Abstract: Disclosed are novel formulations for the treatment of otic infections in an animal comprising a triazole anti-fungal compound, a quinolone antibiotic and a corticosteroid such as mometasone furoate monohydrate.

Abstract: A plural-story, external, building-surface panel system securable to a structural building frame, wherein each panel in the system includes (a) a generally planar body having elongate upper, lower and lateral edge-defining structures, (b) elongate tongue structure operatively associated with, and extending along, the upper edge-defining structure generally in the plane of the body, and (c) elongate groove structure operatively associated with, and extending along, the lower edge-defining structure, fittingly compatible with the tongue structure and also disposed generally in the plane of the body.

Abstract: A generally planar, rectilinear, skin-panel sub-frame panel having spaced, upper, lower and lateral edges, and designed to occupy an upright plane adjacent the outside of a plural-story building frame, and to possess a vertical dimension which is substantially the same as inter-floor story-height in the frame. The sub-frame includes (a) an elongate beam component defining the sub-frame's upper edge, and (b) plural interconnect-accommodating site structures formed in and distributed along the length of that component organized with (1) a first, upwardly facing site-structure set, and (2) a second inwardly site-structure set, which first and second site-structure sets define orthogonally intersecting interconnect planes.

Abstract: A method for stabilizing, in correctness, the transverse cross section of the end of an elongate structural beam during weld attachment to that end of a beam-end mounting component. This method includes the steps of (a) configurationally correcting and capturing the end transverse footprint of such a beam with an external structure to lock that footprint against subsequent configuration change, and (b), while performing that capturing step, weld-attaching the beam's end transverse footprint to the mentioned beam-end mounting component.

Abstract: Building frame shear-wall structure and associated methodology wherein the resulting structure includes (a) plural, elongate, spaced, interconnected columns and beams including elongate stretches which define and perimeter nominally open panes, and (b) within each defined and perimetered pane, an introduced, cured body of curable structural flow material spanning and effectively forming a column-and-beam-anchored rigidifying shear panel in the pane.

Abstract: Concealed anchoring structure interconnecting (a) the base of an elongate, upright, tubular (hollow), structural building-frame column having a long axis, and (b) a generally planar and horizontal podium slab having a body with upper and lower surfaces which collectively define slab depth, with the long axis of the column being substantially normal to the plane of the slab. This anchoring structure includes elongate, nut-and-bolt structure which is disposed substantially on the column's long axis, with upper portions of the nut-and-bolt structure being concealed within the hollow base of the column, above the slab's upper surface, and the lower portions of the nut-and-bolt structure being disposed adjacent the slab's lower surface, whereby the nut-and-bolt structure anchorably interconnects the column and the slab.

Abstract: Modular, selectively employable building parapet roof-rim structure including (a) gravity-docking reception structure deployed along and adjacent at least a portion of the perimeter of a building roof structure which is adjacent the top of a building frame, and (b) a dockable, modular parapet unit including gravity-docking structure removably and replaceably dockable, under the influence of gravity, with the reception structure to dispose the parapet unit as at least a part of an outwardly visible parapet roof-rim structure associated with the building roof structure. The parapet structure may be associated with moisture-barriering flashing structure which becomes locked into place along the rim of a building roof between inter-engaging components in the parapet structure.

Abstract: Precision-adjustable, plinth structure for anchoring the base of a building-frame column to a poured concrete slab including (a) a first load-reaction structure embeddable in a pre-cured (i.e., wet, and not yet fully cured) pour of concrete which will cure/harden to form such a slab, (b) a second load-reaction structure disposed above the first load-reaction structure, anchorable to the base of a column, and including at least one depending retention element which extends downwardly toward the first load-reaction structure so as to be embeddable in the same still-wet concrete pour, and (c) adjustable, differential, load-reaction-interaction structure load-transmissively and operatively interposed the first and second load-reaction structures, and offering plural, laterally spaced adjusters which are manipulable from above selectively to shift the two load-reaction structures relative to one another in both elevational and tilting senses.

Abstract: A method utilizing a stabilizing jig structure for positioning and supporting the assembly of an elongate structural beam and a beam-end mounting component during weld attachment of that mounting component to an end of the beam. This method includes the steps of (a) applying, through a positionally shiftable first biasing element, a first yieldable biasing force which urges the beam-end mounting component relatively toward the associated beam end, and (b) applying, through a positionally shiftable second biasing element, a second yieldable biasing force which urges the beam-end mounting component relatively toward the first biasing element.

Abstract: Novel formulations combining a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) such as flunixin, with a fluorinated chioramphenicol or thiamphenicol derivative antibiotic such as florfenicol are disclosed. Methods for using such formulations in the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases of bovines and swine, including bovine respiratory disease and swine respiratory disease, are also disclosed.

Abstract: A plural-story building structure including spaced lower and higher stories, with the lower story possessing a normal, unimpeded, full plate-height internal volume which is free of any exposed, ceiling-penetrating utilities-conduit structure designed for the supply of utilities services to upper stories. This lower story is thus available, early in the time of overall building construction, and specifically with upper stories still under construction, for income-generating occupancy. The special, unoccluded, full plate-height, internal-volume condition is accommodated by the interposition, between the mentioned lower and higher stories, of a special, low-height, sub-story in the form of a utilities-conduit containment space which is adapted to contain utilities-conduit structure relevant to the supply of utilities services upwardly from the sub-story toward higher stories. Utilities supply to the sub-story bypasses the mentioned lower building story.

