The present invention provides a rapid and sensitive method for assaying nucleic acids by means of hybridization techniques, wherein the detector probes are modified primers being incorporated into copies of the target nucleic acid before the hybridization reaction and a reagent combination as well as a kit therefor. The invention also provides a method for assaying nucleic acids by means of hybri...

The present invention provides a microwave heating sterilizer provided with a mechanism for turning over a retainer made from a material being permeable to microwave and which contains a "material to be sterilized" in a cavity irradiated with microwave therein supporting shafts extend from positions determined at point symmetry with respect to the center of the retainer on the opposite ends thereo...

Apart from the main control unit (7,9) with its levers (14), the double command mechanism also has a further control mechanism (10) with regulating levers (14). It is arranged in a plane which is not parallel to the main plane of the command mechanism.

Collapsible perambulator chassis 1 for a child's car seat 2, which has an operating handle 3 and two pairs of mutually intersecting cross tubes 5 which are pivotably connected at the point of intersection and are provided with wheels 4. The chassis 1 has an essentially horizontal frame 8 which supports the child's car seat 2 and tightly encloses the outer side of the latter, the front section of t...

Individual console plates (14) are connectable to the corresp. pivot arms (2) via a screw or bolt union (17), the positioning of which is selectable at a number of positioning points along the arms, in the form of holes (20). The beam (7) is fastened eccentrically to the console components in relation to its end part applicable against the arm (2). By turning the beam to forward or rear positions,...

Filler material is prepd. as follows: (a) the H2O-content of a plant fibre (I) slurry is adjusted until the slurry is shredable; (b) the fibre size of the slurry is reduced; (c) the physical props. of the slurry are adjusted to predetermined standards; (d) the slurry is agglomerated by growth agitation procedures into granules which mimic the appearance of naturally occurring clay; and (e) the gra...

To improve the ice-breaking properties when sailing ahead and astern, the hull (10) of a ship with the maximum width of the ice-breaking water line formed in the fore-body and with devices for trimming and ballasting in the stern area (12) is designed so as to be widened in its part above the ice-breaking water line (1) to such an extent that, if the after-body (12) sinks due to trimming or ballas...