A dodecapeptide for regulating weight gain in mammals, as defined in the sequence: CHHRKKGYADLY wherein C is cysteine, H is histidine, R is arginine, K is lysine, G is glycine, Y is tyrosine, A is alanine, D is aspartic acid and L is leucine; and the remaining amino acids are each independently glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, isoleucine, serine, threonine, cysteine, cystine, methionine, asparti...

A transport and storage cover for flat, brittle objects, such as compact discs and data diskettes, incorporating a comparatively shape stiff, multi-layer plate (15), which in one of its flat sides is provided with an opening (7,4) with an outer dimension and shape (7) substantially corresponding to the outer dimension and shape of an object (16) intended to be positioned in said opening, the depth...

A system for producing impact copolymer polypropylene (such as propylene-ethylene copolymer) from propylene and other alpha-olefins (such as ethylene) provides two or more reactors in series wherein at least one downstream reactor includes a system for controlling the composition of the copolymer produced and a system for controlling the fraction of the total product which is produced in the downs...

In needle bonding laterally oriented non-wovens, with slide needles, the material is compressed while being advanced above the needles, towards the knocking-over and towards the needle plane. Also claimed is an assembly with a unit (6) over the needle plane on the side of the non-woven (5) away from the knocking-over side to give a grip advance movement. It is moved against the knocking-over (3) a...

A gripper chain conveyor 2, for feeding sheets from a printer 6 to a stack 7 with the printed sheet side pointing downwards, acts in conjunction with the guide surface of a sheet-guiding device 9 which is driven at sheet conveying velocity parallel to the lower strand of the gripper chains in conveying direction. Guiding device 9 may be a cloth tape, through which suction acts on the trailing ends...

A protective device to prevent overheating articles, and heat-shrink cable sleeves in particular, consists of a heat-resistant coating. It has a colour protection, and, in use, it is applied to the surface of the heat-shrink article where the latter faces the heat. The temp. indicator used is pref. based on polyamide, (for cable sleeves). The example shown is a heat-shrink sleeve (1) with two long...

A case for receiving disk-type recording medium made of paper and has a receiving chamber in which the disk-type recording medium is stored, the receiving chamber having a pair of walls faced to each other and each having a shape of bellows, a stopper is formed at a part of the receiving chamber, its lids or bottom, so that the disk-type recording medium is held in valleys of the bellows and by th...

Soft X-ray lasing action may be obtained by focusing a high power, picosecond laser pulse on a confined plasma column. The plasma column is created by focusing a CO2 laser pulse on a target such as carbon. A strong cylindrical magnetic field contains the plasma and causes it to assume the shape of a column. While the plasma column is cooling rapidly due to radiation losses, a second high power las...

An improvement in the use of bioresorbable polymers for implantation into living tissue is described, characterized in that a particular molecular weight range is selected that demonstrates an unexpectedly beneficial effect on cell growth and regeneration of function. High molecular weight bioresorbable polymers composed of one or more alphahydroxy carboxylic acids may be fashioned into implantati...

2126697 9411018 PCTABS00032 Opioid peptides including those of formula (I), in which A1 is the identifying group of an amino acid selected from 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, 3,4-dimethoxyphenylalanine, azatyrosine, and 2,6-dimethyltyrosine; A2 is the identifying group of an amino acid selected from D-Ala and D-Arg; A3 is H, or the identifying group of an amino acid selected from 3,4-dihydroxyphenyla...

2127691 9410942 PCTABS00032 A foot prosthesis comprising a front plate (1) and a heel (2). The heel (2) is C-shaped with the opening (5) of the C facing the back of the prosthesis. The front plate has a stretched S shape and comprises a forward portion (10), a rear portion (11) and a middle portion (13) where the curvature changes direction. The front plate and the heel each comprise a plurality o...

2149123 9410943 PCTABS00032 A prosthetic foot (101) formed by one continuous coil spring which has a foot center coil section (117), a heel extension section (115), and a forefoot extension section (116). Lateral, medial and torsional movements are accommodated. Energy is absorbed and stored by the prosthetic foot during heel strike in the gait cycle, energy is transferred to the forefoot extensio...

2149207 9411014 PCTABS00032 Compounds which display a surface similar to the surface presented by one of five distinct lateral domains of CD4 are disclosed. Methods of treating individuals suspected of suffering from or susceptible to conditions characterized by an undesired immune response comprising administering to the individual at least one compound which mimics a portion of the lateral surfa...

A combined non-adhesive tag and adhesive label assembly (10) includes a first sheet (12) coated on one side (14) thereof with repositional adhesive (16), the first sheet having a first plurality of cut lines (18, 20, 22) defining a plurality of adhesive labels (24-34); a second sheet (40) substantially entirely overlying the adhesive side of the first sheet, the second sheet having a second plural...

Ultrasonic sensing systems are incorporated into surgical instruments to monitor operational fields defined by distal ends of the instruments. The instruments include proximal ends for their activation typically including one or a pair of handles which a surgeon grasps and operates, for example by squeezing the handles together or by pivotally moving a trigger portion of the handle relative to a f...

A memory system having a two dimensional array of EEPROM or Flash EEPROM cells is addressable by rows and columns. A word line is connected to the control gates of all the cells in each row, an erase line is connected to all the erase gates of each sector of cells, and a pair of bit lines are connected respectively to all the sources and drains of each column of cells. The memory system incorporat...

A dynamic mixing system and method intensively mixes thermoplastic melt with other ingredients and entrains gas as a blowing agent in a thermoplastic melt so as to provide a foamed thermoplastic extrudate. The dynamic mixing system includes a plurality of mixing balls disposed circumferentially about the surface of a cylindrically shaped spindle which is rotatably disposed within a barrel, such th...

The use of a dansylethoxycarbonyl group as base-labile 5'-hydroxy protective group in the chemical synthesis of DNA and RNA and suitable synthetic processes. The ease of detection of the dansyl protective group and the ease of elimination from the sugar residue of the nucleotide without side reactions make it possible to synthesise oligonucleotides in minute amounts with high yields.