Abstract: Disclosed is an ice shaver including a refrigerator, a moving mechanism, a driving device, a knife assembly and a pushing member. The refrigerator includes a bearer including an ice dropping channel and a door assembly, and the knife assembly is located between the pushing member and the door assembly. The driving device drives the moving mechanism so that the moving mechanism drives the door assembly to selectively move between an unsealing position and a sealing position. When the door assembly is located at the unsealing position, the door assembly unseals the ice-dropping channel. When the door assembly is located at the sealing position, the door assembly seals the ice-dropping channel. Therefore, it is possible to protect an ice cube in the refrigerator from being contaminated by the external environment.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ice shaver including a refrigerator, a moving mechanism, a driving device, a knife assembly and a pushing member. The refrigerator includes a bearer including an ice dropping channel and a door assembly, and the knife assembly is located between the pushing member and the door assembly. The driving device drives the moving mechanism so that the moving mechanism drives the door assembly to selectively move between an unsealing position and a sealing position. When the door assembly is located at the unsealing position, the door assembly unseals the ice-dropping channel. When the door assembly is located at the sealing position, the door assembly seals the ice-dropping channel Therefore, it is possible to protect an ice cube in the refrigerator from being contaminated by the external environment.

Abstract: A shave ice device having a first compartment, a second compartment below the first compartment, a gripping mechanism for gripping a block of ice, a rotating mechanism for rotating the gripping mechanism, a shaving plate separating the first compartment from the second compartment, and a cooling mechanism in communication with the first compartment. The cooling mechanism maintains the temperature of the first compartment at about 0 degrees Celsius or lower.

Abstract: A shave ice device having a first compartment, a second compartment below the first compartment, a gripping mechanism for gripping a block of ice, a rotating mechanism for rotating the gripping mechanism, a shaving plate separating the first compartment from the second compartment, and a cooling mechanism in communication with the first compartment. The cooling mechanism maintains the temperature of the first compartment at about 0 degrees Celsius or lower.

Abstract: A system permits a healthcare provider to perform flexible, efficient, and timely multiple analyses of managed care organization (MCO) contracts, over a large database of historical information, to provide associated profitability information. An interface processor receives data representing multiple, different financial claims for reimbursement based on multiple, different predetermined reimbursement formulae. A source of data represents multiple calculable expressions. A repository includes data associating a particular calculable expression with multiple, different reimbursement formulae, and data associating particular financial claim data with particular reimbursement formulae.

Abstract: An amebic glycoconjugate is disclosed that is recognized by an Entamoeba histolytica specific monoclonal antibody The glycoconjugate is isolated from the lysates of E. histolytica trophozoites, it is phosphorylated, lipid-containing, glycosylated, migrates as a polydisperse band on SDS-PAGE between about 65-200 kDa and is specifically recognized by monoclonal antibody CC 8.6, ATCC HB 11104.

Abstract: An Entamoeba histolytica specific cDNA clone which encodes an antigenic surface membrane protein possessing multiple tandem repeats and expression in E. coli is disclosed. This surface membrane protein is useful in a diagnostic assay for amebiosis.

Abstract: An Entamoeba histolytica specific cDNA clone which encodes an antigenic surface membrane protein possessing multiple tandem repeats and expression in E. coli is disclosed.