A circuit for determining the length of an instruction including apparatus for providing a sequence of instruction bytes greater than a single instruction length, rotator apparatus for selecting a sequential number of instruction bytes for decoding commencing at a byte which begins a first instruction, control apparatus for operating the rotator, and apparatus responsive to a decoded length value ...

A skate structure with longitudinally aligned wheels includes an inverted U-shaped frame, in the flanges of which there engage the ends of pivot pins for the wheels. The upper surface of the frame is provided with straps for the removable fixing of an article of footwear. The rear portion of the skate structure has an arm connected by a hinge. The upper element of the arm is provided with an eleme...

An apparatus (10) for draining fluids, for example, from a chest or pleural cavity, includes a collection chamber (12) for collecting fluids through an inlet port (36) for entry of the fluids. Also included is a dry or waterless suction control chamber (16) in fluid communication with the collection chamber (12) for regulating the degree of vacuum imposed in the collection chamber. If desired, a s...

The invention relates to an acetabular cup for insertion in osseous tissue, with an external metal cup (1) and an internal sliding cup (2), the sliding cup (2) being fixed in the metal cup (1) with the aid of a conical clamp. In order to protect the acetabular insert and the sliding cup (2) against twisting and falling out, in a manner such that they can nevertheless be pressed out of their seats ...

An apparatus and method for guiding a surgical instrument within and around the human body. During surgery on the body it is often necessary to approach a specific anatomical location precisely and directly in order to minimize unwanted surgical trauma and to place a soft tissue incision or a bone drill hole in an accurate location. The invention employs a light emitter an array of light sensors a...

The present invention relates a number of different lysine containing peptides which can be administered to a mammal to normalize cardiac pressure for treatment of heart disease conditions such as myocardial ischemia. These peptides include certain known peptides, some of which are capable of liberating growth hormone to various degrees when administered to a mammal. Other peptides useful in the i...

In order to increase the resolution of signals input to a power amplifier, this system includes a power control circuit which utilizes sigma delta modulated values which are stored in a memory device. These values, after retrieval from an addressable memory, are supplied only to a low pass filter before being sent to the control input of the power amplifier. The use of sigma delta modulated values...

The invention relates to rationally designed peptides and to the production and use thereof for biotechnological, medical, diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The method for generating peptides that are suitable for bonding auto-antibodies is characterized by the following: identification of a seed peptide with the suitable activity, production of a small number of peptide variants from the physi...

The invention relates to a laid-yarn fabric serving as a reinforcement material in the manufacture of fibre composites, and comprising a connecting thread system and reinforcement threads (2) inserted into said thread system. The laid-yarn fabric forms a transversely elastic tube-like means (1) which is arranged to be passed over a core in order to form or to be comprised in said fibre composite. ...

A system, device, and method allowing a host device to communicate with, and initialize, an uninitialized peripheral device includes, on the peripheral device, logic for storing a separate mask corresponding to each of a plurality of memory locations, and logic, responsive to a request for reading a memory location, for outputting a bit-wise exclusive-OR of data stored in the memory location and t...

A process for making an aromatic glycidyl ether epoxy compound by contacting an allyl ether made from the hydroxy moiety of a hydroxy-containing aromatic compound with an inorganic or organic hydroperoxide oxidant in the presence of a transition metal complex catalyst, wherein at least (a) the allyl ether is conformationally restricted or (b) the transition metal complex catalyst contains at least...

A wedge-shaped prosthetic spinal disc nucleus including a hydrogel core surrounded by a constraining jacket. The hydrogel core is preshaped to form the wedge shape in a hydrated state. The constraining jacket is flexible, but substantially inelastic and is configured to prevent the hydrogel core from conforming to an anulus upon hydration. The prosthetic spinal disc nucleus corresponds generally t...

FIELD: sugar industry. SUBSTANCE: described is method of treating crystalline saccharolose which comprises treating crystalline material in fluidized bed with addition of water at 20-50 wt % of material for treatment period of not more than 4 hours and subsequently drying crystalline material while it is made fluidized, fluidization being attained by ascending stream of carrier gas, and method is ...

Novel carbapenem compounds, (1R,5S,6S)-2-[1-(1,3-thiazolin-2-yl)azetidin-3-yl]thio-6-[(R)-1-hydrox yethyl]-1-methyl-carbapen- 2-em-3-carboxyic acid derivatives. These carbapenem compounds are represented by the following formula having a beta-coordinated methyl group introduced at the 1-position and a [1-(1,3-thiazolin-2-yl)azetidin-3-yl]thio group introduced at the 2-position. In the form...

This invention provides a process for preparing gemcitabine hydrochloride which comprises deblocking beta -1-(2'-deoxy-2',2'-difluoro-3',5'-di-O-benzoyl-D-ribofuranosyl)-4-amin opyrimidin-2-one with a catalytic amount of an alkylamine in the presence of methanol or ethanol in an environment essentially free of water; treating the resulting solution with hydrochloric acid and an antisolvent; and r...

A method for the detection of an analyte of interest in a sample, which method comprises the steps of: (1) forming a composition comprising (a) a sample, (b) at least one substance selected from the group consisting of (i) added analyte of interest or an analog of the analyte of interest, (ii) a binding partner of the analyte of interest or its said analog, and (iii) a reactive component capable o...

An image/audio reproducing apparatus for decording/reproucing coded data in which digitally compressed/coded image and audio data are multiplexed, which includes a data storage unit for storing coded data; a BS memory for temporarily storing the coded data read out from the data storage unit; image and audio data area lookup tables for storing address informations of data strings respectively havi...

The present invention relates to compounds of the formula 1and to pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1-R7 are as defined herein. The compounds of formula 1 are useful as antibiotic agents. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating bacterial infection using such compounds, and to methods of making the compounds of formula 1.

The present invention relates to a method of labelling nucleic acid using oligonucleotide-peptide conjugates to hybridise to nucleic acid. The invention also relates to methods of production of oligonucleotide-peptide conjugates, and to nucleotide intermediates used in the generation of these conjugates that posses mercaptoethyl groups protected by tert-butylthio groups. These intermediates can fo...

8-phenylxanthine derivatives of formula (I), wherein R<1>, R<2> and R<3> each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl or alkylcarbamoyl group or an alkyl group which may be unsubstituted or substituted, or a benzyl or phenyl group which may be unsubstituted or substituted either R<4> and R<5> together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a 3 to ...