The invention relates to a window decoration/sun protection such as a horizontal slatted blind, a vertical slatted blind, a roller blind, and a pleated blind. When brought into a condition ready for use, the window decoration comprises a first face extending in horizontal direction over at least substantially the full width of the window decoration. When brought into the condition ready for use, t...

A computerized system scans an animal using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to produce digital pixel values representing internal tissue. The pixel values are coded as gray scale values representing of the density of tissue scanned. The computer system then classifies each pixel, based upon its gray scale value, as representing fat, muscle, cartilage or skeletal tissue. Once classified, the perce...

The invention relates to a method for dying ceramic surfaces, whereby a mixed phase pigment is produced in the surface layer of the ceramic mass. Said pigment consists of a colorless metal oxide which crystallizes in a spinel or rutile grating and which is used as host grating. The pigment also consists of an aqueous dying solution containing a soluble compound of a bivalent or trivalent metal ion...

A machine monitoring system comprises a data logging module (24) mounted or to be mounted on a machine (10) for logging certain operational data relating to the machine. A communication device (46) is provided for collecting the logged data from the data logging module (24). A computer (48) is provided for storing the collected data for analysis or review. The computer (48) can also be used for ca...

The present invention provides adenoviral vectors comprising cell status-specific transcriptional regulatory elements which confer cell status-specific transcriptional regulation on an adenoviral gene. A "cell status" is generally a reversible physiological and/or environmental state. The invention further provides compositions and host cells comprising the vectors, as well as methods of using the...

An antimicrobial urinary catheter (10) is disclosed in which metal rings (24) of copper, and zinc are spaced long the length of the catheter which is to be positioned in the urethra of the patient to prevent migration, and growth of infectious microbes in the urinary tract.

Combinatorial chemistry is a technique of generating large numbers of chemical compounds which are stored in libraries. The invention provides apparatus and method of storing the libraries on a variety of media, for rapid and easy access. An example of a storage medium is a tape wound on a reversible spool system. The tape has a unique address system and is able to store a very large number of che...

The present invention provides an apparatus for mechanically stabilizing tunable lasers by mechanically grounding laser components. Lasers stabilized using mechanical grounding of the laser components exhibit phase synchronous tuning, reduced mode hop and increased wavelength stability across the entire tuning range. Additionally, lasers stabilized using mechanical grounding exhibit improved resis...

PCT No. PCT/EP95/03951 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 20, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 20, 1997 PCT Filed Oct. 6, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/11152 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 18, 1996A device for assisting the manual actuation of aerosol dispensers, especially dispensers of the sort used to dispense metered doses of phamaceuticals. Dispensers to be used with the device of the invention are of known per se design and compris...

Disclosed is a bioreactor apparatus having a bed of buoyant media pellets floating within a filtrate to be processed. The apparatus includes a tank having a peripheral wall for containing filtrate and a bed of media pellets. A central manifold is rotatably supported within the tank the central manifold being mounted for rotation about a vertical axis and having a plurality of longitudinally spaced...

Two embodiments for a stent delivery catheter are disclosed. In the first embodiment, the stent delivery catheter comprises an outer sheath, a peel-away sheath, and an inner sheath. In the second embodiment, the stent delivery catheter comprises an outer sheath and an inner tubular member which distally ends in a tongue having an arcuate cross section.

Porous articles made of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene are obtained by injection moulding polyethylenes with a limiting viscosity number from 500 to 5,000 ml/g, an average grain size of 100 to 1,500 mu m and an apparent density of at least 0.35 g/cm<3>. The processing of the polymer takes place in an injection-moulding machine at 160 to 260 DEG C and an injection pressure of 80 to 150 m...

A method of operating a computer system, in particular a microcomputer having a storage device shared between several application programs, comprises a backup process including a process for maintaining a record of changes made to the data on the storage device whilst the backup process is executing. The record is used to ensure that the data seen by the backup process does not change while it is ...

The invention relates to a method consisting in measuring pollutant concentration at several points to determine the pollutant concentration field (11) in the vicinity of the inlet (5) to the neutralization or separation apparatus that eliminates said impurities from the air and displacing said inlet (5) to and inside the cloud (2) with the purpose of efficiently eliminating impurities from the at...

A chair that includes a frame and a seat disposed there above, and an upwardly protruding back support that is located in an area behind the seat. A front part of the back support has a lumbar support device that is disposed a certain level above the seat to support the lumbar spine and/or pelvis rim of the user. The seat is movable relative to the frame between the forward starting position, on t...

A chair that includes a frame and a seat disposed there above, and an upwardly protruding back support that is located in an area behind the seat. A front part of the back support has a lumbar support device that is disposed a certain level above the seat to support the lumbar spine and/or pelvis rim of the user. The seat is movable relative to the frame between the forward starting position, on t...

Communications within a computer network may be controlled by determining that conditions within a first communication channel communicatively coupling components of the computer network are becoming unacceptable for continued utilization of the communication channel and then switching communications within the computer network to a second communication channel. Interference conditions therein pre...

A hydrophobic bleaching agent comprising a peroxyacid having a carbon chain of at least 9 carbon atoms is used for reduction of the activity of micro-organisms which have a cell wall containing high levels of peptidoglycan. These include yeast and in particular gram positive bacteria.

The invention relates to a composition comprising a first component (a) which is (R)-3-N,N-dicyclobutylamino-8-fluoro-3,4-dihydro-2H-1-benzopyran-5-carboxamide hydrogen (2R,3R)-tartrate monohydrate and a second component (b) which is paroxetine in the form of its free base, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or solvate thereof, the preparation thereof, pharmaceutical formulations containing...

The apparatus comprises a traction cable (8) to be pulled and having a calibration slug (18) fixed thereon at a distance from its end that is greater than length (L) of lead pipe (3) to be extracted and anchor members (19) distributed in regularly spaced-apart groups behind slug 18; each member (19) includes a forwardly projecting anchor tooth (20) and the teeth within a given group are uniformly ...