Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wheel shield apparatus that includes a pair of elongated parallel tube members in perpendicular engagement with a pair of short parallel tube members, at least one removable side of the wheel shield apparatus is operable to be temporarily opened or removed such that the wheel shield apparatus may be placed around a wheel of a neurosurgical microscope or some other type of heavy wheeled machinery and the removable side may be placed in a closed position such that the wheel shield surrounds the wheel. Each of the pair of elongated parallel tube members and/or each of the pair of short parallel tube members comprises a cavity configured to receive a ballast material to provide sufficient weight to ensure that the wheel shield apparatus contacts the floor such that cables along the floor are pushed out of the way by the wheel shield apparatus and prevented from being run over while the machinery is being transported.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wheel shield apparatus that includes a pair of elongated parallel tube members in perpendicular engagement with a pair of short parallel tube members, at least one removable side of the wheel shield apparatus is operable to be temporarily opened or removed such that the wheel shield apparatus may be placed around a wheel of a neurosurgical microscope or some other type of heavy wheeled machinery and the removable side may be placed in a closed position such that the wheel shield surrounds the wheel. Each of the pair of elongated parallel tube members and/or each of the pair of short parallel tube members comprises a cavity configured to receive a ballast material to provide sufficient weight to ensure that the wheel shield apparatus contacts the floor such that cables along the floor are pushed out of the way by the wheel shield apparatus and prevented from being run over while the machinery is being transported.

Abstract: A monitoring system, for monitoring an object, which includes a microprocessor comprising a memory to store data, and a control program executed by said microprocessor, said microprocessor having a stand-by mode and an active mode, a communications means connected to said microprocessor for transmitting data from said microprocessor to a monitoring station, a zone monitoring device on the object connected to said microprocessor in a loop with said microprocessor in said stand-by mode, a power source for supplying power to said microprocessor, communications means and zone monitoring device, wherein upon said microprocessor receiving an input signal from said zone monitoring device, said control program directs said microprocessor to switch to active mode, generate and store in said memory an alarm message corresponding to said input signal from said zone monitoring device, activate said communications means, and transmit said alarm message to a monitoring station.

Abstract: Neural thermoprotective compositions comprising a pharmacological inhibitor of the PKG pathway are described, as are methods of treating patients and providing neural thermoprotection with the same.

Abstract: A monitoring system, for monitoring an object, which includes a microprocessor comprising a memory to store data, and a control program executed by said microprocessor, said microprocessor having a stand-by mode and an active mode, a communications means connected to said microprocessor for transmitting data from said microprocessor to a monitoring station, a zone monitoring device on the object connected to said microprocessor in a loop with said microprocessor in said stand-by mode, a power source for supplying power to said microprocessor, communications means and zone monitoring device, wherein upon said microprocessor receiving an input signal from said zone monitoring device, said control program directs said microprocessor to switch to active mode, generate and store in said memory an alarm message corresponding to said input signal from said zone monitoring device, activate said communications means, and transmit said alarm message to a monitoring station.

Abstract: A container monitoring system which includes a microprocessor comprising a memory to store data, and a control program executed by said microprocessor, said microprocessor having a stand-by mode and an active mode, a communications means connected to said microprocessor for transmitting data from said microprocessor to a monitoring station, a zone monitoring device on the container connected to said microprocessor in a loop with said microprocessor in said stand-by mode, a power source for supplying power to said microprocessor, communications means and zone monitoring device, wherein upon said microprocessor receiving an input signal from said zone monitoring device, said control program directs said microprocessor to switch to active mode, generate and store in said memory an alarm message corresponding to said input signal from said zone monitoring device, activate said communications means, and transmit said alarm message to a monitoring station.

Abstract: A formicarium housing is filled with discrete layers of sand of respectively different colors bound together by ant nutritious sugar deposited from solution saturating the sand so that ants can tunnel through the particulate material depositing tailings of different colors on a top surface of the material displayed in an order corresponding to an order of the regions in which the ants have been tunneling. A formicarium kit has an ant proof, transparent walled housing, clear plastic packets of respectively differently colored sands, a mixing cup, a stirrer, and sugar packets.

