Abstract: Examples disclosed herein provide an adapter. One example adapter includes first and second conductive contacts, and an insulative layer separating the first conductive contact from the second conductive contact. A first side of the adapter is to couple to a reader, and a second side opposite to the first side is to accommodate different sizes of data carriers that store information to be read by the reader via the first and second conductive contacts.

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein provide an adapter. One example adapter includes first and second conductive contacts, and an insulative layer separating the first conductive contact from the second conductive contact. A first side of the adapter is to couple to a reader, and a second side opposite to the first side is to accommodate different sizes of data carriers that store information to be read by the reader via the first and second conductive contacts.

Abstract: Described are methods and compositions for producing and isolating desired products (for example, one or more protein, peptide, or pharmaceutical compound species) in transgenic plants engineered to produce the desired product(s). The desired products are isolated from the transgenic plants by contacting plant tissue with an enzyme preparation under conditions effective to hydrolyze the cell wall of the cells comprising the plant tissue. In preferred embodiments, the one or more enzyme species used to effect cell lysis are expressed in the transgenic plant.

Abstract: An apparatus generating a graphical image of a core of a boiling water reactor (BWR) using at least one data set of channel deformation data including: a computer system including a display device for presenting the graphical image and a processor generating the graphical image using the at least one data set; the graphical image of the core includes symbolic representations of control blades arranged in the core, indicia identify each control blade, and indicia regarding deformation of channels adjacent each control blade, and a viewer software tool executed by the processor which accesses the at least one data set and determines a location in the core of the control blades and channels, and correlates the deformation data with the channels for display on the graphical image.

Abstract: The invention provides various apparatus and methods for aerosolizing a powdered medicament. In one exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a pressurization cylinder, and a piston which is slidable within the cylinder to pressurize a gas. A handle is coupled to the piston and is movable between an extended position and a home position to pressurize the gas. An aerosolizing mechanism is included and is configured to aerosolize a powdered medicament that is held within a receptacle with pressurized gas from the cylinder. A carriage assembly is included to receive the receptacle and to couple the receptacle to the aerosolizing mechanism. A first and a second interlock are operably engageable with the carriage assembly to prevent coupling of the receptacle with the aerosolization mechanism. The first interlock is released to allow movement of the carriage upon movement of the handle to the extended position.

Abstract: A system includes a network and a producer device in communication with the network. The producer device includes instructions to transmit a data sample to a consumer device via the network and to receive a request from the consumer device to send configuration information. The configuration information relates to the data sample. The producer device also includes instructions to transmit the configuration information to the consumer device via the network. A method includes transmitting a data sample from a producer device to a consumer device via a network, receiving a request at the producer device to send configuration information to the consumer device, and transmitting the configuration information to the consumer device via the network.

Abstract: An aerosolization apparatus comprises a housing defining a chamber having an air inlet and an air outlet, wherein the chamber is sized to receive a capsule containing a pharmaceutical formulation. A puncturing member is moveable within the chamber to contact the capsule and to provide an opening in the capsule, and a feedback mechanism provides an indication, such as a tactile indication, to a user when the puncturing member has been moved to a position where it provides the opening into the capsule. When air flows through the inlet, the pharmaceutical formulation is aerosolized and the aerosolized pharmaceutical formulation is delivered through the outlet.

Abstract: An electron tube having a cathode and an anode with the anode subtantially surrounding the cathode and providing an electron-interaction space therebetween for providing a magnetic field having a substantial component oriented in the axial direction traversing this interaction space. The cathode structure is of reduced axial direction dimension for permitting the length of the magnetic field component to be minimized. The electron tube includes a substantial tubular cathode and a support means that is axially oriented and that is disposed adjacent to the cathode and is spaced away from the cathode substantially throughout its axial length. This support means is attached at one end to one end of the cathode and at the other end is supported at a vocation in the electron tube.