An apparatus is adapted to centrifuge and furthermore automatically handle a container (10) for separating a component, such as fibrin monomer, from plasma. The container (10) comprises a cylindrical member (11) and a piston (25) displaceable therein and comprising a tubular piston rod (12), which extends through the top wall. The piston (25) divides the cylindrical member (11) into a first chambe...

FIELD: manufacture of pneumatic tires, particularly, molding of tire tread. SUBSTANCE: mold has plastic ring for molding of external surface of tire tread. Plastic ring is formed by a set of thin members adjacent to one another in circumferential direction. Thin members are mounted on support and oriented strictly in radial direction. Resilient repulsion between thin members is prevented by bandag...

Reflectance based methods and devices are provided for determining the concentration of an analyte in a fluid sample. In practicing the subject methods, a fluid sample is applied to a matrix impregnated with a signal producing system. The signal producing system produces a detectable product in an amount proportional to the amount of analyte in the sample. A surface of the matrix is then illuminat...

Methods and devices for determining the concentration of an analyte in a physiological sample are provided which correct for errors in the analyte concentration measurement which are due to the hematocrit of the sample.

A system for assigning human resources to service tasks. A long term forecasting module enables one or more users simultaneously working on that module to assign tasks that should be fulfilled in the each specific region, based on analysis of past demand and actual service operations. A mid-term planning module enables one or more users simultaneously working on that module to roughly allocate res...

A system for providing information to a user pertaining to a status of at least one sporting event wager placed by the user is provided. The system includes a communication network (12) including a plurality of communication devices (16), each being at the disposal of a specific user; and a database system (18) for receiving and storing information pertaining to at least one sporting event wager p...

Embodiments of the instant invention are directed to a method and apparatus for presenting unsolicited data to users without interrupting the user's activities, wherein the presentation of the unsolicited data is monitored and is available for review by the user at the user's convenience. Embodiments of the invention comprise a content and display manager, wherein the content and display manager i...

Electronic commerce is facilitated through adaptive trade specifications and matchmaking optimization. Adaptive trade specifications provide a standard format for traders to specify what they want to obtain and what they are willing to give for it, in both qualitative and quantitative terms, as well as constraints and an objective such as maximum profit orminimum price. The standard format of the ...

An object of the present invention is to help a user easily acquire diverse information originated from advertisers, and to enable the advertisers to put highly effective advertisements. For accomplishing the object, a server (20) for transmitting an advertising image file (5) and a terminal (30) for receiving the advertising image file (5) and presenting it to a user are interconnected over a net...

It is an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic commerce system and so on for enhancing the flexibility of electronic commerce over the Internet and for allowing users to perform commerce more easily. In order to achieve the object, when a server device (20) sends predetermined image data corresponding to a traded subject, an identification information adding processing (205) ...

The present invention relates to a system and method for conducting secure electronic transactions. Disclosed is a central server system which can process and correlate proxy numbers or data which is substituted for personal data and financial information during transactions where the information could be intercepted or misused by the recipient. In the preferred mode, transaction numbers are used ...

An electronic marketplace based on adaptive trade specifications (ATS) is disclosed. The system allows users to perform optimized electronic transactions over the Web. The invention involves a method and system for providing match making among traders in an electronic marketplace according to item specifications provided by those traders via adaptive trade specifications. Given a trader's objectiv...

A set of graphical user interface templates for the creation and editing of Adaptive Trade Specifications (ATS) for usage in an Electronic Marketplace is disclosed. These graphical user interface templates are called ATS Wizards. ATS Wizards allow users to construct and edit Adaptive Trade Specifications in order to perform optimized electronic transactions over the Web. The invention describes th...

A time base having a resonator (4) and an integrated electronic circuit (3) for driving the resonator into oscillation and for producing, in response to this oscillation, a signal having a determined frequency. The resonator is an integrated micromechanical ring resonator (4) supported above a substrate (2) and adapted to oscillate around an axis of rotation (O) substantially perpendicular to the ...

Advertising is presented on a computer screen in the form of an animated multimedia character that will be referred to here as a "Shoshkele." The Shoshkele appears on the screen in an intrusive way at times which, to the user, are unpredictable, and it is entirely out of his control. The Shoshkele can move over the entire screen and is in the top layer of the display of the browser program, so it ...

A non-woven mat of inorganic fiber is disclosed having a substance which is lower at the edges of the mat than in the remainder of the mat. Apparatus for making such a mat includes: a source of a slurry of inorganic fiber in a liquid; a forming wire disposed to move past the source, the liquid passing through the forming wire to deposit the inorganic fiber on the forming wire; a mask across a part...

A composite material comprises a first layer and a second layer, said layers being bonded together, wherein said first layer comprises 40 - 95 % by weight of an acrylic polymer formed from a monomer comprising 60 - 100 % methyl methacrylate and 0 - 40 % of a vinylic comonomer and 5 - 60 % of a copolymer wherein at least 10 % of the monomer residues are (optionally substituted) styrene and said sec...

A body ( 5 ) of set, initially pasty material, such as concrete, includes an electrically conducting path formed by a concentrated layer ( 6 ) of electrically conducting magnetizable elements, such as fibers (F) or granules (G), embedded in the initially pasty material and extending through at least a portion of the body ( 5 ). Electrically conducting terminal members ( 9 ) may be connected to the...

A disc brake is proposed which is of low cost, improved reliability and less weight and size. Cylinders are formed in a caliper therethrough so as to be machined from the bottom of the cylinder, and a cylinder cover is mounted to close the cylinder. A cylinder cover is inserted into a large-diameter hole at the rear of the cylinder. The cylinder cover, which is supported by an end face of the larg...

FIELD: automobile industry. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to cover composites, mainly for car body staining. Composite is prepared by mixing: a) composition A comprising polyurethane dispersion with acid number above 20 that comprises at least one polytetrahydrofuran segment as soft segment with average molecular mass from 650 to 5 000 Da and at least one derivative of diisocyanate as solid segment...