Abstract: As disclosed herein, the invention relates to a method of screening for a therapeutic for chronic myeloid leukemia. In an aspect, the invention relates to transgenic Drosophila. In an aspect, the invention relates to a Drosophila system for screening compounds treating chronic myeloid leukemia.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, there is provided a fishing line guide including a ring portion through which a fishing line passes and an attachment foot extending from the ring portion and attached to a fishing rod. The attachment foot may have stepped portions each formed on each of two side portions in a cross section of the attachment foot in a width direction of the attachment foot orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the attachment foot.

Abstract: A tubular reel seat for fishing rod includes a tubular movable hood and a trigger. The tubular movable hood is disposed on a front side of the reel seat, and includes a hood portion configured to cover a front-end portion of a reel foot of the fishing rod. The trigger is disposed in part of a circumference of an outer circumferential surface of the movable hood on an opposite side of the hood portion, the trigger is configured to be hooked by a finger from the front side.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a magnetic damping mechanism of a fishing reel, including a carrier having a magnet, a damping disc disposed on reel shaft and being rotatable together with the reel shaft, an adjustment knob partially exposed out of the side cover, a driving member engaged with the adjustment knob, and a base connected to the driving member. The base has a through hole for receiving the damping disc; a main spring, which enables the rocker arm to always have a trend to rotate away from the damping disc, is disposed on the base. When the magnetic lines are cut and the induced current is generated when the damping disc rotates together with the reel, the rocker arm is drawn close to the damping disc in the axial direction, to generate a greater damping force. That is, the faster the reel rotates, the more the rocker arm is drawn.

Abstract: A fishing line guide device for preventing snags and fish loss includes a rod and a cylinder. The cylinder is coupled to a bottom of the rod so that the cylinder is perpendicular to the rod. The rod is configured to be grasped in hands of a user, positioning the user to position the cylinder on a fishing line between a fishing pole and a hooked fish. The user is positioned to guide the line away from an obstruction as a fisherman reels in the line with the line sliding over the cylinder.

Abstract: A fishing system for fishing in a center console or smaller fishing boat in the big or rough seas is provided. The fishing system may include a teaser rigger mounted to the fishing boat, wherein a teaser release line is received through at least two pulleys and operatively associating a teaser to a boom. The fishing system may separately or in combination include a leader saver connected to a fishing rod in the fishing boat. The fishing system may separately or in combination include a non-skid material of fighting chair frictionally engaging a flat surface provided in the fishing boat.

Abstract: A fishing rod holder for holding a fishing rod. A base for the rod holder has a mounting interface. At least one forward pivot arm is pivotally connected to the base. At least one rear pivot arm is pivotally connected to the base. A forward rod support is connected to each forward pivot arm and a rear rod securing device is connected to each rear pivot arm. In a preferred embodiment the forward rod support includes two vertical bent prongs with each bent prong having locking indentions. A fishing line travel slot is also included to allow for free travel of the fishing line. Also, in a preferred embodiment the rear rod securing device includes a lower stationary arm rigidly connected to the rear pivot arm, an upper pivot arm pivotally connected to the lower stationary arm and a handle receiving indention. When securing the fishing rod, the fishing rod is compressed between the upper pivot arm and lower stationary arm and rests in the handle receiving indention.

Abstract: An insect trap comprising a trap shell having a first open end opposite a second open end and defining a trap interior having a triangular prism shape; a hanger for suspending the trap shell from an object, wherein a portion of the hanger extends into the trap interior; and an insect lure device suspended within the trap interior, the insect lure device comprising a lure wafer and a flexible container enclosing the lure wafer, wherein the lure wafer comprises an insect attractant chemical incorporated in a solid substrate such that, in a first stage, the insect attractant chemical controllably evaporates to a gaseous state into the flexible container, and wherein the flexible container is gas-permeable such that, in a second stage, the insect attractant chemical in the gaseous state passes through the flexible container into the trap interior.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the identification of beneficial insects and/or harmful organisms in a field for crop plants. The presence of a species in the field is captured by one or more sensors. One or a plurality of suggestions is/are generated as to which species it could be. Based on one or more models, the probability that the detected species could be a proposed species is calculated in each case. The site at which the species is detected, the detection time and preferably further parameters that affect the presence of the proposed species in the field are included in a model. The expressive capacity of the sensor or sensors is increased by means of the modeling.

Abstract: Wearable articles, such as adhesive tapes, for prevention of tick and other pest bites includes flexible substrates having first and second opposite sides. The first side includes an adhesive configured to adhere the article to a user's skin, while the second side includes an attractant site configured to attract the pest, and a trap site configured to trap the pest. Methods for making an adhesive tape for the prevention of tick bites include providing such a substrate, placing a skin adhesive on one surface, and placing a chemoattractant and tick or insect adhesive on the second surface.

