Abstract: The invention discloses a soybean plant, or a part of said plant comprising the transgenic event CIGBDt-Def1 or the transgenic event CIGBIs-Def5, as well as a method for the detection of those events in soybean samples. It also provides a seed from a soybean plant comprising said transgenic events, and products obtained from a plant, or from soybean seeds, comprising one of said events. In addition, the invention is related to a method for the production of soybean plants resistant to glyphosate, and to diseases caused by fungi or oomycetes, comprising the introduction of one of the mentioned transgenic events in the genome of said plants. The increase in the yield of a soybean crop in the field can be achieved with the transgenic events of the invention.

Abstract: The present invention has the purpose of unlocking the cylinder into the pantographic-type locks and identify the code with no need to disassembly the cylinder, which consists on a pantographic-type key with a channel, where wires with angled curved-ends move with the purpose of aligning the throats set in respect to the cylinder tangent; and the jacket line where the handle of the pantographic-type key and piston are placed to move the wire with angled-ends. To perform the code reading, three metal plates and two labels will be used with the representation of the printed throats levels.

Abstract: For accurate position calculation of scintillation events in a gamma camera, photodetector signals are processed based on small groups of photodetectors surrounding the scintillations. Relative position correction and energy correction is carried out based on rough position values relative to the group of photodetectors, taking into consideration the number of the center photodetector and the sum of all photodetector signals in the group.

Abstract: For accurate position calculation of scintillation events in a gamma camera, improved methods are disclosed calibrating gain of photodetectors. The camera system may comprise an array of LEDs optically coupled to a scintillator crystal in which signals from photodetectors also coupled to the crystal are separated into those resulting from test LED pulses and actual gamma ray induced scintillations. The LED induced signals may be used for camera calibration while the camera is in image collecting mode. Image clarity may also be improved by correcting roughly calculated positions as a function of the roughly calculated positions, and by eliminating events which do not exactly correspond to nuclear decay emissions as a function of the events' positions.

Abstract: A scintillation data collecting apparatus and method are provided for a scintillation camera and a data processor. The apparatus comprises a scintillation detector including an adder and an analyzer for detecting the valid scintillations, a plurality of conversion units each including an analog-to-digital converter for converting intensity signals derived from the valid scintillations into high, accuracy digital values, and controllers for controlling operation of each of the analog-to-digital converters of the conversion units. The method comprises steps of adding the intensity signals generated by the scintillation camera and which are indicative of the scintillations, and analyzing the sum of the intensity signals to determine if the detected scintillations are valid.

Abstract: The discriminator comprises a summing circuit for producing a sum signal from light detectors of a scintillation camera; a slope analysis circuit for analyzing a slope of the sum signal to produce a slope analysis result indicative of a given characteristic change in the slope; a first event characteristic evaluation circuit for producing in response to the slope analysis result and the sum signal a first event characteristic signal representative of an energy of the first event; a second event characteristic evaluation circuit for producing in response to the slope analysis result and the sum signal a second event characteristic signal representative of an energy of the second event; and a validity analyzer circuit for producing a valid event indicator signal in response to the slope analysis result, the first event characteristic signal and the second event characteristic signal. A method of pulsepile discrimination is also disclosed.

Abstract: The scintillation camera includes a plurality of individually pulsible light emitting devices associated with a number of the photomultiplier tubes. By pulsing the light emitting device, certain ones of the photomultiplier tubes of the camera receive substantial amounts of light. Values from the certain photomultiplier tubes are compared to one another for carrying out an effective gain adjustment of at least one of the certain tubes. The gain calibration is independent of the amount of light emitted from the light emitting devices. There is also provided a method of adjusting the effective gain of the camera by using the readings resulting from a gamma ray induced scintillation instead of the pulsible light emitting devices.