Detection apparatus for use in the detection of the presence of a selected pathogen in a sample are disclosed. Such apparatus include: a substrate with a detection region on a surface thereof, the detection region having microstructures including grooves formed therein that will align liquid crystal material in contact therewith, the width and depth of the grooves being in the range of 10 mum or l...

Disclosed is a method for indicating an end of transmitting data frames in order to enable a UTRAN (UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) Terrestrial Radio Access Network) to assign a common packet channel to another user equipment (UE) in a UE for a CDMA mobile communication system. The UE requests assignment of any one of a number of common packet channels assignable in the UTRAN; th...

The present invention provides a number of different methods for conducting assays with different types of addressable arrays utilizing semiconductor nanocrystals to enhance detection. The invention includes methods utilizing semiconductor nanocrystals with nucleic acid, protein and tissue arrays, for example. By utilizing various useful aspects of semiconductor nanocrystals, the invention also pr...

A method and device for performing a plurality of small-volume reactions simultaneously are disclosed. The device includes an elongate or planar channel and a port for introducing such bulk-phase medium into the channel, a plurality of discrete small-volume reaction regions within the channel, and a reaction-specific reagent releasably carried on a wall portion of each reaction region. In carrying...

A detection device containing a hybrid nucleic acid assembly. The device contains a nucleic acid polymer, a first complementary oligonucleotide annealed to a first consensus sequence on the nucleic acid polymer, a second complementary oligonucleotide annealed to a second consensus sequence on the nucleic acid polymer, a first nanoparticle conjugated with the first complementary oligonucleotide, a ...

The present invention provides assays that allow for the detection of a single copy of a target of interest. The target species is either directly or indirectly labeled with a semiconductor nanocrystal, "quantum dot". The bright and tunable fluorescence of the quantum dot is readily detected using methods described herein. Also provided are assays that are based on the colocalization of two or mor...

Magnetorheological materials are provided comprising magnetic particles, a polymeric gel and a carrier material. The polymerization of the gel is preferentially accomplished in the presence of the magnetic particles and the carrier material. Magnetorheological materials are provided having a selected off-state viscosity and a selected on-state apparent viscosity. The method of preparing these magn...

Se revelan formulaciones de entrega sostenida que comprenden un compuesto no soluble en agua de un péptido, en una proporción de la menos 57%, y un vehículo de macromolécula. Las formulaciones del invento permiten la carga de altas concentraciones del péptido en un pequeno volumen y para la entrega de un péptido farmacéuticamente activo, por períodos prolongados, por ejemplo, un mes, luego de la a...

A process for controllably forming silicon nanostructures such as a silicon quantum wire array. A silicon surface is sputtered by a uniform flow of nitrogen molecular ions in an ultrahigh vacuum so as to form a periodic wave-like relief in which the troughs of said relief are level with the silicon-insulator border of the SOI material. The ion energy, the ion incidence angle to the surface of said...

PURPOSE:To realize a switching device which controls the conductivity of an atomic fine wire by externally controlling the electron state of atoms constituting the atomic fine wire. CONSTITUTION:In a switching device, the wave function of a part 13 of an atomic fine wire of a part 14 where a switching gate 12 must have an interaction with the atomic fine wire 11 is changed by impressing a suitable...

A display apparatus includes display pixels each having a thin film transistor and an EL element formed successively forming over a substrate. The EL element has a cathode electrode connected to the source of the thin film transistor and an anode electrode, and is driven by the thin film transistor. The EL element externally emits light from the reverse side of the substrate. For example, when the...

1. A composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of ziprasidone of the formula and a cyclodextrin. 2. A composition as defined in Claim 1, wherein said cyclodextrin is selected from γ-cyclodextrin, hydroxypropyl β-cyclodextrin (HPBCD) and sulfobutyl ether β-cyclodextrin (SBECD). 3. A composition as defined in Claim 2, wherein said cyclodextrin is selected from HPBCD and SBECD. 4. A...

The subject invention involves pharmaceutical compositions in dosage unit form, for peroral administration of bisacodyl to a human or lower animal having a gastrointestinal tract, with a lumen threthrough, with a small intestine and a colon with a junction therebetween, comprising: (a) a safe and effective amount of rapidly-dissolving bisacodyl means; and (b) a delivery means which prevents the re...

A patterned organic monolayer or multiplayer film self-assembled on a solid substrate, the pattern consisting in a site-defined surface chemical modification non-destructively inscribed in the organic monolayer or multilayer by means of an electrically biased conducting scanning probe device, stamping device and/or liquid metal or metal alloy or any other device that can touch the organic monolaye...

The present invention is directed to a nanotube coated with diamond or diamond-like carbon, a field emitter cathode comprising same, and a field emitter comprising the cathode. It is also directed to a method of preventing the evaporation of carbon from a field emitter comprising a cathode comprised of nanotubes by coating the nanotube with diamond or diamond-like carbon. In another aspect, the pr...

This invention comprises a one-phase cosmetic composition which can be made as a stick, gel or cream and which has low residue, low tack and improved fragrance substantivity. The cosmetic compositions are formed by (a) from 0.5-50 weight percent of a dimethicone copolyol ester compound soluble in propylene glycol; (b) from 50-98 weight percent of a gellant/solvent system which comprises a mixture ...

Each surface section of the connection contact (3) of an electrical or electronic component which lies on a circuit substrate (2) track (4), and each surface section of the circuit substrate track is coated with a layer (5,6) of carbon nano-tubes. The carbon nano-tubes have a length in the range 20 to 100 micrometres. The nano-tubes may be open or closed at their free ends.

Liquid propellants for the purpose of generating hot gases are described, which propellants comprise solution of a dinitramide compound and a fuel, and are especially suited for space applications, and exhibit the following properties exhibit the following properties: low toxicity; no toxic or combustible vapors; high theoretical specific impulse (as compared to hydrazine); high density (as compar...

An aluminium or copper heat sink is attached to a ceramic cap or exposed semiconductor chip using an adhesive of silicon or flexible-epoxy adhesive. The aluminium may be coated by anodizing or Chromate conversion or the copper may be coated with nickel or gold Chromium. Such structures are especially useful for flip chip attachment to flexible or rigid organic circuit boards or modules such as CQF...

The present invention relates to linear polyether-polysiloxane copolymers of the general formula A(BC)nBA, in which linear polyether and linear polysiloxane units are linked via Si-C bonds, and to a process for their preparation.