Abstract: A ligature for a mouthpiece of a musical instrument that includes a puller that includes a plurality of through holes, a cord for passing through the plurality of through holes, and a bridge configured to straddle the puller and engage the mouthpiece, the bridge including a plate, an arm extending from the plate, and a mouthpiece skate extending from the arm; and a fastener for securing the puller and the bridge.

Abstract: A FeFET and a method of its manufacture are provided, the FeFET having a ferroelectric whose film thickness (dr) is made small and so nanofine as to range in: 59 nm<dr<150 nm, without impairing the data retention property of not less than 105 seconds and the data rewrite endurance property of not less than 108 times, of those that have hitherto been developed, and the FeFET allowing a memory window of 0.40 V or more when a sweep amplitude of the gate voltage is not more than 3.3 V.

Abstract: A mouthpiece patch for a mouthpiece of a wind instrument including a body having a posterior end, an anterior end, lateral side walls, an upper surface and a lower surface. The patch further includes a recessed region provided in the upper surface and extending in a widthwise direction and configured to receive the teeth of a user.

Abstract: A ligature for a wind instrument is provided. The ligature includes a cord harness having a plurality of apertures extending transverse to a longitudinal axis of the cord harness, and an adjuster. The adjuster is connected to and extends transverse to the longitudinal axis of the cord harness. The ligature further includes a cord passing through the plurality of apertures in a spiral manner and engages a distal end of the adjuster.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a FeFET and a method of its manufacture, the FeFET having a ferroelectric whose film thickness (dr) is made small and so nanofine as to range in: 59 nm<dr<150, without impairing the data retention property of not less than 105 seconds and the data rewrite withstand property of not less than 108 times, of those that have hitherto been developed, and the FeFET allowing data to be written with a writing voltage whose absolute value is not more than 3.3 volts. [Means for Solving] In methods of making a device in which an insulator, a film made of constituent elements of a bismuth layered perovskite crystalline ferroelectric and a metal are sequentially formed in the indicated order on a semiconductor substrate and thereafter are annealed for ferroelectric crystallization, thereby preparing the device composed of the semiconductor, insulator, ferroelectric and metal, a method of making a semiconductor ferroelectric memory element in which the film is composed of Ca.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory element is provided including a laminated structure, in which a memory member and a conductor are superposed on a semiconductor substrate. The memory member has a bottom surface in contact with the semiconductor substrate, an upper surface in contact with the conductor, and side surfaces, which are in contact with and surrounded by a partition wall; the bottom surface of the memory member has a width of equal to or not more than 100 nm; a shortest distance between the conductor and the semiconductor substrate is twice or more of the width of the bottom surface of the memory member; the side surface of the memory member has a width, which is either the same as the width of the bottom surface and constant at any position above the bottom surface, or the widest at a position other than the bottom surface and above the bottom surface.

Abstract: Personalized dental guards for users of musical wind instrument, as well as methods for making such personalized dental guards, are disclosed. The personalized dental guards can be fabricated from a thermoplastic ingot that becomes pliable at elevated temperatures. The method can involve heating the thermoplastic ingot until pliable, wrapping the pliable thermoplastic ingot around a musical wind instrument user's teeth to form a personalized dental guard that substantially conforms to the user's teeth. Once formed, the personalized dental guard can be transformed back to the pliable thermoplastic ingot by subjecting it to heat and the recovered thermoplastic ingot can be reprocessed to fabricate a new personalized dental guard.

Abstract: A mouthpiece patch for a mouthpiece of a wind instrument including a body having a posterior end, an anterior end, lateral side walls, an upper surface and a lower surface. The patch further includes a recessed region provided in the upper surface and extending in a widthwise direction and configured to receive the teeth of a user.

