Abstract: Provided are devices and methods for generating a view tile for a user interface. In one example, the method may include generating a top image layer comprising a plurality of transparent segments which are capable of representing a plurality of values based on which of the plurality of transparent segments are filled in with a color, generating a background color layer including the color, and overlaying the top image layer on the background color layer to generate a view tile representing a value from among the plurality of values. The generated view tile may provide a quick overview of an item with only a glance without requiring the viewer to read information in detail allowing the viewer to provide their attention to other activities.

Abstract: Provided are devices and methods for generating a view tile for a user interface. In one example, the method may include generating a top image layer comprising a plurality of transparent segments which are capable of representing a plurality of values based on which of the plurality of transparent segments are filled in with a color, generating a background color layer including the color, and overlaying the top image layer on the background color layer to generate a view tile representing a value from among the plurality of values. The generated view tile may provide a quick overview of an item with only a glance without requiring the viewer to read information in detail allowing the viewer to provide their attention to other activities.

Abstract: A system includes a user interface simultaneously displaying an offer selection rule fragment area and a plurality of condition category rule fragment areas, and, in response to a first user selection of a first user interface control associated with the offer selection rule fragment area, displaying a plurality of offer selection rule fragments. The interface receives a second user selection of one of the plurality of offer selection rule fragments, and one or more parameters to associate with the selected rule fragment are received. The selected rule fragment of the selected offer selection rule fragment category and the associated one or more parameters are displayed in the offer selection rule fragment area of the user interface, and a selected rule fragment of a condition category and a second one or more parameters associated with the selected rule fragment of the condition category are displayed in the condition category rule fragment area of the user interface.

Abstract: A method of coding a Web page for improving accessibility for a disabled user using assistive technology to read the Web page, includes coding a first element on a Web page and modifying the first element to include at least one coding block in a language not effected by a scripting control setting on a browser used to display the Web page and configured to skip the first element responsive to receiving a skip request from the disabled user.

Abstract: A magnetic recording disk has a ferromagnetic recording layer and a “paramagnetic” write assist layer in contact and exchange coupled with the ferromagnetic recording layer. The write assist layer is a ferromagnetic material that has a Curie temperature less than the operating temperature of the disk drive so that at operating temperature and in the absence of a write field, the write assist layer is in its paramagnetic state and has no remanent magnetization. When a write field is applied in a direction opposite to the magnetization in previously written regions of the ferromagnetic recording layer, the write assist layer exhibits a magnetization aligned with the write field and assists the write field in reversing the magnetization in the ferromagnetic recording layer due to the exchange coupling.

Abstract: In the control of the rolled product thickness in a roll stand, to suppress the influence of roll eccentricities, it is known to provide a dead zone which is insensitive to signal fluctuations caused by the roll eccentricities and to vary the zone width of the dead zone as a function of the magnitude of the signal fluctuations. In so doing, in order to increase the accuracy, the variation of the zone width (b) is carried out as a function of a continuous statistical evaluation of the signal fluctuations, the standard deviation (.sigma.) thereof preferably being determined.

Abstract: On a carrier layer there are arranged several test layers which are at least partly in fluid contact with one another, enabling liquid exchange. On the carrier layer are arranged an application zone, a detection zone for the production of a detectable signal characteristic of the analytical determination, which contains at least one said test layer which is a reaction layer, and an absorption zone with a test layer which is an absorptive layer of an absorbent material, wherein the reaction layer and absorption zone are positioned next to each other. Between the application and the absorption zone is a capillary-active transport path on the carrier layer which connects the application zone and the absorption zone. The reaction layer is arranged parallel to the transport path between the application zone and the absorption zone in such a manner that it is in liquid contact with a liquid transported in the transport path.

Abstract: A device for separating plasma or serum from whole blood and analyzing the same, wherein the device includes a layer of glass fibers with an average diameter of from 0.2 to 5 microns and having a density of from 0.1 to 0.5 g./cm.sup.3 and an adsorption volume at least twice that of the plasma or serum to be separated and, preferably, more than 3.3 times the volume.

Abstract: A test support for support-bound tests for the determination of components of fluids, especially of human and animal body fluids. The test support is composed of a plurality of layers, and the joining of the layers is accomplished at least partially by sewing.

Abstract: Esters and agents including the esters, useful as substrates for esterolytic and/or proteolytic enzymes, said esters being compounds of the general formula: ##STR1## in which R".sub.1, R".sub.2, R".sub.3 and R".sub.4, which may be the same or different, are hydrogen atoms or lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, alkylamino or dialkylamino radicals or in which two adjacent substituents can also represent a fused benzene ring, A is a residue of an amino acid or of a peptide and B is a nitrogen protective group conventional in peptide chemistry or derived therefrom and the method of preparation and use.

