PURPOSE:To accurately read and write without collision and mixture of signals and to realize a semiconductor memory having double capacity with the same volume by disposing two semiconductor memory cells having the same function and symmetrical input/output electrodes on both front and rear surfaces of one lead frame. CONSTITUTION:Semiconductor memory cells 1a, 1b have the same function, input/out...

The vaccine consists of a conjugate of at least one membrane anchoring compound and of a protein, which contains at least one killer T-cell epitope, of a virus, of a bacterium, of a parasite or of a tumour antigen or at least one partial sequence, which contains at least one killer T-cell epitope, of a viral, bacterial or parasite protein or of a tumour antigen.

Blood is pumped by a pump (24), preferably a biconcave diaphragm pump. When the blood pump is full of blood, this full condition is detected and a batch of blood is emptied completely from the pump for delivery to the patient. A second pump (68), also preferably a bi-concave diaphragm pump, pumps anticoagulant into the blood as it is recovered. This second pump ejects its contents every time the b...

Recombinant protein complexes having human Factor VIII:C activity are produced in a eukaryotic host cell by expressing a DNA construct encoding said protein complex joined in reading frame with control sequences providing for the expression of said DNA construct in said host cell, wherein said DNA construct comprises a nucleotide sequence that encodes a first polypeptide homologous to the A domain...

Radioactively labelled peptides comprising oligopeptides of from 3 to 10 peptide units and containing the sequence RGD and particularly the oligopeptides RGDSY and RGDFY, are disclosed as in vivo thrombus, tumour or CAM markers for the in vivo diagnosis and detection of thrombi, tumours or CAM in mammals.

A turntable (10) for connecting together an upper component (12) and a lower component (14) of an artificial limb such that the two components are rotatable with respect to each other about a turntable rotation axis (24) has an inner member (16) wich a head portion (16E) and a neck portion (16N) for connecting the head portion to the lower limb component (14), and an outer member (22) for connecti...

A receiver (70) receives a transmitted signal having a periodic predetermined signal, a method and apparatus (99) detects a first predetermined signal. Power may be conserved during a portion of a subsequent predetermined signal. The subsequent predetermined signal is divided into at least a first and second portion. If the first portion is detected, the subsequent predetermined signal is conside...

In the present invention, continuous data acquisition of substrate hydrolysis by a protease enzyme is achieved through the use of a fluorescent peptide substrate, wherein the quantum yield of fluorescence increases upon proteolytic cleavage of the substrate. Incubation of a viral protease enzyme with the fluorogenic substrate results in a time-dependent increase in fluorescence intensity which is ...

A method of simultaneously microwave heating or baking a plurality of articles such as comestible articles: for example, brownies, cupcakes, muffins or cookies or the like. The method comprises the steps of arranging the plurality of articles in a predetermined, vacant-center array within an ovenable container, non-sealingly enclosing the array of articles in the container so that the articles sha...

A bit correcting circuit (40) for a nonvolatile memory is connected to a nonvolatile memory (20) and a control circuit such as a microprocessor (10) The nonvolatile memory has a plurality of sets of memory cells Each set comprises plurality of data cells for storing data and a parity cell for storing a parity bit. The bit error circuit comprises error checking circuit connected for receiving data ...

A method and apparatus for identifying stuck faults in an oscillator used for providing a oscillator input signal (12) to an integrated circuit chip of the type conforming to a Level Sensitive Scan Design (LSSD) system and testing technique. A pair of shift register latches (SRLs) (20,30) are provided in the integrated circuit chip having a logical one signal applied to a data input of the SRLs. T...

Ein Tablettenspender besitzt ein rohrförmiges Schutzgehäuse (1) für eine Lade (4), in die durch eine Seitenöffnung Tabletten (17) als Stapel einlegbar sind, wobei in der Lade (4) ein Druckstempel (26) geführt ist, der mit wenigstens einem Anschlag (28, 29) mit einem Gegenanschlag (7) des Schutzgehäuses (1) zusammenwirkt. Eine Druckfeder (31) stützt sich am Ladenboden (8) und im Druckstempel (26) a...

A spinal implant has an elongate body (1) which is divided into two portions (5, 6) with mutually opposed contact surfaces (5A, 6A) and is for insertion into the joint space between two adjacent vertebrae. A cam device (3) or cam devices are movable between the contact surfaces to expand or increase the spacing between the body portions so as to increase the spacing between the adjacent vertebrae....

The surgical instrument consists of a setting tube (5) with an adaptor piece (6) and with the control indicators (10, 11, 13, 14) which are secured on the setting tube (5) in two planes extending perpendicular to one another through the axis of the setting tube (5). Inside the setting tube (5) there is a freely rotatable threaded rod (8), which protrudes in the area of the adaptor piece (6). The a...

For separating cholesterol-containing precipitates from blood plasma, use is made of a multi-layer filter medium (6), which consists of at least one open, precipitate-adsorbing filter medium (7) and a microporous membrane (9) controlling the pressure conditions in the filter element. The layer (7) adsorbing specifically the precipitate is hydrophobic, and the microporous membrane (9) is hydrophili...

A data processing system containing a vector processor and a scalar processor executes scalar and vector instructions which both comprise an operation portion and an operand pointer portion. In the vector instructions, however, the operand pointer portion contains an operand specifier which identifies a vector control word. Each vector control word contains, for the corresponding vector instructio...

A synergistic heating effect is attained in a microwave heat susceptor by providing a laminate containing two individual metal layers each of a thickness capable of converting a portion of microwave energy incident thereon to thermal energy.

A process and apparatus for the low temperature comminution of tires includes the separation of the tires into tire portions including tread portions, sidewall portions and bead portions. The tire portions are cooled and crushed to form rubber granules and scrap material. The rubber granules are sorted from the scrap material in a process that includes the step of suspending the granules in a movi...

A susceptor bag (20) for microwave heating of food products, such as french fries, fish sticks, apple turnovers and burritos, is formed from a single flexible sheet comprising a layer (16, 28) of metal or other electroconductive material having microwave susceptor thickness, supported on a paper substrate material (12, 24). The flexible sheet is folded on itself to form a sleeve (20) which houses ...

The invention relates to sulphated polysaccharides obtained from fucuses extracted from pheophyceae. The molecular weight of these polysaccharides is greater than 5 and less than 40 Kda; their sulphur content is greater than that of the original fucus and they contain less than 0.15 % of contaminant proteins. Applications as anticoagulant and anticomplementary agents.