Abstract: A food support for placing and removing food items from, and holding food items while in, an oven. The food support includes a mesh substrate coated with a heat resistant polymer. The coated mesh substrate includes a plurality of openings having a length or width of about 0.15 inch to about 0.5 inch and thickness of greater than about 35 mils. An upwardly angled edge reinforcement member formed of a coated edge substrate or a film is attached to the mesh substrate at an outer edge to provide support to the flexible mesh substrate, improve handling and/or keep items from falling off the food support.

Abstract: A gutter protection system for diverting debris and collecting water in a trough of a gutter connected to a building structure is disclosed. The gutter protection system can include a cap that can be positionally fixed in place at a predetermined angle of inclination above the gutter by a support member or bracket. The bracket can be supported by and connected to a hanger that connects the gutter to the building structure. The cap can be spaced apart from the building structure, including a roof of the building structure.

Abstract: A computerized system and method that predicts individual steer or heifer feed requirements to compute daily or end of period cost of weight gain, feed efficiency, and carcass composition and to allocate feed fed to a pen of animals to the individuals in that pen on a biological basis, considering differences known to affect requirements (breed type, body size, stage and rate of growth). The method includes predicting the daily feed requirement and feed efficiency (or feed conversion) for an individual animal taking into account genotype, stage of growth and environmental differences, and predicting substantially optimum number of days to achieve finished weight final results and daily weight gain for the individual animal taking into account genotype and environmental differences.

Abstract: A gutter protection system for diverting debris and collecting water in a trough of a gutter connected to a building structure is disclosed. The gutter protection system can include a cap that can be positionally fixed in place at a predetermined angle of inclination above the gutter by a support member or bracket. The bracket can be supported by and connected to a hanger that connects the gutter to the building structure. The cap can be spaced apart from the building structure, including a roof of the building structure.

Abstract: A gutter protection system for diverting debris and collecting water in a trough of a gutter connected to a building structure is disclosed. The gutter protection system can include a cap that can be positionally fixed in place at a predetermined angle of inclination above the gutter by a support member or bracket. The bracket can be supported by and connected to a hanger that connects the gutter to the building structure. The cap can be spaced apart from the building structure, including a roof of the building structure.

Abstract: A socket includes a mechanism to gain electrical access to integrated circuit package pins in an end-user system. A pin grid array (PGA) socket includes signal traces that lead to a connector accessible by test equipment. In one embodiment, the PGA socket is a zero insertion force (ZIF) socket, and in other embodiments, the PGA socket is a low insertion force (LIF) socket. In other embodiments, multiple PGA sockets are interconnected.

Abstract: A generally triangular truss, comprising a horizontal chord and a pair of inclined chords. The inclined chords are joined at an apex, and the horizontal chord extends between the inclined chords to form a base of the generally triangular truss. A pair of vertical ties extends between the inclined chords and the horizontal chord, and a horizontal tie extends between the two inclined chords. The chords and ties define therebetween a space in which to construct a living area. The joints between the chords and ties are defined by holes extending through the chords and ties, with the pins extending through adjacent ones of the holes to create pinned joints.

Abstract: A process or the liquid phase carbonylation of methanol or a reactive derivative thereof comprises contacting carbon monoxide with a liquid reaction composition comprising methanol or a reactive derivative thereof, a halogen promoter and a rhodium catalyst system comprising a rhodium component and a bidentate phosphorus-sulphur ligand, the ligand comprising a phosphorus dative center linked to a sulphur dative or anionic center by a substantially unreactive backbone structure comprising two connecting carbon atoms or a connecting carbon and a connecting phosphorus atom. Novel rhodium ligand complexes of formula [Rh(CO)L].sub.m and Rh(CO)LY] wherein Y is a halogen, m is a number less than 10 and L is ##STR1## wherein the R groups are independently selected from C.sub.1 to C.sub.20 alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, substituted aryl and optionally substituted aralkyl; the R.sup.5 groups are selected from hydrogen, C.sub.1 to C.sub.

Abstract: A compact gas-fired water heater in which a reservoir of bulk water is bath heated, indirectly by a gas burner-fired immersion tube and directly heated by mutual contact between the hot flue gases from the immersion tube outlet and feed water droplets as they pass each other in a contra-flow through apertures in a plurality of plates.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for detection of the onset of a physical change in state of a flowing fluid medium or component of a flowing fluid medium, e.g. freezing, boiling, sublimation, crystallization. A surface in contact with the fluid medium is maintained at a temperature that is an approximately fixed amount below or above the general stream temperature of the fluid, by means of a thermo-electric heat pump, the temperature difference being sensed by thermo-couple means to obtain a control signal for regulating the output of an amplifier that drives the heat pump. Upon occurrence of the physical change in state to be detected, the amplifier output will fall or rise rapidly as the system tries to regulate the power input to the pump to keep the temperature difference constant and this swing is detected by a signal generator monitoring the output of the amplifier.