Abstract: An agricultural machine applies liquid material to a field. Valve control signals control valves to apply the liquid material. Row pressure on the agricultural machine is sensed to identify when the valve is opened to apply the liquid material. A flow meter senses a flow of liquid applied to the field. The valve control signals are generated, based on the row pressure, and the sensed flow.

Abstract: A method of inhibiting dry material clogs in a work vehicle having an air boom assembly includes moving the work vehicle at a vehicle speed along a ground surface, moving dry material from a holding tank onto a conveyor, and operating the conveyor at a conveyor speed, the conveyor speed being at least partially dependent upon the vehicle speed, moving material from the conveyor into a boom assembly with a blower, dispensing the dry material onto the ground surface through a plurality of nozzles of the boom assembly, and comparing the conveyor speed to a maximum acceptable conveyor speed. If the conveyor speed is greater than the maximum acceptable conveyor speed, the method includes performing at least one of the following: alerting the operator that the conveyor speed is greater than the maximum acceptable speed, and reducing the vehicle speed to thereby reduce the speed of the conveyor.

Abstract: Provided are compounds of the formula (I) which are suitable for controlling animal pests, including arthropods and in particular insects, arachnids and nematodes, and in which the structural elements R1, p, T, G and U have the meanings given in the description, as are processes for their preparation and their use as insecticides.

Abstract: A smart micro-mouse trap is disclosed herein which can be used to trap and kill the mouse, rat, rodent, etc. instantly. The embodiment comprises an enclosure for the mouse, a beam to detect the mouse, a trap, a latch and a solenoid powered by an electrical circuit to activate the tripping mechanism as the mouse enters the trap and breaks the beam. The smart micro-mouse trap is advantageous and useful as it is inexpensive, easy to operate, durable and allows for sanitary disposal of the dead mice, rats, rodents without contact to human.

Abstract: A bird anti-collision film prevents birds from flying into windows by disrupting visible habitat reflections that might appear on the outside of the windows. The anti-collision film blocks and/or absorbs light that may normally be reflected by a window and also actively scatters, and fluoresces light creating an active light disturbance. The disrupted light includes a light range highly visible by many birds but only partially visible by humans. A textured surface in combination with a fluorescent dye in the anti-collision film increases the intensity and range of the light disturbance. The anti-collision film may be attached to the inside of a window providing the unique advantages of easy inside window installation and insulation from external weather conditions.

Abstract: A pest deterrent device includes one or more sensors configured to detect a presence of a pest, a controller configured to determine that the pest is detected based on output from the one or more sensors, a repelling array configured to generate a repellant in response to the controller determining that the pest is detected, and a communications array configured to wirelessly communicate with an external device. The communications array is configured to communicate with the external device to change a type of the repellent that is generated in response to the pest being detected.

Abstract: A pest control device comprising a capacitive sensor array including a plurality of sensor pads, the capacitive sensor array being configured to generate an electrical output signal indicating the state of each sensor pad, and an electronic controller electrically connected to the capacitive sensor array, the electronic controller including a processor and a memory including a plurality of instructions, which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to: receive the electrical output signals from the capacitive sensor array, determine a measured capacitance value for each sensor pad based on each electrical output signal, calculate a baseline for each sensor pad based on the measured capacitance value of the sensor pad, determine whether a difference between the measured capacitance value of at least one sensor pad and its corresponding baseline exceeds a first predetermined threshold, update a counter when the first predetermined threshold is exceeded, and record an event indicative of a presence

Abstract: A tablet containing at least amphotericin B deoxycholate, a substance with lubricating properties, a substance with disaggregating properties and a substance with aggregating properties, the tablet being usable in a device for preserving harvested corneas, in combination with a bottle (2) equipped with an openable and reclosable cap (7), where the bottle contains a sterile preserving liquid (3) having a pH of between 7.2 and 7.6 and wherein the tablet can be completely dissolved; in accordance with the method claimed, a harvested cornea being preservable in the preserving liquid in which the tablet has been dissolved, for up to at least 15 days at a temperature of between 2° C. and 10° C.

