Abstract: A system and a method for reprogramming a non volatile memory (NVM) portion, the method includes: receiving an initial content of an NVM portion; wherein the initial content differs from an erase content of the NVM portion; processing the previously programmed content in response to input content that should be represented by an initial content of the NVM portion; wherein the processing is characterized by a write limitation that prevents a non-erase value of a bit to be changed to an erase value; wherein the processing comprises at least one out of skip value based encoding, generating error correction information and error correction code based encoding; and writing the processed content of the NVM portion to the NVM portion.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV949222. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV949222, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV949222 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV949222 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV949222.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the Formula (I) that are useful antimicrobial agents and effective against a variety of multi-drug resistant bacteria:

Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal display element (1) including a transparent substrate (2) having formed on a surface of a glass substrate (2a) thereof a transparent electrode (6) and an alignment layer (18) covering the transparent electrode (6), a drive circuit board (3) disposed opposite to the transparent substrate (2) and having formed on a surface of a silicon substrate (3a) thereon opposite to the transparent electrode (6) a plurality of switching drive circuits (9) and a plurality of reflection pixel electrodes (15), corresponding to pixels (12a), respectively, a protective layer (16) covering the plurality of reflection pixel electrodes (15) and an alignment layer (19) covering the protective layer (16) and a liquid crystal layer (4) interposed between the alignment layer (18) on the transparent substrate (2) and the alignment layer (19) on the drive circuit board (3), the protective layer (16) being a stack of at least two dielectric layers (16a, 16b) different in refractive index from each oth

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a bi-section semiconductor laser device includes the steps of (A) forming a stacked structure obtained by stacking, on a substrate in sequence, a first compound semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a compound semiconductor layer that constitutes a light-emitting region and a saturable absorption region, and a second compound semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type; (B) forming a belt-shaped second electrode on the second compound semiconductor layer; (C) forming a ridge structure by etching at least part of the second compound semiconductor layer using the second electrode as an etching mask; and (D) forming a resist layer for forming a separating groove in the second electrode and then forming the separating groove in the second electrode by wet etching so that the separating groove separates the second electrode into a first portion and a second portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods and compositions concerning desaturase enzymes that modulate the number and location of double bonds in long chain poly-unsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA's). In particular, the invention relates to methods and compositions for improving omega-3 fatty acid profiles in plant products and parts using exogenous desaturase enzymes and nucleic acids encoding for such enzymes. In particular embodiments, the exogenous desaturase enzymes utilized are Hemiselmis spp. delta 5 desaturases. Also provided are improved soybean oil compositions having EPA derived from plants carrying the genes of interest.

Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S080093 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S080093, to the plants of soybean S080093, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S080093, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S080093 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety S080093, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S080093, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar S080093 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1015971. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1015971. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1015971 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1015971 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH955017. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH955017, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH955017 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH955017.

Abstract: There are provided an A/D conversion circuit in which a counter is made to be capable of performing counting at both edges of a clock, up/down count values can be switched while the up/down count values are held, and the duty of the counting operation is difficult to be distorted even with the both-edge counting, a solid-state image sensor, and a camera system. An ADC 15A is configured as an integrating-type A/D conversion circuit using a comparator 151 and a counter 152. The counter 152 has a function of switching a count mode from an up count to a down count and from a down count to an up count while a value is held, a function of performing counting at both rising and falling edges of an input clock CK at a frequency two times as high as that of the input clock, and a function of latching the input clock CK in accordance with an output signal of the comparator 151 and setting non-inverted or inverted data of the latched data to be data of an LSB.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH816791. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH816791, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH816791 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH816791.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH918848. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH918848, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH918848 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH918848.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH120777. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH120777, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH120777 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH120777.

Abstract: This invention describes a simple method useful for the excision and isolation of maize immature embryos. The embryos are useful for plant tissue culture and transformation methods.

Abstract: An imaging system including: an imaging device; a light blocker for blocking a light receiving section of the imaging device from light; a pixel defect correction section configured to detect and correct defective pixels of the imaging device; a signal processing section configured to process a pixel signal corrected by the pixel defect correction section; and a control for controlling the signal processing section and the light blocker according to information obtained by the pixel defect correction section. The pixel defect correction section has a timing section and measures an operating time with the timing section to estimate a secondary defect count.

Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1024223. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1024223. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1024223 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1024223 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.

Abstract: A parsing system and method are provided in which the break characters in the document are used to rapidly parse the document and extract one or more key phrases from the document which characterize the document. The break characters in the document may include explicit break characters, such as punctuation, soft stop words and hard stop words. The determination of which phrases in the document are extracted depends upon the type of break character appearing after the phrase in the document. The parser may also be used to parse a foreign language document into one or more phrases.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes an effective pixel portion in which a plurality of pixels including photoelectric conversion elements are arrayed; and a nonconductive interpixel light-shielding film that is placed in the effective pixel portion and that shields areas between the pixels.

Abstract: In one embodiment, access one or more query chains, wherein each one of the query chains comprises two or more search queries, {q1, . . . , qn}, which are recency-sensitive, are related to the same subject matter, and are issued to a search engine sequentially, and actual click-through information associated with each one of the query chains; and smooth each one of the query chains using the actual click-through information associated with the query chain. To smooth one of the query chains comprises, for each one of search queries, qj, in the query chain, where 2?j?n, if one of the network resources identified for qj has actually been clicked in connection with qj by the corresponding one network user, then presume that the one network resource has been clicked in connection with one or more search queries, qk, in the query chain, where 1?k<j.

Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1024216. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1024216. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1024216 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1024216 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.