The present application is directed to spacing devices that attach directly or indirectly to vertebral implants. The spacing device may include a first side that faces the implant, and an angled second side that faces towards a vertebral member. The angled second side matches the shape of the vertebral member. The devices may further include apertures that receive spikes that extend outward from t...

An interbody fusion device for engagement between vertebrae includes a pair of lateral spacers for spacing the vertebrae, and a connecting member adapted to couple together the lateral spacers when inserted between the vertebrae. The connecting member, individual lateral spacers, or the entire spinal spacer can be made of bone in order to promote fusion of the vertebrae. The modular construction p...

An implant assembly and associated method for selectively performing reverse and traditional arthroplasty for a shoulder joint that includes a humerus and a glenoid. The implant assembly may include a head, a cup, a humeral stem and an adapter. The method includes inserting the humeral stem to the humerus and connecting a male taper of the adapter to a female taper of the head. For reverse arthrop...

In cleaning the dialysis device, first, the concentrate passage is disconnected from the dialysis solution concentrate container and is connected to the branched passage, and a pre-cleaning process is performed in which the fluid circuit is replace with the purified water, and determining means (4a) of a control device (4) determines that the fluid circulating in the fluid circuit is not the dialy...

Cytokine derivatives capable of homing the tumoral vessels and the antigen presenting cells and the use thereof as antitumoral agents.

Cytokine derivatives capable of homing the tumoral vessels and the antigen presenting cells and the use thereof as antitumoral agents.

A stackable semiconductor package and method includes providing a first semiconductor package having a first plurality of lower leads and a first plurality of upper leads. A second semiconductor package having a second plurality of lower leads is provided. The second plurality of lower leads is attached to the first plurality of upper leads to form a stack of semiconductor packages.

The present invention generally relates to medical devices, and more particularly to an improved medical imaging device. In one embodiment, an imaging device includes a drive shaft having proximal and distal ends received within the lumen; and an imaging transducer assembly coupled to the distal end of the drive shaft and positioned at the distal portion of the elongate member. The imaging transdu...

The invention relates to wireless repeater systems and methods. In embodiments, such systems and methods involve receiving a wireless transmission signal; and processing the wireless transmission signal using a digital signal processing facility (DSP); wherein the DSP is adapted to filter at least one sub-band of the wireless transmission signal using a digital bandpass filter.

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing voice-based supplementary information service using road map data. The voice-based supplementary information service system includes a content registration server for receiving content for the voice-based supplementary information service, and converting the content into supplementary information data having voice data format. At l...

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for creating Web forms with automatically generated links. A database mapping for a database is accessed. One or more dynamic queries for querying a database are automatically formulated. The dynamic queries are included in an automatically generated Web site for the database in accordance with the database mapping. U...

One embodiment of the present invention provides a processor that is configured to execute load-swapped-partial instructions. An instruction fetch unit within the processor is configured to fetch the load-swapped-partial instruction to be executed. Note that the load-swapped-partial instruction specifies a source address in a memory, which is possibly an unaligned address. Furthermore, an executio...

A data processing apparatus 2 supports out-of-order processing register renaming using a renaming stage 8. A set of physical registers 16 is mapped to architectural registers. Available-register identifying logic 26 is used to identify which physical registers 16 are available for use by the renaming stage 8. The available-register identifying logic 26 includes an instruction FIFO 28 storing regis...

A conditional instruction architected to receive one or more operands as inputs, to output to a target the result of an operation performed on the operands if a condition is satisfied, and to not provide an output if the condition is not satisfied, is executed so that it unconditionally provides an output to the target. The conditional instruction obtains the prior value of the target (that is, th...

To reduce power consumption of a processor system including a plurality of processors without degradation of the processing ability, a CPU detects mode setting information added to instruction code and outputs a clock control signal and a power supply voltage control signal to a clock controlling section and a power supply voltage controlling section, respectively. When a plurality of processing e...

A system, apparatus, computer program product and method of performing operational validation on a system are provided. The system may include a CPU with a cache, a communications network, and a plurality of devices exchanging data during a test. When the test is ready to be performed, the CPU may set up a pool of buffers in the cache. The pool of buffers may generally have a set of locations corr...

A system-on-chip (SoC) test apparatus is disclosed. The system-on-chip (SoC) testing apparatus reduces a test time due to a small amount of overhead in the case of testing an AMBA-based system-on-chip (SoC) using a TIC, an EBI, and a Test Harness, and maintains AMBA- or TIC- compatibility simultaneously while performing scan input/output operations.

An object-oriented interface for providing access to stored data comprises a data enumeration module that provides an object-oriented view to at least one stored first datum that is not an object created by the interface. The interface also includes a scanning module that cooperates with the data enumeration module to change the view from the stored first datum to another datum. Methods for using ...

A double indirect method of accessing a block of data in a register file is used to allow efficient implementations without the use of specialized vector processing hardware. In addition, the automatic modification of the register addressing is not tied to a single vector instruction nor to repeat or loop instructions. Rather, the technique, termed register file indexing (RFI) allows full programm...

A mixing syringe having a first sealed chamber containing a powder (powder housing) and a second sealed chamber containing a liquid (liquid housing). When the user needs to inject a patient, he or she holds the mixing syringe approximately upright and depresses a plunger. This motion causes a piercer to pierce a foil seal separating the two chambers. T he liquid then drops down into the powder hou...