Abstract: A building panel having a hollow elongate structure with a generally rectangular cross-sectional profile. The elongate structure has first and second outer skins joined by parallel first and second side walls. A connection device of first and second ribs is on each side wall to connect to adjacent panels to form a segment of a wall or roof. The elongate structure includes two inner web skins extending between the first and second side walls to divide the interior of the elongate structure into three chambers. The triple chamber profile provides the panel with additional structural strength and rigidity, as well as improved thermal and sound insulation properties. The lower chamber may be fitted with a polycarbonate sheet to increase thermal and acoustic performance. The panel is polycarbonate.

Abstract: A building panel having a hollow elongate structure with a generally rectangular cross-sectional profile. The elongate structure has first and second outer skins joined by parallel first and second side walls. A connection device of first and second ribs is on each side wall to connect to adjacent panels to form a segment of a wall or roof. The elongate structure includes two inner web skins extending between the first and second side walls to divide the interior of the elongate structure into three chambers. The triple chamber profile provides the panel with additional structural strength and rigidity, as well as improved thermal and sound insulation properties. The lower chamber may be fitted with a polycarbonate sheet to increase thermal and acoustic performance. The panel is polycarbonate.

Abstract: The invention relates to the combined use of metconazole and epoxiconazole for reducing or preventing the contamination of cereals with mycotoxins formed by mould fungus producing trichothecene.

Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter provides compositions and methods for inhibiting the growth of oral microbes in a subject. Particularly, the methods include applying an oral composition comprising an oral care delivery agent and an antimicrobial agent comprising an effective amount of a low flavor antimicrobial liquid smoke derivative to the oral cavity of the subject for a time sufficient to inhibit growth of a microorganism in the oral cavity of the subject. Compositions that include low flavor antimicrobial liquid smoke derivatives that can be employed in the disclosed methods are also provided.

Abstract: A naturally occurring anorexic composition of matter that does not alter locomotor function comprising the water soluble constituents of the coca leaf (Erythroxylon coca). Anorexic compositions consisting of the foregoing described product prepared from coca leaves in admixture with a non-toxic, pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. A method of suppressing appetite levels in animals comprising administering a therapeutically effective concentration of the inventive product in a pharmaceutically suitable carrier intravenously, orally, intraperitioneally and intramuscularly. The method of preparing an anorexically active product from coca leaves.

Abstract: Correction for variations in scan period of optical image scanners includes measuring and storing the scan times at which optical events occur to cause image detector signals, detecting an optical marker near the end of the scan and the scan time of its detection, determining the difference between this scan time and a stored scan period, comprising the nominal scan time for marker detection, which difference represents the scan period error, dividing the difference by the stored scan period to provide a scan time unit error and multiplying each stored measured scan time by the unit error to provide a correction for each measured scan time, thereafter adding the correction to the stored measured scan time to give a corrected scan time.

Abstract: A discrimination circuit operable to discriminate between an input signal in the form of a pedestal and disturbance signals superimposed thereon has an A-D converter to digitize a disturbance-free reference pedestal signal, circulating shift register to store the digitized reference signal, a D-A converter to produce a pedestal signal from the reference signal, a controlling clock to shift the reference signal in the store in synchronism with the incoming signal such that the two pedestal signals are available together, and a comparator to compare the reference signal with the input signal to produce an output caused by differences due to disturbances. The circuit forms part of an optical surface inspection apparatus.

Abstract: Apparatus for dispensing seeds individually in a small quantity of water from a suspension of seeds in water, comprises a transfer spool which is housed in a transverse bore which intersects both a chamber and a duct. The spool has a diametral passage and a conduit which connects an orifice with an annular recess. The orifice is formed in the wall of the diametral passage and is of flow restricting dimensions. The annular recess can be placed in communication with a source of liquid pressure or a low pressure reservoir. The seed chamber is filled with a suspension of seeds in water. Water is caused to flow through the seed chamber and past the orifice with the flow being first in one direction and then in the opposite direction while the diametral passage is aligned with the chamber. A seed is captured on the orifice and the suspension of seeds in water is then flushed out of the diametral passage, the recess being in communication with the low pressure reservoir.

Abstract: A method of forming a conglomerated, bonded and preferably molded mass of particles of activated carbon bonded together by means of a polymer which is rendered adhesive by a solvent permeating a random and loose mass of the carbon particles and subsequently drained off.

Abstract: A high-speed pulse detection circuit comprises a Schmitt trigger stage connected to a second stage to form a bistable feedback loop having a working characteristic with an infinite gain loop.