Photocatalytic titania coatings deposited by a CVD process using an organic titanium compound and an oxygen containing organic compound exhibit improved properties. They are more durable and smoother than existing coating and are less susceptible to scratching. The preferred titanium compound is titanium isopropoxide and the preferred organic compound is ethyl acetate.

Novel methods for the medical treatment and/or inhibition of the development of breast cancer, hypercholesterolemia, hyperlipidemia or atherosclerosis in susceptible warm-blooded animals including humans involving administration of selective estrogen receptor modulator and an amount of a sex steroid precursor selected from the group consisting of dehydroepiandrosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone sulf...

A coating composition containing an epoxy resin and a curing agent comprising a trimer fatty triamine and/or higher oligomeric amine. The coating composition is particularly suitable for use as a primer coating layer on concrete and steel.

An accumulator apparatus for accumulating one or more sheets or articles is provided and includes a sheet accumulator portion for accumulating one or more sheets or articles, a ramp disposed upstream of the sheet accumulator portion relative to a flow direction of the sheet or article, an actuator and a pusher plate connected to the actuator. The actuator is configured to move the pusher plate awa...

A system for controlling the delivery of notifications. The system brokers and serializes the delivery of notifications from multiple sources. In addition, a shared notion of user context is provided, for determining the appropriate handling for each of the notifications. In one embodiment, a user context consists of a condition that may be true or false, and an instruction that is to be followed ...

A device for optically scanning media or objects includes a mirror which deflects light beams and is coupled to a drive unit. The deflection mirror can be rotated with a mirror normal being tilted relative to the axis of rotation. An area can be scanned quickly at a large aperture such that the device is particularly suitable for use in optical remote sensing systems or remote locating systems, su...

A system for controlling a camera resource in a resource-limited portable device. A method is provided for operating a camera system to allow an application to control a camera resource in a portable device. The method includes activating the camera system, wherein the camera system is operable to control the camera resource, providing an application program interface (API) to receive instructions...

The present invention concerns a method for purification of contaminated water through hydrate formation and separation of hydrates from contaminated water enriched with contaminants, by supplying hydrate particles to the water during hydrate formation. The present invention also concerns a device for purification of water by using a method according to the invention, and water produced according ...

A plasma apparatus for treating harmful gases can treat, with increased efficiency, those harmful gas components requiring high temperature treatment among the gas components harmful to the human body or the environment which are generated from an incinerator or varying kinds of other equipments. The apparatus comprises a body provided with an inner circumference defining a mixed gas treatment spa...

FIELD: mechanical engineering; military vehicles. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed automobile contains inflatable body whose spaces are connected with pneumocompressor by flexible pipelines, power plant installed in body, and running gear. Inflatable body is made up of hermetically insulated rubber envelopes placed in bullet-safe interconnected casings made of Kevlar. Power plant contains internal combustion...

Method and apparatus for dynamic provisioning of a Mobile Station (MS) to provide server configuration information. In one embodiment, a home network determines whether to use the visited local network or the home network. An indicator selecting the associated server is transmitted. The server is for session control, such as Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) control of voice over Internet Protocol...

The borescope has lighting and observation units with deviating prisms (48, 30) mounted at a distal end of a rigid tube (10). A light guiding unit (44) extends from the tube to the prism (48) and a lens (32) extends from the prism (30) to the tube. The prisms are placed transversally side by side in the tube and deviate a light beam from the guiding unit, in a direction parallel to a visual axis o...

Techniques are disclosed for providing an indication of location service availability and the quality of available location services for a mobile station. A required location quality of service (LQoS) parameter is acquired. The required LQoS parameter may be a minimum position accuracy value, a maximum response time value, or a maximum age of position information value. An actual LQoS value is the...

There are disclosed imaging members wherein a chemical compound in a crystalline form is converted, at least partially, and preferably substantially completely or completely, to a liquid in the amorphous form, the liquid having intrinsically a different color from the crystalline form. Also described are imaging methods utilizing the imaging members. The conversion of the compound from the crystal...

A method of handoff across different networks is disclosed. A first communication link through a first network is used for communicating between a first user agent and a second user agent. The user agents negotiate to use a second communication link for the same call. The second communication link is established through a second network between the first user agent and the second user agent while ...

The disclosed embodiments provide methods and apparatus for exchanging attachments in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving an indication from a user for sending an attachment to at least one target, and forwarding an alert to the at least one target, wherein the alert includes information about the attachment.

A mobile station for use in an IS-2000-compatible wireless network. The mobile station is capable of receiving data from a first base station of the wireless network simultaneously in a first code division multiple access (CDMA) channel and a second CDMA channel. The mobile station transmits a capability message to the first base station, the capability message comprising a field indicating that t...

Disclosed a method for performing a frequency shift when a User Equipment (UE) intends to receive at least one service through at least one preferred frequency in a system for providing a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) service. The method comprises the steps of inserting information for a preferred frequency of a service into a message and transmitting the message to the UE, the ser...

FIELD: measuring equipment engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: device for taking samples by means of dropper with its washing includes at least two pumping blocks of different volume, rods of which are driven to reciprocal movement by means of common mechanized drive. Working chamber of each of these pumping blocks is connected to contour, containing serially positioned channel, opening into vessel, contain...

The unwinder device comprises: unwinding members for simultaneously unwinding a first reel (B1) and a second reel (B2), a splicing device (151) for splicing together a first web-like material (N1) coming from said first reel (B1) and a second web-like material (N2) coming from said second reel (B2), an accumulator member (24, 200) for accumulating web-like material (N2) supplied from said second r...