The present invention relates to chimeric neurotrophic factors which comprise at least a portion of a naturally occurring cellular factor and a portion of at least one other molecule such that the resulting chimeric molecule has neurotrophic activity. It is based, in part, on the discovery that chimeric molecules comprising portions of both NGF and BDNF are likely to possess neurotrotrophic activi...

An insulated housing is described which includes a means for holding a pair of electrical connectors in parallel. The housing includes a griping means which allows a person to either insert or remove the housing from a mating electrical connection. The housing also includes a "living hinge" which, when closed, clamps on to the pair of electrical connectors to provide strain relief.

A cleaning module for cleaning sewer pipes including sewer liner, and other types of conduits. The cleaning module may comprise a single hydraulically propelled unit, wedge-shaped and selected to fit pipe size. Pipeline walls are scoured by the slurry agitation produced by hydraulic pressure jets in the module. Alternatively, the module is assembled in situ and the relative size of components is s...

The operation of a fluid-bed reactor in which the catalyst has a proclivity to stickiness deleterious to efficiently carrying out a reaction of the gaseous components fed to the reactor, is controlled by monitoring the fluctuations in temperature at various locations in the bed, and computing the standartd deviation of temperature at predetermined intervals of time. When the fluid-bed consists ess...

Substantially completely deoxidized, consolidated dispersion-strengthened copper stock of sizable cross section and particulates capable of being thus consolidated into such stock are shown. The stock exhibits ductility substantially greater than that of otherwise corresponding stock which contains about 100-500 ppm of available oxygen. Also shown is a staged powder deoxidation process using hydro...

PURPOSE:To display an easily understandable diagnostic message or the like by an optional language by previously storing the order information of characters to be padded into a message and padding the characters into the message based upon the order information to display the message based upon a required language. CONSTITUTION:A message table 1 is previously formed and stored in each message lang...

PURPOSE:To reduce personnel's fatigue without strange feeling by changing a seating face shape of a seat through controlling an actuating means by means of a control means synchronizing with timing of posture change detected by a posture change detecting means. CONSTITUTION:A seat S comprises a seat cushion 1 and a seat back 3, and is constituted so that the shape of the seating face is changeable...

A method of controlling product quality in a conversion of reactor feed to an iron carbide-containing product in a fluidized bed reactor. A Mossbauer analysis is performed on product samples leaving the fluidized bed reactor, and a regression analysis is performed on the Mossbauer data. Depending upon the results of the regression analysis, process parameters are adjusted in order to obtain a prod...

A process for controlling the conversion of reactor feed to iron carbide is disclosed. The reactor feed is subjected to a process gas in a fluidized bed reactor (10), and the off-gas from this reaction is analyzed (56) to determine its composition and the temperature (64) and pressure (66). A stability phase diagram is generated based on the temperature. Different regions of the stability phase di...

A device for purifying water originating from a drinking water grid comprises means for connecting an inlet 7 of the device to the drinking water grid and an outlet 23, 28, 29 for drawing off the drinking water which has been purified by the device. The device furthermore comprises a combination of the following components which are known per se: a first filter 11 which is arranged to be flowed th...

A film comprising alternating layers of polyvinylidene chloride resin and a solvent barrier such as polyvinyl alcohol provides superior barrier properties. Barrier and mechanical properties are enhanced when formulation additives are present at customary levels only in the outermost layers.

A new virus, Hepatitis C virus (HCV), which has proven to be the major etiologic agent of blood-borne NANBH, was discovered by Applicant. Reagents for isolating, amplifying, and detecting HCV polynucleotides are provided. These reagents are oligomers comprised of polynucleotide sequences which are capable of forming hybrid structures with HCV target polynucleotide sequences.

An extruded film article such as a bag comprises a blend of a thermoplastic polymer such as ethylene vinyl acetate and an olefinic oxide polymer such as poly (ethylene oxide), with a modifier such as liquid smoke absorbed in the blend. The modifier is transferable from the film to a receiving surface such as a food body in fluid transfer relationship with the film.

PCT No. PCT/NL91/00143 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 22, 1993 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 22, 1993 PCT Filed Jul. 31, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO92/02180 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 20, 1992.An endoscopic probe suitable for use as a TEE-probe, comprising a flexible tube having at one end a probe head which is provided with a phased array ultrasonic transducer with a number of elongated transducer elements which can be individuall...

Methods are provided for making real-time determinations of the concentration and for monitoring the structural profile of a target solute in a solution. Non-diffusion bound affinity chromatographic techniques are used to generate chromatograms having sharply defined breakthrough curves. Based on the difference between the sensed equilibrium concentration of the impurities which break through the ...

Peptide compositions are provided which bind MHC molecules of interest and inhibit T cell activation. The peptides are of 4-25 amino acid residues in length, and have a core binding region comprising, in the direction from the N- to the C- terminus, a hydrophobic L-amino acid or amino acid mimetic, a spacer sequence of 2-6 residues and a Thr or Thr mimetic. At least one residue is a D-amino acid o...

A method and an arithmetic unit for structural arithmetic processing is described. Data words are stored in several registers, each data word having a mark part and an information part. The mark part includes a mark indicating if the register in question being in use or not. The data words are arranged in lists. Each of the lists is stored in a predetermined number of the registers. The mark part ...

A method and an arithmetic unit for structural arithmetic processing is described. Data words are stored in several registers, each data word having a mark part and an information part. The mark part includes a mark indicating if the register in question being in use or not. The data words are arranged in lists. Each of the lists is stored in a predetermined number of the registers. The mark part ...

A method and an arithmetic unit for structural arithmetic processing is described. Data words are stored in several registers, each data word having a mark part and an information part. The mark part includes a mark indicating if the register in question being in use or not. The data words are arranged in lists. Each of the lists is stored in a predetermined number of the registers. The mark part ...

A method and an arithmetic unit for structural arithmetic processing is described. Data words are stored in several registers, each data word having a mark part and an information part. The mark part includes a mark indicating if the register in question being in use or not. The data words are arranged in lists. Each of the lists is stored in a predetermined number of the registers. The mark part ...