Abstract: Improvement in a system for protecting foundation walls and the like, said system comprising at least one main protecting sheet made of relatively thin, stiff material and including protrusions formed therein, for thereby providing air channels and channels for receiving water from back fill. In order to provide a complete coverage of such foundation walls even by varying height thereof, and in a far more efficient manner, the improvement comprises pre-cut top sheet elements and bottom sheet elements adapted to be mounted along a foundation wall prior to the mounting of said main protecting sheet thereupon, so as to achieve full protecting coverage of said foundation wall in a more rapid and time-saving manner on site. The system also allows for pre-cut corner sheet elements adapted to cover the merging portions of an inner corner or an outer corner of a foundation wall and also adpated to be mounted prior to the mounting of the main protecting sheet thereupon.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device, especially for stabilizing soil material and other moldable compositions such as uncured concrete or the like, comprising a substantially elongated web sheet mounted on a support which forms a plurality of cells or pockets which can be manufactured from inexpensive raw material, which possibly can easily decompose, and requires a minimum transport volume. The device provides favorable anchoring in the ground which is to be soil stabilized and forms pockets or cells having walls extending vertically independent of the slope angle of the ground for stabilizing the soil even during heavy rain.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device, especially for stabilizing soil material and other moldable compositions such as uncured concrete or the like, comprising a substantially elongated web sheet mounted on a support which forms a plurality of cells or pockets which can be manufactured from inexpensive raw material, which possibly can easily decompose, and which requires a minimum transport volume. The pockets or cells having walls extending vertically independent of the slope of the ground for stabilizing the soil even during heavy rain.

Abstract: An opto-electronic position sensing system comprising a series of radiation sources, a series of radiation detectors, a moveable member having a range of movement over which it controls irradiation of various ones of said detectors by various ones of said sources according to the position of said member, each detector being adapted to produce an analog signal which varies from a minimum to a maximum with movement of the said member over a corresponding parts of its range in such a manner that the output signal of at least two of said detectors varies with movement of said member whatever its position in the said range of movement, and first means which determine the position of the member by digital analysis of outputs from the detectors and second means which subsequently better determine the position of the member by analog analysis of output from those detectors identified by the first means as indicating the position of the member.

Abstract: Certain known imidazo[2,1-a]isoindoles and imidazo [2,1-a]isoquinolines, e.g., 5-(p-chlorophenyl)-5-hydroxy-2,3-dihydro-5H-imidazo[2,1-a]isoindole (mazindol), have been found to be useful as growth hormone inhibitors in mammals.