A quadrature local coil includes a bifurcated first loop positioned on one side of the patient and sensitive to RF magnetic flux generally parallel to the surface of the loop and a second loop positioned on the other side of the patient, opposed to the first loop and sensitive to RF magnetic flux within the patient perpendicular to that to which the first loop is sensitive. In one embodiment, the ...

A longitudinal position translator includes a probe drive module and a linear translation module. The probe drive module is coupled operatively to an ultrasonic imaging probe assembly having a distally located ultrasound transducer subassembly in such a manner that longitudinal shifting of the transducer subassembly may be effected. The probe drive module is preferably mounted to the linear transl...

A superplasticizing additive for concrete and other cementitious mixes with high retention of workability (low "slump loss") and low air-entraining effect, is made by terpolymers of a) (meth)acrylic acid and its salts, b)polyethyleneglycolmonomethylether-(meth)acrylate and c) polypropyleneglycol-di(meth)acrylate.

The present invention pertains to a refractory casting slip consisting of a refractory matrix material and a finely divided reactive component, as well as a hydraulic binder and various additives, which can be discharged as a free-flowing mass upon addition of water.

A data processing system (10) which primarily supports fractional multiplication operations has a multiplication logic circuit (20) for executing integer multiplication functions efficiently. During an integer multiplication function, two multiplicands are multiplied together as if the multiplication function was fractional. A predetermined accumulation input is stored and shifted to the right by ...

An apparatus for injecting errors into a FDDI token ring network is disclosed. The error injection scheme operates by fooling a FORMAC into thinking it sent a real frame of data. This is done by using two RAM buffers. The RAM buffer normally accessed by the RBC/DPC becomes a SHADOW RAM during error injection operation. A dummy frame is loaded into the shadow RAM in order to fool the FORMAC. This d...

Disclosed is a data processing device with a test control circuit comprising a CPU, peripheral devices such as a ROM, a RAM, and the like, an address bus through which the CPU is connected to the peripheral devices, an input/output circuit as an interface circuit for controlling transfer of data input/output and an address signal between the address bus and the data bus and an external device, and...

A data processing system is provided that includes a plurality of execution units each including independent circuits for storing and executing instructions. A circuit is also included for providing instructions from a sequence of instructions to the execution units where each instruction is provided to only one of the execution units. The system includes a circuit for detecting when an instructio...

PURPOSE:To provide a method for recycling a resin component in which an operating efficiency is improved, safety of a molding operation is improved, and a recycled molded product having excellent external appearance quality and rigidity can be obtained. CONSTITUTION:A waste resin component is finely pulverized, finely pulverized waste material 14 is sealed in a fiber sheet bag 13 formed of a fiber...

PURPOSE:To execute program debugging on a real time basis for executing a program without restricting a memory space which a user uses by realizing a brake function by means of exchanging an instruction which a microprocessor reads at a special address into a brake instruction and using only a background monitor without using a foreground monitor in a debugging device for the microprocessor incorp...

Described is a plastic encapsulated electronic device having an integrated circuit unit (13), a lead frame (14) and a plastic material (15) encapsulating the IC unit (13) and portions of the leads into a sealed package. Each of the leads includes an inner portion adjacent the IC unit, an outer portion laying in a different plane than the inner portion, and a central portion interconnecting the inn...

The invention provides a method of making a flexible carrier web, comprising the steps of a) forming on a planar surface of a flexible backing a pattern consisting of at least one flat land area and at least one recess, said recess having base and walls, said recess having an average depth of at least about 5 micrometers, and b) applying to said land area a layer of a silicone, and c) crosslinking...

A method for detecting the presence of a vapor of an alkyl ester of phosphoric acid, particularly tributylphosphate, in ambient air. A sample of ambient air is heated to convert any alkyl ester of phosphoric acid to an alkene. The heated sample of air is then passed to a sample loop. Carrier air periodically carries a fixed volume of sample from the sample loop through a chromatographic column to ...

PCT No. PCT/FI94/00136 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 19, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 19, 1995 PCT Filed Apr. 12, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO94/23770 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 27, 1994An endo-osteal material which includes an endo-osteal material treated with a solution of a bisphosphonate of formula (1) wherein X is H, OH, Cl, F or a methyl group and Y is Cl, OH, -(CH2)2-N(CH3)-(CH2)4-CH3, -(CH2)n-CH3 or -(CH2)n-NH2, where...

Described are new cyclic compounds that inhibit excess bone resorption and methods for the production of said compounds. Described are also compositions containing said compounds associated with pharmaceutical suitable carriers and methods for the treatment of diseases characterized by excess bone resorption, which method comprises administering to a subject in need of such treatment a bone resorp...

A prosthetic nucleus for a vertebral disc is made of a hydrogel material. The hydrogel prosthetic nucleus has a shape generally conforming to the natural nucleus pulposus, and it exhibits diminished lateral bulging under high compressive loads. The hydrogel has a water content of from 30% to 90% and has a compressive strength of 4 MNm-2 or greater. When the hydrogel material is dehydrated, it has ...

A folding knife holder and method, whereby a folding knife can be safely carried in an elongate knife holder, comprising a housing member that has an elongate recess defined by a base surface, side surfaces and end surfaces, and sized and shaped to receive the knife in an orientation that is substantially parallel to the base surface, with the spine of the knife laying against the base. The margin...

Fermentation product A83543, comprising major components A83543A and A83543D and minor components A83543B, A83543C, A83543E, A983543F, A83543G, A83543H and A83543J, is produced by a newly described species, Saccharopolyspora spinosa. The A83543 components and their acid-addition salts (A83543 compounds) are useful as insecticides, particularly against Lepidoptera and Diptera species. Insecticidal,...

A novel class of pharmaceutically active boronated compounds are provided. The boronated compounds include boronated purine and pyrimidine bases and boronated nucleosides, as well as phosphate esters and oligomers thereof. The compounds are boronated at the ring nitrogen of the purine or pyrimidine base, or at a 2', 3' or 5' amino substituent of the nucleoside sugar.

A continuous method of bleaching an alkylpolyglycoside, substantially free of alcohol, with peroxy compounds, preferably hydrogen peroxide, which is highly efficient to provide an unexpected high degree of color reduction from a dark brown to a light, white product, from an extinction coefficient color respectively of about 10 to about 15 to about 0.025 to about 0.15. The bleaching is carried out ...