Provided is a panel, the panel including a parent panel, a removable panel formed from the parent panel and con-figured to be removed from the parent panel, at least one tab portion which adjoins the removable panel to the parent panel, and at least one gap formed between the parent panel and the removable panel. The at least one gap extends around an outer periphery of the removable panel, except...

Sweeping cloth having adhesive attributes used for floor cleaning has one adhesive surface which touches floorings. This surface has glue. Because of that, sweeping becomes very simple and easy as dust, hair and small pebbles stick to the glue. It can be used both to wet and dry floors. The glue is mild and does stick neither to the floorings nor to the consumers` hands.; Το ύφασμα σάρωσης με κολλ...

A method of hydraulic fracturing of an oil producing formation includes the provision of a heating apparatus which is transportable and that has a vessel for containing water. The method contemplates heating the water up to a temperature of about 200° F (93.3 °C). A water stream of cool or cold water is transmitted from a source to a mixer, the cool water stream being at ambient temperature. The m...

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing waste water generated during oilfield drilling operations with a mobile processing unit utilizing heat energy sourced from burning hydrocarbon fuel directly and/or capturing and using the exhaust heat energy generated by burning hydrocarbons in engines such as diesel engines in order to vaporize a dominant mass of the aqueous phase of ...

The present invention relates to a compound of the formula [I]: wherein R¹ is lower alkyl, hydroxy(lower)alkyl or halo(lower)alkyl, and R² is hydrogen or amino protecting group, or R¹ and R² are bonded together and form lower alkylene or lower alkenylene; R³ is hydrogen or lower alkyl; R⁴ is R⁵ is carboxy or protected car...

The invention relates generally to an electric device, such as an electric motor, a generator, or a regenerative motor, having a wound stator core made from advanced low-loss material. In preferred embodiments, the electric device is an axial airgap-type configuration. The invention provides an electric device having a high pole count that operates at high commutating frequencies, with high effici...

A method of flocculating a micro-organism and/or removal of high molecular weight contaminants from a fermentation broth, comprising adding a divalent salt to the fermentation broth comprising a glycosaminoglucan of interest after which the micro-organism and/or the high molecular weight contaminants are removed, wherein said micro-organism produces the glycosaminoglucan of interest.

A host-vector system that uses the RNA-based copy number control mechanism of ColE1-type plasmids for regulating the expression of a marker gene allows for antibiotic-free selection of plasmids and is useful for production of plasmid DNA and recombinant proteins.

With the present invention, data continuity is used at the time of converting an input image into high-quality image data with higher quality than the input image data, to obtain processing results which are more accurate and have higher precision. A class tap extracting unit (902) and prediction tap extracting unit (906) extract a class tap and prediction tap based on data continuity of multiple ...

The present invention relates an image processing device and method, recording medium, and program. A simple-type angle detecting unit 901 simply detects the angle as continuity using correlation from an input image. A determining unit 902, based on the angle thus simply obtained, connects a switch 903 to a terminal 903a in the event the angle is closer to the horizontal direction or the vertical ...

A data combining apparatus and a data combining method in which timing for transformation, movement (arrangement), and generation of data combined in accordance with timing information can be corrected and a screen formation to be needed for matching of timing can be formed by combination, wherein a data combining apparatus 100 generates timing information of a change of the screen formation by a ...

The present invention enables processing results which are more accurate and which have higher precision as to events of the real world to be obtained. (An inverse gamma correction unit 5001 applies inverse gamma correction to an input image wherein light signals of the actual world have been projected and a part of the continuity of the light signals of the actual world has been lost, and which h...

A method and apparatus for shifting functional entity in WiMAX network is disclosed. A functional entity at the network side is set to be master functional entity or slave functional entity. The method includes: setting a binding relationship between a master functional entity and at least one slave functional entity; triggering the master functional entity to shift, combining a context of the sla...

[PROBLEMS] To solve a problem involved in a prior art technique using a single-crystal sapphire substrate as a substrate for epitaxially growing gallium nitride (GaN) or the like used in blue light emitting LEDs, which prior art technique cannot provide a single-crystal sapphire substrate having a regular step shape capable of growing a good epitaxial film of gallium nitride or the like. [MEANS FO...

A method, device, device management server and system for processing a scheduling task in device management are provided. The method includes: a device management server delivering a scheduling task; a device monitoring an execution condition of the scheduling task; the device reporting information on execution of the task; if the device does not execute the task normally according to the executio...

An IC includes an IEEE 1149.1 standard test access port (TAP) interface and an additional Off-Chip TAP interface. The Off-Chip TAP interface connects to the TAP of another IC. The Off Chip TAP interface can be selected by a TAP Linking Module on the IC.

Optical dispersion compensation (ODC) devices are disclosed. In one aspect, an ODC device may include first and second groups of optical resonator devices coupled together to compensate for optical dispersion by collectively delaying light. The first group of optical resonator devices may have a first group delay curve with a convex shape between peaks in frequency. The second group of optical res...

The invention relates to a method for monitoring and controlling a central IP budget of a subscriber in a packet-based communication network during online charge assessment with the monitoring a maximum limit of data transmissions. The control function is provided in a network node of the communication network, administrated by the IP centre budget allocated by a charge computer and charges the ce...

Techniques to flexibly support different bandwidths in a wireless communication system are described. The system supports a configurable operating bandwidth using a fixed design bandwidth and variable guard bands. Values for various parameters such as fast Fourier transform (FFT) size, cyclic prefix length, and sample rate may be selected based on the design bandwidth. The design bandwidth may be ...

A method and system is provided for reducing mosquito noise in a digital image. The method and system receives an input luminance value for a first pixel in the digital image, and determines whether the first pixel is in relative close proximity to an object appearing in the digital image, based on a comparison of the variation between the input luminance value for the first pixel and luminance va...