Abstract: A came call and/or monitoring apparatus is disclosed that includes a handheld central unit and one or more remote modules. The central unit includes a user input and a display screen, and communicates with the remote module(s). Each remote module is capable of generating a game call, taking an image, or executing some other function related to the hunting and monitoring of wildlife. The remote module may further be capable of communicating back to the central unit.

Abstract: Methods are provided for producing a shrunken replica or a shrunken inverse replica of a multicontinuous structure. In one embodiment, the method comprises (1) infiltrating a first multicontinuous structure with a first fluid material which can be immobilized and shrunken, wherein the first multicontinuous structure comprises at least a first phase and a second phase which is immiscible with the first phase, and the infiltration displaces the second phase in the first multicontinuous structure to form a second multicontinuous structure which comprises at least the first phase and a third phase which consists of the first fluid material; (2) immobilizing the infiltrated first fluid material in the second multicontinuous structure; (3) removing the first phase from the second multicontinuous structure; and (4) shrinking (e.g., by a pyrolysis process) the third phase of the second multicontinuous structure, to produce an isotropically shrunken inverse replica of the first multicontinuous structure.

Abstract: A method and system for remotely controlling access to a value unit. The system includes a central control means which includes control data relating to the control of access to one or more value units by associated access controllers. The system includes remote communication means between the central control means and operator control units, and between those units and access controllers. The control data includes an identity structure for the access controller that defines its permissible behaviour, and access control data defining operator control over the access controller. The access controller remains inaccessible until its identity structure is loaded and implemented. The identity structure may be encrypted so that only the central control means and the access controller can decipher it, thus creating a virtual configuration link between the central control means and the access controller via the operator control unit. The operator control unit only has access to the access control data.

Abstract: Cigarette filters, methods for making cigarettes and methods for smoking cigarettes are provided, which involve the use of an unfunctionalized porous polyaromatic resins, which is capable of removing at least some of at least one gas phase constituent from mainstream smoke through sorption. The unfunctionalized porous polyaromatic resin may be a polymerization product of non-polar styrene and divinyl benzene. Various gas phase constituent can be removed from mainstream tobacco smoke, such as dienes, furans, pyrroles, aromatics and ketones, for example. The cigarette filters and cigarettes can provide low resistance-to-draw and/or high total particulate matter delivery. Additionally, the unfunctionalized porous polyaromatic resin may further include flavorant(s).

Abstract: An antenna system particularly suitable for use with a satellite in a terrestrial communication system includes first and second signal reflectors which are selectively positionable with respect to an RF signal feed whereby first and second target areas can be serviced. A support structure is provided for the reflectors whereby the first and second reflectors are rotated into operating positions with respect the RF signal feed. The support structure further includes a hinge for supporting the first reflector whereby the reflector can be rotated between an operating position and a stow position. The support structure further includes a second gimbal which allows the second reflector to independently rotate to a flipped position and then pivot to the stow position adjacent to the first reflector with the concave surfaces of the two reflectors in a stacked position.

Abstract: A structured material is disclosed with magneto-gyrotropic characteristics including at least one continuous structurally-chiral material. The structured material has an electric permittivity and a magnetic permeability at least one of which varies within the structured material along a first direction in a repetitious fashion wherein a repetition unit includes a chiral component and is at least 25 nm in length. The structured material exhibits non-reciprocal electromagnetic wave propagation velocity characteristics along a second direction that includes a non-zero component along the first direction.

Abstract: An array of movable MEMS mirror devices is provided having a high linear mirror fill factor. The array includes a base structure and selectively movable mirror structures pivotally mounted on the base structure. Each mirror structure is pivotally supported by a flexure connected to the base structure. The mirror structures each include a reflective surface portion, which is arranged in close proximity to the reflective surface portions of other mirror structures and in a generally linear alignment, forming a row structure. The flexures supporting adjacent mirror structures are staggered on opposite sides of the row structure.

Abstract: An electronic system is provided including at least one electronic device and at least one authorisation code generation apparatus including input means (F) for facilitating the input of time information (B) defining one or more time periods during which the electronic device may be actuated through use of an authorisation code (E), a first processing means (G) to receive as an input the time information (B) and generate the authorisation code (E) dependent on the time information (B) and transmission means (H) to directly or indirectly communicate the authorisation code generated by the first processing means (D) to one or more of the electronic devices.

Abstract: Cigarette filters, methods for making cigarettes and methods for smoking cigarettes are provided, which involve the use of an unfunctionalized porous polyaromatic resins, which is capable of removing at least some of at least one gas phase constituent from mainstream smoke through sorption. The unfunctionalized porous polyaromatic resin may be a polymerization product of non-polar styrene and divinyl benzene. Various gas phase constituent can be removed from mainstream tobacco smoke, such as dienes, furans, pyrroles, aromatics and ketones, for example. The cigarette filters and cigarettes can provide low resistance-to-draw and/or high total particulate matter delivery. Additionally, the unfunctionalized porous polyaromatic resin may further include flavorant(s).

Abstract: A cigarette filter for removing gas phase constituents from mainstream cigarette smoke as the smoke is drawn through the filter primarily comprises an activated carbon fiber filter section including a bundle of activated carbon fibers. Particulate adsorbent materials such as granules, beads or course powders may be dispersed amongst the activated carbon fibers to aid in removal of the gas phase constituents. Additionally, the activated carbon fiber filter section may be used in combination with a separate bed or beds of particulate adsorbent material. In one embodiment, the activated carbon fibers are positioned within a helical groove on the outside of a threaded rod within the activated carbon fiber filter section. Relatively smaller amounts of activated carbon fibers produce the same smoke constituent reduction as larger amounts of particulate adsorbent material.

