Abstract: Apparatus for producing an ovenable shaped article of polyethylene terephthalate wherein the polyethylene terephthalate is heated to a temperature in which it is in a thermoformable plastic state, formed as a sheet, locally cooled to form a skin on the surface of the sheet whale maintaining the sheet as a whole in the thermoformable plastic state and vacuum forming the shaped article within cavities on a rotating drum. The cavities are additionally provided with controlled heaters to heat the shaped article to impart thereto a degree of crystallinity of at least about 20% and the sheet is laterally and longitudinally tensioned after removal from the drum to prevent distortion.

Abstract: Conjugates of HA protein of influenza virus suitable for formulation as a vaccine for obtaining a strong immune response to the HA protein are formed by separating whole HA protein from the influenza virus by detergent extraction or by providing whole HA protein by recombinant procedure, treating the HA protein with hydroxylamine to form free sulfhydryl groups in the cytoplasmic domain of the protein, and cross-linking the free sulfhydryl group-containing HA protein to itself using a bis-maleimide linker or to a maleimide-modified diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid or influenza NP protein or other carrier molecule. The procedure is applicable to other proteins which can be separated from a cellular material, such as a virus, and which contain thioester bonds convertible to sulfhydryl groups.

Abstract: A method and system for producing a signature which characterizes an audio broadcast signal for use in broadcast signal recognition, wherein the signature is based on a comparison of time-displaced frequency band values each representing a respective frequency band of the audio broadcast signal. Each of a first group of the frequency band values is compared with a respective value from the second group representing portions of the audio broadcast signal within the same predetermined frequency band. At least a part of the signal portions represented by the second group were broadcast prior to the signal portions represented by the first group, and a signature is formed based on the comparison of the first and second groups.

Abstract: A composite that includes a reaction injection molded matrix into which carbon fibrils have been incorporated, and a molding composition suitable for preparing such a composite. The invention also features a composite that includes a premix in which carbon fibrils have been incorporated into a resin matrix, and the molded product of the premix.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method and means for the treatment of a viral infection and for reducing the rate of decrease in CD4 lymphocyte counts in a subject having a viral infection. It relates, in particular, to a use of an extract of corms of the family Hypoxidaceae in the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of a viral infection; to the use of the said extract in the preparation of a medicament for reducing the rate of decrease of CD4 lymphocyte counts in a subject with a viral infection; to a method of treating a viral infection, to a method of reducing the rate of decrease in CD4 lymphocyte counts in a subject having a viral infection; to a medicament for the treatment of a viral infection, and to a medicament for reducing the rate of CD4 lymphocyte counts in a subject having a viral infection.

Abstract: This invention relates to a new electrochemiluminescent (ECL) label for oligonucleotides using phosphoramidite chemistry.

Abstract: A process is described for preparing trifluoromethyl ketones of the formula I ##STR1## where R has the given meanings, wherein an alcohol of the formula II ##STR2## is reacted with a compound of the formula IVYO.sub.n H (IV)where n has the given meaning.

Abstract: The dosage response of humans to conjugate vaccines comprising a bacterial polysaccharide and a strongly-immunogenic carrier protein is determined in animals by coadministering to the animal unconjugated strongly-immunogenic carrier protein in an amount corresponding, on a weight-related basis, to that administered to the human.

Abstract: Apparatus for compensating for positioning, pointing and/or orientation errors caused by deflections of structural members and components of a high performance machine or device and/or for reducing vibration inputs to such machine or device and/or for micro-positioning such machine or device so as to improve the operational performance of such machine or device. The apparatus utilizes one or more active-type actuators, such as piezoelectric ceramic type actuators, which are arranged in a predetermined manner relative to the machine or device. A servo control device operating in accordance with a predetermined algorithm may be utilized for controlling the actuators or, alternatively, the apparatus may operate in an open loop manner.

