Abstract: Waste management apparatus comprising; means for receiving and storing organic waste, processing means configured to process the organic waste into feedstock, and a programmable logic controller in communication with the processing means, wherein the programmable logic controller is configured to: determine values of one or more properties of the feedstock using the processing means, determine one or more new operational parameters of the processing means based on the determined values of the one or more properties of the feedstock, and output instructions to the processing means, wherein the instructions are based on the determined one or more new operational parameters.

Abstract: The invention provides novel vaccination strategies based on a prime-boost vaccination regiment. The inventors have determined improved ways of boosting an immune response in a patient previously primed or exposed to a plurality of epitopes. The improved method requires the epitopes in the boosting phase to be administered individually, i.e. held on separate peptide constructs.

Abstract: The purpose of this invention is to allow one to determine is a sign is an “open” sign or a “closed” sign from a greater distance than would be possible if one had to rely on the ability to read said sign. By incorporating the colors “red” and “green” the sign's written message doesn't have to be read.

Abstract: The invention provides novel vaccination strategies based on a prime-boost vaccination regiment. The inventors have determined improved ways of boosting an immune response in a patient previously primed or exposed to a plurality of epitopes. The improved method requires the epitopes in the boosting phase to be administered individually, i.e. held on separate peptide constructs.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for obtaining a reproducible sample of solid particles. The reproducible sample is obtained by receiving solid particles into a collection system that includes a sheltered volume. Solid particles that settle outside of the sheltered volume are purged from the collection system. The remaining solid particles inside the sheltered volume correspond to the reproducible sample.

Abstract: The invention provides novel vaccination strategies based on a prime-boost vaccination regimen. The inventors have determined improved ways of boosting an immune response in a patient previously primed or exposed to a plurality of epitopes. The improved method requires the epitopes in the boosting phase to be administered individually, i.e. held on separate peptide constructs.

Abstract: A name and address processor for processing text contained within an existing database for subsequent text-to-speech synthesis. The processor receives as input a listing contained within a textual source database, intelligently recognizes any fields contained within the textual source, normalizes the text contained within the fields, detects acronyms contained within the fields, identifies and marks any particular textual entries as necessitating spelling and then formats the processed text for output to a text-to-speech synthesizer. The processor processes in parallel all name field entries, address field entries, and locality field entries using tables of rules as well as both regular expression and non-regular expression methodologies.