A method for financing a commercial transaction between a supplier and a buyer, including engaging a buyer receiving goods or services under terms of trade credit from a supplier of goods or services, the trade credit permitting payment for the goods or services at a future date, the buyer neutralizing a trade risk associated with paying for the goods and services; engaging a financial institution...

A data transaction processing system in which transaction data is entered by the user in response to prompts in a template which is tailored to each user application. The template and entered data are accumulated into data transactions that are immediately transmitted upon completion to an external database server for processing and storage. The data transaction is received via standard protocols ...

A method of determining a connection between a source party and a target party includes constructing a host database, the host database including a plurality of records, each record including a number of data fields, each of the data fields including identification information of a party, the identification information being extracted from non-restricted sources; constructing a client database, th...

A method and system facilitates transactions by enabling transactions between and among customers, merchants, automated clearing houses, credit card processing centers, credit card companies and financial institutions. The inventive system authenticates all parties, such as customer, merchant, and Gateway; and encrypts the transmitted information, as well as provides for secure storage of sensitiv...

A method and apparatus for conducting a tender.(142) the method and apparatus comprising offering a participant with at least one service or good a participant proving a bid price for the at least one service or good.(142) determining the winning price as the bid price that provides the average price provided by all the bid prices forwarded in the tender.(148) selecting the participant forwarding ...

A 4-stage preparation of halogenated diphenyl ethers of formula (1) is claimed, as are also (A) novel compounds of formula (8a) (ie certain of the oxidised intermediates of formula (8)) and (B) the use of the compounds thus obtained as disinfectants to protect organic materials against attack by microorganisms. The preparation (shown in the reaction scheme below) comprises (i) acylating a halogena...

An system (5) for treating fluids includes a frame (6) for supporting a pump (7) and a manifold (8) therein, using any suitable nozzle assembly disposed in the housing (9). The manifold (8) includes an inlet, a diverter, an elbow (14) and an elbow (15). The inlet couples to an outlet (11) of the pump (7). The housing (9) includes inlets, an outlet (23), and detents, the vortex nozzle assembly incl...

A method for the inspection of electrical circuit patterns including carrying out an initial inspection of a sequentially acquired image of an electrical circuit pattern to determine potential defects in the electrical circuit pattern; upon identifying a potential defect in the electrical circuit pattern in the course of the initial inspection, interrupting the initial inspection and carrying out ...

The present invention relates to a novel process for preparing the anticancer compound, etoposide, in the C-1"- beta anomeric form, as well as a novel intermediate compound.

A multi-valent vaccine composition is described comprising a whole-cell pertussis component, tetanus toxoid, diphtheria toxoid, and a low dose of a conjugate of the capsular polysaccharide of H. influenzae b.

The present invention is directed to an absorbent article having a pair of opposed longitudinal edges and including an absorbent assembly having an inner facing side and an outer facing side, and a backsheet joined with the outer facing side of the absorbent assembly. The backsheet includes a formed substrate comprising a first boundary zone having a first surface pathlength and a second boundary ...

Antibodies having dual specificity for two different but structurally related antigens are provided. The antibodies can be, for example, entirely human antibodies, recombinant antibodies, or monoclonal antibodies. Preferred antibodies have dual specificity for IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta and neutralize IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta activity in vitro and in vivo. The antibody can be a full-length antibody ...

The present invention relates to a process for the production of three-dimensional articles by stereolithography using a radiation-curable composition comprising a mixture of at least one cationically polymerizable compound and/or at least one free radical polymerizable compound, at least one filler material and at least one photoinitiator for cationic and/or radical polymerization. An organic vis...

The invention provides compounds of the formula (I)or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof,wherein R is a 5-membered ring heteroaryl group containing 3 or 4 nitrogen heteroatoms which is linked to the quinoxalinedione ring by a ring carbon or nitrogen atom said group being optionally benzo-fused and optionally substituted, including in the benzo-fused portion, by 1 or 2 substituents each ind...

The present invention provides compositions and methods for coating medical devices with pharmaceutical agents and devices coated with the compositions. The coated devices provide controlled or sustained release of pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of wounds or disease.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for measuring the lipid peroxidation extent in biological fluids and suspensions of tissues, in which a specifically prepared lipids containing sample is exposed to heat so as to induce thermochemiluminescence light which is emitted by the sample and is enhanced to an amount which can be detected by a special purpose photo detector. The measu...

Autologous dermal fibroblasts expanded by passaging and substantially free of culture medium serum-derived proteins, are provided for use in cosmetic augmentation of cosmetic or aesthetic defects in the skin of a subject and in long-term augmentation of subcutaneous or dermal tissue in a subject.

The invention relates to drylaid nonwoven materials comprising bicomponent fibres comprising a low melting polyolefin component and a high melting polyolefin component, the low melting polyolefin component constituting at least a part of the surface of the fibre and comprising a non-grafted polyolefin component and a grafted polyolefin component, wherein the grafted polyolefin component has been g...

A method for selecting tie point locations within a series of overlapping images. Initially the series of images are ordered to maximize the potential for successful phase correlations between adjacent images. Adjacent pairs in the ordered images are then phase correlated to determine the translational offsets between adjacent pairs. The overlapping regions in adjacent pairs are assessed for norma...

In a method of identifying an unknown nucleotide sequence using base addition, a sequence of bases is obtained from a template, a base in the sequence is identified as an unknown base, an "unknown" indicator is included in the sequence, and an output sequence is generated containing the unknown base indicator. The sequence of bases is obtained from the template by evaluation of a reporter and assi...