Abstract: The invention relates to water-emulsifiable granules of crop protection agents composed of the pesticidal active substance in liquid or dissolved form and an at least partially water-soluble shell-forming structural material, to the use of these granules as novel, advantageous formulations of crop protection agents, and to processes for their preparation. It furthermore relates to the general use of polyvinyl alcohols as shell-forming structural materials in the preparation of water-emulsifiable granules which contain organic compounds dissolved in a high-boiling solvent or solvent mixture.

Abstract: Autoantibodies which enhance the rate of a chemical reaction of a substrate, processes for their preparation, their use and compositions thereof are disclosed. In particular, an autoantibody capable of catalyzing the hydrolysis of the peptide bond between amino acid residues Thr.sup.7 -Asp.sup.8, Arg.sup.14 -Lys.sup.15, Gln.sup.16 -Met.sup.17, Met.sup.17 -Ala.sup.18, Ala.sup.18 -Val.sup.19, Lys.sub.20 -Lys.sup.21, Lys.sup.21 -Tyr.sup.22 in the neurotransmitter vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) is disclosed.

Abstract: An airline ticket printer includes a magnetic reading and writing station that has a read/write head for recording information on, or reproducing information from, a magnetic stripe carried on a ticket. The printer also includes a printing station located after the magnetic read/write head. A plurality of separate storage bins are provided for storing different ticket blanks; each bin has its own feed device. The ticket blanks are prefed from the storage bins along separate guide paths to separate staging areas prior to these paths joining to form a common path. The magnetic read/write head and the printer are located along this common path.

Abstract: Autoantibodies which enhance the rate of a chemical reaction of a substrate, processes for their preparation, their use and compositions thereof are disclosed. In particular, an autoantibody capable of catalyzing the hydrolysis of the peptide bond between amino acid residues 16 and 17 in the neurotransmitter vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) is disclosed. Human anti-thyroglobulin antibodies isolated by chromatography on protein-A and immobilized Tg hydrolyzed radiolabeled Tg, as shown by generation of several lower-sized products on SDS-electrophoresis gels. The activity displayed a K.sub.m value of a 39 nM property typical of an antibody-combining site. Tg-antibodies also hydrolyzed commercially available peptidyl-methylcoumarinamide (MCA) substrates, displaying a preference for arg-MCA and lys-MCA containing conjugates. The hydrolysis of pro-phe-arg-MCA was characterized by K.sub.m (17 .mu.M) and k.sub.cat 0.06 min.sup.-1. Peptidyl-MCA hydrolysis was inhibited potently by thyroglobulin (K.sub.

Abstract: Synergistically increased effects against undesirable plant growth are achieved by a combined application of an active substance of the type A with an active substance of the type B, where type A represents the herbicides glufosinate (A1), glyphosate (A2), or salts thereof, and type B represents sulfonyl ureas of the formula (B) ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is a radical from the group comprising 2-ethoxyphenoxy, 2-propoxyphenoxy, 2-isopropoxyphenoxy, 2-methoxycarbonylphenyl, 3-(dimethylaminocarbonyl)-pyrid-2-yl, 3-ethylsulfonylpyrid-2-yl, 3-[N-(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl)-N-(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylsulfonyl)amino]pyrid-2-yl, (N-methyl-N-methylsulfonyl)aminosulfonyl, 2-(2-chloroethoxy)phenyl, 2-(methoxycarbonyl)phenyl, 2-(meth-oxycarbonyl)thien-3-yl,with the remaining substituents as defined herein.

Abstract: This invention relates to a new electrochemiluminescent (ECL) label for oligonucleotides using phosphoramidite chemistry.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel amidine components of formula (II): ##STR1## A method for eliciting antibodies in an animal which bind to Lipid A or LPS comprising administering to the animal as an immunogen a composition comprising such a compound is also disclosed.

Abstract: A beam-to-column connection is suitable for connecting an H-beam to a column surface. The connection is defined at an end of the H-beam which has a web plate and a pair of flange plates. The connection comprises a web plate member integrally formed with the web plate of the H-beam; and a pair of flange plate members, each of which is integrally formed with the flange plates and has a tapered zone.