates the rocker switch in accordance with at least one predetermined program. The device also allows the predetermined program to be overridden to manipulate the switch as desired without removing the device. The device includes a controller for activating the device according to parameters of the pre...

An airflow signal corresponding to the breathing of the patient is obtained. A section corresponding to inspiration, having a front portion and a middle portion, i s found within the airflow signal. A peak value of the front portion is found, which is compare d with a value representing the airflow of the middle portion. The presence of resisted breathing is determined based on the comparison betw...

The present invention concerns a multilayer protective product, and the protective film formed thereof, comprising a first film-forming polymeric layer and a second layer designed to define the outer layer of the multilayer product, said first film-forming polymeric layer comprising 14 to 95% w/w of a polymer containing ester units and said first film-forming polymeric layer having a reversible ad...

Droplet separator for cooling towers suitable to increase recovery of the droplets entrained by the cooling air exiting from the evaporation tower, comprising at least two pluralities of fins 21 and 22 between which a randomized wire mesh pad 1 is interposed for recovery of droplets of small dimension.