Abstract: The invention concerns a cryogenic system (1) for vitrifying a substance comprising biological material to be preserved in a receiving region of a thin tube (8), comprising a tank (10) containing a bath (11) of a cryogenic agent and a support member (80) mounted on said tank in a predetermined first position in which said tube is orientated upright, the receiving region being immersed in a liquid zone (17) of said bath, and an opening of said tube being situated above said bath, in a zone of ambient air above said bath, in order to introduce the substance into the tube, the support member being mounted on said tank in a second predetermined position, in which said receiving region is immersed in the liquid zone and said opening is situated immediately above said liquid zone, in a gaseous zone (18) of said bath above said liquid zone and below said zone of ambient air, and being raised from said second position

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to materials and methods for delivering substances to plants using light energy.

Abstract: A disinfestation article includes a base, external voids and internal voids formed in the base, pesticidal compound disposed in the external and internal voids. The pesticidal compound disposed in the external void being exposed to a surface of the base. The article may further comprise channels connecting one of the internal voids to one of the external voids. The pesticidal compound contains pesticidal particles selected from pyrethroid family or the like. Also claimed is a method of manufacturing which includes mixing pesticidal particles into a molten polymer material to form a mixture, injecting the mixture into a mold to form a molded part, and cooling the molded part to form said disinfestation article.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to herbicidal compositions and methods of use thereof, and more specifically to herbicidal compositions containing aspterric acid or a derivative thereof for use in inhibiting vegetative growth in plants.

Abstract: Methods of improving plant growth involve applying a first growth composition to a plant or part thereof during a first growth stage. The first growth composition includes a first active component combination comprised of auxin, gibberellin and cytokinin. The amount of cytokinin is less than the amount of auxin and gibberellin. The method also involves adjusting the amount of auxin, the amount of gibberellin, and/or the amount of cytokinin after the first growth stage, and applying a second growth composition to the plant or part thereof during a second growth stage. The second growth composition can include a second active component combination, different than the first, that includes a second amount of auxin, a second amount of gibberellin, and a second amount of cytokinin. In some examples, the method can also involve growing the plant to maturity, thereby improving growth of the plant.

Abstract: A control agent comprising, as an active ingredient, a specific quinoline derivative compound such as 8-fluoro-2,3-dimethyl-6-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-4-(methylcarbonyl)oxyquinoline, azoxystrobin, picoxystrobin, pyraclostrobin, kresoxim-methyl, trifloxystrobin, metominostrobin, orysastrobin, famoxasdone, fluoxastrobin, pyribencarb, cyazofamid, amisulbrom, flutolanil, mepronil, isofatamid, fluopyram, carboxin, thifluzamide, fluxapyroxad, furametpyr, penflufen, penthiopyrad, boscalid, diflumetorim, fluazinam, femrizone, fenpyroximate, or an acid addition salt of any of these compounds shows an excellent controlling effect on Mesostigmata mites.

Abstract: A synergistic microbicidal composition comprising: (a) 4,4-dimethyloxazolidine; and (b) pine oil.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers and N-oxides of those compounds, and their uses as insecticides.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a slurry comprising water, bentonite, and a compound selected from fertilizer, a plant growth regulator, a fungicide and an insecticide. The present invention also relates to an agricultural product comprising a slurry comprising water and bentonite, and a plant propagative material. Methods of using the bentonite to enhance a growth-related trait, such as drought tolerance, in a plant are also described.

Abstract: The invention of the present Application provides a standardized method to obtain an extract and the extract from leaves of Swinglea glutinosa, wherein the method yields an amount of extract that is about 60% the weight of the Swinglea glutinosa leaves.

Abstract: Conveyor ovens for cooking food product according to various embodiments include a tunnel having an entrance and an exit, a conveyor to move the food product through the tunnel, and a canopy at the entrance and/or at the exit of the tunnel. The canopy can include a top spaced above the conveyor, and a skirt extending downwardly toward the conveyor, wherein the top, skirt, and conveyor define a partially enclosed space through which food product carried by the conveyor passes. Some conveyors ovens have a first configuration in which a cooking chamber of the oven has a first length, and a second configuration in which the cooking chamber is extended to have a longer second length, wherein food product on the conveyor is cooked along the entire first length in the first configuration, and is cooked along the entire second length in the second configuration.

Abstract: A batter template system and related methods of forming custom pancakes. The batter template system can include one or more template mats made from flexible, non-stick materials that are suitable for use with food and can accommodate conventional cooking temperatures. The template mat can have thermal properties allowing for rapid heating and can be non-perforated. Each template mat can include a permanently etched design on one or both sides of a non-stick sheet. The template mat can be sized and shaped to fit onto a cooking surface of a countertop griddle, cooking pan or even range top surface. One or more pancake batters can be traced or otherwise applied to the etched design to form a pancake depicting a visual design element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the optimized provision of goods, in particular baked goods, for customer purchase, in particular in a supermarket, wherein goods are fed to at least one treatment device, in particular, to at least one baking oven and the goods are treated, in particular baked, in the treatment device and offered to customers for purchase. An operator is provided action recommendations via a display of a hardware device for loading the treatment devices with goods to be treated, wherein a computer program installed on a computer is provided for calculating the aforementioned action recommendations. The invention also relates to a corresponding system.

