The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device comprising two bordering plates (1, 2) containing a liquid-crystal material, characterized in that at least one of the plates (2) is provided with a treatment which defines an degenerate azimuthal anchoring without any orientational memory.

Procedimiento para el tratamiento de ceniza procedente de plantas incineradoras de basuras y de residuos minerales, por desalinización y envejecimiento artificial, mediante procesos electrodinámicos bajo agua, compuesto de los pasos, el producto compuesto de la ceniza o de los residuos, se transporta hacia arriba mediante un dispositivo transportador, a un reactor lleno y recorrido por un líquido ...

UN DISCO ADHESIVO (12), ESPECIALMENTE ADECUADO PARA SU USO COMO PLACA FRONTAL PARA UN DISPOSITIVO DE OSTOMIA, PERO QUE SE PUEDE UTILIZAR TAMBIEN COMO VENDAJE DE HERIDAS, QUE TIENE UNA CAPA ADHESIVA (14) DE UN MATERIAL DE BARRERA PARA LA PIEL QUE CONTIENE HIDROCOLOIDES Y UNA CAPA DE REFUERZO FLEXIBLE (15) QUE SE EXTIENDE POR UNA SUPERFICIE DE LA CAPA ADHESIVA. LA SUPERFICIE DE CONTACTO CON LA PIEL ...

A head mounted umbrella and a method thereof, which reduces its manufacturing cost and time and is stably held on a user's body without shaking, and which prevents a user's face from getting wet with rain water, and is hung on a hanger, is disclosed. The head mounted umbrella includes a hood part having a front opening, a body covering part manufactured in such a way that a circular basic cloth ha...

A wheel hub magnetic filter fits within a wheel hub mounted for rotation on an end of the axle. The lubricating oil filter is positioned in a lubricating oil path upstream from the wheel hub bearings and is mounted with the wheel hub for rotation. The lubricating oil filter comprising a circular ring section which fits into an annular plenum in the wheel hub and includes flow directing barriers po...

A holding system for a dispensing system for hardenable materials comprising a dispensing gun and a product cartridge having a dispensing tip defining a dispensing opening. The holding system comprises a holding structure and a plug projection. Optionally, one or more guide ribs may be used. The holding structure comprises a side wall and a bottom wall and defines a main opening and a cartridge ch...

A clip-on utility carrier for attachment to the user's waistband for the convenience of carrying handy tools, such as knives, pouches for holding small items, tapes, etc. The utility carrier allows belt accessories to be attached to the waistband of trousers, shorts, skirts, etc., with or without a belt, as well as to any other wearable or non-wearable material having a thin edge. The inventive ut...

The present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of polyurethane molded parts, blocks and cylinders from production residues and/or from so-called post-consumer parts based on polyurethane by the so-called flake composite technique, and to their use.

A method and device for providing status of a security system to a user by a remote indication device in response an external stimulus. A status request trigger signal is generated as a result of the stimulus, and status data is then retrieved from an externally located central control unit in response to the status request trigger signal. The status data is then presented via the remote indicatio...

This invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding an alternatively spliced human prostate-specific membrane antigen. This invention provides an isolated nucleic acid comprising a promoter sequence normally associated with the transcription of a gene encoding a human prostate-specific membrane antigen. This invention provides an isolated polypeptide having the biological activity o...

High-strength, chemically and thermally stable, closed-cell foams, useful as structural core materials in sandwich composites. The core materials of the invention display anisotropic properties. The core materials of the invention are amenable to vacuum-mediated resin bonding to composite skins to provide lightweight, high-strength structural sandwiches suitable for use in a variety of application...

Disclosed are methods and compositions for the detection, diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy of hematological malignancies, and in particular, B cell leukemias, lymphomas and multiple myelomas. Disclosed are compositions, methods and kits for eliciting immune and T cell responses to specific malignancy-related antigenic polypeptides and antigenic polypeptide fragments thereof in an animal. Also dis...

The present invention provides new methods for the assessment of cancer risk in the general population. These methods utilize particular alleles of two or more genes, in combination, to identify individuals with increased or decreased risk of cancer. Exemplified is risk assessment for breast cancer in women. In addition, personal history measures such as age and race are used to further refine the...

The present invention provides methods and kits for identifying an increased risk of developing cancer in a subject. The methods include analyzing a first biological sample, such as a blood sample, from the subject for loss of imprinting of the IGF2 gene. According to the methods a loss of imprinting is indicative of an increased risk of developing cancer. The method can include analyzing genomic ...

Cancer-linked gene sequences, and derived amino acid sequences, are disclosed along with processes for assaying potential antitumor agents based on their modulation of the expression of these cancer-linked genes. Also disclosed are antibodies that react with the disclosed polypeptides and methods of using the antibodies to treat cancerous conditions, such as by using the antibody to target cancero...

The invention provides genetic suppressor elements that confer upon a cell resistance to one or more chemotherapeutic drug, methods for identifying and obtaining such elements, and methods of using such elements. The invention also provides cloned genes associated with sensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs, particularly a cloned human kinesin heavy chain gene involved in resistance to DNA damaging...

The disclosed embodiments relate generally to providing increased data integrity in computer systems and, more particularly, to using a system management processor to overcome a computer system failure because of corrupted programming. A system management processor detects an attempted boot by host computer system and starts a watchdog timer. If the system BIOS or other firmware fails to execute, ...

Methods, systems, and computer program products for resource recovery. A region of code can be considered untrusted. To catch problems in the untrusted region, entry points are wrapped with exception logic for processing exceptions raised within the untrusted region. Until an exception has been raised within the untrusted region, instructions corresponding to the entry points may be executed. Howe...

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for implementing fault detection and correction in a computer network. In one embodiment, the invention may provides a multi-stage watch-dog timer to monitor device operation in a computer system. A system bus controller may receive data related to a computer system fault from the multi-stage watch-dog timer and may log the fault ...

In order to provide an open-celled rigid polyurethane foam, which realizes a low material cost per unit volume of the foam and excellent surface smoothness because of its unique structure, and a thermal insulation material comprising the foam, an open-celled rigid polyurethane foam which has an open cell content of not less than 99% in a state that a skin layer is left on the foam is produced by f...