Abstract: A stringed musical instrument having a bridge and a slide, such as a guitar, wherein the slide is carried by a finger on the strumming or picking hand of the musician, for contact with and movement along the strings in an area adjacent to the bridge.

Abstract: A string set of series-connected incandescent bulbs adapted to being connected to a source of alternating-current operating potential and in which all of the bulb filaments in the set are individually provided with a non-avalanche shunt circuit which substantially maintains the rated voltage of the bulb across each of the bulb sockets whether or not an operative bulb occupies its respective socket and whereby the illumination of each remaining operative bulb continues to be substantially unchanged and substantially the same rated current continues to flow through said string set despite the absence of a plurality of bulbs from their respective sockets.

Abstract: A toy animal, such as a soft sculpture, is integrated with a design imprinted or depicted on an article of clothing, wherein the design depicts a habitat for the toy animal. Preferably, the design is related to a pocket, so that the animal enters the habitat by being placed in the pocket. Alternatively, or in addition, the toy animal may be appropriately mounted on the design by Velcro or other fastener means.

Abstract: A toy animal, such as a soft sculpture, is integrated with a design imprinted or depicted on an article of clothing, wherein the design depicts a habitat for the toy animal. Preferably, the design is related to a pocket, so that the animal enters the habitat by being placed in the pocket. Alternatively, or in addition, the toy animal may be appropriately mounted on the design by Velcro(TM) or other fastener means.

Abstract: An electrical overstress composite of conductor/semicondcutor particles including particles in the 100 micron range, micron range, and submicron range, distributed in a densely packed homogeneous manner, a minimum proportion of 100 angstrom range insulative particles separating the conductor/semiconductor particles, and a minimum proportion of insulative binder matrix sufficient to combine said particles into a stable coherent body.

Abstract: An electrical overstress protection composite of electrical conductor/semiconductor particles including particles in the 100 to 10 micron range, micron range, and submicron range, distributed in a densely packed homogeneous manner, a minimum proportion of 100 angstrom range insulative particles separating the conductor/semiconductor particles, and a minimum proportion of insulative binder matrix sufficient to combine said particles into a stable coherent body.

Abstract: (all-E)-2,7,-dimethylocta-2,4,6-triene-1,8-dial-.sup.13 C.sub.4 is synthesized from commercially available and relatively inexpensive starting compounds, and the key starting compound is triethyl phosphonoacetate-.sup.13 C.sub.2. The .sup.13 C labeled dial is useful as an intermediate in synthesizing .sup.13 C labeled carotenoids.

Abstract: Phenacyl phosphonate adducts of serine hydrolases temporarily inhibit or inactivate the serine hydrolases. The serine hydrolases are activated by intramolecularly catalyzed dephosphonylation of the adduct over a period of time. Half-lives for dephosphonylation in the range of about 30 to 500 minutes have been observed at physiological pH's.

Abstract: Phenacyl phosphonate adducts of serine hydrolases temporarily inactivate the hydrolases. The hydrolases are reactivated by intramolecularly catalyzed dephosphonylation of the adduct over a period of time. Half-lives for dephosphonylation in the range of about 30 to 500 minutes have been observed at physiological pH's.

Abstract: A thin flexible laminate for overlay application on the pins of a connector or other circuit element, having an electrically insulating substrate, a conductive lamina of apertured pin receiving pads and a separate ground strip adjacent the pads, and an electrically insulating cover lamina, the substrate and cover having apertures aligned with the pad apertures, the cover having second apertures exposing adjacent edges of said pads and ground strip, with an electrical overstress pulse responsive composite material positioned in the second apertures and bridging the pads and the ground strip.

Abstract: An arrangement for protection of electrical equipment from electrical overstress pulses or transients using an electrical coupling to ground through a non-linear resistance having a high resistance at normal voltages and a very low resistance in response to an excessively high voltage pulse of transient, wherein the non-liner resistance is interposed between two contraposed faces of two electrodes, and at least one of said electrodes is a thin planar element whose said face is a thin edge of the planar element.

