A downhole device for controlling the flow of fluids through an oil and/or gas production well comprises a deformable chamber which contains an electromagnetic field or other stimuli responsive gel and a fluid passage which is closed off in response to a volume increase of the gel and the deformable chamber.

The present invention concerns a method for producing recombinant trypsin from porcine pancreas in Pichia pastoris which is soluble and secreted into the culture medium, whereby expression at pH 3.0-4.0 substantially prevents activation of trypsinogen to beta-trypsin and autolysis of beta-trypsin by alpha-trypsin into epsilon-trypsin and from there into inactive peptides.

The apparatus includes a resistance measuring circuit (20) with external leads and an amplifier circuit connected to the measuring circuit. An indicator circuit is connected to the amplifier circuit (30). A sensitivity adjustment circuit is connected to the amplifier circuit and the indicator circuit. This circuit is capable of automatically increasing the sensitivity of the indicator circuit (24)...

The present invention is related to an egg obtained from a domesticated bird, in particular a layer, having a lipid fraction balanced in seeds and green plant-type omega 6 and omega 3 fatty acids according to the ratio of seeds and green plant-type omega 6 fatty acids / seeds and green plant-type omega 3 fatty acids = 1:1 +/- 10% and having a lipid fraction is balanced between polyunsaturated ...

The invention relates to a method for fractional crystallisation of an at most partially solidified molten metal, in which a layer of at most partially solidified molten metal having an upper surface and a lower surface is divided into a series of compartments communicating with each other, in which the metal is stirred in at least some of the compartments, and in which crystals formed in the laye...

A method of sealing a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device 76 from ambient conditions is described, wherein the MEMS device 76 is formed on a substrate 72 and a substantially hermetic seal 78 is formed as part of the MEMS device manufacturing process. The method comprises forming a metal seal 78 on the substrate proximate a perimeter of the MEMS device 76 using a method such as photolithogr...

The present invention provides the use of pramipexole in the treatment of restless legs syndrome.

Adhesive labels are manufactured by cutting windows in an upper layer of a support web (2) through to a lower silicon coated material. Folded leaflets (15) are then adhered by lines of adhesive (11, 12, 13) to the support web (2) and the combination is die-cut to form individual adhesive labels with part of the die-cut folded leaflet extending beyond an edge of a base label formed from the window ...

The present invention relates to a fire-proof drain (1) comprising an expandable material (12) and a drain housing (2), which drain housing (2) is connected to a drain pipe and fixed to a base (20, 22, 24) where a mountable drain trap (4) is installed into the drain housing (2), where the drain trap (4) comprises a cup (6) mounted in connection with the drain trap (4), where the expandable materie...

A thermal barrier is introduced to a magnetic resonance imaging system between the patient bore and each of the gradient coil assembly and RF body coil assembly to maintain the temperature within the patient bore below a maximum operating temperature. This allows the RF body coils to run cooler and also provides a thermal barrier between the gradient coils and the patient bore. In one preferred em...

PCT No. PCT/EP96/00718 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 14, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 14, 1997 PCT Filed Feb. 20, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/26164 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 29, 1996The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a product on a basis of mineral wool, including the steps of: i) preparing a phenol-formaldehyde resin, ammonia and a sugar preparation containing aqueous preparation; ii) applying the prepar...

FIELD: medicine, chemical-pharmaceutical industry. ^ SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a stable, biologically compatible and good tolerated microemulsion of type water-in-oil designated for the parenteral administration of biologically active hydrophilic compounds or converting to such compounds as result of corresponding derivatization and providing the stable and sustained-release of active substa...

Preparing 1,3,5-triamino benzene comprises amination of a halobenzene (I) in the presence of ammonia and a catalyst selected from copper salts, cuprous and cupric oxides, and their mixtures, at a temperature of 150 - 250degreesC and a pressure above 35 bars. Preparing 1,3,5-triamino benzene comprises amination of a halobenzene of formula (I) in the presence of ammonia and a catalyst selected from...

PCT No. PCT/SE97/01041 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 11, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 11, 1999 PCT Filed Jun. 13, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/08738 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 5, 1998A device (1) for packaging finely divided, moistened tobacco material in individual portion packages, comprising a means (2) for feeding the material into pockets (4) formed in a rotary portioning wheel (3) for portioning the material into port...

FIELD: packing equipment, particularly for enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material in flat, folded or tubular webs of flexible sheet material. ^ SUBSTANCE: packing machine comprises web sealing means, which seals continuous web in longitudinal direction to form a sleeve, a number of cooperating sealing jam pairs, which press and seal sleeves filled with product at spaced apart loc...

A method and system for backing up and restoring data. First, a full backup is performed to create a full dataset. Thereafter, incremental or differential datasets may be created by incremental or differential backups, respectively. When a new full dataset is needed, instead of performing a full backup, a previous full dataset may be combined with subsequent incremental or differential datasets to...

Concluding the validity of an uplink synchronization parameter, such as a timing advance, in a packet-switched radio system. The method includes: detecting (802) an uplink synchronization parameter; measuring (804) an interval from the detection of the uplink synchronization parameter; and comparing (806, 808) the measured interval with a predetermined threshold and, if the measured interval is sh...

FIELD: medical equipment. ^ SUBSTANCE: device can be used for regulating discharge of medicinal solution during intravenous injection of solution, for example, of Ringer solution - especially prepared medicinal aids in liquid form, or other solutions for injecting them into patient's vein. Device has container for medicinal solution, definite length tube going from lower part of container, and nee...

FIELD: radio communications engineering, in particular, methods and device for providing protected transmissions in radio communications system. ^ SUBSTANCE: method and device for encryption of transmission traffic at separate levels of protocol include assignment of separate transmission traffic types to separate encryption elements, to make it possible to realize different encryption levels depe...