Abstract: A suture anchor and driver device is described that is designed to secure a suture anchor to a bone in a patient to allow soft tissue or the like to be secured to the bone. The suture anchor itself engages the suture along the length of a passage that passes through the diameter of the distal end of the suture anchor, providing for a relatively large area of engagement to minimize stress on the suture material. The driver is designed to engage the suture anchor and guide the suture material along outside surface of the driver.

Abstract: Tetrahydro-beta-carboline compounds having useful central nervous system activity are enclosed.

Abstract: A computer-based media data processor for controlling transmission of digitized media data in a packet switching network. When the processor receives a request from a network client node for presentation of specified media data stream presentation unit sequences the processor in response retrieves media data from a corresponding media access location, determines the media data type of each presentation unit in the retrieved media data, and designates each retrieved presentation unit to a specific media data presentation unit sequence based on the media data type determination for that presentation unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for binding a 5-HT.sub.2B receptor in mammals using a both known and novel compounds. Further, the invention provides a method for treating or preventing 5-HT.sub.2B related conditions. Finally, the invention provides an article of manufacture.

Abstract: 3-Ethanamine and 3-ethanamine related compounds are provided that are useful intermediates and have beneficial central nervous system activity.

Abstract: This invention provides an IL-6 dependent B-cell lymphoma cell line designated DS-1 deposited with the American Type Culture Collection, wherein the cell line is reactive with a monoclonal antibody produced by a hybridoma cell line designated 10D2F6 deposited with the American Type Culture Collection. The invention also provides a purified antigen reactive with a monoclonal antibody produced by 10D2F6. The antigen also exists on DS-1. Also provided is a method of detecting the presence of an antigen-stimulated T-cell comprising detecting the presence of the antigen on a lymphocyte. In addition, the invention provides a method of detecting the presence of a neoplastic cell comprising detecting the presence of the antigen on a cell which is not normal a T-cell.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel tetrahydro-beta-carboline compounds having useful central nervous system activity. Further, there is provided 3-ethanamine and 3-ethanamine related compounds which are useful intermediates and have beneficial central nervous system activity. The invention provides formulations and methods for using the novel tetrahydro-beta-carboline and related compounds.

Abstract: The present invention provides tetrahydro-betacarboline compounds having useful central nervous system activity.

Abstract: Provided is a nonwoven web of electrically charged fibers needle-punched to a scrim support. This web provides a filter medium having increased uniformity in pressure-drop, basis weight and filtration performance.

Abstract: A wound dressing of alginate staple fibers has improved integrity when its fibers have been hydroentangled. Even when its basis weight is as low as 50 g/m.sup.2, the resulting wound dressing, when saturated with saline fluids, can be removed by forceps from a wound as a single piece, having little or no residue in the wound. At basis weights below 50 g/m.sup.2, the wound dressing preferably includes reinforcing fibers such as rayon.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of depositing a passivation layer on the surface of a superconducting ceramic oxide wherein the passivation layer is a layer of an oxide of Al, Bi, Si or Al-W.

Abstract: A CaF.sub.2 passivation layer is applied on the surface of a superconducting oxide by evaporation which does not disrupt the superconductive properties of the superconducting oxide.

Abstract: The method and means of fault-tolerant processing includes a plurality of system building blocks, each including a real-time processor and specialized processors and local non-volatile memory that are coupled to communicate internally within each of the system building blocks, which, in turn, communicate with one another over local-area network links, and communicate with the remainder of the system over an I/O bus controlled by an I/O processor. Transaction-based processing is under control of a transaction coordinator which permits all of the transaction operations to complete successfully and then alter stored data for the completed transaction, or not to alter any stored data if a transaction is not completed. The transaction coordinator maintains a record of the distributed file accesses required during processing of a transaction, and prevents other transactions from altering stored data during processing of a transaction.

Abstract: This invention relates to decorative sheet useful for making ribbons, bows, and the like. The invention relates to the field of synthetic textiles.The decorative sheet material comprises(a) a thermally bonded nonwoven tissue-like base layer having at least 50 weight percent polymeric, staple fibers having a length of 1/4 to 6 inches, and up to about 50 weight percent other fibrous material, at least the outer portion of said fibers being thermally bondable, and(b) at least a monolayer of a multiplicity of substantially parallel, continuous, non-cellulosic, multifilament yarns substantially covering a first side of said base layer and thermally laminated to said base layer,at least one side of said base layer being sonically bondable to a fibrous substrate. By making the base layer out of a sonically bondable material, articles made of the sheet material of this invention can be rapidly produced.

Abstract: A servo track following system for positioning a moving read/write head relative to a magnetic storage disc. A plurality of servo tracks are recorded in sectors on the disc for identifying radial positions or informational tracks. The servo tracks have a nonuniform radial track density varying from more dense at the periphery of the disc to less dense at the interior, established with a method that allows the unique performance characteristics of the head to determine the actual spacing of the tracks. A clock track is written by writing a single pulse on a fixed clock track head, phase-lock looping to an intermediate clock track, which is written on a moving head, and then phase-lock looping up to the final clock track which is written on the fixed clock track head. Radial track density is then determined by moving a head to a limit stop and writing a reference track.

Abstract: A system and method attach a second magnetic storage device to a storage subsystem which includes one or more first magnetic storage devices. The track capacity of the first device, i.e., the maximum number of bytes per track, is different from the track capacity of the second device. The information stored on the first device is formatted with a first recording format wherein the start of each individual record measured in the number of bytes from the start of the track varies with either the number of records preceding it, or the length of each preceding record, e.g., a count-key-and-data format.