A cement powder is disclosed that contains reactive tricalcium phosphate nanoparticles and other ingredients required to form a cementous material. Methods of making the reactive tricalcium phosphate nanoparticles, the cement powder, the cement paste, and cured cement are also provided, as are methods and articles for using the cement.

A method and device for applying sheet material, such as wallpaper, to a substrate. The applicator is bi-positionable, having a first position where the sheet material is spaced apart from the substrate and a second position where the sheet material contact the substrate. Additionally or alternatively, the applicator may be provided with a control bar. In the first position, the control bar contac...

A system and method for controlling treatment of the sewage/waste water. The method includes measuring attributes of inflow water flowing into a sewage/waste water treatment plant, attributes of an internal condition of a reaction tank having a first story and a second story, and fluid present values (PVs) of efficiency attributes of outflow water. The method also includes collecting data of the m...

The present invention relates to oxabicyclooctanes of the general formula I.in whichR<1>, R<2>, A<1>, A<2>, A<3>, A<4>, L<1>, L<2>, n1, n2 and n3 have the meanings specified in claim 1, and to their use in liquid-crystalline media.

Short fiber-reinforced engineering cementitious composites which are self-compacting, can be prepared by adding hydrophilic polymer fibers to a cement composition containing polymeric thickener and superplasticizer. The compositions are exceptionally ductile and exhibit many of the physical characteristics previously available only with hydrophobic high performance polyethylene fibers.

A semiconductor device that has the function of initializing an intern circuit. A starter sign generation circuit outputs a starter sign for initializing the intern circuit in the semiconductor device on the basis of input power supply voltage. A latch circuit holds and outputs the starter sign. A shutoff circuit shuts off input of the power supply voltage to the starter sign generation circuit wh...

The present invention aims at providing a control technique for an optical modulator, which can accurately detect a phase shift between signals of a drive system of an optical modulator, to feedback control. To this end, a control apparatus of the present invention comprises, for example, in an optical modulator which generates a signal light corresponding to the CS-RZ modulation method by two LN ...

A gate-equivalent-potential circuit and method for an I/O pad ESD protection arrangement including used and unused MOS fingers connected to the I/O pad comprises a switch connected between the gates of the MOS fingers, an ESD detector connected to the switch to turn on the switch upon an ESD event and a gate-modulated circuit connected to the gate of the unused finger to couple a voltage thereto t...

A transport tray for a coiled fiber including one or more coils of fiber and end portions extending from the coils. The transport tray comprises a base and a receptacle disposed on the base to receive the coils of fiber therein. The receptacle may have a circular shape configured to retain the coils without violating the minimum bend radius of the fiber. A locking mechanism may be provided to secu...

A navigation apparatus includes a route searching unit for searching for a route from a current position of a moving object to a destination or via point based on map information, an intersection extraction unit for extracting information about an intersection that is located forward of the moving object along the route and that is a target for guidance from the map information, an area informatio...

"PROCESSO PARA INSTALAR UMA COMPOSIçãO DE CONCRETO, COMPOSIçãO MOLDáVEL E APARELHO". é provido um método para uso de uma composição de concreto e um aparelho associado. O método provê mistura do material de concreto, aditivos em pó para aceleração do endurecimento e opcionalmente uma substância associada para permitir o endurecimento controlado do material de concreto em uma estrutura monolítica. ...

"APARELHO E MéTODO PARA APLICAçãO DE RóTULOS SEM FORRO". Um método e aparelho permitem que aplicadores de rótulos com forró utilizem rótulos sem forro. Os rótulos sem forro (6) compreende um composto de uma folha alongada de forro temporário reutilizável (34) possuindo um rótulo sem forro pré cortado e com micro pontes (44) aderido a uma superfície de baixa aderência. Os rótulos sem forro, recorta...

A video processing system is described for providing an image having more than one region on a display (DISPLAY). The system has a control means which can determine, for each region, the type (e.g., graphics, text, computer programs, broadcast TV video, etc.) of the image material being displayed in the region. The system also has a video driver coupled to the display for providing image signals h...

An architecture for a computer system that has lower complexity than prior computer system architectures. In one embodiment the functionality that in prior computer system architectures resides in a central processing unit (CPU) is split between a CPU and a program control unit. This allows the CPU to have lower complexity and can permit the computer system to have greater flexibility and lower co...

A microprocessor that selectively performs prefetch instructions based upon an indication of future processor bus activity and cache line status. The microprocessor includes a programmable threshold register for storing a threshold value. The threshold value is such that if the depth of bus requests queued in the bus interface unit of the microprocessor is greater than the threshold value, this co...

An example embodiment of a computer system utilizing a central snoop filter includes several nodes coupled together via a switching device. Each of the nodes may include several processors and caches as well as a block of system memory. All traffic from one node to another takes place through the switching device. The switching device includes a snoop filter that tracks cache line coherency inform...

A processor supports at least two different state save formats. Each format stores state in the form that the state exists in one or more operating modes of the processor. The operand size of the state save and state restore instructions may be used to indicate which state format is assumed by the processor during execution of the state save and state restore instructions. In one implementation, t...

An instruction decoding unit judges based on the immediately previous state of the contact of a sequence program stored in an electrical connection/disconnection information storage unit whether or not the conditions for execution of an instruction decoded by the instruction decoding unit are fulfilled. If the conditions are judged to be fulfilled, a data memory control unit reads calculation data...

A memory mapping method for mapping a data array into a memory. The memory mapping method provides the two-directional access in the data array. The memory mapping method first equally divides each row of the data array into some basic units based on the number of the columns of the data array. Next, a predetermined number of adjacent basic units in the same column are arranged into a basic memory...

The object of this invention is to provide a multiply connected type liquid waste disposal apparatus to unify the kind of canister bottles used for multiple connection, to provide plural patient hoses for separate use, to enable easy visual recognition of a content capacity even if a liquid waste disposing capacity is increased, and to rapidly solidify an absorbed liquid waste.Plural canister bott...