Abstract: A device for kneading dough, in particular a kneading drum, has a rotationally driven inner kneading drum and a rotationally driven outer kneading drum. The inner kneading drum is arranged within the hollow outer kneading drum, in particular in a concentric. The device includes a kneading drive, by means of which the inner kneading drum can be driven or adjusted in an oscillating manner in the direction of the inner kneading drum axis relative to the outer kneading drum and/or so as to carry out a defined deflection at an angle about the axis of the inner kneading drum relative to the outer kneading. The outer kneading drum has a number of kneading recesses which are distributed over the circumference and/or along the length of the outer kneading drum in a uniform manner in.

Abstract: A system for the automated coating of baked good with a water based icing is provided. In particular, a system for the automated movement of icing and controls of variables such as temperature, moisture, and/or flow rate of the icing is provided to maintain the characteristics of the icing for extended periods of operation of an associated coating system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a food product forming apparatus with a food forming member, which comprises a multitude of product cavities and a seal plate which sealingly cooperates with the surface of the mould drum.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-layered coextruded thermoplastic food casing comprising: at least one thermoplastic porous absorbing layer; and at least one layer having a barrier effect for water vapor and/or oxygen, wherein the at least one layer having a barrier effect for water vapor and/or oxygen has an average layer thickness in a range of from 5 to 60 ?m over the entire surface area, wherein the at least one thermoplastic porous absorbing layer comprises as a main component at least one thermoplastic polymer material selected from the group consisting of (co)polyamides and (co)polyolefins, wherein the at least one thermoplastic porous absorbing layer comprises areas having a reduced average layer thickness and areas having a non-reduced average layer thickness, wherein the average layer thickness of the at least one thermoplastic porous absorbing layer in areas having a non-reduced average layer thickness is in a range of from 10 to 200 ?m, wherein the average layer thickness in areas having a r

Abstract: The present invention provides a functional additive transferring (co)extruded thermoplastic food casing having a water vapor barrier and/or oxygen barrier effect wherein an inside surface of the thermoplastic food casing has a textured surface which forms a three-dimensional pattern of higher and lower retaining capacity for a functional additive, wherein the thermoplastic food casing having a textured surface in case of a monolayer casing or an inner layer comprising the inside surface having a textured surface in case of a multilayer casing comprises as a main component at least one thermoplastic polymer material selected from the group consisting of (co)polyamides, (co)polyolefins, (co)polyester and vinylidenchloride (co)polymers, wherein the (co)extruded thermoplastic food casing does not comprise a net and/or a material forming a net or any other three dimensional structure on its outside surface, wherein the average thickness of the thermoplastic food casing in the areas having a higher retaining capac

Abstract: Conveying assembly with overhead conveyor having shackles for suspending poultry carcasses by the legs with each shackle suspended from a hanger. A guide element may be disposed generally below and parallel to the overhead conveyor to prevent rotation of the shackles about a vertical axis. The guide element may be movable in the conveying direction and the stops can be mounted on the guide element.

Abstract: Disclosed is a centrifugal pump for pumping a heat-sensitive fluid foodstuff, comprising a volute casing having an inlet port and an outlet port for the heat sensitive fluid, the volute casing enclosing an impeller comprising a disc operably associated with an end of a shaft, said disc having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, said first surface facing the inlet of the casing and being provided with vanes, wherein the second surface of the disc of the impeller is exposed to a cooling medium. The centrifugal pump is suitable for reducing the built-up of fouling on the surface of the impeller disc facing the inlet of the casing and being provided with vanes.

Abstract: Provided is fermented milk for promoting elevation of amino acid concentration in the blood, by which elevation of amino acid concentration in the blood of a subject can be promoted. By making a subject ingest the fermented milk comprising a milk protein concentration of 1.9% by mass or more, elevation of amino acid concentration in the blood of the subject can be promoted.

