A method of alleviating a symptom of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in a human patient suffering from relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis or a patient who has experienced a first clinical episode and is determined to be at high risk of developing clinically definite multiple sclerosis comprising administering to the human patient three subcutaneous injections of a therapeutically effect...

A method comprises : acquiring, for a number nSOP of varied State-Of-Polarization analysis conditions of the input optical signal, nSOP polarization-analyzed optical spectrum traces, the distribution of said SOP analysis conditions being approximately known; mathematically discriminating said signal contribution from said noise contribution within said optical signal bandwidth using said polarizat...

A subassembly useful in a ballistic armor article comprises a first layer comprising a plurality of first yarns of continuous filaments, said first yarns being substantially parallel in a first direction; a second layer adjacent to and in contact with said first layer and comprising a plurality of second yarns of continuous filaments, said second yarns being substantially parallel in a second dire...

Various embodiments are disclosed relating to the optimization of relay station handovers and location update in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, a request to handover a plurality of mobile stations from a first base station to a second base station may be sent. An identifier associated with the second base station for each of the plurality of mobile stations may be received...

The present invention relates to unique isoforms of eukaryotic initiation Factor 5A ("eIF-5A"): senescence-induced eIF-5A; wounding/pathogen induced eIF-5A; stress eIF-5A and growth eIF-5A, as well as polynucleotides that encode these three factors. The present invention also relates to methods involving modulating the expression of these factors. The present invention also relates to deoxyhypusin...

To provide an apparatus and method for efficiently displaying image content, which is sent and received between a server and a client, in a correct direction. An image content providing server stores, as property information, original angle information indicating correct directions of image content as metadata of the image content. The server generates content information including the original an...

The device has a control and/or regulating device for controlling machine functions, preferably machine axles, and an arrangement for reading in machine control parameters for the control and/or regulating device from a data medium or electronic carrier signal (3). A faulty control protection module, preferably a software module, decrypts machine control parameters encrypted using a key dedicated ...

The output voltage of a power converter is regulated by comparing the output voltage to a target output voltage during a first time interval and calculating an inductor current required in a second time interval immediately following the first time interval to increase the output voltage to the target output voltage in the second time interval. The duty cycle of a switch in the power converter is ...

Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate guard bandwidth independent mapping and de-mapping of bandwidth in a wireless communication system. Broadcast signals can be created as if all bandwidth were available, and guard bandwidth can be initialized over the utilized bandwidth such to puncture the data existing in the guard bandwidth. Upon decoding the broadcast signal, size of the g...

A plurality of pairs of electrodes are formed on a sheet-like insulating substrate, a plurality of resistors to be connected with the plurality of pairs of electrodes are formed on the insulating substrate, and then a protective film covering the resistors is formed. Subsequently, the insulating substrate is split along split grooves formed longitudinally and latitudinally on the insulating substr...

An apparatus and method for electronic device control. The apparatus can include a first housing including a first housing face, a display coupled to the first housing face, a second housing pivotably attached to the first housing the second housing including a second housing face, the second housing face being configured to cover at least a portion of the first housing face. The apparatus can als...

An aerosol charge neutralizing device simple in structure and easy to maintain, comprising an aerosol passing container that has a conductive material-made tube body constituting an aerosol passing path permitting aerosol to flow therethrough and has an opening pair consisting of openings in pair disposed oppositely across the center line of the tube body and penetrating through the wall surface o...

A novel and improved method and apparatus provide for controlling an operation of an access terminal while processing a signal from an access point in a communication system. Various aspects of the invention provide for an access terminal to disable a handoff process when its demodulator or decoder is operating to demodulate or decode a control message received from an access point. The operation ...

A circuit for converting the format of image data, the motion of the image data being smooth, includes a memory (16) to which moving image data in the NTSC format is written; a memory controller (14) retrieving respective signals, from the memory (16), required for producing image data of an odd field and an even field in the PAL format; line-interpolating circuits (73) and (74) converting retriev...

To realize a motion compensation device capable of more appropriately compensating the movement of a video signal subjected to double-speed conversion. A motion vector between an image of a current field in a double-speed-converted video signal and an image of a reference field that is one frame or two frames later is detected, the pixels of the current field are shifted based on the motion vector...

A PDP of the present invention includes a front panel having a display electrode and a dielectric layer formed on a glass substrate; and a rear panel having an electrode, a barrier rib, and a phosphor layer formed on a substrate. The front panel and the rear panel are disposed facing each other and sealed together at peripheries thereof with discharge space provided therebetween. The display elect...

A switching power converter including a ring oscillator constructed using a plurality of series connected inverters is utilized to generate a plurality of waveforms. A selection circuit, in cooperation with an exclusive OR gate, produces an output signal from the exclusive OR gate having a duty cycle which can vary from 0 to a nearly 100% duty cycle, depending upon which waveform is selected. The ...

A developing apparatus, a process cartridge and an image forming apparatus of which the image density can be maintained and the fogged image and the uneven density can be within an acceptable level even when the diameter of a developer carrying member is not more than 12 mm. The outer diameter of the developer carrying member 41 is not less than 8 mm and not more than 12 mm, and a magnetic mono-co...

A liquid ejecting head having a plurality of heat evolving elements formed on an integral substrate without being divided into more than one part, so that it is capable of controlling the direction of liquid ejection. The liquid ejecting head has heat-energy evolving elements (22) that evolve heat energy to eject liquid. The heat-energy evolving elements (22) are constructed of an integral substra...

Systems and methodologies are described that provide efficient channel assignment and communication for a wireless communication network. System resources can be allocated for a traffic channel for communication between a base station and a terminal in a physical layer frame, a portion of which can be made available for an acknowledgement channel. Resources for the acknowledgement channel can then...