A method and apparatus are described for determining characteristics of peripheral arterial volume and compliance. A blood pressure cuff (10) is inflated and deflated around a limb of the body and pressure measurements are taken. The volume of air removed from the cuff is determined in a quantifiable manner, such as by expelling air through an orifice of known characteristics or by means of a volu...

2.1 It is intended to achieve a high quality of the motion vectors with little computing effort. In this connection, it is intended to access as rapidly as possible those image blocks which exhibit movement and are particularly suitable for determining accurate motion vectors. In addition, it is intended to specify a comparison method which allows a particularly rapid and accurate determination of...

A coded data stream with end-of-block (EOB) words is divided into groups each having n EOB words so that loss of an EOB word can be determined at the receiver. When such loss is determined, EOB word(s) is or are inserted locally at the receiver to prevent shift of correctly decoded blocks relative to their true position in the image to be reconstructed.

A process for setting a retrieval window used for finding an object surely and quickly by an image processing equipment. Using a reference point G as a center, which is located in a group of sampled detection points Pi, the coordinates of the points Pi are determined in succession anticlockwise. In this order, stored are the coordinates data Qi of the points Pi in a file (S1-S9), and the coordinat...

This invention is directed to an efficient, mild, high yield process for the large scale synthesis of N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-retinamide comprising the preferred steps of reacting retinoic acid with dimethylchloroformamidinium chloride to from retinoyl chloride which in turn is reacted with bis-(N,O)-trimethylsilyl-p-aminophenol to eventually form N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-retinamide and to the novel use of...

A transformer assembly, particularly for data and audio signals, has first and second bobbins which are telescoped within one another. An assembly cap is fitted around the bobbins and includes flanges for locating a core. The bobbins and the cap are designed such that creepage and clearance requirements are met. The core is preformed or comprises laminations formed as E's and I's, which are then f...

PURPOSE:To confirm a crushing condition even during transmission by providing a display means to display a fault picture during the transmission together with a fault picture for crushing before the transmission of an impulse wave for crushing based on fault picture data which are obtained from the collecting means of the data. CONSTITUTION:A treatment device has a display part 10 to display the c...

PURPOSE:To secure such a coaxial two wheeler that is travelable in a stable state by tilting a control arm in the reverse direction where a car body is tilted, and making it so as to give a restoring moment to the car body. CONSTITUTION:A pair of wheels 2, 3 are attached to both ends of an axle 1 and, in turn, a square frame-form car body 4 is tiltably supported on this axle 1. A fulcrum shaft 5 i...

PURPOSE:To provide the efficient HMM generating method which generates HMM having optimum network structure for protein array data. CONSTITUTION:The state number of HMM to be found for the protein array data is denoted as N (11) as initialization. The network structure of the initial HMM is set to all-coupled HMM whose state is about 3-5 (12). A specified trial frequency CNTMAX and an initial para...

PCT No. PCT/DE92/00153 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 27, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 27, 1992 PCT Filed Feb. 25, 1992 PCT Pub. No. WO92/15217 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 17, 1992.In the case of an umbrella, in particular a large umbrella, garden umbrella, stand umbrella and the like, having an umbrella pole (2), a pole part (3) which is displaceable telescopically with the umbrella pole (2) and on which roof rods (5) ...

A vehicle lamp which includes a reflection mirror, a front lens, and a light source arranged between the reflection mirror and the front lens. The central axis of the light source is perpendicular to the principal optical axis of the reflection mirror. On the reflection mirror, there is formed a reflection surface composed of a large number of reflection steps which are defined by portions of para...

A laundry washing machine in which a suitable level of water is automatically determined for any particular load size. The machine is operated to first determine an initial estimation of the clothes load and to then fill to a water level suitable to the initial load estimation. The machine is then operated in such a way to check if the estimated water level is actually sufficient for the clothes l...

The apparatus of the present invention significantly improves the optical intensity induced damage limit of optical quality crystals, and in particular crystals used in the conversion of laser radiation at a specific wavelength to another wavelength or other wavelengths through non-linear interaction of the input laser radiation with the optical crystal medium. In accordance with the present inven...

A capacitive sensor for detecting the amount of residual ink remaining within an ink container of an ink jet cartridge by measuring the capacitance of the air dielectric between the ink bag and the ink cartridge.

A method of preventing the deterioration of concrete, mortar, or polymeric material, in which nickel, nickel oxide, Raney nickel, stabilized nickel, tin, tin oxide, cobalt oxide, stainless steel, or a metal comprising a mixture of these metals is contained in said concrete, mortar, or polymeric material. Concrete, mortar, or polymeric material that is particularly used for sewage disposal faciliti...

An image motion-compensation device for a charge coupled device (CCD) sensor of, for example, the frame, frame-interline, or interline transfer type has means (32) for generating control signals to move charge (38) over the imaging area (29) of the CCD during the accumulation period so that at the end of the period the accumulated charge (38) is transferred into the CCD's sensor storage area, wher...

The invention relates to a method for fixing toxic or nontoxic waste material, in which method the waste material is allowed to absorb into an organic absorbent, the waste material-containing absorbent thus obtained is treated with an occluding agent and the resulting product is mixed with a hydraulic binder and a hardening activator in order to form a cement matrix. The occluding agent used in pr...

The present invention relates to a three-pole plug of which the junction sleeve and the terminal holder are not individually and separately injection molded but are integrally formed into one piece at the very beginning. The sleeve has three bottom holes formed on its bottom surface, and the terminal holder has three slide grooves formed on its one side, communicable with the sleeve via the three ...

The invention is directed to a case for storing small appliances for personal use. The case (2) is comprised of a supporting structure (4) having at least two sections (8, 10) jointed to each other by a deflecting means (6). Provided on either section (8, 10) is at least one retaining means (12, 14) receiving an appliance and an accessory. Related to the deflecting means, the retaining means (12, ...

A surgical cement of high biocompatibility, useful in orthopedic, maxillofacial and dental applications, comprising a calcium alkali phosphate cement with relatively high surface pH of about 7 or higher, and having a wide variety of chemical compositions, permitting flexibility in controlling the bioresorption rate by changing the chemical composition of the cementing powder.