Abstract: This invention aims to capture and teach the high-level concept of combining doses of medications in unconventionally substandard amounts, for the treatment of medical. pathologies. By combining multiple medications each of which is aimed at treating the same disease process and each in a given substandard dosage, it should allow for greater comprehensive efficacy while simultaneously bypassing side-effects, clinically significant medication interactions; and other potentially unforeseen deleterious effects, all because the dosage is small enough and collaborative chemical diversity manifests favorable kinetic dynamics, thereby mitigating unwanted drug effects.

Abstract: An improved centrifugal separator system and method for separating a solid portion from a liquid portion, of the type including a chute for introducing material into the separator; a screen rotated on a shaft for allowing a liquid portion of the material to flow through the screen but preventing solids from flowing through the screen; a space between the housing and the screen for allowing the solids to travel through the separator; a rotor portion, further comprising a plurality of blades radiating outward from a hub portion of the rotor to an outer ring portion of the rotor to define the traveling space for the solid material between the rotor blades; wherein each of the blades being circular in cross section along their length to minimize the impact on the solid material which makes contact with the rotating blades and do less damage to the solid material, resulting in better product and a reduction in the energy required to power the separator.

Abstract: Ablation-type printing plates having improved exposure sensitivity are produced using an imaging layer—i.e., the plate layer that absorbs and ablates in response to imaging radiation—whose composition includes a large proportion of crosslinker.

Abstract: Sequentially subjecting an imaged ablation-type printing member having a silicone topmost layer to, first, a cleaning liquid that is not a solvent for silicone, followed by subjecting to a second cleaning liquid that is a silicone solvent, conditions the printing member for subsequent printing with high-solids inks.

Abstract: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for creating web pages for third party web sites such as Facebook. A page creation system is disclosed for creating web pages that encourage visitors to like a particular page on a third party site. Integration details are received about a third party site. Upon selecting a particular page template, the template is displayed with incomplete sections of the page template for the user to fill in. Content is received from the user for incomplete sections to form a completed page content. A create page selection is received from the user. A blurred version of a web page is created from the completed page content. A normal version of the web page that is designed for display after the blurred version is also created. The blurred version and normal version of the web page are published to the third party site.

Abstract: A downhole packer tool having components made essentially of non-metallic engineering grade plastic materials. The tool having an apparatus for anchoring the tool in an annular structure. The tool has a mandrel; a slip assembly positioned on the mandrel, the slip assembly having at least one spacer ring and a plurality of slip elements; and at least one wear resistant insert installed in an outer surface of the tool and extending outwardly therefrom whereby the at least insert button is abrasion resistant upon setting yet has favorable drillability characteristics upon drilling the tool from the wellbore.

Abstract: A method for controlling a vehicle system includes obtaining an off-board-based input speed of a vehicle system traveling along a curved segment of a first route. The off-board-based input speed is obtained from data provided by an off-board device disposed off the vehicle system. The method also includes determining a heading of the vehicle system from the data provided by the off-board device and calculating a curvature of the curved segment of the first route using the off-board-based input speed and the heading of the vehicle system while the vehicle system travels along the curved segment of the first route.

Abstract: A method for controlling a vehicle system includes determining a vehicle reference speed using an off-board-based input speed and an onboard-based input speed. The off-board-based input speed is representative of a moving speed of the vehicle system and is determined from data received from an off-board device. The onboard-based input speed is representative of the moving speed of the vehicle system and is determined from data obtained from an onboard device. The method includes using the vehicle reference speed to at least one of measure wheel creep for one or more wheels of the vehicle system or control at least one of torques applied by or rotational speeds of one or more motors of the vehicle system.

Abstract: Implants, surgical methods, and instrumentation for treating femoroacetabular impingement. In some embodiments, implants are provided or formed on the acetabulum to replicate the anatomy of the acetabulum (e.g., the acetabular rim and/or labrum, the bearing surface in the acetabulum, cartilage in the acetabulum, etc.). Also provided are embodiments of materials and instruments for use in installing and/or forming such implants on the acetabulum. Further provided are embodiments of guide jigs for use in preparing the acetabulum to receive such implants.

Abstract: Provided is a device for interfacing between a POS system having a first connection requirement, such as a serial connection requirement, and a cash drawer having a second connection requirement different from the first connection requirement. The device includes a circuit adapted to receive a signal from the POS system and open the cash drawer, or else generate a signal to the cash drawer that is recognized by the cash drawer as the signal to open.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention involve three-layer printing members having a central layer that is non-conductive yet abalatable at commercially realistic fluence levels. In various embodiments, the central layer is polymeric with a dispersion of nonconductive carbon black particles therein at a loading level sufficient to provide at least partial layer ablatability and water compatibility of the resulting ablation debris.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention involve printing members that utilize a particle-fusion imaging mechanism but avoid susceptibility to handling damage. In particular, printing plates in accordance with the invention may utilize two phases, and these may originate, during manufacture, as two particle systems. Both systems are initially dispersed in a single coating applied as a layer, or in multiple coatings applied as adjacent layers, on a substrate. The second particle system exhibits a glass-transition or thermal coalescing temperature well above room temperature and also above the temperature at which the coating is dried. The coalescing temperature of the first particle system is below the drying temperature. As a result, when the coating is dried, the first particle system coalesces and forms a binder that entrains the second particle system, which has not coalesced.

Abstract: A slip for use in the anchoring of a downhole tool in the well casing wherein the anchors include a plurality of buttons and at least one wicker. The slip is positioned about a mandrel and radially expands upon the application of force. The buttons and wicker first engage the casing in response to a first force, and the wicker deformably engages the casing in response to a second force. The second force causes the wicker to cut into and deform the casing, thereby anchoring the downhole tool for high-pressure operations.

Abstract: A heat retentive server includes a chamber defined between an upper shell and a lower shell that are connected to one another. An induction-heatable member is positioned in the chamber, and the induction-heatable member may be heated by electromagnetic induction to a first temperature that is greater than the heat deflection temperature of the upper shell. Buffering material is positioned in the chamber between the induction-heatable member and the upper shell, and the buffering material is adapted for providing predetermined conductive heat transfer from the induction-heatable member to the upper shell so that at least a portion of the upper shell is heated to a second temperature that is greater than the heat deflection temperature of the upper shell. The second temperature is less than the first temperature.

Abstract: In ablation-type printing plates involving silicone acrylate top layers, curing at high oxygen levels not only substantially reduces or eliminates toning, but does not adversely affect plate durability or printing performance.