Abstract: A technique for reducing delay in generating an output stream with real-time characteristics from a serially-received representation of the output stream that is not monotonic with regard to time. One application of the technique is generating a MIDI stream from a multi-track MIDI file. The MIDI stream is generated from the first track while the remainder of the MIDI file is being received. As a point in each further track to be received is reached that corresponds to the point in the first track at which the MIDI stream is currently being generated, the MIDI stream is generated from that track as well. The listener thus at first hears only the first track to be received; as the others come in, he hears them as well.

Abstract: An antimicrobial composition for application to exposed wounds such as burns and ulcers includes a quaternary ammonium compound blend, a stabilizer, a nonylphenol polyethylene glycol ether, a hydrophilic polymer, sodium lithium magnesium silicate, a hydrophobic waterproofing agent, aluminum sulfate, triethanolamine and water.

Abstract: An antimicrobial composition having antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal properties and including a first quaternary ammonium compound, a second quaternary ammonium compound, a nonionic surfactant and a stabilizer.

Abstract: A moisture activated, antimicrobial barrier composition is provided which can be applied to human skin, especially the hands prior to donning disposable latex gloves. This composition, in a preferred embodiment, contains one or more quaternary ammonium compounds and nonoxynol 9 in a functional complex as the pathogenic growth inhibitor.

Abstract: A moisture activated, antimicrobial composition is provided which can be applied to any flexible material and in particular to woven or nonwoven textiles and disposable medical garments and masks. This composition, in a preferred embodiment, contains a quaternary ammonium compound/nonoxynol 9 complex as the pathogenic growth inhibitor.