A photocoagulation apparatus (20) is adapted for attachment to an ophthalmic slit lamp (30), the apparatus comprising at least one laser source (1) arranged to direct treatment laser light to the eye (31) of a patient via a beam splitter (11) mounted in a head part of the apparatus which is adapted to be located between the microscope (15) of a slit lamp and the eye of a patient, whereby in use of...

A microprocessor (50) includes a main central processing unit (CPU) (70) and a separate direct memory access (DMA) CPU (72) in a single integrated circuit making up the microprocessor (50). The main CPU (70) has a first 16 deep push down tack (74), which has a to item register (76) and a next item register (78), respectively connected to provide inputs to an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) (80) by lin...

A composition comprising an emulsion of an oil phase and a water phase, wherein the emulsion comprises an emulsifier of the formula: wherein: R represents C1-C40 alkyl, C1-C40 alkenyl, alkylaryl where the alkyl portion is C1-C40 alkyl, aryl, C3-C7 cycloalkyl, or R1-O-R2 where R1 and R2 independently represent C1-C22 alkyl, C1-C22 alkenyl, alkylaryl where the alkyl portion is C1-C22 alkyl, ...

A multilayer structure comprising a layer of film susceptible to melting when used in conjunction with a microwave susceptor, a layer of microwave susceptor material, and a layer formed from a crosslinked melt extrudable material does not melt when used in a microwave oven.

The invention provide compounds having the formula: in which R1 is iso-propyl or sec-butyl; R2 is methoxy, hydroxy or loweralkanoyloxy; and R3 is hydrogen; lower alkanoyl; alpha -L-oleandrosyl; 4 min -(lower alkanoyl)- alpha -L- oleandrosyl; 4 min -( alpha -L- oleandrosyl)- alpha -L-oleandrosyl or 4Rx-(lower alkanoyl)-4 min -( alpha -L- oleandrosyl)- alpha -L- oleandrosyl. These compounds ...

The thiolic salts of erythromycin and of the propionic ester of erythromycin with thenoyl alpha-mercaptopropionylglicine find therapeutical use in the cases in which erythromycin or its propionic ester are used and are generally endowed with very low toxicity and high hematic levels.

Moving bed reactor provided with conical catalyst bed supporting means, which are in communication with vertical channels below the cone(s) and provided with screen walls for the removal of reactor effluent, wherein for increasing the sieve area the channels are ring shaped, both walls having a screen area and/or are provided with intermediate double-walled partitions bearing screen sections in ea...

Organic amide compounds of the formula wherein R1-CO is a residue of a carboxylic acid with the proviso that the carboxylic acid is not a natural fatty acid normally bound to nitrogen of nitrogenous lipids, R2 is a hydrogen atom, a C1-7 alkyl group, or a C4-7 cycloalkyl group, and R3-N is a residue of a nitrogenous lipid. The compounds are useful in increasing or stimulating the in vivo ...

1. Polyether ionophore corresponding to the formula : see diagramm : EP0179751,P13,F1 in anhydrous or hydrated form and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.

Stable salts of S-adenosyl-L-methionine with water-soluble polyanions, such as polyphosphates, polyvinylsulfonates -sulfates or -phosphates, polyacrylates, polystyrene sulfonates, are described. The salts according to the invention, prepared by precipitation from aqueous solutions of pH not exceeding 3.5, possess peculiar stability, solubility, nonhygroscopicity and are valuable for use as active ...

The invention relates to a lipid A analog/immunogenic carrier conjugates and the use thereof as vaccines for the prophylaxis of septic shock in animals.

PCT No. PCT/SE90/00475 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 27, 1991 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 27, 1991 PCT Filed Jul. 3, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO91/00720 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 24, 1991.A method for imparting varying degrees of elasticity in different areas of a resilient material for disposable absorbent articles includes providing an elastic material and removing material from areas of the elastic material which are to be g...

The present invention relates to an absorbent disposable article, such as a diaper or incontinence guard, comprising an inner, permeable enveloping layer (3) which on usage of the article, lies closest to the user's body, an outer impermeable enveloping layer (4) and an absorbent body (2) placed between the enveloping layers. According to the invention, elastic threads (6, 7) are placed in a mater...

A thermal insulating and/or sound absorbing structure comprising a batting of resilient, elongatable, nonlinear, nonflammable carbonaceous fibers, said fibers having a reversible deflection ratio of greater than 1.2:1, an aspect ratio greater than 10:1 and an LOI value greater than 40.

An article of manufacture is disclosed for absorbing liquids particularly body fluids such as urine. An absorbent core is encased in an outer covering layer to which flaps are connected along the longitudinal sides. The flaps are elasticized and have a leakage resistant portion which is non-wicking, non-absorbent and liquid impermeable.

A sanitary napkin. The sanitary napkin comprises a central absorbent pad and flaps extending from each longitudinal edge of the central absorbent pad. The body of each flap contains a flexible axis about which the flap can fold on itself. The sanitary napkin preferentially bends at the line of juncture between each flap and the longitudinal edge of the central absorbent pad. When the sanitary napk...

An improved absorbent padding for containment of fluids such as body fluids, comprising a nonwoven isotropic array of support fibers and of nonthermoplastic superabsorbent fibers, formed into a highly absorbent batt. In a preferred embodiment, a fluid-permeable top sheet is applied to one face of the absorbent batt, and a fluid impervious back sheet is applied to the opposite face. The product is ...

An absorbent pad for use with an ostomy appliance or similar apparatus connected to a stoma extending through the skin of a patient, is formed of a flexible laminate with a liquid-permeable inner layer facing toward the patient's skin, an intermediate layer of absorbent material, and a liquid-impermeable outer layer. The layers are sealed together, and the laminate has a central opening for fittin...

Folding curtain screen structure for a triangular window consisting of an upper bar (1) installed in a fixed manner along the oblique upper edge and a movable lower bar (2) linked at one end to one end of the upper bar (1)with screening material (3a, 3b, 3') folded in a zigzag form between them, pulling cords being present which run through at least two rows of openings (8,9,7,6) in the screening ...

The feature of this process is that: (1) the sequence on which the base to be identified is located is made hybrid with a nucleotide of adequate length; (2) the synthesis of the complementary strand of the hybrid obtained in (1) is started, said nucleotide acting as a trigger, in the presence of: a polymerase without 3'5' exonucleasis action; and at least one modified nucleotide base; (3) the inco...