Abstract: Benzimidazole compounds of the general formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or esters thereof are peptide deformylase inhibitors useful in the treatment or prevention of infections and other diseases in which peptide deformylases are involved, especially in the treatment of bacterial and parasitic infections, for example infections fully or partly caused by microorganisms belonging to Staphylococcus, Enterococcus, Streptococcus, Haemophilus, Moraxella, Escherichia, Mycobacterium, Mycoplasma, Pseudomonas, Chlamydia, Rickettsia, Klebsiella, Shigella, Salmonella, Bordetella, Clostridium, helicobacter, Campylobacter, Legionella, or Neisseria.

Abstract: The isolation and function of a plant LpTFL1 from Lolium perenne (perennial ryegrass) are described, along with generation of transgenic Arabidopsis ryegrass, and red fescue plants. Thc gene prevents or represses flowering of transgenic plants. Methods for using the gene to repress or prevent flowering are described.

Abstract: The extraction of intact, representative fluid samples in well-defined depths, such as from wells sunk into the ground, has until now been very difficult, and in many cases impossible to perform. A method is provided as well as a sample extractor for the extraction of intact fluid samples, in particular from a well (26) sunk into the ground, by submersion of a compressible hollow flexible body (22) fitted in a supporting device which, subsequent to submersion to the sample extraction depth, is acted upon to effect liquid entry through an inlet. In particular, hollow flexible body (22) is held in the support device in the form of a pressure vessel (2) and fully compressed by pressurized gas inside the pressure vessel, whereupon the pressure vessel is caused to change in such a way that a surrounding fluid seeps into the hollow flexible body (22), whereupon the vessel (2) with the body (22) containing the fluid sample is hoisted out of the well (26).

Abstract: A method of damping the rebound in print hammer magnets in typewriters or similar office machine in which kinetic energy is removed, in a manner known per se, from the armature of the print hammer magnet returning to its initial position by charging the coil of the print hammer magnet with a so-called braking pulse. The method provides the charging of the coil of the print hammer magnet with measuring pulses during the time when it returns into its initial position and to measure the current flowing through the coil. The increase in current depends on the width of the air gap and therefore permits conclusions as to the position of the armature, so that the braking impulse can be switched on at the correct time.