Abstract: A versatile ambidextrous pouch worn on the front central abdominal waist of user. provides quick access to handheld accessories for automotive detailing and other interchangeable tool uses, regardless of whether the user is right-handed or left-handed. The tool pouch enables both right-handed workers and left-handed workers to choose a primary, frequently used tool for the dominant hand of the worker and a secondary less used tool for the less dominant hand interchangeably, so that the primary tool can be advanced directly forward from the front central abdominal waist of the user, without awkwardly reaching across the abdomen to grasp a tool and move it angulary across the user's abdomen toward a work surface. Multiple other accessory tools are attached in and out of the pouch.

Abstract: A method for producing one or more hydroxide solids includes providing a catholyte comprising an electrolyte solution; contacting the catholyte with an electroactive mesh cathode to electrolytically generate hydroxide ions, thereby precipitating the one or more hydroxide solid(s); and removing the one or more hydroxide solids from the surface of the mesh where they may deposit.

Abstract: A Raman spectroscopy based system and method for examination and interrogation provides a method for rapid and cost effective screening of various protein-based compounds such as bacteria, virus, drugs, and tissue abnormalities. A hand-held spectroscope includes a laser and optical train for generating a Raman-shifting sample signal, signal processing and identification algorithms for signal conditioning and target detection with combinations of ultra-high resolution micro-filters and an imaging detector array to provide specific analysis of target spectral peaks within discrete spectral bands associated with a target pathogen.

Abstract: A Raman spectroscopy based system and method for examination and interrogation provides a method for rapid and cost effective screening of various protein-based compounds such as bacteria, virus, drugs, and tissue abnormalities. A hand-held spectroscope includes a laser and optical train for generating a Raman-shifting sample signal, signal processing and identification algorithms for signal conditioning and target detection with combinations of ultra-high resolution micro-filters and an imaging detector array to provide specific analysis of target spectral peaks within discrete spectral bands associated with a target pathogen.

Abstract: A Raman spectroscopy based system and method for examination and interrogation provides a method for rapid and cost effective screening of various protein-based compounds such as bacteria, virus, drugs, and tissue abnormalities. A hand-held spectroscope includes a laser and optical train for generating a Raman-shifting sample signal, signal processing and identification algorithms for signal conditioning and target detection with combinations of ultra-high resolution micro-filters and an imaging detector array to provide specific analysis of target spectral peaks within discrete spectral bands associated with a target pathogen.

Abstract: A Raman spectroscopy based system and method for examination and interrogation provides a method for rapid and cost effective screening of various protein-based compounds such as bacteria, virus, drugs, and tissue abnormalities. A hand-held spectroscope includes a laser and optical train for generating a Raman-shifting sample signal, signal processing and identification algorithms for signal conditioning and target detection with combinations of ultra-high resolution micro-filters and an imaging detector array to provide specific analysis of target spectral peaks within discrete spectral bands associated with a target pathogen.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve and director plate assembly including a circular beveled valve seat, a valve ball for forming a circular sealing line against the seat, and a perforated director plate. The improved valve seat is substantially thicker than a prior art seat to provide greater mass of seat material and hence reduced vulnerability of the seat to thermal distortion from welding. To obviate an increase in residual fuel volume that would result from displacing the director plate from the valve by the added thickness of the seat, the central portion of an improved director plate is made concave such that the actual fuel-directing portion of the director plate is to the valve ball in the prior art relationship, thus preserving the desirably small prior art volume of residual fuel after valve closing.