Abstract: A power source resident in furniture provides power to at least one charging port or socket used to provide power to an electronic device. The furniture may be an articulated furniture having at least one motor. The furniture may have at least one type of switch that manages the power to the charging port. The switch may reduce wasted energy consumption due to heat lost at the charging port.

Abstract: The invention is related to peptide constructs, i.e., polypeptides obtained by linking together two or more peptides based on or derived from different molecules, which are useful in the treatment or prevention of cancer or the treatment of autoimmune diseases and compositions containing same, methods for producing same, and methods for using same; wherein the peptide constructs have the formula P1-x-P2 where P2 is a peptide associated with forms of cancer or an autoimmune condition and P1 is a peptide which will bind to a class of immune cells such as dendritic cells. The peptide construct can cause the maturation of immature dendritic cells to a more mature state. The peptide construct or the more mature dendritic cells can be administered to a subject to a modulate or to initiate an immune response against cancer cells, and can be used with dyes, radioisotopes, or therapeutic agents for detection of the immune target and/or treatment of cancer and autoimmune conditions.

Abstract: A power source resident in furniture provides power to at least one charging port or socket used to provide power to an electronic device. The furniture may be an articulated furniture having at least one motor. The furniture may have at least one type of switch that manages the power to the charging port. The switch may reduce wasted energy consumption due to heat lost at the charging port.

Abstract: A fluid display device that produces the illusion of fluid droplets traveling up, traveling down or levitating, in a stable, smooth, and non-jerky motion. The fluid display device includes a housing, a reservoir for storing the fluid, an outlet nozzle for dispensing the fluid, a pump pulsating the fluid, an inlet for receiving the fluid from the outlet nozzle, and a light source having a color temperature of at least 5000 degrees K operating at or above flicker-fusion frequency to illuminate the fluid droplets.

Abstract: A fluid display device that produces the illusion of fluid droplets traveling up, traveling down or levitating, in a stable, smooth, and non-jerky motion. The fluid display device includes a housing, a reservoir for storing the fluid, an outlet nozzle for dispensing the fluid, a pump pulsating the fluid, an inlet for receiving the fluid from the outlet nozzle, and a light source having a color temperature of at least 5000 degrees K operating at or above flicker-fusion frequency to illuminate the fluid droplets.

Abstract: A lightweight movable work platform includes two pairs of side rails, each side rail having a top end and a bottom end, hinge means connecting each side rail in one of the pairs of side rails in the proximity of its top end to a corresponding side rail in the other of the pairs of side rails in the proximity of its top end, wheel means connecting each side rail in said pairs of side rails at its bottom end, a plurality of spreaders, each of which connects each side rail in the pairs of side rails between its top end and its bottom end, and drive means operable in the proximity of the bottom ends of the side rails for driving the wheel means. The hinge means is operable from a closed position in which the pairs of side rails are stowed together to an open position in which the bottom ends of such pairs of side rails are spread apart in a self-supporting, working position.

Abstract: This invention relates to peptides directing a CD4 related T helper cell response wherein the peptides may be used as an adjuvant provided with an antigen or as an immunomodulatory agent without an antigen and compositions comprising modification of a fifteen-mer peptide sequence from the MHC II? chain at positions 135-149 known as Peptide G or a derivative of derG or other derivatives wherein the derivatives enhance the immune response of antigens and methods for treating cancer, autoimmune disease, transplant conditions, infectious conditions or allergies caused by foreign eukaryotic organisms, and infectious conditions or allergies caused by prokaryotic organisms or nonliving agents such as viruses, phages and prions with polypeptides.

Abstract: The invention relates to creating an optical illusion of fluid or water in a display device which shows a solid water stream with undulations that rises, levitates or falls slowly. The illusion can be viewed under certain circumstances in ordinary room lighting. Also, the solid water stream with undulations can simultaneously transform into a set of rising, levitating or falling water droplets. The entire illusion may be examined and even touched by the audience.

Abstract: The invention relates to creating the illusion in a beverage dispensing device of liquid droplets that fill a drinking glass despite their appearance of rising from the drinking glass. The illusion is accomplished by oscillating the liquid and then applying a flashing light source whose frequency is slightly greater than the liquid oscillations. The enclosure and curtains of the invention allow the illusion to be viewed under certain conditions in room lighting. Also, under certain conditions an optical surface is attached to the enclosure which visually masks the ambient light.