Abstract: A thermal pack comprising one or more sacks, a body of thermal material enclosed in the sacks, and first and a second sack edge joined to form a seam line wherein the first edge and the second edge have intersecting directions with an angle that is less than 180 degrees whereby the one or more sacks conforms to a three-dimensional surface.

Abstract: A thermal pack comprising one or more sacks, a body of thermal material enclosed in the sacks, and first and a second sack edge joined to form a seam line wherein the first edge and the second edge have intersecting directions with an angle that is less than 180 degrees whereby the one or more sacks conforms to a three-dimensional surface.

Abstract: A heat sealed cold pack with a plurality of broken boarder pockets for both holding a substance with a high heat of fusion, such as gel refrigerant consistently throughout the cold pack and allowing the gel refrigerant to migrate throughout the gel pack. The volume of each pocket is variable in response to flexibility and cooling capacity. A two container system that integrates the cold pack.

Abstract: A closure for increasing the storage life of perishables, which comprises a material with heating or cooling properties; a closure chamber comprising a chamber wall configured to house the material with heating or cooling properties; a seal structure for sealing or engaging the closure chamber to a perishable storage container for controlling the temperature in a perishable storage container; a fastening system to secure the closure chamber on a perishable storage container allowing the material with heating or cooling properties to act on stored perishables. The closure may act as part of a closure system that contains the closure with or without the material; and the container that stores perishables and may accommodates the material with heating or cooling properties in many configurations.

Abstract: The present invention describes a process utilized for the remediation of soils and petroleum drilling wastes contaminated with hydrocarbons, which consists in stabilization by application and mixing in specific proportions of calcium oxides and organic conditioners. It is possible to treat materials with concentrations of at least seven percent (dry weight) of hydrocarbons petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) and reduce the concentration to 1-1.5% TPH. Furthermore, residual toxicity is completely eliminated in the treated material, vegetative growth is stimulated, the treated material does not present significant concentrations of hydrocarbons leachates and it passes all criteria to be considered not a dangerous waste (CRETI or TCLP).

Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions comprising sterically stabilized liposomes containing antisense oligonucleotides are provided for the modulation of expression of the human ras gene in both the normal (wildtype) and activated (mutant) forms.