FIELD: collective gambling games. SUBSTANCE: lottery participant upon win may buy property for part of awarded prize, accumulate these assets, claim and receive prize in any time convenient for him/her in chosen form in lottery drawing place. Said device has terminals for selling lottery tickets, terminals for paying for awarded lottery tickets, unit for calculation of prize fund, bank, data trans...

FIELD: gaseous-discharge engineering; information display on ac panels. SUBSTANCE: panel has first plate with pairs of unlike-polarity display electrodes coated with insulating material, second insulating plate with control electrodes intersecting display electrodes to form gaseous-discharge cells of display field; width of display electrodes in extreme cells arranged over perimeter of display fie...

A non-black roof sheeting material may be prepared from a composition of matter comprising 100 parts by weight of at least one polymeric rubber selected from the group consisting of ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymers, ethylene-propylene copolymers and other polyolefinic type polymers; from about 20 to about 300 parts by weight of a blend of at least two mineral fillers, per 100 parts of said pol...

A method and apparatus are provided for managing accounting information of entities having different fiscal calendars. A memory stores accounting data for at least two entities, each of the entities maintaining the accounting data according to a different fiscal calendar. A user interface enables a user to request consolidated accounting information for the entities. Accounting data and/or calenda...

FIELD: formation of protective layer on conjugating surface, for instance, metal or wood. SUBSTANCE: method includes first preparation of article surface. Surface on metal articles may be prepared by cleaning the surface and subsequent holding it in concentrated phosphoric acid. Surface on wood articles may be prepared by thorough cleaning of surface with the help of hot water and detergent (only)...

FIELD: building materials industry, more particularly manufacture of concrete and reinforced concrete products and structures operating in sulfate aggressive media, and cementation of oil and gas wells. SUBSTANCE: special portland cement comprises, wt.%: portland cement clinker containing not higher than 3% three calcium aluminate, 15-75; portland cement containing not more than 3% three calcium a...

This invention relates to collagen compositions and methods of preparing such compositions. This invention also relates to a novel source of collagen, the common digital extensor tendon.

Compounds of formula wherein R<1> represents: an optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, or alkynyl group ; or an optionally substituted cycloalkyl group; or an optionally substituted cycloalkenyl group ; or a group such as aryl, aralkyl, COOR<3>, COR<3>, CN, NO<2>, NR<3>R<4>, OR<5>, halogen atom. R2 represents a group such as NO<2>, CN, R<5>, S(O)mR<5>, SO2NR<3>R<4>, COOR<3>, COR<3>, CONR<...

A device for the generation of analog signals by means of analog-digital converters comprises a block for the generation of words encoded on N bits and an analog-digital converter whose input is encoded on M bits, M being smaller than N. The device furthermore comprises a sigma-delta modulator, at the output of the first block, the bus being separated into M most significant bits reserved for the ...

FIELD: traumatology; orthopedics. SUBSTANCE: endoprosthesis refers to elbow joint with shoulder bone member, to elbow bone member and to forearm bone member in which elbow bone member is guided in zone of shoulder bone member in turning support, and forearm bone member is held in seat for turning and moving in zone of elbow bone member. Forearm bone member is mounted for turning in sliding member ...

A compound represented by general formula [I] or a salt thereof, being extremely reduced in the decomposability by gastric juice as compared with other known erythromycin derivatives and having an excellent activity of promoting the movement of digestive tracts, wherein R1 represents hydrogen or acyl; R2 and R3 may be the same or different from each other and each represents hydrogen, hydroxy, acy...

The present invention relates to highly diastereoselective processes for production of cis-nucleosides and nucleoside analogues and derivatives in high optical purity and intermediates useful in those processes.

A water dispersible solid formulation comprising an active ingredient, a surfactant of non-ionic type, a surfactant of anionic type and at least 30 wt% of urea is disclosed. A process of preparing the formulation and the use of the formulation for delivering an active ingredient, for example a pesticide or plant growth regulant to an agricultural or horticultural locus are also described.

An absorbent article with an absorbent body enclosed between inner and outer casing sheets and a stiffening element extending from the rear, through the intermediate, and into the front part of the article. The stiffening element's front and rear parts are broader than its intermediate part and the stiffening element is not wider than 4 cm at its front to intermediate transition region. Side flaps...

An absorbent article with an absorbent body enclosed between inner and outer casing sheets and a stiffening element extending from the rear, through the intermediate, and into the front part of the article. The stiffening element's front and rear parts are broader than its intermediate part and the stiffening element is not wider than 4 cm at its front to intermediate transition region. Side flaps...

Male and female members for contact lenses are disclosed. Either member is able to hold the contact lens as it moves from station to station during the hydration process. The female member fits together with the male member forming a chamber. Each of the members contains a line centrally located so that both surfaces of the contact lens are flushed during the hydration process, and drainage takes ...

Male and female members for contact lenses are disclosed. Either member is able to hold the contact lens as it moves from station to station during the hydration process. The female member fits together with the male member forming a chamber. Each of the members contains a line centrally located so that both surfaces of the contact lens are flushed during the hydration process, and drainage takes ...

A process for synthesis of a polymeric polyalcohol substantially and preferably built up form polyester units and composed of a monomeric or polymeric initiator molecule to which at least one dentritic branch (dendron) consisting of a number of branching generations is added. The branching generations comprise a polymericor monomeric branching chain extender having three reactive functions of whic...

A process for synthesis of a polymeric polyalcohol substantially and preferably built up form polyester units and composed of a monomeric or polymeric initiator molecule to which at least one dentritic branch (dendron) consisting of a number of branching generations is added. The branching generations comprise a polymericor monomeric branching chain extender having three reactive functions of whic...

A process for a double stage convergent synthesis of a polymeric polyalcohol substantially and preferably built up from polyester units and composed of a monomeric or polymeric core to which at least one hyperbranched dendritic branch (dendron) consisting of a number of branching generations is added. The branching generations comprise a polymeric or monomeric branching chain extender having three...