Abstract: A hair curling device includes a hair curling mechanism including two pivot holes on left and right sides respectively; and a covering plate including two pivots on left and right sides respectively, the pivots being configured to insert into the pivot holes so as to pivotally secure the covering plate to the hair curling mechanism. The covering plate is configured to close or open the hair curling mechanism. When the covering plate is completely open, the hair curling mechanism is not covered by said covering plate.

Abstract: A hairbrush includes a bristle carrier including a surface and a plurality of first and second bristles fastened on the surface. The first bristles and the second bristles are arranged in rows and have a plurality of different configurations. In one embodiment, a bent member is formed on a top of each second bristle.

Abstract: A hair clip includes a curvilinear upper clamping arm having a shape as a curved knurled member; a curvilinear lower clamping arm have a slightly curved bend up shape; and a hinge assembly, said upper clamping arm including two side ears, an elongated projections on an lower surface, said lower clamping arm including two side brackets, an elongated opening extending from a position adjacent of the other end to the side brackets, protrusions disposed on an upper surface at either side of the opening, and said hinge assembly including a torsion spring, pins through the side ears and the brackets. The upper clamping arm and the lower clamping arm set in a curved shape, the middle parts of the upper and lower clamping arms do not abut against each other to increase a large space for accommodating hair.

Abstract: An improvement of hair brush structure includes a brush head, a handle, and an adjustment device interconnected to the brush head and the handle. A repeated rotation of the adjustment device causes changing an appearance of the hair brush.

Abstract: A new and improved ring-shaped coil-style hair tie is proposed, which can be used by a person with long hair for fastening a bundle of hair, such as a ponytail, on the back of the person's head. The proposed ring-shaped coil-style hair tie is characterized by the provision of an elasticity-enhancing member in the inner longitudinal axial hollow portion of a ring-shaped coiled cord so as to provide an enhanced level of elastic restoring force that allows the ring-shaped coil-style hair tie to be more tightly and securely fixed in position when being used to fasten a bundle of hair, and also prevents the person's hair from being caught in and tangled with the ring-shaped coiled cord, and further twisted with the elasticity-enhancing member.

Abstract: A hair tie includes a main body, which has a first elastic body for winding around a hair bundle, and a soft material member covering the first elastic body to be in contact with the wound hair bundle. The first elastic body has a first free end and a second free end, and the hair tie further includes first and second coupling members disposed at the first and second free ends of the first elastic body, respectively, and engageable with each other to secure the winding of the first elastic body around the hair bundle.

Abstract: A coil hair tie include: a spiral coil body configured as a head-to-tail connected ring with a hollow portion for allowing hair to pass through, wherein the spiral coil body has a hollow chamber therein; and a linear elastic restoring member comprising at least one one-dimensional elastic body extending in a direction substantially parallel to the spiral coil body and disposed in the hollow chamber of the spiral coil body, and being head-to-tail connected to form a ring configuration. When the spiral coil body is stretched into a tensile configuration with a lower coil density, the elastic restoring member is also stretched, and when the tensile force applied to the spiral coil body is removed, the spiral coil body restores to a retracted configuration having a higher coil density through the tensile restoring force of the elastic restoring member.

Abstract: An insulator apparatus includes a deformable insulator body made of a foam material, a self-coiling spring strip secured to the deformable insulator body, and a deformable decorative sheet disposed on the deformable insulator body. The deformable decorative sheet has a base layer that is made of a material of paper or plastics, and a pattern layer disposed on the base layer. A coiling action of the self-coiling spring strip results in conversion of the insulator apparatus from a straight state to a bent state. At the bent state, the deformable decorative sheet completely covers the deformable insulator body and the self-coiling spring strip.

Abstract: A rolled absorbent paper product. The rolled absorbent paper product includes an absorbent paper substrate having at least one ply with an emboss pattern comprising two visually distinct emboss design elements disposed in a plurality of predetermined, spaced-apart positions across the ply. The two emboss design elements comprise a first emboss design element occupying all but at least one of the positions in a first repeating pattern, and a second emboss design element occupying the at least one of the positions not occupied by the first emboss design element. The second emboss design element can be a word comprising a line emboss defining line-embossed letters wherein each letter comprises an open area within the line emboss. The first and second emboss design elements can each have an emboss area of from about 7% to about 25% and a difference in emboss area relative to each other of less than about 10%.

Abstract: This invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating cancer, comprising an effective amount of a compound represented by formula (I): wherein R is —CCOCCOCC— or —CCOCCOCCOCC—; and a pharmaceutical acceptable carrier. This invention also relates to a method for treating cancer, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of said compound to a subject; and a method for stabilizing G4 structure of telomere by using this compound.

Abstract: An insulator sleeve includes: a seamed cylindrical body having top and bottom open ends, the seamed cylindrical body including an annular folded insulator wall of an insulator material, and an annular folded surface layer attached to the folded insulator wall, the folded insulator wall extending from the top open end to the bottom open end of the seamed cylindrical body, and having an outer surface, a folded end, and two free ends that are substantially flush with each other, the folded surface layer covering the outer surface of the folded insulator wall, and having a folded end that cooperates with the folded end of the folded insulator wall to define the top open end of the seamed cylindrical body; and a base secured to the bottom open end of the seamed cylindrical body.

Abstract: The invention provides conjugates of negatively charged peptide oligomers with therapeutic agents, moieties capable of recruiting endogenous bone-affecting agents, or imaging agents, useful for delivering the agents to bone tissue or calcified masses, and the methods of use thereof. The negatively charged peptide oligomers bind strongly but reversibly to bone tissue and calcified masses with a controllable affinity and retention time on the tissue or mass.

Abstract: Improved DNA structures are disclosed which contain target sequences which bind to control proteins (such as the CREB protein). The structures of the present invention are stable to degradation, and are effective as decoys for control proteins, making it possible to modulate the transcriptional control normally exerted by such control proteins. In addition, there is provided a method to reversibly crosslink oligonucleotides to polypeptides which recognize the oligonucleotide sequence. This method involves synthesizing DNA structures as described above, wherein one or more phosphorothioate diester linkages are incorporated into the resulting oligonucleotide, allowing the phosphorothioate diester-containing oligonucleotide to bind to polypeptides which recognize the sequence of said oligonucleotide, then contacting the polypeptide-bound oligonucleotide with a transition metal reagent.