Abstract: A mouthpiece cap for a wind instrument including a body defining a cavity substantially complementarily shaped to a mouthpiece for a wind instrument. The body includes a top portion, a bottom portion that extends further than the top portion, and a plenum about a front end of the body. The mouthpiece cap further including a reed support positioned about a bottom portion of the body.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is a method of generating products from microorganisms, comprising super-saturating a liquid medium with a gas consumable by the microorganisms in a high shear device operating at a shear rate of greater than 1,000,000 s?1 to produce a gas-super-saturated (GSS) medium, wherein the GSS medium maintains a GSS level for at least 10 minutes; feeding the GSS medium to microorganisms; allowing the microorganisms to grow by consuming the gas and generate products via photosynthesis or chemosynthesis; and recovering the products. In an embodiment, the microorganisms are genetically modified. In an embodiment, the microorganisms include bacteria, protozoa, algae, or fungi, or a combination thereof. In an embodiment, the gas consumable by the microorganisms is selected from the group consisting of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, air, oxygen, methane, and combinations thereof. A suitable system is also discussed in this disclosure.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is a method of processing a medium containing algae microorganisms to produce algal oil and by-products, comprising providing the medium containing algae microorganisms; passing the medium through a rotor-stator high shear device; disintegrating cell walls of and intracellular organelles in the algae microorganisms to release algal oil and by-products; and removing the algae medium from an outlet of the high shear device. In an embodiment, disintegration is enhanced by a penetrating gas capable of permeating the cell wall. In an embodiment, enhancement is accomplished by super-saturation of the penetrating gas in the medium or increased gas pressure in a vessel. In an embodiment, the penetrating gas is different from the gas produced by the cell during respiration. A suitable system is also discussed in this disclosure.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is a method of producing value-added product from light gases, the method comprising: (a) providing light gases comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of C1-C6 compounds and combinations thereof; (b) intimately mixing the light gases with a liquid carrier in a high shear device to form a dispersion of gas in the liquid carrier, wherein the dispersion is supersaturated with the light gases and comprises gas bubbles at least some of which have a mean diameter of less than or equal to about 5 micron(s); (c) allowing the value-added product to form and utilizing vacuum to extract unreacted light gases from the liquid carrier; (d) extracting the value-added product; wherein the value-added product comprises at least one component selected from the group consisting of higher hydrocarbons, hydrogen, olefins, alcohols, aldehydes, and ketones. A system for producing value-added product from light gases is also disclosed.

Abstract: A mouthpiece cap for a wind instrument including a body defining a cavity substantially complementarily shaped to a mouthpiece for a wind instrument. The body includes a top portion, a bottom portion that extends further than the top portion, and a plenum about a front end of the body. The mouthpiece cap further including a reed support positioned about a bottom portion of the body.

Abstract: A ferroelectric device and a manufacturing method are provided. While holding a nonvolatile memory retention capability and a multiple rewriting endurance as the distinctive features of a ferroelectric device, the disclosed ferroelectric device is wider in memory window and more adaptively made microfiner than a conventional ferroelectric device that has used a ferroelectric mainly constituted of Sr—Bi—Ta—O as an oxide of strontium, bismuth and tantalum. Directly on or with intermediary of an insulator on a semiconductor there are layered a first ferroelectric and a conductor to form a gate stack, the first ferroelectric being mainly constituted of Sr—Ca—Bi—Ta—O as an oxide of strontium, calcium, bismuth and tantalum and being built up by a metal organic vapor deposition technique from a suitable film-forming raw material. The gate stack is heat-treated to cause the first ferroelectric to develop its ferroelectricity.

Abstract: A ligature for a wind instrument is provided. The ligature includes a cord harness having a plurality of apertures extending transverse to a longitudinal axis of the cord harness, and an adjuster. The adjuster is connected to and extends transverse to the longitudinal axis of the cord harness. The ligature further includes a cord passing through the plurality of apertures in a spiral manner and engages a distal end of the adjuster.

Abstract: In this disclosure, a method is described wherein the method comprises mixing a therapeutic gas or a therapeutic liquid or a combination thereof and a liquid carrier in a high shear device to produce a dispersion; and administering the produced dispersion intravenously to a patient; wherein the produced dispersion contains nanobubbles of the therapeutic gas or droplets of the therapeutic liquid with a mean diameter of less than about 1.5 ?m. In this disclosure, a system is also described wherein the system comprises a therapeutic gas source or a therapeutic liquid source or a combination thereof; a liquid carrier source; a high shear device (HSD) having an inlet, an outlet, at least one rotor, and at least one stator separated by a shear gap; and a pump configured to control the flow rate and residence time of a fluid passing through the high shear device.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is a method of processing oil, comprising providing a high shear device comprising at least one rotor and at least one complementarily-shaped stator configured to mix a gas with a liquid; contacting a gas with an oil in the high shear device, wherein the gas is an inert gas or a reactive gas; and forming a product, wherein the product is a solution, a dispersion, or combination thereof. Herein also disclosed is a high shear system for processing oil, comprising; at least one high shear device, having an inlet and at least one rotor and at least one complementarily-shaped stator configured to mix a gas with a liquid; a gas source fluidly connected to the inlet; an oil source fluidly connected to the inlet; and a pump positioned upstream of a high shear device, the pump in fluid connection with the inlet and the oil source.