Abstract: This present invention relates to an antiprolactinic veterinary composition to be administered to ruminants. Said composition comprises at least one antiprolactinic compound which is an agonist of dopamine receptors, and is particularly useful for reducing udder engorgement and/or the reduction of pain after drying off and/or of increasing welfare, and/or of reducing milk leakage in ruminants as well as for preventing new mammary microbial infections, secondary infection, or co-infections in ruminants and mastitis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to ivermectin formulations for administration to pet and domestic animals. These formulations provide long term protection against Dirofilaria parasites, without the risks for secondary adverse of conventional formulations. Preferred formulations are collars, collar strips, or medallions, attachments for collars, ear tags, bands which are affixed to limbs or parts of the body, adhesive strips and films, and peel-off films, or spot-on or pour-on forms which are administered at least twice a year up to around once a year.

Abstract: The present invention further relates to ivermectin, most preferably formulated as an implant for administration of pet and domestic animals. These formulations provide long term protection against Dirofilaria parasites, without the risks for secondary adverse events of conventional formulations. Preferred formulations are implants and are administered at least twice a year, once a year, or at least once in 18 months, up to 24 months.

Abstract: A system and method of data transfer that collapses a multi-dimensional data array while preserving neighboring connectivity. One or more program instructions may be received that request input data comprising a sub-set of data elements from a first data array in an external memory. The sub-set of data elements may be transferred from the first data array in the external memory to a second data array in an internal memory. The retrieved sub-set of requested data elements may be stored in the second array in respective positions translated from the positions in the first array by a plurality of omitted rows and columns from the first data array from which no data elements are requested.

Abstract: A system, processor and method are provided for digital signal processing. A processor may initiate processing a sequence of instructions followed by an interrupt. Each instruction may be processed in respective sequential pipeline slots. A branch detector may detect or determine if an instruction is a branch instruction, for example, in turn, for each sequential instruction. In one embodiment, the branch detector may detect if an instruction is a branch instruction until at least a first branch instruction is detected. A processor may annul instructions which are determined to be branch instructions when the interrupt occupies a delay slot associated with the branch instruction. An execution unit may execute at least the sequence of instructions to run a program. The branch detector and/or execution unit may be integral or separate from each other and from the processor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic egg examining device for differentiating between fertilized eggs and unfertilized eggs, comprising emission means (3), which comprise, for each egg to be examined, at least one coherent laser source forming a coherent optical beam (31) directed at an egg (9) to be examined, reception means (4), which receive the light flux passing through the egg, and data processing means (7), which process the light flux received by said reception means in order to determine the state—fertilized or unfertilized—of the egg.

Abstract: An injector for injecting at least one substance into eggs, comprising an injection body that can be moved between a raised position and an injection position, and equipped with an injection conduit, an injection needle, a guiding and protection tube of the needle subject to elastic stress by elastic means to an idle position and capable of being moved towards a retracted position by pressing its distal end against an egg when the injector is in the injection position. The injector is equipped with control means for controlling the supply of said injection conduit with at least one substance, said tube cooperating with said control means to disable the supply of said injection conduit when said tube is in the idle position and to enable the supply of said conduit when said tube is in the retracted position.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system and method for sub-pixel motion estimation for video encoding. The method includes providing a best match between a source frame and a reference frame by generating a plurality of non linear building surfaces, generating, in real time, an estimated matching criteria surface representing a matching criteria between the source frame and the reference frame based on the building surfaces and a plurality of sample points of an actual matching criteria surface and selecting, in real time, a position on the estimated matching criteria surface.

Abstract: A system, processor, and method for processing multiple dimension data. A single rectangular data array having a single data port may store a set of data elements representing a multi-dimensional pixel array. A load/store unit may receive the set of data elements and store them divided among a plurality of individually addressable data arrays each having separate address ports. Each individually addressable data array may include at most a single row that stores data elements from a sub-set of the set of data elements representing a multi-dimensional sub-array of the pixel array. A processor may simultaneously access the single row of each of the plurality of individually addressable data arrays by accessing the corresponding respective address ports for each individually addressable data array to retrieve the complete sub-set of data elements in a single computational cycle. An execution unit may execute instruction(s) on the sub-set of data elements.

