Abstract: An external anchoring harpoon for an aircraft in order to anchor the aircraft on an anchor grid of a platform, the external anchoring harpoon comprises a frame connected to the aircraft, a harpoon head, and a deployment device for deploying the harpoon head. The deployment device comprises a cable, a movement device for moving the cable connected to the frame, the cable being connected to the harpoon head and to the movement device. The deployment device also comprises a main telescopic strut and two secondary telescopic struts so as to enable the harpoon head to be centered under the aircraft and so as to enable the harpoon head to be anchored to the anchor grid.

Abstract: A system and method for providing and utilizing a proxy to provide group benefits products is disclosed. The system and method include providing at least one variable for calculating applicability and cost of a group benefits product by proxy, wherein the proxy is provided by information included in at least a workers compensation (WC) system. The at least one variable may include WC average salary, area, industry, blue score and/or median household age. The group benefit product may be a long term disability insurance product and/or a life insurance product.

Abstract: A method of dynamically generating a graphic includes receiving, at a vector graphics engine loaded on a server system, graphic template input; receiving, at the vector graphics engine loaded on the server system, data template input; and generating, at the server system, code in a standard format representative of a vector graphic. The generating includes identifying a special tag associated with the vector graphics engine, converting code associated with this tag from a first format associated with the vector graphics engine to a second standardized format, and binding data content based on the received data template input to graphic content based on the received graphic template input.

Abstract: An external anchoring harpoon for an aircraft in order to anchor the aircraft on an anchor grid of a platform, the external anchoring harpoon comprises a frame connected to the aircraft, a harpoon head, and a deployment device for deploying the harpoon head. The deployment device comprises a cable, a movement device for moving the cable connected to the frame, the cable being connected to the harpoon head and to the movement device. The deployment device also comprises a main telescopic strut and two secondary telescopic struts so as to enable the harpoon head to be centered under the aircraft and so as to enable the harpoon head to be anchored to the anchor grid.

Abstract: A method of dynamically generating a graphic includes receiving, at a vector graphics engine loaded on a server system, graphic template input; receiving, at the vector graphics engine loaded on the server system, data template input; and generating, at the server system, code in a standard format representative of a vector graphic. The generating includes identifying a special tag associated with the vector graphics engine, converting code associated with this tag from a first format associated with the vector graphics engine to a second standardized format, and binding data content based on the received data template input to graphic content based on the received graphic template input.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the identification of novel biologically active compounds having an agonist or an antagonist effect on the transcriptional-activating activity of the Estrogen-Related Receptor 3 (ERR3).

Abstract: The present invention relates to the identification of novel biologically active compounds having an agonist or an antagonist effect on the transcriptional-activating activity of the Estrogen-Related Receptor 3 (ERR3).

Abstract: The invention relates to polypeptides derived from the retinoic acid-related orphan receptor (ROR) in mammals, characterized in that they are delimited in their N-terminal extremity by an amino-acid located between positions 1 to 209, and in their C-terminal extremity by an amino-acid located between positions 450 to 452 of the rat ROR&bgr;, &agr;, or &ggr;, or by an amino-acid located at corresponding positions in nuclear receptor ROR of other subtypes than &agr;, &bgr; and &ggr;, and/or of the other mammals. The invention also relates to the use of these polypeptides, or of the molecular complexes or the crystals containing them, for carrying out:—a process for the screening of a ROR-LBD ligand which is an agonist, or an antagonist of said receptor,—or a process for the analysis of the tridimensional structure of the complexes formed with said polypeptides, molecular complexes or crystals and a particular compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the identification of novel biologically active compounds having an agonist or an antagonist effect on the transcriptional-activating activity of the Estrogen-Related Receptor 3 (ERR3).

Abstract: An annular seat for use in a ball valve has two groups of pressure relief passageways each of which extends completely through the seat between its front and rear faces. The relief passageways in one group are located adjacent the outer periphery of the seat. The passageways in the second group are located radially inward of the passageways in the first group, and extend between the rear face of the seat and a curved sealing surface on the front face of the seat. A pair of such seats are disposed in a ball valve housing adjacent opposite sides of a rotatable ball. The interior seat support surfaces in the housing have machined recesses adjacent the central axial fluid passageway through each seat, to facilitate lip flexure of the seats. The overall arrangement provides a bidirectional valve which seals on the downstream side only of the valve, and which relieves excessive cavity pressure in the valve past the upstream seat.