PCT No. PCT/BE96/00133 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 16, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 16, 1998 PCT Filed Dec. 17, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/22473 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 26, 1997Method for manufacturing a laminate consisting of at least two plates, which are attached to one another by means of an intermediate layer on the basis of a polymerizable resin, whereby a layer (7) of the polymerizable resin is applied on a ho...

A coating and binding agent for oral or dermal medicament formulations, comprising an acrylic copolymer containing tertiary ammonium functional groups, a plasticizer and an emulsifier, is produced by melting, casting, spreading or spraying using the copolymer in the form of a powder having an average particle size of 1-40 mu m. A method is claimed for the preparation of a coating and binding age...

Molded articles prepared from flexible sheet molding compounds, and method of making the same. A flexibility modifying agent is incorporated into a thermoset resin composition (e.g. sheet molding compound) to improve the flexibility characteristics of the thermoset resin composition by lowering the flexural modulus. The thermoset resin composition also contains therein an isocyanate terminated ure...

A region-based system, method and architecture for encoding and decoding digital still images to produce a scalable, content-based, randomly accessib le compressed bit stream is disclosed. According to the system, raw image data is decomposed and ordered into a hierarchy of multi-resolution sub-images. Regions of interest are then determined. A region mask is defined to identif y the regions of in...

The present invention relates to devices used in ophthalmology for laser therapy, and may be used for stimulating the ciliary muscle. This invention can also be used for reducing the risks of unwanted side-effects by lowering the vision tension as the patient keeps looking with both eyes in reference directions that correspond to the position and the convergence of the visual axes of the eyes. The...

A semi-rigid, non-collapsing distal end cap for engaging the socket liner and socket of an artificial limb to prevent the weight of the artificial limb, acting upon the liner, from compressing and stretching the residual limb, the distal end cap consisting of a cap portion constructed of a semi-rigid, non-collapsing material adapted to sustain the diameter of the residual limb without collapsing u...

A pharmaceutical product comprising an aqueous prostaglandin formulation and a polypropylene container are disclosed. Aqueous prostaglandin formulations are more stable in polypropylene containers than polyethylene containers.; L'invention concerne un produit pharmaceutique comprenant une formulation de prostaglandine aqueuse ainsi qu'un contenant en polypropylène. Les formulations de prostaglandi...

The disclosure relates to a food pack comprising a tray formed from card having a rectangular base (10) with fold up side (11) and end (12) walls and a sheet of wrapping material (15) extending over the tray and adhered to the sidewalls to receive a food item (17). The sheet is folded over the item across the tray and the folded ends of the sheet projecting from the ends of the tray is tucked betw...

A Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) system that provides a single address space shared by a number of processes. The DSM is capable of accomplishing lowered granularity of distributed shared memory. The DSM system includes the address space constituting a virtual address space that includes virtual pages. Two or more virtual pages in the virtual address space are mapped to the same memory page that ...

An epoxidized diene block polymer comprising at least interior and exterior diene blocks wherein the exterior diene blocks contain a greater concentration of di-, tri- and tetrasubstituted olefinic epoxides than the interior blocks and wherein the exterior blocks contain from 0.2 to 10 Meq of olefinic epoxides per gram of exterior blocks and the molecular weights of the exterior blocks are from 30...

PCT No. PCT/GB94/00512 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 28, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 28, 1996 PCT Filed Mar. 15, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO94/21198 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 29, 1994A total knee replacement prosthesis (TKR) is provided in which a pintle hinge enables the knee to pivot about a horizontal axis. A degree of rotational movement about a vertical axis is provided by fabricating the tibial component in at least ...

Systems for performing peritoneal dialysis allow the user to chose from an array of peritoneal dialysis modalities and adjust one or more individual therapy parameters within a selected modality. Still, the systems assure that the selected modality and therapy parameters satisfy preselected composite therapy criteria.

A metal backing for inclusion in the manufacture of a prosthetic component which has a synthetic plastics material bearing element and comprising a metallic element (1) having a front portion with means for attachment to a bone and a rear portion (6) at least part of which is formed by a grill (8) having exposed front and rear faces and which is intended to be embedded within said bearing member (...

PCT No. PCT/PL95/00020 Sec. 371 Date May 14, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date May 14, 1997 PCT Filed Sep. 14, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/08214 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 21, 1996An implantation method is described which involves the successive introduction of projecting multilateral needles into the spongy bone of a joint. The needles are symmetrically spaced on the terminal surfaces of the endoprosthesis up to a resist...

A new block copolymer, which is excellent with regard to abilities such as dispersibility, chelatability, and scale inhibitability, includes a polyalkylene glycol structural unit and a polyglyoxylate structural unit. This block copolymer, for example, can be produced by carrying out a polymerization reaction between a polyalkylene glycol and a glyoxylic acid-based monomer in the presence of a cata...

A system for issuing a family of instructions during a single clock includes a decoder for decoding the family of instructions and logic, responsive to the decode result, for determining whether resource conflicts would occur if the family were issued during one clock. If no resource conflicts occur, an execution unit executes the family regardless of whether dependencies among the instructions in...

The implement (1) for fitting bone channel caps has expandable holders (17,18) which lock to retain a cap implant (2). The holders can be rotated around the bone channel (3) axis by rotation of the handle and retracted in the direction of this axis for removal from the support flange (7) of the cap.; Um bei einem Sehnenersatzimplantat dessen Spannung kontrolliert einstellen zu können, wird eine Vo...

The ball has a very slightly tapered blind bore accommodating a cup with a very slightly tapering interior. The very slightly tapering end of a shaft, which fits into the bone, fits into the cup and jams it into the bore in the ball. The cup has a slit in its base. The tool has a pair of handlebars (14) at the top of a shaft (15). A handgrip (2) surrounds the shaft and is keyed to a sleeve (3) by...

The method of regulating extracorporeal dialysis involves filtering the dialysis fluid and flushing at least one processing chamber (3a,3b) of the apparatus. The filtrate produced by the operation can be used as a flushing medium.; Bei einem Verfahren zur Aufrechterhaltung der Verwendbarkeit einer bereits verwendeten Einrichtung zur extrakorporalen Hämotherapie (z. B. Dialyse, Filtration, Hämodiaf...