The present invention relates to in-place soil stabilization. Specifically, the present invention relates a method and device for measuring the increase in subsurface earth pressure during the injection of a stabilizing agent into the soil. The rise in sensor pressure indicates an increase in soil strength and bearing capacity. Therefore, real-time monitoring of these pressures may serve as a guid...

An illuminator (20) and a liquid container assembly including the illuminator are disclosed. The illuminator (20) includes a light source (24), a power source and a coupling portion (22). The coupling portion (22) is flexibly compressible such that the illuminator (20) is easily inserted and secured within a space of a suitable size provided on the surface of the liquid container. The illuminator ...

A packaging system for a cosmetic system includes a reduced-space packaging unit having a first container and a second container. The first container stores and dispenses a first cosmetic component and the second container stores and dispenses a second cosmetic component. The first container includes a closure to which the second container mounts.

A system for conserving water in a conventional water-based urinal where the water has been shut off, the block includes a first block portion that makes up about forty percent to sixty percent of the urinal block and has a first portion composition substantially similar to a conventional, non-paradichlorobenzene block used in water-based urinals for deodorizing during each flush, and a second blo...

Orthodontic systems and related methods are disclosed for designing and providing improved or more effective tooth moving systems for eliciting a desired tooth movement and/or repositioning teeth into a desired arrangement. Methods and orthodontic systems of the invention include tooth attachments having improved or optimized parameters selected or modified for more optimal and/or effective applic...

An apparatus for supplying a track circuit in a railway line provided with a plurality of track circuits adjacent to one another and electrically insulated from one another. Said circuit comprises a pair of rails (R) formed by parallel metal bars (B) and a transmission block (2), capable of supplying the track circuit via a voltage generator designed to cause a current to flow in the circuit, it b...

A bass drum support hoop for supporting one or more percussive instruments, and a method of supporting one or more percussive instruments, above a bass drum. The hoop comprising: an inward face, an outward face, a front edge, and a drum head edge adapted to engage a drum head; the hoop adapted to receive a plurality of tensioners opposite the drum head edge and at least one percussive instrument s...

The invention relates to a device for scattering bulk material, comprising a distributor chute (1) having a loading area (12) and a discharge area, wherein the distributor chute (1) is rotatably supported about a central axis extending vertically in the direction of gravity of the bulk material in the installed position, and at an angle to said central axis, wherein the distributor chute (1) compr...

The invention relates to a combination therapy for the treatment of tumors and tumor metastases comprising administration of integrin ligands, preferably integrin antagonists, together with co-therapeutic agents or therapy forms that have synergistic efficacy when administered consecutively with said ligands, such as chemotherapeutic agents and or radiation therapy. The therapy results in a synerg...

Systems, apparatus, methods, and manufactures for performing link adaptation in a communications system are described. The methods may employ an error rate table that has a channel condition value dimension and a transmission parameter dimension. The elements of the error rate table include expected error rates for data transmitted at various channel conditions according to various transmission pa...

A flowmeter includes a flow sensor capable of measuring instantaneous flow rates of forward and backward flows of a fluid, smoothing means for smoothing the measured instantaneous flow rate, an integrating counter for integrating the smoothed flow rate and outputting an integrated flow rate, determination means for monitoring the smoothed flow rate to determine whether or not the fluid is fluctuat...

The invention provides a wind power generator which can further improve a power generating efficiency. The wind power generator in accordance with the present invention is provided with an approximately cylindrical duct ( 10 ) with the side section thereof having a wing-like shape, an impeller ( 30 ) constructing a front end portion of a streamlined pencil body ( 20 ) coaxially installed with the ...

A method of transmitting data packets in a mobile communication system using at least one relay station (RS) and using at least two frequency carriers is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises transmitting at least one subpacket of a first data packet to a mobile station (MS) on a first frequency carrier, and transmitting at least one subpacket of a second data packet to the MS via the...

The present invention provides a video signal decoding method including the steps of checking whether to perform luminance compensation of a current block, performing the luminance compensation on the current block, and performing motion compensation by considering the luminance compensation, wherein a prediction value for the luminance compensation is obtained from a neighbor block neighbor to th...

The present invention provides a video signal decoding method including the steps of checking whether to perform luminance compensation of a current block, performing the luminance compensation on the current block, and performing motion compensation by considering the luminance compensation, wherein a prediction value for the luminance compensation is obtained from a neighbor block neighbor to th...

The present invention provides a video signal decoding method including the steps of checking whether to perform luminance compensation of a current block, performing the luminance compensation on the current block, and performing motion compensation by considering the luminance compensation, wherein a prediction value for the luminance compensation is obtained from a neighbor block neighbor to th...

In one embodiment, the method includes parsing data from a data stream for the first picture layer into a sequence of data blocks on a cycle-by-cycle basis such that at least one data block earlier in the sequence is skipped during a cycle if a data block later in the sequence includes an empty data location closer to DC components than in the earlier data block. A motion vector pointing to a refe...

In one embodiment, the method includes parsing data from a data stream for the first picture layer into a sequence of data blocks on a cycle-by-cycle basis such that at least one data block earlier in the sequence is skipped during a cycle if a data block later in the sequence includes an empty data location closer to DC components than in the earlier data block. A motion vector pointing to a refe...

In one embodiment, the method includes parsing data from a data stream for the first picture layer into a sequence of data blocks on a cycle-by-cycle basis such that at least one data block earlier in the sequence is skipped during a cycle if a data block later in the sequence includes an empty data location closer to DC components than in the earlier data block. A motion vector pointing to a refe...

DC bias characteristics of an open magnetic circuit type layered coil component are improved. A layered coil component (1) includes a coil that is constructed by layering coil conductor patterns (5) and ceramic sheets. The ceramic sheets include a first ceramic sheet and a third ceramic sheet (4) having a permeability lower than the permeability of the first ceramic sheet. The third ceramic sheet...