Abstract: There is described a method of monitoring the fault gases in the headspace of a transformer and providing an indication of transformer conditions.

Abstract: The invention relates to compositions and methods useful in the electrophoretic transport of target analytes to a detection electrode comprising a self-assembled monolayer (SAM). Detection proceeds through the use of an electron transfer moiety (ETM) that is associated with the target analyte, either directly or indirectly, to allow electronic detection of the ETM.

Abstract: Apparatus for detecting a breath pattern of a breathing patient having lungs and a nose and mouth in communication with the lungs and breathing through the nose and/or mouth and creating an airflow into and out of the lungs. The apparatus comprises a sensor in close proximity to the face of the patient for detecting said airflow to provide a first channel of airflow information in an analog format. An analog-to-digital converter is provided for converting the first channel of airflow information in an analog format to a first channel of airflow information in a digital format. A filter is provided for filtering the airflow information in a digital format in the first channel of information to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal to provide filtered airflow information. An estimated volume airflow estimator operates on the filtered airflow information for estimating the amount of air volume inhaled and exhaled by the patient to provide a signal representing the estimated volume of air.

Abstract: Nonvolatile memory cell and process in which a control gate or a thick dielectric film is used as a mask in the formation of a floating gate and also as a step in the formation and alignment of a select gate. The floating gate is relatively thin and has a side wall with a rounded curvature which, in some embodiments, serves as a tunneling window for electrons migrating to the select gate during erase operations. In other embodiments, the gate oxide beneath the floating gate is relatively thin, and the electrons tunnel through the gate oxide to the source region in the substrate below.

Abstract: A mold with integral screen comprising a body of material having a surface, the body has a grid-like pattern of vacuum holes extending through the body of material and opening through said surface and permitting a vacuum to be supplied to said surface, a screen overlying said surface, said screen and said body being formed of the same material as the body and being integral.

Abstract: Irreversible cysteine protease inhibitors based upon an alkene bond being conjugated to an electron withdrawing group are disclosed. The inhibitor structure also provides a targeting peptide which is specific for different cysteine proteases. The method of making the inhibitors, and methods of using the inhibitors to inhibit cysteine proteases and for therapy are disclosed.

Abstract: An electronic eternity clock is powered by solar cells. The LCD segment display is shut down during the night by the use of a sensing circuit utilizing sampling pulses from an associated microcontroller which turns a transistor on and off which is connected to a floating ground between the solar cell and an isolating diode, both series connected across the rechargeable battery.

Abstract: A deferred graphics pipeline processor comprising a texture unit and a texture memory associated with the texture unit. The texture unit applies texture maps stored in the texture memory, to pixel fragments. The textures are MIP-mapped and comprise a series of texture maps at different levels of detail, each map representing the appearance of the texture at a given distance from an eye point. The texture unit performs tri-linear interpolation from the texture maps to produce a texture value for a given pixel fragment that approximates the correct level of detail. The texture memory has texture data stored and accessed in a manner which reduces memory access conflicts and thus improves throughput of said texture unit.

Abstract: An analytical device comprising a surfactant-treated porous reaction membrane having an exposed sample-contacting surface and at least one receptor area located in a limited region of the exposed sample-contacting surface. The limited region has a higher concentration of surfactant than areas of the sample-contacting surface that are peripheral to the limited region. To make the device, a surfactant-containing solution comprising at least 0.2% surfactant is added to the reaction membrane and allowed to dry. Then, a receptor reagent is added to a limited region of the reaction membrane. In the assay, the surfactant causes the liquid sample to flow faster through the portion(s) of the reaction membrane where receptor molecules are located.

Abstract: An attachment is retrofittably attachable (and detachable) to a conventional hammer to render the hammer head magnetic for purposes of starting a metallic fastener such as a nail. The attachment includes a cup-like housing within which is disposed a magnetic unit that includes at least one magnet. One surface of the magnetic unit magnetically attaches the unit to the striking surface of the hammer head. The head of a metallic fastener is magnetically attachable to the other surface of the magnetic unit.

Abstract: A data shifting capability that permits sorting the data in addition to searching for obtaining real-time performance in color, with high quality imagery through a simple search of a spacial database based on a rectangularly shaped search region or range search. A sorting Magnitude Comparison Content Addressable Memory (SMCCAM) performs a range search, introducing a conservative approximation of the idea Occluding Region, and provides a MCCAM wherein the data words stored in the fields are shifted to corresponding fields in an adjacent word, based on the magnitude comparisons. The 3D graphics method stores the parameters of a polygon span in a spatial database and a query operation is performed on the database to determine which of those spans, or portions of spans, are visible, and applies a rule for comparing a new span portion to an old span portion on a subspan-by-subspan basis, thereby providing additional polygon edge information within a raster line, providing anti-aliasing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for digital communications that provides high data rate wireless connections with bandwidth efficiency. The creation of multiple channels (that share the same time-frequency region) between the transmitter and the receiver is achieved by sampling the wavefield space with respect to the spatial domain. The wavefield space is the space spanned by the channel parameters that characterize the multipath fading environment. At the transmitter, symbols are simultaneously modulated and transmitted using signals that occupy the same frequency portion of the spectrum, but are distinguishable because different is their position in the wavefield space. The received signals are optimally processed to extract the digital information. The optimum demodulator estimates the wavefield space parameters without any training sequence or signal and performs optimum separation of the different signals to obtain the multiple streams.

