A new virus, Hepatitis C virus (HCV), which has proven to be the major etiologic agent of blood-borne NANBH, was discovered by Applicant. Reagents for isolating, amplifying, and detecting HCV polynucleotides are provided. These reagents are oligomers comprised of polynucleotide sequences which are capable of forming hybrid structures with HCV target polynucleotide sequences.

The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for monitoring neuromuscular blockage, and more specifically contemplates the quantitative measurement of movement of the skin of a patient overlying an electrically simulated skeletal muscle as an indicia of such blockage. The preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention includes a piezoelectric film affixed over the patient...

A combination razor handle and blade dispenser cover are provided, the razor handle assembly (10) comprising a grip portion formed of a pair of shells (14, 16) mounted on opposite sides of a substantially flat planar body member (12). The pair of shells (14, 16) extend downwardly at an angle beyond one end of the planar body member (12) and form a housing containing operative structure responsive ...

A variable number of parity bits or error correction code per word is used to increase error detection for words having the extra parity bits in a control store. Since some words do not utilize all the architected space available for words, extra parity bits are generated at development time for such words and stored with the words. A decoder 10 identifies the location and number of parity bits. P...

Compositions of MgO-B2O3-SiO2 system glass-ceramics and compositions of such glass-ceramic and fillers, are suitable for use in the fabrication of multi-layered, co-fired, ceramic-on-metal circuit boards, in which the co-fired, multi- layered ceramic exhibits desirable electrical properties and a temperature coefficient of expansion which closely matches that of its co-fired metal base, although t...

A hip socket which can be fitted without cement consists of a metallic outer shell (1) and a metallic inner shell (2). A threaded journal (3) made of plastic is screwed from the inside to the pole of the outer shell (1) and has a mushroom-shaped head (4) facing the inner shell. The outer edge of this mushroom (4) is elastic and engages as a snap connection with a press fit in a conically undercut ...

A microprocessor having three kinds of bus cycle mode including a read cycle, a write cycle and an instruction fetch cycle, comprises a register having three bits corresponding to the read cycle, the write cycle and the instruction fetch cycle, respectively. A combinational circuit is connected to receive a code set in the register and coded information indicating the kind of bus cycle mode. An ou...

This disclosure describes an efficient method of moving data from one location in memory to another without caching the data. This includes data transfers from one main storage location to another, transfers between main and expanded storage, and transfers from one expanded storage location to another.

A floating point processor including a first plurality of registers, each of the registers of the first plurality of registers containing a number of bit positions at least sufficient to store one single precision number, the registers of the first plurality of registers being addressable in storing single precision numbers by sequentially numbered addresses and being addressable in storing double...

A computer system includes a data cache with two buffers. An S_Buffer is used for prefetching data which has relatively strong temporal locality of reference properties and relatively weak spatial locality of reference properties while a P_Buffer is used for prefetching reference data which has relatively weak temporal locality of reference properties and relatively strong spatial locality of refe...

This microcomputer provided with test mode switching function comprises execution controller (10) to control the operation of the operation unit (30) using microprogram, bus controller (40) connected via an internal bus (39) to the operation unit (30) and the execution controller (10) and test mode controller (20) to control the switching to test mode. The execution controller (10) has micro addre...

A digital limit checking system determines whether a multiple-bit input operand is at least equal to or less than a multiple-bit boundary value. The system includes a first and second multiple-bit buses, a first memory coupled to the first bus for receiving and storing the multiple-bit boundary value, and a second memory coupled to the second bus for receiving and storing the multiple-bit input op...

The invention relates to a pliable container for accommodating computer disks, which can be produced by folding a substantially rectangular blank which is subdivided successively transversely to its longitudinal extent by means of mutually parallel fold edges in such a way that an outer pocket and an inner pocket are folded in in a zigzag manner and the inner pocket can be subdivided into accommod...

A composite material useful for controlled generation of heat by absorption of microwave energy is disclosed. The material comprises a dielectric substrate, e.g., polyethylene terephthalate film, coated with a mixture of an electrically conductive metal or metal alloy in flake form in a thermoplastic dielectric matrix, e.g., a polyester copolymer. In a preferred embodiment, the coating of flake/th...

A memory management unit suitable fo use in a digital signal processor having internal and eternal memories is described. The unit is especially designed to facilitate numeric algorithms such as fast fourier transforms, auto-correlation and digital filtering by relieving the programmer from the need to monitor memory accesses. Automatic post-updating of memory addresses is provided after indirect ...

1. Locking device with a door joint-side bolt lock, with a key, which has in a cap an electronically readable, stored code information, a transmitter for the inductive transmission of the code information to a door frame-side receiver and an inductively operating energy receiver for receiving supply energy from a doorframe-side energy transmitter, and with an electromechanical arresting device for...

The surgical instrument set for the insertion of intervertebral endoprostheses, which consist of two stop plates and a sliding core to be arranged between them, is characterized in that it has spreading forceps (9) which have, at their front end on each spreading jaw (10, 11), an essentially U-shaped recess surrounding one stop plate on three sides and gripping the edge, the thickness of the sprea...

A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array (20); a sense amplifying circuit (24), operatively connected to the memory cell array, for sensing the information bits and the check bits; a latch circuit (25), operatively connected to the sense amplifying circuit, for latching the information bits and the check bits sensed by the sense amplifying circuit; and a circuit (26, 27) for corr...

The syringe for medical purposes is provided with a syringe barrel (1) and at least one syringe piston (3) which is displaceable therein by means of a piston rod (2), and also has a closure part (4) at the cannula end for the syringe barrel (1) and a finger rest (6) at the end of the syringe barrel (1) opposite the closure part (4). The syringe barrel (1) is designed as a cylindrical tube which ha...

An accessory for an injection device comprises a protective sleeve 1 for surrounding the needle 2 and having inner and outer sleeve parts 3, 5 which are movable relative to one another from a contracted position, in which the point of the needle projects from the sleeve to enable an injection to be effected, to an extended position, in which the point of the needle is shielded by the sleeve. The s...