Abstract: The instant innovation presents a real-time environmental-sensing platform and system and method for water level monitoring, reporting and human warning. The platform, system, and method monitors rising water levels throughout a given geographical area and provides real-time and trending data on flooding and flooding risks. The instant innovation utilizes an environmental sensing platform comprised of a plurality of sensor nodes that may be geographically dispersed for both collecting environmental data on a regular or variable-frequency schedule, and transmitting the environmental data.

Abstract: The instant innovation presents a real-time environmental-sensing platform and system and method for water level monitoring, reporting and human warning. The platform, system, and method monitors rising water levels throughout a given geographical area and provides real-time and trending data on flooding and flooding risks. The instant innovation utilizes an environmental sensing platform comprised of a plurality of sensor nodes that may be geographically dispersed for both collecting environmental data on a regular or variable-frequency schedule, and transmitting the environmental data.

Abstract: A platform, system, method, and computer readable media is provided which is configured for monitoring water level height of one or more bodies of water.

Abstract: A platform, system, method, and computer readable media is provided which is configured for monitoring water level height of one or more bodies of water.

Abstract: A bioactive agent is administered to a patient, and the efficacy of the bioactive agent is modified by exposing the patient to a polarizing field. The bioactive agent may be a chemotherapeutic agent administered to a patient with cancer, and the polarizing field may be an electric field and/or a magnetic field. The direction and/or strength of the polarizing field may be changed during treatment to promote the opportunity for enhanced therapeutic interaction between the bioactive agent and the field.

Abstract: Undergarments that protect from the detrimental interaction of electrostatic fields with human tissue. Filaments woven or knitted into patterns or into an insert attached to the undergarments may comprise electrically nonconductive strands and electrically conductive strands. Electrostatic field-concentrators provided upon particular strands create ions from adjacent air molecules and cancel electrostatic charges in their vicinity. The geometry of the preferred filaments is such that the field-concentrators are salient from the central bulk of the filament by a distance at least as great as the axial radius of the field-concentrator terminal surface. As a result, potentially detrimental electrostatic fields are reduced, and concomitant health benefits to the wearer are realized.

Abstract: A field emitter cell includes a thin film edge emitter normal to a gate layer. The field emitter is a multilayer structure including a low work function material sandwiched between two protective layers. The field emitter may be fabricated from a composite starting structure including a conductive substrate layer, an insulation layer, a standoff layer and a gate layer, with a perforation extending from the gate layer into the substrate layer. The emitter material is conformally deposited by chemical beam deposition along the sidewalls of the perforation. Alternatively, the starting material may be a conductive substrate having a protrusion thereon. The emitter layer, standoff layer, insulation layer, and gate layer are sequentially deposited, and the unwanted portions of each are preferentially removed to provide the desired structure.

Abstract: Breast support and other breast area covering articles are provided that protect from detrimental interaction of electrostatic fields with breast area tissue. In a preferred embodiment, electrically conductive electrostatic field-concentrators are adapted to ionize air molecules and cancel electrostatic charges in the vicinity to help prevent detrimental electrostatic field influence on breast area tissue of the wearer.

Abstract: A bioactive agent (53) is administered to a patient (1), and the efficacy of the bioactive agent (53) is modified by exposing the patient (1) to a polarizing field (39, 41, 52). The bioactive agent (53) may be a chemotherapeutic agent administered to a patient with cancer, and the polarizing field (39, 41, 52) may be an electric field and/or a magnetic field. The direction and/or strength of the polarizing field (39, 41, 52) may be changed during treatment to promote the opportunity for enhanced therapeutic interaction between the bioactive agent (53) and the field (39, 41, 52).

Abstract: A bioactive agent (53) is administered to a patient (1), and the efficacy of the bioactive agent (53) is modified by exposing the patient (1) to a polarizing field (39, 41, 52). The bioactive agent (53) may be a chemotherapeutic agent administered to a patient with cancer, and the polarizing field (39, 41, 52) may be an electric field and/or a magnetic field. The direction and/or strength of the polarizing field (39, 41, 52) may be changed during treatment to promote the opportunity for enhanced therapeutic interaction between the bioactive agent (53) and the field (39, 41, 52).

