Abstract: The invention is a machine for learning the bodily position and motion known as a swing in the game of golf to form correct golf posture based on a player's height, and more specifically the player's distance from the hips to the ground and from the shoulders to the hips and by the motions during the golf swing. The machine learns the bodily position and motions of the golf player in hitting the ball. The machine includes two plates arranged so that they can move on a column, one at the height of the player's hips and the other at the height of the shoulders, the latter with arms leaving said plate and ending in a hinged belt for holding the hips and the other having a lower arm and upper arm terminating in a shoulder bar for holding the player's shoulders.

Abstract: A piston pulling apparatus constructed like a mandrel; having top and bottom ends and a cylindric periphery body defined by an array of piston bowl gripping segments having tops and bottoms and lying longitudinally between the top and bottom ends. The top end and the proximate tops of segments are held to each other with a fixed radius and circumference. The bottom end and its proximate array of bottoms are coupled to enable the radial expansion of the array from its bottoms. A threaded shaft lies axially within the body and is coupled to the bottom end to move it vertically upward axially, to displace the segment array bottoms radially, to increase the effective circumference of this apparatus near its bottom end; which, during the expansion, can be positioned to grip the inner sides of a piston bowl.

Abstract: For use in a sorption analysis system, a method compensating for measuring error due to the time-dependent evaporation of liquid coolant and the resulting change in the level of the coolant and temperature increase around the stem of the sample cell, during a gas sorption analysis of a sample in the sample cell. This error compensation does not inhibit coolant evaporation and is without recourse to mechanical means or other physical contrivances for causing the system to act as if the coolant were not evaporating. This method employs fixed and time-dependent data, including: changing coolant level and sample cell stem temperature changes, both of which can be obtained off-line, cold zone volume changes, and volumes of adsorptive gas transferred into the sample cell, to generate progressive error correction; whereby, system output is being corrected throughout the duration of the sorption analysis.

Abstract: Disclosed are a spectrofluorimetrically detectable luminescent composition and processes for enhancing the luminescence of one or more lanthanide-containing macrocycles. The luminescent composition comprises a micelle-producing amount of at least one surfactant, at least one energy transfer acceptor lanthanide element macrocycle compound having an emission spectrum peak in the range from 500 to 950 nanometers, and a luminescence-enhancing amount of at least one energy transfer donor compound of yttrium or a 3-valent lanthanide element having atomic number 59-71, provided that the lanthanide element of said macrocycle compound and the lanthanide element of said energy transfer donor compound are not identical. The addition of gadolinium(III) in the presence of other solutes to both the prototype and the difunctionalized europium, samarium, and terbium macrocyclic complexes, which were taught in our U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,373,093 and 5,696,240, enhances their luminescence.

Abstract: Effluent from a septic tank is trickled through a first filter canister. The thus filtered effluent is recycled a plurality of times through the same filter canister, further to cleanse the effluent. A small portion of the recycling effluent is directed outward into a drip irrigation system. A second filter canister, not in line with the first canister, also receives some of the recycling, filtered effluent, for plural recycles therethrough, to enhance the filtering process, at the same time that other of the filtered effluent is being recycled through the first filter canister. The filtered effluent from the two canisters are permitted to combine prior to subsequent recycling.

Abstract: A post operative shoe system facilitating recovery or the foot surgical patient is disclosed. The shoe system includes a first pair of shoes employed immediately following surgery, i.e., up to 6-8 weeks following surgery, and a second pair of shoes employed after this initial convalescent period, for a period up to 3-4 months. The first pair of shoes includes in each shoe a pre-configured rigid shoe sole, a counter assembled to the shoe sole which forms a heel, and a releasably adjustable double closure system between inner and outer vamps attached to the shoe sole and a tongue assembled to one of the vamps for releasable adjustable attachment to the other of said vamps. The second pair of shoes includes in each shoe a pre-configured rigid shoe sole with an inner and outer vamp assembled to each shoe sole which is releasably adjustably attached to one another across the top of and around the heel of a user's foot.