Abstract: A device having at least one dielectric inner core region in which electromagnetic radiation is confined, and at least two dielectric outer regions surrounding the inner core region, each with a distinct refractive index. The outer regions confine electromagnetic radiation within the inner core region. The refractive indices, the number of outer regions, and thickness of the outer regions result in a reflectivity for a planar geometry that is greater than 95% for angles of incidence ranging from 0° to at least 80° for all polarizations for a range of wavelengths of the electromagnetic radiation. In exemplary embodiments, the inner core region is made of a low dielectric material, and the outer regions include alternating layers of low and high dielectric materials. In one aspect of the invention, the device is a waveguide, and in another aspect the device is a microcavity.

Abstract: An all-dielectric coaxial waveguide comprising a dielectric core region; an annulus of dielectric material, surrounding the core region, in which electromagnetic radiation is confined; and an outer region of cylindrically coaxial dielectric shells of alternating indices of refraction surrounding the annulus. The core region and the outer region have an average index of refraction which is higher than the index of refraction of the annulus.

Abstract: An array of movable MEMS mirror devices is provided having a high linear mirror fill factor. The array includes a base structure and selectively movable mirror structures pivotally mounted on the base structure. Each mirror structure is pivotally supported by a flexure connected to the base structure. The mirror structures each include a reflective surface portion, which is arranged in close proximity to the reflective surface portions of other mirror structures and in a generally linear alignment, forming a row structure. The flexures supporting adjacent mirror structures are staggered on opposite sides of the row structure.

Abstract: A device having at least one dielectric inner core region in which electromagnetic radiation is confined, and at least two dielectric outer regions surrounding the inner core region, each with a distinct refractive index. The outer regions confine electromagnetic radiation within the inner core region. The refractive indices, the number of outer regions, and thickness of the outer regions result in a reflectivity for a planar geometry that is greater than 95% for angles of incidence ranging from 0° to at least 80° for all polarizations for a range of wavelengths of the electromagnetic radiation. In exemplary embodiments, the inner core region is made of a low dielectric material, and the outer regions include alternating layers of low and high dielectric materials. In one aspect of the invention, the device is a waveguide, and in another aspect the device is a microcavity.

Abstract: A device having at least one dielectric inner core region in which electromagnetic radiation is confined, and at least two dielectric outer regions surrounding the inner core region, each with a distinct refractive index. The outer regions confine electromagnetic radiation within the inner core region. The refractive indices, the number of outer regions, and thickness of the outer regions result in a reflectivity for a planar geometry that is greater than 95% for angles of incidence ranging from 0° to at least 80° for all polarizations for a range of wavelengths of the electromagnetic radiation. In exemplary embodiments, the inner core region is made of a low dielectric material, and the outer regions include alternating layers of low and high dielectric materials. In one aspect of the invention, the device is a waveguide, and in another aspect the device is a microcavity.

Abstract: A spectrum analyser that includes means (8) for converting, at each of a series of frequency settings, a received radio frequency signal into an intermediate frequency signal, each intermediate frequency signal being derivable from more than one nominal received radio frequency signal. The spectrum analyser carries out a frequency analysis (14) of each intermediate frequency signal to produce a power spectrum thereof and constructs a composite received radio frequency signal power spectrum corresponding to each intermediate frequency signal power spectrum. The composite radio frequency signal power spectrums are then operated on by the spectrum analyser to provide the actual power spectrum of the received radio frequency signal.

Abstract: The invention provides plant and viral promoters that can be used to confer high-level gene expression on transgenic plants. Representative promoters can be isolated from the genome of Australian banana-infecting badnaviruses from cultivars Mysore, Williams and Goldfinger. The invention further provides construct which include the disclosed promoters operatively linked to a coding sequence. Still further provided are a method of expressing the product of a gene in a plant cell, plant cells having DNA constructs within their genomes, and plants comprising the transgenic cells.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of redefining absolute references in a Web site so as to make the Web site and its referenced content portable and installing the portable Web site on a system within the mezzanine of the Internet so as to make the information available to a user from a more proximate location. To take advantage of the unused capacity of mezzanine systems, the present invention incorporates a systematic, organized, and highly structured, yet customizable, procedure for optimizing deployment of data from a remote primary server to any platform or location from which the data would be most optimally accessed. This is accomplished by globally replacing Web site source references with tokens. The tokens are then instantiated on install time and resolved specific to the target platform.

Abstract: A fixture, such as a light fixture includes a housing and a mounting base having a connector. The housing includes a first mating connector positioned on an end of the housing to permit attachment of the housing to the mounting base with the end of the housing adjacent to the mounting base, a second mating connector positioned on a side of the housing to permit attachment of the housing to the mounting base with the side of the housing adjacent to the mounting base, and a third mating connector positioned on a top of the housing to permit attachment of the housing to the mounting base with the top of the housing adjacent to the mounting base. A lens panel extends from the bottom of the fixture.

Abstract: A cleaning unit used to clean condensates formed during use of a component of a smoking system. The component can be a heating fixture having a cigarette receiving section and a plurality of longitudinally extending circumferentially spaced apart heating elements located within a can which accumulates the condensates. During a cleaning operation, the heating fixture is fitted within a cavity in the cleaning unit such that the cigarette receiving end of the heating fixture engages an O-ring and the terminal base portion abuts against an indented stop in an interior sidewall of a removable portion of the housing. The cleaning unit includes a water inlet connected to a source of pressurized water such as a faucet and a spray member extends into the cigarette receiving section to spray jets of water against the interior of the can.