Abstract: A hand-held beverage dispenser includes a handle body, within which multiple valve units are contained. Two sets of fluid flow paths are provided into the handle body. The sets of fluid flow paths are mutually exclusive one to the other. Each flow path of the first set is in fluid communication with each valve unit, whereas only a predetermined one of the second set of fluid flow paths is in fluid communication with each valve unit. Each valve unit includes a flow control valve and a selection valve. The selection valve determines on an ad hoc basis which of the first set of flow paths will be utilized at any given time, while the flow control valve provides single action simultaneous ON-OFF control of fluid flows through both the selected flow path and the predetermined flow path.

Abstract: A hand-held beverage dispenser includes a handle body, within which multiple valve units are contained. Two sets of fluid flow paths are provided into the handle body. The sets of fluid flow paths are mutually exclusive one to the other. Each flow path of the first set is in fluid communication with each valve unit, whereas only a predetermined one of the second set of fluid flow paths is in fluid communication with each valve unit. Each valve unit includes a flow control valve and a selection valve. The selection valve determines on an ad hoc basis which of the first set of flow paths will be utilized at any given time, while the flow control valve provides single action simultaneous ON-OFF control of fluid flows through both the selected flow path and the predetermined flow path.

Abstract: A waste receptacle may include a frame, vertical arm supports, panel inserts, and fasteners. The frame may include vertical arms spaced apart from one another and window openings, each window opening defined between an adjacent pair of the vertical arms. The vertical arm supports may be spaced apart from one another, each vertical arm support fixedly secured to one of the vertical arms and defining a pair of channels between the vertical arm support and the one of the vertical arms. The panel inserts may be removably secured with respect to the frame, each panel insert removably received within two of the channels and partially exposed through one of the window openings. Each fastener may be configured to move between an engaged position preventing removal of one of the panel inserts from the respective channels and a disengaged position allowing removal of the one of the panel inserts from the respective channels.

Abstract: Air conditioned mattresses have a core and at least one encasement configured to receive a conditioned flow of air into the encasement and to allow conditioned air to flow out of the encasement to a sleep surface of the mattress. Additional conditioned air conducting layers are provided in combination with the encasement.

Abstract: A waste receptacle may include a frame, vertical arm supports, panel inserts, and fasteners. The frame may include vertical arms spaced apart from one another and window openings, each window opening defined between an adjacent pair of the vertical arms. The vertical arm supports may be spaced apart from one another, each vertical arm support fixedly secured to one of the vertical arms and defining a pair of channels between the vertical arm support and the one of the vertical arms. The panel inserts may be removably secured with respect to the frame, each panel insert removably received within two of the channels and partially exposed through one of the window openings. Each fastener may be configured to move between an engaged position preventing removal of one of the panel inserts from the respective channels and a disengaged position allowing removal of the one of the panel inserts from the respective channels.

Abstract: Air conditioned mattresses have a core and at least one encasement configured to receive a conditioned flow of air into the encasement and to allow conditioned air to flow out of the encasement to a sleep surface of the mattress. Additional conditioned air conducting layers are provided in combination with the encasement.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods of reducing cancer cell proliferation and/or treating cancer by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound that inhibits the activity of ACSVL3.

Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring interventions and/or a subject, such as a human patient. One exemplary embodiment of a method includes measuring at least one biological parameter of a subject, determining a biological state from the measuring, administering (after the measuring) an intervention which includes a caloric restriction (CR) mimetic to the subject and measuring, after the administering, the at least one biological parameter and determining a later biological state from the measuring after the administering.

Abstract: A fuel and oil mixing system for an internal combustion engine-powered tool includes a single use container accommodating a predetermined volume of lubricating oil for mixing with a full tank of fuel in a fuel tank of the tool to yield a mixture of fuel and lubricating oil having a predetermined ratio of fuel to lubricating oil. A method for using the system includes steps of: providing a single use container having a predetermined volume of lubricating oil, supplying the predetermined volume of lubricating oil to a fuel tank of the tool, and filling the fuel tank to capacity with fuel such that the fuel mixes with the predetermined volume of lubricating oil and a resulting mixture of fuel and lubricating oil has a predetermined ratio of fuel to lubricating oil.

Abstract: A roadway crack repair system includes a crack cleaning module and a crack sealing module. Each module includes a steerable vehicle for navigating the roadway, a platform being laterally movable on the vehicle in response to a control signal, a sensor being mounted on the platform for detecting local variations in the roadway during movement of the vehicle, a sensed continuous local deviation indicating a roadway crack. A controller is responsive to the sensor for generating the control signal as a sensed lateral position of the crack relative to the sensor, causing the sensor to accurately follow the crack when the vehicle is generally driven along the crack. A router is mounted on the platform behind the sensor of the crack cleaning module for cleaning and widening the crack, and a vacuum system removes loose material from the roadway behind the router.

Abstract: A process for treating sand which includes one or more stages in which sand is mixed with a dilute aqueous solution of hydrofluoric or sulphuric acid together with zinc or sodium hydrosulphite and the resulting slurry is agitated at ambient temperature in an atmospheric oxygen-free environment.