A collapsible animal decoy is disclosed wherein a cover is disposed over a frame having a plurality of struts pivotally attached to an opening mechanism slidably disposed on an elongated shaft, forming an animal shape having a body, neck and head portion. The opening mechanism has an open position and a closed position. In the open position, the opening mechanism is positioned at the top end of th...

A method, system, and computer program product for creating audience-specifi c views of documents (including e-mail messages; text-based documents; documents or messages containing multiple media such as text, images, sound tiles; etc.). A document (or message) author may designate selected sections of a document, and assigns properties to these sections. These properties include which recipients ...

A wire unrolling apparatus comprising a frame arranged to be attached to a vehicle for pulling, a shaft on the frame having an axis, a plurality o f discs on the shaft for engaging the ground, more than once of the said discs are arranged such that a spool of wire be located on the shaft and supported by the discs, a spring arrangement coaxially located on the shaft for creating tension on the sp...

An absorbent garment comprises a front waist region, a back waist region, a crotch region, a pair of spaced apart leg openings and a fastening region intermediate the crotch region and the front region. Elasticized band members having end portions extend angularly from the back waist region toward the fastening region, with said end portions engaging one another and onto the fastening region for m...

The subject invention is aimed at providing a sole pad unit with the effects of supporting the metatarsal bone and airing and massaging the center of the sole of foot, comprising mainly of a massage block, roughly in an "L" shape, located on the sole pad unit to correspond to the depressive part on the sole of foot, providing proper stimulation to the depressed part on the sole of foot, complying ...

A method for fabricating adherent, patterned carbon nanotube films is provided. According to the invention, a substrate is patterned with a carbide-forming material, a carbon-dissolving material, or a low melting point metal. Carbon nanotubes are then deposited onto the patterned substrate, but have relatively poor adhesion to either the substrate material or the patterned material. The substrate ...

An inherently, and massively parallel data processing system and methodology is disclosed for evolving relative awareness, and related response states in a computerized environment. Any number of disparate data types can be configured with the goal of evolving complex data patterns involving these data forms across relative ti me and space. New data processing principles and a methodology are pro...

L'invention vise une pièce à base d'un ou plusieurs hydrures métalliques capables d'absorber l'hydrogène de façon réversible. Cette pièce se présente sous la forme d'un ruban mince et dense, d'épaisseur de préférence égale ou inférieure à 1 mm et de porosité de préférence inférieur e à 20%. La pièce est obtenue par laminage d'une poudre du ou des hydrures choisis, avec ou sans composante(s) additi...

A process for the esterification of a triglyceride. The process comprises forming a single phase solution of said triglyceride in an alcohol selected from methanol and ethanol, the ratio of alcohol to triglyceride bei ng 15:1 to 35:1. The solution further comprises a co-solvent in an amount to effect formation the single phase and a base catalyst for the esterification reaction. After a period of ...

The said platform, comprising a chassis (1) on which the axles (2, 3) are articulated, the said device comprising at least one first jack (6) articulated between the front axle (2) and the chassis (1) and at least one second jack (7) articulated between the rear axle (3) and the chassis (1), the two packs being connected in parallel to the same control circuit (12), the jacks being of the double-a...

The object of the present invention is to make possible the realization of high security by generating a multi-stage encryption key in using fingerprint data and a comparison program. At the transmitter, a first encryption key is generated according t o a correlation determination between fingerprint images from a fingerprint scanner 111 and initially registered fingerprint data, thereby encryptin...

A system for identifying the location of an individual at a transmission source who has initiated a message relating to an emergency. The system includes means for determining the specific location of the message initiator.