A method and a system for determining the position of a drill bit (2) are presented. The method comprises determining positions of seismic wave detectors (1a-1e, 12a-12d), recording seismic waves generated at the drill bit (2), identifying events (k1, k2) at the drill bit, determining a plurality of relative positions of the drill bit, and determining, based at least partly on a starting position ...

A biaxially oriented film has a machine direction- orientation (MDO) ratio of more than 1.2 and a transverse direction orientation (TDO) ratio of 2.0 or less, where the MDO ratio is greater than the TDO ratio; where the film contains a polymer composition containing a first high impact polystyrene (HIPS) component with a block copolymer grafted to polystyrene, a rubbery conjugated diene content of...

An improved gypsum slurry that includes water, calcium sulfate hemihydrate, a naphthalene sulfonate dispersant and a modifier. The modifier is chemically configured to improve the efficacy of the naphthalene sulfonate dispersant. Preferred modifiers include cement, lime, slaked lime, soda ash, carbonates, silicates and phosphates.

A method and system are described for controlling a therapeutic procedure performed on a patient. Based on patient-related information, control system (90) determines at least one dosage parameter and at least one application parameter of the therapeutic procedure. Display (117) displays one or more prompts instructing an operator to introduce at least one external substance into the patient in ac...

A method for treating wood to inhibit leaching of copper compounds into the environment. The method comprises treating the wood with a copper-containing wood preservative and a latex copolymer.

A method of scheduling messages based upon whether there are any changes in the content of each message to be scheduled, and also considering certain information that may be needed by the terminal. Messages are scheduled such that the terminal (UE) would only need to perform minimal reading operations, thus resulting in more efficient reception of services by the terminal based upon improved sched...

Disclosed is a fluid, namely stormwater, management system employing a chamber having an overall substantially constant curve cross-sectional geometry, with an a-semicircular constant curve cross-sectional geometry preferred. This chamber, which preferably follows both AASHTO standard specifications for Highway Bridges, Section 18, and Corrugated Polyethylene Pipe Association (CCPA) specifications...

A method and apparatus for depositing a film on a substrate includes introducing a material and a carrier gas into a heated chamber. The material may be a semiconductor material, such as a cadmium chalcogenide. A resulting mixture of vapor and carrier gas containing no unvaporized material is provided. The mixture of vapor and carrier gas are remixed to achieve a uniform vapor/carrier gas composit...

In order to provide a switch pole (1) for interrupting an alternating electrical current with a supporting frame (2), which is manufactured from an insulating material, and an interrupter (6), which extends in a longitudinal direction within the supporting frame (2) between an input connection (3) and an output connection (8) and is designed to interrupt the alternating current between the input c...

The invention is related to a method of predicting the response to a treatment with a HER dimerization inhibitor in a patient comprising the steps of assessing a marker gene or a combination of marker genes selected from the group consisting of an epidermal growth factor, a transforming growth factor alpha and a HER2 marker gene or a combination of marker genes comprising an amphiregulin marker ge...

The coating liquid for forming an electrode in accordance with the present invention includes, as constituents, a granulated particle containing an electrode active material, a conductive auxiliary agent having an electronic conductivity, and a binder capable of binding the electrode active material and conductive auxiliary agent to each other; and a liquid adapted to disperse or dissolve the gran...

In a multi-carrier access terminal having a transmitter with a single power amplifier, maximum transmission power available for a multi-carrier signal transmitted by the terminal is apportioned among a plurality of carriers on a priority basis. Following apportionment, the carriers are combined into a multi-carrier signal, amplified by the power amplified and transmitted.

The operations of an electric power steering system and a wheel slip control system such as a traction control system or an anti-lock brake system are co-related so as not to undesirably affect one another, by the target assisting steering force for the electric power steering system being modified differently according to whether or not the wheel slip control system is in operation. In doing so, ...

A communications system has a relay station and a router connected to the relay station and a network, for allowing a communication terminal to send and receive IP packets through a virtual tunnel in a network. If a communication terminal that is newly connected to the relay station has performed communications with another relay station before the communication terminal is newly connected, then t...

In response to a first location request message from a client terminal, a gateway stores the message and requests the location information of a target mobile terminal from a location information system. If a second location request message is received from other client terminal requesting the location information of the same mobile terminal while the initial client terminal is waiting for the requ...

It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of granulation of raw material for sinter for iron manufacturing, which is effectively used for granulating raw material for sinter for iron manufacturing, such as iron ore fines, in manufacturing sintered ore that form raw materials for a blast furnace charge in a pig iron making process, and makes it possible to sufficiently improve th...

In a containing-fullerene production method for giving acceleration energies to containment target atom ions by using an acceleration electrode to thereby implant the containment target atoms into an empty fullerene film previously formed on a deposition-assistance substrate, charged particles constituting an ion beam are only containment target atom ions having the same polarity, so that repulsiv...

A process for producing beta-form tris-(2,3-epoxypropyl)-isocyanurate crystals containing from 2 to 15 wt % of alpha-form tris-(2,3-epoxypropyl)-isocyanurate in the interior of the crystals, which comprises the following steps (A), (B), (C) and (D): (A) a step of reacting cyanuric acid with epichlorohydrin to form an addition product of cyanuric acid and epichlorohydrin, followed by dehydrochlorin...

There are provided:(1) a process for producing an InSbO4-containing transparent electroconductive film, which comprises the step of sputtering simultaneously:(i) a target (A) for sputtering, which comprises In, Sb and O, and whose atomic ratio of Sb/In is from 0.9 to 1.1, and(ii) a target (B) for sputtering, which comprises Sb,(2) a transparent eletroconductive film, which contains In, Sb and O, a...