Abstract: To obtain a paste for electron sources which can enhance heat resistance of carbon nanotubes, which can suppress burn-out of the carbon nanotubes even during heating at a high temperature, and can exhibit a high electron emission performance, boron (B) is added to the paste formed of the carbon nanotubes and metal. Due to the addition of boron, the oxidation of the carbon nanotubes can be suppressed, and the degradation of the electron emission characteristics and the degradation of the uniformity of the emission of electrons during the heating process such as baking can be prevented.

Abstract: Insecticide and fungicide, and method of application on trees and plants, fruits and vegetables to enhance the growth thereof and to effectively control insects and fungi comprising at least one surfactant and at least one high terpene containing natural oil.

Abstract: Damage or deformation of a container in a processing device downstream a convey path is prevented. A filling device includes a filling unit (1), star wheel (2), and timing screw (3). Containers (10) are supplied to the timing screw (3) by a conveyor (6) along a convey path. A container control apparatus includes a control member (11) which controls supply and stop of the containers (10) before the timing screw (3), a driving unit (13) which drives the control member (11), and a sensor (35) which detects a state of the timing screw (3) such as a rotation angle. When the containers (10) are to be stopped, the driving unit (13) controls the control member (11) under the control of a control unit (30) to stop the containers (10) in accordance with a detection result of the sensor (35).

Abstract: The present invention provides an interactive library system having a computer in telecommunication link with at least one user computer and computer of at least one content provider requiring payment for information access. The interactive library system provides information from the content provider to the user by the following steps: Receiving, by the library system computer, user identification and password from the user computer. Comparing, by the library system computer, the received user identification and password with authorized user identifications and corresponding passwords stored in the library system to determine whether to grant access to the interactive library system. If the comparison results in grant of access, then the interactive library system provides the following steps: Receiving, by the library system computer, input from the user computer specifying type of information desired by the user.

Abstract: The present invention uses pharmaceutical preparations of Botulinum toxin to induce neurogenic atrophy to alter muscle volume and subsequently, facial contour. Reduction in lip volume is accomplished using the disclosed methods thereby producing a favorable effect on a hypervolemic lip deformity. In other embodiments of the invention, the methods disclosed herein may be used to shrink muscle bulk and contour, especially in the face. In one embodiment, treating excessive muscle bulk below the eyelids can cause a smoothing of the lower lid and cheek contour producing a favorable improvement in appearance. Such an application is in distinct contrast to rhytide (wrinkle reduction) as the injected region does not contain wrinkles or any other form of dynamic line, merely excessive tissue bulk.

Abstract: An exchange member establishes a threshold credit value for transactions by a non-member institution. The threshold value is provided to a credit authorization service of the exchange, which acts as a surrogate for the exchange members. Securities transaction or orders from non-member institutions are then transmitted from the non-member institution to the credit authorization service of the exchange. The credit authorization service compares the transaction with a percentage of the pre-established threshold value. If the transaction does not exceed the percentage of the pre-established threshold, the system forwards the transaction to the exchange. If the transaction does exceed the percentage of the pre-established threshold, the system notifies the sponsoring exchange member and possibly the non-member institution. The percentage of the pre-established threshold may be less than or equal to 100 percent of the pre-established value.

Abstract: Round honeycomb rotor for wind generators and most propellers has bent tubular trapezoids, two or more concentric tubular cylinders and a variable number of round bent tubular trapezoids. Both cylinders and trapezoids form modular trapezoidal tubes, which have large wind contact surfaces. The concentric tubular cylinders of the round panel have bent pieces fitted in between them whose function is to minimise wind exit and multiply wind contact surfaces in wind generators. As for propeller rotors the number of round bent tubular trapezoids gets multiplied as well as its wind contact surfaces, which results in the optimum use of most centrifugal propelling forces thanks to the reduction of wind entrance and the amplification of wind exit.

Abstract: In certain aspects, the invention features a system and method for receiving a parent job configured to produce one or more descendant jobs, and scheduling computation of the parent job on a node computing device that is one of a plurality of node computing devices of a distributed computing system. In such an aspect, the distributed computing system further includes a scheduler server configured to selectively reschedule computation of a job other than a parent job from any one of the plurality of node computing devices to another of the node computing devices. Such an aspect further includes preventing rescheduling of the parent job unless each of the descendant jobs is completed or terminated.

Abstract: In certain aspects, the invention features a system and method for caching results, including receiving a job for computation by a distributed computing system having one or more node computing devices in communication with a cache, processing, on one of the node computing devices, the job to create an intermediate result for storage in the cache, wherein the intermediate result includes data wherein a time required to obtain the data by computation or retrieval from a data storage external to the distributed computer system is at least marginally greater than that of retrieving the intermediate result from the cache. In accordance with such aspects, the system and method further includes storing the intermediate result in the cache, and accessing the cache by presenting a lookup function to the cache, wherein the lookup function includes a key and a compute function configured to produce the intermediate result.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image display device which can realize the recycling at a low cost by shortening a disassembling time of a face substrate and a back substrate. In a support frame which is bonded and fixed to a face substrate and a back substrate by way of sealing materials respectively, a cut portion whose spatial region expands from the inside to the outside is integrally formed on an end surface at a corner portion thereof. To outer portions of the cut portions, the sealing materials 10a, 10b are not fixed.