Abstract: Method and device for injecting at least one product in an egg for treating the embryo. The method includes perforating a shell and an outer shell membrane on a large end of the egg, and injecting the product into an air chamber of the egg under pressure sufficient for the product to reach the amniotic fluid after passing with pressure through an inner shell membrane.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling video compression quantization comprising generating a quantizer scale offset based on diagonal frequencies of luminance components of a data block samples, luminance intensity of the samples and motion activity of the data block, adjusting a first quantizer scale using the quantizer scale offset to receive a second quantizer scale and quantizing the data block using the second quantizer scale.

Abstract: A method and system for transferring data in a multi ordered memory array from a source memory array to a destination memory array, at least one of which is multi-ordered. A reading memory access unit reads data from the source memory array according to a source access template and a writing memory access unit writes the data to the destination memory array according to a destination access template.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the novel Porcine Circovirus type 2 subtype B (PCV2B-Rm) isolate which comprises a short duplication of sequence and is adapted to grow in cell culture and may be propagated at high titres constantly up to 106 TCID50 viral particles per mL. This novel isolate is particularly useful for the production of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) vaccines, for treating and/or preventing and/or diagnosing porcine circovirus associated diseases, as well as for diagnosing the presence of porcine circovirus in pigs. The present invention also relates to novel cell clones derived from Swine Testicles (ST) useful for propagating PCV2 and to a method for production of PCV2 virus with particularly high titers.

Abstract: This present invention relates to an antiprolactinic veterinary composition to be administered to ruminants. Said composition comprises at least one antiprolactinic compound which is an agonist of dopamine receptors, and is particularly useful for promoting a substantial reduction of lactation, mammary involution, and for treating and/or intra-mammary diseases or infections of ruminants.

Abstract: The invention relates to vaccine compositions comprising chitosan and a vaccine which are administered to avian species via the ocular route, and methods or programs of vaccination including use of chitosan in order to increase or enhance cell-mediated immunity in avian species and persistence of the vaccine avian tissues.

Abstract: This invention describes a new topical formulation (spot-on) for controlling ectoparasites in cats and dogs, which comprises the active ingredient Fipronil and/or the derivates and salts thereof, as well as antioxidants and a suitable vehicle. The use of an organic solvent acting as the transdermal carrier provides this product with a longer residual period and, consequently, higher efficacy.

Abstract: Mixture of fatty acids, their derivatives, ester or methyl ester derivates thereof, which may be administered to non-human mammals by diffusion in to ambient air during at least seven consecutive days, with a rapid kinetic of diffusion during the first three days of administration.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for treating lameness with an osseous, articular or osteoarticular component, comprising the administration, to a human or to an animal not suffering from arthritis or from fractures, of an effective amount of a bisphosphonic acid derivative of formula: in which: R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl, an amino, a mono(C1-C4)alkylamino or a di(C1-C4) alkylamino; R2 represents a halogen atom, a linear alkyl comprising from 1 to 5 carbon atoms which is unsubstituted or substituted with a group chosen from a chlorine atom, a hydroxyl, an amino, a mono(C1-C4)alkylamino or a di(C1-C4)alkylamino; a (C3-C7) cycloalkylamino, or R2 represents a phenoxy, a phenyl, a thiol, a phenylthio, a chlorophenylthio, a pyridyl, a pyridyl-methyl, a 1-pyridyl-1-hydroxymethyl, an imidazolyl-methyl or a 4-thiomorpholinyl, of one of its pharmaceutically acceptable salts or of one of its hydrates.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel compositions including an aldosterone antagonist and administered according to a predetermined dosage for treating heart deficiency in non-human mammals.

Abstract: Multi-layered plastic polymeric container useful for the storage and conservation of pharmaceutical compositions, sterile or non sterile, which comprises an inner layer and an outer layer, a gas barrier layer, and adhesive layers.