Abstract: A motor vehicle theft protection and disablement system that is safe, not easy to circumvent, and offers benefits to motor vehicle owners as an incentive for their participation. The core of the invention is a system to minimize motor vehicle theft. The system comprises six elements, a motor vehicle, a programmable safety switch, a programmable transmitter, a programmable security switch, a programmable activator, and at least one remote programmable receiver transmitter.

Abstract: The present invention provides a prognostic and mortality risk assessment method for patients with sepsis. The method involves measuring a combination of cell-free DNA (cfDNA), protein C, lactate, platelet count, creatinine level, and Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) and analyzing the measured values using a complementary log-log model to determine the daily and 28-day (or other fixed term) probabilities of dying for septic patients and a binomial logit model to distinguish septic patients from non-septic patients.

Abstract: A motor vehicle theft protection and disablement system that is safe, not easy to circumvent, and offers benefits to vehicle owners as an incentive for their participation. The system is for preventing vehicle theft and carjacking. The system comprises five elements, a motor vehicle, a programmable safety switch, a keypad transmitter, an automatic security switch, and at least one remote activation transmitter.

Abstract: The present invention provides a voltage-compensated resistive touch panel. The panel includes: a rectangle substrate; a uniform resistive surface being uniformly coated on the rectangle substrate; a plurality of resistance elements being formed on the perimeter edges of the uniform resistive surface so as to create orthogonal electrical fields therein while a DC power is applied; a plurality of compensating elements being spaced along the perimeter edges of the uniform resistive surface, wherein the sizes of them and the intervals among each others are respectively proportional and inversely proportional to the distances being apart from the edges of the uniform resistive surface so as to compensate the bow equipotential lines generated by the orthogonal electrical fields; a touch film being uniformly coated a conductive material on the surface facing the uniform resistive surface; and a plurality of insulators uniformly spreading between the uniform resistive surface and the touch film.

Abstract: An organic solvent-containing coating composition useful as a finish for automobiles and trucks in which the film-forming binder comprises a component having at least two acid groups, a polymer having both epoxy and silane functionality and an acrylic-core polymer having stabilizer components soluble in the solvent.