Abstract: This invention relates to a highly efficient artificial low-density lipoprotein (LDL) carrier system for the targeted delivery therapeutic agents across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). In particular, this invention relates to artificial LDL particles comprised of three lipid elements: phosphatidyl choline, fatty-acyl-cholesterol esters, and at least one apolipoprotein. The present invention further relates to compositions, methods and kits comprising artificial LDL particles for targeting drugs to and across the BBB for the prevention and treatment of brain diseases.

Abstract: An energy absorbing system. The system includes an anchor, a net mechanically coupled to the anchor, and a support mechanically coupled to the net via a frangible connector, wherein the frangible connector uncouples the support from the net upon application of at least a threshold force to the frangible connector. In another aspect, the system further includes an energy absorber mechanically coupling the net and the anchor. In another aspect, the system further includes a joint mechanically coupling the energy absorber and the anchor, wherein the joint pivots on a horizontal axis.

Abstract: An energy absorbing system. The energy absorbing system spanning a roadway and including a net spanning the roadway, the net having a connecting member coupled to a top member, a middle member and a bottom member, and a mat arranged on the roadway, having a plurality of recesses to accommodate the net, when the net is in a lowered position.

Abstract: A heat generating portion of a heater which is incorporated in an indirectly heated cathode structure of an electron gun for a cathode ray tube is formed by joining a first winding portion and a second winding portion which differ in the number of coil winding layers and by twisting and winding a joined body in a double helical structure. The present invention allows a cathode temperature to have a high temperature and hence, it is possible to enhance the electron irradiation characteristics even when a degree of in-tube vacuum is lowered.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a vaccine against cancerous disease, and the vaccine itself. This method involves first using one or more antibodies that are specifically effective against one or more antigens specially expressed by the tumor cells to select one or more mimotopes of said antigens from a phage peptide library. To obtain the vaccine, said mimotopes are conjugated to a macromolecular carrier singly or multiply in the form of their mono-, di-, tri- or oligomers. When administered, the inventively produced vaccine leads to a humoral immune response and thus to the formation of an active immunity as a consequence of vaccination.

Abstract: In a projection cathode ray tube device in which a projection cathode ray tube and a projection lens assembly are coupled and held by a coupler, superior focus characteristics and high resolution are realized by eliminating the deviation between the center of the phosphor screen of the cathode ray tube and the center of the lens assembly. In the cathode ray tube, each of the outside and inside surfaces of a faceplate is formed as a spherical convex surface which is curved toward an electron gun.

Abstract: The present invention enhances the quality of displayed images by enhancing the uniformity of the total transmissivity over the whole surface of a panel having a wavelength selective absorption layer imparted with gradation thus reducing the color difference of the body color. A transmissivity ratio between a peripheral portion and a central portion of a panel formed of tinted glass which differs in wall thickness between the peripheral portion and the central portion of a screen before the surface treatment is set to a value not greater than 60%, and the body color of the panel is set such that L*=30 to 40, a*=?8.5 to 1.5, b*=?5 to 5 at the center portion, L*=13.5 to 23.5, a*=?7.5 to 2.5, b*=?6.5 to 3.5 at the peripheral portion, where color difference is set to ?a*b*?3, and the film formed on the outer surface of the panel is constituted of a wavelength selective absorption layer and a conductive layer which is formed over the wavelength selective absorption layer.

Abstract: A network system with which a user can easily cope with various problems of a device and a maintenance service side can manage a device efficiently is provided. A user side transmits information that is a quantified version of a sensory problem, which a user feels when the user uses a device (printer), to the maintenance service side. The maintenance service side returns information for coping with the problem, which is based on the quantified information transmitted from the user side, to the user side. The user side performs operations and processing based on the information for coping with the problem received from the maintenance service side, and solves the problem of the device.

Abstract: In certain aspects, the invention features a system and method including receiving a parent job configured to produce one or more descendant jobs, and scheduling computation of the parent job on a node computing device that is one of a plurality of node computing devices of a distributed computing system. In such an aspect, the distributed computing system further includes a scheduler server configured to selectively reschedule computation of a job other than a parent job from any one of the plurality of node computing devices to another of the node computing devices, and to receive data descriptive of an indication that the parent job is not to be rescheduled unless each of the descendant jobs is completed or terminated. Such an aspect further includes preventing rescheduling of the parent job unless each of the descendant jobs is completed or terminated.

Abstract: Speech segment data are encoded in accordance with their respective optimum encoding schemes. The speech segment data thus encoded are registered in a speech segment dictionary along with information specifying the encoding methods used in the encoding.