Abstract: Neural thermoprotective compositions comprising a pharmacological inhibitor of the PKG pathway are described, as are methods of treating patients and providing neural thermoprotection with the same.

Abstract: A container monitoring system which includes a microprocessor comprising a memory to store data, and a control program executed by said microprocessor, said microprocessor having a stand-by mode and an active mode, a communications means connected to said microprocessor for transmitting data from said microprocessor to a monitoring station, a zone monitoring device on the container connected to said microprocessor in a loop with said microprocessor in said stand-by mode, a power source for supplying power to said microprocessor, communications means and zone monitoring device, wherein upon said microprocessor receiving an input signal from said zone monitoring device, said control program directs said microprocessor to switch to active mode, generate and store in said memory an alarm message corresponding to said input signal from said zone monitoring device, activate said communications means, and transmit said alarm message to a monitoring station.

Abstract: An air turbine starter for use in aircraft or other gas turbine engine applications. In a particular embodiment, the air turbine starter has a titanium unitary inlet structure. The unitary inlet structure has a housing having a longitudinal centerline. The housing defines an air inlet, a mounting surface, and a flow path therebetween. Integrally formed inside the housing and transverse to the longitudinal centerline is a stator for directing the flow of air in to the turbine blades of the turbine starter. The stator has a central circular body with a plurality of angularly spaced circumferentially mounted stator fins. An improved unitary inlet structure and method for making such a unitary inlet and stator are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cosmetic compositions, comprising: a.) from about 0.01% to about 50%, by weight, of vitamin B3 compound; b.) from about 0% to about 90%, by weight, of an emollient component comprising from 0% to about 100%, by weight, of an oil liquid at ambient temperature; c.) from about 0.01% to about 40%, by weight, of a polar solvent; d.) from about 0% to about 90%, by weight, of a solidifying agent; and e.) from about 0% to about 90%, on an anhydrous basis, of a color wherein the vitamin B3 compound is added to the composition such that the concentration of the vitamin B3 compound exceeds the saturation solubility of the vitamin B3 compound in the polar solvent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cosmetic compositions, comprising:

Abstract: The present invention relates to cosmetic compositions, comprising: a.) from about 0.01% to about 50%, by weight, of vitamin B3 compound; b.) from about 0% to about 90%, by weight, of an emollient component comprising from 0% to about 100%, by weight, of an oil liquid at ambient temperature; c.) from about 0.01% to about 40%, by weight, of a polar solvent; d.) from about 0% to about 90%, by weight, of a solidifying agent; and e.) from about 0% to about 90%, on an anhydrous basis, of a color wherein the vitamin B3 compound is added to the composition such that the concentration of the vitamin B3 compound exceeds the saturation solubility of the vitamin B3 compound in the polar solvent.

Abstract: A composite selector fork arrangement adapted to cooperate with a selector shaft to resist rotational and translational movement relative to the selector shaft. The arrangement also being adapted to cooperate with a selector sleeve to effect translational movement of the selector sleeve. The arrangement including a first and second metallic portion. The first metallic portion being arranged to impart stiffness to the fork arrangement in a direction generally in line with the axial extent of a selector shaft and the second metallic portion being arranged to impart stiffness to the fork arrangement in a direction generally transverse to the axial extent of a selector shaft. The arrangement including a non-metallic portion being arranged to at least partially surround the first and second portions, and in which, in use, the non-metallic portion cooperates with a selector shaft to assist in resisting rotational movement of the selector fork arrangement relative to the selector shaft.

Abstract: A position and orientation tracking system presents a laser scanning appaus having two measurement pods, a control station, and a detector array. The measurement pods can be mounted in the dome of a radioactive waste storage silo. Each measurement pod includes dual orthogonal laser scanner subsystems. The first laser scanner subsystem is oriented to emit a first line laser in the pan direction. The second laser scanner is oriented to emit a second line laser in the tilt direction. Both emitted line lasers scan planes across the radioactive waste surface to encounter the detector array mounted on a target robotic vehicle. The angles of incidence of the planes with the detector array are recorded by the control station. Combining measurements describing each of the four planes provides data for a closed form solution of the algebraic transform describing the position and orientation of the target robotic vehicle.