Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical heating device comprising a heating rod, and heat sinks which are held between flanges of the heating rod, wherein flange sections, defined by cuts in the flanges, are bent to grip and hold the heat sinks. The invention also refers to a method for manufacturing such a heating device.

Abstract: Techniques of using statistical analysis of genetic data to determine likely markers for a recessive genetic disease or trait. One embodiment of these techniques includes the steps of obtaining actual genotype data for one or more affected people with the genetic disease or trait in a population, obtaining estimated genotype data for the population, and analyzing the actual and estimated genotype data to find a region in genomes of the affected people that includes markers exhibiting particular homozygous pairs of alleles more frequently than would occur randomly.

Abstract: Techniques of using statistical analysis of genetic data to determine likely markers for a recessive genetic disease or trait. One embodiment of these techniques includes the steps of obtaining actual genotype data for one or more affected people with the genetic disease or trait in a population, obtaining estimated genotype data for the population, and analyzing the actual and estimated genotype data to find a region in genomes of the affected people that includes markers exhibiting particular homozygous pairs of alleles more frequently than would occur randomly.

Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for performing data mining autonomously with regard to a set of data, and formulating hypotheses in response thereto. An autonomous software element (a) collects sets of data, along with collateral data, into a unified extensible database; (b) formulates possibly interesting hypotheses with regard to those data; (c) evaluates hypotheses, thus relating each hypothesis against a probability it could have occurred by chance; (d) rates each hypothesis in response to multiple factors; (e) reports those hypotheses to users, selecting those users who are most likely to be interested and who are most interested in being informed.

Abstract: A novel calcium fluoroaluminosilicate glass consisting essentially of from 25 to 35% by weight of silicon calculated as silica, from 30 to 40% by weight of aluminum calculated as alumina, from 20 to 35% by weight calcium, calculated as calcium oxide, and up to 9% by weight fluorine (preferably 4-7%) can be associated with a poly(carboxylic acid) e.g. as an intimate mixture of glass and acid to constitute a composition curable on contact with water and useful, for example, as a loading on a splinting bandage. Such a bandage preferably has a ratio of set time to gel time from 4:1 to 8:1 with a minimum gel time of 60 seconds.