Abstract: An electrical overstress composite of conductor/semiconductor particles including particles in the 100 micron range, micron range, and submicron range, distributed in a densely packed homogeneous manner, a minimum proportion of 100 angstrom range insulative particles separating the conductor/semiconductor particles, and a minimum proportion of insulative binder matrix sufficient to combine said particles into a stable coherent body.

Abstract: Magnetic recording of a data contiuum is effected by means of sequential impulses of recording current. The impulses occur at substantially regular intervals providing samples of the data continuum. The impulses are of very short time duration, in that each impulse extends for only a fraction of the time interval that is required for a point on the record medium to traverse the effective recording field of the record head. The time spacing between impulses is approximately equal to said time interval, thereby providing a magnetic recording continuum corresponding to said data continumm. Certain of said impulses are indicative of data transitions, and other of said impulses are sustaining impulses occurring between data transition impulses. The sustaining impulses are of the same polarity sense as the respective immediately preceding transition impulse, but of lesser amplitude to obtain magnetic recording equalization over the recorded continuum between successive transition impulses.

Abstract: Magnetic recording of a data continuum is effected by means of sequential impulses of recording current. The impulses occur at regular intervals providing samples of the data continuum. The impulses are of very short time duration, in that each impulse extends for only a small fraction of the time interval that is required for a point on the record medium to traverse the effective recording field of the record head. The time spacing between impulses is approximately equal to said time interval, thereby providing a magnetic recording continuum corresponding to said data continuum.

Abstract: An adjustable mounting block assembly, particularly for embossing die elements used with cutting, scoring and/or punching dies, having a block adjustably mounted within a frame. The perimeter of the block is spaced from the frame, and adjustable opposed spacers extend between the block and the frame so as to adjust the position of the block within the frame.

Abstract: A carrying bag formed of a plurality of panels adapted to be folded over each other and to be thus fastened together to facilitate carrying of the bag and its contents. When the panels are unfolded, the bag is adapted to be hung on a vertical wall. The panels carry a plurality of pockets specifically designed for housing selected instruments or implements. Stays are provided as stiffeners in the direction of the fold lines.

Abstract: A magnetically recorded representation of an electrical binary waveform is transduced to an electrical signal wherein the binary waveform transitions are represented by peaks in the electrical signal. A delayed replica of the transduced signal is formed, and at least one of the transduced signal and replica signal is dynamically biased. These two signals are then compared to detect relative polarity reversals therebetween and to generate a binary waveform whose transitions correspond to said reversals and is therefore a replica of the magnetically recorded binary waveform.

Abstract: Magnetic recording of a data continuum is effected by means of sequential impulses of recording current. The impulses occur at regular intervals providing samples of the data continuum. The impulses are of very short time duration, in that each impulse extends for only a small fraction of the time interval that is required for a point on the record medium to traverse the effective recording field of the record head. The time spacing between impulses is approximately equal to said time interval, thereby providing a magnetic recording continuum corresponding to said data continuum.

Abstract: A separate opaque reticle display attachment for a rifle or the like equipped with a telescopic sight. The user sights through the telescopic sight with his bore axis eye while simultaneously viewing an opaque reticle display screen which is aligned with his other eye. The display includes a cross-hairs aiming reticle. Transducers gather information relative to wind velocity and direction, ambient temperature, relative humidity, target elevation, and the like, which affect the ballistic trajectory of a projectile fired from the rifle. This information along with range information is fed to a microprocessor, which adjusts the position of the cross-hairs reticle on the display for proper aiming of the rifle. The user, by simultaneously viewing through the telescopic sight with one eye and viewing the opaque reticle display with the other eye, combines or superposes the two images into a single field of vision to aim the rifle in accordance with the position of the cross-hairs reticle.

Abstract: A stable combustion fuel emulsion of a petroleum fuel having a small percentage of water dispersed therein as droplets of a size of about 0.5 micron, or less, formed by high energy rotary impact milling the petroleum fuel and water together.