The invention relates to a method for detecting the passage by a vehicle of a determined point for monitoring on a road, wherein from a remotely situated location a radar beam is transmitted continuously to the point for monitoring, reflections from the transmitted radar beam are received at the remotely situated location, and it is determined from the received reflections that the vehicle is pass...

Prepare a multimodal thermoplastic polymer foam having a distribution of large and small cells in a substantial absence of water by using a blowing agent stabilizer. Multimodal foams of the present invention have blowing agent stabilizer predominantly located proximate to large cells. The resulting multimodal foams have particular utility as thermal insulating materials.

The present invention relates to DNA sequences that encode for the branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase complex of an organism belonging to the genus Streptomyces and to polypeptides produced by the expression of such sequences. It also relates to methods of enhancing the production of natural avermectin and of producing avermectin through fermentation.

Methods are provided for the optimization of the utilization of crustaceans, e.g., lobsters and crabs, especially through the use of underutilized components thereof. The methods include separating the intact shell of hard-shelled crustaceans from the raw edible meat contained therein which is very strongly attached to the shells. The methods each include the first step of initiating the detachmen...

A hardware device for executing conditional instructions out-of-order and the execution method. An architecture is provided, enabling the hardware device such as a processor supporting the conditional instruction and a computer system to execute the instruction out-of-order. To this end, a conditional execution buffer is provided, and a register of a destination operand of the conditional instruct...

A method and system in which a vehicle carries an on-board positioning system and has access to a database of information pertaining to a plurality of fixed paths. A vector between the position of the fixed path and a position of the vehicle as reported by the positioning system is calculated prior to arriving at a point of divergence (i.e., a point at which a path branches, such as a switch on a ...

Method for preparing a silicate-based foam by mixing the silicate anti a pressurized carrier gas, characterized in that an accelerator, which causes the silicate to harden by chemical reaction, is added to the silicate. The accelerator can be selected from acids and acid-forming substances. While retaining the good properties and possible applications of the foam prepared in accordance with the pr...

The invention describes improved mortar compositions that can reach compressive strength values up to six times more than the obtained ones by conventional mortars at the first hours of setting, as well as up to three times more at 28 days of setting. Cementitious materials, such as Portland cement and clinker of Portland cement were refined in a high energy mill until reaching the greater finenes...

The invention is directed in part to an article that includes a polymer foam having a surface with surface microstructures(14), the surface microstructures have at least one extent or dimension of about 10 microns or more, preferably 50 microns or more. A maximum extent (unless it is a continuous rib-like structure) the microstructure is about 300 microns or less, preferably 200 microns or less, a...

Methods and compositions for wellbore treating fluids, especially cementitio us compositions that include interground cement clinker and zeolite, with and without gypsum.

A method and device for applying sheet material, such as wallpaper, to a substrate. The applicator (10) is bi-positionable, having a first position where the sheet material is spaced apart from the substrate and a second position where the sheet material contact the substrate. Additionally or alternatively, the applicator may be provided with a control bar (15). In the first position, the control ...

A motor driven transporting carriage (13) moves along guides (12,14) and has clamps to hold the leading end of the film strip (5) or the grid-like residue (10) of a film strip. A pair of powered transporting rolls (29,30) is positioned close to an inlet into a shredder (3) for film recovery. The carriage (13) may be moved by either: a) a motor (21) mounted on the carriage which drives cogs engagi...

The invention relates to a polymeric gel and various articles of manufacture such as a cushion liner, a cushion locking liner, an open-ended cushion knee or elbow sleeve, and a cushion flat sheet, all useful for increasing the comfort of the wearer. Also described are sleeve members and liners for enclosing an amputation stump. The polymeric gel composition preferably comprises a block copolymer a...

A flotation separator for the separation of a dispersed liquid phase and/or suspended solid materials from a continuous liquid phase containing free gas including; an open or closed vessel ( 1 ) which is completely or partially liquid filled, is equipped with one or several inlet nozzles ( 2 ) feeding the inflowing mixture through one or several distribution chambers ( 13 ) toward one or several s...

The present invention relates to a wired/wireless broadcasting distribution apparatus having a home broadcasting distribution function and a broadcasting channel formation/termination method using the same. A wired/wireless broadcasting distribution apparatus according the present invention receives HD-grade multi-channel ground wave/satellite/cable broadcasting signals, and converts the received ...

A sound reproducing apparatus and a sound reproducing method. The sound reproducing apparatus includes an actual listening environment feature function database where an actual listening space feature function is stored for correcting the virtual source in response to a feature of an actual listening space provided at the time of listening; and an actual listening space feature correcting unit of ...

A display device including a liquid crystal display unit and a controller displays an image using a liquid crystal. The controller extracts a compensation data from a gray compensation look-up table (LUT) corresponding to a temperature interval including a peripheral temperature of the display device to output the compensation data to the liquid crystal display unit as a compensated gray data. Whe...

A wireless communication terminal and its method for producing a moving picture by using still images are disclosed. The wireless communication terminal includes: a controller for controlling the wireless communication terminal; a camera module for obtaining still image; a storage for storing the obtained still image and a moving picture generated by using the obtained still image; an input unit f...