Abstract: A wastewater treatment system is disclosed whereby trickling filters remove a high proportion of biochemical oxygen demand, total suspended solids, and nutrients from wastewater using, in one embodiment, a pressurized media container. The system accomplishes this in an improved way by combining venturies or blowers to aerate the wastewater, and recirculating the wastewater and air down through the treatment media, improving the overall efficiency of the system and reducing its size. A screen at the base of the pressurized media container supports the media and allows the wastewater to exit the pressurized media container. The system also includes a low pressure nozzle that aids in the proper distribution of the wastewater.

Abstract: A waste water treatment method and system including a recirculating treatment zone and a filter/treatment zone. The recirculating zone has a treatment medium that includes aerobic microbes and small beads that create interstices within, and extensive surface area on, which active microbes dwell and through which dead microbes and treated water are permitted to easily pass. The filter/treatment zone has a filter/treatment medium that includes peat and small beads that create interstices through which filtered water is permitted to pass. The recirculating treatment zone is designed to be coupled to a settling unit, such as a septic tank. The filter/treatment zone may be coupled to a leach field, with ultraviolet disinfection for coupling to a secondary water user, a soak hose system, etc.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring ion concentration of a solution includes an ion sensitive field effect transistor (ISFET), a reference device, an ISFET control circuit, a memory, a measurement circuit and a diagnostic circuit. The ISFET has a drain, a source, an ion sensitive gate region and a plurality of device characteristics. The reference device is separated from the gate region by a sample solution. The ISFET control circuit is coupled to the ISFET and operates the ISFET at a drain-source voltage V.sub.DS and at n successive drain currents I.sub.Di and corresponding gate-source voltages V.sub.GSi, wherein i is an integer from 1 to n and n is an integer greater than 1. The memory stores the plurality of device characteristics and the n successive drain currents I.sub.Di and gate-source voltages V.sub.GSi. The measurement circuit measures ion concentration of the solution as a function of at least one of the n successive drain currents I.sub.Di and gate-source voltages V.sub.

Abstract: A toilet bowl cleaner dispenser which automatically increases or decreases its liquid volume output respectively in response to an increase or decrease in the concentration of cleaning material dissolved in a liquid solution in a dispenser reservoir, and a method of manufacture thereof. The dispenser, which may be fixed in a toilet tank at a designated position relative to the quiescent water level in the tank, includes an enclosure having an internal cavity containing a solid block of water soluble cleaning agent, the cavity being sealed except for an upper air vent and a lower water inflow and solution outflow opening. The air vent communicates with the exterior of the dispenser through an air inflow and outflow passage having an air opening at a vertical level between the upper air vent and the lower opening. The lower opening communicates with the exterior of the dispenser through a passage having a liquid opening at a vertical level between the air opening and the lower opening.

Abstract: A rub-on applicator for rubbing liquid onto a surface to be coated. The applicator includes a flexible compressible bottle containing the liquid to be dispensed. The mouth of the bottle is covered by a thin flexible molded diaphragm sealed to the lip of the bottle. The diaphragm is formed with a small, centrally located, permanently open hole. In one embodiment, the diaphragm normally projects concavely under suction forces into the bottle, but is sufficiently flexible that by squeezing and compressing the bottle, the diaphragm will be forced by compression of fluid in the bottle to project convexly outward of the bottle with a broadly rounded outer surface, so that by turning the bottle upside down and squeezing the bottle, liquid within the bottle is forced therefrom onto to a surface to be coated.

Abstract: A sanitizer dosing dispenser for immersion in a body of water such as a toilet tank whose water line can be lowered from an upper level to a lower level by flushing, which includes a product chamber for containing a solid, water soluble material, first and second walls defining a first flow path therebetween for providing a predetermined volume of water from the body of water to the product chamber along the first flow path in response to the level of the body of water falling from the upper level to the lower level. The first wall is flexible and located so that hydrostatic pressure from the body of water presses the first wall against the second wall to close the first flow path against water flow therealong when the level of the body of water is above the first wall, and permits the predetermined volume of water to flow into the product chamber to dissolve a portion of the soluble material therein when the level of the body of water is below the first wall.

Abstract: An insect trap in the form of an inclining surface under which insects or other small pests are lured for their control or destruction. The underside of the inclining surface is coated with an adhesive, contains an insect attractant, and converges toward the plane of the floor or surface upon which insects travel. The incline and spacing of the adhesive surface to the surface of travel is such that insects or other small pests in search of the attractant source may move under the adhesive surface at the high end of the incline, but cannot avoid contacting their back or other large upper body area to, and becoming immobilized on, the adhesive surface when they try to move under a lower portion of the incline.