Abstract: An example mold inhibiting package and associated methods are described. The mold inhibiting package includes walls formed from an outer layer affixed to an inner layer with the inner layer being in contact with the product. At least one of the outer layer or the inner layer is infused with a mold inhibitor during formation of the respective outer layer or inner layer. The mold inhibitor activates at a predetermined temperature or humidity level to prevent mold formation within an inner chamber of the package.

Abstract: A packet switching network that accommodates the appearance of multiple occurrences of packets addressed to the same destination are accommodated. The network includes a recirculating delay block within the switch, and an expander that includes a modest number of multiple appearances of the same address, followed by memories that accept the packets delivered at those multiple appearances, store the packets, and output the stored packets to the user, one at a time, in accordance with a set priority scheme.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for encoding a graphics image by treating the image as plurality of cells. Each cell comprises a plurality of pixels. The states of the pixels of a cell are predicted using pixel states of priorly processed adjacent cells. A differential cell containing differential pixel states is created by comparing the predicted pixel states to the corresponding actual pixel states of the cell. The differential cell is compared with a plurality of predefined library differential cells to locate a closest match and a vector code identifying the located closest matching library cell is transmitted to a decoder. The vector code is used at the decoder to reconstruct an approximation of the image cell using a library of differential cells identical to the library of differential cells used to generate the vector code at the encoder. A variation of the invention dynamically adjusts the size of a cell to compensate for excessive prediction error.

Abstract: A system for remote absorption spectroscopy of trace species using a diode laser (14) tunable over a useful spectral region of 50 to 200 cm.sup.-1 by control of diode laser temperature over range from 15.degree. K. to 100.degree. K., and tunable over a smaller region of typically 0.1 to 10 cm.sup.-1 by control of the diode laser current over a range from 0 to 2 amps. Diode laser temperature and current set points are transmitted to the instrument in digital form and stored in memory (32) for retrieval under control of a microprocessor (28) during measurements. The laser diode current is determined by a digital-to-analog converter (62) through a field-effect transistor (Q.sub.1) for a high degree of ambient temperature stability, while the laser diode temperature is determined by set points entered into a digital-to-analog converter (64) under control of the microprocessor.

Abstract: An electronic circuit having two states, at least one of which is stable and which permits information to pass from one terminal to the other. The circuit can be activated by the flow of a minute electric current through the human body. The circuit is particularly suitable for any hand-held instrument such, for example, as an electronic calculator watch of the digital type and including electronic logic. It permits to activate certain functions or to carry out certain calculations by activating a conductive surface by means of a hand-held metallic pin or the like. This makes it possible to provide a large number of functions or operations and to display numbers say on the face of a watch and to activate each one by touching it with a pin held by the wearer of the watch or instrument.