Abstract: Data information, represented by electric or wave signals, or data information within the artificial or natural databases and storage media, such as for example DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), encoded as a sequence of symbols, is, for the purpose of its concealing and simultaneously preserving its select local data information segments, partitioned within a physical medium, such as especially computer hardware, physical communication channel, physical storage medium or biological material, into short overlapping data segments. The studied local data information segments are contained within the short segments in their entirety. these partitioned short segments constitute the first group and to at least one short segment of the first group, data, encoded as selected symbols, are prepended or appended, to the symbols of the short segments of the first group. The resulting mixture of segments is interconnected into a sequence of data. The entire process may be repeated multiple times.

Abstract: Data information, represented by electric or wave signals, or data information within the artificial or natural databases and storage media, such as for example DNA, encoded as a sequence of symbols, is, for the purpose of its concealing and simultaneously preserving its select local data information segments, partitioned within a physical medium, such as especially computer hardware, physical communication channel, physical storage medium or biological material, into short overlapping data segments. The studied local data information segments are contained within the short segments in their entirety. These partitioned short segments constitute the first group and to at least one short segment of the first group, data, encoded as selected symbols, are pre-pended or appended, to the symbols of the short segments of the first group. The resulting mixture of segments is interconnected into a sequence of data. The entire process may be repeated multiple times.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for detoxifying shellfish contaminated with paralytic toxin. Actually no industrial method has been described that is 100% effective for detoxification of shellfish containing this type of toxins. Decontamination is achieved through a process involving the chemical treatment of shellfish. This chemical treatment consists of preincubating and then cooking the shellfish in an alkaline pH solution. This treatment can be combined with one or more other procedures for the reduction of the products' final toxicity, these other procedures including, for example, partial shellfish detoxification by depuration, removal of the most toxic parts, and commercial cooking/canning of the shellfish. The process reduces total toxicity levels in shellfish to values below 80 &mgr;g of eq. STX/100 g shellfish, independently of the toxin profile, or the initial toxicity present in the shellfish.