Abstract: An adhesive bandage allows one-handed (single-finger) lifting and placing, whereby the bandage can be quickly lifted from a supply container and accurately placed on a skin wound. The bandage consists of a tape whose upper surface has a finger-spot adhesive, and whose lower surface has adhesive for skin adhesion, and has a compressible-resilient pad for determinate pressure on a bleeding wound. Recessed embodiments are also taught. A tabbed-tissue is adhered to the bandage top as a separator in a supply container with a plurality of bandages, the tab useful as an alternative for lifting and placing the bandage.

Abstract: An improved meal-substitute food bar, herein called a meal-equivalent food bar because it is divided into segments equivalent to the sequence of courses in a conventional meal, including appetizer with functional appetite stimulants; main-course with major nutrition ingredients; and desert with functional appetite depressants. Further, the food bar is divided frangibly lengthwise into strips, each strip a selectable meal-equivalent with pre-determined calories. As a result, the meal-equivalent food bar provides a meal with improved physiological and psychological values for a consumer.

Abstract: Sweet and savory (non-sweet) ready-to-eat food bars can provide improved nutrition and flavor by minimizing sugar and sugar-substitutes in a balanced-nutrition bar. Such improved bars are advantageously eaten singly or as segments of a meal-equivalent food bar assembly. Specifically, sugars (mono- and di-saccharides) and sugar-substitutes (sugar-related short-chain polymers) are powerful flavor sweeteners but should be used minimally—because they can stimulate unhealthy sugar-craving in athletes, diabetics, and overweights, and can overwhelm subtle flavors in sweet and savory bars. Unhealthy forms of fats are also minimized.

Abstract: An improved meal-substitute food bar, herein called a meal-equivalent food bar because it is divided into segments equivalent to the sequence of courses in a conventional meal, including appetizer with functional appetite stimulants; main-course with major nutrition ingredients; and dessert with functional appetite depressants. Further, the food bar is divided frangibly lengthwise into strips, each strip a selectable meal-equivalent with pre-determined calories. As a result, the meal-equivalent food bar provides a meal with improved physiological and psychological values for a consumer.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for computer speech recognition based on time-domain phoneme waveform identification. In Mainwave-Ripple Model (MRM) analysis, the waveform is located in a short interval called a frame, and waveform structural features are located and measured, to form a waveform analysis array in terms of fine-structure parameters and main-structure parameters. Analysis can also derive multi-frame pattern analysis arrays. In training mode, phoneme reference arrays are formed by combining a known most-probable analysis array with its corresponding phoneme symbol. In recognition mode, unknown input signal analysis arrays are compared with prestored reference arrays, whereby a best-match recognition is made. Selectable levels of processing provide selectable speed versus accuracy, in terms of protowave, phonode, or phoneme recognition. A computer program storage device readable by a computer system for implementing the method is included.