An Al-base alloy sputtering target comprising Ni and one or more rare earth elements, wherein there are 5.0 × 10 4 /mm 2 or more compounds whose aspect ratio is 2.5 or higher and whose equivalent diameter is 0.2µm or larger, when a cross sectional surface perpendicular to the plane of the target is observed at a magnification of 2000 or higher.

A method for producing powders that consist of substantially spherical particles from a material such as glass, ceramics or plastic that produces a highly viscous melt that solidifies at a glass transition temperature T_g or at a solidification temperature T_s. The inventive method comprises the following steps: (a) producing a melt of a viscosity eta in the range of from 0.1 t...

A method of connecting a belt clip attachment device to a personal electronic device such as a mobile phone includes providing a belt clip attachment device for connecting the mobile phone to a belt clip, the belt clip attachment device and the rear of the mobile phone constructed so that the belt clip attachment device connects to the rear side of the mobile phone through a push and twist action ...

A bifocal multiorder diffractive lens having a lens body with one or more first regions having a first multiorder diffractive structure providing near vision correction, and one or more second regions having a second multiorder diffractive structure providing distance vision correction, in which the lens defines an aperture divided between the first and second regions. The lens body may be provide...

A method and apparatus for forming a core of plies, belts and beads and for positioning the core in a mold for forming an elastomeric tire. The core is built up on a mandrel of the inner mold that is formed from hard foam core segments positioned between top and bottom hub plates, around a center hub that includes flow passages formed therethrough and through the hub plates. Plies for building the...

Presented is a therapeutic method to treat prostate carcinomas in mammals comprising the administration of cellular PAcP protein. Also presented is a method to diagnose androgen-insensitive prostate carcinomas by determining the expression level of cellular PAcP in the prostate carcinomas, a decrease in expression being indicative of androgen-insensitivity. A promoter region that is specifically e...

A plurality of pixel areas are defined on the surface of a substrate. A partition wall is disposed on the surface of the substrate in an area between adjacent pixel areas. The partition wall comprises a lower portion made of inorganic insulating material and an upper portion made of insulating material having etching characteristics different from the etching characteristics of the lower portion a...

A method of adapting image information to the perceptive capacity of the human eye, having the following steps: (a) displaying lightness values and colorimetric values or chromaticity steps from an original image as a group of points in an initial color space; (b) transferring the group of points into a physiological substantially equal-spaced perceived color space while maintaining the geometry o...

A computer system compnses a processor ( 2 ), memory ( 4 ) and a plurality of devices ( 6, 8, 12 ), the processor ( 2 ) and the memory ( 4 ) being operable to effect the operation of a fault response processor (AFR), and a device driver (GRAPHICS, NETWORK, H2IO, IO2L, SERIAL) for each of the devices. The fault response processor (AFR) is operable to generate a model which represents the processor ...

A technique for determining a root cause of a condition (e.g., service outage) of at least one subject component in a computing environment comprises the following steps/operations. First, one or more components in the computing environment upon which the at least one subject component depends (e.g., antecedents) are identified. Identification comprises traversing at least a portion of a model rep...

Apparatus for inspecting the sealing surface area of a container finish that includes a structured light source positioned to direct a collimated line-shaped ligh t beam onto the sealing surface area of a container as the container is moved relative to the light source. The line-shaped light beam at the container sealing surface area has a long dimension orthogonal to the container axis that exten...

A thin gauge, fine diameter steel cord reinforced tire ply fabric 2 is disclosed which can be effectively lap spliced without detrimental effect. The steel cord 1 has one or more filaments 9, each filament has a percent elongation of over 2.5% and tensile strength of at least (-2000D+4400 MPa) .times. 95%, where D is the diameter of the filament in millimeters. For passenger and lightly loaded tru...

"SISTEMA INTELIGENTE DE PREENCHIMENTO E CONTROLE DE FOLHAS DE CHEQUE". Compreender um programa dedicado a ser instalado em qualquer computador pessoal, e a um conjunto de plataformas guias (10, 20) a ser seletivamente acoplada junto a qualquer tipo de impressora de alimentação horizontal (1) ou vertical (2), facilitando assim o adequado posicionamento da folha de cheques a ser impressa pelo referi...

Method of introducing instruments/measuring equipment/tools into formations ( 9 ) in the earth's crust or other solid materials, such as ice, by means of a drilling device ( 1 ), material being liberated by, for example, rotation of a drill bit ( 2 ), or by melting, for example by means of a heating element, the liberated material thereafter flowing, or being pumped, past/through the drilling devi...

A Wireless bridge conjoins two previously incompatible technologies within a single device to leverage the strengths of each. The Wireless bridge marries the Personal Area Network (PAN) technology of Bluetooth as described in Bluetooth Specification Version 1.0B with the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) technology described in the IEEE802.11a specification to provide a wireless system level solu...

Communication devices, communication systems, a Bluetooth communication protocol communication device, and communication methods are provided. According to a first aspect, a communication device includes a single buffer configured to store communication data; control circuitry coupled with the buffer and configured to generate a plurality of packets including different amounts of communication dat...

A discrete Fourier transform (DFT) filter bank with stack shift capability, configured, for example, as an analyzer, but equally applicable to a synthesizer, and implemented as a polyphase filter. The DFT filter bank includes a complex modulator for multiplying the input signals x₀(m), x₁(m) . . . x_M-1(m) by a complex modulator e^-2piko<...

A configurable controller, comprising a configurable digital unit having a synchronization control module; a plurality of signal acquisition modules connected with said synchronization control module for receiving reference control data therefrom; and a control logic connected with said plurality of signal acquisition modules; a plurality of identical input cells respectively connected with said p...

An (SiGe)C layer having a stoichiometric ratio of about 1:1 is locally formed on an Si layer, a large forbidden band width semiconductor device is prepared inside the layered structure thereof and an Si semiconductor integrated circuit is formed in the regions not formed with the layered structure, whereby high frequency high power operation of the device is enabled by the large forbidden band wid...

An implantable cardiac rhythm management system includes a user interface, such as an external programmer, for performing therapy energy threshold tests. The threshold tests allow the caregiver to determine the threshold energy at which paces capture the heart, i.e., cause a resulting contraction of the heart chamber to which the paces are delivered. The programmer provides recorded indications of...