Abstract: A lateral flow test strip for the definitive detection of human blood from forensic samples derived from crime scenes, sexual assault evidence kits, and other sources of forensic evidence.

Abstract: Lateral flow immunochromatographic strip tests for the detection of human semen, method of detecting human semen, and methods of manufacturing ICS tests for the detection of human semen are described

Abstract: Lateral flow immunochromatographic strip tests for the detection of human saliva, method of detecting human saliva, and methods of manufacturing ICS tests for the detection of human saliva are described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for electronic franking wherein the customer is provided with an authenticable code which may be written or otherwise printed on a mail piece or mail piece. Given the authentic nature of the code, the code may be provided remotely. The code may be linked to a delivery address, the relationship later verified. Alternatively, the code may be the result of applying a precode and date of purchase to an algorithm thereby producing a resulting code. The resulting code can be easily verified. The algorithm is complex and difficult to reverse engineer, including an encryption algorithm.

Abstract: Essential bacteria genes and a method for identifying ‘essential genes’ (i.e., genes which are essential to a bacterium's survival) using an in vitro transposition system, a small (975 bp) insertional element containing an antibiotic resistance cassette and mapping these inserts relative to the deduced open reading frames of H. influenzae by PCR and Southern analysis.

Abstract: The bra, or protective cover, fits over the front-facing panel of a trailer. Trailers have a line of trim around the circumference of the front-facing panel, and the fixing means for the trailer-bra is incorporated into the trim. The (detachable) fixing means comprises posts inserted in place of the trim fixing screws, or comprises tapes of Velcro, aligned alongside the trim. The trailer-bra is thereby fixed immovably to the panel, and does not tend to nib or scuff the panel.

Abstract: Method of ordering and dispatching articles An electronically transmitted purchase order is registered at an online provider (2). He then sends an order with data for a code relating to the purchase order electronically to a corresponding manufacturer or supplier (3). Following the production and/or provision of the ordered articles in neutral packaging (3.1) provided with the code, they are dispatched to a service center (6). Furthermore, the online provider (2) sends an electronic instruction to print corresponding labels with the recipient address and, if required, an invoice, a delivery note and letters and information documents in the online provider layout, with the digital data needed for this purpose and data for the code, to a print center (4) of the service center (6). In the service center (6), the articles and the printed-out documents are put together in accordance with the code and, after preparation for dispatch, are sent to the purchaser as packages (6.1) in the online provider layout.

Abstract: A method for sorting items provided with address information includes passing the items successively through a scanning device for generating a video image of each item, a mechanical storage track and a printing station. The video images are supplied to a device for automatically reading the address information and assigning a corresponding code. The printing station prints the corresponding code on the items for which the address information can be read within a predetermined time. The video images of the items for which the address information cannot be automatically read within the predetermined time is stored in a buffer.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for preparing a sealant and adhesive useful, e.g., in double glazing systems. The sealant comprises 20-80 weight percent epoxidized natural rubber, 5-30 weight percent of at least one further epoxy compound, and, as a crosslinking agent, a polyamine or polymercaptan carrying trialkoxysilyl groups. The crosslinking agent is incorporated into the epoxidized natural rubber in one step.

Abstract: Sulfonyl isocyanates having the formula R--SO.sub.2 --NCO (wherein R is a C.sub.1 - to C.sub.18 - alkyl radical, a phenyl radical, a C.sub.1 - to C.sub.18 - alkyl phenyl radical or an isocayanate group) are obtained in high yield and excellent purity by reaction of the corresponding sulfonyl chlorides R--SO.sub.2 --Cl with trimethyl silyl isocynate in the presence of catalytic amounts of Lewis acids. The preferred Lewis acids are halides having the formula AX.sub.n (A=B, Al, Ti, Sn, V, Sb, Fe or Zn; n=valence of A).

Abstract: Anaerobically curable sealant and adhesive compositions comprising polymerizable acrylate esters or methacrylate esters and a redox system as accelerator are stabilized by the addition of sulfamide derivatives containing the group ##STR1## The stabilization may be further improved by using the sulfamides in combination with phenolic anti-oxidants, particularly sterically hindered phenols, without reducing the curing rate of the compositions.

Abstract: A rapid setting .alpha.-cyanoacrylate based adhesive composition having an improved polymerization catalyst therein.

Abstract: A rapid setting .alpha.-cyanoacrylate-based adhesive composition having an improved stabilizer therein. The stabilizer is a sulfamide derivative containing the group ##STR1## Stabilizing may be further improved by using the sulfamides in combination with phenolic anti-oxidants, particularly sterically hindered phenols, without reducing the curing rate of the composition.

Abstract: A rapid setting .alpha.-cyanoacrylate based adhesive composition having an improved polymerization catalyst therein.