Abstract: According to the embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a dry solid yogurt. The dry solid yogurt includes a vacuum freeze-dried product containing yogurt, non-fat powdered milk and dextrin.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-in-oil emulsion comprising 30-90 wt. % of a structured continuous fat phase and 10-70 wt. % of a dispersed aqueous phase, said structured continuous fat phase comprising: 95-99.9 wt. % fat, said fat having a solid fat content at 20° C. (N20) of 5-50% and a liquid oil content at 20° C. that equals 100%-N20; particulate anhydrous non-defibrillated cell wall material from plant parenchymal tissue, said particulate anhydrous non-defibrillated cell wall material having a particle size of between 25 ?m and 500 ?m; wherein the particulate anhydrous non-defibrillated cell wall material is present in the structured continuous fat phase in a concentration of 0.2-10% by weight of the liquid oil. Incorporation of the aforementioned particulate cell wall material in the fat phase of the water-in-oil emulsion makes it possible to reduce the amount of high melting (hard stock) fat that is required in the production of the emulsion.

Abstract: A fat composition comprises: greater than 45% by weight oleic acid; from 10% to 35% by weight stearic acid; and from 1% to 10% by weight palmitic acid; the percentages of acids referring to acids bound as acyl groups in glycerides in the fat composition and being based on the total weight of C8 to C24 fatty acids; and greater than 5% by weight of combined P2St, PSt2 and StStSt triglycerides based on total triglycerides present in the composition, and a weight ratio of (StOSt+POSt):(StStSt+PStSt) triglycerides of less than 3, wherein P is palmitic acid, O is oleic acid and St is stearic acid. The fat may be used in a marinade.

Abstract: The present invention provides the use of a composition obtainable from pulp from a plant in the theobroma genus, preferably cocoa pulp, or an extract of pulp from a plant in the theobroma genus, preferably cocoa pulp, as an ingredient in a foodstuff, preferably a confectionery product.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for providing a multi-layered, hollow, chocolate figure with a print in edible colour preparation, comprising providing one half of a hollow, chocolate figure with one or more types of edible colour preparation by means of an elastic pad, characterised in that the printing takes place at a pressure of between 8 and 12 bar and wherein the figure is situated in a mould-half during printing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a food or beverage product, comprising the steps of: providing an ingredient composition comprising, micellar caseins and whey proteins and having a pH of 6.1-7.1 and a concentration of 1-15 wt. % of proteins, and wherein the ingredient composition has a casein to whey protein ratio of 90/10-60/40, adding 3-25 mM divalent cations to provide a concentration of 3-8 mM free divalent cations in the ingredient composition, homogenising the ingredient composition; and subsequently pasteurising and stirring the ingredient composition at a temperature of 80°-100° C. for a period of 0.5-3 min to form agglomerated proteins comprising caseins and beta-lactoglobulin from the whey proteins, the agglomerates having a size of 5-50 microns as measured by D(4, 3) mean diameter. The invention relates also to a food or beverage product comprising aggregated proteins comprising micellar casein and whey protein aggregates, wherein the product has a pH of 6.1-7.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to compositions beneficial for ruminant administration. Particularly, the disclosure provides compositions formulated for ruminants that comprise beneficial microbes.

Abstract: Protein-rich feedstuffs which contain at least one protein feed material and either betaine or at least one feed product which contains betaine are resistant to reduction of digestibility as a result of heat damage during drying.

Abstract: A system of particle detectors can determine the location of a source without rotations or iterations. Embodiments of the system may include a middle detector flanked by two side detector panels, without shields or collimators. The middle detector may be positioned toward the front and orthogonal to the side detectors. By comparing a ratio of the detector data to a predetermined angular correlation function, the system can determine both the sign and magnitude of the source angle in real-time. Embodiments of the system can rapidly and automatically localize sources including industrial, medical, and other benign sources as well as nuclear and radiological weapons materials, whether in vehicles or cargo containers, and can provide improved sensitivity in walk-through personnel portal applications, enable enhanced detection of hidden weapons by a mobile area scanner, and enable a hand-held survey meter that indicates the radiation level as well as the location of the source of radiation.

Abstract: The present invention provides means for reducing the culture medium odor of a beverage resulting from lactic acid bacteria while maintaining the clean sensation of the beverage, for a beverage containing a lactic acid bacterium powder and a high-intensity sweetener. The beverage according to the present invention contains a lactic acid bacterium powder, a high-intensity sweetener, 10 to 5000 ppb of nootkatone and 2.5 to 2000 ppb of linalool. It is preferable that the mass ratio of linalool and nootkatone be nootkatone/linalool=1 to 1000.

Abstract: The invention is a mechanism, sized for insertion into a commercially-available water bottle, for instantaneously producing a water-based beverage without spillage that comprises a concentrate fully encompassed by an instantaneously dissolvable water-soluble film with water-soluble access members about the film that have a faster water-dissolution rate than the film. The film is thick enough to retain the concentrate when at room temperature and not in contact with water, but thin enough to dissolve very quickly, e.g. within five seconds, when contacted with water.