Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing pre-assembled modular structural louvered systems that include structural supports and louvers, and may also include dampers, actuators and wiring in pre-assembled modules that may be transported to a building site, tilted up into place, and installed. Embodiments of the present invention also provide methods and apparatus for providing pre-assembled modular structural louvered systems which include integrated vertical and horizontal structural supports, allowing for the elimination of some vertical and horizontal wall structures in a building by relying on the structural support provided in the modular louvered systems, thereby making more space available in the building for louvers and airflow.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing pre-assembled modular structural louvered systems that include structural supports and louvers, and may also include dampers, actuators and wiring in pre-assembled modules that may be transported to a building site, tilted up into place, and installed. Embodiments of the present invention also provide methods and apparatus for providing pre-assembled modular structural louvered systems which include integrated vertical and horizontal structural supports, allowing for the elimination of some vertical and horizontal wall structures in a building by relying on the structural support provided in the modular louvered systems, thereby making more space available in the building for louvers and airflow.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing pre-assembled modular structural louvered systems that include structural supports and louvers, and may also include dampers, actuators and wiring in pre-assembled modules that may be transported to a building site, tilted up into place, and installed. Embodiments of the present invention also provide methods and apparatus for providing pre-assembled modular structural louvered systems which include integrated vertical and horizontal structural supports, allowing for the elimination of some vertical and horizontal wall structures in a building by relying on the structural support provided in the modular louvered systems, thereby making more space available in the building for louvers and airflow.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing pre-assembled modular structural louvered systems that include structural supports and louvers, and may also include dampers, actuators and wiring in pre-assembled modules that may be transported to a building site, tilted up into place, and installed. Embodiments of the present invention also provide methods and apparatus for providing pre-assembled modular structural louvered systems which include integrated vertical and horizontal structural supports, allowing for the elimination of some vertical and horizontal wall structures in a building by relying on the structural support provided in the modular louvered systems, thereby making more space available in the building for louvers and airflow.

Abstract: A device and method for sheathing shrink tubing onto materials such as wire, tape, or cables. The device cannot only sheath short lengths of shrink tubing onto material, but also sheath long lengths shrink tubing onto material. Varying embodiments of this device can insulate whole lengths of material with shrink tubing as well as covering certain sections of material for a more precise application.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of mapping and identifying new sites for antibiotic action in the ribosome of a microorganism. The method comprises: (a) providing a random mutant library of the rRNA genes of the microorganism prepared by randomly mutating the rRNA genes of the microorganism; (b) enriching the library in clones with deleterious rRNA mutants by negative selection; (c) screening for clones with deleterious rRNA mutations; (d) mapping the deleterious rRNA mutations in the clones obtained from step (c) to identify sites in the rRNA which are important functional sites in the ribosome; and (e) selecting functional sites identified in the rRNA in step (d) which are not targeted by a known antibiotic as new sites for antibiotic action for the microorganism. The rRNA gene can be the 16S rRNA of the small subunit or the 23S rRNA or the 5S rRNA of the large subunit of the ribosome of the microorganism.

Abstract: An easily automated method of screening for antibiotics active against erythromycin resistant strains, comprising footprinting an antibiotic on the domain II of 23S rRNA, isolating rRNA by incubating an antibiotic with ribosomes, modifying ribosomes with a chemical modifying agent, isolating modified rRNA and subjecting it to the reverse transcriptase-mediated primer extension and gel electrophoresis on a DNA sequencer to determine the extent of antibiotic-induced protection of an rRNA nucleotide from chemical modification.