The invention provides the use of formoterol and budesonide in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

An oral pharmaceutical dosage form comprising an acid susceptible proton pump inhibitor and one or more antacid agents or an alginate in a fixed formulation, wherein the proton pump inhibitor is protected by an enteric coating layer and an optional separating layer in between the proton pump inhibitor and the enteric coating. The fixed formulation is in the form of multilayered tablets, sachets or...

There is provided a compound of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein Y, Z and R 1 to R 6 have meanings given in the description, for use in the treatment of melanoma or renal cancer by administration of said compound, in the same or separate pharmaceutical composition, with paclitaxel or a paclitaxel analog. There is also provided the use of a compound of formul...

There is disclosed a foaming device for dispensing foam. The device includes a collapsible liquid container and a foam pump attached to the container outlet. The foam pump includes two enclosures, the first being bonded in the throat of the container and the second being telescopingly received in the first with a flexible seal mounted on the second enclosure to provide an air tight seal. When asse...

A display is generated on a touch screen of a computer. The display includes an application display, associated with an application executing on the computer, and a virtual input device display for a user to provide input to the application executing on the computer via the touch screen. In response to a virtual input device initiation event, initial characteristics of the virtual input device dis...

The seats comprise a seat part (14) and a back (16) fixed to a support structure comprising a vertical pole (10) which is fixed to the floor (12). Lower (18) and upper (20) horizontal beams are fixed to the pole and the seat part and back are fixed to the beams.

A magneto-optical device is disclosed that includes a non-magnetic support body and a fine particle arrangement layer on the non-magnetic support body. The fine particle arrangement layer includes multiple regularly arranged fine metal magnetic particles. In the magneto-optical device, magnetization is generated by applying an external magnetic field to the fine metal magnetic particles, and linea...

A voltage rising/falling type switching regulator includes an inductor, a voltage-falling switching element, a voltage-falling rectifier element, a voltage-rising switching element, a voltage-rising synchronous rectification switching element, a control circuit part, and a reverse current detecting part. The control circuit part is arranged so that the voltage-falling switching element is switched...

A surface-emission laser array comprises a plurality of surface-emission laser diode elements arranged in the form of a two-dimensional array, wherein a plurality of straight lines drawn perpendicularly to a straight line extending in a first direction from respective centers of the plurality of surface emission laser diode elements aligned in a second direction perpendicular to the first directio...

The present invention provides a phenol resin composition which imparts excellent heat resistance and flame retardancy in a cured article, the cured article, a resin composition for a copper-clad laminate, and a copper-clad laminate having both excellent heat resistance and flame retardancy. Disclosed is a phenol resin composition comprising a phenol resin (I) having a chemical structure (A) repre...

The invention relates to a method for determining the instantaneous rate of the mass flow of a flow of a fluid pulsating periodically at a frequency f, said method comprising the following steps: a) a pressure gradient in the flow over a certain period (P) is determined, b) the harmonic amplitude of the pressure gradient is calculated by means of Fourier transformation, c) the frequency f and the ...

A single wheel unit adapted to be mounted on a vehicle body ( 11 ) comprising: a wheel frame supporting a suspension mechanism ( 15 ) and a wheel assembly mounted on the suspension mechanism ( 15 ), and steering means mounted between the wheel frame and vehicle body ( 11 ) for pivoting the wheel frame relative to the vehicle body ( 11 ) so as to steer a vehicle, wherein the steering means includes...

It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel triarylamine polymer which is excellent in solubility and film-forming property and has improved thermal stability; a simple process for its production; and an electronic element employing it. A triarylamine polymer represented by the following formula (1) (wherein each of Ar 1 , Ar 2 , Ar 3 , Ar 4 , Ar 5 , Ar 6 and Ar 7 which are inde...

Oxygen gas, for example, is introduced into a film forming chamber, and high-frequency power is supplied to a plurality of monopole antennas arranged above a silicon substrate (101) in the film forming chamber to generate a plasma of the introduced oxygen gas, thereby supplying atomic oxygen (123) onto the surface of an aminosilane molecular layer (102). This plasma generation is performed for abo...

The present invention is directed generally to compositions and methods for obtaining secretion of antibodies or antigen-binding antibody fragments from prokaryotes without the need for a signal peptide through making use of mutant host strains with altered secretory properties. In particular, the invention provides host cells and methods for obtaining secretion of antibodies or antigen-binding an...

A printing sheet is described comprising a substrate and, on at least one side of the substrate, an image receptive coating layer with a cumulative porosity volume of pore widths below 200 nm as measured using nitrogen intrusion methods of more than 0.006 cm³ per gram paper. In particular in the context of printing sheets with high-gloss this particular porosity distribution leads to a ...

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system characterizes a document with respect to clusters of conceptually related words. Upon receiving a document containing a set of words, the system selects "candidate clusters" of conceptually related words that are related to the set of words. These candidate clusters are selected using a model that explains how sets of words are generated fr...

The aim of the invention is to provide the interior face (2.1) of a cap (2) or another radiation-permeable area located above a transducer (3) of a sensor (1) with microballs (6) which scatter the light (L) while having a much lower damping effect. Said aim is achieved by preferably gluing or melting the microballs (6) into the interior face (2.1), plastic or glass being useable as a material for ...

A roaming emulator provides a tool for emulating system determination for monitoring the operation of a wireless communication device (WCD) during system determination. A signal monitoring program and service selection protocol are stored, and a signal emulation module provides a signal emulation output in accordance with a predetermined set of data. A processing module performs a simulation of a ...