Abstract: The inventive concepts provide an apparatus for treating a substrate. The apparatus includes a housing proving an inner space in which a substrate is treated, a spin head supporting and rotating the substrate in the housing, an injection unit comprising a first nozzle member spraying a first treatment solution to the substrate put on the spin head, and a controller controlling the first nozzle member. The first nozzle member includes a body, a vibrator, a pump, and a power source.

Abstract: The present invention provides a remote monitoring system for monitoring the operation of a fluid treatment system and/or the qualities, characteristics, properties, etc., of the fluid being processed or treated by the fluid treatment system. The present invention also relates to carbon nanotube sensors.

Abstract: The present invention provides a remote monitoring system for monitoring the operation of a fluid treatment system and/or the qualities, characteristics, properties, etc., of the fluid being processed or treated by the fluid treatment system. The present invention also relates to carbon nanotube sensors.

Abstract: A remote-controllable circuit breaker (RCB) is provided for use with a main breaker that permits a user to stop power from being delivered to selected non-critical loads by remotely operating a small motor within one or more RCBs to turn the RCBs off. The user can be the consumer himself, or, if remote access to the RCB has been granted by the consumer, the user can be a retail energy supplier or the consumer's utility company. The RCB's can be installed in the main circuit breaker box, or they can be installed in a subpanel. A communications module with a power supply and a relay operates to change the polarity of the d.c. voltage on an RCB's motor to switch power to a load off or on. The communications module receives input from any standard communications network, such as internet protocol, wi-fi or wi-max.

Abstract: An evolvable production strain of B. subtilis exhibiting continuous or high level expression during protein evolution is described. An evolved Bacillus subtilis pstS promoter facilitates screening and production of secreted proteins.

Abstract: A computer implemented method calculates topical categorization of electronic documents in a collection. A processor applies a metric to categorize semantic distance between two sections of a document or between two documents. The processor executes a topic algorithm using the categorization provided by the metric to determine topic boundaries. Topics are extracted based upon the topic boundaries; and the extracted topics are compared for similarity with topics in other documents for organizational and research purposes.

Abstract: A reinforced conveyor belt has a plurality of fabric plies. One of the plies is an interwoven ply comprised of two layers of weft cords and a plurality of warp cords interweaving through the two layers of weft cords. Each warp cord has the following repeating weave pattern of passing over at least two but not more than five weft cords in the first weft layers, passing between the two weft layers for a distance of at least two weft cords, and passing under at least two but nor more than five weft cords in the second weft layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a remote monitoring system for monitoring the operation of a fluid treatment system and/or the qualities, characteristics, properties, etc., of the fluid being processed or treated by the fluid treatment system. The present invention also relates to carbon nanotube sensors.

Abstract: A hemostatic powder comprises a chitosan salt together with at least one inert material. The disclosure also relates to hemostatic powders into which fluid penetrability is 0.5 cm or more within 1 minute. At least one medical surfactant may optionally be included. The hemostatic powders may be incorporated into wound dressings.

Abstract: Described are detergent compositions comprising at least one lipase enzyme selected from SriII, ScoIIA, ScoIIB, CefII, and variants, thereof. The compositions are useful for removing oily stains from fabric.

Abstract: An evolvable production strain of B. subtilis exhibiting continuous or high level expression during protein evolution is described. An evolved Bacillus subtilis pstS promoter facilitates screening and production of secreted proteins.

Abstract: A hemostatic powder comprises a chitosan salt together with at least one inert material. The disclosure also relates to hemostatic powders into which fluid penetrability is 0.5 cm or more within 1 minute. At least one medical surfactant may optionally be included. The hemostatic powders may be incorporated into wound dressings.

Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated promoter sequences, particularly a promoter isolated from Aspergillus niger designated herein as A4-L or A4 and DNA constructs and vectors including the same.

Abstract: A hemostatic powder comprises a chitosan salt together with at least one medical surfactant. At least one inert material may optionally be included. The hemostatic powder may be incorporated into wound dressings.

Abstract: The present invention provides a remote monitoring system for monitoring the operation of a fluid treatment system and/or the qualities, characteristics, properties, etc., of the fluid being processed or treated by the fluid treatment system. The present invention also relates to carbon nanotube sensors.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions comprising at least one neutral metalloprotease enzyme in the relative absence of serine protease enzyme contaminants. In some embodiments, the neutral metalloprotease finds use in cleaning and other applications. In some particularly preferred embodiments, the present invention provides methods and composi-tions comprising Bacillus strains engineered to be deficient in multiple serine proteases, and their use in production of recombinant neutral metalloprotease(s).

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for color denoising are described. There is provided an image processing method. The method comprises the steps of retrieving chrominance level for a plurality of pixels in a predetermined configuration; computing a weight for each pixel; applying the weight to the chrominance level for each the pixel; summing the weighted chrominance level to output a chrominance level for a center pixel at the center of said predetermined configuration; and repeating the above steps for every pixel per image. The color noise can be reduced while preserving the edge without any edge detection.

Abstract: An evolvable production strain of B. subtilis exhibiting continuous or high level expression during protein evolution is described. An evolved Bacillus subtilis pstS promoter facilitates screening and production of secreted proteins.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for correcting white balance in a digital image are described. The method comprises determining a number of grey blocks in the digital image (s102), each block comprising a subset of pixels of the image, and if the number of grey blocks is less than a predetermined value, scaling one or more color channels of the digital image using a first gain value to generate a first intermediate image (s201A) and scaling one or more color channels of the digital image using a second gain value to generate a second intermediate image (s201B). A number of grey blocks in each of the first and second intermediate images (s202A, s202B) is determined and the gain value resulting in the intermediate image having a greater number of grey blocks is set as the reference gain value (s203). A grey world process is performed on the intermediate image having a greater number of grey blocks (s205).

Abstract: A device for indicating a level of a bulk material in a bin. A motor imparts a swinging motion to a paddle located inside the bin. When the paddle engages the material, drag on the paddle causes a counteracting force on the motor, indicating a presence of material at the location of the device. In various embodiments, a paddle shaft, having very little exposure inside the bin, extends from a protective enclosure. The shaft is capped with a flexible section having the paddle attached to it. The paddle is at a downward angle relative to the paddle shaft and extends into the bin so as to engage the material. The paddle may move at an urging of the material so as to avoid damage to the paddle, flexible section, and shaft.