Abstract: A method for making, storing and using a surgical graft from human amniotic membrane; the resulting graft; and the storage solution. The amniotic membrane is obtained from human placenta, from which the chorion has been separated. Sheets of the amniotic membrane are cut to size and mounted on filter paper. The cells of the amniotic membrane are killed, preferably while being frozen and thawed in the storage solution. The storage solution comprises a culture medium and a hyperosmotic agent, wherein the hydration of the amniotic membrane is maintained. The membrane can be impregnated with therapeutic agents, prior to storage, for use in post surgical healing or other therapies.

Abstract: A monolithic, reinforced concrete framework for a multi-level, multi-unit building results from the utilization of factory prefabricated and finished wall panels, floor/ceiling panels and utility core modules, the juxtaposition of which, without forms, defines volumetric beam voids. The beam voids are exterior to the wall panels, floor/ceiling panels and core modules. Wall panels include light gage studs, which are loadbearing studs, and light gage column frames. Beam voids and column frames for a building level are poured with concrete at one time. Each building level is erected and poured in one day; and the next level can commence the following morning, without need for exterior scaffolds. The beams and columns carry the weight of the building down into the foundation. Large open areas, such as lobbies, can be provided, using building weight supporting trussed wall panels having support for the beams overlying the open area.

Abstract: A monolithic, reinforced concrete framework for a multilevel, multi-unit building results from the utilization of factory prefabricated and finished wall panels, floor/ceiling panels and utility core modules, the juxtaposition of which, without forms, defines volumetric beam voids. The beam voids are exterior to the wall panels, floor/ceiling panels and core modules. Wall panels include light gage studs, which are loadbearing studs, and light gage column frames. Beam voids and column frames for a building level are poured with concrete at one time. Each building level is erected and poured in one day; and the next level can commence the following morning, without need for exterior scaffolds. The beams and columns carry the weight of the building down into the foundation.

Abstract: Symmetrically di-functionalized water soluble macrocyclic complexes of lanthanide, actinide and yttrium ions were obtained by metal templated, Schiff-base, cyclic condensation of: (1) a functionalized 1,2-diaminoethane and a dicarbonyl compound selected from the group consisting of 2,6-dicarbonylpyridine, 2,6-diformylpyridine, 2,5-dicarbonylfuran, 2,5-diformylfuran, 2,5-dicarbonyl-thiophene and 2,5-diformylthiophene; or (2) 1,2-diaminoethane and a ring-substituted heterocyclic dicarbonyl compound selected from a group consisting of substituted 2,6-dicarbonylpyridine, substituted 2,6-diformylpyridine, substituted 2,5-dicarbonylfuran, substituted 2,5-diformylfuran; substituted 2,5-dicarbonyl thiophene, and substituted 2,5-diformylthiophene.

Abstract: Functionalized water soluble macrocyclic complexes of lanthanide, actinide and yttrium ions were obtained by metal templated, Schiff-base, cyclic condensation of: (1) a functionalized 1,2-diaminoethane and a dicarbonyl compound selected from the group consisting of 2,6-dicarbonylpyridine, 2,6-diformylpyridine, 2,5-dicarbonylfuran, 2,5-diformylfuran, 2,5-dicarbonylthiophene and 2,5-diformylthiophene; or (2) 1,2-diaminoethane and a ring-substituted heterocyclic dicarbonyl compound selected from a group consisting of substituted 2,6-dicarbonylpyridine, substituted 2,6-diformylpyridine, substituted 2,5-dicarbonylfuran, substituted 2,5-diformylfuran; substituted 2,5-dicarbonyl thiophene, and substituted 2,5-diformylthiophene. Coordination complexes thus formed are kinetically stable in dilute aqueous solution.

Abstract: An aspiration apparatus primarily including a biohazard-safe aspirating cartridge assembly for use with material which might be hazardous to humans. The cartridge assembly includes a longitudinally expandable and contractible washing chamber, within which a fluid aspirating needle is longitudinally positioned. Opposite ends of the washing chamber are secured to a pair of telescopically slidable mounting members, which are pluggably mountable to an operably associated support. A locking element surrounds one of the mounting members, for preventing accidental/premature telescoping. Intentional release of the locking element enables the pair of slidable members to be telescoped together by the drive means, causing the washing chamber to contract, permitting the tip of the aspirating needle to be extended out of the chamber, for penetration of an operably associated sealed container of material, for example whole blood.

