This invention concerns a nonwoven fabric having knuckle-free planar surfaces comprising parallel linear machine direction yarns (10) residing in a single plane and interconnecting, cross-machine direction polymeric material (18) also residing in said plane and substantially entirely surrounding the machine direction yarns (10), the cross-machine direction material containing spaced apertures in t...

An apparatus for sticking an adhesive film on a ring as a carrier and a thin article such as a silicon wafer comprises a frame, a table mounted on the frame for holding the ring, a table mounted on the frame for holding the thin article, sticking means adapted to move along the top surface of the table for pressing the adhesive film against the ring and the thin article to stick it thereon, a cutt...

A container for holding material such as foodstuff to be heated in a microwave oven, including an open-topped tray and a lid for covering the tray to form a closed cavity, wherein at least one surface of the container has one or more electrically conductive plates and/or microwave-transparent apertures for generating a microwave field pattern having a higher order than that of the fundamental mode...

A container for holding a body (160) of material such as foodstuff to be heated in a microwave oven, including a dielectric lid (161) and/or other dielectric wall structure with at least two contiguous dielectric wall portions (166,168) of respectively different electrical thickness for co-operatively modifying the microwave electric field patterns that would obtain in the body during such heating...

An automatic injector is provided having at least two chambers (27 and 28) containing different ingredients of a medicament separated by an impermeable membrane (29). A lance (34) is movable independently of a plunger (33) to cut or pierce the membrane (29) before a spring-loaded drive member (37) for the plunger (33) is released to drive a needle (30) out of the body (1) of the injector and disch...

In a laser system, the return current of a laser generated plasma is conducted near a target 11 to subject that target to a magnetic field. The target 11 may be either a small non-fusion object for testing under the magnetic field or a laser- fusion pellet. In the laser-fusion embodiment, the laser-fusion pellet 11 is irradiated during the return current flow and the intense transient magnetic fie...

PURPOSE: To suppress the execution of an instruction when a data conflict is present by providing a means connected to first - third storage means for comparing first and second addresses with a third address. CONSTITUTION: For each vector read by a first processor P1, a comparator circuit 220 judges whether or not the next element to be written by a second processor P2 is included in the range of...

Disclosed are optically active anthracyclinones and their daunosaminyl derivatives, which are useful for the treatment of malignant diseases, particularly sarcomas, breast cancer, bronchogenic carcinoma, malignant lymphomas, neuroblastomas, acute leukemia and bladder cancer.

Disclosed are optically active anthracyclinones and their daunosaminyl derivatives, which are useful for the treatment of malignant diseases, particularly sarcomas, breast cancer, bronchogenic carcinoma, malignant lymphomas, neuroblastomas, acute leukemia and bladder cancer.

Compounds as described having the partial formula These compounds may have a 5-OH or -OMe group amd at the 25- position an isopropylene group substituted by methyl, ethyl or isopropyl. The compounds may be used in agriculture or medicine as antiparasitics, and may be prepared by culturing certain Streptomyces strains, in particular Streptomyces thermoarchaensis NCIB 12015.

Compounds as described having the partial formula These compounds may have a 5-OH or -OMe group amd at the 25- position an isopropylene group substituted by methyl, ethyl or isopropyl. The compounds may be used in agriculture or medicine as antiparasitics, and may be prepared by culturing certain Streptomyces strains, in particular Streptomyces thermoarchaensis NCIB 12015.

The present invention relates to the use of 2'-deoxy-5-ethynyluridine and its pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives in the treatment and prophylaxis of varicella zoster virus and cytomegalovirus infections. Also provided are pharmaceutical formulations and processes for the preparation of the compounds according to the invention.

An improved process for the resolution of 1-aminoindanes into the R-isomer on a large scale is described. The resolving agent used in the process is R-N-acetyl-3,4-dimethoxyphenylalanine. The process is of intermediates in the production of certain adenosines and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts. The adenosines have desirable central nervous system and cardiovascular activitie...

Compounds of the formula I wherein A is C1-8-alkylene, R1 is halogen, C1-4-alkyl or halo-(C1-4-alkyl), R2 is hydrogen, hydroxy or acyloxy, R3 is hydrogen or C1-4-alkyl, R4 is aryl or aryloxy and X is O or NH, and tautomers thereof are described. The compounds of formula I and their tautomers possess antiviral activity and can be used in the form of medicaments for the control and prev...

1'-desoxy-1'-(6-amino-9-purinyl)- beta -D-ribofuranuronic acid thioamides of formula wherein R1, R2 and R3 possess various definitions given in claim 2, are effective against raised blood pressure.

The present invention relates to novel 5-oximino-13 beta -carbonylthiomilbemycin derivatives of formula I, to their preparation and to the use thereof for controlling pests. The invention further relates to pesticidal compositions which contain at least one of these compounds as active ingredient. The novel compounds have the general formula I (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen or an alkyl, cyc...

7,8-Disubstituted guanosine nucleoside derivatives are found to be potent immune response enhancing agents in human and animal cells. 7-Substituents are heteroatom-substituted-hydrocarbyl radicals having a length greater than ethyl and less than about decyl. 8-Substituents are =O, =S, =Se and =NCN. Compositions and methods of use are also disclosed.

A method that is direct and stereospecific is provided for the production of 2 min -deoxyadenosine derivatives and related analogs. The method comprises glycosylation of the sodium salt of 2,6-dichloropurine or 6-chloropurine and ammonolysis of the glycosylate to obtain the corresponding 2-chloro-2 min -deoxyadenosine or 2 min -deoxyadenosine.

A process for producing a sphingophospholipid derivative comprising reacting a sphingophospholipid with a specified compound having an alcoholic hydroxyl group selected from the group consisting of specified primary alcohol compounds, specified secondary alcohol compounds and specified saccharides or their phenol glycosides in the presence of phospholipase DM.

New cytostatically active anthracycline derivatives are described which correspond to the following general formula I in which the radicals have the following meaning: R<1> is a C1-4-alkyl group; R<2> is a hydrogen atom, a tri-C1-4-alkylsilyl protecting group, an acetyl, monohalo-, dihalo- or trihaloacetyl group where halogen equals fluorine or chlorine, or a benzoyl or p-nitrobenzoyl gr...