Abstract: Column-beam building frame structure, wherein columns and beams are interconnected to distribute and share all lateral loads through collars that encircle columns at the nodal points of attachments between columns and beams. Each collar includes inner and outer components which seat, and gravity-lock together, during frame construction, and which also to offer a certain amount of immediate moment resistance to lateral loads. Tension bolt and nut assemblies lock the inner and outer collar components together, and with these assemblies in place, the collars (which circumsurround the beams) function to deliver beam moment loads as plural-position, angularly distributed compression loads to different side regions of columns.

Abstract: A method, and associated apparatus, for assembling a structural frame from elongate, tubular columns having plural sides, and a selected style of elongate beams, with respect to which, the method includes the steps of (a) pre-fitting the sides of such columns and the ends of such beams with attached, gravity-set, complementary interconnect structures (either collar-form or non-collar form in nature), including column-side-fitted interconnect structures and beam-end-fitted interconnect structures, (b) utilizing gravity, bringing interconnect-structure pre-fitted beams and columns into correct, predetermined, relative design dispositions relative to one another, and (c) through the performing of the bringing step alone, and on the resulting occurrence of the achievement of the mentioned correct, predetermined, relative design dispositions between a beam and a column, simultaneously and immediately thereby establishing (1) a full-moment load-bearing connection, and (2) a relatively positionally gravity-set-and-s

Abstract: A column/beam, beam/beam interconnection in a building frame and an associated method. This interconnection features (a) a pair of parallel-spaced, upright, planar plate components operatively associated with either a side of a column or a side of a beam, (b) an elongate, generally horizontal beam including a generally upright, planar central web with an end which, with respect to a pair of such plate components, extends into the space which exists between those components, and (c) a structural relationship in such a building frame associated with the plate components in a pair, which relationship accommodates (a) vertical-motion placement of a web end between components, with (b) the automatic establishment thereby of a correct relative, spatial, three-dimensional relationship and disposition of the plate components in the frame, and of the specific, associated column/beam and/or beam/beam elements so interconnected.

Abstract: A method and related apparatus for precision deploy-attaching beam-mount structure to the outside of an elongate column at plural, defined attachment sites that are distributed and spaced along the length of the column. The method involves (a) preparing an elongate column to act as a travel way for a carriage which is designed to transport and deploy beam-mount structure, shifting such a carriage progressively along the column from defined attachment site to defined attachment site, and at each such site, deploy-attaching from the carriage to the column the carriage-carried beam-mount structure.

Abstract: An elongate, long-span transition beam employable between columns in a building frame structure. This transition beam includes (a) an elongate central portion having one, principal cross-sectional vertical depth, and (b) joined to the opposite ends of the central portion, a pair of elongate end portions each having a smaller cross-sectional vertical depth. These end portions may be formed with flange-modified reduced beam sections to act as “overload fuses”. The central and end portions join through size-differentiated, transverse cross section, transitional regions which are formed adjacent opposite ends, and as parts, of the central portion.

Abstract: An improved variable cycle turbofan-ramjet engine is disclosed. The engine includes a split fan assembly, a bypass channel surrounding a core engine and a mode selector valve for selectively bypassing air around an aft fan and the core engine. In a first, single bypass mode of operation, the mode selector valve allows air to flow through both a forward fan and the aft fan, and a portion of which bypasses the core engine. In a second, double bypass mode of operation, the mode selector valve allows air from the forward fan to bypass the aft fan and a portion of the air from the forward fan to bypass the core engine. In a third, ramjet mode of operation, the mode selector vane bypasses air around the aft fan and the core engine and the core engine is shut down for ramjet operation. In the preferred embodiment, the forward fan is allowed to windmill and powers a fuel pump connected thereto for providing fuel to a ram burner of the engine for ramjet operation.

Abstract: By providing a focal region of light onto a particle, a laser-based light source can provide enough radiation pressure to position the particle at any desired location in space. In one application, the particle can be a micrometer-sized bead, called a handle, attached to a sample. When the sample under examination, such as an actin filament, interacts with other molecules, such as myosin, the forces generated may displace the sample, and thus the handle, out of its original position. To correct for the off-target position (or in other words, to increase the stiffness of the handle), a feedback loop that utilizes a quadrant photodiode detector and a focal region location means such as an acousto-optic modulator or galvanometer mirror is incorporated in the optical trap system. Use of two other light sources for brightfield illumination and epifluorescence allows the simultaneous viewing of the sample in real time. In other embodiments, the optical trap system can trap and manipulate particles.

Abstract: Multi-aperture ventilated floor members, for use in a grain bin or like applications, are formed from continuous sheet metal strip stock, complete, in one pass through a cold roll forming machine, in a method in which the critical steps comprise roll-lancing the metal strip to form multiple closed slits transversely of the length of the strip and then roll corrugating the strip transversely of its length to widen the slits into narrow open ventilation slots by stretching the metal, simultaneously ironing out the projections formed when the slits are lanced into the strip.

Abstract: A traction mat to aid vehicle wheels for driving out of ice, snow, mud or sand and the like that is an elongated unitary stamped metal structure which is generally rectangular and having a forward inwardly tapered end portion with the mat including a plurality of upwardly extending flanges disposed at 90.degree. with respect to the planer surface and a plurality of downwardly projecting V-shaped gripping lugs. The mat outer side edges are formed with trough shaped ribs for stiffening and the upwardly extending flanges and downwardly shaped gripping lugs are provided with structurally formed ribbing to increase the rigidity for placement and use in a variety of terrains.