Abstract: A pill container having a plurality of compartments, featuring a hollow cylindrical container having a top plate, a bottom plate, and a tubular wall which rotates relative to the top and bottom plates. A plurality of walls rigidly fastened to the top plate divide the interior of the container into a set of wedge-shaped compartments which may be individually accessed through a hinged door in the tubular wall.

Abstract: A novel computer-controlled video microscopy system, features a rotatable objective lens turret. The lens turret is a rotatable cylindrical drum having an open end and closed end. A plurality of light-transmitting objective lenses are evenly spaced about the side wall of the cylindrical drum. The objective lenses are each directed perpendicularly to the axis of rotation of the cylindrical drum. A computer is used to select a desired objective lens and signal a motor to rotate the cylindrical drum about its axis of rotation, so as to move the selected objective lens into the path of an approaching light beam. When the light beam enters the drum through the objective lens, a prism or mirror inside the cylindrical drum bends the light beam at a right angle and directs it out of the drum through its open end. An image carried by the light beam is then focused onto the imaging plane of a video camera.

Abstract: The invention describes a method of killing or inhibiting the growth of the malaria causing pathogen Plasmodium falciparum by exposing the pathogen to a preparation containing methylene-bis-aspidinol, desaspidin, and/or aspidin.

Abstract: The invention is a method of building structures from tapered logs which have been manufactured in an industrial setting. The logs are stacked crosswise by fitting a notch in a first log, where the notch has a standardized size and shape, over an end of a second log, where the end of the second log has a predetermined size and shape, allowing it to fit into the notch in the first log. Structures built using this method strongly handcrafted structures built from natural logs.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of killing or inhibiting the growth of the malaria-causing pathogen Plasmodium falciparum by exposing the pathogen to an effective amount of a preparation comprising a compound selected from the group consisting of:a) a compound of formula I: ##STR1## where ##STR2## b) a compound of formula II; ##STR3## where each R' is --H or each R' is --OH; and c) a compound of formula III; ##STR4## where R" is --NH.sub.2, --H, or --SO.sub.3 M, and where M is H, Na, or K.

Abstract: Disclosed is a watt/watthour meter which is capable of automatically correcting incorrect connections between the apparatus and a multiphase AC system. Each power line of the multiphase system is connected to the watt/watthour meter by means of a voltage input line and a current sensing coil. The apparatus is able to determine whether a given voltage input line is connected to the same power line as a given current sensing coil by determining whether the voltage applied to the given voltage input line has the same phase as the current running through the given current sensing coil. If the current and the voltage are the same, this information is stored, and the given voltage input line may be taken as being connected to the same power line as the given current sensing coil.