A notification system for television receivers including a visible alarm and/or an audible alarm that is activated when a certain event occurs. An information signal is extracted from a received television signal and is processed to determine the status of an event. If it is determined that the event occurred, then a control signal is sent to the appropriate alarm to activate that alarm, thereby n...

A method and apparatus for use in a digital video delivery system is provided. A digital representation of an audio-visual work, such as an MPEG file, is parsed to produce a tag file. The tag file includes information about each of the frames in the audio-visual work. During the performance of the audio-visual work, data from the digital representation is sent from a video pump to a decoder. Seek ...

Time-out checkpoints are formed based on a predetermined time-out condition or interval since the last checkpoint was formed rather than forming a checkpoint to store current processor state based merely on decoded instruction attributes. Such time-cut conditions may include the number of instructions issued or the number of clock cycles elapsed, for example. Time-out checkpointing limits the maxi...

A data processing system includes a number of processing elements wherein each of the processing elements generates one or more condition signals, one or more memory elements associated with the processing elements for storing instructions and data associated with the processing elements, at least one register for storing a predicate associated with each of the processing elements and logic for co...

The present invention provides a system and method for managing load and store operations necessary for reading from and writing to memory or I/O in a superscalar RISC architecture environment. To perform this task, a load store unit is provided whose main purpose is to make load requests out of order whenever possible to get the load data back for use by an instruction execution unit as quickly a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the rigidity of the face part, neck part and welded apart of a golf club head and the directivity of a hit ball and enhance the mounting accuracy of a shaft. SOLUTION: The metallic golf club head which is formed with the neck part 11a to be mounted with a shaft at its end and the inside of which is formed as a hollow part is composed of a face member 11 which is in...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an iron golf club hard which is increased in the inertia moment in the longitudinal direction of particularly the club head body along and is minimized in the deviation in the vertical direction of a ball at the time of impact by distributing a heavy material on the back side of a club head body. SOLUTION: The club head body 1 is composed of a hosel apart 2 for ins...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermoplastic resin pipe bonding method capable of bonding thermoplastic resin pipes having several kinds of sizes by the same heater, enhanced in productivity, excellent in the durability of the heater and generating no contamination. SOLUTION: In this thermoplastic resin pipe bonding method inserting the insertion port 21 of a second end part into the receiving...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate the production of a composite of a vulcanized rubber with another material by treating the surface of the rubber with an nonequilibrium low-temp. plasma under an atmospheric pressure. SOLUTION: An insulating dielectric 3 is inserted between a cathode 1 and an anode 2. An electric current with a frequency of 1-10<10> Hz is applied to between the electrodes 1 and ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure sufficient strength while reducing facility costs and to enhance operability. SOLUTION: A plurality of outwardly-open, curved inner forms 13 are arranged at predetermined intervals and parallel to one another into a ring shape on the interior wall surface 12 of an existing tunnel and securely connected together. A plurality of holding forms 15 are attached along the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an output photointensity control laser.base light source simple yet with high precision. SOLUTION: This integrated laser base light source emitting intensity controlled output photobeams is composed of a laser provided with a package 100 and a light emitting surface 109 radiating photobeams, a photosensor means transmitting electric signals representing the intensi...

The invention relates to an artificial bone mineral for use in medicine and to a process for preparing the same. The bone mineral has a crystal structure and mineral microstructure substantially the same as natural bone and thus permits physiologically controlled, cell mediated remodelling on implantation. The bone mineral, however, has an organic impurity content below 150 parts per million. The ...

Disclosed herein is a breathable film and a breathable, cloth-like film/nonwoven composite made from the breathable film which is stretch-thinned and bonded to a fibrous polyolefin nonwoven web. Certain thermoplastic films such as, for example, linear low density polyethylene films are difficult to thermally bond to, for example, polypropylene nonwoven webs due to the incompatibility of the two po...

Process for emptying liquids and/or gases from a container, in particular from a shock absorber, in which a tool is used to penetrate the wall of the container to create a drain opening, whereby the tool is driven into the container by means of a pressure pulse. The pressure pulse is thereby generated by means of a controlled propellant charge inside a tool propellant chamber.

A system and method for cardiac mapping and ablation include a multi-electrode catheter introduced percutaneously into a subject's heart and deployable adjacent to various endocardial sites. The electrodes are connectable to a mapping unit, an ablation power unit a pacing unit, all of which are under computer control. Intracardiac electrogram signals emanated from a tachycardia site of origin are ...

An instrument for holding an acetabular cup. An elongate hollow tubular member has a proximal end and a distal end and a generally transverse end face at the distal end. A pair of pins extend axially outwardly from the transverse end face. An elongate rod is mounted within the elongate hollow tubular member for axial movement relative thereto. A ball is attached to one end of the elongate rod prox...

A method is provided for amplifying and detecting specific GC-rich nucleic acid sequences contained in a nucleic acid or in a mixture of nucleic acids, which includes treating a separate nucleic acid containing the specific sequence with a molar excess of primers and a polymerase and extending the primers in the presence of dATP, dCTP, TTP, and an analogue of dGTP. In one application of the presen...

The OH group located in the 3' and/or 2' position of a nucleoside, nucleotide or oligonucleotide is derivatized to an amino or thiol group and subsequently a fluorescent dye is coupled thereto. The resulting 3'- and/or 2'-amino- and thiol-modified nucleosides, nucleotides and oligonucleotides can then be used for the synthesis of complementary strands in the presence of a template strand or of oli...

The present invention contemplates methods of decontaminating human fluids prior to processing in the clinical laboratory. The techniques handle large volumes of human serum without impairing the testing results. Novel compounds for photodecontaminating biological material are also contemplated which are compatible with clinical testing, in that they do not interfere with serum analytes.

A system for controlling multiple computer directed devices, comprises: a supervisor computer which receives input data serving as operand inputs to a set of logical operators implemented in the supervisor, where the logical operators provide output results; assignable resources, including an m number of planner computers, where m is a positive integer, and an operator station computer; a link ser...