Abstract: Specified classes and subclasses of leukocyte blood cells are identified by immunohematology procedures, based on utilization of antigenic determinants on the cell surface, their reactivity with antibodies which fluoresce under known circumstances, and identified by utilization of principles of flow cytometry or morphology.This invention particularly concerns improvements in the lysing and fixing method used prior to detection and identifying of the cells. In this method, a whole blood sample first is incubated with a reagent including antibodies to the cell subclass to be identified, the antibodies having directly or indirectly made fluorescently responsive to a particular light (e.g. argon ion laser). The red blood cells then are lysed with a reagent containing saponin. Next follows a leukocyte fixing treatment, preferably using a cross-linking dialdehyde composition, such as glyoxal or glutaraldehyde.

Abstract: A liquid metering and transfer valve assembly having the capability of metering, isolating, transfering and delivering precise microliter volume aliquots of a blood sample, from a source thereof, to mixing and testing chambers of an electronic blood analysis system for analysis, and further, carrying a loop for metering and isolating an additional sample aliquot within the valve assembly in the loop, a first dedicated passageway for introducing a first fluid to the loop to force the additional aliquot from its isolated location to a first dedicated portion of the valve assembly displaced from the loop and a second dedicated portion of the valve assembly to establish a flow path for introducing a lysing reagent to the first dedicated portion to force the additional aliquot from its displaced disposition, as a lyse reagent/aliquot mixture, to a selected additional mixing and testing chamber exterior of the valve assembly without contaminating any interior flow path traversed by a blood sample and associated dil

Abstract: A method and reagent system are disclosed for the rapid isolation, identification and/or analysis of leukocytes from a whole blood sample. The method and reagent system of this invention has application to any environment in which the study and/or analysis of the leukocyte fraction of whole blood requires their isolation in their native or near native state. One of the environments in which this invention can be used to advantage is in the performance of white cell differentiation on automated instrumentation designed for that purpose. In one of the preferred embodiments of this invention, the lytic reagent can contain a mixture of both formic and acetic acid, with the formic acid comprising the major component thereof and the acetic acid being present in only minor quantities, (if at all). This reagent system is used to selectively effect stromatolysis of red blood cells and create subtle modifications to the leukocyte population to enable their automated differentiation into five (5) sub-populations.

Abstract: Disclosed is a flow through particle analyzing cell differentiating apparatus for optical and electronic measurements on a stream of particles in which a hydrodynamically focoussed stream is passed into and through a point focussed beam of radiated energy whereby the beam is scattered by the stream to impinge upon light responsive signal operating members disposed adjacent the cell at angular positions relative to the beam axis of from about 10.degree. to 70.degree..

Abstract: For use in automated or semi-automated hematology analysis apparatus, a method of introducing a volume of blood from a source thereof along a conduit leading to a sampling, metering and transfer valve assembly of the apparatus comprising the steps of drawing a predetermined volume of blood sample from the source, causing the drawn blood sample to travel along the conduit toward the valve assembly, providing detectors adjacent the inlet and outlet of the valve assembly and using vacuum to position the drawn blood sample so that it passes through the valve assembly and is disposed in metering condition within the valve assembly, the positioning being responsive to signals provided by the detectors.

Abstract: The method of this invention is directed to the rapid preparation of a whole blood sample for photooptical analysis. In the preferred embodiments of this method, a whole blood sample, lytic reagent system and immunological stain (optional) are contacted with the sample in a common reaction vessel (i.e. cuvette or test tube), with gentle asymmetric vortex mixing, so as to maintain the particulate matter of the sample at an essentially homogeneous concentration throughout the sample. An aliquot of the contents of the reaction vessel can, thereafter, be analyzed for identification and/or quantification of the analyte of interest.

Abstract: A fluid container assembly including one large, relatively narrow container having an orthogonally shaped recess or depression in a wall portion thereof, and two small fluid containers nested within the recess. The recess has means therein engagable with mating means on each of the small containers for retaining the small containers within the recess against accidental dislodgement and so that the external walls of the containers are flush. Each fluid container is provided with a tamper indicating insert such that tampering renders difficult withdrawing fluid.