Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for preventing and treating HIV infection includes an active ingredient made by a process involving a series of intra- and inter-species blood transfers made among male and female animals. The process modifies the components of blood in the animals such that the blood from the last animal in the series of transfers can be used as the active ingredient in a pharmaceutical composition which, when administered to an HIV-infected human subject, can eliminate any detectable HIV in the subject.

Abstract: Assembly for testing a panel (11) made of composite material under different combinations of shear-compression loads using an universal tension load machine (16), comprising metallic sheets (12) configured to form, together with the panel (11), a frame of rectangular shape in the same plane than the panel (11), being said metallic sheets (12) able to transmit external loads to the panel (11), two loading parts (19), having translatable lugs (20) to be connected with the universal tension load machine (16), joined at two opposed sides of said frame and a structure (18) to prevent displacements out of the panel (11).

Abstract: An actuator such as an electrical switch which responds to an event such as a change in temperature by movement of an element between first and second positions, for example in which an electrical circuit is open and closed respectively, includes a dimensionally heat-recoverable component which, on recovery when the actuator is exposed to a high temperature, changes configuration so that a portion of the component is positioned between the element while in its first position and a support for the component, so as to restrain movement of the element towards its second position. This allows the actuator to be locked as a result of exposure to the high temperature, which can be desirable, for example, because of damage to equipment to which the actuator is connected.