Abstract: An underwater apparatus for generating electric power from ocean currents and deep water tides. A submersible platform including two or more power pods, each having a rotor with fixed-pitch blades, with drivetrains housed in pressure vessels that are connected by a transverse structure providing buoyancy, which can be a wing depressor, hydrofoil, truss, or faired tube. The platform is connected to anchors on the seafloor by forward mooring lines and a vertical mooring line that restricts the depth of the device in the water column. The platform operates using passive, rather than active, depth control. The wing depressor, along with rotor drag loads, ensures the platform seeks the desired operational current velocity. The rotors are directly coupled to a hydraulic pump that drives at least one constant-speed hydraulic-motor generator set and enables hydraulic braking. A fluidic bearing decouples non-torque rotor loads to the main shaft driving the hydraulic pumps.

Abstract: An underwater apparatus for generating electric power from ocean currents and deep water tides. A submersible platform including two or more power pods, each having a rotor with fixed-pitch blades, with drivetrains housed in pressure vessels that are connected by a transverse structure providing buoyancy, which can be a wing depressor, hydrofoil, truss, or faired tube. The platform is connected to anchors on the seafloor by forward mooring lines and a vertical mooring line that restricts the depth of the device in the water column. The platform operates using passive, rather than active, depth control. The wing depressor, along with rotor drag loads, ensures the platform seeks the desired operational current velocity. The rotors are directly coupled to a hydraulic pump that drives at least one constant-speed hydraulic-motor generator set and enables hydraulic braking. A fluidic bearing decouples non-torque rotor loads to the main shaft driving the hydraulic pumps.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus such as an audio apparatus enables both digital and analog data to be communicated over a data bus such as a universal serial bus (USB) with a single low-cost connector such as a USB connector. According to an exemplary embodiment, the electronic apparatus includes a connector operative to couple the electronic apparatus to one of a digital device and an analog device. A controller is operative to determine whether the connector is coupled to the digital device or the analog device. A switch is operative to couple the connector to one of a digital element and an analog element responsive to the determination.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds having the following structure: wherein R is H or OH and X+ is protonated metformin, protonated arginine, protonated lysine and protonated meglumine. The invention also relates to intermediates used in the preparation of such compounds, processes for the preparation of such compounds and intermediates, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and the methods of treatment using such compounds as antidiabetic, antiobesity, and antisarcopenia agents.

Abstract: An underwater apparatus for generating electric power from ocean currents and deep water tides. A submersible platform including two or more power pods, each having a rotor with fixed-pitch blades, with drivetrains housed in pressure vessels that are connected by a transverse structure providing buoyancy, which can be a wing depressor, hydrofoil, truss, or faired tube. The platform is connected to anchors on the seafloor by forward mooring lines and a vertical mooring line that restricts the depth of the device in the water column. The platform operates using passive, rather than active, depth control. The wing depressor, along with rotor drag loads, ensures the platform seeks the desired operational current velocity. The rotors are directly coupled to a hydraulic pump that drives at least one constant-speed hydraulic-motor generator set and enables hydraulic braking. A fluidic bearing decouples non-torque rotor loads to the main shaft driving the hydraulic pumps.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds having the following structure: wherein R is H or OH and X+ is protonated metformin, protonated arginine, protonated lysine and protonated meglumine. The invention also relates to intermediates used in the preparation of such compounds, processes for the preparation of such compounds and intermediates, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and the methods of treatment using such compounds as antidiabetic, antiobesity, and antisarcopenia agents.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for preventing, treating, or reducing symptoms of a disorder involving the autotaxin (ATX) pathway. In one embodiment, the method features administering to a mammal a sufficient amount of an autotaxin (ATX) or lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) signaling inhibitor, to prevent, treat or reduce symptoms of an inflammatory disorder, autoimmune disorder, fibrosis or malignancy of the lung. Further disclosed are methods for diagnosing an autotaxin-related disorder as well as kits for performing the methods of the invention.

Abstract: An underwater apparatus for generating electric power from ocean currents and deep water tides. A submersible platform including two or more power pods, each having a rotor with fixed-pitch blades, with drivetrains housed in pressure vessels that are connected by a transverse structure providing buoyancy, which can be a wing depressor, hydrofoil, truss, or faired tube. The platform is connected to anchors on the seafloor by forward mooring lines and a vertical mooring line that restricts the depth of the device in the water column. The platform operates using passive, rather than active, depth control. The wing depressor, along with rotor drag loads, ensures the platform seeks the desired operational current velocity. The rotors are directly coupled to a hydraulic pump that drives at least one constant-speed hydraulic-motor generator set and enables hydraulic braking. A fluidic bearing decouples non-torque rotor loads to the main shaft driving the hydraulic pumps.

Abstract: O-(3-Piperidino-2-hydroxy-1-propyl)-nicotinic amidoxime or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof is administered to patients suffering from overweight or obesity and treated with a cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonist such as rimonabant to reduce overweight or obesity and, preferably, reduce one or more unfavourable psychiatric side effects of the cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonist.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus such as an audio apparatus enables both digital and analog data to be communicated over a data bus such as a universal serial bus (USB) with a single low-cost connector such as a USB connector. According to an exemplary embodiment, the electronic apparatus includes a connector operative to couple the electronic apparatus to one of a digital device and an analog device. A controller is operative to determine whether the connector is coupled to the digital device or the analog device.

Abstract: A processor, software code, and a method for generating warning indicating that flaps are not suitably in a take-off position. A first component is configured to receive a first signal indicative of one of a group of flaps positions, the group including a take-off position. A second component is configured to receive a second signal indicative of an aircraft position. A third component is configured to compare the aircraft position to the contents of a database and to, by the comparison, determine whether the aircraft position is within a runway perimeter. A fourth component is configured to generate an alarm when the aircraft is within the runway perimeter and the flaps position is not the take-off position.

Abstract: In computerized tomographic apparatus in which radiation from a source is projected through a body along a plurality of substantially linear beam paths and the source is rotated around the body, interleaving of beam paths is effected by changing the phase of timing pulses, with respect to the rotational movement, at a suitable stage in the scan. A bank of detectors is used to detect the radiation emergent from the body along said paths and a feature of the invention is to change the phase for each detector at a respective time so that no beam paths are duplicated but all sets of interleaved and original beam paths are completed in a single revolution of the scan.

Abstract: In a medical radiographic apparatus, of the type in which a fan of radiation and detectors receiving the radiation along pencil beams in the fan are traversed laterally in relation to a slice of the patient's body and orbited about an axis intersecting the slice, an angular step between each lateral scan is usually substantially equal to the angle subtended by the radiation at its source. It is proposed to arrange the angular step to be a multiple of the angle subtended by the fan, thus leaving gaps in the range of angular position taken by beams of the fan. The gaps are filled in the course of an extended orbital motion.

Abstract: In a medical radiographic apparatus of the kind in which a fan shaped spread of X-rays is subject to lateral and orbital motions, it is disclosed that the orbital step between each lateral scan need not be exactly related to the angular spread of the fan provided that parallel sets of beams are irradiated over a sufficient number of angles to give a proper evaluation of the absorption of the radiation throughout an examined slice. The orbital step may be larger or smaller than the fan angle and may be variable in the course of the scan if desired.