Abstract: Esters and agents including the esters, useful as substrates for esterolytic and/or proteolytic enzymes, said esters being compounds of the general formula: ##STR1## in which R".sub.1, R".sub.2, R".sub.3 and R".sub.4, which may be the same or different, are hydrogen atoms or lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, alkylamino or dialkylamino radicals or in which two adjacent substituents can also represent a fused benzene ring, A is a residue of an amino acid or of a peptide and B is a nitrogen protective group conventional in peptide chemistry or derived therefrom; and the method of preparation and use.

Abstract: A composition and process for permitting the separation of plasma or serum from whole blood. The composition includes glass fibers having an average diameter of from 0.2.mu. to 5.mu. and a density of 0.1 g/cm.sup.2 to 0.5 g/cm.sup.2. The process includes the steps of slowly trickling whole blood onto one side of a layer composed of the composition of glass fibers, whereby plasma or serum separated from the blood becomes available at another side of the layer. The total volume of the plasma or serum separated from the blood is limited to at most 50% of the absorption volume of the glass fiber layer.

Abstract: This invention relates to new amino acid and peptide esters of leuko-indoaniline compounds and to a process for their preparation. In additional aspect, the invention relates to compositions containing such compounds for the detection of proteolytic enzymes and to methods for detecting such enzymes.

Abstract: Azo dyestuff ester of the formulaA--N.dbd.N--B(OR).sub.nwhereinA is a five- or six-membered heterocyclic radical of up to 2 hetero ring atoms selected from nitrogen, sulfur and oxygen, and wherein the heterocyclic ring may be substituted with at least one member of the group selected from halogen, lower alkyl and lower alkoxy; orA is phenyl substituted by at least one member of the group selected from lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, nitro, sulphanato and acylamino;B is benzene, naphthalene or quinoline, optionally substituted with one or two radicals selected from sulphanato, lower alkoxy and lower alkoxypoly-alkyleneoxy;R is a carboxylic acid residue or an amino acid or peptide residue having a nitrogen protective group; andn is 1 or 2.This dyestuff is particularly useful as a chromogen in a diagnostic composition for detecting leukocytes in body fluids.

Abstract: Diagnostic agent for the detection of leukocytes in body fluids, comprising an absorbent carrier which is impregnated with a chromogen and a buffer substance, wherein the chromogen is a sulfonphthalein ester of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a carboxylic acid residue optionally substituted by halogen or lower alkoxy; or is an amino acid or peptide residue having a nitrogen protective group;R.sub.2 is a halogen atom or a lower alkyl radical; andR.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are individually selected from hydrogen and halogen.Certain of the chromogen are provided as novel compounds.

Abstract: Diagnostic agent for the detection of component materials, in liquids and method of production. The diagnostic agent includes a water resistant film composed of a film-former and contains a film opener in the form of fine, insoluble inorganic or organic particles.

Abstract: This invention relates to diagnositc agents and methods for the detection of leukocytes in body fluids. In additional aspect, the invention provides a process for the production of such diagnostic agents.

Abstract: Novel diagnostic composition for the detection of leukocytes in body fluids, comprising an absorbent carrier impregnated with a buffer substance and a chromgen, wherein the chromogen is an azo dyestuff ester of the formulaA--N.dbd.N--B(OR).sub.nwhereinA is a five- or six-membered heterocyclic radical of up to 2 hetero ring atoms selected from nitrogen, sulfur and oxygen, and wherein the heterocyclic ring may be substituted with at least one member of the group selected from halogen, lower alkyl and lower alkoxy; orA is phenyl substituted by at least one member of the group selected from lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, nitro, sulphanato and acylamino;B is benzene, naphthalene or quinolone, optionally substituted with one or two radicals selected from sulphanato, lower alkoxy and lower alkoxypoly-alkyleneoxy;R is a carboxylic acid residue or an amino acid or peptide residue having a nitrogen protective group; andn is 1 or 2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a diagnostic agent for the detection of proteolytic enzymes, comprising an absorbent carrier, a film layer, a powder mixture, a lyophilisate, a solution or a reagent tablet, containing at least one chromogen and an appropriate buffer substance, wherein the chromogen used is an indoxyl- and/or thioindoxyl-amino acid ester and/or peptide ester of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.

Abstract: The low molecular water-soluble onium-catalyst dissolved in the liquid mixture of epoxy resin and excess epihalohydrin obtained by the reaction in the presence of base of a compound having --OH, --SH, --COOH or .dbd.NH groups with excess 1-halo-2,3-epoxyalkane, is separated therefrom by contacting the liquid mixture, either prior to or after separation therefrom of the precipitated salt produced by the reaction, with at least about 5 parts by weight based on the weight of the catalyst present in the liquid mixture, of an adsorbent containing or capable of absorbing at least 1% by weight of water so strongly that it cannot be removed either by drying over concentrated sulfuric acid or by drying at 110.degree. C. and can only be partially removed by drying at 200.degree. C. under vacuum (about 1 millibar), and then separating the adsorbent with catalyst adsorbed thereon from the liquid mixture.