Abstract: Apparatus, system, and method for a new direct commands including a Write Signature command and a Read Signature Command for use in a computer system. The Write Signature Command and associated hardware structure allow an external configurator to write a signature to a controller. The Read Signature Command allows the signature to be read from the controller that was previously written to for verification, and with appropriate parameters selected (for example, a different ID), to read the signature from the partner of the addressed controller. The signature is retained by each partner of the controller-pair for reading by the host and by its partner. Provision of this capability advantageously provides the external configurator the means for determining the partner of a particular controller.

Abstract: A laminated pad of gauze (10), cellulose, sponge (18), abrasive tiles or other functional materials, can be attached to a glove (14) or an affixed adhesive layer (12). A protective sheet (13) may be provided over the adhesive layer to protect it prior to use. The pad is attached, using the adhesive, to the back (15) of a glove or to garments or body surfaces or work surfaces. The pad is arranged to cleanse, wet or shape tool nibs and to hold small parts for future usage The pad can also be attached with a strap (32.

Abstract: The disclosure provides sunscreen compositions comprising a carrier for topical administration and photoresponsive first sunscreen agents which are capable of undergoing intramolecular photorearrangements to form second sunscreen agents. The second sunscreen agents absorb more ultraviolet radiation than the first sunscreen agents. The sunscreen composition may comprise the prephotorearrangement first sunscreen agent, the photorearranged second sunscreen agent, a combination of the first and second sunscreen agents, or any of the above in combination with a known sunscreen agent.

Abstract: An electrical interconnect device for a planar fuel cell having solid oxide electrolyte, a cathode and a nickel-containing anode comprises a plate-like chromium-containing substrate having fuel gas-flow channels on one side and an oxidation-resistant coating on surfaces of the one side adapted to contact the anode. The coating comprises an outer oxygen barrier layer for electrically contacting the anode comprising Ni, a noble metal except Ag or an alloy of one or more of these metals and an electrically conductive metal barrier layer comprising Nb, Ta, Ag or alloys of one or more of these metals between the substrate and the outer layer.

Abstract: A two-dimensional (2D) filter is disclosed that accomplishes flicker filtering with virtually no loss of image resolution. The 2D filter operates without adaption and only on the non-detail portions of the original image. The filter works first in the horizontal (x-axis) direction by separating the high-pass (detail, high-resolution) image elements from the low-pass (blurred, low-resolution) elements. A vertical (y-axis) flicker filter is applied to the low-pass elements and the result is summed with the high-pass elements. Thus, the detail elements are not subjected to flicker filtering and, as a result, remain well-defined while flicker is eliminated from the overall image.

Abstract: The invention provides shuttle vectors, and methods of using shuttle vectors, capable of expression in, at least, a mammalian cell. Furthermore, the shuttle vectors are capable of replication in at least yeast, and optionally, bacterial cells. Also provided is a method wherein yeast are transformed with a shuttle vector as provided herein. Heterologous nucleic acids flanked by 5′ and 3′ ends identical to a homologous recombination site within the shuttle vector are introduced to the transformed yeast and allowed to homologously recombine with the shuttle vector such that they are inserted into the vector by the yeast organism. The shuttle vector is then recovered and transferred to a mammalian cell for expression.

Abstract: A multiple socket power connector assembly for use with a printed circuit board having at least one first trace extending to an array of first interconnect holes in the printed circuit board and at least one second trace extending to an array of second interconnect holes in the printed circuit board. The connector assembly comprises a connector housing having a base and a wall extending upwardly from the base. First and second conductive sockets are carried by the connector housing in vertically spaced-apart positions relative to the base and are accessible from the wall. A first set of pin members extending from the base and electrically coupled to the first conductive socket engage the array of first interconnect holes in the printed circuit board. A second set of pin members extending from the base and electrically coupled to the second conductive socket engage the array of second interconnect holes in the printed circuit board.

Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for detecting nucleic acid sequences. Probes comprising a crosslinking agent are combined with a sample which may comprise a target sequence which is complementary to the probe. Hybridization is allowed to occur between complementary sequences. The crosslinking agent is activated. Covalent bonds are formed between the probe and the target sequence if they are hybridized to one another. The crosslinked nucleic acids can then be detected to indicate the presence of the target sequence. Also provided are kits comprising reagents.