Described is a carrier system comprising a releasable adjustable fastening mechanism and a serpentine article engaged in the releasable adjustable fastening mechanism. The serpentine article is fixedly attached to itself to form a loop of strap, the strap extending in two directions from the loop.

A method for producing semiconductor or metal particles comprises the steps of: storing a semiconductor or metal melt in a crucible having a nozzle; supplying a gas comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of He, Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe into the crucible such that the pressure of the supplied gas in a space over the melt in the crucible is higher than the pressure of a gaseous phase in...

A foldable chair includes a leg assembly and a reclining back connected together by a pair of joint assemblies. Each joint assembly includes a through hole for receiving a support member of the reclining back, and a through channel for accommodating a control device that adjusts the reclining angle. The control device comprises a spring member and an adjustment block to be engaged and disengaged w...

In order to provide an active matrix display device in which a thick insulating film is preferably formed around an organic semiconductive film of a thin film luminescent device without damaging the thin film luminescent device, the active matrix display device is provided with a bank layer (bank) along a data line (sig) and a scanning line (gate) to suppress formation of parasitic capacitance in ...

A drug delivery device can, in whole or in part, be formed by co-extruding a drug core and an outer tube. The outer tube may be permeable, semi-permeable, or impermeable to the drug. The drug core may include a polymer matrix which does not significantly affect the release rate of the drug. The outer tube, the polymer matrix of the drug core, or both may be bioerodible. The co-extruded product can...

The invention relates to compositions, kits, and methods for diagnosing, staging, prognosing, monitoring and treating human prostate cancers. A variety of marker genes are provided, wherein changes in the levels of expression of one or more of the marker genes is correlated with the presence of prostate cancer.

The invention provides a molecular taxonomy of lung carcinoma, the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and worldwide. Oligonucleotide microarrays were used to analyze mRNA expression levels corresponding to 12,600 transcript sequences in 186 lung tumor samples, including 139 adenocarcinomas resected from the lung. Hierarchical and probabilistic clustering of expression data defined ...

A robotic apparatus for traversing a selected area autonomously that senses orientation relative to the Earth's magnetic field. The robotic apparatus is provided in two models, a master that can record directive and compass readings to provide at least one command recorded on a machine-readable medium representing an instruction for traversing an area of interest, and a slave that lacks the record...

A mobile computing device has a touch sensitive display screen for displaying an image including a pictorial representation of a location. A user supplies a request to the device for information relating to parts of the location shown in the pictorial representation. A GPS system and compass in the device produce data relating to the current position and current orientation of the device. A contro...

A scheduling system and method for moving plural objects through a multipath system described as a freight railway scheduling system. The scheduling system utilizes a cost reactive resource scheduler to minimize resource exception while at the same time minimizing the global costs associated with the solution. The achievable movement plan can be used to assist in the control of, or to automaticall...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sewage sterilization system which can sterilize overflow water in a combined sewerage to bring it into the range of the effluent standard and hardly influences the ecosystem of a receiving water area.

SOLUTION: In the combined sewerage which discharges sewage into the receiving water area with a discharge pump in a pump place, ozone is injected to the upst...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a thin oriented polyester film excellent in impact resistance, slip properties, transparency, dimensional stability and adhesiveness.

SOLUTION: A coating layer is provided on at least one surface of a substrate film comprising a polyester and the coated film is stretched at least unidirectionally to obtain the oriented polyester film. The coating layer contai...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a useful film having a low ultraviolet transmittance and an excellent color tone with a slight yellowish tint, hardly causing visual interference nonuniformity when used as an optical film, for example, and excellent in adhesion to a hardcoat layer.

SOLUTION: The polyester film for display has a coating layer on at least one surface of a polyester film suppo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensive sintered sprocket having high strength and excellent wear resistance and also to provide its manufacturing method.

SOLUTION: Strength and wear resistance can be improved by providing the sintered sprocket in which: at least the surface layer of a tooth surface contains 0.6 to 1.2mass% carbon and 0.05 to 0.5mass% nitrogen; the surface layer of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a polylactic acid filament nonwoven fabric which can efficiently be produced from fibers having good productivity and openability, scarcely shrunk and the like, when subjected to a thermal adhesion treatment, can thermally, stably and easily be processed, and has a heat-sealing property.

SOLUTION: This polylactic acid filament nonwoven fabric produced by a s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display device capable of suppressing the generation of an after-image immediately after stopping the application of driving voltage to liquid crystal (LC).

SOLUTION: The liquid crystal display device is provided with an LC layer, pixel electrodes for applying voltage to the LC layer in each of pixels arranged like a matrix, a counter electr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively determine a common object from a plurality of domains without depending on individual domains (areas of activity); to update the common object by repeating the cycle of determining the common object.

SOLUTION: A process is extracted for each target domain, based on the purpose of activity, and component nouns are extracted from data items used or produce...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a control accuracy in performing a preset control using a control model with respect to a control object whose control target specifications or conditions of control object change.

SOLUTION: A controller is provided with a first preset means which calculates an operation amount instruction value corresponding to a control amount target value using the contro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inexpensively provide a casing with a cover body having high durability, and attaining sure switch operation.

SOLUTION: A structure is constituted by rotatably installing a cover body part 14 on a casing body 13 provided with opening parts 11 and 12, and is provided with a recessed lock part 40 lockable on the opening part side of the casing body 13 in a cover closi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor recording medium in which the lifetime of recorded data, that is, a reproducible effective time, can be set freely and which can be used repeatedly, and its control method.

SOLUTION: This memory 1 is provided with a battery 10, a timer 11, a data control section 12, an address control section 13, data storing areas 14, 15, 16, 17, and a bondi...